The chirpy ping of the elevator doors opening sounded and was followed by frustrated clicks of heels on the real wood flooring. She had been on a plane for what seemed like an eternity, straight after finishing a 9 hour surgery on a patient who went and died in recovery anyway, so it was safe to say, she wasn't in the mood to be messed with. She eyed the young, and very attractive receptionist and headed to his desk.
"I need to see Addison Montgomery" Teddy huffed, leaning all her weight on the desk.
"I'm sorry, who?" The receptionist asked.
"Addison Montgomery!" Teddy repeated as though she was speaking to a child.
"We don't have a doctor here by that name, Miss-"
"- Look, I have been awake for almost 3 days straight, I am in no mood for messing! I she's here, and I just need you to tell me where she is so I can drag her back home to Seattle. You can either tell me where she is, or I can go and find her myself. Either way-"
Dell pointed towards the kitchen area, where soon enough, Teddy found Addison. She was wrapped up in Naomi's arms, crying, a scrunched up used tissue in one hand, the other gripping the material of Naomi's dress. It broke Teddy's heart to see Addison in such a state.
"Addison" Teddy spoke as she entered the kitchen, causing the two women to turn and face her.
"What are you doing here?" Addison asked, standing up from Naomi's embrace.
"What do you think I'm doing here?!" Teddy snapped. "You just ran away when things started to get a little bit hard, Addison. We had a fight, granted it was a big-ass fight, but is was just a fight! I know you're scared of getting hurt and I get that, I do. But we had a fight, and you ran to LA. I was worried sick. I had no idea where you were! I was about to phone the police and say you were missing when Callie, who also by the way was worried sick about you, told me you phoned her saying you were here! You love me and I love you, so that means you can't run whenever things start to look hard. I don't care what you did in all your other relationships, but in this one, you aren't running away from problems!" Teddy was almost screaming.
"It wasn't 'just a fight' though" Addison growled back. "I proposed to you and you said that I embarrassed you because you didn't want to ever get married-"
"-were we having different fights or something?" Teddy scrunched up her face. "That's not what I said! I want to marry you, believe me, I do. But there's always going to be a part of me that still loves Henry, you know that Addie. I've moved on from him, and I'm happy with you, but I just don't want to forget about him. I don't want it to seem like we never happened"
A knot formed in Addison's stomach as she watched the colour drain from Teddy's face and her eyes fill with tears.
"You're not going to forget about him" Addison started. "I won't let you. Marrying me isn't going to make you forget about him. You have a big heart, the biggest one of anybody I know, I know I share it with Henry and to be honest. I'm glad. You'll always love him, I know that but we would both want the exact same thing for you, and that's to be happy. I get running away was a stupid thing and I didn't really think everything through -the whole Henry situation- but I want to marry you, Teddy. I want to have kids with you and grow old with you and I'm always going to want that with you"
The two women's screaming match had caused everyone else to come out of their offices to see what was going on and now Charlotte, Cooper, Violet, Amelia, Pete, Sheldon and Sam now watched from outside the kitchen, Naomi had left the room and was now stood with them.
"Yes" Teddy all but whispered.
"Yes?" Addison asked, not really sure what Teddy meant by it.
"Ask me again, to marry you"
"Tedd-" Addison huffed.
"-Ask. Me. Again"
With a smile, Addison began.
"Teddy, you're the last person I ever want to say 'I love you' to, you're the last person I ever want to be married to. You're the only one I ever want to argue with again. The first person I see in the morning and last before I go to sleep. You're the last person who's arms I want to fall asleep in at night. I love you, more than words can explain, so if you'll let me, I'd like to spend the rest of my life showing you just how much I love you. Will you marry me?"
"Yes" Teddy smiled, a tear rolling down her cheek before she pulled Addison in and kissed her.
There wasn't a dry eye from all the doctors who watched them. Even Ice Queen Charlotte King had a tear in her eye, although now she was too busy covering Coopers eyes so he couldn't see the super hot women in the room opposite them making out. They all filtered into the kitchen and pulled the two women into an embrace, Amelia the first person to hug Addison. She loved Addison so much and was so happy she was happy.
"I better be a bridesmaid!" Amelia laughed before hugging Addison tighter.
"I wouldn't have it any other way" Addison smiled, hugging her former sister-in-law tighter.
