A/N: Thanks to all my reviewers.
Chapter 6
The next morning Mark was standing next to Derek at the nurses' station. The pair were chatting and catching up on what he had missed when he had been in LA. Addison was glaringly absent from the group.
"So, Sloan, where is Addie this morning?" Derek asked him. The two were attached at the hip if they both weren't in surgery and it was odd to see one of them without the other.
Mark offered him a shrug in response. "I don't really know she said something about having a meeting to get to. All I know is she took Carson with her." He replied.
"You know when Addison is intentionally vague like that it means trouble, right?" Derek asked him.
Mark nodded in agreement. "I know and she had that look in her eyes." He informed his best friend.
Derek cringed inwardly; Mark didn't have to explain which look he was talking about because he knew it all too well. "Oh, shit, that spells trouble for someone. And since I'm chief I'm thinking that someone is going to be me." he moaned the look that Mark was referring to was the one she got in her eyes back in med school when she decided that it was time for them go do something fun and potentially ill-advised.
"Trouble for me too I live with her." Mark commiserated with a sigh. His prediction turned out to be true because at that moment a very pissed off looking Lexie was stalking toward him.
"You think you're so funny, don't you, Mark?" Lexie demanded of him her hands on her hips.
"Little Grey, it might help if I knew what you were talking about." Mark replied clearly confused.
"These don't look familiar to you?" Lexie asked holding up the thong that to her mortal embarrassment she had found tacked up to the bulletin board. This was so juvenile that it could only have been her ex-boyfriend's doings.
Recognition dawned in Mark's eyes the last time he saw those panties had been in the on call room almost two weeks ago. The very same pair of panties that had gotten him in so much trouble with Addison last night, "Where did you get those?" he asked.
"I got them off the bulletin board where you left them." Lexie informed him.
Derek had been taking a sip of coffee when she said that and he choked on it before casting a furtive glance in Mark's direction. "Lexie, I say this as your big brother and out of a place of love, but maybe you should stop leaving your underwear laying around the hospital before people get the wrong idea about you."
Lexie stared angrily at the two attendings. "Look, Mark, I don't have time to deal with this right now, but we will talk about it later I have some sort of super secret meeting to get to. I will say this though that's really mature for a guy who comes parading his kid in here every day some example you're setting." She spit out hatefully before marching off.
Mark and Derek shared a look after she walked away. "Addison," they said in unison. That wasn't the first pair of panties the fiery red head had tacked to the bulletin board.
"Looks like Satan is back in town." Derek chuckled darkly.
"And sleeping in my bed." Mark added dryly.
"So, you and Addie?" Derek asked his eyebrows shooting to his forehead in a question mark.
"Are together, but I honestly thought she was gonna bail on me last night after she found those panties." Mark answered shaking his head.
Derek patted him on the back. "I knew I did the right thing by betting on you two in the pool Alex and Christina had set up." He laughed.
"Speaking of that Karev should be here right now running my errands in hopes of scrubbing in on one of my surgeries." Mark said with a confused look on his face.
"Let's just say I'm pretty sure we just figured out what Addison's vague meeting is about." Derek replied.
"Oh, fuck, that woman is gonna be the death of me." Mark groaned.
Derek couldn't help grinning. "This should be interesting to say the least."
"Do any of you guys have any idea what we're doing here right now?" Alex asked. He, Meredith, Christina, and Lexie were seated in a conference room.
"I don't know anymore than you guys do just that Bailey told us we needed to be here." Christina mused with a shrug.
"Well, it's not like any of us have cut any LVAD wires or ran any back alley surgery rings lately." Meredith threw out there like the others she didn't know what to think.
"This is probably just another one of Sloan's juvenile ideas." Lexie bitched her anger with Mark had yet to dissipate.
"I agree Dr. Sloan can be quite infuriating when he wants to be and he wants to be often." Addison said walking into the room with Carson strapped to her chest in his carrier. " Good we're all here. I bet you're all wondering why I called this meeting." She greeted cheerfully.
"You called this meeting?" Meredith asked her husband's ex-wife.
"I sure did, Grey. You see I got wind of this little betting pool involving Dr. Sloan and myself and from there it was pretty easy to figure out who started it." Addison informed her not unkindly.
Karev closed his eyes and sighed. "Someone either squealed to Torres or Mer talked to Shepard about this. The last two people in the world who needed to be told because they run right to Sloan." He announced.
"Damn, I thought we were in the clear." Christina muttered.
"That's all you three have to say for yourselves?" Addison asked staring them down.
Lexie raised her hand shyly. "Uh, Dr. Montgomery, I wasn't involved in this." She protested.
Addison smiled at her to put her at ease. "I know you weren't, Grey, you're just my resident for the day and I didn't want to have to track you down later." she explained before turning back to the other three. "Nothing, not even a denial?" she asked.
"Uh, if we say we're sorry will you tell us who won the bet?" Christina asked.
"Christina, that is so not helping our case right now." Meredith hissed elbowing her friend in the ribs.
"Karev, Yang, I know that you two were the ringleaders of this little mess, so here is what's going to happen. Yang, until further notice the only cardio cases you work on are neonatal cases. Karev, you are once again on my service until I say you're off of it. Grey, you're handling all my post ops in addition to your other patients." Addison laid down the law.
"Montgomery, that's not fair I'm this close to Sloan actually letting me do something more than observe in the OR." Alex protested holding his fingers mere inches apart to demonstrate his point.
"Karev, I'm not done with you yet. Now stand up and hold out your arms." Addison ordered him.
Karev complied reluctantly and his eyes went wide when she placed Carson in his outstretched arms. "What am I supposed to do with him?" he asked not understanding.
Addison smirked at him evilly. "I said you were on my service, Karev, I didn't say I was going to let you scrub in. Your job until further notice is to run my labs, do research on my cases, and keep on eye on Carson when I can't. If you do that really well I might consider letting you scrub in on my really interesting cases. If you still have time after all that go chase after Dr. Sloan for all I care."
"You can't just do that can you?" Christina questioned.
"I'm an attending you're a resident I can do it." Addison informed her. "Grey, Big Grey that is, if Karev is scrubbed in with me and you're not scrubbed in you're keeping an eye on Carson in addition to everything else. And, Yang, just so you don't feel left out you'll get your turn too." She took Carson back from Alex. "Any questions?" she asked there were none the residents were resigned to their fates. "Good you are all dismissed." She announced cheerfully. All of the residents but Lexie filed out of the room.
Lexie opened her mouth like she wanted to say something and then she shut it again before finally asking. "Is there anything you need from me right now, Dr. Montgomery?" The question she wasn't asking was written all over her face.
"Ask me what you really want to ask me, Dr. Grey." Addison told her brusquely staring the woman who she thought of as the Preschooler down.
"He chose you didn't he?" Lexie asked timidly and then she clarified. "Mark I mean, he chose you over me didn't he?"
"Dr. Grey, nothing against you, but you never stood a chance. Mark and I have always been undeniable it just took the both of us a little while to realize that." Addison answered her question.
"But you broke him." Lexie protested.
"We broke each other, but I was there when it mattered. I didn't walk out on him when his pregnant teenage daughter showed up. If you really loved him you would have gone to him in the OR the day Sloane died and you would have been the one to finally get him out of there not me. You would have been the one by his side when he had his accident, but that was me too. You would have been the one who sat day and night in the NICU when Mark couldn't be there and yet again that was me." Addison told her in a tone that dared her to argue with that.
"You two will just hurt each other again." Lexie threw out proud of herself for not being completely intimidated by the statuesque redhead.
"No we won't, but even if we do we'll work it out we share a child now that's not a bond easily broken. A child you told him you weren't ready for I might add. Now if you're done we have patients to get to." Addison said walking out of the room knowing that the younger doctor would follow her.
Meredith barged into her husband's office later that morning extremely happy to see that he was just busy with paperwork. She had Carson in her arms and he was putting his lungpower to the test. "Derek, I want you to know that your ex-wife truly is Satan."
Derek threw back his head and laughed. "So I heard and I also heard it from an anonymous source that she took it easy on you."
"Derek Shepard, this is not funny, please take him before he makes me deaf." Meredith said thrusting Carson into his arms.
"Well, hello there, Carson, how is Uncle Derek's little man today? It looks like you're giving your Aunt Meredith a little trouble. That's alright you can't help that you're your daddy's son, no you can't." Derek cooed at him as he rocked him gently back and forth instantly quieting his wailing.
"Derek, how the hell did you do that? I've been trying for the last twenty minutes to get him to stop crying." Meredith demanded looking at him in amazement.
"You've just got to talk to him, hold him close, and make him feel safe. Once you've done those three things just rock him a little bit and he's fine." Derek explained to her.
Meredith took the notepad out of her lab coat pocket and wrote that down. "I've gotta take notes it looks like I'm gonna be on baby detail for awhile." She sighed loudly.
"That's all?" Derek asked he thought that that was pretty mild for Addison.
"That and I have and round on her post op patients for the rest of my natural life. There is no way she is letting up on us anytime soon." Meredith groaned.
"Well, I can help you with the babysitting part at least. Now hold out your arms." Derek waited while she did as he said. He placed Carson gently in her arms. "Now hold him close to your chest so he can hear your heartbeat. That will calm him it reminds him of being in the womb." He instructed her.
Meredith was amazed when the baby in her arms instantly calmed down. "You are really good at this, Derek."
"I have a lot of nieces and nephews plus I was married to Addison I learned a couple things. Besides that he's Mark's son being near boobs probably calms him." Derek chuckled.
"I was serious about Addison being Satan by the way. The only up side to this is it's good practice for our future children." Meredith replied bouncing Carson gently.
Derek smiled at her. "Exactly, there you go you're getting the hang of it." He praised her.
"How long are you going to let Addison torture us like this?" Meredith asked him.
"For as long as she wants. You said it yourself she's Satan, I'm not going to tell her she can't torture you guys." Derek laughed.
"You're going to feel bad if she does permanent damage to Lexie she has her on her service today." Meredith informed him.
"She's not gonna hurt Lexie much and besides that's more to make Mark uncomfortable than it is to do anything to Lexie." Derek assured her.
"Whatever you say, Derek." Meredith replied rolling her eyes. "I'm going to go dump him off on Karev he needs his diaper changed."
Derek laughed at her. "Stay, I'll show you how. Just give me a clean diaper." He took the baby from her and laid him on the couch. He unsnapped the buttons on his onesie and undid the tabs on his dirty diaper. "Ok, Mer, now since he's a boy you're going to want to keep him covered with the dirty diaper while you put the clean one on in case he decides he wants to pee all over the place." He narrated as he changed his diaper. "And just like that we're done." He picked Carson up and kissed his cheek. "You were such a good boy for Uncle Derek."
"Any chance you'd mind keeping him?" Meredith asked hopefully.
"Any other time I wouldn't mind at all, but Addie is trying to teach a lesson and I'm not going to get in the middle of it. If I get in the middle of what she's got going on right now she will not be happy with me." Derek said handing Carson back to her. "Now you try to be good for Aunt Meredith because your mommy is torturing her enough already."
"Derek, if she runs us into the ground you're really gonna feel bad." Meredith pouted.
Derek laughed, "She's not going to run you guys into the ground. Learn to respect her as your attending and Addison will back off." He advised her.
"Don't have this talk with me, tell Christina and Alex." Meredith protested.
"I'm telling you so you can tell Yang and Karev. As soon as they learn to respect Addison as their attending she'll back off. Nobody really treated her with the respect that she deserves the first time she was here and that's part of the reason why she left." Derek told her.
"Yeah, yeah, I get it if we learn to respect Dr. Montgomery she will respect us back." Meredith replied rolling her eyes.
Derek pecked her on the lips and laughed. "You've got it. Anyway I think she'll let up on you and Yang pretty quickly Karev is the one she really wants to punish." He explained.
Meredith looked down at the little boy in her arms. "Come on, Carson, let's get out of here Aunt Meredith is starting to think that your Uncle Derek is enjoying this torture as much as your mommy." She told him as they walked out of the office.
"Really, Red?" Mark asked with an arched eyebrow when he walked up to Addison at the nurses' station in the maternity ward.
Addison finished up with the patient's chart that she was writing in before responding. "Mark, you'll have to be more specific than that I don't know what you're talking about." She replied sweetly.
"I'm talking about the fact that you tacked Lexie's panties to the bulletin board." Mark told her pulling her off to the side.
"Oh, you found out about that?" Addison asked him innocently.
"Yeah I found out about that. Along with the fact that you are now torturing residents for sport and you have Lexie on your service today." Mark went on trying to keep his voice from rising.
Addison arched an eyebrow at him. "Relax, Mark, I'm not going to do anything to her." She assured him rolling her eyes.
"Addie, I thought that we were ok." Mark reasoned with her.
"We are ok, Mark, but you're in the dog house right now along with Karev, Yang, and Grey. You four should really try not to give each other fleas." Addison commented flippantly. She pursed her lips in a sexy pout she knew would drive him crazy.
"You are something else, Red, this is one of those times where I don't know what to say to you." Mark told her. It was everything he could do to keep his eyes on her face they kept traveling to the plunging neckline of the dress she wore.
"Don't worry so much, Sloan, I'm just a little bit pissed off with you right now. It could be worse I could be withholding sex." Addison informed him an evil smirk on her face.
"You wouldn't dare, Addie." Mark challenged her.
"I would dare, but that would hurt me just as much as it would hurt you. So, I don't plan to get that extreme this time anyway." Addison retorted.
"Where's Casey right now?" Mark asked trying not to panic, but he knew that Addison would be freaking out if she didn't know exactly where he was.
"He's with his Aunt Meredith right now. Mark, I know you honestly don't think that I would be this calm if I didn't know where our son was." Addison answered him.
"Red, you're earning that Satan nickname right now. Just do me a favor and take it easy on Lexie I'm the one you want to punish not her." Mark pleaded with her.
"Knowing that the preschooler is on my service today is your punishment. Now you have to worry all day that I'm going to try to stake a claim on my territory like a dog or something." Addison grinned at him.
"You're an evil woman, Red. I don't know why I love you so." Mark told her shaking his head. He couldn't fight off the smirk he felt forming on his lips. His girlfriend was pretty badass and it was super hot.
"I love you too, Mark." Addison replied and then because she saw Lexie approaching out of the corner of her eye she reached up and kissed him chastely on the lips.
Mark saw Lexie and the crestfallen look on her face from seeing them kiss. "Well played, Addie, very well played." He told her.
Addison went to reply but her pager went off. "I've gotta go, Callie needs a consult I'll see you later for lunch."
"Yeah, I'll get Casey from whatever resident you're forcing him on and we'll all have lunch together." Mark replied. He watched her ass as she walked not looking away until she stepped onto the elevator. Only then did it occur to him that she had been seducing him.
"Alright, Addison, spill it, I have given you plenty of time to adjust to being back, now I want to know what's going on with you and Sloan." Callie told her friend as she watched her do an ultrasound on her patient.
"You mean word didn't already travel in the time it took me to get down here from maternity?" Addison asked her with a chuckle.
"What are you talking about?" Callie asked clearly confused.
"Oh, Mark, came looking for me because he heard about how I was punishing the residents and I kissed him." Addison informed her smugly.
"Is that your way of telling me that you two are together?" Callie inquired.
"That's my way of telling you that we're together." Addison laughed.
"I told those idiots when they started that pool not to bet against you and Mark." Callie chuckled.
"Those idiots are never going to make another bet on us once I get done with them." Addison laughed.
"That I did hear about, Yang is gonna die having to wait that long between cuts. I also heard that there was a pair of underwear tacked up to the bulletin board today. I'm sure that you wouldn't know anything about that though." Callie teased.
Addison smirked at her. "You're right I know nothing about that," she agreed. "Ok, you're good to go here, so I'll see you later."
"Right, girls' night tonight, you have no choice in the matter you're coming out with us. Mark will be fine alone with Carson for a few hours." Callie called to her as she walked away. Addison waved at her over her shoulder to show that she had heard her.
"This really blows," Karev bitched to his friends. They were sitting in the tunnel for lack of anything else to do.
"Maybe we should have known better, I mean the woman is called Satan for a reason." Christina mused thoughtfully and then she dismissed that idea with a shake of her head.
"I guess it could have been worse she could have banned us from the OR altogether." Meredith chimed in. She was bouncing Carson up and down gently in hopes of getting him to sleep. "Alex, switch me I'll do the post op notes now."
"Fine," Alex sighed he passed her the charts he was working on before taking Carson from her. "Alright, kid, it's time for you to go to sleep." Then he grumbled something under his breath about being a surgeon not a babysitter.
Lexie was sitting there with a pissed off look on her face. "There is no way that this day can get any worse for me. First I come in and I find my underwear tacked to the damn bulletin board, because clearly Mark is that juvenile. Then his new girlfriend decides that to make some kind of point I need to be on her service. And then as if all of that wasn't enough she kisses him right in front of me." she bitched. The other three started laughing really hard. "What's so funny?" she demanded.
"Lexie, just trust us when we say that Mark wasn't the one who tacked your underwear up there." Christina informed her.
"How do you know that?" Lexie asked clearly confused.
"Ask your sister." Alex stated bluntly rocking Carson back and forth. "I'm about to give up on getting this kid to sleep."
Meredith took pity on her sister seeing that she still didn't get what happened. "I slept with Derek once after I knew he was married. He left my panties in his jacket pocket. Addison found them and she tacked them up on the bulletin board." She explained to her.
"Of course just what I needed the most hellish of all the attendings hates me. I honestly don't understand what all the guys around here see in her. I mean seriously these guys are highly educated doctors and they tie themselves in knots over her. If nobody's noticed she's kinda a really big bitch." Lexie rambled.
"She may be a bitch when she wants to be, but Montgomery is a real McHottie. That is once you get past the fact that the woman is the physical embodiment of Satan." Alex told her with a look that said she should have thought of that.
"You want Sloan to kick your ass don't you? After you slept with Lexie he'll kill you if he hears you say that about his baby momma." Christina asked him with a raised eyebrow.
"Sloan won't kick my ass he'll kill me he still thinks that I'm the one who chased her off to LA." Karev corrected with a smirk.
"What could you have possibly done to Satan?" Meredith asked and then recognition dawned on her face. "Alex, tell me you didn't sleep with Addison." She pleaded with him.
Alex's smirk got bigger. "She basically raped me I was mouthing off and she pulled me into an on call room and had her way with me. So, Sloan thinks that I ran her off." He explained with a shrug.
"Again I don't understand what it is with you men and Satan." Lexie muttered rolling her eyes.
Christina cocked her head to the side and put her fingers to her lips in a sign for the others to be quiet. Sure enough she heard the familiar click clack of high heels coming down the tunnel. "Satan's coming everyone look busy." She said in a harsh whisper.
Addison walked up to the group a moment later and found the four residents all reading files, working on charts, and in Alex's case rocking the baby. "First let's get one thing straight. I prefer the ruler of all that is evil, but I will answer to Satan."
"Who would ever dream of calling you Satan?" Alex asked innocently.
"You're really funny, Karev. It's nice to see that you people have managed to keep my son in one piece make sure it stays that way." Addison told him. Then she passed files out to Meredith, Christina, and Alex. "We have a case coming in and even though you guys are on my shit list I'm still going to teach you. Study that and whichever one of you shows the most knowledge of the case will scrub in with me."
"What kind of case is it?" Christina asked perking up at the thought of getting into the OR.
"We have a mother who is thirty-four weeks pregnant with conjoined twins. We are going to deliver the twins and then separate them immediately after birth." Addison explained.
"We're all on this case?" Meredith asked.
"Yes, you are all on this case, but like I said I'll pick one of you to scrub in." Addison answered her.
"I'm so there," Alex announced flipping through the file with his free hand.
Addison stopped in front of Lexie and looked her dead in her calf brown eyes. "Grey, you need to make a decision right now."
"What kind of decision?" Lexie asked not sure what the older woman was talking about.
"About how important it is for you to hate me. If you decide here and now that Mark Sloan is important enough to hate me over you're free to go, you're off my service and I'll make sure you don't get assigned to me again. That being said you show a lot of promise and I have a lot to teach if you think you can learn from me without your personal feelings getting in the way." Addison stated bluntly extending a file to her.
Lexie thought it over for a moment before taking the file. "Mark isn't important enough to keep me from learning from the best. We're all professionals here there is no reason for this to get in the way." She replied.
"Good, I'm glad to see that we're on the same page here." Addison said before walking over to Karev. "I'll take him for now, if I need one of you I'll page." She took Carson and walked back the way she came leaving the four residents looking a tad bit befuddled.
A/N: I think this was just a fun little chapter it was a lot of fun to write. I really hope that you guys enjoyed it. Until next time please review.
