Hey, so I've been getting way awesome feedback about the last chapter, so I figured I'd post "Day Two". Man, this Thirteen Day thing is a little hard, trying to come up with ridiculous things for Addison and Eliot to do. Bah phooey…if you have any ideas, please, please, let me know!

Chapter Title: "Let Me Entertain You" by Queen

Half Love

"Let Me Entertain You"

Just take a look at the menu
We give you rock a la carte
We'll breakfast at Tiffany's
We'll sing to you in Japanese
We're only here to entertain you
– "Let Me Entertain You"
By Queen

February 2nd, 2006

6:45 A.M.

"Addison?" Derek poked his head in the bathroom door and saw the shadow of his wife in the shower. "Are you feeling better?"

"Yeah." She said, bluntly. "I'm fine Derek. I must have eaten something bad last night."

He shrugged. "I guess." He sat down on the toilet and sighed. "Is today your 24-hour shift?"

"Yeah." Addison sighed. "Derek, I'm trying to take a shower. Can you just go?"

He laughed and stood. "Or…I could join you." Pulling the curtain back, Derek's breath hitched. "You…what the hell are you doing here?"

Mark grinned. "She just couldn't get enough of me, I guess."

"Derek…I'm sorry."

"You're sorry?" He hissed, averting his eyes. "You can't just always be sorry, Addison."

"Derek?" Meredith came in to the bathroom, clothed in only his shirt. "What's taking you so long?"

"Oh!" Addison glared. "You're going to get mad at me for being with Mark when you're with Grey?"

"I'm not…I don't know how she got here!" He stated, looking back and forth between his wife and his girlfriend…ex-girlfriend.

"Oh, whatever, Derek. Look, there's something you should know…the reason I was so sick…I'm pregnant, Derek." Addison grinned. "With Mark's child."

"No…"

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Derek bolted up in bed, his lips still mouthing 'No'. He shed his sweat soaked white t-shirt and climbed out of bed, heading for the kitchen. He could hear the shower running and his breath hitched. Damn his dreams. He sat down on the couch and breathed in deep. He had to get over it. Part of him still loved Meredith, he was sure part of him always would, but he still loved Addison, and choosing her was the right thing to do. He hoped.

"No. It is." He whispered, pouring himself a cup of coffee. "I love Addison. I married her. For better or worse." He set the cup of coffee down and went in to the tiny bathroom. "Addie?"

"Yeah?" She poked her head around the curtain and smiled. "What?"

"I need to ask you something."

She took her head back in to the shower and dipped her head under the water. "Okay…"

Derek sat down on the toilet, deja vu-ing for a moment, and took a deep breath. "I need you to tell me…did you fall in love with Mark?"

Addison's head whipped around the shower curtain. "What?"

"Answer the question."

She sighed. "I fell in love with the idea of Mark. Someone that wasn't complicated, that was simple, and just wanted to be around me. Mark laid everything out on the table…and he wanted me to do that too. I liked that…but I didn't fall in love with him." Derek looked at the floor. "Why?"

"I just…I had this dream…"

"Derek?" He looked up, noticing the pain in her eyes right away. "I thought you were done with Meredith."

"Uh…I am."

"I know you said you fell in love with her, and that, that doesn't go away just because I came here, but…I thought you were moving on." Addison grabbed the nearest towel and shut off the shower before stepping out on to the bathroom floor.

"I'm trying, Addie. But Mark showing up brings back horrible memories…nightmares that I had for weeks after Ellie and I found out…only now Meredith is in them."

"What do you mean?"

"I had this dream that you were with Mark again, and we got in a fight, and then Meredith showed up, barely clothed, and the fight got worse, and you were pregnant…" Derek put his head in his hands. "I don't…I can't…I don't even want to think about you and Mark, and I'm trying not to think about Meredith and I…it's hard. So hard…"

"Derek…first of all, I would never be with Mark again. Ever. Second, we fight all the time. It's just what we do. Third, Meredith…is Meredith. There's nothing we can do about the past, and fourth…if I were to get pregnant, it would be with your child, not Marks." Addison sighed. "I know it's hard. We're trying to fix something that has been broken a long time, and it's hard not to just jump ship, but we're trying." Addison lifted his chin with two of her fingers. "I still love you, and I will always love you. If you don't want me…"

"No. I want you. I do…I…I'm sorry I even brought this up."

Addison shook her head. "We need to talk about this kind of stuff." She leaned against the wall and grinned. "What time does your shift start?"

"8:00. Why?"

Addison shed the towel and turned on the shower. "What do you say we try before we go to work?"

Derek grinned. "It's your Thirteen Day Celebration." Addison grinned and stepped in to the shower as Derek shed his boxers. Needless to say, they were late.

9:00 A.M.

"Ellie?" Ellie groaned from the bathroom floor of the surgical ward. She's spent the last twenty minutes throwing up everything she had eaten in the last two days, which wasn't a lot, considering it was getting continuously harder for her to keep things down. "El?" Addison came in to the bathroom, having just arrived at the hospital. "Are you in here?"

"Addie?" Ellie managed to say, her voice barely audible.

"Yeah…are you okay?" Ellie groaned in response. "I'm guessing no."

"I feel like shit."

"Oh, well, good." Addison laughed. "No reason to hide it."

"Addison, I'm not in the mood for your idiotic sense of humor."

"Are you trying to get out of today?"

Ellie flung open the stall door and poked her head out. "Yes. That is exactly what I'm trying to do."

Addison cringed. "You're really sick." Ellie nodded. "I'm sorry, El, I…you're never sick."

"I know." Ellie's head slammed against the stall and she groaned. "Okay, that did not help."

Addison crouched down next to her and put her hand up against her forehead. "Do you want me to find someone to cover for you?"

Ellie shook her head. "I'll be okay. Just give me like twenty minutes." Addison nodded. "And, will you give my interns their rounds?"

"Sure. I'll come check on you in a bit, okay?" Ellie nodded and managed a smile as Addison walked out of the bathroom. It wasn't long before Ellie was throwing up again, only this time; there was nothing left to throw up.

12:00 P.M.

Ellie stood at the front desk, fending off weird stares from people, when George came down the hall. He couldn't help but laugh at the way she looked, wearing clown shoes and a red nose, but then again, she didn't look any worse than Addison.

"Hey." He said, sliding up next to her. "Dr. Shepherd said you weren't feeling well."

"I'm okay." Ellie smiled. "You're trying not to laugh, aren't you?"

George nodded. "I'm sorry, you just look so…"

"Ridiculous?" He nodded. "Have you seen Addison?"

George burst in to laughter. "Yes. Oh my gosh…when Dr. Shepherd, uh…Derek…saw her, he almost died." Ellie grinned. "What's the point of this again?"

"To see who can make whom look the most ridiculous. We can actually do way better than this, but y'all don't know us very well."

"Is there a prize?" Ellie shook her head. "Well, how do you know who won?"

Ellie's eyes widened. "I thought you said you had seen Addison!"

"Oh." George smiled. "You won."

"Yeah, I did."

"Eliot!" Ellie turned to see Addison coming down the hall, Cristina and Izzie at her side, both interns trying not to burst in to laughter. Even Addison was trying to keep her composure. "Are you feeling better?"

Ellie grinned. "Are you kidding? I'm dying. You look hilarious!"

Addison adjusted the blinking red nose she was wearing and looked down at the flashing tennis shoes Ellie had given her. "How you came up with this, I'll never know." Izzie and Cristina finally burst in to laughter, and collapsed in to the nearest chairs. "Are you really feeling better?"

"Yeah. I have no idea what that was…but I'm good now."

Addison smiled. "Good." Ellie couldn't help but start laughing again as she stared at Addison's blinking nose. "I'm taking this off…for the time being."

"That's probably a good idea." George said, smiling. Addison nodded and dropped the nose in to her lab coat. Ellie reached in to the pocket of hers and pulled out a small wrapped gift.

"Here." She said, taking off her own red nose and handing the package to Addison. "Happy Day Two."

Addison smiled and handed Ellie a similar sized gift. "Happy Day Two." George watched as both women ripped through the wrapping paper.

"Jeez." He said, grinning as both women held up blue Tiffany & CO boxes. "Boy, do you two know each other, or what?"

Ellie laughed. "If you think this is bad, you should see Addie and Derek on Valentines Day. Half the time, they buy each other the same card."

George laughed. "Are you two going to open those or just hold them." Both women lifted the lid of the box, and simultaneously let out an excited gasp.

"Oh, Addie…this is gorgeous." Out of the box Ellie produced a small white gold Dragonfly bracelet, while Addison pulled out a white gold Rainbow Drops Pendant necklace with an aquamarine stone on it.

"Ellie, this is fantastic."

"Holy shit." Izzie joined the group. "Those are gorgeous." Both women nodded, mouthed thank you to one another and slipped the jewelry back in the box. There were still patients to attend to.

10:00 P.M.

George and Izzie stumbled up the stairs to their front door, tired and exhausted. Though the days at work were beginning to be more fun now that Ellie and Addison were around, it was still Hell, and it still made them tired as ever. Meredith, unfortunately, had drawn the 24-hour shift that day, and was still at the hospital. As George fumbled with the key, the porch lights turned on and the door opened.

"Long day?" Ellie asked, grinning.

"How…do you work at all?" Izzie asked, pushing past George and in to the house.

"Hey!" Ellie followed Izzie in to the living room, leaving George to shut and lock the door himself. "I work, I just don't happen to have a 24-hour shift until tomorrow. I got lucky with my first few shifts…that's all." Ellie sat down on the floor, where she had obviously been sitting when George and Izzie arrived, surrounded by photo albums.

"What is all that?" George asked, collapsing on the couch next to Izzie.

"These are pictures from years ago…every Thirteen Days, every Christmas, birthday, and holiday; you name it, I've got a picture of it."

Izzie grinned. "Pictures of the Shepherds?"

"Are you kidding? Who else?" Izzie and George both joined Ellie on the floor as she opened the nearest photo album. "This is the first Thanksgiving I spent with them. I was 18…" Ellie smiled at the memory. "Derek showed up at my dorm dressed up like a freakin' pilgrim the morning of Thanksgiving. I wasn't going to go anywhere, and Addie wouldn't have that, but I didn't want to intrude. So, she sent Derek…this is New Years. Times Square; they go every year. I went that year, but I haven't gone since. New Years is their thing. They met on New Years, their first year of college…the very first Day One. We didn't dress up weird or anything, but Addie showed up in one of my classes with a bunch of old records she had located, and later I took a bunch of jump ropes and bouncy balls and stuff to her at the hospital." Izzie raised her eyebrows. "It's hard to explain." Izzie nodded. "So, uh…oh, this is their wedding. God, I forgot how beautiful her dress was."

"Why is Dr. Webber walking her down the aisle?" George asked, pointing to the picture.

"Oh…well, Addison's father died when she was 6, and she grew up knowing the Webbers, so…he was like a father to her."

"Really?"

Ellie nodded. "Yeah." She looked down at the pictures. "Addison lived here in Seattle until she was 16, when her Mom died and she moved to New York." Ellie flipped through the photo album. "Oh! Man, this was hilarious. Derek painted his face like the Easter Bunny for Easter that year…" Ellie pointed at the picture. "And that was the first year Addison wore the salmon colored scrubs."

Izzie cringed. "I hate those."

"Oh please." Ellie laughed. "Everybody hates those."

"So, what are these for?"

"Well…their wedding anniversary is March 1st, so I'm putting something together for them, and I'm also putting something together for Addison for Day Thirteen." Ellie set the photo album down. "That reminds me…I need to call Derek…" She stood and then turned to face Izzie and George. "Feel free to look through the pictures. It will change your image of Addison and Derek forever." Ellie grinned. "In a good way, of course."

"Hello?"

"Derek? It's Ellie."

"Hi."

"Is Addison around?"

"No…"

"Good. So, I got a call from the people renting my Dads house from me today."

"Yeah?"

"They're moving out on the 20th."

"Really? So I could…"

"Absolutely. I can have my lawyer draw the papers up in the next few days."

"Ellie this is fantastic."

"Hey, I know how much she hates that freaking trailer just as much as you do…I've heard all about it."

"I'm sure you have." Derek smiled as Addison got out of her car and headed towards where he was sitting on the front porch. "I have to go, El. Let me know when everything is ready."

"Will do. See you tomorrow."

"Yep." Derek hung up the phone and smiled at Addison. "Hi."

"Hi." She sat down next to him on the porch. "So, uh…what was that about?"

He smiled. "Nothing. Nothing at all."

Well, I hope y'all liked this one. Reviews are much loved and appreciated! - Mel