Forever

A Grey's Anatomy fic by Gigi

Disclaimer: Once again, I don't own anything. Stop breaking my heart by making me repeat it.

Chapter 9: A Double Feature

A/N: So college life is turning out to be way busier than I had anticipated, which is why I've pretty much dropped off the planet for the last month. But I got Microsoft Office for Maisy! We're back in business, baby!

Several hours later—try eight—Addison all but stormed into the hospital, finally rid of that absolute terror. What the hell Alex thought he saw in that vulture was far beyond Addison's comprehension, and right now she just wanted to tear into the person who brought this extremely unpleasant company into her life.

Finding him just as he dropped off a chart at the nurses' station, she barked out his last name and tugged him by the elbow into the nearest empty room—an empty supply closet.

"Um, Addison?" Alex tried to get a word in as she maneuvered him into the closet with her exceptionally strong and painful grip on his arm. "What's up?"

Once she closed the door, she whipped around and leaned against it as she gazed on her supposed fiancé with firey eyes. "Do you know where I've been for the last eight hours?" she demanded.

Dumbly, Alex shook his head. He just remembered getting an emergency page on of Bailey's patients that he was covering during their lunch and having to duck out. Addison had been about to join him when his ex insisted she stay if she could. It really couldn't have been that bad.

Apparently, Addison thought differently. "Planning our wedding, Karev."

Alex's jaw hit the floor. "A-Are you kidding me?" he sputtered when he regained control of his mouth.

"Do I even look remotely close to kidding?" Addison shot back heatedly. "Your treat of an ex-girlfriend decided to take it upon herself to help me with the wedding details, especially after you told her we hadn't even started planning yet."

"How much did she manage to wrangle you into?" was all Alex could think to say, which was a very bad idea in retrospect.

"I am not someone who gets wrangled into doing things, Karev," she nearly yelled. "There was no way I could protest since she doesn't know we aren't really engaged!"

"Well how much damage did she do?" he rephrased, wincing from the heat in her voice.

"Once Ben left? The entire wedding." Any other time, Addison probably would have burst out laughing at the sheer look of shock that crossed Alex's face, but at the present moment, she was too pissed to notice. "June 4th, by the way. My gown will be delivered in two weeks, and you've got a fitting for your tux in a week. Oh, and dear Vanessa wanted me to tell you to get working on choosing your groomsmen. I had to call Callie and Miranda already, and Naomi's booked her flight."

Alex had no idea what to say. His facial expression pretty much hadn't changed at all while she talked.

"The invitations are being sent out in a week, Karev," Addison pressed on, "to my parents. Do you see the glaring problem with this?" Still no response. "Alex, Vanessa told me she's staying in Seattle for two months to take care of her cousin for the rest of her pregnancy because she was put on bed rest for the last month and a half. Our wedding is a week after the due date. Vanessa wants to be at our wedding, which will be happening in a month and three weeks!"

That finally seemed to snap Alex out of his shock. "We're getting married in seven weeks?" he asked in a stunned voice.

Addison really felt like smacking him upside the head at that moment.

"What the hell?" Alex screeched. "Where was Ben in all of this?"

"She sent Ben home, said wedding planning was just for the bride," she answered. Her pale blue eyes widened, and her brows furrowed as she leaned forward. "I'm a bride again, and I didn't get a say in the matter!"

"Okay, calm down, Addison," Alex jumped in, noticing how much his fiancée was working herself up into a lather. Her cheeks were flushed, and her hair looked like she'd run her hand through it anxiously about thirty times. Seeing her face flood with even more blood at the suggestion to calm down, he hastily held her by each arm and made her look at him. "Working yourself in to a heart attack isn't going to help matters, so stop it. We'll figure out a way around this, but you need to get your mind off it for now."

"How?" Addison asked petulantly.

"How about tonight, to make it up to you, we do a movie night? We can watch whatever you want, and I'll supply the popcorn and disgusting diet sodas that you like," he suggested in what he hoped was a soothing voice. He was still kind of…majorly freaked out by his ex-girlfriend's actions.

After thinking about it for a little while, Addison relented. "Fine, but don't think you're out of trouble, Karev."

"I won't," he promised. He reached behind her and opened the door, turning her around and slowly guiding her out of the closet. "Now go home and get whatever movie you want to watch, and I'll be there in an hour."

After he'd sent the comparably docile redhead to distract herself, Alex continued finishing up at work. Too many people to count kept asking him why he looked perpetually mortified.

8D

Yawning, Alex pushed open the door to the swanky hotel room he now shared with his boss. "I'm home," he called out.

"Do you come bearing popcorn and drinks?" came the reply from further in the room.

"I'm not an idiot," Alex answered, kicking the door shut with his foot. "I even got you your terrible diet junk."

"I just happen to like the taste of Diet Coke, okay?" Addison sniffed.

"Sure, because that's definitely why everybody drinks Diet Coke," he snorted derisively. "So what are we watching?"

A sly smile bloomed on Addison's face as she hid something behind her back. "Welcome to your education, Dr. Karev," she announced.

"What does that mean?"

Slowly, she brought her hands out to the front. "It's a double feature—a Redgrave-Richardson night!" Alex stared at the two movies in her hands, The Parent Trap and Letters to Juliet.

"You really hate the fact that I've never heard of Vanessa Redgrave, don't you?"

"You have no idea," Addison confirmed as she popped The Parent Trap into the DVD player. "You are about to witness the magic of Natasha Richardson, and then you'll see where she got it from."

"What do you mean?" Alex couldn't have been more lost.

"Vanessa Redgrave is Natasha Richardson's mother, silly," Addison gently chided, crawling up the bed and settling in under the covers. "Now go make that popcorn and shut off the lights…and give me a soda." Alex's eyebrows raised at the list of orders, until she leveled him with a stare and a quirk of her own eyebrows. "Do you realize just how much you owe me?"

At least Alex had the decency to look abashed. "I'll be right back."

"Soda!" Addison called out hurriedly before he could leave the room, making him turn right back around and deliver a Diet Coke to her waiting hand.

8D

Halfway through Letters to Juliet—they already finished The Parent Trap—Addison's back rested against Alex's chest, and Alex's arms wrapped protectively around her front, hugging her to him. Neither of them had any clue as to how they got in that position, but they were enjoying it far too much to bring attention to the fact that they shouldn't really be situated like they were.

"So what do you think so far?" Addison asked, quietly so that they could still hear the movie.

"I think you're making me watch two chick flicks in a row," Alex grumped, unwilling to admit he was actually enjoying the night.

Addison twisted around against his chest so that her shoulder somewhat pushed into his torso and she could look him in the eye. "I totally earned this night, and don't forget it was your idea, mister."

"I know it was my idea," he groaned in response. "But to my credit, you were kind of having a meltdown."

"Hmm, and whose fault is that?" Addison shot right back, mirth swimming in her eyes.

Alex didn't answer. He just realized how close they were to each other. His face was maybe an inch away from hers; close enough to see the flecks of green in her baby blue eyes. He was truly thankful of whatever part of his brain had blurted out Addison's name on the phone and led to this moment, because he found himself slowly closing the gap between them.

Addison knew what was coming from that soft look in her companion's chocolate eyes, having seen it twice before, once in the NICU and once in the bar. She let her eyes slide closed as the first airy brush of his lips sent shivers through her entire body. She needed more than just that small ghosting across her lips, so she stretched her neck into the kiss, letting her lips press themselves fully onto his. The response was immediate as Alex unwrapped his hands from around her and used them to turn her fully into him. Her arms slowly snaked their way up to his neck and she pushed gently so that they were soon lying down on the bed.

A/N: It's a shortie, I know, but it's really better than nothing. And considering I'm in college now and have a ton of crap to do, I would just appreciate the fact that I'm updating at all. And I'm sure you guys appreciated that last part, but you need to tell me if I'm right. You know how? REVIEW!