"Hey, they were out of ginger ale so I got some lemon lime stuff," Callie said sitting down next to Meredith in empty gallery where the intern was doing charts. "But they did have saltines."

"Thanks. I appreciate you going."

"No problem."

"It just seems like every time I turn around today, there he is watching me with the same look he gave me when he thought I was sleeping with Finn."

"Gotta say I was a little surprised you didn't. The vet was hot."

Meredith smiled, "Finn was definitely hot but unfortunately Derek got there first."

"What's with that?"

"What?"

"The getting there first thing," Callie opened her crackers.

"Oh. It's this deal Delinda, Nessa, and I made when we got into boys. We all agreed that if any one of us got to a guy first he was off limits to the other two. I made the mistake of telling Cristina and now she rags on me about it. But I feel the same way about Cristina and Izzie. It's why Alex and I will never be anything but friends."

"Izzie got there first."

"Exactly. Though Alex did like to flirt when we first met."

"Alex flirts with everybody," Callie rolled her eyes.

"That he does."

"So, any appointments you need company for?"

"I made an appointment at County for next week. You are more than welcome to come with me. In fact, I'd appreciate it since Cristina runs kinda hot and cold on the whole supportive thing."

"You nervous?"

"About the appointment? No. About being a mom? Yeah. It's harder than it would be because I can't just tell Derek that I'm pregnant and have him be happy about it. I have to worry about how this affects his marriage and then there's the fact where he might tell me that he doesn't think it's his."

"If he says that, I'll break something. I'm good at breaking things. I've seen some nasty breaks. I know exactly how to do it."

"I'll remember that. Thanks Callie."

"No problem."

&&&&&&&&&&

"I'm depressed."

Bailey frowned as she looked up from her computer. "Explain."

"I'm depressed and I'm pissed and I feel like crying," Addison told Bailey sadly as she sat down opposite the resident. "My husband is an idiot. What am I going to do?"

Bailey sighed as she saved her work. "Firstly, I'm not a shrink, and second, it would help if you told me the whole story."

Addison held her head in her hands and mumbled, "Meredith and Derek had prom sex and now she's pregnant."

Bailey looked at her. "Addison, if I find out you're making this up or something…" she trailed off, realizing how stupid what she had just said sounded.

"What am I going to do?" Addison wailed. "I left my apartment in New York to come live in a freaking trailer in the city where it never stops raining for a guy who's sleeping with an intern."

"But Mark's here."

"Mark cheated on me and I left."

"So you came here and now your husband is sleeping with an intern," Bailey said.

Addison sighed. "Yeah." She leaned against the wall. "I miss New York."

Bailey looked at her sympathetically. "I can't help you, Addison. You need to talk to Derek about it."

&&&&&&&&

"Dr. Torres, do you have a moment to give me a consult," Derek asked of Callie.

Callie considered telling the attending to shove it but decided against it. Meredith didn't need her to fight her battles no matter how much the Ortho resident would dearly love to pop Derek in the mouth.

"Of course Dr. Shepherd, how can I help you?"

"My patient fell down a flight of stairs, hitting his head and knocking himself unconscious on the way, as well as fracturing his ankle. I wanted to know if the ankle was surgical before I went into the O.R."

"Where are the x-rays?"

"This way," Derek motioned.

Before they got two steps someone called out, "Derek."

Derek turned around, "Addison? What's wrong?"

"I need to- Dr. Torres. Am I interrupting?" Addison looked at Callie strangely.

"It can wait," Callie said. "Right?"

"Well-"

"Derek, we need to talk. Now."

"I'll find you in a little while, Dr. Torres."

"Alright," Callie walked away heading for the elevator. The doors opened just as she got there. Cristina was on the elevator by herself. "Hey, have you seen Meredith?"

"No, why?"

"Because I think we might have a little problem."

"Again?"

"I think Addison knows," Callie said as the doors closed behind her, sealing Cristina and Callie in the elevator.

"Knows what?"

"Knows, knows."

It took Cristina a minute. "Seriously? How?"

"Meredith and I were talking before. She must have overheard us."

"Crap."

&&&&&&&&&&&

Addison bit her lip and looked at her husband.

"I know." Funny how she could say that without anger.

"What," Derek looked at Addison. "Addie, what you are talking about?"

"You, Meredith, prom. I had my suspicions from the way you wouldn't look at her after she came out following Karev, O'Malley, and Stevens. But I didn't actually know until now that you'd slept with her. And you did."

"Addison, you're not making any sense."

"Derek, you slept with Meredith at the prom."

"Okay. Yes. I did."

Addison's eyes closed for a moment.

"Addie, it was stupid. It was a mistake. It doesn't mean anything." Lying Derek? Good plan. I am not lying. It didn't mean anything to her so it didn't mean anything period.

"It means," Addison opened her eyes, "that you love her."

"Addie."

"Derek, I know how you feel about her. I have always known."

"It doesn't matter. I love you," Derek said quietly.

Addison wanted to cry when she heard that. Funny thing was that she had wanted to cry the first time she'd heard him say that. Only then she'd been happy to hear the words. Now they devastated her because they were good-bye.

"Derek, there's something you need to know about Meredith."

"Addison, she's made it perfectly clear that she wants nothing to-"

"She's pregnant."

"What?" A kick in the stomach couldn't have left him more breathless.

"She's pregnant and it's yours."

"No. It could be Finn's."

"She never slept with Finn."

"Yes, she did."

"Derek, girls don't lie to other girls about sleeping with a guy."

"What are you talking about?"

"I heard her talking to Callie Torres about it and Callie said that she was surprised that Meredith didn't sleep with Finn because he was hot."

"Fine. She didn't sleep with Finn. There's always Alex."

"Meredith has this little deal with her friends. She'll never touch Alex because Izzie got there first."

"She would've told me."

"Yes, because I'm sure that she's in a real hurry to tell her married ex-boyfriend that she's going to have his baby."

"Addison-"

"It's over Derek. Just go."

"It doesn't have to end like this."

"Yes, it does."

Addison didn't give him a chance to say anything else as she did what she should've done almost six months ago. She turned and walked away.

&&&&&&&&&&

"Meredith."

Meredith looked up, alarmed as she heard the urgency in her friends' voices as they rushed towards her.

"Don't freak out."

She frowned at Cristina and Callie. "You can't come in here like that and tell me not to freak out!" she exclaimed, then whispered, "Is it really bad?"

Cristina took her fellow intern by the wrist and led her and Callie into a room. "It's about Addison," Callie said as she closed the door.

"What about her?" Meredith raised an eyebrow. She knew that her friends could be pretty melodramatic if they tried.

"She, um, heard you and Callie talking about the baby earlier," Cristina said, and Callie looked at her and added, "And we're thinking that she might go tell Derek."

"Oh." Meredith took this information in, nodding calmly. "Crap."

&&&&&&&&

"She's pregnant," Derek murmured.

"What?"

"Meredith. She's pregnant. It's mine and the kicker? Addison is the one who told me."

"How'd she find out?"

"She overheard Callie and Meredith talking."

Preston looked at the other surgeon. "Well, then."

Derek sighed and then looked to his companion. "You didn't know?"

"Not for sure."

"Thanks for the warning," Derek took a swing of his beer.

"If I told you and it got back to Cristina that I told you, I'd be sleeping on the balcony."

"You don't have a couch?"

"Couch would be too tame," Preston said.

"So, what's your advice?"

"Pray and give thanks," Preston advised.

"For what?"

"Pray that Meredith doesn't skip town, she has the money to do that, and give thanks that her mother doesn't know who she is much less who you are, because she could and would have ruined your career, and be grateful that Meredith's uncle Ed is no longer with us 'cause I'm thinking if he was you wouldn't be walking around."

"Thanks for the words of wisdom."

"Anytime. See you later. Night Joe."

"Night Doc."

Derek looked up at Joe. "How are you tonight Joe?"

"Better than you Doc."

"You heard?"

"No, I knew. Meredith stopped ordering any and all forms of alcohol a few weeks back only this time there were no needles with her."

"Right. So, any advice?"

"Watch out for Pete and Sal."

"Who are they?"

"Her guards."

&&&&&&&&&&&

"So how do you think Addison found out?"

"I bet she was spying on Callie and Mer," Alex said, grabbing some popcorn from the bowl that George was passing to him.

Cristina rolled her eyes. "Uh, I think she's got better things to do."

"She was just in the wrong place at the right time," Meredith sighed, switching the channel on the TV.

The gang was gathered at Meredith's house, and they were supposed to be watching a movie, but everyone kept talking over it.

"But why'd she tell McDreamy?" George frowned.

Callie shrugged. "Maybe she just didn't want to pretend that everything was alright with him anymore."

"Yeah," Alex agreed, and pointed out, "Remember when she had that freak out earlier this year? When Meredith started going out with Finn?"

Cristina laughed. "That was funny."

"Don't be so sadistic."

"So I guess she can't really kill you," George said, glancing at Meredith, who was sitting on the floor, leaning on the couch. "Addison, I mean. If she wanted to break up with Derek anyway…"

Meredith sighed. "Both of them are screwed up." She turned back to the TV. "Let's just watch the movie, yeah?"