Hi, how are you? I'm sorry for the delay in uploading this fic, but my first year-finals are really taking its toll on my activity at this website... Well, previously we've seen a Maddison-filled rewrite O:) of famous season 9 finale Perfect Storm and well...things finally moved between the two. Thank you for all the reviews, I'd like to specifically mention one I can't reply to personally, because it was from the guest, but it was great. And believe me, I have no idea how I resisted for so long either ;).

This chapter is also based on the actual episode, season 10 premiere titled Seal Our Fate/I Want You With Me. I Want You With Me is the song by LeAnn Rhimes, btw.
Yeah, and some lines are borrowed from canon, so I don't own them. Starting with Mark's POV...

I want you with me

Thousand thoughts linger somewhere in the back of your mind, but at this moment you can't and you don't want to think about anything else than the woman in your arms. That's the only thought that is important. Her soft skin pressed to yours, her red hair spread across your chest and her hand covering the place where your heart is. It seems that your heartbeat is making her calm. You don't know that, but she wanted to touch your chest to feel your beating heart since the first day she came back to Seattle. If she only knew that in this moment it is beating only for her. You'll have to discuss a thousand matters eventually, but right now lying together silently is enough and perfect. You're absentmindely running your fingers through the red locks and it feels almost magical. But of course it doesn't last long. It couldn't have been more than three minutes before Addie's pager goes off. And she abruptly gets up and says:

"It can't seriously be another woman in labor!"

She's quickly putting on her scrubs and you're sad that this kinda perfect moment ended so quickly. She smiles at you sadly, but before she walks out of the room, she leans back down and places a soft kiss on your lips.

"Go save lives," you give her an encouraging smile and she leaves.

###

When you get to the room you were paged into, your eyes widen in shock and your breath remains stuck in your throat. No, it definitely isn't another woman in labor. There's a man lying on the bed and it isn't anyone else than your favorite mentor ever. Richard Webber, unconscious, and you wonder whether you want to know anything about his codition or it's just gonna be too painful. Before you bring yourself to actually saying anything, Miranda speaks up, her voice shaking:

"We thought you should know. We found him like that in the basement. Well, actually...Derek is now operating on Heather Brooks. She...they...they were lying in the pool of water, they...they have been electrocuted and she hit her head badly."

Though maybe you are even more scared of getting the answer, you ask the fateful question:

"Is he gonna be ok?"

"I wish I could tell you, but...we don't know."

You don't remember the last time you've seen Miranda Bailey cry, but this is too much, even for her.

"So...what are you gonna do?"

You burst into crying yourself and then Cristina comes with Richard's healthcare directive file and you can hear the shock in her words, when she announces who is his healthcare proxy.

...

"I don't understand."

"Richard has designated you as his medical power of attorney."

"But he can't make me his next of kin without talking to me first."

"...He did."

Meredith has just given birth during a superstorm, had a massive splenic bleed, talked an intern through the procedure he was performing on her and now she suddenly has to decide the fate of the man, who means more to her than her own father? Like...seriously? Could this girl's life be any more unpredictable, could she have even more crap pulled at her?

But it's not like your own life is predictable and you are unfamiliar with its crap being pulled at you. And...you're, in the sense of the word, also something like daughter to Richard Webber. So you get what Meredith is probably feeling right now. Being the one to decide his fate...it must feel utterly horrible. You can't imagine what you would do in this situation. You feel like saying something, but in your current state of mind you really have no idea what's that supposed to be. Having Cristina and Miranda right here arguing about the best treatment doesn't help Meredith at all either. Plus, with all the feelings that come rushing to her because of her relationship with Richard, because of all the things she's gone through today and because she's a new mom, it hardly can be more difficult.

"You know what I was thinking before you guys came in here? I was thinking I wish my mother was here to see my kids. I was wondering if she'd make a good grandmother... But you know what that is? That's delusional thinking. Because my mother would make a horrible grandmother, because she was a horrible mother. So...I'm delusional...and hormonal. And I can't trust my delusional thoughts... I have to rely on the labs. So we need to run the lactate again and if it's above six, we're going to do the surgery. And if it's not, we're not."
Neither of them says a word and they all leave with unreadable expressions on their faces. You're leaving too, when Meredith calls:

"Addison?"

You turn around and look at her.
"By the way, have you sen Mark?"

You have no idea, what could she want from him, but you don't really think about it, 'cos there are particular reasons that just bring one irrational thought into your head:
There's no way she can know, or is there?

You choke a little, but you manage to say:
"I...uh, I can go find him."

Though when Meredith replies:
"It's ok, just asking...let him work," you feel almost relieved, 'cos you're not too sure what will or what's supposed to transpire between you two after the thing that happened today .

...

But you meet him again soon, because some time later when Richard is in surgery, a big doctor's meeting takes place in Meredith's room. Mark is there also and you two don't exchange a word, but can't help catching each other's gazes all the time. Though something else is far more important now. You are all worried about your friend, co-worker and former chief and neither of you can stay back from the diccussion about his fate. He's in surgery right now, splenectomy, 'cos his lactate was 9. You almost didn't notice Derek wasn't in the room until he appears in the doorway, looking devastated. With sad eyes and tired voice he says:

"Heather Brooks died on the table."

And then of course Meredith passes their son to Derek instantly, because she knows that is one of very few things that will make him feel better now. Some people are comforting him and you still can't help always catching Mark's gaze, though you are overwhelmed with thousand other things. Like...Callie is always very vocal about her life, she doesn't keep her feelings inside, whatever they are, and right now she is shouting. She found out Arizona cheated on her, and she's devastated. Arizona actually comited an adultery, and with Callie emphasizing that you only feel worse, because around the time Arizona was having sex with that blonde doctor, you were actually having sex with Mark.

...

Derek's going home with Zola and you frantically count how much time is left until the end of your shift, because there's nothing you want to do more than just get the hell outta this place, take Henry into your arms and let him make you feel better. But laboring moms apparently have other plans.

Mark's shift is ending too and he's getting ready to leave with Derek. But than he looks at you like just thought of something and he asks:
"Addie, you're not finishing for like...next six hours and Henry has been in the daycare during the whole storm, right? What about I...we take him with us and Zola to Derek's house now? They can play together, but they can sleep if they want and you know...we'll take care of him."

You pager goes off and though it's fairly normal, for you it feels really grotesque-like in that moment.
You have no time for debating whether you trust Mark with Henry.

"Ok, right, I'll...come by later."

"We'll be there."

###

When you and Derek step into his house, you find no one else than Callie sitting in the livingroom, box of Kleenex on her knees. She chokes out:

"Um...I was...gonna go to hotel...but Mer said I should come here."

"Well, I guess I should've read those five text messages," Derek says.

"I'm...I'm sorry...Sofia is asleep in Zola's bed...I..I...I can move her, she probably won't wake up."

Derek just looks at her understandingly, he then sends a knowing look to you and he closes the door. You consider it best to stay silent and you just rock sleepy Henry a little.
Then you and Derek manage to put both Zola and Henry to sleep somewhere and Derek sympathetically opens a bottle for Callie.
Her eyes are a little cried out, she is a little drunk and she starts contemplating:

"Everyone I love either cheats on me or dies. Or cheats on me and dies. George did both."

"Arizona's not gonna die."

"Callie, don't be so pessimistic."

She looks at you like you're insane (though, due to her drunk-appearing eyes, the look isn't so grand).

"Yeah, you guys really know how to make someone feel better."

She rather reaches for another bottle, but then stops as if she just realized something.

"Ugh, I'm sorry, I'm drinking all your wine. You just had a baby, you should be drinking all your wine...and after what you went through tonight with Heather and...and Richard, oh my God! Why is everything so horrible?" she wails and Derek just taps her hand and tells her to go ahead, because he figures it will be better.

Some time after that Derek goes upstairs, Callie drunkedly cries on your shoulder and though your revelation probably won't help her at all, you can't think of anything better then admitting:

"You know, I slept with Addison...few hours ago."

"Yeah...about time," she says absentmindedly, then she lays her head on your shoulder again and she falls asleep.

###

Yeah, as if it wasn't enough, million other things happen during the remaining six hours of your shift – like Catherine Avery interrupting Richard's surgery, because she doesn't think his heart could handle it, but Miranda still feels there is something wrong they aren't seeing. In the end Meredith makes a decision that Miranda should go perform an exploratory laparotomy on him – and when Catherine hears, she is furious, but Richard made a damn good decision when he chose Meredith to be his healthcare proxy. Because Miranda really finds out where the problem is, she fixes it and in the end Richard wakes up knowing that he was wrong when he said he could handle anything...he was wrong about lot of things...but he was right about this.

...

After you finally make it through this awful shift, you're going to take Henry from the daycare, but in the middle of the hallway you stop in your tracks and realize he's actually in Derek's house. You turn around and quickly march outside, because you can't wait to see him. But on your way you also start thinking how awkward it would be. Or...you don't know. Mark's probably still gonna be there and...you don't want to avoid him, you really don't. You just aren't looking forward to your meeting, because you have no idea what is happening between you two right now. Or...is Henry really at Derek's house? Your son tops all the other worries and that's how you find yourself calling Mark to make sure Henry is okay. The phone rings twice and then you hear him saying:

"Hi, Red."

"Hi...I wanted to ask...is everything alright? I finished my shift and I...can I take Henry? Are you still at Derek's house?" You try to sound as normal as you can.

"Yes, of course. Everything is okay, come here."

But when you arrive and you see all Mark, Derek, Callie plus Cristina, who came in the meantime, you feel quite overwhelmed.
"Thank you for taking care of him," you look mainly at Derek and of course you mean Mark too, but looking at him feels like a little too much now, "We're going home now, okay Henry?" you say when lifting up your son.

He rumples his nose, but he smiles and says a little clumsily:

"O-kay."

And you say goodbye and leave this session rather quickly.

###

"I should be going too."

You say that no more than three minutes after Addie left, which results in Callie and Derek eyeing each other suspiciously. But neither of them really says anything and you just put on your jacket, your shoes and you leave too.

There's someone that I've been missing
I think that they could be
The better half of me
(OneRepublic – Come Home)

You find yourself making some errands first, because you wanna do it right this time. But it doesn't take long till you're standing in front of Addie's door, ringing the bell.

She isn't all that shocked to see you when she opens the door. She still asks:

"Mark, what's up?"

But then she sees what hapens to be a bouquet of flowers in your hand and she forms a perplexed expression.

"Can I come in?"

"Yeah, ok," she steps aside from the door and you walk in closing it behind you.

A smirk appears on your face: "You know, I actually have no idea how to do this and it is really weird, but I figured out I would give it a try, so..."

You offer her the flowers.

"Addie, do you wanna be my girlfriend?"

Was it too out of character? :D And please tell me your opinion on the whole chapter. :)