Derek opens the door to find Addison already sitting on the couch. She looks a bit on edge, like she's a little nervous. But to be honest, he felt a bit weird about this himself, especially since they're doing this at work.
"You got them?" Addison asks him.
"Yeah I got them."
He moves to sit next to her on the couch.
"So.."
"So.."
"We should get this over with." Addison decides.
"Yeah, I've got surgery in fifteen minutes."
Derek spreads the papers out on the table in front of them. He had pulled them from his desk drawer where he had put them after their reconciliation.
"You got a pen?" He asks.
"Yeah, yeah I got a pen." Addison breathes in deeply.
She signs the papers while Derek looks at her, her hand is trembling. As she finishes, she hands the pen to Derek.
They look at each other, unable to say anything.
As he starts to sign, tears start to roll down her face.
When he's done he looks at her again.
"So I guess this is it." He says barely above a whisper.
"Yeah, it is. Oh God it is." Addison bursts into tears. Derek puts his arms around her and she lets him comfort her. Her head on his shoulder, he lets his own head rest on hers.
Suddenly the door opens. Doctor Webber comes in. "Oh. Eh…excuse me." He stammers and leaves the room as quickly as he can.
Addison sits wiping her tears away. Derek still has his arm around her.
"You want me to talk to Richard? Get you the day off?"
"No, no, I'll be fine. Really. I'm only working till four anyway. After that I'll go find a hotel." She sniffs.
"Addison." He sighs sadly. "You can stay at the trailer tonight. I'm on call anyway."
"Are you kidding me? Leaving the trailer is the only good thing about this divorce." She smiles through her tears. She even manages to elicit a small smile from Derek.
"Okay. But we should still talk to the Chief." "Yeah. But not today." She looks at him. "Not today." He concedes looking into her eyes.
Derek's pager goes off. He looks at it. "I should go. I'm sorry." "It's okay. I'll ah...I'll deal with these." Addison says folding the papers together. "We'll talk later yeah?" He says on his way to the door. "Yeah later." Addison manages, then he's gone.