A/N: Dude, so don't ask where this idea came to my head from but I'm typing it as I go. So we'll see!

Chapter 14

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Last Time...

Alex grimaced, "Yea I know that but this madman wants you and Addison. He says you only have fifteen minutes and then he was going to start shooting."

Derek scowled as he started running and checked his watch as he called over his shoulder, "What time was that?"

Derek and Alex ran until they stood in front of Corrine Emery's hospital room and stopped. Derek turned to Alex in question who opened his mouth to say fifteen minutes ago when they heard a shot fired.
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Addison pressed the towel down the wound in her leg. The bleeding wouldn't stop and she was afraid that the bullet had done more than nick an artery. She looked to the bed and saw that Corrine was still asleep. She was going to have to check out the prescription that she had given Corrine because it obviously prompted sleep even while under crisis.

Flashback

"Jake, even if you want to ensure that Corrine gets the best care, coming in the hospital with guns ablaze is not the way to achieve that. Corrine needs your love and support not your rage and anger."

Jake waved the gun in her face, "What do you know about my love for Corrine? You don't even know us and you don't know about my anger. You don't know what it feels like to hold the love of your life in your arms and watch as they slowly drift away from you. Day after day, month after month Beth was slowly being eaten alive by the cancer that was infesting in her body, a cancer that if the doctors had operated on correctly, she would've never died and she wouldn't have to suffer. You don't know about that kind of rage, you couldn't possibly."

Addison flinched at the anger in his tone, "So what do you hope to accomplish today Jake? What do you want to happen here? Do you want Derek and me to operate on Corrine at gunpoint, because if you want that then you should know that is not going to happen. We won't operate under these conditions."

Jake looked at her, "Derek? Is that Dr. Shepherd? So you two are more than just colleagues I take it."

Addison sighed as she reminisced that this morning her only fear had been the love triangle currently taking the center stage in her life. "Dr. Shepherd is my ex-husband and a very close friend of mine."

Jake scowled, "That's the problem with you uppity people, if you get tired of something you just get rid of it. What happened to love forever and the vows that were made in better and worse? You completely forget about that when you find something else that catches your fancy don't you? Why did you two divorce anyway?"

Addison looked down as she felt the tears well in her eyes, if he only knew. If he only knew. Addison looked at the clock behind him and held her breath as she waited for Corrine to awaken or Derek to come in and see what was going on. Either way this wasn't going to end up nice.

"Jake, let me go please."

Jake shook his head as he turned to the bed and focused on Corrine's sleeping body. He was so entranced by the sight of her breathing that he stood at her side and the gun fell loosely to his side. Addison decided that her best chance for escape was then and she had run to the door when the sound of the gun emptying from its chamber had her screaming in fear. It wasn't until moments later that she realized that she was screaming because she had been shot, shot in the leg. The shot had crippled her as she fell to the ground as her leg started gushing blood.

End of Flashback

Jake yanked her up and Addison screamed at the pain in her leg as the door flew open and Alex and Derek stood there like her fierce protectors. Addison couldn't meet their eyes for fear that she would betray the amount of terror she was feeling at the moment. Derek stepped into the room as Jake trained the gun back on him as he cradled her harshly against his chest, "Which one of you is Shepherd?"

Alex opened his mouth to offer up himself when Jake shook his head and pointed the gun at Alex, "Never mind, you are Karev. I remember her saying that was your name. You leave and close the door behind you or I finish the job."

Alex stared at Addison who had tears streaking down her face and backed up out of the room and closed the door behind him leaving Addison and Derek alone with the madman.

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Derek looked at Addison's tear streaked face and thought he had never seen anything more beautiful than the sight of her alive.

"Addison honey, are you okay?"

Jake looked at him in doubt and turned to Addison in question who was busying trying to handle the bullet wound to her leg, "I thought you told me that you two were divorced."

Addison grimaced as she bit out, "We are divorced."

Jake looked back at him in disbelief, "You were the one I spoke to on the phone right?"

Derek walked over to Addison and bent down in front of her and looked at the towel that had once been stark white was now a hideous, blood red….Blood, life's blood….Addison's life blood. He started to remove the towel when he heard the gun cock and he looked up and the gun pointed at his forehead and saw that Addison had noticed the gun too and was openly weeping.

He grasped her hand in his own and looked at Jake as he felt a renewed strength from the hold she had on his hand, "I'm Dr. Shepherd, that's correct."

Jake nodded, "Good, we are going to be performing surgery after all. Dr. Montgomery here will be your assistant."

Derek shook his head vehemently, "Absolutely not. Addison has just been shot and you have a gun pointed on me like a madman, the last thing I'm doing is operating on your wife today."

Jake walked over and pressed the gun into her temple and said, "I think we work better when you agree to everything I say otherwise this pretty woman that you still call honey won't just be sporting a bullet in the leg she'll have a matching one in the head as well."

Derek nodded, "Okay fine. We'll operate but on a condition."

Jake smirked, "I'm the one with the gun pressed into your wife's temple, I don't think you are in a position to make demands do you?"

Derek crossed his arms, "Look Jake, I don't know what is causing you to take such drastic measures and I'm sure you think you have your reasons but Addison is bleeding and she is the only one that can save your child's life. Even if I do operate and remove the tumor, Addison will need to be alive to monitor the baby and I won't operate unless she's been taken care of."

Jake grimaced and then nodded, "Fine, who do you want to help Dr. Montgomery?"

Derek sighed resigned and said, "I want Miranda Bailey."

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Miranda shook her head as her hospital; her hospital was turned into a chaotic mess. She knew that it must have been like this when the hospital was under Code Black but this seemed worse because from the reports she heard Addison, one of her best friends and Derek, the idiot who she thought of like another brother who she could take or leave were stuck in the room with a patient and the madman who was threatening to shoot them if they didn't comply.

Richard ran up to her and said, "Miranda, we need your help. Derek ran into Addison's room against my better judgment and now Addison is hurt and Derek is trying to negotiate with a madman. The hostage negotiators tried calling but Emery apparently ripped the phone out of the wall. There is no way to communicate with him and we don't know his demands."

Miranda nodded as she digested that information, "What can I do chief?"

Richard sighed, "I know it's not fair of Derek to ask and you certainly don't have to go but I wanted you to know. Addison has been shot and Emery is insisting that we do surgery on his wife now. Derek told him that he wasn't doing the surgery until Addison got medical attention and he suggested your name."

Miranda exhaled sharply as she slid down the wall, " Addison? Shot? I don't have another choice, do I chief?"

Richard shook his head, "You always have another choice Miranda. We can get any of other doctors who don't have a husband and newborn son to contend with to go in the room and attend to Addison and help Derek."

Miranda closed her eyes as she put her face in her hands, "But no one else cares about Addison like I do. I don't have a choice chief, I'm going in. Tell me what I need to do."

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"Alex? Alex?"

Alex stopped pacing as he looked up at Izzie who had been staring at him worriedly for the last five minutes.

"Alex, please stop. Everyone is worried and your pacing doesn't help."

Alex stopped briefly and scowled, "What do you expect me to do? Addison is in there with a madman with a gun and Derek Shepherd just walked in the room where I need to be, and where my heart is at. Addison was shot Izzie, she was shot."

Izzie flinched and nodded, "I know and even though she wasn't always my favorite person, I don't envy her but she will be fine Alex, you have to believe that."

Alex exhaled sharply as he sat on the floor next to her, "I believe it Izzie but this isn't fair. The last thing I said to her was written in a note I left laying on her bed. I didn't get to hold her; I didn't get to tell her how much I loved her or even how happy I was that she was in my life. The last thing I did was something to ensure that I didn't end up hurt and now her life hangs in the balance and I can't do anything about it. I hate feeling this helpless Izzie, it makes me feel completely incompetent."

Izzie pulled him into her arms and rocked him back and forth as the worrying sobs wracked his body.

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Miranda exhaled a deep breath as she entered the room and looked at Derek cradling a heavily bleeding Addison in his arms and the man she had only be told was called Jake Emery held a gun on her.

Miranda tried to focus on the task at hand which was ensuring that Addison received the best medical care possible. She walked over and bent down in front of Derek and Addison and looked at her and turned to Derek and said, "How much blood has she lost?"

Derek grimaced and spoke softly, "Three towels worth."

Miranda flinched, "Derek we need to transfuse, if we don't she'll die."

Derek turned to Jake, "You heard her, and she's one of the best. Let Addison go and you and I can go down to the ER and I'll operate on Corrine, you don't need Addison for that."

Jake ignored him and turned to Miranda, "Just patch her up as best you can."

He turned to Derek and said, "I never told you that I was going to let her go, she's my insurance policy. For some reason, I believe that she's important to you even though you are divorced. I want her here at all times to remind you for what you're fighting for."

Derek scowled as he looked down at Miranda who was trying to contain the bleeding as best as she could while trying to cleanse the wound. Miranda looked at her friend Addison who was drifting in and out of consciousness, she squeezed her hand and said, "I'm right here Addison. Don't worry; nothing is going to happen to you."

Jake groaned, "Are all of you friends here? I can't find two doctors here who hate each others guts?"

Derek checked his watch, "I need to prep an OR if I'm going to operate, Miranda can assist me unless you have another idea."

Jake shrugged, "That will be fine with me. I'll take Addison along with us for the ride and don't mistake Shepherd. This doesn't mean anything; I can still shoot a bullet into Dr. Montgomery at anytime I choose."

Miranda scowled as she looked up and said, "Why are you doing this?"

Addison gripped her hand softly as Miranda poked in her leg and wrapped some gauze around the bleeding wound and said, "Wife….died….doctors."

Miranda nodded as she looked at him, "So what happened to your first wife Mr. Emery?"

Jake rolled his eyes, "If we are going to be in close proximity for the next couple of hours, the least you can do is call me by my first name, Jake. My name is Jake Emery and you can tell all those cops and reporters who are probably swarming the hospital that I'm just a man that wants a little justice when it comes to their loved one receiving healthcare. My first wife died because of the negligence of doctors and I'm not prepared to lose Corrine and my child to these doctors."

Derek exhaled a sharp breath and said, "Miranda, can you call and have them setup an ER? I'll stay here and make sure that Addison is okay and that Corrine's vital signs are in good order. She already had a mild sedative or that's what I could piece together from Addison."

Miranda nodded as she looked at Jake, "Can I go or will you shoot me in the back?" Even with a gun staring her down in the face she couldn't stop herself from speaking bluntly, not when her best friend was on the floor bleeding profusely from a wound that she wasn't be allowed to properly attend to.

Jake nodded, "Go on Dr. Bailey but don't come back late, I don't like to be kept waiting."

Hopefully I explain the reason that Alex isn't in there with her in this chapter
otherwise, I think both of the guys would be there. Thoughts, please!