A/N: Next chapter, hmmm?

Also, I'll be heading out of town for a wedding, so this might be the last update for a couple of weeks. Hopefully,
I can update sooner, but one never knows...:)

WIP25

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As she walked off the ramp at the airport she was on a mission. She knew she was supposed to meet Dr. Callie Torres who would escort her to the hospital so she could begin her treatment of Dr. Addison Forbes-Montgomery Shepherd. What she hadn't expected was the fact that there were two women who were waiting anxiously for her at the gate. Who she assumed was Callie walked up to her first and extended her hand in greeting, "Dr. Glover I presume?"

Martha nodded and extended her hand to Callie in greeting and said, "It's a pleasure, Dr. Torres I'm only hoping that I can be of some assistance."

Martha turned her attention to the woman standing next to her and said, "And you are?"

Miranda smiled as she stuck out her hand as way of greeting nd said, "I'm Dr. Bailey, I was the one who called you on the conference call, it was a pleasure."

Callie reached for her luggage and said, "So what is our game plan? Do you want to go to the hotel and get settled or do you want to head for the hospital first?"

Martha motioned to the file that was in her hand, "I've been studying her case on the plane and I don't think we have anymore time to waste. What do you say, should we head to the hospital and see what we can do about saving your friend's life?"

Miranda didn't want to say anything but she was secretly pleased that the doctor had put the health of her friend Addison over her comfort.

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Richard had left Derek alone with his own thoughts after getting him a cup of coffee which he was currently sipping on while waiting for news about Addison so when Mark Sloan came up in sweats he wasn't fazed. Mark threw himself in the chair next to him with a grimace.

"Where's Callie and Miranda?"

Derek shrugged but didn't give any other notices that he had heard him. Mark leaned back in the chair and said, "So has there been any change with Addison?"

Derek sipped his coffee and shot a glance his way, "Her liver is slowly being compromised and her vital signs aren't good. The twins look good though."

Mark nodded and said, "So how are you?"

Derek rolled his eyes in disbelief, "Please tell me that you didn't just pretend to care about what happens to me."

Mark smirked and said, "Fine pretend I didn't ask that question, it wasn't even really relevant."

Derek nodded and said, "I will do that."

Mark started to stand up and pace and Derek groaned in disbelief, "Could you not do that?"

Mark flung himself back in the chair and said, "I'm worried about Callie, she told me that she was going to let me ride with her to the airport to pick up the doctor but when I woke up she was gone."

Derek laughed and said, "You fell asleep didn't you?"

Mark scowled in anger, "Yea I did and so what?"

Derek snorted as he looked at him, "Don't you remember when were in college? You could never stay awake to study for any of your exams and I always had to set the alarm clock to wake you up otherwise you would've failed every class."

Mark smiled and said, "I remember that, we had some good times didn't we Derek?"

Derek nodded and said, "Before you screwed it up for everyone by taking advantage of my sick wife."

Mark rose and turned to him in anger, "I'm tired of being your punching bag, I'm going to Callie's office but I want you to remember something, you started all of this by leaving the woman you took vows with…Now you may have not slept with anyone else like she did but you distanced yourself from her and did in such a way that she had no one to turn to. You had in essence already isolated her from everyone but you. You were Derek and Addison but you didn't live up to your part of the bargain of being Derek."

Derek glared at him as he returned to sipping his coffee and Mark stormed away.

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"So tell me about Dr. Addison Forbes Montgomery Shepherd." Miranda looked up to the front from her place in the backseat. She had just gotten her son back to sleep and he was currently sleeping in the car seat that Callie had bought after they had been friends for two months. She had approached Miranda with a catalog that Addison had recommended and asked which of the ones she would feel comfortable that her child was riding in when she was hanging out with Callie. What she hadn't realized about her two new friends was that they loved children and as they didn't really have any nieces or nephews yet they took it upon themselves to spoil her son beyond belief and take him from her every chance they got. She always hoped they had that type of closeness so that was why when Dr. Glover posed the question she had to focus her mind again on the conversation.

Callie looked up in the driver's mirror and said, "Miranda you and my nephew okay back there?"

Miranda nodded with a smile and said "We're fine, what did you ask Dr. Glover?"

Martha turned around in her seat and said, "If I'm going to convince this relatively smart doctor that she needs to have the caesarean now and that she needs to focus on her life then I'm going to need some help. Whenever I have patients who are worrying about their lives or the lives of their children and want to be the lives of themselves before their children, I always ask family members for background info, in my business sometimes you have to be a psychiatrist as well. I am curious though; she was diagnosed with SLE lupus at age 28 and lost a child around that same time. She was then finishing a flare-up of her disease when she found out that she was pregnant. This was a dangerous time for her to get pregnant, why did she try to conceive when she was in the middle of a flare-up?"

Miranda cleared her throat and said, "She didn't conceive in the middle of a flare-up, the flare-up came after she found out she was pregnant. I guess, I should give you a brief overview of Addison's life so that you understand what you are about to be up against."

Callie nodded and said, "There is a lot you don't know about our friend."

Miranda stared at Martha and realized that she felt at ease telling this woman her friend's life story if anything it would help her understand the type of amazing woman's life she was trying to save, "Dr. Glover…" Before she could continue the doctor interrupted her and said, "If you buy me a plane ticket and put me up in a five-star hotel, I think you have the right to call me Martha so please Martha."

Miranda liked this woman more and more which wasn't shocking seeing as how Addison had told them that she sounded like good people, "Well Martha, it all started about a year ago before Addison moved to Seattle, she was living in Manhattan and….."

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Derek knocked on the door to Callie's office and when he heard a gruff "Yea" he entered. Mark was sitting on the couch and when he saw him he scowled and turned back to the papers he was reviewing.

Derek closed the door behind him and said, "I wanted to talk to you."

Mark closed the file in front of him and leaned back in Callie's chair, "You wanted to talk to me about what?"

Derek looked down and said, "I'm not proud of what I said. In my defense, it's been a difficult couple of hours and I'm not in charge of my feelings and I just wanted to say I'm sorry."

Mark nodded and said, "I'm sorry that you're having a hard time of it."

Derek sat in the chair in front of him and said, "I'm having a difficult time controlling my sentiments and all of my anger that I have towards the injustice that Addison is going through I'm taking out on you, Richard, Callie and even Miranda although she's giving as good as she gets back to me."

Mark looked at him, "So what do you want from me? What can I do?"

Derek looked down and cleared his throat and looked back to Mark, "I need you to be my friend even when I don't deserve it. I know I know this sounds hypocritical of me to ask for your friendship back but I'm at a crossroads and I don't know how to proceed. Please, Mark."

Mark closed his eyes and leaned back in the chair and nodded, "Derek, I've always been your friend and I'm just sorry that you and I have fell apart. I'll help you get through this crisis with Addison because I do believe that you will both be getting through this just fine…but then what? Are you going to find out that you no longer need me and dump me again and we are back to calling potshots at each other?"

Derek shrugged, "Don't tell me how to proceed because I'm handling things one hour at a time. All I know that if your supposition is right, then Addison will be coming around as a new mother whose going to need her friends and Callie, the woman you're dating, just happens to be one of them."

Mark scowled, "So then are you becoming friends with me again because my girlfriend is one of your wife's friends?"

Derek stood up and started for the door, "Look I can't talk to you when you're like this."

Mark rolled his eyes, "Like what?"

Derek opened the door and said, "When you're being an ass."

As he opened the door Callie walked in with her purse on her arm and looked at Mark and Derek in confusion, "What's going on here and Mark why are you in my office?"

Derek looked at his watch and said, "Where's Dr. Glover? She should be here by now."

Callie nodded, "She just got in and she's being briefed with Dr. Revelle, Richard and Miranda but I needed a moment. So that still doesn't explain what you're doing in my office."

Derek looked back at Mark who had stood up and was staring at Callie, "Your boyfriend is an ass."

After saying his thoughts on Mark, Derek closed the door behind him as Callie stared at him in shock and disbelief.

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Miranda stood in front of Addison's bed as she gave a brief overview of her case to Dr. Glover who was busy checking vital signs while she talked. The door flung open as the presence that was Derek Shepherd walked in. Martha looked up from what she was doing and held out her hand in greeting, "You must be Dr. Derek Shepherd, it's a pleasure."

Derek smiled at her in greeting and said, "It's a pleasure Dr. Glover, I only hope you can help."

Martha dropped his hand and turned back to Addison and said, "I don't think they would've called me in if I couldn't be of any help. First things first, Miranda I need to know if you can be in the ER with me. I know that you and Addison are close and I want you to help her just by being by her side."

Miranda nodded and said "Of course, I'll be there. I'll have Callie watch my son. When do you want do to the surgery?"

Derek cleared his throat and Martha was stopped from her conversation as she turned to him in question, "What can I help you with?"

Derek looked at Miranda and said, "If I'm not mistaken, the last time I talked to my wife, she was against the surgery, has something changed?"

Miranda nodded, "We were actually hoping you could help us with that, we've been weaning her off the sedatives ever since we knew that Dr. Glover was coming in, she should be waking up any moment now. She's going to be groggy and probably in a lot of pain but this will be your best bet in getting her to sign those papers and agree to have the surgery."

Derek exhaled softly as he noticed that Miranda's words were slowly coming true as Addison woke up slowly and started blinking her eyes and looking around in confusion. He turned to Miranda and Dr. Glover, "Can you leave us alone for a moment please?"

Martha nodded and started walking out when Miranda walked to him and put her hand on his shoulder, "Don't give up until she signs the papers. It's her only chance."

Derek nodded and locked the door behind them.

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Martha walked out of the room with the papers in her hand and turned around and met Miranda's eyes with a questioning look of her own. "So that's Derek Shepherd?"

Miranda nodded and motioned for her to sit down at the chair in front of her and said, "That's him; unfortunately around this hospital he was dubbed McDreamy."

Martha snorted and sat down as she looked at the chart once again, "The latest vitals that we took on Addison aren't good. We have to get those babies out now before she continues to harm them right now. I wish I could've told Derek that, she's actually harming the children by trying to carry them longer."

Miranda nodded and said, "The sad part is, I think she knows that. I think she knows her life is in danger and for a woman who's one of the best neonatal surgeons next to you of course she can't focus on anything but trying to be a good mother at the moment."

Martha looked up and said, "This is a nice hospital, I didn't really to get to comment before but I'm impressed."

Miranda nodded, "We are happy here. So tell me what do you think of Dr. Revelle?"

Martha smiled and said, "He's one of the leading rheumatologists in his field and his concern is the well-being of Addison Shepherd and not that of her children which is probably why Addison has been so adamant about carrying these twins to term. She needs to know that the lives of her babies matter as much to this guy as her own."

Miranda nodded, "I appreciated that he was always trying to look out for Addison but she's always been a strong woman and nothing he did was going to change that."

Martha smiled as Miranda stood up and went to the phone and started making calls. Martha trailed behind her at a slower pace and said, "What are you doing?"

Miranda smiled, "I'm setting up the operating room."

Martha stopped mid step and put a stilling hand on Miranda's arm, "I thought we needed consent from Derek and Addison before we continued with the surgery."

Miranda started walking again as she ran into the room and said, "We do but if I know Derek, he will pull all stops out to guarantee she signs those papers."

Hmmm? So will she? Won't she? Check in for the next chapter and see:)