A/N: So I started receiving threatening emails about my updates on this story...So as promised,
a new chapter, and I may add another one at the end of today depending on how I feel. Thoughts please!

WIP28

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"We have a Code Blue in Room 345." Richard stood in shock at the side of Addison's bed as Dr. Grover and the other attendings rushed into the room and started to work frantically on Addison. Miranda Bailey came running up beside him and looked at him in shock, "What happened?"

Richard stood silent unable to speak a sound for the reality of what he was witnessing was far worse than anything he could've imagine. Miranda looked at him and saw the dazed look on his face and took him by the hand outside of the room. She put a hand on his shoulder as she looked back to the room where her friend was fighting for her life. It was at that moment that Derek came rushing up on the scene.

He tried to enter the room but a single glance from Miranda to Mark made that impossible. Mark held Derek back as Miranda tried to calm him down, "Derek, there's nothing you can do in there. Please let those doctors do what they need to do."

Derek struggled against the restraints of Mark's arms and finally Mark let him go only for Derek to start pacing. He turned his glare on Miranda and Richard with a question, "What happened? She was fine when I left here yesterday."

Miranda looked to Richard for guidance in answering the question as she didn't know how to respond to the inquiry either. Richard cleared his throat and said, "I was in her room talking to her and she opened her eyes….and then it was like all this pain came into her eyes because her eyes held mine for a second and then her eyes rolled back into her head and she flat lined."

Derek gasped in shock, "She flat-lined? She died?"

Mark put a hand on his shoulder and said, "Derek stop being a husband and be a doctor for a second, you know that just because she flat-lined it doesn't mean she died."

Derek sat down in the chair and said "What does it mean then Mark? Does it mean that she could die? Does it mean that I could accept that Addison," he felt his voice rise as the anxiety threatened to choke him, "that Addison could die?"

He was saved from completing his anxiety attack by the sight of Dr. Martha Grover coming out of the room. She stood by the trashcan and threw her mask in the garbage angrily.

She stopped short as she realized she was being watched by four very anxious people. Derek stood up and walked over to her glaring at her as if she was to blame, Martha met his face with a glare of her own. Miranda came up behind him and spoke for the group when she asked, "How's Addison?"

Martha Grover met her eyes with a gentle smile and said, "Due to her lupus, she had an inflammatory response."

Mark rolled his eyes with a flourish and said, "In English please."

Martha spared him a mere eyebrow raise the only answer she would give to his arrogant comment as she turned back to Miranda and said, "Her lupus was in remission for the duration of her pregnancy. When the toxemia set on, so did the inflammation which in turn activated if you will the lupus. She is now in the middle of what we call a lupus flare-up."

Derek exhaled softly and said, "Does that mean that she won't get better? That she'll be in that state forever?"

Martha looked at him in confusion and said, "I'm not sure what state you are referring to because right now she's resting comfortably. If you are referring to the fact that her lupus is currently active, our next step is to see her rheumatologist so that he can prescribe the next course of action. I was concerned that the reason that she had a relapse had to do with the caesarean, but now that I'm assured that what she's fighting has more to do with her auto-immune disease instead of the childbirth, her rheumatologist should be better prepared to help her out of this crisis."

Miranda nodded and after gracing her with a smile turned to the remaining men and stated, "I'm going to Callie's office so we can call Dr. Revelle together. He needs to come over to Seattle Grace ASAP."

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Callie looked up as Miranda came running into her office. She was huddled in the middle of her couch with a cup of coffee between her fingers hoping that the warmth and sweetness of the coffee would transform into energy for her, energy she found was hard to feel. She was worried about her friends and what was going to happen to them. She became more concerned when she noticed the look of fear on Miranda's face. She stood up and said, "Has something happened with the twins? With Addison?"

Miranda nodded and motioned for her to sit back down and said, "She flat-lined. They had to resuscitate her and right now she's resting comfortably but Martha fears that her lupus is active."

Callie grimaced and said, "I was concerned about that. She had been fortunate enough to have her lupus in remission for the majority of her pregnancy and once the toxemia set in she…."

Miranda nodded and said, "I'm sorry I forgot how hard this must be for you, because it brings up a lot of memories."

Callie shrugged and said, "The last person you need to worry about now is me…What do we need to do to get Addison better?"

Miranda smiled and said, "I'm glad you asked that….We need to call Dr. Revelle."

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"Hey there beautiful." Derek stood by the side of the bed stroking Addison's face as her eyes fluttered and then locked on his in confusion.

"W-what happened?"

Derek sighed as he reveled in the sound of her voice. He took her hand in his, "Don't worry. Everything's going to be fine, you need your rest just let me hold your hand for a little while."

Addison looked downward and then jerked her head to him in fear, "Bab-bies?"

Derek smiled softly, "Miranda and Callie tell me that they are doing great. All the tests that Martha ran states that they are doing fine but who we are worried about is you. What do you think you're doing scaring Richard like that, I think you may have turned his whole head gray."

Addison struggled for a smile but was only able to come up with a grimace as she said, "Sor-rry."

Derek leaned in and kissed her on the lips, "Don't apologize because you're loved. Just know that our kids are doing great and you are going to be just fine."

Addison closed her eyes as she felt the tears slip out and she reached for his hand. She gripped on to it tightly and said, "Seen the babies?"

Derek flinched as he realized that he couldn't lie to his wife, he shook his head, "No sweetheart I haven't seen the twins yet. Their aunts have been keeping watch over them while I've been worrying about you."

Addison nodded and said, "Go see bab-ies."

Derek sighed against her forehead as he started to cry as the weight of the last couple of days caught up with him. Addison cradled his head in her hands as he sobbed against her chest overcome with relief.

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"I love you."

Callie looked up from her breakfast in shock at Mark who was fidgeting in front of her with his breakfast in his hand. She cleared her throat and then said, "Sit down please."

Mark dropped his breakfast on the table as he took a chair and looked at her in expectation, "I said it. For the first time in my life, Mark Sloan has said that he loves another woman and actually meant it and that woman is you. I love you Callie Torres."

Callie sighed in happiness as she said, "That's nice Mark Sloan. It's good to know."

Mark rolled his eyes as he grabbed for her hand and said, "Don't leave me hanging, how do you feel about me? Tell me; am I in this thing alone?"

Callie shook her head as the smile blossomed over her face, "Of course you're not in this thing alone. I'm right here with you. I love you too Mark Sloan."

Mark grinned as he leaned forward and pressed a hard kiss against her lips and said, "You know that I mean it. I've never said these words besides to Addison and I didn't think I truly meant them until you. I want a life with you Callie and I want to be with you, only you for the rest of my days. No more of my whoring ways, you're it for me and I gotta tell you I never thought I would meet the woman than would make me want to give it all up. I want the whole package with you."

Callie felt the tears rolling down her cheeks as she spoke, "Damn it Sloan you're going to make me cry in the middle of the cafeteria. I want everything with you too."

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Derek looked up as Dr. Revelle entered the hospital room. He was tempted to shake the man by his lapels for the matter-of-fact way he was reading Addison's reports, like they were just any other patient, any other person who didn't hold the key to his soul.

Dr. Revelle cleared his throat and said, "Derek, her results look good. They look better than good, they look excellent for what's she been through. I want to keep her in the hospital for the next 5 days while we monitor her vitals signs and pump her body full of anti-inflammatory medication while checking the inflammation on her organs. I also want to ensure that all the surgery stitches are healing properly but if she continues in this way she should be able to go home early next week."

Derek released the breath he didn't know he had been holding as he sighed in relief. "Thank you Doctor. I'll walk you out."

He was met with Miranda and Callie who were anxiously waiting for news on the health of their best friend. He smiled at them and said, "She's doing well. The doctor wants to monitor her vital signs for the next couple of days but if everything checks out, she can go home inside of a week."

Callie and Miranda hugged each other and then both of them stared at Derek with an evil glare in their eye, "Come on McStupid."

Derek started to flinch as Miranda grabbed onto his earlobe and started dragging him away from Addison's hospital room. "Ouch that hurts Miranda. Let me go." Miranda ignored his plea as she dragged Dr. Derek Shepherd, renowned neurosurgeon through the hallways of Seattle Grace to their final destination.

Miranda stopped in front of the nursery and said, "You can consider yourself let go. Now go in there and talk to your children. Talk to the babies that are now the center of your world, tell them that you love them and that you are sorry for being a jerk to their mother and to them. Apologize and say it like you mean it and don't come back here until you've bonded with them and can provide Callie and I with possible names for our niece and nephew. Callie and I are both open to having our names incorporated into the names."

Derek felt a laugh come through, the first one since this whole ordeal began and he nodded as he walked into the nursery preparing to meet his children for the first time.


Sigh, see? It only took 8 chapters, but we are starting to get back to normal! I'm not so bad right?