Woot woot! - CHAPTER 50! - When I started writing this fanfiction I couldn't imagine that I would have written it so far, I need to thank you all for your wonderful reviews and advices and for being so interested in what I wrote (I like to joke about it saying this is my own little show, where Addison and Derek are the leading characters!).
This new chapter will be all about friendships and even after what we saw in the show I still have the idea that friends are important in Addison's life...
It's a quiet chapter, only at the end you will find a little cliffangher (yes I love dramas!). Read, enjoy and let me know what you think! Reviews, advices, suggestions are more than welcome and they help me find new ideas.
Little disclaimer (sorry I know I should have written this before) I don't own anything, the main character are Shonda R's properties (sigh!)
Next morning – NYC – Brownstone
Addison was playing with a jaunty William. He finally seemed to be recovering from his illness and he was lying on the padded of the baby gym. He seemed intrigued by the light and the melodies of his toy and he giggled every time he touched the two rattles on it.
She tickled the baby's tummy, she couldn't explain how much she loved the smile of her baby "Do you think we should call daddy, William?... Do you want hear daddy?" he giggled again hearing his mommy funny voice, she was picking the phone to dial Derek's number, but a new call anticipated her, "Hello!" she answered.
'She's bleeding!' the person on the other side of the phone exclaimed and she soon recognized him.
"Mark, calm down!"
'I don't need to calm down, I need you here now!'
"Mark…" she tried to say something but he wouldn't let her.
'Don't go Mark on me, Addison,come here to Mt Sinai!' and he closed the call.
She looked at her baby, "I'm sorry, buddy, mommy has been called to play doctor" she picked William up from his baby gym and he protested a little "This happens, honey, when you are the kid of two doctors!" she kissed his head and tried to let him stop crying "We have to go", she wore something professional instead of her old Yale hoodie, she picked her coat and covered William with a warm blanket, then she searched Derek's Porsche key and soon mother and child were on their way to Mt Sinai.
In less than 10 minutes she was at the hospital, she entered in the maternal- foetal medicine division
"I'm here, I'm here!" she reassured Mark "I came as soon as I could… How is she?" she asked to her best friend.
"You're the double board certified doctor in this field…"
"Ok… Where is she?" she changed question
"Room 113!" and they both headed to the room.
"Hi Lexie" she smiled to reassure her friend and patient, she gave William to Mark "I'm sorry, I was home alone and there was nobody there to look after William"
"You don't have to justify to us, Addison!" Addison squeezed Lexie's hand and reached the probe to see what was wrong with Mark' and Lexie's baby. She waited that the ultrasound scanner was ready to perform the exam.
"Twelve weeks, right?" Mark confirmed nodding at her "When did the bleeding start, Lexie?"
"This morning…"
"Was it red?" she asked again
"Not really… but it was enough to scare us", Addison moved the probe on Lexie's abdomen, she easily found the baby's heartbeat "Here it is the galloping horse!" she moved the screen to the parents to calm them down, and she moved the probe to check better the uterus' condition "There's a little area of detachment of the placenta… It should be the reason of the bleeding"
"So?" Mark asked concerned
Addison smiled and replied "Do you want to know the sex of your child?"
"What?" both Mark and Lexie were confused. They shared a look and nodded at the doctor's proposal.
"It's a she…and she seems healthy" then looking at Lexie she continued "But I suggest some rest, and you know what I mean with rest… and I recommend a therapy with progesterone vaginal suppository"
"Thank you, Addison"
"Double board certified surgeon, uh? A first year ob/gyn resident could do the diagnosis without problems" Addison told Mark
"I know, but I was scared and you're our doctor… I trust you better than an agitated, restless first year resident…", looking at Mark she thought he looked like every other scared father-to-be in that moment.
"Will you give me my son, Mark?" she stretched her arms to pick a not happy at all William to stay with Mark up "…and to answer you, I wasn't either agitated or restless during my first year residency!" they both laughed.
"Right! you were the silent one" he turned to Lexie "She said three or four words during the wholefirst year…"
"Come on!" she punched him friendly "It's not true… and that was my first year as intern not as resident, I was a badass doctor then!"
"Uh Addison, I guess William is spitting up on your shirt" Mark warned Addison looking at her once clean green silk shirt.
"Damn!" she exclaimed trying to clean her shirt with a tissue "I loved this shirt… Every time I wear something new or clean he spits up everything!"
"He's a baby…It's normal!" Lexie said.
"Yeah it's a baby… Sometimes I wish he was eighteen already" she noticed both her friends were looking at her with a disappointed expression "Don't get me wrong, I love William… but there are days where I feel so lonely raising him up…"
"Same old story, right?" those Addison's words soon reminded Mark of the Addison's condition some years ago.
"This time it's different…I'm different!" she placed a soft kiss on her baby's tiny head "I'm just tired…"
"You went through a lot in the last few months" Lexie tried to be supportive "It's perfectly understandable the way you feel. Did you talk with Derek about this?"
"He's more scared and tired than me, I don't want to upset him even more!"
"Addison, we don't really know each other, but if you want someone to talk with I will be happy to be there for you"
"Thank you, Lexie. You're such a good person and a good friend for Derek and I!"
"Addison, thank you for coming and for reassuring us about the baby" Mark thanked her again.
"I'm happy there wasn't nothing to be worried about" she hugged them and left the room to let Lexie rest.
She was heading to the black Porsche Cayenne when her blackberry rang 'Excellent sense of time!' she thought trying to answer the phone without dropping her job bag and all the baby's paraphernalia "Dr. Montgomery!" she answered
'Addie!' Derek exclaimed from the other side of the phone 'Where have you been? You have no idea how many calls I've done to find you! I even called Naomi and Bizzie to know if they had news about you'
She could hear by his voice that he was truly scared "Honey, calm down, I'm fine… and William too, I was at the hospital for an emergency…"
'Is everything fine? I mean you were at the hospital for a patient or because William is sick?'
"William is fine, he came with me because I had no idea who I should have called to look after him" she reassured Derek "How was your conference?"
'Excellent, they were enthusiastic… Professor Garner asked me if I could repeat it to the students of his class at University'
"Oh…Congratulations honey" meanwhile she tried to fix William in his car seat "This is a great news! I'm so proud of you… So when?"
'When what?'
"When are you going to do your conference to the students?"
'Oh… the day after tomorrow…'
"The day after tomorrow?... You promised me to be here the day after tomorrow!"
'I know, honey, I know… I'm sorry… I already said yes to Garner, I didn't think it was a problem for you'
"It isn't a problem Derek, really. As I said, I'm happy for you… It's just that I miss you" she didn't want ruin this moment to Derek.
'I knew you would understand me, Addie! This means a lot to me… I have to go now, the afternoon session of the conference is starting! Love ya… and take care of William'
"I love you too, honey!" she said turning down the phone.
She sat on the driver seat but before starting the engine she dialled Naomi's number.
'Addie!' her friend answered.
"Hi Nai, busy moment? Since I'm not at home and William is fine, I was thinking if you and Maya are in for a day of shopping!" she proposed
'That's great idea!'
"Ok, see you at Sheraton hotel in ten minutes then, ok?"
'Great, see you later, Addie!'
In less than 30 minutes the three ladies were already in Saks Fifth Avenue.
"I'm not sure, mom. Do you think it suits me?" Maya asked looking at her image in the mirror
"You should take it, Maya" Addison suggested
"Why don't you try also this dress, Maya?" Naomi suggested, giving a blue dress to her daughter
"I don't know mom, I already have a blue dress"
"What about this one?" Addison picked another dress from the stand
"Oh my, Aunt Addie! This is an Armani dress, it's beautiful" Addison smiled at Maya "Try it!"
She tried the dress and came out to let see it to Addison and Naomi "This is your dress Maya, really! It perfectly suits you" Addison told her
"What do you think mom?"
"I agree with aunt Addie, you look beautiful in it, but I think a 1,125$ dress wasn't exactly what we were looking for" she told to the girl looking at the tag
"Come on, mom!"
"I was the one who forced Maya to try the dress. I'd like to buy it to her, think of this like a late Christmas gift!"
"Addie, really, you don't have to…"
"I insist Naomi, and after all I don't have a daughter to buy dresses to… so I'm more than happy to do this for Maya!"
"Thank you, aunt Addie"
"You're welcome, Maya!"
5 hours and many, many shopping bags later the shopaholics were in Addison's living room admiring all their new things.
"I love this, Olivia will look great in it" Naomi said looking at the tiny madras dress she bought for her granddaughter.
"I love it too, and even more this" she replied to her mother picking the other dress they bought and Naomi gave to Addison a small packet "This is for William, Addie. A little thing for thanking you for the great day we spent together"
"I've missed moments like this, Nai. I'm happy that we are trying to fix our friendship".
She opened the gift, it was a silver tooth box with a teddy bear on top "Nai, thank you so much! This is beautiful!" she showed his gift to the baby "What a cute gift, William! Do you want to thank auntie Nai?" the drooling baby attempted to kiss Naomi, "You're so sweet William!" she exclaimed, squeezing his little cheeks.
Looking at William and Naomi, Addison thought, for the first time in this strange and a bit unconventional year, that maybe old wounds of her life, like her relationship with Derek and her friendship with Naomi, were finally healing. She didn't think to find stability and happiness in this moment of her life.
"There's a brownstone on sale a couple of couple of blocks south from this house, it's very new and totally renewed, why don't you talk with the seller?" and she gave to Naomi a business card.
Two days later, 10 pm
Addison was watching a movie in bed, Milo, as usually, was sleeping near her.
"I knew you had a thing for Marlon Brando!" Derek exclaimed showing up at the door.
"Derek!" and she jumped out of the bed to hug him "I didn't think to see you here until tomorrow…"
"I wanted to surprise you… I took the plane right after my conference… Did you miss me?"
"You have no idea… Thank you" she kissed his lips with a soft kiss, Derek untied his tie, "Gosh, you have no idea how tired I'm, these last days havebeen so intense…" he confessed "Really, it seemed like it took this flight an eternity to land!"
"Do you want a massage?" she proposed
"This is really a nice proposal…" he smiled at her and she started massaging his shoulder "Oh my personal gorgeous masseur…"
"Derek you are incredibly contracted!" she noticed massaging him
"I know, and my head hurts so bad, I think I'll take an aspirin before going to bed" Addison kissed his shoulder and let him headed to the kitchen.
It was almost 3 am when she noticed Derek sweating in pain, helping his breath with an hand on his chest "Derek, honey, what's happening?" she was clearly scared like she had never been in her life. With a painful voice Derek replied her "Take me to the hospital, Addie!"
I promise I'll update soon, let me know what you think of this 50th chapter!
