Berries and Cherries (So Red as Any Blood)
Addison has been wearing her new berry (or cherry?) lipstick again, and it looks very good on her.
No, scratch that, it looks freaking amazing on her, and Meredith has been staring at the redhead's lips on and off again for the entire evening.
She's been picturing the surgeon's lips and how they would feel against her own, against her jaw, against the sensitive spot on the nape of her neck, just in between her ear, gently sucking and nipping upon it, and-
"Meredith!" says Cristina, insistently, and snapping her out of it.
"Huh?" says Meredith, as she zones in and out again, peering up at Addison secretly once more before focusing back on Cristina.
"It's time to help Izzie with getting Doc's Christmas present!" Cristina huffs at her. "And no, I'm not going alone with her because technically she's your dog and I don't live at your house even though I sort of do all of the time anyway and Bambi's already at the grocery store picking up all the baking ingredients."
"Alex?" says Meredith absently.
"He's working, he stole my extra-extra shift by bringing a mocha latte to Bailey, so that means I'm off, and you're off, and Doc apparently needs a new sweater and can you stop staring at Satan for then next five to ten minutes because it's seriously starting to freak me out-" Cristina chastises her.
Now that finally ends up getting the intern's attention.
"I wasn't-" Meredith rebuttals rather unconvincingly.
"You were-" says Cristina. "But anyway, so-" Cristina drones onwards, and Meredith nods and says "mmhmm" in approximately the appropriate places until Addison ends up walking out of sight down the hallway, and Meredith jumps out of her chair all of a sudden to follow her.
"Gotta go, sorry Cristina, tell Iz that I'll meet her later, or something-" Meredith hands Cristina a $20, and then she starts walking very quickly down the hospital hallway.
The redhead is now reapplying her lipstick, while watching her reflection in one of the hallway mirrors, and Meredith just watches her again, completely captivated.
"Hello, Grey," Addison says pleasantly, in a bit of a low, husky voice, or perhaps the blonde is simply imagining it, as she gazes down at Addison's lips subconsciously again, and then she flicks her eyes back up to the doctor's face again, and she blushes as she sees in Addison's eyes that she's noticed that she'd been distracted.
"H-hey-" Meredith stutters a little bit, and mentally kicks herself for being so unable to keep it together for all of ten seconds around her gorgeous Attending.
As said attending is rubbing her own lips together, and smacking them just slightly so that the lipstick will spread perfectly evenly, and from this up-close and personal, Meredith can take in the complex and exquisite scent of Addison's expensive perfume, and she can feel herself becoming increasingly intoxicated off just a touch of it.
"I've been experimenting with this new berry flavor," says Addison nonchalantly, as Meredith nods along, and tries not to moan out loud in front of her.
She's been experimenting…