A/N : This is by Kari (XAddisonShepardX) of The Incision. She's known as GilmoreHorseFreak04 here! Addison and Derek just can't keep their hands off each other, and it so isn't our fault. -wink-

The Emerald ballroom was filled with stable patients, nurses, interns, residents, and attendings of Seattle Grace, people who saw each other every day. The difference- their usual scrubs were replaced by evening gowns and suits.

Meredith sighed as she sat on a chair at the table that had name cards for her, Izzie, George, Alex, and Cristina. Around her, there were couples everywhere. Izzie was sitting at the patients' table laughing with Denny, Alex was with his current girlfriend of the week, Cristina was with Burke, and George wasn't in sight. She looked over at the table next to her. Richard and Adele were sitting there, along with Bailey and Tucker and Derek and Addison. Derek was wearing a suit that just might be more McDreamy than him, and Addison was wearing an emerald green floor-length dress, her red hair long and curled.

Now I get why the patient's husband thought she looked like Catherine Deneuve… she thought, noticing how close the Shepards were to one another. They're married, that's allowed. Argh. She couldn't stop staring at them, which probably wasn't a good thing, so she did what she always did when she was upset- drank.

MEANWHILE, AT THE OTHER TABLE…

"So then Addison pulls open the curtain, and says, 'I have poisin oak!' and Derek looks and says, 'You do indeed have Poisin Oak.' And then they laughed, and…man, that was one funny day." Bailey laughed as she finished her story. "Oh! And before that, when Addison was talking about Karma! That was funny."

Addison looked at little uncomfortable. Bailey grimaced. "I'm sorry. Got a little carried away in my story."

The table was uncomfortably silent. "So, uh, how are you two doing?" Adele asked, trying to fill the gap. Addison and Derek didn't know how to answer that, and they looked each other in the eye. Addison shrugged just slightly at him, and he jumped in.

"We're doing fine. You know we're working it out." He said smiling, taking her hand. Even Bailey smiled at that.

AFTER DINNER…

The music had been playing for a while, and everyone was either dancing or talking. Addison and Derek sat alone at their table in silence.

"Addie?"

"Hm?"

"What was Bailey talking about, with karma?"

"uh…she asked me how I got the Poisin Oak and I said…that I slept with Mark a year ago a and this is what I got…" she said, sighing. Derek shut his eyes for a minute, wincing at Mark's name.

"And Derek?"

"Yeah?"

"Were you pretending before, when you said we were fine?"

"I…I really don't know. I want to be fine. I'm working on it, I promise."

"Thank you."

"I love you, Add."

"I love you, too."

They both turned their heads when the next song started. It was "The Way You Look Tonight," by Tony Bennet, their wedding song. Derek stood.

"May I have this dance?"

She smiled. "You bet."

He took her hand and led her to the center of the dance floor, where Adele and Richard, Izzie and Denny, Alex and his girlfriend, and a few other couples were dancing. Addison looked Derek in the eye.

"I see you haven't lost your dancing ability…" Addison said to him.

"And you," he said, making her gasp as he spun her around and back in to face him, "Are just as beautiful as you were when we danced to this song 11 years ago." He leaned in and kissed her, and they stayed that way until a scolding voice interrupted him.

"Hey! Get a room! Set a good example for the interns!" Bailey glared at them.

Derek raised his eyebrows. "Are you a dancer, Miranda?"

She glared even more. "Shut it."

"But I saved your husband, who you are dancing with."

"And your wife saved my baby."

"Baby trumps husband, sweetie." Addison added.

"I think we've covered this." Bailey said, and walked away to dance with Tucker.

MEANWHILE…

Meredith sat alone, again. Even Cristina was dancing, only because Burke bribed her with a surgery for the next morning. She looked at Derek again, who was dancing with Addison. She watched as he spun her towards him and pulled her into a kiss, and she giggled against him. I can't watch this. She thought, turning back around.

"Meredith?"

She turned around.

"George?"

"Okay, I know that we made a mistake with…what we did, and I know that we haven't been talking. But I want to start over, as friends, like before. Okay?"

She nodded. "Okay."

He smiled and started to walk away.

"Hey George?"

He looked back at her.

"Do you want to dance? As friends?"

"Sure."

He led her to the dance floor, and they started dancing.

"You know, George, it isn't fair."

"What's not fair?"

"That he loves her."

"Huh?"

"He loves her. She wasn't supposed to be here looking so perfect, and he's not supposed to be looking at her like he loves her and kissing her, and…I'm a jerk."

"You're not a jerk, you're just still upset."

"I know, and I shouldn't be ranting like this to you."

"Hey, what're friends for?"

"Thanks George."

The song ended quickly, and George led Meredith back to the table. She looked around and saw that Bailey and her husband were leaving, and George stood up.

"Sorry Mer, but I told Callie I'd meet her at her house later, so…"

"Go, George. Have fun."

She smiled, relieved that she was friends with George again, nothing more, nothing less. Even though Addison and Derek were in a closet, Cristina and Burke went back to the apartment, and Izzie was driving Denny back to the hospital to do God knows what, she was content. And as she left the banquet hall, she felt better.

Oh, man. She winced as she walked past the closet and heard a laugh as something got knocked over. She almost started thinking bad thoughts about Addison, but got over it and walked.

Good air in, bad air out…