Saturday in the Park

" So, K, what's next on the list?" Addison aked her daughter while pushing the grocery cart through the cerel section.

" Uh...Coffee ice cream." She gave her mother a toothy grin.

" Oh really?" Addison questioned.

" Uh-huh. See it's right there next to Oreos." Kennedy lifted the list and pointed to some chicken scratch.

" Really? Cause that looks like," Addison squinted at the small print, " carrots to me."

" No, it's Coffee ice cream I swear."

" Huh, sure."

" It does Mommy. I swear."

" Really? Do you swear on your blankie?"

" Uhhh...no,"

" Ok, then," Kennedy crossed her arms with a huff. " K?"

" Yeah," Kennedy said annoyed.

" Would you like me to get Coffee ice cream?"

" Yes. Mommy, I wish Daddy was here. Daddy always smelled like coffee ice cream."

" Yeah,K. I know."

" Mommy, I miss Daddy."

" Yeah, I know. I miss him too babe," Addison said while planting a kiss into her daughter's dark brown hair.

" I can't believe I said that," Izzie said, standing over the bathroom sink applying her mascara.

" You were concerned," Eric said standing next to her, appling gel to his brown hair.

" No, I was a bitch,"

" Maybe, but a very concerned bitch,"

" Well, in that case..,"

" Sarcasm was never your strong suit," He said interuppting.

" You are so not helping," She gave him her best evil eye.

" Well, that's my job," He said kissing her cheek.

" You know, you're lucky you're so hot," she smiled.

Ding.Dong.

Addison opened the door to reveal Izzie and Eric," Hey guys, come on in," she said, ushering the pair into the house." K, come say hello. Eric's here." She said with a smile. She knew how much Kennedy adored Eric.

" ERIC!" Kennedy shouted while she ran down the stairs and jumped into his arm. " I don't need any shots, right?"

" No, you don't," Eric laughed in reply.

" Good, cause I gots lots of stuff to show you," Kennedy wiggled out of his grasp, and started to pull him up the stairs. Eric looked to Addison for reasurence.

" It's ok. Dinner still has about 10 minutes in the oven."

" Alright, K. Show me," Eric said as he followed the 3 year old up the stairs. Izzie and Addison made their way into the kitchen.

" I want to apologize," Izzie said while sitting on a bar stool.

" No. Iz, I..," Addison put hand up in objection.

" No. Let me finish. I was unthoughtful and I'm sorry."

" It's ok."

" Ok. Well, if we can pry those two away from each other, we could get this show on the road,"

" He's really great with her," Addison said with a twinkle in her eye.

" He's in peds, Addi. It's his job to be great with her."

" He's really great with her."

The next morning the doorbell rang once again. Addison assumed it was Charlie, her UPS guy, but you know what they say about assuming.

" Hang on, Char. I'll be with you in a," Addison stopped herself when she realized that Meredith Grey was standing at the door. " Oh, Meredith, I'm sorry. I thought you were my UPS guy. Come in."

Meredith gently stepped inside. " Yeah, I brought muffins. No nuts. My shift doesn't start for a while and I thought I'd stop by."

" Thank you," Addison smiled. After a moment of awkward silence, Addison spoke again," Do you want to take a drive?"

" It was his favorite spot," Addison said to Meredith as they reached a bench at the nearby park, " Whenever we fought or when a close patient died, he'd come here. And if no one could find him, I knew he was here. I never did figure out why it was so special. It's just a stupid park bench," Addison began to cry, " She's three and her favorite thing in the world is coffee ice cream."

" His favorite," Meredith remembered.

Addison nodded as she wiped away a tear, " His favorite. She says it smells like him. Anyway, I wanted to share this with you."

" Thank you,"

So are we singing praises of joy? I know it's short. I'm sorry. Sorry for any punctutation mistakes,too. It was like 6 in the morning when I typed this and apparently I thought that commas were periods. Hopefully, I got most of them. Anywhoo, thanks again to Jen and Steph, you guys are such awesome writers and listeners. REVIEW! And OMG! What was with that promo? Mer's got some serious explaining to do!