Hey...This is it guys. Well until I get my sequel up, which could be a while… Cause I might want to write a few one shots... I can't believe it. After you work so hard to produce a product people like and then it's just ending... It's sad. Esp. since this is the story's second month anniversary. Ok. Enough of my sap story.. here it is, the last chapter of Baby's in Black.

Elizabeth

It didn't rain this time. Dark clouds loomed over the city and a breeze blew through on this May day. Izzie's hair whipped around her face as she spoke, "I used to call her Satan. We all did.. I never really got over that guilt. Because Satan was the one thing Addison Montgomery Shepherd wasn't. She was smart, strong, gorgeous, brave, and witty. It wasn't until I buried the hatchet and started to treat her like a person, did I realize that.

"She was everything I thought I wasn't, but she helped me see all the things I was. That I was smart. Confident. Brave. That was her other thing, she brought out the best in everyone…if they'd let her." Izzie glared pointedly at Meredith. " But no matter what, the best thing about Addison was that she was there. She was my shoulder to cry on. She was a listener to all my rants and even if she's not here in front of me right now, she'll always be there."

" You were good," Eric whispered in her ear once she sat down.

" I wish I had told her." Izzie kept her eyes focused on the alter.

" She knew."

>>

Addison would rest eternally next to Derek. Izzie's eyes scanned the engraving on the gravestone.

Addison Forbes Montgomery-Shepherd

October 18, 1970-May 15, 2012

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Reading it aloud next to her, Meredith asked, " Who's that by?"

" Elizabeth Kubler-Ross." Izzie said smiling.

Izzie read aloud the first quote on the open page of Addison's book of quotes, shortly before Kennedy's birth, "There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from."

Addison smiled. " That's got to be my favorite one in there."

" Elizabeth Kubler Ross?" Izzie questioned reading the name out of the book.

" Yes. She was a psychologist. I heard her lecture once and she said that."

" Smart woman." Izzie said looking over her mentor in her hospital gown.

" I thought so too."

" Izzie." Christine interrupted by coming up to the group. " Can you umm stick around the umm lawyers need to speak with you, about the will, I mean."

" Yes. Absolutely."

" Ok, great." Christine walked off, leaving party of four all confused.

" She put you in her will?" George questioned.

" I guess." Izzie smiled proudly.

>>

At the wake, everyone was seated in the Shepherd home, afraid to move, afraid to speak. They continued to stay in this weird limbo for nearly ten minutes, before Christine broke the silence.

" I remember once when she was a junior in high school, Addi snuck out of the house, she was going to some party, I can't remember why. But anyway, she's out and about and at 4:30 in the morning, the day before finals, I get this call and Addi's all the way down in New Jersey…" From this, other stories began to rise. Meredith told the bench story. George remembered his encounter with Bex. Izzie jumped into a story about how every one in the surgical wing dressed up in salmon scrubs for her 40th birthday, while Eric sat in a comfortable silence with the occasional laugh.

It was just as Izzie said; Addison was there.

>>

Mr. Ronald Cornell was a tall man, at about 6' 1", Izzie predicted. He had a very professional look to him, black suit, white collared shirt, and a striped tie.

" Well we need to talk about a few things that Dr. Montgomery-Shepherd left in your possession. The most significant is legal guardianship to Ms. Kennedy Montgomery-Shepherd."

Izzie gave him a weird look. Did he say guardianship? " Excuse me. I thought you said guardianship."

" I did. Dr. Shepherd suspected some confusion on your part, and left you this." Mr. Cornell said, handing Izzie a white envelope. She opened it to reveal a slip of paper. It had been part of the calendar of mothers quotes Izzie had bought Addison during her 7-week stay at the hospital before the birth of Kennedy.

May 8th 2008

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

Washington Irving

Izzie flipped the paper over to see, in Addison's small chicken scratch like print.

All events are blessings given to us to learn from. Take care of my girl.

Addison

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