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"Dr. Montgomery Shepherd needs a hand in her morning surgery." Miranda Bailey announced as she walked into the locker room. Immediately, hands shot up. Apparently these interns didn't care who was the one they'll be following, as long as they get in on a surgery. Without thinking twice, Miranda simply called out to the intern whose hand shot up first.
"Alright, Grey. You're on it." she said, looking down to the file in her hands to give out assignments for the rest of her interns. At her decision, everyone turned to Meredith.
"Are you sure about this?" George asked, his voice low.
"You want in on a surgery with Addison Shepherd?" Izzie's voice called out with disbelief from behind Meredith.
"You want to be in the same room with his wife?" Cristina reminded Meredith of Addison's status while whipping her hair up into a messy bun. This time, it was Miranda that looked up, the commotion among the interns caught her attention. She looked up, suddenly realizing that the intern she assigned to Addison Shepherd was Meredith Grey. Before Miranda could say anything to question her decision, Meredith spoke up.
"Yes, I'm sure I want in on this." she said, only receiving odd looks from the rest of them.
"What?" she asked. "She's got four titles, there arelots of things we can all learn from her, and it's a surgery we're talking about. Recognize!" And with that, she pushed her way out of the locker room.
Izzie stared after her as she lean in towards Cristina and George to whisper. "Was that really Meredith?"
"I think she's gone mental." Cristina said.
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"Hey!" Addison called out from behind. Derek, recognising his wife's voice, turned around and flashed her a brief smile. "Hey." he said, scribbling his signature at the bottom of the paper. "What's up?" he asked, shutting the first file and opening the second one in his hands.
"I was wondering if you'd like to have dinner tonight, with me." Addison invited. "You know, somewhere outside the trailer, at a restaurant... your choice."
Derek turned around, facing a smiling Addison with a smile of his own. "I'm sorry, I can't." he said, his gaze shifted down as he closed the second file and tucked it under his arms. "I uhh--have a surgery tonight." he explained. But through 11 years of marriage, Addison could tell that Derek was lying.
"Oh." the smile on Addison's face faded, replaced by a tight one. "Well, alright." she said, shrugging slightly. "Another time then." Derek looked up to her with a smile before heading off to check on his patients.
Trying my ass. Addison thought, watching her husband go. It wasn't even Derek who suggested postponing her suggested dinner date, it was she who said, 'Another time then.' And by the way things are going, the 'another time' will be taking a long time to come. She sighed, turning into the opposite direction.
"Dr. Montgomery Shepherd." someone called out, footsteps behind her quicken to follow up. Addison recognized that voice, secretly, she smiled to herself, then turned around to face her.
"Dr. Grey." she greeted with a genuine smile, then continued her way towards the OR scrub room. "Were you late today, again?" she asked, a light hint of tease in the question. "No." Meredith said casually.
"No?" Addison echoed, turning to face her.
"I volunteered." Meredith explained. At that, Addison frowned, but her curiosity caused her to push on.
"What did you tell them?" she asked.
"That there's alot that I can learn from you, and that a surgery is a surgery, I don't care who I'm assign to as long as it's a surgery that I can scrub in to." Meredith said, pushing open the door to the empty scrub room. "Just so you know, that will be the reason for me to volunteer myself to be assigned to you each time Bailey asks. If no one else raises their hands before I do." she laughed.
"Aren't you afraid?" Addison raised an eyebrow at her, tying her scrub cap over her bunned up hair. "Afraid of what?" she asked, turning to face Addison as her fingers work to tie the baby blue colored scrub cap behind her head. "That people will think that I like to date married attendings whose last name's 'Shepherd'?"
Addison laughed, rinsing her arms quickly before pressing soap out from the dispenser. "Yea, that." she agreed, rubbing the soap up her arms. "And Derek." she reminded Meredith. Meredith sighed, pressing a small pool of soap into her hands and rubbed it over her arms.
"You're afraid he'll suspect something?" she asked without turning to Addison. "Yea." she admitted. "Well, you know, think about it this way." Meredith suggested, turning to the older woman briefly with a smile. "If he suspects something, it'll be easier for you to break it to him."
"Meredith." Addison warned, shooting her a look.
"I know, I'm kidding." she said, giving a little shrug. But mentally, she sighed. Meredith promised she'd wait, and she would. But something in her wished that this time, waiting on this Shepherd wouldn't bring her pain and disappointment.
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"Where are you bringing me?" Addison asked, picking up her steps as she for once, followed behind Meredith instead of the other way round. Meredith turned around to her with a smile.
"You'll see." she said, picking up her speed. Addison jogged to Meredith's side, both of them in scrubs. Before Addison had a chance to change out of her surgical uniform, Meredith had decided that she wanted to show Addison around Seattle Grace.
"You're an attending; you're probably busier than I am, and I don't think you've had a chance to explore around." Addison remembered Meredith telling her, then insisted that she follow her.
They turned down the hallway of empty gurneys, causing Addison to shake her head with a laugh. "Oh, we're not doing what you think we're going to do." she said. "It's far too risky, Meredith." Meredith turned around with a secretive smile.
"We haven't reached yet." she simply said, continuing forward. "You'll see." she promised. Then eyeing the linen closet, Meredith turned to give Addison a gesture with her eyes before slipping inside casually. Instead of taking a brief glance around to check if anyone was looking, Addison followed Meredith into the room, closing the door behind her. She figured that it would be best not to look suspicious or people would tend to suspect that the two are up to something.
"It's pretty dark in here." Addison commented, folding her arms in front of her chest as she took in her surroundings. It wasn't as crammed as she had imagined linen closets to be. It's slightly more spacious than the supply closet she'd been in the other day. Ignoring Addison's comment, Meredith turned to face the older woman with a smile on her face and gestured around the room.
"This, is the linen closet." She introduced.
"Yea, I can see that, Meredith. What are we doing here?" Addison frowned; her eyes wander around the dimmed room subconsciously. Meredith grinned, biting a little at her bottom lip as she took a step towards Addison. "Just to let you know that this, is the place where people in the hospital come to make out." she whispered, with each word, she neared the older woman. Addison looked down at her, the confusion in her faded away.
"Oh." she laughed, then before she can say anything else, Meredith reached up, her fingers come into contact with the side of Addison's face gently. Their eyes locked, and the next second, their lips are on each others'. With another hand, Meredith reached behind Addison and locked the door to the linen closet.
They kissed hungrily, moving away from the door, now with Meredith's back against one of the racks. Addison reached up to the back of her head, undoing her hair as Meredith did the same. They stopped their breath heavy as they looked to each other during the short pause. Addison ran her eyes over Meredith's delicate features, her fingers reaching out to trace the bone structure of her face, taking her time as she did so. Meredith tore her gaze away from Addison's face. She drew in a breathe, enjoying the ticklish feel of the woman's fingers running across her face, her eyes trying to trace the movement of Addison's fingers. Addison brought her hands slowly down to Meredith's lips, tracing the contour of it. Meredith looked down, a hand reaching up to touch Addison's. In contact, their eyes met again. Addison released the hold on Meredith's hand and brushed a lock of blonde hair away from the intern's face. This time, the both of them leaned into each other slowly for a kiss with more passion than lust. It went slow at first, then they pressed their lips into each other, begging for more. Addison ran a hand through Meredith's hair as the young intern wrap her arms around the older woman's waist, their lips never parting.
Then, Meredith slided a hand under Addison's scrubs, causing her to squirm slightly, her muscles stiffened under Meredith's touch for a second before she relaxed again, allowing the small hand to roam around her lower back. But when Meredith's hands worked their way up, Addison pulled away, putting a distance between their bodies. She felt Meredith's hand slowly leaving her body as she look up to her. "I...I'm sorry. I've never done this before... you know." she explained, but Meredith only shook her head in response. "Me neither." she whispered, then lunged forward. Her hands slid under Addison's navy blue scrubs again, pushing upwards in attempt to pull the clothing off the woman. Once again, Addison stopped, pushing herself away from Meredith and tugged her scrubs back down. She swallowed, looking away uncomfortably.
"Is it..." Meredith started her voice soft.
"Too soon? Yea." Addison finished it for her. Meredith nodded. "Yea, I thought so too." she said.
There was a short moment of silence as both women calmed their breaths. "Uhmm..we should probably... check on the patients." Addison suggested softly, pushing herself away from the rack she was leaning against and tied her hair back up. Meredith looked up at her. "Yea, you're right." She agreed. The both of them looked towards the locked door, then back at each other.
"We should probably leave separately." Meredith suggested nervously. She wasn't sure how long they were in the closet, but it was pretty long. And hopefully, no one would be around long enough to notice that Addison and Meredith herself have exited from the same linen closet, one after another. Addison nodded in agreement as Meredith looked up at her.
"You should go first." Meredith offered.
"Positive?" Addison asked.
"Yea." the blonde nodded.
"Alright." Addison said, then adjusted her scrubs one last time before grabbing a random towel from a rack and walked out of the room as casually as she can manage.
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Addison Shepherd had been watching Meredith for the last five minutes. For the past five minutes, she was among the other four interns under Miranda Bailey. Coincidentally, they are all waiting for the various results for their assigned patients. Addison flipped her wrist around to check for the time. 15 minutes before the next surgery. She thought to herself, then stole a glance at Meredith again. It was hard to tell if there was another opportunity for Addison to bump into Meredith again without Derek around. She drew in a deep breathe, and then walked to the interns casually.
"Dr. Grey." she greeted, flashing a smile at the rest of the interns as they straightened themselves uncomfortably. Meredith turned around and tried her best to look awkward.
"Dr. Montgomery-Shepherd." Meredith greeted professionally. "The CT results are not out yet." she explained, knowing that Addison had approached for work purposes instead of personal purposes. Addison cleared her throat. "I know that, Dr. Grey. Are you on-call tonight?" she asked.
"Uhh...no." the intern shook her head.
"You are now." Addison said, and then with a nod to the other four interns, she excused herself.
"Rotten luck." Alex said, folding his arms in front of his chest as he leaned back onto the wall after Addison was out of sight and hearing range. Izzie shot him a look and elbowed him in his ribs. Meredith sighed. "Yea, lucky me." she said, words dripping with sarcasm as she took the CT results that are handed to her. "I got on-called by the She-Shepherd." she sighed, her eyes shifting back and forth as she read through the results. "And now I have to go page her."
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"Dr. Shepherd?" Meredith called out, a hand placing a mask over her nose and mouth as she peeked into the OR.
"How can I help you, Dr. Grey?" Addison responded, her eyes not taken off the surgery in front of her.
"The CT results are out." she informed.
Addison lifted her eyes off the body for a second and drew in a deep breathe. "How bad are they?" she asked.
"I think you should come see it for yourself." Meredith said, revealing no hints about the results' outcome. Addison looked down at the on-going surgery wit a sigh, debating on what to do at the moment.
"I can take it from here, Addison." Miranda Bailey said, interupting Addison's inner debate. The attending breathed out a sigh of relief. "Alright then. Thank you, Miranda." Addison said, then stepped off the platform and tore off her mask. She stopped by the bin and tossed her bloody gloves in and exited the OR.
"What have we got?"
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"Am I really on-call tonight?" Meredith couldn't help but ask as they stood side by side in the elevator. Addison turned to her with a sly smile. "Why, Meredith. No wonder you got into this program." she said, placing a hand on her hip as her gaze shifted up as the lighted numbers jump from one to another. Meredith laughed.
"Well the nagging feelings cametrue." she said, then turning to Addison smugly. "So I'm right. I'm not really on-call tonight." she beamed. Addison turned to Meredith with the same smile across her face.
"Yes, you're right." Addison confirmed. "You're not really on-call tonight, Grey. Page me when the locker room is cleared out this evening." she instructed Meredith, then stepped out of the elevator.
"Why?" Meredith asked.
"You'll find out--in time."
Author's Note : I apologise for any grammatical/spelling/punctuation mistakes in this chapter. I'm almost half-asleep right now, to be honest. lol. Anyway, I hope you liked it!