A/N : Ok, this chapter is shorter than the previous one. I feel cruel leaving you guys hanging there for a longer time because I probably wouldn't update tomorrow. Anyway...read to find out who it is!
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At the sound of the voice, their lips part immediately, both of them scrambled into opposite directions. If Addison didn't hold the gracefulness she always had, she would have tumbled off the gurney and fallen flat on the ground in the most ungracious way. Instead, she swung her legs off the gurney and leaped off in a one smooth move, adjusting her coat and licked her lips. She cleared her throat uncomfortably and stole a glance to Meredith, who now sat on the gurney adjusting her hair. Self-consciously, Addison did the same while greeting the intruder awkwardly.
"Miranda." she started, then adjusted her coat again, now looking at the shorter woman in the end as she simply stood on the spot, her eyes shifting back and forth between Meredith and Addison, her jaw hanging open with disbelief.
"Tell me you're not doing what I think you're doing!" she demanded, putting a hand on her hip. Addison swallowed uncomfortably then casted a glance to Meredith, who immediately leaped off the gurney to Addison's defense.
"Dr. Bailey, I can explain..." Meredith stared, but Miranda shook her head, cutting her off.
"No, you don't need to explain. There's nothing much you can say to convince me that you are not doing what it looked like you are doing." she said, then turned around and started away from them. Addison followed quickly behind, calling after her. Knowing that she should leave the situation to Addison to handle, Meredith slumped back on to the empty gurney with a sigh.
"Miranda..." Addison called out, quickening her pace as she neared the resident who refuse to acknowledge her calls. "Miranda!" she called out again, this time right behind the resident. Addison shifted her position quickly, standing in front of the resident and looked her in the eye.
"Please," she plead, her voice then lowered into a whisper. "Don't tell Derek anything about this." she said. Miranda looked up at her oddly.
"Uh, no. I wouldn't. Because I don't want to have anything to do with your love or sex life." she said, only causing Addison to shoot her a glare. "Now, if you would excuse me, Addison, I have a patient to check on." she said, purposely ignoring the look the attending had shot her.
Addison nodded, allowing the resident to go without stopping her and shoved a hand through her red hair with a sigh. All she can hope now is for Miranda to keep what she saw to herself.
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Meredith allow herself to lean against the wall behind her, burying her face in her hands. Oh god, Bailey knows... Bailey knows. she thought. What is going to happen if Derek finds out? she asked herself, then shook her head at that thought. She wants Derek to find out, she really wants Derek to find out, and perhaps it's better if the whole hospital finds out so they wouldn't have to sneak around and come up with excuses to see each other everytime. But maybe not this way, not from Dr. Bailey. she debated within herself. She knew Addison wasn't ready for things between them to be revealed, she wouldn't know how to handle it. And for that moment, Meredith realised that she didn't know if she wanted her relationship with Addison to be revealed. What was she going to tell her friends when they find out? She sighed, slipping off the gurney. On her way out of the corridor, she picked up the half-eaten sandwich and toss it into a dumpster nearby.
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George and Izzie stood side by side, backs facing each other as they tend to their patients who happen to be in the beds right next to each other. While checking her patient's vitals, Izzie could feel George boring his eyes straight into her back. She turned around, casting him a glance, noticing that he's now on the other side of his patient's bed.
"What?" she asked, looking back to the patient's charts and scribbled some notes.
"Nothing." George answered nonchalently, diverting his gaze back to the chart in his hands. Izzie capped her pen, pinned it onto the pocket of her coat and hung the chart by the foot of the bed and look to George expectantly, a hand on her hip as she waited for him to finish.
"What?" he looked up at her, frowning. George's pen scribbled over the piece of paper quickly, updating the patient's condition as he spoke. "Ok, fine." he said, then capping his pen and hung the chart back to its place. He looked up to Izzie this time, determined. "I'll help you figure it out."
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Izzie wore a grin on her face as she sat on the empty gurney opposite the vending machine, her legs hanging off the edge of it as George sat on the other end of the gurney, staring straight up ahead. It was the same corridor where Addison and Meredith spent their time together secretly.
"Alright, shoot. I'm helping you figure it out." George said finally. Izzie smiled, turning to her friend as she twirled a strand of hair with her finger.
"You want to know too, don't you? You want to find out for yourself." Izzie teased. George started to open his mouth to object, but Izzie raised an eyebrow at him.
"Ok, fine. I want to try to figure it out too." he admitted. "I..I'm curious. Can't I be curious?But itdoesn't mean I'm not over Meredith." he added quickly. Izzie just shrugged, too happy to have someone who is actually interested in what she's been pondering over than to care the true reason to his interest. Izzie turned to face George fully, pulling her legs up onto the gurney and folded them.
"Ok, so what we all know now is that Meredith is dating this mysterious, unknown guy for awhile, right?" she started, looking to George for a response. "Right?"
"Oh yea, right. Uh-huh." George responded.
"And we don't know who it is. But I definitely think it's someone from the hospital." Izzie said. This time, George frowned.
"Why..why do you think it's someone from the hospital? Can't it be someone from the bar? You know Meredith has a habit of picking guys up at the bar." George pointed out with a shrug. Izzie shot him a glare at his statement.
"What?" George defended himself. "I'm just saying. And it's true!" Izzie looked down, thinking on it for awhile then looked back up at George.
"You have a point." she admitted. "But, if it's someone outside the hospital, why is she so secretive?"
"I don't know." he shrugged. "Maybe he's some hot guy and he's afraid that we'll all be head over heels with her new boyfriend."
Izzie ignored his comment and went on. "And why didn't her hot date ever turn up at the house? The last time she's got a hot date, who happened to be Dr. McDreamy, he even stayed over at her place."
Before George could answer, Izzie's pager beeped. She looked down to the black electronic with a sigh. "Gotta go." She announced, then looked up to George briefly. "We'll do a list of possible persons and do a process of elimination later." she promised, then rushed off.
George sat on the gurney and stared straight up ahead at the blank wall in front of him. Izzie's got a point. he thought. Now that his curiosity has gotten to him, George really wants to find out who Meredith has been dating for the past few months.
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Miranda passed the NICU, looking through it briefly to see Addison Shepherd checking on one of the infants. She sighed, pushing into the room with the charts she needed the attending to sign. Addison looked up at her expectantly as the resident who caught her and Meredith together earlier entered. Since the lady had not said a word that does not sound professional, Addison held her tongue on the topic.
"What is with you Shepherds?" Miranda muttered under her breathe as Addison scribbled her signature over the dotted line. The redhead looked up from the chart and casted a side glance to the resident.
"I heard that." Addison said when Miranda chose to ignore her glance. She looked up now, handing the charts back to Miranda.
"Alright, fine." Miranda gave in. "Tell me. What's going on? Uhh..the Short version, please."
Addison sighed, watching as Miranda seated herself onto the armchair, gazing up at her expectantly. Do I tell her the truth? she thought, looking away briefly in consideration. Alright. she decided, letting out a long breathe. Better to have someone else to talk to about, right?
She licked her lips briefly and turned her gaze back to the resident. "Meredith." she started. "She found me at the hallway, where you saw us, you know. And we started talking. And then it happened." she explained, trying to be as discrete as possible, unsure if Miranda wanted details, unsure if she was willing to share the details. But Miranda raised an eyebrow at her, clearly expecting more than that. "We...kissed." Addison splurted out.
"Uh-huh. And then?" Miranda pushed on, not at all surprised by what Addison had let on so far considering she had caught them making out on an empty gurney.
"And then it grew from there." Addison said, choosing her words carefully. Miranda looked to her for a second then stood up. She didn't need details to know what was going on. It was clear that both women had fallen for each other, and Miranda wasn't going to do anything to interfere too deeply into their personal lives.
"How long has it been?" Miranda couldn't help but ask. Addison swallowed, clearly uncomfortable to share the information. Catching the silent message, Miranda started to speak, but Addison cut her off.
"Around four months." she said. Miranda had already saw the both of them together, Addison had figured it wouldn't hurt much to let it known completely. Details weren't demanded to be shared, and Addison was grateful for that.
"Do you know what you are doing?" Miranda asked, gathering the charts into her arms. Addison looked away briefly but nodded. "Yea." she said.
"And Derek?" Miranda asked.
"He uhh... he doesn't know." she admitted softly.
"Let him know, soon." Miranda instructed, already knowing Addison's choice like she knew Derek's choice when he was made to choose. "You don't want to do what he had did to you and Meredith." she reminded her, heading towards the door. But before she opened it, Miranda turned back briefly to face the attending.
"Your secret's safe with me." she promised.
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The next day, Meredith stood right at the back of the group of interns as Miranda Bailey, their resident, entered the locker room with cases to assign them to. Miranda shot a brief glance at Meredith, but the intern looked away uncomfortably. Miranda opened her file and took a glance through.
"Alright, O'Malley, you're with Dr. Shepherd. Yang and Karev, you're with Burke, Grey, you're with Montgomery Shepherd, Izzie, you're with me today." she instructed, then the rest of the interns left separately, leaving Izzie behind with Miranda. But Meredith didn't leave immediately, she looked to her resident curiously. Did Addison tell her something? Does she know now? As though feeling her glare, Miranda turned around and raised an eyebrow at her.
"Can I help you with something, Grey?" she asked, snapping Meredith out of her thoughts. Meredith shook her head furiously.
"Then go!"
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"Dr. Montgomery Shepherd." Meredith called out from behind, addressing the attending formally as she noticed her ex-boyfriend, Derek, who happened to be Addison's husband, standing right next to her. Addison took a glance behind at the sound of her voice.
"Good morning, Dr. Grey." she greeted. That caused Derek to turn around, his gaze shifting curiously from Meredith to Addison. Meredith gave in, looking up to the male attending and threw him a casual smile, but with nothing more than that. They gaze met briefly as he smiled back. Meredith broke the contact first, looking away.
"What can I do for you?" Addison asked, covering up the awkward moment that obviously the three of them are feeling, but all for different reasons.
"Ahh...there's a case that I need your consult on." Meredith lied. Addison nodded, shutting the chart in her hands and turned to her husband briefly. "I'll see you later." she said. Without waiting for his acknowledgement that he only seems to show when he feels a need to, Addison headed off with the intern.
"Does Dr. Bailey know?" Meredith blurted out now that the both of them are a safe distance away from Derek.
"Why?"
"Did you request for me?" Meredith asked, shoving her hands into her lab coat's pocket as they headed towards the room of their first patient.
"No." Addison said. Didn't she volunteer? Then, it dawned on her. She stopped, looking to Meredith as the both of them realised it at the same time.
"Miranda assigned you to me"
"Dr. Bailey assigned me to you." The both of them said in unison. Then, there was a moment of silence between them as they turned around the corridor towards their patient's room. Addison drew in a deep breathe and nodded before they entered the room. "Yea, Miranda knows."
Meredith stared at her. Does she mean Dr. Bailey knows everything?
"Good morning, Mrs. Hilson. I'm Dr. Montgomery-Shepherd, and this is Dr. Grey." Addison introduced, gesturing towards Meredith as she addressed the intern, a radiant smile on her face. She handed the files over to Meredith casually as she took over the control of the ultrascan machine.
"I can take it from here. Thanks." Addison whispered to the nurse, giving her a friendly smile as she excused the nurse from the room. Addison pulled out a surgical glove and pulled it over a hand, squeezing a handful of gel onto her first two fingers.
"Alright, this is going to be a little cold." she informed the woman as Meredith folded the shirt up to reveal the bulging stomach. She spread the gel onto the woman's stomach and rolled the scanner over it, her eyes fixed on the screen as it revealed the fetus.
"She knows...everything?" Meredith blurted out. She couldn't wait any longer. At that, Addison turned to her with a warning glance, a tight smile on her face.
"Yes, Dr. Grey?" she asked professionally. Addison wasn't one who was keen on her patients knowing about her personal life. She preferred to be as professional as possible with and in front of patients.Meredith caught the message and shook her head.
"Uhh..nothing. I'm sorry." she apologised.
"Don't be." Addison said almost coldly. But her green eyes had conveyed a different message to Meredith, and the blonde intern had caught it.
Miranda Bailey knows.
A/N : There you go! I hope you liked this chapter!
- Jess