Chapter 7
"What the hell are you doing here Grey?" barked Dr Anderson, standing over Meredith threateningly.
"I was just…"
"I don't want to hear excuses," Dr Anderson replied in a frighteningly calm voice.
"I am so sorry,"
"Look, just because you just got here don't expect special treatment, because no one will give it to you. In fact, most of the people here will be tougher on you because you decided that the SGH wasn't good enough you. So, maybe you should start proving yourself by getting back to work! I've paged you three times!"
why did i leave Seattle? thought Meredith, this woman is hundred times worse than Bailey.
Addison walked into Joe's bar, her Gucci bag slung over her shoulder. She sat down at a seat and ordered a drink.
"So what brings you to my humble bar?" asked Joe as he placed her drink in front of her.
"Um… nothing is wrong really. Unless you consider kissing an intern a crime," she replied. Joe didn't reply. Addison looked up and saw Joe standing there, unsurprised.
"Well come on, you're a bartender, give me advice,"
"I am not smart enough to give people advice, that's why i am a bartender," Joe stated simply.
"Bullshit," replied Addison, forcing her drink down her throat. Joe looked at Addison. The Addison he had heard about was a posh, confident red haired woman who knew what she wanted.
Right now this woman isn't posh or confident. At least she's still a red head, so my sources weren't totally wrong about this woman. And she is fine…stop Joe! You have a boyfriend!
"Another one," Addison rasped, her fingers outlining the rim of her glass. Joe nodded as he served her another drink, "What do you want me to say?"
"Tell me the kind of stuff you tell Meredith," Addison stated.
"Alright. Let me see… you kissed an intern ha?"
"Yeah,"
"Well, i dunno if there is much to say. You have to decide if you kissed the guy for all the right reasons. You have to decide if you have honest feelings for the guy or if you kissed him just to see how Derek will react once he finds out. That's all i know,"
"Another one," Addison ordered.
"You're a crap advisor," she slurred as she tipped the contents of the glass down her throat.
"I told you so. By the way, you need to get a cab home. You're drunk,"
Addison looked up, "you know what? That was the only worthwhile thing you have said all night,"
"Then maybe i am not such a crap advisor after all," Joe replied. With that, Addison walked out of the bar.
"Oh my god! Did she really?"
"Yes, you better believe it! Doctor Montgomery just kissed her intern, Matthew, passionately on the lips. I saw it with my own eyes! It wasn't even a quick one. I mean the guy's lips were slightly swollen afterwards!"
"Are you sure you aren't making this up?"
"I'm positive! She really kissed him!"
"Who could blame her? The guy is hot!"
"I wonder how Mcdreamy is going to react,"
"I'd probably guess that he wouldn't care at all. Wouldn't you?"
"Dr Burke! I…we were… we were just…"
"Gossiping?" asked Dr Burke. All the nurses smiled guiltily as they watched Dr Burke walk out of the hospital.
Addison stood outside, waiting for her cab to arrive when a voice said,
"Everyone is talking about it you know,"
Addison turned around. There stood Dr Preston Burke.
"Oh god. How did it get out?"
"Do you even have to ask? The nurses of course, they're all a bunch of gossip queens,"
"I don't know what happened," Addison said, the both of them sitting down on a bench, "I was just so lonely and tired of everything, and he was just there. I'm supposed to be the responsible one and I'm the one who started the whole thing!"
"Now he probably thinks that you two are star crossed lovers or something," chuckled Burke.
"Yeah probably," laughed Addison, wrapping her coat around her tighter as a light breeze blew.
"These things happen. Don't worry, soon someone else will do something out of the normal that will cause the nurses to start gossiping again," soothed Preston.
"Sometimes i wonder how i got to this point. How i got to be in Seattle, how i came to be without Derek. I wonder why i was so stupid to move out here when i didn't want to. I mean, who in their right mind would pack up and leave the security of family and friends to save a failing marriage?"
"You weren't stupid to move out here. You thought that you could save your marriage. You thought that moving out here was the right thing to do, for your career and for your marriage. You had no idea that Derek had moved on,"
"NO! I did know that Meredith existed! I knew that he had a new girlfriend! And yet i was stupid enough to come out here anyway!"
"Yes, because you thought that Meredith was just a fling, revenge, whatever,"
"I am Doctor Addison Forbes Montgomery," Addison stated with tears running down her face, " I was dux at school, one of the best student through Med school and one of the best interns at the hospital i worked at. How did i let myself become this?"
"What do you mean this?"
"I mean a crying, lonely woman! It was never meant to be this way! I was never meant to be married for 11 years just to have it fall apart! I was never meant to be without Derek!" Addison cried. Suddenly the beep of a car horn was heard and Addison walked over to her taxi. Preston just sat there, shocked that he had just seen a new side to Dr Montgomery.
Just as Meredith was about to get up, Dr Anderson sat beside her, keeping Meredith down.
"What do you want of me?" asked Meredith, " I'm not some spoilt brat like you think i am. I am just me, Meredith Grey. I'm not just Ellis Grey's daughter,"
"I know that you aren't just Ellis Grey's daughter. But that doesn't excuse the fact that you have the privilege of being her daughter,"
"Privilege?" scoffed Meredith, " She was never there for me. She had an affair during her marriage to my father, which subsequently ended when i was young! Now she's in a nursing home and its freaking painful to watch her all feeble and helpless! Its no privilege to be daughter!"
"Okay… once you get over your little tantrum, get back to work!"
Meredith got up, sick of Dr Anderson's ranting.
"By the way…"
Meredith didn't hear the end of her sentence because she had already rushed out the door. Meredith clutched her files tightly as she sped off to her patient. Just as she turned the corner she ran into another person. Her files fell onto the floor, scattering in all directions.
"Crap!"
"Crap?"
"Oh sorry… Holy crap!
"Gee, hi to you too,"
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