Thanks for the reviews, after the last chapter, everything just pales in comparison. Hope ya'll like this one, I swear this story is going somewhere, I just don't know where that is yet.
Addison walked into her office, almost in shock. "I cannot believe I just did that," she thought, "Well it was along time coming, and I did contain myself longer than I should have." She sank into her chair, glad to be alone. She had checked on all of her patients, and had informed them that something urgent had come up and that she would be out of town for a while. She wasn't technically lying to them, but it would have been way too much information to tell them she was leaving town to escape her husband and his mistress. That would have caused some jaws to drop for sure.
She glanced around her office, with her gaze landing on the picture that sat in the left corner of her desk. It was a picture of her in Derek on vacation. He had his arm lovingly draped around her shoulders; you could see the mountains in the background. It was one of Addison's favorite pictures of them. She reached over and flipped the picture face down on her desk. No use having it mock her as she finished up her work.
"I need to get out of here before Derek decides to hunt me down," she thought. Addison quickly transferred all of her patients to another doctor, who did nothing but float from hospital to hospital filling in; he would be arriving the next day, she wasn't worried about her patients, they would be in good hands.
There was only on thing she needed now; she opened up the bottom drawer of her desk, and removed a picture that she kept hidden from the world. It was a picture of Derek, and herself, holding Hadley. It was taken on her second birthday. "We were so happy, why did this have to happen," she sadly said to herself as a tear escaped. She brushed it away willing herself not to cry, again.
Addison placed the picture in her bag, and headed back to Richard's office to tell him she was leaving.
Derek had barely been at the hospital ten minutes when he had to do an emergency surgery on a teenage boy; he had suddenly went blind and it was discovered that he had a small tumor that was pushing against his occipital nerve. If it stayed any longer it could cause permanent damage. The surgery took several hours; Derek found himself occasionally looking up in the gallery to see if maybe, just maybe, Addison would accept his apology, and come to watch him.
In all the years of marriage, whenever he did something wrong, he would always know when he had been forgive, because he would glance up, and there she'd be, watching him. She would nod in acknowledgment and then smile at him.
"Dr. Bailey!"
Miranda Bailey turned around to see Addison shepherd hurrying towards her.
"I'm glad I was able to find you before I have to catch my flight." Stated the tall red-head.
"You're what?" asked Dr. Bailey.
"I'm leaving, well let me restate that, Richard want let me straight out leave, so I'm taking a two week vacation to give him to talk to the board, and then I'll come back and work out a two weeks notice. Then I'm gone."
The Nazi gave Addison her famous stare, "this is because of your good-for-nothing husband of yours isn't it?"
"Yeah, well I'm sure you've heard the latest hospital gossip"
This time Dr. Bailey softened her demeanor and said, "Actually, the only thing remotely interesting I've heard, besides the Stevens and Denny situation, is the fact that you told off Meredith Grey in the elevator. Now I try not to listen to my suck-ups but that one piqued my interest. I think all of the nurses are speculating what it was about though."
"You mean the whole story hasn't spread like wildfire over the hospital yet?" asked Addison, shocked.
"No, what is going on, why are you really leaving?"
"Well one of your suck-ups screwed my husband last night. Derek even admitted to it." There was a pained look on Addison's face as she said this.
"Addison, I'm so sorry, I can't believe that moron. So are you going to go back to New York?"
"Yeah, for now anyway, I just need to get away for a while, and process some things. It's just I've been holding on to something for so long that isn't there anymore. And there is absolutely no reason why I should continue to watch my husband long after another woman."
Addison continues on, "Miranda, I just wanted to thank you for everything, and I guess I'll see you in a few weeks. On and if you see Derek, and he asks where I'm at, tell him I've already left, please." "Now I just have to go find Richard and let him no I'm officially on my vacation."
"Good luck, Addison, I really am sorry."
Derek finished up his surgery, and decided to swing by Addison's office. He was hoping he could catch her before she left. He had to make her understand, to beg her forgiveness; he'd get on his knees if he had too.
He hopped in the elevator and took it up to the 8th floor, where Addison's office was located. He noticed her light wasn't on, but that didn't mean that she wasn't in there.
He knocked on the door, heard no answer, and turned the handle. There was a receptionist at the end of the hall, so most of the doctors on this floor tended to leave their offices unlocked during the day, and a security guard would lock them all up at night. Derek walked in and glanced around the room. He could still smell the faint scent of her perfume. Derek moved to the other side of her desk and sat down, that was when he noticed the picture laying facedown on her desk. He picked it up and stared at it for a few moments. How could he have done such a thing, he wondered. The couple in the picture was so in love; that man never called his wife Satan, he never thought twice about another woman. When did I go from being that man, to who I am now, thought Derek?
With that thought he stood up to go in search of his wife.
"Richard, you are a hard man to find," said Addison as she walked up to him in the cafeteria. "I just wanted to let you know, I've had all of my patients due in the next two weeks transferred to Dr. Sanford, I've also made rounds and informed my patients that I had an urgent situation come up, and I would be out of town."
The chief gave her a look, as he heard the last part, "Well it is urgent Richard, I leave now, or I'll leave in handcuffs for a double homicide. Personally I'd prefer the latter, but I don't think it would help my reputation any."
"Addison, have you seen Derek since you've been here today?"
"No I haven't, and I know he's going to try to find me, he was begging me this morning not to leave, saying that he loves me, but I can not take this anymore."
"Maybe he's realized what a fool he's been."
"It's too late. We've hurt each other too many times, it's just time we call it what it is and move on. My plane is leaving in a few hours and I have a stop to make before I can finally get out of here, so I need to go, but I'll see you back in two weeks. And if you see Derek, and I have a feeling you're going to make a special point to, just tell him I went home." Addison leaned in and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"Take care, Addison." With that she turned and headed towards the main entrance of the hospital. She was headed home.
