The Reason Why – Part V
Once the doors closed Addison stared straight ahead quietly said, "I want you to talk to Derek."
"You what?" Meredith said in shocked.
"I want you to talk to Derek about Aidan and Danica, I. . .," she stopped and turned her back on Meredith then turned back.
"Seriously? Seriously." Meredith tilted her head and stared at her. Her mind was racing she couldn't believe what she was hearing. "Why do you want me to talk to him, why don't you talk to him?" This was freaking Meredith out and wanted to know what kind of drugs the woman was on.
"You don't think I've tried?" she dropped her head into her hand and rubbed her temple, her other hand was tightly wrapped around her stomach. "I tried believe me I have he just refuses talk, especially to me. He holds it all in I was hoping that maybe if you talked to him maybe." Addison let out a strangled cry. "I just figured he might have an easier time talk to someone he cares about, who wasn't part of our lives then, who he doesn't blame," she trailed off.
Addison straighten up looked straight ahead at the elevator doors and regained her composure. "Just forget I said anything, I'm sorry I had no right to ask that of you."With that the elevator doors opened to the ER. Meredith stood stunned watching Addison leave the elevator.She turned back and said, "Are you coming?"
Meredith stepped out of the elevator and followed Addison. Debbie saw Addison and Meredith approach and handed Addison a chart. "She is in curtain two and her husband in on the way."
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Derek stood at the door to Jeremy Storm's room, he watched Mrs. Storm snuggled up in her son's bed, and she was reading him a Harry Potter book.
Molly looked up and noticed the doctor standing there. "Good afternoon Dr. Shepherd," she said with a smile.
Jeremy looked up and enthusiastically said, "Hi Dr. D, who do you like better Harry Potter or Ron Weasley?
Derek stepped into the room and smiled, "Harry Potter of course."
"Me too," the boy grinned back.
Molly got up from the bed as Derek walked up. "So you look like you are feeling much better Jeremy," he said as he checked the boy over.
Behind Derek, Addie had just walked up to door and stood watching on.
"Yeah I'm feeling a lot better." The boy rubbed his head. "Mom says I'm gonna have a scar on my head, isn't that cool?" the boy grinned.
"Mind if I have a look?" he grinned at the boy.
The Jeremy's eyes widened. "You mean you're gonna take the band aids off?"
He nodded.
"Really? Can I look too?" he asked excitedly.
"Absolutely I insist," he laughed. Derek removed the dressing and inspected the incision, everything looked perfect. He reached inside the end table and pulled out a mirror. "Okay have a look, but I gotta warn you its pretty gross looking," he looked at the boy with amusement.
Jeremy grabbed the mirror and looked, his eyes widened as he inspected what he saw. "Wow that is so cool wait til I show the guys at school! Michael Carson has a scar on his forehead from when his little sister hit him with her Barbie doll but mine is way cooler then his!" Jeremy shouted excitedly.
Derek redressed his head and asked, "Okay Finding Nemo or Beauty and the Beast?"
"Finding Nemo! Beauty and Beast is for girls," Jeremy had a disgusted look on his face.
Jeremy asked next, "Girls yucky or not yucky?
Addie smiled as she watched her husband interacted with the boy. She was surprised that it still came so easily for him; maybe he is getting closer to be able to talk things out. A burst of laugher brought her attention back to the scene in front of her.
"You mean you don't think girls are yucky?" Jeremy grimaced.
"Oh yeah I guess I should change my answer you're right girls are yucky," Derek said to Jeremy seriously but then laughed.
Addie smiled at her husband and entered the room. "Girls are yucky huh?" She continued on and stood next to Molly and put her arm around her.
Addie looked across Jeremy's bed to her husband. He nodded to her. "Oh yes girls are definitely yucky," he grinned back.
Addie and Molly exchanged looks and laughed.
She smirked at her husband and said, "Oh since you consider me yucky I guess I changed my mind and I won't invite you to join me for lunch. I was even was even thinking we should have dessert." Addison smiled wickedly at Derek.
Derek and Jeremy said in unison, "Dessert!"
"Sorry Jeremy I'm gonna have to change my mind back, girls definitely are not yucky." Derek returned Addie's wicked smile; he had a pretty good idea what kind of dessert his wife had in mind.
Derek turned his attention to Mrs. Storm and said, "Everything looks great, I see no reason we can't release Jeremy tomorrow."
"That's great news!" Molly happily said.
"What's great news?" Robert Storm asked as he entered the room.
"Dr. Shepherd said Jeremy should be able to go home tomorrow," she said happily.
Robert was by his wife's side in a flash and gave her a hug. "That is great news!"
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Izzie walked into the on call room and saw Meredith laying on one of the beds; Izzie plopped down on the other. She looked over at Meredith and noticed she was struggling with something.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
"Wrong? What makes you think something is wrong, nothing is wrong," Meredith rambled on.
Izzie raised an eyebrow; yep something was definitely wrong. "Oh something is definitely wrong. So spill it, don't be giving me that, oh nothing is wrong BS."
"Oh God," Meredith pressed the heels of her hands to her eyes. "Have I mentioned lately that my life sucked?" she moaned.
"Constantly," Izzie grinned over.
Meredith threw a pillow at Izzie, "Hey!"
"Addison asked me to talk to Derek," Meredith groaned.
Izzie's bolted in the up right position, "Seriously?"
"Seriously," Meredith stated.
"Seriously," Izzie blew out a long breath.
"Addison wants me to talk to Derek; she wants me to talk to Derek." Meredith groaned again. "I can't believe this is happening, my ex boyfriend's wife wants me to talk to my ex boyfriend about his kids, the kids that he neglected to tell me ever existed. Like I said, my life totally sucks," she groaned for the third time.
Izzie nodded and gave her a half smile and said, "Yeah it does."
Meredith groaned for a forth time and covered her face with a pillow; she let out a frustrating scream.
Izzie studied her for sometime then said, "So are ya gonna do it?
Meredith shot up to the sitting position and looked at her wide eyed, "Are you serious?"
Izzie thought for a moment and very slightly nodded to her, "Yeah I am."
"Seriously?" Meredith raised an eyebrow at her.
Izzie nodded.
"Really you honestly think it's a good idea?" she said with surprise.
Izzie slowly nodded again, "Yeah I really do."
Meredith fell back on the bed and covered her face with the pillow again. "Yeah my life seriously sucks."
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"Girls are definitely not yucky," Derek said to Addie as they snuggled up in a bed in one of the on call rooms.They were sharing a cup of chocolate pudding and discussing how their day had gone. He took the empty cup from Addie's hand and tossed it in the trash can. He wrapped her tighter in his arms gave her a little kiss on mouth and asked, "So ready for second helping of dessert?" He wiggled his eyebrows.
"I'd love a second helping," she grinned back. "But I'm due in surgery in 15 minutes," she gave him a lingering kiss.
"If you expect to be out of here in time for your surgery, you shouldn't be kissing me like that," he smiled at her.
She laughed at him and got up from the bed and started to get dressed.
Derek watched his wife with pleasure, he almost enjoyed watching her get dress as much as he enjoyed watching her get undressed, he grinned to himself, right like that was true.
After Addie finished dressing, she sat back down next to her husband, she smiled down at him leaned in to give him another kiss. He wrapped his arms around her holding her tight and placed a kiss on her temple and whispered in her ear, "We are in a good place right now aren't we Addie?"
She pushed herself up so she could look into his eyes and gave him a sweet smile. "Yeah we are in a real good place right now." She gave him a kiss on the cheek and got up to leave.
"So dinner at eight?" he asked as she was getting ready to leave.
"Sounds like a plan," she smiled.
"And by the way I definitely plan on having dessert," he gave her a wicked grin.
Addie smirked back, "Absolutely."
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Joe's bar was Seattle Grace staff's favorite hang out; it was right across the street from the hospital, which made it very convenient for members of the staff to meet up after a long day at the hospital.
"So Alex tell us about your day," Izzie teased, they all knew he was doing scut work all day long.
"Shut up Stevens," Alex snapped.
"So Alex just how long do you think it will take for Addison to break you?" Meredith quipped.
"Satan isn't going to break me," Alex snarled.
"Don't call her that," Meredith retorted.
Alex and Cristina raised their eyebrows at Meredith.
"Stop looking at me like that," she whined.
"You are defending The She-Shepherd?" Cristina said with surprise, "This is a joke right?"
"No, this is not a joke and Addison and I are friends now, I like her. So, don't call her that anymore because she is my friend," Meredith defended herself.
"Right, you like Addison Shepherd, the woman who stole your boyfriend," she said sarcastically.
Meredith pursed her lips. "I do like her, she has been nothing but nice to me. As a matter of fact today she let me deliver a baby in the ER and after that she let me perform a c-section," Meredith said with a nod. "So yes I like Addison and she is my friend and I don't care anymore that she stole my boyfriend," she said firmly with a nod.
"Oh my god! You got to perform a c-section, how cool it that!" Cristina and Izzie said in unison.
"Yeah it was pretty cool," Meredith smiled.
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Even though Addie wasn't exactly fond of living in a trailer, she had to admit the land surround the trailer was breath taking. Once everything was behind them, she hoped she could talk Derek into building a house on the land. She snuggled deeper into the crook of Derek's arm and looked over her coffee thinking how nice it would be, the house would have to have lots of big windows, so they could enjoy the view from anywhere in the house.
Addie still needed to let Derek know that Meredith and Izzie knew about Aidan and Danica. She needed to prepare him, just incase the rumors got started around the hospital. He would never forgive her, if everyone started talking and he had no warning.
"Derek there is something you need to know," she said as she bit her lower lip, trying to compose what she was going to say.
He looked at her with concern, "This sounds serious"
She nodded, "It is." She took a deep breath and slowly blew it out. "Okay there is no easy way to say this so. . .," she paused again.
Derek was starting to worry, things were really starting to come back together from them he reached out and gently touched her arm, encouraging her to continue.
"Meredith Grey and Izzie Stevens know." She pursed her lips and tried to gauge Derek's reaction.
Derek looked puzzled. "They know? They know what?" It dawned on him what she was talking about, he shot up to the sitting position, knocking Addie over and her coffee on the ground. He forced his fingers threw his hair; he was clearly upset by the news. He looked up at Addie, "How did they find out?"
Addie bowed her head.
"You told them?" he exploded and jumped to his feet, he started pacing back and forth.
Addie jumped to her feet too and stood in front of Derek and took him by the shoulders.
"Derek I didn't tell them they inadvertently found out." She pleaded with him to listen to her "I talked to Mrs. Storm about it. I showed her a photograph and forgot it to take it back. Meredith and Izzie found the photograph last night when they checked on Molly and Jeremy."
"Oh that's just great Addison; you leave a family photograph with some patient and its laying around so everyone in the hospital can see it." He turned his back on her again, he was fuming.
"Derek I didn't mean to leave it and I did get the photograph back. Meredith gave it to me this afternoon. I'm sure Meredith and Izzie were the only ones who saw."
"Oh that's real comforting." Derek reached in the trailer and grabbed Doc's leash he whistled to Doc and said, "Come on Doc we are going for a run."
Doc's ear's peeked up when he heard the word run. He hooked the leash on Doc's collar and took off for his run without another word.
Addie sank back to the loveseat, wrapped the blanket around her then pulled her knees tightly to her chest. Well she knew he wasn't going to take the news well and it had gone pretty much as she had expected. She could only hope that he would work his frustration out on his run.
Addie's mobile phone started to ring, the tune Bitch played telling her just who it was. "Hey Randi, no you weren't interrupting anything, Derek just went for a run." Addie listened. "Sure I'd love to, I really need to talk to you, how does 30 minutes sound?" She rose from the loveseat and heading for the trailer and wrote a note to Derek and left it on the kitchen table.
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