Country Kind of Love

NetflixPerson01: I was too excited about the whole thing for them not to kiss :D But a kiss doesn't mean anything, does it?

Lena-Prince08: Thank you :) and I have to admit that I stopped watching the show when Addie left and I didn't see that much of Private Practice either so I am very glad you still like the characters :D

LoveLastsForever: Well, I'm very impatient too and I'm a country girl :D But thank you! :) and I loved Mark and Preston so they have to be in this story but omg so in love with Derek, seriously, it's sad… I'd have asked him if he wasn't gonna kiss me too…

geller516: About that nickname… If you have suggestions I'd totally appreciate them! Because in real life I always talk before thinking and apparently I also write without thinking :D I really like Mark/Derek too which is why I hated the whole scenario they had on the show.

Guest: I'm glad you like it :)

lorenalims: I never saw Amelia on the show so I'll probably have to wing it at some point :D

Guest: Nooooo, they won't spend the night together! This city girl won't be that easy :D but I really was considering it, to be honest.

Addison-fan: Derek doesn't kiss and tell ;) but I'm glad you enjoyed it, writing them really is fun so far!

MsMiuMiu: I'm glad you liked it and the kiss will be continued here, but probably not to the extent of your liking BUT Derek's a good country boy so he'll take things slow. :D

luvaddek: Thank you! I really haven't watched the show in ages and haven't watched all that much of the show either so I'm glad they're authentic :) I hope I'll be able to get that right in the future too...

addiealex: At first I really wasn't planning on them kissing so soon! But then my impatience got the better of me and I really would have kissed Derek in the first two minutes of meeting him so she's waited long enough! And I really didn't like Callie (and I really don't know why!) but Meredith will be in here for sure :)

And as for everyone else: I hope you're still reading :) Who here really is from Kansas City? Because I'm starting to make things up because my friends who live there are being very vague about the wonderful things to do there...

Chapter Three

"So, are you ever going to kiss me?" Yep, way to go, Addison, she thought to herself when she actually heard herself ask him that. Sometimes she could just kick herself for the things she said but maybe this time she could blame it on the alcohol.

"Gee, you city girls are impatient." Derek chuckled and just as she was about to reply she noticed that he was leaning in and slowly closed the distance between them. He watched her eyes fluttering close and her lips parting just slightly before he covered them with his own. His hands were resting on her hips when he kissed her ever so softly, his lips just barely touching hers. Addison ran her fingers through his hair and moaned lowly but whenever she tried to pull him closer or to deepen the kiss, he pulled away slightly.

"Goodnight." He whispered before kissing her one more time and then turned around to walk back to his car. She had wanted to say something, pull him back towards her but that smile he had given her and that kiss had left her at a complete loss for words.

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When she arrived at the hospital the next day she was more than glad that she only had to do rounds and check on one patient because her head hurt and she only vaguely remembered the events of the previous night. She even had to ask Richard to give her a ride to work because she had left her car. But how had she gotten home? Addison remembered that she'd had a good time and that she had really enjoyed spending time with her colleagues outside of work. And she remembered how much fun she had had with Derek Shepherd and how good it had felt to have his arms wrapped around her when he had tried to teach her how to play pool.

"Good morning." But then the man she had been thinking about appeared in front of her, a very charming smile on his face once again. And then it all seemed to be coming back to her. He had given her a ride home and walked her up to the porch and oh no, had she really asked him to kiss her?

"Hi." She gave him a slight smile and tried to remember what really had happened the previous night. There was no way that she had asked him if he was going to kiss her, was there? She was too old for something like that.

"Are you alright?" And he looked so very amused again when he saw the confusion in her eyes.

"Yeah." Was all she said and got off the elevator only to have him follow her. "Don't you have to work?" She gave him a look.

"Ah, impatient once again." He laughed and clearly enjoyed her reaction as he walked down the hall and left her alone. Addison leaned against the wall and sighed, she didn't mean to snap at him because it wasn't his fault and she really did enjoy his company but she was sure that he knew that she had just started to remember what had happened last night and he had found it amusing!

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"So, what happened last night after we left?" Preston raised his eyebrows when Derek approached his two friends later that day.

"Nothing happened. Gee, what do you think happened? I'm not Mark." He gave his friend a look and got some coffee before he sat down next to the others.

"If you were me you'd be in a better mood because you'd have scored." Mark only shrugged his shoulders, clearly not taking offense in what Derek had just said.

"She's not like that now leave me alone because nothing happened. I just drove her home."

"Aha!" Mark grinned and held his hand out to Preston, who reluctantly got out his wallet. "Pay up!"

"This is what you were betting on?" Derek started to get annoyed because his friends were just being too childish! It was unbelievable.

"Dude, come on, we want you to be happy and we all know that you like her even though she can be kind of bitchy…" Mark started.

"Because she turned you down, but really, Derek, you like this woman and she likes you too so it's only a matter of time when something will happen, so we might as well make some money out of it."
"You were betting on me driving her home?" He saw them nod and only rolled his eyes. "Me driving her home doesn't change anything. And I don't like her, we're colleagues and talk occasionally, that's it."

"Derek, if last night showed us anything is that you like her and she likes you. And since you're always so horribly picky about the women you date please tell me five things that are wrong with her because other than her not liking it here there's nothing."

"I'm done talking to you about this because nothing happened and nothing will happen." He got up and walked towards the door because anything he would say would be used against him in the end and it was better that they didn't know about the fact that Derek had kissed Addison the night before.

"Done for today?" Addison sat down next to Derek on a bench underneath one of the tall trees just a little outside of the hospital property. She smiled when he turned to look at her and she was glad that he didn't seem to mind her company at all.

"Yep, finally, weren't you supposed to be able to leave hours ago?" He gave her one of those smiles that made her feel like a high school girl that had the biggest crush on the star quarterback.

"I was but I watched your surgery." Addison saw a smug smile appear on his face. "You know, just to see if you country boys come close to the surgeons in New York."

"And what's the official verdict?" Derek raised his eyebrows at her. He had seen her up in the gallery and had thought to himself that Mark and Preston might just have a point and he did like her a little more than just on a professional/friendship basis.

"Hmm… I'm not convinced yet."

"Come on! Seriously, I removed a tumor from one of the most difficult regions in the brain! There was an article on that!" And then he saw her laughing and had to smile. "Aren't you just so funny."

"I try." She chuckled and shrugged her shoulders.

"So, are we going to talk about that kiss last night or are you just going to blatantly ignore that little detail?" Derek watched the expression on her face before she looked down, clearly a little embarrassed. "Because, and I don't know about you, but that was a pretty good kiss."

"I'm not going to talk to you about this." She finally looked up and got a little annoyed because the smile on his face was so unbelievably smug and she didn't get how he could be so completely at ease talking about this! Why wasn't he embarrassed? But then again, she had had this teenage like crush on her colleague and had then asked him if he was ever going to kiss her. So maybe he really didn't have a reason to be embarrassed.

"So who would you like to talk about it with then?"

"Nobody, because there is absolutely nothing to talk about. I've had a little too much to drink last night and that's that." She quickly brushed it off. "And you don't have to look so very smug because that was the first and the last time that happened."
"And why is that?" He leaned back on the bench and looked at her, now rather amused at her reaction.

"Because we're colleagues and it would be very unprofessional of us."

"So not because you don't want to kiss me again?"

"I never said that I do." She gave him a look.

"So, what is it? If we weren't colleagues, would you like me to kiss you again?" He moved just a little closer and saw her eyes flicker from his eyes to his lips and back.

"Uhm…" Addison realized that she had gotten quite side tracked and quickly snapped out of it. "We are colleagues, so don't be ridiculous."

"That's too bad because I know that despite your best efforts, you do like me, just a little bit." He nudged her slightly and saw a smile appearing on her beautiful features.

"Don't flatter yourself." She gave him another smile and got up. "Bye, Derek."

"Bye, Addison." He shook his head and smiled nonetheless. There was something very intriguing about this woman.

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"So, how do you like Kansas so far?" Richard looked over at Addison who was once again looking for a decent apartment in the city but for some reason there never seemed to be anything that would meet her standards. Not that living with Richard and Adele really met her standards either…

"Are you asking about Kansas or about work?" She raised her eyebrows at her old mentor. Of course, she liked living with them but sometimes it was just a little difficult, especially for someone who was used to being alone.

"How do you like it here? In general." He asked again, slightly amused.

"Well, work is good, the people seem to be very nice and the cases are interesting but I don't care for that annoying heat and the humidity because it messes with my hair and then, for some reason, it gets so horribly cold at night! What is up with this part of the country? And people still wear shorts!" Richard was now laughing and Addison had to smile as well. "I just don't get the mentality. Just like I don't get Shepherd. I mean, what's up with the flannel and that annoyingly good mood most of the time?"

"Oh, Shepherd, I like him!" Adele sat down next to her husband who just gave her a look before turning back to Addison.

"He's a great doctor and I heard you two had a good time out the other night."

"You went out with him?" Adele raised her eyebrows at Addison, who just looked increasingly annoyed.

"I didn't go out with him. Burke asked me to play pool with him, Sloan and Derek, I mean, Shepherd. So that's what we did, we played pool."

"Mhmm…" Adele just smiled knowingly. "Derek really is very nice."

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"Addison! What are you doing tonight?"

"Not you." She said to Mark Sloan without even looking up from her file.

"I don't think we have met, Miranda Bailey." A woman next to Addison introduced herself. "I already like you better than all the other attendings." She looked back at Mark.

"Addison Montgomery, I've heard a lot about you." Addison smiled and shook her colleague's hand.

"I bet not anything good." Miranda chuckled before her pager went off. "It was nice to meet you." And with that she hurried down the hall.

"Yeah, you and the Nazi make an excellent team…" Mark mumbled. "And just so you know, I've completely given up on ever asking you out, because you're not the nicest person and you have the hots for Shep," and just as she was about to say something not so polite he continued, "we are all having a barbecue tonight and that's what I wanted to ask you. And by all I mean Preston, myself and of course Derek. And we would like it if you joined us."

"Even though I'm not the nicest person?" She leaned against the counter and raised her eyebrows at him.

"Well, we can always work on that, can't we? The barbecue starts at six and we're doing it at Derek's place, which is in the middle of nowhere but I'm sure he'll give you a great description." Mark grinned and turned to leave. "See you tonight then." Maybe he and Preston should have told Derek that they were going to invite Addison but they could always tell him just a few minutes before six.

Soooo they're gonna hang out later tonight aka in the next chapter! What would you like to happen (even though I've already written it)? And (!) for the future, would you like actual squee (Spoiler, sorrynotsorry) or "and then they made love"?

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