Country Kind of Love
NetflixPerson01: I'm not abandoning any of my stories and I have some more chapters written for this one but somehow I'm rereading them and am not sure if they're really going where I want this story to go and then I can't help but wonder if I even know where I want this story to go or why we even are on this planet and that leads to a Sophie's world discussion with myself… Sorry :D
Addison-fan: If it wasn't for you I would have put updating off for a lot longer! Thank you! And, yes, Addek has so much potential! But they pretty much sank that ship just like they do on all the shows I watch… Maybe it's me.
luvaddek: I'll be updating Counting Stars tomorrow (I think) and I'm not so sure about the rest.
lorenalims: I'm glad you're still reading :) :)
Guest: I'm not so sure about updating Daddy's Little Girl because I don't like it so far and it'll break your heart and yeah...
Lena-Prince08: That Mark/Preston relationship really does sound fun, doesn't it! :D But, no, I will find them cute girls because I think Preston/Mark would be a lot to handle! :D
Msmiumiu: Thank you so much :) And I had to reread most of this as well because I'm always so afraid of mixing up my stories ever since I sent a chapter to a professor instead of emailing my essay… Yeah, living that awkward life.
Kae: I'm sorry but I have no clue what Calzona is and I didn't like Callie (SORRY!) and I don't even know why...
A/U: I don't even know what A/U stands for...
Chapter 7
"Addison Montgomery." She answered her phone absentmindedly and hadn't even bothered to check her caller ID before picking up.
"Derek Shepherd." Addison could hear the amusement in his voice.
"Don't mock me." She had to smile nonetheless and was glad he had called because she had been waiting all morning to hear from him again after their date the night before.
"I wasn't, I promise. So, what are you doing?"
"Looking for a decent place to live… Would you like to help me?"
"I wish I could but I'm at the hospital and am currently hiding from Yang because whoever said that there aren't any stupid questions, or too many questions, clearly hasn't worked at a teaching hospital before."
"I'm really sorry about that." Addison started to laugh because she knew what he meant just a little too well.
"Yeah, you're not but I was wondering if you're free tonight?"
"As a matter of fact, I just happen to be free. What are your plans?" She smiled widely when at the thought of going out with him later on.
"Just dress casual again and let me surprise you. I'll see you tonight at eight, O'Malley wants something."
"Okay, bye, Derek."
"Bye." He smiled and hung up the phone.
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"So, don't tell me you didn't score." Mark chuckled as he sat down next to his best friend who was catching up on some post OP notes in the gallery.
"Would you just keep your voice down?" Derek gave him a look when he heard a few of the interns giggle and Mark just winked at them. "You know, it's good that we keep getting new interns because if not you would have already slept or tried to sleep with the entire staff…"
"Good thing this is a teaching hospital then, isn't it?" Of course something like this couldn't get Mark at all. "But seriously now, how did it go?"
"Really good, better than any date I've ever had." He couldn't stop grinning when he thought back to their date. Derek had never met anyone like Addison before and he couldn't wait to see her again.
"So you did score?"
"No, would you just stop it now because it's not like that." Derek now looked annoyed and Mark only shrugged her shoulders because he knew if he said anything else when they were surrounded by their colleagues and interns, Derek might just kill him.
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"Did you hear that McDreamy is dating someone?" Izzie Stevens asked as she and Cristina Yang approached Meredith Grey at the nurses' station.
"Seriously?" Meredith looked up from the book she had been reading, thanks to Dr. Bailey.
"Yep, he and McSteamy were talking about it in the gallery earlier. So apparently your crush has a girlfriend now" Cristina leaned against the counter and glanced at the book Meredith had been reading.
"Who are McDreamy and McSteamy?" Addison asked. Her and Miranda Bailey had come up behind the interns who had whirled around and stared at the two doctors in shock.
"Shepherd and Sloan. You three better go do some work and send Karev to see me because Dr. Montgomery has very exciting news for him." The interns nodded and hurried off.
"I can tell Karev that he is now permanently assigned to me on Monday, it'll be fun." Addison grinned. "But seriously, McDreamy and McSteamy?"
"Yep, it'll just make their huge egos even bigger. Even though I'm not sure that's even possible." Miranda rolled her eyes because this year's interns seemed to surpass the others when it came to gossiping and falling very hard for their attendings, at least for Sloan and Shepherd.
"Wait, Preston and I didn't get nicknames?"
"Nope, and after the whole thing with Karev you should be glad when he doesn't give you one." Miranda had to laugh because she liked Addison and she was glad that she would at least try to teach Karev how to improve his bedside manner.
"Yeah, he still thinks I'm hot, I'll be fine." Addison joked. "But I'll go ask McDreamy something and maybe mention that nickname…"
"So you're Shepherd's mystery date?" Miranda asked quietly so no one would overhear and she simply refused to use the stupid nicknames her interns had given Sloan and Shepherd.
"Maybe." Addison just shrugged her shoulders and smiled. She had just started working at the hospital and really didn't need more gossip than necessary even though Miranda Bailey hardly was the gossiping type.
"Good, because from what I hear there hasn't been anyone in a really long time. Not that I ever listen to the rumors that go around here."
"I'm glad because I really don't like to share."
"And I'm just glad you picked Shepherd because I think he's the most bearable out of them. And don't tell him that I said that."
"Your secret's safe with me." Addison laughed softly. "Bye Miranda!"
"Well, well, well, if it isn't McDreamy and McSteamy. And Preston." Addison sat down at their table, already grinning when she saw the looks on their faces. Mark looked awfully smug and Derek just looked a little embarrassed, which she found really cute.
"Let me guess, Shepherd is McDreamy and he's McSteamy?" Preston saw Addison nod her head. "And we don't have any nicknames?"
"Nope, but I'm glad because Miranda and I couldn't imagine that they would give me a nice nickname since Karev will officially be forced to be on 'vagina duty' as he put it, for quite some time."
"Who said that I'm McSteamy? And why are you and the Nazi on a first name basis? We have worked with her for years and we still call her Dr. Bailey."
"Because she likes me, perhaps?" Addison raised her eyebrows at him. "And Yang, Stevens and Grey came up with the nicknames. Even though Grey's out of the question since she apparently has a crush on Derek." She saw that he now looked even more embarrassed.
"How can you be here for half a day and already know more than I know after working here for years?" Derek rested his hand on her knee and she just smiled at him. The interns were right he really was McDreamy.
"How about playing some pool tonight?" Preston asked them. "Mark and I want a rematch."
"Well, McDreamy and I have plans." Addison giggled at the look he gave her; apparently he didn't find this nickname as adorable as she did.
"Not if you keep calling me McDreamy."
"See, we are already irrelevant. This only happens when Shepherd has a girlfriend." Mark rolled his eyes when he realized that neither Addison nor Derek was paying attention to them.
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"I'm starting to believe that you just take me out so I'll have to wear jeans and then feel really uncomfortable in my work clothes." Addison stated when Derek picked her up for their second date.
"Yep, only reason." He grinned and leaned in to kiss her because he really didn't want to wait all night to do that again. Addison smiled against his lips and wrapped her arms around his neck, feeling a little disappointed when he pulled back just a few moments later. "You look really beautiful." Derek was sure he'd never get tired of seeing her blush when he told her that.
"Thank you and I am very glad you're not wearing flannel." She laughed softly and got in the car when he held the door open for her.
"I will if you don't stop mentioning that."
"I don't mind, looks good on you." Addison only shrugged her shoulders and saw him smile and shake his head. "So, where are we going?"
"The Kansas City fair."
Soon they were standing in line for the Ferris wheel and Addison stood as close to Derek as only humanly possible. "So, where exactly did you grow up?"
"It's called Oskaloosa and hold back your laughter, we have as many as a thousand and something people living there." Derek chuckled as they got on the gondola. "So Kansas City is really big, if you ask me."
"So what is there to do in Oskaloosa?" She smiled when he wrapped his arm around her.
"Absolutely nothing. But there's a lake close by and we went to school…" He realized that there really hadn't been anything to do but growing up there had still been amazing. "But you're not originally from New York, are you?"
"Why, would that intimidate you, you country boy?" She chuckled when he nodded. "I'm from Hartford, Connecticut and there also wasn't much to do. But the more interesting question here is why you never got married."
"The question might be interesting but the answer really isn't." Derek saw that the answer was far from satisfying enough so he continued, "As Mark told you, I was a geek in high school and a small town doesn't offer all that many girls, especially ones that aren't related to me, and in medical school I dated but whenever I mentioned moving back here once I was a doctor they didn't seem to be too thrilled anymore. And now that I'm back here I just never met anyone I wanted to marry."
"Well, we can always change that." Addison winked at him before kissing him again once they had reached the top of the wheel and could see the entire city beneath them.
"What about you?" He smiled at how cute she was, which was quite unexpected. "Ever been close to getting married?" He asked when she had shaken her head.
"Once. But I freaked out and ran as far as I could. So I'm guessing either it just wasn't meant to be or I'm like Maggy Carpenter in Runaway Bride but one engagement isn't enough to establish a pattern."
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"And now we are in Missouri and looking over at Kansas?" She asked and turned around slightly to look at Derek who was sitting behind her with his arms wrapped around her waist. They were in the back of his car again and looking down at the Missouri River.
"Yep, because Kansas City has a shared center. Mark and Preston actually live in Missouri while I prefer to stay in Kansas." He pulled her closer against him, glad that she had seemed to have had fun tonight. "So since I've told you way too much about my many sisters, do you have brothers and sisters?"
"I'm an only child."
"Really… What's that like?" Derek had to laugh when she rolled her eyes.
"Really boring. And I always wanted a sister so I really envy you for that."
"Don't speak too soon, you don't know them."
"Well, I know you and I like you." She whispered and rested her chin on his shoulder.
"Which you kept denying." Derek kissed the top of her head and pulled the blanket a little tighter around them.
"You know, I was holding out for Karev but since he hates me you seemed like the best choice." She teased him with a grin on her face when he just snorted. "So I still haven't found an apartment and Adele keeps smiling at me whenever I say that I'm going out and then she asks me where I've been all night… I'm almost forty, as Mark put it, and have to answer questions about where I spent the night. And she doesn't seem to believe me when I say that we just looked at the stars." By now Derek was laughing because this sounded a lot like the things his mother had kept asking him even when he was in college and she called.
"Don't listen to Mark, he pretty much had a meltdown when he turned forty and how about I go look for apartments with you."
"Or I move into all those rooms you don't use. I'm sure Abby and Herbert won't mind."
"Would one room really be big enough for you? Because I've seen my sisters' closets and I'm pretty sure that you have even more stuff than they do."
"Hmm, McDreamy isn't being so dreamy." She laughed and quickly leaned in to kiss him when he was about to protest. His hands were getting lost in her hair and she draped one of her legs over his to have him closer. The first time they had kissed his lips had just barely touched hers but by now all that hesitation had disappeared and Derek could have sworn that he had never felt like this before. Kissing her made him feel like he was on cloud nine and when she moaned against his lips he suddenly didn't have enough of her in reach. Addison pulled him towards her a little further and felt her entire body tingling when his fingers trailed up her thigh slowly.
Okaaay so it was cute and fluffy and all but I've been watching Beverly Hills, 90210 (yes, the original) and omg I want Brandon Walsh and Susan Keats to happen! Does anyone even remember that show? Anyhow, I know they won't last but a girl can dream, right?
But, be that as it may, what did you think of the chapter? Pleased? Suggestions? And also suggestions as to how far I should take this story (that means stop while they're still dating or have them get married and then one dies in a killing that was actually meant for the other one?) NO idea is too crazy ;)
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