Finally. I know! love me.
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I DID NOT SEE THAT COMING
You never know what you're gonna get
There are some days where nothing makes sense
You don't always see whats coming your way
Life's one big ironic mystery
I didn't see that coming
No, No
Blown away
I think I'm okay.
No!
I did not see that coming.
Miranda Bailey scanned the room. She could feel every pair of eyes centered on her table. To be more specific, every pair of eyes were on her lunch companion, Addison Shepherd.
Miranda knew why they were looking. She saw the tattle tale signs of a bruise under Addison's eye.
"Addison, is there something you would like to talk about?"
Addison looked up from the salad she was happily eating.
"Its nothing, Miranda."
"Addison, you have a bruise on your face. From what I hear from the nurses your husband put up one hell of a scene at Joe's last night. Are you sure you are all right?"
Addison sighed and pushed her delicious salad to the side.
"Yes, Derek was drunk. Yes, he was throwing a scene. I was helping him into bed when he moved his hand and hit me. It was an accident," Addison half truth-ed.
Miranda looked at her hard. Something told her that Addison was holding something back.
"Derek is not an abusive man."
"He hit Mark Sloan."
"I've hit Mark Sloan."
Izzie muttered complaints as Finn dragged her up a path. She suddenly disliked Meredith's new boyfriend. She would have to discuss the dumping of said boyfriend with Meredith at the earliest convenience. If Finn had not taken her cell phone away, Izzie would have fired off a text message after being placed into Finn's truck. Tattoo assed guy was officially Izzie's favorite in EVERY way. Tattooed ass guy would have simply provided yummy coffee and disappeared. Where WAS tattooed ass guy, anyway?
Izzie pondered all this as Finn led her into the middle of a clearing.
"Where are we?" Izzie asked. Finn had brought her to the end of a cliff over looking what she assumed was the Pacific Ocean. It was beautiful.
"Welcome to my infinite abyss, Izzie Stevens," Finn announced.
"Infinite Abyss?" Izzie repeated.
"Yeah, didn't you ever see Garden State? That one guy led Large and Sam to Albert who was guarding this quarry. At the climax of the entire movie, the three of them stood over Albert's Abyss and screamed. It was great! One of the best movies I have ever seen," Finn explained.
Izzie continued to look at him like he was nuts. Finn rolled his eyes and grabbed Izzie's hands. He led her to the edge of the cliff.
"Scream."
"Excuse me?" It was official. Izzie was going to make sure Meredith dumped this nut job ASAP.
"When my wife died, I didn't know what to do with myself. At her funeral I fell completely apart. Not far from here is the cemetery she is buried. Its about a mile that way. She loved the ocean. Anyway, the day we selected a burial plot for her I lost it and ran. I found myself here, standing at the edge wanting to jump into the water. I was physically experiencing my internal war. Instead of jumping, I screamed. I went crazy. I shouted out to God and whoever else would listen. I used this spot at my own infinite abyss."
Somewhere amongst the fog of her grief, Izzie caught on. She moved closer to the edge and let out a heart wrenching scream.
"That felt really good," she whispered. Finn smiled. With a new friend by her side, Izzie let out everything she was holding back.
Meredith hung up her cell phone and looked at it perplexed. Where was Izzie and Finn?
She slid the phone back into her coat and walked out of the stairwell. She did not expect to collide into Derek.
"Oh! Sorry!" Meredith gasped out. Derek was holding on to his face. His charts laid about the floor.
"Son of a bitch," Derek cursed.
"Are you okay?"
"I think its broken," he mumbled. Meredith pulled his hands away from his nose to examine it.
"Come on lets get you checked out," Meredith said, pulling Derek down the hall into an empty exam room. Derek didn't say anything.
"Let me take a look at it," Meredith instructed, clearing away the blood.
"OWE!" Derek howled as she touched his nose.
Meredith grimaced slightly. "We need to get you into x-ray. I'll grab a nurse to take you down," she said and walked out of the room.
Meredith was greeted by Callie in the hallway. Callie looked at her in disbelief.
"No! I just broke his nose. Can you take a look at it?" Meredith responded fast.
Callie looked at Meredith, then into the room. Blood was dripping down Derek's face. Bruises were beginning to form around his eyes. Callie was pleased.
"You know, Mer, I think one day I could actually like you."
"Meredith broke your nose?" Addison asked Derek in total disbelief. The Shepherds were standing across from one another awaiting Dr. Torres to return to fix Derek's nose. Olivia had interrupted Addison and Miranda's lunch to bring Addison to Derek's exam room. Addison had to stifle back a giggle. She felt an unnamed satisfaction upon hearing that Meredith Grey had broken her husband's nose. Served him right.
"You're loving this aren't you?"
"I would love it more if I had seen it. Tell me, Derek, was it rather Marcia Brady-ish or did you just walk into the door."
"Hahaha," Derek snipped back.
Addison smiled at him sweetly.
"Hello Dr. Shepherds. All right, your nose is broken here, and fractured here. Obviously, Dr. Grey and her door packed more punch than one would believe. I can move the fracture into place but it is extremely painful and maximum bruising."
"Perfect!" Addison quipped. Addison and Callie shared a smirk.
Derek laid back on the table miserably. "Just do it!"
" You broke Shepherd's nose?" Cristina inquired as she sat in traffic on the way to the airport to retrieve the Burke family.
"It was an accident!" Meredith replied. Cristina chuckled to herself. Oh the situations Meredith placed herself in.
"It isn't funny! Okay, maybe it is. Oh, he looked so pathetic," Meredith giggled.
"I would have loved to have seen in. I wonder if anyone has told Burke. He would get a real kick out of it. I'll tell him when I get back," Cristina replied.
"Where are you anyway?" Meredith inquired.
"Picking up his family. Hey, Mer, I got to go. Stay away from doors for now."
"Bye."
Cristina hung up her cell phone and tossed it into the passenger seat of Burke's range rover. She quickly maneuvered her way to the front door of Delta Airlines. The time had finally come. Cristina was meeting the Burkes and her Burke was not available for mediation. With her emergency flashers on, Cristina hopped from the car and hurried through the doors.
The Burke family were not hard to miss. Amongst the trio was a tall man who bared a striking resemblance to her boyfriend. But it was not the sight of Burke's mother and brother that made her freeze. No, it was the young woman with them that made her heart stop. A young woman that Cristina remembered very well.
"Leila?"
Leila Williamson stared at the Asian woman in front of her.
"Cristina?"
"Burke is no longer the only Burke I've slept with," Cristina hissed into Meredith's ear a half hour later. The two woman were standing outside of Burke's hospital room, observing the interaction between the Burkes.
"You slept with brother?" Meredith gaped, her eyes darting to Evan Burke.
"Worse. I slept with his cousin."
Meredith's eyes widened. "But- but- but!"
"Mother, I'd like to properly introduce you to my girlfriend, Cristina Yang and her best friend, Meredith Grey. Cris, this is my mother Katherine Williamson -Burke, my brother Evan and my cousin, Leila Williamson."
"Oh my god," Meredith whispered, right before she fell to the ground in a dead faint.
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