A/N: Here it is, Chapter 2. It's REALLY choppy, but I'm thinking that maybe Meredith and Addison aren't thinking straight right now. Maybe later I could write something when they are more calm, cool, and collected. I'm wasn't exactly thinking clearly either, lashing out at Derek. I love him and everything, but OMG he was being such an idiot! So bear with me. Please. I think it might get better as I go along. Thanks for the reviews! Ok...here we go, Chapter 2.

Chapter 2: Seconds Before the Crash

They stood there. Both of them. Husband and wife, soon to be former. 11 years stood between them in that hallway. Neither of them knew what to do. They were supposed to do something in this situation. What they'd just seen and heard sunk into their minds.

Derek was in shock. He counted the seconds until the silence would cease between them. 3...2...1...

Addison reacted first. Derek figured she would. She began to walk toward him quickly (as quickly as her heels would let her). Clack, clack, clack, clack.

Addison was reeling. The images that were coming into her mind. She didn't need to hear what happened. She knew what happened. Meredith's speech may have been jumbled, but it was clear as water to Addison. She'd pictured this, even prepared herself for what she might do for when something like this happened, but she couldn't think in words. She only saw images flashing in her head. Of what was there, what was now, and what had happened.

Addison turned the corner of the hallway, astonished at what had happened in the last 48 hours. The chief's niece...Burke...Izzie...Denny. She was still mulling it over when she came to a strange sight.

Meredith Grey was standing between the Finn and Derek. Addison took one step forward, fully intent on joining the group in saying goodbye for the night.

Then she stopped. Something was not right here. The look of confusion on Finn's face. The look of pleading on Derek's face. The rainbow of emotions that shot through Meredith's face in a matter of seconds. They didn't see her. She stopped. Meredith's face now portrayed one emotion: grim decision. Addison watched as she walked over to Finn and whispered something to him. He whispered back, and then Meredith began to cry. She whispered again, and, Finn turned around and walked down the steps, out of the hospital. Meredith turned to Derek, and Addison's breath caught as she realized what had just happened. She couldn't take this. They wouldn't do this, right in front of her face. Derek smiled and opened his mouth. Addison took another step forward. She stopped again when she heard Meredith Grey screaming with more anger than she'd ever seen before.

"No! No! How DARE you do this to me? You want to break me some more? What do you want from me? I said pick ME, choose ME, love Me! You didn't! You picked her! And that's fine! But she's a person too, your wife! Do you realize what you have done, what I have done, what WE have done? Do you realize what I am? You're MARRIED and I'm the other woman! I am your mistress! Your filthy mistress whore!"

Addison leaned against the wall. So she had. That little intern had slept with HER husband. Addison felt...what did she feel? Anger, sadness, helplessness, shock, betrayal. She should go over there. But she couldn't move. It was like a horror movie. She had to see the end. Addison stood and braced herself. She saw Derek open his mouth as if to say something, but Meredith cut him off.

"What are you going to say, huh? That you love me? It is a little too late for that! This is your mess, our mess! I can't control myself around you! How could you do this to me? To her? To yourself? SHUT UP! You let me finish. You owe me that much. You don't know what you want. You want her and you come after me. She had the papers, and you didn't sign them. Stay away from me! Just please...let me breathe."

Addison was genuinely surprised for a moment. Meredith cared about her? But the feeling went away quickly as she watched the younger woman run.

Clack, clack, clack. Addison counted the seconds until she would get to hurt this man as much as he just hurt her. 3...2...1...

Yeah, that's a really hangy cliffhanger. I'll update, but please review first! Thanks!