Disclaimer: Yeah, yeah, I don't own Grey's Anatomy or any of the good stuff that goes along with it. Stop laughing at me.
A/N: Chapter 2 of the 3-part thing coming today!!! Enjoy everyone!
Anyway, without furtherado, here's Chapter 6.
Chapter 6: Confrontation
Silence.
Addison was watching the intern in front of her. Meredith looked uncomfortable as her mind raced to find the right words to say. Addison was suddenly aware of how small she really was. Addison could crush her like a twig right now. This was the woman who had taken her husband. She had every right to hate her. There was nothing stopping her from hurting her right here, right now. But Addison didn't feel like that. She was jealous, yes, but there was no blinding rage like she'd felt when she'd faced Derek. Just an overwhelming sadness, and the helplessness that comes with knowing that this person had won, and she had lost.
Meredith was scared. Terrified. She'd just voluntarily locked herself in an elevator with the wife of the man who she'd slept with less than 24 hours earlier. She had to say something. This woman had the right to know, and though she'd taken away the only man that Meredith had ever...probably will ever...love, what Meredith had done was unforgivable.
Come on, open your mouth, speak.
Meredith opened her mouth.
"What I mean to tell you is that...that...last night..."
Addison was shocked. Meredith was actually going to tell her! Then...no, Meredith had been through enough. Addison wouldn't let her suffer the humiliation of having to tell the wife of the man she'd slept with that she was her husband's mistress. Or the satisfaction of being the bigger person, Addison thought evilly.
"I already know."
Silence.
Meredith opened her mouth again. "I wasn't lying to you. Before. When you asked me if I'd slept with him, I wasn't lying."
"I know that too."
"He told you?" Meredith was surprised.
"No. I overheard you last night. In the hallway?"
Meredith looked positively miserable. "I'm sorry," she said. "It means nothing, of course, but I truly am."
"I'm sorry too," Addison responded.
The intern's eyes widened.
"I am," said Addison, "because I was an idiot to ignore what I saw between the two of you. I was in denial. But (she said with a half-smile) it's kind of impossible to be in denial anymore." She pulled out the STOP button.
"Yeah," said Meredith.
The elevator doors opened, and they stepped out and walked in their separate directions.
FYI: When I was writing this, I almost ended it right here, but I didn't. So read and review please!