In Which Addison Receives a Blast From the Past

"Good morning, Bear," I muffle out sleepily with, I'm pretty sure, a wide awake Meredith laying on top of me but I don't dare to open my eyes to find out.

She giggles, "You called me Bear… My name is Mer but I like Bear."

"Mmm," I smile opening up my eyes a little. I was right… She's staring me in the eyes with a huge smile on her face.

I sit up some giving her a soft short kiss before she rolls back over to my side. She sits up on her arms looking at me, "Are you still coming with me to the nursing home?"

"Uh huh," I smile as she pulls me out of bed towards the shower.

Every morning before work, Meredith leaves to go visit her mother at the nursing home. This morning, I decide to change things up a bit and go with her. I've met Ellis before… not only that time I came to visit her at the nursing home but I've met her two or three times when I was younger. She and my parents were friends. I'd see her when she was over on the east side but it was rare… They mostly hung out when they were at medical conferences.

I never even knew Ellis had a daughter until much later in life then a couple months after, I met her, we fell in love and now we're here… at Roseridge Home for Extended Care. Ellis is sitting down on a plush chair in the family room while Meredith is helping herself to some coffee.

Ellis sighs, "I'm exhausted."

"Me, too," Meredith says as she places two cups of coffee and some food on the table in front of us.

Ellis ignores this and continues talking, "I was going at it all night in the on-call room. What's your excuse?"

"What?" I let slip. I didn't mean to.

Meredith turns around to face Ellis shocked, "Mom!"

"I tell ya that man makes me purr like a kitten," Ellis smirks to herself.

Meredith exclaims, "Mom!"

"When he isn't making me growl like a tiger," Ellis continues and I try to stifle a laugh.

Meredith cover her ears, "Stop!"

"And my husband wonders why I'm not interested in him anymore," Ellis chuckles to herself, "If he had any balls at all he would leave on his own. No. He plays stupid. He's waiting for me to kick him out. I come home with a hickey on my shoulder…"

I look at Meredith and she looks back at me with pleading eyes. I shake my head chuckling and she pouts. Ellis doesn't seem to notice because she continues on.

"A hickey!," Ellis points to her shoulder then chuckles, "For god's sake like I'm a sex-crazed teenager. Which let's face it these days I am. And what does Thatcher do? Pretends he doesn't see it."

Meredith just looks at me stunned at the information and I just shake my head. I don't know what to say. Honestly, I rather pretend like I never heard a thing.

We leave about an hour later and we pull up to the hospital with still a few moments to spare before rounds. We stop for coffee on our walk to the intern locker room. I always drop her off before I head up to my office. Walking inside, I see all the interns getting ready. I see Dr. O'Malley standing at the other side of the room watching us or maybe just Meredith get ready. I don't know how I feel about this. But it's okay because the moment he finally walks over, Cristina comes in pushing past him.

"You know, he's acting like I committed a crime. Like my apartment is full of stolen goods," Cristina says. I remember she and Meredith talking to each other on the phone on the way here; something about her and Dr. Burke. I watch Dr. O'Malley walk away and I kind of feel badly for him. Cristina just continues ranting, "He's acting like I kept my apartment to hide stolen goods so I can do illegal transactions for money."

"Are you sure he's just not acting like you lied about moving in?" Meredith adds and now I remember what that phone call was about. Cristina "fake" moved in to Dr. Burke's apartment.

Cristina makes the most sour face, "Ok, what's wrong with you?"

"My mommy's a filthy whore," Meredith pouts as she closes her locker and Cristina just shrugs as we all walk out the locker room.

Walking down the hallway, we run into Dr. Bailey, little Tuck and the rest of her interns. I hear Dr. Stevens in this god awful baby voice say, "Good morning Dr. Bailey. Hi, big boy!"

It's kind of sweet but Dr. Bailey just nods and moves on, "Are the OR's up and running?"

"Ah yeah fully functional, except there's some smoke damage to the corridor," Cristina answers.

Miranda nods then looks at Meredith, "How 'bout you? You fully functional?"

"I'm fine," she nods.

To spare her from having to say more I add on, "How's your husband?"

"Take him home tomorrow," she says as the baby makes the cutest sound and Miranda turns to him smiling as she says in a baby voice, "Yes we are. Yeah. Yeah."

"Oh, you're cute. I know you are," Izzie joins in in a baby voice as well which causes Miranda to look at her sideways.

"Okay, this is not a tea party! Go work! Save some lives!" she shouts as all the interns run off, "Now!"

We both chuckle walking down the hallway in the opposite direction. Little Tuck giggles and the sound makes me want to have a baby even more.

"Oh, can I hold him?" I ask and Miranda hands him over to me.

It warms my heart. I'd keep him forever but I get paged and I have to give him back. I'm paged to the ER's nursing station so I make my way downstairs. I come down the hallway and just reaching the corridor I see Meredith typing at a computer with none other than Mark Sloan standing over her.

"Subtle has never been my strong suit. So… do you ever go out with co-workers?" he says and I frown. I can't believe he's flirting with my woman.

Meredith looks at him shocked but slightly amused, "Are you hitting on me? In a hospital?"

"Would that be wrong?" he says moving closer.

This can't go on any longer… I can't help but interrupt, "Meredith… I mean, Dr. Sloan… May I speak with you for a moment?"

"Sure," he walks over to me and I pull him aside in the hallway.

I look at him crazily, "Mark, what the hell are you doing here? And what happened to your face?"

"I just came to visit you. I've been here all morning… but then I got pulled into this case," he shrugs.

I just shake my head, "I'm going to get someone to look at that wound but then you need to go home. There's nothing here for you Mark."

"Hey, you're here," he smiles.

I roll my eyes, "I have a girlfriend."

"Hey, I don't mind sharing with her," he shrugs.

I walk away shaking my head and Meredith looks at me stunned, "What the hell was that?"

"That was Mark," I sigh running my hands through my hair, "Could you do me a favor and check on his face? I have to check on a patient."

"Yeah, sure," she nods and I kiss her before going back up to the NICU.

There was a mother who gave birth to two beautiful baby girls last night but we almost lost Mom on the table. Luckily, we we're able to save her and I just wanted to make sure she was doing alright this morning. I know Izzie checked on her earlier but I just think it's nice to drop in plus I could use a walk to relieve some stress.

What the in the actual Hell is Mark doing here? I really hope he didn't come all this way to try to win me back because it really isn't happening. We were over the minute I caught him cheating with yet another nurse… Plus I'm happy. I'm with someone who gets me and loves me for who I am which is all I ever asked for.

When I come back downstairs, I see Meredith about to give Mark sutures on the wound he received from helping someone… Apparently, a psych patient hit him in the face… at least that's what the Seattle Grace Gossip Mill has to say about it. I walk up to the doorway and I'm about to speak but I hear they're already talking.

Mark smiles up at her, "You're Addison's lusty intern, right? Heard about you all the way back in New York. You're famous."

"Hmm, well I heard about you all the way here in Seattle so I guess we have a lot in common," she retorts.

Mark chuckles, "My 400 dollar an hour shrink says that because behind this rugged and confident exterior, I'm self destructive and self loathing to an almost pathological degree."

"Hey, we do have a lot in common," she smiles back as she places a towel on his shoulder ready to do his sutures.

He looks at her crazed, "What do you think you're doing?"

"You need stitches," she says simply.

"I know. Hold the mirror," he says grabbing the surgical tools. Meredith gives him a look as she takes the mirror from him and stands in front of him so he can stitch it up himself.

I decide to intervene, "Is he giving you a hard time?"

"Actually, I was just about to ask her for a threesome…" he replies.

I shake my head walking over and talking the mirror out of her hand then placing it in his, "He can do it himself. Come one let's go.

I escort Meredith and myself out as we overhear the other interns staring at Mark through the window. George questions, "Why is he suturing his own face?"

"To turn me on," Cristina adds.

Alex corrects her, "Cause he's Mark Sloan. He's like the go-to plastic surgeon on the East Coast."

"That's the guy Addison was sleeping with?" George says shocked and I roll my eyes at that.

Izzie smirks, "You can't really blame her, can you?"

"No, not really," Cristina adds smirking.

We walk up to them and Meredith leans onto the counter, "Mark wants an x-ray to check for fractures and I think it's a bad idea if I take him."

"Why?" George looks at her then to everyone else who's chuckling, "Why?"

"I'm on it," Alex rushes off.

George still continues, "Why is it a bad idea?"

"McSexy?" Cristina offers up ignoring Dr. O'Malley.

Meredith shakes her head, "No."

Izzie smirks, "McYummy."

"No," Meredith and Cristina both shut down… I realize now that they're nicknaming him just like they did Derek when he came… He was McDreamy.

Meredith offers up, "McSteamy."

"Oh there it is," Cristina agrees and I just roll my eyes while Izzie nods then chuckles.

They're all eyeing Mark through the trauma room window except George who walks off, "Uh, just, ah, choking back some McVomit."

"Do you, uh, want to find an on-call room?" I whisper into Meredith's ear and she grabs my hand.

We walk away slowly at first but by the time we reach the on-call room we're basically running. I start kissing her… soft, long kisses turning into impatient, short ones… We're literally ripping each other's clothes when my pager goes off.

"Ugh," I moan out… I'm out of breath and trying to get back dressed; it's not really a good combination.

Meredith grabs me by the face and kisses me long and hard before she pulls away walking out on the on-call room. She give me the 'see you later' look and I feel my body shiver. I make my way down to the pit where I met Izzie and George standing outside of a doorway. They explained to me that a young woman, Pamela Calva, came into the ER with injuries sustained from a car crash due to spontaneous orgasms.

This catches me off-guard as I stop in my tracks looking at them, "Spontaneous orgasms? Are you sure?"

"Oh yes," Izzie smiles at me.

George nods frantically, "Kinda hard to miss."

"Okay," I nod as I walk up to the patient, "Miss Calva, I'm Doctor Montgomery."

"It's Pamela. Since we're gonna be talking about you know… may as well get familiar," she says with a shrug.

I nod agreeing, "Okay, Pamela can you tell me how long this has been happening to you?"

"For a few months I guess," she shrugs again.

I try for more information, "How often?"

"About 7 or 8 times a day," she gives me.

Izzie asks a little too excited, "Everyday?"

"Eh, Dr. Stevens," I say trying to get her to tone it down.

She shakes her head embarrassed, "I'm sorry. Everyday?"

"Yes," Pamela nods, "Everyday."

"And you haven't seen a doctor about this before?" I ask her.

George adds smiling, "It's not exactly something you want to cure is it?"

I look at him shocked, "Dr. O'Malley!"

"Sorry," he says and lowers his tone, "Is it?"

I watch Izzie grin and I shake my head… These interns have no filter.

Pamela sits up some, "I went to my doctor. He sent me to a shrink."

"And he didn't do any tests?" I question.

A voice calls out sounding like it's getting closer, "Pammy? Are you back here?"

"Oh god no," Pamela says looking through the window, "You called my father?!"

"He's your emergency contact person," George looks around confused.

Her father walks into the room, "Pammy, what happened? You were in an accident?"

"I caused the accident, Dad," Pamela says embarrassed.

Her father looks at her slightly embarrassed as well, "You had one of your…"

"Episodes. Yeah. Oh no. Dang it," she says grabbing a pillow to muffle her orgasm.

Mr. Calva tries to talk over it, "She's a junior at UW. She's a math major. Last 3 semesters she made the honor roll. High up in the honor roll."

I look in between the both of them uncomfortably, "Mr. Calva we're gonna run some tests and we're gonna… we're gonna figure out what's causing your daughter's…"

"Episodes," Pamela finishes for me.

I nod my head, "That's right. Episodes. Ok."

"Izzie and I could do the lab work, Dr. Montgomery," George says to me.

I check my watch noticing that I have lunch with Dr. Saroyan in ten minutes. I look back up to them and I know that Izzie could at least handle this so I leave it to the both of them. I meet Dr. Saroyan, well she told me to call her Stacie, in the cafeteria. Our lunch, however, is cut short when she's paged to her patient's room. Since I didn't really have anything to do at the moment, I walk with her to her patient's room.

When we arrive we see Mark in there with Jake, his parents and overhear Mrs. Burton asking Mark, "How, how is that possible?"

"It's precision work. It won't be easy but…" Mark answers and I look over to Stacie who looks furious that Mark is even in there.

She interrupts him, "Dr. Sloan, can I help you with something?"

"He says he can fix my face. He says he can make me look like normal," her patient looks over to her.

Dr. Saroyan gives Mark a very angry heated look that Mark just stares right back down. I take this as my queue to walk away. I really don't want to be in this… However, I find myself standing in the hallway outside of the Chief's office where I am watching Stacie and Mark discussing the case… I guess it's more of an argument than a discussion at this point.

I didn't even notice that some of Bailey's interns were also watching until I hear Cristina shout, "Oh shut up. I'm trying to read lips. Saroyan's gesturing! Big gesturing!"

George walks up to them, "What do you got?"

"Saroyan, Sloan battling it out," Alex answers.

Cristina grabs their attention again, "Oh it's getting good!"

I walk closer to the door where I can actually hear them. Stacie shouts angrily, "That is not the point!"

"The point is that the kid wants his face fixed!" Mark shouts back.

Stacie yells crossing her arms, "The point is you wanna get published!"

"Well, yeah and I'm guessing your Chief of Surgery does too. You know how the press love a good before and after shot, Richard," he says this looking over to him.

"It's Dr. Webber to you," he says annoyed as Stacie looks smug and Richard turns to her, "Dr. Saroyan out of friendship to you I would very much like to say no to this… jackass. But as Chief…"

"Please don't say it," she pleads shaking her head.

Richard turns to Mark, "Dr. Sloan if you can get the parents to sign a consent form…"

"Round one goes to the jackass," he says looking over at Stacie.

I shake my head walking past the interns to head back downstairs where I overhear them talking about my patient with spontaneous orgasms. I smirk to myself as I make my way to her room. It's funny because I actually beat them downstairs…

I can hear Cristina out in the hallway shouting, "Which one? Which one?"

"Twelve o'clock," George says.

It's surprisingly perfect time because Pamela shouts grabbing her pillow, "Oh no! Oh no, it's happening!"

They walk closer as Pamela starts having an orgasm and I see they are clearly amused. I step outside quickly closing the door to give her some privacy. I clear my throat. "Doctors. Is there something you need?"

"No. No," George says.

Alex shakes his head and so does Cristina as she answers, "No."

"Well in that case move on," I say as they around heading back out the way they came.

I hear Cristina say under her breath, "I don't get what McDreamy and McSteamy see in her."

"She's McHot," Alex says loudly.

George nods jumpin up and down, "McYeah she is."

I walk away shaking my head. I'm walking down a hallway when Meredith comes up to me. She smiles sadly and wraps her arms around me. I look down at her frowning, "Baby, what's wrong?"

"You know a couple of weeks ago when we joked about the Chief having an affair with my mother?" she questions but not really because she continues, "Well, I think they might be true."

"Oh my," is all I get to say before she's paged.

She looks at me sadly, "Sorry, I gotta go."

"It's okay, we'll talk later," I kiss her goodbye and she runs off.

I continue on my walk up to my office when Mark comes up in the opposite direction of the hallway. He stops when he sees me and I turn to walk away but Mark chases after me, "Oh come on, you're not even a little bit happy to see me?"

"Go home!" I say turning around to him, "Whatever it is you came here to do, just drop it and leave."

"Hey we all made mistakes, Addison," he says stepping closer to me, "All 3 of us…"

"Mark…" I try to interrupt.

He continues ignoring me, "but somehow, somehow I lost my best friend and the woman I loved."

"Please don't say that," I feel badly about the whole situation to begin with. I can't feel sorry for Mark too.

"He doesn't know how we felt…" he says and I look away, "He doesn't know you stayed with me after you left him? Before you came here? "

"Why are you here?" I ask again for the third time today.

Mark steps closer, "For one reason; to bring you home. I miss you, Addison."

"I'm in love with someone else, Mark," I say simply.

Mark looks at me slightly angry, "With that intern? She's an intern… Why would even want to stick around for that?"

"Wow," I say insulted. I just shake my head at him as I walk away.

I find Meredith, about thirty minutes later, sitting in an office behind the nurses' station where it looks as though she's putting the tapes into envelopes. I walk over to her curious and slightly amused. I joke, "You've given up surgery to go into clerical work?"

"I'm fulfilling a patient's dying wish to send hate mail to everyone he's ever met," she smirks back up to me.

I sigh sitting down next to her, "Ah… Right now I understand the impulse."

"Me too…" she says continuing then looks over to me, "Do you think things would have been different if you'd had kids?"

"Do I think he would've actually been around more?" I question and after taking this into consideration I just shake my head," I don't know."

She just nods and we stare at each for a little bit… I'm trying to soak up every moment of relaxation right now because I've found myself on edge today.

"Alright, Jake's ready to roll," Mark wants in interrupting and I just roll my eyes, "I'm sorry did I interrupt something?"

"No, it's fine," Meredith says as we both get up and leave through different doors.

I meet up with her outside the room and I walk with her to an on-call room. I can see that she's clearly exhausted but I'm not sure if it's just with work or if it's the chaos dealing with her mother today. I sit down on a bed and she stretches out across my lap. I smile stroking her hair as she drifts off to sleep however, before she could actually fall asleep she gets paged.

After she runs off, I decide to go up to the gallery to sit in on Dr. Saroyan and Dr. Sloan's surgery. I see that they both have one of Bailey's interns, Dr. Yang and Dr. Karev. I imagine Karev is trying to get in good with Dr. Sloan from that comment earlier. I try to find somewhere to sit but there are a bunch of doctors watching including the Chief, Dr. Bailey and her son.

I watch as Dr. Bailey whispers to the little guy, "Now, Dr. Saroyan is opening the skull cap. That's what she's doing. Yes she is."

I can't help but smile… I wasn't paying attention but all of sudden Jake's heart monitor starts beeping rapidly and Dr. Saroyan calls out, "Oh, son of a bitch. Alright I need another unit of blood!"

"Oh no that's too much blood," Dr. Bailey says watching on.

We hear Dr. Saroyan's voice coming out of the speakers in the gallery, "Put in the pressure and fusia."

"No carotid. We've got V-FIB," Alex Karev states as they all start scrambling and yelling different orders as Jake flat lines. Mark grabs the paddles… Up here in the gallery Miranda shakes her head sadly and leaves. That's when Meredith calls me asking if I could take her somewhere so I rush down to the lobby to meet her.

She doesn't tell me where we are going. She just tells me directions and about ten minutes later, we pull up outside a house. Meredith gets out leaving me in the car as she rings the doorbell. She rings the bell again after about a minute then soon after a, 50 year old or so, man walks up to the door. He peers through the glass looking stunned as he opens up the door.

Meredith doesn't say anything at first but then she shouts, "She had an affair."

"Ye… Yes," I see the man nod; the man I'm now assuming is Thatcher Grey. He looks different with age.

Meredith yells out as though she's in tears, "Why didn't you stay and fight for us?"

"I did. I tried," he says stepping outside and closing the door.

Meredith shakes her head, "Why didn't you try harder? You just left."

"Meredith," he says unsurely as Meredith wipes her face, "Is there anything you need? Anything at all?"

"No… I don't need anything from you," she says turning around walking back to the car.

We drive back to the hospital in silence and Meredith decides to go across the street to the bar to wait for me while I'm in surgery. It should be quick like two hours tops but I can't seem to part ways from her. I hug her and I don't let go until I absolutely have to… meaning until I'm late for surgery.

The surgery went by quickly as I said it would and I changed back into my clothes then made my way over to the bar where I find, once again, Mark and Meredith together at the bar. I don't even want to deal with Mark right now after he blatantly disrespected my relationship. As I move closer to them, I overhear them talking.

"I just saw my father for the first time in 20 years," Meredith shrugs.

Mark sips his scotch, "How'd that go?"

"Could've gone better," she says then there's a long pause before she speaks up again, "What are you still doing here?"

"I'm hoping Addison shows up," he says nervously.

She looks at him surprised, "You're still in love with her?"

"I'm sorry, Meredith. I just have to try you know," he says and she gives him a fake smile.

I take this as the perfect opportunity to make myself known by walking up and extending my hand to Meredith, "You ready to go, baby?"

"Yeah," Meredith nods and takes my hand. I just look sadly at Mark as we walk away… I do feel sorry for him… I do… I just… I'm in love with Meredith Grey.