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But He's McDreamy
"Can I help you?" She recognized the voice and quickly turned around to see who was approaching her. Addison's eyes widened in shock when she saw the man she had spent the previous night with, standing across from her now.
"Hi again." Derek finally got out when he took her in, this would be a very interesting day…
After a few seconds Addison was barely able to shake the shocked expression off her face. She had left as quietly as possible only to run into him here at work!
"So, this is where you ran off to this morning." It wasn't much of a question and Derek gave her one of his smiles that had made her so weak in the knees. The other night Addison could still blame it on the alcohol but today his smile still had the same effect on her.
"Uh…" She was absolutely overwhelmed with this situation. Nothing like this had ever happened to her and she had really never felt like she should change that. "You work here?" Her voice was barely above a whisper as she stared at him in disbelief. She had finally taken in his attire, a lab coat and a SGH badge.
"I would have told you last night, or at least this morning, but you were gone…" Derek enjoyed this situation a little too much, seeing her all flustered, cheeks completely red and her eyes widened in horror. "But now this brings me to the question of what you're doing here?" He had stepped impossibly closer towards her and rested his hand on the counter next to her.
Addison, unable to pull away from him, even if her life had depended on it, tried to shrug the feeling his closeness awoke in her off. "As of this morning, I work here too…" She finally took a step back before she continued, her voice now not shaky anymore. "So, I'd suggest we keep everything between us professional..." her eyes quickly scanned his nametag, "Dr. Shepherd."
"You know, I did prefer Derek last night…" He gave her a charming smile, which quickly faded when he saw the look on her face. "Dr…?" He raised his eyebrows at her.
"Forbes-Montgomery." Addison stated, she hadn't yet put her badge and nametag and whatnot on.
"Very well then." Derek said and cleared his throat, if she wanted to be all-professional about things, then he wouldn't act against her wishes. Well, not entirely. "So, how is your daughter?" Friendly small talk should be fine, he thought to himself but was quickly proven wrong when her face dropped completely.
"She…" Addison began, mentally kicking herself that she had told a complete stranger about her daughter. "You know, this isn't very professional." She snapped at him and just wanted this day to end already.
"Oh, wonderful! You have met!" Both of them turned around to see Richard approaching, just when either of them had thought that things couldn't get any worse. "Derek, this is Addison Montgomery, our new head of Neonatal." He introduced briefly before continuing, "She will be working with Helen Ferguson with you. So why don't you catch up?" Derek nodded as the chief continued down the hall.
"Uhm, so, Helen Ferguson is 38 and we have discovered a spine deficiency on the baby, which makes it also your patient…" Derek took a deep breath and tried to focus, which wasn't very easy because he just wanted to talk about last night with her. "She wants to name her daughter Wesleyan, after her father Wes. He passed away not long after she had told her about her pregnancy." Addison couldn't help the small smile forming on her lips as she watched him talk about his patient. "She doesn't trust people, not even doctors, but so far she trusts me, and she will trust you too, I'm sure of that." He gave her a reassuring smile, knowing that Helen wasn't the easiest patient to work with but she was one of the people you had to love when you got to know her.
"You really care about her, don't you?" Addison asked softly, never before had she met a surgeon, who cared about his patients and their history as much as Derek seemed to care for Helen Ferguson.
"I care about all my patients." Derek somewhat snapped at her but quickly tried to explain his sudden mood swing. "Her father was my patient…" He admitted sadly as he remembered Wes and how much he had just wanted to beat cancer to continue his life and meet his granddaughter. "The day of his surgery Helen told him that he was going to be a grandfather and showed him a sonogram picture. I've never seen a person happier than he was in that moment. He hadn't told her about how bad his health really was because he had never wanted to upset her after her mother had died when she was just a child…" The sadness in his eyes made Addison reach out and gently rub his arm. She felt so unbelievably sorry for him and for Helen Ferguson. "I'm sorry, Addison – Dr. Montgomery, I mean…" He said quickly, he hadn't wanted to burden her with all this information, it had nothing much to do with the case after all.
"You can call me Addison." She gave him a smile, her hand still on his arm. "As long as you keep it professional." Addison warned him teasingly.
"Deal." Derek was able to give her a small smile; this situation wasn't as bad as he had thought when he first saw her standing at the nurses' station.
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Addison came up behind Derek and asked the same question he had the night before, "Is this seat taken?" He turned around, apparently at least a little happy to see her. "It is now." He gave her a smile and continued when she had sat down next to him, "So, how's Seattle been treating you?"
"Aside from this awful rain, which makes my hair go all curly, I haven't seen anything except Richard's house, the hospital, this bar and your neighborhood." She said the last part as quietly as possible, because no one needed to hear about the new attending sleeping with… What did they call him? McDreamy? "And I don't even remember most of last night's events…" She added with an eye roll at herself.
"Nothing happened, you know." Derek took a sip of his beer and looked at her again, eyes widened in slight disbelief. "Apart from that kiss and maybe another one." He gave her a charming smile and turned towards her.
"But I figured…" Addison started, after all she had woken up next to him and wasn't exactly fully dressed.
"No." Derek chuckled when he watched her expression change from worried to relieved. "You only took your blouse off so it wouldn't wrinkle." He tried to hold back a laugh, just like he had the night before.
Addison had to chuckle at that, it did sound just like her, "So, how come you didn't mention this little detail to me before?"
"You never asked." Derek smiled sheepishly and shrugged his shoulders.
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"Hey, are you looking for someone?" Derek kneeled down in front of a little girl who had been wandering around the surgical floor. She had brown curls and looked a little lost.
"Well, I was actually supposed to stay in Uncle Richard's office but I was bored, so I went looking for mommy instead." The little girl gave him the sweetest, most sheepish smile.
"What's your mommy's name?" Derek asked her with a smile on his lips.
"Addison Montgomery, but she always tells me not to talk to strangers." She wrinkled her nose slightly when she realized she had talked to a stranger.
"I'm Derek." He introduced himself, still smiling as he remembered how Addison had talked about her daughter and how her eyes had always sparkled then.
"I'm Grace. You know, like Grace Kelly." Gracie had no idea who Grace Kelly even was but her father had told her about Grace Kelly and how she was just as graceful.
"That's a very pretty name. Now, do you want me to help you find your mom?" Grace quickly nodded at this; no one had really bothered to help her before Derek. "Alright then." Derek got off the ground and the little girl took his hand as they walked down the corridor, earing a few strange looks from nurses and doctors. They walked right towards Addison, who was standing outside of a patient's room, talking to her intern.
"Mommy!" Grace squealed and ran towards her mother, dragging Derek along. "I've met one of your friends!" She exclaimed and grinned at her mother. Addison turned around and smiled at her daughter before looking at Derek. "Well, I'm glad you two met." She chuckled.
"Me too!" Grace exclaimed excitedly before looking at Derek. "You could ask mommy out some time!"
Addison's eyes widened and her cheeks turned bright red at this. "Honey, mommy doesn't need a date." She told her daughter, her voice a little lowered because not everyone needed to hear this conversation.
"Auntie Adele says that you do. And everyone here says he's McDreamy. And you should really ask mommy out."
Derek looked about as uncomfortable as Addison did and avoided eye contact. Of course he would love to ask Addison out, he hadn't been able to think of anything else ever since he had first laid eyes on her. But she didn't want that and she had made that rather clear. "I should, uhm… Go…" Derek gave her an awkward smile and then looked at Grace. "It was a pleasure meeting you, Miss Kelly." The little girl giggled at this and shook his hand before he walked away.
"Mommy, he likes you!" Gracie repeated before her mother kneeled down next to her.
"Honey, he doesn't." Addison said, more to herself than to her daughter before she continued, "But be that as it may, it is not up to you to find me a date, okay?" She raised her eyebrows sternly. Before Grace could answer Richard had approached the two of them. "There you are!" He exclaimed when he saw Gracie.
"I met Dr. McDreamy!" Grace told him happily. "And he likes mommy!" Addison closed her eyes in utter embarrassment and shook her head when Richard looked at her. "Gracie, mommy has a surgery tonight, so I won't be home for dinner. Will you and Richard be alright?" She asked her daughter.
"Yep." Grace just answered with a smile. She loved her uncle Richard.
"Okay, bye, sweetheart." Addison hugged her daughter and gave her a kiss before she had to leave.
"So, it's just the two of us, honey." Richard scooped her up in his arms and walked towards his office. "How about we order some pizza?"
"Yes! Because you're not theeeee greatest cook…" Grace gave him a sweet smile, knowing she shouldn't say things like that.
"So, McDreamy likes your mommy?" Richard asked. He really did want to know, not for gossip sake but because he really cared about Addison and maybe his wife had been right when she had said that Addison needed to move on at some point.
"Yes!" Gracie nodded quickly before she continued, "And he smells so good!"
"Oh, does he now?" Richard couldn't suppress his chuckle at her comment.
"Mhm, and mommy smelled just like him this morning!" Grace snuggled up to her uncle who turned bright wide. Oh, no, she didn't…
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Addison was incredibly tired and rubbed her eyes. She had just gotten out of her last surgery when her pager had gone off and an emergency surgery followed. Then she was still fine, the adrenaline keeping her wide awake but now she felt like lying down on the floor to just get some rest. Stifling a groan she discovered that none of the on-call rooms was vacant. So there was absolutely no place for her to sleep, except the floor maybe… When she opened the last door and found someone in this bed as well, she had to do her best to suppress a groan when she heard a muffled voice from the bed, "What's wrong?"
"Derek?"
"Addison, what's wrong?" If it had been anyone else, Derek would have yelled at whoever it was to close the door because he was really trying to sleep. But with Addison everything seemed different.
"Oh, there's no place to sleep, except for the floor, perhaps…" She was about to close the door because he must have been as tired as she was.
"Come here, you can have my bed." Derek already sat up, his eyes still slightly closed because he feared for his corneas.
"No, Derek, I would feel horrible. Go back to sleep!"
"Or…" He leaned back against the wall, rubbing his eyes, "I can scoot over. Then we could both sleep?" Maybe it was the complete sleep deprivation that made him offer this, maybe not. Normally Addison would never have considered this but right now her entire body was yearning for sleep so she nodded her head and stepped inside, taking her lab coat off. "Thank you, Derek." She watched him lie back down and settled down next to him with as much space between them as possible. After all, she didn't want him to get the wrong idea of her, again.
"Good night, Addison." He whispered and with this went to sleep. Even though he would have liked nothing more than to just pull her closer.
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