Daddy's Little Girl

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"Addison, wait!" Derek had been running after her all day ever since he had heard what she and Kate had talked about in the elevator. But now he had finally caught up with her in the attending's locker room when they were both done with their shifts for today. "Can I talk to you for just one second?" He asked breathlessly but she didn't even turn around to look at him.

"You're dating, there's not really anything we should talk about." She said, her voice sounding cool and distant. She didn't want to talk to anyone, especially not to him. Of course she really had no claim over him whatsoever because she had ended things between them but it didn't make anything any easier.

But then she heard him laugh and turned her head slightly to look at him after pulling her hair clip out. Was this supposed to be funny?!

"What?" She snapped, by now overly annoyed.

"You think I'm dating her?!" He could only get out in between laughs but quickly cleared his throat when he saw the look she was giving him. Apparently she needed an explanation and he was only willing to give that to her. "Kate, Kathleen, that is, is my sister, she got married nine years ago and therefore her name is Kathleen Kelly and not Shepherd… So we're not dating and I'm not planning on dating anyone but you." He tried but only saw her shrugging her shoulders.

"It's fine if you dated. You don't have to explain anything to me." She pretended not to care and of course he knew it.

"Well your reaction led me to believe that apparently I did have to explain this." Now he was trying to push her buttons, so desperate to get any kind of emotional response from her.

"Look, I don't care. You can date whomever you want because I have no right to care anymore. So I don't." With this she shut her locker and tried to walk past him.

"I swear you're the most frustrating woman I have ever met! And I have four sisters so that actually means something." He caught her wrist in his hand and held onto it so she couldn't move. "So you don't care?"

"No, I don't."

"Oh, really?" He raised his eyebrows and then he kissed her and she felt like she was on cloud nine. Everything around her didn't matter anymore when he pulled her just a little closer and wrapped his arms around her to pull her closer. She moaned against his lips and kissed him back fervently; desperate not to ever let go of the high she was getting from feeling his body pressed up against hers again.

"Good to know that you don't care." He pulled back and walked out of the locker room, leaving a very stunned and very confused Addison behind.

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Addison knew she wanted Derek and that she had to do something about it. Most of all she was annoyed that he had caught onto the fact that she wasn't too pleased that she had thought he was dating and then he had kissed her and just pulled away! Who did that?! Obviously he wanted to prove some stupid point that he knew she cared and that she did want to be with him but did he honestly think that it was all this easy? But maybe it could be all that easy. Addison groaned and buried her face in the pillow before her alarm clock began blaring through the room. Great, just great.

"Dr. Montgomery." Derek greeted her cheekily when he saw her that morning. He was convinced she had at least thought about everything that had happened between them the previous evening and the look on her face told him that she might just.

"Dr. Shepherd." She replied and glanced at him out of the corner of her eye, not giving him the satisfaction of seeing that he had kept her awake most of the night.

"So, have you thought about what I said last night?" He stepped around her so that he now was standing right in front of her, invading her personal space.

"It might surprise you, but I do have other things to do." She looked up at him and suppressed a sigh. He was standing so close to her and she was so unbelievably attracted to him. To make matters worse he now leaned in to place a hand behind her on the wall and was therefore only inches away from her. She could smell his cologne and so desperately wanted to lean in to just kiss him and tell him that all she wanted really was him but she couldn't.

"That's too bad. You know why?" He leaned in a little further and brushed a lose strand of her hair behind her ear.

"Why?" Her voice was barely audible because she was far too preoccupied with everything he was doing.

"Well if you decided to care," he now leaned in just a little further, his lips only mere inches from hers and he watched her eyes close in anticipation, "I would have kissed you."

"Why don't you?" She licked her lips and moved towards him.

"Because you don't care, apparently." And with this he pulled back and she could see the smug, self-righteous grin on his face before he walked down the hall.

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"You really think pissing her off on a regular basis is helping anything?" Miranda Bailey questioned without even looking up from her charts. She had seen Addison the previous night and she had been annoyed then, this time it had just been a little more than annoyance.

"Yep, I do." Derek only shrugged and watched Addison talk to her intern. She kept glancing over at him and she really didn't look too pleased but maybe this really was the only way she would get it. At least he hoped so because if not he might just be in big trouble.

"Mhmmm, maybe she'll just kick your McDreamy ass."

"But maybe she'll realize that she likes me, you know."

"Okay, listen to me," Miranda looked up from her charts and gave him a ticked off look, "First of all, we aren't in high school and second of all you and I are in no way friends. You get that?" Derek only nodded in reply because he was too afraid to talk back to the Nazi…

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Addison was leaning against the counter of the nurses' station and had been reading a chart but then Derek had walked out of a patient's room and was now talking to Preston about something she didn't really care about. But she hadn't been able to help looking at him and now she was leering and couldn't stop. He just looked way too good in a lab coat not to look. Addison's finger was absent-mindedly running along her bottom lip and she was looking over her glasses. Earlier that day he had almost kissed her and she just craved to feel his body pressed up against hers again. Of course she could just tell him that she liked him and that she wanted to be with him. And what really was stopping her? She knew that she really liked him, more than she wanted to admit to herself, and that being with him was incredible but she was just too afraid to actually move on. Moving on meant walking away from her marriage and she didn't know if she really could do that.

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"So, are you—" Derek started but was quickly interrupted.

"You know what? I admit that I have this very high school like crush on you and probably much more than that but you trying to get a rise out of me by being this annoyingly immature is just not going to work!" She snapped at him. They were both in the attending's locker room and when she looked at him she saw that he was grinning. Of course it really had worked.

"I was actually just going to ask if you're done for tonight but apparently you have a high school like crush on me?" He raised his eyebrows and stepped closer to her, still grinning.

"Oh, don't flatter yourself." She crossed her arms in front of her chest.

"Come on, Addison, you like me and you could just admit that and date me. Because you have and I think you might even miss me, just a little."

"You don't even know what you're getting into." She shook her head. "So it doesn't matter if I like you or not."

"It matters to me though." He was persistent because he knew that he probably wouldn't get her this far any time soon so he might just aggravate her if that did the trick.

"Don't do this, Derek." Addison gave him a look because she knew exactly what he was doing.

"Why not? Because I really want to know. You know here I am, telling you how much I like you, running after you in this hospital for the past few weeks when everyone is telling me to just move on and you're not even talking to me."

"Then, for the love of god, move on!" By now she was yelling at him and just felt like crying.

"But that's not what I want!"

"It's not always about what you want!"

"Then just tell me what you want!" Derek felt like he had been repeating this for far too long and yelling at her really hadn't been his intention. "Come on, you have an answer to everything!" But he just couldn't help it anymore.

"I want you! Okay, there, are you happy?!" She was glaring at him and he was smiling which made her even madder.

"Then what's stopping you?" He was no longer yelling and had taken another step towards her but didn't dare to invade her personal space like he had done earlier that day.

"It's not that easy." She sighed and sat down on the bench. "I didn't get divorced, I didn't want to lose my husband but I did. I came here for a fresh start and I wasn't planning on meeting anyone but then I met you." She looked up at him. "And you're perfect and I just don't deserve you."

Derek sat down next to her and wrapped his arm around her shoulders. "Even though you might not think so, you deserve to be happy. In spite of everything that's happened to you you're still the warmest and the most amazing woman I have ever met."

"You said I was frustrating…"

"That too." He chuckled softly when he saw the slight smile forming on her lips. "But you're only frustrating to me because I really like you and you like me too and I feel like there's absolutely nothing I can do to convince you that I really don't want anyone else."

"You don't want anyone else, huh?"
"You said 'huh'!" He gave her a triumphant grin that only grew when he saw the annoyance on her face.

"Oh, how old are you?"

"Whatever, you said 'huh'." He watched the annoyance on her face changing into a smile and he bet she was trying really hard to fight it. "But to get back to your question, yes, I don't want anyone else." He kissed the top of her head. "Which is why I really hope that you'll consider the possibility of maybe, possibly, dating me again…"

"How about you take me out to dinner this week and I'll consider it?"

"Hmm, alright, but under one condition." He watched her turn her head and raise her eyebrows in question before he continued. "I get to kiss you now."

"Yeah, you do." She smiled and he finally leaned in to kiss her.


Okay, see, they're all better but this doesn't mean that they're together again or that they don't have a lot to work out!

I have like 20 chapters written on my computer so you better review or they'll remain on my computer ;)

I'm a little disappointed that you all knew Kate was Kathleen! I was so close to making up another sister or maybe a cousin so that it would be more dramatic but I somehow settled on Kathleen...

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