1993 New York.
Sloan sighs. "The redhead is annoying." Mark says, sitting next to Derek in the cafeteria.
"I'm sorry, who?" Derek takes a sip of his coffee and gives Mark a questioning look.
"The redhead! She's incredibly annoying." Mark rolls his eyes.
"You said she was hot." Derek chuckles at the fact he did say that about that tall beautiful redhead woman... not to mention she had beautiful eyes.
"That was before I realized how annoying she is." Mark says, opening his bottle of water.
A cute and soft laugh surrounds the two best friends. "Oh, you mean me?" Addison sits in front of Mark and Derek.
Shepherd shakes his head slightly, "Excuse my friend, he likes being an asshole and he has quite talent to act like one." Derek says, giving a charming smile to the beautiful intern.
He makes the redhead laugh. "By the way, you did a great job... I couldn't have found the cause that quick."
"It was a cadaver, it was too easy." Mark rolls his eyes, but instead of a laugh from Addison he receives a hate glance from both interns in the table.
"Thank you. I'm Addison Montgomery, by the way. Forbes Montgomery." She says, stretching her hand to Derek. He took it and shaked it gently. It felt good touching her soft hands, looking into those beautiful greenish eyes, it was warm and cozy. She smiled, cheeky smile. Perfect theeth.
"I'm Derek." He says.
"Derek?" She smiles, unfolding her hand from his, going back to her work on eating her salad.
"Uh, yeah... Derek Shepherd." He nods, and keeps on eating.
"I'll go bother Bennett. See ya." Mark says, patting Derek's shoulder and leaving the table where there's just a black haired good looking man and a beautiful redhead woman.
"Why did you sit here?" Derek asks. The attractive woman was probably looking forward meeting Mark, many other women used to play alike... but then there's the question as to why she was staring at Derek and not Mark in the first place.
"Thought I could be a good company." Addison says, opening her water bottle and taking a sip, being shy enough like battling against the look those blue eyes were giving her.
"I have- well, I had Mark as my company. You could have take a sit next to anyone else but me." He says. He's not unpleasant with such lovely visit, he's just feeling strange and odd. Usually he was Mark's shadow when it came to hot dates or women in general.
"Yeah, maybe... but I already spooked him. Plus this is a better conversation than any kind of chicks gossiping." She explains her thoughts, taking another sip of water.
"You think so?" He gives her a funny look that makes her look down and try to hide that widen smile.
"I do think so." Addison nods, fighting a small chuckle.
"Good." He smiles at Addison. She smiles back at Derek.
"Great!" She says.
"Delightful." He keeps on playing that silly game.
"Incredible." She chuckles a little. She exhales heavily, those Shepherd blue eyes staring at her.
There's a small silence where they just stare at each other eyes. "Beautiful." He says, in a more serious tone, being sincere.
She bits her lip and looks down in such a charming way. She looks up to his eyes again. "I know that look." He says.
"Excuse me?" She asks, not really understanding.
"I have four sisters." Derek explains.
"I haven't even met you but, if you want me to meet your parents it's alright." She jokes.
He shakes his head. "By That I mean that i know what's going on." He says.
"Of course you do." She teases him.
"That cheeky smile, those happy eyes... you're falling for me." He teases the stranger. Because yes, she was practically a stranger.
"Ha!" She shakes her head. "You claim to know women." She rolls her eyes playfully. "You really don't." She takes his cup of coffee in her hand and takes a sip.
"You just took my coffee. And, I do know." Derek says, obviously being a flirt. "Come on, admit it. You have a crush on me."
She did have a crush on him, but she was too proud to admit it right away, even if the man was handsome, charming, spontaneous and funny... even if that man seemed to have much more beautiful qualities to get to explore soon enough.
"Oh God... you're so desperate because you are the one who's falling in love here." Addison says, talking another bit of her salad.
"No. Not at all." He takes his cup of coffee back. "You're the one who came here, remember?"
"I have a brother..." Addison plays the same cards, or at least tries to, just wanting to bother him.
"What? Are you gonna claim knowing men?" He asks with a sweet laugh.
"Well, am I lying?" Addison brushes a bit of hair out of her forehead.
"Are you lying?"
"A little." She says, referring to the falling in love matter.
"Then, you do realize you just admitted you're falling in love with me?" Derek laughs.
"Ok. You were charming but now you got annoying." She teases him, in a tone that kinda is like they know each other since always.
"Admit it, Addie." Derek tilts his head.
Wasn't it funny? He already started calling her by her nickname.
"You just gave me a nickname." She says, taking his cup of coffee back, giving it another sip.
"Call me Der, then." He Says, all goofy. She chuckles.
"I'm never calling you that." She shakes her head a bit and takes another sip of his coffee. He stares at her, still drinking his coffee. Does he mind?
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Some memories don't last forever. Even after promising each other that they would be each other's everything until death. Sadly, it wasn't like that. She could swear it was yesterday when that lovely intern teased her. He sometimes would like to delete all those happy and beautiful memories, because his pain is breaking every single last beautiful memory. Everything. She's never going to stop of being sorry. He's always going to regret not being present.
That's probably not gonna change.
"Ouch." She makes a big drama out of it. Derek moved himself and somehow his elbow punched Addison's breast. "Be careful!"
"Sorry. It's a small bed, it wasn't my intention." He rolls, facing Addison's back.
"The bed could be much bigger, if we didn't live in this tomato Can soup in the middle of the nowhere." She sighs heavily.
"Addison, please let's not argue about this." He asks politely, she rolls her eyes. "You wanted to stay here. I appreciate your company, but please, don't keep on complaining." He says. She rolls around immediately and faces him.
"Derek I already told you thousand times. I am sorry. Can't we just go back to New York?" She practically begs.
"Seattle is my new home, Addison." He says. Derek isn't up for any discussions. No more fighting.
"Are we okay? I mean, have you hated me a bit less lately?" The silence replies for her. He rolls around and turns his lamp off, leaving the trailer without any light.
Addison rolls too, not wanting to even hear Derek's breath while sleeping. She closes her eyes and tries her best on holding the forming tears on the corner of her eyes, she hugs her pillow and sighs.
"I would never hate you." He mumbles. Kinda sleepy. Maybe too numb to be heard. But she did hear it, and she's joyful.
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Please review!! I'm planning on doing more flashbacks though! I'll try to make the chapters much more long, for sure. And I changed the style of the narrative just for this chapter! The next chapter will be all about Derek's thoughts!!! :)