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"It's length is about 8.8 centimeters, which is…"
"Great." Addison filled in.
Eric nodded at her and Derek, who had really big smiles on their faces, "and he waits 44 grams."
"Which is great as well." Addison said, looking at the monitor, that small human being already her favorite thing ever.
"A great kid already, huh?" Derek teased her, getting a blowing kiss from his wife.
Eric frowned a little but his face went straight to happy doctor again, "Something wrong?" Addison had to ask.
He shook his head no, "No, I just thought I saw something but… never mind."
"Eric, what did you see." Addison said firmly, not bothering to add a question mark.
Eric looked at Addison in the eye, "It was nothing, Addison. I'm wearing my old glasses today," He chuckled, "That's why I had to look twice. My kid, he's five and he took my glasses and gave them to the dog as a chewy toy."
"Oh." Addison chuckled, "I'm sorry, I just get worried."
"It's alright. Now… I have a few questions. Still having morning sickness?"
"Not anymore, I haven't had nausea or vomiting for about three days now…" She said, looking up to Derek to check if he agreed.
"Four actually." Derek giggled.
"Four? Really? I've improved that much?" Addison asked her husband.
"You have."
"Well that's good. How about your appetite?"
"As crazy as before." Derek said, replying for her.
She shrugged a little, "I really like ice cream."
"She does." Derek nodded.
"That's alright, but remember to eat healthy."
"I know…" Addison said.
"I want her eating proteins, vegetables, and less ice cream." Eric said, meeting Derek's eyes.
"Will do." Addison said.
"I'll force her." Derek winked down at her.
Monday started as she had expected, tiring. After her ultrasound, she and Derek went to work, arriving a little early and getting to know the new resident, that also happened to be a pain in the ass.
"How many weeks now?" The brown haired perky resident asked Addison, who was sitting on a nurse station, finishing filling a chart.
The excitement on the resident's voice was evident and Addison had to look up and meet this new face she remembers she saw at some point, but doesn't exactly know when, "Fourteen. Uh, Doctor Heron, Right?" Addison asked.
"Sydney. Sydney Heron. Resident." She said, smiling brightly at Addison and offering her a hand to shake.
As awkward as it was for her, she shook hands with this 'Sydney' person.
"Your name is Addison."
Addison looked up again, "Yeah, it is."
"I had a cousin named Addison."
"Well… um, what a coincidence." Addison nodded, offering a small smile.
Heron chuckled, "Your baby is surely going to be so gorgeous. Whether is a boy or girl. I mean, McDreamy and McBeauty having a McBaby!? Isn't that exciting?!" Sydney said, clapping her hands twice.
McDreamy.
She hadn't missed that nickname.
As for …. McBeauty …? She sorta liked that one.
"Yeah… we're really excited. Hey, Sydney. Would you be so kind to make me a favor?" Addison asked the resident, hoping to get her off of her for at least a minute.
Sydney nodded, clearly motivated, "Of course!"
"Nice. I sent O'Malley to look for some tests but he hasn't come back yet, would you mind checking what's going on down there?"
"Sure! I will. See you later, Doctor Shepherd." Sydney said, walking away….yes, she did walk in a perky and happy way. Almost like she was at some sort of 'unicorn land filled with magic and rainbows', instead of a hospital.
Addison sighed heavily and grabbed her chart and pencil, making her way to the elevator, deciding to finish inside the privacy of her office. It surely was calmer and quieter there, no 'Sydney's popping out of nowhere to ask questions or comment stuff.
"I have a headache." Addison said, sitting down on a chair. The cafeteria was loud and the interns today were more arrogant than ever, which gave a charm to her comeback to Seattle Grace, somehow. Still, her mood had been ruined even if she walked with the brightest smile when she came inside the hospital around six thirty am that morning.
"Your headache is called Sydney Heron." Derek said, pinching the bridge of his nose, bothered by the resident as well.
"Yeah, 90 percent of it, it is." The redhead sighed, massaging her neck with her own hand, glancing at Derek's trade that seemed to have disgusting things as her eyes turned into that look of disgust, "Are you gonna eat that?" She pointed at the boiled eggs sitting on his salad.
"No, do you want them?" He asked nicely, knowing her day wasn't going as she had expected for it to go.
"No, I want to get rid of them actually." She covered her mouth, feeling a wave of nausea building up.
"You've been four days without vomiting or feeling nauseated, and I ruined the streak, really?"
She nodded, "Really."
Derek grabbed his trade and threw away the rest of his salad, he wasn't going to eat it anyway. He came back to sit next to her wife and found her frowning at her blackberry, "Ha! I found Eric's LinkedIn." Addison announced beaming with excitement.
"You're investigating Eric? For real?" He asked her, drinking from his water bottle.
She nodded, she was determined to investigate their doctor, since the 'frowning' thing this morning had her a little worried, so she needed to make sure he wasn't lying about the whole 'My-five-year-old-son-gave-the-dog-my-glasses' thing, "I am. Wanna read about his life as a male obstetrician?"
"Alright bring it on." Derek said, convinced already. He pushed his chair closer to her so he could real as well.
"Did both med school and fellowships at Harvard, impressive. First of his class." Addison said, raising her eyebrows.
"Skip that, check the personal stuff." Derek said.
She covered her mouth with her free hand, "He's gay?!" She said, amused by the discovery, not recalling any pictures of him and said husband, or anything at all.
"No way." Derek whispered.
"Look. His husband is called Marcus, he has a pomeranian dog called Winnie and his five year old son, Allan, is adopted." Addison commented.
"I thought he was straight."
Addison nodded, "He does look straight."
"Wait… Is that a picture of… they're celebrating the dog's second birthday?!" Derek chuckled.
"Aw, poor Doc. We don't even know his birthday, do we?" Addison asked, looking into her husband's eyes.
"No, we don't." Derek shrugged.
"What a pity. Maybe Winnie will share her cake with him." Addison said and watched as his husband snorted and let out a laugh, "What's so funny?"
"It's just...That sounded so dirty." Derek said, letting out another laugh and earning a playful hit on the arm from his wife.
And then her phone buzzed, a little reminder notification showing on her screen. Addison groaned, "I have a consult in ten minutes and all I want to do is sleep." She sighed.
"Maybe you should get the afternoon off." Derek said, moving his chair to its original spot and taking another long sip of his water bottle.
She looked up at him with an annoyed look on his eyes, "It's my first day back, I can't get the afternoon off. Although I would love to keep Sydney Heron away from me. I think I'm the only attending left who hasn't sent her to someone else."
Derek ignored her glance for a couple seconds and she knew.
"Oh my God. You haven't rejected her yet!" Addison exclaimed surprised.
"What? No, no. I did reject her." He shrugged, obviously lying.
She shook her head no and looked at him with a cocky grin, crossing her arms over her chest,"You didn't, Derek Christopher Shepherd! And you have surgery in an hour. Which means I can get Richard to let Sydney in so you can babysit her!"
"I don't want to babysit her. Please don't do that." He begged.
"Honey, I'm sorry but you're not only triggering me, you're also triggering our little 8.8 centimeters and 44 grams." She said, using the puppy eyes on him, touching her midsection to add an effect to the emotional blackmail.
"Not fair." He tilted his head to the side.
"Even Mark doesn't want to sleep with her, Derek. You're next." She said, winking at him. "And if you do it, I'll go with you to the land on sunday and we'll fish. I'll even let you teach me a little."
"Really?" He asked, this caught his attention for sure. His eyes widened a bit.
She nodded, "Yes, pinky promise." Addison said, offering her pinky for his pinky to tangle with.
And he did pinky promise it.
"I'm thrilled to be here, Doctor Shepherd." Sydney said , scrubbing out of the OR with Derek.
Somehow Derek had made through those last four hours, wondering how the hell he hasn't kicked her out of his sight yet. It's funny, his patience has been challenged for the last couple of months by a hormonal beast that had taken over his wife, and now somehow he was even a little more calmed down. But he couldn't deny, she was a damn pain in the ass.
"I'm glad to hear that Doctor Heron." Derek said, offering a forced smile at the resident.
"Today I talked to your wife, she seemed so content about your baby. Do you guys know if you're having a boy or a girl?"
"Not yet."
"Either way I'm sure it's going to be a beautiful baby." Sydney said, cheerful, of course.
"Yeah, definitely." Derek chuckled.
He didn't like the over-happiness around the resident, but her actually saying nice things like that and reminding him that he was the luckiest man alive for having an amazing wife and a wonderful child on the way. He liked that. He liked that he was reminded of this. It sort of made it difficult to hate her.
Sydney giggled, "You know, I've never been the greatest Neuro fan, but after tonight, I might change my mind about that. It's not about… um, the McDreamy thing, but brains are actually fun!"
And then…
...he was ready to hate her again.
McDreamy.
Oh, how hard he tried not to roll his eyes in front of her.
Somehow one way or another he made it for the rest of the day with Sydney following him everywhere trying to make small chat, which annoyed him, but challenged his patience, which was a good thing, since Addison has always said he is the impatient one (she was, though.)
"Maddy, your sister will be just fine. The surgery went well, your nephew is doing great…"
"Nephew?!"
"Oh yeah, he's a boy."
"Thank you so much Doctor Shepherd."
"You don't have to thank me, Ruth. Have a good night." Addison smiled friendly at her patient's sister and walked away, bumping into Mark.
"Hello wonder woman. Saved another babe?" Mark teased her, following her as she walked down the corridor, still wearing her navy scrubs. She does miss the salmon scrubs though, but wearing them just reminds her of all the times she wore salmon scrubs back in New York, and she'd rather forget she once dressed in those because his husband thought he looked cute in those and maybe he was going to notice her more.
"What are you doing here? Oh, wait. Don't answer that… knocked up somebody?" Addison raised an eyebrow at him, feeling powerful as she did that rude comment.
He rolled his eyes and smirked, "Funny. Really funny."
"What do you want, Mark." No question mark, at all.
He shrugged, "Wanna grab some coffee?"
"Mark…" She took a step closer to him, "Just because I told you the truth doesn't mean we're friends again. I do care about you, you were practically Derek's brother, but I love my husband and I made a big mistake by sleeping with you more than once. I know you're sorry, I am too, but right now, we can't be friends." She said, a hint of sadness registered in her voice. She offered a small smile at him and walked away.
It was hard to treat him like that when they had been family for years, but it was for… a 'good', as Derek would say.
Hi! I'm going to try to make the chapters a little shorter and post more… what do you think? Anyway, about the gender thing, y'all! It was going to be a boy since I started writing this story because I already wrote an addek story in which they had a girl (it is my crappiest story and i even might rewrite it some day), anyway, i appreciate all the reviews and i'm so happy there's people who ACTUALLY read this. Anyway, see ya soon :)