So yeah, I definitely decided Derek needed a punch in the nose, I'm glad you all seemed to think so as well. Thanks so much for the reviews they are always appreciated.
III – Part 16
Derek came to and winced, there was a bright light shining in his eyes. He tried to sit up, but Dr. Martin restrained him. "Don't move Dr. Shepherd," Bill said. He looked around the room and saw all the interns looking at him. They were all looking at him like he should be admitted to psych.
"Wh. . .what happened?" he asked groggily.
"You had your clock cleaned." Bill said with a cocked eyebrow, "You don't remember?"
Derek nodded wincing again and slowly sat up, Bill had started to protest but he waved him off. He grimaced as he remembered what he had said, he had no clue what prompted him to goad Addison's husband like that. He knew as the words were coming out of his mouth that it was quite possibly the stupidest thing he had ever said, but he had no control over his mouth and it just spilled out.
The entire scene between Dr. Shepherd and Dr. Sanders shocked the interns. They knew Dr. Shepherd must have hated his ex-wife. After all he was the one who christened her Satan. But to actually say something so stupid to his ex-wife current husband, he was just asking to get punched. The man must have a death wish.
Bill turned to the interns and grinned, "Well he's still alive, I guess we don't all need to hang around." The other doctors didn't need to be told twice they quickly exited the room. Bill turned back to the man on the exam table and said, "We just need to get an x-ray and a CT scan. By the looks of it, I'd say you definitely have a broken nose." He shook his head as he informed the doctor of his prognosis.
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Cristina and Izzie stood at the entrance to Ellie's hospital room, Meredith and her daughter were eating their breakfast. They were both laughing over their breakfast, so they were almost certain Meredith hadn't been informed of her husband's altercation with his ex-wife's husband. Neither one was in a hurry to let her know either, so they hesitated at the door. Meredith glanced up and saw them standing at the door and waved them in with a smile. "How are you guys this morning," she asked happily.
"Good," Cristina said.
"Yeah good," Izzie said.
"Have you guys seen Addison yet this morning? I was going to ask her if maybe she could bring Richie by for a visit again," she continued smiling.
Both Cristina and Izzie grimaced. Meredith frowned after noticing their reaction. Cristina began tentatively, "Umm, she might not be too hot about that idea today."
Meredith furrowed her brow and asked, "Why do you say that?"
Izzie bit her lower lip and said, "Because her husband broke your husband's nose."
Meredith's eyes widened in shock, "Wh. . .why did he do that?"
Izzie wrinkled her brow. She was trying to avoid telling her what he said, "Derek said something to him about Addison, which upset him."
Meredith's eyes narrowed. "What did he say," she demanded.
Both Izzie and Cristina looked over to Ellie who was listening to their conversation. Meredith turned her head and looked at her daughter and smiled. "Ellie, mommy needs to go have a talk with Aunt Cris, you stay here and play with Aunt Izzie, okay?" Meredith glanced at her two friends and they both nodded at her. She rose from her seat then walked out of the room with Cristina, while Izzie took her place in the chair she had vacated.
Once in the hall Meredith said in a demanding voice, "Okay tell me what the hell my husband said to Sullivan to incite him to break his nose?"
Cristina had her hands on her hips and bowed her head. Then blew out a slow breath then looked back up at her and said, "He asked Sullivan if Dr. Tucker was his best friend."
Meredith narrowed her eyes. "And this enraged him so much he punched my husband in the nose?" she replied not believing this was the entire story.
Cristina pursed her lips then continued, "When he told Derek he was Derek told him he needed to watch out for them, because Addison liked to fuck her husband's best friend." She shrank back waiting for the explosion.
"That god damn son of a bitch! Where the hell is his brain?" she was fuming. "Doesn't he realize we need to keep on their good side right?" She started pacing back and forth in frustration, "God I'm going to kill him. He better hope Addison doesn't pack her son up and take him back to New York on the next plane." She stared Cristina down and asked, "Where is the bastard?"
"In the ER," she replied, she definitely did not want to be in Derek's shoes right now.
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Callie entered the room with a set of x-rays in her hand. "Your CT scan was clear," she said as she threw the x-rays up on the lighted panel looked over them. Then she said, "Looks like a broken nose to me." She walked over to the exam table Derek was sitting on. She looked at him and said while shaking her head, "You are a stupid, stupid man, has anyone ever told you that before?" He grimaced but didn't answer her.
She put on a pair of surgical gloves then she carefully inspected his broken nose. She nimbly moved her fingers along his nose snapping the bones back into place. She pulled off two strips of surgical tape and placed them across his nose. "Try not to insult anymore husbands today," she said giving him a light smack across the cheek. This afforded her another grimace from him. She smirked at him while she peeled off the surgical gloves and threw them in trash.
She took a prescription pad out of her lab coat pocket and wrote him a prescription for a painkiller. She said as he handed him the prescription, "You know you don't deserve this." She held the prescription out to him, and then pulled it out of his reach. "But I'll give it to you anyways." She shook her head at him as he reached up and snatched the paper out of her hand.
Derek spoke for the first time. "Can I get out of here now?"
"I don't see any reason to hold you, your scans were clear, it's just a broken nose," she informed him. Then she said with a nod, "Just wait for the release forms then you can go." She turned and exited the room.
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Derek sat on the edge of the exam table waiting for his release forms. He looked up when the door opened to see his very angry wife standing there, and he grimaced. She threw the papers at him. She looked him straight in the eye and slapped him across the face. "Where on god's earth is your fucking brain?"
He rubbed his cheek and had the good sense to look ashamed. "I'm sorry I don't know what I was thinking."
"You do realize our daughter still needs their help?" she asked with controlled rage in her voice.
" Addison isn't going stop the transplant," he said sure of himself.
"You better pray to god you are right, because Richie is the only chance our daughter has to survive." She shook her head at him, "How could you say something so god damn stupid, she's his wife for god sake?"
"I . . . I don't know why I said it," he said sheepishly.
"Jesus Derek, she allowed you to spend time with your son," she shook her head not believing the turn of events. "And you repay her kindness by insulting her to her husband?" she narrowed her eyes at him. "You better fix this."
"How am I supposed to fix it?" he asked confused.
"You could start by apologizing," she snapped at him.
He lowered his head and didn't say a word.
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Addie and Sully had left the hospital. She knew he was still upset about the scene with Derek. She couldn't blame him for being upset. Derek could be such a prick sometimes, she frowned to herself, how could she have forgotten that side to him. She still couldn't understand what brought that behavior on. She thought they were being civil after he had met Richie, maybe even they could possibly be friends. She guessed she was wrong. She looked down at her hand holding on to her husband's and lifted it to her mouth and gently kissed his knuckles. She was rewarded with a smile from her husband. Of course he knew she wasn't upset with him over the incident. How could she be the man was defending her honor, she grinned at that thought.
They entered Waterfront Park. This was one of their favorite destinations in Seattle. They walked along the pier enjoying the cool breeze that caressed their faces coming off the water. The sun was shining brightly, there wasn't a cloud in the sky, and they continued to walk in silence as they made their way to the Waterfront Fountain. They stopped in front of the bench, and they gave one and other a shy smile as they sat down. Sully put his arm around her shoulder and pulled her close to him and she laid her head on his shoulder. This was their favorite spot in all of Seattle. It always held good memories for them.
The Night Sully and Addie Met
He took her to the hospital parking lot where her car was parked, but instead of parting company. They decided to go to Waterfront Park and take a walk, because neither wanted the night to end. It was unseasonably warm and a warm breeze drifted off the lake front as they leisurely walked hand and hand down the pier. They stopped occasionally to look in a viewfinder at the incoming boats and ferries. They happily spent hours sharing intimate details about themselves. As the evening went on they knew all of the others likes and dislikes, where they had grown up and attended school. They stopped in front of Waterfront Fountain and took a seat on one of the benches. They sat comfortably holding each other's hand. The temperature was slowly dropping but it was still comfortable and they were still able to enjoy the cool evening breeze.
Up until now they had avoided the subject of her pending divorce, but they both knew it was a subject they had to address.
"So you are getting divorced?" he started tentatively.
"Yes," she said quietly with a nod.
"How long were you married for?"
"Almost twelve years," she said with a grimace.
"That's a longtime. It must have been really hard letting go after such a long time," he said sincerely.
"It was very hard. I didn't want to believe it. But what we had was over a longtime ago," she stated simply.
"Do you have any children?" He assumed the answer was no. Since she never mentioned any, but you never know unless you ask. He smiled at her, "Because I know that sometimes makes it harder to let go."
She clasped her hands in her lap and stared straight ahead, she didn't answer. He studied her trying to figure out why this was such a difficult question. He was about to ask her why it was so hard to answer when she spoke up, "Not yet." She slowly turned to him. He could see unshed tears forming in her eyes.
He reached over and caressed her cheek, "He doesn't know, does he?"
She shook her head and said barely above a whisper, "No."
"And you aren't going to tell him either, are you?" he said sure of himself.
"No." She rose from the bench and walked over to the viewfinder, she stood with her back to him. "You must think I'm a horrible person."
He walked up to her, stood behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist. "No," he said softly in her ear. "It has to be a frightening prospect to have a child on your own," he said trying to reassure her.
She nodded. "But the alternative is even more frightening," she said with a weak smile.
He turned her toward him and looked into her eyes, "How so?"
"Because if I told Derek we were going to have a child, he wouldn't go through with the divorce." He could see that seemed to cause her pain.
"And you don't want that?" he asked trying to understand her better.
"No." She closed her eyes and trying to form her thoughts into words, "Derek gave our marriage another try because he thought of it as an obligation. It had nothing to do with his still loving me. He is in love with another woman, if I told him I was pregnant he would stay with me because I was his obligation and the child would be his obligation too. Having a child won't change the fact that he is no longer in love with me, because he is already in love with someone else." She shrugged, "And in the end he would only resent me and the child because we would be keeping him away from the woman he loves."
Sully took her chin in his hand and gently wiped a tear away from her cheek. How could the man she married think of her only as an obligation? She was the most amazing woman he had ever met. She was a brilliant surgeon, which he already knew before he ever met her. She was always being written up in the medical journals. He remembered the first time he had read one of her papers. It wasn't just facts written down on paper, there was wit and charm behind those facts. She seemed to leave a piece of herself in whatever she wrote and he found himself looking forward to receiving a new journal in hopes that there would be something new she had published in it. You could tell who this person was just by reading what she had written. He had always thought her husband was the luckiest man on the planet. Now he had finally met this woman in the flesh, usually people built up a fantasy about someone and they are disappointed when they finally meet. They had spent the last six hours talking continuously and he never wanted to stop. She was exactly as he had always pictured her. He smiled tenderly down at her. She was an extraordinary woman and he wanted her to be a permanent part of his life.
"Do you think it's unfair not to tell him?" he asked playing devil's advocate.
She looked at him and thought for a moment, "maybe." She shrugged, "But I never want my child to feel like he or she is a burden in someone else's life. I never want him or her to experience what I did for the last year. I was never going to hide the child from him though. He just needed to care enough about me to seek me out, if he is never curious enough to find out how I am. Then he will never know about the child." She tilted her head looking at him, she desperately wanted him to understand where she is coming from, because she felt some deep connection with this man who stood in front of her and she needed him to understand her. "There is a reason I'd rather not have him as a father to my child." She looked down and sighed, "This is a little embarrassing to admit."
He desperately wanted her to know she could trust him. He reached out to touch her chin and upon his touch a warmth spread through her body and he slowly brought her eyes up to meet his. "You don't ever need to feel embarrassed about anything in front of me," he smiled at her sincerely.
She furrowed her brow and turned away from him, then wrapped her arms around her waist. She needed to put a little distance between them. She couldn't think when he was so close. All she wanted at that moment was to feel his arms around her and have him tell her everything was going to be okay. But she knew she had to explain herself to him, to make him understand. As difficult as it was to admit this, for some reason he made it easy. She could never remember feeling so comfortable with someone. It felt as if she had known him forever and she wanted to confide in him. She quietly began, "I spent the last six months lying to myself. Telling myself we were working things out, but the entire time we were together he wanted to be with another woman. She was who he imagined being with." She narrowed her eyes and swallowed hard. He reached out and put his hands on her shoulder, she could feel the warmth in his hand and it made her relax and she able continue, "It hurts to know that when my child was conceived he was wishing he was with another woman." She could feel the warm tears streaming down her face, "Maybe I'm being selfish, but that is how I feel." Sully gently slid his arms around her waist and pulled her toward him. She leaned her head back against his chest. She felt herself melt into his embrace, and it just felt so right to have him hold her in his arms. They stayed like that for sometime and the tears subsided. Being in his arms took the sadness away and a happy feeling took its place.
Finally he softly asked, "Are you still in love with him?" He knew there was a chance the answer to this question would be yes, and that would mean starting a relationship now would be impossible. But it was something he had to know.
She turned around in his arms and looked up into his eyes. "If you would have asked me that question this morning I just might have said yes."
"And now?" he asked with raised eyebrows, hope building in his heart.
"I realized I am no longer in love with him, I was in love with the idea of us," she gave him a small smile.
"Something happened today to make your realize this?" he asked, raising his eyebrows.
"Yes," she closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "I saw it for the first time. I really saw what they meant to each other. Derek and I never had that," she said shaking her head.
"Never had what?" he asked puzzled.
"That undying love, I thought it was something we had, but I was wrong," she sighed then looked up at his shyly. "Do you believe in love at first sight?"
Sully's eyes widened slightly, he hadn't until today. He was about to say as much then she went on, "I never believed it existed. But Derek and Meredith, that is what they have," she said with a shrug. "It wasn't until after the gunman incident, when I walked out of that exam room that I realized just how much they were in love with each other and how I was trying to hold on to something that no longer existed. Hell it probably never existed. All of a sudden it seemed like the love we shared was merely an illusion."
"Does that make you frightened to start a new relationship?" he stared deep into her eyes, trying to read her emotions.
She smiled at him again, this time it reached her eyes and he could see the happiness shining on her face. She asked him again, this time waiting for his answer, "Do you believe in love at first sight?"
He tilted his head and smiled down at her, it was a wide smile that light up his eyes, "If you would have asked me that question this morning I would have said no, it doesn't exist."
"And now?" she looked up hopefully.
He grinned at her knowing in his heart that it did indeed exist. "I believe in love at first sight," he said with a nod. "Do you?"
She grinned up at him knowing in her heart that yes, it did exist. She said with a nod, "I do believe in it now." He bent down and kissed her gently on the lips. It was a tender kiss to start, then it slowly built as they parted their lips and tentatively at first touched tongues. Their tongues searched each others mouth and caressed each other more boldly, the fire increased as the passion of their kiss increased. It continued on and probably would have lasted an eternity if they didn't need to breathe, but they did so the kiss slowed, turning into smaller tender kisses then it finally ended. They slowly parted looking into each others eyes. There was one thought on each of their minds and that was wow. Yes, they both believed in love at first sight.
Back to the Present
They had remained silent while sitting on the bench. They both knew what the other was thinking, because they were thinking the same thing, about the night they realized they were in love. He rose from the bench, Addie looked up at Sully and smiled, he returned the smile. He reached out and grabbed her hand pulling her to his side they walked over to the viewfinder and he caught her chin in his hand then slowly lowered his mouth on hers kissing her passionately. It was as if they were kissing for the first time all over again. When they finally parted there was a sparkle in their eyes and they both nodded with a smile, and they still thought wow. Yes, they both believed in love at first sight.
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Well I hope you enjoyed the update, and I hoped you liked getting a little more information about Addie and Sully. Once again, please review and let me know what you think.