Okay so I dedicate this update to Kendel because she was bored and gave me suggestions galore for where to take this mess of a story. And she also gets this dedicated to her because she will be keeping Addek happy without Italian guys getting in the way (she may not know that yet, but she will be). On with the story…
Two Weeks Later
Seattle Grace
"Good morning Mrs. Samuels. How are we feeing today?" An overly chipper Addison addressed her newest patient.
"Oh, splendid. This child has got to come out now, or I may very well explode." Mrs. Samuels responded, clearly unhappy that she was approaching two weeks past her due date.
"Don't worry Mrs. Samuels, we are here to help you. Dr. Stevens, would you care to present?"
"Of course. Dana Samuels, 26 years of age. Admitted two days ago after Braxton hicks contractions sent her to the E.R. Her due date was 13 days ago. Upon admittance, both mother and child are doing well. Yesterday, the baby was suffering bouts of fetal distress and Mrs. Samuels is now scheduled for induced labor today at 1:30." Izzie finished breathless, but flashing her patient a reassuring smile.
"Thank you Dr. Stevens. Now, Mrs. Samuels is there anything else you want me to go over or are there any questions you have for me before we send you to pre-op?" Addison asked, placing a reassuring hand over the patient's.
"No. The procedure doesn't worry me. I can't wait for it to be over. I want to be a mother very much, but if this kid gets any bigger, he may swallow me whole." Dana responded, laying her head back against the pillow. Izzie and Addison both laughed in response.
"I assure you Mrs. Samuels, everything will be fine. There have been no reported cases of baby's eating there mothers, so you're in the clear. If you come up with any questions, have Dr. Stevens page me before we begin and we'll talk." Addison placed the chart back in its holder and removed her glasses.
"Sounds good." Addison smiled warmly at her patient, motioning for Izzie to follow her out of the room.
"Izzie, I trust you can get Mrs. Samuels to pre-op without trouble?" Addison questioned her intern. Unbeknownst to Addison, Derek was standing at the end of the hallway, motioning to Izzie to stay quiet. Of late, this had become something of a routine for her. Derek would enquire into Addison's schedule without her knowing to surprise her. If it wasn't so romantic and didn't put her superior in to such a good mood, she would have stopped ages ago.
"Stevens, you there?" Addison attempted again to get her attention.
"Of course. I'm sorry. Mrs. Samuels will be fine." Izzie said through a slight laugh at Derek's hand gestures. Addison glanced over her shoulder to see what could be so funny, but Derek already ducked behind the desk.
"Okay." Addison spoke, facing forward again. "I'll meet you in the scrub room in thirty minutes."
"Yes." Izzie smiled, rolling her eyes at Derek as he giddily mouthed a thank you to her before following Addison.
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Addison made her way to her locker and kicked off her heels. Opening her locker, she removed her sneakers and scrubs, and placed her heels in. As this was all going on, Derek silently opened and closed the door to the Attendings' locker room. After admiring her from afar, he made his way towards her. As she began to remove her coat, Derek jumped in to assist.
"Allow me." Derek said softly, but still caused Addison to jump as his hands found her shoulders.
"God Derek, you scared me." Addison said as she jumped forward slightly, clutching her chest. She quickly relaxed as his hands began massaging her shoulders. He was careful around her left one- he could tell by her mannerisms she was favoring her right one.
"I'm sorry babe. I didn't mean to. Find it in your heart to forgive me?" Derek asked, bringing his lips to her slightly exposed shoulder, continuing his hands ministrations. Addison shut her eyes and leaned into him, bringing one hand to the back of his head to hold him in place.
"I don't know. I was really scared. I think I'm going to need a little more convincing before I just go ahead and forgive you." Addison managed to spit out, clearly getting entranced by what he was doing to her.
"Is that so?" Derek questioned, momentarily bringing his mouth away from her shoulder. Addison firmly pulled him back down, causing him to grin against her skin as he continued his teasing. Addison simply nodded in response. Derek's hands slowly moved from her shoulders, down her sides to her waist. As they circled around, he began to move his fingers over her abdomen, tickling her. Addison snapped out of her reverie, and Derek's embrace, to smack him in the arm.
"Derek!" Addison said, escaping his hands.
"I'm sorry. I couldn't help myself. You have the cutest giggle." Derek spoke honestly, flashing her is patent McDreamy grin and crossing his hands in front of him. Addison couldn't help but smile back.
"Have I ever told you you're too charming for your own good?" Addison asked, one hand on her hip.
"Once or twice." Derek answered. Addison just nodded back, and returned to her locker to continue getting changed. "What's your afternoon looking like?" Derek asked, taking a seat on the bench behind him.
"C-section in twenty minutes. You?"
"Nothing. My unit is quiet. Everyone's brains are in perfect working order." Derek said, not so subtly watching her get naked.
"Well, that's a shame." Addison said sarcastically. "So then what are you doing in the locker room?"
"I was looking for a lunch date, and am now watching my extremely sexy girlfriend get undressed, so my plans have changed slightly." Derek was openly leering now, taking in all of Addison's curves. "What time is that surgery?"
"Don't even think about it. I need to be upstairs and scrubbing in five minutes. Whatever you're planning will have to wait until later." Addison firmly spoke to Derek, closing her locker as she adjusted her scrub top.
"You can't spare five minutes for little old me?" Derek gave her the best pouty face he could muster.
"Derek, my patient is two weeks past her due date. If I don't take this kid out of her, she may resort to doing it herself. Later though, I promise."
"You promise?"
"I promise."
"Well okay then, shall we?" Derek asked, standing to hold the door open for her. Addison just looked confused.
"We?"
"Yeah, I want to come watch."
"Really?" Addison questioned, placing a hand on his chest to stop his forward movement.
"Of course. I love watching you work babe." Derek said admiringly, gently massaging her left shoulder where he knew she was still sore.
"God you're hard to resist when you act like this." Addison commented, running her hand up to rest on his neck. Leaning in, she gently kissed him, keeping it quick so that temptation wouldn't get the best of her. She thought she was safe as she continued to move out the door. Derek's grip on her arm, however, pulled her back in. He let go of the door he was holding and it shut behind them.
"So then don't bother trying." Derek spoke before capturing her lips and spinning the both of them so that she was up against the door. He moved his hands to her waist as hers found themselves threaded through his hair. Derek was surprised when Addison didn't fight him, but instead gave herself to him fully.
They continued like this for about a minute before, his hand teasingly dipping under her scrub top. He began to move upwards and hearing Addison's moans of approval only encouraged him further. He broke their mouth-to-mouth contact and slowly began kissing his way down her jaw to her neck. Addison, in turn, moved her hands down from his hair, running them along his spine. She could feel the goosebumps on his skin and only stepped up her efforts. Bringing her hands around to his stomach, she dipped her fingertips under the waistband of his scrub bottoms. Derek's breath caught in his throat and he pulled back from here.
"You little tease." Derek said huskily, causing Addie to grin widely.
"What can I say?" Addie asked innocently, playing with the hem of his shirt. Derek just nodded and leaned back in to continue their fun when the sound of a pager began to ring out.
"Oh you have got to be kidding me? I have no patients! Who could be paging me?" Derek asked angrily.
"It's alright honey, I had to go anyway. Some of us have work to do."
"Yeah, well apparently now so do I. I'll try and make the end of your surgery, though."
"I understand if you can't. I'll page you when I finish and maybe we can finish what we started." Addison said teasingly as she swung the door open and walked towards the scrub room. Derek watched her retreating form and silently cursed whoever needed him, because right now, he needed her… badly.
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Addison's day was going well. Her c-section for Mrs. Samuels went off without a hitch; both mother and baby were doing well. On top of that, her newest preemie was responding extremely well to drugs, better than anyone could have predicted. And last but not least, there was Derek. Her Derek He was amazing. Looking back on their last couple of months together, she couldn't help but smile. A year, two years ago, she never would have dreamed of them being back to this place; a place of total, unadulterated, "can't keep our hands off each other" love. But there they stood, and it was phenomenal.
The elevator ding brought Addison out of her reverie. As if the gods were on her side, none other than Derek Shepherd was leaning against the back wall, arms crossed across his chest. He looked up from his shoes as he pushed off the wall, not processing Addie in front of him. His smile faded, replaced by a frown.
"Add…you're done already?" He asked, checking his watch.
"Yeah. Why do you look sad?" Addison was befuddled by his frown. She stepped into the elevator and hit the floor of the cafeteria. She turned to face him, arms crossed across her chest.
"I wanted to watch you work." Derek said, slightly whining. Addison couldn't help but smile at how adorable he was.
"Honey, its fine. The effort means a lot to me." She leaned in to lightly kiss his pouty mouth.
"Well, I still want to make it up to you. May I have the honor of buying you lunch?" He said, placing a hand over his chest as if she were royalty.
"I suppose you're worthy." Addison threw him a sly grin, as she took his hand and pulled him out of the elevator with her. Taking their joined hands up to his lips, Derek kissed the back of hers before dropping them back to their sides.
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Addison and Derek barely got two bites in before their pagers simultaneously began to beep.
"You've got to be joking! I'm starving!" Addison said in dismay, her hands falling to her sides as she dipped lower in her chair. Derek, who was already standing to throw out their garbage, returned to the table and stood in front of Addie's chair.
"I'll make it up to you, I swear."
"Yeah? How?" She asked, clearly not believing him, but accepting his outstretched hand nonetheless.
"If I told you all my secrets, where would the surprise be?" He said, winking at her. "Let's go, patients to see." Derek and Addie returned to the elevator they departed no less then ten minutes before, still hand in hand. Reaching the E.R., Bailey caught their attention.
"We were paged." Derek spoke up.
"Incoming. 25 year-old woman, passed out and hit her head. Last update she came to, but was seeing spots."
"How far out?" Addison questioned, just as the doors were thrown open. A woman on a gurney struggling against her restraints came through.
"Now!" Derek, Addison, and Bailey all headed for the incoming gurney.
"Thompson, what do we got?" Derek called.
"Elizabeth Schwartz, 25 years old, 32 weeks pregnant. She was found stumbling down the street, hit her head on a window and passed out. Came to, clearly on some sorts of drugs. Clawed at my partners' face when he tried to put gauze on her head." All three looked up at the other paramedic.
"Davis, are you okay?" Bailey asked, examining his wound.
"I'm fine. Out of nowhere she woke up and started freaking out."
"Grey, take care of Davis. Looks like he's going to need stitches."
"Yes Dr. Bailey. Follow me." Meredith led him away and Bailey turned her attention back to the patient. Derek was shining a light in her eyes to test the pupils' response, as Addison attempted to check on the baby. Two male nurses were holding her down to let the doctors do their jobs.
"Mrs. Schwartz you need to hold still if you want us to help you." Addison said in a soft, but firm tone of voice.
"What if I don't want your help?" She barked back.
"Yeah, well you're going to get it. Because this isn't just about you, this about your baby as well. You can mess up your own life all you like, but your baby is helpless. Now let us help her." Addison responded, steady and firm. She moved down the gurney to try and examine her again.
"I never wanted this baby! And don't touch me!" Elizabeth began to thrust madly again, this time her leg connected with Addison's still-weak left shoulder. She stumbled backwards in pain, finally slouching to the ground when she hit a wall.
"Addison!" Derek shouted after her. Rushing to her side, he could see the tears welling in her eyes as she held her left arm. "Addie! Look at me. Are you okay?"
"I'm fine. You have to sedate her. The stress is bad for the baby."
"No, I'm not leaving you."
"Derek, please. Give her two of halidol and page Callie." Derek nodded and kissed her forehead. Bailey and Derek swapped spots; Bailey attended to Addison while a frustrated Derek return to Elizabeth.
"Halidol, now!" He barked to one of the nurses and took over restraining her. His eyes were fire as he watched her struggle.
"You're hurting me." She snickered out. Derek only tightened his grip.
"Well you hurt the love of my life so we'll call it even. Push it!" He ordered the nurse. Slowly, she began to drift to sleep. Satisfied she was out, Derek returned to Addison, who Bailey had forced on to a gurney while she went to find Callie herself.
"Addie, babe, look at me." Derek gently nudged her chin up so he could look her in the eye. "Does anything else hurt?" Addison shook her head no. The few tears she shed stopped flowing. Looking up at Derek, she forced out a smile. He reciprocated, and leaned into gently kiss her.
"God, you two never stop do you!" Bailey said, Callie in tow. Derek pulled back, smiling tightly at Bailey.
Callie began to examine Addison's shoulder while Derek looked over her shoulder nervously. He continued to get in her way as she moved around the bed to test her range of motion.
"Okay! Shepherd, I get your nervous, but seriously, go away." Callie barked, Addie held back laughter, and Derek looked stunned.
"Absolutely not. I'm staying right here." Derek put his proverbial foot down.
"Then for gods' sake man, a little breathing room." Callie responded, turning back to Addie, who was still stifling laughs. She glanced at Derek over Callie's arm: he didn't look thrilled at being talked down by a resident, but shrugged it off and smiled back at Addie.
"Alright, it looks okay. Probably going to be sore for an extra week or so. I'm going to get an x-ray just to be safe, but I'm not worried." Addison nodded.
"I'll take her." Derek chimed in before Callie could continue. She took a step back to allow them to talk more privately.
"Derek, I'm fine. Don't you have patients?"
"You're more important." He said sincerely, running his hand up and down her good arm. She brought her hand to his neck and fused their lips together. Pulling away, she kissed him once more on the lips.
"Go take care of your patients. They need you more than my shoulder does." She told him, reassuringly. "I'll find you when I'm done."
"Alright." Although it killed him, Derek left her to Callie, pausing to whisper something in her ear.
"Take good care of her. I don't want her in anymore pain."
"She won't be." Callie replied. Derek nodded, leaving the E.R. Callie returned to Addison, smiling.
"Ready?" Addison nodded, hopping off the table slowly, following her to x-ray.
Finally finished this chapter! Sorry if it sucks- school has been hellish so I wrote this in like nine pieces. They are still happy, but that will change so get excited! I'll try not to be too angsty. Reviews are cool so send them to me! I will update faster if you do!