A/N: So I decided to give you an update a little sooner than I expected. Please let me know your thoughts!

"Have you heard any news?" Miranda spun around to look at her chief and boss staring at her worriedly with a look of concern.

"What news?"

Richard stopped his look of concern for a moment to adopt a look of disbelief, "You mean Mark and Derek didn't tell you?"

Miranda crossed her arms at the thought of the 2 idiots who were screwing up her friend's life, "Tell me what, why don't you tell me?"

Richard leaned against the counter, "It's Addison, supposedly while she was out she took a turn for the worse and had to come home. Derek called me from his cell phone to tell me that he was on his way to your house to check in on her and if she didn't feel better than he was bringing her to the hospital."

The last words were spoken to the breeze as Miranda had already left the hospital and was running for her car to see about her friend.

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Addison looked at him as a deadly calm came over her face, "What did you just say to me?"

Derek stared back at her just as calmly and replied without emotion, "What you heard. I don't want this baby if it costs me my wife is that so hard to understand?"

Addison felt the tears coming down her cheeks, "I knew that you didn't want me or my child, why didn't you say so instead of leading me on? I stupidly believed that all those beautiful words and sentiments meant that you wanted my child and me; I should've known that you were just messing with my head again because you do it so well. God, how could I've been so gullible?"

In a fit of fury she ripped the chain from around her neck and threw it back at him, "The divorce is still on, now get out. I don't want anything from a man who doesn't want me or my child."

Derek stared at Addison in disbelief, "How can you not value your life? There is a chance we can still have a child, we can adopt, we can give any child a good home but not at the cost of your life."

Addison started to cry, "I don't want to adopt I want nine months. I want nine months of your child inside of me, nine months of me nurturing the baby that we made out of our love. Nine months of you watching my stomach grow and it doesn't matter what I'm saying anyway, you don't even want this child."

Derek walked to the edge of the bed and pulled her hand to his chest, "I didn't say that, I would never say that. I just am saying that I don't want to lose my wife so just I can gain a child…don't you get how important you are to me? When I wanted us to get back together it was under the assumption it was just the two of us, there were no children involved and I was head over heels about that…."

Addison jerked her hand away, "If you love me you would love my child no matter how he came into the world. Look Derek, why don't you just leave?"

Derek shook his head, "Addi, I'm not leaving you in this state."

Addison started to get out of the bed when Callie and Mark came rushing into the room. At the sight of her new friend, Addison promptly burst into tears. Callie pulled her into her arms while turning a glare on Derek, "What did you do?"

Derek walked towards Addison who flinched away and buried herself even more in Callie's arms, "Make him go away Callie, please. I'm not feeling well and he's…he's just…."

Mark put an arm on Derek's shoulder and said, "Come on man."

Derek jerked away and tried to walk to her and Addison shook her head, "Please just go Derek. I don't want to see you."

Derek bent down and picked up the chain with her rings on it and placed it in his pocket and walked out with Mark cool on his heels. Callie started rocking a sobbing Addison in her arms as the remembrance of their fight ran through her head. Callie was just pleased she had stuck to her idea and forced Mark to come back to the house so she could check on Addison again.

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Miranda came up to the door, the same time her husband, Tyson was exiting his car. "We just heard, what the hell happened here?"

Mark still was watching Derek closely for any signs that he was going to go back in the house and try to see Addison again but the man in front of him just looked broken. Derek walked up to Miranda as the tears became too much and he started crying.

Miranda who previously had a stance of anger felt her fury melt away as she looked at the obviously broken man standing in front of her. She signaled to her husband and Mark to disappear and then took Derek in her arms.

"Derek, this is unusual for me to see you like this. I'm so disconcerted; I'm not even calling you Mc anything…What's going on?"

Derek pulled away from her arms and showed her the chain that he still had clutched tightly in his palm. "She gave this back to me, she said that she wanted a divorce. She wants a divorce because I'm concerned about the effect this baby can have on her health."

Miranda looked at the chain and smiled softly, "I threw our wedding album at my husband's head the first month after I was pregnant. The hormones got the best of me and that night I burst into tears because I thought I had ruined the memories of probably the best day of my life little did I know that my husband is a great catcher and saved our pictures and his life. Derek, there's a little thing you learn as a doctor especially about pregnant women, they have hormones and even more so when they are excited. Your wife is one of those people, but I think you're making progress."

Derek wiped the tears away from his eyes, "My wife throws her wedding rings at me, she tells me she wants a divorce and you think I'm making progress, how do you figure that?"

Miranda laughed, "You became a husband and a man first and reacted to the hysterical state of your wife. What could've been the old Derek would've brushed this off as hormones from a wife who just found out she's pregnant but Derek the man and the husband first was devastated that his wife couldn't even put words to those thoughts, nevertheless actions. Listen, go home take a bath, hell go out for a drink if you want just calm down and then remember she's pregnant."

Derek rolled his eyes, "Your right Miranda, I'm sorry it's just when she said I want a divorce…I felt a chill inside of me, I felt a fear so great that I didn't know how I was going to be able to go on if everything she was saying to me was the truth and I had lost her for good."

Miranda grinned and said, "Focus on what you do know and that is that your wife loves you and this baby, everything else is just extras."

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Callie leaned against the doorjamb of the door preventing Mark from seeing into the room. She leaned forward and brushed her lips on his, "Don't worry about me, I'll be fine. I'm just going to stay here until I can get Addison back into a state of calmness and see if I can't figure out what started this mess. I would tell you to go talk to Derek but since you guys aren't friends seeing as how you slept with his wife and all why don't you go back to the hotel?"

Mark brushed a nonexistent strand of hair out of her face; he was finding himself suddenly faced with the face that he liked to touch her, it was almost an obsession, if he was close to Callie then he had to be touching her there was no other way. Just to feel the warmth of her on his fingertips it was almost as if it sustained him throughout the day. "Can I see her before I go?"

Callie nodded but then closed the door and turned around to ask Addison who shook her head quickly. Callie peeked her head out, "I'm sorry Mark she doesn't want to see you but don't take it personally. I think at the moment she's down on all men and seeing as you are a card carrying member of that club it won't help you out."

Mark nodded and said, "I just don't want to leave you here, you seemed like you needed to talk at dinner and I was going to do my best to distract you back at the hotel."

Callie leaned up and kissed him softly on the mouth when Mark pulled her to his chest and deepened the kiss she felt her hips shift involuntarily closer to him seeking refuge. She opened her mouth and allowed his tongue entry into the deep recesses of her mouth as she focused on the feelings he was invoking in her just by the simple touch of his lips she realized that she was close to losing herself in him again and had to stop herself.

She broke off slowly and put her head on his chest as her beating heart slowly returned to a normal rhythm. She looked up and kissed him on the cheek, "I will call you later tonight after I get Addison settled and if you still want, I'll come over to the hotel later on."

Mark kissed her back and said, "I want, I really want."

Callie smiled and pulled away as she waved her fingers she closed the door behind her and turned to her new friend who still needed her attention.

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"You okay Derek?"

Derek leaned against his car in Miranda's driveway as Mark came shuffling out of the house.

Derek looked up and rolled his eyes, "Why do you care? I thought you would be happy that she threw our wedding rings at me."

Mark stopped for a moment but then realized he was right. Addison had made a huge step in the direction that he had always hoped for and instead of being ecstatic about that fact he was nonchalant; it was like it hadn't affected him at all. His only focus from the moment he had gone into the house after checking on Addison was ensuring that Callie was okay. Damn, she was right. He hadn't been in love with Addison after all, if he had this feeling of euphoria that he got when he was with Callie would be what he felt when he was Addison.

Mark swore and closed his eyes as he leaned against the car, "The only thing I've ever wanted was for Addison to be happy. Whether that was with or without you, I didn't care I just wanted her happy."

Derek nodded and said, "Miranda tells me it's just hormones. How can hormones justify asking your husband for a divorce?"

Mark laughed aloud as the tears of laughter started rolling down his face, "Well you've finally done it Derek. You've grown up and become a man who realized that the most important thing in his life was and is his wife. All I can say to you is without a doubt it's about time."

Derek rolled his eyes, "So are you going back to the hospital or are you going to wait for Callie?"

Mark stared at the house where his latest obsession was residing and said, "Callie told me that she was going to stay here until Addison calms down and then she was going to the hotel… I was just, I don't know what I was doing, I just wanted…."

Derek raised an eyebrow at him and stared, "You just wanted to be close to her?"

Mark nodded, "God, why is this so difficult? I always swore that I wouldn't get this way over a woman. And then I thought that the love of my life was my best friend's wife and then one day a pretty young woman with sparkling eyes asked me if I wanted to go with her to her hotel room and as they say the rest is history."

Derek crossed his arms in question, "Do you love her?"

Mark shot back, "Do you love Addison?"

Derek nodded and said, "Of course, now answer my question."

Mark rolled his eyes, "I must admit I didn't expect you to answer my question so quickly. I don't know if I love her, I don't even know that I know what love is, I just know that I get this feeling of euphoria every time I'm with her. I tried to chalk it up to the alcohol but the second night we were together no alcohol was involved and the feeling was the same, she calls me on my crap. Hell she was the one who told me that I wasn't even really in love with Addison just obsessed."

Derek laughed, "Well, I have something else to thank her for."

Mark grinned at that and turned to Derek, "Look Derek, I know, I know we will never be friends again but I want you to know that I'm happy that you and her are back together. It might seem hypocritical hearing that come from me but it's the truth, I'm glad that after everything you've been through at my hands that I'm wishing you well but I am. I'm wishing you well."

Derek looked at him in shock and shook his hand, "I'm sorry that our friendship was ruined and I even though we may never be close again, I still wish you all the best just as long as it's away from my wife."

Mark nodded and got in his car and drove away.

Thoughts Please.