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Chapter Two – Life after you
He woke up at exactly sunrise, but, stayed in bed looking at the ceiling for another hour, thinking about everything that happened in the last few years. It was a whirlwind – one minute he was happily married, coming home to his wife every night and giving her a kiss, thanking God they were together. The next, he walks in on her naked, sweaty, writhing body rolling around with his best friend in bed. Five minutes later, after a whim of moving to Seattle, she magically reappears, to his utter surprise. It was like he could get a grip of his old life again. Not the sex with his best friend part, but the happily married part. She wanted to and he wanted to, but he had too much pride to say that it was actually partly his fault. But, he couldn't deny it. Even though he was having very much fun with Meredith, seeing her blue eyes hit his like a bullet woke something up inside him. And, now, she was gone. Gone somewhere he would very hardly see her.
The blond woman next to him woke up.
"Good morning." She said, weakly and slowly, moving her eyelids and unravelling bright blue pupils.
"Good morning, Meredith." He said, kissing her forehead and forcing a smile.
"Did you just wake up?" She rubbed her hands in her face.
"No, not really. I was just here thinking."
"About what?"
"Addison." He said, without hesitating. Meredith grimaced.
"What a choice of thoughts." She gave a squeaky laugh. "Addison?"
"Yes." Derek's voice was firm and strong. "She left. It's kind of weird."
"I thought you were happy to get rid of her." Meredith stood up and walked to the bathroom.
"Yeah, but, I mean, we were still friends…"
"Don't you want us to be together?" Meredith turned around and faced him, staring at his face with piercing eyes.
"Of course I do!"
"Then, why are you still thinking about her?"
"Don't be so jealous, Meredith."
"Jealous? Me? I'm sorry if I don't want my boyfriend, who it took me too long to find and then-" Meredith expatiated about why she should be jealous, and why Derek was cheating on her in his mind by thinking about Addison. Derek turned his face to the pillow and pressed his eyelids shut. "You need to grow up, Meredith." He thought, right before feeling his mind falling back to sleep.
Los Angeles International Airport
"Did you have a good flight?" Naomi asked, opening her car door for Addison to get in.
"Normal. You know, I'm kind of sad because I'm leaving Seattle. I had a life there. I had a husband there."
"Ex-husband."
"Right."
"Addison, if you wanna get over him, get over all of them, you need to let go. You need to let yourself forget." When hearing this phrase, Addison felt like she was started to rethink her decision and find it just slightly impulsive.
"Okay." She said, not thinking.
"Did you really have to leave all your clothes there?"
"Gotta spend my trust fund."
"We can go shopping someday. But, you know what? It's actually good. Leave everything of your old life behind."
"That's what I was thinking." Addison lied.
"So, did you get the address to your new house?" Naomi asked, without taking her eyes off the traffic.
"Yeah, it's in Ocean Ave." Said Addison, confidently.
"Oh, you're living in the same street the practice is located!"
"Oh, the practice is in Ocean Ave? Then, sorry, my house is at Beverly Hills Boulevard."
"Crap." Naomi said.
"What? Is it far from the practice?"
"Sam lives there." Addison rolled her eyes.
"Come on, Naomi, you two need to grow up!"
"Oh, and of course you and your ex-husband are so mature!"
"What? Derek and I have a great relationship!"
"And, yet, here you are, living 900 miles away from him."
Addison felt like she could actually cry.
Half-past midnight, Mercy Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Olivia Lennon sorted through her papers. She looked everywhere but couldn't find a way around that problem. It was like a puzzle, with all the pieces in front of her, but, she didn't quite have the skills to put them together and find a solution.
"Still there, Liv?" Dr. Frank Harbour, her best friend, came in.
"I can't seem to find a way to save these babies without killing the mother. Or save the mother without killing the babies."
"The TTTS case?"
"Yeah. The mother has a massive aneurysm that will break during surgery on the twins for sure. And if I don't operate on the twins, they will die for sure."
"Can't you stop the aneurysm from breaking?"
"Yeah, using hemodillution, but, the twins would bleed out, or, we could put the brain on a hyperdynamic state, but, the twins wouldn't get enough blood."
"Can't you do both surgeries at once?" All of a sudden, Olivia's mind lightened up like the fourth of July.
"Not me. But, I know a person who can. Actually, two people." Olivia reached for her cell phone and called a number rapidly. "I hope she didn't change her number."
The woman on the other side of the line picked up.
"Dr. Montgomery speaking."
"Addison? Is that you?"
"Yes, who am I speaking with, please?"
"It's Liv Lennon, we were residents together, remember?"
"Liv! Yeah, of course! How have you been doing lately?"
"I've been fine… Moved to Pittsburgh, I'm running a neonatal department here. Which is why I wanted to talk to you."
"What's wrong?"
"I've got a case and I know you're the only one who can save these woman's babies."
"Oh, my God, Liv, what is it?"
"I'll tell you all about it. But I really need you, Addie."
"Sure, Liv, I'll do what I can!"
"There's one 'but', though."
"What?"
"You gotta bring your husband."