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X&Y Chapter Two
"What?" Mark wasn't sure if he had heard him right. He looked at the boy in confusion. Jordan had lifted the sheets up to his chin in the meantime, looking at Mark sheepishly. Meredith had to bite down on her lower lip to keep herself from laughing out loud.
Jordan blushed and spoke softly, "Dr. Montgomery, does she have a boyfriend?" After he´d said the last words he´d put the sheets over his head to hide his embarrassment.
Mark's facial expression softened when he pulled the sheets off of Jordan´s face and smiled at him, "you have a thing for the redhead doctor?"
Jordan´s eyes shifted from Mark to Meredith and back. He nodded lightly. Seeing as both Mark and Meredith smiled at him in return, he added, "she's so beautiful."
Mark lay one of his hands on top of the boy's head and caressed it softly.
"She is, isn't she?!"
Jordan nodded again and a smile spread across his face. It was one of those infectious smiles that filled all people in the room with contentment and happiness.
Mark patted the boy's head once more and smirked as he got up to leave.
"Grey, you stay here and look after Jordan while I check on another patient. I'll be back in a couple of minutes. Okay?"
"Yes, Dr. Sloan," Meredith replied still smiling. She sat down on the side of Jordan's bed and asked once again, "so, Dr. Montgomery, huh?"
Mark was about to exit the room when he heard the boy's response. It made him stop in his tracks and turn around to look at Jordan.
"Yes," he said excitedly and added confidently, "I'm gonna marry her someday."
Mark looked at the little boy once more, shaking his head, before he stepped over the threshold and walked down the corridor.
He'd have to teach him one thing or two about women when he came back to check on him. But mostly that women like Addison had lines of men pinning after them and to get them one had to fight like hell. It was all about strategy and dedication. Discipline even. Forty-six days.
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Addison was tapping the finger tips of her right hand against the nurses' desk when she felt the presence of someone else next to her. She averted her eyes from the post -op notes she was currently reading through and looked at the person standing at her right side, smirking.
"What's so funny, Callie?" Addison asked in confusion.
Callie smiled at her friend and shook her head. "Nothing. Everything's fine. Why shouldn't it be?"
Addison raised one eyebrow and said, "Sure, it is. Spill!"
Callie looked up and down the corridor, looking out for nurses whose ears magically doubled their size whenever gossip was floating around the hospital.
"Someone's taking it harder than expected," Callie paused for a moment, looking at a confused Addison, "wait, scratch that. Someone's taking it as hard as I expected."
"What?"
"Mark," Callie said flatly as if was painfully obvious.
"So?" Addison asked curiously, a small smile on her face.
"A couple of minutes ago, I saw him pacing a corridor up in peds, mumbling something to himself. Repeatedly. Unfortunately I couldn't hear what exactly he was telling himself, but he was not talking to someone on the phone or someone in person. He'd have crept me out, if I hadn't known about the bet. He's suffering," Callie smiled brightly, "and I can´t help but smile at that. It´s like that Lily Allen song."
"You're evil," Addison said, smiling herself.
"Says Satan."
Both of them started laughing when they heard someone clear their throat behind them. Startled and coughing they both turned around to look at the person who was now staring at them in bewilderment. A confused Derek. He looked from Addison to Callie and back to Addison.
"What's so funny?"
"Nothing. Everything is fine. Why shouldn't it be?" Addison echoed Callie´s earlier words, biting down on her lower lip to keep from laughing. She wouldn't tell him, even if he danced on one foot singing My Heart will go on.
"Of course. Come on, tell me, I could need a laugh," he pleaded, flashing the two women his famous McDreamy smile.
"No," she turned him down flatly,"What you need to do is go and teach interns." She paused shortly and added,"they say that's what you do best."
Addison took her chart and started to walk down the floor, leaving a stunned Derek behind.
"Ouch." Callie looked at Derek with as much pity as she could muster before leaving away herself.
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"I need this back ASAP," Christina told the guy from the lab who was shooting annoyed glares her way in return.
"Hey," Meredith greeted her friend, smiling.
"Why are you smiling like someone gave you a brand new Barbie doll for your eleventh birthday? What's happened to dark and twisty?"
A very confused Christina eyed Meredith from head till toe.
"Flown out the window with all my mother's expectations for me," Meredith joked.
"Aren't you working with Satan and Sloan today?"
"Exactly."
"Then why are you so bright and shiny?"
"You know, there's this little patient, Jordan. He is such a cute boy. Somewhat cocky, but not in that overly annoying way. Just adorable..."
"You sound like Izzie. Are you high?"
"Maybe. Okay, best part, he´s got a thing for Addison. As in a crush on Satan. He asked if she had a boyfriend and told me he'll marry her someday," Meredith finished, putting the blood samples down on the counter.
"So?" Christina shrugged, "she is hot after all."
"Christina," Meredith eyed her friend, "you're engaged, remember?" So she did have to admit that Addison was indeed a looker, very much.
"Whatever."
Christina was about to walk away when Meredith called after her once more. Hesitantly she turned around.
"Guess who he asked?" Meredith smirked and Christina shrugged her shoulders once again.
"McSteamy."
That's when a bright smile appeared on Christina's face, "boy, I better call the cops, he's going to kill him."
"Exactly."
"Reserve the front row seats and I´ll bring the snacks."
Both of them started laughing and parted ways.
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Just when Meredith turned around, still laughing, she bumped into Derek.
"Oh, sorry," they both apologized at the same time.
"Hey, what were you laughing about?" Derek asked her.
"What?"
"I saw you laughing about something with Christina, what was that about?"
"Oh that. Nothing. Just a patient up in pediactrics," she explained shortly before adding, "hey, I gotta go. Dr. Sloan's waiting for the test results."
Before he could respond, she was already a couple of feet away, out of hearing distance. So he muttered to himself,
"First my ex-wife and now my girlfriend. What the hell is going on?"
Shaking his head, he stalked off.
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Addison was on her way down to the cafeteria to meet Callie for lunch when the elevator doors opened and revealed none other than Mark.
"Hey."
"Hey." Mark stepped into the elevator and leaned his back on the wall next to her. He sighed, "so, where are you going?"
She looked him in the eyes and smiled lightly, "cafeteria."
"Lunch?" He asked, trying to keep the conversation casual and hoping the elevator wouldn't get stuck. Any other day or time it was the one thing he'd hope for the most whenever he was alone in an elevator with her, but right now it was pure torture. She smelled like apricot, her conditioner and expensive perfume, the one she had used for years. She wore that one black skirt with the slit up its right side and the red silk blouse that made her hair and eyes look even brighter than normal. She leaned the side of her head against the back wall and looked up at him expectantly. Right now he wanted nothing more than to take her kiss her and ravish her. But he wouldn't. No, he wouldn't risk the prospect of being with her for longer than that moment in the elevator. He reminded himself. Strategy, dedication and discipline.
"Yes, with Callie," she said quietly.
He was wondering if it was as hard for her as it was for him. After all the woman he had made the deal with was Addison. Addison loved sex just as much as he did and even though she´d rather bite off her tongue than admit it, she especially loved sex with him. She wasn´t as neurotic about it, but he guessed it wasn´t easy for her, too.
"What?" He asked. He'd been lost in thought. Her perfect strawberry lips.
"I asked if you want to come have lunch with us? I'm sure Callie wouldn't mind." In her mind she added, "in fact I think she'd be thrilled."
"Eh, yes, I just need to check on Jordan before I can come down."
"Okay." She smiled at him again and that's when the doors of the elevator opened again and outside was the one person both of them least needed to see in that moment, their moment… Derek.
He looked between the two of them before stepping inside the elevator. All three of them were silent for the remaining moments of their elevator ride together. It was awkward to say the least. Addison was tapping her fingers against the wall and looked first at Mark and then at Derek before raising her eyebrow and looking back at Mark again. At that Mark only shrugged his shoulders and stared straight ahead. Derek witnessed the interaction and broke the silence, "What is going on? And I swear if you answer that question with..." He was interrupted by the beeping of the elevator. The doors opened and Addison stepped out while muttering, "nothing."
The doors closed and Derek groaned in frustration.
And when you cry, it makes me smile. Yeah, it makes me smile...Oh, I love that song so much! As you see, being nice to Derek isn´t what we have planned for our story, not so far, at least. We just borrowed canon!Derek who is whiney and bitchy. You don´t like him? Tell Shonda.
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