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Special thanks to Suz for the beta.
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Disclaimer: Grey's Anatomy and its characters are not mine. No infringement intended.
CHAPTER SIX
"Derek? What's going on? What is Mark talking about?"
Savvy's questions were met with silence.
"Didn't it cross your mind, Savvy, where the hell Derek was the night of the accident?" Mark asked.
"Derek was probably in surgery still" Weiss remarked casually.
"No. It was the night of the prom. Addison told me about it. Remember, honey, I mentioned how happy Addie was that Derek…" Savvy trailed off. "You guys went together, right Derek? What happened then? Why did Addie go home alone?"
Derek kept his head low, avoiding anyone's eyes. Savvy stepped forward and faced him.
"What happened Derek?" Savvy asked forcefully.
Derek finally lifted his head and answered, "We had an argument."
"An argument? About what?"
The two other men just stayed silent and listened to the conversation between Savvy and Derek. Mark was staring angrily at Derek but kept his cool, waiting for him to fess up.
"I did something that night… and Addison found out and…" Derek started off but was unable to continue further.
"What did you do? I don't understand it."
"Oh for fuck's sake! Derek screwed his intern that night while Addison was just a few feet away!" Mark busted out, getting tired of Derek beating around the bush.
"What?!" Savvy and Weiss shouted simultaneously.
It was Weiss who recovered first and asked, "Is…is it true?"
"Yes" Derek answered gravely.
Nobody expected it when a loud smack shattered the silence brought about by Derek's confirmation. Savvy just slapped him hard.
"You bastard!"
Weiss stepped in to hold Savvy back and to keep him from hitting Derek himself.
Derek for his part looked away in shame.
"Why, Derek? Why? How could you? Do you have any idea how excited Addison was? She was really looking forward to spending the party with you."
"I made a terrible mistake, Sav. I'm really sorry for it. I'll make it up to Addison."
"Who is she? It's not that tall blonde girl Addie was working with during my operation, is she?"
"No, no… She's not. I think it's best that we leaver her…"
"Wait, wait. Is it the girl who was in here when I arrived?"
"Meredith was here with you? You really are a bastard!" Mark interjected.
Derek couldn't get a word out.
"Oh my God, Derek. What have you done?" Savvy said, utterly devastated for her best friend's sake. Her fury with Derek was reaching an all time high when she thought about the past months since Addison had moved to Seattle and sacrificed everything.
Savvy broke the silence that fell in the room with a final declaration. "Addison is moving back to New York with us."
Derek looked at her in shock. Even Weiss was surprised at Savvy's statement.
"What? You have no right, Savvy. She is my wife! She's my family."
"Rights? Don't talk to me about rights, Derek. You've forfeited yours as a husband. And don't forget that I've been Addison's family way before you came into the picture."
"You can't force Addison to coming back with you."
"Who says we'll be forcing Addison?" Mark chimed in.
"Stay out of this" Derek hissed at Mark.
"Guys, calm down. No decision will be made until Addison wakes up and makes them herself. So, please…" Weiss said, trying to diffuse the situation.
"No. Addison has suffered enough and I'll be damned if she stays here. I'll convince her to move back to New York" said Savvy.
"Don't do that, please. Give me a chance to talk to Addison and make this right" cried Derek.
"You don't deserve a chance."
"Shut up. I said stay out of this" Derek told Mark off increasingly losing his patience with his former best friend. They were ganging up on him and he couldn't make a convincing argument to persuade Savvy.
The three of them kept on arguing while Weiss tried to interject so that no one would get killed. Nobody heard the faint 'hey' drowned out by the bickering voices.
It didn't stop until Miranda Bailey came in with her most scary Nazi attitude and shouted, "What is going on here? This is a hospital! Sick people are here to recover in peace! The whole floor could hear you shouting!"
The occupants in the room stood silently.
A soft 'hey' came out again and Miranda barely heard it until she walked over to Addison's side and saw her awake.
"Hey, girl. Did these fools' ruckus wake you up?"
Addison's awake! Yay! And raise your hand if you wished you were Savvy slapping Derek. Hard.