Here guys, i hope you like this one, i have this small feeling you might, hehe
Chapter 7 - I Need Your Grace
Meredith frowned at her pager. She moved through the halls of the hall way and met Callie outside a women's bathroom.
"What is it?"
"I dunno, Addison's in there, she's crying, I thought maybe it would be better if you..."
"Oh. Yea. Thanks Callie." Meredith gave her a small smile,
"Oh hey, uhh, I found a place; I'll be out of your house soon."
Meredith nodded, "Great." She pointed to the door, "I should…" She walked into the bathroom and bent down to look under the stall doors, she saw Addison sitting on the floor.
"Addie?" She asked, "You okay?"
"Mere?" Addison shrugged and tried to hide the tears on her voice, failing miserably, "I'm ok, I'm fine. I'm good."
"Don't make me crawl under this stall Addie." The door opened slowly and Mere saw Addison sitting there crying softly, "You're not okay."
Addison stood and walked to the sinks, staring at her reflection in the mirror, "I don't know why. There's no reason that this should affect me this much. I'm used to this I am but…"
"Used to what?"
"My patient, this lovely woman, yesterday she's just as healthy as can be and today… today her baby's dead." Addie cried,
"Oh Addison." Meredith moved to her and hugged her, Addison held onto Meredith tightly, crying into her shoulder.
"I'm sorry. I'm being stupid." She mumbled,
"No you're not." Meredith told her, "You're being you. And you are a wonderful person who cares so much about her patients. There is nothing stupid in that Addie. Okay?"
Addison pulled away and nodded, "Ok." She wiped her eyes, and fixed herself up, "How did you know I was here?"
"Callie paged me."
Addison nodded, "I should be used to this."
Meredith sighed softly, "And I should be used to Mark making snide comments about my love life, but I'm not."
Addison laughed, "Thanks Mere."
"It's ok Addie," Meredith gave her a soft kiss on the lips; "I love you."
Addison smiled, "I love you too."
They kissed again, "You ok now?"
"I'm ok."
"Good. Because I have to study up on how to turn a penis into a vagina or Mark will make BDSM jokes."
Addison nodded, "I should go tell my patient…" She sighed, and the two walked from the bathroom, almost running into Callie,
"You okay?" She asked Addie,
"Yea… I just needed a minute." She said, "Thanks Callie,"
Meredith gave her a quick peck on the cheek and ran off, Callie watching amused after her, "You two are really sweet, you know?"
"You and George are sweet." Addison told her, "I think he really loves you."
"You think?"
"Yeah. I mean you're living together-"
"With three other people."
"Ok, but he's volunteering to live with four women, one of whom is his boss, and two of whom treat him like a sister."
"It doesn't matter anymore… I have my own place now."
"So ask him to move in with you, it's the next step, and a bit more intimate then at the house." Addison said, "Unless of course, you don't want to live with him."
"I do." Callie said quickly, "It's just… We haven't been dating for long; I don't think he's ready."
Addison nodded, "I can understand that."
"How long have you known Meredith?" Callie asked suddenly,
"Almost ten years, why?"
"I don't know… I guess I was just wondering how long it takes to get to where you are in your relationship."
Addison snorted, "We're not dating. Meredith says she doesn't want to rush things."
"Rush?"
"She doesn't' want to jump into a relationship in case we ruin it. She wants to ease into it." Meredith's words echoed in her mind 'There's too much water under thing or whatever,' she had said one night when Addison asked again what they were doing,
"Is that what you were upset about?" Callie asked curiously,
"No."
"What was it?"
They stopped outside their patient's room and Addison sighed, "I have to tell those perfectly happy people… I have to tell them their baby has died."
Callie swallowed and placed a hand on Addison's shoulder and squeezed softly.
* * *
Meredith sat in a booth at Joe's bar with Mark, she smiled at him as they talked about her daughter, Mindy hadn't seen Uncle Mark in a long time.
"I don't think she remembers you." Meredith sighed, "You haven't seen her in so long."
"Her birthday is soon though, I'll see her then."
Meredith looked at him curiously, "This is coming from the man who needs to be told when Christmas is every year. How the hell do you remember my daughter's birthday?"
Hey grinned sheepishly, "Addison told me."
Meredith laughed and took a drink from her beer, "Of course."
There was a short silence which was broken my Mark smirking at Meredith seductively, "So this could be just a drink. Or this could be more than a drink."
"I am not sleeping with you."
"Oh but you enjoy sleeping with me."
"I'm not going to have sex with you Mark, not again. I can't keep hurting her like that."
A beeping sounded and Mark pulled out his pager, "Saved by the bell." He smirked and finished the last of his beer, then clipped his pager to his belt, "Order me another beer."
Meredith shook her head at him and walked to the bar. She saw Addison sitting alone fiddling with her necklace.
"I gave you that." Meredith said, "I gave you that the day after Mindy was born."
"I know."
Meredith sat down and bit her lip, "Are you still upset about your patient?"
"Yes." Addison murmured, "No… Kind of. "
"Can I help?"
Addison looked up, "Meredith do you love me, I mean really love me."
"Addie, you know I do."
"You're in love with me?"
"Addison-"
"Please Mere,"
"Yes Addie, I love you. I'm in love with you." Meredith frowned, "What's this all about?"
"I want to spend my life with you Mere, and we're only going to do that if you let yourself love me."
"Addie-"
"Go out with me. Let me take you to dinner and take me to lunch. Let's get joint invitations to other peoples weddings and be that perfect poster couple that everyone loves and hates at the same time. Let's stay up all night in bed just talking and have sex in the shower and dance to our favourite songs. Let's pick out rings and get married and have babies and grow old. Let us be together Meredith; stop thinking about Derek and Mark and Arizona and Finn. Stop thinking about how we may have hurt each other in the past and start thinking about us in our future. Because I love you Meredith Grey, I am in love with you, and I want to marry you, and I want to have children with you, and I want to tell my daughter that she can finally call me Mummy after almost nine years of being her Aunty Addison, and I want us to have a son named Mathew and a daughter named Rose. I want a ring on my finger and a ring on yours. I want to be able to say you are my wife. I want you to be Montgomery and me to be Grey. Because Meredith, I've known you for ten years, and I've been in love with you for almost as long and that is definitely not rushing it. We will not ruin anything between us; we can only get better as a couple. There is not too much water under the bridge for us. So what I'm asking here is this."
The bar was quiet; everyone was watching the two women, Mark from one corner, Arizona from another. Izzie and Cristina were staring from their usual table; Callie was with them smiling softly. Meredith had her mouth slightly open, she watched Addison, looking her in the eyes as Addison took her hands,
"Meredith Janet Grey." She smiled, "Will you go out with me?"
Meredith grinned with laughter, "Yes!" She smiled, "Yes!" and she lent forward and pressed her lips softly to Addison's. Addie grinned and wrapped her hands around Meredith's neck, deepening the kiss considerably.
Callie wolf whistled and Mark smirked. Arizona downed her beer and left. The bar filled again with some cheers and laughter as well as a lot of chatter and gossip. Cristina rolled her eyes as she saw Olivia and her friends rush out to go to the hospital and she turned to Izzie.
"Have fun living in your house tonight."
Izzie cringed, "Can I stay with you, please!"
Callie's eyes widened, "You can't leave us with them."
"What, are they going to infect you with their gay?" Cristina snorted,
"Hey!" Meredith was standing behind them, her lips rather swollen, "It's not a disease."
"Cristina," begged Izzie,
"Ladies," Mark gave them a smile, "Here you are." He handed them a key card, "Now can I have keys to the house?"
Addison pulled out her copy of the house key, "Here." She gave it to Mark, "Come on, Baby." She said to Meredith and the two left.
"What was that?" Asked Callie,
"I just gave them my room at the Archfield, I know how loud they can get, believe me."
"Wow, you really are a whore." Izzie commented,
He grinned at her, "Only for you Bethany."
"Bethany?" Realisation hit and Izzie's mouth fell open, "Hey!"
So they're together! officially! properly! actually! Yay! What did you think of Addie's little speech? that was totally spur of the moment for me, lol :P
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