Hey. Guess what. It's a real chapter. Not like crazy first person. Just a regular old boring fun filled chapter.

So interesting thing about this chapter. I included some of Derek's family. This chapter has Kathleen –– who I see as Paula Marshall, Catherine, invented sister Laura –– who I picture as slightly older Lauren Graham, and a couple… okay 4... of Laura's kids that I don't really picture as anyone. I didn't even name them all, the older 2 are Jenny and Anna…

Have fun with the normal… somewhat Addeky, chapter.

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"I'm sorry. Dr. Shepherd is in a conference."

Meredith glanced up at the receptionist at the mention of Derek's name.

"I appreciate that it's an emergency but..." she listened intently "... I'll page him right away."

Meredith glanced back at her chart. It was pretty cool having a hotshot neurosurgeon boyfriend.

She grinned at him as he came around the corner, blushing when he trailed his hand lazily across her back as he passed.

"You have a call on line 4," the nurse informed him.

He winked at her as he picked up the phone, "Dr. Shepherd." His face instantly turned grave, "What happened?"

Meredith brow furrowed as she listened. Whatever it was, it wasn't good news.

"I'm going to switch to another phone okay? Give me one minute," he put the call and hold and headed immediately to a nearby office, "Page Addison," he instructed.

"What happened?" Meredith questioned.

"Page Addison!"

"She's in a meeting, she's not picking up pages."

Derek swore under his breath and picked up the phone again. He jabbed angrily at the dial pad, then threw the receiver back down to it's cradle before disappearing into the adjoining private office, slamming the door behind him.

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Addison rolled her eyes in annoyance as she felt her pager vibrate against her hip. She told every person in the entire hospital not to page her –– she was on a conference call with Richard with a hospital in England about a really high profile case. England.

She darted her eyes down to her pager, frowned, and looked again.

233673911#3.

Derek? What the…

She glanced at Richard apologetically.

He nodded. It must be important if someone was paging her out of this.

Addison's heart raced. He hadn't paged her like this in a year. She felt slightly nauseous as she climbed the steps to the third floor. They avoiding even looking at each other, why would he be paging her?

She was nervous.

"Have you seen Derek?" Addison asked as casually as she could manage.

"In there," Meredith nodded sullenly, "I thought you weren't picking up pages?"

Addison crossed to the office, but paused at the door, "You knew he paged me?"

"I was standing right here."

Derek was motioning to her thru the window. Addison gave Meredith one last look and entered the room.

Meredith watched them talk a moment before he handed her the phone and directed her into his chair.

"What's wrong?" she demanded as he emerged from the room, more then a little annoyed that Addison was allowed in the loop and she wasn't.

Derek's face was strained and was void of colour, "My sister, Laura, was in an accident," he said slowly, clearly in shock, "She's stable now, but she's hurt bad. Her husband's dead. And they don't know if their daughter is going to pull through."

Meredith was silent. There didn't seem to be anything to say.

"I need to go home."

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Addison leaned against the wall, her arms crossed across her chest and her fingers tapping nervously against her arm. She had just gotten off the phone with her former sister-in-law and she was watching Derek frantically taking care of thing so that he could fly home and be with his family.

He glanced up and met her eye.

He looked quickly to Meredith who was occupied making arrangements of her own. He started towards her, nodding that she should take a few steps back so they were out of sight.

She backed around the corner and pressed her back against the wall.

"I'll call you," he promised in a low voice as he stood close to her, their foreheads almost touching, "If I find something out, I'll call you immediately."

She nodded, staring at her feet, "Thank you."

"If you need to be there..." he paused, not wanting to think about that possibility but knowing it was a reality, "... If you need to be there, I promise, I'll fly you there myself."

She gave him a small smile and nodded again. She wasn't sure exactly what to do. How she was suppose to be acting towards him. He held his hands out at her side, unsure if they wanted to grasp her arms or hug her.

"Derek?" Meredith stepped around the corner, unsure as to wither she was intruding, and whether she should be worried at all that there might, even now, be something to intrude on.

"Yeah," he replied, not looking at Addison again, "Let's go."

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Addison sank into the painfully hot bath water and compulsively rearranged the 2 inches of bubbles so they cover the entire surface of the water.

"Don't you fall in," she warned the black cat sitting at the edge batting at the bubbles, "I won't save you. Not tonight."

She reached for her wine and took a sip.

"Ali," she yelled in the direction of the door, "Come get your cat!"

There was a few minutes of silence.

"Where are you?" Ali called from the hall.

"Tub."

Ali opened the door and stepped in, "Raven," she chastised the cat that was batting wildly at the bubbles Addison was flicking at her head. Ali looked at Addison curiously, "You're home early."

"Today sucked and I can't drink on the job," Addison smiled wearily and tilted her wine glass towards Ali before taking a sip.

Ali frowned, "I thought you were going to take me driving before Dad got home. I wanted to learn to parallel park."

"Honey, I can't even parallel park," Addison looked longingly at her glass, "Just let me finish this," she paused, "Really, this might be a good thing. If you crash the car again, maybe our cover won't be blown."

"And Dad will still let me get my license," Ali smiled and picked up her cat, "Drink up."

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"That is the same thing that you told us 3 hours ago. Why don't you know anything?"

"Kathleen," Derek spoke in relief the moment he came around the corner, she was exactly who he wanted to see first.

"Derek," Kathleen spoke with equal relief as she hug her brother tightly, "They won't tell us anything."

Derek nodded, he expected that, "Where are the kids?"

"With the Bartlett's," she shook her head, "They took them home so they could sleep in their own beds. They're… calling family..." she took a deep breath, "Andi and Nancy and the guys have all our kids at the big house, so it's just me, Mom and Jenny," She turned back to the doctor, "But no one seems to know anything."

"I'll find out," Derek assured her. He kissed Meredith on the cheek and sent them both off find coffee for everyone.

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"It's still touch and go right now," Derek spoke softly into his cell as he looked through the glass window at his mother, sister, niece and girlfriend, "But Laura is awake and they have her in a room with Anna," he paused, "No. We probably won't know anything until morning. I'll call you when we hear. Okay. Bye."

He snapped the phone closed and stepped into the room.

"Laura just woke up."

Everyone in the room breathed a sigh of relief.

Derek sat down beside his mother and took a deep breath, "They had to remove her spleen and a kidney but they think that they repaired most of the internal damage. It might take a few days to really know. She's groggy but they have her in a room with Anna. They are going to wait and set her leg tomorrow, it's going to be in traction for awhile, and her wrist and arm are fractured but not broken –– which we already knew."

"What about Anna?"

Derek closed his eyes,"Her back is broken."

"Oh my god," Catherine stood and started pacing back and forth.

"They can fix that right?" Jenny asked slowly, directing her questions towards Derek, "I mean thats basically your whole job isn't it?"

"They are going to try," he assured them, "But they can't promise anything."

"She's only 15," Jenny protested, "She can't…"

"Jennifer," her grandmother wrapped her arms around her and held her tightly, "Derek, did they say if we could see them?"

"Laura is asking for Jenny and the boys."

"Let's do that then," Catherine said softly, taking her 23 year old granddaughter by the hand and leading her down the hall.

"I'll call the Bartlett's and then go pick up the boys," Kathleen offered, grateful for something to do.

Derek nodded and leaned back, wrapping his arm around Meredith shoulder he kissed her temple.

"Who was on the phone," she asked, nestling into his arms.

"Just Addison. I promised I'd call," he sighed and kissed her again, "I'm glad your here."

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"They're taking Laura back in to surgery."

Kathleen sat down hard then pushed some money into her nephews hands, "Go buy some chocolate bars."

Neither boy moved.

"There is no function in her intestinal track," Derek spoke slowly.

"We are still trying to get a handle on the extent of some of her internal injuries," the specialist explained, "But she is doing better then we expected."

"Can we go see her now," the youngest boy asked softly.

"Yes," Kathleen relied, not even bother to ask the Doctors if it was okay, "But remember what I told you in the car, about the machines and Mom looking kinda different, okay?"

"And Anna's asleep."

Kathleen nodded, "Anna's still asleep."

Derek watched his nephews and his sister leave the room, an 11 year old by each hand, "Those kids are usually bouncing off the walls." He looked up to see the doctor still standing there, "What's wrong?"

"There is a complication with Anna, I was asked to fill you in," the doctor paused, "As you know we've had her in an induced coma because of the head trauma. We want to ease her out of that because there is some unusual swelling around her brain. Once she's awake we can evaluate her more thoroughly. If necessary later tonight we will insert a shunt, but we'd like to avoid putting her under anesthesia right now because we'll be operating on her spine tomorrow afternoon and it's going to be a long grueling operation for her."

"What's she listed as?" Derek asked wearily.

"Critical. Extremely Critical."

"Thanks Doctor," Derek nodded and reached for his cell phone.

Meredith watched Derek slip out of the room. This was the third doctor to visit concerning his niece, and the third time he had immediately left to make a phone call.

Meredith sighed.

Addison had been her aunt for 12 years.

He was just keeping her up to date.

Right?

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"How are you doing?"

Addison smiled as Geoffrey took the seat adjacent to her and pulled her legs over his lap. "I'm okay."

"Waiting for the phone to ring?"

"It's all I can really do," she sighed.

"Do you want me to make you something to eat? You must be starving. It's 6am and you haven't eaten since lunch."

"I made…" she closed her eyes and sighed, "We had a date last night."

"It's okay."

"We were going to pick a date for the wedding."

"We have plenty of time."

"I wanted a summer wedding though, it's already June. I don't want to get married in the rain." She sighed, "We are never getting married."

"We can get married next summer."

"No," she sighed, "Thats another whole year away."

"Maybe a Christmas wedding?"

She rolled her head up to stare at the ceiling, "Maybe we can elope."

Geoffrey laughed, "I don't want to deal with your sister when she finds out she missed our wedding."

"Well," Addison smiled, "By elope I meant you, me and Adrienne."

"I know," He leaned over and kissed her softly on the lips, "Now do you want to explain the huge dent in the side of my car?"

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"Who's that?"

Derek glanced over his shoulder at Meredith who was trying to stay inconspicuous in the far corner, "You remember Meredith. You met her at Christmas."

Anna stared at Meredith for a few seconds, and then closed her eyes.

"Anna?" Derek questioned quietly.

She didn't respond.

"Hey. Come on Monkey."

Still no response.

"I have something for you."

Anna made no indication that she heard him.

Derek reached into the bag at his feet, pulling out a knitted stuffed monkey Meredith had watched him agonize over in the hospital gift shop, "Your Aunt Addy asked me to give this to you."

Her eye's opened slowly, "She did?"

"Ya," Derek affirmed, "You scared her half to death. She was afraid she would have no one to shop with."

Anna smiled weakly, her eyes watching as Derek tucked the stuffed monkey into the arms that she couldn't feel.

"So when you're out of here, you're going to have to come visit me in Seattle so she can see for herself that you're okay. Okay? Remember when you used to come visit New York? Seattle has Ferry's too."

Anna barely nodded, "Can we have Banana Splits?"

"Of course, it'll be just like New York."

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"The swelling is not going down and we are starting to get concerned about some clotting around her spine. We need to operate now, it's our only option," the doctor explained, "I've discussed it with Laura and she agrees. It's the best thing for Anna."

Derek didn't wait for the doctor to finish his explanation; he just stood and walked into the hall.

"There is a flight that leaves Seattle at 9," he said into the phone, "I'll have your ticket waiting."

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Okay, so it's not happiness and rainbows but I never promised that.

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