Okay, so I'm not THAT sorry I haven't updated in forever so I'm not gonna lie and say I am lol. Anyway, life has been really fun, even though my boyfriend is being an idiot because of don't even ask me what, but o well, I'm enjoying my last weeks in America and I'm gonna die when I'm back in Germany *sadness* so I'm hoping that I can come back here for college asap! Okay, to explain my lack of updates: I have a life and packed schedule, track, church, friends, boyfriend (yes and I actually like him quite a bit, even if he's being weird) and a school play, which was fun to do but would've been way better if we could've actually chosen something like Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet but o well, still fun fun fun. Hope you will forgive me (:

And here's an update written in study hall and American History. I rly should be studying for my test next hour but o well I shall do okay… Listening to Rush on youtube right now btw lol.

Don't own it.

Chapter 3

Once he got over his first shock, Derek gave Addison his trademark grin that reflected the McDreamy portrait perfectly.

"Well, nice to see you again." He couldn't hold the amused tone back nearly as much as he wanted to, because the redhead opposite of him did not look too happy with the entire situation. Okay they had done…something last night, but neither of them remembered exactly what had happened, if even anything at all.

"Yeah… So, you work here?" Addison tried to get away from the awkward tension between them that was so heavy that it could be tasted.

"Well, I might have told you, if you hadn't left me so fast this morning." His amusement about her sheer desperation was obvious to her, as it was to everyone else who had started watching the two doctors.

She sighed, giving him a pleading look "Could we just act…professional, Doctor Shepherd?"

"Well it was Derek last night, just to throw that in there…" He quickly defended his answer and shrugged his shoulders. "But yes, Doctor-" His eyes left hers for only a moment as he read her nametag. "Montgomery." Derek finished off, his gaze meeting hers once again as he flashed her a smile.

"Thank you." Addison could only imagine how embarrassing this whole thing between both of them could get, if they wouldn't keep whatever happened the past night, to themselves.

"So, how's the daughter?" Oh no, she had told him, this complete stranger about Grace? Wow this day just kept getting better and better. Meeting the guy she had done God knows what with the previous night and then having to find out that she was a terrible mother, especially under the influence of alcohol.

"She's… you know what? This is getting private again, how about we just focus on the case we have to work on together." Addison let out a heavy sigh, struggling to keep her professional façade together.

"Oh and you're saying that, as if you don't enjoy spending time with me at all." Derek gave her a grin, but quickly went on, when she gave him a look that he would've sworn would've turned him into a pile of ashes if only she had the ability to do so. "Anyhow, Helen Ferguson, she is 38, so already a pregnancy that bears a certain risk for her and her child. We have discovered a spine deficiency that we haven't identified yet. On the baby, I mean." Addison nodded her head, listening to his explanation of their case, as she went on. Of course she had read the file and the charts and knew all the facts that there were to know, but whenever he finished a sentence she felt, a if she had just found out a little more about her little patient and her mother.

"She also wants to name her daughter Weselyn, because her father, Wes, died a couple of hours after she had told him, that she and her husband Ted were expecting a child. His grandchild. She doesn't trust many people, because of a trauma, but she trusts me, at least so far. And she will trust you, I'm sure of that." Here Derek stopped, to him it was important to know someone's background story, before he went on with all the medical procedures that were the main part of his job. Where other surgeons had picked this profession, to not be actively involved in lives, to not know anything other than what was written on white hospital paper, Derek needed to know, he needed to know who those people were, where they came from and who was awaiting them at home or even at their bedside.

A smile etched across Addison's features, which looked angelic in the soft lights that came from the outside. The outside that looked, smelled and even tasted like the new season that had just begun. Even in Seattle, where it always smelled somewhat wet, summer could be tasted.

"You really care about her, don't you?"

"I care about each one of my patients." Derek snapped in a defensive manner. But then chose to explain his special concern for this one patient. "Her father, he was one of my patients." He rubbed his eyes and gazed over at Addison, who simply waited for him to continue. "The day of his surgery, Helen came into his room and told him, he was going to be a grandfather. I've never seen the old man happier. His condition, could not be helped, both of us knew that, but he never told his daughter, who had already lost her mother in a horrible car accident." He took a breath, looking at her as he searched for a reaction, an emotion, in her green eyes. He saw her nod her head, her eyes glazing over, looking at him with sadness and then he remembered.

"Oh, I'm sorry Addison—Doctor Montgomery, I mean…"

"You can call me Addison, as long as you keep it professional." She teased, trying to blink the tears that had already formed in her eyes back.

"Deal." Derek was more than relieved that he hadn't upset her as badly as he had thought.

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"Is this seat taken?" Derek heard a voice behind him, and without hesitation or even turning his head, he answered. "It is now." So Addison gladly sat down next to him.

"How's Seattle treating you so far?"

"It's… making my hair go curly and flat. But aside from the superficial things, it's not too bad, even though I don't recall everything that happened last night, which might just be for the best of it."

"Nothing happened, I mean apart from the kiss…" He paused, looking at her, seeing how the memory of the past night slowly came back.

"Oh… I remember some of it, but I figured…"

"No." He chuckled, her expression turning from worried into a relieved smile.

"So, how come, you didn't tell me that before?" Addison questioned and raised her eyebrow.

"Well… You never gave me the chance to." He gave her a sheepish smile and shrugged his shoulders.

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"Hey, are you looking for someone?" Derek asked a little girl, with brown curls, as she was walking down the hall on the surgical floor.

"Well… I was supposed to stay in uncle Richard's office, but I figured I should go look for my mommy instead." Derek almost had to laugh at the innocent look she tried giving him.

"Well, maybe I can help you find your mom?" He offered.

"Addison Montgomery, do you know her?"

"Yeah, we met the other day." Derek said with a smile, Addison had told him so much about her daughter the other night.

"That's great!" Gracie grinned, taking his hand in anticipation of him finding her mother with her.

"Let's go then." They headed down the white hallway, towards one of the rooms at the end, where he motioned her to be quiet and wait outside with him. Addison stood inside, talking to a patient and walked towards the door a couple of minutes later.

"Mommy!" Gracie grinned and pulled Derek with her towards her mother. "I've met one of your friends!" She exclaimed excitedly and Addison just smiled at her daughter and then at Derek. "Well I'm glad you met." She chuckled.

"Me too! Maybe you," The little girl looked up at Derek. "could ask my mommy to dinner some time." Addison's cheeks reddened, this was not what she had wanted her daughter to say, at all!

"Honey, mommy really doesn't need a date…"

"But he's McDreamy! At least that's what everyone here says, you should ask mommy out." Gracie was persistent on what she had made her mission. Derek, cheeks now about as crimson as Addison's, moved from one foot to the other, slightly uncomfortable. He'd love to ask Addison out, but she didn't seem like she'd want him to. Maybe she did. Did she?

"Well, I better go." Derek said, slightly uneasy about the entire situation. Of course he wanted to ask Addison out, who wouldn't want to ask her out?!? But that wasn't the point, she didn't seem like she wanted to be asked out.
"You don't have to go, I mean—" Addison paused, with a sigh, great, amazing situation as if it wasn't already awkward enough between them.
"No, it's fine, I have to check on a patient anyway. See you later." He gave Addison a charming smile that made her melt inside and then turned to Gracie. "And it was a pleasure to meet you." The little girl giggled. "Nice to meet you too, Derek." He smiled and walked away, leaving mother and daughter.

"He likes you, mommy!" Gracie grinned up at her mom, unaware of the situation between Derek and Addison.

"Honey, he doesn't, plus even if he does, I don't care because it's not your responsibility to find me a date, okay?" Addison raised her eyebrows, making sure that her daughter understood that she didn't appreciate what she had just done. Grace nodded her head, without saying anything, mothers could be so stupid.

"There you are!" Both turned around and saw Richard walking towards them. "I was looking all over for you, young lady."
"Sorry, I went to look for mommy…" Gracie smiled sheepishly. It was the kind of smile that let any anger towards her melt away like chocolate on a hot summer day.

"Sorry, I went to look for mommy…" Gracie smiled sheepishly. It was the kind of smile that let any anger towards her melt away like chocolate on a hot summer day.
"So, did you have a good day?" Richard asked Grace that evening, when both still sat in his office, waiting for Addison to finish her shift that was Gracie's request, of course.
"Yeah! I met this guy who likes my mommy!" She grinned and Richard just raised his eyebrows, silently asking her who it was. "His name is Derek... and he likes mom."
"Oh does he now?" Richard chuckled to himself, how kids always told the truth…
The little girl nodded "Yeah and he was smiling at her and looking at her, like daddy always looked at her, besides, he smells really good." The chief laughed, apparently smelling good was a big plus when you were little.
"Does your mom know that?"
"Of course! She just doesn't want to admit it, like how she likes him too." Grace told him, taking a spoonful of ice-cream in her mouth.
"Well we have to work on that then, don't we?" She nodded her head excitedly and then the door opened and Patricia's voice could be heard "Doctor Montgomery wants me to tell you that she has an emergency patient, she won't make it in time to get home and she's really sorry about that."
"Thank you."
"Any time." The door closed.
"So, looks like it's just the two of us tonight, Adele is out with her friends."
"We should go to Runza, since you're not theeeeee greatest cook… No offence of course." The chief chuckled, surgery he could do, cooking, not so much.

Addison rubbed her eyes tiredly, finally she was out of the OR, but she still couldn't go home because rounds started in about three hours, so it wouldn't pay off. Along with the guilty feeling she had about not seeing much of Gracie that day came that all the on-call rooms were filled with people, except for one, but heavy breathing and moans could be heard from the hall, so Addison decided to not even check, if there was still an empty bed. One more room was left that she hadn't checked, Addison slowly pushed the door open and groaned when she saw that both beds were taken.

"What's wrong?" She heard a muffled voice from the bed.

"Derek?"

"Yeah?"

"Oh hi, well there's no place to sleep…" She sighed in frustration.

"You can have my bed." He offered.

"No, I'd feel horrible."

"Or…" He thought of another option, he knew how terrible it was for a surgeon to be in the OR all day and then not find a place to sleep. "I could scoot over?"

Normally, Addison wouldn't even have considered this, but she just wanted to sleep for a couple of hours, so she stepped inside and he moved towards the wall.

"Thank you." She whispered and laid down next to him, with as much space between them, as possible, so he wouldn't get the wrong idea of her, again.

"You're welcome." He smiled at her. Addison stretched out, or at least that's what she was going to do, before she fell on the floor. Derek had to hold his laugh back. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, just bruides my hip and my ego." She moved back up and laid down.

"You know, I don't bite…"

"I know, but…"

"Yeah…" Both closed their eyes, even though he snuck a glance at her every now and then.

Okay, I hope this was worth the wait! The last part is written AT HOME! Aren't you excited! I'll probs post it tomorrow after track (: So if the last part is a little weird to everyone, I was listening to 'Because I got high' while writing it, seriously, Derrick and Craighton can confirm that lol. That's how I roll, there's an awesomeness to my randomness.

Anyways, I hope you're mcLovin it (: and review too, no pressure tho…
O, btw, Runza is a Nebraska original and Helen Ferguson is one of the characters in 'A Farewell to Arms' by Hemingway.