Chapter Six – I'm In Love With You

"Dr. Bailey. Henry Lamott, age 42," Cristina said as the group were in their first room for rounds, "is scheduled with Dr. Shepherd for a spinal implant..." Her voice trailed off as Mr. Lamott turned the volume of the TV up, the sound of woman laughing and giggling filled the room.

"...to control the pain of his herniated disc. Is allergic to all pain medication..." Everyone but Bailey was staring at the screen, "Is that...?"

"Porn." Said Mrs Lamott simply,

"Porn?" Asked Bailey, she looked at the TV, "As in Porn?!"

"All right." Smirked Alex, "What are we watching?"

"Karev! Go stand in the hall."

Alex left and Bailey addressed the patient and his wife, distracted by the TV, "Uh, Mr. & Mrs. Lamott, I'm sure you are really nice people, and what you do in the privacy of your own ... Look, we can't have porn in here. This is a hospital."

"It's for my pain. My doc says it releases endorphins in the brain and helps keep my pain at a manageable level." Said Mr Lamott,

"Really?"

"George! Hall!"

"What is this?" Asked Izzie, clearly amused,

"Nasty, Naughty Nurses," Said Mrs Lamott, "… four." She said, after checking the TV,

Meredith, Cristina and Izzie all tilted their heads as they looked at the screen,

"That does not look comfortable." Commented Cristina as they watched two of the nasty, naughty, nurses 'play doctor'.

"Trust me." said Meredith, "It's not."

Cristina and Izzie stared at her,

"Get in the hall!" Yelled Bailey,

* * *

Meredith was walking through a corridor when Addison walked over to her, "Hey, have you seen Derek?"

"No, but I'm on his service today, I'll let him know you're looking."

"Thanks sweetie." Smiled Addie,

"I'm not gonna be that woman." Meredith said suddenly,

"What?"

"I'm not gonna be that woman; the woman who breaks up a marriage, or begs you to want me. He'll sign the papers or he won't. Either way, when it comes to my relationship with him, I'm out. And it's only fair if the same applies-" Addison stoped Meredith talking by covering her mouth with her hand.

"He will sign Meredith. He will sign and everything will work out."

Meredith nodded, "Ok." She wanted to kiss her, but they were in the middle of the hospital and everyone knew about the McDreamy has a wife and a girlfriend; they just didn't know that the wife and the girlfriend had a very... close, past.

* * *

It was when she was in surgery Meredith knew who she wanted. She was working with Derek on a young girl Anna, and she felt it. She looked up and saw he kept glancing at her, but that wasn't what Meredith felt. She felt Addison's gaze, and looked up into the gallery to meet it.

In the scrub room Meredith waited until Derek had left, and Addison walked in.

"I lied." Meredith said, "There's no way I'm out-"

"Meredith-"

"No!"

"Mere." Said Addie more forcefully, "I'm going to say something, and I wasn't going to but I feel like you're slipping away from me, I feel like you're going to fall right back into his arms with your ooh-he's-a-brain-surgeon doe eyes."

"Addison-"

"Shut up." yelled Addison, "I can not get out of this relationship. I'm in. I'm so in, it's humiliating because here I am begging! And here it is. Your choice is simple, Meredith." Addison started getting a bit teary, "Him or me. And I know he can be great, but from his soon to be ex-wife, it doesn't last! And Meredith, I'm sorry, I wasn't going to go there but I love you … I'm in love with you ... in a really, really big; laugh at your bad jokes, play nice with the friends I don't like, let you eat the last piece of chocolate cake, hold a boom-box over my head outside your window; unfortunate way that makes me almost hate you, love you." She sighed, "So please, Baby, pick me. Choose me … Love. Me."

Meredith lent forward and pulled Addison into her arms, kissing her deeply. She lent her forehead to Addie's and whispered, "I've always loved you Adds, I've loved you over everything."

Addison grinned, "Can we go to the bar across the road and get you over your rebound?"

Meredith laughed, "You want our first date to be spent hitting on guys?"

Addison wiped left over tears from her face, "Yea, let's just sleep our way through the drama, and then start fresh."

"Fresh." Agreed Meredith, and they made their way out of the scrub room together.

* * *

They walked into the bar together, chatting animatedly, and catching up completely over the last few years. Meredith was comparing their mission of sleeping through the drama to when she slept her way through Europe with her friend Sadie.

They went to the bar and ordered two beers which Joe gave them; they sat at the bar, enjoying each other's company and pointing out guys that were watching them. It wasn't much later two guys started buying them all shots and the night's fun began.

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