AN: First of all, thank you for the reviews. I'm glad you enjoyed the first chapter.
This is another short one, but I'm just getting into the story.
I don't know if I'm gonna be able to update so often in the future. I have another chapter ready and I'm gonna upload it in a few days. In these days I have to study for my driving license, the summer quarter at school will begin on Monday and I'm also moving to a new apartment, so I have a couple of crazy week ahead. Furthermore, I'm also writing a novel and my editor (a friend of mine who's helping me, I'm not a pro yet) will kill me if I don't give her a new chapter asap. But I promise I'll find the time to write this story. I have almost everything in my mind, I just have to write it down and fill some time gaps.
But enough with me. Here's the chapter. Hope you like it. Reviews are always appreciated.
DISCLAIMER: As usual I do not own Grey's Anatomy. And as usual I wish I owned Kate Walsh. (Sorry, I'm kinda obsessed with that woman. She drives me crazy!)
CHAPTER 2 – Ask me again
Addison wasn't having a good day. First her patient kept refusing the c-section, threatening her life and her baby's life. Then a man decided to set him on fire. And Karev...god, that intern was annoying! She couldn't stand him. Sometimes she felt the need to punch him...and she never punched anyone in her life. Slapped? Yes. But punched, never...and still she wanted to punch Alex Karev so bad. And above all, Mark showed up in the hospital. No, Mark signed a contract to work in the hospital. After she asked him to go back to New York. After she called him a transcontinental bootycall. He decided to stay. Derek wasn't pleased, she could tell by the look on his face when he saw Mark, and the way he talked to the Chief about him.
So it wasn't a good day. Not that the previous days had been good for her. Sometimes, she just wanted to lay in her bed without having to face the world. But she knew she couldn't do it. She was walking down the hallway when she heard someone calling her. Not someone, she heard Meredith Grey calling her, Meredith, who was just diagnosed with appendicitis.
"Addison!" called Meredith from her bed. "Dr. Montgomery Shepherd!"
"Please, don't call me Shepherd." said Addison entering the room and asking the nurse for Meredith's chart.
"So can I call you Addison?" asked Meredith, was strangely bubbly.
Addison nodded and took a look at the chart. "How are you feeling Grey?"
"I'm fine!" replied Meredith. "But I'm on drugs, so I'm supposed to be fine. How are you, though."
Addison sighed. "I'm...trying to be okay, but it's hard, you know, with Mark here and everything. Seems like I can't have a normal day, just one day to catch my breath."
"You should try drugs too maybe!" grinned Meredith, making Addison laugh.
"Yeah, maybe you're right. It's working for you, you're always dark and twisty but now..."
Meredith smiled, but then her face went dark. "Do you hate me, Addison? Honestly..."
Addison shook her head. "No, Grey, I don't hate you. I told you, none of this is your fault."
"You can call me Meredith, you know...I call you Addison, you call me Meredith...it's like we're friends...almost..." rambled Meredith. It was hard to talk when she was high on morphine. But she wanted to talk to Addison, because since she caught her crying in the supply closet, she couldn't take the redhead off her mind.
"Almost." repeated Addison with a smile.
"We should go out and have a drink together sometimes!" said Meredith after a few moments of silence.
Addison's eyes went wide. Did Meredith Grey just asked her to go out together for a drink? That was insane. The Ex-wife and the Dirty Mistress hanging out together...it was wrong on so many levels. She sighed. "I don't think this is ever gonna happen."
"Why not?" asked Meredith, a little upset by Addison's reply.
"Because, as you said, you're on drugs now, and tomorrow you're not going to remember anything about this conversation." stated Addison as she made her way to the door.
"Wanna bet?" Meredith's voice stopped Addison, who turned around to face the other woman.
"What?" she asked without understanding.
"If when I'm back I ask you out again, you're gonna buy me a drink."
Addison could tell by the look in Meredith's eyes that she was serious about it. She didn't know what to do. The thought of spending time with Meredith outside the hospital was crazy, but at the same time, she kinda wanted to get to know the intern better. After all, there must have been a reason why Derek fell in love with her in such a short period of time.
"Okay then, ask me again when you're fully recovered and I will say yes."
Meredith smiled, satisfied by Addison's reply. She was 100% positive she would remember that.