AN: Ok, here's chapter 3. I'm really sorry it took me so long to update, but I moved to another apartment and I only got internet today.
Anyway, this one's a little bit longer than the others. I really hope you like it. I don't know if it's believable that those two are becoming friends so quickly, but I want to speed up things a little. And even if it's not believable, who cares? It's a fanfic! ;) So enjoy it and review.
DISCLAIMER: As usual I do not own anything bla bla bla…and as usual I wish I owned Kate Walsh, but I'm still working on it ;)
CHAPTER 3 – The start of something new
The divorce was final. She wasn't Addison Adrienne Forbes Montgomery Shepherd anymore. Maybe it was for the best, too many names for one person. But still, she felt like she just lost a part of her.
Derek wanted her to have both the Brownstone and the house in Hamptons, because he claimed that the divorce was his fault. He said that he and Meredith had a relationship, while Addison had just a one night stand with Mark. Addison felt guilty. If only Derek knew the truth...
But now there was no time to think about her personal life. There was a woman with her husband's penis stuck inside of her. Addison needed to focus on her job. She reached out to Meredith, who was her intern for the day. She just came back to work after her surgery.
"Dr. Grey, welcome back!" Addison greeted the intern and together they walked to the exam room.
"Thank you!" replied Meredith. Then she suddenly said "Tonight!"
"Excuse me?" asked Addison turning around.
"Tonight, drinks, at Joe's. I remembered!" explained Meredith.
Addison smiled. "Well, looks like I have to pay, then. Tonight is it! Now, back to work...we've been asked to consult on a case where a woman has a foreign object stuck inside of her..."
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"That was crazy!" laughed Meredith talking about the case they had that day. "And the daughter? Her face when she heard that her father had a piercing on his penis was priceless!"
Addison didn't want to laugh along with Meredith but she couldn't help it. It indeed was hilarious watching them fight with him stuck inside of her. But then Addison remembered the conversations she had with the woman about guilt and truth and she stopped laughing. Meredith apparently noticed it, cause she asked her if there was something wrong.
"The divorce was finalized today, as you probably heard. Derek gave me both the Brownstone in New York and the house in Hamptons cause he thinks he's the one responsible for the divorce. He said that you two had a relationship, while I just had a one night stand. But it's not exactly like that, I..." Addison stopped, not sure if she could tell Meredith the truth. After all, she was the Dirty Mistress and even if she wasn't back with Derek and she claimed she didn't want to go back with him, Addison felt a little uncomfortable to talk to Meredith about her ex-husband.
"What, Addison? You can tell me, I swear I won't say a word to anyone." promised Meredith, touching the other woman's arm softly.
"I was in love with Mark. Or at least I thought I was. We lived together for two months after Derek left me, I thought we could make it work. But then I caught him with someone else, then Richard called and I left him and came here to win Derek back. And I feel terrible now and I want to tell Derek the truth, but I'm not sure how he's gonna take it."
"Look, maybe I'm not the right person to give you an advice." started Meredith. "But I think you should be honest with him. Maybe he will freak out, I'm sure he will. But at least you won't feel guilty anymore, right? Besides, he can't get too mad at you, cause he actually had a relationship with me. And even if you slept with his best friend, he was the one to blame in the first place. He ignored you for two years. That's one of the reasons why I didn't want to be with him anymore, you know? I have enough abandonment issues without having my boyfriend, or whatever Derek could have become, ignoring me. He did that to you so he would have done the same with me. I'm sure about it."
"Meredith..." sighed Addison. "He loves you. He loves you more than he ever loved me, even if it hurts like hell admitting that. I don't think he would ever ignore you."
Meredith shook her head. "I don't care. It's not only that. It's everything, how he treated you since you came here. At first he called you names, then he said he wanted to try to fix your marriage but he didn't really tried, cause half of the time he was flirting with me...and I'm sorry Addison, I really am, but we both know it. And now he walks around like he's the happiest man alive cause he got rid of you. I just don't like him anymore. He's not the McDreamy I thought he was. He rather is a McAss. So no way I'm going to get him back. But anyway, enough about him. Tell me something about you that I don't know. Something that can make me get to know you better. Tell me how you were like in high school, for example."
Addison smiled, relieved that Meredith decided to change the subject. She really didn't want to think about Derek anymore. "In high school I was a geek. I had braces and I sucked at sports. Guys never wanted me and I never had a real boyfriend till I was in college. When I graduated I decided it was time for a change. I started wearing high heels and tight clothes and suddenly I wasn't the geek anymore, but the hot girl everyone wanted. But deep inside, sometimes I still feel like I'm that geek girl."
"You, a geek? A geek without boyfriends?" laughed Meredith. "Come on, I don't believe you. You're like...gorgeous! I can't believe there was a time in your life when you weren't this stunning!"
Addison blushed. "Well, I would show you the yearbooks if I hadn't burnt them years ago. What about you?"
"I was a rebel. I even dyed my hair pink once. My mother was desperate...well...when she had time to take a look at me, which didn't happen that often."
"Really? Pink? Oh god, you have to show me some pictures!"
"I will. You should come to my place for dinner one of these days. Sometimes we just get together, have dinner and watch my mom's surgeries on tape. Of course maybe we find them interesting cause we're just interns, and probably a great surgeon like you would get bored, but.." rambled Meredith.
"Meredith.." Addison cut her off. "I'd like to. Thanks."
They both smiled at each other and took a sip of their drinks. It was a little weird how they felt comfortable talking with each other. The ex-wife and the ex-dirty mistress. But it felt good to be there, sharing the memories of their high school years while having a drink. Beside, the only thing that had kept them from being friends before was Derek and he wasn't an issue anymore.
They stayed at Joe's for a couple of hours, talking about everything and laughing. It was almost midnight when they decided it was time to go back home (or to the hotel, in Addison's case). They walked back to their cars in silence, for the first time that night.
"That was nice." said Addison when they approached her car.
"It was." agreed Meredith. "We should do it again sometimes. I meant it, Addison, when I said I want us to be friends."
Addison nodded, smiling. "We are definitely doing it again. I'll see you tomorrow."
"Goodnight Addison." replied Meredith walking away to reach her car.
Addison was ready to leave when she stopped. "Meredith!" she called. The younger woman turned around. "Thank you."
"What for?" asked the intern.
"For remembering…for asking me again."
Meredith smiled and waved goodbye. She had this feeling inside, that this was going to be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.