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August…
Addison was yelling at Mark while they were all getting ready in the morning.
"You have to do some things around here. I can't do it all."
"I don't know what you want me to do Addison."
"Anything. Derek does more than you."
"I don't know how."
"Don't even give me that one. You've had the girls for more than a year. You know what to do."
"More like you've had the girls for over a year."
"Don't make this out to be me taking them from you. It's your fault that I've been the one raising them for a year. If they had a father who was around, then you would know what to do."
"I can't do this."
"You are not leaving. You're not getting out of this. You have to take the consequences of your actions. You have two beautiful, smart, kind girls. You should be proud. You should want to be with them. Is this what you're going to do with the new baby?"
"I'm not father material. You've said it yourself."
"Well, you've been a father for sixteen years, you'd think you would be a much better one by now." Mark just looked at her. "You have to take Kaitlyn to the doctor today. I have a surgery."
"Okay. I think I can do that."
"You better be able to."
Addison walked through the hospital looking for Mark. She wanted to talk to him about their schedules that week. She saw Cristina, Alex, and Izzie at the desk.
"Have you seen Mark?" Cristina pointed to a door.
"He want in that on call room a few minutes ago."
"Thanks." She turned and walked toward the door. Alex had been standing right there.
"Didn't some nurse follow him in there?" Cristina just looked at him. Izzie felt bad for Addison.
"Cristina, that's mean."
"I'm not covering for McSteamy. He doesn't deserve it."
"Addison doesn't deserve to walk in on that….Dr. Montgomery." Addison turned around before opening the door. Izzie walked closer to her. "Can you…umm…help me with something?"
"Sure. I've got Mark cornered. I just need to tell him something quickly." She went to open the door. Izzie yelled.
"NO!"
"What are you guys hiding from me?" Izzie looked down. "Don't cover up for him." Izzie didn't respond. Addison opened the door and saw Mark and the nurse in bed together. "Sweet Mark. I had my suspicions and now they are confirmed. This has been going on for months, hasn't it?" He didn't say anything. "I wouldn't bother coming home tonight. And, don't get her pregnant too. I'm not taking care of another one of your children." She turned and left, nearly in tears. She walked past the desk where Cristina still was. "Thanks Yang." She started to walk off, almost crying, trying to hold it in to her office.
"Wait. Was that a sarcastic thanks?" Addison turned around.
"Not at all. I thought he was cheating, but I couldn't catch him so I couldn't prove it. Now I can. And you knew he was in there with a girl. You helped me." Addison walked away with tears starting to come down her face.
"Told you we should tell her."
Minutes later…Izzie came up behind Derek.
"Dr. Shepherd." He turned around.
"Yes?"
"You and Dr. Montgomery are friends now, right?"
"Yes."
"Then, as a friend, you should check on her."
"Why? What did Mark do now?"
"Just find her. I think she needs someone."
Derek came up next to Addison.
"You look like you could just fall over."
"I think I could." Derek took her into his arms and held her. She relaxed against his body. "I'm exhausted."
"Why?"
"I'm here on my feet doing surgeries, then home yelling at Mark, then home alone with the girls, and picking them up from here and taking them there. I feel like it never ends. Mark hasn't spent a night a home in over a week. He doesn't want his kids and I don't know if I can trust him anymore. It's almost like he's back to his pattern of girls in New York. I just wish I knew if he was in or out so I can stop trying. He's wearing me thin." Derek made Addison stand up in front of him.
"I know what he did."
"How?"
"I promised myself and him that I would give him another chance, but I think you need to know. You need to get out and you need a reason to."
"What?"
"The other day Meredith and I were at Joe's and we caught him picking up girls there." Addison looked down.
"How long?"
"Joe says he was there every night for the past two weeks and he left with a girl every night." A tear fell down Addison's cheek. "You don't deserve that. He doesn't deserve you." He held her. She leaned against him and put her head on his chest. They just stood there like that for a few minutes, Derek holding her, and Addison listening to his heart beat, feeling comfortable in his arms.
"It's been going on longer than two weeks. I suspected it, but I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt. When he started having a lot of emergency surgeries I knew that he was lying. Did you know I just walked in on him and a nurse in an on call room?"
"That's what Stevens was talking about."
"She told you?"
"She told me you were upset. That's all." Addison broke into sobs in Derek's arms.
"I'm sorry."
"You're allowed to cry. I'm your friend. I want to be here for you."
"No. I'm sorry for before. I now know what it feels like to walk in on someone you love with another person. It was an awful, terrible decision. I'm a horrible person to do that to you. You don't deserve that."
"Maybe I did."
"No one deserves that, except maybe Mark, but that's only because I'm mad at him at the moment. You did not do anything even remotely close to deserving what I did to you."
"Add. Stop. I wasn't that innocent."
"Are you trying to tell me you had an affair?"
"I had an affair (her stomach dropped as he said that) with work." She felt relieved. "You had to do something. That wasn't thing to do, but I know why you did it. I forgave you. I still forgive you. I want to put that behind us."
"Okay, but I am really sorry. I'm so sorry."
"Shh. I know."
"What am I going to do?"
"Leave him."
"It's not that easy. What will happen to the girls? I'm the first stable parent they've had."
"Did you sign the papers?"
"Day after they came back from New York."
"Take them with you, or better yet, make Mark leave."
"It's his house."
"So, you can buy it from him. He prefers an apartment anyway. The house was only for the girls." They were quiet for a minute.
"I'm going to have to do it all alone."
"I'll help you. Anything. Just call anytime day or night and I'll be there."
"Isn't that something you tell your fiancée?"
"I'm helping a friend. If Meredith won't let me help a friend, then we're done. Things haven't been going as well anymore."
"I don't want to do it alone."
"You're not."
"I mean give birth."
"I'll be there." Addison laughed. "What?"
"Just think about gossip chain that will go around this hospital. The ex-husband in the delivery room with the adulterous wife giving birth to his ex-best friend's baby." Derek laughed.
"Not your everyday situation." Addison smiled.
"No it's not."
"I wouldn't miss it for the world."
"You always have to be the center of gossip."
"Oh yeah. It's all about me." She hit his arm. "You're going to pay for that."
"What are you going to do? Hit me?" Derek wrapped his arms around her and began tickling her.
"Not quite." They were both laughing.
"Derek." He stopped but held onto her. Their faces were close. Meredith walked up behind him.
"Here are Mr. Brown's labs, Dr. Shepherd." Addison pushed Derek's arms off of her. Meredith stormed away.
"Meredith, wait."
"How are you going to explain this one, Dr. Shepherd?" He elbowed her. "Owe."
"She's going to think I'm cheating on her."
"Tell her everything. Including the night when you confessed your love for me…but I would leave out the kiss." And that night about 8 months ago she thought to herself. Derek ran his hand through his hair.
"Ugh." He turned to Addison. "Take a nap."
"I need one." They just stood there. "Are you going after her?"
"I'm giving her a few minutes."
"Want to do me a favor?"
"Depends…"
"Will you take my blood pressure?"
"That I can do. Do you feel okay?"
"I think I'm just tired, but I just want to check."
"Let's go in there." He pointed to an exam room. They went in. Addison sat on the bed. Derek wrapped the blood pressure cuff around her arm. He put on his stethoscope and took her blood pressure. "133 over 85." He put the stethoscope around his neck and unvelcroed it. "You look worried."
"It's higher than it has been."
"What was it?"
"You're supposed to compare it to your blood pressure in the beginning of the pregnancy. The first time it was taken after I found out, my blood pressure was 115 over 76."
"It has risen quite a bit, but you are pumping more blood through your body now. What would you consider a high blood pressure in pregnancy?"
"140 over 90, or a systolic increased by 30 from the initial blood pressure reading."
You're not there."
"But it's rising so I have to watch." Derek grabbed her wrist and started taking her pulse. He let go when he was done.
"If your blood pressure is high, your heart would be working significantly harder."
"Yeah, so…"
"So lie down." Derek put on the stethoscope as Addison lay down on the bed. Derek unbuttoned a few of the buttons on her blouse to listen to her heart. He wanted to unbutton a few more. He loved her so much. He listened for a minute. "I think you're okay."
"Thank you for your professional obstetric opinion." He stuck his tongue out at her. "What are you two?" He smiled and she smiled back. "How about my feet, ankles, legs? Do they look swollen?" He slipped off her shoes and looked.
"You look fine."
"Will do you do me a favor?"
"I thought this was the favor." Addison gave him a look. "Sure. Anything."
"Will you just watch me throughout the day? Make me rest if you notice anything odd. Please?"
"Yes. Because I know as well as you do, you don't let yourself take it easy. Someone has to tell you to." Derek's pager went off. He looked at it. "Well, it's Meredith. I guess I should go to her. This could be good or bad."
"Find me when you are done with her."
"Why?"
"Because." Derek walked away and Addison went to find Callie.
"What's up?"
"So remember a little while ago when I told you I was pregnant and I wasn't sure who the father was."
"Yes and you wanted it to be Marks."
"Yes. Well I actually wanted it to be Dereks. And now I want to know for sure. Help me please."
"Yeah. I'll draw some blood. How are you going to get it from Derek and Mark?"
"Well I was thinking maybe you could somehow get something from Mark and if the results are negative then it's Derek's."
"Addison, why must you do this to me."
"Please."
"Yes. I'll do it. I'll run the test."
"Thanks. You're the best."
Derek and Meredith came out of the patient's room.
"Do you want an explanation?"
"I know. You're just friends. Well, you're awfully close friends."
"Meredith. I was just making her laugh. She's had a bad day."
"You spend more time with her than me."
"I don't. She just happens to need a friend right now."
"You made the choice once. You can't have us both. Which is it, her or me?" Derek paused. "You hesitated."
"Meredith."
"Don't Meredith me."
"That's like making you chose between me and Cristina."
"Only Cristina isn't a guy I was once married to." Neither one said anything. "I think we need a break." He didn't respond. "If we're already fighting, what are we going to do when we are married?"
"That's a legitimate point."
"What happened to the people we were when we were first dating?"
"Then there was the magic and spontaneity of new love. Marriage is about spending the rest of your life with the person who you love and want to be around every minute of everyday. You have to work for it and it isn't easy."
"That used to be us. It just kind of went away."
"I hate to bring this up now, but now you understand what happened to me and Addison. We were no longer the people we married. We changed."
"People change."
"And this time Addison and I have had apart has changed us. We're the people we used to be. That's why we've been spending so much time together. We like being around those people and we like who we are when we are together."
"Are you trying to tell me you love her?"
"I do love her and I will always love her. I will always love you too. Once you find love, I think it never goes away."
"Are you in love with her?"
"I don't know." Meredith nodded, tearing.
"If we break off our engagement, are you going to get back together with her?"
"Not at this moment. But will I spend time with her? Yes."
"But why?"
"How often do you and Cristina talk?"
"Everyday."
"Addison is my Cristina. She needs help from someone. Anyone. You don't know what it's like to have two kids."
"And you do?"
"When we all still lived in New York and it was the way things were before, Mark would leave the girls with us to do whatever. When Mark had the kids, it basically meant Addison and I had the kids. Imagine driving your teenager all over and supervising your five year old try to do everything themselves, but you know you're going to have to do it anyway. She still has to bathe, supervise, put to bed, and essentially feed Lily. It's not easy. Plus she works long days at work and then goes home to that, all while she's over six months pregnant, exhausted, leaving her boyfriend. It's not easy. Me cooking dinner for them takes a load off Addison. It's just little things that I do for a friend. If I can't be allowed to have a friend and be in a relationship, then I don't know if I can be in a relationship. People should be friends first and lovers second."
"So you're putting a friend before your girlfriend."
"I'm saying my girlfriend should be my best (her face fell because he calls Addison his best friend all the time), I mean my friend before my lover. I'm saying that to be a lover you have to understand and have a friendship and if you and I had that friendship, you would understand that that's what Addison needs, a friend, and she doesn't have close friends here except Mark and me, because she hasn't had time for friends because Mark dumped his kids on her. But Mark doesn't do anything for her except cheat on her. So should we take it back a step and work on the friendship part."
"I'll think about it. But I think right now, from what you told me, you should be with Addison, as a friend. You guys talk a lot."
"I think that is very big of you. And we do talk a lot, but all we talk about is you and Mark and our relationships, until today. Today we talked about the baby, but still."
Meredith: "You should probably get some of your stuff from my house soon." She left Derek standing there. He went to find Addison. He found her in her office. He sat across from her.
"I talked to Meredith."
"And?"
"She basically broke up with me. She made me choose between her and you."
"You chose me?"
"I hesitated."
"Oh Derek."
"I tried to tell her that would be like her choosing between me and Yang."
"We're you this dumb when I married you?"
"You were too in love to see it." They smiled. "I told her I love you."
"Oh god."
"That was actually the good part. I did that in a very good way. I told her that I do love you, but I'm in love with her and that if we ever broke up I would still love her because that isn't something that just goes away, which is why I still love you. She broke up with me before I told her that. At the end of my speech, I thought we were going to be okay, but then she told me to get my stuff from her house." Addison smiled.
"I'm sorry."
"No you're not. You're smiling."
"I am sorry. I'm just laughing at you." Derek smiled.
"Why?"
"We dated for a few years, then we were married for eleven. By the end of that time, you'd think you would know what to say, but you don't. For a brain surgeon, you're pretty brainless."
"Meredith tells me that too." Addison shook her head. She stood up suddenly.
"Come on."
"Where are we going?" He followed her.
"You'll see." He came up behind her and put his arms around her.
"Are we going to make out in a closest?"
"No." She led him into an exam room and sat on the bed. She turned on the ultrasound machine and lifted her shirt.
"What are you doing?"
"After I was semi freaking out earlier, I knew I should do an ultrasound today, but I haven't had anyone to share it with the whole pregnancy. I thought you would enjoy it." She put gel on her belly and held the probe to her skin.
"This is cool." He sat next to her. "What are we looking at?" She laughed. She moved the probe over her belly and pointed to the screen.
"That's a hand."
"Oh I see." She moved it more.
"A foot." She kept moving it. "The profile of the head."
"It's cute. Do we know what it is?"
"No we don't."
"Can you see everything sitting up?"
"It's not the same as lying down, but lying down would make it a little harder to do to myself." Derek stood up.
"Lie down. Just tell me what to do." She handed him the probe and laid back with her head elevated some.
"The head again. Move it up some. Stop."
"The heart."
"It looks good. We really need to check the placenta."
"Where?"
"Like belly button area." He moved it and she watched the screen. "Right there." He stopped. "Okay. Move it a little." He did. "No." She took his hand and moved it. The whole time she was looking at the screen.
"How does it look?"
"Everything looks good."
"Good."
"You want a challenge?"
"Okay."
"I'll find out the sex today, if, and only if you can tell me."
"Oh the pressure is on." He scanned. She giggled when he stopped on a foot.
"Not quite." He kept going.
"I think I found it." Addison smiled.
"Yeah."
"Umm…"
"Alright slowpoke, enough suspense."
"Well, I don't…"
"Oh come on Derek. The legs are wide open." He squinted.
"A girl?" Addison grinned.
"Yes!" He got wrapped up in the moment and kissed her. "I know you're wrapped up in the moment, but how would you feel if the man you are jealous of kissed Meredith right now."
"Good point. We were just celebrating though."
"I know." He turned the machine off. "Hand me a towel." He went over to the counter. "Actually, bring me the Doppler."
"Yes bossy." He brought over the Doppler and the towel. He turned the Doppler on and found the heartbeat within seconds.
"Wow."
"Impressed?"
"Very."
"I got skills you've never seen." Addison rolled her eyes.
"Okay. Quiet for a second. The point of this is to listen to her heart."
"Done?"
"Yeah. It's just a comforting sound."
"I bet." Addison wiped the gel off her stomach. Derek helped her sit up. "How many weeks pregnant are you?"
"30. Why?"
"I'm just curious. Now that I'm allowed to be curious."
"What time is it?"
"Around 4."
"I think it's time to go home. Not that either of us has done much at work today."
"We did a lot, just not a lot of medical things, or at least for real patients."
"Are you coming?"
"Home with you?"
"Yeah. I enjoy the adult company."
"You can rest and I'll take care of the girls. You'll just probably have to do bed."
"Good deal."
"Add?"
"Yeah?"
"I love you. I love that even after all that we've been through we can still talk. I love that we can make each other laugh with the smallest things that no one else would find funny. I love you. I don't mean in the way where we are lovers."
"I know. I love you too and all that other stuff." She smiled. He laughed.
Meredith came up between Cristina and Izzie.
"I think Derek and I just broke up."
"You and McDreamy are no more?"
"I think so."
"What happened?"
"Spill."
"We argued again about him and Addison again. He explained his relationship with Addison and I understand, I really do, but I can't do it anymore. He's still in love with her. She's only going to need him more and more soon and I just can't do it anymore. I don't want to be in a relationship where we fight all the time." Addison walked up behind the desk and put down a chart. She saw the three interns standing there and how upset Meredith looked, she knew what they were talking about. She joined the conversation
"Why'd you do it?"
"I think she's talking to you."
"What?"
"Why did you break up with Derek?" Meredith didn't say anything. "I know what happened. Derek told me everything."
"Of course he did."
"Including what he said to you. A lot of that wasn't half bad for Derek."
"Put yourself in my place."
"I was in your place. Meredith, when he's not with you, all he talks about is you. You don't know what I have to do to make him talk about me when I have problems. He's in love with you."
"Look how your relationship ended."
"You and Derek are extremely different than Derek and me. I'm sorry I was taking him away from you, but i.."
"I know. You just needed a friend."
"It's true."
"Do you love him?
"Yes. Meredith you need to understand love to be in love."
"If you love him and he loves you, why did you get divorced?"
"Because we couldn't be around each other without fighting and biting off each other's heads." Izzie giggled and Addison smiled. "We still love each other because of the memories we had before, not really because of the present. I still don't know what happened that allows me and Derek to be in the same room, but something did."
"It's marriage. You don't have that between you so you aren't required to be committed."
"That's probably true, but that doesn't mean your relationship with Derek would turn out like mine."
"If I don't get back together with him, is he getting together with you?"
"So I'm guessing you know about Mark?"
"Yes."
"I don't think I'm going to be devastated when I break up with Mark, but I need someone to fall back on. Even though Mark and I don't have a good relationship as lovers, we still have a good enough relationship as parents that I can tell him I can't do something or I need him to do something and he will do it at that moment. Derek will be that person if you don't get back together with him."
"As convincing as you are, I don't want to be hurt again, I just don't think I can do it."
"A guy like Derek deserves a second chance."
"He already had his."
"That, before the divorce, wasn't Derek. This is Derek. This is the man and I know and fell in love with."
"I think I see that, but he keeps changing. It's like I don't even know him anymore, but you do. That's your Derek and not mine and I think that's why he wants to be around you so much. I really haven't had a good long term relationship. I thought Derek was the one, I wanted him to be the one, but he isn't. If I can't trust him enough to have a friend, then what kind of relationship would we have? I don't want to be the wife that won't let him do anything. That's not me. I don't think either of us deserves the relationship that we have."
"Don't have a relationship because you somehow feel obligated. You deserve to have what you want in a relationship, to be with a man who truly loves you and cares about you, you know when you have them wrapped around your finger, that's when you are their one." She smiled, thinking about the beginning of her marriage.
"He just isn't the one." Her pager beeped. "I have to go." She walked away.
"She has been all dark and twisty again lately." Izzie agreed.
"She has." Addison laughed.
"Dark and twisty?"
"That's what we called her mood when she was wrapped up in her mother, and McDreamy and you and McDreamy. Then it was just McDreamy and she was bright and shiny, but for a few weeks she's been dark and twisty."
"So you and McSteamy, this something I should be betting on with evil spawn?"
"Evil spawn?"
"Karev."
"He doesn't get a Mc nickname?"
"He got that nickname before McDreamy so nope. Come on. Can I win some money?"
"They bet on everything."
"Well, we're over, but everyone knows, except him because he's blind and stupid."
"Why?"
"He's never home. He has girls he picks up in all the time he spends at Joes."
"I have seen him with girls in there actually."
"Yeah."
"I would be much more upset if I were you."
"Derek already got the meltdown. We're just done. It's going to be a mutual thing, especially when he finds out that I want to keep the girls."
"He doesn't want his kids."
"Not really. He doesn't mind a short visit, but they dampen his style. He isn't a good father, but it's really because he doesn't want to be. I don't want them living like that."
"What about you and the baby?"
"Well, we won't have Mark if that's what you mean."
"You're going to do it alone?"
"Probably not, but that's not the best conversation at the moment." Some people walked by. Person: "Dr. Shepherd's doing a hemispherectomy tomorrow."
"I gotta get in on that. Can you get me in on that?"
"Just go bug him and if he doesn't let you in, talk to Meredith because she's the intern on that case and she might be happy to have space between her and Derek." Cristina ran off.)
"She always needs the best cases." Addison was grinning. "What?"
"I'm just thinking about the baby."
"You found out."
"Yup."
"So?"
"A girl."
"Awww. That's so exciting. You couldn't wait any longer so you gave yourself an ultrasound?"
"Not quite. I've kind of been freaking out a little today and decided to do an ultrasound. Derek was with me the whole time and I haven't had anyone to share ultrasound pictures with so I dragged him into a room and did it. He got very excited, but he ended up doing the ultrasound and I told him that I would find out the sex of the baby if and only if he told me what it is so he did it."
"Could he tell you?"
"It's a good thing he doesn't do it everyday. The legs were wide open and he couldn't tell. I wanted to shake him and be like Derek. I don't know if he guessed or what, but he was right."
"You looked?"
"I knew before him, I mean seconds before him, not before today. Would you let a brain surgeon do your ultrasound?"
"Nope. I just thought with you being married you would know a little about each other's specialty just from talking."
"We do. He's just always been bad at the ultrasound thing. When the fetus looks more like a baby, he can tell what he's looking at. When it's the first trimester, forget it." Izzie laughed. Addison stretched. "Are you on call tonight?"
"Yes."
"Can I give you a case to watch?"
"Umm…"
"It's not going to be a repeat of before. It's a strong preemie who is most likely going to need surgery, we need to wait and observe for a day first."
"Okay."
"I'm going home for the night. Page me or call if you need anything."
"Okay."
"See you tomorrow."
"Bye."
Addison and Derek spent a lot of the next few days together. He went home for the nights. They weren't quite ready for that yet. He called her Thursday morning
while she and the girls were getting ready.
"Hey."
"Hi."
"How are you feeling?"
"Not quite right, but I think it's more a combination between being tired and the baby getting bigger. We're moving into the uncomfortable stages."
"Are you going to be okay? Do I need to come over?"
"No. I'm fine."
"Have you taken your blood pressure since the other day?"
"No, but I've been very relaxed and feeling good."
"That's a good sign. I'll see you at work?"
"I have to take Lily to the doctor first, then I'll be in."
"Is she okay?"
"Yup. Just her five year old check up."
"Aww. She's growing up. It'll be fun to see how much she's grown."
"She's going to have to get a booster shot. Great fun."
"Well, it'll keep her healthy."
"Yup."
"Seen Mark lately?"
"He slept here last night, but we only said a few words to each other."
"That's a start."
"But I'm done. I'm going to talk to him tonight if I can get him in one place long enough."
"You should. Tell him exactly how you feel."
"Want two kids for the evening?"
"I would love two kids for the evening."
"Okay. I have to go. I'll talk to you at work."
"Bye."
She dropped Lily off and went right up to OB. She found her doctor.
"Hey."
"Hi. Do think we could move my appointment to today?"
"Yeah. Is there a reason?"
"I really need to be screened for pre-eclampsia."
"Are you having symptoms?"
"Highish blood pressure, fatigue, and I think I'm starting to retain more fluid."
"Did you take your own blood pressure?"
"No someone else did."
"Do you think it can wait like an hour?"
"Yeah."
Sarah: "Meet me back up here in an hour."
"Thanks." Addison passed Derek in the hall. He stopped and rubbed his hand on her belly.
"How are you feeling?"
"Eh…what are you doing in an hour?"
"Just the normal running around between patients and paperwork."
"Want to trade paper work for me?"
"I would love to. What do you want me for?"
"Company in the uncomfortable exam room."
"I'll come with you. If I'm coming I have to check on patients now."
"Okay."
Later, they went up to OB and found Sarah.
"There's a gown for you in that exam room. Get changed and I'll be in in a minute."
"Okay." Addison got changed and tried to get up on the exam table. Derek started laughing. Addison frowned. Derek tried hard not to laugh.
"It's not funny." He helped her up. A minute later Sarah came in.
"Okay. Let's see what's going on." She took Addison's blood pressure in both arms. "Your blood pressure is higher than before, but it's not too high. Lie down." Addison did. Derek was holding her hand. "You're going to have to let go of her hand for a minute dad. I need it by her side."
"I'm not.."
"He's a..friend." Sarah examined her.
"Let's take a look at the baby." She scanned Addison's belly. Derek grabbed her hand and ran his thumb back and forth over the top of her hand. "Do you want to know the sex of the baby?"
"We know."
"You do?"
"We did an ultrasound on Monday. Not for that reason. I was worried about high blood pressure and had a few minutes."
"It's okay." She finished scanning. "Everything looks good. We just don't want your blood pressure to get higher so I'm putting you on bedrest until the end."
"This wasn't part of the plan."
"You really need it though. You at least need to stop working. I know you're on your feet all day here and it's not helping."
"You don't have to necessarily stay in bed all day. Don't do anything that requires you to be on your feet for a long period of time. Get up move around just set aside times to rest and put your feet you. You shouldn't be the one running around doing all of the errands. Let someone else help."
"Don't worry about anything. I know what you're thinking right now."
"You should also take your blood pressure everyday since you know how. Practice with someone before you go home today to make sure that you can do it to yourself."
"I can do it too."
"Yeah. Anything as long as it gets done. Come in if it gets any higher or you feel anything else not normal. I want to see you in a week. Really take care of yourself. You know that once a patient gets pre-eclampsia the baby pretty much has to be delivered. We don't want you to get there." Sarah left and Addison got dressed.
"Let's get you home."
"I still have patients."
"You can turn them over. Come on. I'll take the rest of the day off with you."
"Let me go say good bye to everyone."
"Alright." They walked around the hospital saying bye to people. The interns were hanging around the desk.
"Karev, it looks like you're off my service."
"Why?"
"I won't be here for the next eight months."
"Are you on bed rest?"
"I am."
"When you come back we'll be residents."
"I know. (smiling) What specialty?"
"I don't know." Addison was still smiling. "What?"
"I think I know."
"What?"
"I'm not telling."
"Bring the baby in to visit."
"I will, but don't expect it for a while. I still have a few months to go." Callie called Addison over. She handed her a paper.
"Here's the result of that test you wanted." Addison looked down at it. "What are you going to do?"
"I'm going to have to talk to him."