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I know it's been a realllly long time since this was updated. I found some chapters I already had written but not posted on my computer so I'm going to start it up again.
Addison and Nancy sat at the table looking at catalogues of baby stuff after everyone left for work and camp.
"Lily's been calling the baby Grace for a few days. What am I going to do?"
"Either you keep the name or you tell Lily that's not her name, and I suggest you do it soon if you decide on the latter."
"It's a cute name"
"I like it."
"I haven't even seriously thought of names."
"What names have you thought of?"
"Isabelle."
"I like it."
"We have an intern named Isobel right now."
"So."
"I don't know. I don't hate Grace."
"What does Derek think?"
"I don't know. We really haven't talked about it. He's only known it's his for a few weeks."
"Talk to him about it. And I think you need to explain to Lily how a baby is name."
That afternoon…..Addison, Nancy, Kaitlyn, and Lily were swimming in the pool.
"Addie, is Grace swimming too?"
"Sweetheart, come over here for a minute." Addison pulled Lily into her lap.
"What?"
"When a baby is born, the baby's parents get to give the baby a name. It's just what happens."
"She's not Grace?"
"No. We might name her Grace, but we don't know yet." Lily looked sad. "We do need help thinking of names so keep coming up with ideas. You can help us pick, but we need to think about it first because she needs a really good name."
"Okay! We'll find her a really good name." Addison kissed her cheek.
"Go swim for another fifteen minutes and then it's time to get ready for your weekend with daddy."
"Okay!"
"Do I have to go." Kaitlyn seemed annoyed.
"Yes you have to go spend time with your father. Why?"
"He doesn't ever want to do anything fun. I'm going to spend the weekend babysitting Lily while he does his own thing."
"I don't think that's going to happen. He fought with me for a weekend with you. I think he wants to spend time with his girls."
"Whatever."
"Kaitlyn, give him a chance. He's trying. I know we've been constantly changing relationships on you, but we all still love you and care about you and want to spend time with you."
"I'm just mad at him because he hurt you."
"You don't know that."
"I do. I know he has girlfriends."
"We both did things that hurt each other. There were two of us in the relationship that needed to fight to make it work and neither of us did what we should have. It's sweet of you to be concerned but you need to understand that you don't know the whole story. Worry about working on your relationship with your dad. He's trying and you need to work for that relationship too."
Addison was in bed when Derek came home that night. He sat on the bed next to her and kissed her.
"Hello."
"Hey."
"How was your day at home?"
"We need to talk about names."
"Do you think we should wait to see her?"
"No. Lily is so set on her having a name, I think we need to name her."
"What do you like?"
"I think Grace is cute. I wouldn't have picked it, but I'm starting to like it."
"I like Madeline. We could call her Maddie."
"No."
"Why not?"
"What do you and the girls call me?"
"Addie."
"Maddie and Addie?"
"Okay. I see your point."
"How about Caroline?"
"I had a girlfriend named Caroline once."
"Veto. What's your idea?"
"Emma."
"Too popular."
"Charlotte?"
"Charlotte Shepherd?"
"You are picky."
"Abigail, Elizabeth, Olivia."
"Grace is my favorite so far." Addison sighed.
"Me too."
"Why are you sighing? There's nothing wrong with Grace."
"No. I just had visions of hearing the perfect name and instantly knowing it's right."
"Grace is a cute name. We could call her Gracie. And for a middle name I like Olivia, Abigail, and Elizabeth."
"Grace Olivia Shepherd? Grace Abigail Shepherd? Grace Elizabeth Shepherd?"
"What if for now we don't worry about it? We've decided on Grace. And I really want to kiss you." Addison smiled.
"I love you." They kissed.
A few days later…Mid morning. Nancy came in Addison's room. Addison was lying on the bed looking at a book.
"Want go out with me for a while?"
"I'm not really in the mood right now."
"Do you feel okay?"
"Yeah. It's just a lazy day I think."
"Do you want to go in a little while?"
"Maybe. I don't know."
"Alright." Nancy went downstairs. "She doesn't want to go out." Derek laughed.
"The one day we need her out, she won't go out."
"I know. What are we going to do?"
"We could move it."
"Not on this short of notice."
"How long will you need to get ready?"
"Well everyone is in Seattle so I can have them do some running around. I'll go get things and then we can probably put it together in an hour." Derek looked at his watch.
"Okay. I'll see if I can get her to go out to lunch with me."
"Derek, there'll be food."
"She doesn't have to eat though."
"Alright. See if you can do that."
Little later…Nancy came back from the store.
"See if you can get her to go now."
"Okay." Derek went upstairs. "Hi honey."
"Hey. What's up?"
"Do you want to go out to lunch with me?"
"I don't know."
"When's the last time you and I had time for just us?"
"It's been a while."
"Please come with me."
"Okay. Let me get dressed. How fancy?" She looked a little annoyed as she got out of bed.
"Not too fancy, not too casual. One of your summer dresses would be good."
"Alright. I'll be down soon."
"Okay." He kissed her.
Derek went downstairs to report to Nancy.
"I got her to go out and she's getting semidressed up. She'll at least look nice."
"Very good. Have her back around 1:30."
"Okay."
1:30…Derek and Addison walked up to the house from the car. Derek was trying to contain his large grin.
"I'm glad you made me go with you. It was nice to have time with you without the girls."
"It was a very good lunch." When they got up to the door, he let her go in first. She went into the living room and everyone jumped out and said surprise. She was very surprised. Derek was smiling widely. Addison turned to Derek.
"Did you do this?"
"Nope. All I did was invite some people and get you out of the house." Addison turned back to everyone.
"I'm very surprised." Derek's mother came forward from the crowd.
"Good. We wanted it to be a surprise."
"You came all the way here for this?"
"I had company." Three of Derek's sisters were standing next to her.
"Thanks for coming guys."
"We wouldn't miss it." Nancy stood next to Addison.
"You were trying to get me to leave so you could do this. I'm sorry."
"It's fine. We got you out, didn't we?"
"The one day I didn't bug you guys you wanted me out."
"Oh well. It all worked out." She hugged Nancy.
"I guess I should say hi to everyone else."
"Okay. Make your rounds." Addison walked over to the group of people from work. Adele, Miranda, Callie, Izzie, and George all came.
(Adele)"Congratulations."
(Addison)"Thank you. Thanks for coming."
(Miranda)"We wouldn't miss it. We didn't get a chance to do it at the hospital because you had to go off and leave us so early."
(Addison)"Well what can you do?" George didn't know what he was coming to.
(George)"Izzie. There are only girls here."
(Izzie)"Relax George. It's a party."
(Addison)"You have the chief and Derek. The three of you can go downstairs or outside."
(Izzie)"The few of us are representing everyone else. Most people had to work."
(Addison)"I'm surprised all of you are here. The hospital could spare you?"
(Richard)"I'm in charge and it's only for a few hours."
(Izzie)"I tried to get Cristina to come, but she wouldn't go to a baby shower. It's not really her thing." Addison smiled.
(Addison) "I can't see her here." Derek came up behind her and put his hands on her arms.
(Derek) "Hello everyone."
(Adele) "Are you ready to be a daddy?" Derek rubbed Addison's belly.
(Derek) "Yes I am."
(Bailey)"You have a lot to learn."
(Derek)"I know, but it's the greatest job in the world."
(Bailey) "Wait until your first night at home."
(Callie)"We don't want to scare them. They really don't have a choice at this point."
Addison and Derek opened all of their gifts with the help of overly excited sisters.
"Thank you all so much. Now all we need is the baby so we can use everything."
"Does she have a name?" Addison looked at Lily.
"Lilzilla, what should the baby's name be?"
"Grace."
"Grace it is."
"Her name is Grace?"
"Yes, her name is Grace."
Should I keep going?