Chapter 3- Take to the Streets

Derek Shepherd knew the subject would come up, all day he'd been waiting for it, and now here it was. It was eight pm, their work at the hospital was done and Liv wanted to go home. The only problem being was that he and Addison no longer lived together and their daughter didn't have a clue of this.

"So are we going to sleep at this trailer grandpa keeps talking about?" Liv asked and Derek was reminded how much she was used to their Upper East Side life.

"Well," Derek said glancing at Addison who looked just as panicked as he imaged himself to be.

"Does it have electricity? Do any trailers have electricity? Where will I sleep? Oh God, do you really live in a trailer?"

"Yes," he said smiling the look on Liv's face was sheer disgust. "It's not that bad, I bet you'd like it."

"Really?"

"Yes," he laughed.

"Daddy?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you know me?" Olivia's hands were once again rapped around her black berry. What fifteen year old needed a black berry? He'd have to remember to down grade her phone.

"Liv, you'll love it. Come on."

Addison head shot up in surprise, "The trailer Derek? We're taking our daughter to your trailer?"

"I guess so," he said making sure Olivia's eyes were on her phone. When he was sure she wasn't looking he shrugged. What was he supposed to say? 'You have a choice, Meredith's house with daddy and his girlfriend, or a hotel with mommy?'

Liv looked up from he cell-phone. "We going yet?"

"Yeah," Addison answered putting her hand on her daughter's back. "Let's go to the trailer."

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Meredith Grey stood watching her boyfriend, his ex-wife, and their daughter walk out Seattle Grace. Derek was walking behind them his hand guiding them forward.

Earlier that day we she had seen Olivia, she knew. It was like another Addison, another moment where all her dreams began to fade. She had hated Addison when Addison had Derek, and for the slightest moment she hated Olivia Shepherd. However it had only taken her a few minutes for Meredith to see the insecurity in Olivia's eyes when Derek spoke to her. Olivia was the present day version of teenage Meredith. Meredith knew how it felt to see your father with another family, she knew the resentment that came from it. The resentment that Derek would face and the resentment she, herself would face. Looking out again she saw the three leave in Addison's Lexus, and at that moment Meredith Grey decided that she would get Olivia Shepherd to like her.

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"This is it?"

"What? You don't like?"

"You live here? Mom you live here?"

"What wrong with it?"

"It's like the size of my shower at home."

"You're being dramatic."

"I'm not, mom can we please blow it up?"

Addison sighed at her daughter, shoes completely soaked and hair a frizzy mess, like Addison, Liv most likely was craving city apartments and hard wood floors. "Liv, it's not that bad."

Derek smiled, "See Livy, you'll learn to love it."

"You're lying."

Addison and Derek looked at each other, then back at their daughter who was currently kick mud off her shoes. "Of course we are," and as if on cue it began to rain, Seattle style.

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After a mad dash inside the 'metal shower' as Liv was now calling it, Derek began to understand how small his trailer actually was, especially when your stuffed in it with your ex-wife.

"Where do I sleep? This place only has one bed." Liv was at it again.

Addison, who was towel drying her hair began to laugh. "Oh, Derek, she's gonna love this."

"What? I am NOT sleeping outside! Don't even think about it."

"Liv, relax. You sleep in here. Your mother is just trying to scare you."

"I don't think she'd scare me in such a serious situation."

"Liv, you're such a drama queen."

"Where am I sleeping."

Derek walked over to the kitchen table and pulled down the mattress. Giving his daughter an innocent grin, he watched Addison nod when Liv looked at her in horror.

"Oh, God." Liv croaked.

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