Meredith looked up and stared open mouth at the last person she expected to see in the world. "Addison?"
"Grey? Meredith?"
Definitely the last person she expected to see and most definitely the last person she wanted as her doctor. Crap.
Chapter 3
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"Addison, you're the OB/GYN?" Meredith stood up, looking very uncertain.
Addison looking very confused at Meredith, but clearly something is up with the younger woman, "What are you doing here Meredith? Do the chief know you are in L.A.? More importantly does Derek know?"
Meredith panicked hearing Derek's name, "No! Derek doesn't know I'm here, and he shouldn't care where I am, not anymore."
"Okay." Addison saw the agitation on Meredith's face, instead focused on why she was here. "Why don't we go to my office?"
Meredith wordlessly followed Addison to her office, slightly relieved her affairs were not being broadcasted to the whole waiting room.
"This is a lot different from Seattle Grace." Meredith commented as they walked.
Addison smiled, "I know, isn't it? I thought I wouldn't practice medicine any other way besides being inside the OR, but now I don't think I wouldn't have it any other way. It's something else, being able to know your patients, being there until you see the babies grow up, see couples stay together. It is a wonderful sight."
Meredith nodded, understanding, "I bet Izzie would fit in here so well," thinking of her friend's tendency to be affected by her patients.
"You could thrive on this too, you know." Addison replied.
Addison opened the door, held it until Meredith went in, and took a seat on one of the couches. "So tell me why you are looking for a OB/GYN halfway through the country, with Derek do not know that you are here."
She was silent, not really liking that she was there, "You know what, I'm just gonna go, and …"
"No, no, you will not run away, I know you are here, now I want to know why you are here." Addison held up here hand, she saw that Meredith is still not convinced, "You walk, I call Derek and ask him."
That got her attention, clearly Addison was not above twisting the arm, and "Fine, Derek and I broke up. Actually we broke up before Burke and Christina's wedding, but then us being us, we got back together to have sex, S&M only, that was the rule, S&M only. Then things got complicated the way they always did…"
Addison stopped her, "Wait, what's S&M?"
Meredith looked at her frustrated that she was interrupted, "Sex and Mockery." She gestured if she can continue, which Addison nodded to.
"So anyway, things always got complicated with us, you know, you coming to town, the other guys, Finn, the commitment thing, and then now we have the nurse. I mean, come on, the rule was S&M only, then he just kept on pushing while it was S&M, and he was dating which I didn't like so I asked him not to date other women, which took me the whole day to say. Then came the plans for the house for our fictional family, which of course freaked me out, because we have not yet decided to end the S&M, then he saw that I freaked out, but before that he already kissed the nurse, which he did not tell me he kissed the dirty nurse until I heard it from George, because the whole hospital knew about it!"
She was rambling everything, to which Addison was just nodding, trying to piece everything together, and understanding the story knowing how Derek is and how Meredith seemed to be with all her issues.
"He just constantly does that; he just conveniently leaves out details that matter. He did not tell me he was married, and then he did not tell me he kissed the nurse. I stepped aside when he was with you, I mean you were clearly the better choice, sophisticated, top-notch world-renowned surgeon, but to go for the nurse. Come on! This was too much."
"And you are pregnant."
Meredith suddenly stopped her rambling, blushed and looked at the smiling Addison, very, very shocked.