My Never
Chapter 6

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Derek ~ Seattle Grace Hospital ~ 4 years ago

Addison is gone. Addison is gone. Addison left. She left me. She's gone, how can she be gone? Derek repeated the words over and over in his head as he sat beside Meredith, who was chatting away happily.

His wife was gone. How had he let that happen? They had been through so much together. Med school, their internships, Evelyn, residency, and every other problem and bump in-between. And now he had just let her go?

It wasn't like he thought it was going to be, having Addison gone. She had left two days ago. He had thought he would be relieved and happy and in love, but he felt none of those things. He just felt empty. Like he had when first coming to Seattle.

The shrill beep of a pager broke through his thoughts. "Oh, Bailey is paging me. Sorry, Derek, I've gotta go. I'll see you later," Meredith was saying. She leaned in and pecked his lips lightly. Derek's mind went into overdrive.

Forty-eight hours ago, Addison had been kissing him. Her lips moving with his, her tongue dueling his. He remembered her eyes had looked green. Sometimes they were blue, sometimes green, sometimes a mix of both, but on that fateful last day, they had definitely been green. It had been her tears on his cheeks when she pulled away.

As she turned away from him and left, not looking back, it was though a glass pane in Derek's brain had been shattered. The moment she was leaving, he didn't want to live without her. The minute they were done, he forgave her for Mark.

But it was too late. He had to let her go.

Meredith seemed to notice the distant look in his eyes, but she mistook it for desire. She went off to find Bailey, giving him a seductive smile.


Derek ~ Seattle ~ present

The next morning Devony and Derek stepped out of the elevator to find themselves face to face with an already pissed off Dr. Bailey. She frowned in confusion when she saw Devony.

"You brought her to work, Shepherd? Shouldn't she be in preschool? What's she going to do here all day?"

"She can already read, Miranda. What's she going to do at preschool?"

"I don't know. She can already read? I can't believe it. Tuck's four, and all he does at school is eat crayons."

"She seems to like the hospital. She must have been there a lot, with Addison." Derek saw the look of pure pain on Bailey's face when he mentioned Addison's name, but she composed herself quickly.

"Well, Shepherd, I'm still not exactly sure what you're going to do with her all-"

They were interrupted by Richard, who was talking with the police while he walked down the hall. He looked up and saw Derek and Devony. "Evelyn?" Richard blurted out unthinkingly, seeing her.

Derek felt his heart constrict.

"I – sorry, Derek," Richard said quickly. "Who is that?"

"This . . . is Devony. Addison's daughter," Derek told his old mentor.

"Addison has a child?" Richard asked the police.

"Dr. Shepherd, we were looking for you. There are some things we need to discuss concerning Dr. Montgomery's disappearance."

"Okay, Richard, do you think you could watch Devony while I . . ."

"Uh . . . sure." Richard was clearly still in shock, and Derek couldn't blame him, but he needed to speak with the police.

"Dr. Shepherd, we contacted the airport, location of the conference in LA, and the hotel where Addison Montgomery had reservations. She got on the plane and reached the airport in LA, but she never made it to the conference. We have no proof that she was kidnapped, but the evidence points that way."

Another officer took over. "We called Naomi and Sam Bennett, who we understand are friends of Addison living LA. Addison was planning on having lunch with them after the conference before flying back. She arrived in LA at about eleven twenty at night. Her hotel reservations were for that night only, and she had a flight booked for three o'clock the next day. The last contact she had with anyone was her daughter, who she called before her flight to say goodbye."

"We've already spoken with Devony. Her mother told her she would be back the next day. They had tickets to go to a children's theatre, so she was clearly planning to return. That indicates that she's being held against her will."

Well, obviously, Derek thought, but he didn't say that. He knew they were just doing their jobs, but nobody who knew Addison would ever think for a minute that she would just get up and leave. "Well, she must have disappeared between landing in LA and the conference. Do you know if she took a taxi, or rented a car? Did she even leave the airport? It was dark out, after all. Could she have been taken at the actual location of the conference?"

"Dr. Shepherd, we'll tell you when we know something more," an officer told him shortly. "We do know how to conduct an investigation and we're doing our best to find Addison Montgomery."

Derek, however, couldn't let it go. "I know you must have talked to Savvy and Weiss and Sam and Naomi, but what about Archer? Or her parents? Or my sister, Nancy, they're friends, maybe she knows something, anything else that could help."

"I assure you we are taking care of this, Dr. Shepherd. Now if you would actually like us to work on finding Addison . . ."

Derek sighed and let them walk away. The police knew what they were doing, he was sure, but nobody knew Addison better than him. He could call Naomi, Archer, and Nancy himself. He did not really want to contact her parents, but he would do it if he had to. There wasn't anything he wouldn't do to find her.

A few minutes later he realized he hadn't seen Meredith yet that morning. He found her writing post-op notes at a nurse's station.

"Hey," he said, coming up behind her.

"Hey," she said. He could tell she was still mad at him.

"Look, Meredith, I didn't know about Devony either. And I know this is going to be hard for you. It's going to be hard for me too. But please don't just give up on us. We can do this. Just try. Please?"

She looked at him, a calculating look in her eyes. "Fine, Derek. We can try. But I don't know anything about raising kids, and I have lots of other things to worry about. So as for that part of it – count me out."


Addison ~ Mt. Sinai ~ 2 years, 9 months ago

"Addie, you need to go home and sleep."

"I can't, Nancy, I just can't. I can't lose Devony. She's all I have left. I've already lost Evelyn and Derek, and I can't lose Devony!" Both of them glanced over at the sleeping seven month old baby. Addison could see the beads of sweat on her tiny body from across the room. A rash covered her skin, and Addison had been told earlier that day that she was in shock because her brain was swelling.

It had been hard not to panic, that first time Devony seized. But Addison was a trained doctor, and she had known what to do. Once they got to the hospital, however, other doctors took over because Devony's illness was nonsurgical. Addison found out later that Devony had viral meningitis. There was nothing to do except let it run its course and keep her fever down.

Addison had sat vigil in Devony's room for the past two days. Long shifts gave her the stamina to stay up the entire time, although Nancy had to force her to eat. She watched her baby the entire time, as if she could will her to get better. It was times like these that Addison missed Derek the most. He would know what to say, and even though Addison knew all about meningitis and Mt. Sinai had some of the best doctors in the world, she wanted Derek helping their daughter.


Obviously, Devony does not die, or else there wouldn't really be a story. So that wasn't a cliffhanger. Anyway thanks for reading

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