BTW: I read a spoiler a while ago that the Captain's name is Christopher. But it could have been because they never mentioned it the show. I didn't know what else to call him so I went with that.
Derek could feel his phone vibrating in his pocket. He was in the middle of class, he was trying to finish a very important test for his pharmacology class. He glanced over to his side and saw his wife of merely a few months. She was lost in concentration, filling in answer after answer in the book like pamphlet. When her cell phone began ringing the pencil fell out of her hand and she glanced at Derek. Trying to be as discrete as possible she looked into her purse and saw the number on the caller ID.
"It's Ella's school." she whispered, looking up to make sure the professor didn't hear her. She discreetly put head down on the desk, her phone as the barrier and answered the call. Just as she was about to hang up she noticed a pair of feet on the ground beside her and looked up.
"Got what you needed to know Mrs. Shepherd?" their professor asked, causing the whole class to lose concentration. Every single person in the room was looking at her. "You do know what cheating on a test means, Mrs. Shepherd...this is Yale...this is a prestigious school of Medicine. We have no tolerance of such high school behavior."
"I was not cheating, Dr. James. It was my daughter's school, she fell off the monkey bars. Paramedics say her leg could be broken so...I have to go." Addison explained. "Oh, and I don't care if you're gonna fail me or expel me from you 'prestigious school of Medicine.' It would be your loss, I'd get into any school I wanted to. But right now, my biggest concern is my child so I'll deal with the consequences of this later."
"After I talk to the dean you won't even be able to get into clown college."
"The dean..."Addison laughed. "Right, well... you do that. Give it your best shot, it's not going to work. And even if it does, keep in mind that I don't need education to suffice." Addison answered, getting up from her seat and swinging her Prada purse over her shoulder.
The older man turned to Derek, shaking his head with disappointment. "What's she gonna do, sell that purse and feed herself and her kid for a month?"
Derek managed to fake a very convincing laugh before answered, "That or she'd live off that 25 million dollar trust fund of hers."
His jaw dropped. "Shepherd..." he pondered, coming to realize the most obvious fact. That they have the same last name "She's your wife? I see. Where'd she get 25 million from? Who are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rockefeller?"
"No..although they are close friends. Her parents are Christopher Montgomery and Bizzy Forbes."
"Christopher Montgomery... as in the dean of students?" The man asked, feeling his throat dry up. No one yells at the daughter of the dean. If anyone was getting blacklisted it was going to be him.
"That would be the one." Derek answered proudly smiling with the same smut look that his professor had the second he had caught Addison. "I should probably go with her. If she's mad at me than my father in law is mad at me...and we don't want that." he picked up his empty backpack and threw it over his shoulder before leaving the room.
Derek reached the parking lot of the school just as Addison started the car. He grabbed the handle of the passenger seat, hoping she wouldn't drive away. Luckily, she unlocked the doors and let him into the car.
"Glad you decided to join me." she said with a touch of sarcasm.
"What choice did I have? We came with only one car today...and your father is the dean. If I'm on your bad side, I'm on his bad side. Oh, then there is the fact that I love you and I wouldn't let you get all the glory of walking out of that son of a bitch's class alone... and she is my daughter. If you're going down for her, I'm going down with you."
"Glad to know it." she replied, pressing her foot onto the gas, pressing the pedal to medal sending the car almost flying. Within minutes they were in the office of the exclusive kindergarten which cost more that Derek was willing to believe. He still wasn't sure how Addison had talked him into sending Ella there.
As soon Addison saw the little sitting on a small bed in the nurse's office it her maternal instincts kicked in. She crouched beside the bed and took the crying child in her arms. It wouldn't be the first that Addison had tried to take on a maternal role, except usually Ella would turn her away. Derek was right, she might have had a hate for women. But this time she didn't fight, she melted in Addison's arms.
"Mommy." she sobbed, using the word for the first time.
Hearing the word, Addison held her tighter and pressed a kiss to the top of her head. "I'm here, I'm right here, baby." she promised. "Stop crying."
"I fell.." the five and a half year old proclaimed.
"I know, I heard." Addison answered, taking a seat on the bed beside her daughter. She slowly pulled up her pants to see a leg that would at the very least require for her bone to be set back straight. "I know you're in pain, El, and I know you're scared but we've got to get you to the hospital, honey. You're leg is broken."
Derek nodded his approval, kneeling down by the bed to get a better look at his daughter's knee. They may not have been official MDs yet but you don't need an MD to know a leg is broken when you cleary see the bone going in a different direction. He looked back up at Addison, "You wanna go with her in the ambulance and I'll follow or vise versa?"
"What ever she wants." Addison answered, looking down at Ella who she knew was listening to the exchange between her parents.
"I want Mommy." Ella proclaimed, clinging to Addison tightly.
Derek decided he didn't want his daughter present in the court room while he and Addison battled in finalizing the divorce. He insisted that she wait outside until it was over. So Ella was stuck on a bench at the front of the building, bored of out her mind. She had her eye fixed on her ipod, trying to decide the next song she wanted to listen to. It in silence of the moment she heard the distinct sound of heals, a sound she'd grown up to. She looked up to see Addison walking toward the building, following behind her overly confident lawyer.
Ella smiled, not being about to hold back the happiness. "Mom!" she called out loudly, causing Addison to freeze in place just in front of the door. Ella got up and ran toward her. "Mom..." she managed to say before Addison cut her off.
"Addison." she corrected emotionlessly. "I'm not your mother, remember?"
Guilt took over Ella's features, she looked down at the ground shamefully. "I'm sorry about that." she said quietly, hoping the apology would be enough.
"No, it's okay. You don't have to apologize. You were right." Addison answered. "I looked after you for a majority of your life, I dropped everything when you needed me, I loved you more than life its self and I was hoping that would make up for the fact that I don't share 23 chromosomes with you. But it doesn't. Nothing makes up for the fact that you don't have a spec of my blood running in your veins. I'm not your mother and I'm sorry that I ever tried to fill that position."
She continued walking toward the courthouse to join the cold hearted man waiting for her by the door.
Desperate for attention, Ella tried to stop her. "I'm passing Anatomy." she randomly blurted, relieved when Addison turned with a small smile.
"Good."she responded.
"My teacher was apparently a med school drop out. When she found out who my parents were I became her favorite student. She let me do a project to make up for my first semester grade and I'm working my ass off this semester to maintain it."
"Ms. Montgomery....we have a things to do." her lawyer called heartlessly from the door, causing her to turn and motion for him to wait.
"What did you do your project on?"
"Nothing...I mean I didn't put any effort into it. I got one of Ellis Grey's tapes and made Richard Webber write me a play by play of what's going on so I would 'learn' but I really used it to present to the class."
Addison laughed, "Good job. Lying to the most preoccupied person in the hospital to do your homework for you. Mark and your father have taught you well." After being called one more time Addison utter the words. "I have to go. Hope everything works out for you, Ella. Bye." she gave one last small smile before begin to walk away.
"That's it?" Ella called after her, only to get no response this time.
An hour later Derek walked out, rubbing his eyes tiredly. As soon as he walked out he saw his daughter sitting where she had been told. She was too preoccupied in the text message she was writing to notice him but looked up the second she heard Addison's heels again.
"That gets your attention but I don't?" he asked, knowing for a fact that it's what broke his daughter's trance.
Ella ignored his comment and looked up him wordlessly until she saw Addison's car leaving the property. "What happen?" she asked. "What's wrong with her?"
"She's a little pissed off."
"Why?" Ella asked.
"Divorce didn't go through. Judge ordered 6 months of marriage counseling. If that fails, than our request for a divorce will be considered." Derek explained, causing a huge grin to appear on his daughter's face.
"That's kinda funny."
"Hysterical." Derek replied sarcastically. "We've got to go live together...so she moving back into the trailer tomorrow."
Ella laughed harder, hard enough to cause a few tears to escape her eyes. She wiped them away and let her laughter die down. "That's hilarious. This is going to be the most entertaining 6 months of my life."
Since so many people wanted me to continue, I figured I'd turn this into a full blown story. I hope that's the right choice. If you think I should delete this chapter and leave it as a one shot, let me know. Other than that, I'd love to know all comments, thoughts. concerns or complaints. Thanks for reading. :)
Special thanks to McHobit for helping me get my thoughts in order to plan this story. =D
