January, Saturday 30th

Addison's lips curved up into a smile before she turned to face Pete as they stood in the hallway of her parents' house in the Hamptons.

"Wow." Pete looked around the huge hall they were standing in. "That is...huge."

"I did tell you that."

"But you didn't say it was that huge."

"Yes I did." She laughed softly.

"What if one of us gets lost? I am never ever going to find you again."

"The house isn't that big and I won't get lost." She grinned and started to carry her bag up the stairs.

"We better stay together in here," Pete commented as he followed her with his bag. Addison rolled her eyes before she made her way into the bedroom. He smiled and placed his bag on his side of the bed.

"So, what do you want to do today?" she asked.

"We could start with trying out this amazingly big and comfortable looking bed over here." Pete grinned and wiggled his eyebrows. Addison laughed and shook her head at him as she began to unpack. "What?" Pete smiled as he opened his bag.

"I should have known that that would be your answer."

"Fine." Pete sighed and put the bag aside before he lay down on the bed. "What are your suggestions?"

"Well, lunch would be a good start." She looked back at him as she started to unpack his bag. "Then I thought this afternoon we could go for a walk in the woods and watch a film tonight."

"Okay."

"We can try the bed out tonight." She smiled. "All night."

"Yeah."

Addison gave a sigh before she climbed onto the bed and straddled his lap.

"What?" Pete looked at her. "Your plan is fine."

"You don't seem to enjoy it."

"I will." He nodded.

"Really?" She looked down at him. "You don't want to do something else?"

"Nope."

"Okay." Addison leaned down and softly kissed him. Pete kissed her back before he pulled away and tried to sit up. "Any ideas for lunch?" she asked and got off his lap, sitting next to him.

"I don't know. I've never been here."

"We brought food. I could cook," she offered.

"You sure?" He looked at her unsure.

"I'm not going to burn the house down."

"If you say so."

"That gives me confident." She poked his chest.

"Well you know what can happen when you cook."

"At least I try."

"That doesn't cook our food though."

"Well, I'm sorry I can't cook and no one is teaching me." She looked at him.

"I am teaching you." He looked back at her.

"Not often."

"I have been cooking for us for a year. You'd think you've picked up a few things."

"I'm not a chef," she defended herself.

"Me neither."

"You are." She nodded.

"Let's just cook together."

"Okay. What shall we cook?"

"Whatever you want."

"Okay." Addison smiled softly and stood up as she took hold of his hand. Pete stood up as well before he pulled her towards him and kissed her. She giggled softly and wrapped her arms around his neck as she kissed him back. He slipped his hands under her shirt on her back evilly and pulled her closer. She gave a small squeal as his cold hands touched her warm skin. Pete smiled against her lips and slid his hands further up her back.

"Your hands are cold!" She squirmed against his touch. He sighed and moved his hands from under her shirt before he pulled away. "That was mean." Addison pouted at him.

"It was not."

"You put your cold hands on my warm back."

"I didn't know they were too cold for you." Pete gave a small sigh and walked to the door.

"Pete." She frowned. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong." He shook his head. "I'm sorry my hands are too cold for you, but I'll just keep them to myself."

"Babe." Addison walked over to him and took hold of his hands.

"It's fine." He looked at her. "Let's go cook."

"What's wrong?" She looked up at him.

"Nothing is wrong." Pete shook his head again.

"Fine." She sighed and dropped his hand before she walked down to the kitchen. Pete watched her and followed her down the stairs. "Okay, so we have pasta, noodles, we can order in, go out." She listed what they could eat.

"I thought you want to cook?" Pete looked at her and sat down on a chair in the kitchen.

"I said I could." Addison turned and looked at him.

"Oh, okay." He nodded. "I'll cook then."

"We could just go out."

"Just say what you want." Pete looked at her.

"I really don't mind."

"Cook together?" He got up and looked at her.

"Okay." Addison smiled softly at him.

Pete smiled back and leaned down to place a kiss on her lips. "I love you."

"And I love you."

He smiled softly before he walked over to the food they had brought and began to unpack everything.

"So, what shall we cook?" She wrapped her arms around his waist from behind.

"How about noodles?"

"Sure." Addison smiled and nodded before she kissed the back of his shoulder. Pete smiled softly and got all the ingredients for their noodles together. "This is nice." She rested her chin on his shoulder and looked at him.

"What?" He turned his head and looked back at her.

"Us, here, together."

"It is." Pete smiled. Addison grinned and kissed his shoulder. "Is this what you call cooking together?" He smiled softly.

"No." She laughed. "But you started cooking so I thought I'd leave you."

"I see." Pete smiled and nodded as he began to cut a few paprikas and onion for their noodles.

"What would you like me to do?"

"If you want to you can help me cutting here." He suggested. "But if you'd rather stay like this I don't mind either."

"Let's stay like this." She grinned.

"I should have known." Pete rolled his eyes.

"This is a very nice position."

"It is." He nodded. "And you can watch and learn." Addison smiled and leaned her head against his shoulder. Pete finished cutting all the vegetables before he put them into a boiler and placed it on the stove.

"You know, I'm really glad I married you."

"I'd be very worried if you weren't."

"If we hadn't gotten married do you think we would have gotten together?"

"Yes."

"You do?"

"I liked you." Pete shrugged. "I tried to win you around before we got married. So why not."

"I thought you used to hate me." She admitted and looked at him.

"I already told you once I didn't."

"So, you weren't trying to annoy me, you were trying to get me to date you."

"Well...a bit of both."

"A bit of both." She smiled and rolled her eyes. "Why did you never ask me outright?"

"Because you so would have turned me down."

"You never know."

"You can tell me now." Pete smiled.

"I might have accepted if you'd asked me."

"You would have said 'Find someone else to screw, Wilder, you are not getting into my pants'." Pete smirked as he tried to talk in a girly voice.

Addison laughed at his intimidation. "I would have not said that."

"Oh you so would." He nodded.

"I would not. I would have said; why don't you pick up some dumb blonde with fake boobs because I wouldn't screw you if you were the last man alive."

"I knew it would have been something like that." Pete sighed. "And you wouldn't have given a fuck about me."

"I would." She nodded. "I always cared about how you reacted."

"Really?"

"Yes. The more I annoyed you the more you came back to me." Addison shrugged. "You looked sexier when you were annoyed as well."

"Sexier?" Pete raised an eyebrow. "So you're saying I am not as sexy to you as I used to be?"

"No, you're sexier."

"Am I?" He smiled. "How come?"

"You just are." Addison smiled at him.

"Thank you. You are not too bad either." Pete smirked.

"I'm glad." She smiled.

"Remember the night we made out in my parent's kitchen?" He smiled at the memory.

"Oh yeah." She smiled slightly.

"What?" He looked at her.

"I went and slept with some random guy that night." She admitted.

"Oh." He nodded and turned back to the food.

"When we started kissing and you wanted to go upstairs, I kind of freaked because I thought it would just be one night and that would be it."

"But you had a one night stand with someone else instead."

"That guy didn't matter and I didn't enjoy it."

"Why not?"

"All I could think about was you."

"But you hated me." Pete looked at her.

"I hated the fact that I liked you."

"Was I really that bad?"

"I thought you were an arrogant, cocky ass who was with a different girl every night."

"What attracted you to me then?"

"Your arrogant and cockiness." Addison smiled softly at him. "You were a bad boy."

"And now I'm not a bad boy anymore, you still like me?"

"I love you." She leaned up and softly kissed him. "But you are certainly a bad boy in bed."

"Hmm but you like it like that."

"I do." She grinned. Pete smiled and kissed her again. "I'm just thankful that we got drunk together that night and wanted to prove a point. I think that is the best idea I've ever had."

"Well it certainly was the best idea I've ever had."

"Agreeing to marry me." She grinned.

"Yep." Pete smiled. "I've always known it. Even though it took us five months of fighting and angry sex to finally realise it."

Addison laughed softly at him. "But it was really good angry sex and we did have some good times."

"We did." He nodded and smiled softly.

"So it wasn't all that bad."

"It wasn't easy but I wouldn't change it for the world."

"Nor me." She smiled softly and kissed him. Pete placed a hand on her cheek and kissed her back tenderly.

Addison gave a shiver before she ran across the room and dive in under the covers next to Pete to get warm.

"What's up?" Pete smiled as he looked at her. "You cold?"

"It's freezing out there." She curled tight into his side.

"Poor baby." Pete smiled softly and wrapped his arms tightly around her.

"Why are you so warm?" Addison frowned at him.

"I don't know." He laughed.

"It's like you have a built in heater." She pulled the covers tight around their bodies.

"I'm just so hot for you." He joked and smirked.

"You best be."

"I am."

"I forgot how cold it gets here." Addison whined.

"It's not that cold."

"How can you say that?" She looked at him shocked. "My feet are like ice!"

"Well you had to jump around in the snow earlier. No wonder your feet are frozen now."

"You have to ump around in the snow, it's a given! And I was wearing three pairs of socks and thick boots!"

Pete laughed softly and shook his head at his wife.

"Whaaat?" She looked at him.

"I love you." He smiled.

"You think saying that will get you out of everything."

"I didn't do anything." He looked at her.

"Yeah, yeah." She leaned up and kissed him.

"Weirdo." Pete mumbled and kissed her back.

"Yet you're still married to me."

"Because I love you."

Addison grinned and kissed him again. "And I love you." Pete smiled and held her as close to him as he could to keep her warm. "God, I'm so tired." She yawned.

"You're boring." Pete sighed.

"I am not boring."

"You are tired, so you want to sleep."

"What else am I going to do? Dance around naked?" she raised an eyebrow.

"That sounds fun."

"Well, it's not happening." She snuggled her face into his chest. Pete sighed and looked ahead of him out the window. "I love you." Addison whispered.

"Yeah, I love you too."

"What's wrong?" She frowned and looked up at him.

"Nothing's wrong, just sleep."

"You sure?"

"Sleep."

"Okay." She sighed and leaned up to kiss him. Pete kissed her back quickly before he pulled away so she could sleep. "I love you."

"I know."

"Okay, what did I do?" Addison sighed.

"You didn't do anything." Pete looked at her. "You're tired and I'm letting you sleep."

"Then what's wrong?"

"I'm just not tired."

"Okay then." She nodded and rested her head on his chest.

"Night."

"Night, Pete."

He gave a small sigh and looked out in the darkness of the room. A silence settled over the couple as they lay in the darkness.

A/N: Only two chapters left of this story. I kind of feel like this has been around forever.