Back Where We Belong- Chapter Three:
Okay, so this is up pretty quick, right? This is set around season 5, But George is dead and Izzie is still there (She never got cancer). In this chapter, just imagine the Callie/Addison moment is sort of like the Mer/Cristina one after Burke leaves and Cristina is in the wedding dress.
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"Doctor Robbins?"
"She's not here." Alex Karev replied, looking up from the newborn baby he had been watching.
"Oh okay," Cristina turned to leave.
"Wait, Yang. What's the matter?" He had seen the obviously annoyed look on the resident's face.
"I have to find Robbins and tell her Doctor Montgomery is staying in our house."
"Addison's here?" Alex frowned.
"She's down in the lobby,"
Alex went to walk past Cristina. "Okay."
"Oh… Alex. There's something you might-"
But Alex had already gone.
/
"Addison?" Sam's voice rang through her house.
"Yeah?" Addison called from the shower.
"Are you nearly done in there?" His voice sounded impatient and nervous, Addison frowned.
"I'll be out in a minute!"
About three minutes later, Addison was standing in front of her boyfriend, dressed in only a towel. "Are you okay?" She asked when she saw the look on Sam's face.
He chuckled. "I'd thought this would be a bit more romantic… But-"
"What?"
"Addison." He took her hands in his. "I'm am completely in love with you. You know that, right?"
She nodded slowly.
"I want to be with you forever, I want to stay with you for the whole of my life."
"Sam…" She knew what he was going to do, and she was silently begging him not to do it.
"Addison Montgomery." He pulled a red box out of his pocket and got down on one knee. "Will you do the absolute honour of marrying me?"
"I-uh…" Everything started moving in slow motion, she stared down at the diamond ring with unsure eyes, before whispering. "I don't know."
Sam's bright smile was wiped off his face. "What?"
"I… Don't know."
/
"Doctor Montgomery… Addison?" A female voice woke Addison from her trance.
"Mmm?" She looked up from her chair in the lobby to see the face of Izzie Stevens.
"I, uh, got you some clothes." She handed the red head some clothing and a spare pair of shoes from her locker.
"Thank you, Stevens."
"No problem," Izzie smiled, there was an awkward silence before Izzie made an excuse to leave, mumbling something about a patient.
"Stevens gave you clothes?" Callie appeared, holding two paper cups full of coffee.
Addison nodded.
"Let's go to the bathroom, you probably want to get out of… that." She gestured to the white dress.
"Okay." Addison smiled, getting up from her chair. She picked up the shoes from the floor, and stared moving towards the bathroom with Callie.
"You got married?" An angry male voice yelled from behind her.
Addison turned to face the resident storming towards her. "Hello Karev."
/
"Meredith… What are you doing?"
"Nothing."
Derek Shepherd stopped walking and looked at his wife. "Are you following me?"
She didn't answer, but looked around nervously.
"What do you know?" Derek questioned, knowing that his wife couldn't keep secrets for long. "Meredith?"
"Geez, Derek, what's with the third degree?" Meredith shifted awkwardly before turning on her heels and rushing in the other direction; leaving Derek standing in the hallway, confused.
"Miranda!" Derek called, spotting the attending who - hearing his voice - spun around and went to walk away from him.
"Hey, Bailey!" He caught up with her, "What's the matter with you."
"Me… Nothing…" She continued walking away.
What was up with everyone today? Derek watched her walk away.
/
"Karev, leave her alone."
Alex was glaring angrily at Addison.
"Why does it matter to you, anyway, Karev? I wasn't your girlfriend, remember?" Addison said, finding confidence for the first time since she'd left LA.
"Addison, that was, like, three years ago!" Alex's voice level was rising, making heads turn to look at what was going on.
"Alex, you're making a scene." Addison told him quietly. "And… I didn't get married."
"You ran away?" Alex said calmly.
She nodded slowly.
"Addison I didn't-"
"It's okay." She smiled shyly. "Listen, I'm going to change. I'll talk to you soon, Karev."
"Oh… Okay." Alex watched as she and Callie left him and shut the door of the ladies bathroom quickly.
"See you." He whispered quietly to himself.
/
"What was that all about?" Callie asked, standing by the mirror of the bathroom as Addison went to get changed.
"What was what all about?" She frowned.
"You. And Karev."
"Nothing."
"Addison… what was all the I wasn't your girlfriend talk?"
She sighed and began unzipping her dress. "That's what he told me, after we had sex."
"You had sex! With Alex Karev?" She exclaimed, spinning around to face her friend.
Addison nodded, unwanted tears appearing in her eyes. "Right before I left. And then he was an ass and said I wasn't his girlfriend."
"Did you ask to be his girlfriend?"
"Do I seem like the kind of person who would ask that?"
"No."
"I didn't ask, he just assumed. And then I went to LA, and met Pete." She took a shaky breath. "Then he and Violet… Did there thing. And Sam was there for me… And the next thing I know he's asking me to marry him and I have no clue what to say." A single tear fell down her cheek and Callie's expression turned from curious to sympathetic.
"Honey, I'm so sorry." Callie said softly, Addison began to cry harder.
"I-I never thought this would be my life. I thought I'd be happy, and have children. But…"
Callie didn't know what to say. "Addie…"
Addison sobs became louder, soon she started to hyperventilate.
"Calm down, Addie." Callie said, bringing her arms around her best friend from behind and hugging her tightly. "Shh."
"Get this dress of me." Addison whispered shakily.
"Addison."
"Get it off me!" She yelled in between her sobs. "Get… It… Off!"
"Okay, okay." Callie quickly pulled the dress down, stepping Addison out of it and throwing it to the side. Addison stood there, crying uncontrollably, in just the under layer of her dress.
"It's okay, Addie." Callie told her. "It's okay."
/
"Alex. Stop it." Izzie said finally.
"Stop what?"
"Stop staring at your food like you want to murder someone."
Alex stabbed his fork into a potato and held it up to his face, looking at it in disgust. "This food is crap."
"Alex, it's the same food we have every day." Izzie reminded him.
"Are you okay, Alex?" Meredith asked from her spot across the table.
"Fine."
"Oh, he is so not fine." Cristina scoffed.
"What's the matter?" Izzie chose to ignore Cristina's remark.
"Nothing. I'm fine." Alex said. "Mer's the one with problem's."
Everyone one looked at Meredith.
"I don't have problems. You're the one with problem's Alex. You're obviously having mixed feelings for Addison!"
Cristina and Izzie turned to Alex, both their eyebrows raised.
"I'm not having mixed feelings…" Alex muttered, a little unconvincingly. "You're the one who's not technically married, yet still has to go to all the stupid Chief meetings with Shepherd."
Meredith narrowed her eyes and put a load of lettuce in her mouth. Alex shoved some fries in his, they both stared at each other.
Cristina and Izzie watched the scene curiously.
"You both have problems." Cristina concluded, going back to her lunch.
But Izzie wasn't going to let the topic go away. "So… Alex… Doctor Montgomery, really?"
"Shut up, Iz."
"So you do like her?"
"She hot."
Meredith rolled her eyes, Cristina noticed. "Meredith knows something!"
"No, I don't." Meredith lied.
"Spill, Grey." Cristina ordered.
Alex ignored them all, Meredith didn't know anything. Right?
"I was talking to Mark. He said he wanted to tell me a secret, something about the code of silence between ex-dirty mistresses… Anyway, he told me about an encounter he saw between Alex and Addison."
Alex's head snapped up. "What?"
"What sort of encounter?" Izzie asked, eager for Meredith to continue.
But Meredith tapped her nose with her finger, signalling that she wasn't going to say anything… For now.
"Meredith, you'll tell me later right?" Cristina said to her person.
Meredith simply picked up her food tray, smiled knowingly, and walked off.
Cristina and Izzie both turned to Alex.
"What?" He frowned. But inside he was nervous. Meredith knew something…
This up pretty quickly. For me, anyway! I liked writing this chapter, Mer/Cristina/Izzie/Alex moments are my favrioute : )
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