Addison sat in silence for a few more minutes before Amelia finally snatched the test from her hands. "Do you know who the father is? It's not Mark again, is it? If you're a week late, that means it was about three weeks ago, which was right around the time you brought Ella up here for Father's Day."
"Shut up, Amelia. Yes, I know who the father and no, it's not Mark. Can you please not say anything to anyone about this? I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I need to talk to the father first, find out what he thinks. I'll be back in a little while. Don't say a word," Addison said, picking up her car keys and heading towards the door.
Once she reached her car, she pulled out her cell phone and scrolled through her contacts until she found who she was looking for. Across the street at the hospital, Alex was searching for an empty on-call room to crash for a few hours, or until he was paged again.
"Addison, hi. I didn't think I'd hear from you until you start work next week. What's up?" Alex answered his phone.
"I need to talk to you. Are you at home? I'd rather not talk to you where there are tons of people around."
"I'm at the hospital. I just walked into the on-call room by peds. There's no one else in here and there aren't many people who you'd know working tonight."
"Okay. My apartment's in the building across the street. I'll be there in a few minutes. Don't let anyone else in that room. We need to be alone."
Fifteen minutes later, Addison was approaching the on-call room Alex had mentioned in their conversation earlier. Taking a breath, she knocked and the door was quickly opened as her wrist was grabbed and she was pulled into the room.
"I know it was good, but I didn't think I'd be hearing from you the night you got into town and especially not in an on-call room. We did that once before and you took off the next day. I won't be the reason you leave Seattle again," stated Alex while he settled back on the bed.
"I need to talk to you Alex. I'm not here for sex. I've been really tired lately and I realized earlier tonight that I'm late, so I took a test. I'm pregnant, Alex. You're the only person I've had sex with in months," Addison paused, trying to judge his reaction to her news, but was met with a straight face. "I think I'm going to have the baby. If you don't want to be a part of the baby's life, that's fine. I can just tell people I got inseminated right before I moved. I've raised Ella basically on my own, I can do it with this baby, too."
Alex still sat quietly on the bed as Addison sat next to him; she had been pacing in front of the bed while she told Alex her news. Finally he leaned forward and said, "we're going to have a baby. You know there's a chance for the kid to be crazy, I mean, look at my family. I'm living back with Meredith and Derek, but I can get my own place so I can take the baby on my own. I know you wouldn't like me setting up a crib in the corner of my room in that house."
"Alex, don't rush to get your own place. A lot can happen between now and the time this baby comes. You have to admit, there is, and always has been, something between us. We have ended up together every time I'm in Seattle for the past year or so. We've never talked about it, but now I think we need to talk about it," Addison said.
Slowly, Alex leaned over and pulled Addison into a hug. "I think we have a lot of talking to do in the next few months and for the rest of our lives. I know I rejected you before my intern exam, but I was scared then. I didn't want to be just another intern sleeping with an attending. I'm a different person now; I've worked out a lot of the problems I was dealing with then. I'm going to be there for you for this pregnancy and I'm going to be there for our kid. I don't want to be the kind of father mine was."
Eventually, Addison relaxed into Alex's embrace and they leaned against the pillow together. "I want to stay, I really do, but I told Amelia I'd only be gone a little while. I don't start working until next Monday. Call me when you get off. You can come over and we can talk more."