A/N: Thank you all for the reviews! I'm glad you're still interested in this story! As I promised here's the next update, sorry if you find few mistakes I don't have a beta reader but I think it's not that bad, anyway anjoy the chapter, you'll see here the start of the trial of Addison and Derek's divorce... Very messy!

"Please state your name for the record" Addison's lawyer cleared before starting with the question he had planned to ask her, the trial was starting so as the battle of divorce and both sides were determined to win this fight.

Addison was already on the witness box ready to start with the round of questions and to testify, she seemed distracted, cold and even stranger than the usual, she knew that this wasn't gonna end well, very deep down she knew she loved Derek and she hated herself for doing this to him. But now there was no way back, she needed him to pay for what he did to her and this was the only way he would.

"Addison Adrianne Forbes Montgomery Shepherd" She said out laud clearing her throat and almost immobile there, looking at her lawyer, without even looking at Derek who was there sat next to his lawyer.

Mr. Foster, Addison's lawyer approached to her and nodded right after she spoke to start asking "Why are we here today Mrs. Shepherd?"

"I want to divorce my husband, Dr. Derek Shepherd…" Even though she didn't want, she looked at Derek right after she said her name "… And we're trying to have an agreement according to the proprieties we both own which includes a house in the Hamptons, the Brownstone overlooking Central Park and a land here in Seattle" She said looking at her lawyer, thinking that she never would even imagine that Derek and her would end up like this

"Those are nice places. According to the records you were married for eleven years, how would you describe those years, Mrs. Shepherd?"

Addison thought for what second before asking knowing it was a tricky question "The first years were amazing, everything we could always have wanted… but then we got successful, he and I. We got busy and we got lazy. We didn't even bother to fight anymore, we let our marriage slowly fall apart" She admitted looking down

"I'm sorry about that… Is it true you moved to the stage of Seattle only about six months ago so you could make your marriage work?"

"I did, I moved here because my husband asked me to, I moved my entire practice and left the hospital where I worked in Manhattan to come here to Seattle, that's what our therapist told us to do and said we were making progress"

"My next question is, were you aware of Mr. Shepherd's extramarital activities when you moved in to this state?" The lawyer slapped, Derek who was watching everything couldn't still believe this, right after this question he whispered something to his lawyer as her just nodded and wrote it down for her round of questions to Addison

She took a long breath and looked at the lawyer; he wasn't supposed to say that only if there was extremely necessary "I did, I did know about it since the moment I came to Seattle and we decided to let it all behind and try to start over, that was what he promised anyway"

"So you'd say that your husband promised you would make your marriage work with you moving here and all he did was to commit adultery with his mistress?"

Before Addison could say something, Derek's lawyer stood up right after Mr. Foster finished speaking "Objection!" She said out loud "Mr. Foster is attempting against my client's honesty!"

"Denied, please answer the question Mrs. Shepherd" The judge cleared looking at Addison, expecting her answer as she just nodded

"Yes" Addison simply answered; she didn't want to say another thing against Derek, at least not right now

"No more questions your honor" Mr. Foster finished his round of questions, the judge nodded and looked at Mrs. Rickford, Derek's lawyer waiting for her to interrogate Addison, she was planning to be as aggressive as she could so her client could win this, she wouldn't give up so easily so she knew she was gonna attack Addison since her very first question.

"Mrs. Shepherd, would you consider yourself a person with good manners?" She asked looking at Addison strategically knowing all the questions she had prepared were really tricky. "Objection! What does my client's good manners has to do in a divorce trial!" Mr. Foster defended his client

"I have a point with this your honor" The judge nodded and let the lawyer finish her question "Would you say that you are a respectful woman, Mrs. Shepherd?"

"I am, like you said I was raised with good manners... Excuse me; I agree with my lawyer what does this has to do? I know we're not here to discuss how over educated I am"

"Okay, Mrs. Shepherd, as an over educated woman that you say you are, were you that respectful and/or educated as you are right now, when you committed adultery with your husband's best friend, portraying the vows you promised my client the day you got married?"

"What!" She simply said she couldn't believe this woman had the audacity of asking her this

The judge looked at her "Please answer the question Mrs. Shepherd"

Addison who was obviously nervous and almost shaking not knowing who to answer the question immediately, she thought for one second what to say and took a long breath before start speaking "At that point I wasn't thinking at all, sometimes people do desperate things to caught someone's attention… We barely saw each other, he was working extra hours at the hospital, we didn't even bother to fight anymore"

"So would you say your husband didn't pay enough attention to you and that's why you slept with his best friend? Because with all due respect, you seem like a very elegant woman and my client was only working extra hours for you to have the lifestyle you're used to" Derek's lawyer slapped again

"Objection! She's confusing my client your honor" Addison's lawyer defended her but the judge just nodded and looking at Addison waiting for her answer

"It's okay, I wanna answer that" Addison said challenging Derek's lawyer giving her a furious glance "Apparently it's not a secret here that I cheated with my husband's best friend, we all know it let's share it together… Also I stayed with him for a couple months before moving to Seattle, nice story, huh? What should've matter here is that I came here to fix my marriage, I came here practically humiliating myself by staying with my husband who was clearly over me and still ignored me even when he said he was also trying to make things work, I was called Satan and an adulterous bitch and I didn't care because somewhere deep down I knew I deserved it for what I did, I didn't care because all I wanted was to take back the love of my life and it didn't work out, even thought all the sacrifices I did, it didn't work out… For god sakes, I moved into a trailer no matter the lifestyle you presume I have, I did it because it was what it took to get the chance to be with my husband again after that horrible thing I did and after the mess I made… But all that stuff were meaningless, at least for him that didn't even notice all of this, your client didn't care about his own marriage because he was living a fantasy with his mistress, not because he wanted me to have the lifestyle I'm used to… Is there any other question, Mrs. Rickford?"

The lawyer was speechless after Addison's words, she thought she would fall with this kind of questions what she didn't know was the kind of woman who was Addison, someone who knew how to defend herself

"No more questions your honor" The lawyer went back to her place and the judge told Addison she could also go back to hers, she went there and sat next to her lawyer as Derek was looking down since Addison started talking, he couldn't just look at Addison right now, it was too much for him.

Now it was Derek's turn to testify, he went straight to the witness box, he sight as the bailiff asked him the typical questions before the lawyers started to interrogate him. Mrs. Rickford, his lawyer was the first to start with the questions.

"Mr. Shepherd, when you resided in the state of New York, is it true that you 'stopped paying attention' to your wife?" She asked quoting a little bit of Addison's answer

"Maybe I was a little distracted but when you have a job like mine you start to care about others more than you do it for yourself, as you can see in my records I am one of the best neurosurgeons of the country, people from all over the world come to see me to get my help… When we got married we were just starting our residency at the hospital, we were really young and we were together all the time, when we started to grow in our careers we both got successful in our own fields, she's one of the best ob/gyn and neonatal surgeon there is, we are busy people, sadly the little time we have free wasn't at the same time, so when my wife had her free time she organized everything, she made reservations for dinner, hotels and other kind of nice places, the thing was that I was working at the time, so we didn't spend a lot of time together" Derek answered his question very calmed and very distant, like he didn't care about this whole thing

"Very nice, Mr. Shepherd… When you first moved to Seattle, why did you do it?"

"I moved here almost a year ago, after I found out about… my wife's adultery, I had nothing to do back in New York, then an old colleague Dr. Richard Webber called me to offer me a position as the head of neurosurgery of the Seattle Grace Hospital, so here I am, I love my new job, I love this city and I love the properties I own here, that's why I'm here fighting for it, I love those places and I care about them"

"That's the whole point of it… My last question for you, Dr. Shepherd. Would you say that your wife, Dr. Addison Shepherd, also love and cares about those places, specifically the land in Seattle?"

"She hates it" He looked at Addison who seemed like she was gonna pass out really soon, probably because of the stress of this legal fight that was only starting "Since she moved in with me all she did is complaining about the trailer, about the land and how we needed to get a bigger place, actually we were always fighting because she didn't like the trailer and I told her that I wouldn't leave that place"

"Thanks for clear that up… My last question is, just like your wife, you had an extra marital activity, why was that?"

"As I said, I moved here right after I found my wife in my bed with my best friend, obviously I was sad for that, I came here and it seemed right, I know this might not sound good but I'm proud of what I did, I had a relationship for two months and finished right after Addison moved here"

"No more questions your honor" Mrs. Rickford went back to her place and Addison's lawyer stood up and went right in front of Derek to start with his interrogation.

"Derek Christopher Shepherd…" The lawyer started "You were married for eleven, almost twelve years with my client, would you consider yourself as a good husband"

Derek thought his answer, he knew he wasn't the husband of the year, maybe he was several years ago, but those last years, he was all but a good husband, he might have been a good boyfriend with his mistress, he was her "McDreamy" but he knew that he wasn't a good husband

"Define good husband" Derek simply answer so he would have more time to think his proper answer

"Well, be a good husband includes to be pleasant, respect the vows, be supportive to her, having sensitivity to her, show her respect, communication, love and affection, offer her protection and keep her happy in bed…. Those are few of the qualities that a good husband should have and after a long talk with my client you don't have any of it, but now I'm asking you… Would you consider yourself as a good husband, given the definition I just gave you?" The lawyers attacked him with this very tricky question

"Does it matters? If I was a good husband or no, we're divorcing, that doesn't claims how a great husband I was, maybe she was right, lately we didn't have any of it but once we did" He looked straight at Addison "You can't deny how great it used to be, I know we both screwed but we used be the best" His glance went back to the lawyer when he noticed Addison was looking down not wanting to see him "My answer, lately I wasn't a good husband, I know that but once, I was"

"You said you felt right when you started with the adultery and that you had a relationship which you ended right after your wife moved in to Seattle… You didn't keep in touch with your mistress?"

"We ended things after Addison showed up" He said now looking down, feeling uncomfortable

"So, after my client came to this State you didn't have any kind of loving relationship with her?"

"I… I…" He stammered, this was the question he was afraid of and could make him lose the trial

"Dr. Shepherd, this is the part when you answer the question I'm asking" The lawyer insisted

"We work together, it was impossible to not have contact to her" He said nervous

"So would you say that your relationship with your former mistress has been extremely professional right after your wife moved here? You didn't have any kind of loving relationship after that?" Mr. Foster attacked again, he wasn't the kind of lawyers who knew how to deal with this kind of situations and he was gonna do whatever it takes so his client win this.

"Objection!" Derek's lawyer protested "He's confusing my client!" She continued but the judge denied this petition and asked Derek to answer the question

"We… We weren't together… We decided to be friends… Close friends… And we… slept together once"

"Not only they slept together, your honor, my client also found Mr. Shepherd's mistress's underwear inside of a pocket of his jacket, she was evidence and witness to confirm that, Dr. Shepherd wanted his wife to find out about his extra marital activities so he'd get an easy way out of the marriage, he wanted to lose his wife and he wanted to divorce her as soon as possible" The lawyer explained victorious knowing he got this one right "One last question, Dr. Shepherd, were you aware that every time you went closer to your other woman you were losing your wife, who was very sorry for what she did and was willing to do anything just to have a portion of your love?"

"With all due respect Mr. Foster, but you have no idea how it was you may know all the facts but you weren't there, do you think I wanted all of this? I never thought she and I would do something like this, not ever" He was now furious with all the questions against him "I am a husband losing her wife, she was my closest friend, we met in met school together and quickly fall in love, we did everything together, we were the best of friends, our marriage lasted for eleven years until this day when it is ending… I never thought that would all disappear in less than a year, I know we were supposed to be trying but I can't control how I feel! I didn't feel the same way about her! That's what you want to know, I am not the same guy she got married, I've changed and I'm not willing to be that guy anymore!" He cleared looking at the lawyer with his furious eyes as he ran his finger through his hair, praying that this one was the last question. The lawyer just smiled at him and looked at the judge "No more questions"

After proceeding both testimonies of Addison and Derek, the judge ordered a recess of the court until the next day, when they would have another set of witness to testify, every person in the room knew this fight wasn't easy, they were both willing to win and they were sure this was gonna be a really long way for Addison and Derek Shepherd to get back at their normal lives

A/N: The fight started and it's not easy.. What do you think of the chapter? Who should win this? Addison or Derek? Review and tell me! I'll update next week :)