The days that followed were rushed, showered with phone calls and video calls to appease the longing that seemed even greater, as well as the desire.

Meredith ran to the room under warning feeling her stomach burn because of the coffee that had fallen on her blouse and as soon as she took it off the door opened making her look at her scared.

"Sorry, I didn't know you were here."

"I'm on my way out now, Doctor Shepherd," she said, covering herself with her blouse.

"I wanted to talk to you."

"Unfortunately, it won't be possible, I'm in a hurry and..." she couldn't answer because her mouth was silenced by the lips of the man in front of her.

Derek slipped his hand into her pants making her moan, she was sensitive because of Addison's call minutes before, she didn't have the least time to dodge, when she noticed that she's already possessed by him, Meredith screamed in a moan and opened her eyes pushing him away.

"No!" She said fixing the clothes.

"Meredith, what is it?"

"You're dating and I have someone, I'm not your hobby, Derek and we're not going to have sex again," Meredith said seriously while fixing her clothes.

"Meredith..."

"No Derek, I don't want to talk about this," she said irritably and left the room, running a hand through her hair.

"Meredith, is everything okay?" Cristina asked when she found her, but Meredith was so airy that she didn't even hear her "Meredith!?"

Derek approached Cristina who was signing some charts and stood in front of the brunette, Cristina continued what she was doing and, feeling uncomfortable, looked at him out of the corner of her eye.

"May I help you, Doctor Shepherd?"

"Actually, you can..." He said and rubbed his nose with his thumb. "Who is the person Meredith is seeing?"

"Look, I can't talk about my friend's personal life."

"I'll let you participate in the craniotomy that I'll do in an hour" Cristina opened and closed her mouth "And" he emphasized "I'll let you assist me."

"She's seeing someone, spends hours on the phone, laughing like an idiot, but won't say who she is," Christina said quickly.

"If you find out who the person is, I'll let you participate and help me for a month."

"You're kidding, aren't you?"

"Of course not, Dr. Yang.

"You can't come here offering me a month's worth of surgeries in exchange for me investigating my friend's life."

"You're right, two months helping me."

"I will not do it."

"Four months and no more talk about it, I still let you do a few while I watch you."

"Done" She said listening to the beep of the pager and le" with the chart of the patient she was examining, Derek smiled looking at her.

Addison was looking intently at the chart of one of her patients when her cell phone rang, she picked it up without looking and brought it up to her ear.

"Montgomery speaking."

"Hi," Meredith said as she paced outside the hospital, Addison smiled.

"Hey."

"We need to talk." Addison's smile was instantly gone.

"What about?"

"I..." she ran a hand over her face "I was in the room on notice and I had no shirt on, as I had just spilled coffee on me."

"I don't understand what's wrong with that."

"I was without a shirt because I went to change," she spoke again, ignoring the redhead "And then I heard the door, it was Derek ..." she stopped talking listening to the silence on the other side of the line "He said he wanted to talk to me and I said that no, but he insisted and I kept denying it, only he..." She passed her hands over her face and stopped with her on the back of his head squeezing it, Addison felt the anger and sadness rise in her "He grabbed me and we.."

"Did you have sex?" she asked irritated at the heightened tone.

"No! Well, there was penetration and he for a few seconds, they were minimal, but I pushed him away and told him to stay away and then... So I ran to call you."

"You had sex, you cheated on me...with him."

"No! Baby, it wasn't my fault, when I saw we were already there, I'm sorry" She said desperately, Addison closed her eyes tightly with a closed fist on her forehead.

"No... Don't call me," Addison screamed and hung up the phone.

"Addie! Damn it!" Meredith said closing her eyes "Damn Derek" she said through gritted teeth.

Izzi placed the tray on the table and sat down.

"Did you see how weird Meredith is?"

"No, I don't mind other people's lives," Alex said, biting into her sandwich, Izzi rolled her eyes.

"She must be having problems with her new boyfriend," George said with a shrug.

"Does this boyfriend really exist? He never showed up, we don't know where he comes from or even his name" Izzie said putting the salad in her mouth.

"Better change the subject, she's coming," Alex said.

"So, Meredith."

"What, Izzie?" She asked seriously.

"When are we going to meet that mysterious boyfriend?"

LI would like to know too? What's his name?" Cristina asked looking at her, Meredith put a fork of food in her mouth.

"Is he good in bed? And where do you guys fuck, since he's never been seen?" Meredith dropped her fork hard.

"I don't have to keep explaining to you, you're not my mother, you don't need to know who takes me to bed or not and if it's real or not, I'm too big to take care of myself and the fact that you're mine friends, don't make them my owners, when I want to say who it is, I'll say it, do you understand?" She Said she irritated getting up "Mind your own business, what a pain in the ass."

"They could have done it everywhere," Alex teased smiling.

"Shut up Alex," Izzie said staring in the direction Meredith had gone.

Addison paced back and forth with her hand on her hip, she was irritated to the point of wanting to kill one, they were a month and a half into their relationship, about to be two, in that time Meredith had managed to go to Los Angeles, once to visit her and kill the longing.

She felt a lot of hate, a lot of hate, I just didn't know if it was meant completely for Meredith or just for Derek.

"What happened?" Naomi asked, entering her friend's room "I know, you had a fight with that girlfriend."

"She had sex with Derek," she said without stopping walking "With ... Derek," she said drying to tears.

"Wow," Naomi said in surprise "I didn't expect that one, how did that happen?"

"She said she was changing her blouse and he went into the room under warning, said he wanted to talk, she told me she denied it, so he insisted and she continued to deny it, but when she realized it he had already kissed her and had already ..." Addison took a deep breath, looking up, her eyes burning with hatred "Penetrated her and she was already moving."

"Did she say did they ever finish what they started?"

"No, she said that when she came to, minutes later she pushed him away and told him to stay away" The vein in her forehead stood out "When she came to, Naomi" She shouted and stopped walking.

"And what do you think about that? Do you think she's telling the truth?"

"I don't know, part of me is telling me to believe her, the other part... The other part tells me to stay as far away as possible."

"You need to think which part you're going to believe."

"I know," she said in a breathless voice and sat on the sofa staring at her "I'm crazy about her, Naomi, we started now, we're going to complete two months together, it's such a new and delicious experience, you know? But I'm still afraid."

"Fear often gets in the way, Addie and you know it, but it also helps you see things we didn't think we could see without it, but if you really like this girl like you're telling me and showing me, trust her, but give yourself time to think about what just happened."

"Yes you are right."

Izzie leaned against the wall between Cristina and George crossing his arms.

"Has she spoken to you yet?" Izzie asked.

"No, and she didn't even open the bedroom door so I could sleep there" Christina said irritably "Has she been talking to you?" she asked looking at George.

"Yes, I have nothing to do with your fight."

"I think you should talk to her, Cristina."

"Izzie, you're the one who started this, so... You're the one who ends it," she said leaving.

"Christina!"

"You will talk to her."

"She's right," George said, leaving.

"George, you need to help me."

"I don't, I'm out of this one."

"Damn," she said going the opposite way.

Meredith was pacing back and forth, her cell phone to her ear.

"Addie, please answer, look, I know I made a mistake, well, I didn't make a mistake, but I told you, I'm sorry, I want to make things right between us, but for that I need you to answer me, to curse me or whatever you want, but talk to me, please," she said taking a deep breath.

"Meredith..."

"Not now, Derek," Meredith said entering the hospital while turning off the cell phone.

"I want to talk about that day."

"I don't want to talk to you, don't you understand?!" She almost shouted turning to him "Go find your girlfriend and leave me alone."

"So all this is because of my relationship with Rose? This story of inventing someone, is it out of jealousy?"

"The world does not revolve around your brain, Doctor Shephard, my life does not revolve around you, I am with the person I want and we were very well before you dared to touch me again," Meredith said starting to get upset "Stop wanting to talk to me, wanting to have something where I don't care anymore, leave me alone," she shouted.

Nurses passing by were watching the discussion intently, Meredith walked out into the hall and Mark approached Derek.

"Wow, she's really mad at you," He said watching Meredith disappear from his point of view, Derek rubbed his face with his hand "What did you do, Shepherd?"

"I asked if the supposed person is just an invention because I was with Rose, but first I tried to talk to her."

"It was bad, very bad" He said, lightly tapping the brunette's shoulder "She didn't want to look at you before and much less now."

"You know what I can't believe?"

"On what?"

"On the fact that she has someone."

"You're with Rose, what did you want? Have her crawling around for you?"

"Of course not, I just don't believe that someone exists, none of her friends know the guy, which proves that he doesn't exist and I'm going to find out the truth" Derek said convinced that I would discover Meredith's lie.

"Give up, Shepherd, even if there is no one, she doesn't want anything for you anymore, now there's only hate," She said looking at him, "But if you want to continue with that, that's your problem, only the fact that friends not knowing about her boyfriend, it doesn't mean anything," Mark said leaving.

Derek looked at the ambulance that stopped in front of him and as soon as the doors opened, Addison quickly came out hugging him.

"What happened?"

"I don't know, he was fine, we had lunch, we shared dessert and he started feeling sick now at the beginning of the night."

"All right, I'll order a CAT scan and an MRI," Derek said entering the hospital next to Addison. "Take him to do a CAT scan and an MRI and call Doctor Grey.

"Yes sir, Doctor Shephard," said one of the nurses.

"Do you think it's something very serious?" she asked worriedly.

"I can't say until you have all the exams, try to calm down," Addison stated and Derek smiled, "you cut his hair."

"Yeah, I... I needed to change a little," she said leaning on the counter.

"Addison," The redhead looked back seeing Mark approaching.

"Hi Mark," Addison said hugging him with a small smile on her lips.

"Why are you here?"

"Archie got sick and I brought him."

"I'll leave you talking, I'll see if Meredith has arrived and then I'll see Archer's exams."

"You're looking for trouble bro," Mark said and Derek rolled his eyes ignoring him.

"What did I missed?"Addison asked sitting with Mark in one of the chairs there.

"The handsome guy thinks that Meredith's supposed relationship is a lie, he's paranoid that she's not suffering from the end of their relationship, in the last few days she's been running away from him like the devil runs away from the cross and he won't leave the girl alone."

"No one knows about her boyfriend?"

"No, not even her friends, Derek put Cristina as a guard dog and by the way the blonde isn't even talking to her friends, but who wants my opinion, I don't think that's her lie, she was doing very well the last few days. days," Addison was silent and laid her head on Mark's shoulder who stroked her hair as he hugged her.

Meredith left the locker room taking a deep breath, she knew that Derek would use all that as an excuse to try to get closer again, she walked down the hall fixing her lab coat.

"Do you know who is there?" Alex asked looking at her as she followed him.

"Any Harper Hevery Award winners?" she said looking at the cell phone seeing if there were any messages from Addison, the redhead kept ignoring her, she took a deep breath putting the cell phone away and looked at Alex.

"Addison Montgomery," Meredith felt her heart quicken at her colleague's words, but she shrugged.

"And what is she doing here?"

"Shepherd is going to operate on her brother from what I heard, from what I understand they are discussing the surgery now, he has a parasite in his brain."

"I need to go."

"Where are you going?"

"To find Derek."

"Are you going to order the surgery?" Meredith turned around, walking backwards.

"The last thing I want is to be close to Derek and I'm already in that surgery, he called me," Alex looked at her in disbelief staring her out of sight.

Meredith entered the room looking at Addison who was sitting next to Archie and across from Naomi.

Addison looked at her, feeling her heart sink with missing the blonde so much, but she wouldn't give up, not with everything that had happened.

"I-I came to do the monitoring."

"Make yourself comfortable," Archer replied, Naomi stared at her friend who didn't take her eyes off the blonde.

"Any news about my brother's case?" Meredith looked at her as she studied Archer and looked away.

"Doctor Shephard is analyzing the CT scan, should be here any minute."

"It's going to be okey," Meredith said with a low voice, Meredith turned to look at her again and returned her attention to what she was doing.

"Are you going to order the surgery?" Meredith turned around, walking backwards.

Naomi held her boyfriend's hand and made a small nod, Archer smirked.

"You're very pretty, doctor..." Archie started staring at Meredith who was messing with the monitor, "What's your name again?"

"Meredith, Meredith Grey."

"You're sure you're not a model in a commercial, are you?" Meredith smiled.

"The last thing I would be in life is to be a model."

"I feel calmer," He said amused. "She has beautiful eyes, don't you think, Addie?"

"What?" She pretended not to be paying attention to the conversation.

"Doctor Grey's eyes are incredibly... Beautiful."

"If you say so," She said indifferently, the two looked at each other. "Now about the surgery, Archie," She said staring at him. "You need to accept this surgery."

"Actually, I won't be able to do the surgery," Derek said, stepping closer.

"What? Why?" Addison asked the moment Mark entered the room.

"It's not just one cyst, now there are eight, they are very close, if I touch one, I might end up bursting one of them."

"And what happens if one bursts?"

"I can die, Addie," The redhead felt short of breath and looked away trying to contain the tears, Archer held her hand pulling her into a hug.

Meredith looked at Addison wanting to pull her into her arms, but she knew she couldn't, because neither the situation of the two nor the place was conducive to that.

"I'm sorry," Derek said and looked at Meredith. "Doctor Grey, come with me," He said leaving the room, Meredith accompanied him, even wanting to stay.