Two chapters in one day? Whos this! I really hope you enjoy this. Also just for a timeline explanation, this story correlates with season 5 of PP, but not a specific season of GA. Imagine however that the plane crash didn't happen, and Meredith and Derek have all 3 kids (and Derek is alive obviously). Also I'm assuming Amelia's spent a significant enough time at Seattle Grace Mercy West for her to have formed relationships with people

Addison watched as Amelia's taxi pulled out of her driveway and off in the direction of the airport, and then decided it was time to pass the Amelia responsibility on, because she couldnt help her from here. She grabbed her phone of the table, scrolled through her contacts and clicked dial

Addison: "Hey Derek, are you there?"

Derek: "Yeah I'm here whatsup?"

Addison: "Am I on speaker?"

Derek: "Um not now whats going on?" Addison never normally talked like this

Addison: "I need to talk to you about Amy, Derek. She's coming to Seattle, shes actually on a plane right now, and she wants to stay with you,"

Derek: "Um okay, how come this is coming from you not her?"

Addison: "Because you can't let her Derek, you can't let her stay in the same house as your children. She's drinking again. I don't think shes on drugs, but I'm worried Derek. Shes left LA because I've tried to intervene, so instead of letting me help her she's run away. But Derek please, don't let her stay in the house with the kids"

Derek's face dropped and he almost threw up

Derek: "Addie...Addie are you bring serious? This isn't some kind of sick joke? Because that's really, really fucking messed up Addison"

Addison: "I'm being serious, I wish I wasn't, believe me. But you know this is a slippery slope for her, I mean she treats it like a freaking water slide, at the worlds worst amusement park. Derek look I know this is a shock, and I'm sorry I didn't phone you before now. But when she shows up I don't think you should mention it. Don't even tell her I phoned. You know what shes like when she gets like this, you're on her side right now, but theres none of us over here that are, so just try and keep it like that,"

Derek: "For fucks sake!"

Addison could here something smash on the other end of the phone and closed her eyes trying not to cry. She knew how much this would ruin Derek

Derek: "Look Addie thanks for the heads up, I'll um, I'll keep in contact and let you know, thanks"

He hung up the phone and ran his hands over his face in disbelief. His baby sister, how did it happen again, he should have been there to stop her, to protect her. But he would do it now, he could fix it now, he had to.

6 hours later

Amelia took a deep breath as she stepped out of the airport. It was going to be another day before Ryan came, her perfect Ryan. She couldn't wait for him to arrive, they could get a place, a place where they could have sex 10 times a day. A place where they could have alcohol, without it being a big deal. Because it wasn't a big deal. Shes a recovered alcoholic, shes in total control of how much she drinks and could stop at any time. She didn't want to stop, because it was her life and her choice, but she could, if she wanted to.

Amelia hailed a taxi and went straight to Seattle Grace Mercy West. She couldn't wait to see Derek, and Mark, and Meredith and the kids. At least here no one would badger her acting like they know best. She would get surgical privileges, and her life would settle back down to normal, without the worried looks from everyone. She'd sobered up slightly on the flight, and decided to stay that way until later in the evening. She'd picked up a bottle of vodka on the way out of the airport though, merely for convenience, so she could have a drink later on if she needed to. No. If she wanted to. She never needed to have a drink, that was completely her choice, just if she wanted to.

The hospital seemed reasonably quiet, so rather than wandering around the neuro floor, Amelia decided to go straight to the attendings lounge, and she was right, because she found her brother and sister in law in there having lunch.

"I'm backkkkk," Amelia leaned on the door frame and grinned at them.

"Amelia!" Meredith jumped up and hugged her, grinning too. Derek smiled, but stayed in his seat. He hadn't told anyone about his phone call with Addison, not even Mer, because he wanted to see for himself. He largely wanted to see if she was drunk when she showed up, which he couldn't tell yet, hence his hanging back.

"Do I not get a hug from my big brother?" Amelia held her arms out and tipped her head to the side.

"Of course," He smiled gently and hugged her, but then sat back down

"So how are you? Hows LA?" Meredith turned to face her as Amelia sat down, both of them beeming widely

"I'm great! LAs amazing, but you know I just had a load of personal days saved up, so I thought I'd come up and see you and the kids, I'd love for you guys to meet my boyfriend, Ryan, he's just so perfect!" Amelia didn't stop smiling once during this spiel, and was racing through her words. This worried Derek as that was what she did when she was hiding something. Trying to get all her words out in one go as though she might forget them, like she'd rehearsed them as lines.

"Thats great! That sounds really good, right babe?" Meredith turned to look at Derek and smiled, hoping he would chime in at some point.

"Yeah Ames, yeah thats good,"

"But anyways, I was hoping, if its not to much bother, if I would be able to stay with you guys for a couple if nights?" Amelia smiled hopefully, looking between the two of them

"Yeah of cour..."

"We'd love to normally Amy, but nows not actually a great time. We're redecorating the spare room at the moment, and you know we've got your Uncle Joe coming into town tomorrow Mer, right?"Derek looked back at Meredith after having cut her off, but she didn't try to interupt him. Meredith and Derek had a code word, Uncle Joe. Neither of them had an Uncle Joe, but it was their way of saying to the other 'I need you to go along with what I'm saying. Its important and I'll explain later, but just go with it'.

"Yeah I'm really sorry Amy, but now just really isn't a good time. We've just got so much going on, the kids going back to school soon as well. You know how it gets," Meredith looked at her sadly, feeling genuinely sorry, but knowing this was one of the times she had to just trust Derek's judgement.

"You could stay in the trailer!" Derek perked up. The last thing he wanted to do was throw her out on the door step, but he had to trust what Addie was saying and he couldn't risk his kids.

"Oh...um ok, thank you, that would be good thanks," Amelia's face dropped, but she picked up her smile again not wanting them to spot anything. "Thank you really. Hey you know, Ryans flight is gonna get in tomorrow afternoon, how about we all get dinner?"

"Yeah that would be good Ames, I'd really like that," Derek smiled and squeezed her hand from across the table. "Hey we'd better go, I'm being paged to the pit for a massive MVC, Mer you should come too," Derek stood up and smiled at her again, then walked out. Meredith smiled and squeezed her sister in law's shoulder, then followed Derek out.

Amelia breathed out deeply as they left and closed her eyes. She had somewhere to stay. She didn't have to grovel at anyone. In fact the trailer was probably better. She had her own space, she wouldn't be crowded by them, she was more in control of her life. She breathed easier now, maybe this would all work out even more smoothly than she'd hoped.

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- Daisy