Change of plans
Meredith had been trying to talk to Addison for a few days now but it seemed Addison had gotten really good at avoiding her so she cornered her when she was in the OR with other surgeons one of which was an attending but she was willing to risk whatever punishment she’d get for this. Addison was leading the surgery, supervised by the attending that Meredith didn’t know. She grabbed a mask from the scrub room and walked into the OR. The attending looked up from his book. ‘Dr Grey, can I help you?’ he asked. ‘No, I need to talk to Dr Montgomery actually.’ ‘Well in case you didn’t notice she’s rather busy at the moment.’ ‘I know it’ll only take a minute-’ she started. ‘If this is medical you can continue, if it’s personal then I respectfully ask you to leave.’ ‘With all due respect, no. I’m not leaving.’ ‘Dr Grey.’ he warned. ‘I don’t care.’ she sighed and took a couple of steps over to the table. Close enough to see but far enough to be out of the way. Addison looked at Meredith, even with the mask Meredith could read the annoyance in her face. ‘Addison. I know you won’t talk to me because you’ll get in trouble too but I don’t need you to talk, just listen.’ Meredith paused and composed herself a little. ‘You can’t leave. You just can’t...You hurt me, in a really big way. But that doesn’t mean I get to hurt you back and I know I have been...truth is I’ve kind of been okay with the fact that I’ve been hurting you...which is awful and I know it but then Mark called me out on it. Truth is I love you and I’ve been punishing you for too long and neither of us deserve this. I don’t want to sleep with half the hospit-’ Addison cut her off. ‘MER.’ Meredith scoffed. ‘Come on Addie, everyone in this room knows that already, in fact a couple of them have been involved.’ Addison’s eyebrows shot up. ‘Anyway, I don’t want that. I want you and only you. I just hope you can forgive me for the way I’ve been treating you. I just want us back. Back to us before all of this drama. I love you Addison Montgomery. I love you. In a really, big really big pretend to like your taste in music, let you eat the last piece of cheesecake, hold a radio over my head outside your bedroom window kind of way. And I wanna you back. Please.’ Addison’s eyes darted to Meredith’s. ‘I’ll meet you outside when you’re done.’ She left the OR and waited in the corner of the scrub room.
When everyone left the OR Addison was called back by her attending. ‘I know. That was unprofessional but please don’t tell the chief. I pulled off the surgery and Dr Grey didn’t distract me in anyway. My patient is fine and I have high hopes for the post-op tests.’ She finished in a rush. ‘I won’t tell the chief but you might wanna tell Dr Grey that if she wants to profess her love to you she could do it a little more privately and that the only reason I’m not telling the chief is because you are an excellent surgeon who despite the distraction managed to complete a rather complicated procedure without any complications.’ He smiled at her as he turned to leave.
She waited a few seconds before entering the scrub room. She washed her hands and turned to find Meredith sitting in the corner. ‘So...’ Addison said as she sat in front of Meredith. ‘So...I’m really sorry about that, it was stupid and I shouldn’t have embarrassed us both like that.’ Meredith said giving Addison a small smile. Addison nodded and squeezed her leg a little. Addison moved to sit on her knees, she leaned forward a little until her lips were almost touching Meredith’s. Meredith made the move to connect their lips. It wasn’t passionate or sexy or romantic. It was needy and desperate with lots of hands in the hair action. They pulled away a little breathless. Addison smiled as she got to her feet, pulling Meredith with her. ‘I guess we need to change our plans, huh?’ Meredith said and Addison raised her eyebrows, clearly not understanding. ‘Married at 30?’ Addison nodded and smiled. ‘Yeah, we need to work on our relationship before we even consider marriage again.’ Addison said. Meredith gave her a sad smile and nodded. ‘Come on.’ Addison said as she pulled Meredith out of the scrub room.