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Addison Forbes Montgomery. A Surgeon-Wonder. An exceptional doctor that any patient would be lucky to have. And yet a woman with the most horrible taste in men according to Meredith Grey; not that she had any right to talk.
From Derek to Mark to Alex; they were all sorts of unfitting for someone like Addison. Again, according to Meredith.
Of course, Meredith couldn’t argue with their attractive trait. They were handsome, brilliant doctors that could make you swoon with one simple smile. But at the same time they were the most immature people that had walked the floors of Seattle Grace Hospital. She racked her brain to find the reason Dr. Montgomery even attempted any sort of relationship with them in the first place, but she came up short each time.
Okay, okay.
Meredith was the tiniest bit biased when it came to Addison Montgomery. It had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that she used to be married to her ex-boyfriend. She didn’t care about Derek. Not anymore, anyway. The sex had been great. She wasn’t one to complain. They were just incompatible in every other sense of the way.
And Meredith was crushing on his ex-wife.
Meredith broke the trance of daydreaming. The environment around her came to focus. Nurses, doctors, patients and visitors roamed the halls of the OB ward.
And there she was, standing next to the nurses’ station…
The star in all her daydreams…
Meredith fought hard to prevent her eye roll at the scene unfolding in front of her eyes. She caught Addison staring lustfully after Karev for what seemed like the tenth time that day. Only this time he had noticed too and had flashed the redhead a smug, and what could be described as flirty, smile. Meredith barely contained the scoff that spilled from her throat.
Ridiculous.
The urge to carve out the arrogance from his eyes with her scalpel took her by surprise. Her urges had never been so violent before. No matter how hard she tried she failed to figure out the reason. Or, to be honest, she was completely denying the reason, which was her gigantic crush on the world-class surgeon and the jealousy that was eating at her insides bit by bit.
She could only speculate that Addison's lust was caused by her deal she had made with Sloan… Their secret deal, which, of course, by the end of the day it was struck, it was not a secret anymore. The rumor mill was running wild in the hospital halls for days and that was exactly how Meredith had found out about it.
If what Meredith had heard was true, it had already been a month since they had struck that deal, so technically Meredith blamed the lustful look on Addison’s sexual abstinence.
Why do I even care? I don’t care.
It shouldn't bother her, it shouldn't even appear as a thought in her mind. She was done overthinking about Addison. She was!
If only her brain got the message, her stomach would stop tightening uncomfortably every time she stumbled upon Addison smiling or looking lustfully at Sloan or Karev…
Jealousy was a nasty little bug. It was rearing its ugly head ever since Addison came to Seattle and took Derek from her. Only then, she thought it was because she wanted to be the one by Derek’s side.
But now she knew she had been so misled by her own feelings. It had never been about Derek but it had always been about Addison. It certainly made much more sense after her attempt on a relationship with him. She finally figured it out, when she noticed that she was more excited to spend time with Addison than Derek.
It had always been the kindhearted surgeon. The brilliant doctor. The gorgeous woman who was dating men.
Good job, Meredith. Going after straight women. You go, girl.
"You are glaring." Meredith jumped at Cristina's whisper coming from somewhere behind her shoulder. She didn’t even notice when she approached her.
"I am not." She exclaimed a bit too loudly, attracting a few glances her way. Unbeknownst to the two interns one of those glances was Montgomery's.
“You so are. What did Satan do now?” Cristina pushed.
At the mention of Montgomery’s nickname, Meredith glanced towards the woman. She caught her watching her over her glasses. Meredith quickly looked back at her charts with a mumbled “Nothing.” and a blush spreading across her face.
“Oh my God, you’ve got to get that crush under control.” Cristina smirked. “Or you know, jump her bones and get it out of your system.” She nudged her with her elbow, amusement written all over her features.
“Shut up. She may hear you.” Meredith hissed. “Besides, she is straight. She isn’t attracted to me. The only reason she knows I exist is because I slept with her husband. She has to see and teach the woman that stole her husband every day. The last thing she wants to do is jump my bones.” The disappointed woman explained as she scribbled something on a chart. “I am working under her for the entire week.”
“And you’d rather work on top of her, I know.” Cristina teased her friend with a coy smile.
Meredith gasped and shoved the other doctor away. “Cristina!” She failed to stop the amused smile at her friend’s dirty humor.
"Grey." A sultry voice called, making Meredith's shoulders tense. "Didn't I ask you to fetch my patient's lab tests ten minutes ago?" The redhead said.
Meredith lowered her head. "Y-yes, Doctor. R-right away." She didn't mean to stutter. She felt so humiliated by her own inability to speak. She didn’t even notice the blush coloring her pale cheeks. Addison noticed. And so did Cristina.
Cristina grabbed her by the arm as she made to leave. "Your true colors are showing."
"Shut up. You know nothing." Meredith called out as she broke free from her friend’s grip.
"I know everything and you know that." The smugness on Cristina's face got on Meredith's nerves sometimes. The same sultry voice that made her weak at the knees interrupted their bickering.
"Dr. Yang, stop hogging my intern." Meredith tensed but Cristina smirked at her friend knowingly.
“I am sorry, Dr. Montgomery.” Cristina, who turned her attention to the OB/Gyn, couldn't help but smile knowingly. Green eyes were following Meredith's silhouette until she disappeared around the corner. There was definitely something there and as Meredith’s person she wouldn’t rest until she got to the bottom of it.
“Meredith is delusional if she thinks that this woman is straight.” Cristina muttered as she scribbled something on her patient’s chart.
“Did you say something, Dr. Yang?” The suspicion in the surgeon’s eyes amused Cristina, who kept her poker face intact and shook her head.
As soon as the neonatal surgeon turned away, the young intern smirked. It was gonna be an interesting year.
Holding the lab tests against her chest, Meredith arrived at the OB ward and searched around for Addison to give her the results of her patient. Meredith had read them as soon as she got them and they weren’t as good as they were hoping. Meredith had to inform her attending so that they could schedule the surgery. To do that, she had to find the woman first.
When her search was proving unsuccessful, she considered asking a nurse to page her. She was on her way to the nurses’ station when a door to a supply closet flew open and out stumbled Dr. Montgomery in all her disheveled glory. Meredith’s eyebrows furrowed in confusion as Addison pulled on the hem of her skirt to straighten invisible lines. Her attending ran her fingers through her hair in an attempt to brush the tangles out. It didn't take a scientist to guess what happened in that room.
Watching how she started heading towards her direction, Meredith started walking towards her again, pushing back the ache in her chest. She halted when another person stumbled out of the room and glanced back at her attending. Addison seemed to be rethinking her decision on which direction to go and turned abruptly towards the other side bumping into the person that had stumbled after her. Alex Karev.
Her confusion was quickly replaced by the deepest frown she could muster and then her eyes connected with Sloan’s, who apparently had been another witness to the same unfortunate event. She quickly looked away and hoped that he hadn’t seen her grief-stricken expression or her tightly clenched fists. She tried to convince herself that there was not a reason for distress. No matter how many times she chanted it inside her head, it didn’t make her feel any better. How could it when it felt similar to someone reaching in and tearing her heart out?
Meredith raised her chin and gritted her teeth. It wasn’t going to affect her. She wasn’t going to let it.
With a shake of her head, she pushed everything to the back of her head and went after Dr. Montgomery. She had work to do. There would be time to overthink later.
She approached her but soon realized that she couldn’t even look her in the eye. “Dr. Montgomery, I have the tests.” She cleared her throat to get her attention and extended her hand, waiting for her boss to take the results from her.
Addison thanked her hesitantly when she noticed the way Meredith was avoiding to look at her. If Meredith looked at her in that moment, she would have seen the worry and the confusion in the woman’s eyes before she averted her eyes to look at the results.
“Dr. Grey, I need you to schedule an emergency surgery, prepare Lizzy and scrub in.” She ordered in a serious tone.
“Are you sure you don’t want Karev to scrub in?” It slipped. It fucking slipped. Meredith felt all blood drain from her face. She had regretted it the moment it came out of her mouth if her reaction was anything to go by; eyes tightly closed, nose scrunched and mouth pursed in regret.
Oh my God!
Addison froze at her words, fists tightened their grip on the papers in her hands. “Dr. Grey-”
Meredith rushed to stop her and apologize. “No. I am sorry that was completely out of line. What you are doing with him is none of my business.” She shook her head embarrassed but forced herself to look at Addison in a rare burst of bravery. “I am really sorry. Forget I said anything please.” The fear and the small amount of hurt in Addison’s green eyes, made Meredith feel ten times worse. “I’ll go schedule the surgery on the board and I’ll meet you there?” Meredith asked in a hopeful tone, trying to avoid a reprimand.
The initial shock of getting caught by Meredith Grey was what prevented a huge outburst from Addison. In a different circumstance, Meredith’s insolence would have made the otherwise composed woman furious. She even considered giving the surgery to another intern. The emergency of the surgery and the knowledge of the patient’s condition was the reason that prevented her from replacing Meredith. The need to save that baby was more important than Meredith’s whims and childish behavior.
“Dr. Montgomery?” Meredith questioned hesitantly. She was almost certain that Addison was going to murder her.
Addison, who was glaring at a spot on the wall behind Meredith’s head, turned to glare at her, causing an involuntary flinch in the younger woman. “We’ll talk about this later, Dr. Grey. Don’t think even for a second that this is over.” The infuriated woman growled and pushed the results against Meredith’s chest. “When surgery is over, we’ll discuss your behavior.”
Meredith nodded and turned to make a hasty exit before she was stopped by a tight grip on her elbow. Anxious green eyes connecting with a set of livid green ones, making Meredith’s breath caught in her throat at the proximity between them.
Damn, she is breathtaking even when she is livid. Meredith wanted to groan at her ridiculous thoughts.
“Don’t make me look for you, Grey.” She warned her with a low growl.
Only thing Meredith could do was nod. Addison, seemingly satisfied, released the grip on the younger woman and watched her hasty disappearance.