The Reason (COMPLETED)

The Reason

I'm not a perfect person
There's many things I wish I didn't do
But I continue learning
I never meant to do those things to you

Addison continued to straighten the non-existent wrinkles on her short navy-blue dress as she walked through the halls of Pacific Wellcare Center, the rival practice to their practice (and is conveniently settled on the floor beneath them). Normally she would come down there to come face-to-face with other doctors concerning patients (the patients that they steal, to be exact) but tonight, its certainly not the case at all.

She took a deep breath as she stopped in front of Wyatt Lockhart's office, she had already built him up as an arrogant and heartless human being inside her mind but her dinner with him in the hospital cafeteria has proved her completely otherwise. Everything he thought about him changed as soon as she realized that they had a lot in common – divorced, not happily, just divorced and considered as still bitter. After that dinner, he had offered her a date but she turned him down. At that time, she was still thinking about who should she choose, Mac or Cheese? Completely different or a sense of familiarity? Kevin or him? Those thoughts however have ended, she knows who she's choosing. Like what she said, he had made her feel something she hasn't felt in months. A hint of possibly new love. It's familiar at some points but it's also different. Wyatt for her would be new, Wyatt is...

Gone. She stopped as she opened the door to his office, facing a different face instead of what she was expecting. So much for starting something new when now she's facing someone from her past. Her history, actually. A dead love story that she plans on keeping dead.

"Derek." She breathed, looking pointedly at the dreamy neurosurgeon in front of her. "What are you doing here?" She muttered through gritted teeth.

"Well you would know if you bothered to answer anyone of my phone calls." He looks up from the file that he was reading, smiling smugly at her.

"Things around here are busy and besides, why would I be answering phone calls from you? It's not like we're friends and as far as I know, you're one to talk. The last time we lived across the country from each other, you did the same thing." She answered snappishly, she was expecting him to make some comment about her sleeping with his best friend; but he didn't, instead, his faced softened. Clearly hurt by her saying that they weren't even friends.

"Okay, Derek, what are you really doing here? And why are you in my boyfriend's office, reading a file." She asked Derek confidently, completely leaving out the fact that Wyatt wasn't really hers, just about to be if it wasn't for her ex-husband appearing out of nowhere.

"Your boyfriend? Wyatt Lockhart is your boyfriend? Wow." He chuckled amusedly, making sure to leave the jealousy that was building up inside him out of his voice.

"What's so funny?" She raised her eyebrow at him as Derek continue to laugh.

"Well, your boyfriend ran across the country for a pharmaceutical trial with no sign that he's ever gonna come back. Which brings me here, William White, the owner of this practice referred me to Charlotte King and I accepted. I'm taking over his place." He smiled triumphally before placing the file on the table, walking over to the door, walking towards Addison.

She stepped back as he got closer to her, she was furious that he invaded him here – in her place. The place that she walked towards to, to get away from him and the life that they had. But more than anything, she's confused. Why would Derek choose a practice over bloody surgeries?

"That still doesn't answer my question, Derek. You're supposed to be in Seattle, with your twelve-year-old or that wide-eyed nurse that you were dating the last time I was there." She crossed her arms to her chest, she stopped from moving; her and Derek were standing close to each other now.