Breathe

Chapter 11: Unexpected

Chapter 11: Unexpected

A few days turned to weeks and by then everyone in the hospital was calling her Dr. Montgomery. News of her divorce and Derek's new relationship had been the main topic in the gossip mill for a week. People's eyes were glued to her as she strolled the halls. Sometimes she got self conscious about it but most times she just did not care and time moved forward. Soon the whispers died out a little.

Richard had beamed when she had told him she would stay, though her contract had not been finalized yet. Bailey also showed her satisfaction with a nod and her "approval" smirk. Aelwyne, like Richard and Bailey, was happy as one could be. The rest of the interns were somewhat happy, they wanted to be supportive of their friend but they also wanted to learn from her. Meredith, of course, shifted nervously everytime they were together. Derek had taken her decision surprisingly good as if he knew it was going to happen either way.

The divorce had been finalized already. Derek and her had had to go over the assets to decide who got what. The meeting with the lawyers had been the Thursday after her drunken adventure. Thankfully they also did not need to leave the hospital as Richard had offered the small conference room in the lobby.

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Addison roamed the halls after her two emergent surgeries today, which had been a success. She had Alex assigned as her intern, which she didn't mind but she could tell it bugged him. Because it bugged him and she did not want to deal with him for a while she had sent him to the pit, so she roamed alone for a while.

As she turned a corner she ran into Cristina, who was carrying a few charts. Charts flew to the ground as they ran into each other. Cristina was ready to yell at her when she noticed it was Addison.

"WHAT-" Cristina began and cut herself off as she looked at Addison.

"You were saying?" Addison looked at her with a raised brow as if daring her to yell.

"Uh nothing. I'm sorry I should've been paying attention. But damn Burke has me running up and down as if I'm his mule or something. Like what the hell. I mean I get it. I'm an intern. And yeah it's probably my fault the baby thing died. I mean I was going to get an abortion. He probably knows. That's why he's punishing me. As if I don't punish myself enough. I am a failure. Haha I couldn't even get pregnant right or get an abortion right. I almost died. I'm just awesome." Cristina rambled on as her eyes watered up.

"Stop it." Addison said as she placed her hand on Cristina's shoulder and squeezed in reassurance.

"I'm sorry. I kinda forgot. Don't worry about me. Everything is fine." Cristina said almost allowing her tears to flow and collecting the charts.

"Stop that. It is fine." Addison started but Cristina crouched down and started moving quicker to get the charts.

"It's fine. Cristina. Hey. Cristina, look at me." Addison said crouching down herself and taking the charts away from her.

"I need to-" Cristina started reaching.

"No!" Addison said.

A nurse was walking past them and Addison stopped her and gave her the charts. She asked the nurse to take them back to the station and that should anyone ask for Dr. Yang tell them she had requested her.

"Come on. Let's go to my office." Addison said turning to Cristina.

"I have to go finish those charts." Cristina tried refusing.

"I'm an attending. When I tell you to do something you don't question." Addison said with her commanding attending's voice, the one she used flawlessly in the O.R..