Chasing Butterflies

Chapter 6: In Which We Dream Before We Wake

Chapter 6: In Which We Dream Before We Wake

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When Derek knocks quietly on her office door, Addison only has seconds to hide them both all the way up to their faces under the covers before the man steps right on into the room and stares down at her holding on to Meredith Grey under her arm. She realizes, dumbly, that she's also forgotten to remove the pink vibrator from her desk from before and she prays to God that Derek is just too dumbfounded in the first place to notice.

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"Shhhhhhhh" Addison hushes, praying that Meredith doesn't wake up for any of this.

She's frantically holding her index finger of her right hand to her mouth and raising both of her eyebrows at him as he furrows his brow up at her in confusion. She's further frantically illustrating her point to her ex-husband how he should really keep quiet during this admittedly odd situation he was walking in on so as not to upset the unconscious intern and she's secretly hoping that the bruises and the bite marks on her neck, her ears, and her shoulders are too small to show up for Derek from where he's standing and watching from ten feet away from them.

"I just got her down," Addison says soothingly for Meredith's benefit. "She's exhausted after everything today she needs to rest" Addison adds for good measure.

As if she were talking about a shared sleeping infant rather than about a shared slumbering surgical resident who also just happened to be currently in a relationship with the man who is looking on at Addison who is holding Meredith Grey.

She currently has a blanket wrapped tightly around both of them and Addison is praying to a god she doesn't believe in that Derek Shepard would never notice that underneath all of those blankets that the two of them were actually stark naked and have been that way for at least the past several hours.

"So you sleep with my girlfriend now?" Derek chuckles at his wording even if in fact he had only meant it in the most platonic sort of way.

"We're napping," Addison explains, raising her voice at him as if it were oh, so obvious.

"So you're napping with Meredith nowadays. Derek continues.

"I guess I never got the memo huh" Derek flashes his stupid McDreamy smile and for an instant Addison sort of feels bad for her ex-husband. Because for all that he was and for all that he wasn't, he sure seemed to be understanding and just a shared look left out by the whole ordeal.

"Well have a nice nap, Addie, good to have you back" Derek turns to leave the room.

"I'm not back" Addison has to add to reinforce her points about this being a temporary arrangement for her to be in Seattle.

"Well enjoy your stay," Derek says only half sarcastically. "And for the record Torres' treatment is going well and she named her baby Sofia Robbin Sloan Torres and she's sharing it with Mark and Arizona is going to sign for adoption" he adds.

He doesn't mention the sex toy at all and so Addison is not sure whether or not he'd seen it, and not noticed it, not seen it at all or not wanting to admit he'd seen it and that he knew exactly what it was but either way, Addison was grateful.

"Thank you, Derek, thank you very much" Addison whisper-screams at him genuinely grateful for the update on her friends and she's covering Meredith's ears as she does so not to wake the blonde up while snuggling the blanket up over the top of the both of their shoulders for at least fifteen minutes after the man was gone to make sure that he didn't come right on back if he were looking for another update or foraging for a pen he had forgotten.