Soothe

2: An Impending Potential Tragedy In The Limelight

Author's Note:

Here's another addition to this story.

This are a lot of monologues, not a lot of dialogues.

Trying something new.

Think of this as the anti 'Elevator to Heaven'.

Let me know what you think-

Have a good day,

bobbiejelly.

Soothe

In Which Meredith teaches Addison how to self-soothe.

Before Meredith married Derek, and After she'd almost told Addison she liked her.

F/F. Meredith Grey/Addison Montgomery. MerAdd. Meddison. GA/PP Fanfiction.

Set during GA - "Before After/An Honest Mistake & PP - Acceptance/Ex-Life. Rated M.

Inspired by "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" by Illegal Kittens, "Blame Game" by LordOfLezzies, and "All We Ever Are We Are" by SilverStarsAndMoons.

Chapter 2: An Impending Potential Tragedy In The Limelight

In Which Addison coughs, and Meredith gets her a glass of water.

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Meredith Grey eventually feels, rather than sees or hears, that Addison has stopped sobbing as she feels Addison stop shaking so hard in her arms. She holds onto her still, for a little bit longer to make sure this isn't just some momentary calm-before-the-storm pause in crying. She holds on to make sure Addison wouldn't end up falling over when she eventually let go.

Meredith doesn't actually want to let go of Addison Montgomery before Addison is ready for her to let go of her, so she only looks up again once the shaking has subsided, for the most part, to see Addison's shining emerald green eyes staring off into the bitterness of straight ahead of them, but really she's staring off into nowhere.

Addison is eclipsed with preemptive grief over her Archie, as she calls him in her sobs, and Meredith thinks that this is actually really cute but she doesn't want to chuckle at it because then Addison might look at her. And she doesn't want Addison to look into her big baby blue eyes right now because she's not sure what she'll see if she does.

Meredith thinks that she would really like to know or understand, somehow, the emotions that might be swirling around in her own eyes as she stares at Addison who stares off into space again. She's seen Addison stare off into space several times, as she's mentioned. These situations also fall into the category of 'when something really BAD happens'.

Such as when she signed the damn papers to finally put Doc, their mutual dog down. If there was any sentient being that ever benefitted from Addison's offhanded snide comment about them 'not being into threesomes' it was definitely Doc, because at least Doc had been probably the only thing the three of them ever shared together without arguing completely.

And even then, not entirely without argument because of course Meredith had had to go date-but-not-screw their mutual vet of their mutual pet as she tried to knit sweaters or scarves or something but she wasn't that good and her scarves were always so screwed up and knotted like she was until Izzie changed them for hers and Meredith pretended not to notice she did that.

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But back to the point, of when Meredith had seen Addison staring off into the distance, sometimes it was about a patient that she couldn't save. Sometimes it was about a patient she could save but that was going to end up having a really tragic life probably, after that, like if she had to give them up to DCFS right away or release them to questionable parents.