Falling Apart, Barely Breathing

Chapter 39: Yesterday.

Author's Note:

Thanks for the comments on the chapters so far, folks.

Enjoy!

bobbiejelly

PREVIOUSLY ON "FALLING APART, BARELY BREATHING":

The morning after the night it all began...

When Meredith wakes up she can hardly see before she blinks at least seven times and she struggles to free herself from the swaddle of her blankets that have all been bunched tightly up against her body like a cacoon.

She thinks nothing of it before making a beeline to the bathroom to throw up again as she looks at herself in the mirror at her body barely supporting herself still in yesterday's clothes as she sighs and she pads her way downstairs to see her potted plant sitting sideways on the kitchen counter slightly to the left of where she remembered she'd planted it just a few mornings ago.

Meredith makes her way over to to the counter where she finds a scrawled note reading

"Meredith, take these two asprin along with the whole glass of water before going to work in the morning. Your key is not stolen, it was borrowed so that the door could be locked behind you on your way in last night. You'll get it back soon. Thanks for the Memories. Best Wishes."

Meredith reads the note over at least six or seven times before realizing that it had no name affixed to the bottom of it nor any signatures or particular markings left over on the reverse of it either.

Whoever the mystery man who had helped her settle in last night was, well she wishes she could remember an ounce of it because obviously he would have been a keeper if she hadn't been blackout drunk on him because clearly she could see that he was the definition of a gentleman.

END OF FLASHBACK SEQUENCE.

Falling Apart, Barely Breathing

In Which Addison meets Meredith in a bar. Things spiral from there. This is the story about what might have happened after Meredith asks Derek to "Pick Me, Choose Me, Love Me" but before he decides to do anything about it, and after SHE decides to do something about it. MerAdd. Meddison. Set during "Bring the Pain" GA. An Addison Montgomery/Meredith Grey - Grey's Anatomy Fanfiction. Written by bobbiejelly

Chapter 39: Yesterday.

Of dinner, and discussions, and of truths being finally told...

Addison didn't know what to expect when she finally met the mother of John's dead lover.

She was meeting with her to sign John's discharge paperwork, because as he'd said before, he had no other next of kin.

She is a really lovely person, Addison thinks. She seems to be very fond of John.

All this makes Addison wonder if the true story was that John's lover had died in love with him as he'd first said, on the way to get married, and that he'd made the part up about the lying so Addison would open up to him.

But either way, Addison knows it's not really her business, anymore, now.

"I've missed him," she says to her. "And call me Serenity, by the way," the loved-one said.

"Oh, Addison. I mean, well, Doctor Montgomery, but Addison is my first name, and we've become close so you can call me by my first name as well, if you want to," Addison offers.

"Thank you, Doctor Addison Montgomery," Serenity uses all of her names rather than decide on which one.

"I've really missed him," Serenity, John's dead lover's mother, repeats.