Soothe

20: Faux?

Author's Note:

Welcome back!

Thanks for all the comments on the last chapter, folks.

And thanks for all of the new followers of this story!

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PREVIOUSLY ON "SOOTHE":

"Did you actually ask Callie if she was 'Speaking the Vagina Monologues?" Meredith asks.

"I did," Addison laughs. "And then I said I was 'all for it,' after," Addison laughs with Meredith.

"Was that like, your 'coming out' line, but not?" Meredith asks Addison, curiously.

"Probably, or at least I wanted to test the waters with Callie, we were close, we still are," says Addison.

"Is Callie cool with you liking women?" Meredith asks Addison, then says, "and other friends?"

"I don't know if she knows, but it would be hypocritical for her not to be, right?" Addison laughs.

"Probably," Meredith laughs. Addison adds right away that "Naomi knew already, anyway."

"When did you come out to Naomi?" Meredith asks Addison. "College?" Addison shrugs.

"Why did you not come out in Seattle?" Meredith asks Addison. "Why didn't you?" Addison counters.

"I was married to a man anyway," Addison shrugs. "I dated the same man," Meredith shrugs back. And they both giggle again at the irony of that statement. "So we both came out and dumped the same man, Derek, but not necessarily in that order?" Mer asks, and Addie laughs.

END OF FLASHBACK SEQUENCE.

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 lespians, "Blame Game" by LordOfLezzies, "All We Ever Are We Are" by SilverStarsAndMoons and "I'll Feel Better When The Headaches Go Away" by StepIsInsanity.

Chapter 20: Faux?

If everyone thinks you're dating and you don't tell them you're not, does that make you actually dating already?

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The return from the Archfield to Seattle Grace Hospital is smoother than anticipated. At least the driving part is, at least. There are no mass casualties on the road. No detours or broken taillights. Nothing out of the ordinary, which, in Meredith Grey's is could be considered pretty damn ordinary, to tell the truth. Meredith sighs contentedly as they arrive at work in one piece.

"Well that was easy," Meredith comments as she tips the cab driver. "Yeah?" Addison shrugs until Meredith explains that when she's having a crisis, usually she ends up with something 'really really bad happening,' also, just to make it all worse. "Well, I guess you're right it's nice that neither of us drowned on our way to work today," Addison smiles. "Don't jinx it, Addison," Meredith grins.

As it turns out, the crisis had been yet to come, at the hospital, for them. Not a worms-in-the-brain-related medical crisis, luckily, though. As Meredith finds out as she immediately follows Addison to Archer Montgomery's room and knocks on the door before bursting in while Addison waits around the corner. "Morning!" Meredith says as she watches Archer groan out in protest while Naomi Bennett, Archer's girlfriend/Addison's best friend, does, too.