Rainy Day

Chapter 3: When the Sun Rises

Author's Note:

Thanks folks for all of your amazing encouragement recently! It's been ages since publishing, yes, and it's been ages since the WIP's have been updated (it's in the works!). Until then, enjoy this 'now a three-shot' of "Rainy Day", which is now one of the most unexpected wonders of writing MerAdd for me, ever. Funny the way it is sometimes? LOL.

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Rainy Day

It's raining again and it's fitting to suit your mood and also probably Addison's.

Meredith Grey/Addison Montgomery. Angst & Hurt/Comfort. Rated E.

Chapter 3: When the Sun Rises

When the sun rises, it shocks you a little bit because of all the rain lately.

You're not complaining though; and by contrast, you shake your head a little bit with a grin because of the way the weather seems to match your emotions.

Your English professor might have called it "pathetic fallacy" or "visual imagery" or something along those lines.

Whichever it is, you decide not to question it because you're got one less big question in your life to figure out now.

Now, Addison has headed off for surgery and you're running labs as you do, and the monotony of the task doesn't drain you as much as it might have before.

When you see your friends again, you have to contain yourself not to giggle and blurt out "I GOT LAID LAST NIGHT, AND ALSO THIS MORNING," but of course, you don't have to, because they already know.

"Look who's got that post-sex grin on her face!" Cristina smirks at you, and you swat her hand playfully with a pout because you sure as hell know that SHE knows (she's your person after all), but you don't need that announced to Alex, George, and also Izzie.

"Whoa, look who's getting lucky!" Says Izzie, smiling. No matter what, Izzie's always gonna be a romantic so she's always happy for you, at least.

"Dude," says Alex, predictably. His shit-eating grin should piss you off but you're just so light and airy, it doesn't.

"Really!? Mer?!" George tries not to sulk at you, but he does a little, and you feel kinda bad but mostly not.

"So who's the unlucky-" Cristina starts, but doesn't end her sentence ever, because the 'unlucky,' or rather, 'lucky,' human being who Meredith has happened to be with last night materializes right in front of them.

"Good morning, interns," Addison smiles widely, and even winks at you secretly to show that she's coming over here just for you.

You almost fall off your chair when she does this, but you don't, but you still can't help but show your nonexistent dimples with how wide you're smiling right now.

Which, of course, given who you are to each other on the surface just makes it (for everyone else) hyper-confusing.

"Good morning, A- Dr. Montgomery," you slide over to her last name (albeit barely), at the last minute, and you can't help but sheer internally when her lips curve for you at your near-miss of wanting to be calling her "Addison".

You've gotten away with it this time, though, as Addison smoothly continues and informs you all of the cases that she's had you working on and she talks about medicine more, and your mind is thinking about everything but...

She's really trying here to be neutral and professional and calm and collected, and you really ought to get your mind out of the gutter, but when she keeps twirling her left hand slightly nervously at her side you can tell she's just as affected as you are.