Chapter 54 - Finally time has come for a new chapter of mended hearts. I had this last chapter stuck in my mind for months but I really didn't find time to write it. It's a short one, but I promise to write more in the next one. Thank you so much for reading this story. Comments and review are really appreciated and give me more ideas for new chapters.

Previously in last chapter Derek and Addison finally got married… again! And they had a little domestic about carrying or not their baby with them in the honeymoon

"Good morning, sweetiepie!" she picked up William from his crib, "Did you sleep well tonight?...shh…shhhh" she whispered while rocking him to make him stop crying, "It's okay, it was just a bad dream, but now mommy is here with you and everything is fine. She opened the curtains to let the sun through in the room, it was a beautiful day.

She carried William in the kitchen where Derek was preparing breakfast. He gave her a warm bottle to feed William and a cup of coffee for her, "Pancakes?" she asked looking him busy at the rings.

"Uh-uh"

"The smell is delicious! You're spoiling me, Mr Shepherd…"

"Do you have any plans for the day?" he asked her.

"The weather is good, we could go to central park, spending time all together… Derek…" she paused looking at the baby in her arms and playing with his tiny hand

"Yes, honey…"

"I think we should carry William with us!"

"Wh… what?" he said surprised

"Derek" she tried to explain her reason

"Addison, it's our honeymoon, a week in St Barths, just you and me"

"Derek, I'm not ready to leave him…"

"Addie, he's 5 month old, you can't carry a 5 month old baby in an honeymoon!"

"Yes, Derek, he's 5 month old, it's too soon to leave him alone…"

"But honey William will not stay alone, Teresa, the nanny, will stay with him and take care of him in our absence, like she always does"

"Yes, but for a day not for a week, Derek, he is not ready… I'm not ready…"

"I can't believe it, Addison, this is our last chance to be alone, to share a little intimacy", but soon their argument was interrupted by William crying on the baby monitor.

"William needs to be changed" Addison replied to him showing she had already made her choice, she headed to the nursery room, so Derek followed her "Don't use William as an excuse!"

"I'm not, Derek! He is screaming, he needs my attention and a clean diaper!"

"This is exactly what I mean, Addison, I will not spend my honeymoon changing diapers"

She removed William's dirty diaper and gave it to Derek to trash it. She tickled her baby's tummy "Let's do a warm bubble bath, sweetiepie, do you want to do it?...oh yes, you want to do it, you love bubble baths, playing with the water and all your gummy toys…"

"Are you even listening to me, Addison?"

"Derek I'm listening to you, and to answer you, we are not 25 anymore, we are two grown people in their forties, parents of a 5 month-old! He is our priority" she said bathing a very happy William, "Listen, Derek, you can't even imagine how much I desire sharing a little intimacy with you, spending 24 hours in bed making love, remembering our romantic weekends in Cabo... but look at him!.. if I have to choose between tequila, sex, sun and him, my choice is easy, I choose him!"

Derek picked up the sponge and helped Addison with William, he smiled "I think I don't have any other choice, right?"

She lifted up her eyes and looked at him, then she returned to bathing William.

"I will add William's playard on the list of things to bring on holiday"

"That is very generous, Dr Shepherd"

"…but I have a request please stop arguing" and he pressed his lips on her.

"I can't agree more with this last request!"

"…Wait, it's just the three of us, right?" he asked

"Uh?"

"I mean, you don't want take the nanny also, right?"

"Are you kidding me?...It's still our honeymoon, Derek!"

"It was just to be sure!"

A little squirming by William caught his parents' attention "and you, little man, do you have any other requests?...I think he is gonna enjoy the jacuzzi!".

"I don't remember the trip being this long" Addison said coming down carrying William in her arms from the little ladder of the private jet.

"Maybe because years ago we didn't have the joy of an infant in the air!"

"Stop complaining, Derek!"

"Why I shouldn't I complain… William spent the first five hours of the flight crying and screaming!"

"If you had an earache you would had done the same, Derek!... Did you pick get everything from the cabin?"

"Sure! Do you think I'm retardard?" She looked at him saying nothing.

"Mr Shepherd, you forgot the baby's bag!" the cabin's hostess told him. Derek looked at Addison, she was trying her best to not laugh at him "I didn't say anything, Derek…Well, maybe just a little… "

"Very funny!"

"Was it here?" he asked her, while the car was carrying them to the hotel "Le Village".

"What?" she asked not sure what he was talking about

"The place with the boat"

"You mean… the place with the big bed?"

"Yeah…"

"Yes, it was here…"

"When did we go here?"

"It was right after the end of the residency..."

"Are you sure? We went to Belize after the residency…"

"No, Belize was the year after the residency…"

"What about the boat?"

"You hired out to make it a surprise for me"

"…and did you like the surprise?" he whispered using a seductive tone

"Very much!" she said pressing her lips on his.

"Mr and Mrs Shepherd, welcome to our Jacuzzi Suite, thank you for choosing our hotel for your honeymoon, we hope you have an unforgettable holiday here, for every need our staff of 'Le Village' is at your beck and call! Your baggage has already been put in the closets"

"Thank you, Martin!" Derek said giving him a rich tip.

"This place is amazing" Addison commented looking at the view on St Jean Bay from the terrace of their apartment.

He joined Addison in the terrace and put his arms around her waist "William is sleeping, why don't we enjoy this time in the jacuzzi or in the bed" he proposed her.

"I like that idea… somewhere I saw a French champagne bottle and a basket of fruit waiting for us!"

"We should get married more often"

2 days later – New York City

"Did you check the patient in room 606 blood pressure?" A nurse asked to her collegue.

"Yes, 170/90 mmHg, it's still high after the therapy! Page Dr Hoyt!"

"Mark, I told you that Lexie's condition is under control, you have nothing to fear about it" Dr Hoyt tried to reassure her patient's husband.

"I know you have the situation under control, Vanessa, but after we improve the therapy for hypertension and we changed drugs, Lexie's blood pressure is still high, and she may have brain damage, to not talk about the baby, did you do a flussimetry? A Biophysic profile of the baby?"

"We did, Mark, a couple of days ago, and there was nothing wrong with your baby, and they are constantly under monitoring!"

"Maybe, you should call Addison, Mark" a young brunette suggested to Mark.

"Beg your pardon?"

"Sorry, Dr. Amelia Shepherd" She presented herself.

"I know who you are! The triplets case in Los angeles…"

"Yes,and if I'm not mistakan I saved the situation" Amelia told Mark smiling

"I bet you are related to the other Shepherd"

"His sister" Mark said.

"I'm gonna call Addison, I will be back in a couple of minutes"

Five minutes later, "Did you talk with Addison?" Mark asked concerned to Amelia

"I tried several times, apparently both Addison and Derek turned their phones off!"

"It's their honeymoon, what did you expect they'd do?"

"Don't know, maybe high profile research for Cochrane library" Amelia laughed and offered Mark a cup of coffee

"I'm pretty sure what they are doing involves a Jacuzzi or a bed… They are like horny teens!" and he sipped his coffee.

"Shut up, Mark, you are exactly like them!"

"Maybe once, look at me, I'm a desperate husband of a pre-eclamptic woman and a father-to-be of most-likely preterm infant…"

"Lexie is under control, Mark, nothing bad is gonna happen to her and the baby"

"I don't know, Amy, I have a bad feeling" he sighed, Amelia took a seat near him on the couch, she rubbed his neck to reassure him "You know, I deal every day with bad feelings… I'm a wreck but I'm a good friend, so if you need me, I'm here Mark"

A resident rushed out from Lexie's room heading to the nurses station "Page, Dr Hoyt, there are problems with the patient in room 606 and book the OR for an emergency C-section!"

Amelia looked at the scene, she was a little baffled "Mark, what's going on?"

5 hours later - Saint-Barthélemy

"Don't you think we should get out of this pool?" Derek suggested, softly kissing Addison's earlobe.

"Why?" she whispered, "Water is great, you are amazing… and William is sleeping, I love to stay here especially with you"

"I'm a little hungry" Derek admitted, "Yeah, me too" she replied tightening up around his waist and kissing him with passion, "The insatiable Addie!"

"That's because you're too good!"

Only 5 minutes later, their idyll time was interrupted by the ringing of the apartment telephone, "I thought you turned off your phone" he said not stopping the kiss, "I did" she moaned "…it's the apartment phone… maybe we should answer or.. it will wake up William…". She got out from the pool, put a robe on her and luckily picked up the phone before the other side hung up.

"Amelia!" she exclaimed recognizing her sister in law's voice "What's wrong?... Oh my god!"

Derek got out of the pool too, and put a bathrobe on him, he moved to his wife trying to understand what happened, Addison was really upset, "Honey, what's wrong?"

"Lexie died"

Surprised by the end? I confess that I was thinking to kill Lexie months before Shonda did, actually this idea come to my mind when I started writing her high risk pregnancy (almost an year ago... yes my timeline is even more screwed than the one in Ga and PPP). Another reason was the idea of Mark and Amelia, that really grew in me since GA/PPP's x/o when they slept together, but before any romance between these two I think Mark has a lot to process.

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