Ok, here is chapter 2. Don't say I didn't warn you.

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"Dr. Shepherd?" George approached Addison slowly, "Bailey wants to see her husband."

Addison didn't reply, she just continued to stare at the basement wall.

"Dr. Shepherd?" George said again a little louder, "Bailey wants to see her husband."

Nothing.

"There really isn't anyone else I can ask." George said weakly, "What do we do?"

"Stop asking!" Addison exclaimed, "I don't know!"

George took a step back, "They are going to be okay," he reassured her.

"And how do you know?" Addison replied, all energy gone.

"They sent the last team up half an hour ago."

"What does that mean?"

"That means that everything is going to be fine, and Meredith and Dr. Burke and Dr. Shep... your husband will all be back down here in under an hour."

"Your sure?"

"Would I lie to you?" George was slightly insulted when Addison looked away, "I wouldn't lie to you!"

Addison managed a small smile. "Try to hold Bailey off for at least another hour. Then she can see her husband."

George nodded and walked away, "You know how we were talking about not lying, and seeing husbands," he said turning back.

Addison just raised an eyebrow.

"Maybe you should consider taking a shower before you see yours."

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Derek wearily made his way down the halls of the maternity ward looking for his wife.

"Dr. Shepherd!" Izzie came running up behind him, "Where is Meredith? Is she okay?"

"She is fine Izzie. I only saw her for a moment after...I'm not sure where they took her." Derek raked his hand through his hair, "I need to find Addison, tell her I'm okay."

Izzie wrinkled her nose, "You should consider telling her when there is not dried blood on your face."

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Addison leaned into the spray of the shower. She was scared. No matter how hard she tried she couldn't shake the feeling that everything was going to change, that something was going to happen. Try as she might she couldn't convince herself that everything would be okay, that her husband would come through this unharmed. Unable to hold it in anymore, Addison started to cry.

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Derek entered the locker room and kicked off his shoes. He went to hit a locker with all his might, but instead just tapped it, then pressed his forehead to his hand.

Either life had become clearer in the last hour or he had entered a parallel universe where the rules had change. Suddenly he realized that he could be there for Meredith just as a friend. He didn't have to be her McDreamy. He could just be Derek, and she could just be Meredith. They could coexists separately and still survive. This revelation made all the difference.

Derek took off the top of his scrubs and used it to disengage some of the blood that he now realized was also in his hair. With a sigh he pushed open the door to the adjoining shower room. As he entered the room he stopped in surprise. The room wasn't empty as he expected, he figured that he would have at least half an hour before all the showers were taken by staff trying to clean up before trying to put the surgical wing to rights.

But there directly in front of him was a woman. All he could see of her was the top of her shoulders and her hair.

Addison. And she was sobbing.

"Addy?" he said quietly as he placed his hand on the top corner of the door that separated them.

Addison turned around slowly.

"Derek," she gasped.

Before he could react she had pushed open the door and wrapped her arms around his neck, pulling him towards her.

"Hey," he soothed, wrapping his arms tightly around her back, "It's ok."

"I was so scared," she whispered into his neck, still crying.

"Me too," he replied, pulling away a bit so that he could look her in the eye.

"Don't ever do that to me again," she choked, hitting his arm and pushing her wet hair out of her face.

Derek laughed and ran his hands over her wet hair, "I won't. I promise."

Addison laughed a bit too, "Your all wet," she remarked.

Derek laughed loud and kissed her forehead and the tip of her nose, "Yeah well, I needed a shower anyway," he said, leaning forward to kiss her properly.

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"Tell me again why we aren't just going home?" Izzie sighed as she prepared to spend another long day at the hospital.

"Hello!" Cristina exclaimed, "This wing is going to be mass chaos for the next 12 hours. All the good gossip and stories, who did what in the face of danger, exaggerated stories about how Meredith almost got blown up... and you want to go home?"

"Well you should go home," Izzie said, turning to Meredith.

"And relive that experience at home, alone? I don't think so." Meredith replied.

"So McDreamy kissed you?" Cristina asked, she had been dying to get the details since Burke had told her.

"Derek kissed you?" Izzie gasped with surprise from where she was rooting through an unfamiliar closet.

"Yeah," Meredith shrugged.

"What does that mean?" Izzie questioned further, "Are you getting back together?"

Meredith shook her head, "No, it wasn't like that. It was more like a goodbye kiss."

"A goodbye you might be dead in a few minutes kiss?" Cristina asked smelling the shirt she just took off then throwing it in a laundry bin, wrinkling her nose.

"No," Meredith laughed, "Just goodbye," she smiled, wrapping herself in a towel and heading for the showers followed by Cristina and Izzie.

"So we aren't going to have to forcefully remove you from bed anymore," Izzie teased as Meredith pushed open the door and they all walked though.

"Oh My God!" Cristina exclaimed.

Addison jumped and attempted to hide behind Derek, who stood motionless.

"We are so sorry," Izzie gasped as the three interns hastily retreated.

Meredith, Izzie and Cristina didn't stop until they were standing outside the locker room.

"Oh my god," Cristina said again.

Meredith just started to laugh. Izzie and Cristina stared at her for a moment, then started to laugh too.

"Did you see there faces?" Meredith choked out.

"I thought that Addison was going to fall over," Izzie added giggling.

"What are you doing?" Bailey demanded, as she approached in a wheelchair being pushed by George.

"Your in the hall," George stuttered, "In towels. And no clothes."

Cristina composed herself first, "This is the only locker room with showers we can get into right now."

"So go take your showers." Bailey replied, completely confused.

"The showers are... occupied," Meredith explained doing her best not to break out laughing again.

"There are like 6 showers in there," George began, as the door to the locker room opened.

Derek emerged practically still dripping but redressed in scrubs, he was followed by Addison trying to pull her wet hair into a ponytail. He cleared his throat, "Dr.Grey, Dr.Steevens, Dr.Yang."

The three female interns bit their lips and looked away.

Everyone stood awkwardly in the hallway.

"I'm going to go shower now," Cristina said after a long pause.

"I hope there is some hot water left," Izzie remarked innocently following her back inside.

"I dunno," Meredith countered, grinning slyly at the blushing Shepherd's, "Seemed pretty steamy in there."

George stood open mouthed, unable to move.

Bailey just gave the Shepherd's her patented Nazi look, "Seriously?"

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Ha Ha. Ridiculous I know. It will never happen. But someone, that shall be hence forth known as the Idiot Savant, thought that Addison needed some shower time. Although he had a much raunchier version in mind, and it was starring him instead of McDreamy.

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