I personally like Addison, a lot. But this is not and Addison Derek story. Derek and Meredith will be a couple in the story. However, the focus is not on them and their relationship. You'll just have to read and find out.

Addison sat in the trailer waiting for Derek. She had been terrified when she heard the bomb go off on the surgical floor. All she could think about was losing her husband. She looked around the empty trailer staring at the opposite wall knowing what she didn't want to admit—she had already lost him. His absence in their trailer now was proof. Tomorrow I'll call my lawyer. Addison thought to herself. She knew Derek was not all there when they were together and that he was not happy. As much as she wanted to work it out, she wanted Derek to be happy more.

"Hi," Derek said walking into the trailer letting the door slam behind him.

"Hi," Addison as she looked up at Derek. She saw the sad look in his eyes like he had lost his best friend. "I'm going to bed I ordered Chinese food earlier it's cold now." She said standing up and walking to the bedroom in the back of the trailer.

"Ok," Derek fixed himself a plate and sat down at the table, thinking not of the woman that shared his bed, but the one that shared his heart, Meredith. He'd almost lost her today, physically. Sometimes he wished he had just signed the divorce papers. If he had everything would be different.

A week after the code black things on the surgical was beginning to show some trivial signs of normalcy. The board was filling up with surgical cases and everyone was getting over the fact that they all could have died.

Wanting to try and mend his relationship with his wife faster, Derek went in search of Addison, hoping to have lunch with her. He could not find her anywhere, and no one had seen her through out the day.

He went home to his trailer that evening looking forward to a good nights rest. When he stepped into the small mobile home he realized that something was different. He looked around trying to pinpoint what it was. When he walked into the bedroom he saw a brown envelope laying on the bed on top of it was a smaller white envelope with his name written on it in Addison's loopy cursive. He opened the envelope to find a letter from Addison.

Derek,

We've been through a lot of things together, but overcoming adultery is one thing that we can't seem to overcome. I know what I did was wrong, and I have told you a thousand times how sorry I am, how much it meant absolutely nothing.

When I first came to Seattle it was partly for the job, and partly to try and win back your trust and love. In the time we were separated you fell in love with someone else. Being the gentleman that you are, when offered the choice to try and work it out with me, or to end our marriage to have a relationship with me, you stuck it out trying to regain what we once had.

Lately it has become even clearer that you're not happy with me, and as long as we are together you never will be. I don't want to be married to a man who doesn't love me—I can't handle it anymore. I'll always love you, and nothing will change that, but it's obvious that we need to go our separate ways. In the brown envelope are divorce papers. I've already signed them, the places are marked where you need to sign them. I'm going home. I wish you the best with your endeavors in life. Don't let her get away; she loves you as much as I do.

Forever yours,

Addison Montgomery Shepard

After reading the letter Derek opened the brown envelope and took the papers back into the kitchen. Her things are missing, that's what's different. Derek thought to himself as he sat down to sign the papers. Addison was right when she said that he was in love with Meredith, but he still had feelings for his soon-to-be x-wife. He scribbled his last name on the papers, closing the door to the first part of his life while opening a new one.