Forever and Always

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The next day Addison found out that Derek brought the girls to Meredith's house. "Derek I don't care if you didn't have anywhere to go. You should've brought them back to me, I don't want me children around your whore intern." Addison yelled. "Don't speak like that about her." Derek snapped back. The two where fighting in a supply closet. "I don't care Derek. I don't want them around her." "WHY SHE'D BE A BETTER MOTHER THAN YOU." He immediately froze. Tears bubbled in Addisons eyes. "Addison I'm-." "Don't Derek. I don't want you to see them anymore." She stormed out of the closet, her heels clicking against the ground.
"Fuck." He yelled kicking a bucket over.

"Momma, where's daddy. I want to stay at Meredith's house again." Lilly said. "Lillian your not going back there." Addison said walking her daughters out of the hospital. "Addison wait." She turned around to Derek running over to them. "Daddy." Eliza yelled trying to run to him. "Eliza no." Addison said holding her back. "But I want to see daddy." She said whining. "Let's go." She said pulling Eliza and Lilly out. Derek stood there watching his wife pull his daughters away.

2 weeks later
"Mom." Addison turned her head. She was about to leave Eliza's room, she had tucked her in. "Yes." She said walking back over to her daughters bed.  "I just wanted to tell you how strong you are. You know with the whole thing with dad." Addison had sat down and told Eliza about what was happening, she hadn't told Lilly because she's too young but Eliza kept asking why Derek didn't live with them and Addison was tired of lying to her daughter. "Oh baby." Tears bubbled in Addisons eyes. "Thank you." She said running her thumb over Eliza's cheek. Eliza smiled. "How are you so grown up?" Addison said. Eliza giggled. Addison smiled. "Thank you baby. You don't know how much that means to me." She said. "Goodnight mommy." Eliza said. "Goodnight." Addison said. She closed the door.

Eliza's 9th birthday was coming up and Addison had been so busy with work she had forgotten to ask her what she wanted. The girls hadn't seen Derek since the night Addison dragged them out of the hospital before he had a chance to see them.

Derek was standing in the main lobby with Meredith talking. The rest of the interns plus Bailey, Richard, and Callie where also there. "Yeah he wouldn't let-." He froze. Their they where. Hand in hand, with their little brown pig tails and pink backpacks on standing in the lobby. Once Derek stopped talking it caught everyone's attention and they all looked at what he was looking at.

"I'll be right back ok, stay here I'm going to go grab my purse." Addison said telling her daughters. She's been trying to avoid Eliza and Lilly being at the hospital in case they saw Derek, she picked them up from their schools after care program and realized she forgot her purse.

Addison walked away and Lilly started to divert her attention until she caught his eyes. "Daddy." She said trying to run to him. "No Lilly, stay." Eliza said holding her sister back. Derek's eyes softened and he met Eliza's eyes for a second before she flicked them away. Addison came back and saw Eliza's head down and immediately noticed the group of people staring at her daughters. She walked over to Derek, "what the hell Derek." She said. "I told you i don't want them to be around you anymore." She said putting her hand on her hip. "More like what the hell have you done. Eliza won't even look at me. Did you tell her?" He asked. Addison diverted her eyes, a trait Eliza had gotten from her. "Derek she wouldn't stop asking." "SO YOU PROBABLY CHANGED THE STORY TO MAKE YOU THE GOOD GUY." He yelled making everyone turn their heads to the couple, including their daughters. They watched with sad eyes as their parents went back and fourth snapping at each other. Bailey and Callie walked over to the two tiny girls. "Callie!!" They exclaimed. "Hi guys. This is my friend Miranda." She said motioning towards Bailey. "Hi." Eliza said. Lilly was shy and put her head down. "Do you wanna go color with us?" Callie asked reaching out her hand for Lilly to take. Lilly nodded her head and the four girls walked into a conference room.

Addison and Derek watched as their daughters walked away with the two women, Lilly's pigtails bouncing as she talked. Addison sighed rubbing her forehead with her hand. "Whatever Derek." She said "no it's not whate-." "STOP." Richard yelled. They froze and turned to the older man. "Do you two know what you just did?." They stared at him blankly. "Those two little girls now have the memory of their parents screaming at each other. Haven't you already put them through enough. Have the decency to spare them of having to watch their parents fight." He said. The two hung their heads down in embarrassment. "Now can you be holy and go visit your children, together." Addison opened her mouth to protest but closed it and nodded her head.

The couple walked over to the conference room where their daughters where. They heard Addisons heels clicking against the floor and snapped their head over. Once they saw Derek there eyes lit up and a smile spread across their lips. Lilly held up her crayon, "mommy, daddy, come color with us." She said smiling a toothy smile. Addison let out a laugh at her daughters cuteness and Derek smiled. Miranda and Callie got up and Addison and Derek took their spots, Derek next to Eliza and Addison next to Lilly. Lilly crawled onto her mothers lap and Addison wrapped her arms around the little girls waist. The family sat and smiled and laughed and talked. The family.
This was the first time they where a family in months and that made Eliza happy.

Addison was in Seattle for a work meeting and to see Derek so she was renting out a house. "Mrs. Montgomery, I'm selling the house. I'll give it to you for a fraction of the price. Please I just want to get out." She ran into the owner on her way to the hospital that morning. "I-uh." "Can you give me some time to think about it." She said. "Of course." "But the open house is tomorrow so I need your decision by then." He said. Addison stood in the parking garage thinking of the pros and cons of living here. But she thought about her daughters and if she has a shot at repairing her marriage than she should do this. "Wait Mr. Fraize." She called after him. "I'll take it." She said.