Saving grace.

DISCALIMER – I don't own anything, but a gal can dream, right? :)

ok this is completely AU and I have moved the season 6 finale forward a couple of seasons so this this is set in season 3. a couple of facts to make the story work.

Addison never cheated

derek was absent

mark hasen't moved to seattle and is still in NYC.

Enjoy!

Chapter one.

Addison shepherd graced the hallways of seattle grace-Mercy west hospital with confidence and ease. It had been a year since she had come out to seattle to save her marriage. (What was left of it at that point) and boy was it bloody hard, tears had beem shed, words exchanged and tempers had flared, but it was worth in the end.

In the last year things had going well for the golden couple of medicine, in fact they were great, they were in a better place now then they had ever been.

Addison was due to meet her husband in the cafritria for lunch, but he was running late but he had texted her just to let her know.

Addison was sat absent mindedly reading a medical journal and eating her salad (if you could it that) she could hear the interns whispering and sniggering at the table not far from were she was sitting.

A man entered the cafe and scanned the room, he knew who he was looking all he needed to do was find her. He soon found who he was looking for and made his way to the table were the woman sat eating her lunch.

"Are you Addison Shepherd?". He asked her.

"Yes, and you are?". She answered his question with a question.

The man completely ignored her question.

"Isnt your husband joining you, Mrs Shepherd?". He asked.

At this the world renouned surgeon shifted uneasy in her seat and looked up at him.

"Again i'll ask you, who are you?". She asked.

"Oh im sorry my manners have gone begging im Gary Clarke ma'am and your husband killed my wife in this very same hospital a few weeks ago". He told her.

Addison instantly knew the name as it was her who had comforted her husband as he had drowned his sorrows that night.

"Look Mr Clarke I am sorry his your loss my husband took your wife's death really hard that day and I can reasure you that he puts everything into each and every surgery he does". Addison told him.

"It doesnt sound like its the first time you have given that speechm Mrs Shepherd". He replied.

Over at the table the interns were sitting at they were still talking about the Shepherds, well in meredith's case more like complaining but still gossiping none the less.

"Who she-shepherd talking to ?". Alex asked the group.

"How would I know". Izzie answered, annoyingly back at hiM.

"Ok no need to bite my head off, geez". Alex resorted back at her.

"loser". Muttered under her breath.

"Hang on a sec isnt that Gary Clarke?". Cristina exclaimed to the group.

"Hey so who cares". Meredith replied, chidishly.

"Do you ever think of anyone else but yourself?". Izzie aksed with a glare.

"What?". Meredith replied as if to say that nothing else mattered.

Izzie just rolled her eyes at her.

"Yeah that is Gary Clarke, why?". George asked, speaking for the first time since the conversation had started.

"Becasue do you rememer Shepherd operated on his wife a few weeks back? Well anyway so she dies on the table and Shepherd is coming out of the OR and clarke threatends him tellling him that he was gonna make him pay, so why would he be talking to Addison?". She asked the group, who all just looked at each other.

Meanwhile back the table were Gary Clarke and Addison shepherd were sitting Gary Clarke was getting impatient.

"So were is he?". He asked harshly.

"Who?". Addison answered him, playing dumb.

"look lady just give me shepherd and i'll be out of your hair and try and reach for that pager one time and i'll blow your pretty little head off". He told her, pointing his 9mm at her.

Addison sat there frozen on the spot as the whole cafritria let out screams ans gasps of shock which seemed to addison a forigan comsept as she sat looking down the barrel of a gun.

Derek Shepherd strode down the hallway without a care in the world, he had just saved a father with a brain tumor the size of alabama that no other surgeon in the country would touch and on top of that his personal life was the best it had ever been- man was life sweet.

Back in the cafritria a nurse had activated the panic button that was on the far wall that triggered a silent alerm a code grey.

Meanwhile derek entered the cafetira and at the sight that greeted him was one of horror and in that moment he thought his whole world was going to end.

Love/hate? Comments and suggestions are welcomed :) xx

Mary-Ellen