So, this is my second multi chapter story for this fandom and unlike the last one, I've only got the first few chapters written, instead of it all being finished before posting. I do know where I'm going though, so no worries that I'll abandon this without finishing. That's been done to me more times than I care to remember in my other fandoms and I don't want to do it to others. I got this idea from a fic way back in the archives but mine goes very differently. It starts on that infamous night but things go very differently. I wanted to put the dialogue from the actual episode in but I couldn't remember the title of the episode with the flashback in it to look it up on transcript sites. So, for the purposes of this fic, we'll say that he only threw her out and not her clothes too. But other than that, it goes pretty much the same except for-Well, read on to find out and do please comment. I need those like Addison needs shoes.

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Chapter 1

He'd thrown her out in the rain. Then he just stood by the inside of the door of the brownstone, listening to her sobbing and begging and pleading. He didn't know how long he sat there, crumpled by the door.

He was about to relent and let her in when there was suddenly silence. The sudden silence was unnerving. So he got up and he opened the door.

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Addison was crouched by the other side of the door, begging, pleading and sobbing. It seemed like forever to her that she had been doing this. Derek was never going to forgive her. They were over. Her marriage was over. Which meant her life was over too.

So she might as well end it now. Addison stopped all the sounds she was making and slowly got up. She figured she'd jump off of the steps. Easy and fast.

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He opened the door just as she was about to jump. It didn't register at first, what she was about to do. But then it did. He couldn't let her. "Addie!" He leapt forward and grabbed her just in time. "What the fuck do you think you're doing?"

She struggled in his arms. "Let me go! Let me go!"

But he didn't. He dragged her back inside. "Stop! Stop! Stop!"

It took a bit of time but she did eventually stop. She continued to sob, though. "I'm sorry, Derek. I'm so sorry."

"I know." He did. He couldn't tell you how he knew but he did. And while he was still hurt and angry over what he had walked in on, that wasn't the only thing he was. He was still in love with her. He had to be because of the fear he felt when he figured out what she was about to do. Because no matter what she'd done, he knew one thing. The world without her would be a poorer place. And Derek knew his world without her would be a poorer place. "Come on. Let's go back inside and go upstairs."

She stopped sobbing and looked at him. "Y-you mean it?"

He sighed. "Addie, I'm still upset by this but it's not worth you dying over. We'll figure this out. Just come on now and we'll go upstairs. You go and take a shower. I'll call the hospital and tell them we're taking a couple of weeks off for personal reasons. And we'll go somewhere and sort this out."

"O.K."

Soon she was scrubbed clean and in a comfortable pair of pajamas. In the meantime, Derek had stripped their bed of the sheets. They went into the garbage. She looked around and noticed that. "I had to throw them out." She simply nodded.

She also noticed that he'd pulled the lounge chair in their bedroom in front of the door. "I can't sleep with you in that bed right now but, in light of what you tried to do, I'm afraid of leaving you alone and going to sleep in one of the other bedrooms. So, I'll sleep here so if you try to leave, I'll know."

'I understand. I-I'm so sorry."

"Yeah, let's just get some sleep. O.K. Things will maybe look better in the morning."

"O.K." She got in bed. It took her awhile to fall asleep but when she did he watched her for a while before letting himself fall asleep. But they both would not have easy sleep that night.