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Scenes from a Marriage by socalwriter
I saw someone do this in my Y&R fandom for Nick and Phyllis and thought, hey, I bet I could do that for Derek and
Addie. Basically, it's a list of 50 words, and the task was to write 50 thematic sentences about them inspired by the words.
Since I don't "live journal," and the original 1sentence thing originated there, I figured I'd just do it on my
own.
#01 - Ring -- He hears himself lie and say he threw the ring in the garbage even though he knows it sits ten feet away
in his nightstand drawer with the picture of their wedding he couldn't get rid of either.
#02 - Hero -- They're both surgeons, they both save lives, but every time Derek watches her from the gallery as she brings
a new life into the world, he can't help but be awed by his wife.
#03 - Memory -- She slides her rings back on her finger after surgery and sees him watching her, and she wonders if he
realizes that each time she does this, she sees his trembling fingers on their wedding day doing it for the first time.
#04 - Box -- Savvy's coffin is slowly lowered into the ground, and Derek takes his wife's hand in his, careful to hold
on tightly and not let go.
#05 - Run -- She hears the way he laughs when he doesn't know she's there, then hears the change in the sound as she approaches,
and part of her wants to run away from the regret in his eyes.
#06 - Hurricane -- She admits she stayed with Mark for months before coming to him and the fight that follows is like
a powerful storm--raging, brutal and damaging--but in the calm that follows, he realizes he can never let her go.
#07 - Wings -- The nursery has butterflies in different pastel colors against a pale green background, and when he opens
the door and shows it to her, Addison cries and wraps her arms around him in gratitude.
#08 - Cold -- He was sure his heart had turned cold until her lips brushed against his and she whispered that she still
loved him, causing the ice inside to melt... just a little.
#09 - Red -- Even when he hated her, even when he couldn't get far enough across the country from her, he would see the
color red and think of her hair slipping between his fingers and miss her.
#10 - Drink -- When her husband invites her to have a drink with him after a very long, very bad day, she smiles and takes
his hand and hopes the night will be better.
#11 - Midnight -- The clock chimes, signaling the new day, and when they both whisper "Happy Anniversary," thinking
each other asleep, the celebration begins in a fit of laughter.
#12 - Temptation -- He wasn't sure anything could be stronger than the temptation that is Meredith until it dawned on
him that he resists out of love for his wife.
#13 - View -- He woke ahead of the alarm and let his mind remember the details of the dream--the house, the balcony with
a view of the lake and the way her red hair blew in the breeze--and he knew it was the future they could have if he could
let go of the past and believe.
#14 - Music -- The singing in the shower is off-key and horrible, but it heralds another morning that the singer is her
husband and she is his wife, and so rather than yell, she joins in and sings as loudly and badly as him.
#15 - Silk -- The salesgirl grins at him while she wraps the sexy nightgown up in a gift box, and he winks and tells her
he had to buy it because red silk always reminds him of his wife's hair.
#16 - Cover -- He tries to cover his real reaction to seeing her with contempt and anger, but all he can think as she
strolls toward him dressed in black and full of fire is, "she came."
#17 - Promise -- Sometimes all that binds them together is the promise they made before they knew their love could be
shaken and torn and pushed to the breaking point.
#18 - Dream -- Dreams of happily ever after turned to dreams of survival, but the faces in their wedding photo stare back
at them every day, demanding that Derek and Addison hold on.
#19 - Candle -- A bead of wax slips down the candle in the center of their table, and suddenly Derek sees it--night after
night of candles burned to nubs, set out at dinners he never made it home for--and all he can think to do is take her hand
and whisper, "I'm sorry."
#20 - Talent -- It is their talent for hurting each other that outsiders see the most, but they never seem to notice the
way his touch restores her or the power her eyes have to make him feel whole.
#21 - Silence -- In the quiet at night, they can hear each other thinking about the past, and only when she curls into
him and he pulls her close can they stop the silence from torturing them.
#22 - Journey -- "Open Arms" comes on the radio and he turns it up and she smiles, and for just a moment, they're
on their first date again, before it all got so hard.
#23 - Fire -- She hates the trailer and the woods and life outside of civilization, but it's hard to hate it quite as
much in front of a campfire beside the lake with his arms wrapped around her.
#24 - Strength -- His son asks him how you know when love is real, and Derek glances toward his wife and says, "when
you push as hard as you can and she still won't let go."
#25 - Mask -- Her hands rise, and she effortlessly ties his surgical mask in place, and he is reminded how many little
things she does for him without asking for anything in return.
#26 - Ice -- The ice pack she brought him lays on his hand, and as he watches her confess Mark to Richard, he is suddenly
bathed in guilt at how happy it makes him to see shame in her eyes when she tells the story.
#27 - Fall -- It wasn't until she slipped off the pedestal he'd built for her in his mind that he realized how human,
how vulnerable and how fragile his wife really was.
#28 - Forgotten -- He sees her standing there, his forgotten cell phone in her hand, and he doesn't know how to explain
why Meredith is at his side on Doc's morning walk, nor is there any way for him turn back time and erase the agony from his
wife's face.
#29 - Dance -- Intoxication spreads through his body, but he's not sure if the cause is his second sangria blanca or the
sight of his wife performing a seductive hula as she surrenders entirely to the spirit of their Hawaiian second honeymoon.
#30 - Body -- Addison curls onto her side, and Derek turns as well, letting his hand settle into the curve of her waist,
which remains, after all these years, his favorite spot on her body.
#31 - Sacred -- They're not speaking and can barely stand to be in the same room with one another, but when Richard pages
them both and says they're needed jointly on a case, the Shepherds make their way to the E.R. together, the vow they made
to never let their marriage interfere with medicine the one promise that remains sacred between them.
#32 - Farewells -- There have been so many good-byes--to New York, to Mark, to Meredith--that it seems surreal when he
pulls over in front of a gorgeous new house in Seattle and whispers, "Say hello to our new home."
#33 - World -- Adele's statement was blunt, honest, and all Addison could think to say in response was, "You're right,
Derek's not my whole world, but he is my choice."
#34 - Formal -- He grumbles about hating dress shoes and bow ties because she expects it, and he vows to never admit
he had his suit custom made because of how much she loves him in a tux.
#35 - Fever -- She teases him about being a big baby and draws the cool cloth along his warm skin, but then she leans
close and promises not to leave him, and he smiles and lets himself drift off to sleep.
#36 - Laugh -- It's not until he hears her laughing at a joke told by another man that he realizes how long it's been
since he's heard that sound coming from his wife.
#37 - Lies -- He had told Addison the truth when he said he loved Meredith, but he had still lied by leaving unspoken
the truth of how impossible it was to stop loving his wife.
#38 - Forever -- The pink-wrapped bundle squirms and then a small hand reaches up and grabs hold of Addison's hair, and
he leans to his wife and whispers, "She's our forever."
#39 - Overwhelmed -- The papers she had drawn up are there in front of him, but he is paralyzed by the overwhelming reality
that their marriage could end with the stroke of his pen.
#40 - Whisper -- The words are faint, almost inaudible, her fear obvious to him as a smile spreads across his face and
he says back to her, "we're pregnant?"
#41 - Wait -- She never imagined when he asked her to "wait for it to pass" that anything could hurt so much
and yet be so impossible to give up on.
#42 - Talk -- Too many times, his attempts to tell her how he feels go wrong, so he draws her into the shower beneath
the heated water, and allows his lips and hands and body to do his talking for him.
#43 - Search -- His confidence wavers just a moment as the monitors around him begin to beep chaotically, and his eyes
lift, seeking, and find her there, watching him, reminding him silently of her faith in him.
#44 - Hope -- She wakes after another night of worry, after another fight about whether or not her husband will ever forgive
her, and finds a vase of Irises on the dining room table with a card that reads simply, "Irises--meaning: hope."
#45 - Eclipse -- He had learned that anger had the power to eclipse love, but just as the moon eventually moved past the
sun and freed the light again, so, too, had his anger passed, leaving behind only the love that had made him marry her in
the first place.
#46 - Gravity -- The flat line and droning tone are all he can see and hear, and he feels himself begin to float away
until her heart beats once... and then again... and then again, drawing him firmly back to solid ground.
#47 - Highway -- The wrecked body of the Range Rover lays on its side just off the highway, and she rushes forward, praying
the whole way, until she sees him sitting on the ground, alive, and she knows prayers really do get answered.
#48 - Unknown -- Seattle was strange, foreign, the unknown--but it was where he was, and so for her, there was no choice
but to make it home.
#49 - Lock -- She had given her body to another man and willed him to carry her away only to discover that the lock her
husband had on her heart could not be broken.
#50 - Breathe -- He's standing there, his eyes fixed on another woman, but then finally he sees her, and after reminding
herself to breathe, Addison walks toward him to begin picking up the pieces of their marriage.
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