dropsonde (singers in a lower choir remix)
chapter 01 :: never had a shotgun shot in the dark
past Mark/Addison, brief Derek/Addison in a way that lasts the entire story, Alex/Addison, Meredith/Derek.
This story never had a clever summary, but it’s a rewrite of 2007/08′s dropsonde/shenzhou series: the one where Addison and Derek have a kid post-divorce and then end up with other people and it’s very twisty but Rachel is very cute. This is the only thing helping me cling to stability right now and it’s fascinating to see how much my writing has improved in 13 years.
Updates are exclusively posted on AO3. Please join me for this ride, it’s been a wild one and I love this universe deeply. It’s like a warm fuzzy comforter
Addison stares at the pair of scuffed brown heels scattered across the entryway in front of her. She stares harder, trying to make them into something they’re not. But the living room lamps are on timers during the week and the ugly one on the end table turns on, illuminating a woman’s shirt tossed over the back of the couch and a pair of black men’s shoes toed off in the hall.
The shirt isn’t hers, either. She doesn’t do shiny and hot pink, separately or in combination.
“Fine,” she says to the empty room.
A muffled moan from the master bedroom answers her.
She clenches her jaw and sets her shoulders and walks into the darkened kitchen. Without turning on any lights, she takes the shopping list pad off the fridge, rips off the reminder to buy toothpaste and bread and throws it in the trash, and picks a pen out of the cup sitting beside the toaster. She writes her note, clicks the pen before putting it back, and puts the paper on the fridge again, perfectly centered.
She opens the refrigerator, removes a bottle of water, an apple, and the chocolate bar she’s kept in there so it doesn’t melt while their heating’s on the fritz. Without another glance toward the master bedroom, she walks out of the apartment, carefully stepping over the scuffed heels on her way.
Mark finds the note several hours later.
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