A month had passed since her crazy first day. It had somehow gotten around the hospital that she was Richard Webbers daughter, and not many people seemed to care. After all it was only big news for the interns as most of the attending and residents already knew.

The gossip died out. Derek kept his distance unless they were working together and Alex and Meredith's marriage was quite happily out in the open.

Meredith and Alex now shared Bailey as his resident and found that they spent more time together now then they had in their last year as a couple.

Meredith and Alex arrived at the hospital to a new flow of gossip. They heard snippets of it in the elevator, but mostly at the nurses' station on 3. It was like Grand Central Station for half of the surgeons and nurses.

The gossip was along the lines of 'red bombshell' that had made an appearance last night and had announced to be Dr Shepherds wife. Meredith smiled, she was pleased to think that they had gotten back together.

"Addison must be here." she whispered to Alex. He just nodded as he opened the door to their locker rom. Both set about changing and had only finished when Bailey entered.

"We have rounds people." she announced and waited for them out in 

the hall.

Meredith, Alex , Christina, George and Izzie followed Bailey on rounds. It was on the rounds that Meredith and the group met with Addison.

Addison was sanding over an incubator looking down upon an abandoned premmie. Alex had the job to present the case. Meredith watched as she looked him over carefully. Meredith hated when women did that, but could only grin and bear it. After all, most women thought he was an arse, but she knew differently.

Alex looked over at Meredith, and could see her discomfort. He moved to stand next to her, brushing his hand over hers.

Addison watched this and smirked.

Addison shot off a round of questions about the case, relevant to medical procedures that the baby would have to undergo. Both Meredith and Alex and answered most of the questions.

Addison looked at Alex's badge. "Dr Karev is it?" she asked. "You seem to have a good knowledge of neo natal. You can join me on this case." she concluded.

Alex closed the chart. He knew Meredith wouldn't be too happy about this.



The interns were excused from the room and continued the rest of their rounds, before being assigned to an attending.

Meredith was assigned to Dr Shepherd in neuro. Alex squeezed her hand before they parted.

Their shift was to last 12 hours, and Meredith shuddered at the thought of Addison working with Alex for that long.

Alex had agreed to have lunch with Meredith and both were anxious to see each other by the time 1 came around.

Meredith found Alex sitting in their usual seat in the cafeteria, and it looked as if Addison had taken the liberty of joining him.

Meredith suddenly went all territorial over him.

Meredith grabbed a lasagne from the canteen before walking towards the table. Meredith went and sat on Alex's lap. "Hey babe I missed you." She whispered before she kissed him passionately.

Alex wrapped his arms around her tight. He didn't know for sure what exactly had Meredith climbing all over him, but he figured he would embrace it. "So how's neuro today?" Alex asked her

"Hmmm... Okay I guess, but don't really feel like working with brains today." she replied. "How's your stint going with Gynie?" she asked looking over at Addison.



"Good were working on a tts case." Alex answered.

Meredith kissed him again. She knew Gynie wasn't his cup of tea.

"Richard flew me out here for the case." Addison entered the conversation. "He has also offered me a position, filling the place of the doctor who has gone on Maternity leave."

"Dr Sampson" Meredith filled in. "Remember Alex, Dad told us that she had a baby girl."

"Yeah Mer" Alex replied.

Meredith began to pick at her lasagne. Now that she had it she didn't really want it. "Want some babe?" she asked him. He nodded and she scooped some onto the fork and plopped it into his mouth.

"Its good" he told her, he had a big grin on his face.

"Oh babe don't forget to get off on time tonight. Mum and Dad are coming for tea" she told him.

Alex rolled his eyes. "Are they truly removing themselves from the hospitals they run?"

"Yep, just make sure you don't forget that, among other things." she stated, trying to cover the underlying seriousness in her tone of voice, and looking at Addison.



"Ok babe" he quickly gave her another kiss.

"Would love to stay and chat, but I have an ultrasound to do."

Meredith stood up to let Alex up. Addison looked over and smirked.

Meredith huffed and fell flatly back in her chair, discarding what was left of the lasagne.