A/N: This one's a tad different. It's based on the season 6 episode where Alex's brother visits but obviously set in this world. Also, instead of a chapter with several events over a month this is just one day, so let's just pretend it was the middle of the month and nothing of importance happened for the rest of it. Anyway, let me know what you all think, even if you think it sucks, I appreciate it! x

Alex was in the shower, getting ready for his shift when the bathroom door burst open and Meredith walked in.

"Alex? So, okay, Izzie's not here and Cristina's not answering her phone and I have a thing, so I need you to be a girl for me."

Alex stuck his head outside the shower door. "What'd he do? Want me to kick his ass?"

"He wants a big wedding. A big white wedding with all the family. I'm not a church wedding bride I'm not a poofy white dress bride either. He wants me to be."

"So you do want me to kick his ass?" He smirked.

"Alex."

"Do you want to get married?"

"I want to get married. I just don't want a wedding. I would be the worse bride in the world."

Addison opened the bathroom door. "Alex-" She sees Meredith pacing the bathroom as Alex was in the shower and raised an eyebrow at them. "Am I interrupting?"

Alex gave her a sheepish smile. "I was being a girl." Addison rolled her eyes and sat down on the closed toilet seat.

"Anything I can help with? Being an actual girl and all…"

Meredith looked Addison up and down, contemplating whether to say anything. "Derek wants a big wedding."

"And you don't." She smiled at her.

"I'm not really a big wedding girl."

Addison just shrugged. "So tell him."

Meredith looked at her in shock. "I preferred Alex's advice."

Addison looked at him curiously. "I offered to kick his ass."

She let out a small laugh. "Seriously, talk to him. He loves you, he'd be willing to bend for you."

Meredith looked between the two of them, thinking. "Or I could get Alex to kick his ass…"

The three of them started laughing as Derek walked in. "Hey Alex…" He stopped when he noticed the other occupants in the room. "Mer. Addie."

"He's being a girl for me." Meredith said.

Derek turned and looked at Alex. "Dude, it's true."

Derek looked at Addison. "And you are here because…?"

She shrugged. "I wanted to see Alex."

He nodded slowly and turned back to Alex. "Right. There's a guy downstairs who says he's your brother. Do you want me to send him up here to the bathroom since this seems to be where you receive your visitors?"

Meredith looked at Derek. "Tell him to wait."

"Right." Derek said as he left the bathroom, closing the door behind him.

Meredith turned to Alex, while Addison sat there silently. "You have a brother?!" Alex nodded in silence. "Do you want me to go get rid of him?"

"Crap. What's he doing here?" Alex muttered as he closed the shower door. Meredith looked at Addison and mouthed 'brother?' and Addison just shrugged in response and followed her out the bathroom.

"Hey. What are you doing here?" Alex said as he walked into the kitchen, followed by Addison and Meredith, and saw his brother sat talking to Derek.

His brother turned and smiled, standing up and reaching out to hug him. "Man, you got old!"

He returned the hug and repeated his earlier question."What are you doing here?"

"I had to drive to Portland on a job. Since I was in the neighbourhood…" He shrugged.

Alex just looked at him. "Portland isn't in the neighbourhood."

"It's 3 hours. I do 3 hours in my sleep." He replied smiling.

Addison stepped forward and placed her hand on his arm. "Alex, he's your brother, he's allowed to come say hi."

Alex turned and glared at her. She just raised an eyebrow back at him and squeezed his arm.

"What? We're due for a visit, it's been 7 years-"

"No, it has not." Alex interrupted.

"Since you've been home. It's been 7 years"

Derek looked over at him in shock. "7 years? You haven't been home in 7 years?!"

"Derek…I have this." Meredith warned.

He sighed and stood up to leave the room. "I'm Derek. Nice meeting you."

"Aaron." He stuck his hand out and Derek shook it before he left the room, throwing a 'take care' over his shoulder.

Meredith stuck her hand out. "I'm Meredith, by the way. It's nice to meet you." She turned and looked at Alex, who had been silent throughout this whole thing, with Addison still standing next to him with a hand on his arm. "Has it been 7 years?"

Aaron just continued talking. "Amber was 10 the last time we saw you-"

Alex cut in. "Aaron, what's going on? What do you want?"

"I do miss you, okay? And I did want you to say hi but since you're a doctor I thought I'd ask…" Aaron paused and lifted his shirt. "Should I be worried about this?"

The three doctors leant closer and peered at his stomach curiously. "Huh." Meredith said, as they saw it.

"I honestly don't think I need surgery…" Aaron said as they sat in the waiting room of Seattle Grace, Alex filling in the paperwork to admit him.

"You do." Meredith jumped in.

"It doesn't even hurt that bad." He protested.

"You have an umbilical hernia." Alex said. "You need surgery so shut up and fill out the paperwork."

Aaron kept smiling at him. "Surgery is just going to make it hurt worse. Remember when Dad had his gall bladder out…"

"Stop talking!" Alex snapped. "Just write."

Addison dropped her hand onto his knee and squeezed.

"Write what? I don't have an insurance, okay? What am I supposed to write?"

Alex shifted uncomfortably in his seat as a silence fell over them, interrupted by the sound of Addison's pager. She checked it and sighed. "911. I've got to go." Sh stood up with a final squeeze of Alex's knee and a look thrown at Meredith warning that she better have this under control. "I'll catch up with you later." She said as she walked off.

"Ask Bailey to do it pro bono." Meredith said to him.

He shook his head. "I can't ask her to do that."

Meredith sighed. "Alex, he's your brother."

"Evil Spawn has a brother?" Cristina said as she walked over.

"Aaron. Cristina Yang." Meredith introduced, as Aaron stood up and shook her hand.

"Nice to meet you, Dr Yang, I'm Aaron Karev."

"Oh my God, you're so nice. He's so…" She turned and looked at Alex in shock. "Why can't you be nice like your brother, Angel Spawn?"

Alex rolled his eyes at her. "Why can't you?" He snapped.

Cristina shrugged. "Fair enough." She turned to Meredith. "What's up, you called?"

Meredith got up to follow her, shooting a glare and a 'talk to Bailey' his way as she left.

Meredith was showing Aaron his scans with Bailey as he leaned over them. "That's my intestine?!" He asked in shock.

"Yep." She said, pointing at it. "And that part right there is supposed to be on the inside of the membrane not the outside."

"Dude, that is sick. Can I get a copy of one of these? I want to hang it from my fridge." Aaron said as Addison walked past, stopping when she saw them.

"Grey, Miranda, are we doing consults at the desk nowadays, cause I kinda need to use the computer?" She said as she raised an eyebrow at them.

"You're the hot red head from this morning." Aaron said as he looked her up and down and Bailey cleared her throat loudly.

Addison just laughed and held her hand out. "Addison Montgomery." She said as she leant against the desk and joined them.

"Nice to meet you." Aaron said.

"So…" Addison smiled at him. "How is it your brother is a surgeon, and you waited months to take care of this?"

Aaron shrugged. "I don't know. Karevs are tough. I guess five years in foster care will do that to you."

"Foster care?" Bailey questioned.

Addison looked at him curiously. "You're all foster children?"

"Well, me and Amber were in and out, but Alex, he had, like, seventeen different foster homes in five years."

"So Alex was a foster child?" Meredith checked.

Aaron nodded. "Yeah, you know, because my mom was, you know, it was before they had all the meds that they have today, and she was, I guess she was doing her best, but my dad, he...wasn't a good guy, and he was, you know...whatever, and so Alex, he got shipped around a lot, and he was a pretty rough kid if you didn't know him, so people didn't like to keep him. Then he ended up in juvie."

"J-juvenile detention?" Bailey checked.

"Yeah, 'cause my mom, she, sometimes she'd forget to buy food, so...he was good, though. People wouldn't have even known he was stealing anything if it hadn't been for the video cameras."

"How old was he?" Bailey whispered.

Aaron thought for a moment as he continued looking at the scan. "Mmm, eleven. Maybe twelve."

Alex walked over to them, holding a stack of charts and the three of them looked up at him.

"Hey, what do we do in 2807?" He asked Bailey and then looked at them suspiciously as they go quiet. "Dude, are you talking crap in here?"

Aaron shook his head. "No."

"Dude, I work here!" Alex snapped.

"Alex." Addison sighed in warning.

"So go to work." Bailey said. "Check the chest tube in 2807. Go!"

Alex glared at them. "Shut it, Aaron!" He warned as he left.

Bailey turned back to Aaron. "So, what happened after juvie?"

Addison gave her a Satan glare. "Miranda, I don't think that Alex would-"

"And I don't think Alex would want his girlfriend interfering!"

Aaron looked between the women. "Girlfriend?" He questioned.

Addison glared at her. "Grey, I need you to run tests on my preemie." She said as she walked away.

"So." Bailey said. "After juvie…?"

"Hey." Addison said as she found Alex sat on a bench outside the hospital.

"He told you stuff didn't he?" He asked as she sat down next to him.

She nodded. "Want to talk about it?" He shook his head. "Want to ask me a question?"

He turned to her and smiled, grasping her hand in his. "Do you have a Dad?" He asked.

She frowned for a minute. "Sort of."

"Sort of?"

She sighed. "I call my father 'The Captain'. I mixed drinks for him from the age of 8 and covered for him when he slept with every woman he met, lying to my mother saying he was taking me out for ice-cream. I think he felt guilty, added a million to my trust fund every time I caught him. I guess I have a father. I just don't have a Dad."

He squeezed her fingers and she dropped his head against his shoulders. "I didn't have a Dad either. I'm not sure I could even call him a father. He used to get drunk. Beat the crap out of my mom. Then when we got older, and he beat the crap out of me and Aaron too. So I took up wrestling. And one day when he hit me, I hit back. Hard. So hard he left and he never came back. Then I went to college on a wrestling scholarship. And I never came back either."

Addison stayed silent as he talked, just tilting her head and kissing the underside of his jaw. "I think I want soup for dinner. I'll stop by the store on the way home. What's your favourite?"

"Potato and leek." He said without pausing.

She sat up and looked up at him, screwing up her face. "That's gross. I'm not buying that."

He chuckled and kissed her gently.

Alex walked into Aaron's hospital room and looked at his chart.

"Dude, how could you not have told me you have a live in girlfriend?"

Alex turned to Meredith. "You told him?"

"No, no it wasn't me. It was Bailey."

Aaron stared at him. "Yeah, she figured your own brother would know you were in a committed live-in relationship with a hot red-head, but…"

"See, this is why I didn't want to tell you, because I knew you'd make a big deal." Alex sighed.

"It is a big deal! You move in with a woman! You've never even really had a girlfriend before! Just a string of one night stands. Wait until Mom hears about this, she's gonna flip!"

"She's not gonna do anything, because you're not gonna tell her, all right? You're gonna get your free surgery, you're gonna get back in your truck, and you're gonna get the hell out of here!" Alex yelled.

"Fine. You know what? I don't need your free surgery. I'll see you." Aaron snapped.

Meredith glanced between them nervously. "Aaron, stop."

"You're not going anywhere." Alex glared at him.

"I don't need your crap! You walked out on us! Like father, like son." Aaron shouted after him as Alex walked out the room.

Addison walked into the gallery before Aaron's surgery half surprised that Alex wasn't there but at the same time not surprised at all. She sat in the front row and leant forward, resting her elbows on her knees, as she watched Aaron talk to Bailey and Meredith.

"He protected me my whole life, you know? He kicked my dad's ass so hard, the son of a bitch never came back. I always thought he did that for me, but maybe he just likes throwing punches." Aaron told them and Addison's fists clenched involuntarily.

Meredith sighed and looked at him. "Aaron, I like you, I do, but you can't talk about my friend that way, okay?"

Good girl, Meredith. Addison thought as she watched Bailey place the breathing mask on him. "I need you to count backwards from ten for me, okay?"

"Okay. Ten, nine, eight…" Aaron counted as he drifts to sleep.

Bailey looked down at him. "That's it. A junkie dad, a crackpot mom, and somehow, Karev still became a doctor. I'm not easily impressed, but I'm impressed. Ten blade."

Addison smiled as she thought about how sweet and caring Alex was with her. Yeah, she was impressed too.

Addison walked into her office and smiled softly as she saw Alex in her chair, walking over and kissing him.

He looked at her and raised an eyebrow. "What, you're not going to yell at me for being in your chair?" She just shrugged. "Where have you been anyway?"

"I was watching Aaron's surgery." She perched on the desk. "It went without a hitch."

He nodded. "You ready to leave?"

"You don't want to wait for him to wake up?" He shot her a look. "I just have to check on my patients one last time then I can leave."

She stood up to leave. "Adds?" She stopped in the doorway. "Thank you." She smiled at him and nodded her head, before turning and walking out.

Addison walked back into her office 45 minutes later and sighed when she found Alex gone. She picked up her bag and her coat and made her way to where she thought Alex would be. As she got to Aaron's room she smiled when she saw Alex sat by the bed and she leaned on the door frame as she watched him.

Aaron's eyes started flickering open and he turned and saw Alex. "You don't have to be here. You can go."

"No, I'm just making sure you don't croak, and then I'm out of here." Alex snapped.

Aaron looked at him and frowned. "You...saved my ass every day when we were kids. You were a better parent than Mom and Dad put together. Every day, I feel bad for Amber that it's just me, instead of you. What happened to you, man?"

Alex sighed and looked at him pained. "I send you money every month. I send Mom her meds. You want that to stop? I am this close to being a real surgeon. I can't. I- I can't be in that and do this. I can't."

He nodded slightly. "Amber's a good kid. She turned out okay. You'd like her."

"You turned out okay too, Aaron."

Addison cleared her throat and both pairs of eyes looked at her. She walked over and rested her hand on Alex's shoulder, giving him a quick kiss on the cheek. "How are you feeling, Aaron?"

He smiled at the two of them. "I've been better, but I'm okay. Thanks, Addison."

She chuckled and turned to Alex. "You ready to go, honey?"

Alex nodded and linked his fingers through hers, making his way over to the door. "Alex?" He looked over at Aaron. "I'm happy for you and the hot red-head or whatever."

He smiled at his little brother and gave a small nod. "Thanks."

Addison finished her soup and leaned against Alex, snuggling into his side as he wrapped his arm around her. He traced small circles on her arm as she smiled.

"Thank you. For today." He murmured.

"I didn't do anything."

"You were there."

She kissed his jaw. "I'll always be there. If you want me."

He chuckled. "I'll always want you."

They heard the door slam shut and Meredith walked in. She sat down on the other end of the sofa, nudging Addison's feet out the way, causing the other woman to glare at her.

"Where's Aaron?" She asked.

Alex shrugged. "He went back to Iowa."

"You let him drive after surgery?"

Alex glared at her, and Addison rubbed circles gently on his chest. "I'm not his dad. He's got my number."

Meredith leaned over Addison and placed a hand on his leg. "You know you're nothing like your father, right?"

Alex nodded slowly, and Meredith sat back. "You know, Mer, I think you'll be a good wife. You'll be a sucky bride though."

"Jeez, thanks, Alex. But you're right. I should tell him."

The front door slammed and Derek called out hello. Addison nudged Meredith with her foot. "Here's your chance." She said.

Meredith let out a big sigh and stood up. "Wish me luck."

"Good luck." She smirked. She looked over and saw Alex smiling at her. "What?"

"You're a good person, you know? You're a better person than I could ever be."

She kisses him gently. "What makes you say that?"

"You're giving relationship advice to your ex-husband's new fiancé, who also happens to be the woman who broke up your marriage.

Addison shrugged. "You give Izzie advice sometimes."

He scoffed. "What Izzie and I had barely constituted a relationship. You were married to the guy for 11 years."

They heard the door slam again, Meredith shouting out Derek's name before running up the stairs. Addison raised an eyebrow. "Apparently, I don't give the best advice though." Alex shifted to go talk to her but Addison placed her hand on his chest, giving him a kiss. "I've got this." She stood up.

He smirks. "See, good person."

She laughs as she left the room. "I was thinking more masochist."

Addison climbed the stairs and knocked softly on the door before walking in, seeing Meredith laying face down on the bed.

"Go away, Alex." Meredith mumbled into the pillow.

"It's not Alex." Addison said as lay down on the bed next to her.

Meredith looked up from the pillow. "Oh, sorry."

She chuckled. "It's fine, Meredith. He didn't take it so well, I guess?"

"No offence, Addison, but it was really crappy advice."

"No, it wasn't." She said simply.

"He stormed out and yelled at me. It didn't exactly go well."

Addison rolled over on her side and placed a hand on Meredith's shoulder. "No, it wasn't." She repeated. "You told him. He knows how you feel now. Derek's a hot head. He reacts without thinking. Give him some time, he'll calm down, cool off and come back. Trust me, I was married to the guy for 11 years."

"Yeah, cause that ended so well." Addison flinched and took her hand back, moving to get up. Meredith sighed. "Addison, I'm sorry. That was unfair."

Addison looked at her. "Yeah, it was. But I'll forgive you. As you are upset and all."

"It's just what if he doesn't? Come back? Cool down?"

Addison laughed and Meredith glared at her. "Sorry, it's just, you've never done this before, have you? The relationship stuff? I feel like I'm talking to Alex." She sobered up and looked at her again. "See the thing is he loves you and you love him. You're going to fight, you're going to get angry, you're going to run. But you'll come back because you love each other. And that's what people do."

She looks up at her with watery eyes. "But, what-"

Addison took Meredith's hand and squeezed. "Meredith, it will work out. Trust me."

Meredith nodded wearily. 'Thank you, Addison."

Addison gave her hand a final squeeze before leaving the room and heading back downstairs, collapsing on the sofa next to Alex. He massaged her shoulders gently and she let out a sigh. "This being a good person crap is exhausting."

He chuckled at her, spinning her round and planting a kiss on her lips. He pulled her closer to him, dragging his tongue across her bottom lip, moaning as she parted her lips and straddled his lap. He fisted a hand in her hair and she gasped and ground her hips against him. They were so involved in each other, they didn't notice the front door open again and Izzie walk in.

"Hey, Alex, I heard your brother was in the hospital today- woah! Okay, I did not need to see that." She cut off as she walked into the living room.

Addison sighed and pulled back, placing a last gentle kiss on his lips and sitting back as Alex shifted uncomfortably beneath her. "We need to move out." She muttered under her breath, causing Alex to chuckle. She plastered an overly bright smile on her face and turned to Izzie. "Hello Stevens."

Izzie frowned as she sat on the armchair. "You two just can't keep it in your pants, can you?"

Alex let out a laugh and sat up, wrapping Addison in his arms so she rested against his chest. "Can you blame me? She's hot." He winked at Addison, who hit his chest as Izzie made a fake gagging sound.

"You guys are nauseating."

Addison smirked. "We know."

"Where's Meredith?"

"Her and McDreamy had a fight." Alex said.

"So, is Cristina on her way?" Izzie asked.

"Crap." Addison looked at Alex confused. "We forgot to call Cristina. It's like Meredith 101."

Izzie sighed. "I'll call her now." She stood up and left the room to call her, when the door opened again. Addison looked up from Alex's chest as Derek walked in.

"You're an ass." She called.

He looked at her startled, before sighing and rubbing his face with his hand. "I know."

"You were stupid."

"I know."

"You hurt her."

"I know."

"You need to apologise."

"I know."

Addison nodded satisfied as Derek made his way upstairs and Alex shouted to Izzie that she didn't need to call Cristina. Addison looked down at Alex and sighed. "This place is a madhouse." He nodded at her. "You're lucky I love you."

He chuckled as he brushed his lips against hers. "I love you too, Adds."