Derek is sleeping and is awoken suddenly by the ringing of his cell phone. He reaches to the pillow next to him where the phone is lying. He opens it up to answer. "Hello?...At the trailer…Yeah sorry I had a late night….Ok bye."

Meredith hangs up her phone. She is sitting in the kitchen with George and Izzie. "He's at the trailer."

"Again?" Izzie asks.

"Long night."

"Again," George says

"Yes again!" she snaps then pauses, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't take this out on you guys."

"We understand, Meredith. What do you think is going on?" Izzie asks

"I don't know." But secretly she does have an idea. She sees the way he looks at her and the way she looks at him. She just refuses to ignore it.

At Mark's place Mark is grabbing a box and carrying it down to Allison's car. He puts the box in the back seat next to the car seat. "Well that's everything."

Allison laughs, "It was only two boxes."

"I know, but it's kind of what you say." He looks into her eyes. "Does it really have to be this way?"

"It does, you were right about us being a mess together."

"What about Derek? Was I right about that too?" He can't help but ask, he needs to know for his own sanity.

"The jury's still out on that one." She is lying and he can see right through her.

"So that's why you're his new neighbor."

"I was given a great deal, it was the cheapest."

"Keep telling yourself that, Ally."

"I think I will," she jokes.

"Oh very mature," he teases. Allison sticks her tongue out at him and he laughs.
At the hospital the interns are in the locker room getting changed into their scrubs. Izzie is bending over a toilet puking. She stands up and walks over to her locker. "I am going to kill him, it's his fault I am puking my brains out."

"Who?"

Izzie grabs George by the collar with both hands and yells, "Alex and his demon seed."

"Alright alright, sorry I asked."

Alex walks into the locker room, "I heard my name, I hope it's all good things."

Izzie looks up and sees him. She lets go of George's shirt and walks over to Alex. "You! You are the reason I am like this!"

"Izzie, you said you wanted a baby."

"I was drunk!"

Cristina whispers to Meredith, "I hope she's not going to be like this for all nine months."

Meredith whispers back, "I think it's just a morning sickness thing, she was really happy last night."

"What's up with you and McDreamy? You two haven't been disgusting lately."

"He's just been really busy, he promised he'd be by tonight to cook dinner."

They all walk into the hallway to wait for Bailey. "How's daddy class, Evil Spawn?" Cristina teases, she can't help herself.

"Laugh all you want, Yang, I get paid to teach the class." The smile quickly wipes away from Cristina's face.
Bailey walks over to them. "Dr. Bailey, can I request to be on Dr. Sloan's service today? I want to be able to follow up on a patient we had yesterday," Meredith says, the rest of the interns look at her stunned.

"Very well, Dr. Grey. Does anyone else have any special requests before I get started?" Nobody says anything. "Good, the rest of you to the pit." They all groan. They all walk away but Meredith, she had dropped her pager and was picking it up off the floor.

"Don't worry, it didn't break."

"Dr. Grey, are you sure you want to work with Dr. Sloan? I don't mean to pry but he does have a reputation of, well, quite frankly treating interns like doo doo."

"Thank you for your concern, Dr. Bailey, but I know what I am doing." She turns and walks away. As Meredith is turning the corner she is stopped and startled.

"Do you really know what you're doing?" Alex asks.

"Don't scare me like that." She playfully slaps him in the arm. "And what are you trying to say?"

"You know exactly what I am saying. You miss him and now you're trying to do to him what he is doing to you."

"I don't know what you're talking about, everything is fine." She turns to walk away from him.

"You know that word means nothing to me when you say it. We've been through this before."

"I appreciate your concern, Alex, but there is nothing to worry about."

"Whatever, dude, don't say I didn't try to help."
Meredith walks over to Mark who is just finishing up with a patient's parents. When he's done he sees her waiting for him so he walks over to her. "Are you stalking me, Dr. Grey?"

"We work in the same hospital."

"Dr. Bailey would never send me the same intern three days in a row." He leans in to whisper. "I don't think she's a big fan of mine."

"Not many people are."

"My son is, that's all that matters."

"How cute, please excuse me while I gag," she teases.

"Oh come on, women love a man with a baby. It's a known fact."

"But if that man has a huge ego…not so much."

"With a nickname like McSteamy, I cannot go wrong." Meredith smiles. "But seriously, how's it going with Derek?"

"Why do you ask?"

"I've seen his before, remember, this is what drove Addison away."
Richard walks into Allison's office and takes a seat in one of the chairs she has in front of her desk. "Let me ask you a question." Allison looks up from her paperwork and focuses her attention on Richard. "What is the title of my position?"

"Chief of Surgery."

"Are you sure it's not high school principal?"

She smiles, "Positive."

"Do you know how much gossip gets spread throughout the hallways of this hospital?"

"I try not to, sir."

"I put a surgical mask on and just walked the halls and I could not believe what I heard. Did you know that Dr. Marcos is gay?"

"So you were spying on them."

"No! Ok yes. This isn't why I came in here. I have made my decision about the new chief of surgery." Allison perks up.
Alex arrives to the pit where the rest of the interns already have their smocks on ready for an ambulance to come into the bay. Izzie rushes to help him get his on before anyone notices he was late. "She's fine," he says.

"She is not fine."

"She says she's fine and that's the end of it. I am not trying to help anymore."

"We have to help," George says desperately.

"She doesn't want it, George."

"I am going to have a talk with McDreamy," Cristina says.

"I don't think we should get involved."

"If I don't, who will? Meredith is in denial and I cannot sit and watch her be treated like crap…again."

The ambulance pulls up to the bay. The ambulance doors open and there is a baseball player on the stretcher. EMT reads off the patient's information, "Brady Manning, 23, he was pitching and got hit in the head with a line drive. Has been knocked out since." They transfer him onto a gurney and wheel him inside.

"Dude, that guy is on the Mariners," Alex says, trying to curb his excitement.

"He's just a kid."

"Did he say head trauma? He's mine," Cristina says in all seriousness.

"Cristina, don't…"

"I have to." She wheels the patient off as a nurse pages Derek.
Addison is in an office filling her mug up with coffee. Mark walks in to fill his up too. They smile at each other as Addison walks to the refrigerator to get some milk. "Addison, we need to talk."

"I need to talk to you too."

"I'll go first because I think I know where this is going. Addy, I just don't think this is working out."

"We have just grown apart as a couple."

"And should just remain good friends."

"Exactly, I am glad we agree and that this wasn't messy."

"As do I. Have a good day, Addison."

"You too, Mark." Addison takes her mug and leaves the room.
Derek and Cristina are in the scrub room scrubbing out after surgery. "Who knew baseballs could do so much damage?"

"Listen, Dr. Shepherd…"

"What no more McDreamy?"

"There has been nothing McDreamy about you lately. You are cold you are distant and she is too blind in love to see what you are doing to her. You will not hurt my friend anymore, she can't handle it. So get your act together and become the Derek who turned dark and twisty Meredith into happy Meredith."

"Dr. Yang, I admire your concern but I am in the running for chief of surgery. I need to focus on that right now and she knows that. I am sure Burke is here at the hospital a lot more often than he used to be too."

"Yeah but at the end of the day I know where Burke is coming back to, me. I don't have to worry about Burke looking at anyone else but me. I don't have to worry about how much time he spends with Satan Jr. I am sorry because you are my boss but she is my friend and I will not sit by as you break her heart again."

"Thank you, Dr. Yang." Derek leaves the scrub room.

Mark walks into Allison's office. "I did it," is the first thing Mark says.

"Did what?"

"We broke it off."

"Oh sorry, how did that go?"

"Very smoothly, a little bit too smoothly if you ask me."

"Don't think too much on it, it's over. So now what are you going to do? Become a man whore again?"

"I am going to focus on my career and our son. I am running for chief, you know."

"Yeah I know. Good luck with that, Mark, seriously."

"Thank you. I'll see you around, Ally." Mark leaves and passes Derek who is on his way in. Derek sits down.

Allison looks up to see him sitting in front of her. "Don't you people know that I have work to do?" she teases. "And don't you have patients to tend to or are you not into that sort of thing anymore?"

"Turning into Richard more and more every day, I see."

"Someone has to keep you people in line while he's busy."

"A girl with power, huh, I like that," he flirtatiously says.

"You know what I like? Doing my job.

"I can take a hint and see I'm not wanted. I came here to offer you tickets to the Mariners game verses the Yankees but I could just go with Mark."

Allison perks up, "Did you say Yankees?"

"That I did. So how about it?"

"I don't think this is fair, you can't bring home into this after I got all smart with you."

"Oh but I can and I did."

Bailey walks in and walks up to Derek, "Can I have a word with you, Dr. Shepherd?"

"Yeah sure." He stands up and they leave her office. "What can I help you with, Dr. Bailey?"

"What the hell is the matter with you?" She smacks him in the arm with a chart.

"Ouch, what was that for?"

"There are 50 states in the country. You have crossed over 48 of them and you people are still fighting over the same women. You look at that poor girl like she's a piece of meat and you drool and the drool is dripping onto the floor in front of you. You should be ashamed of yourself to play with a girl's emotions like that. I am talking about both of them. Figure out what you want and go for it. Be a man and make a decision, you can only have one or the other. This game that you're playing will not fly for too much longer. Do you understand me?"

"Yes I do."

"Is that all you have to say for yourself? I was hoping it wasn't true and that what I have been seeing is just two friends acting like two friends do. You have confirmed my fear. You love her, don't you?" Derek doesn't respond, he just walks away.
Mark and Meredith are in the courtyard eating lunch. "Do you love her?"

"Love who?"

"Allison, do you love her?"

"It doesn't really matter if I do or I don't because she doesn't love me."

"I'll take that as a yes." Meredith is almost hurt by his answer. Could she be falling for Mark?

"She isn't the kind of girl you get over right away."

"I've noticed. So what are you going to do?"

"Live my life. There is nothing else I can do. I have tried everything to show her I have changed."

"And you can just move on like that?"

"I don't have much of a choice, do I?"

"I guess not."

"You're going to get through it." Mark can't help but lie, he can't be the one to tell her the awful news. That's better to be left to his ex-best friend.

George is sitting in the gallery watching Burke perform a surgery. The door opens and Addison walks in. He smiles. She sits at the opposite end of the gallery from where George is sitting. He looks over at her and smiles, she smiles back, "It's done."

"What a relief."

"You still scared?"

"A little bit."

"He looks mean and scary but he wouldn't hurt a fly. I wouldn't let him." George smiles again at her. All of a sudden the door flings open, Addison and George quickly center their focus back onto the surgery. Cristina, Alex, and Izzie come into the room and sit down next to George.

"Did I miss anything?" Cristina asks.

"No, he is just getting started."

"So, George, are you ever going to tell us who you've been sleeping with?" Izzie pries.

"It's nobody you know."

"So that's why you're keeping it a secret? Come on spill the beans, O'Malley," Alex chimes in.

After a few seconds of silence George's pager goes off. He quickly looks at it, not before fumbling with it and almost dropping it. "9-1-1, gotta go." He rushes out of there before anyone could say anything else. Addison, slips her cell phone back into her pocket and continues to watch the surgery.
"I had a talk with Shepherd," Cristina says and she slumps back in her chair.

"How did he take it?" Izzie asks.

"I think he thinks we are blind. He tried to play it off like we don't see what he's been doing. I let him know that it's not going unnoticed and that he better stop."

"Did he give you the McDreamy puppy dog eyes?" Izzie asks.

"He tried. That stuff doesn't work on me. He really should know better."

Addison can't help but comment, "He thinks it works on all the ladies. He has a big head like that." They all smile.

"Does it work on Allison?" Izzie elbows Cristina. "What? It's a valid question."

"I wouldn't know. My sister is a mysterious woman when it comes to the opposite sex. You never can tell where she's going or where she's coming from. She thinks she's in control of her feelings but she isn't."

"Yeah we found that out the hard way when she screwed George over," Izzie says, not really knowing why Addison is acting friendly all of a sudden.

"Yeah well I think they rushed into that relationship. Both people were looking for a replacement for someone who had recently hurt them and they found each other.

"So what brings you into the gallery to watch a heart surgery?" Alex asks, obviously he was wondering the same thing Izzie was.

"You're a nosey one, aren't you?" Addison snips back.

"Well I…"

"I came here to get some quiet," Addison lies, it was a good lie. They don't suspect a thing.

"We were just leaving anyway." Izzie grabs Alex by the arm and they walk out, Cristina follows. They get onto the elevator. "Something doesn't feel right here."

"No it doesn't."

Addison walks into Allison's office and shuts the door. "Are you trying to cause trouble?"

Allison looks up from her computer, "What are you talking about?"

"Everyone in the hospital is talking about you and Derek. I thought you were going to cool it."

Allison panics, "They are? How did they find out?"

Now Addison is confused, "Find out what? I am just talking about you drooling all over each other."

"Oh yeah that's what I meant too."

"Allison, what did you do?" Addison becomes increasingly worried at the reality that has begun to set in.

"I slept with him, Addy."

"With who, Allison?"

"With Derek, I slept with Derek. It happened a few weeks ago when I was picking up my clothes from the trailer. I took a shower and he came up behind me and it just happened from there. It was only the one time and only Mark knows about it," Allison says as she puts her head in her hands.

"What were you thinking? What is wrong with you? You are unbelievable, you know that. So what are you going to do now?"

"I am not going to do anything. It was a one time thing."

"Don't lie to me."

"What do you want me to say, Addy? I love him, ok. Are you happy? I've said it. It doesn't matter because I won't mess up what he has with Meredith. He has been trying to tell me and I have been pushing him away because I am not that person but if he has anything for me, that is not my fault."

"Why are you so perfect?"

"Why does everyone keep thinking I am? I am far from perfect. I am the one the men go to when they are in pain. They come to me when they want to forget. That is not perfect, it's messed up. I would give anything to be this perfect person that everyone makes me out to be but I am not and I never will be."

"I'm sorry."

"Don't be, I'm a big girl. I can handle it." Allison keeps thinking that if she continues to lie to herself that this will all blow over and her feelings will disappear. Things in life are not that easy.

"How did we get here?"

"I wish I knew."
Cristina, Izzie, and Alex are sitting in the courtyard eating. George walks over and sits down, "Have you seen Meredith yet?"

"We aren't speaking to you until you tell us your dirty little secret," Cristina says.

"That is unfair, you all have kept secrets at one point," George whines.

Meredith sits down. "Who is keeping secrets?"

"George wont tell us who he's sleeping with," Izzie says as she puts her sandwich down, she can't even look at food right now.

"Maybe some secrets are better left unsaid." Meredith says. They all stop eating and look at her. "What?"

"Where did that come from?" Cristina asks.

"All I'm saying is that we all have secrets we'd rather keep to ourselves and there is nothing wrong with that," Meredith tries to make up for her stupid mistake of opening her mouth.

"You have something juicy to tell us," Cristina says with a smile.

"Me? Oh no no, I don't have anything." Meredith is now getting more and more nervous that she will be exposed.

"Yes you do, I can tell. I am your person, I see everything."

Meredith desperately scans her brain for something to divert the attention on someone else. "George is sleeping with someone!" she blurts out.

"Don't try to change the subject. George sucks at keeping secrets, he'll mess up one of these days. You on the other hand…"

"Hey!" George says.

"It's true, George." They all look at her. She starts to stir in her chair. "I mean, everyone goes through their McSteamy phase, don't they?" Izzie almost chokes on her sandwich that she tried to eat one more time.

"Wait, you like Sloan? Wait why do I care? I have been hanging out with you chicks too much when I actually care about the stupid gossip. I have to find some men to hang out with," Alex says.

"I am a man," George says as he sits up straight.

"Please, O'Malley, don't make me laugh. I am trying to eat" Alex says as he laughs.

"You're not going to eat, Mer?" Crisitna asks noticing that Meredith had just been nursing a cup of coffee the whole time.

"Mark and I already had lunch," she mumbles, hoping no one will hear her.

Cristina smiles bigger, "And the hits just keep on coming. I love this place. Surgery and drama, can't get any better than this."