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Chapter 4: Time's Like These

After a very satisfying meal and good company, Kelly grabbed Derek and his car keys and drove them back to her hotel. "I don't know my way around here and you're too smashed to tell me where you live so I'm going to bring you with me." Kelly explained to Derek who had loaded up on the scotch.

"Okay. Kelly, you're the best." Derek said slurring his words.

"How are you able to go to work with a hangover?" Kelly asked Derek who was starting to nod off.

"Strong coffee and Aspirin." Derek replied.

"The breakfast of champions. I prefer cereal, but that's just me." Kelly joked. "Let's go Derek, I just met you and you way like more than I can carry, so you have to help me out a bit."

When they finally got upstairs, Kelly laid Derek on one of the guest room beds, and tucked him in just like his mother used to do for him. Before leaving him, she placed a bottle of water in one of the ice buckets near his bed, just in case he got really thirsty.

"Morning sleepyhead," Kelly greeted Derek when he walked into the kitchen area. "How'd you sleep?"

"Better than I ever have before, those beds are really comfortable. What's this?" Derek asked staring at the place setting that was set up for him.

"Very strong coffee and Aspirin, you told me that's what you eat after a night of heavy drinking. You probably don't remember that though, do ya? You were really wasted." Kelly said laughing.

"You're a funny one, now stop laughing so loud." Derek replied putting his hands over his ears.

"What time do you have to be at the hospital?" Kelly asked.

"In like 20 minutes. What about you?" Derek said.

"In like 25 minutes, could you give me a ride? I'm sorry to be such a pain, but I still don't have a car or the number to the taxi place."

"It's no problem, wait, why do you get to be there 5 minutes later?" Derek asked.

"It helps to have parents who are friends with Richard." Kelly said smiling.

"Luckkkkky." Derek said drawing out the word.

"Go get dressed! Jeez, you want me to be late on my very first day here? I bet you have an ulterior motive." Kelly said looking at Derek with mock suspicion.

"Oh, I have an ulterior motive? Who brought me to their hotel room last night, and tucked me in." Derek said with the same mock suspicion.

"Okay, okay, I admit it; I'm madly in love with you Derek." Kelly told him half seriously half sarcastically.

"You should know, I feel the same way." Derek said with the same hint of seriousness and sarcastic ness.

After a few seconds Kelly said, "I bet you do." This made them both start cracking up.

19 minutes later they were running into Seattle Grace where Dr. Webber was standing looking at his watch. "Right on time you two."

"Hey Richard, how are you this morning?" Kelly asked.

"I'm doing pretty good, thank you for asking." Dr. Webber said kindly.

"Good morning Richard." Derek greeted.

"Good morning Shepherd, get upstairs you two, you have patients to check on. Shepherd, I expect you'll be briefing Kelly here on all the patients you'll both be sharing?" Richard asked.

"Yes, there won't be any problems with that. Have a nice day, sir." Derek told him quickly grabbing Kelly's hand and pulling her to the elevator.

"Bye Richard." Kelly said.

"Bye Kelly." Oh great, they're going in the elevator, this may be a problem.

"I like this," Kelly said.

"You like what?" Derek asked.

"I like holding your hand." Kelly replied.

"I like holding your hand too; it makes me feel all warm inside." Derek said remembering that they were still holding hands.

"That was kinda corny Derek."

"You were thinking it," Derek said defensively.

"I know, but you said it."

"True, how about we go out tonight? Just you and me." Derek asked.

"I'd love that; meet me at my hotel an hour after we get off?" Kelly asked him.

"That's fine; I'll drive you home after work too. I'll take you to get the best pizza in Seattle." Derek said stopping in front of the attending's locker room. "The resident's locker room is down the hall a little more and to the right. I'll wait for you outside of room 225. Bye."

"Bye Derek." Kelly said walking into the locker room to find Meredith, Cristina, and Izzie all peeking through the door.

"What was that all about?" Izzie asked shaking her eyebrows up and down and smiling.

"Oh, that. Derek and I have a date tonight. Mer, does that make you uncomfortable? If it does I won't go out with him." Kelly said looking a little sad at the thought.

"No, like I said yesterday, we're just friends. So, I saw you guys pulling into the parking lot when Izzie, George and I got here, might I ask why you guys were together?" Meredith said playfully.

"He was really drunk last night, and I don't know the way around Seattle yet, so I just took him to my hotel, and let him sleep it off."

"Sure, that's all that happened." Cristina said.

"Let's just drop it, I gotta get changed." Kelly said walking to a locker that had her name on it.

"Ok guys, Kelly never lies, it's like a sickness. She's like a freaking saint." Meredith defended her long time friend.

"Hey! I resent my inability to tell a lie. Childhood was hard; I couldn't get away with anything." Kelly said smiling.

"Boo fricking hoo." Meredith said laughing.

"Let's go harass some interns!" Cristina said happily.

"She doesn't really harass innocent interns, does she?" Kelly asked Izzie.

"It's sad but true, she loves work. She once even said that blood was like candy only better. It sickening how much she likes to work." Izzie said laughing at Cristina as she tapped a late intern on the shoulder.

"Poor intern, I'd be scared out of my mind." Kelly said laughing at the intern's scared look on his face.

"Garrison! Where have you been?" Derek asked walking up behind Kelly.

"Gee Dr. Shepherd; I've been here the whole time waiting for you." Kelly said innocently playing along.

"So, you're saying that I take too long?" Derek asked starting to crack a smile.

"Yes, sir, I am, is this a problem?" Kelly asked.

"Why, no, no it's not a problem." Derek said. This made Kelly crack up.

"Do I have to call you Dr. Shepherd or can I call you Derek?" Kelly asked Derek.

"I'm thinking it'd be ok if you called me Derek since it is my name." Derek said jokingly.

"Ok. Derek, do I have interns? Or do I just follow you around all day?"

"You actually get interns. They get to follow you around for awhile. Then you send them to do stuff and you come and find me." Derek said smiling.

"Ok, so I'll see you at like 7:00 so we can leave?" Kelly asked.

"Yeah, I'll fill you in on the case on the ride to your hotel." Derek said.

"Okay, I'll see you later." Kelly waved goodbye and went to go find her interns.

10 hours later, Kelly and Derek met in the parking lot near his car. "Hey, how were your interns?" Derek asked a smiling Kelly.

"They were all really sweet. I think they were afraid of me though." Kelly said puzzled.

"Oh, that might be because they had Miranda Bailey as their resident. She's on maternity leave with her second child." Derek told her.

"Miranda is so nice though, how could they be scared of her?" Kelly asked.

"Are we talking about the same Miranda Bailey? How do you know her?" Derek asked.

"Yeah, Miranda Bailey married to Tucker Bailey just had a son a few years ago, Tucker was in an accident and she didn't want to give birth. My parents are friends with her parents. They all worked together at one point. My parents aren't as well known as Meredith's mother, but they were pretty good at what they did." Kelly explained.

"You know everyone don't you?" Derek asked jokingly.

"Yeah, I know Burke too, that's why I was talking to him about our families. Then Alex and I went to Med School together. Can you let me out here?" Kelly asked suddenly.

"Are you crazy? It's like a mile away from your hotel." Derek said.

"I need to run; you can follow me if you're afraid of someone abducting me." Kelly said smiling as Derek pulled to the curb. "Thanks Der-Bear!" Kelly laughed at the random nickname and ran off down the street.

AN: Is this better length wise? I had to join 2 chapters together (2 shorties as I like to call them) please REVIEW!

(All the chapter titles are song titles, can anyone guess who they're by?)