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We're all up at four-thirty, myself being up all night as I don't need sleep like a normal human. I hear O'Malley and Stevens arguing about rooms as they come down the hall, leaving me to roll my eyes as I get up to get dressed. I meet them in the kitchen as we head to work, me in the Pit as the Dead Baby Bike Race begins.

I suture people up as the interns come down to assist, but people are coming in faster than we're letting them go. I see them fighting over patients and hear Cristina liken it to 'candy but with blood'. Pretty apt description for a surgeon. I roll my eyes as Karev just pulls out bike spokes like a complete dumbass, leaving Mer to stitch the guy up. I move onto my next person, a woman with her skin rubbed off and gravel embedded in her.

I pick the gravel out and page Plastics as this is probably more their department before moving onto the next one. I stitch up a couple more minor injuries before going to grab a drink, coming back to see Mer stitching up her guy from talk about something and then Mer let's him go, only for the fellow Brit to spin her around and kiss her soundly. I chuckle softly under my breath as I see McDreamy smirking at her through the wall, and then talking to Mer.

Mer walks out of the room leaving Shepherd to think about whatever the hell she said. I run a hand through my hair as she comes over to me, sticking her tongue out at me as she passes, mirth shining in her eyes. I continue my work, watching as more and more people come in. This bike race was a gift from Satan himself.

I walk into the intern locker room as Mer shoves Karev against the wall, effectively chewing the prat out as McDreamy pushes past me gently. Mer catches his eyes as Karev tries to defend himself, Mer coming back for another when Shepherd steps in to grab her.

"You might want to leave before I change my mind and let her beat you to a pulp with her tiny ineffectual fists." He states, pushing Karev out of the room and practically slamming the door behind him. Mer freezes for a second and drags me out the door to head home, her raving about the day to me. When we get home we run into Stevens and O'Malley who decided to go through Ellis's surgery tapes, no respect for Mer's stuff.

Mer snaps on them and stomps upstairs as it hits ten o'clock, pulling me into her room with a growl. I watch her angrily strip down to her undergarments and puts on one of my old t-shirts.

"First this crap with McDreamy, then those two assholes just doing whatever the hell they want, and don't get me started on Alex!" She rants, crawling into bed and motioning for me to hurry up. I roll my eyes as I pull off my black t-shirt and slide off my trousers, leaving me only in my silk boxers. I slip into bed beside her and tucking my hands behind my head as she starts on one of her long ass rants, so I get comfortable as I know I'll be here probably all night.

The Next Morning

"Why is he in her bed, shirtless?" I open my eyes to see O'Malley and Stevens peering into Mer's doorway with curiosity in their eyes. I rub my face tiredly as I've only been asleep my forty-five minutes and send them my best impression of Snape's glare. I run a hand through my tousled hair and lean over to wake Mer up as the others scramble out. Mer, ever the morning person, groans and smacks my hand away before finally opening her eyes.

"Get out." I roll my eyes and walk out, leaving my clothes to get later and brush past the other two that were waiting outside the door. I grab a tight fitting blue long-sleeve from my closet as I tug on the usual black trousers, grabbing the dress shoes I left in Mer's room on the way down. I grab a granola bar from one of the cabinets as the others bound down the steps, all of piling into Mer's Jeep for work.

Once we arrive at the hospital Mer and I split away from the bubbly ones to go meet our dark and twisty sister Cristina, with a coffee in hand for Mer, smiling at me apologetically. We walk into the building with Mer complaining about Stevens and O'Malley, with good reason to in my opinion. I stop by the coffee cart to feed my caffeine addiction and then head back to the Pit to deal with the leftovers of the race, working on the people too drunk or stupid to come in yesterday.

Once I'm finished I stop to grab yet another coffee and head to the lounge to plug up my phone. Leaving that there, I stop by the guy why was declared brain dead as a result of the race. I jog back down to the Pit where I see Mer talking to her guy from yesterday who starts coughing up blood, his stitches having ripped open and swollen to the size of small melons. Karev grabs a gurney and helps lift Viper up, Meredith climbing atop him to hold Viper's stomach together.

We wheel the guy to the O.R. where Bailey's waiting for us, said resident telling Mer to go scrub in with me while Karev starts complaining. Said dumbass storms out as Mer and I walk back in, everyone working on the guy. We manage to save the daft prat's life and I quickly scrub out, the day having passed quickly but still exhausting nonetheless. Bailey and I leave at the same time but she sees Viper's group of friends and one of them has the stupidity to ask if he'll be okay.

"Is he okay? No. No, he is not okay, at all. He hurled his body down a concrete mountain at full speed for no good reason. Yeah, I know you all pierce yourselves and smoke up and generally treat your bodies like your grungy asses can't break down to. Hey, that's fine, you want to kill yourselves, flying down a concrete mountain, go to it, but there are other people walking, people driving, people trying live their lives on that concrete mountain, and one of them got his brains scrambled today because one of you little sniffling no-good snot-rag -" Bailey lectures, making me pull her back a little, shaking my head in warning

She strides away angrily leaving me to go wait for Mer outside the intern's locker room. McDreamy walks up, smiles at me charmingly, and slips into the door to talk with Mer presumably. I see him walk up to her and Mer turn him down once again, but for the first time McDreamy leaves without a fight. Mer and I head off, peering into Viper's room as we leave, Mer smiling at the idiot before heading home.

When we walk in it's the same as yesterday but this time Cristina joins in, O'Malley selling her out when Mer asks what's going on. Instead of her getting mad though we decide to join in with them. Mer and I sit in Cristina's chair with her lying across my lap, the others groaning as something particularly nasty comes on the screen. I take Cristina's offer of beer and sip leisurely, much more preferable to Firewhiskey, but for now, everything is okay.