A/N: Thank you everyone who reviewed! I made this chapter ahead of time, I was in the mood. This chapter is going to be longer than any chapter I've ever made. This chapter, you find out what Mark does with the promotion, a girls and guys night out, I mean, in. Please R & R..
Summary:Completely AU. One lawyer, one baker, one science professor, one real estate agent, one architect, and now one upcoming fashion designer. Drama is bound to catch up to them. (not all of the characters will be in it) Pairings decided, you'll find out what they are throughout.
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Later that night, Derek had his arm draped over Meredith's shoulder as they sat on the couch. Alex was sitting on the armchair, he didn't want to, but he kept glancing at Addison, who was looking at him strangely. Izzie was standing by the couch.
Mark walked into the living room, hands behind his back.
Izzie looked at Mark who was smiling. "Did you get the promotion?"
"I did." Mark said smiling. "And you all better clear your schedules next Monday through Friday, because on Monday, we're all going on a plane to Hawaii." Mark said taking the hands from behind his back and showing six tickets to Hawaii in his hands.
"Hawaii?!" Izzie squealed in disbelief. She watched as Mark nodded. She jogged over to where he was and threw here arms around him. That was the place she most wanted to visit in her life, everything about it seemed perfect.
Mark encircled his arms around her, holding her as the arms around his neck tightened.
The rest of the occupants were smiling, and very surprised. They were going to Hawaii, and they were very happy.
Izzie let go a little until their foreheads were almost touching. "Hawaii?" Mark smiled and nodded. She smiled back. "Hotel set?"
"Five star." Mark said as he kissed her nose, which made her giggle. He loosened his grip so he could look at everyone else in the living room as Izzie's arms moved to his shoulders, smiling and also looking at the rest of the group. "Also, I only booked three rooms, so we'll have to talk about arrangements."
"Derek and I'll share one!" Meredith said almost immediately, causing Derek to chuckle.
"Okay, one room settled." He looked at Addison and Alex and Izzie laid the side of her head on his chest. Mark never does the matchmaking thing, but he knew Alex had some feelings for Addison, and he wanted to help him realize it, so he got an idea. "Since Meredith and Derek are two different genders sharing a room, it's only fair that the other two rooms also have two different gender people, so Izzie and me will share a room, and Addison and Alex will share a room." He smirked.
Alex and Addison glared at him. "Do the rooms have two beds or one?" Addison asked before completely freaking out because she had to share a room with a sexually frustrated male.
"Two."
"Damn it." Meredith muttered.
Addison sighed in relief. "Thank god."
Alex frowned. Mark was going to put them in the same room, mine as well make them have one bed.
Izzie looked at Mark and squealed again. "We are going to Hawaii. What part?"
"Honolulu." Mark replied smiling. He loved seeing her smile like that, there was no question if she was really happy, because you knew she really was.
Izzie put her arms around his neck and hugged him again.
"We're going to come up with a good plan this time to get them together, right?" Addison whispered over to Alex while glancing at Mark and Izzie.
Alex tried to keep his focus other then Addison, so the images wouldn't come back ,it was in his constant state of thought. He nodded. "Guess so." Alex replied as he glanced at Addison, all images of her in his fantasizes coming back full force in his mind.
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The day before they go on a plane to Hawaii.
Izzie was putting the few last things in her luggage bag. She didn't notice Mark at the threshold of her door. He was leaning against it, arms crossed, watching her. She sighed contently as she zippered the bag and looked up. Izzie smiled. "Hey."
Mark smiled back. "Hey."
"Hi!" Addison said in back of Mark. Meredith was behind her. "I don't mean to interrupt, actually, I do, it's the day before we go on our big trip, so we're having a girls night. Alex and Derek are at your place, for a guys night or whatever, so go, leave, now."
Mark nodded. "Okay." He looked at Izzie. "I guess I'll see you tomorrow." He turned to look at Meredith and Addison. "You too."
"Yeah, yeah." Addison pushed him out of the way as her and Meredith entered, closing the door in front of his face.
"Okay then…" Mark said as he turned around to go to his and Alex's place.
Izzie raised her eyebrows at Addison and Meredith. "Girls night out?"
"Yup, manicures, pedicures, facials-"
Meredith cut Addison off and continued the sentence. "Girl talk that can't be talked about with the guys around." She smirked.
"Just, a girls night out, without going out…" Addison said drifting off.
Izzie looked between the two, a smile forming on her lips. "A sleepover?"
"If you want to call it that, yes, a sleepover." Addison said smiling.
"With tequila, lots and lots off tequila." Meredith said nodding.
"But not to much, we don't want a major hang over on the plane." Addison finished.
Izzie squealed, she does that a lot. "This is going be so much fun!"
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Mark walked through the door to his place to see Alex and Derek setting up a small round table. He shut the door behind him and walked over to them. Mark looked at Alex. He knew what they were planning on doing for this guys night out. "Poker?"
Alex nodded smirking. "Yeah, and no females of any kind aloud." He took out a bag as Derek brought three chairs around the table. He spilled out poker chips on the table and started to separate them equally between them. "Mark, get the cards."
"Yes, sir." Mark muttered as he walked into the kitchen and opened the drawer where the cards were. He took the cards out and closed the drawer. When he walked back to the living room, all the poker chips were set up equally, and Alex was dealing the cards. He sat down on the last available chair at the table.
Alex finished dealing the cards and put the other cards down. He picked up his own and looked through them.
"So, what's tonight's topic?" Derek asked glancing at his cards.
"Hopefully not how much you and Meredith have sex." Alex muttered seriously.
Mark glanced at his cards. "Yeah, nobody wants that."
Derek rolled his eyes putting two poker chips on the middle of the table. "Okay. When are you going to tell Izzie you love her? The trip maybe?"
Mark looked at his cards, then glanced at Derek. He wasn't sure, maybe if he diverted the topic they wouldn't asked the question again. "Or we could talk about the fantasy Alex had about Addison."
"You what?" Derek asked chuckling at Alex.
Alex glared at Mark, adding two chips to the pile. "Thanks." He said sarcastically.
Mark added two chips of his own to the pile. "No problem."
"You had a fantasy about Addison." Derek nodded, then started laughing and shaking his head. "I never would of thought you would have had real feelings for Addison."
"I don't have feelings for Addison." Alex said defensively.
"Defensive." Derek said holding a hand up in mock surrender.
Mark nodded. "You might not believe you do now, but you will, you'll see."
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Izzie, Meredith and Addison were sitting cross legged on the carpet of the living room. They had their hair tied back and had green facials on. All three laughing at a story Addison told about Derek and Alex arguing about different types of dogs, Mark took Izzie miniature golfing when they had that conversation.
"I swear, men talking about if a poodle or a Yorkshire terrier would win a boxed cage match, and who was the cutest, completely priceless." Addison said as her laughter was slowly fading.
Izzie's laughter also faded. "I wish I was there for that."
"But you weren't, you were with Mark, going miniature golfing." Addison said with a smile.
Meredith giggled. "Aw."
Izzie smiled and rolled her eyes. "Aw all you want, but me and Mark are just friends." She said the last part with a sigh.
"You wouldn't be if you told him how you felt." Addison told her encouragingly.
Meredith looked at Izzie curiously. "How exactly do feel about him?"
Izzie closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "I love him, I madly, deeply in love with him. He makes me feel…" She shakes her head. "I can't explain it, he's amazing, he knows me, he has always known me, in a way no one else does. It took me so long to figure it out, but I do, I love him, with all of me."
Addison and Meredith smiled softly at her and looked at each other before looking back at Izzie and simultaneously said, "Aw."
"Okay, enough about that." She looked at Meredith. "We still don't know where you and Derek stand." She looked at Addison. "Isn't that right Addison?"
Addison glanced at Izzie, then looked at Meredith. "That is right Izzie."
Meredith slightly smiled, and blushed. "Derek and I are friends." She looked at the looks that Addison and Izzie were giving her. "With benefits."
Addison and Izzie's mouths both became ajar. "What?!" Addison said. Both her and Izzie don't believe in friends with benefits, that's a hidden reason why she never slept with Alex.
"Is that bad?" Meredith asked nervously.
Izzie shook her head. "Friends with benefits are a bad idea, why don't you just try dating?"
"Well, Derek asked me out on a date, but I thought that friends with benefits would be a better idea, because we like sex, a lot, and I don't want to date someone just for the sex."
"But don't you really like Derek, sex put aside." Izzie asked. She knew Meredith had genuine feelings for him, so why friends with benefits?
Meredith nodded. "Yeah…"
"Then go out with him!" Addison told her not really getting it.
"I don't want to ruin the sex." Meredith said with a shrug.
Addison looked at Meredith appalled. "How the hell do you think that'd ruin the sex?! You two are like animals!"
Meredith shrugged again. "I'm afraid that if it doesn't work out, it'll ruin you know, the group." She confessed.
"If you have real feelings for him, you should go out with him." Izzie told her, now understanding why she didn't go out with him in the first place.
"Yeah." Addison nodded agreeing.
Meredith sighed. "Not yet, I'm fine with the way things are."
"Fine, let karma bite you on the ass, see if we care." Addison with a fake scoff which cause both Izzie and Meredith to start laughing, Addison soon joining in.
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"I wonder what the women are doing." Derek said as he glanced at his new cards. Alex having the bigger stack of poker chips, Mark has the second, and Derek had just a few less then Mark.
"Probably talking crap about us." Alex said adding one chip to the center.
Mark smirked. "Or they're talking about how loud Meredith and Derek are." He laughed at Derek's facial expression and put one chip in the center.
Derek put his cards down. "I fold, and seriously, maybe they don't want to talk about that, like two fools who don't but keep bringing it up nonetheless."
"They could be talking about how Izzie loves Mark." Alex said gesturing towards Mark.
Mark looked at Alex, not sure how to respond. He shook his head. "She doesn't love me."
Alex nodded and added two more poker chip to the center. "Yes she does."
"How do you know, and don't say because you see the way she looks at me." Mark said also adding two more poker chips to the center.
"Lets just say I have an inside source." Alex said smirking.
Derek smirked. "Addison?"
Alex glared at Derek. Mark wasn't sure what to think. "Are you saying that Addison told you that Izzie said she felt the same way?"
Alex held a hand up. "I'm not saying anything."
Mark leaned back in his chair, a smile forming on his lips.
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"So, you're admitting you have the hotts for Alex?" Izzie asked smirking.
Addison held her hands up. "I'm not admitting anything."
Meredith nodded with a giggle. "Yes you are."
"He has really nice biceps, that's all I'm saying." Addison said with her hands still up.
"You are so saying more than that." Izzie said with a smile.
Addison shook her head. "Why does it feel like I'm back in high school?"
Meredith smiled shaking her head. "No clue." She pointed her fingers at her. "But you want to do Alex."
Addison grabbed a pillow from the couch and threw it at Meredith who was now laughing.
Izzie looked surprised, but also got a pillow from the couch and hit Addison with it. "It's not a sleepover unless there is a pillow fight."
Meredith threw the pillow back at Addison and grabbed a pillow from the couch for herself.
Soon enough, they were in all out pillow fight.
