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A/N 2: The proposition, I'm sorry to say no one got it right. You'll see who really said it this chapter. 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) McStizzie, Mer/Der, future Addex

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Later that night, Meredith and Izzie were sitting on their couch. No one was around at the moment.

Meredith smiled at Izzie. "I told him."

Izzie looked at her confused, but then it hit her. "You did?"

Meredith nodded and took a deep, relieved breath. "I did."

Izzie smiled at her. "How did it go?"

"It went really well." Meredith said, another smile appearing on her face. "He said he'd be there when I'm ready."

Izzie pulled her into a hug. "I'm glad you two are on good terms now."

Meredith hugged Izzie back for a moment before they parted. She smiled. "Me too."

"Alex, Tomsk is in Russia." Addison told him matter of factly as they entered Meredith and Izzie's living room.

Alex shook his head. "Don't think so."

Derek followed behind them, looking amused. "Alex, it is in Russia."

Alex looked at Derek and frowned. "Go put mousse in your hair!"

"Hey, this is all natural." Derek said pointing to his hair.

Addison smiled amused at him. "So you don't shower?"

Derek looked at Addison. "That's not what I meant!"

Izzie smiled at him, trying not to laugh. "That's actually what it sounded like."

"Correction, that is what it sounded like." Alex told him.

Meredith smiled up at him, but soon started to laugh.

Derek looked at Meredith, then at Alex and Addison, ready to say something when someone walked in.

"Hey." Mark said walking into the living room. He walked to the couch and gave Izzie a kiss on her cheek before sitting on the side of her that Meredith wasn't on.

Meredith stopped laughing to look at Derek. "Your hair looks very nice today Derek."

Derek groaned. "I'm going to get a beer." He turned and walked out of the living room.

"What was that about?" Mark asked looking at Izzie.

Alex chuckled and walked to the arm chair.

Addison looked at Mark. "Derek says he doesn't take showers." She sat down in the beanbag chair.

Derek walked back into the living room, sitting on the other side of Meredith where Izzie wasn't sitting. "I do not!"

"Sure." Addison said grabbing a magazine that was next to the beanbag chair.

"I don't!" Derek said, trying to defend what he does to his hair.

Meredith patted his shoulder a few times. "It's okay Derek, we know."

Mark chuckled. "Yeah, we know you shower and use mousse."

"I do not use mousse!" Derek said looking at Mark.

Mark held up his hands in surrender.

Izzie smiled amusingly at Mark as he did that.

Mark put his arm around Izzie's shoulders.

Addison started to laugh as she looked at her magazine. She held it up and turned it so they could look on the two pages. "Look! One hundred one ways to style your hair!" She turned it back to herself. "And using mousse is number thirty-three." She grinned. "Go figure."

"Damn it. I thought it would be number one." Alex said jokingly.

Izzie looked at Derek. "We'll stop Derek. Or more like they'll stop." She gave Alex and Addison a glare.

Addison looked at Derek. "Sorry."

Alex nodded. "Me too." He looked like he was about to say something else.

Addison gave him a glare, stopping him from saying the thing he was going to say.

Alex rolled his eyes and didn't say anything.

A silence filled the room.

"This is pleasant." Mark said sarcastically.

Izzie smiled and looked up at him.

Something popped into Alex's head, and he looked at Izzie. "Izzie, didn't you make cookies yesterday?"

"Oh yeah!" Izzie stood up, now remembering. "I'll be back." She walked out of the living room to the kitchen.

Mark watched her walk out, trying to figure out an excuse to go to the kitchen to be with her, alone.

Alex looked at Addison with a grin. "You know, you should learn to bake."

Addison raised an eyebrow at him. "And why is that?"

"It would be easier to imagine you in an apron, naked." Alex said smirking.

Mark glared at him. Did that mean he imagined Izzie naked in an apron?

Alex looked at Mark and frowned. Then he figured out why. "No Mark, I do not imagine Izzie like that."

Mark glanced at everyone else and leaned back against the couch, not saying anything.

"Aww, Mark's jealous." Meredith said looking at him, smiling. "That's so sweet."

Addison nodded with a smile. "Now tell her you love her when she comes back."

Mark looked at Addison, holding back a smirk, he'd said that to her many times before already. "Want me to say the time you got drunk?"

Addison's eyes widened. "Izzie told you that?!"

Mark nodded. "Yes she did."

Addison looked at Alex. "I blame you."

Alex raised his hands up in the air. "What did I do?"

"What didn't you do?" Addison said folding her arms across her chest.

Derek looked at Mark and Meredith. "This is amusing."

Meredith nodded as Mark chuckled.

Izzie walked into the living room, putting two large plates of cookies on the coffee table. "So, what are we talking about?" She asked sitting back on her spot on the couch and leaning into Mark.

Mark gave Addison a glare.

Addison rolled her eyes. "Just about the kind of mousse Derek uses." She said looking at Derek.

Mark looked at Izzie and kissed the side of her head after he put his arm around her shoulders.

Derek looked at Addison. "Seriously?" He took a gulp of his beer. "Seriously?" He muttered.

Meredith patted his leg with amusement.

Alex grinned as he took a cookie off the plate. He took a bite of it. He loved food. He finished chewing before looking at Addison. "You know that romance novelist or whatever you like?"

Addison raised an eyebrow at him. "Yes."

"He's going to be at the bookstore tomorrow signing books or whatever the hell they do when they're there." Alex said finishing off his cookie and getting another.

Addison smiled widely. "Seriously?"

Alex nodded. "Seriously." He said with his mouth full.

Addison frowned. "Don't talk with your mouth full." She perked up. "I am seriously going tomorrow."

"We all say seriously a lot." Meredith observed.

Izzie started to laugh. "Wow, we do."

"Seriously, I seriously didn't know that… Seriously." Alex said jokingly

Addison rolled her eyes. "Shut up Alex."

Alex put a hand over his heart. "And to the man who told you about the man at the bookstore. I'm upset." He said with fake hurt.

"Go eat your cookie!" Addison said with a glare.

Mark looked between the two and decided to ease the tension. "Parcheesi anyone?"

The rest of the group looked at him.

Izzie smiled sweetly at him. "It's nice of you for trying."

Derek picked up the TV changer from the coffee table. "Who wants to watch some Friends (A/N: do not own)?"

Addison shook her head in disappointment. "You people need to learn how to ease tension, because this is obviously not the way."

Derek rolled his eyes. "Fascinating."

Alex finished his third cookie and reached for another.

Addison looked at Alex, disgusted.

Izzie looked at the TV and started to laugh.

On the TV, the character Ross was punching Joey on the side of his head, he put bubble wrap around Joey's head before.

Mark looked at Izzie and smiled. He nuzzled his nose against her hair. After a moment, he looked back at the TV.

"I've never seen this show before." Meredith confessed.

Derek looked at her. "You haven't?"

Meredith shook her head. "I never watched that much TV." She told him.

Derek nodded. "We'll have to watch TV more often then."

Meredith gave him a small smile. "Yeah, we will."

Addison looked at the two pairs and looked at Alex, shaking her head.

Alex nodded, his eyes widening a little as he reached down for another cookie.

Addison stood up. She smiled. "I'm going to go, big day tomorrow."

"Novelist?" Alex asked smirking.

Addison glared at him before waving goodbye to the others and walking out of the living room, and out of their place.

Derek stood up. "I should get going too. I have to go in early tomorrow."

"I'll walk you out." Meredith said standing up and walking with his to the door.

Once Mark saw that they left the living room, he looked at Izzie. "Is everything okay between them?"

Izzie nodded with a smile. "Yeah, everything's okay." She kissed him on his cheek before putting her hand around his stomach and resting her head on his chest.

Alex looked at the two. He rolled his eyes and picked up another cookie.

Derek opened the front door.

Meredith smiled at him softly. "I'll tell you."

Derek looked at her, a little confused.

"I'll tell you when I'm ready." Meredith explained to him.

Derek smiled at her. "I know." He walked out the door, but turned around to look at her. "Goodnight Meredith."

Meredith gave him a small wave. "Goodnight Derek." She watched him walk to his car before closing the door. She sighed. Why did it seem so hard not to be with him?

Alex stood up. "I mine as well go. I don't want to deal with how mush you two are." He said to the two on the couch.

Mark rolled his eyes. "Nice to know Alex."

Meredith walked to the bottom of the stairs. "I'm going to bed. Night guys." She called out to them before starting to walk up the stairs.

"Night lovebirds." Alex said with a smirk and a small wave before exiting the living room and the towns home.

Izzie looked up at Mark. "We are lovebirds aren't we?"

"Very much so." Mark said with a grin as he leaned down and kissed her.

Izzie rested her head back against his chest. "I'm tired."

Mark brushed come strands of her hair out of her face. "We should go to bed then."

Izzie nodded and raised her head up to look at him. "Life's full of possibilities isn't it?" She said smiling in thought.

Mark smiled down at her. "What makes you say that?"

"Well, Addison and Alex have been a getting along a lot better, Meredith and Derek have a real chance of getting together soon, and…" Izzie put her arms around Mark's neck. "And we're together. Don't you think anything is possible?" She asked him curiously.

Mark nodded as his arms encircled her waist. "I do, and you made me believe that anything is."

Izzie smiled softly at him. She leaned in and met him halfway in a kiss.