A/N: Thank you for the reviews! I'd like to thank 7LuckyStars for the suggestion. I was hoping to get this chapter up sooner, but school's been getting in the way. 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
Disclaimer: I do not own Grey's Anatomy, or any movie, song, show, book, etc. mentioned in this fic.
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Izzie woke up. It was Chistmas day. She smiled brightly to herself. She looked at Mark before sitting up and flipping over to straddle him. She saw him stir, so she leaned down and kissed him awake.
"I could get use to waking up like this." Mark mumbled as he opened his eyes to a smiling Izzie.
"It's Christmas today!" Izzie said happily as she down to help tug Mark's shirt off.
Mark raised an eyebrow as he held her waist as he sat up, her legs still around him. Then he allowed her to take his shirt off of him. "Is this always going to happen when you're really happy in the mornings? Not that I'm complaining."
Izzie put her arms around his neck and kissed him deeply, only breaking it off when air came necessary. "Good, because this is probably what I'm going to do when I'm really happy in the mornings." She kissed along his jaw to his ear.
"Again. Not complaining." He saw her bring her head up to his level, so he used one of his hands to put on the back of her head to crush her mouth onto his in a fiery kiss.
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"Merry Christmas!" Derek said walking over to Meredith in the kitchen.
Meredith smiled. "Merry Christmas." She bit her bottom lip. She had been contemplating this most of the night, but she still was hesitant. But after yesterday, she was sure she was ready. If she didn't tell him now though, she may never have enough strength to. "Derek."
Derek went over to the coffee pot. "Yeah?" He asked over his shoulder.
She wanted until he poured his coffee into a mug and turned to her before responding. "I've thought about… Us, and I think I'm ready."
"You think?" Derek asked, furrowing his eyebrows a bit.
"No. I know. I know I'm ready." Meredith said confidently.
Derek put his mug down before walking over to her, cupping her cheeks in his hands and giving her a kiss that left her breathless. "God, you have no idea how long I've been waiting to do that."
Meredith smiled. "But there's one other thing." She had to do this. If she didn't than she wouldn't move on as well with him.
Derek brushed some strands of hair off her face. "Yeah?"
"I don't think we should have sex." Meredith told him.
Derek frowned. "Why?"
"I just think it'd be better. You know… Go slow." Meredith explained to him.
"Okay. Whatever you want." Derek gave her a reassuring smile before giving her a soft kiss.
"Really?" Meredith asked, a bit unsure.
"Really." Derek paused. "How long though? I'm just curious."
"I'm not sure." Meredith said honestly.
"Well, that's fine." He kissed her. "We're taking it slow."
Meredith nodded, returning his kiss. "Very slow."
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Addison walked into the kitchen. No one was there. Alex was probably asleep. She smirked and had an idea. She put her purse down in the kitchen table and took her coat off, putting it on a chair before making her way upstairs. She has never actually been in their rooms so she went to the first door when in the hallway upstairs. No on was there, and it was pretty neat. Must have been Mark's.
She went to the second door a few feet from the first door and opened it slowly. There was only two bedrooms, so inevitably, it was Alex's. She smiled and slowly walked over to his bed, and then jumped on top of him, and said in an overly cheerful voice said, "Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!"
Alex awoke startled. "What the hell?!" He groaned as he opened his eyes to see the redhead. "What the hell Addison?"
"You're the one who wasn't awake." Addison said innocently.
"So?" Alex asked moving to sit up.
Addison got off him and moved to cross her legs on the bed next to him. She shrugged. "Someone needed to wake you." She said innocently once again.
"Yeah right." He smirked. "You just wanted a reason to be in bed with me."
Addison rolled her eyes. "In your dreams."
More like fantasies. He thought before clearing his throat. "You spending the day with your parents again?"
Addison shook her head. "No, my sister's arriving tonight from California, so I'll be at Izzie's tonight so Crystal gets some time with alone time with them."
Alex nodded. He knew Crystal, Addison's sister. He's met her a couple times when she visited Addison, so the others knew her too. No one's met his sister though. His sister was very young, and his mother and her are trying to keep the stable life they have now, which hadn't been easy before, and what he had helped out with. "So I'll see you tonight then?"
Addison nodded. "Yeah. I'm just going to go over and tell Izzie not to open the presents before I get there."
Alex smirked. "Want to open them with everyone Addison?"
"Yeah. I mean, it's what we usually seem to do." She shrugged.
"Right." Alex nodded.
"So…" Not being sure what to say next, she spoke, "I guess I'll see you tonight."
Alex looked at her. "Yeah." He gave her a small smile. "Tonight."
Addison got of his bed and stood up. "Bye." She gave him a wave.
Alex waved before she walked towards the door and went down the stairs to retrieve her purse and coat and heading over to Izzie's.
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20 minutes later
Addison had already informed Izzie, hugged her and said goodbye to the others who were already at her place before leaving, and now Mark was over at his and Alex's place getting dressed and Izzie was in the kitchen with Derek and Meredith.
"Do you want more coffee?" Derek asked Meredith, seeing her mug about done.
Meredith nodded, a hint of a smile on her face. She handed him her mug.
Derek shared a smile with her before walking over to the pot of coffee with her mug.
Izzie looked between the two curiously. Something was different, she just couldn't pinpoint it. Those smiles they shared… They could have had sex, but Meredith is waiting to be ready, and Derek is just waiting… Unless… "You two are together aren't you?" She asked, the realization hitting her.
Derek turned around, a full mug of coffee now in his hands. He glanced at Meredith. Silently telling her with his eyes that it was decision or not to tell her.
Meredith smiled at him, then looked at her. "We've decided to go steady." She would admit, it sounded a bit high school, but it fit.
"About time." Izzie said, a smile spreading across her face. She went over and gave Meredith a hug, then Derek.
Mark walked in when Izzie was hugging Derek. He looked at Meredith with a raised eyebrow.
Izzie let go of Derek and looked at Mark. "They're going steady!"
"Oh." Mark smiled. "About time."
"About time for what?" Alex asked as he walked into the kitchen.
"Meredith and Derek are going steady." Mark told him.
"Going steady?" Alex gave them a look. "That sounds a bit high school, don't you think?"
"Stop it Alex! They can be going steady if they want to." Izzie smiled at the couple again.
Alex rolled his eyes. "Whatever. About time anyway."
"Why the hell is everyone saying that?" Derek muttered to Mark.
"Because everyone knew you two would happen sooner or later." Mark whispered back to him, a bit amused.
"Like you and Izzie?" Derek asked with a smirk.
Mark just looked at him.
"Okay!" Izzie said brightly. "I'm going to get started on Christmas breakfast!" She cheerful walked over to the stove.
Alex glanced at Izzie. "I'm going to need a beer."
"So early?" Meredith asked him with furrowed eyebrows.
"Alex always has a morning beer on Christmas day." Derek informed her.
Alex walked over to the refrigerator. "Yeah. I need to survive the morning somehow with Ms. Perky over here." He nodded towards Izzie.
"Hey!" Izzie said slapping him on the arm with hand cloth. "There's nothing wrong with being happy about the holidays!"
"It is when they're overly happy." Alex muttered.
"Lay off Alex." Mark said rolling his eyes at his friend and going over to help Izzie.
Alex drank a large gulp of beer as a response.
"You're just in a bad mood because Addison's not here." Derek said hiding his smile by taking a sip of his coffee.
Alex glanced around at the four looking at him. "I'm not." He drank another gulp of his beer. "Shut up."
The rest of the four laughed.
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10 hours later
Addison walked into Izzie's place and saw a laughing Meredith and Alex in the living room.
"Addison!" Meredith said with a giggle. "I'm not a lesbian."
Addison raised her eyebrow. "Good for you." She looked at Mark and Derek.
"We're trying to stay sober." Mark told her.
"And Izzie. Where is Izzie by the way?" Derek asked Mark.
"She said she wanted to put some thing's away." Mark told him.
Alex stood up, struggling a bit. "Ad."
"Oh, god." Addison muttered.
"Meredith told me if she was a lesbian that she would kiss you." Alex paused. "What were we talking about?"
"You were talking about drinking a cup of black coffee." Addison told him, trying to get him to do something that will sober him up, even just a little bit.
"That wasn't it Ad." Alex said laughing. He touched her nose with his finger. "Silly Addie."
Addison smiled. "You are so drunk."
"No I'm not." Alex disagreed. "Meredith's drunk."
"Nuh uh!" Meredith said sticking her tongue out at him.
"Yeah huh!" Alex said walking back over and sitting back next to her.
"I must have missed a lot." Addison said walking over and sitting on the couch.
Derek gave her a look.
The three looked over when Izzie stumbled in, drinking something from a glass.
"Scotch tastes like crap. Mark, how do you drink this stuff?" Izzie asked stumbling towards him.
Mark stood up a bit so he could help her sit down. "Scotch?" He took the glass from her. "You know you get drunk off of hard liquor." He whispered to her.
Izzie shrugged and put her arms around his neck.
Mark put the cup down.
"I feel like singing!" Meredith exclaimed.
"Bon Jovi!" Alex said drunkenly high fiving Meredith, but both of them missed and Meredith hit Alex on the nose. "Ow!" He groaned.
"Sorry. Your nose was totally in the way of my hand." Meredith said rubbing his nose.
"Your hand was in the way of my face!" Alex said exclaimed.
"That too." Meredith nodded as she continued to rub his nose.
Derek and Addison started to laugh.
Addison leaned over to Derek. "Do you have a camera?"
Derek shook his head. "No, but I wish I did."
Izzie kissed Mark's cheek.
"Izzie seems to be affectionate when drunk." Addison whispered to Derek.
Derek looked over at Izzie in Mark's lap. "I've never seen her drunk before." He whispered back.
"Me either." Addison shared a look with him.
Izzie bent down to kiss his neck.
Mark pulled her away so she would stop. He's dealt with her drunk once, and that was the first and only time she was drunk. It was off of hard liquor that it seems she got drunk off of. "You're drunk." He told her, though he knew it wouldn't do any good.
"But I love you. And not like a friend, or like brother- Derek!" Izzie got off Mark and went to hug Derek.
Derek glanced at Mark. He patted her back. "Hi Izzie."
"You're like my brother Derek. I love you like a brother." Izzie said sniffing his hair. "Your hair smells… Like hair."
Derek glanced at her, not sure how to respond. "Uh… Thanks."
"You! Light up my life!" Meredith sung loudly.
"Bon Jovi!" Alex said smiling.
Addison looked at him amused. "That's not Bon Jovi Alex."
Alex frowned. "Oh." He paused. "Want to have sex?"
"No." Addison said rolling her eyes.
"Oh." Alex looked at Meredith who was looking at his feet. "What?"
"Feet." Meredith said poking his foot.
Alex watched her poke his foot. "There's toes on them." He said knowingly.
Meredith held onto his pinky toe. "This one went to the market."
"Was there beer there?" Alex asked her.
Meredith looked out in thought before answering. "Yeah."
Alex grinned. "Cool."
Addison stifled a laugh. She looked over at Izzie who pulled off of Derek to sit back on Mark's lap.
Izzie took his cheeks in her hands. "I love you."
Derek and Addison looked at each other before looking back at them.
"I love you more than anyone in the whole entire world." Izzie told him. She paused. "Do you love me?"
"You're really drunk." Mark told her.
Izzie got tears in her eyes. "Does that mean you don't anymore?"
Addison looked at Derek and mouthed 'anymore?'
Derek shrugged, not knowing either before looking back at them.
"No. I do." Mark said, a bit panicky. He did not like her crying, even drunk.
"You do?" Izzie touched his cheek with her hand. "I knew it."
"I know." Mark glanced over at Derek and Addison who were clearly confused before looking back over at Izzie. "Why don't I take you upstairs and we can go to sleep?"
Izzie sighed heavily. "Okay." She used the hands that were on his cheeks to help crash her lips onto his.
"Woot! Woot!" Alex said pumping his fist into the air seeing that kiss.
"Now that's when you say 'about time!'" Meredith said nodding.
Derek and Addison stared at them, speechless.
Mark pulled her away. He looked at her. "Lets just go upstairs and go to sleep." He did not want to kiss her drunk.
Izzie sighed. "Okay." She put her head on his shoulder as he stood up with her in his arms.
Derek and Addison watched them, silent as Meredith and Alex had their attention on counting how many toes each of them had.
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"Here we go." Mark said bringing Izzie into her room, kicking the door closed behind them. He laid her down on the bed.
Izzie looked at him as he took off his shoes. "I was a virgin." She told him. "Before we had sex. I was virgin." She paused. "Did you know that?"
Mark had finished taking off his shoes and was now sitting on the side of the bed, next to her. He looked at her surprised. "No, I didn't." He wasn't sure what to say about that, and she was drunk though, so luckily he didn't have to think about him taking her virginity without even knowing it.
"Oh." She looked at him. "I'm not pregnant."
Mark looked at her confused. "What?"
She yawned. "Scotch doesn't taste good." She exhaled into her hand, then sniffed. "Doesn't smell good either." She put her hand down.
"Wait. Go back to the pregnant thing." Mark told her. She said she wasn't, and he wanted to know why she was telling him that.
"Two days ago I took a home pregnancy test. I was going to tell you tonight about it. I would have told you yesterday, but I wanted to wait till after Christmas, and the presents to tell you… Did we even open them?" Izzie asked confused.
Mark's mind was swirling with different thoughts, one from her being a virgin to the pregnancy test. "No. We didn't."
"Oh." Izzie frowned. "We should have. Addison's here."
"But you're drunk, along with Meredith and Alex." Mark told her, running a hand down his face.
"I don't like scotch." Izzie said shaking her head. She took one of his hands and put it in hers. "I want to sleep now. Lay with me?"
Mark looked at her for a second before laying down beside her.
She put her head on his chest. "I'm glad I waited for you."
Mark took a deep breath and looked down at her. Her eyes were closing tiredly. "Yeah. Me too." He wasn't going to be able to sleep for awhile.