Title: The Sweetest Place on Earth

Summary: Two people leave the hospital tying to escape their past, but what happens when they run into each other. Meredith never chose between Derek and Finn she just couldn't so she didn't chose either. Derek and Addison are divorced. Addison and Mark are together and happy.

Disclaimer: Sadly I don't own Grey's Anatomy or I would be watching it now.

Arriving

Today was Derek Shepherd's first day at his new job. Nobody would hate him or know him. He was getting a clean slate. He walked through the doors of Hershey Medial Center and followed signs leading to the surgical wing.

Meanwhile the chief was giving a meeting to his staff talking about there new member. He was going to take over chief of neurology and soon chief. The chief of surgery at the hospital was Dr. Brittman, who Derek knew was planning to retire in the next five years.

He made it to the conference room just as the chief was going to introduce him to the staff.

"Now let's all welcome Dr. Derek Shepherd the new chief of Neurology from Seattle." There was a warm applause. The female surgeons were all staring at him the male surgeons were trying to size him up.

"Thank you it's great to be somewhere new."

He was leaving the conference room when the chief stopped him to give him a tour. The chief was paged away and left a resident Dr. Bridges. She reminded him of Meredith with a little bit of Izzie thrown in.

"Hi Dr. Shepherd I'm Dr. Bridges." She felt herself beaming. She would be able to get the scoop on this new hot doctor for her friends.

"Hi nice to meet you. Are you specializing in neurology?" He asked the very friendly and rather pretty doctor.

"Um I am still deciding between that and Cardio." He smiled; she also had Cristina in her.

"Oh in Seattle the picked two weeks ago."

"Ok here is the OR's and there is the on call rooms." She was pointing things out to him. "So do you have a girlfriend in Seattle? You light up when you talk about it."

"No not anymore just and ex-wife, ex-best friend, and the ex-love of my life."

"Oh I'm sorry. How come you have an ex-best friend?'

"Oh he slept with my wife when we lived in New York. They had a relationship for months while I just left to live in Seattle when I met Meredith, the ex-love of my life, we were together till my wife came back. Out of obligation I tried it with her. The only thing is I never told Mer that I was married. I don't even know why I thought I could make things work with my ex-wife. It hurt Meredith a lot. We said something over the year my ex and I tried to make it work. We eventually had sex. Then I divorced my wife. She was dating some vet and then wouldn't go out with either of us. She hurt me and I hurt her sometimes love just isn't enough. I couldn't stand seeing her and my ex-wife and ex-best friend at work everyday."

"Oh wow being honest up front that's really nice Dr. Shepherd."

"Just call me Derek. Relationships get ruined with secrets I don't want to keep any here Dr. Bridges."

"You can call me Rose. So are you ever gonna date again. I think even with your history every single girl here would want to date you. So were the ex's all doctors."

"Meredith who I explained already was and intern when I met her. She is a resident now specializing in Neurology. Addison, who is my ex-wife, is one of the best OBGYN in the country. And then there is Mark he is a plastic surgeon we went to Med school together. Were best friends for years then he slept with my wife."

"Wow that's a lot of people I wouldn't want to work with if I was you."

"Yeah."

"So here is your office." Rose pointed to a door that had his name on it and written under that was Chief of Neurology. "Do you have a place to live?"

"Yeah, I bought a nice townhouse I don't really need that much space. Its 6 bedrooms big enough for the visiting family. Or they can just stay in Hotel Hershey."

"Do you have a big family Derek?"

"Yeah I have four sister's nine nieces and five nephews. I always wanted kids, but Addi didn't that's probably what drove her to Mark."

"Wow I thought I came from a big family. I have two sisters and a brother. Seven nieces and four nephews and a set of twins on the way."

"That's a lot of nieces and nephews. Do you have any kids?"

"Yeah. I don't have any kids one day I will have one or two, but it's hard when you're by yourself."

"Yeah." Derek didn't know why they kept talking he already knew the whole hospital by now.

"So do you want to meet some of my friends over lunch?"

"Sure I'm starving. I hope the food is good."

"You should be nice to Abby she is really sarcastic just to worn you. Lauren is super smart and pretty. Then there is Becca she loves surgery I think she'll specialize in everything. My two guy friends we interned with are Kyle and Jon. Kyle is really fun and doesn't really keep girlfriends long they bore him. Jon he is smart cute and sweet the best friend you can have."

"Your friends sound really nice. Thanks for the tour by the way."

"It was no problem Derek. I think my friends will love you especially Lauren, Becca, and Abby."