Title: One Hell Of A Racket

Authors: Sara And Lizzie

Rating: T for language, mild sex

Disclaimer: we don't own grey's anatomy, or any anatomies but our own at that.

Summary: Sequel to Sound And Fury. Mark and Addison come back to Seattle, and chaos ensues. Forget the internship- there's sex, lies, jealousy and procreation to deal with it.

Author's Note: We couldn't let go of Sound, so we decided to write a sequel. Review.

We haven't updated in a while, but we promise to keep it up regularly. This chapter picks up where the last one left off, and then progresses a few months into the future.

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"But we're never gonna survive,
unless we get a little crazy."
-Seal

Izzie shuffled downstairs, and was utterly annoyed to hear laughter coming from the kitchen. As she focused on glaring towards the shut door, she practically killed herself tripping over a box full of sweaters.

George ambled down the stairs, looking as sleep deprived as she felt. "Why are you on the floor?" he asked.

"Boxes, George." Izzie snapped.

George flashed her a crooked smile. "Why are there boxes?" Izzie refocused her glare to the laughter coming from the kitchen.

"I think that's why."

Together they pushed open the door to see Meredith, pouring cups of coffee and Derek elbow deep in pancake batter.

"Hello, friends." Meredith said, a huge grin plastered on her face. Great day to be alive, don't you think?"

Derek snorted into the pancake mix. "Overkill, Mer." He muttered.

Izzie accepted the cup of coffee Meredith offered, still glaring. "Why are there boxes?" she asked.

"Derek sort of lives here now." Meredith said, looking at them, silently asking them to make that okay. George accepted the coffee she offered him and mulled this over.

Izzie glanced over to the pancakes Derek was sliding on to a plate. "Are those chocolate chip?" she asked.

"That they are, Dr. Stevens." He said, placing the plate on the kitchen counter, and motioning for her to eat.

She turned to Meredith. "Will you do something about the headboard?"

Meredith held up three fingers. "I swear. Scout's honor."

Izzie rolled her eyes. "Like you were a girl scout." She took a bite of the pancakes and shrugged. "So the brain surgeon stays."

Derek flipped some more pancakes onto a plate and handed them to George. "Dr. Shepherd?" George asked. "What about your trailer?"

Derek smiled. "Dr. O'Malley." He said. "If it's all right with you, when we're eating breakfast in our pajamas together, we should use first names."

George nodded. "That'd be fine, Dr. She- Derek. That'd be fine, Derek."

Derek nodded. "I'm going to hold onto the trailer. More specifically the land the trailer's on. For whenever I might need it."

Meredith beamed at her roommates. "Whenever you guys kick him out."

"They get to kick me out? Roommates trump boyfriend?"

Meredith leaned over and kissed his cheek. "Pancakes for the girlfriend?" she asked ignoring him.

Izzie and George rolled their eyes, but they were both smiling anyway.

Meredith was beaming all through work that day. She didn't even mind that Derek was in surgery over lunch and that she wouldn't be able to see him.

She plunked her tray down at a table whose lone occupant was Addison Montgomery. "Can I join you?" she asked.

Addison smiled. "Sit down, Meredith." She looked at her more closely. "Hey, why are you smiling?"

"We fixed it." Meredith said simply. Before she could elaborate, Mark appeared, seemingly out of nowhere and sat down, kissing Addison on the cheek.

"Baby, you fixed it!" He cried, taking one look at Meredith's cheery demeanor. She wrinkled her nose at him.

"Baby?"

"Term of endearment." He said. "Platonic." He clarified, looking at Addison. She rolled her eyes.

"What's my term of endearment?"

"Sugar lips." Mark said, leaning in for a kiss.

Meredith laughed at them. "I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I'm sort of…glad you two are here."

Addison pulled away from Mark. "Did you just call me sugar lips?"

Meredith had learned that time passes slowly when you're miserable. The agonizing months after Addison's first arrival in Seattle had felt like years. The ten days she had spent in San Francisco were eternal. The miserable days after she had seen Derek kiss Addison were never ending.

But when life was good, time flew by. As did the three months after Derek moved in. Meredith had barely blinked, and they were gone.

It had become routine again. Routine was good. Routine was happy. Routine meant she didn't mind being on call and spending all night at the hospital, because Derek would bring her coffee the next morning, and they would steal kisses all day and go home together the following night.

Meredith was on call. It meant next to no sleep, snappy nurses, a grumpy resident and many hours suturing in the pit.

But she was still happy.

Back at the house, the motley crew of Izzie, Derek and George were waiting for their Chinese food to arrive. It had been weird at first, living with their boss, their attending. But they had gotten used to it and settled into a routine.

Tonight, however, was different. Derek was fidgeting and hyperactive. Izzie and George exchanged glances over his head. There was a knock at the door, and before anyone could answer it, it opened, revealing Alex and Cristina, Alex holding up their Chinese food.

"Thank you, baby." Izzie said, kissing him on the cheek. Cristina made fake gagging noises from the door step.

"Please." She said. Izzie looked at her.

"Cristina, what are you doing here?"

She waved off the question. "Burke's on call." In the living room, Derek jumped off the couch and started pacing. Cristina took the bag of Chinese food from Alex and started going through it.

"What's up with McDreamy?" she asked, jerking her thumb in his direction. Izzie shrugged and shut the front door. Cristina strode into the living room and sank down on the couch.

"Earth to Derek." She said, waving her hands in front of her face.

He stopped pacing and turned to them- Alex, Izzie, Cristina and George. He looked at them for a few minutes. "I'm going to ask her to marry me." He said quickly.

And just like that, the routine was broken in a way no one expected.

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