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"Izzy," Meredith came up to her friend during the wake, "Do you think its appropriate to ask Addison to babysit for us both?"

Izzy gave Meredith a puzzled look, "She babysits for me a lot...but why?"

"We are going drinking," Meredith looked at her friend dead on, "The old gang...the five interns."

"We aren't interns anymore, Mer," Izzy sighed, "We are people with families and high-powered careers."

"I don't care," Meredith argued, "Go find Addison."

Izzy couldn't help but smile at her friend's forwardness. She also couldn't help but smile at the memory of the five interns sitting on the barstools at Joe's, arguing about anything they could think to argue about.

"Hey Addison," Izzy tapped her older friend on the shoulder, Addison turned around gracefully in her black dress. Only Addison could look hot at a funeral.

"Hey Iz," she smiled tightly.

"Could you do me a favor tonight?" Izzy pleaded; she knew that both Meredith and Cristina would need this.

"Babysit?" Addison let out a short laugh, "I'd love to. What time?"

"Umm...does it bother you that you'll be babysitting Meredith's daughter?" Izzy made sure that Addison wouldn't care.

"No, she seems really cool. So I'll come over around seven?" Addison gave Izzy a squeeze on the shoulder and walked away. Izzy couldn't help but feel guilty. When Meredith had left, Addison decided to stay. She had managed to keep an off-and-on relationship with Alex, but lately it seemed to be more off than on.

"So?" Meredith asked, "Are we drinking tonight?"

"Yes," Izzy smiled, "Just like the good old days."

"We aren't old yet," Meredith reminded Izzy, "Just...attendings."

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Meredith was sitting on the couch when the door opened and Addison popped in, looking amazing as usual.

"Hi," Meredith greeted the radiant redhead, who didn't look a day older, much less ten years.

"You're thinking too hard, Grey. I can see it in your face," Addison sat down on the couch next to her, "What's on your mind?"

Meredith sighed, "You know, I came back here without a plan, and now I'm sitting here realizing that I don't have a home and Maria doesn't have a school. I don't have a plan. I have to completely redo my whole life."

Addison put a reassuring hand on Meredith's leg and took a deep breath, "Meredith, these things will come with time. There are so many great schools in the area and your position at Seattle Grace and your daughter's maturity will easily get her into any prestigous school in the area. I know that its really hard coming back to Seattle, but you're strong."

Meredith took a long breath, "What am I supposed to do? I feel like I don't even...I just feel alone, I guess. I haven't had any real friends or real family in ten years, and suddenly I just feel behind on everything."

The moment exchanged between the two doctors was cut short when Izzy and George came down the stairs, followed by the twins.

"You know the bedtime," Izzy smiled at her friend, "Thanks for doing this, Addie. It means a lot to us."

"I understand wanting to bring the whole group together for the first time in ten years," Addison stood up, giving Izzy a short hug, "It is nice to see Grey back...surprisingly."

"I guess," George joked, looking at Meredith, who only playfully hit him on the arm, standing up to join her friends.

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Meredith, George, and Izzy walked into the familiar bar and first spotted Alex Karev sitting on a stool by the bar. Meredith paused, taking in a whiff of the familiar bar that she used to spend everyday in.

"Joe!" she called out happily, walking over to the bar, "How are you?"

"Meredith Grey," he smiled back, matching her happiness, "Let me guess...tequila?"

"Not yet," she laughed, "I need to be sober for a little while."

"Understandable," he shrugged, placing drinks in front of Izzy and George.

Cristina finally came barreling through the door, sitting down next to Meredith.

"How are you holding up?" Meredith asked Cristina, "Believe it or not...I care."

"We weren't dating or married...but he was once upon a time going to marry me...and then - " Christina paused, looking at Meredith, "Why would I mourn a man that left me at the altar? When I remember that I wish I had been the one in the other car..."

"Don't say that!" Izzy reprimanded her, "He was hit by a drunk driver."

"So Mer," Alex began, interrupting the beginning cat-fight, "How was Paris? Was the medicine much different?"

"Well," Meredith began, "It was crazy...I had just as many hours but they were spread out weird. People did a little bit different procedures but for the most part it was exactly the same."

"I have bigger concerns," Meredith interrupted her own story, "Where is Maria supposed to go to school?"

"Seattle Prep, of course," Izzy stated plainly, "The twins go there...being a doctor at Seattle Grace, she'll get in immediately and it is the best school in Seattle. I'll put in a good word for you -"

The door to the bar opened, and suddenly, without warning, memories started flooding back into Meredith. Without turning around she could feel his presence in the room.

Slowly turning around she watched him walk to the other side of the bar, sit down, and take the obviously familiar drink from Joe.

"Hey Joe," Meredith called, "I think I'm ready for that tequila."

Drinking her shot in one fluid motion, she excused herself from her old friends and slowly started walking over to Derek.

"Hi," she said shyly, "How are you?"

"Well," he cleared his throat, taking a swig of his drink, "I saw my ex-girlfriend today. I found out that I have a daughter I've never known and one of my best friends was buried six feet under."

Meredith looked sternly at Joe, taking another tequila.

"Did you like seeing this ex-girlfriend of yours?" she asked, trying to keep the scene light.

"She is beautiful," Derek looked over at Meredith and smiled, "She doesn's smile enough...and shes pretty dark and twsity. I didn't realize how much I missed her smile until today."

"Do you think that she would be jealous if I sat down next to you?" Meredith questioned, taking a seat next to Derek.

"I have a feeling she would be fine with it," Meredith giggled, downing her second tequila. Suddenly, the two made intense eye contact, eye contact they hadn't made in years.

"Derek," she whispered, staring into the deep blue of his eyes, "I missed you."

Without saying anything, Derek slowly leaned in, planting a kiss on Meredith's lips, a hard, but soft, wet, but dry. It was perfect.

"Meredith," he looked at her, "Although I'm super mad..." He took her hand in his and looked towards the door, "Let's take a walk."

"I'll see you at home," Meredith mouthed to Izzy, noticing her brow furrow.

"Meredith!" Izzy hissed, "You have a daughter..."

"She'll be fine," Meredith grinned, following Derek out the door.

"You know I still hate you, right?" he asked, somewhat drunk.

"Do you still have that trailer?" Meredith asked, "Because I'd love to see what you've done to the place."

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It was five in the morning when Meredith snuck back into her mother's house, which was now the O'Malleys.

"Meredith?" she heard a voice from the kitchen, "Are you finally home?"

"Sorry," Meredith replied hoarsely, thinking back to her night with Derek.

"Oh God," Izzy frowned, making herself apparent, "You are going to have another McBaby...and he hates you."

"Don't make my life worse than it is," Meredith looked at her, "Oh God, I slept with McDreamy."

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