A/N: So I'm back with the 8th chapter. Sorry for not have updated in a while but I've been kind of busy. But here it is... Thanks for the reviews by the way...

Chapter 8 – 007

"Hi dr Shepherd!" Addison greeted as Derek he walked out of the OR after suspected successful surgery as he was smiling.

"Hello dr Shepherd." he responded and received a kiss on the cheek as usual. As usual they called each other by their last name, as usual being professional. That's what their job was all about, professionalism.

"Good surgery?" she smiled as she joined him on his way over to the nurses' station.

"Yes, very good in fact…" Derek smiled and then asked for the chart of his patient. "It seemed hopeless in the beginning, but I fixed it up…"

"My great husband…" Addison gave him another kiss. "Wanna join me for a late lunch?"

"Mhm, if you could make it a very late one… I've got some stuff to take care of…"

"Page me when you have time, alright?"

"Yes, okay…" Derek mumbled, having his eyes fixed on the chart in front of him.

"Dr Shepherd?" a nurse said from behind the desk.

"Yes?" both Derek and Addison exclaimed.

"Ehm, just dr Shepherd." The nurse accentuated, meaning the fact that Addison actually had two names and she looked at Derek. "There was a girl asking for you when you were in surgery."

"Okay…" he said and looked oddly at Addison and then back at the nurse. "What did she want?"

"She didn't say, but she did say she'd be back later…"

"Okay, thanks…"

"Do you know what?" Addison started. "Maybe that was Zadie…"

"Zadie?"

"Oh, ehm… This girl a met in the elevator. She said she wanted to be a neurosurgeon… Cute girl. Maybe she had some questions for you…"

"Huh? Questions?" his face cracked up in yet another smiled. "I love questions… So how do I find her?"

"Well, she came up here with George. Maybe he knows where she is… Ask him…" Addison said and walked off. "Page me later!"

"Okay…" Derek said and then returned the chart to the nurse. "Thanks…"

He and Addison had worked out pretty well, or as well to be expected. After all they had been through; they were finally on the right track, even after this long period of time.

They were on the very edge of not making it. Derek had been on the very edge of not choosing his wife. He had almost chosen someone else.

Meredith, he hadn't seen in fifteen years. She left without a single word the day after he chose Addison. Without a word…

He couldn't really blame her for doing so. She put herself out there, showing him every feeling, deeply hidden within her, and he just blew her off.

Derek sighed as he started to walk in the direction of the sounding of George O'Malley.

There were times when he doubted his decision of choosing who he did, when he wondered what his life would have been like if he had chosen Meredith, or at least what it would have been like if she had stayed.

He had actually gone after her, without anyone knowing. He had said he had to attend a meeting in Boston. He had gone to New York, to St Helen's.

When he had asked for her, the nurse at the desk had looked strangely at him and then she had smiled, telling him that she was in surgery.

When Derek later had walked through the lobby to go back home, he had heard a familiar laugh when he was just about to exit the doors.

He had turned around and then he had seen Meredith walk towards the elevators with a big smile upon her face. He had wanted to walk up to her or more likely run. But something had stopped him

Meredith had smiled. It had been two days after her move and she had already a smile upon her face. And she hadn't been in surgery. Two minutes ago he had been told that she was…

Then it had become clear and he had exited the doors, taking a last look at the woman he had fallen in love with.

She didn't want to be found…

"George!" Derek called out, as the fairly short man was about to walk away. "O'Malley!"

George turned around and when he saw that Derek was the one shouting, he walked towards him with heavy kind of steps, dragging his feet after himself. "Yeah…"

"Hi ehm… What's up with you?" Derek said looking oddly at his fellow surgeon.

"Oh nothing…" he plainly answered.

"Well, ehm… I heard that there was a girl asking for me during surgery… Eh… Za…"

"…Zadie." George filled in and shook hi head, hearing the old news.

"Yeah, exactly. Zadie…" Derek nodded and smiled. "Cute name…"

"Yes, it is indeed…"

"Well anyway… Addison told me she might have some questions for me and that she came up here with you so I figured…"

"… That I knew where she is…" George shook his head. "No, I don't but I'll tell you if I see her around." he said smiling.

"Great, thanks George." Derek said and rushed away, leaving George feeling even more certain then before.

"Dude you've got not clue…" he said to the far distanced back of Derek Shepherd.

"Who has no clue?" someone said and Izzie plopped up beside him. "And are we still saying 'dude', at the age of 42?" she said smiling.

"Last time I checked my driver's license: 40 not 42. And you're still McLabeling everyone and everything."

Izzie gave out a laugh. "Yeah, about that… Have you seen McCutie in up in peeds? I delivered him last night, he's so cute…"

"No, I haven't got time for sneaking up there like I used to…" George said and sighed. "Besides I've got Jenna. Olivia and I are trying to teach Jenna not to say the words that her brother tells her too…"

"Oh, yeah… I heard her last night…"

"Mhm… Mrs. Greene in daycare will be so pleased…"

"They're growing up fast, aren't they?" Izzie rolled her eyes in a dreamy kind of way.

"Yes, they are. Some of them very fast… Some of them are fifteen…" he said and looked at Izzie who rolled her eyes again, though not in a dreamy way.

"George…"

"No Izzie… Don't 'George' me… I swear she's Meredith's daughter!"

"George…" she repeated and shook her head. "I…"

"You wanna bet?" he said crossing his arms over his chest.

"Huh? What?" Izzie looked strangely at him.

"I said: do you wanna-"

"No, I heard what you said George. I just… No! I won't bet, I've given up betting."

"What? Why?"

"For the first: you loose money and the second: it's not fair betting on people…"

"Since when do you care about that? Our first day here, when I got chosen by Burke, you took Christina's bet that I wouldn't even idea the appendix." George said and gave out a laugh. "It was an easy surgery…"

"And how did you do?" George looked down as Izzie smiled. "Burke called you pansy ass idiot, and you got a new name…"

"Don't say it…" George threatened and pointed his finger at her. "Don't…"

"… 007…" Izzie laughed.

"Uh, that hurt…" someone said behind them and they turned around.

Izzie looked strangely at the person before her. "Alex?"

A/N: Alex... Huh? Didn't say something about happy ending yada yada yada... Well hope you enjoyed. Next chapter derek'll meet someone, maybe in the grey clan...