Lauren twisted her hair around her fingers as she walked down to the hospital foyer to where her family were sitting. Fixing her hair when she was nervous, Lauren smoothed it down before making her way to the group of seats.

"Lauren!" Carolyn smiled and quickly embraced her daughter. Hugging her Mom, Lauren smiled over her shoulder at her sisters. Taking a deep breath, she prepared for the onslaught of questions and queries. "You grew your hair"

"That's all you notice?" Amelia laughed as Lauren collapsed into the chair next to her little sister. Lauren and Amelia got along better than any of the Shepherd siblings because of how close they were in age. "Forget her pierced ears, her black and bruised fingernail and the new scrub cap in her pocket. What happened to the purple one?"

"You noticed all that?"

"You guys didn't?"

"Amelia" Lauren chuckled. As much as Amelia was annoying, Lauren still loved her strange little quirks especially when she tried to put off the inevitable that was Nancy and Kathleen.

"I would have noticed the makeup..." Nancy began until she was interrupted by Lauren's pager. Just on time, Lauren looked down and saw Alex's page "Emergency Lauren?"

"Yeah 911, sorry Mom" she sighed softly and hugged Amelia quickly before walking away. Passing Mark in the hall as she made her way up to the Paeds ward, Lauren thought of the perfect idea.

"Mark! You should go down to the foyer and see my Mom. Nancy, Kathleen and Amelia are there too. Go entertain them with your Mark Sloan charm"

"You want me to go down there? Why aren't you down there?" he chuckled

"They like you better. My sisters have to like you, they all slept with you. A fact that my mother will never know if you go down there right now"

"Are you blackmailing me?"

"Is it working?" Lauren smirked knowing Mark would do anything to keep Carolyn from knowing he had slept with 3 of her 4 daughters. To her, Mark was a good man and Lauren wasn't going to ruin that.

"You owe me Lauren Shepherd"

"I'm still not going to sleep with you Mark"

"Seriously?"

"What is it with everyone in this hospital and that word?" she sighed shaking her head and walking away. At least Mark was going to give both her and Derek some extra time.

XXXXX

"Derek!" Kathleen smiled as Derek took his turn with the family. Hugging her gently, he went around the group and embraced Nancy, Amelia and his Mom as well. He had to start them off happy before he hit them with reality.

"What are you all doing here? I know neither Lauren nor I called you..."

"Is it a crime to want to see all of my children together in one place even if it is a hospital?" Carolyn sighed as Derek sat down next to her "It's not all that often that you five will actually willingly spend time together like Christmas or Birthdays. It's not all that often that you're in the same country. Lauren spent the last 5 years in London?"

"And a few weeks in Greece" he answered absent mindedly before thinking back to the question his Mom had asked first "Because we have jobs. Lauren and I can't just leave"

"Amelia is a surgeon too and she managed to find time to come to Seattle" Nancy piped up shooting Derek a 'so there' kind of a look. Clearly Mark's visit hadn't brightened her mood.

"Amy doesn't work in a hospital anymore. None of you actually work in a hospital. You don't know how crazy our days can get" Derek shot back quickly "Lauren and I are Heads of our Departments"

"Both of you?" Carolyn gasped "That's great. I'm so proud of you both"

"Then as Heads of your Departments, you should both be able to delegate your workload to your staff so you can have one day off to see your family" Kathleen sighed trying to the guilt trip option. It worked on Derek as a kid so hopefully it would still work now "Your residents can't be that bad that you need to do everything"

"Kathleen this is a teaching hospital and they do not learn without a teacher"

"Isn't part of learning that they do procedures on their own?"

"Not when they can't handle said procedures"

"Will you two stop?" Carolyn sighed "And where is Lauren? Derek, I thought you'd both at least plan ten minutes with us together"

"Mom..."

"I'll go find her" Amelia smiled. Zoning out while Derek and Kathleen bickered, she looked around the hospital foyer and noticed a familiar figure up on the catwalk. Amelia was also relieved to get some time away from her family as well. She was blackmailed into this trip by the one and only Addison Montgomery formerly Shepherd. Making her way up to the catwalk, Amelia noticed her sister cuddled up to a hot, young, pale blue dressed Resident.

"Who is Dr Handsome?" Amelia chuckled as she leant on the railing beside her sister nudging her gently. Lauren turned to Amelia with a light sigh.

"Amelia this is Alex, Alex this is my little sister Amelia. I promise she's the only other Shepherd you have to meet today" she laughed as Alex shook Amelia's hand politely

"Yeah only if eagle eye Nancy doesn't see us up here" Amelia laughed "She caught you in that car after prom with Jimmy Carson from her second floor room and she caught me countless times buying my choice pills. She's good"

"Choice pills?" Alex wondered out loud

"I'm a recovering narcotics addict"

"Seriously?" he chuckled. Lauren looked back at him almost saying 'seriously' with her expression. She hated how everyone used that word and Alex had been so good "Sorry"

"Addie said you've been going to meetings..." Lauren commented trying to bring the conversation back "What were Nancy and Kathleen's take on that?" she chuckled

"I don't get how those two can tell Mom and each other everything about their lives but I'd rather keep some things to myself. I don't think I can handle their opinions on my NA meetings"

"At least Derek and I know you're related to us. What brought Mom and the evil non-surgical sisters here anyway?"

"Non-surgical sisters?" Alex laughed

"Nancy is a gynaecologist and Kathleen is a psychiatrist. Of the five of us, they decided not to do their surgical residencies" Amelia chuckled "Five doctors and those two are too lazy to spend the extra few years in a hospital"

"Five doctors in one family, that's pretty incredible in itself"

"Maybe you should meet my Mom, she'd love you" Lauren laughed to Alex.

"You do realise that if I don't come back with you soon that she'll come looking for us and he will have to meet her in a bad mood" Amelia informed her little sister before noticing Derek racing down the catwalk toward them "Where's the fire Derek?"

"More like a minivan crash ten minutes out. Three kids, two adults and multiple head, neck and chest wounds. We're going to need all hands on deck" he told them without really stopping.

"Mom is going to kill you both..."

"Mom is going to kill all three of us" Lauren chuckled before turning to Alex "Can you go find the Chief and get him to give Amelia surgical privileges then can you go down to the foyer and tell my Mom of the situation. If you don't tell her you're my boyfriend then she won't keep you there with questions and you can scrub in with me"

"Got it" he nodded and walked swiftly along the catwalk toward the Chief's office.

"Obedient" Amelia joked as she walked with Lauren and Derek down to the ER "Maybe that's because you're his boss?"

"Shutup, I like him"

"So how is he...? Y'know... in bed?"

"Oh God" Derek sighed and pushed the button for the elevator

"I wouldn't know" Lauren chuckled. Amelia slapped her older sister's arm lightly as they got into the elevator "Ow. What the hell was that for?"

"You're turning into Nancy and Kathleen"

"Take that back!"

"Open your knees"

"Will you two shutup!" Derek sighed leaning against the back of the elevator "This is why I like having a city all to myself. I got enough of you girls bickering growing up"

"Don't worry big brother we'll be out of your perfectly styled hair soon enough but for now you can just put up with us for this trauma" Amelia chuckled and stepped out of the elevator once it reached the ground floor. The three siblings raced for the ER as the ambulances reached the hospital earlier than expected.

Thoughts?

I thought Lauren and Amelia should get along. It's like Derek is stuck between the good pair of sisters and the annoying pair.