5.

Dr. Karev was patiently waiting for Dr. Stark to finish his surgery with baby Sofia. Dr. Sloan and Robbins both ran out of the OR yelling with joy. That was indication that it was a success.

"Dr. Stark is the best!" Mark yelled out of excitement.

"Yeah, sure" Karev thought and rolled his eyes.

Dr. Stark walked out of the OR with a slight smile on his face after hearing Mark's comment.

Mark followed Stark. "Hey, Dr. Stark, I gotta take you out for a beer or something."

"Don't bother, Dr. Sloan. It's -" Mark cut him off. "No, no, no, I need to; don't argue with me, man. Don't burst my bubble." With that, Stark did not say anything and Mark left him alone.

"What now, Karev?"

"I found a doctor," he said bluntly.

"Wow, it's good to know that you've figured out that this hospital is filled with doctors. Good job, Dr. Karev," he said blatantly.

He ignored his sarcasm. "For my African children project, I found a suitable doctor. She's in the conference room right now."

They both entered the conference room and Karev introduced Dr. Redford as Stark grabbed a seat, not looking at the doctor. "Dr. Stark, this is Dr. Redford." Stark looked at her once he heard her name. Awkward silence… Karev could feel the tension. He kept looking at them, observing the awkwardness in the room. He decided to break the silence

"So, yeah, Dr. Redford has great credentials. She's actually been to third world countries and helped children with similar conditions and-"

"You may leave, Dr. Karev," Stark interrupted him and waved him away.

"Oh, did I mention that he hates me?" Karev said to Dr. Redford before leaving the room.

The two doctors stared at each other for quite some time before Dr. Redford decided to break the ice.

"Hello Robert," she said in a delicate tone.

"Melanie," he replied wryly.

Again with the awkwardness; this time Melanie tried to avoid eye contact. She looked around the room, eventually focusing on a floral painting, the only thing that gave the room a bit of color. Robert suddenly had a rush of mixed emotions. Should he be angry for what she did ten years ago? Should he just let it go? Should he be happy that he's seeing her again?

"So, uh, from what I've heard you're a family man now."

"And from what I've heard… oh wait, I haven't heard anything about you. And, not anymore; I lost them two years ago."

She didn't know what to say, but "I'm sorry."

It was quiet again for a while until Melanie finally said, "You know what I really am sorry, but if it's gonna be awkward and if you don't want me to work here, that's fine; I have other interviews I can go to where clearly, they want me to work for them."

And with that, she grabbed her purse and stormed out of the room. Karev was at the nurses' station waiting to see if Dr. Stark hired Dr. Redford, but when he saw her hurry out the building, Karev had lost hope. "Stark is out to get me and he's never going to hire any of the doctors I recruit," he vented to April. "Maybe she's just not right for your project."

"Whatever, April, she's perfectly qualified!" snapped Karev.

Robert doesn't really like to go after anyone, but Melanie was different. She is right for the job, so he left the conference room and went after her.

"Melanie!" he yelled out. "I want you to work here!" he called out and the whole hospital basically heard it.

"Well, that's definitely a new side of Stark we haven't seen," said Meredith and joined April and Karev as they watched Stark and Redford.

"Who's Melanie?" Meredith asked

"My ticket to get to the Chief Resident position," Karev replied with a cocky tone.

April and Meredith rolled their eyes. Meredith and Karev left April at the nurses' station as she discreetly watched Robert and Melanie; she grabbed a chart and started to flip through it to make it not too obvious. Robert and Melanie both sat down and started talking. "What were they talking about?" she thought.

Robert touched Melanie's shoulder. "Listen, why don't we just put the past behind us. This hospital would be glad to have you on our staff, especially with this great of a project. What do you say? "

"Thank you, Robert. When can I start?"

"Tomorrow would be fine. Well, if you'd excuse me, I have a consult I need to attend to."

"Still the same old Robert, I see. Nice that we're working together again," she smiled and walked away.

Robert, not saying anything, looked back and smiled. He headed towards April to retrieve a chart for his consult.

"Is that the Bridgeport chart?" he asked her.

"Uh, yeah," she said nervously and handed him the chart.

"Wrong chart, Dr. Kepner," calmly pointed out. She apologized and nervously searched for the right chart and gave it to him.

"Thank you," he said and walked away.

She had a disappointed look on her face, and she buried it on her palms and quickly brushing her hands through her hair with frustration.

"Subtle," commented Lexie as she approached April.

April let out a deep sigh. "Whatever," she said.

"No, it's not whatever; clearly you're developing a little something-something, I don't understand why, but anyway talk to him."

"Lexie, how do you-"

"Oh, April, I know. I know," she said as she nodded her head.

Meanwhile at the Bridgeport consult, Robert was joined by Arizona. But before they could talk about the case, Arizona started off by saying, "So, who is this Melanie, the whole hospital has been talking about?"

Robert rolled his eyes and glared at her. "Is there anything this hospital won't do, but gossip?" he snapped at her.

Arizona put her hands up, "Just curious, Dr. Stark. Just curious," he didn't say anything. "So, who is she?" she asked again.

"A former colleague; now she's working with us on the African children cases." He answered her, not even bothering to look at her. He didn't want her to see his facial expression.

"Just… a former colleague," she suggested, prying for more details. Arizona was now comfortable with Dr. Stark. She understood that his sarcasm, snarky-ness and his flat out bad attitude was just a defense mechanism toward others. It's safe to say that she considered him a friend; after all, he did save her baby.

His head is still down looking at charts. "Oh, come on, Dr. Stark. Speak. One-on-one; let it out."

He brought his head up. "This stays between us." Arizona nodded. "It's none of your business." He said it calmly and returned to reviewing the charts.

Arizona rolled her eyes. "Well, sorry to point out the obviously, but the whole hospital basically knows that you two had a history."

That was trigger; he rolled his eyes and finally confirmed it. "Yes, there was a history between us and now obviously it's over."

Arizona looked confused. "That was very straightforward, clarify."

"Dr. Robbins, when did you feel the need to act as though you're my friend?" He asked sternly.

Arizona looked down, it took her a while to respond, but she finally did, "when you showed me that you had a heart and when you saved my daughter." She said fighting back the tears. She composed herself before speaking again, "I'm sorry." Robert shook his head, "no, I'm sorry. Why don't we get back to the case; I'll buy you coffee after." Arizona smiled and they talked about the case.

After the consult, April was patiently waiting outside the room for Robert. He walked out with Arizona.

"Excuse me, Dr. Robbins, but Dr. Stark, may I speak with you for just a second?" Arizona didn't seem to mind.

"Sorry, Dr. Kepner, but can this wait, I'm kind of busy," he walked off with Arizona; she looked back at April who looked disappointed.

"Coffee is not 'busy'," she snapped as they sat down with their coffee. He didn't respond.

"Ok, Stark, we're friends now. Speak," she demanded.

He put his hand on his mouth, and then said "When did my life get to complicated?"

Arizona rested her head on her hand, "Um, when you decided to show that you were a nice human being with feelings?" she guessed.

"Rhetorical question, Robbins." He snapped at her.

She rolled her eyes. "I don't think so, I mean your life is getting complicated with two women, damn," she spotted his look of surprise, "Oh, yes, Stark, I know." Before he could speak, she cut him off. "You're trying to ignore Kepner because she blew you off that one time, but you still have feelings for her, and now an old flame comes along, and correct me if I'm wrong, but now you don't know what you're feeling." He didn't respond.

"Exactly!" she called out and put her hands up, "I knew it. I was right." She rested her head on her hand again. "Okay, so I know the whole thing about April, now Melanie… what happened with her?"

As much as he hates to admit it, he liked having Arizona as a friend. He tried to recall what happened with him and Melanie. "Well, I've known Melanie for quite some time and I've worked with her at the last hospital I've worked at before I transferred here. We were together for four years and then suddenly she just left and moved somewhere else. I haven't heard from her since, and now she's here. Small world, isn't it?"

"Do you still love her?"

He shrugged.

"And what about April?"

He shrugged.