Chapter 6-

A small ray of sunlight peeked through the shades of Addison's hotel room. Then the blare of the alarm broke the peaceful silence that hovered over the room. Addison groaned. She hated that beeping sound more than any other sound in the world. She shifted to the side and slammed the snooze button. Alex got up slowly but Addison dug deeper into the covers. Usually, she got up right after her alarm sounded but today she felt especially exhausted so she decided that she'd hit the snooze button a few more times before forcing herself out of bed.

Addison was still sleeping when Alex had finished getting ready. He sighed, "Addie. Get up. We're going to be late."

"Mmmm," she moaned. "Five minutes." Alex pulled the covers off. Addison didn't try to pull them back up; she was not in the mood to play tug-of-war. Determined to get her out of bed before they were both late, Alex got on the bed and started to tickle her. Addison squirmed under his touch and started giggling. "Okay okay! I'm up!" she gasped.

Alex grinned; Addison hated and loved that cocky smile. She threw a pillow at his head, smiling playfully. Smiling back at her, Alex threw the pillow back. "Hey!"

The alarm started to blare again. If it weren't for the clock reminding them of the time feathers would be flying all over the place. "Shoot! We're going to be late!" Addison exclaimed.

Twenty five minutes later Addison was all ready for work. "Why does it take so long for women to get ready?" Alex groused.

"I didn't take that long," she replied. "Well, let's go. I'm driving."

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"So have you thought about getting a house or an apartment?" Alex asked while Addison drove. This was the second time Alex had brought it up.

"Nope."

"If you got a house or an apartment you could save a lot of money," Alex reasoned.

"Uh-huh. I like having room service though. I don't have to do any cooking."

"I could cook for you."

Addison was surprised, "You can cook?"

"Sure," Alex replied not too confident in himself.

"Prove it."

"If I can come up with an amazing meal will you consider getting your own place?"

"Sure," Addison agreed. "How about you cook tonight?"

"Uh. Alright tonight's fine. Be at my place at 8."

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For weeks they had been able to keep their relationship under wraps. It was a great feeling not being the main sources that fed the rumor mill. They'd never really talked about not telling anyone; somehow it just became an unspoken agreement. Both of them knew nothing good could come of the whole hospital talking about them. Their secret was staying a secret for a good while, but both knew that it was only a matter of time before somebody found out. And when that happened, the whole hospital would know within hours. Unfortunately, that day didn't seem nearly far enough away.

Bailey walked into the locker room and started giving out assignments, "Grey you're with Torres; Yang, Burke; Stevens, Montgomery; O'Malley you're with me, and Karev scut."

"What about Sloan or Dr. Montgomery?"

"You're doing scut today."

"Why?" Alex groaned.

Bailey gave Alex an expressive glance, "Because I said so."

"What did you do to piss her off?" Izzie whispered as they left the locker room behind Bailey and the rest of the interns.

"No idea," Alex stopped for a moment. "Hey listen," he said in a low voice. "We're still friends right?" Izzie nodded. "Okay well I kind of need a big favor and I think you can help."

"Okay. Shoot."

"Well there's this girl. I really like her and I promised her a great dinner."

"And you want me to cook it. Alright, where and when?"

"She's coming at eight so could you be at my apartment at seven?"

"Okay. I don't know where you live though but you can give me the directions later," Izzie paused, "So. Who's the girl?" Alex didn't answer so she tried a different approach. "Is she someone in the hospital?"

"Yeah. You know her."

"Really?" Izzie was engrossed. "What does she look like?"

"Red hair." Izzie grimaced.

"Alex I swear to God if you're making me cook for Olivia I'll-" She threatened.

"No. No Izzie, it's not Olivia."

It took a few seconds for it to hit her, then her eyes widened in shock, "Oh my God. It's Addis-!" Alex quickly covered her mouth.

"Don't tell anyone," Alex stated firmly his hand still covering her mouth. Izzie nodded and Alex uncovered her mouth.

"Wow. So it's serious right? I mean you're not just sleeping with her? Of course it's serious if it wasn't you would ask me to cook," Izzie rambled. "I want details!"

Bailey noticed that the two of them were lagging behind, "Stevens! Karev! This isn't social hour. In this hospital we actually have to work."

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Addison was in her office catching up on some of the paperwork she should have done already.

"Hey," Addison jerked back in her seat. "Whoops sorry." It was Callie.

"Hey," Addison replied. "What's up?"

"You know what we haven't done in a while? Hang out. You're always off doing something that you don't tell me about," Callie nagged. "What are you doing tonight?"

Addison sighed, she couldn't keep Alex a secret from Callie any longer. She could tell Callie was getting irritated with her excuses. "Don't be mad but I have plans tonight."

"Of course you do,'" Callie rolled her eyes and was about to leave when Addison stopped her.

"I have a date," Callie turned back around with interest and Addison continued. "We've been together for over three months now."

"Wow. Three months. Why didn't you tell me?"

"It's Alex."

"Alex?! Alex Karev, Alex?" Callie asked. Addison nodded and a wide smile spread across her lips. "I knew it would happen sometime." Callie smirked. "I just didn't think it happened so soon. You have to tell me all about it later."

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Alex was looking for Addison. After spending all day doing scut he firmly believed that Bailey had a reason for torturing him like this, a good reason. He saw her waiting for the elevator. The doors opened and Addison stepped inside. Alex sprinted down the hall and managed to get all his extremities inside before the doors closed.

"Do you think they know?" Alex asked panting.

"What are you talking about?"

"I think Bailey knows about us," Alex said in an unnecessary low voice considering that it was just the two of them in the elevator.

"Why? What'd she say?"

"Nothing but she's been giving me these looks and having me do scut all day and I have no idea what I did wrong."

"It's probably nothing. Maybe you just made one of the nurses mad or something and they asked Bailey to make you do scut all day."

"And the Chief wants to talk to you. He said to come by his office sometime today he said it was important."

"That doesn't-" The elevator came to a stop and the steel doors slid open revealing Dr. Bailey. She entered the elevator, pushing in a patient in a wheelchair. "Hi Miranda."

"Addison. Dr. Karev," She replied. "I'm not surprised seeing you two together."

"What do you mean?" Addison asked cautiously.

"I think Karev over here is really interested in obstetrics," Addison gave a little sigh of relief.

"Yeah he's got a lot of talent in the field."

"Thank you Dr. Montgomery." Alex smirked.

"It's a shame that he likes to piss off the nurses. Otherwise he wouldn't be doing scut all day," Miranda commented. Addison gave Alex an 'I told you so' look.

"Yeah it's too bad." The elevator stopped on Addison's floor. She stepped out. Alex wanted to follow but decided it was too risky with Bailey standing next to him.

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A/N: Sorry it took a while to get this chapter up.