I'm in a romantic mood…prepare for a bit of fluffiness :D Oh yeah, and would you pretty please review. 'Cause I lovelovelove reviews and for one or other odd reason I have more subscribers than reviews (though I also lovelovelove subscribers)… Hope you guys enjoy the chapter…

Previously on Grey's anatomy:

"Karev, Stevens, stop flirting and tell our patient how a real phalloplasty procedure is executed."

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"She's McHot." He answered truthfully. It was a fact neither of them couldn't deny.

"He's McHot." She added. George shrugged his shoulders.

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A couple of hours later…

"So, Stevens, when are you going to give in to Karev?"

Izzie Stevens looked up at the attending, lovingly referred to by the interns as McSteamy, and who, once again, was proving right everything the gossip mill said about him.

They were scrubbing in for surgery. Mark had wanted to operate as soon as possible on Mr/Mrs Ericks, before the infection spread any further. Part of him was also hoping that Derek, who had shown interest in the case, would come to watch him.

He gave her his famous smirk. "You don't have to look at me like that. I'm just stating the obvious." He was not the only one who had noticed the flirting between the two interns. He felt sorry for Karev, who reminded him of himself.

"You really should give the guy a chance, you know, what's the worst that could happen? You could have hot sex?"

Izzie frowned. "No offence, doctor Sloan, but this is none of your business."

"If my interns are distracted because they're not getting laid, it is my business."

Where not YOUR interns. Izzie thought to herself, but was smart enough to keep it to herself. "Look, if I think about it, can I ask you a question?" She ventured?

The attending shrugged. "What do you want to know?"

"What do you think of the Shepherds?"

"Derek and Addie?"

"So you know them?"

"I've known Derek forever. We lived next door to each other."

"Are they really as perfect as them seem?"

He couldn't help but grin. "I think it's pretty close. They're great people, great surgeons too."

"When I was, mod…" He doesn't have to know you were a model to pay for college, Izzie. "in med school, I kind of idolized Dr Montgomery-Shepherd."

Mark couldn't help but let out a little laugh. "You should tell her, she'd love to hear that."

"Maybe I will." Most surgeons loved adoration; it was, perhaps, one of their biggest flaws, their god complex.

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"Mommy, when are we going to the NICU? I want to see the neo-natals you're going to cure."

Richard frowned. "She can't write, but she knows the meaning of NICU and neo-natal?"

"I can read!" The little girl objected.

Addison shrugged and smiled at Richard.

"Should've known that besides being super-surgeons you still found time to teach your kid how to read."

Addison held up her hands in her defence. "I had nothing to do with it, it was all Derek. I went away for two weeks for a conference and when I got back, she was reading."

Derek just shrugged. "It was her idea." He pointed at his daughter.

A couple of months earlier in a New York Brownstone:

"And then they lived happily ever after. And now, my little munchkin, it's time to go to sleep."

"But daddy, that's not how the story ends!"

"Yes it is!"

"Is not!"

Derek Shepherd frowned. "Lucy, can you read?"

"No." The girl reluctantly answered. "But if you teach me, I'll prove you the story ends differently."

Derek grinned. "That's a bet I'd gladly take you up on. Let's shake on it."

He put on his most "business" like face and offered the little girl his hand, who shook it, with an equally serious face.

"Now it's really time to go to bed, Lucy. Your mom would kill me if she knew how late I had you up."

"But mommy's not here." The girl smiled.

Derek pulled the top of his daughter up and blew on her belly, which caused a great deal of giggling.

"No! Daddy, that tickles!"

"What?" He yelled. "I can't hear anything."

"Daddy! Stop!" Lucy knew there was only one thing that would make him stop, but it was not something she liked. "I promise I'll go to bed!"

Derek stopped immediately and smiled. "Goodnight princess."

"Night daddy."

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"So, what's going on between you and Mark Sloan?" Richard asked one of his new star surgeons. "I can't have two of my senior staff members fighting."

They were sitting in the observation area, watching Sloan's surgery, as McSteamy himself had predicted. Addison had taken Lucy to the NICU, to meet her new colleagues.

Derek sighed. "So you noticed?"

"Your silence said more than words could have ever done."

Derek chuckled. "Going poetic Richard?"

"Who did he sleep with?"

"My sisters."

"Which one?" Richard asked.

"All of them."

Richard eyes widened.

"You heard me. All four of my sisters. I mean, what guy sleeps with all of his best friend's sisters?"

"You haven't talked to this guy in five years because he slept with your sisters?" Richard understood that he was angry, but that seemed like a rather extreme reaction.

"You don't have sisters, do you?"

"No." The Chief had to admit. He'd only had a brother.

"Believe me, if you had, you would've understood."

"Is this going to be a problem I should worry about?"

"It's been a long time, I'm over it."

Richard didn't really believe it, but he just hoped that for once, he was wrong.

The two men turned back to the surgery.

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"I can't believe Stevens and Karev got in on that transvestite's case and we spent the day suturing."

Cristina was getting crabbier by the minute and she was annoying Meredith.

"Cristina. You love Burke. Move in with him."

Cristina shot an incredulous look at her friend. "What's going on with you?"

Meredith shrugged. "Look. This is your shot at the McPerfect life. I know you think you don't want to, but you do, you're with Burke. Go live with him. Try it. See how it works out."

Cristina raised her eyebrow. "I think I liked you better dark and twisty. This is just scary."

"So you'll do it."

Cristina. "I'll tell him tonight."

"Hey doctors, sorry to disturb your conversation, but this really hurts."

The interns shot an angry look at Meredith's patient, but nevertheless, went back to their jobs. There was no point getting Bailey angry, and for some odd reason, she always found out.

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"Der?" Addison entered the observation area with a sleeping Lucy in her arms. Too much excitement in one day, makes a five year old sleepy…

She couldn't help looking down at the surgery. "It looks so…real."

"I still hate him." Derek stated. "But he's good."

He smiled at his wife, who motioned at their daughter. Derek nodded. It was time to go home.

"I'll walk you guys out." Richard said, following the couple out. The surgery was over anyway.

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Mark Sloan looked up to the observation area. They were both there. He had to admit that he'd missed Addison and Derek. Derek shouldn't have reacted the way he did, he knew him better than that. Sure, he'd had some acquaintances in Seattle, but Derek really had been the only person he had ever considered a friend. God, Mark, what the hell is wrong with you. Get yourself together. Man, that's a hot nurse. He smiled to himself. He was great.

So, you know, about the sister-thing. I hope it's not what you guys expected. It was my own brother who gave me the idea. We were talking about dating and he told me that his friends think I'm cute, he found it disgusting and I know for a fact that he would kill his friends if they'd tried to hit on me. And McSteamy's a great guy, seriously, he's not really a manwhore, it's just an act.