Alex left the back of the plane in search of Addison. As the rest of the group sat in the back still taking in what had just happened. Alex soon found sat I her seat next to the window. Her body was all huddled together as she tried to conceal her upset appearance. He walked straight over to her and sat down gently stroking her arm for comfort.

"hey … you ok" he said softly, as he slowly lifted her chin so he could look at her face. Her face was tear stained from her mascara, and her eyes were still so watery, yet she wore a really faint smile as Alex attempted to sooth her.

"yea…. I guess so, s… sorry I just had to get out of there" she replied rather deflated.

"hey come here" he said as he lent in an scooped her into his arms. She willingly accepted his advances and relaxed into him, and begun gently rubbing his arms that were wrapped around her, when she noticed his reddened knuckles.

"Alex….. What's up with your hand"

"oh… I err….I punched Sloan" he replied nervous of her reaction.

Just then callie approached the pair, smiling at their closeness and that alex had just told Addison what he had done.

"yea….. An he knocked him right back, black eye an all" she announced sounding rather proud.

"Callie, hey…. Alex did you really do that, just because of me"

"err yea…. Well he was erm really out of line when you left, and he pushed me to far I guess" he chuckled slightly "yea an I damaged his O so important face, so I think you will be ok for a while" he said and kissed the top of her head.

"awww you guys are so cute"

Addison just smiled and nodded in agreement, she had now cheered up knowing that Alex had punched mark, because he made her cry. Alex nervously shifted slightly.

"so err your not, annoyed about it then"

"god no, alex I wish I would of seen it"

Callie now sat down with the pair, as alex and Addison continued to snuggle together.

"so I guess every one knows about us now, then huh"

Callie simply smiled and nodded. " yea well I mean after that display, yea I recon so"

Alex squeezed Addison's hand to reassure her that it would be ok. Callie noticed this and asked.

"so what exactly are you two, I mean are you going out… or"

"I don't know, I mean we really like each other… and we have not you know, done yet… its still really early between us" Addison said unsure on how to word what they had.

"yea like hours, I mean sure we have like flirted for along time but earlier we kinda went further" alex added.

Callie just smiled as it was evident how much alex seemed to care for her best friend.

Back in the back room things had cooled down a lot. Mark had ice on his eye and cheek, Derek sat at the bar with burke and occasionally kept glairing at mark. Meredith, Christina and izzie were all talking about what had jus happened, well some more than others as the after effects of the alcohol were tacking effect. George had just left the three women to come and join his wife.

Sorry just a small chapter, please let me know what you think x