But before either could say any more on the subject the door was thrown open.

Richard stormed in his office to see Mark stood stitching his face with Meredith holding his mirror up.

"What are you playing at? Give me that!" Richard moved Meredith to the side and swatted Marks hands away form his face and took over applying the stitches.

Alex ran into the room "Mere I'm really sorry I shouldn't have opened my mouth!!"

"Alex..." Growled Richard.

"What? What did you say?" Meredith asked worriedly.

" You'll find out soon enough, young lady, now sit down!" Was the command that she received.

The room was silent until Richard had finished with Mark's face. Once he'd finish he turned around so he wasn't facing his adopted children and placed his hand on his desk. Trying to gain control of his temper so he wouldn't say something that he would regret later on.

Even though the 3 doctors that were in his office now weren't his children, he loved them as if they were! He was the one who was all ways there for them.

FLASH BACK

A 4 year old Meredith came running threw the yard door crying her eyes out

"Daddy! Daddy! I.. I was playing outside… Mark pushed me over!…and I felled-ed over and and now my knee hurts!" she sobbed as she explained her version of the story.

"Ok baby, shhhhhs! It's ok! You've just FELL over, let me have a look." Richard corrected his little angel as he picked her up and place the on the counter top so that he could look at the knee. It was fine there wasn't even a graze on it. So he lead down and kissed her knee.

"See Doctor Daddy kissed it all better!!"

END FLASH BACK

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"DAD! DAD! Oh there you are, I need you to sign this so I can go on my school trip!" 8 year old Alex yell as he ran through the house.

"Hold up, Lex, I thought you were grounded? You, hitting mark, your mom yelling? Any of that coming back to you?" He questioned in a light voice, he hated having to deny any of his kids any thing but as Ellis had final actually taken the time to punish 2 of them he couldn't go back on it.

"But that was totally Marks fault!" was the whinny reply, " it's the end of term trip though! Everyone's going!"

With a sigh "not everyone, your not going."

"But…"

"Alexander Karev Grey!"

With that Alex stormed up to his room to sulk.

20 minuets later…

There was a soft nock on Alex's bedroom door but before he shouted 'go away' Richards head popped around.

"I've just got off the phone with your mom, and I've gotten her to agree to let you go on the trip" Alex's eyes grew wide "but you will have to do a few extra jobs around the house and your grounding will be extended by a month, so it's up to you"

Alex jumped off his bed and ran to Richard.

"Thank you! Thank you! Oh Daddy thank you!"

END FLASH BACK

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Mark was in his tuxedo attempting to do his bow for his best friends wedding when Richard walked in.

"Want some help? 'cos we don't want the best man to be late!"

"Yeah that would go down well with Addie!" Mark laughed as Richard took over tying the thing for him.

"Thanks. Dad" Richard smile as that was the first time Mark had ever call him dad. " I know I was hard on you when I was younger, but I'm glad you're my dad, you were the one there for us. We'd be lost with out you. So let's get goin I'm sure Derek's having a major melt down!" Mark joked to lighten the conversation.

END FLASH BACK

" What am I meant do to with you three! You all said that you didn't want to be treated different just because of who your parents are, yet you were just out there acting like 3 year old!!" Richard stated with his voice getting louder.

AN: I'm not sure when I'll be able to update again as today was my first day back at college and I'm swamped with work for the rest of the week, plus I'm working :( so it might be a few days, but I will be writing so it should be a long chapter :)

I should also point out that I live in the UK and I'm really sorry if i get anything backwards (i'm not very good with American spelling and terms. Sorry!

Please R&R!

Amy xx