Looking at you side ways

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The next day they were in the locker room at 0530. It was their sixth day with Dr. Bailey and she was running them ragged. They were all ten hours away from their eighty hour limit, but after today they had two days off. It was an early night for them last night. Just after they ordered their drinks, Dr. Bailey had come into the bar and gave them a scathing look as if she expected them to be studying or at least not drinking. It had put a serious damper on the night with her giving them the evil eye every few minutes. They all left after one drink and went home, leaving Dr. Bailey sitting at the bar enjoying her drink getting gossip from Joe.

Mark said, "I guess it's my turn with Dr. Bailey today. I am the last one that hasn't ridden with her." Dr. Bailey had taken a different intern each day to shadow her.

Derek said, "It's not so bad. She's a good surgeon and she is a good teacher."

Meredith said, "I have to say I think I have learned more this week than in the last couple months put together. But I want to sleep so badly."

Cristina nodded her head and said, "At least she is fair. That's all I ever wanted. She is spreading us all around and we are getting to equal treatment."

Burke didn't say anything.[i] Personally he struggled to take orders from a woman. But he was doing his best to hide it.[/i]

Addison said nastily, "She is a controlling bitch! I hate this. We had so much more freedom under Dr. DePalma."

Cristina replied, "Just because he let us run loose around here didn't make him a good doctor or a good teacher. He sucked big time and I for one am glad he is gone."

Addison started to say something snarky when Bailey came into the room.

"Short day for you people. Shepherd and Grey; you are both in the pit. They are overwhelmed down there."

"Burke; You get to be in ICU today."

"Yang; you get to be in pysch." Dr. Bailey raised an eyebrow.

Montgomery; you are in geriatrics." Addison was surprised. [i] She didn't even know they had a geriatric department in the hospital.[/i]

"Sloan; you are with me today. As luck would have it, I have two back to back prostate surgeries and a vasectomy with one of the urologists." Mark grimaced.

"We are going to have a meeting here at 1700 to discuss things. After that you can go home for the day. Come along Dr. Sloan." Dr. Bailey and Mark left the locker room with Mark looking over his shoulder with a scared look on his face.

As they left the locker room, Meredith asked the group, "What do you think she wants to discuss? I mean she already gave us the rules."

Burke said, "Probably tell us how superior we are."

Cris said sarcastically, "Probably cut our gigantic egos to shreds." She looked knowingly at Burke.

Addison said, "All we have to do is get through the next ten hours. And I get the old people!"

Meredith pushed the elevator button and three seconds went by and Derek pushed the button.

Meredith laughed and said, "I just pushed that!"

Derek cocked his head at her and said softly, "I know. But it comes faster when I push it."

And as Meredith started a comeback, the elevator doors opened. They got into the elevator and Derek stood behind Meredith, just a little too close. [i]She knew he was trying to make her uncomfortable.[/i] As people starting getting on and off at their respective floors, Meredith felt Derek's breath on her neck he was standing so close to her. [i]Well,[/i] she thought[i] two can play at that game. [/i]Their floor dinged and she deliberately stepped back first and bumped her ass into his crotch and then hurried out. She glanced over her shoulder and laughed when he was pulling his lab coat closed looking embarrassed.

She laughed and hurried down the hall. "Coming Dr. Shepherd?"

Derek moaned and said under his breath, "If only you knew."

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Meredith and Derek had a busy day in the pit. But they worked well together and joked and flirted with each other. Early in the shift they had gotten a gunshot victim stabilized and sent him upstairs to surgery. His wife and five children were in the waiting room and Meredith decided to put them in a conference room close to the post-op where they would take him eventually. They were sharing a quick brown bag lunch in an exam room.

Meredith said, "I can't believe that man has five children. He is so young! I think his chart said he was only thirty two."

Derek replied, "It's not that unusual. My parents had five kids. And my sisters are well on their way to the same. I have nine nieces and five nephews."

Meredith asked softy, " Wow! Um...does your family expect you to have lots of kids?"

Derek said, "I am not sure that my sisters care one way or the other. But my mom would like to see me get married some day and have kids. I am her favorite!" Derek smiled devilishly at her.

"Really? You are the favorite? Why is that? I mean you are not the baby are you?"

"No. But I am the only male. We have always had a strong bond. She wants me to have what her and my dad had. What about you? Does your mom want you to get married and have lots of babies?"

"Never discussed it. I think that she thinks marriage and children are a distraction from surgery. I think if she had it to do over, she wouldn't have gotten married or had a baby."

"She never said that?" [i]Derek was disbelieving that her mother would actually say that.[/i]

Meredith smiled sadly, "Actually she did."

Derek reached over and placed his hand on Meredith's when they heard a loud rap on the glass and Dr. Bailey entered the exam room.

"What do you fools think you are doing?"

Derek removed his hand from Meredith's and calmly said, "We are eating lunch."

"It looks like there is more going on here than lunch. And you know we have a cafeteria. You should have gone one at a time."

Sighing Derek said, "Dr. Bailey. We are in an empty exam room that has three sides of glass where everybody can see us. Nothing is going on. We brought our lunch so we wouldn't waste time in the cafeteria. Instead of one of us off the floor for an hour while we ate, we both ate here in about um...twelve minutes and the nurses all know where we are if they need us. This was much more efficient and time saving."

Dr. Bailey looked back and forth at their innocent faces.[i] He made sense, but there was something going on between those two.[/i]

"Well finish up then and carry on. I will just double check your charts now." Dr. Bailey went out to the nurse's station in the pit.

Derek threw his trash away and asked Meredith, "Do you think we could spend some time alone this weekend? Without Mark or Yang or anybody else. No interruptions. Just you and me?" He cocked his head and smiled at her.

Meredith's head was swimming. She was still recovering from Derek standing up to Dr. Bailey and did he just ask her out on a date?

Meredith stood up and threw her trash away. She smiled at him and said, "Um...okay. That would be nice." [i]Maybe he wanted to go to the grocery store together or the library to study. Or maybe....[/i]

Her thoughts were interrupted when a trauma nurse ran up and said, "Come on you guys! Two stab wounds coming in! ETA of two minutes." The three of them ran for the trauma bay.