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is walking through the lobby, flipping through a chart when she sees Alex, Meredith, and Cristina surrounding a man who looked a little familiar. Eleanora tilts her head and walks over, flipping her chart shut. As she nears, she hears Cristina speak.

"Evil Spawn has a brother?"

Eleanora's eyes widen, a grin falling on her lips. "Alex's brother is here?" The man perked up, smiling a smile that looks identical to Alex's. "Oh my god, hi! I'm Eleanora Amedeo!"

Meredith snorts, nodding. "Uh, this is Aaron. Aaron, that is Cristina Yang, and obviously you know Ella."

Aaron stands up to shake both of the women's hands, a charming smile on his face. "It's nice to meet you, Dr. Yang and Dr. Amedeo. I'm Aaron Karev."

Eleanora's smile grows, looking at him with bright eyes. "You are so polite!"

Cristina nods, her voice monotone and face shocked. "Oh my god. You're so nice. He's so ni-" Cristina turns to Alex, raising a brow. "Why can't you be nice like your brother....Angel Spawn?"

"Why can't you?" Alex snaps, Eleanora smacking at his shoulder. He pouts a bit and sits back, Aaron noticing with a small tilt of his head.

"Fair enough." Cristina replies, turning back to Meredith. "Uh, Mer, what's up? You called?"

"Ten times!" Meredith exclaimed, grabbing Eleanora's hand to pull her along with Cristina, leaving the two brothers alone. "I called you, too, Ella! Why does nobody pick up when I call, huh?"

"Oh, well, Owens still in his dark place, and he's still not talking, so I turned off my cell in case he would say something, which he didn't. I hate men, they're stupid."

Meredith looks at Eleanora, waiting for her excuse. Her face grew red and she shuffled a bit, holding the chart tightly to her chest. "I was...busy. Having.....you know."

The two women stared at her blankly, Eleanora huffing. "Mark and I were having sex all morning, okay? Leave me alone."

Meredith rolls her eyes and Cristina makes a face, shaking her head. "You two have been doing that a lot lately. Like seriously, we can hear you in our apartment someti-"

"Stop it!" Eleanora squeaked, smacking at her friend. "It is completely normal for couples to have sex as often as we do, especially happy ones. Now leave me alone!"

Meredith sighed, looking at the two. "Derek asked me to have a baby with him this morning."

Eleanora's eyes widened and Cristina snorted. "Like I said, men are stupid. stupid."

"Oh my god they would be so cute." Eleanora gushed, thinking about it. "Oh, I hope they have his hair!"

Cristina's pager goes off, and she glanced at it. "Oh, great! The pit, with Owen and his dark place." She turns on her heels and starts for the ER, Eleanora focusing on Meredith for a moment before glancing at her watch.

"I have to go get a patient through pre-op, but if you need me just page. Oh, Meredith, you and Derek would have the cutest babies in the whole world! I mean, besides mine and Mark's, but still."

Meredith playfully shoved at her, Eleanora giggling as she jogged off. "My babies would be cuter, don't even try that!"

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!"

Eleanora glanced up at her name being called, finding a panicked April Kepner running her way. Derek had brought her back after he became Chief, and she had been working under his wing, so the two women had gotten kind of close.

"April, hey. What's wrong?" Eleanora asked, handing a chart back to the nurse. April stopped in front of her, letting out a few heavy breaths as she handed her some scans and a few test results.

"A-a patient of Dr.Webber's came out of a tumor removal and seems to have stroked out. She won't get off the ventilator and won't wake up. I-I mean, I'm pretty good at reading some of this stuff but there's so much in these labs that I-I don't-"

"April, calm down." Eleanora told her, looking through the labs. She grew serious, her voice rising a bit. "Did you page Shepherd?"

"Ye-yes, but he didn't answer it. I don't...is it bad?"

"Yeah." Eleanora said softly, turning to face the nurse. "I need you to page Chief Shepherd, please. Tell him it's urgent."

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behind Derek in the viewing room, Eleanora had her arms crossed as she looks at the new scans with him and April.

"The patients had a massive hemorrhage. Look, you see here? The left temporal lobe? The hemorrhage, its...it looks like it-"

"Wow. That bleed is huge." Meredith interrupted her husband, making all three surgeons jump. Derek stared at Meredith with a smile on his face, Eleanora grinning at the affection in his eyes. However, she notices April grow stiff beside her and frowns.

Eleanora had noticed April acting a little too nice towards Derek. Not that the girl was flirting with him, but it was definitely obvious she had feelings or was attracted to him. Eleanora just thought it was one of those hero worships you don't really figure out is just that right away, but she noticed how April acted when Meredith was around.

Ashamed. Like she knew she was wrong in feeling it, and she felt horrible for it but couldn't stop.

Eleanora focused again when Meredith asked her husband what he was planning to do about the stroke, and her eyes widened at Derek's answer.

"Nothing."

"Nothing?" April asked, Derek nodding at her.

"Yeah. Mrs. Clark has a left temporal lobe hemorrhage thats extended into the ventricular system. There's nothing we can do." He focuses on his wife. "Want to get a cup of coffee?"

"Only if you keep telling me how pretty I am." Meredith responded, taking his hand. Derek laughed and turned to Eleanora.

"I need you to inform Webber and be there when he talks to the patients husband. Page me if him or the patient have any questions you can't answer, Ella." With that, the couple disappeared around the corner.

Eleanora gave him a thumbs up and started collecting the scans. She turned to April, who was staring ahead with a sad look. Eleanora's voice was soft and she sent the girl a soft smile.

"It'll go away, in time. I know you're a good person, April, and you understand he's married. I don't want to judge you because it's probably embarrassing enough as it is. Just know that what you're feeling won't last forever."