cxii. meet breakfast and lunch
8.22

"You did something, what?" Derek asked the second he stepped into the kitchen and saw his husband baking. Atlas often bakes when he's stressed, it when there's something wrong, or if something is really good. "Or is it for when the twins and everyone else get back from their boards."

"Dadda! Look!" Starlee cane wobbling into the kitchen with three dogs trailing behind her.

Derek blinked. Eyeing Snacks who was happily wagging their tail well looking between the other two dogs, he could tell the dog was excited.

"Who's dogs?" Derek asked, smiling. He figured that his husband had offered to dog sit. Oh how he was wrong. When Atlas continued to bake, Derek tilted his head to the side and looked at his husband. "Atlas?"

"Ours." Atlas finally spoke, looking up from the batter he had been mixing. He had a nervous look on his face.

"Ours?!" Derek spoke a little louder, whirling around to see the dogs with collars around their necks and tags that dangled from them. They had names and most likely Atlas's phone number on them, but Derek wasn't sure, he couldn't see them clearly. "Ours?!"

Atlas placed his bowl on the counter with a thud. Maybe he should have ran this but Derek first. He stopped moving, watching as the dogs ran out of the room when Cameron had squeezed one of the toys, causing it ti sqeak. "You should have seen the kids, Der. We brought the center toys, and we wanted to spend time with the dogs. And - and they were the only ones who wouldn't get adopted. Their siblings too, I couldn't separate them either."

"You got two dogs?!" Derek couldn't wrap his head around the fact that his husband had gone and adopted two dogs well he worked. Well he saved someone's life. "Two?!"

"I'm sorry!" Atlas panicked, bumping the bowl of batter and it falling to the floor. "I'm sorry, Der. I really am. But the kids, they loved the two. And the dogs love the kids. I - and the lady looked to heartbroken. I had too."

Derek sighed; he had always thought that Atlas would run things by him before he did something big. But it has crossed his mind that Atlas would do something out of the ordinary — but if we're being honest, it was very normal for Atlas to do something like this. To get another dog.  Derek just didn't expect for it to happen right now, and for there to be two dogs.

"Why didn't you call me." Derek frowned. "You could have called me and we could have talked about it."

"I'm sorry, love, so so sorry." Atlas told him. "I just saw them and then I couldn't not bring them home. They needed a home, Der."

Derek stepped forward, pulling his husband into his arms. "I'm not mad, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have yelled."

"Their names are Breakfast and Lunch."

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Venus stood with Mark, "I love her."

Mark turned and looked at Venus. He didn't know her well, but she has kinda just started talking to him one day and now every friday they share a conversation.

"You love Lex?" Mark asked. "Or Julia."

Venus sighed, leaning against the wall. "Lexie."

Mark flashed a smile and pointed towards where Lexie was typing away on her phone. She was far enough from the two that she wouldn't be able to hear the conversation, but close enough to be seen. "Go tell her."

And that's when Venus walked away from Mark and towards Lexie who had stopped texting on her phone and looked up at the sound of footsteps.

"Hey, Lexie." Venus said quietly.

"I love you." Lexie blurted, the thought having been racing in her head for the longest time now. "Oh, g — oh! My god that just came ... fly-flying out of my face. Like it was s-s-some kind of — I love you. I just — god. Did it again!"

Venus blinked in shock. She was supposed to declare her love, not Lexie. But it worked out just fine.

"I love you! I do. I do. I just do. And I have been trying not to say it. I have been trying so hard to just mash it down and ignore it and not say it. And Jackson is a great guy, and Julia is a great gall." Lexie continued to talk, her words mixing into a ramble. "Nothing worked out, because I - I love you! I am so in love with you. And you're - you're in me. You're like a disease. It's like I am infected by Venus Bardot. I can't think about anything or anybody, and I can't sleep. I can't breathe." Venus watched as Lexie started to cry. There wasn't much she could do, she didn't want to interrupt. "And I love you. I just love you all the time. Just every minute of every day. I love you. That feels good, just to say that — I feel so much better. I uh, Venus?"

"Venus, hi. I thought you said the lobby. You have me wondering, haha. You ready?" Julia said as she stepped towards the two. Venus had forgot. She had let it cross her mind. She had a girlfriend, and she is realizing that she can't see Lexie Grey as a friend or someone she knew, she wants to see her as her girlfriend, as her life.

Venus froze before she looked towards Lexie. "Can we talk tomorrow? Is that okay? I promise we'll talk."

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"Refresh! Press the refresh button!" Eliza spoke quick as she tried to access her email. She would be getting an email — or she should have by now — that would determine if she had passed her test or not.

Oliver was in the washroom, having jumped off the buss so freaking quickly with the words "gotta pee" coming from his mouth.

"I passed! I passed!" Jackson cheered once he had gotten the email. He had passed.

"I passed! I passed! Yes!" Christina spoke next, excitedly jumping once and then focusing on the others beside her. She had passed.

"I passed! I passed!" Meredith exclaimed as she excitedly tapped her chest, letting out an excited laugh. She had passed.

"Alex?" Christina spoke, looking towards Alex and then looking towards Eliza. "El?"

The two groaned, throwing their heads back in frustration. "It's not coming up." The two spoke in sync.

Jackson practically threw his phone at Alex when Meredith passed Eliza her own. "Use ours."

"Yes!" Alex cheered once he had read his email. He jumped. He has passed.

"El?"  There was a pause. "Did you pass?"

"I — " Eliza paused. She didn't wanted to know without her twin being beside her. "I have to wait to read it. I have to wait for Olly."

"I'm here!" Oliver came barreling through the sliding doors. His phone in hand. "I'm here,"

"Open it! Open it!" Christina said loudly. Watching as the two twins stared at their phones.

"Did you pass?!"

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did el and olly pass?
also, what should they specialize in. (if they passed?)
and only two - three more chapters!