xlii. cake
3.21

Oliver and Eliza sat amongst their friends and they studied for the intern exam. They had been invited over to Christina and Burks apartment, that way Christina could be the perfect soon-to-be bride by helping pick out a wedding cake.

As interns they know what they want, most of the time anyways. They want to hold the scalpels, to become the surgeons. And they will do whatever they need to do to get there.

"What are the signs of a central line infection?" Alex asked.

"Puss, redness and fever." Meredith listed.

Interns suffer through killer exams, endure 100-hour weeks, stand for hours on end operating rooms. You name it and they've done it. They have even carried a penis around in a cooler.

Alex nodded, "What's Kahn's syndrome?"

"Wait, wait, I know this." Meredith stressed.

"Tick tock." Oliver smirked.

"Um..." Meredith trailed off.

Eliza copied her brother smirk, "Cracking under the pressure, Mer?"

"No! Um...hypocortolis...cortolism..."

"Primary hypro dostrolonism." Christina cut in, and Oliver sent her a look as if he was saying she was right. "Yes, out of the seat. My turn." The Korean intern cheered.

"No it's my turn." Izzie whined.

Christina now sat in the chair, "No it's not."

Burke walks up with cake and Christina shakes her head, "Oh honey I..."

"Try this one. White sponge with vanilla butter cream." Burke held a fork for his fiancé.

"Ok yeah. I'm trying to study for the most important test of my intern career. I don't have time for wedding cake." Christina groaned as Eliza reached for the plate, trying to take it from Burke.

"Just try it." The cardio surgeon insisted.

"Go, go!" Izzie clapped.

"What is the strongest layer of the small bowel?" Eliza told them quickly, she felt like she was on a game show of some kind.

"Fine, yummy, go!" Christina nudged Burke away.

"Damn it. Damn it. Damn it. Damn it." The blond haired, Lvad wire cutter, repeated.

"It is not snot." George added as a hint.

"Submucousa!"

"Yes." George cheered.

"Wait, wait. How do you know that? Are you studying with the wife's cards?"

"What cards?" Oliver and Eliza asked in sync, causing the other interns to send them a glance, always finding it creepy when they spoke in sync.

"Callie was ranked number one in her year after this test. She has legendary flash cards. Atlas got 100% on his test, he had cards we need! He's your brother, go find his cards!" Christina threw her hands into the air and pointed at the Lee-Sunny twins with a heated glare.

"So don't need the flash cards. We are independently brilliant." Izzie told her brightly.

"Dream team." George added.

"Yeah, yeah. I wanna hurl. Out of the seat."

"No, no my turn."

"Oh come on." Christina groaned.

Burke walks up with more cake. "This is the lemon, might be a little tart."

"What is atenicaratosis?" Izzie asked Alex.

"Uh...atenicaratosis is uh...pre-malignant lesion." Alex racked his brain.

"In old people."

"In anyone."

"Is it too tart?" Burke questioned Christina before looking down at Oliver who had snatched a bite of the cake.

"Baby, I don't care. I mean, is Alex right or am I?"

"You don't care? Well I'll get another bride."

"I care! I care! I'll be the bride!" Oliver raised his hand wildly and looked to Burke for more cake.

"I love it. I love all cakes. Now break the tie." Christina lied.

"Karev's right." Burke told the interns, some groaning and the others cheering.

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"How's the VIpenis?" Atlas asked walking into the computer room Burke and Derek were in.

"The what?" Derek whipped his head to face his boyfriend with an amused smile.

"The VI - penis!"

Derek only stood up and gave his boyfriend a kiss before sitting back down.

"Elephantisis?" Burke looked to the neurosurgeon.

"Mmm-hmm." He hummed.

"No way Jennings has that. Did you check combrusolosis?"

"Could be the beginning of funia's gangrene."

Mark enters the room, "I don't know. I'd go with gonorrhea before I went there. Then again, I'll be there at the finish line to make him pretty, which is what he'll remember."

"Hey Atlas." Burke swirled around to face the other cardio surgeon.

"Yeah?"

"Your brother enjoys cake?" Burke questioned with furrowed eyebrows.

"More than anything, why?"

"He offered to be my bride because of cake."

"Oh yeah, that's Oliver." Atlas moved out of the computer room and Derek sent him a questioning glance.

Atlas saw this look, "I want cake, Der."

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Burke and Atlas — the cardio duo — walked into the conference room with smiles, Atlas smiling because he would get to have whatever cake was left, and Burke smiling because he would have his decision sooner than later.

"Can you be a vault? I think I need a vault cause I've eaten like... a cake and a half and it's not just not cutting it. And you don't gossip." Izzie asked once they stepped into the room, her comment aimed towards Burke.

"Because nobody tells me anything." Burke muttered.

Atlas looked to Izzie with a goofy smile, "Everyone tells me everything."

"I was with a married man. It was..."

"I don't mind that nobody tells me anything." Burke cut in, not wanting to hear about the intern being with a married man.

"It was George. I was with George."

Atlas drops his fork and coughs on the bite of cake he had. He knew something had happened, but he didn't know George cheated on Callie with Izzie!

Burke takes a bite of cake, "It should be firm inside, not spongy. The frosting, I like. Meringue, light but not to sweet. I always thought chocolate inside but I'm leaning away from that."

"You've thought a lot about this cake."

"This cake...for this day...with this woman."

"The red velvets your winner, by the way." Atlas nodded his head in agreement, before grabbing a plate of cake and leaving the room.

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Atlas enters Derek's trailer with a plate of cake, two forks and a backpack on his back.

"Hey, what are you doing here?" Derek asked, looking up from whatever he was doing.

"I brought cake." Atlas held up the plate of chocolate cake.

"And?" Derek softly asked as he stood up to take the cake and place it on the table.

"And I couldn't sleep."

"That's so?"

Atlas hummed and moved forward, placing a kiss to Dereks neck.

"I'm running my fingers through your hair." Atlas ran his fingers through Dereks soft head of hair.

"I'm standing in your bedroom, unbuttoning my shirt." Derek watched as Atlas unbuttoned his shirt.

"And now I'm taking off my pants." Atlas shimmied off his pants.

"Now... I'm getting in your bed naked."

Let's just say, things got pretty heated.

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hi! hello! an update! don't really like this one but we needed some intern time and cake time. and suggestions? — im open to whatever!

question : I have two drafts ( allison argent and tony stark ) should they be posted?