Chief Derek Shepherd sat in his office at Seattle Grace/ Mercy West hospital staring at the mountain of paperwork sitting in front of him. It had been a year since he took on the position of chief of surgery and the hospital's rating shot right back up to the top of the national list. So due to the influx of patients he had to bring on more staff members. His newest feat was to hire one new attending for each specialty. The attendings had come to him and told him that they were overwhelmed by the amount of surgeries they were being forced to do. So he and the board decided that this would be the best option. Meredith was promoted to attending of General Surgery to help out Bailey. Christina was promoted to attending of Cardio to help out Teddy. He hired a nice boy who did his residency at Mass Gen to help out Callie in Ortho. He hired another ex-army guy to help out Owen in Trauma. Nice girl who did her residency at Cleveland clinic to help out Sloan in plastics. He had a meeting to interview a girl from Johns Hopkins for the Peds position and he already asked his little sister Amelia to be the new Neuro attending. When Derek got shot last year all of his family members were called but they were all too busy. The only one who came to see him was Amelia. He woke up to the sight of her blue eyes full of tears and she threw herself on him in a giant hug. They talked out their differences and decided to keep in touch as she worked at Oceanside with Addison. When he offered her the job at Seattle Grace she gratefully took it, said she was sick of Addison and Sam's mushiness and the horrible heat of LA. Just as he was looking over at the picture of him and his sisters when they were younger there was a knock on the door.

"Chief there is a Dr. Carter here to see you" she said.

"Yes send her in thank you" he said and stood up.

In walked a beautiful young red-headed girl with a dazzling smile. She was very young. He remembered that she was as old as Amelia.

He extended his hand. "Welcome Dr. Carter, I'm Dr. Shepherd." He said and gave her his McDreamy smile.

She accepted his hand and returned his smile with one of her own. Dimples, like Arizona, interesting. Wonder if it's a prerequisite for Peds. He thought.

"Hello Dr. Shepherd" she said and they both burst into laughter.

"We can't even keep up the charade for five minutes!" Derek said.

"How are you Gillian?" he asked.

"I'm doing well Derek" Gillian said.

"Take a seat Gill" he said and ushered her into a chair across from his desk.

"So Chief of surgery, pretty nice. I bet Carol is proud" Gillian said.

"She is very proud" Derek said.

"Okay enough about us, let's get down to business. Why did you call me just as I was about to go back to Africa?" Gillian said.

"Well Gillian, as you know we are expanding the staff at our hospital. We have recently jumped back up to the top of the national teaching hospital rankings; therefore we have more patients, and more interns applying. Thus we need more attendings to take on the patients and teach the residents. I would try to play the hard to get role but honestly Gillian, you are the most qualified person for the job and time is not on our side. So what do you say?"

After a couple minutes she replied "I would love to Derek. Sounds like you have a great hospital here. Also I can't wait to work with Dr. Arizona Robbins I've heard that she works here. I've read all about her. I can't wait to learn from her. So my answer is yes" she stood up and they shook on it and she gave him another incredible smile.

"It's great to welcome you to our team Dr. Carter. I paged Dr. Robbins before our meeting and she is going to give you the tour of the hospital and the pediatrics wing" as he said that there was a knock on the door.

"Hey chief, I was paged?" she said and smiled at the two doctors in the office.

"Yes, Dr. Robbins meet Dr. Carter. She is going to be your new second in command in the Pediatrics wing" Derek said and smiled at them both.

They shook hands and Gillian spoke first. "Dr. Robbins it's an honor to work with you. Your work is astounding and I can't wait to learn what you can teach me" Gillian said with a giant smile on her face.

Arizona immediately liked her. She had the perfect personality for Peds. And she was adorable which always helps when you're working with children.

Arizona giggled. "You can call me Arizona. Come on I will show you around Dr. Carter."

"Gillian" she said and followed Arizona.

"Well Gillian I think you're going to like it here" Arizona said.

"I hope so. Anything would be better than where I was last" she said and they continued to the locker room.