Addison is confiding in Webber that McDreamy wants her to move to Seattle. Webber tells her that, with her reputation, she could be the most bestest, super-fabulous, famousest neonatologist west of Manhattan. Also, he offers her a whole lot of money to take the job. Which, judging by the look on her face, she is going to. Meanwhile...

...her husband walks towards Meredith with purpose. He has nearly made it when Bailey steps in front of him and barks, "Turn around. Walk away." McDreamy says he wasn't. Bailey says yes, yes, he was. "Look, you can't do this, you don't have the right, not anymore." McDreamy just wants to see if she's okay. Bailey smacks him down: "She's not. She's a human traffic accident, and everybody's slowing down to look at the wreckage. She's doing the best she can with what she has left, and I know you can't see this 'cause you're in it, but YOU CAN'T HELP HER NOW! You'll only make it worse. Walk away. Leave her to mend." McDreamy is near tears, but still doesn't quite get it. Bailey has to tell him again to GO ON, and he finally does.

Alex wheels Nicole around the hospital while they talk. He asks her why she wouldn't want this operation that could help her. Nicole confesses that she doesn't know if she's ready for this much independence; she's never had a boyfriend, or even been kissed. "I'm like the oldest living prospective college freshman not to go to first base." Aw. Alex tells her there are way older losers than her. Nicole stops Alex, turns to him, and asks in the most heartbreaking way ever if he will kiss her. "I know it's against the rules, but I would never tell anyone." Alex looks around and leans down to Nicole, who already has her eyes closed and her lips pursed in anticipation. And instead of kissing her, he tells her that for a kiss to mean something, you want it to be with someone you can't get out of your head, so when you finally touch you feel it everywhere. "You can't cheat your first kiss, Nicole. Trust me, you don't want to. When you find that right person...that first kiss? It's everything." Nicole opens her eyes and smiles. Tears!