Until Murphy came along, the closest thing Bree had ever had to a mother was a thrice divorced male oncologist.

As hard as Christmas had been the past couple of years, as hard as it was bound to be this year, she could never completely dislike the holiday.

It seemed every year she was faced with the same question -- what to get the doctor who wants nothing?

This year, come hell or high water, they were getting a tree.

Bree never meant to fall in love with Shawn, but somehow he had managed to make it so that before she knew it, she could not see her life without him.

Growing up, she had been constantly told she had an answer for everything; why then, didn't she have an answer for how to help him?

Bree had seen her father's team change multiple times as fellows moved on and out, but years later only one group would stick out in her mind as the team.

As she sat on the counter, watching him cook, she had to wonder if he knew just how big a part of her life he had become.