Teddy's day had gone bad to worse. Owen had comfronted her about mistreating Christiana. He had come up to her during her only free time she had and then yelled at her. Not caring that the nurses could hear him. After he was done he just walked away not even waiting to hear her side of the story. She was simply trying to let Christina have free rein. Teddy could tell that she was a good surgeon but it seeemed that they never actually let her fall. They would catch and fix everything, never letting her fall flat on her butt. But that wasn't the reason why she was so upset. She couldn't believe that Owen would think she could take out her misery on Christina. It wasn't her fault that Owen was utterly in love with her, and not me, Teddy thought. Not to mention that her patient's surgery was being moved back a day because all the O.R's were full and some other patients needs were greater than hers.
I wonder if I was to simply disapear if people would notice? Or I just died what would happen? Dying wouldn't be so bad could it? Atleast I wouldn't feel the pain anymore. Teddy gave herself a mental shock. Hurting yourself and commiting suicide is not the answer to your problems. Her battle in her mind was intrupted when her pager started to go off.Teddy started to run down to the Emergency room. By the time she got down there Owen was already dealing with the patient.
"What's the problem." She asked looking down at the chart so she wouldn't have to look at his breath taking eyes.
"The patient tried to commit suicide by stabbing herself in the heart. The job was almost done when her friend walked into the door and called the police. I stabilized her but she will need surgery. She knicked her heart while trying to stab herself." Owen told her.
"You're very lucky you're friend found you before you bled out." Owen told her before he left.
"Hi. I'm Dr. Altman, I will be performing you're surgery today. What's your name?"
"My name is Elizabeth and I don't want you to perform my surgery." She said as she closed her eyes.
"Oh, is there someone who you would perfer to perform the surgery for you?" teddy said. Her feelings were kind of hurt.
"No. I want to die. Why do you think I tried to kill myself? Or, for the fun of it or for the joy of feeling the pain? I hate my life; it sucks!"
"I know how you feel." Teddy murmered beforer walking out of the room.
***
It was lunch and Teddy had nowhere to sit. She couldn't sit with Callie and Arizona because Owen was there. And she definetly wan't sitting with Meredith and them.
She spotted a table with no one occupying it and decided to sit there. After she but her tray down she grabbed her book and began to read.
"Do you mind if I sit here?" someone asked from behind her.
"Sure." Teddy said. When she looked behind her she saw it was Alex Karev.
"Thanks. I wouldn've sat by myself but there are no more empty tabels." He said while he sat down.
"So who are you avoiding." Teddy asked, while looking over the top of her book.
"No one." Alex said while lookin over at the tabel behind him.
"Hooey. You're avoiding that whole tabel behind you." Teddy siad with a smirk
"You can't talk. You're avoinding the group behind you too. Why?" Alex mummered while stabbing a cucumber.
"I'll tell you if you tell me why you're avoiding the blonde."
"She had cancer. We got married. She was cured and she left me." He said looking down at hie salad.
"I'm in love with Owen and he was in love me. We couldn't be together because he was engaged and we were in the Army in Baghad. When he called me I thought he wanted me to come here because he missed me. Not because his girlfriend needed a teacher. Now he thinks I'm trying to ruin Christina's career when I was just letting her have a little room to do stuff on her own. But no I'm taking out my misery on her." Teddy said while she was mindlessly snapping her celery sticks in half.
"Dude that sucks but my story is better than yours. I win" Alex said with a smirk.
"Okay you're right. That kind of makes me feel better." Teddy said smiling. It seemed odd to actually smile; she hadn't done it in so long.
"What is my prize?" Alex said.
"What prize?" she asked confused.
"For having a better sad story than you." He said whil laughing.
"Oh, how about some grapes and a part of a home made blueberry muffin?"
"That will do." He said smiling.
Some of the other tabels had notice the odd pair sitting together and laughing.
"I didn't know that Alex and Teddy were freinds." Christina said.
"Is that her name. It sounds like stripper name." Izzie said while she watched her husband.
At the other tabel.
"Look who Teddy is sitting with." Arizona said.
"Alex. Why is she sitting with Alex? I invited her to eat with us today." Callie said looking at Owen.
"He yelled at her telling her that she was just jelous of Christina and thatt she was just trying to ruin her career." Mark said, also looking at Owen.
"Okay I admitt that was a stupid thing I did and I was actually going to apologive to her for being so rude." Owen said while lifting his hands up as if he were surendering himself.
"Go do it right now,"Arizona told him "that was really mean. She was only trying to let Christina have a little space. Teddy thought that her teachers had always been there to catch her when she was about to fall. She was never given to the chance to catch herself." Arizona finished shaking her head.
Everybody stared at her. "What we like to talk to each other." She said while looking around.
Back to Teddy's table"You have to feed me the grapes by the way." Alex said with a slick grin.
"Yeah right." Teddy said pushing the grapes and the muffin tworads him on a napkin.
"I'm the winner so I get to get whatever I want. So feed me grapes."Alex said trying not laugh.
"Sure why not. Atleast my spouse didn't leave me." Teddy said.
If that would have been anyone else he would have blown a fuze. But for some reason he wasn't mad at Teddy. It actually made him laugh.
"Atleast my person told me they loved me and didn't call so I could teach their partner." Alex with a smirk.
"You win again. Alright I'll feed you your grapes." Teddy said leaning froward to put a grape in Alex's mouth.
"Thoes are really good grapes. Not too sweet but not too sour." Alex said while he chewed his grape.
Why did I just get tingles all the way up my arm? And it felt like my stomach just dropped out of my body. Teddy wondered.
Why did I feel like a schoolboy when she fed me a grape? I didn't feel this way when Izzie fed me things. Alex didn't know what was happening. But he knew he liked it."Don't stop." Alex said.
"What?" Teddy asked. Why is my heart pounding?
"Don't stop feeding my grapes." What did she think I meant?
"Oh. OK." She leaned over and fed him another grape.
"Excuse me." Alex and Teddy had been so involved with theier thoughts that they hadn't noticed Izzie and Owen appear in front of them.
Izzie's face was red with fury. "What a fun little party you'll are having." She kept on looking at Alex's mouth. That's when Teddy noticed that she was holding the grape that was partialy in Alex's mouth. She quickly moved her her hand away.
"What do you want?" Alex asked.
"I was wondering if you would like to sit with us today. Like you used too." Izzie pointed out.
"No thanks, I'm enojoying myself alot over here so you can go back and sit down." Alex said pointing back to her tabel.
"I'm really sorry Teddy I said some really horibble things to you and it wasn't right. I was just really frustrated about a patient and then Christina... it was just a realk hectic day. Arizona is really upset which means Callie has to make her happy again no matter what, so that means I'm in the dog house." Owen said with a sheepish grin.
"I forgive you Owen." Teddy told him.
"Callie wanted to invite you to come sit with us if you would like too." Owenntold her.
Owen or Alex? "No I rather enjoy sitting with Alex." She told him and turned back to Alex. "Would you like to go walk out side or something?"
"I'd love too."Alex told her. He got up and gave Izzie a stare. "Bye now." He told her as he took Teddy's lunch bag and book.
As they walked past the two tabels Mredith said "Alex you really should come sit with your wife you know." While giving Tedy an evil look.
"No thanks I much rather walk with Teddy. Anyway I thought you were okay with married guys hanging out with girls. Kind of like you and Derek a couple of years back, right." Alex retorted back.
"Well he was getting a divorce because his marriag was in crumbles." Meredith told him as her cheeks turned bright red.
"No offense Alex. But isn't that kind of like your marriage right now?" Teddy said with a sweet smile, while looking at Alex.
"That basicaly sums up my marriage. Maybe I should get a divorde too."Alex said while nodding.
As Teddy and Alex walked off again Arizna stopped them. "I thought you were going to sit by us today?" Arizona said, while poutting.
"I was but I didn't want to sit with Owen." Teddy said sheepishly.
"Wait he didn't apologive?" Arizona said while looking back at Owen.
"Oh he did. I just think I'm going to enjoy sitting with Alex more today." Teddy told her as she walked away.