Title: We'll Have to Muddle Through Somehow
Note: Wow I've missed my Grey's fics and I know I should be updating those but you know… I have no idea how. So this is the first part of a series but I really just wanted to get this out there and see what you guys think. And yes I'm aware the titles from a Christmas song, so sue me... wait don't.
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Alex lies on the kitchen floor for Shiva because Izzie leaving him feels a lot like her dying; and he doesn't really know the rules.
The day after she leaves him a note in his cubby, another appears with a key and an invisible invitation. He packs up all the stuff in the trailer and drives back to the first place he really called home in Seattle.
Moving back into Meredith's should be weird, because most of his married time with Izzie was spent there. (Except it wasn't, because she was dying and he only left the hospital to hold off exhaustion or eat something besides crappy hospital food.)
Meredith's busy re-growing an organ so she sends Cristina to get him out of his proverbial prom dress but she sort of just sits next to him and talks through medical procedures. (She's never been that great at dealing with tragedies and he's glad she's at least not buying crap from the dollar store this time.)
Derek, who's the only one actually staying at the house, seems to split his time between pretending there's not a thirty-something year old laying on his kitchen floor and sitting silently at the kitchen table like he's waiting for Alex to snap and pull an Ava with the chef knife in the dishwasher. It's annoying, but sometimes before he leaves for work he'll drop a cereal box and a bowl with a spoon next to Alex's head with the command that he eat before he gets back. (It's nice to be taken care of for a change.)
Hunt stops by and really just resumes suicide watch, but it's the thought that counts. (Because this guys been to war, and he choked his girlfriend, and he's got his own issues to deal with.)
(Lexie comes and leaves way too much macaroni and cheese.)
He's not really all that pissed at her until he is. (And then he just continually see's red, because he feed her a freaking banana. And he brought her meds to her, and he saved her life and she doesn't get to just walk out of his.)
The thing is, this isn't the first time she's left him because Denny and LVADS and DNR forms and she promised. She stood at the base of his bed and said I love you and promised. He didn't sign up for cancer and chemo and bananas in O.R scrub rooms but he did it because it's Izzie. And dammit she doesn't get to walk out on this.
On day three, he gets up and showers and then finds a missing recipe card next to the bread box on the counter he once spent an entire Saturday helping her look for.
(He's back on the kitchen floor within ten minutes because it hurts again, to the point of not being able to see, and he doesn't know the rules.)