1Title: This is for Keeps

Rating: PG (for now)

Summary: "I think I've found my other half

I swear I've found my better half" -The Spill Canvas. Gizzie story.

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George

It was supposed to stop that night. That was supposed to be it. The absolute end to mine and Izzie's affair. Because even when it was still technically a one night stand, it was mentally an affair. And certainly not fair to anyone involved.

It should have stopped in the linen closet, when we decided to just forget it had even happened. Only, I couldn't figure out how to forget something so beautiful. And with all the remembering, it was only natural that I would begin to doubt my feelings towards not only Izzie, but also myself, and definitely Callie.

If you asked George O'Malley from 1997 where he thought he would be in 10 years, he definitely wouldn't have said married to a woman he doesn't love and lusting after his best friend. Nope, not that George. He had only honorable intentions. He wanted to save the world with medicine. He wanted to fall in love with a girl he could grow old with, and have children to raise with her. That was his American dream.

Now, I can hardly believe he and I are the same person.

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Izzie

You can take the girl out of the trailer park, but I guess you can't take the trailer park out of the girl.

I spent most of my childhood watching my mom bring home men. There was Mike, who bought me my first nice doll. Thomas, who taught me how to play soccer, and Gary, who was not one of my favorite people in the world. They all had one thing in common, though. In the end they all left my mama broken hearted and pregnant when they decided to go back home to their wives.

George is not Gary, Mike, or Thomas, though. He is sweet, and smart. He tells funny anecdotes, and he treats me like I'm more than just the pretty Dr. Model. He and Denny are the only men who have ever done that. George is mourning the death of his father. People do crazy things when they mourn, right? I mean, I left an 8.7 million dollar check on my fridge, for crying out loud. People are allowed crazy when someone they love dies.

But what if he comes out of mourning and still decides he loves Callie?

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A/N: That's it for now. I love the pairing of George/Izzie, and I have dozens of plots in my head, but can't get them to come out right.