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This chapter is in the present. Doesn't mean you won't get any more scenes from the past. I simply like working with flashbacks. If you read my McBlog, you'll know. New ramblings 'bout new chapters to be found there, too.
Won't keep wasting your time with pre-chapter ramblings: Enjoy and please, please review!
Shards of glass - Chapter I: The new interns
Lifehouse - Blind
after all this time
I never thought we'd be here
never thought we'd be here
when my love for you was blind
but I couldn't make you see it
couldn't make you see it
that I loved you more than you'll ever know
a part of me died when I let you go
Addison was on her way to find her interns. New interns. Unknown faces. Hell, she hadn't even taken a look at the list of names yet, she'd been too busy crying about the fact that once more she'd walked in on her boyfriend with some nurse and they hadn't even noticed. That had happened before. Six times by now.
She hadn't expected Mark Sloan to be someone to be faithful, no, of course not. Mark was a cheater. Mark was a manwhore. It was what he did, he couldn't help it. But it was humiliating to experience it in person, again and again and again. Knowing felt a whole lot different than seeing. She'd been dating the guy for five years and the first month they'd been together one of her friends had admitted she'd seen him in a hidden corner with a girl that hadn't been Addison.
She assumed he could keep it in his pants for about two weeks before he had to cheat. If he put up an effort. Mark Sloan wasn't a one-girl kind of guy. Which was okay. He loved her as much as he was able to. But sometimes it wasn't enough for her.
Anyway, her interns. The chief of surgery, a rather scary, intimidating (yet rather small) woman called Miranda Bailey had given her the list of names the day before, but she hadn't even given it a small glance. She was supposed to meet them at the nurses station. And there they were. Three girls (black hair, blond hair and really blond hair) and two guys, one of them looking vaguely familiar. Well, he definitely looked hot as hell. Argh, she had not just thought that about her intern, had she? She quickly pulled out the list and started reading their names out loud, which made them stop chatting and look at her.
"Cristina Yang?"
The hard-core looking Asian woman raised her hand, giving her a death glare. Oh, this was going to be so much fun...
"George O'Malley?"
A guy who looked so shy he might run away if she yelled at him.
"Meredith Grey?"
A small, skinny blonde with tired eyes. Hungover, huh? She looked like she'd gotten drunk and taken advantage of some poor unsuspecting man who she'd thrown out in the morning. Amazing.
"Isobel Stevens?"
The really blond one. Bright and happy-looking, she said:
"Everyone calls me Izzie!"
She looked like a model and her voice was bubbling over with excitement. Urgh. A happy person.
"Alex Karev?"
The hot guy was staring at her like his eyes had glanced over. Damn, he was-... Wait. 'Alex Karev'? ALEX KAREV?
"Oh..."
The little sound had escaped her lips before she could hold it back. Her head spun. Her blood raced. Alex was here. Here. In Seattle. Alex Karev. How the hell had that happened? How was that even possible? And why did her heart feel like it was going to explode?
After long, deliciously torturous seconds of simply staring at each other, disbelief written all over each of their faces, Izzie Stevens piped up, eying them suspiciously:
"Okay... What am I missing here?"
That was when Alex finally snapped out of the mood, forced his eyes off Addison and gave the blonde a mockingly seductive grin. It was fake. Addie could see it was fake. She knew the guy by heart. That was where he'd always been. Right in her heart.
"Nothing, Dr Model. I'm all yours."
If he'd have known that that once more the redhead felt like she'd been slapped, he might have said something else. Maybe this was his way of telling her he'd moved on. That he simply didn't care anymore. It was even possible that he never really had. Even the thought of that made the sting overwhelming and all Addison wanted to do was run. Again. But somehow she managed to stay and do her jobs.
"I have five rules", she started, then cleared her throat, because her voice was ridiculously small and cracking, "memorize them. Rule number one: Don't bother sucking up. I already-...", she caught Alex' eyes again, once more making her voice die before it could leave her mouth, "I already hate you, that's not going to change."
For a tiny fragment of a second, she could have sworn Alex had flinched just the smallest bit at the word 'hate'.
