Sloan learns there is such a thing as Addex, and so does the rest of the world.
"Case of the Ex"
She waited a few minutes until she was sure Alex had gone far enough so as to not hear her. Alex & Addison had been together for an entirety of two months, and had been able to hide it. She figured they had been together for a few weeks. But then again a few weeks was too small a time period to be talking about proposals and children, but so was two months. They were really serious. Serious in a manner she never Alex would be capable of, although she thought she'd be able to change that about him.
Had Addison changed him? Alex was too stubborn to heed other's warnings, and Dr. Montgomery was the same, so maybe it was just love that had changed him.
"Stop it Izzie. Stop," she chastised herself. But with that the tears that had been so forcefully pushed back since Alex began dozing off at the mention of his girl, now fell. She didn't realize that they were falling, as she had learned to numb herself from the feel of pain.
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Mark Sloan was getting impatient. Dr. Stevens had brought him his coffee and disappeared. He found the nurses working on the files he had given her and the dry cleaners still had his clothes. And she was nowhere to be found.
"Addison!" he saw her walking through the corridor and called to her.
She sighed and answered, "Yes Dr. Sloan?"
"Have you seen Stevens?"
She glowered at him, "No, why?"
"She seems to have gone missing," he walked towards her.
She suddenly remembered that Alex said he was going to talk to her and thought maybe they were talking right now. "Well, she is your intern, not mine to look after. Who knows, maybe she went to find a real surgery to scrub in on, anyway," she said and walked away.
"Damn, annoying, interns," he muttered and headed to the ORs. He knew Burke had a surgery that day and figured Stevens got in on it. He intended to pull her ass out of there and humiliate her.
When he got to the OR section he saw that the surgery had been postponed. As he was walking by one of the rooms he glanced up momentarily and saw Dr. Stevens there.
He walked up to the pits and opened the door prepared to lecture her on slacking.
What he saw though made him hesitate a moment—only a moment however, as he soon grew angry.
"Why are you interns always either crying or whining?" he asked the crying intern, being the inconsiderate jerk he was.
Izzie jumped a little when she heard the attending. She wiped her face when she noticed how stained her face was and then looked up to him. She tried to stare him down so she wouldn't have to explain herself. He stared right back and saw that she had been completely lost in thought. Her blue eyes looked dull, and the redness of the eyes faded whatever blue was left out.
"So are you just going to sit there all day Stevens, or you are you going to tell me why the hell you're up her staring off into space instead of fetching my dry cleaning?"
Izzie drew in a large intake of breath and stood up. She made a move for the door but he blocked it.
"Where do you think you're going Stevens?" he crossed his arms, knowing Izzie had no chance of getting past him.
"Getting your dry cleaning, duh," she rolled her eyes, playing up to be the dumb doctor he thought she was.
"I don't believe you," he challenged her.
"Well then, I guess I'll just stay up here all day," she defied him.
"Care to explain why you were crying?" he insisted.
"Besides the obvious fact that I have nothing better to do, no I don't."
He kept his eyes fixed on hers until she let out a sigh of defeat.
"Fine, I was just…," she tried coming up with the best excuse," talking to someone when I remembered something that happened a while back. And it got me all teary-eyed." She waved her arms for emphasis.
Mark Sloan didn't quite believe her but got tired of arguing with her so he moved from the door and waved his arm to indicate she could go. She left without saying another word and he followed behind her.
For a second she wanted to rat out Alex and Addison, but in the end Alex was her friend. More importantly, Mark was Addison's ex and he deserved to get the news from the horses mouth. Little did she know that he would get the news in the form of a note. Something far worse than an actual person warning him beforehand that they were dating.
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Two days later Isobel Stevens had learned to compose herself and prepare herself. Alex informed her that he and Addison were to tell the chief that day, and so today the rumor mill would churn and everybody would be asking questions. She decided it was no biggie that she had learned first, because she was simply tired of playing the surprised card.
As she walked to the lockers, the piece of information was already causing a stir. Christina had run in and had everybody guess before they themselves put two and two together. When Izzie had made no effort guess what the rumor was, and when she didn't have a response to it, they soon started questioning her.
She ignored most of them and said it was no big deal. After all, how many interns were dating their attendings (or a resident)?
Soon Alex walked in and all was quiet for a few seconds. Yup, exactly three seconds passed before Yang cracked a joke and everybody started their interviews simultaneously.
Izzie was grateful when Bailey walked in and told everyone to shut the hell up. Bailey had been informed the day before, and although still P.O.'d, she wanted respect for her friend. She glanced over to Alex and nodded her head in disapproval.
While she looked him up and down she spoke to Izzie," That's four down, Dr. Stevens, do I have one to go?"
"One to go?"
"Yes, one to go, as in four out of five of my interns are dating their bosses," she raised her voice, " if you plan on running into the arms of one of your attendings or residents tell me right now so I don't go off and waste my money on those bets everybody places on my interns that they will get non-professional with their boss. I bet against Alex, and look at that mess. So, do I have one to go?" Bailey pursed her lips and looked directly at Dr. Stevens, waiting for her response.
"No, Dr. Bailey, you do not have one to go," she answered confidently.
"Good," she said and started sending the interns on her rounds. Surprisingly she let Alex go with Addison. Izzie figured that was less complicated then having Alex paired with Shepard, or worse, Sloan. This is where Izzie was dealt the bad card. She was assigned to Sloan, who would no doubt be in an ass-kicking mood after finding out about Alex and Addison.
And poor Izzie was witness to Sloan being informed. He had come in late, as he still had on his normal clothes, and headed to the nurses station. Izzie stopped dead in her tracks. Did he know? He appeared calm, but he always did, except when opened his mouth.
Izzie was unsure until she saw the nurses hand him his notes. On the top a nurse had quickly scribbled something and left Mark to read it. The nurse smirked at having spread the "joy." Those nurses sure did love drama.
He read it and his mouth fell open. His face went red from anger and he quickly scanned the room. Izzie was too late in turning from his sight. He caught her trying to escape and called to her, "Dr. Stevens!"
His voice boomed and caught the attention of everyone in the corridor. She swirled around and smiled uneasily. He walked to her pulled her aside. He cracked his neck and she prepared herself for a verbal beating.
"Is it true," he said. She could hear in his voice that he was trying desperately not trying to hit a wall.
"Is what true?" she asked. Wrong answer.
"Don't pretend with me Dr. Stevens," he murmured to her.
She dropped her eyes and answered softly," yes."
For a second his heart dripped. Addison was dating someone other than him, and intern at that. And it was Alex Karev, that cocky little intern. He snapped back and looked at her for a second before turning around and walking away. She didn't know what to expect from him, and wondered what were his intentions.
"Dr. Sloan!" she called to him, "where are you going?!"
He called over his shoulder, "For a breath of fresh air!" he called back and headed to the outside cafeteria area.
"Okay," she said to herself and glanced around. Her attending had gone off to breathe and had left her without anything to do.
Wait—a breath of fresh air? What kind of excuse was that? Izzie slowly realized that the last thing a guy like Sloan would do after learning his ex was with someone below him that he didn't like was calm down. He was going after Alex
She started going in the direction Sloan had gone, but quickly realized Alex was in the neo-natal unit and she intended to reach him first. Too bad the elevator was broken. There was no way she could get to Alex before Sloan.
Thanks for the reviews. Starting with the next ch., things are going to start to speed up in this story.
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