Loving the reviews so keep them coming. Princess Izzie is kind of on hold for the moment, I know exactly what I want to happen in the next chapter but I just dont want to write it, yet. Hopefully I'll get over that soon, in the mean time I seem to be flying at this, which could be a bad thing because I could probably make it better if I slowed down but whatever, Enjoy X
There were a number of things about the scene before her that really annoyed Izzie. Rebecca being the main one. She was not stupid enough to think that she would arrive back to Junesprings and find Alex still single. She had moved on and was now engaged; she expected the same from him. She always imagined that he would have started a relationship with Addison, they always seemed to have a special connection and they had dated before years ago. Izzie would have been perfectly happy for Alex to end up with Addison but Rebecca was a different story.
Izzie hated very few people, but Rebecca was one of them. They had never gotten along. There was no specific reason for not liking each other there were many fights throughout their school years but each had learned to avoid each other and they had become experts at it. But now Rebecca looked smug, that bitch.
Alex looked shocked. He clearly was not expecting to see his wife tonight. Six years had treated Alex well, if anything he looked better than ever. She had forgotten the affect that his brooding brown eyes could have on her. Seeing his arm around Rebecca was wrong, all wrong. He had hated her too. There was no rational explanation for why they were together. He couldn't possibly love her.
The other thing that bothered Izzie was her best friend Meredith and her husband Derek had clearly been on some kind of double date with Alex and Rebecca. Izzie knew it was wrong to feel betrayed by Meredith but she could not help it. Going out to dinner with the Sheppard's had been Izzie and Alex's thing all those years ago. She had been replaced, but what was worse was the woman who replaced her was Rebecca.
Plastering a smile on her face she pushes all the hurt feelings to the back of her mind and cheerfully greets them.
There were a number of things about the scene before him that really annoyed Alex. The main one was that Denny Duquette's arm was stroking his wife's bare back. He did not know where it came from; one would expect that after six years of being apart he would not feel jealous of any man being with Izzie. Obviously that was not the case. If he had not been frozen with shock he was certain that Duquette would be feeling the full force of Alex's fist by now.
He had been expecting her visit sooner or later. He knew she was engaged, she had rang to tell him so before it hit gossip magazines but Alex did not take the call and after a number of voicemail messages asking for him to call her she finally gave up and left the news with George who in turn told him. Then about a month later came the first set of divorce papers by mail which he sent back, unsigned. They were followed by another and another which he had quickly scribbled return to sender on them and sent them back. He did not know why he was being so stubborn. Maybe it was to get a rise out of her, make her come back. And now that she was standing in front of him he realized he didn't want her to come back to Junesprings, it was just too painful. She was back to finally close the book on their relationship.
She looked amazing; of course he knew she would. Her hair was shorter but it suited her. He had been keeping an eye on her progress in New York ever since she became a writer at Glamorous; he even had a subscription to the magazine just so he could read the short editorial every month. He knew what he was doing was torturing himself, every editorial had him almost reaching for the phone to call her but he never did. She had left him, she had made her choice and he wasn't going to beg her to change her mind. He realises he should stop staring and say something when he feels Rebecca's grip on him tighten as Izzie says hello.
"Iz, what are you doing here?" Meredith gasps and then cringes, not the best way to greet your former best friend after six years of her absence.
"Here to see Mom and I have something I need to sort out with Alex." Izzie explains as Alex tenses further, there she was getting straight to the point.
"What do you need to sort out? You two are divorced?" Rebecca asks in a harsh tone.
"We're not divorced." Izzie clarifies suddenly aware that the whole bar has gone silent and all eyes are resting on her and Alex. "Can we talk in private?" she asks Alex.
"But he signed the papers." Rebecca responded angrily.
"No, I didn't. Come on Iz." Alex says as he releases his hold on Rebecca and walks to a booth in the corner. It was almost worth her journey to see the look on Rebecca's face Izzie thought as she followed her husband to the booth, sitting across from him she begins to talk when she is stopped by Rebecca joining them.
"What do you mean you didn't sign the papers?" Rebecca demanded. "I saw them, you had them and you sent them back."
"I sent them back unsigned; look this is between me and Izzie, just back off Rebecca." Alex said sternly and Izzie noted that he never used that tone with her; she smiled as Rebecca scowled at her and muttered something about going home and expecting a call from him later.
"She's quite a catch." Izzie comments bitterly as she watches Rebecca storm out of the bar.
"Whatever." He says as they both fall silent. Neither of them wants to bring up the topic of the divorce. Izzie plays with her beer bottle and jumps when Sidney Herron comes running over.
"Izzie, I only just heard you were back, I knew you would come." she screams as she jumps up and down.
"Sorry?" Izzie questions, looking at Sidney as if she has lost her mind.
"The fashion show next week, your here to judge it right? I emailed and called you about a million times but I only ever got through to your assistant Warden or Wallace or something, he was quite rude, you should talk to him about that." Sidney scolded in her high pitched voice.
"Of course I got the message Sidney; it's for such a great cause I just had to show my support." Izzie bluffed.
"I knew I could rely on you, this is great having someone like you on board is bound to raise interest in our little show. Oh I must be interrupting." Sidney announces awkwardly "I'm sure you two have a lot of catching up to do. I'll call you tomorrow Izzie?"
Grabbing her purse Izzie pulls out a business card and passes it to Sidney. "Here's my direct number." Izzie says as Sidney quickly makes her way to the bar where everyone is pretending not to be watching the Karev's.
Looking at Alex she notices he is smirking as if he is trying not to laugh.
"What?" she asks.
"You didn't have a clue what she was talking about." He said, his eyes shining with amusement.
"I did, of course I did."
"Oh really? What charity is she doing it for?" he challenged.
"The blind." Izzie said confidently knowing Sidney's grandmother was blind it seemed the logical choice.
"Nope. The new cancer wing in St. Michael's hospital. You came back to see me and you know it."
"I came back for a divorce Alex." Izzie said changing the mood of the conversation. Her heart was beating furiously as she watched Alex tense in front of her. She hated this, she knew it would be hard, after all these years she did not want to hurt him but she could see it in his eyes that he was hurting and she knew he could see it in her eyes too.
"I'm not giving you a divorce Iz." He said simply as he stood up and left the bar leaving Izzie sitting alone with an audience.
