Yep, here's Chapter Four! From here on in I haven't pre-written chapters so I might be a little slower updating. Don't lose faith, the updates will come. I swear it on George O'Malley's memory. I only have two chapters planned until I finish this story so. . . Enjoy! Marie X

p.s. I haven't watched any of Season 6 yet (DVDs aren't released here in the UK yet) so anything referencing events in S6 is based upon what I've read about so could be untrue.

There were seven women whom George O'Malley ever loved.

Izzie was his love of a lifetime; the one he would have spent the rest of his life with of the fates hadn't decided that they were never meant to be. Their timing was always wrong and no matter how they tried something was always conspiring against them.

He went to her often now, trying to steer her back onto the right path and bring back the bubbly optimistic women he met on that crucial day so long ago. Her eyes were empty now; the spirit and determination that had once shone there had been taken from her along with her fight, the cancer had stolen it all.

He found it hard to help her, she'd distanced herself so much from her old life that his attempts to comfort her rarely succeeded. Yet, on a few precious days, he was able to reach her and she would leave the endless baking to snatch glances at her once prized medical textbooks, now hidden in a dusty, forgotten cupboard and for a few moments she was alive and happy again. She was Doctor Isobel Stevens. It was these brief moments that gave George hope, which made him believe that inside the shell of a person, Izzie still existed and could be saved. He would love her forever and watch over her always, he just hopes it's enough, and maybe someday she would return home to her family.