I've skipped a few months here because I have a really good storyline planned for chapter 10 which 've alredy wrote most of. I might not be able to update for while because I'm moving house and I'm not sure if I have the internet there yet. I'll definetely update on friday though!
Chapter 9
Things were going great between them. Mark and Izzie had been dating for two months now, they spent all of their free time together, and Mark basically lived at Meredith's house.
For Izzie the last two months had been the best of her life. Things were going great, at work, she had picked neuro and was now studying under Derek and her personal life was brilliant too. Things were great, except for the last few days. She felt like Mark was pulling away from her. He was just distant.
"Mark is everything ok with you?", she asked, "You haven't really been yourself lately." They were sitting at the kitchen table eating breakfast, Izzie was eating muffins while Mark had gone for the healthier choice of cereal.
"Yeah, of course."
Izzie smiled at him, "ok." There was something wrong she just had to find out what.
Mark replayed the conversation he had had with Addison the week before. They had gotten into an argument and somehow onto the subject of the baby she had gotten aborted. His baby.
"No wonder I didn't keep it, can you imagine the kind of father you would be?" she screamed.
"You have no idea what kind of father I would make," he yelled back.
"Oh no Mark I do, a terrible one, it's a good job I didn't keep it. I don't know how I even slept with you in the first place."
"I'm having trouble remembering why as well!"
"You're pathetic, you always hurt the people you 'love'. Derek, me who's next? Izzie? You say you love her but you should end it before you break her heart, she's much better off without you, you don't deserve her, she deserves someone who cares, someone who actually loves her, not someone who just uses her for sex. You don't love her, you aren't even capable of love. You are a terrible excuse for a human being."
She was right, he had no idea what he was doingIzzie. She deserved someone so much better than him, someone like Denny. He had heard about Denny from the nurses and Meredith, how when he died, a part of Izzie had gone with him. He couldn't do that to her, he couldn't.
"Actually there is something I need to speak with you about." He immediately had Izzie's full attention. "I…," he didn't get to speak as at that moment Derek and Meredith came into the kitchen.
"Sorry did we interrupt something?" she asked.
"No it's fine," Mark replied, "I have to go," he put his bowl in the sink and headed out the door, "see you at the hospital."
"Derek you're his best friend, what's up with him," Izzie said to Derek.
"I don't know I've never seen him this way before."
"Please will you talk to him for me?"
"Sure." She had to find out what was wrong with him.
It was the end of his shift and he hadn't had a chance to talk to Izzie all day. He found her sitting on the bench outside reading a magazine. "Hey, what are you doing out here?"
"Waiting for Meredith, she's giving me a lift home since my car's in the garage and you ran out this morning without even a kiss goodbye. Shocking."
"Look Iz I need to talk to you."
She closed her magazine and put it in her bag, "I'm listening."
"The last two months have been good but this it where it ends."
Izzie's eyes widened in shock, "What, are you breaking up with me?"
"Yeah I just don't feel that way about you."
"Ok shoot me if I'm wrong, but telling me you love me is a pretty big indication that you emm I don't know, love me."
This was killing him. "Well I didn't mean it, I just said that because you said it first, but I never did love you, all you were good for was sex."
The tears were now streaming down Izzie's face. "You were the one that said it first!"
He shrugged, "whatever."
"I can't believe you, I can't, I…" He didn't wait to hear anymore, he couldn't. All he wanted to do was take her in his arms and tell her that everything would be ok but he couldn't she deserved more than he could give.
She couldn't believe it. What he'd said, the way he had said it, the way he had just left her.
"Izzie what's wrong?"
"He broke up with me, he just told me that he never loved me and that everything we had was a lie."
"Who did?" asked Meredith.
"Mark, who do you think?"
"But he, he wouldn't do that."
"Well he did." She would kill him. Izzie had been through hell and now this. She would kill him if it was the last thing she did.
"Hold on I'm coming," he had a feeling that he knew who it was. His bets were on Alex, Christina or Meredith. He was wrong it was Derek.
"Have you come to lecture me?"
"Huh?"
"About Izzie, have you come about her?"
Derek had no idea what he was talking about. "Mark what did you do?"
Mark sat down on his bed. "I broke up with her."
"What! Why?"
"Because I love her."
"That makes no sense whatsoever!"
"You know when you left New York, I lived with Addison?"
"Don't tell me you dumped Izzie for Addison."
"I cheated on Addison, I hurt you and I hurt her, chances are if I stay with Izzie, I'll hurt her the most."
"Mark, I know you think you're a bad guy but you're not."
"I am Derek, if Meredith hadn't forced you, would you even be talking to me right now?"
"Yes because you're my best friend and you're right you did hurt me. You hurt me more than Addison did, because you are my best friend but that's why I forgave you."
"I didn't even love Addison."
"I know but you love Izzie."
"So, I still hurt you."
"Why have you done this now, why not dump her two months ago when all this started, why even go out with her in the first place."
" Addison is right, I'm a pathetic excuse for a human being. Iz doesn't deserve me." Derek could see that there was nothing he could do to change Mark's mind.
"How did you break up with her?"
"I told her that I'd just used her and that all she was good for was sex."
"Well you did a great job of not hurting her."
"Stop being sarcastic, it was easier than telling her just how much I loved her."
"Easy doesn't necessarily mean right."
"Nothing about this was easy," said Mark sadly.
Alex, Christina and Meredith were sitting in the hospital basement. It was a day later and Meredith was telling them about the events of the night before.
"I can't believe it."
"Derek says he did it because he doesn't want to end up hurting her."
"Yeah because that didn't already happen," snorted Alex.
"He loves her though, I know he does, you haven't seen them when they're together, they are perfect for each other." Meredith sighed sadly. "And now Izzie's going to go back to the way she was when Denny died."
"I never thought in a million years I would ever say this, but I missed happy and cheerful Izzie, I was glad when she came back," said Christina.
"Glad when who came back?" asked George. Meredith filled him in on what had happened.
"Well that's what she gets from going out with a guy like Sloane."
"Dude," replied Alex, "you don't really mean that."
"I do, she always picks the worst guys to go out with."
"That's not saying much for me and you. We both slept with her."
"Like I'd forget, that is sort of the reason why we're not talking."
Meredith looked at George, "George she really needs you right now please? Callie would understand."
"No she wouldn't,"
"George you need to talk to her,"
"Talk to who," said Izzie. The silence said it all. "Oh right I get it. I was stupid enough to fall for a guy who you all warned me would hurt me but still I went ahead and fell for him and now you're trying to get the other mistake I made to try and talk to me to get me to open up and spill my feelings. Well let me save you some time. It hurts ok, it hurts because I honestly believed that he was different that he actually did love me but I was wrong and you were right!" She turned to George, "I screwed up your life and now Sloane's screwed up mine. I guess karma really is a bitch." She wiped the tears from her eyes and ran away.
Christina got up and made to follow Izzie. "I am going to hunt him down, chop him into little pieces and sell his body parts for cash."
"She was doing fine, she was doing really well and then you happened. You broke her."
"I'm sorry Dr Yang are you talking to me." Christina had found Mark at the nurses' station.
"You know full well that I am talking to you."
"Well I'm not talking to you." He tried to walk away but Christina grabbed his arm and pulled him back.
"How dare you hurt her, how dare you say something like that to her after all she has been through. She was finally moving on from Denny she was getting on with her life and now she is a mess again because of you."
"If you ever speak to me like that again, I will make sure that you never see the inside of a hospital again."
"You don't scare me, don't think that you'll get away with what you done," she walked away; "Karma's a bitch!"
Baby, tell me, are we heading into trouble, yeah Love takes two There's a whole lot of things you can do and do without me, yeah Love takes two When your words could disguise what you're going through
Is it my imagination taking whole
Do I read to much into the way we slay
The way you move away from me
I may feel that you're the one
But when all is said and done
Time after time we've talked it through
Cos baby, I need you
What am I supposed to do
Love takes two
There's a million things I can do and do alone
But the best you can do for yourself
Is sharing with that someone else
No one wants to be alone
It's the one thing that I know
Time after time we've talked it through
Cos baby, I need you
What am I supposed to do
But they can't fool your heart
Now it's time to decide what you wanna do
I'm telling you
Love takes two
Westlife – Love Takes Two
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