"Alex?" Izzie said confused. "What are you doing here?" She looked around the outside of the house before looking back at him. Her eyes traveled the house behind him. "Isn't this Meredith's house?"
"Uh…"
"Alex? What the hell is taking so long?" Meredith called from the top of the steps. He looked up then back at Izzie. "What? What's wrong?"
"What's going on here?" Izzie asked crossing her arms.
"Izzie? What are you doing here?" Meredith asked coming up beside her husband.
"I wanted to come congratulate you. You got married yesterday, right?" She asked.
"Yeah, yeah I did." She answered.
"What is Alex doing here?" Izzie asked.
"I was just…" Alex started.
Now was the time. No more secrets. She wanted everyone to know that she was a Kerev.
"Izzie." Meredith sighed cutting her off. "This is my husband. Alex is my husband."
She watched Izzie's eyes grow wide with shock. Her eyes pinked over with embarrassment. Then a look of hurt and anger flashed through her eyes.
"What!?" She yelled. "How could you not tell me? You've been engaged this whole time and you didn't bother to freaking tell me! I though we were friends. I cannot believe you. After everything…" She stopped herself and she came to a realization of what she had been doing their whole internship. "I told you things. You let me tell you things. What was this? Some sick joke to you? I told you how I felt about him and what? What the hell was that to you? I trusted you. I confided in you. I asked you if you knew he was taken and the whole freaking time he was yours." Her angry rant was obviously directed to Meredith, so Alex stood awkwardly beside his wife.
"Izzie, I'm sorry. But you have to know that I didn't keep if from you for personal reasons."
"Just save it, Meredith." Izzie spat before turning and storming off.
Looking up at Alex, she sighed and walked back into the kitchen. Shutting the door, he followed her to find her pulling a bottle of wine of the cupboard.
He watched to see if she was upset about the encounter at the door.
"We are not going to let this ruin our pre-honeymoon honeymoon." Meredith said positively. Popping the cork, she pulled two glasses out of the cupboard. He smiled as she poured the wine and handed him a glass. "Now where were we?"
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One day later…
Their pre-honeymoon honeymoon was over. Their honeymoon wasn't scheduled for nearly a month and a half when things with the internship settled down enough for them to escape for two weeks.
Dragging herself down the stairs, she could smell the coffee brewing. After their shower together, he went downstairs to get coffee going while she got ready.
"Hey." She yawned, heading over to the coffee pot. He smiled.
"Tired?" He asked wrapping his arms around her waist.
"How can I not be? I blame you."
"Me?" He said, spinning her around. "I don't think you were complaining last night."
She giggled wrapping her arms around his neck. "I love you."
He kissed her. "I love you too, Mer."
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It was so weird to be going to the hospital together in the same car. But it felt so right. Shutting the car door, she laughed at something Alex had said.
"Ugh, it's so early." She groaned looking up at the dusky sky.
He chuckled. "You're just not used to anything outside the bedroom."
She giggled rolling her eyes. "Down boy." She glanced at her watch. "Come on. We better hurry."
He nodded as they crossed into the lobby to the elevator. People watched them whispering a few things to each other before walking away with their eyes still on the couple. Alex looked down at the gold band around his ring finger that looked so perfect that it seemed to have been there forever. Smiling, he looked over at the set of rings Meredith wore.
"They're talking about us." Meredith whispered as Alex hit the elevator button.
"Who cares?" He shrugged as the doors slid open.
She smiled at him, but faded when she noticed Izzie and George glaring at them. Standing in the front of the elevator, they watched as the elevator doors started to shut again. A hand flung into the crack causing the alarm to go off and the doors opened again. Christina got on.
"Hey." She mumbled to them all.
"Hey." Meredith and Alex answered, but George and Izzie said nothing.
Awkward silence hung over the five friends as the numbers ticked by. Meredith watched as two changed to three then changed back to two. The light flickered and a loud clanking noise echoed down the elevator shaft. A tremble shook the small metal box that the five doctors stood in. With one last flicker, the lights shut off.
"Seriously!" Christina, Meredith, and Izzie yelled at once.
"This can not be happening. I have surgery in twenty minutes." Christina groaned kicking the wall.
