Chapter 14

Once the fact that Izzie was feeling sensations sinks in Alex jumps out of bed and grabs the phone.

"What are you doing?"

"Calling your therapist."

"Alex it's the middle of the night."

"So I'll wake her ass up." Izzie just stares at him as he dials the number.

Alex climbs back in beside Izzie as he talks on the phone with the doctor. Within five minutes he hangs up and puts the phone on the nightstand.

"We have an appointment in the morning." He tells Izzie.

"No really we do? I mean sitting right here you'd think I would know that." Izzie replies sarcastically.

"Funny girl. When did you become sarcastic?"

"You've corrupted me."

"At least I'm doing something right." Alex says leaning over to shut the light off before pulling Izzie flush against him.

"Now shut up and go to sleep Stevens. We have a busy day ahead of us."

First thing the next morning Alex wheels Izzie into the waiting room. He grins as he sits next to her and grabs hold of her hand.

"So I've heard that we have good news." Dr. Bloom says as she comes up to the couple. Izzie nods and smiles at the other doctor.

"He touched my leg and I felt a tingling sensation in the area. It has been spreading all night. All over my legs I feel the tingling sensation."

"That's a very good sign. Let's get you up on the table and check it out." They follow Dr. Bloom into another room and Alex lifts Izzie onto the table. After she lays back Dr. Bloom begins placing different levels of pressure on Izzie's legs.

"Do you feel any difference between these two?" She asks first laying a very light hand on Izzie's leg, then pushing harder. Izzie's forehead scrunches up in frustration.

"The tingling is all the same. It's like I can't feel anything outside of that."

"That's normal." Dr. Bloom assures her. "You're muscles are coming back. Come back in tomorrow and we'll try some weight bearing exercises." Alex and Izzie nod and make an appointment for the next day.

"Let's celebrate." Alex whispers in Izzie's ear as they go down the hall. Izzie laughs and when he stoops in front of the chair she lightly pushes him back.

"Not until later. You have work today." Alex groans and leans his forehead on Izzie's knee.

"You sure as hell know how to ruin the mood." He groans. He gives her a deep kiss when he stands back up. "I'll be good. For now." He says with a wiggle of his brows. "Let's get you home so I can come back here and get the day done, and then have my evil way with you." Izzie laughs as he wheels her out to the car.

While Alex is at work for the day Izzie happily wheels around the house. The tingling has stopped and when she puts different kinds of pressure on her leg she can feel a difference between them. She smiles as she wheels into the kitchen and starts pulling out pots and pans to make cookies.

When Alex arrives back at work he's beaming. Christina spots him first.

"What are you so happy about? Defile an innocent? Send a new soul to hell?" Alex laughs at her.

"Yang nothing you can say today will make me rise to the bait. It's not worth your time to try." Christina stares at Alex's back with her mouth wide open as Alex walks past her to the locker-room. He's putting some stuff in his locker when George walks in.

"Christina said you were unusually happy today." Alex turns and beams at George. George backs away nervously.

"You had sex! That's it! No! I just got a visual! Bad, bad visual!" He covers a hand over his eyes and backs away. After a moment he drops his hand and stares hard at Alex.

"But Izzie's hurt. You couldn't have." He pauses for a moment. "You cheated on her! You cheated on Izzie!" He yells lunging towards Alex. Remembering the last time he tussled with George Alex steps quickly to the side.

"O'Malley your abilities of deduction are sorely lacking." George ignores him and tries to lunge again, but he is stopped by Meredith, Christina, and Bailey entering the room.

"What's going on here?" Bailey asks giving the men a pointed look. George looks at Meredith.

"He cheated on Izzie! Look at him all smug! He cheated on her!"

"George, Alex wouldn't cheat on Izzie. He knows better. She'd kill him, and then donate his body." Meredith interjects.

"But he's happy. He hasn't been happy since the accident and we all know what makes him happy, perverted person that he is…" He trails off as he looks at Alex's narrowed eyes.

"Izzie got feeling back in her legs." Bailey interrupts from behind Meredith.

"How do you know?" Alex asks Bailey confused. "We didn't tell anyone."

"I have my connections Karev. Her therapist called me to tell me the news." Alex grins.

"It started last night. She's been so happy since."

"So has someone else apparently." Meredith smiles. "Makes tonight much more special."

"Oh yea, forgot you all were invading. Mooching off my liquor and my food. The honor is all mine." He says sarcastically. Meredith smiles and ignores him as Christina shakes her head.

"Are you sure you didn't cheat on her? Because if you did, tell me so I can tell her so she can dump your ass and things can go back to normal." Christina grumbles. George looks at Alex and then walks out of the room.

"I accept your apology O'Malley! It was such a kind and thoughtful one!" Alex taunts him as he leaves. Bailey points her finger at him.

"Karev stop baiting everyone around you. And you two! There are patients here! Get treating them!" She yells looking at Meredith and Christina.

At nine o'clock Meredith, George, and Christina arrive bearing flowers. Bailey had arrived with her husband a half an hour before.

"Meredith, George, Christina, this is my husband Bill." Bailey says to the interns when they sit down.

"You're married?" Christina asks shocked. George's and Meredith's faces reveal similar shock.

"Don't look so shocked Yang. I do have a life outside of this hospital that I feel does not need to be part of the daily gossip."

"But you're the…" Meredith puts her hand over George's mouth before he can say something he would regret and smiles at Bailey.

"Congratulations."

Christina looks around the apartment as she fills a plate with the snacks laid out.

"This place is kind of bare Karev. Planning on moving in anytime soon?"

"That's all you got Yang?" Alex asks from his seat on the couch next to Izzie.

"You should have seen it a few months ago. His only furniture was the bed and the two chairs at the kitchen table." Izzie says.

"Much easier to seduce you with my dear." Alex says in a deep voice leaning into her.

"Oh please no public displays of affection. They make me ill." Christina says as she drops down into one of the chairs.

"You're just jealous Yang. I get it. But that's okay, there's enough of me to go around.."

"There sure as hell not enough of you to go around."

"I'll have you know Evil Spawn that…" Izzie and Christina say simultaneously before Meredith claps her hand over Christina's mouth.

"Are you going to be doing that all night Grey?"

"Just trying to prevent future problems, that's all Dr. Bailey."

"I would've been quite happy with what I said and not regret it one bit."

"Hence the preventing it." Meredith tells Christina patting her hand.

The group falls into an uncomfortable silence as they eat and stare at each other.

"O'Malley?"

"Yes Dr. Bailey?" George asks, his head jerking to attention and his eyes nervously focus on Bailey.

"Can you pass me the sandwiches?"

"Of course Dr. Bailey. Right away." George answers hurrying to pass the sandwiches.

Izzie sits back in her seat and starts to laugh. Alex looks at her questioningly before Meredith starts to laugh as well. Christina looks at the two women like they're crazy.

"Want to fill us in on the rest of the joke?"

"Oh George. You're off duty. Lighten up. Bailey's not going to sack you for not passing the sandwiches or asking how high when she tells you to jump." Izzie says laughing.

"And how the hell do you know that Stevens?" Bailey throws in threateningly.

"I told you it won't work anymore. Joe was right you're this cuddly bear of joy and love."

"Keep it up Stevens. When you get back you'll see how wrong you are."

After this outburst the group slips back into silence. Frustrated Izzie leans forward in her seat again and looks at everyone around her.

"You guys have got to be kidding me! We've been working together for how long now? Almost a year? And all we have to say to each other is a few half-assed insults? Come on!"

"Well I could think of something to say." Alex says with an evil grin. Izzie clamps a hand over his mouth and looks at everyone else.

"Not you." She tells him. "Come on you guys!"

George looks nervously at Bailey before launching into a story about his latest patient. The night goes on as the interns pass stories around and Bailey jumps in with a few of her own from her years as an intern. It's almost one o'clock when Bailey and her husband get ready to leave, with Bailey reminding her interns that they have rounds in the morning. About half an hour after they leave Meredith, George, and Christina get ready to leave.

"Well, ummm, thanks for having us. It was fun." George says shifting from one foot to the other.

"It's okay George. You don't have to lie."

"I'm not lying!" He says upset. "It was fun; it's just, seeing Bailey outside of work. It's scary. I fear for my job whenever she's near. I didn't expect to have to fear for it outside of work."

The three interns leave quietly wishing the couple good night as Alex and Izzie clean up before turning in for the night.

During the next week Izzie gets stronger each day. Alex helps her with weight bearing exercises at home so that she can speed up her recovery. Now she is able to stand unaided for a few minutes and is started to walk again. She is using crutches to walk but she hopes to have enough strength back by the end of the week to ditch those and move on to a cane, if it's needed.

By the following Monday Izzie is ready to go back to work. She starts picking out her clothes for the day while Alex is in the shower.

"What are you doing?" Alex asks walking into the bedroom wearing a towel and drying his hair.

"Getting ready for work." Izzie replies pulling on a pair of jeans.

"You're not going to work."

"Yes I am."

Alex watches Izzie get dressed for a few minutes before a grin comes across his face. He strides across the room, picks Izzie up and deposits her on her back in the middle of the bed. He straddles her hips, effectively pinning her down, as he leans over and grabs a pillow. He pulls the case off of it and starts tearing it into strips.

"What are you doing?" Izzie yells watching the pillowcase she picked out being torn up.

"Tying you to the bed." Alex answers dismissively.

"No you're not!"

"Yes I am." With those words Alex grabs Izzie's wrists and ties them to the bed posts right above the mattress so that her wrists don't get strained. He smiles evilly as he leans back over her and starts to kiss her.

"Alex what are you doing? We have work."

"No I have work. You have the day all to yourself to bake or do whatever else you women do in your free time." He says as his lips latch onto her neck.

A little over an hour later Alex comes out of the bedroom smiling as he carries the two strips of the pillowcase in his hand. He throws them into the trash as he makes coffee. A few minutes later Izzie comes out of the bedroom on her crutches in shorts and a t-shirt. Alex sets her coffee on the table and takes the seat next to her.

"Just one more day is all I ask. Tomorrow after your therapy we'll see what the doctor says and if she okays it, then I'll be the first one to welcome you back. I just want to be sure you're okay."

"Fine. One day." Izzie agrees tilting her head up to receive Alex's goodbye kiss.

"You better be here when I get back or I will seriously tie you to the bed!" Alex yells as he walks out the door.

Izzie just laughs as she grabs a book and heads over to the couch.

Authors Note: Sorry I've been gone so long, but I had tests and quizzes galore this week. I think the professors are out to get me. But anyway onto my comments cause I love making them. I hope you guys enjoyed the banter. I did try to bring it back more than it has been around lately. Let me know what you think about that. I also brought it back because the mood has lightened up so I felt it was appropriate again.

Thanks for all the reviews again! Shout out to my returning reviewers, you guys rock! And a hello to the newbies! Thanks for your reviews and come on back! I tried to take the constructive criticism to heart and hopefully this chapter has shown that. I do still keep Alex lovey dovey with Izzie because I like how he's so sweet when it comes to her, especially when no one else is around. But when they are with other people he's back to the Evil Spawn. So I'll probably stick with that, but bring back more of their banter.

With the dinner party thing I wanted it to be tense especially with George because he always seems so nervous around Bailey. I just figured they wouldn't be as comfortable with each other as normal with their boss there.

Just a heads up we have two chapters left to go. They are written, but I still want to give them a last read through and editing, but I hope to have everything up before I go home for Thanksgiving. So that's all I have to say for now. Hope you guys enjoy the chapter.