Characters besides Addison and Alex! Please review and tell me if you think I got them right.
By the way I have started a new story (Falling Apart). Its Addison and angsty and going to be very interesting in my humble oppinion. See my profile, read it and then tell me what you think.
Chapter Nine: What am I Supposed to Think?
"Whoa, Evil Spawn, what's wrong with you? You look like someone ran over your puppy." Alex sighed. Of course, he could count on Christina to call him on his bad mood. He dropped his lunch tray onto the table, taking a seat between George and Izzie.
The others, George, Izzie, Meredith, had probably noticed his mood as well but he guessed they liked him well enough to leave the issue alone. Christina on the other hand... If she picked up on a weakness she wouldn't let it drop. She was competitive. He was competitive too so couldn't fault her on that, but he certainly wasn't obliged to answer her.
"Nothing's wrong." He didn't make it sound too convincing.
"Is Sloan being a jerk?" Izzie asked.
"No, Sloan's actually being decent. He's letting me scrub in on a free tissue transplant."
"Microsurgery? You get to scrub in on microsurgery?" Christina spluttered.
"Yeah, it's kind of weird."
"Sloan's letting you scrub in? That is weird," George agreed.
"No, what's weird is your not being excited about it. I would kill to get in on that!"
Normally, the hint of jealousy in Christina's voice would have put him in a good mood but he wasn't thinking about the surgery. He had other things on his mind. Addison. He couldn't stop thinking about what had happened yesterday in the exam room, about what she'd said, about how it was probably more than coincidence that he wasn't on her service today.
"Yeah well...ah..."
"O.k. Not that I really care, but something is obviously wrong with you Evil Spawn. So just spit it out and we'll deal with it and then we can talk about something else."
He wished it could be dealt with as easily as Christina suggested. He wished he could just put it aside. After the things she'd said to him he shouldn't have a problem with that, shouldn't have a problem with hating Addison. At the moment maybe he even did hate her, but there had to be more to it than that. Because if he hated her then he should be happy for this opportunity. He should be happy for the chance to put it all behind him, draw the line and start fresh. He wasn't happy.
"Is anyone else creeped out by depressed Alex?" George muttered.
"Yeah, Alex, what's going on?" Meredith asked.
It would be easier not to talk about it. He wasn't the type of guy to let anyone know how he was feeling. At least he never used to be that type of guy. If anyone else had asked he would have kept his mouth shut but Meredith had been on his side before anyone else was. Maybe they weren't exactly friends, but he trusted her.
"Just this woman..."
"Oooh," Izzie teased.
"Who is she?" Christina demanded.
"You don't know her. She doesn't work at the hospital."
"Oh, whatever. She so does," Christina declared authoritatively.
"She might not work at the hospital," Meredith argued.
"Come on, where else is he going to meet anyone?"
"So there's a woman," Izzie interrupted. "And?"
"I don't know. She doesn't make any sense. She told me she couldn't stop thinking about me so... we had sex..."
"Obviously." Izzie's voice dripped sarcasm.
He chose to ignore her. It felt good to be able to vent his frustrations. He actually wanted to keep talking.
"Afterwards... I may have told her I more or less feel the same way about her and she pretends she never said anything in the first place. It's screwed up right?"
"Yeah, women..." George rolled his eyes earning a slap on the arm from Izzie.
"So now what am I supposed to think?"
"Mmph. Maybe she's a psychopathic bitch and she lied about her feelings to get you to sleep with her." Christina said through a mouthful of lasagna.
"I don't think she'd do that. I know her pretty well."
"O.k. then she lied to you after you had sex. Mystery solved."
Christina was starting to get on his nerves.
"I don't think it's that simple."
"Well it's got to be one or the other so how is it not that simple?"
"Because it's complicated! O.k?"
"If it's complicated then maybe she doesn't know what she wants from the relationship," Izzie offered. He was glad at least someone was taking this seriously.
"Or maybe, the sex was so bad, she just changed her mind," George joked.
"George!" Meredith and Izzie groaned.
"No, the sex was good." The image of Addison biting her lip to keep from screaming appeared behind his eyes.
"You know Alex, if you really liked this woman and it was a complicated situation you probably shouldn't have had sex with her right away," Meredith said.
"Yeah, I get that. It just kind of happened."
"You still like her though, right?" George asked.
"I don't know. It's confusing."
"You should talk to her," Izzie suggested. "Maybe she's just as confused as you are."
"She's avoiding me."
"Well don't let her," Christina said impatiently. "Come on Evil Spawn, show some determination!
Now... can we please talk about something interesting? Burke's doing a double bypass later."
Next time: Alex confronts Addison...