Sorry for this hiatus but I was busy studying for an horrible exam! I hated it! Well now I'm here with a new chapter of this story that I consider like my little baby! I hope that you'll enjoy it!

"Here. Drink this, Dr. Evil Spawn." Izzie handed to Alex a cup of coffee smiling sweetly.

"Thank you, Dr. Model." Alex replied tired. He just had a 24 hours shift and he was waiting with the others for rounds. Izzie sat down with him in the lobby near the Seattle Grace doors.

"You still are on She-Shepherd service?"

"Yeah until she'll say otherwise."

"It's like working with a ghost?"

"I think it is for her. You heard the story." Alex smirked not noticing the Shepherd's presence now near them reading on some labs.

"Why are you interested anyway?"

"Nothing in particular, I thought that you could use a friend, but now you'll be the Karev ass that you always are when someone asks you questions." She rambled standing up.

"Dude, what's the matter with you now? I didn't say anything yet." Alex tilted his head to one side looking straight at her. Then he smiled cockily. "Oh I get it. You like me. You so into me."

"That's not true!" Izzie squealed shocked. Addison's head snapped up from the papers that she was reading and looked at the two.

"It so is. You have a crush on me." Alex laughed satisfied and Izzie slapped his arm. "What do I have to do now?"

"You don't have to do anything."

"No, come on. Tell me. If you prefer we can go on an on-call room, have some sex before rounds…"

"Just shut up and forget about it." Izzie growled and slowly made her way towards the other interns, Alex quickly walked after her.

"C'mon, do you want to go out? You wear some nice, I pay for food.."

"Are you kidding me?"

"No, Iz. Do you want to go out with me?"

"What about Addison?"

"What about her?" Alex asked confused. Addison was there for Derek. Alex knew that she hates him. They were in the past. She was trying to save her marriage.

"You know…you have history together…"

"Iz. She hates me." He smirked sadly. "We're nothing more than intern and attending. So..do you want to go out with me?"

"Yeah. Yeah I'd like to."

"Are you two done with your talk?" Dr. Bailey asked loudly and Izzie and Alex looked quickly over her. "Karev you can skip rounds, the Chief wants to see you."

"What?Why?"

"I don't know, Karev. Just go." Alex nodded and left his fellow interns. Chief Webber was talking to Derek and Addison when Alex found him near his office.

"Karev." Richard greeted him and Addison smiled a little when she saw him.

"Dr. Bailey told me that you wanted to see me.." Alex crossed his arms against his chest after have winked to Addison.

"You took the Clinical Skills section of your medical exams after most interns," Webber lowered a little his voice. "so the results are only now coming out. I got a call from USMLE this morning."

Alex noticed the look on his boss' face and knew what was coming.

"So you're saying…"

"Karev, you're still an MD. You still get to practice medicine. The hospital grants you four months to retake the exam. You study it, you pass it, you put it behind you. One misstep doesn't affect your career."

"Right, thanks. Thanks. What happens if I take the exam for a second time and I don't pass?"

"You will no longer be a surgical resident at Seattle Grace. Failing again is not an option." After that, the Chief left and Alex could not do anything beside standing there looking at nothing in particular. He failed. And for him was like fail again in his life. When he felt someone standing beside him, Alex didn't say anything. He knew who was. Addison put an hand on his back, rubbing it slowly. Alex almost melted at the sensation. They were the only two now. Derek followed Richard to talk about a patient and some surgeries.

"I can see your father laughing at me. Telling you 'I told you' and crap like this."

"I don't talk to my father since years, Alex. You know that I don't have any relationship with him." Alex slowly turned to look at her. Staring intensely at her. He took a deep breath finding in that moment his Addison again.

Xxx

"Do you have any plan for today? Something special maybe?" Addison asked hugging his 8 years old best friend.

"What?"

"Your brother told me that it's your birthday."

"I'm gonna kill him." Alex muttered annoyed.

"You don't like birthday parties? Friends coming with presents, cakes, music, you know this kind of stuff. C'mon anyone loves it."

"It's just a day like others. There's nothing special in this day, Adds."

"But it's your birthday."

"Listen Addison. I've passed last birthday cleaning out my drunk dad. My parents never celebrated our birthdays, for us are just like other days if not worse, so no. I don't like parties, I never had a present. I never had a cake. The only cake that I eat is the one that you take me on Sunday evenings. I don't love my birthday. I just wish that I can go away for this day." He said to her in one breath. Alex looked into Addison's eyes and he knew that he overreacted, her eyes were watery.

"I'm sorry Adds, it's not your fault but I'm so angry and I can't be angry with my mother for letting our dad treat us like this. I really am sorry."

"Shut up." Addison blurted out and took a piece of paper. She wrote something and then she handed it to him.

"What's this?" Alex asked while he was taking it from her.

"Just read it." She encouraged him with a smile. He cleared his voice and begin to read it out loud.

"I promise to go away with you for all your birthdays. No parties, no cakes, no gifts. Just you and me. Happy birthday, Alex." Alex had to read all over again and the he looked at her smiling, almost grinning.

Xxx

"You're a decent guy, Alex. You always been. And I hate that my father changed it." She smiled a little and rested her hand on his right cheek. Alex swallowed not trying to think about what happened in the past.

"I don't hate you, Alex. I now get why you did it, but I'm angry. I just don't know if I am angry with you too." This time Alex smiled nodding slowly. He leaned forward and kissed her surprising them both. Addison kissed him back without thinking at all, slowly savoring the sensations that his lips were giving to her. Alex pulled back slowly.

"You were my everything, Addison. I never felt for someone like I felt for you. Leaving you killed me. This is why you can't see your Alex again now."

Addison didn't know what to think. She missed him a lot. She was broken for years because of him and Derek slowly helped her.

"I..you're out of my service for today." Alex nodded not quite satisfied with her words.

"Good luck with Derek." He smiled trying to not look hurt and then walked away.

"You were my everything too, Alex." He listened her say and that made his smile grow.

Xxx

"So..how come that Izzie came back home screaming that you were an ass last night? What did you do to her?" George asked him while they were treating an injured cop. Alex did take out Izzie for dinner but things didn't work out well. He always felt under some kind of exam and he hated it. But Alex have to admit that was a good night for him, he actually had a good time.

"You really didn't kiss her goodnight?" George was making fun of him and Alex was already pissed. Addison didn't ask for him that morning so he was stuck in the pit with O'Malley.

O'Malley.

"You got shot in the line of duty?" Alex asked to the cop while he and O'Malley was waiting for the elevator.

"First month on the job. Can you believe my luck? Guy pulls a gun and I freeze up. The rookie who let himself get shot. I'm never gonna live this down."

"Yeah, you will." Alex replied.

"You think?"

"Absolutely. I freeze up the first time that I saw my military uniform."

"You were in the Army?"

"U.S. Air Force."

George started to laugh without control and Alex throw to him a look that could kill.

"You were in the U.S. Air Force and you hadn't had the gut to kiss Izzie goodnight?"

"You didn't follow through?" the patient jumped in.

"Hey, I always follow through."

"You didn't last night." George started to laugh again.

"Dude, mind your own business, and.." but Alex couldn't finish his sentence because the elevator stopped and the lights went off.

"Dude..we're not moving."

"Really? You think?" George replied sarcastic. Alex resisted to the urge of throw O'Malley against the elevator door.

Xxx

"Doctor Webber?" Patricia knocked on the Chief's office door where he was in with Addison. He was trying to convince Addison to stay in Seattle.

"Patricia, how can I help you?"

"Two interns are stuck inside of the elevator with no electricity. They are with a patient who's been shot."

"Damn it."

"Breathe, Richard." Addison suggested putting away her glasses.

"Breathe?" Richard muttered standing up. The trio left the office to reach the elevator where Alex and George were.

"For what we know, lightning hit a substation. We're running on backup generators. One is down. Richard, breathe." Addison said quickly after have talked with dr Bailey to know what happened.

"The only means of transporting patients from the ER to the OR isn't working. Don't tell me to breathe. I'll breathe if I want to breathe." Addison rolled her eyes and she and Richard stopped in front of the elevator doors where some people were trying to open them.

"What did you two do?" Bailey asked to George and Alex.

"NOTHING." They yelled at the same time. Addison recognized Alex's voice and quickly go as near as she can.

"Good air in, bad air out." She said but more to Alex than to Richard. Alex looked over her, pleading her with his eyes to help him. He always hated little spaces. He wasn't claustrophobic, but this kind of places made pop up to his mind things that he didn't want to remember.

"How's the patient?" Burke asked kneeling down in front of the elevator.

"He's not looking so good." George answered. Alex and were still making eyes contact.

"What's his blood pressure?"

"It's not reading. He's too agitated."

"How's his pulse, Karev?" But Alex wasn't even listening, he was repeatedly muttering 'please' to Addison. He wanted to get the hell out of there.

Xxx

"Hey Arch?" Alex heard a guy's voice says while he was in Archer's tree house. When Addison wasn't home, he always spent his time in that tree house for the most part reading some books.

"Hey, I know you." That boy said to Alex after rising to the top. Alex remained silent. That boy was older than him. He was one of Archer's friends. A 16 years old football player. Alex was 12 years old and smaller than him.

"You're the kid of that drunkard man who always is at my uncle's bar." That boy smirked.

"Hey guys, come here and look who's there! Karev's son." He called his friends that quickly reached him.

"Hey dude." They grinned looking at Alex. "Your father made a lot of trouble to my uncle, you know that?"

"Dude, I'm sorry."

"What if you pay for him? What he's going to say if you come home with some bruises? It's like your father does too to anyone who try to put some sense in that drunkard's head." The first one stepped near Alex who didn't make a move to protect himself. He just stand there while they were beating the hell out of him until someone yelled to stop. That someone was Archer. He was mad and Alex never saw him like that. Archer got into a fight with his friends to help Alex who was too terrified to even walk away from the tree house. When everything was quite again, Archer kneeled down near Alex and took a good look to his face.

"You need some stitches for sure, Alex."

"What happened?" Addison reached them and when she saw Alex like that she froze. Quickly she was near him and he smiled.

"Why you didn't react?" Archer asked to him.

"Addison doesn't want that I fight with other people."

"Alex." She jumped in but he shook his head.

"You're helping me to be a good guy. Good guys don't beat other people."

"Let me take care of you, Alex. You, me and Archer are going to the hospital now."

Xxx

"Karev!"

"Thready, but still there." Alex snapped from his trance.

"Do you have instruments?"

"A code box and gloves."

"You didn't bring an open chest tray?"

"No…we thought.." Alex looked up to Burke and for a moment he looked again to Addison.

"No time for excuses. Blood pressure."

"I can't hear a systolic over 50." This time was George. "He's gonna die." Alex simply looked over him, humiliated by Burke's words.

"Intubate him. I'll be right back."

"Dude, he can't leave us like that." Alex muttered. Minutes passed and Burke didn't come back yet. Alex was freaking out and George wasn't helping him.

At the third time that George asked "When's Burke coming back?" Alex snapped to him.

"Oh, would you just shut up, O'Malley?"

"Hey you two, stop it now." Burke told them quite angry. "This isn't gonna be too sterile, but we can still try." He handed to Alex the surgical instruments but he didn't take it. He was pale and he was sweating.

"Karev!" Burke raised his voice but Alex didn't move.

"Alex come on. Alex!" George yelled too taking from Burke the scalpel. "Ventilate." And that was Alex did while George was performing the surgery.

"Wow…I'm touching the aorta." George smiled satisfied and proud to Alex who just looked away.

"Dr Bailey we're done. O'Malley, you just flew solo."

"Thank you, sir."

Xxx

"Alex. Alex, wait." Izzie was following him but he simply walked straight until someone grabbed his arm to stop him.

"You okay?" Addison asked worried but he simply shook his head putting his hands on her hips.

"Please." Alex whispered kissing her. "Please Addison. Only for this time. Please."

"Alex, stop honey." She took his face in her hands drying his tears. "I can't. I can't cheat on Derek again. I really want to make things work with him." She kissed him once more and then she left.

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