"Alex."…"Hey Alex."…"ALEX!"
Alex shook his head and came back to the real world. He sat up on one of the gurneys in the basement where the interns hung out.
"What the hell is wrong is wrong you?" Cristina impatiently asked. "I've been calling your name for the past minute and you won't hear me." She went on.
"What? Oh yeah…sorry." Alex faintly replied.
"Addison wanted to know if you were done doing the post op notes so you cold scrub in a a surgery that involves a baby?"
"I'm not done yet. Tell her to ask someone else."
There was an awkward silence.
"Alex." Cristina looked at him and then glanced at her watch. "Five minutes." She sat next to him on the gurney.
"What?" Alex looked at her like she was crazy.
"You get five minutes to vent out all your problems and what the hell's bothering you. You get 5 minutes to bitch, whine, or… whatever." Cristina said in a rush. "I don't have that much time Karev."
"And five minutes starts…now." She said while looking at her watch.
Alex sighed. "Izzie's married. And to top that off, she's married to Denny. Denny for god's sake. The dude can't even go to the bathroom on his own. And now she's married to him. Everyday, I gotta live with the fact that I never told Izzie what I felt for her. And now I have to watch her all giddy and cheery over being married to that half-dead corpse that I helped to get a heart for. The chick's a little crazy over that stubbled face southern guy, don't you think? I mean 9 million dollars would do that to you." Alex paused. "Wait…I didn't mean it like that. It's just… I hate that man."
"Well, I'm not a big fan of him either. You'll get over her. Eventually." Cristina pats him on the shoulder and gets up.
Alex called out her name. "Cristina."
She turns back around to face him. "Yeah?"
"Don't te…."
Cristina interrupts him. "Don't worry. I won't tell anyone."
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"Nice work Dr. Karev" Addison smiled at him.
"Thank you. I appreciate you for letting me scrub in on that surgery" Alex smiled forcefully." He scrubs his hand with soap.
"Now you get to tell the parents that they're baby is healthy and fully alive. That's the joy of all of it" Addison dries her hand with a paper towel.
"Right." He grabs the paper towel Addison handed him.
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Izzie woke up with the sun streaming in her eyes. She pats the bed to the left of her trying to look for a pillow to hug. Only there wasn't a pillow. It was Denny. Looking at her intently. She was frightened but didn't yell out loud.
"Morning there, Sunshine" Denny said.
"Good morning. Stop looking at me like that. It's scary. Specially first thing in the morning." Izzie replied.
Denny smirked. "What? I can't look at my wife while she's sleeping?"
"No, it's just that I like to start out my mornings happy. Not scary. But happy." She retorted.
Denny leans over to give her a kiss and Izzie pulls away.
Denny frowned. "Okay… now I can't kiss my wife either?"
"No. It's just that… you promise you won't get mad?"
Denny nodded his head.
"When Alex and I were dating, we made this deal that we couldn't kiss each other before any of us brushed our teeth. So usually, we would kiss in the bathroom after we were both done brushing our teeth."
"But I'm not Alex"
"Yeah, I know that but I just got used to that routine." Izzie looked at him.
"Fine." He gets up and finds his support cane to go to the bathroom. Izzie follows.
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Izzie slams he lunch tray on the table where Meredith, Cristina, and George were sitting.
"What happened to the happy and cheerful newlywed Izzie?" George asked.
Izzie glared at him. "Haha. Very funny."
Meredith looked at Cristina and Cristina shrugged. "Iz, are you okay?" Meredith looked at her while she was stabbing her salad with a fork.
"Oh yeah, just dandy fine. I didn't get enough sleep cuz my husband snores too damn much. And now he won't agree to my Morning Kissing rule. So yeah, I'm really fine!" She continued poking at her salad.
The other three interns looked at one another.