Izzie watched him from the outside of the nursery as he carefully took care of the baby.
Who knew Alex Karev was so fond of babies. She thought. She smiled as he gently stroked the baby's cheek. He was good on the Gynie squad, except that he didn't admit it. Didn't wanna look like a baby-loving kind of guy. She entered the nursery. The moment Izzie walked in, Alex stopped cuddling the baby.
"Oh. Hey. I was just checking up on the baby. She's doing pretty well." He said nervously. He had an alarmed look on his face.
"That's great." She looked at the chart. "Emily Cate Johnson." She reached in the incubator and gently touched the baby's cheeks. "You are adorable." She grinned as the baby let out a soft whine.
"Yeah, she is." Alex smiled looking while looking down at the incubator. He placed his one hand in the incubator to touch the baby one more time. This time it touches Izzie's by accident.
Izzie looked at her hand and then looked up at him. Their hands were still touching each other's. Alex's hand was at the underneath her hand.
"Alex." There was a weird silence among the roomful of babies. She looked him in the eye.
"Your hand is on top of mine's" Alex bluntly told her. He didn't mean to come out like that.
"Right…sorry." She pulled her hand out of the incubator and quickly left the room.
Alex sighed.
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The moment she went in the locker room he was there with his support cane.
"Hey Sweety" Denny greeted her with his hoarse voice.
"Denny! What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be resting?" She rested her head on his shoulder.
"I thought I'd come by and visit you. How's Dr. Bailey doing?" He said as he sat down on the bench.
"She's doing well. A little bitchy, but she's okay, I guess." Izzie winced. She cursed in front of him and she knew how he didn't like profanity. "Sorry" She smiled sadly.
"It's okay." Denny responded. With that, she grabbed his face and kissed him.
Just then the locker room door opened and Izzie saw that it was Alex.
"I'm sorry…I didn't know I was interrupting something." Alex turned back around. Before he left the room, he says something with his back to them. "The baby went into pulmonary-adema. We had to rush her into an emergency surgery. Addison wanted you to scrub in."
Finishing his sentence, he left the room and went to the OR.
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"Alex!" Joe said as he wiped the bar counter.
"Hey Joe. Can I get a beer please?" Alex said half-heartedly. He set his coat and bag on another stool next to him.
"Hey man. You okay? You seem a little off" He said while handing him a beer.
Alex heaved a sigh. "It's been a long day."
"You saved any babies today?" Joe jokingly teases him.
"Actually yeah. Two to be exact." He took a long swig of his beer.
"Looks like we have some company." Joe said looking at a direction pointing towards the entrance.
Alex looked in the direction Joe was staring at.
"Joe! It's been a long time." Izzie gives him a hug despite the fact that there was a bar counter separating them.
"Haven't seen you since the wedding." He pours some wine on a wine glass and gives it to Izzie.
"I know. Hey Alex" she smiles at him awkwardly.
Joe leaves the two of them together to handle other customers.
"Alex. I can't. I'm married." She said with a sympathetic tone.
"I know that. Do you have to rub it on my face everyday?" Alex replied bluntly.
"Cristina told me. Right after the hand thing." She winced. I should have never told him that.
"What?!" Cristina had the nerve to tell her the secrets he told her. A part of him knew Cristina wouldn't hold it in. But he still spilled all his deep emotions about Izzie to her.
"So you love me." Izzie said. She couldn't look him in the eye so she was staring at the floor.
Alex sighed and finished his beer in one long gulp. "And you love Denny." He got up, took his jacket and bag, and left.