a/n: look! there's more! i'm sorry if these chapters take forever to update, but i get these ideas for other stories that cause writer's block on this story. i'm going to try to wrap this up, but that'll take forever since i at least have to go to the wedding. i know that if i don't, i risk being attacked in my sleep and forced to keep writing.

as for the little 'find the charmed reference' no one even attempted it, so no one has any idea what's in this chapter. if you were curious it was "oh, suffer endlessly, no doubt." and everyone who reviewed, have some cyber-sugar!

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disclaimer: last time i checked, i didn't own grey's anatomy.

anyways, i'll let you read now.

"That was phenomenal! I cannot believe you did that!" Holli exclaimed as they hustled down the corridor, away from the aching Mark.

"Can't believe she did what?" Alex asked as he turned a corner. "What did you do now?" he turned and asked Addison sternly, but with a twinkle in his eye (guys can have twinkling eyes too, you know).

"Nothing," she put on her most innocent face and batted her eyelashes. He laughed.

"Yeah, sure, she did nothing," Holli said, "If nothing means she just killed Sloane's chances of reproducing, which, now that I think about it, is probably a good thing. The world does not need more Mark Sloanes. Don't worry, she didn't do anything I wouldn't have done in the same situation."

"That's what worries me," Alex joked, "And just what did Sloane do to deserve that?"

"He was being Sloane and hitting on her," Holli answered blasé.

"He was what? I'm going to kill that bastard," Alex got angrier with each word. Holli shrank back, half in fear, half because she would love to see Sloane killed. He had hurt the two people she loved most one too many times.

"Alex," Addison warned him. He looked over at her. "It's fine. Forget it," she pleaded, both verbally and with her eyes.

"Alright, but only if you answer one question."

"Fine, anything," she hurriedly agreed wanting to avoid a fistfight in the hospital that could very well lose Alex his job.

"Why was he even talking to you?"

That question made Addison feel so many things, even she wasn't sure of all her emotions. She knew she registered rage (he couldn't control who she talked to!) and happiness (he cared enough to care why she was talking to someone like Mark Sloane) and several other contradictory emotions. Just to be sure of his motives she asked cautiously, "Why?"

"Because he's bad for you and I worry about you. I just don't want you hurt again."

"I couldn't have said it better myself," Holli put in, making the couple jump. They had forgotten her presence.

"Oh. Well then," Addison said, flustered because she had been so ready to argue with her fiancé. "He was asking about the wedding. Why'd you tell him?"

"I didn't tell him."

"But if I didn't tell him and you didn't tell him…" Addison trailed off as they both looked accusingly at Holli.

"What? I didn't tell him!" she held her hands up to shield her face from the visual daggers.

Addison and Alex looked at each other and stated simultaneously, "Izzie."

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Izzie was going over a patients chart when she felt someone's eyes on her. She turned to find not only a pissed Alex but an annoyed but uncomfortable Dr. Montgomery. "Is there something I can do for you?" she asked.

"A word, Dr. Stevens," Dr. Montgomery demanded, somberly beckoning to a supply closet. Izzie followed warily. Alex walked with Dr. Montgomery like the well trained puppy dog he was around her.

The door was closed a full second before Alex started yelling about… something. She couldn't really understand, he was hard to understand in his current condition. Dr. Montgomery touched his shoulder and although he still looked annoyed, he shut up. Wow, she really had turned him into a puppy dog.

"Are we done here?" Izzie didn't want to be rude but it did seem like they were. At least, Alex wasn't yelling anymore.

"Sloane?" Dr. Montgomery asked, an eyebrow raised.

"What about him?" Izzie tried to look innocent, but it wasn't really working for her this time.

"Why'd you tell him?" Alex asked.

"What did I tell him?" Izzie shot back, holding on to her innocence until the very end.

"The wedding. Why did you tell him about the wedding?" Dr. Montgomery questioned her, starting to sound very annoyed, something she didn't usually allow herself to sound like.

"Wedding? What wedding?"

"Drop the act, Izzie. We know," Alex said.

"How do you it was me? How do you know it wasn't one of the nurses?"

Both Dr. Montgomery and Alex glared at her.

"Okay, so maybe I let it slip. I'm sorry! I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

Dr. Montgomery rolled her eyes but nevertheless answered, albeit with a sigh, "It's fine," and walked out of the supply closet leaving Alex behind.

"Aren't you going to follow her?"

"No. Why would I?" Alex was confused.

"You always follow her."

"No I don't."

"Alex, she's got you following her around like she's got you on a leash."

"No she doesn't."

"She does. You follow her. You're always around her. When she leaves you watch her. You're never apart! I never get to talk to you or even say hi because you're always talking to her. And when you're not talking to her you're talking about her. I'm sick of it!" Izzie yelled.

"Why do you care so much?" Alex yelled back. Izzie looked down at the floor. "Iz, why do you care?" he asked again, but gentler this time.

"I- I think I, well, I don't know for sure, but I think I might, well, uh, see the thing is-"

"You're rambling," Alex pointed out.

"I think I might be, uh, in love with you," Izzie flinched.

"Wow," Alex looked shocked. "Wasn't expecting that."

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that. I just thought that maybe if I said it then you would realize that you were wrong."

"I'm really sorry Izzie. I like you a lot and maybe a year ago I would have thought that maybe I loved you, but I'm with Addison. I don't know how to explain it, but knowing what I feel for her, I know that you couldn't possibly feel the same for me."

"Oh. Okay. Well then, I'm just going to go somewhere else now," Izzie scampered out of the closet.

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Addison was leaning on the door of Mr. Richards' room (Coma Guy, remember?) watching Holli talk when she felt strong arms slide around her waist and someone kiss her neck. She turned and, thank God, it was Alex. "Hey," she greeted him softly as she leaned back into his embrace.

"Hey," he replied, taking his mouth off her neck long enough to answer. "They must not work you hard enough if you have time to stand around like this," he joked.

"Not funny."

"I know."

She looked at him, searching his face. Something was different about him and she didn't like it. "What's wrong? You seem off."

"Izzie told me something and it threw me," he answered. She put her arms around his neck and buried her face in his collarbone.

"And what was that?" she murmured into his neck.

"She told me she loved me," was his reply and it was enough to make Addison jump back and stare at him.

"And what did you say?" she asked warily.

"That I love you," he answered, pulling her into a hug much in the way of Mark, only not forced.

"I'm can be pretty awful, so you better be completely sure. Are you sure about it?"

"Positive. You're off now, aren't you? Let's go home."

2 more things and then you can clicky the little button in the corner and make my day...

1) still looking for plot ideas

and

2) i'm now also looking for people to help me take over shondaland and grey's anatomy. anyone interested?