In the time it took Izzie to cross the bar she'd embraced the alcohol and convinced herself that Alex knew what he was doing and he wouldn't be leading her astray. If he thought Montgomery and Sloane were perfect they were. Sloane certainly had the right reputation; she'd lost count of the number of nurses he'd slept with in the past year.

Alex placed his drinks on the table and slipped into the booth next to Addison. Izzie hesitated for just a moment and then slipped in next to Sloane. Her movement wasn't quite as graceful however and she spilt drink all over herself, the table and Mark.

"What do you kids want?" Mark asked trying to soak up some of the drink on his lap.

"We are here…" Izzie began, her speech was punctuated with half laughs and slurs. She couldn't hide the fact that she was drunk. "We are here to have some fun."

"Really?" Addison asked taking a sip of the drink Alex had brought over. "And what fun did you have in mind?"

"Well…" Izzie began again. "Alex here thinks I need a…Ow!!" Alex had just kicked her under the table.

"You need an ow?"

"No. I need a…" Alex glared at her across the table. He was trying to tell her not to tell them what they were doing but she was in no state to be mind reading. "I need a rebound guy."

"Oh really?" Addison looked straight at Mark and raised her eyebrow. He looked straight back at her and started shaking his head.

"Yep!" Izzie smiled and went to take a sip of her drink but instead she knocked it over. Alex and Mark both stood up in unison and started trying to clean up the mess. Izzie and Addison just sat there laughing.

Alex couldn't believe what Izzie had just said. This wasn't going quite as he'd expected. He'd thought they'd do some harmless flirting and see where things went. He didn't think Izzie would just blurt out what their plans were. But then he had seen Mark smile at her.

"I think what you need is this." Mark offered and he poured some water into one of his empty beer glasses and handed it to Izzie. She looked at the drink and started laughing again. "Is she always like this?"

Alex shrugged and took a sip of his beer.

For the next hour the four of them sat in the booth together and drank. Well Mark and Addison and Alex drunk, they kept slipping Izzie water in wine glasses so she thought she was drinking. Alex was holding his booze a lot better than she was.

They talked, they flirted and some how Alex's plan, despite the horrendous start began to fall into place. Just after midnight Addison hailed the four of them a taxi and the all went back to the hotel.

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"Can't believe we're actually doing this?" Izzie whispered to Alex as they began to walk inside the hotel. They'd caught the taxi with Addison and Mark but now they were walking about ten feet in front of them.

"Izzie shhh." Alex whispered and put his arm around her shoulder. She started laughing again and put her arm around him.

"Do you think we should be doing this?" Addison asked Mark as they watched Izzie erupted into another fit of giggles for no apparent reason.

"Yeah. Why not?"

"Because they're drunk. Because we're their bosses."

"Since when has that stopped anyone?" Mark paused for a moment before adding. "You've already done it with Karev once."

Addison's mouth dropped. She didn't know that Mark knew about that. "What makes you say that?"

"I saw you both leaving the on call room. What else do you do in the on call room?"

"Right." Addison went to argue something but they'd caught up to Alex and Izzie at the elevator so the conversation stopped.

For the entire ride up to the twenty second floor the only sound was the occasional giggle from Izzie and Alex telling her to stop laughing. It wasn't until they reached their floor that they finally separated into the couples they were spending the night as.