a/n: Thanks everyone who sent reviews. I'm satisfied that there's enough interest for another part so here it is.
One week earlier
Things were on the up and up for Alex Kerev everything in his life seemed to be going the right way for once. That afternoon he'd had a talk with Dr. Montgomery. A few weeks ago he'd asked her if she'd consider mentoring him in neonatal surgery. She'd finally gotten back to him and her answer was yes. Starting next week he was back on her service and this time he couldn't wait to get started.
Career wise things couldn't be going better and personally things were going great too. He was in love. Alex Kerev was in love with Izzie Steven and this time they were doing things right. It had been three months since they'd started seeing each other again and they were starting to talk about moving into together. Yes things were going pretty great for Alex Kerev.
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To celebrate the success of his day and his prospective new career in neonatal surgery Alex was at Joe's having a few drinks, with the gang. Well he was, having drinks with the gang. Meredith and George were still sitting at the bar drinking but now he was teaching Izzie how to play darts.
She was a natural, they'd only been playing ten minutes and she was already beating him. She laughed as she hit yet another bullseye.
"That's two games to me and none to you." She said wrapping her arms around her neck and kissing him.
"Beginners luck." He said trying to brush it off. A little part of his ego was bruised by his girlfriend beating him at darts. "Best three out of five?"
She laughed again. "How about instead of playing darts all night you accept that I'm better than you and we head back to your place." She kissed him again and he had to admit she made a pretty good offer.
"Alright." He kissed her one more time. "Meet me at the door. I just need to go to the bathroom."
Alex walked toward the bathroom smiling. He was on top of the world. He stopped by George and Meredith who were talking about how crap their lives were and said. "My life is grand." Then he disappeared into the bathroom up back.
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Alex's life was grand but all it takes is a split second for things to change completely. He was zipping his fly when he heard it. The loud ear splitting crack, bang, whatever you want to call it, it sounded like a car back firing. He didn't think much of it until he heard it again and again, then he heard the screaming.
He ran out the bathroom and back into the bar. Standing with his back to him in the middle of the bar was a man. The man was yelling and screaming and firing a gun. Everyone was ducking and screaming and crying and the man just stood there firing. He wasn't aiming at anyone or anything just firing.
Alex stood there for a second frozen to the spot, but then he switched to auto pilot. He had to stop the man; he had to stop the bullets. He ran at the man and jumped on him. The impact knocked the man to the floor and sent the gun flying but not before the man turned enough to fire a bullet through Alex's shoulder.
Alex didn't feel the bullet, he didn't feel any pain. So much adrenalin was running through his body he was unstoppable. He pined the man in a matter of seconds and the firing stopped.
The bar was eerily quiet for a second; the firing had stopped as quickly as it had started. Then the night was filled with the cries of those injured and traumatized.
Alex knelt on top of the man, holding him down until police arrived. He scanned the room. He could see Meredith and George sitting on the floor next to their chairs. Meredith's face was covered in blood and George was holding his leg and trying not to scream. But he couldn't see Izzie. He thought maybe she wasn't there; maybe she'd been outside when it started. But if she'd been outside she'd be inside now. Doctors, nurses and paramedics were all descending on the bar from across the road.
He kept looking through the room and then he saw her. She was lying on the ground behind a table. She wasn't moving and there was a pool of blood forming behind her head.