Title: Attention
Episode: 3x15 ("Walk on Water")
Word Count: 153
Rating: K
Note: There was stuff happening over at LJ, & yesterday was annoyingly busy, but here's the update. Just to hold you over until the next one, which will come early next week. Enjoy.
It's the first patient he's completely and wholly interested in, the one he stands by unwavering and compassionately.
When he talks to her, it's softly, carefully, and easily. He doesn't put up a macho-act around the patient, doesn't even act cocky. That's why the patient is immediately dubbed 'his Jane Doe.'
From the instant Addison walks into that room, with Alex holding Jane Doe's hand, Addison feels a bit envious--and out of place. Long ago it stopped being about attraction and lust, and every going day is just an aching reminder of how it's more than just sex that she wants from him.
All she can do is take deep intake of breaths, close her eyes, and keep up her professional mask.
Addison's feelings were becoming deeply invested in Alex Karev, but the only real attention he was giving to anyone were his patients, and as of that moment, specifically his Jane Doe.