Okay, I confess, I completely forgot that I hadn't finished this fic. Here's the second and final part to The Race.
Thanks to LW107, iheartalexandizzie, alexaddicted, blebo92, ghfan84, Monagirl, steph, issabell, Lisa, Natalie, Docs, mika1993, vikki and mel124 for reviewing the first part.
"You're probably wondering why you're here." Meredith said to the bored pair sitting in front of her
"Yeah, and where's Izzie?" George asked as he sat beside Christina in a different coma guy's room than usual.
"We're here to talk about Izzie. And Alex. And how we're going to get them back together."
"Why? How do you know that they even like each other?"
"Because they told me. Now we need ideas, before they come looking for us."
"If they told you, then why don't they just tell each other?" George asked
"Because Alex is a coward and Izzie doesn't know what she wants?" Christina guessed correctly.
"Exactly."
"Is it just me, or is this a waste of time?" Christina sighed, "I have my own problems at the minute"
"Yeah, so do I" George piped up.
"I don't care! Listen, like it or not, Izzie and Alex are our friends. They deserve to be happy for once in their lives. Now, are you going to help me make that happen, or am I on my own?" George and Christina exchanged a glance
"You're on your own."
"You can have my best surgeries for a month"
"I'm in" Christina decided. George still looked resolutely out of it.
"Please George?" Meredith pleaded.
"Fine. But don't expect this to go well."
"Where were all of you today?" Izzie asked as Meredith walked into the canteen ten minutes later. They had broken up their meeting, mostly due to the other pair's whining, and a general lack of ideas.
"What?"
"At lunch. I was looking everywhere for you."
"We were… with a patient" it technically wasn't a lie.
"Well I had to eat lunch with Alex. I hadn't planned on speaking to him for a few hours."
"Why?"
"You saw what he did to me this morning, right? I needed that bathroom. He's just so infuriating sometimes."
"But you love him really."
"I guess. In a plutonic, I want to kill him sometimes, but you have to love him way." Izzie decided
"Plutonic? Please, Izzie."
"I don't feel that way for him anymore."
"But this morning, you said…"
"I know what I said. Can we just leave it, please?"
"Okay, but just think about it. Alex is handsome, a doctor and he totally wants you, so what's the problem?"
"Alex and I always self destruct. We're just not meant to be."
"Maybe it'll be third time lucky?"
"Something tells me it won't be."
"If he asked you out today, would you say yes?"
"No" Meredith had known Izzie long enough to be able to tell when she was lying
"So you'd be happy for him if he found another woman?"
"Yes"
"You're a lost cause, Izzie Stephens" Meredith sighed, "You coming to Joe's tonight?" Izzie nodded and then Meredith, spotted Alex walking towards the elevator and left Izzie to talk to him.
She jogged to it and slid between the closing doors beside him, not entirely convinced he would have held the doors for her if she'd asked.
"What are you doing tonight?" she asked, trying to sound as casual as possible. He gave a half shrug and said something about having an early night.
"Izzie and I are going to Joe's."
"So?"
"So you should come."
"Why?"
"Because Izzie wants you to."
"She said that?" for a moment, he looked hopeful
"Well not in so many words, but she definitely wants you there." Meredith chose her next words carefully, "Anyway, we're planning on getting very, very drunk, and we'll need you there in case we get too friendly with any strange guys." Alex raised an eyebrow at that
"And what do you expect me to do about them?"
"Get rid of them! I've really had enough inappropriate men for one lifetime, don't you think? And anyway, you wouldn't want anything to happen to Izzie, would you?"
"That's emotional blackmail."
"If you didn't love her, I wouldn't be able to do it."
"I don't love her." He said again.
"Do you like her?"
"This is my floor" he said as the door's opened and he left hurriedly. Meredith shouted after him
"We're leaving when our shift ends!"
"I'm not coming!"
"I knew you would come" Meredith smiled as Alex climbed into the back seat of her car.
"I'm coming to pick up a hot girl and then take her home with me, not because you asked me to."
"Trying to make Izzie jealous?"
"Why do you think everything I do is because of Izzie?"
"You're avoiding the question" Just then, the passenger door opened and Izzie appeared. She glanced in Alex's direction and asked,
"What's Evil Spawn doing here?"
"He is going to protect us from any inappropriate men" Meredith said, flashing Alex a smile.
"Or he'll ditch us for the first pretty face he sees."
"She's right, you know" Alex agreed.
At about half eleven, Meredith's world was beginning to sway. She's so far managed to keep any men who offered her free drinks at bay, but Izzie was deep in a conversation with a Brad Pitt look-alike. She looked around for Alex, and was a little disappointed that she couldn't see him and his reaction to Izzie. Eventually, she caught sight of him, alone by the dartboard, throwing the small projectiles savagely. Meredith smirked. He'd definitely noticed Izzie and her new friend.
She turned her attentions back to Izzie. She hadn't exactly expected Izzie to get close with a man that wasn't Alex tonight, but she supposed that it was a good thing that she was prepared to move on from Denny. However, this new guy would never match up to Alex's first kiss with Izzie. That had been spontaneous, passionate and simply incredible on Alex's part, and even George had had to agree that maybe he could be right for Izzie.
Meredith returned to her liquor, deciding to leave her friends to sort out their own love lives, however a few minutes later, Izzie appeared by her side.
"Whatever happened to mister tall, dark and handsome?" Meredith asked her
"I think he wants to sleep with me, and I don't know if I like him enough and…"
"Relax. You keep drinking, and I'll fetch Alex."
"Alex will totally overreact"
"Do you want rid of him or not?"
"Go get him then."
"Alex" Meredith stumbled and nearly fell on top of the other intern
"Are you drunk?" he asked
"Very. Now you know those inappropriate men I was talking about? One's cornered Izzie over there."
"She doesn't look very cornered"
"Well she told me to get you to threaten him or something." She saw him roll his eyes, but walk towards them anyway. To her surprise, as soon as he got there, Izzie took a hold of Alex's hand and pulled him round to stand by her side. A few minutes later, they came to the table Mer was sitting at, and Alex's arm was firmly around her waist. They must have noted her questioning look, for Izzie said
"I told Richard that Alex was my boyfriend to get him to back off."
"You owe me for this" Alex grumbled
"You're loving it really" Meredith smiled. When Izzie lent into Alex's chest, Meredith raised an eyebrow, and Izzie, sounding embarrassed, muttered
"Richard's still watching us from the bar."
At the end of the night, Meredith seemed to be having a lot more trouble staying upright than the other two, and stumbled up to bed as quickly as was possible for her at the time. However, ten minutes later, she recalled she'd left the phone she used as an alarm clock every morning in the kitchen, so she was forced to retrieve it.
She staggered down the darkened hallway, but stopped and frowned as she heard whispered voices coming from the direction of Izzie's room. She flicked on the light switch next to her and light flooded the house. Alex and Izzie sprang apart, a slightly guilty look on both of their faces.
"Were you just kissing?"
"No" they both denied simultaneously
"Right… Well I'm going to go get my purse, and when I come back, one of you is going to have a decent excuse" Meredith smirked, enjoying the power she had. On her way down the stairs, she flicked the switch again, happy that now that Alex and Izzie were together once again, at least one thing was how it should be.
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