Chapter 3

Izzie could scream. She was furious with Meredith; she hadn't even asked Izzie if it was ok with her first. That was so inconsiderate especially considering Alex and Izzie's history. It would be so awkward and weird. Sure they got on well now but living together was a step too far.

"You're moving in with us?" She found Alex checking on a patient.

"Yeah I thought you knew."

"Not until about 5 minutes ago."

"I'm sorry I thought Meredith had cleared it with you, if you don't want me to it's fine, I'll crash somewhere else, probably with Christina."

"No it's ok I wouldn't want to inflict that on you."

"If it's ok why are you so mad?"

"She didn't even ask me first. That's kind of stupid right?"

"Nah it's you, I can understand why you would think it would be weird between us but we're past that so it's fine."

"When are you moving in?"

"Today."

"I'm taking Meredith home after my shift do you want me to come by your place and give you a hand with your clothes and stuff."

"It's fine it's only clothes I need, I'm only living with you for a few weeks at the most, I'll see you later."

"Ok bye."

Suddenly Sloane appeared next to her. "So Karev's moving in with you. Interesting."

"How is it interesting?"

"Well you two used to date,"

Izzie snorted, "Hardly."

"What happened?"

"Why are you so interested?"

"Why are you answering my question with a question?"

"Why are you annoying me?"

"It makes my day."

"You have a sad life."

"You could make it better."

"Keep dreaming."

"Oh I will."

"You're sick."

"You love it."

Izzie looked disgusted, "I'm walking away now."

"You'll be back."

"No I won't."

"That's what you think."

It had taken all of Izzie's self control not to jump on Mark there and then. She wanted him so badly. It was pathetic. She hadn't been kissed like that since Denny, actually she didn't know if she had ever been kissed like that but the last time she had been physical with someone like that was Denny. He was the love of her life but she was ready to move on, she just had to stop being so scared and go and get what she wanted.

Her pager beeped. She looked at it Sloane was paging her, she had just been speaking to him two minutes before.

She ran back the way she had came. "Did you page?" she asked.

"Told you, you'd be back."

"Did you page me just to get me to come over here because I swear if you did, I will kill you."

"Abusive comments to your boss."

"Sexual harassment to your students."

"Witty. Well you can relax Stevens, I paged you because I'm in need of an intern."

"What is it?"

"I need coffee."

"I don't think so, I'm off probation, I don't do coffee anymore."

"Shame that means I'll need to get wht's his face back now."

"You do that and when you're finished with Alex, that's his name by the way come find me in the on call room, I'll only be there for so long."

What did she just do. 'Oh my god' she thought. She just invited him to have sex with her. Ok she had to do something. What? It's not like she could just take back what she'd said.

She ran to the on call room and slammed the door shut. She paced the room, she could just leave and when he asked where she was she could say she got paged. Ok that was a good idea. She opened the door. "I decided that the coffee could wait."

"Ha ha really?"

"When you said you wouldn't be here all day, you weren't kidding."

Izzie lifted up her pager, "I got paged see sorry, got to go." She ran past him and into Meredith's room.

"Get out!"

"Excuse me," exclaimed Derek.

"I like you and everything, you make Meredith happy, yay for you, you're actually a very nice person and I count you as a friend you know all those late night conversations when Meredith was snoring but if you don't get out right now, I may do something I will regret later."

"You can't..."

"It's fine Derek, I think Izzie may have a heart attack if you don't leave."

"Fine I'm going," he kissed Meredith on the head, "but you know Izzie a bit of manners would be nice, you could have said please."

"Cry me a river sunshine."

Derek glared at her as he left the room.

When he had gone Meredith began to speak, "What's wrong Izzie?"

"I did something really stupid."

"What did you do?"

Izzie told Meredith what had happened.

"Seriously, seriously."

"I know, I know," said Izzie putting her head in her hands. "What am I going to do?"

"Have sex with him." Meredith suggested.

"Meredith I am not you."

"That was uncalled for, true but uncalled for. Do you want to have sex with him?"

"Didn't we have this conversation like I don't know, 20 minutes ago?"

"So what's the problem."

"I don't know. You had it so easy with Derek."

"Yes because everything about that was easy."

"I meant you now have it easy with Derek, you're in a serious relationship where it's all chocolates and roses."

"You are such a romantic."

"I know I can't help it. Ok I have to go and hide or go do sutures or something so it actually looks like I got paged."

"Don't worry if you don't pick me up after, I know where'll you be and I'll get a cab."

"I will be there Meredith,"

"Yeah you say that now."

"You can leave tomorrow, Dr Karev here will get your discharge papers."

"Thank Dr Sloane,"

"No problem," said Mark as he left the room.

He was so close to having sex until Izzie's stupid pager went off. He wondered who paged her. He knew exactly how to get her back in the on call room.

"Excuse me," he said to a nurse, "will you please page Dr Stevens for me."

"Of course Dr Sloane."

He waited until he seen Izzie coming up the corridor then he turned around and walked away in the other direction. Great, just as he had been hoping the corridor he was in was empty. He sat down on the seats pretending to fill in some charts.

Izzie ran after him. "Did you page?" Mark grabbed her softly and pulled her into the empty room.

"It's about time I got you alone." He kissed her lips gently.

Izzie didn't know if she wanted this. No, she knew she wanted it, she didn't know if she should be doing it. She couldn't help herself, he kissed her again, this time she kissed him back. He kissed her neck while she moaned with pleasure, she definitely wanted this.


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