Izzie

Her hand shook as he fingers pressed gently against the doorbell and she heard it sound through Cristina's apartment. "It's me!" Izzie called, nervously.

She was about to see Alex. She was about to see Meredith, Cristina, Lexie... but she still felt like something was missing.

George. George was missing. She wanted to see him here so badly.

Footsteps began to echo through the house. Izzie held her breath as she waited.

Izzie, a voice whispered behind her.

Izzie let out a shriek at the voice. That was his voice. He was her best friend. She would know it anywhere. Izzie spun around to find herself alone inn the hallway.

Suddenly the footsteps in the house turned faster and they beat against the floor so hard that Izzie knew it was a male's footsteps. Whoever it was was running. The door swung open so fast that Izzie jumped. It hit the wall hard and made a loud bang.

"Don't break my door!" she heard Cristina hiss.

As the door swung open it revealed Alex whow as standing behind it with worry written all over his face. Meredith was standing behind him and Lexie and Cristina were standing in the doorway of Cristina's bedroom.

"Nice apartment," Izzie breathed out, trying to be polite.

Alex shook his head, as if trying to process something. "Why the hell did you scream?" Alex demanded, his hands reaching to grip onto her shoulder.

"Hey," she said nervously. "You look good. You would have never known you got shot."

"What is wrong with you?" Meredith asked from behind Alex.

"I... I think... I think that maybe... I might have another brain tumor."

"What?" Alex gasped. "Why?"

His face twisted up all nervously. Izzie shrank back slightly. "I think I just heard George in the hallway," she squeaked.

Alex breathed a sigh of relief, knowing she didn't have a tumor.

"He spoke to me too," Meredith said from behind Alex.

"When I was talking to you on the phone George cut in," Alex explained to Izzie.

"SO that's why you hung up?" Izzie asked.

Alex paused for a moment. "Yeah, sorta. Look Iz, this is happening to all of us, okay?"

Izzie smiled when he called her Iz. Without thinking, she launched herself onto Alex and wrapped her arms around his chest, burying her face into his shoulder. Alex foze, not expecting this.

Izzie remembered where she was pretty quickly and she pulled away, sheepishly. "Sorry," she mumbled.

Meredith was almost smiling as she turned and walked back to meet Cristina and LExie, pushing them into the bedroom to give Izzie and Alex some space.

"It's fine," Alex assured her.

Izzie kicked the front door shut behind her and leaned away from Alex who still had his hands on her shoulders. She leaned against the hard door and crossed her arms aover her chest.

"So how are you?" she asked.

"I'm fine." Alex gave her a half smile and her heart nearly melt.

"I've been worrying sick about you," she told him. She suddenly gave him a hard push to his shoulder. "Don't you ever freakin' scare me like that again!" Izzie warned him.

Alex smirked. "I'm sorry for getting shot," he said sarcastically, chuckeling lightly.

"It's not funny," Izzie mumbled. "I nearly ran down here as fast as I could. You wouldn't let me come."

Alex shook his head. "You didn't need to drive all the way down here for no reason."

"No reason?" Izzie demanded. "You were shot! You almost freaking died!"

"You almost died on me many itmes," Alex reminded her, his eyes burning into hers. "I missed you," he admitted.

"Hey!" a voice sounded from Cristina's room, making them jump. "Can we finish this love fest later when we aren't being talked to by ghostds?" Cristina yelled.

Alex and Izzie both laughed quietly to themselves. "You wanna get a drink later?" Alex offered. "We can catch up. It'll be my treat."

Izzie couldn't help but smile. She had her Alex back. "Okay," she whispered.

Alex smiled at her before taking her head and pulling her into Cristina's room.

Lexie

Meredith continued to give Cristina an angry look for interupting Alex and Izzie. "What?" Cristina finally demanded.

"We want them to get back together, not drive them apart."

Lexie felt slightly uncomfortable durring this little exchange. She had slept with Alex many times earlier that year. They had said they liked each other. But it was when she had heard him calling Izzie's name when he was shot that she knew he would never love anyone the way he loved Izzie. She also realized that if it was her in that situation, it would be Mark's name that she would be calling out. Not Alex's.

Suddenly Alex and Izzie walked into Crisitna's room, holding hands. Meredith was muttering something to Cristina, trying to get her to do something that Lexie had missed when she wasn't paying attention. Cristina finally let out an exasperated sigh. "I'm sorry," she grumbled, barely audible. But they all still hear it. Alex just nodded but Izzie tried to smile.

When Izzie sat down on the bed Meredith turned and hugged her suddenly. "Woah!" Izzie gasped. "When ddid you become a hugger?"

"When my husband nearly died and when Alex nearly died. After you nearly died and George did die."

Izzie just shrugged and hugged her back. "Someone's happy," Izzie laughed.

"Yeah, well she has some good news," Lexie cut in.

Meredith just sighed and rolled her eyes. "I'm pregnant," she admitted.

Izzie's eyes widened and she squealed. "Oh my gosh! I am so happy for you!"

She hugged Meredith tightly. "Easy there," Cristina laughed. "Don't kill her baby."

Everyone shot Cristina a look and she quickly remembered the miscarraige. "Oh!" Cristina gasped. "I'm sorry Mer! I didn't-

"It's fine," Meredith assured pulling back. She tried to smile but it was hardly there.

"Sorry," Cristina repeated.

Meredith waved it off. "Anyways," she started. "Why don't we all say what our visions were about. Maybe we can peice them together."

Everyone agreed and continued to stare at Meredith. "Why don't I go first?" Meredith offered to break the tension. "In my vision there was fire... lots of it. I was crawling on the ground under all the smoke... and I saw a room and there was someone in it... they were... groaning in pain...

Meredith trailed off. "Who was it?" Lexie whispered, remembering her vision.

Meredith pressed her lips together for a moment. "Was it one of us?" Alex offered.

Meredith shook her head. "It was Derek," she admitted.

"Oh my gosh!" Lexie suddenly gasped out. "Our visions fit together."

"What?" Meredith seemed shocked.

"Yours picks up right after mine ends," Lexie said.

"Well don't just sit there, tell us your vision!" Alex reminded her.

"Oh! Right! I um... I was on the ground in the stairwell. Someone opened the door and I thought it would be Mark. But it wasn't. It was Derek. He was trying to help me and he picked me up and started running. He kept asking where you were and I asked about Mark. And he got all upset and said that Mark was in the basement where the main explosion was. He kept running, looking for you, looking for help, when suddenly... there was all this fire, and we were falling. I tumbled into this huge flame and I was burning and I could hear other voices in the room. My vision basically ended with me dying."

Everybody's eyes were wide. "You were in that room the whole time?" MEredith asked. "How did I not see you?"

I was probably dead by the time your vision started," Lexie said.

Meredith shook her head. "No," she whispered. "I think I may have died in the end of my vision too. I fell next to Derek and blacked out in his arms I think."

"I think I died in the end of my vision too," Alex said.

"I saw you dying when I was being saved in my vision," Cristina said to Alex.

"I was looking for you in my vision," Izzie murmured as she turned to Alex. "The ceiling collapsed on me."

"I know," Alex responded. "I watched it happen. I thought I really lost you Iz."

"What?" Meredith and Lexie gasped.

Cristina was ignoring everyone. "I don't know if I die or not in mine," she admitted. "I remember seeing Alex and then being wheeled away."

"Alright," Meredith cut everyone off. "Instead of doing this, why don't we continue telling the entire visions?"

"Okay," Cristina agreed. "In my vision Owen lifted me up and carried me to an on-call room-

"I don't need to hear this," Alex cut her off.

Cristina rolled her eyes. "Relax evil spawn, we didn't do anything."

Alex huffed and Izze unconciously reached for his arm. "Anyways, we were about to... well... you all know what I' talking about. But I smelled smoke and I told Owen. There was this loud boom and Owen dropped me." Alex chuckled at that and Cristina rolled her eyes. "Owen went to open the door and it broke and fell on him because there had been fire on it. The room burst into flames and my shirt started burning, so I took it off and went to help Owen, but I collapsed onto his chest. I was found almost immediately and put onto a stretcher and Owen was put on one too. I saw Alex on the ground and then we were outside."

"And you weren't wearing a shirt?" Alex chuckled.

Izzie moved her hand fromhis arm and slapped him. "Come on Alex!" Meredith cut in. "This is serious."

"Well if it's so serious than why doesn't O'Malley just come and talk to us himself?"

Suddenly Alex's phone began to vibrate and everyone went silent. Alex even began to look afraid.

Alex

Lexie started shaking and hid behind Meredith. Izzie clung on to Alex's left arm. Cristina tensed up and grabbed Meredith's elbow while Meredith's hand went to her stomach, trying to keep her baby there this time.

Everyone looked at Alex who slowly reached his right hand to his phone. His hand shook as he did so. It closed around the phone slowly and lifted it up, his hand still shaking. He wasn't so brave afterall. His hand was shaking so much that he couldn't even open the phone to check it. Izzie slowly reached for the phone and took it from Alex's shaking hands. Her hands trembled but they didn't shake nearly as much. Izzie opened the phone, her eyes burning into the screen, nervously. She cleared her throat before reading.

"I'm trying Karev. But it's not exactly so easy. And don't be so afraid of me. You weren't this scared of me when I was alive."

Alex was still staring at his shaking hand. Besides the fact that they were shaking like crazy, he hadn't moved since Izzie took the phone.

"The text message just dissapeared," Izzie said.

"Does this mean we can just talk to George whenever we want?" Meredith whispered. Then she looked up towards the sky, trying to speak to George. "Can you say hi right now George?"

Nothing happened.

"Maybe he doesn't want to push his luck," Lexie squeaked.

Meredith nodded in agreement.

"Still think this is all a prank Alex?" Cristina demanded.

Alex didn't answer. He just sat there, shaking. Izzie slowly slid her arms around him, trying to calm him down. "Breathe," she reminded him.

Alex suddenly gasped in a deep breath, not realziing that he hand't been breathing. He sat there breathing like crazy.

"Are you okay?" Meredith asked.

Alex nodded slowly.

"Why don't I tell my vision?" Izzie offered. "You can calm yourself down and then tell your afterwards."

Alex nodded again, his eyes darting to his cellphone a few times. Izzie looked concerned but spoke anyway.

"I had apparently seen the news or something. I tried ot get into the hospital to find you guys. An officer wouldn't let me through. But I pushed through anyway and found Cristina about to be loaded into an ambulance, on a stretcher." Cristina's eyes widened and she listened closer.

"Was OWen with me?" she asked.

Izzie nodded. "You were both just badly burned. I don't know too much more though. I asked where Meredith was and youdidn't know. I asked about Alex and you said he was still in the building. I snuck in through the main entrence and started getting screamed at. Then the ceiling collapsed on me."

Everyone inhaled as Alex cleared his throat and was begining to calm down. "I-I-I...

"I'll get you some water," Cristina said, standing up.

Alex waited until she came back and Alex took the water from her hand, greatfully. He downed the glass quickly, not realizing how thirsty he was.

"You okay?" Meredith asked him.

Alex nodded and the color began to return to his pale face. "I was in the hospital," he croaked. "I found my cancer patient Haley on the floor. I lifted her up and we began to run. But I tripped and we fell and she blacked out. I saw Cristina pass me and I saw the ceiling fall on Izzie. Then after I woke out of the vision Haley was brought to the hospital. They don't even know she had cancer yet."

Izzie rubbed Alex's arm slowly. The room was silent for a long time. Cristina was finally the one to sspeak up.

"Well how did this damn fire start in the first place?"

Suddenly Lexie gasped in a breath and her eyes went wide, her body rigid. "I forgot to tell you guys! I know how the fire starts."

A/N: Sorry it took me a few days to update. I was on vacation. Anyways, I totally forgot that I had to thank the person who gave me the wonderful idea for how the fire gets started. It was from an unsigned review from Kathryn. Thanks so much for the idea. I hope this long chapter makes up for the fact that I haven't updated in a few days. I also realize that way more people read this story than review. So please review if you still like this story. Ideas are always welcome. Do you like or dislike my story? Please review!