Chapter 5

Izzie heard a loud banging on the door and a loud yell. But she was gone to fast to notice.

Suddenly Izzie was standing in an empty hospital.

"Alex!" she called. "Alex!" her voice echoed through the room and found it's way back to her.

And suddenly she felt as though she couldn't breathe. She lifted her head up and saw George there. "George," she coughed.

She felt like she was swallowing water. She moved her hand and felt like it was swaying through water.

And then she remembered.

The bathtub!

"No!" she coughed. "Am I dead?"

George suddenly sank down into the ground and disappeared. "George!" she shrieked, using the last of her oxygen.

Her head was spinning and she needed to breathe so badly.

She slowly sunk down into darkness, and even welcomed it. After that she couldn't recall a thing.

Alex breathed into Izzie's mouth and then pumped his hands against her chest and listened for a heartbeat.

Nothing!

There was a siren down the street and Alex clenched his teeth as he started the next round of CPR.

He then leaned down and counted to ten as he listened for a heartbeat.

Nothing!

Alex punched his hand into the side of the bathtub as the tears ran down his face. He bent down to breath into her mouth again but found that he didn't even have enough air for himself. He sat there hyperventilating and pushing his hands against Izzie's chest.

Suddenly something threw him out of the way and caused him to land on the tiled floor on his back.

He opened his eyes to find Derek taking over CPR for him. He held himself together as he did so and Alex wished that he could have done so.

There were footsteps that sounded towards him and he looked up to find Meredith standing over him.

"Alex," she whispered. "The ambulance is here. Come with me."

"N-no. I can't leave her!"

"Got it!" Derek announced. "She has a pulse but she's still not breathing."

Just then the paramedics came running into the bathroom and began to lift Izzie onto a stretcher. One of them put a mask on her face that helped her breathe.

As they took her away Alex sat frozen on the ground with tears rushing down his face.

"They'll do everything they can," Meredith whispered.

Alex shook his head. "I-I'm a doctor… and I couldn't save her."

"Doctors can't always save the patient," Meredith murmured.

"Izzie's not just a normal patient!" Alex yelled. "She's Izzie!"

Cristina was stitching up a patient's thigh and listening to the woman drone on and on about how it happened.

"So anyway I slipped and went flying on the roof. I could have sworn that was it. I thought I would die. And then I became very lucky. I landed right on my daughter's trampoline, the one that I told her I wished she didn't have. Well now I love that trampoline. Of course the springs are a little sharp. As you can see my thigh did suffer just a bit. But if it was my life-

"Okay," Cristina cut her off. "I get it. You almost died. Well you got lucky. Now can you like shut up so I don't mess up the stitches? Please?"

The woman's eyes widened. "If you are such a good doctor then there should be no chance of you messing up at all…

As the woman went on Cristina turned to grab the chart and saw a stretcher being rushed through the hallway.

The chart fell out of her hands as she saw the pale face of the woman on the stretcher. "Oh crap," the words came out of her mouth slowly.

Miranda walked out of the day care center where her son spent the day.

She was in a good mood, which was rare lately. But her son and the new man (Ben) who she was dating made her that way.

She walked past Arizona Robbins with a smile plastered on her face.

"Someone's in a good mood," Arizona laughed.

"I sure am," Miranda said. "And there isn't anything that can change that!"

With that Miranda turned around to keep walking and her mouth fell open as she saw Izzie Stevens being rolled through the hospital on a stretcher.

So much for a good mood.

Alex ran after Izzie and the doctors that pushed her through the hospital.

He felt somebody grab his arm and hold him back. It was Derek Shepherd once again.

"We have to operate on her immediately," Derek said. "Her brain was left without oxygen for a while. It could have caused serious damage. And unfortunately the tumor on her pituitary gland grew rapidly and caused her to black out before. We need to get in their immediately and see if we can remove it. It is the harder one but her only chance of surviving if the lack of oxygen didn't cause any damage is to remove the tumor immediately. We can try to get the other one out as well while we are in there."

Alex looked down and clenched his jaw. "Oh Izzie," he whispered.

"You must also keep in mind that she signed the DNR-

"No!" Alex yelled. "Ignore the freaking DNR. Do everything in your power to save her and bring her back to me."

Derek looked away. "I'm afraid I can't do that."

"She signed the DNR a while ago! If she dies…

He couldn't finish his sentence and broke off hyperventilating as he fell back into the wall.

Derek turned and walked after Izzie to do the surgery. Alex felt his heart speed up and tears start in his eyes.

"Alex," a soft voice came from behind him.

He turned to see Lexie and felt disgust towards what they had done together.

"Get away from me!" Alex growled.

"W-what?" Lexie stuttered in confusion.

"Did you not hear me?" Alex yelled as tears rushed down his face.

"I know what happened to Izzie, but what did I do?"

"You got me to sleep with you! You could have stopped me! You knew I wasn't thinking straight! And while we were together Izzie was suffering two tumors! So don't come up to me acting all innocent! You know what you did!"

"Alex, you-

"Get away from me!" Alex growled. "I don't want to see your face!"

Lexie bit her lip and ran away crying.

Lexie ran to the nearest on-call room and threw open the door before rushing in and collapsing onto a bed.

She lay there and cried.

She hated when people yelled at her. And Alex had no right! He was involved in what they did too.

But what Lexie didn't realize was that she wasn't alone in the on-call room.

"Lexie?" a voice murmured.

It was then that she realized why else she was crying. She had many feelings built up inside of her.

She looked up to see the face of the one person at that moment that could actually make her feel better.

"Oh Mark!" she cried, throwing her arms around his neck and crying into his shoulder.

Derek looked down at Izzie's face for a moment as they placed her onto the surgical table.

They were about to give her anesthesia when something very unexpected happened.

Izzie groaned a loud groan and turned her face slightly away from the anesthesia mask.

Derek gasped and his eyes grew wide as did Izzie's that were suddenly staring right back at him.

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