Chapter 8

"Alex!" Meredith called from outside the bathroom. "Alex, are you alright in there?"

No answer.

Meredith ignored the fact that it was a men's a bathroom and stomped right in.

"Alex!"

She checked under each stall for feet. As she neared the last stall the door swung open and she gasped. As she caught her breath she walked into the stall and sat down across from Alex.

"Hey," she murmured.

"Hey," Alex said, rolling his eyes.

"Are you okay?"

Alex shrugged. "Physically I feel sick to my stomach. Mentally I am dead."

"There is still some hope," Meredith said.

"Yeah? Well according to your caring husband I shouldn't get my hopes up! He says they'll be crushed. Just like me!"

Meredith reached a hand toward Alex but he jumped back. She watched as his face became paler and he pushed her out of the way and locked his hands onto the toilet and threw up.

Meredith turned her face and leaned against the wall until she heard the sound of the toilet flush and Alex sunk back onto the floor.

He wiped sweat off of his forehead and tears out of his eyes and off of his cheeks.

Meredith grabbed a piece of toilet paper and handed it to Alex to use as a tissue. He took it slowly and wiped his eyes with it.

"She's dying Mer," Alex murmured.

"I know," Meredith whispered. "I'm here for you."

Cristina stood outside of Izzie's room and leaned against the wall.

She noticed Teddy walk by at that moment and smiled slightly. "Hello," she whispered.

Teddy walked over to her. "Hi," she said. "I'm sorry about your friend. We'll have to hope for the best."

Cristina nodded and looked away. She wanted to cry. But she couldn't cry. Cristina didn't cry in front of people. At least she tried not to.

"How's Owen?" Teddy asked. "He's still acting a little cold towards me."

"He's the same," Cristina murmured. "Still cranky. Still crazy. Still… well still Owen."

Teddy giggled at that. "Well I'm happy for the two of you. I will admit I was jealous. But now I have Mark. And I really like him."

"That's good," Cristina said, turning back to look into Izzie's room. "Oh, she looks so broken. Poor Izzie."

"Poor Alex," Teddy said.

Cristina had nearly forgotten she was there for a moment. "Oh yeah. He's pretty broken too."

Teddy nodded. "Well, see you," she said.

As she turned to leave Cristina there was a strange beeping coming from Izzie's room.

"Crap!" Cristina gasped, running into the room. "Page Shepherd!"

Mark noticed Derek running through the hallways with panic on his face.

"Derek!" Mark called.

"Later!" Derek called back, and continued running down the hall, leaving Mark to watch confused.

Just then he noticed Teddy starting towards him and he ran in the other direction into another hallway. As he ran he looked behind him to make sure Teddy wasn't following and slammed right into someone, knocking them onto the floor. He landed on top of them and they fell back into the doorway of the on-call room.

"Sorry!" he gasped. Then he looked down at the person who lay on the ground with their forehead scrunched up in pain and surprise. "Lexie! I am so sorry," Mark said. "Are you alright? Did I hurt you? Did you hit your head?"

"Shh," Lexie said, silencing him. "I'm fine. But could you please just get off of me?"

Mark smiled slightly and started to get up. He put out a hand towards her and she took it gratefully.

"I'm sorry," Mark said again.

"It's fine," Lexie said, a little embarrassed. "But why were you running, and what from?"

"Ted… never mind."

Lexie nodded her head. "Alright," she said. "And news about Sloan?"

"She got out of surgery but I can't come and see her just yet. I'll have to wait about a half an hour."

Lexie nodded, awkwardly. Then her face began a little pained. "Look, I'm sorry I did what I did before. It was unexpected, and weird, and…" she trailed off, looking into Mark's eyes. "And I don't care what you say but I'm going to kiss you."

Mark was in shock but didn't move as Lexie moved towards him. "Lexie, I don't know if-

She leaned in and kissed him, silencing him. He didn't pull away at first, he just stood there. But then he realized that he was dating Teddy and he slowly pushed Lexie off.

There was a sudden gasp and Mark turned to look at a teary eyed Teddy who stood in the doorway.

"Teddy I-

"You… you… you no good, lying, cheater! You just know how to freaking screw up a relationship don't you!"

"Teddy!" Mark yelled. She turned and fled the room. "Teddy!" He tried to run after her but once again slammed into Lexie and fell onto the floor onto of her once again.

"We should stop meeting like this," Lexie stated.

Mark groaned and stood up, trying to leave the room. "Mark wait!" Lexie yelled.

Mark froze in his spot and slowly turned. "Lex, I can't. I have to go find Teddy."

He turned back towards the door.

"Mark, just hear me out." Mark faced looking out the door and waited, listening to Lexie without looking her. "Let her go. I'm here. I'm still… I still love you. So all I'm asking is that you give me a second chance."

Mark turned and stalked up to Lexie and looked her in the eye. "You broke up with me. You then went and slept with Karev because you have nothing better do with your life then screw around. And now you expect me to take you back?"

Mark turned once again.

"Mark!" Lexie cried. He stopped at the door. "Please! Give me a second chance! Please!"

Mark just kept walking. But as he left the room he noticed Lexie fall to the floor and hide her face in her knees.

"What happened?" Alex gasped, running into Izzie's room.

He heard the loud beeping and his eyes widened. Her heartbeat was strong.

"Her heartbeat grew stronger," Derek said. "She's breathing on her own and…

He trailed off as he saw Izzie start to move her head slowly and her eyes squeezed shut tighter.

Meredith walked in and gasped loudly. "Oh my gosh!"

Izzie opened her eyes slowly and looked at Alex. "Hey," she whispered, and smiled slightly.

"Hey," Alex answered. Tears filled his eyes. "You're up."

"I am. And my head hurts," Izzie groaned. She turned her head and saw Cristina and Meredith. "Did you get the tumor out?" she questioned.

Derek nodded. "It was hard. We weren't sure if you would wake up."

"Well that's good. And I'm not seeing Denny anymore. So that's even better."

"I guess," Meredith said. "But what about George?"

"What about George?" Izzie asked. "Speaking of which, where is he?"

"What do you mean?" Alex asked.

Izzie turned her head to look at the wall. "Oh there you are," she said to nothing. "I was wondering where you disappeared to."

"What the hell?" Cristina whispered.

"Hey," Izzie said. "Meredith?"

"Yes?" Meredith stepped forwards.

From behind them Lexie entered the room with wide eyes. She had clearly just seen everything.

"When are you and Derek planning on rescheduling a new wedding?" Izzie questioned.

"W-what?" Meredith stuttered. She was suddenly in utter confusion.

"Well Alex and I took your wedding. Don't you want one for yourselves?"

She winked at Derek who's mouth was wide open.

"Um… Iz, we already had a wedding. Well, sort of. The post it notes. You know."

"Post it notes? What the hell does that mean?"

Alex slowly began to catch on to what he feared was happening. "Izzie," Alex said slowly. "Can you tell me what happened to George O'Malley?"

"What?" she turned to face the wall again. "What happened to you George?"

"What's the last thing you remember?" Derek asked.

"Well, you and Meredith were getting married but you gave your wedding to Alex and me. And I had that tumor. And you removed a big chunk out of my brain and thought I'd lose my memory."

"Do you even remember George joining the army?" Lexie asked, straight forwards.

"You freaking joined the army?" Izzie yelled at the wall. Izzie turned back and took in everybody's faces. "What's going on?" She began to panic. "What happened?"

Everyone went silent in astonishment, except for Cristina who spoke two words.

"Holy crap!"

A/N: Uh oh! What will happen?

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