Here's Chapter Three! I hope you guys enjoy it!

Izzie was scrubbing in for the first time in Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital since she was fired from her job. She sighed as recalled the memory. The pain that it caused her, not physically, but emotionally. She lost Alex because of that, and she would never be able to forgive herself for that.

The door creaked open and Izzie looked over to see Lexie Grey entering the scrub room. "Oh, hey Lexie." Izzie greeted her with a kind smile. "How have you been?"

"He called for you." She blurted out, making Izzie furrow her eyebrows in confusion.

"I'm sorry, Lexie, I don't..." Izzie began before getting cut off.

"When he was shot." She responded. "I know you heard about it... The shooting. He was shot, and he... He called for you, or he thought that I was you because I was blonde at the time, but I dyed my hair back, so you probably didn't know, but..." Lexie continued to ramble as Izzie's thoughts began to wander. What did that even mean? He called for her?

"I'm sorry." Izzie said, confusion laced through her voice. "What?"

As soon as the words escaped her mouth, the scrub room door opened and Alex and Meredith walked in. "Well, I guess that's my cue to leave. Bye Izzie! Nice seeing you again." Lexie said as she walked out, leaving Izzie dumbfounded.

"Iz, you okay?" Meredith asked her blonde friend, nothing but concern for her.

"Yeah, sorry. I'm just... I'm fine." She said.

"Well, pull it together, we have a fifteen-year old girl on the table." Alex muttered more to himself than to Izzie. It was the first words he had spoken to her since she ranted to him in the on-call room earlier that week.

"Successful surgery, Dr. Stevens." One of the scrub nurses said to her in the surgery after the tumor was successfully taken out of the young girl's brain.

"Thank you nurse." She said with a smile and continued to scrub between Alex and Meredith. Throughout the entire surgery, she couldn't stop thinking about what Lexie was saying. Of course, Izzie was focused on the patient, but when there wasn't much going on to be worried about, Izzie was thinking of what she said. What had she meant by Alex calling for her? Did he still love her?

"I'm hungry." Alex said after he was done scrubbing, and walked out of the scrub room.

Izzie rolled her eyes and scoffed. "Well isn't he being just wonderful and cheerful." She muttered angrily.

"Well he is kind of surprised you're still here, Iz. Just give him some time." Meredith said to her.

"I don't know if I have time left. I'm staying to monitor Carlson post-op, then who knows where I'll go. Back to my old job? I don't know." Izzie sighed, "I just came to see you guys, work a little, and I was planning on doing something else, but..." Izzie sighed, "Nevermind."

Meredith sighed and walked towards the door. "Iz, just... give him some time." She said before leaving the room with Izzie alone.

After a long day of making sure Carlson was okay, Izzie went across the street to Joe's to have a few drinks. She hadn't been there in a while, and maybe she would see some people she knew. Maybe even someone in particular.

She sat there and downed her first shot of tequila quickly when the bell dinged. She turned to see who was entering and saw Mark Sloan and Derek Shepherd coming through the door. Izzie smiled and waved them over.

"Stevens? What are you doing here?" Mark asked her with a smug grin on his face.

"I was here for a case, nice to see you too Dr. Sloan." Izzie chuckled at the plastic surgeon and turned to Derek.

"Where's Mer?" She asked him. Throughout the week, Derek and Izzie became a bit closer since he was cheif and she had to talk to him about a lot of things. She even ate dinner with him and Meredith one night. It was really nice to catch up with them.

"She had to do some paperwork back at the hospital." He said and she nodded at him. Derek looked at Izzie and sighed, "I have an important question to ask you, Izzie." He said to her and she looked at him hesitantly.

"Okay...? Go for it." She said to him with a confused look on her face.

"What would you say to a permanent job here at Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital?" Derek asked her.

Izzie just stared at him for a moment. All of the thoughts running back into her head. Alex calling for her when he was shot, Carlson's surgery, being with Meredith and Cristina again, George.

And then she fainted.

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