Back Where We Belong- Chapter Four-
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Chapter Four-
"We're just worried about Alex."
"I'm not."
"Shut up, Cristina."
"Oooh. Barbie's angry."
Izzie rolled her eyes. "I'm trying to get Meredith to tell us what she knows, you're not helping!"
"I'm not going to say anything," Meredith said, putting away charts. "Go bother someone else."
Izzie folded here arms from the other side of the Nurse's station. "Fine. I'll just go and ask Alex instead."
Cristina scoffed, sitting in her chair. "Good luck with that." She called after Izzie.
As soon as the blonde had gone, Cristina jumped up. "You're going to tell me what's up with Evil Spawn, right?"
Meredith smiled. "Nope." She put away the last chart and left Cristina.
"But I'm your person!"
/
Izzie walked around the whole of the pediatric floor, searching for Alex. She finally came to the NICU. She spotted him looking down at one of the newborns.
"Hey, Alex." She smiled as she walked in.
He glanced briefly at her, before turning his attention back to the preemie.
"Hey, Iz."
She stood next to him, staring into the incubator and smiling. "She looks strong."
"She is." He agreed. "I'm sure she'll survive."
"That's great Alex."
He didn't say anything, he just looked adoringly at the little girl.
"What happened with you and Addison?" She asked softly, after a second of silence.
"I hurt her." Alex didn't take his eyes off the baby girl. "She was nice to me and I hurt her."
"You pushed her away?"
Alex nodded slightly, the newborn yawned, stretching her tiny hand and clasping it around Alex's finger.
"She's got a tight grip." Izzie smiled down at the small child.
"Mmm."
They both stayed quiet for a while, Izzie not knowing what to say and Alex too wrapped up in his thoughts.
"We should go and see her." Izzie suggested finally.
"Who?"
"Addison."
Alex lifted his head. "Why?"
"She just ran away from her whole life, Alex!"
"She's run away before…"
"Are you why she left?" Izzie asked quietly. "When she left Seattle, are you the reason she went?"
Alex sighed. "Part of it."
There was another moment of silence between them.
"I'll bake food. We'll watch surgeries, drink anything with alcohol in it and chat. It'll be good." Izzie nudged him.
He rolled his eyes. "Fine. Even though I'll be the only guy."
"We can invite Derek."
"He doesn't even know Addison's here." Alex reminded her.
Izzie thought for a moment. "We'll figure it out." She got up to leave.
"Iz." Alex stopped her. "Won't Addison just want to sleep, she must be tired after her trip."
Izzie nodded. "We'll have it tomorrow, okay?"
Alex nodded. "Sure." He turned his attention back to the baby, expecting Izzie to leave.
But his blonde friend just grinned at him. "You really care about her."
"She's a nice person, I guess."
"Seriously, Alex." Izzie laughed. "I may not know the whole story but even I can tell you still care about her."
She left Alex to ponder that.
/
"Addison. Eat." Callie said, watching her friend who wasn't touching her food.
"I'm not hungry." Addison pushed the plate away from her.
"You haven't eaten since you got here, you'll be starving soon."
"I'm going to sleep." Addison got up from her chair at the table and went to go to the couch.
"Addison, take our room."
"Callie, I couldn't-"
"Just for tonight, take our room. Arizona won't mind."
Addison gave a faint smile. "Thank you."
Callie smiled back, but it slowly faded as Addison left. She looks so broken.
The apartment door opened. "Hey!" Arizona grinned cheerfully.
"Shh!" Callie hushed quickly. "Addison's trying to sleep."
"Oh, sorry, I forgot…" Arizona whispered. "Is she okay?"
Callie shook her head. "She looks so sad."
"Is she in our room?"
"I said she could stay there, just for tonight."
"Sure." Arizona sat down at the table, "Is that mine?" She pulled Addison's food towards her.
"Uh-no. That was Addison's." Callie swapped the plate for another one. "Here."
"Thank you." Arizona kissed Callie lightly on the lips and then began digging into her dinner. "You do realise we now have more people in our house than Meredith." She pointed out,
Callie laughed, and the two woman sat down to enjoy a late meal together.
/
"Chief!" Derek called down the hallway, spotting the Chief of Surgery.
Richard sighed. I'm now going to be nagged about something until I agree to do what ever stupid thing he wants. He was thinking about how he had just caved to letting Bailey use Mercy West's equipment, making the hospital look cheaper than Mercy West… Mercy West!
"Hurry up, Shep. I've been bothered too much already today.."
"Uh- I was just wondering what was wrong with Meredith, and Bailey. They're acting strange. Is something going on?"
The Chief stopped. "I…Uh- Oh look, 911." He looked down at his pager, "Sorry, Derek. Got to go and uh… Save a life."
"Wha- did you just…" Derek stammered. "I didn't hear that go off!" He called after The Chief.
What the hell is going on?
/
"Do you think that Naomi chick is going to show up?" Cristina asked Callie, Arizona and Owen; who all sat around the table. "Do you think she going to come up here and try and drag Montgomery out by her hair."
"Cristina." Owen warned.
"I've met her before… I wouldn't put it past her." Callie laughed slightly.
They were interrupted by the sound of a phone ringing.
"I'll get it." Arizona got up, "Hello?"
"Addison Montgomery, I'm going to freaking kill you!"
"Uh- Sorry, you've got the wrong number!" Arizona squealed, slamming the phone down.
"What the hell?" Cristina frowned.
"That was the crazy LA person we were just talking about." Arizona told them, her voice still sounding nervous.
"Naomi called?" Callie said in a panicked whisper, remembering Addison was asleep in the next room.
Arizona nodded.
"How did she get our number?" Callie started freaking out.
"I didn't give it to her!" Arizona defended, holding her hands up in surrender.
"Well neither did I!" Callie said.
"That doesn't matter, what matters is she sounded like she was going to burn our apartment down!"
Cristina and Owen watched in amusement -well Owen was curious, Cristina was amused- as the two woman started coming up with theories on how Naomi was going to storm the whole of Seattle in search for Addison.
"We can't tell her Naomi called." Callie concluded finally, calming down a little.
"I agree." Arizona nodded.
"Okay." Callie let out a deep breath. "We'll just act like nothing's wrong."
Okay. So, Naomi may have come off as a bit of a crazy person. But, hey, we all love a bit of Arizona and Callie awesomeness, right? I really wanted Cristina to quote 'Cougar Town' and say "Bitches be Loco" about Naomi, but I didn't put it in the end (it's the title of this chapter instead!). This is not an Addisex Chapter, but they will be having cute moments soon. I'm just putting some lovely family/friendship stuff in there : )
So, to sum up:
Izzie's planning a get-together, Alex is uncovering his feelings for Addie, Derek has no idea what's going on, Naomi's going to axe murder someone (metaphorically speaking… I hope), and Cristina is being Cristina : )