IZZIE

As Izzie's big eyes searched his face, Alex broke in to a confident smile as he arched an eyebrow and said. "I don't know, do you know me? You do look kind of familiar." Taking a step towards her and placing one hand on his hip as he clutched her daughters chart tightly in the other hand.

Izzie was shocked, this coolass guy in front of her was actually her daughter's doctor. He had a kind of self assured cockiness to him that was very attractive and he carried himself like he was the kind of guy that gets laid a lot, a guy who likes woman, who knows how to show them a good time in bed.

She felt her cheeks flush and she smiled back, because he was gorgeous. Distractingly gorgeous. "I don't think we've met before.." She stammered, it had been a long time since anyone had, had this kind of effect on her.

"My Mom's a top model, she's the face of Bethany Whisper's and she's done loads of other stuff too. Victoria Secret, Chanel etc. That's where you recognise her from..." Sarah suddenly said from where she was sat on the bed, rolling her eyes, looking unimpressed.

Izzie laughed shyly as she turned to shoot her daughter a warning look. She wasn't ashamed of her career. She just hated that it was the first thing people, guys especially, identified her with. Like it was her only identity or burning ambition in life. For once she didn't want to just be known as 'Isobel Stevens', the Bethany Whisper's model. Especially not to a guy as smart and hot as the young doctor stood in front of her now.

Still a little gooey eyed she turned back to look at her daughter's doctor who seemingly unfazed was stood daringly close to her, fixing her with the same self assured smile as he said. "Well, I'm Dr Karev. I'll be treating your daughter, Ms Stevens."

"Yes, yes, of course," Izzie replied eagerly. Remembering the reason they were all there, her precious daughter, the light of her life, had collapsed at school that day. The overwhelming anxiety she had felt ever since she had gotten the call suddenly hitting her again, as her face became frantic.

"Well, good news is the seizures seem to have stopped. But we can't rule out possible head injury at this stage, she took a nasty fall. We've taken some blood for testing and Sarah seems to be responding well to the initial pain medication, as soon as we get the test results back we'll.."

"No, no, you need to order a Neuro consult and schedule an MRI and CT scan right now? That needs to be done straight away." Izzie said firmly, cutting him off mid sentence.

His expression changed then. His eyes darkening and narrowing slightly as he said bluntly. "As your daughter's doctor, Ms Stevens, I think I am more than capable of deciding the correct course of treatment for her at this stage."

"But..." Izzie opened her mouth to protest, as he cut her off arrogantly. "If you let me finish, I was actually just about to say that I have paged Dr Shepherd our leading Neuro Surgeon and have also scheduled an MRI scan for your daughter."

"Derek Shepherd? He's one of the leading Neuro surgeons in the country." Izzie said, her eyes widening.

"Yes, he's in surgery at the moment, but as soon as he's out we'll get him to come and take a look at your daughter." He replied with the faintest smug smile creeping on to his lips. Izzie could tell he didn't like to be wrong.

"Right, thanks." She said more calmly as he just smirked back at her. She wanted to hate him, but she couldn't. There was just something about him, something drawing her to him.

There was a small pause then, as Izzie worked up the courage to say. "I'm sorry if I was a little forward. I take an interest in this stuff because I was planning to go to med school when I was younger. I wanted to be a surgeon."

She could tell that amused him slightly, as she caught his eyes instinctively flicker over her cleavage as he smirked and said slightly patronisingly. "Oh, why didn't you then?"

An uncomfortable silence followed as neither of them spoke and Sarah who had been quiet up until this point fidgeted on the bed, causing Izzie to turn and give her a reassuring smile as she squeezed her hand. Before her eyes wandered back to the handsome, self assured doctor stood in front of her.

Clearly sensing the tension he said. "Okay, Ms Stevens, well I suggest until we know more you stay here with your daughter and try to keep her calm while we work out what's causing the seizures and black outs." Adding with a fresh arrogant smirk. "You could go and get yourself some fashion magazine's from the shop." As Izzie felt herself scowl almost playfully back at him.

He then looked back at her a tad awkwardly, as he said. "Do you want us to call anyone else to come and be here with you?..." Looking down at her ring finger.

"Oh, no. I'm not married, it's just me I'm afraid." Izzie said quietly, and glancing at him to catch his eye for a split second, she was sure she detected his face light up a little as he snapped shut her daughter's patient chart and looked away.

"Well, we'll need you to sign a few consent forms now and then we'll have Sarah transported up to the pediatric ward straight away. She'll almost certainly need to stay in at least over night. So you might want to consider staying in with her." He said abruptly as he turned to quickly leave the room.

"Dr Karev." Izzie said firmly as she followed him, pulling back the curtain to step outside the room to confront him.

He turned around a little surprised, and Izzie could tell she had caught him off guard, as she looked deep in to his eyes seeing a sort of defensiveness and gentle kindness, quite different from the original arrogant air he had given off. But she swallowed, there was still something she had to get off her chest. She had been judged by guys like Dr Karev her whole life.

"Look I know what you think of me, okay. You don't respect me, you think I'm just some dumb, shallow bimbo. But I need you to know I am just as smart as you. If things had worked out differently for me, I would have gone to med school and I would be just like you now."

He glared back at her then as he snapped angrily. "What you expect me to feel sorry for you, when you probably make more in a day posing in your underwear than I do in a year! Perhaps if you were more concerned about your kid than worrying about what people think of your fashion career, you would have noticed something was wrong sooner and you wouldn't be taking up my time now."

Izzie felt herself shaking with anger as he finished speaking, he was pushing all her buttons, as she yelled back at him "I am not a bad mother, you have no idea... You know what? I want another doctor. Get me another doctor now."

"Well guess what? There isn't anyone else, so you're stuck with me." He replied rasing his voice a little too.

Izzie opened her mouth to say something else, before she changed her mind as she looked around to see everyone was staring at them. Her eye focusing on a blond female doctor in scrubs with bright blue eyes glaring straight at Dr Karev. He held his hand up then roughly in frustration as his eyes still glowered at Izzie.

Then suddenly they were all interrupted by gasps and screaming coming from Sarah's cubicle behind them.

"Sarah," Izzie screamed, as everything seemed to happen at once. A team of medical staff coming to her daughters aid as she fitted and screamed on her hospital bed.

Alex swiftly jumped in to action, taking complete control as he shouted out orders to the emergency team around him, rushing straight to Sarah's bedside where she was now lying limp. "Okay, she's going in to cardiac arrest, quick give me the paddles." He yelled, as Izzie was ushered away by a nurse.

"Sarah, Sarah..." Was all Izzie could continue to yell as she looked on helpless, watching the annoyingly arrogant and good looking doctor she had been pointlessly arguing with just moments before, leaping in to action to save her daughter.