A/N: You may notice that I'm kind of incorporating a lot of my favorite ships in here without making them overwhelming. I just can't help it. So I know that Callie defended Izzie to Dr. Hahn, but I don't think that means she wouldn't still harbor some hard feelings towards her. Trying to run with that a little. Also assume that all the characters have a tighter bond now. Especially Mer, Alex, Jo, Callie, Amelia, Owen, and Maggie.
Disclaimer: Well Slexie is dead soo...no.
"Amelia, what the hell was that?" Maggie said after Dr. Stevens' car disappeared. Amelia whirled to look at her, eyes wide. "What the hell was that? What the hell is with you inviting Alex Karev's ex wife to Grey Sloan Memorial for a consult?!"
Maggie gasped. "That…that's the Izzie?"
Amelia nodded her head slowly, motioning down the street. "Why do you think we saw Alex's car speeding out of here like something was on fire?"
Maggie sighed, running a hand over her face. "What do I do?" Amelia shrugged, heading towards the house. "I don't think there's much you can do. She's already here now. You better just hope no lasting damage comes out of this little visit. How long is she in town for, anyway?"
Maggie followed her, crossing her arms. "We had agreed on a week, but depending on my patients condition…"
"It could be much longer." Amelia finished for her, swinging open the door of the house.
Izzie walked down the sidewalk leading to Seattle Grace- well, Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital. Other than the name, not much seemed to have changed. From the outside anyway. But from her visit with Meredith, she could already tell much had changed when it came to the personal relationships.
As she strolled through the building, heading to look for Dr. Pierce, she recognized several nurses who were still there from her time. She waved, but only a few waved back. The others were too busy staring at her. Finally, she found Dr. Pierce.
"Oh, hi Dr. Stevens." Izzie noticed the look of apprehension on the woman's face, and realized she must have been filled in on her history.
"Hello Dr. Pierce. I just want to say this now, I am here for professional reasons. Any history I have with this hospital and it's staff will not affect the job I do here today, and I hope it won't affect yours either."
Dr. Pierce considered for a moment. "You should know that Alex and I are friends, so I am slightly biased towards this situation. I won't let it interfere with our professional relationship though."
Izzie nodded, and Dr. Pierce led her into the patients room.
Alex groaned, plopping his tray down at the table, sitting down next to Jo. Meredith raised an eyebrow and merely turned to Jo. "Where's Edwards?" Jo sighed, twirling her fork around some suspicious looking pasta. "Steph's still on vacation. I'm starting to wish we were still gone too." Meredith smiled. "I know you don't mean that. You love to cut too much." Jo laughed, nodding her head. "That's true."
Callie plopped down next to Meredith at the table, raising an eyebrow. "Why is everyone staring at you guys and whispering? This is like the time everyone found out Derek was married and had been sleeping with Meredith." Meredith smirked but Alex merely rolled his eyes. Jo looked at her mentor, confused. "You haven't heard yet?"
"Heard what? I just got in. Sofia caught the flu. Arizona still has it, so I obviously couldn't drop her there. It took the sitter forever to get there."
Meredith and Jo exchanged a look, and Callie leaned forward, interest piqued. "What is it?" They were silent for a moment more, trying to decide what to say, when Alex finally broke the silence. "Izzie's back." He spat, tossing an apple back and forth between his hands. Callie choked on a bite of her salad. "Izzie? As in, Izzie Stevens? Your ex-wife? The woman who my husband cheated on me with?" Alex nodded. "One in the same." He remarked sarcastically, taking a crunchy bite from the apple. "I don't like that girl." Callie said, crumpling a napkin in her fist. Jo laughed. "I think the feeling is pretty unanimous."
Callie grinned, reaching across to steal a chip from Jo. "So am I going to get to see Izzie Steven's ass whooped? Do it Wilson. I almost did it once you know. She ran away all day thinking I was going to…" Callie dissolved into giggles, while Meredith and Alex laughed heartily along, obviously recalling the memory. "So is she still pining over the lost love of Alex Karev?" Callie teased. Alex narrowed his eyes and opened his mouth to speak when Amelia appeared suddenly, sliding into a seat and cutting him off. "Actually, I've taken the liberty of Google-ing Dr. Stevens. It seems she's been married again. Twice."
Meredith scrunched her face up. "Twice?" Amelia nodded, throwing her arm around Alex's shoulder comically. "Divorced. Twice." Jo whistled, and Meredith leaned back in her seat while Callie mumbled defensively. "Hey, I was divorced twice." Meredith nudged her, smiling. "Yeah, but counting me, it's actually three." Alex said, finishing the last of his apple and tossing the core onto his tray.
"Crazy ex wife, on your left." Callie muttered, gathering up her tray. "Come on Wilson, we've got bones to set." Jo kissed the top of Alex's head, whispering in his ear. "Find me if you need me." Then she ran off after Callie.
Meredith looked up to smile at Izzie. "Hey." She stretched the word out, dragging the end until it no longer sounded like a word at all. "Hey, Mer. Mind if I sit?" Meredith glanced at Alex, who shrugged, before nodding her head. "Have a seat."
Izzie chose the seat Callie had vacated, beside Meredith and directly across from Jo's empty seat. The table sat in relative silence before Maggie made her way over, plopping down on the other side of Meredith, across from Amelia. "Has anyone seen Owen?" She asked, taking a sip out of her water. "He's been in surgery all morning." Amelia's words came out muffled because of her full mouth. Maggie nodded.
Awkward silence enveloped the table once more, and then Maggie broke it again. "So, um, Owen called me a 'twisted sister' yesterday. What does that mean?" Meredith and Alex laughed. "It was this thing that Derek and Owen used to call Cristina and I, since we were all 'dark and twisty'. I haven't heard that in ages."
"He called me that the other day too. I've been trying to figure it out." Amelia scoffed. "I guess I'm about as dark and twisty as they come."
"I'm not dark and twisty!" Maggie exclaimed, leaning back in her chair. "Eh, you're the daughter of Ellis Grey. You've got to have some dark and twisty in there somewhere." Alex remarked, condensing the trash Jo left behind with his own.
"Wait, what to you mean Ellis Grey's daughter?" Izzie asked, eyebrow's knit in confusion. Maggie laughed. "Ellis and Richard are my biological parents. I was adopted."
"Richard Webber? So you and Meredith are sisters?" Maggie nodded. "Hey, Amelia's my sister too. We actually are twisted sisters." Meredith chuckled. "We should get t-shirts made."
A pager went off, and Alex looked at his before gathering his things and running off. "Gotta go. Some idiot intern probably killed a kid."
Izzie laughed. "Nice to see Alex hasn't changed." Meredith smirked. "I wouldn't bet on that."
"What do you mean?" Izzie asked quizzically, scooping a spoonful of food into her mouth. "Alex is just a lot different, that's all. He's more mature and settled. I mean, my kids call him Uncle Alex, if that tells you anything. And I'm still like ninety percent sure they like him better than me."
"He's almost like a parent." Maggie added. "When Meredith took off for almost a year, Alex called her everyday. Several times a day."
"And that's just when the rest of you weren't." Meredith joked. "You guys were really clingy."
A/N: I read an interview that said Season 12 was doing to be much lighter, so I'm trying to play from that theme a little. I know, no big Alex/Izzie confrontation yet. It'll happen eventually, I promise.
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