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Alex: Am I still sick?
Well hello Rosa how are you? Nice Alex, nice selfcenteredness!
Alex: Firstly selfcenteredness isn't a word and secondly am I still sick?
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Chapter Eight:
By Rosa241
Alex POV:
I'm being released! I'm being released! Finally!
"Alex!" Meredith gives me with this look, like she's speaking to a three year old or something. "God I swear you have the attention span of a flea!"
"Hey I'm being let out, give a little bit of room for actually being happy here." She rolls her eyes and once again sets out with the warnings.
Oh I've heard this stuff a million times already:
1. You're still on sick leave for another two weeks so you are not to step foot in this hospital until then
2. No drinking (yeah right!) and no staying out all night. I need rest and relaxation.
3. Wait...what was number three again? Oh who cares I'm being released!
"Promise?" Oops! "You promise me you're going to look after yourself?"
"Mer, I give you my word I will look after myself. The last place I want to end up in is back in a hospital bed again." She smiles at me but it's calculating she's trying to weigh up the chances of me actually keeping to my promise. Hey I may be an idiot at times but I'm a doctor, I know I need to watch myself. My immune system has taken a serious hit and it'll be a while before it's back to full strength so I need to take care of myself.
"Mer. I promise I'm going to be careful, alright?" I say with all joking aside. She finally seems to get it and FINALLY stops warning me.
"Are you sure you won't consider moving back in with us?" I'd moved out of the house after the Rebecca incident, I just couldn't look at the place the same. I felt weird being there so I had to leave.
"Mer, we've had this conversation." I sighed as she gave me that look, you know the one that says 'I totally don't agree with you but I'm not going say anything'.
"Okay so you're changed, forms signed, Bailey's given you the okay, you've been warned and George is going to take you home." Woah! Wait what?
"O'Malley? I thought you were taking me home." She gives me this smile, this small smile that hides nothing. I know Meredith and I know that smile. She's planning something and I have a funny feeling I know what.
"No, I have to work late." Uh huh! I'm sure... "Christina's busy, I have to work so George offered to take you home."
"Really?" She nods frantically, never was a good liar. "And this has nothing to do with a certain...uh secret I may have rather stupidly divulged to you whilst hammered out of my mind?"
"Nope, not a thing. But if it was then I would be saying that you should be paying attention to George and the things that he says." Before I can chew her out for interfering – I really hate it when people do that – the object of our conversation walks straight into the room.
"Ready to go?" He smiles at me and I can't help but lose myself in it for a moment. "Alex?"
"Yeah, fine. Let's get me out of here." With that I leave, god I can't stand looking at the smile any longer, not with the way my stomachs flip flops every damn time I stare at it.
George POV:
Okay, awkward! Well...more than awkward! I'm sitting in a car with the man I'm totally and completely in love with and I can't think of a single interesting thing to say. How lame am I?
"So...er...you glad to be out of hospital?" Oh great opener George!
"God yes! Freaking hospital food sucks...they really should sort that out." Well at least it got us talking. "Wait how do you know where I live? I never told you."
"Oh. Meredith and I swung by when we heard you were getting released to make sure you had some food and stuff and I helped her." He looks at me and for a moment I think he's going yell but instead I actually get something I didn't expect.
"Oh well...thanks." We sit in silence for a few more moments before he speaks up again. "So, Bailey said you looked after me whilst I was out of it. Thank you."
"Er...you're welcome. You had us worried for a minute there...especially when you're temp spiked up...man that was scary." And it really was.
"So what's with the tension?" Apparently he sees my confusion because he elaborates. "You and Stevens."
Ah, he's more observant than he looks although...I guess if I had to sit in a hospital bed all day I might just get into people watching too.
"Oh well, we had an argument and...she apologised but..." I trail off but he seems to get it.
"You don't think she meant it." I nod my head and for some reason I feel the need to continue.
"She just...since everything with me, her and Callie...things have changed." By God is that true!
"She's protective...of you, she's really protective of you." It's not something I've ever really thought about but yeah she is. I can't help noticing that Alex see's a lot, he seems to notice things that others don't. "She's like...like a mama bear protecting her cub."
We fall back into silence once again only this time it's a comfortable silence, a silence between friends. It's a few minutes before either of us speak again.
"I think I want to move out." I finally say, surprising us both. I've thought about it a lot lately yeah but...I've never said anything to anyone.
"I thought you liked living with the girls." He's giving me a confused look, like he can't quite believe what he's hearing.
"I did...do, it's just...I want to...Derek's always round the house. Christina...I don't actually know whether she lives with us or not...half the time she's there but then she goes back to her apartment, and Izzy...she's always there you know? Always by my side, needing something from me...I'm just-"
"You're sick of being used. You can deny it all you want O'Malley but they use you. Now don't get me wrong Mer, she's great but she uses you too. When they want you they're all right there but then when they don't need you...when they don't need you they just kind of...push you away. I garuntee right now that as soon as Stevens finds a man she'll won't be needing you nearly as much as she does now."
I honestly never thought that anyone but me actually noticed that kind of stuff. Of course I know that they use me. They've been doing it for the entire time I've known them, it just always seemed normal to me but lately it's really been bugging me. They're always going on and on about their own lives. Okay Meredith does take an interest in my life but she's always got some sort of drama going on, everything that happens to her just has to take centre stage. Christina...well...I really don't know what to think about Christina, sometimes I feel like she's a friend but then other times I really can't stand to be around her. Then there's Izzy...I love Izzy she's my best friend it's just...she's so needy. She constantly needs me. She's always got something she needs me help with, she's kind of self centred with that stuff. She's always talking about how losing Denny tore her apart and yeah I know it did and I'm surprised that she got back the way she did but...it's all she seems to talk about. It's always there. It's been a while now, she needs to move on. She doesn't seem to get that Alex lost Rebecca as well – she didn't die but he lost her – Burke left Christina and I got divorced...although that was kind of my fault. She seems to think she's the only one whose lost people...she isn't.
"I'm moving out!" I say again only this time there's far more conviction than before. I've always thought of reasons not to move out but I've can't think of one good enough this time.
"Good for you." I hear Alex mutter and I can't help the smile that leaps across my face.
Yeah...good for me...
Oh I just had to have some Alex and George time. Aren't they so cute.
Alex: Cute...lady I am not cute!
No, you're adorable!
Alex: You are so bizarre!
George: Alex! How many times do we have to go through this? Do NOT insult the writer she can do horrible things to you!