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Chapter 15

By Rosa241

Alex's POV:

"So you ready for this?" George queries as we pull into the hospital car park. The last week had, without trying to sound too girly here, been heaven! Not having to deal with Izzy everyday was the best feeling in the world. Contrary to my earlier beliefs no one had commented on the situation with poor Brandon, although I strongly suspect Bailey may have had something to do with that. Don't get me wrong I was fully aware of the common belief in the hospital that I was this evil, horrible doctor who had deliberately left Izzy high and dry. I know what most people think of me but I don't care. It doesn't bother me that they think that, what bothers me is that people can't keep their opinions to themselves and feel the need to tell me just what they think of me. But this last week I had, to my intense surprise and relief, been left alone.

"Alex?" George's voice brings me out of my mind and back to the present. "You ready?"

"As I'll ever be." Today was Izzy's first day back since our blow up. Since her suspension I hadn't heard anything from her, she'd left me alone and hadn't spoken to George either. In truth I didn't care at all, in fact I preferred it this way. Meredith had informed us that Izzy had gone to visit family somewhere and no one had heard from her since.

"No time like the present." I heard George mutter as we walked through the entrance.

The locker room was full of tension as we all got dressed. Meredith's attempts to make small talk were shot down by myself and Izzy's refusal to say anything. It surprised me that she was staying silent after all she'd had to say lately. Perhaps being suspended had given her time to realise how out of order she was being.

"Well isn't she a barrel of laughs." Meredith whispered as Izzy fled the locker room.

"I know and seriously slamming things around, what is she in kindergarten?" I couldn't help laughing as Christina rolled her eyes and left the room. Meredith sighed heavily and followed her. George got up to leave but turned back as he reached the door.

"If Izzy starts up just take a breath and walk away." I couldn't help rolling my eyes at his words. Of course he was right, it was the best thing to do after all but walking away is easier said than done.

Mark's POV:

"So Friday at eight?" The nurse giggled slightly as she passed me her phone number. So easy.

"Haven't you gone through all the nurses already?"

"Now Karev I'm insulted by that, do you really think I'm that much of a man whore?" He merely snorted at that and handed me the chart.

"I'm not even going to comment. Mrs Anders obs are fine but she's getting kind of nervous about the surgery. She wants to talk to you as soon as, apparently she's scared that it's going to hurt." Oh for the love of…

"She's having surgery of course it's going to hurt!" He shrugged at this and turned to walk away. "Karev, you seen much of Izzy today?"

"Nope she's been avoiding me like the plague, not that I'm complaining of course." I had to agree with that. "But there's just something not sitting right with me."

"What do you mean?" He sighed and leant on the wall beside me.

"I don't know I just have this feeling….maybe I'm going crazy but I have this feeling that something's going to happen."

"You're right, you're going crazy." The punch to the arm he gave me hurt more than I'm willing to admit. "Look, stop thinking about her. Put her out of your mind and focus your attention on lover boy."

That received another punch. As he walked away I couldn't help sighing heavily. He and O'Malley were obviously perfect for each other yet neither one of them was able to see that. So far I'd left it alone but now…now action was needed. If Steven's got her way then the two of them would never be together, don't be fooled that's what this was about. I'd worked it out by now that Izzy had feelings for either Alex or George, I couldn't decide who it was but it was the reason she was so against the two being together.

It was official, Alex and George needed to get together and fast. The longer they stayed apart the bigger the risk that Izzy would succeed. Decision made I sent a quick page off to Meredith, I was going to need her help here.

Izzy's POV:

This day sucked! There was no other words for it, it sucked! The pit sucked…life sucks!

Bailey had cornered me this morning as soon as I walked through the doors and basically told me I was on my last chance.

Flashback:

"Stevens! My office please." Great, just great. I've barely even walked through the door and I'm already in trouble. Fantastic!

"Sit down please." Taking a seat I could feel the tension in the air. "Now I hope your suspension has given you time to think about what happened and about your actions of late."

"Yes I have. I'm sorry, I was out of order and I'm sorry." I had to swallow my pride and force myself to apologise. Of course I knew that all of this was Alex's fault, after all isn't everything? But for some unknown reason I'm the only one who can see him for who he really is, everyone else seems to be taken in by him. Not me though.

"Your damn right you were out of order, you almost killed a patient and tried to switch the blame on an innocent colleague." I had to bite my tongue at the innocent remark. "The same colleague that you've had an increasing amount of altercations with in the past few weeks. From now on you leave your personal life at the door, you and Karev are just colleagues. When you walk through that door you forget anything and everything that's happened. You focus on being a doctor and that's it."

"Of course." Bailey opened the door and I stood to leave.

"Stevens. You are walking a very thin line. Understand?" I nodded my head and walked off. If I'd stayed any longer I'd have hit her. Alex is the innocent party!? Yeah right.

End Flashback:

Bailey's words only angered me more than anything else. She was acting like Alex had done nothing wrong, like he was some innocent victim in this whole thing. Give me a break. He's the one who caused all of this. He cheated on me and treated me like crap. Then he goes after my best friend, convinces him to move in with him and gets me suspended. How has he convinced the world he's innocent? He's got George, Meredith and even Christina believing him. But not to worry, I've got a plan. I'm going to make sure the world see's Alex for who he really is.

Unfortunately in order for my plan to work I'm going to need Alex on side. Which means…

"Alex, can we talk for a moment?" He looks up from the chart and looks me in the eye for a moment.

"Dr Stevens what would this be in reference to?" Wait what?

"Alex come on, we need to talk to…" Swallow your pride, swallow your pride. "…to clear the air."

"Dr Stevens unless this is in reference to a patient then I'm afraid I'm rather busy right now." He replaces the chart and turns to walk away. Grabbing his arm I pull him back.

"Alex. Would you just stop and talk to me?" He sighs before speaking.

"Look Izzy, unless this is about work I don't think we should be talking. Okay and I'm not interested in clearing the air. You and I are not friends, we never were and to be quite frank we never will be. So from now on we're colleagues and nothing more." With that he walked away.

This is going to be harder than I thought.

And I'm back. Sorry I've been away so long, I lost my passion for writing but I've managed to track it down once again. Bye.