And I'm back! Yay! Hope you've been having a good time whilst waiting for this update, goodness knows I haven't. I think the best way to describe the last couple of months is umm...a lazy period! Yes that's the best thing to label it as. Anyway on with the chapter!

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Chapter Twenty Seven

By Rosa241

George POV:

Dropping my head onto the table I can't help but sigh heavily. Did I actually think that this was going to work? Why did I ever think that? What the hell is wrong with me?

"George I can't believe this. Mark and I put the whole thing in motion for you but the two of you manage to screw it up!" Meredith sighs as she places the beer in front of me. "I swear men are useless."

"It's not my fault!" I argue back and deep down I know that she doesn't believe me.

"George." She sighs as she sits down at the table. "Alex is crazy about you, he has been for a while, I don't understand how things didn't work out. You said you guys kissed right?"

"We did and it was amazing!" Cringing slightly at the funny looks my loud exclamation gets me I lower my voice. "We kissed and I really thought that everything was going to be fine but then he just…I don't know it's like he regrets it or something."

"George believe me after how long he's spent pining over you there is no way that he regrets doing something about his feelings. There has to be something else going on." Shaking my head I know that I don't believe her.

Ever since our kiss Alex has gone out of his way to completely avoid me. I mean for gods sake we live together and I've barely seen him in the last three weeks. Truth be told I don't think anyone has really seen much of him. It's like he's dropped off the face of the planet or something! He regrets it I know that he does.

Something in me clenches at that thought but I push it to one side. He's got to be doing some serious rethinking of his feelings to be going so out of his way to avoid me so much. What hurts the most is that for a few days, just a few short days I had this magical energy inside me. It felt so amazing to think that we could be together.

"Alex wouldn't just pull away for no reason. Not from you. Not you." She seems so convinced that he's in love with me but I just can't believe it. Shaking my head I finish of the remains of my lunch before pushing all thoughts of Alex out of my head. If he wants to ignore me then that's just fine, if he wants to forget all about it then I can do that too. Ignoring the pang inside me I focus my attention instead on my patients.

Mark POV:

Leaving the hospital is usually something I enjoy. Don't get me wrong I love my job but it's nice to walk out at the end of the day and wind down. Ordinarily I'd find it awesome to be going home but not tonight. Right now there's only one thing one my mind.

Alex.

Ever since I realised that he truly doesn't believe that he's good enough for O'Malley something inside me has been torn. He keeps saying that he's damaged, that O'Malley deserved someone better than him.

Why?

Shaking my head I knock on the door.

"Mark? What's up?" Derek's words bring my focus back to the task at hand.

"I need to talk to Meredith." His eyebrows rise into his hairline and I can see the thoughts creeping across his face. After everything that happened between me and Addison I can't say that I blame him for the doubts he has but that doesn't mean it hurts. What I did was my fault and it drove a wedge between us. Sure we're moving on but it'll take a long time for him to forgive that.

"Okay. Meredith you have a visitor." Bringing my thoughts back to my current problem I step inside.

"Mark what's up?" She says as she takes a sip of the wine in her hands.

"I need to talk to you about Alex." Her expression falls at that and I can see the frustration building inside her.

"He's an idiot. I can't believe he's screwing this up. Alex is crazy about George but if he keeps this up the he's going to lose him. He won't hang around forever." And that's what worries me the most.

"Yeah well I wouldn't bet on Alex getting his act together. He-" My words are cut off by an elongated groan from the man beside me.

"Meredith I thought we agreed you weren't going to get involved in the whole Alex and George situation." She scoffs at his words and I can't help agreeing with her. If we left it up to the two of them then they'd still be sitting there this time next millennium. He rolls his eyes as Meredith says basically the same thing and simply leaves us to it. That guy has never approved of meddling in anyone else's business.

"George thinks that Alex regrets their kiss." She breathes heavily as Derek heads off into another room.

"He does but probably not for the reasons that people think he does. Alex has it in his head that he's not good enough for O'Malley, he thinks that he's too damaged for him and that he's just going to screw him up." Her face falls as she hears my words and I can see right there that she knows something.

"How can he have such a low opinion of himself?" Shaking my head I can't help agreeing with her question. He comes across as being so confident, arrogant even, but in reality he's got zero confidence in himself.

"What happened to him?" She sees straight through my questions and knows straight away what I'm asking.

"Alex has a lot of bad things in his past, a lot of bad things but it's not my place to tell you about it. He trusted me in confidence and I don't think I can reveal that without breaking his trust. Alex isn't the kind of person who trusts easily and if I break that then I could lose him." Coming here had been a long shot and to be honest I didn't expect her to tell me what she knows.

"I get that. I'm just worried about him." There were very few people that I could talk to the way that I talked to Meredith.

"I know and I'm glad." At my raised eyebrow she senses the confusion and explains her words. "Alex doesn't have many people who truly care about him in fact before he came here I don't think he really had anybody. He needs a person, he needs a Cristina."

"A what?" She laughs at my words.

"Cristina is my person. She's the person I can talk to about absolutely everything, no matter the time of day, no matter what is going on she's my person. Alex needs a person and I think you'd be a good person." I'm not sure I quite understand what she's saying but something in her words has me blushing.

"How do I get him to talk to me?" She tilts her head as she thinks.

"Don't let him push you away. Alex is good at pushing people away when they get too close. Don't let him push you away, show him you're going to stick around."

Lying in bed that night something in me is disappointed. I can't say that I'd expected her to just reveal all of his secrets but I wanted more than that. There's something in Alex that just screams out for attention but he's so determined to be alone that he can't even begin to let people in. Something happened to make him that way, something made him determined to never let anyone in.

Grabbing my phone off the night stand I dial the number before I can change my mind.

"What the hell do you want Sloan it's like one in the morning." The familiar groan on the other end makes me snicker for a moment.

"Look I don't get why you're so determined to push O'Malley away. He's nuts about you and you're crazy about him. I don't get why you're not good enough for him, whatever happened is your business and clearly you're not ready to share but you're definitely wrong. I will get you and O'Malley together because I'm right about you two and I'm going to prove it." Not giving him a chance to respond I hang up and toss the phone back onto the night stand.

Feeling slightly better as I lie back down I finally find sleep staring to come over me.

You're not going to push me away kid.

Okay so I'll just sit here and dodge the pitch forks being thrown. I know that you're all desperate for George and Alex to be together but I really want to build a brotherly relationship between Mark and Alex as well. Alex needs a person and that person needs to be Mark. It kind of annoys me that there was never more of a friendship being built between the two characters on the show. Of course Alex has Meredith and Cristina in his corner but he needs someone to be there for him, he needs a big brother.

I promise that this is Alex/George end game only friendship between Mark and Alex I swear!

Until next time,

Bye Bye x