Chapter 7

"Liliana wake up." Meredith yells pulling the cover off of me.

"Meredith, what do you want I was trying to sleep." I frown.

"Izzie's coming back."

"What?" I frowned.

"Izzie is coming back."

"For good?" I ask sitting up.

"I think so. Come on we have to go tell Alex." She says. I get up and follow behind her to Alex's room.

"Alex, Izzie's coming home." Meredith says opening his room door. To our surprise Alex wasn't in bed alone. Him and Lexie were laying side by side under the sheets, obviously naked. Alex looked at us obviously shocked by what we just said.

"Izzie's coming? Oh crap." Lexie frowns.

"I'm about to go get ready for work, by the time I'm done I expect to see both of you fully clothed sitting in the kitchen. We're going to have a talk." Meredith says before walking away.

"Ohh, you guys are in trouble." I smirk childishly before walking away to go get ready for work myself. Once I finished I went to the kitchen where Meredith was fussing at Alex and Lexie.

"Izzie leaves and Mark gets a kid and you two decide that the best way to deal is to get drunk and mash your genitals together." Meredith fusses.

"No freaking way you get to judge us or give relationship advice. Besides you were a total dirty mistress like two weeks ago." Alex argues.

"Are we calling me a dirty mistress?" Lexie interrupts.

"That was two years ago and his wife didn't have cancer." Meredith says.

"Well Izzie did leave. We can't just expect Alex to sit back and put his life on hold for her." I say defending him. What Izzie did was selfish and I couldn't blame Alex for how he chose to heal.

"Thank you." Alex says.

"Lily, you are not helping." Meredith huffs.

"I just want to say I've only been with like six guys in my whole life. Alex and I, we've done it before. I was recycling, it was like good for the environment." Lexie says trying to defend herself.

"Look Izzie's gone, I was horny, she was there." Alex says making me slap him on the arm. "Hey I thought you were on my side."

"I was, but you just sounded like an complete ass."

"Crap, I am a dirty mistress. Oh God, you and Liliana are gonna tell Derek and Derek will tell Mark that I'm a whore." Lexie gasps.

"No, I am not going to tell Derek, neither is Liliana, and neither are you or Alex. We are keeping our mouths shut. Izzie is coming home. No one needs to know." Meredith says before Izzie walks in catching our attention.

"Hey, know what?" She asks.

"How about we leave you two alone to talk." I say motioning for Meredith and Lexie to follow me out the door, so we can leave for work. We all walk to the car leaving Alex and Izzie staring at each other in the kitchen. When we arrive at the hospital we go get dressed. I made my way to the OR board to look at the surgeries scheduled for today.

"Hey you." Jackson says pecking me on the lips

"Hey." I smile.

"Coffee." He says handing me a cup which I gladly took.

"You know when a person gives you something you normally say thank you ."

"Oh please, it's your fault I'm so tired anyways." I say. Jackson was assisting on a whipple surgery today, so I had spent almost all of last night with him practicing sutures and watching videos of the surgery.

"You would've gotten more rest if you would've just spent the night."

"For starters as long as Charles is your roommate I will not be spending the night he's the last face I want to wake up to. Secondly if I would've spent the night you would've just used it as an excuse to try to have sex." I was celibate for now much to Jackson's dissatisfaction. I was just trying to protect myself and not rush things.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know you want to just as much as I do." He smirks.

"Jackson, we have only been official for three weeks. I want to wait until we've at least been together for 3 months." I say making him sigh.

"I know." He mumbles as we get to the OR board where Meredith is standing beside Chief.

"Uh, excuse me sir. You're taking Dr. Bailey's whipple?" Jackson asks Chief.

"Is that a problem?" Chief asks Jackson.

"No, not at all. No, I'm the resident on the case. I'm thrilled to be assisting you, I will be assisting you right?"

"You can open, that way Dr. Grey will be fresh when she dissects the neck of the pancreas from the portal vein." He agrees.

"That's the hardest part." I frown.

"It's a fifth year procedure." Meredith agreed.

"It's what we've been practicing for and I'm telling you you're ready, but if you don't think you're ready.." Chief says to Meredith.

"No I'm ready, I'm ready." Meredith nods.

"Okay then." Chief smiles.

"Something isn't right." I say to Jackson as we walk away.

"What do you mean?" Jackson asks.

"Like Mer said, that is a fifth year procedure that he's letting her do and he's been giving her all of these private one on one lessons." I frown.

"Do you think they're having a affair?"

"Really, Jackson?" I scoff.

"I'm just saying there was a rumor going around that the Chief was having an affair with someone here."

"No, I don't think that's it, but there has to be a reason he's showing Meredith all of this favoritism and I'm going to find out." I say leaving Jackson at the desk to go find Derek.

"Hey, surgery isn't set for another hour." Derek says to me as I walk up to him.

"We need to talk." I say.

"What's wrong? Did Avery do something? Do I need to kick his ass?" Derek frowns.

"No, everything with Jackson is fine. It's about Meredith."

"What about her?"

"I feel like there's something going on with her and Chief and you're her husband so you have to know what it is."

"Follow me." Derek sighs before leading me to a conference room and closing the door.

"What exactly do you know?" He asks me.

"I know that Meredith is getting special one on one lessons from Chief and that he's letting her do a fifth year procedure today." I huff. "It's not fair to the rest of the residents and I can tell you know why, so tell me."

"If I tell you, you can't tell anyone else until I decide what I'm going to do."

"Okay." I nod.

"Richard's drinking again." Derek sighs.

"What?" I frowned.

"Meredith saw him at the bar drunk one night and that's why he's been giving her special treatment. She's only told me and she called post it when I threatened to go to the board."