All of Your Failures, Grey's Anatomy, George/Izzie, George/Callie, PG
Title: All of Your Failures
Fandom: Grey's Anatomy
Pairing: George/Izzie, George/Callie
Rating: PG
Notes: Clearly, a first attempt. And clearly I hate writing in present timeline because things happen too quickly for my slow brain to write in time with. Ah well.
Like it or not, it happened. And he doesn’t like it. But at the same time, it’s Izzie, and every day he remembers a little more--how soft her skin was, what the spot between her breasts smelled like. It’s Izzie, and he’s George, and they really, really shouldn’t have. But the trouble is that they did.
And just like he can’t rid his mind of the memories, the flashes his brain stumbles upon in the middle of the day causing him to miss a vein or lose his grip while retracting or be the last one in the room to spot some bowing of the corpus collosum on an MRI, he can’t help thinking that there must be some physical evidence left behind, some slight change in him that Callie will notice in just the right light, like an etching you have to tilt your head to really see.
It’s why he flinches when she touches him in the linen closet, like she’s going to leave a piece of herself behind on his cheek for his wife to discover later.
She’s Izzie, and he’s George, and she’s scarred him, left some kind of indelible mark on him, one he isn’t sure he’d erase if he could.
“This is our secret,” he tells her, and when she agrees, he knows she doesn’t want to, can see the you can’t turn your back on this plainly on her face even when he can’t bring himself to look at her. But the thing is, he’s not a bad guy. That’s why Izzie and Meredith and all the girls like him, come to him with their problems. He’s a good guy. Comparatively, he’s a great guy. That’s why they always come to him when McDreamy or Alex or anyone makes a mistake. He’s the one who always says and does the right thing, albeit lacking some of the finesse the others seem to possess.
Until now.
And that’s why. He’s turning his back and walking away, leaving. Leaving her. Izzie. Because he can’t take another day stuck between the two of them. Either way, he’s the bad guy. If he leaves Callie….he can’t leave Callie. It’s not even an option. Callie is his wife, and he’s not going to give up on that. And Izzie understands even if she may not like it. She’s his best friend, and she knows that he can’t.
Izzie is his best friend, and some day, somehow, she’ll forgive him.
It happened. For better or worse. And if George were a betting man, he’d say there’s a whole lot more worse to be found before things can get any better.
Fandom: Grey's Anatomy
Pairing: George/Izzie, George/Callie
Rating: PG
Notes: Clearly, a first attempt. And clearly I hate writing in present timeline because things happen too quickly for my slow brain to write in time with. Ah well.
Like it or not, it happened. And he doesn’t like it. But at the same time, it’s Izzie, and every day he remembers a little more--how soft her skin was, what the spot between her breasts smelled like. It’s Izzie, and he’s George, and they really, really shouldn’t have. But the trouble is that they did.
And just like he can’t rid his mind of the memories, the flashes his brain stumbles upon in the middle of the day causing him to miss a vein or lose his grip while retracting or be the last one in the room to spot some bowing of the corpus collosum on an MRI, he can’t help thinking that there must be some physical evidence left behind, some slight change in him that Callie will notice in just the right light, like an etching you have to tilt your head to really see.
It’s why he flinches when she touches him in the linen closet, like she’s going to leave a piece of herself behind on his cheek for his wife to discover later.
She’s Izzie, and he’s George, and she’s scarred him, left some kind of indelible mark on him, one he isn’t sure he’d erase if he could.
“This is our secret,” he tells her, and when she agrees, he knows she doesn’t want to, can see the you can’t turn your back on this plainly on her face even when he can’t bring himself to look at her. But the thing is, he’s not a bad guy. That’s why Izzie and Meredith and all the girls like him, come to him with their problems. He’s a good guy. Comparatively, he’s a great guy. That’s why they always come to him when McDreamy or Alex or anyone makes a mistake. He’s the one who always says and does the right thing, albeit lacking some of the finesse the others seem to possess.
Until now.
And that’s why. He’s turning his back and walking away, leaving. Leaving her. Izzie. Because he can’t take another day stuck between the two of them. Either way, he’s the bad guy. If he leaves Callie….he can’t leave Callie. It’s not even an option. Callie is his wife, and he’s not going to give up on that. And Izzie understands even if she may not like it. She’s his best friend, and she knows that he can’t.
Izzie is his best friend, and some day, somehow, she’ll forgive him.
It happened. For better or worse. And if George were a betting man, he’d say there’s a whole lot more worse to be found before things can get any better.