[Now closed] Grey's Anatomy comment fic-a-thon!
The first ga_fanfic comment fic-a-thon is now closed. Thanks to everyone who participated and helped make this a giant success. We had a really fantastic response to this, and we may hold more in the future (hiatus survival, anyone?).
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They meet again in an airport in the middle of the country.
All bets are off.
He told her to go be happy elsewhere, not so subtle code for i never want to see you again, only this is nothing but coincidence and Iowa is barely four hours in his wake. He’s tired and she’s bewildered and so they sit back to back in an airport terminal in Denver and don’t say a single word until they call his connecting flight back to Seattle as delayed to severe weather yet again and he bites out a string of curses.
“We’re on the same flight,” she tells him, the first words out of her mouth, and they’re not exactly hurting for personal space, rows of seats untouched, and yet here she chose to sit. Here he chose to let her. In silence.
“Of course we are,” he says, but it lacks the venom it so badly needs. He’s got two more hours here and if it weren’t for the relative discomfort of these chairs, if it weren’t for her, he’d seriously consider sleeping through them.
Four days in Iowa and, he figures, a grand total of maybe twelve hours of sleep. If that.
“You dyed your hair,” he adds, in lieu of any sort of response on her part. He doesn’t want to keep talking but he also doesn’t know how to stop now that he’s begun.
“And you appear to have cut sleep out of your life entirely.”
He might just be expecting it but he thinks he can hear among other things somewhere in that heavy sigh she gives after a beat. “Shit happens.”
“Want to talk about it?”
Alex just laughs. It sounds hollow and he can hear the scuff of her shoes on the floor beneath them.
“Right. Because where’s the fun in that?”
“You don’t have the monopoly on angry and bitter,” he says and there, there he’s finally able to snap right back at her. Feels something shift into place.
“Well neither do you, so I guess we’re even.”
“Yeah.”
There’s silence from behind him again and he settles back and tries not to obsessively glance at the clock, determined to make these two hours go by faster just through sheer power of will. And then the flight. Her on the flight.
They keep trying to get away from each other.
They keep failing at that too.
Her shoes start up against the floor again, only this time they’re traveling away and for a minute he thinks she’s finally got up and left before he sees her coming down his row. Stopping just short of the seat next to him with her purse slung over her shoulder and last month’s issue of Cosmo in her right hand, blunt nails and a front cover that’s had its edges bent so many times they’re a gentle tug away from falling off entirely. Nervous habits.
“What are you doing?” He asks, finally, when she’s offered no explanation for running in the opposite direction from the expected, closer instead of further.
“Going to get coffee. You coming or would you rather sit and sulk?”
“I’m not sulking,” he says and, to prove it, he heaves himself out of his chair and goes along with it.
They have two hours.
It can just be two hours.
He’s back to lying to himself, if he ever really stopped.
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The bitterness! I CAN TASTE IT!!!! I love the fact that as much as he's presenting this 'I don't want to talk to you image', he's also not really making any effort whatsoever to get away, and even ends up following her. Almost like it's inevitable so why bother fighting it... AND THIS IS SOOOO EXACTLY THEM!
INEVITABLE!
Alex and Izzie, WHY CAN'T I QUIT YOUUUUU??
THANK YOU SO FREAKING MUCH FOR WRITING THISSSSSSSSSS!
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Um, relief that you liked it does not even begin to cover it. Seriously. I don't know when I started writing these two bitter but that seems to happen a lot with my more recent fics for them (which were like six months ago -- jesus).
I wish I could quit them too, seriously. I'm glad you liked this hun! Thanks so much!
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I'm glad you liked this! Thanks so much for reading and reviewing!
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