GREY'S SECRET SANTA: IF ALL YOUR LOVE WAS WASTED, THEN WHO THE HELL WAS I?

[helen_halliwell]

For

rorylie

This fic was supposed to be a short piece, and I don't know what happened, but it snowballed into this. I hope you like it!

If all your love was wasted, then who the hell was I?
Lexie/Alex (hints of past Lexie/Mark, Lexie/Jackson, and Alex/Izzie)
Rated - R (just to be safe)

Comments

[violet1979]

Ah, that's just so gorgeously WRONG. Actually, this story makes me want the doooomed Alex/Lexie back on screen, of course with Mark having to suffer how damaged and glorious they all are, with all their shared scars, oh my heart. ♥ Alex makes so much more sense for Lexie than Jackson. So, so much. I really love the parallels you pointed out.

And I would love to see something like this relapsing dad storyline for Lexie. It's so sad that the show seems to have no idea what to do with this amazingly complex Lexie character. Could you please go brief them? :-)

[waltzmatildah]

It's so sad that the show seems to have no idea what to do with this amazingly complex Lexie character. OR ALEX! Therefore, the only solution can be THIS *points to fic*!!!

Too often the show falls into the trap of using Lexie for comedic relief and I think it really, REALLY undermines her potential. That whole episode where she was racing around without her security tag and setting off alarms and just... given everything she went through on the day of the shooting, it was actually kind of disgusting to watch.

Some respect please, writers.

Also, HI!! It's been agessssss!

[helen_halliwell]

Some respect please, writers.

Well, that just says it all! I agree, they're at a loss for what to do with Alex also. And it's such a shame. I hate that there was never any aftermath to the initial breakup between Lexie and Alex or Lexie and the shooting...it just shifted right back to Lexie and Mark. I mean, Lexie and Alex live together...we're just supposed to assume they got over it? It was very unsatisfying.

[waltzmatildah]

I 100% completely blame the STUPID time jump. SO MUCH happened in those 8 weeks that we simply had to infer. Some of it wasn't even really hinted at in canon. We just had to put pieces together in the aftermath and hope that it somehow made some kind of sense.

Unfortunately, in many cases, it really didn't.

I mean, when did Alex and Lexie even break up? Was it prior to her breakdown? During? After? Did they ever actually, formally break up? And then, when/how did they get back to being friends again? And that's not even touching on the other characters...!

Gah. This topic. It never gets old! Haha!

[helen_halliwell]

Ahh! Thank you! I'm really glad you enjoyed it! You know I Lexie and Mark, but there's just something about Lexie and Alex that I completely adore.

I could not agree more...they have no clue what to do with Lexie. Someone needs to clue the writers in to how amazing Chyler Leigh is. Lexie gets barely any screen time and when she does, I feel like it's always her choosing between this guy or that guy and it makes her character seem really flaky and flat. She used to get good storylines and I'm just hoping to see more of her after the break. I mean, she's Mer's sister and yet April has more scenes than her. I feel like they just use her as filler at this point and it's really frustrating, because she's such a complicated and interesting character. I could continue, but I'll stop :)

Thank you VERY much for reading! I always love hearing from you! It's been a while ♥