the lucky ones (1/2) {grey's - alex-centric)

[slybrunette]

Title: The Lucky Ones (1/2)
Fandom: Grey's Anatomy
Characters/Pairings: Alex, Lexie, Meredith, various others. Definite Alex/Lexie and Mark/Lexie, especially in pt. 2.
Rating: R
Word Count: 3,321
Author's Note: This was going to be one big story, however the marathon race against the clock that this has turned into, in order to get it up before the

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[waltzmatildah]

“Then get out,” he tells her, and it’s the nicest thing he’s ever said to her.

Shit. That's... wow. It made my blood run cold! (I love when fic does that, btw).

Also, I love how you manage to weave your (our??!!!) understanding of Alex as complex and intuitive and self aware and self doubting and what ever the opposite of oblivious is and a thousand other words I can't seem to come up with right now, through this... particularly...

(For a good long while, he walked away will be repeated as an excuse to all manner of reactive behavior, without ever really analyzing the behavior - the action - itself.

He walked away.

This is fact.

His feet moved across linoleum and he cleared the room and then another and a few hallways to boot before he found an unoccupied on-call room and locked himself in there.

It’s fact. Unchangeable and unarguable.

Without context, fact can be biased. It can also be irrelevant. And people miss a great deal of context when it suits them.

Alex walked away, yes, but there was a reason, maybe reasons plural, but it all boils down to one thing: he is no good to her when busted up himself, and just like he can see the difference between okay and not okay with her, the same can be said for himself.

He knows it’s a game face. He knows it’s an act. He knows its all bullshit and the defense mechanisms that save him.

Honesty always was his strong suit.)

YES, to all of it!!!

Also, I totally squee'd at this...

There’s a word for that kind of symmetry. Several, in fact. in yours because of this...

The symmetry seems fitting. in mine...!

It's clutching at straws but whatevs... I call the wavelength thing!!!

Can't wait for part two.

[slybrunette]

I really, really hope this doesn't read too much like yours. That's probably why I've held off on reading it because we're already on the same wavelength as is, lol.

That said, your word is golden in my book when it comes to all things Alex so I am SO happy that you're enjoying it so far. That line at the top of this comment is probably my favorite thing that I've written in this entire part so I'm thrilled it had the desired effect.

Thank you so much hun!

[waltzmatildah]

No, it doesn't read like mine at all. The 'themes' are similar obviously, because we both understand him in the same way... but, to be honest, I think yours is darker? Maybe. It's hard to know for sure because I only know how mine reads from the author's perspective and not the reader's perspective (duh!). So yeah, I think yours is darker or more... raw? and mine is, maybe... sadder? More... desperate? I dunno.

When you do think it's safe to read mine, I'll be interested to know what you think the difference in emotion is and if I'm on the right track.

(Also, yours is infinitely more realistic! Haha!)

And yeah... that last line? Killed me.

[slybrunette]

I'm reading it as soon as I'm done with the second part (or tonight, just because I'm having a hard time not at least skimming it, lol). But darker vs. sadder probably works. You do angst supremely well and I tend to have to destroy things in order to get to that emotional sort of level, so I can totally see that comparison.

I'll obviously be letting you know my thoughts in detail later.