Fandom: Grey's Anatomy
Pairing: George O'Malley/Alex Karev
Theme: Delta
Rating: R
Word Count: 1330
A/N: Happy birthday
swordpoker! Why did I think the eighteenth was St. Patrick's day? And why did I think it was a Sunday too? Anyway, enjoy!
#01 - Air
Alex can barely believe that it’s O’Malley making him gasp like this.
#02 - Apples
George brings his lunch in a little brown paper bag every day, even on over-night shifts, and sometimes Alex wonders if his mom used to write little notes to him on the napkin.
#03 - Beginning
He doesn’t care who started what anymore.
#04 - Bugs
George is highly amused to find out that Alex is borderline phobic of ants.
#05 - Coffee
George awkwardly asks if he wants to get coffee the morning after, an automatic gesture Alex is sure he picked up from years of watching sitcoms, not dating coffee-drinkers.
#06 - Dark
Oddly enough (or maybe not that odd) George is the one that insists he turn the light off first.
#07 - Despair
She can talk about him cheating, the stuff he says, the things he does all she wants, but watching him, Alex knows nothing he’s ever done to Izzy could compare to what Meredith did to George.
#08 - Doors
Sometimes he doesn’t wait for the elevator doors to shut all the way, just to make little Georgie Porgie that much more uncomfortable.
#09 - Drink
Only Alex knows the truth; George still thinks they were both drunk the first time.
#10 - Duty
“I don’t care how many people have sex in the hospital, I’m pretty sure most of them weren’t on call at the-you are the completely wrong person to have this conversation with.”
#11 - Earth
He will forgive Alex’s love of rap and techno (which, as George has told him several times, makes his apartment sound like a porno set), seeing as Alex is willing to overlook his fondness for 1970's female vocalists (which, as Alex told him only once, is probably one of the various reason why he never got with Izzy).
#12 - End
It wasn’t bitter, or angry, or even interesting-he didn’t even slam the door-one night, George just said, ‘This has to end.’ and Alex had replied, ‘Fine.’
#13 - Fall
Watching George lying at the bottom of the steps, Alex can’t think of a single medical procedure.
#14 - Fire
The burn isn’t that bad, but the nurses keep snickering every time they walk by; George isn’t surprised, though, because if two people came into the ER of Seattle Grace at one thirty in the morning complaining of candle wax burns on their legs and stomachs, Hell...he’d be over there snickering too.
#15 - Flexible
George isn’t sure he wants to know how flexible Alex is, especailly when he asks while grinning like that.
#16 - Flying
Alex gets excited whenever he steps onto a plane, gets that ridiculous grin...though the excitement wears off slightly, when George absolutely, positively refuses to join the Mile High Club.
#17 - Food
George tries not to say anything as Cristina and Meredith and Izzy are whispering on the other side of the table; oblivious to it all, Alex finishes off the pizza crust that he snagged from George’s tray before getting up and walking away.
#18 - Foot
“You’re not a guy I see myself growing old with, Alex, I mean, I don’t even see myself growing old with a guy at all-I mean-”
#19 - Grave
Alex resolved never to get in a fight with George ever again, in the middle of his second week of switching and cleaning bedpans, with Bailey smiling her evil little smile at him the entire time.
#20 - Green
George is jealous of Izzy, Alex is jealous of Meredith, and the funny part is they have no reason to be anymore.
#21 - Head
He’ll avoid the obvious joke, just to mess with George a little, and then he’ll pull out an even better one, and it’s worth the wait to see the way his entire face goes red all at once, right down his neck..
#22 - Hollow
George never really noticed it until Alex’s tongue had, but now he can’t look at someone without noticing the little hollow at the base of their neck.
#23 - Honor
“No man, what I don’t get is how you see yourself doing your father a favor by lying to him on his death bed.”
#24 - Hope
George hopes that no one ever finds out, while Alex hopes George does that thing with the little noise in his throat.
#25 - Light
“You touch that light O’Malley, I’m leaving.”
#26 - Lost
He spent two weeks before his residency started wandering around whatever part of the hospital he could get into, just so he wouldn’t get there and be lost and confused on his first day; he doesn’t know that George did the same thing, and George doesn’t remember the first time he saw Alex either.
#27 - Metal
Alex smiles at George’s mother, laughing politely at her stories, eating tons of cookies and drinking what feels like gallons of coffee...but it’s all worth it when she takes an album down from the shelf, and there’s twelve year old George grinning up at him with enough metal in his mouth to pick up Canadian radio stations.
#28 - New
Alex insists on a new couch when they’re finally moving in.
#29 - Old
George insists on the old couch until he spends the night on it.
#30 - Peace
Afterwards, there’s a sort of peace between them; they don’t antagonize each other, they aren’t nice to each other, they don’t interact at all, and it makes Izzy worried, and Meredith’s concerned, and Cristina wouldn’t care except the hospital is so damn...peaceful, now.
#31 - Poison
“It’s not poisoned, O’Malley, just drink it.”
#32 - Pretty
There’s no two ways about it, Alex is just plain pretty.
#33 - Rain
“You live in Seattle, where the average rainfall is everyday, and you don’t have an umbrella-fuck it, get over here, you idiot, you’re gonna drown if you try and go outside like that.”
#34 - Regret
He woke up to the sound of snoring and a conspicuous lack of regrets.
#35 - Roses
“Ooh, Georgie Porgie’s got a secret admirer.”
#36 - Secret
It was no secret.
#37 - Snakes
“Stop laughing, even Indiana Jones was afraid of snakes.”
#38 - Snow
Snow in Seattle proper was the kind of thing that people took the day off work for; even George took a minute to stare out the window for a moment, thinking about how much it was going to suck tonight, with Alex being such a blanket-hog and all.
#39 - Solid
Alex is against him like a brick wall.
#40 - Spring
He doesn’t quite believe it when O’Malley starts handing out little bags of Easter candy-he starts to believe it when George chucks one at his head in the locker room.
#41 - Stable
The only stable thing about their relationship is its complete lack of stability...well, that and Alex’s stubble scratching up George’s face until it looks like the syphilis is spreading again, but...that doesn’t count, right?
#42 - Strange
“George and Alex drove to work together-that’s not normal, is it?”
#43 - Summer
“Bailey said that summer is great for surgery, a whole lot of stupid kids with a lot of free time, and hey Izzy, you wanna maybe tell me what you and Cristina were talking about this morning that I heard my name like, three times in five minutes?”
#44 - Taboo
“It isn’t a big deal, George, I mean, didn’t you see Brokeback Mountain?”
#45 - Ugly
“Okay, so maybe Brokeback wasn’t the best example, what with the beating and the death and the secrets, isolationOW Izzy what the-but...there were those penguins or something, right?”
#46 - War
Bailey knows something is going on between her interns (yet again, she sighed), and far be it from her to stay out of their personal lives for once, but even she is not going to try and get between whatever it is Karev and George have going on...as long as it doesn’t get in the way of their work.
#47 - Water
George thinks it’s a one time thing, a minor mistake in judgement on both their parts-though he quickly realizes how wrong he is when Alex pulls open the shower door and steps inside.
#48 - Welcome
“You can’t live with Burke and Yang for the entire residency, and I’m just saying, I’ve got the extra room...so long as you pay rent, you get groceries once a week, and you don’t bring a whole bunch of crappy emo music and posters of Meredith.”
#49 - Winter
Winter in LA is nothing like winter in Seattle, and there’s only one thing Alex misses about it.
#50 - Wood
“Brilliant idea, double-O, come out to your father while he’s holding a FUCKING AXE!”