grapevine fires {alex/izzie; burke/cristina}

[slybrunette]

Title: Grapevine Fires
Fandom: Grey's Anatomy
Characters/Pairings: Alex/Izzie; Burke/Cristina.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 3,157.
Author's Note: This is inspired by -- with the latter part for -- nursebadass. Both parts can serve as standalones, since they are essentially variations on the same idea. The headers for both parts come from "Grapevine Fires" by

Comments

[klutzy_girl]

I loved this fic! I love the ways that Izzie and Burke found out about the shooting. This was pretty interesting.

[slybrunette]

Thank you! The person I wrote part of this for gave me the idea and I just had to run for it. It's a kind of perfect opportunity.

I'm glad you enjoyed this!

[steph0202]

As always you put interesting spins on things, I wouldn't have thought I'd want to see how these two coming back would play out but you make it easy. Great work!

[slybrunette]

I don't think I knew I wanted it until I wrote it, you know? Sometimes that happens.

I'm glad you liked this! Thanks for reading and reviewing!

[nursebadass]

Oh, this is just perfection. I love how it all works out and it's the perfect setup for them to come back, very in character I think.

Alex stares at her for too long, through half-lidded eyes, and there’s a point where she wonders if he’s gone back to sleep. Then he swallows, pulls his hand back from her grasp. She chases it. “Crap. I told Sloan not to kill me

[slybrunette]

Yeah, I was always...not the Izzie fan but loved Alex/Izzie interaction, you know? When she wasn't being...what you said, lol. I kind of learned to get around those moments.

As for the B/C, Cristina doesn't cry a lot. But there's very distinct times when she does and Burke knows her so, of anyone, he would know what was coming.

All I can say is thank fuck you liked this because WOW was I nervous. Long day and this was alternately written in the wee hours of the morning and, well, half an hour ago. So. Yeah. Thank you so much. I love you and your ideas more than you will ever know.

[leobrat]

You know, she used to be the heart of this whole operation. Her and George, they used to be the heart. Now she’s the cold bitch who left her husband and she has no recourse because said husband is lying in a hospital bed with a gunshot wound.

I hate that this is who Izzie became. It rings true and it hurts.

This was wonderful. I'm looking forward to Grey's fic from you this hiatus!

[slybrunette]

I agree with you on that. The Izzie who left this season was not the one who walked in during Season 1, that's for sure. But I guess we all change, you know?

I'm glad you liked this hun! Thank you! And there will definitely be a ton from me this hiatus, I can promise you.

[waltzmatildah]

But this Izzie came back... remember? She came back and she wanted to fix things, and it wasn't cold and bitchy at all. She was desperate and terrified and she came back to fix things.

Alex (rightly or wrongly) sent her away...

She's not the Izzie from season one. But that's probably because the Izzie from season one hadn't been diagnosed with an horrific cancer. Her best friend hadn't been killed. Her fiance hadn't died in her arms. She wasn't questioning her career. She hadn't married someone on a whim with the false belief that she was dying. While I don't agree with season six Izzie, I do understand her.

(but that could be the clinical psychologist in me coming out... so, feel free to ignore! - just needed to get that off my chest. I think I will be forever defending her! It's almost an instinct.)

[leobrat]

Unfortunately, I think a lot of who Izzie became wasn't dictated by story (because it's completely understandable that she's not Suzie Q Baker any more, after all she's been through). I think who Izzie became was dictated by Katherine Heigl wanting nothing to do with the show any more. It's sad...

[waltzmatildah]

Awesome. As I'm sure you already know, I loved the Alex/Izzie part.

This is the second 'Izzie finds out' fic that I've read and I've also got one written... the three of them are all so different. Man, I love fanfic! Izzie can find out in a million different ways and I can read about it a million different times.

I thought I was over them.

I love Lexie, I do. I love Alex and her together. She brings a light-ness to him, a kind of happy calm, but...

But now? I thought I was over them...

[slybrunette]

Seriously? There's another one? Where the hell have I been (or I guess the better question is 'did i already read it at 3am and forget)? And, yay, way excited for yours!

I love Alex/Lexie, but I will always have a soft spot for Alex/Izzie. It was my OTP. So, really, you and me both on this one.

I'm so glad you liked this! Thanks so much for reading and reviewing!

[joya_oscura]

Well, this is also the second fic that I read that Izzie coming back. The first one that I read is on FF.net and listed below:
Back To Where We Started From [fic id:5987289] by yesliterally [author id:1579466]
...Because you know somewhere, Izzie Stevens turned on a T.V. to find Seattle Grace under attack. Her reaction. Spoilers for the Season 6 finale. One shot.
Rated: T - English - Drama/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,097 - Reviews: 16 - Published: 5-21-10 - Izzie. S & Alex. K - Complete

I enjoyed both fics.

[slybrunette]

Ha, thanks for the link and I'm glad you enjoyed this!