-1"What the hell has gotten into you lately ?" was the first thing that George O'Malley heard while getting out of bed Monday morning. Callie had been asking him that for the past three weeks since his dad died. He gave his usual "nothing" response and then got out of bed and went straight into the shower. The truth is that not even George knew what was wrong with him. He thought that getting married and moving in with Callie would make everything better but it didn't. It was like something inside of him kept kicking him every time he tried to get up and put himself back together. Days, they seemed to meld into each other and nothing seemed or even felt real. It was like he was in some bubble and the world around him kept moving but he stayed still. But even though he felt like that he still had to get ready and go to work.

"I'm just saying there should be some boundaries." Izzie insisted while following Meredith into the locker room.

"Boundaries? You? Wow how the times have changed." Meredith sarcastically stated. Izzie rolled her eyes at that and kept arguing her point.

"Everyday he walks in on me. EVERYDAY!! Alex should at least knock or something." Izzie argued. For the past week Alex has been living in the house with Derek, Meredith, and Izzie and even though he kept to himself most of the time Izzie could not stand him walking in on her in the bathroom every morning.

"You use to walk in on George all the time you have no right to complain about this." Meredith knew she was going to win this argument sooner or later but just to humor Izzie she would keep fighting her on it.

"That was different it was George ok and it's not like I walked in just as he was getting out I mean he was still in the shower for god's sake. But with Alex it's like he makes sure it's right as I'm getting out which is seriously starting to freak me out just a little." now Izzie usually didn't mind when people walked in on her in the bathroom but with Alex it was weird and awkward and she did not like it. But before Meredith had a chance to say anything else the door swung open and in walk George with a not so pleasant face on.

"What the hell happened to you?" Cristina asked as she walked past him to get to her locker.

"Sex last night and an early morning today." George answered following it with a yawn.

"Ok ew not all of us here want to hear about you and Callie's sexkapaids." Izzie chimed in. She had sort of accepted Georges stupid quickie marriage to Callie but that didn't mean that she wanted to hear all about what they did at night. George just ignored her and kept changing into his scrubs. After a couple of minutes Bailey walked in to rustle them up for rounds.

"If your butts aren't out this door in five seconds I will start without you." Bailey barked at them. All the interns just took a second and looked at her and that second is all she needed. "What are all you sitting around for I said move! MOVE!!" and just like that they all were up and moving out the door in a orderly fashion. Izzie made sure to be one of the last out with George.

"Ok seriously what's going on with you lately? Everyday you come in a little more tired and grouchy. Is stuff not going so good with you and Callie or something?" Izzie asked as they swerved though all the hustle and bustle of the hospital. When George decided to ignore the question Izzie decided to try again not getting the hint that he really didn't want to talk about what his issues were. "Is it something I did because you seem to be ignoring me a lot lately?" George ignored her again hope she would just stop asking about his feelings and all in his inner problems. But Izzie was being.. well Izzie so of course she didn't take the silent treatment as an answer. "George will you just talk to me?" finally George had enough.

"Izzie stop!" George turned to face her that brought them both to a stop in the middle of the hallway. "It's nothing you did or that Callie is doing it's me! Ok? I'm just sick of everyone asking me how I'm doing or what's wrong with me. For the past few weeks it's like people are walking on egg shells around me and I want it to stop! My dad died ok I'm dealing with it I'm trying to cope but everyone asking me every five seconds if I'm ok is not helping with the coping!" With that he turned on his heels and started toward the way everyone else was going leaving Izzie in her spot still in shock for that outbreak that just happened.

"What just happened?" she asked herself she thought she was helping she knew what it was like to lose someone you love and she knew you shouldn't try to cope alone. She had never seen George like that usually he was all positive and warm hearted guy now his all pessimistic and cold hearted guy. He kind of reminded her of Cristina. Well that didn't matter because he was still George, her best friend, George and no matter how much he hates it and doesn't want it she was going to make sure he knew that she was there for him if he need to talk about anything. That's what best friends are for, right?

With that Izzie started toward the direction everyone else was going. It only took a couple of minutes to find everyone and when she did she tried to cleverly sneak into the room without anyone noticing that she was gone. Of course nothing gets by Dr. Miranda Bailey.

"Dr. Stevens thank you for joining us seeing as you seem so informed on all these cases that you don't even have to show up anymore why don't you tell us what Mrs. Duvall's problem is." Bailey glared deeply at Izzie as if she had committed some sort of crime.

"Ok, Gina Duvall age 36 came in last night complaining of intense back pains that seem to come every 10 minutes." Izzie informed the room. Bailey nodded.

"What is causing the pain?" she asked.

" Most likely she has just strained the spine a little it should go away with time but just in case we will get an x-ray and we will start her on a morphine drip for the pain." she finishes.

Bailey nods and hands her the chart. "Good welcome to the case keep a close eye on her and get a consult from Dr. O'Malley." Izzie rolled her eyes at that. She knew that she should be supportive of everything that George does but marrying Callie was just something that she just couldn't get past and she didn't even know why.

George followed everyone as they filed out of the room leaving Izzie to her patient. George didn't know why he freaked on her. Izzie didn't do anything to him, except make fun of his marriage and wife everyday since he announced that they got married. Ok that was a lie she has been making fun of Callie since she met her, but still she hasn't done anything today to deserve being yelled at in a hallway. It's just that each day seemed to be getting harder and harder. At fist he thought that as time passed life would get better but it didn't it got worse. Every morning he got up to Callie yelling at him to get up then he went to work to be asked about a thousand times if he was ok and if there was anything anyone could do for him. Then he went home at night and either he would get into a fight with Callie about something that Izzie said or did or they would end up having sex. Sometimes they got into a fight then had sex but usually it was one or the other. Sex, that seem to be a big part of his life these days, it was the only time when he actually felt something other then total emptiness. He knew that it was wrong to use sex as a way of feeling something but hey he hasn't heard Callie complaining so why not use it.

They soon came up to their next stop and George wiped all thoughts of sex and how crappy his life is from his mind and focused on the patient in front of him.

"Who's presenting?" Bailey asked as soon as they all got in the room.

"Carl Weaver age 25 scheduled for a craniotomy at 2 for a tumor that is pressed against his front temporal lope causing multiple seizures." George answered. He had been working on this case since Mr. Weaver came in 3 days ago he knew his case backwards and forwards.

"Sounds good has Dr. Shepard requested any other tests to be done?" Bailey asked.

" Yeah he wants one more CT before he starts the surgery just to make sure that there wont be any complications." George stated as he looked at Mr. Weaver.

"I don't understand why," Carl said "it seems all I've been doing since I came here is getting tests done. Why am I getting anther? Shouldn't he be able to tell what's going on in my head from the last CT?"

"Well he has asked for a more exact test to be done so we can see everything that the tumor is pressing against so we don't hit anything vital." George answered while looking at the man's chart.

"Ok well we'll leave you to it O'Malley." and with that all the interns and Dr. Bailey were out the door.

"You paged for a consult?" was the first thing Izzie heard Callie say as she came into the patients room.

"Yeah Mrs. Duvall is having extreme back pains shooting down her back every 10 minutes or so Bailey said to page you." Izzie explained not really caring weather she sounded like a bitch as she was saying it. She didn't want to talk to Callie and she knew Callie didn't want to talk to her but they worked together so they had to talk to each other.

"Have you gotten an x-ray yet?" Callie asked while looking at her chart.

"No not yet but I thought…"

"How do you expect me to help with this woman's pain if I can't see what her back looks like Stevens?" Callie interrupted.

"I'll take her to get an x-ray now." Izzie said as she started rolling the bed out of the room.

"Wow she's kind of bitchy." Mrs. Duvall said half whacked on morphine.

"Oh you have no idea." Izzie mumbled underneath her breathe as they left Callie behind in the room.