#isobel stevens

[webandofbuggered]

GREY’S ANATOMY Season 3, Episode 16 | "Drowning on Dry Land"

[sulietsexual]

"Someone will come!"

5.01 Dream A Little Dream of Me [Part 1] Grey's Anatomy [2005 - ]

[bumblesimagines]

what we had was perfect.

why do you keep looking at me like that?

of course i remembered. how could i forget?

Izzie Stevens

Pronouns: He/Him/His, M!Reader

tweaked one of the sentences

It was hard to keep a light conversation going when holes were being burned into your temple.

(Y/N) tried ignoring it for the sake of the patient he was stitching up, humming and nodding along while the man spoke about his wife and how she constantly warned him about using chainsaws. Luckily, it was a manageable slice, nothing too gory or intense that'd require anything more than stitches and medication for the pain. 

"Say, Doc," The man, Dale Lester, cleared his throat and leaned forward toward him to speak in a less-than-quiet voice despite his best attempt. "Why does that young lady keep lookin' at you?"

(Y/N) looked over his shoulder and immediately spotted her across the room watching him again with her typical look of concentration, semi-furrowed brows and slightly pouted lips.

She blinked when he met her gaze and tentatively raised her fingers to wave at him but her resident, the infamous Dr. Bailey, snapped her own fingers in her face and made her flinch. Her cheeks flushed and she sheepishly dipped her head. 

"Ah, let me guess," Dale chuckled heartily. "She's got a crush on you, huh, Doc?"

(Y/N) snorted and shook his head as he stood up and slipped the latex gloves off his hands. "I don't think so, Mr. Lester. We're old friends; haven't seen each other since high school."

"Mm, I think she's got a crush, Doc. She's staring again. That little woman in front of her doesn't look very happy." 

"Right." (Y/N) chuckled. "Let's get you home, Mr. Lester." 

It was almost funny how life worked.

Back in Chehalis, Washington, (Y/N) thought he'd never lay eyes on Isobel Stevens again after they graduated high school. Most of their classmates either stayed behind to suffer the same fate as their parents or ran for the hills the moment they could; he chose the latter for the sake of his sanity. He knew helping others came easily to Izzie, and that her natural ability at empathizing and making deep connections would naturally take her into a field where she could put those skills to use.

He simply never expected she'd choose to become a surgical intern nor that they'd end up doing their internship in the same hospital. He supposed it was true what they said: it really is a small world.

The hospital was big enough (and busy enough) for them to only cross paths on slim occasions, though the same couldn't be said when they happened to end their shifts at similar times. He tried to ignore her while he changed out of the pale blue scrubs and into casual clothes but even while she nodded along to what her fellow interns were saying, her eyes remained locked on him as if in a daze.

(Y/N) adjusted the hood of his jacket and finally glanced at her again, his lips quirking when their eyes met. "Why do you keep looking at me like that?" 

Izzie blinked, her eyes widening and cheeks flushing again. She cleared her throat, fingertips brushing a lock of hair behind her ear, and shuffled closer to him. "Do you, uhm, not remember me?" She asked softly, her voice dipped in a hint of hurt. "It's just that, when we were getting the tour, you didn't seem to.. know me."

"Of course, I remember. How could I forget?" He laughed, somewhat perplexed. Her shoulders slumped with relief. "Izzie, we were high school sweethearts. Nobody forgets their high school sweetheart, especially after going through what we went through."

"Yeah..." She grimaced and nodded, her hands toying and fidgeting with each other. A wistful look passed over her face. "What we had was perfect, even with everything else that happened. I honestly thought we were going to get married and then.." She lowered her head and lightly kicked the ground with the tip of her flat.

"Luck wasn't exactly on anyone's side in Forest Park, Iz. We didn't know we wanted similar things.. we just knew we needed to get out of there." (Y/N) shrugged and fiddled with the ends of his jacket until he hooked the zipper and tugged it up to his chest. He offered her a friendly smile and closed his locker. "I'm glad you're doing well, though. I honestly thought you'd end up becoming a teacher."

Izzie laughed. "And I thought you'd end up working at an animal rescue but.. here we are."

"Here we are." He echoed softly and reached out to adjust the loose scarf wrapped around her shoulders. "You'll make a good surgeon, Iz. I'll see you around?"

"Yeah!" She cleared her throat. "Yeah, uhm.. maybe we could grab coffee sometime? To catch up, I mean."

"I'd love that."

[ssensual-politics]

Girlfriends Izzie & Addie

They work so well please why does meddison exist when Izzie is right there as a mentee, muse and mirror of Addison. Like, they’re perfect.

[tinseltownie]

Here's an non-comprehensive list of everything M.A.G.I.C went through in their internship year aka the first 3 seasons of grey's anatomy. the first 61 episodes. I'm not sure how to break this down so I think I'll go character wise, and mostly in order of most to least believable. I'm not including their patients, time spent studying, actual working hours, stuff they do outside the main scope of the program (meredith spending time with her mother, george shooting a turkey with his family) etc. I'm also not commenting on the timeline of how everyone seems so close even though, again, this is supposed to one calendar year. this is just the stuff that happens to them on a personal basis.

(hilariously, richard webber is supposed to retire as early at the very first episode of the series and yet james pickens jr is one of two remaining main characters as late as season 22. (they haven't announce the cast of S23 yet, but i have to assume he's going to stay))

ALEX

he seems to have the most "normal" internship year. he falls for izzy, but they don't officially date. He does fail what seems to be the oral portion of the STEP 2 exam- but he retakes the test and passes. He sleeps with various women, most notably Nurse Olivia. This results in a syphilis outbreak at the hospital. He meets Ava- who is actually Rebecca. (as a patient) He has Addison Montgomery punishing him by putting him on a near permanent OB-GYN rotation, and he was kind of a typical asshole of the 2005 variety (forces himself onto Meredith at one point, bullies izzy, freezes in the elevator) but other than that, a believable internship year. he also is passively involved in the whole Denny Duquette thing, and he moves into the main house in S3. before that we don't know where he lives.

CRISTINA

Now it may seem weird to have her here, but she also has a relatively normal year. She falls in love with a guy, has a miscarriage, moves in with the guy, and gets left on the alter. it's pretty fast in terms of actual time (again, this happens in the span of one year) but not utterly impossible. of course, burke gets shot, and she bears the burden of studying and doing his surgeries but that also feels doable- if improbable- to me. she's supposed to be the gunner of her class, the best intern so it tracks that she can keep up with advanced procedures. we learn about her dead father, and we meet her mother. she's obviously involved in a lot of the meredith stuff, and she helps with the denny thing. she's also there for the bomb but burke sends her away so she's just in brain surgery with derek, and mostly it's her friend going through that.

GEORGE

i struggled between george and izzy because a LOT happens between them. George's marriage is written to be hasty though so he ultimately lands here.

is in love with meredith. moves in with her. sleeps with her. gets mad at her. makes up with her.

moves out of the main house and moves in with cristina and burke

is burke's "guy" and discovers burke's tremor.

gets syphilis from Alex. (via Nurse Olivia)

meets and dates callie.

bailey names her baby after him when he helps deliver the kid (not even getting into bailey having a baby even though she wasn't pregnant in the first season let alone naming him after an intern she's known for less than a year but whatever)

breaks up with callie. helps with the LVAD thing

dad in the hospital for cancer. dad dies.

marries callie in vegas.

sleeps with izzy. (falls in love with her?)

agrees to have a baby with callie

applies and gets accepted to mercy west as a transfer.

fails his intern exam and has to repeat his intern year

IZZY

also moves in with meredith

gets bullied by Alex for being "doctor model"

throws a party for her hockey boyfriend but they end up breaking up

dates alex for a bit but they break up when she sees him necking nurse olivia

struggles on her mom's birthday but eventually calls her.

makes thanksgiving dinner with burke?

has time to decorate the apartment for christmas.

meets a patient- denny duquette. - who gets rejected for a heart transplant and leaves the hospital.

starts sleeping with alex during the bomb in the patient episode.

denny comes back and gets fitted for an LVAD. izzy and denny spend a lot of time together

izzy breaks up with alex after he's an ass to denny.

denny is offered another heart but izzy learns he might not get it which causes her to cut his LVAD wire.

denny proposes and izzy accepts.

denny dies, and izzy quits being a surgeon.

she's gets an $8.7 million inheritance. (they have known each other like.... 6 weeks or something be so fucking serious)

izzy gets reinstated at the hospital despite being a millionaire, because all she wants to do is a "running whip stitch." she's not allowed to do surgery though, and has a bunch of hoops that legal and hr make her jump through

izzy decides to spend her inheritance building a free clinic for Seattle Grace. This happens in 8 days. (stfu fr)

alex tries to kiss her but she's not ready.

izzy is not happy about george's marriage. they fight about it.

sleeps with george. is convinced she's in love with him.

is fully allowed to perform surgeries again just because the chief said she could. (no HR or legal oversight?)

and finally, our plot armor queen. a lot of this is derek related but it just gives me such whiplash just watching it, i can't even begin to imagine what she's feeling. also the context of this being one calendar year is very important to me. (also v ridiculous, i love this show)

MEREDITH

sleeps with a guy who turns out to be her attending

is late to her first day of work.

mom has Alzheimer's but that's a big secret because mom's a super famous surgeon (didnt know famous surgeons were a thing)

gets roommates she wasn't sure she wanted. they're all up in her space and stuff. she ultimately appreciates it but cmon.

is sexually harassed by alex

bailey learns she's sleeping with an attending and gives her crap. (izzy and george are also awful about it but i'm counting this as one thing)

tells derek about her mom and he gets her mom into a clinical trial.

her boyfriend's wife shows up at the hospital

she breaks up with derek even though he continues to pursue her. derek tells her he's getting a divorce. he does not do that. (pick me choose me love me famously happens here)

mom shows up to the hospital and everyone learns her secret in a super public way.

sleeps with a bunch of guys. one of them shows up to the hospital with priapism.

sleeps with george. they have a falling out.

puts her hand in a body cavity that has a bomb in it. Bomb squad guy explodes into pink dust in front of her.

meets her half sister who is pregnant and her dead beat dad's other family. susan is nice.

gets a dog. gives the dog to derek. is friends with derek till he calls her a whore. the friends breakup

helps with the cutting of the LVAD wire. learns her mom and her chief of surgery were having an affair. is friends with george again.

dog dies.

starts dating the vet. sleeps with derek at prom. decides to date them both. (don't ask about they prom, yes it's a real thing)

panties on the bulletin board

meets one of derek's bitchy sisters

half sister gives birth and has to deal with her dad, new niece at the hospital.

mark shows up and flirts with her. derek punches him.

has appendicitis. breaks up with vet. derek is being weird towards her. they get back together.

mother is lucid and says some pretty nasty things to her. (a regular tuesday night for some of us tbh).

she tries to drown herself in the bathtub. actually drowns. dies. meets a bunch of dead patients and dead dog. is revived.

mom dies.

deadbeat dad's wife makes and effort with her and is actually a good fake mom to her. bonds with her dad a little bit.

fake mom gets the hiccups and also dies. dad is drunk and straight up slaps her in front of everybody... (the slap is never brought up again)

doesn't write anything on her intern test.

her cheif of surgery acts like a fake dad to her and makes it so that she can retake the test later in the day.

she passes the test. (when the fuckkkkk did they study???)

breaks up with derek.

[lavenderconfessions]

Not to be such a lesbian, but I’ve recently started watching scattered Grey’s Anatomy episodes and why do all the women with amazing stories and personalities get stuck in horible relationships? She’s talented and driven and outspoken and she gets to date this emotionally unavailable manchild who never respects her? And she chases after him too because he has like one decent trait in that sea of red flags and the bar is in fucking hell. Why did no one get these women some standards and better romantic storylines that don’t distract from or absolutely drag down their otherwise very interesting professional plots?

[rickypottsboyfriend]

IT DIDNT EVEN FUCKING LOOK LIKE HIM UNTIL HE OPENED HIS EYES AND LOOKED AT MEREDITH

im going to cry what the fuck he didnt even get to the end of his second year . bailey and callie didnt even get a chance to talk him out of going to the army

izzie was too sick to remember they even got the fucking tumor out to go see george before he fucking died

alex was too busy trying to help izzie remember to even know details about the john doe hit by the bus

[coffeebean-anatomy]

First Cafeteria Scene is a great show of dynamics. George is looking out for Izzy, then Christina interjects about information she got on Meredith. George doesn't know who Ellis is and of course it's for us to get info on her but like

It's also b/c women professionals are typically erased from med books. So if you werent a woman doctor you probably didnt look up too much about famous women doctors. Probably not the intended characterization, but definitely is a relevant one.

Anyways, both Izzy and Christina laugh at him then go on to explain who she is. Funnily enough when you listen to Izzy she says "she practically invented the abdominal (something something)" the last two words almost sound like 'wall transplant' which is actually not invented till way later by Meredith. Not sure what thats about but Christina talks over her so its unclear to make out fully can't lie.

Izzy sympathizes with Mer "talk bout parental pressure" why Yang laments about how she "would kill to have Ellis Grey as a mother"

We already knew Ellis was a great in the Game of Medicine. It's in Mer's opening lines. But here we get a glimpse at jsut how big she is. Ellis won two awards, we dont know how huge and important those rewards really are but she has 2 of them and is called a "living legend"

You start wondering bout what kinda childhood Mer grew up in.

Then she comes to the table and says "Katie Bryce is a pain in the ass. If i hadn't taken the Hippocratic oath I would Kevorkian her with my own bare hands." and the table is stunned silent. They're all wondering what we are, is that what Ellis is like?

Then Burke comes up to the table and begins talking about the first surgery. Christina and Mer are the ones shown leaning forward, both eager to be cutting. George has already resigned himself to being overlooked, resorting to his wounded dog tactics of being quiet and eyes down after pissin off Burke. Then Burke claps him on the shoulder and tells George he's helping with an appendectomy and you can see Christina lean forward a bit more as her eyes dart from Burke to George and back to Burke. Her look of annoyance, the pursed lips and turning away from George, as she goes back to her papers. The silence until George asks in disbelief, "did he say me?"

Such fun small character bits and camera framing that is real neat