“They’re BEST friends. They spend most of their waking hours together.
They have many things in common. They confide in each other.
They look out for each other. They stick up for each other.
They worry about each other. They care very deeply about each other.”
- Chris Van Dusen

On paper, Drs. George O’Malley and Izzie Stevens made the unlikeliest of pairs. The tall, blonde, well-endowed, bubbly ex-model and the shy, ordinary-looking mathlete with a big heart and a baby face. But if you looked deeper, you could see they were very much alike. Both had troubles being taken seriously. Izzie’s past as a model and her beauty made people think she wasn’t anything other than a pretty face with not much brains in her head or skills as a doctor. She had to prove there was more to her than her exterior and work twice as hard as anyone. George barely made the cut into the program, and as a result he was immediately considered the underdog, the guy who wouldn’t be able to hack it as a doctor. Things didn’t get much better on George’s first day when cardiothoracic surgeon Burke chose George to do an appendicectomy and George froze right in the middle of the operation, nearly killing the patient and earning him forever the nickname 007. (licenced to kill)

The various, notable similarities between them might be why George and Izzie connected from the very start. After moving into Meredith's house they bickered constantly. From the size of the rooms to tampons. Izzie teased him mercifully although never in a cruel way. Alot of it was about George’s crush on Meredith, but she still kept his "secret" that wasn't much of a secret. When they first moved in together, George was upset at Izzie’s behavior with him. He thought she treated him like her sister. When Izzie realized she was really hurting his feelings, she apologized. Their fights never lasted long because in the end they valued their friendship enough to be able to compromise for it.

The friendship only grew as the season progressed. They quickly got to know each other inside and out. The teasing, which, in itself, is part of the established friendship, progressed also. When George got syphilis from his girlfriend, Nurse Olivia, and had to get a shot of penicillin in his behind, Izzie certainly didn't hesistate in teasing him about it. She even teased him about having a girlfriend in the first place. When it was revealed that Alex was the one responsible for the syph, because Olivia had been sleeping with Alex also, George pounced on Alex and punched him hard. Izzie even had to pry George off him.

The small things, like Izzie baking for George, them brushing their teeth together and gossiping, her getting into his bed whenever she felt down, are what really showed their connection, how much they felt at ease with one another. These were two people who had each other’s backs. Two people who genuinely liked and loved each other, flaws and all.

Despite them being the best of friends, they still flirted. In one instance Izzie was sex starved and
grabbed George by his t-shirt and pulled him close, telling him how much she needed sex.
George humorously replied that he wouldn't "do" her, no matter how hard she begged,
but nodded and mouthed that he would, which made her smile.

Izzie didn't hesitate in standing up for George when Meredith hesitated
in chosing between George and their dog, which prompted George to want to move out.
She fought with Meredith, and George, about it, and luckily the issue was resolved after George
made clear of his place is Meredith's life, and that she shouldn't have valued him over a dog she found at the pound.
Despite this, George's love for Meredith still grew and showed no signs of faltering.

The loyality in George and Izzie's relationship shone through even more after George's bad sex debacle
with Meredith, causing him to stop talking to Meredith completely. Izzie made it clear
that she was on George's side, even though she had no idea what transpired between them.
Both Izzie & George had very strong opinions about the other's choice of partners.
George was very critical of Izzie's relationship with Alex, and George's relationship
with Callie brought out Izzie's jealous side.

George ended up moving out because of the breakdown in his relationship with Meredith.
Izzie grew incredibly concerned for him, constantly questioning him about where he lived,
and George continuously shrugged her off. This resulted in a huge fight in front of a patient,
with whom they'd been spending alot of time with that day, causing her to seize. She later told
George that she knows fighting, and that Izzie only misses her friend. George decided to move
back in, and eventually forgave Meredith, and realized he was at fault too and apologized to her.

When Izzie met patient Denny Duquette, what started out as fun flirtations soon grew into something
much bigger and it quickly became clear that she'd fallen for him. Those feelings resulted in Izzie
risking her medical career for Denny, who needed a heart transplant. George was the first one she
went to for help in her crisis, and despite trying to convince her to stop, he stayed with her and helped
her regardless. Even after cutting Denny's L-VAD wire he stuck by her side and wouldn't tell the Chief
who had cut it. After everything that happened, Denny tragically died, leaving Izzie devastated and heartbroken.

Izzie had just lost Denny, the man she was engaged to be married to. Her friends tried to comfort her, help her move on, but it took a long time for her to begin to move on. Through it all, her best friend George remained by her side, comforting and strong. He held her hand tight when she had to listen to an old voicemail left before Denny had died.

George continued to move forward with his relationship with Callie. She told him she loved him, and he promised that while he couldn’t say it now, he would say it back when he meant it. When George’s father was admitted to the hospital, it was Izzie’s turn to hold George’s hand and be his rock as his father went into surgery. George’s father didn’t make it and it crushed George and the rest of his family. Izzie did her best to be the closest one to George during these hard times, and George, trying to move past his grief for his father and feeling that life is short, impulsively proposed to Callie. The pair eloped to Vegas, much to everyone’s surprise and Izzie’s dismay, who never particularly got along with or much liked Callie.

George and Izzie struggled to maintain their strong friendship as Izzie fought new feelings for George and her dislike of Callie. She hugged him tight and told him she understood she had to support him and “let him go”. As Callie suspected George might also have feelings for Izzie, she and George finally had one particularly heavy fight which resulted in George once again turning to his best friend for comfort and support. Izzie and George got drunk and slept together, (and judging from George's flashback, was filled with extreme passion) unleashing feelings for each other that had steadily been building for quite some time, unbeknownst to them. Following their adulterous “mistake”, Izzie had fully realised her feelings for George were more than just platonic, she had fallen in love with him. The confrontation when both had realised what had happened turned into one of the most riviting, emotional and stunning scenes between two people this fandom had ever seen. Not even words were said in that linen closet, because they weren't needed.

“I had sex last night... with the wrong person.
But the thing is it didn't feel wrong at the time.
It felt like something was falling into place.”
- Izzie


by: Whitelighter

While George stuggled to come to terms with what they had done, confusion evident in him, Izzie struggled with the revelation that her biological daughter, Hannah, was very ill, and Izzie was the only one who could save her. Her devastation clearly noticed by George, his concern caused him to seek out Meredith and Bailey, demanding to know what was going on. He ended up by her side in a difficult time for her, despite what had just transpired between them, (showing the unbreakable strength of their bond) and ended up missing his lunch date with Callie.

Alot of heartbreak followed "Time After Time". From George wanting to transfer to Mercy West after realising things were not, in fact, fine between them, to Izzie telling George that she had no feelings for him so he would stay. Unfortunately George believed this. Heartbroken, he agreed when Callie suggested they try for a baby. Shortly after, Izzie confessed her love for George. He was literally left speechless as the rest of the gang came into the locker room, anticipating Cristina's impending wedding to Dr. Burke, and their intern exam results. Everyone passed, except for George, who told no one of this, only saying to Izzie he'd talk to her at the church. The season ended with Izzie waiting in the empty church, with no sign of George, who had decided to quit after failing his intern exam.

Over two weeks passed since Izzie last saw George, hearing nothing from him after her confession, not knowing he was still an intern and had, in fact, been in the hospital all along. It wasn't until he delivered a baby, and got a pep talk from Meredith’s half-sister, Lexie Grey, that he plucked up the courage to tell Izzie he loved her, too.

After his confession a sense of relief overcame George. He felt as though he were sleeping, and now has finally woken. He told Callie of his affair with Izzie and soon after they seperated, and began the process of annulling their marriage. George and Izzie were then finally able to be together, as a couple. Although the reaction from friends was not ideal, they still made it through, together.

Though they loved each other, something wasn’t clicking as they had expected, and George and Izzie found themselves having “problems”. They feared they’d ruined their friendship or that the timing wasn’t right between them and eventually they mutually decided to break up, just for now, but that “maybe someday” it’d be right for them again. They moved back to being best friends with a very special relationship, and they helped each other through ups and downs to come.

While George repeated his year as an intern he found a friend in Lexie, who soon wanted more from George than just friendship. He, however, hadn’t been looking for any sort of romance so soon and failed to take notice of her attentions. Izzie, meanwhile, grew closer to Alex as he lost the woman he loved, Ava, to mental illness.

Tragedy struck when Izzie began seeing strange visions of Denny. As George grew more concerned with her strange behavior, he tried to alert the others, particularly Alex, who was dating Izzie, but no one seemed to believe it was terribly serious. Izzie finally began to understand whatever was happening to her was very serious and had her interns try and diagnose “Patient X” who had a mystery illness. What they didn’t know, and George suspected, was that Patient X was in fact Izzie.

Izzie was diagnosed with Stage 5 Metastatic Melanoma cancer and was soon admitted to Seattle Grace as a patient
instead of an employee. Her friends stayed by her side and as Meredith and Derek’s wedding day drew near, Izzie’s condition
worsened and she threw herself into planning the “perfect” wedding for them. Come the day of the wedding and both Meredith
and Izzie realized the wedding was Izzie’s dream for a wedding and not Meredith’s, as well that Izzie may not live
to her own wedding day to Alex. As a result, as a gift to Izzie and Alex, Meredith and Derek gave them “their” wedding.

As Izzie was walking down the aisle, her strength began to fail her.
Even though he’d been keeping his distance because of Alex and because
Izzie seemed unable to confide in him as deeply as she used to, without hesitation,
George was at Izzie’s side the instant she faltered. He held her hand, offering her support
and the strength she needed, as he walked her down the aisle and gave her away to Alex.

Izzie battled cancer and George struck up a friendship with Owen Hunt, who noticed his skill for trauma.
After treating a young man from the army, George decided perhaps it was time for him to move on
from Seattle Grace and went to sign up to be a trauma surgeon overseas. Everyone back at Seattle Grace
was horrified and shocked by the prospect and worked on a plan to talk him out of it. Izzie meanwhile,
was struggling to recover from a particularly risky surgery that had left her memory in shambles.

When a young man with no ID was brought into the ER after having saved
a woman from being hit by a bus, Meredith and many others turned their efforts
to trying to save this man, nick-named John Doe. Izzie’s memory seemed to improve,
though as Alex hugged her, celebrating the fact, she suddenly flat-lined.
Though she’d signed a DNR, Alex passionately convinced the Chief, Cristina and Bailey
to ignore it. In another room in the hospital, “John Doe” held Meredith’s hand and “wrote” into her palm,
“OO7” and Meredith realized John Doe was in fact George.

As both Izzie and George’s lives hung in the balance in the real world, somewhere else,
Izzie climbed into an elevator wearing the pink prom dress she’d worn to go see Denny in the night of his death.
When the doors opened, she saw George, smiling in an army uniform. The real world struggled to pull Izzie back to it,
while George was already gone.

Though George may gone, he will never be forgotten, least of all by Izzie. He was always her rock, and she his. They were best friends who fell in love and though they chose to go separate ways, they never stopped loving one another.

Where Art Thou George?
Like Lovers
Touching
Just a Daisy in the Shadow of the Sun
7 Days to Change Your Life
Contemplating Second
Toothbrush Next to Mine
The Etiquette of Chocolate
Something Better
Lying Is Easier [M]
One Thing Leads To Another
Do I Have To Say The Words
I'm Dead (But I Don't Know It)
Hysteria: Women
I Didn't Mean To Turn You On
Praise You
Wind It Up
Dreamtime
The Air That I Breathe
Laughter In The Rain
Paris Nights
The Miracle of Love
A Mildly Entertaining B-List Movie
This is how I want us to end.
Someday
Follow Me Down
Your Clock is Better
Predictable
The ABC's of Growing Up
Making the World Go Round
Maiden in Mayhem
Breathe Me
Mistletoe Kisses
Every Little Kiss
Don't Let It Haunt You
Izzie and The AntiGeorge
Special Cases
Bringing Sexy Back
The Fine Lines
The One I Love
From the Top
The Best Part of Waking Up
Lost and Not Yet Found
Baking Season
Of All the Things I've Done Wrong
A Merry Little Christmas
Wake Up
The Beginning after the End
I'm Here
Yes
Chocolate Chip Muffins, Rose Colored Glasses and the Man Who Loved Them
Complicated
Falling Awake
Six Years Past
When I Look At You
The Worst Day
Crash Into Me
Last of Days

Special 130th O n e - S h o t s
(by Red Bess Rackham)

All I Want Is You

Credit:
Overall OP: AstronomySnap & Red Bess Rackham
Top 10 Moments Video: katie2323
Their Story: mariem201 & Red Bess Rackham
"Why I love Gizzie" Art: WalaBridget
Character Descriptions: greysaddiction
TR & Katie's Story: Red Bess Rackham
Soundtrack: NikitaWitter