Denny[voiceover] Dad, mom... It's me. I'm calling from Seattle Grace Hospital where the - the beautiful, talented and incredibly stubborn Dr. Isobel Stevens has, she's just given me a brand new heart and promised to marry me. I know we've had our differences and I'm sorry we've been out of touch. Believe it or not I was - I was trying to make everything better. I know you're angry but I hope you'll forgive me. It turns out, sometimes you have to do the wrong thing. Sometimes you have to make a big mistake to figure out how to make things right. Mistakes are painful, but they're the only way to find out who you really are. I know who I am now. I know what I want. I've got the love of my life, a new heart and I want you guys to get on the next plane out here and meet my girl. Everything's gonna be different now, I promise. From here on out, nothing's ever going to be the same. I love you, bye.
Denny
[voiceover] Heaven, hell, limbo, no one really knows where we're going or what's waiting for us when we get there. But the one thing we can say for sure, with absolute certainty, is that there are moments that take us to another place, moments of heaven on earth. And maybe for now, that's all we need to know.
Denny
Izzie! Izzie, stop and listen to me. We're not doing this.
Don't worry. You're not gonna die. I will be here the whole time to make sure of that. And that's what this stuff is for.
Denny
This isn't about me dying. Alright? This is wrong.
You've waited a year and a half to get this thing. Who knows when the next one is going to come along.
Denny
I'll take my chances.
No. It may be too late by then.
Denny
Then it's too late. Alright. Now get this stuff out of here!
Denny, please. You have to do this.
Denny
No, Izzie! I'm not about to steal a heart from another man's chest! Not to mention, this'll be the end of your medical career.
I don't care about my medical career.
Denny
Alright, you know what? This has gone on long enough. I'm gonna call a nurse.
Everyone who is entered into the transplant program is clocked in to the second. To the second, Denny. You were clocked into the second and so was the other guy, I checked with UNOS. The difference between when you entered the program and when he entered the program is 17 seconds. That's it Denny. 17 seconds. I mean, it's not even the length of a decent kiss. So this other guy, I'm not saying that he doesn't deserve this heart. I'm sure he does, but so do you! So do you. And if you tell me anymore crap about heading towards the light or looking down on me from heaven I swear I will kill you myself right now!
Denny
Izzie... I'm gonna be alright. Alright? You don't have to worry.
What about me? What about me when you go to the light?
Denny
Izzie...
[beginning to cry] No, I get it! OK? I get it! You'll be OK, you'll be fine, but what about me? So don't do it for yourself, do it for me! Please! Please Denny! Please do this for me! Because if you die, oh God, you have to do this! You have to do this for me or I'll never be able to forgive you!
Denny
For dying?
No! For making me love you! Please! Please do this for me, OK? Please? OK, I can't do this if you don't! Please do this for me, cause if you don't, please?
Denny
OK. OK, I'll do it.
Denny
What? You like your men sick and feeble? You don't dig healthy guys?
Denny
Then why are you all swirly and twitchy?
Denny
Yeah, you're swirly and twitchy. It's 'cause I asked you to marry me.
Denny
It's not the kind of thing I'd forget.
Yeah. Look, Denny, um, I'm giving you an out.
Denny
Excuse me?
Well, I'm giving you an out. I mean, you thought you were dying and I was saving your life and, you know, everything was so... So, I won't hold it against you, or be hurt and offended if you want to take your proposal back, I mean giving you an out.
Denny
I don't want an out.
You should take the out. We can't get married. I mean that would be crazy, insane. We should date, and have sex. Plenty of sex. You know when your heart gets better and you're out of the hospital, all the sex you can handle. But marriage is, um, marriage, I mean...
Denny
Okay, it's my turn now.
Denny
No, no. We're taking turns. I've decided. It's polite and it keeps me from yelling. When it's your turn again, you can talk. [pause] For five years, I've had to live by the choices of my doctors. The guys that cut me open decided my life, there wasn't one choice that was mine. And now, I have this heart that beats and works. I get to be like everybody else, I get to make my own decisions, have my own life, do whatever the damn hell I choose. Now here's the good part, so you listen close. What I choose is you. You're who I want to wake up with and go to bed with and do everything in between with. I get a choice now. I get to choose. I choose you, Izzie Stevens. OK, it's your turn again.
Denny
What happened in that water?
Denny
No, you didn't, and you can't stay here, Meredith.
Denny
Yeah, you do. It's easier, but you can't. Because George's dad died, because Izzie lost me, and Cristina, when she was nine she was in a car accident with her father and he bled out right in front of her while they waited for an ambulance to arrive, and Alex...
Denny
They are barely breathing, this will break them, and none of them deserves that. And this, this is the big one, so you pay attention. Do you know what kind of miracle it is that Derek is who he is? Do you know how rare it is that someone like him even exists? He's still an optimist. He still believes in true love and magic and soul mates. He's waiting for you, and if you don't come back from this... you will change who he is.
Listen. You had that heart patient and it reminded you of Denny and how bad you felt when you were lying on that bathroom floor. I get that. I get that you're scared. But you're not going to have to feel like that again. Because I'm not going to die, Izz. And I'm not gonna cheat on you, and I'm not gonna go anywhere. 'Cause, I think you're my best shot at... I think with you... you make me better. You make me wanna be better. You make me want to be good. And I think I can. With you. I think I can. So I'm not going anywhere, and you can stop hiding. And if you wanna be scared that's okay just be scared with me. Be scared while you scrub in with me for my first solo surgery. Okay?
Shut up. [kisses her, leaves] Solo surgery!
Denny
I'm really starting to not like that guy.
You never know the biggest day of your life is the biggest day. Not until it's happening. You don't recognize the biggest day of your life, not until you're right in the middle of it. The day you commit to something or someone. The day you get your heart broken. The day you meet your soul mate. The day you realize there's not enough time, because you wanna live forever. Those are the biggest days. The perfect days. You know?
Denny
I bet you made a beautiful bride.
You put the scarf on. I told you, you don't need it. You look gorgeous without it.
Denny
He's right.
Go away now. Go away, I wanna be alone with my husband.
[Takes off her scarf, and kisses her forehead] My wife is hot! [Izzie giggles and smiles]
Denny
Nice ring. Alex outdid himself.
We're gonna have beautiful kids, don't you think? Is four too many?
Denny
Four is perfect.
Ideally it would be two boys, and two girls. One of which would definitely be a tom boy. And I was thinking I should have them pretty close together, though that might be stupid.
Denny
Why wait?
Exactly. That way if I'm not able to practice medicine anymore...
Denny
You won't want to.
Denny
Do you?
I'm asking you. Why do you keep agreeing with everything I say?
Denny
Because I am you. I'm your tumor. You're talking to yourself.
Denny
At least until you have surgery. If you have surgery. Are you gonna have surgery?
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