[alex karev | grey's anatomy] fuck it, I'll start with a prompt / marinaverse
[Doctors are used to little to no sleep and slamming shift after shift down. Functioning through exhaustion. So maybe it's just culture shock; there's no trauma here, no cuts worth stitching or ER cases to hype up the energy. It's bound to drive a surgeon mad. But it's not the only thing keeping him up at this hour.
He's restless, pacing the place like it's his first night here.
But there were other things to consider then, different from those here now. The sinking realization had only begun to set in about his family, and this crackpot theory that a version of him is filling in and supposedly keeping all that afloat. If he could barely do it on a good day, whose to say this sub par clone's going to manage at all?]