Grey's Anatomy: 12 Meredith-and-Alex Friendship Moments That Will Warm Your Heart

Meredith and Alex don't get off to the best start — he calls her a nurse, and she calls him a frat boy b*tch. But this season two moment shows them having a heart-to-heart while they avoid Izzie's Thanksgiving dinner. In this first moment that they really bond, Meredith talks about her depressive struggles while Alex confesses that he failed the medical boards.

In one of the most intense Meredith-and-Alex episodes, the two end up working together to transport a baby during a storm. There's weird feelings all over because Alex snitched on Mer for tampering with Derek's trial and she loses Zola partially because of it. However, when the ambulance crashes, they get it together to help the baby and other victims of the accident.

With Cristina gone, Alex steps up to be a better friend for Meredith. He tells her that Cristina left him with her shares of the hospital as well as Meredith, saying that Mer can b*tch to him about anything, including her woes with Derek. With a smile, Meredith appropriately dubs Alex her person.

After leaving Grey Sloan for months, Meredith is fully pregnant with her daughter Ellis following Derek's death. Zola dials 911 when Meredith starts bleeding. When Mer's taken to the hospital, she sees Alex for the first time in months. The fact that he's her emergency contact shows that he will always be in her life, even if she needs time to grieve.

Because trauma always finds her, Meredith gets horribly attacked by a patient in a fugue state, an experience that renders her temporarily deaf and unable to talk. With Cristina and Derek gone, it's Alex who crawls into her hospital bed to comfort her because, ugh, he's a stand-up guy.

As she navigates love once more, Meredith tells Alex about Derek's blanket after her disastrous hookup. It's just a nice, platonic exchange where Alex is really listening to her and making sure she's OK — can I reemphasize how glad I am they didn't have to get together to share an intimate moment?

As Meredith dreads Amelia's wedding, she and Alex lie in the grass talking about love as they think back to Derek and Izzie. As you may recall, Meredith did this quite often in Grey's early days with Cristina.

Just as he faces the possibility of jail time for assaulting fellow doctor Andrew DeLuca, Alex proposes that they have Waffle Sundays with Meredith's kids and sisters. It's a small gesture revealing how much he cares about not only Meredith, but also her family. If Cristina was her twisted sister, Alex is her grounded brother (minus the whole punching DeLuca thing).

When Meredith wins the Harper Avery, she and Alex celebrate with some bubbly in paper cups. They also reach out to Cristina via call, making the end of this episode extra perfect.

In Justin Chambers's last episode, Alex gathers testimonials from Meredith's peers and patients to help her keep her medical license. He tells the panel that they can't cancel her hearing because he's brought in a bunch of past patients. What a friend, man. This is the Alex I'll remember.