Chapter 1
A shrill ringing woke Lexie after what felt like ten minutes sleep. In reality, she'd had about five-ish hours sleep between night time feedings. Four o' clock might seem like a little bit early to be getting up for work at six o' clock but Lexie knew from experience that by the time she'd had a shower and dressed. Noah and Jessy would be awake and screaming for food, changing and mommy and today on her first day of internship at Seattle Grace was not a day to be late.
The shrill ringing once again brought her eyes to the clock which now said 4.05. Ten minutes to shower and change and start on the morning routine. The last month was hectic, moving from Boston to Seattle was hard on it's own but with twin two month old babies it was absolute hell.
As Lexie showered she thought about the last six months. Six months ago Alexandra Grey was the oldest daughter of Thatcher and Susan Grey, big sister to Molly, aunt to Laura, attending Harvard Med with an internship at Mass General. Then her mother died of hiccups, her father became an alcoholic and she gained custody of twin one month old babies. At which point Mass General was out and Seattle Grace Hospital was in, someone had to be there to take care of her dad, and with Molly off living on base she wasn't an option.
At one point Lexie had a ten year plan. Now day to day was hard enough. "Come on, Lexie. Shake it off." she muttered as she turned off the shower, dried off and went into the bedroom to get dressed.
Lexie turned her thoughts away from the Cross country hurdle that was her life to focus on today, and her mental to do list. Still muttering to herself, she went over to the cribs and started her morning routine.
Forty five minutes later Lexie and the twins were in the car and headed to the hospital .
Mark Sloan was also headed to the hospital, not for his first day by any stretch of the imagination but as Head of Plastic surgery. Mark was slightly tired, early morning start and then last night he'd spent out with Derek, Derek his kind of best friend of almost 30 years who he moved to Seattle for. Although that was not something he'd be reminding him of anytime soon. Derek was having yet another hard time with his Dirty Mistress well Mark supposed not so dirty now but still he thought those two would still be dancing and fighting by the time Meredith finished her fellowship. The way they were going now well he didn't think either of them knew what was going on anymore.
Mark reached the elevator at the same time as a pretty brunette carrying two baby carriers also reached it and pushed the button. She gave him a smile. Nice he thought. Pretty but babies no way. No way no how. Babies were not something that was in his future. Hell Addison had aborted his baby and she had wanted a baby for ages but even Addison knew he wouldn't be a good father. He just didn't have the discipline. Mark shelved this line of thought as the brunette smiled again and asked "A little help here please." as she passed him one of the baby carriers and pulled the other carrier further up her arm.
Lexie had been standing beside the good looking man and smiling when she remembered that the papers she needed for the nursery were somewhere in her bag. "Damn" Lexie said trying to juggle the two carriers and her bag. The other man was still looking at her so Lexie looked at him "A little help here please." she said passing him one carier.
It was something which didn't happen to Mark. The pretty dark haired woman passed him a baby carrier. That wasn't right, women facied him, flirted with him. They never handed him babies. But this woman didn't seem to care.
"So you hand me a baby and don't say hi" Mark quipped with a smirk.
"Sorry. Thank you fro that. Just needed to find the papers for the nursery. Unfortunately, it's not an easy dance to juggle these two." Lexie smiled at him. "My name is Lexie. Dr Lexie Grey. And you are?" she asked shooting him another smile.
"Mark. Dr Mark Sloan. So is today your first day." he asked looking her up and down. She didn't look old enough to be a mom and for babies that young she was in amazing shape. Really amazing shape.
Lexie had noticed the doctor when she first reached the elevator. He was a fine speciment of manhood, very handsome, strong, lovely smile, gorgeous steel blue eyes and the way that man wore a leather jacket should have been banned. The little bit of scruff on his face was lovely and would have felt nice and scratchy on her skin. Stop it Lexie. He is obviously your boss in some shape or form and anyway why would a man like that want to be wtih a single mother intern when he could obviously be with any woman he wants.
"Yes, it is." Lexie said with a smile. "And I'd better go and get these tow settle in. Thanks Dr. Sloan." Lexie said to him as she reached for the other carrier from Mark just as the elevator doors opened.
"Lexie. It's Mark." he answered her.
Lexie looked at him. "In the hospital it's Dr. Sloan." she replied.
Mark was in the process of stepping onto the lift and hand Lexie the baby he carried when a voice shouted at him to hold the lift. Derek Shepherd stepped onto the elvator, and looked at Mark and made as if to make a comment but stopped at the look Mark shot him. The elevator was silent with the exception of a baby gurgling and Lexie humming under her breath. As the elevator reached the nursery floor Lexie stepped between Mark and Derek murmering "Excuse me." as she stepped of the elevator and gave Mark a smile. The elevator doors had only barely shut when Derek started asking questions. "Is there soemthing that you want to tell me.? Mark" Derek frowned as he looked at him.
"What do you mean?Derek." Mark growled back.
"Well, your standing with a pretty woman and carrying one baby while she carries the other. Has your whorish ways finally caught up with you." Derek replied with a grin.
"Ha, Ha. Your so very funny Derek. For your information she was looking for something in her bag and just handed me the baby carrier. She's nice. Today's her first day and her name is Lexie Grey. I don't know anything else about her but I'm sure you can find out. Can't you?..... Derek." Mark
asked. Around the time that Mark had said Lexie's name, Derek had gone completely quiet and looked slightly shocked. Mark was a little bit worried.
"Grey. Are you sure? Mark." he asked urgently.
"Well, that's the name she gave me. Why someone you know? The babies yours and you don't want Meredith to find out!" Mark grinned.
"This is not a joke Mark. That is Meredith's half sister, her father's other daughter. This is not good. Not good at all." Derek had started to pace the elevator.
"Well, then you go to her and say hey your an auntie. Easy as." Mark shrugged as he watched Derek. Not understanding why Derek would react that way.
"That's stupid. Mark. I can't do that." Derek answered and walked off the elevator.
"Well, what crawled into his ass." Mark asked himself as he stepped off the elevator himself and watched Derek stalk off. He took one more look at Derek's retreating back before going to his office to get ready to start.