Prologue
Disclaimer: I don't own any Grey's characters. They are all owned by Shonda Rhimes. The only person I own is Allison Shepard and that is it.
A/N: This is my first attempt at a Grey's Anatomy fic. I only started watching at the beginning of last season, and I'm now catching up with it on Lifetime. I know a lot of you may not like Mark being with an OC, but for some reason I just can't write a Mark/Lexie fic, even though I loved them together on the show. While this isn't much of a chapter, I just wanted to start out with something a little different. Chapter 1 will show when Allison first arrived in Seattle and it will progress from there.
"He's not coming is he?" Allison asked, looking around at her mom and sisters.
"He'll be here sweetie. He wouldn't miss this for anything." Carolyn said, trying to calm her youngest daughter's nerves.
"Mom, he was never really thrilled about Mark and I being together." She said softly. "Why should I believe that he would be here to walk me down the aisle to marry him?"
Not getting an answer from her mom, she heard the door open to the room, and turned around and tears sprung into her eyes, when she saw her brother standing there. "I wouldn't miss this for anything in the world Allie." Derek said, walking over to her. "I'm sorry for being such an ass about you guys. You both deserve to be happy, and if it's with each other, who am I to stand in the way."
"I love you Bubba." She said, throwing her arms around his neck and hugging him tightly. "You have no idea how much this means to me. Now I don't feel like you'd hate me if I went through with the wedding."
"Girls, why don't we give your sister and brother a few minutes alone." Carolyn said, herding her other daughters out of the room.
"I don't know why it's so hard for me to see you so grown up." Derek said softly, shaking his head at the sight of his little sister in her wedding gown.
"Cause I'm the baby of the family and it's hard for you to accept that I'm grown up now?" She asked teasingly, although she'd heard a lot of that the last few months while planning her wedding.
"That and it's hard to accept that I'm the one that has to give you away." He said. "It's harder for me to do that, than it was for me to walk the others down the aisle."
"You know Der, you're always going to be important to me." She said honestly, looking him in the eye before continuing. "Who else can I go to, when Mark is driving me crazy about something stupid? Who can I go to when I'm freaked out being alone at the house, while he's working late?"
"I'm really sorry for everything Allie." He whispered, pulling her into a hug. "I'm sorry that I wasn't there for you more, after your attack and all." He finished, knowing there were plenty of nights when she snuck into the O.R gallery while Mark would be doing a surgery, just so she wouldn't have to sit at home alone and be afraid of Frankie and his friends breaking in and hurting her.
"Derek, I know you sat in the hospital room for days before I woke up." Allie said, smiling at him softly. "I could smell your cologne and Meredith and mom told me you refused to leave my side the first few days. You wouldn't listen to Bailey or the chief when they said you couldn't work my case."
"Well I didn't trust you to Shadow Shepard. I wanted to make sure that you were getting….." He started, when Allie cut him off.
"I love you too Derek." She said, smiling up at him.
Looking down at her with a smile, Derek had to fight back the tears in his eyes. "You look beautiful today." He whispered, clearing his throat of any ensuing tears.
"You ready to walk me down the aisle now?" She asked, opting not to tease him about the tears.
"No, but I guess I have to be." He replied, leaning down and kissing her cheek gently. "Let's go."
Grabbing her bouquet, Allie looped her arm through Derek's and let him lead her out of the room and to the back of the church. Standing there she thought back on how far she had come, since she first arrived in Seattle a year and a half before. The reason behind her coming and the hell on Earth she endured once her secret past caught up with her there. Taking a deep breath, she smiled up at her older brother, protector and best friend, one more time, before the doors opened and he walked her down the aisle and gave her away to his best friend and someone he considered a brother. Both had mixed emotions running through them on this day, one ready to let go of the past, while another had a hard time letting go.
As the wedding march started playing, the doors opened to reveal Allison standing there on her brother's arm, waiting to be led down to the man of her dreams, Mark Sloan. Letting out a deep breath, she started down the aisle, a watery smile on her face, as she realized that all her dreams were starting to come true.