When It All Falls Apart
Chapter 1
(I don't own Grey's Anatomy)
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It happens the night Mark walks away from me.
I'm distraught, tears filling my eyes and making everything blurry as I make my way to the carpark.
I don't see him coming up behind me, don't hear him through the sounds of my sobs.
His dirty hand clamps down over my mouth, silencing the scream that bursts from me and dragging me backwards. I flail and scratch at him wildly, my nails digging into the skin of him arms and tearing. He spins me around at this and I get a glimpse of his eyes, his cold grey eyes before he punches me. Hard. So hard stars explode in front of my eyes and black spots appear in my vision.
I'm vaguely aware of him dragging me towards a bush, twigs scratching my arms as he throws me to the ground. I attempt to scream again but him kicks me in the side, I hear a crack as his boot breaks at least one rib and groan, curling up.
He gets on the ground now, his hands roughly grabbing my wrists in one while the other makes its way under my brown jacket, onto my blue shirt. I struggle against him still and he ends up ripping my shirt, his hand goes back and hits me across the face, I feel my lip split and blood leaks down my chin. He keeps hitting until I'm too dizzy to fight back and then reaches down for my jeans. I cry out as his tears them off me but one hand holds my arms down and I'm too weak to fight against him from the beating.
When he's pulled his pants down he brings one hand up, covering my mouth and silencing the screams that I let out when he violates me. The pain is unbearable, ripping through me and tearing me in places I didn't know could tear. He finishes quickly, hurriedly pulling up his pants and leaving me in the bush alone, half naked and bleeding.
My hair has been pulled out of its ponytail and is messy around me, twigs and leaves in it. I have a few bite marks on my collarbone from where he bit me to stop himself from moaning and I know that I am bleeding badly down there.
I wince as I slowly sit up, pain shooting through my lower body and my head throbbing. I manage to pull my underwear and pants up, groaning from the pain it causes and drag myself out of the bush on all fours, one hand against my broken ribs.
Thank god I'm near the hospital I think as I pull myself to my feet, staggering from the pain and dizziness and slowly make my way back to the hospital. I go in through one of the less used entrances, the last thing I want is to cause a huge commotion and make my way inside.
Of course I run into someone within the first 5 minutes, knocking my ribs and making me hiss
"Watch where you're going Grey!" Bailey reprimands only glancing at me quickly before walking off. As if she just took in my appearance she stops in her steps and turns around, approaching me cautiously.
"Lexie?" She says gently reaching out to touch my shoulder and I flinch, panic gripping me and moving my ribs, making me groan "Okay, okay I won't touch you. It's all right sweetheart. How about we go onto this exam room and we can talk okay?"
I nod and make my way inside sitting down on the bed while she locks the door and closes the curtains. She turns the lights on and slowly comes over, getting a good look at me "Oh Lexie"
"I…...I was attacked…... he ra-raped me" I say, lip trembling.
I break down in sobs, making my ribs flare up and I cry out in pain "Shhhhh it's okay, it's okay. Let's take a look at you okay? Do you mind if I get some help?" she asks and I shake my head, they'll all know soon enough anyway.
She pages a few people and then starts to get to work on me, "Did you hit your head?" She asks as she prods at my head, blood coming off and onto her gloves.
"He…..he wouldn't stop hitting me….. it's blurry. Might have a concussion" I mumble
She nods, her facial expression sympathetic "Do you mind if I page Shepard? We need to make sure there's no bleeding or swelling to the brain"
Once again I shake my head, soon my brother in law would know that I was attacked.
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(No one's POV)
Bailey continued to examine Lexie, she noticed that bright purple bruises were growing across her left side and knew she'd need an X-ray to see if and how many ribs were broken. There was a knock at the door and she excused herself, leaving the room. She wanted to prepare them for what they were about to walk into.
Derek, Arizona, April and Christina were outside, she'd gotten Derek for neurosurgeon, Arizona for the gynaecological things, April to help treat the minor wounds as well as support and Christina because she needed someone to tell Meredith.
"What's going on?" Arizona asked looking at the closed blinds and the fact that Miranda Bailey, The Nazi's hands were shaking.
"Before you go in there I need to prepare yourself, the patient has been attacked and has numerous injuries, she also appears to have been raped" She shudders before continuing "She was hit many time across the head and is showing signs of a concussion" she looks to Derek "She'll need to be checked over, probably need a head C.T"
Then she turns to Arizona "I know that you specialise in foetal and paediatric medicine and obstetrics but I also know that you've done gynaecology before so I need you to do a rape kit, make sure there's no damage" Arizona nods.
Then she turns to April "She's been badly beaten, her ribs are probably broken and she's covered in bruises so you and I are going to take care of her okay? I called you because I need someone who isn't close to the victim, someone who won't be too involved emotionally"
"Wait do we know the patient?" Derek asks, immediately thinking of Meredith.
"It's…. It's Lexie Grey" She manages to say after taking a deep breath, then she turns to Christina "I need you to go and tell Meredith, make sure she doesn't come barging down here Lexie doesn't need that. And then call the police" Christina nods before running off.
"You should prepare yourself, she doesn't look great" she says before going inside. Lexie is on the bed hunched over and shaking "Lexie, I've brought Derek, April and Arizona to help. Is that okay?"
Lexie nods, keeping her head down. Bailey, April and Arizona help her change into a gown first, while Derek has his back turned and then he goes to inspect her head, noticing the way she flinches when he touches her.
He talks to her the whole time, explaining what he's doing and where so she won't be surprised while April goes down to make sure the X-Ray machine is free. Soon enough Derek pulls away, holding two fingers up in front of her face "How many fingers am I holding up Lex?"
Her head sways a little as she squints, trying to make out the number of fingers. She's so tired and she feels like she's about to vomit "Four" she mumbles
"She definitely has a concussion, I want to get a C.T just in case" he says and Bailey nods letting him go get the machine ready while she cleans up her face.
One of Lexie's eyes is swollen shut and the left side of her face is swollen and black and blue. Her lip is split open and there's a lot of dried blood on her chin. There's a huge cut above her eyebrow that won't close and is still bleeding and she knows that she'll have to get plastics down here if she wants Lexie not to scar.
The poor girl shouldn't have any more reminders of tonight that she already did, the memories would be bad enough.
Both her wrists have big purple fingerprints bruised on to them and she's almost certain that at least two ribs are broken judging by the way Lexie is wheezing.
Soon enough Lexie has had her C.T scan and thankfully there is now swelling or bleeding, she has a bad concussion though and Derek says that she'll need to stay in at least overnight for observation. Then she gets her ribs x-rayed and sure enough three are broken and one is fractured. They tape her ribs and give her some painkillers to help with the pain. An attending from plastics come down and stitches up her face, thankfully Mark had finished for the night.
Meredith come down soon after and cries out after seeing Lexie's battered form, she holds her hand while Arizona does the rape kit and mutters soothing words in her ear while Lexie sobs. She's given pills to stop her from getting pregnant and also in case she contracted something and swallows them dry. When the police come she stays with her the whole time, only moving away when they come to collect evidence and take photographs. She stays in the corner of the room while they scrape under and clip her fingernails, collect her clothing in paper bags and take her statement.
When it's finally over and everyone is gone she climbs onto the bed next to her and holds her while she cries.
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