Title: Ever Present Past

Time setting: seventeen years after the sixth season's final, more or less.

Chapter: 1/?

Main pairing: Alex-Cristina

Minor pairings: Alex-Ava/Rebecca (Kirsten and Lachlan), Derek-Meredith (Zola and Logan), Callie-Arizona (Sofia), Mark-Lexie (Dawson), Jackson-April (Toby and Max)

A/N: Some time ago, I wrote a six-chapters story in which Cristina and Alex were a couple and, at the end, they had a baby girl, Sarah Aliyah Karev. This is the sequel. If you remember, in my A/N I had written that everyone was single, because I wanted you to guess who the father of Cristina's baby was. Now that you know, that thing is pointless and the pairings are the ones I listed above. Some things are the same, though, for example Owen and Cristina really didn't marry and Izzie didn't leave. Who do you want to see them with? Ever Present past is set seventeen years after Sarah's birth, but you'll see. You don't need to read 40 weeks if you don't want to, just know that Alex and Cristina got married and had a daughter. That's all, I hope you'll like this.

"Zo! Zoe! I need the phone, hang up!"

"Stop shouting, Sarah."

"If you hadn't get drunk last night, your head wouldn't hurt." Sarah commented when she saw her fourteen-year-old brother rub his temples as he made his way to his bedroom. "Zoe! I'm the oldest and Mom's asleep, so listen to what I say!" she yelled then, opening the door her sister had just slammed.

"Why. Are. You. Yelling. So. Early. In. The. Morning?" Cristina Yang hissed at her daughters.

"Sorry, Mom. Zo won't hang up and I need to make a call. My cellphone's dead."

"I had the night shift, Sarah!" her mother continued scolding. "I got home less then three hours ago and ISAIAH! Don't think I didn't notice you had just sneaked in!" she raised her voice to be heard through the corridor, only to return her gaze to her daughters immediately. "We'll talk about this later. Zoe Crystal, hang up that phone or otherwise you'll be grounded; Sarah, drive your siblings to school, please, and go to your father's house after classes. I'll call you by dinner time, have a good day. And actually go to school, please."

Sarah sighed when Cristina closed the door behind her. Her parents' divorce hit them all hard. She was eight, Zoe was six and Isaiah only five, and before Alex and Cristina made their separation official the family went through long months of yelling and cursing and door-slamming, and when the kids' father had remarried to another woman, the bitterness in their mother's heart grew even more and for a while things didn't seem to be okay. Even now, Sarah hated her stepmother and the daughter she had had during her previous marriage, and the only reason why she could stand her half-siblings what that they were little children who didn't do anything wrong. Isaiah didn't see it the same way, though, and he found every possible thing that could make his parents angry and upset. Sarah did it too, sometimes, only to regret it later when she realized she hurt her mother. Only Zoe managed to act like the perfect child, in their messed up family. And Sarah envied her that, and respected her for that.

"Are you ready?" she asked her sister after putting on some clean clothes.

Zoe run her hand through her straight hair. "Ready. Let's go."

"Iz?" Sarah and Zoe peeked into the boy's room. He was laying on his bed – dressed but asleep. Sarah walked by and started to shake him. "Wake up, idiot! Mom will kill us both if you don't go to school. Get up." she hit him on his chest, not too hard, but hard enough to get a reaction. Isaiah grabbed her wrist to stop her, and opened his eyes with a grunt. "Fine. But I'm sitting in the front seat."

"No!" Zoe exclaimed from the corridor, making a step into the dark room.

"Please, guys. We woke up Mom once already."

Her siblings sighed, but let go of their argument and made their way to the front door. Sarah grabbed an apple from the kitchen, taking a bite as she closed the door behind her and locked it. Sometimes being the older was a hard job, especially since she turned seventeen and felt a little closer to being a major. That meant that she had to help her mother out more than ever before.

The girl put on some music in the car. The black BMW was her father's present for her birthday, and it was delivered with the sentence 'you're seventeen, it's not fair to you to use your mother's car'. Sarah loved the car, but she hated how Cristina got mad when she saw it. She remembered how she'd yelled at Alex, telling him not to ever buy something this huge without asking her first. It didn't matter that she was also his daughter.

"Turn it off, Sarah."

"If you stop drinking."

Isaiah groaned and closed his eyes, pressing his hands on his face. "I hate you."

"Uhu-uhu." she turned right and parked the car near the sidewalk. She could see the school, but she knew no one could see them from there. "I'll see you later."

"Where are you going?" Zoe opened the car door, but didn't get out.

"I don't know." sometimes, she couldn't help it. She knew it would hurt her mother, she knew it was wrong, but there was no way she could make the feeling of being out of place go away from her heart. In those moments she needed to be alone and think in peace. "Just, I have this test today. I haven't studied."

"Okay. Goodbye. See you later." Zoe kissed her sister's cheek and jumped out of the car, cheerful like she always was. Isaiah winced when she slammed the door, and closed his a lot less hard. "See ya."

x

"Hey."

"Hi kids!" Alex smiled as he went to hug his son and daughters. As always, he noticed that they were slightly uncomfortable, and as always he told himself that they were teenagers and didn't like to be hugged by their parents.

Zoe returned him a smile, while Sarah looked around the big apartment her father owned. The tv was on, the floor was covered by toys and crayons, on the table there were several awful drawings.

"Rebecca will be here anytime now with Kirsten and Lachlan, they went to the grocery store. There's Dani in her room, if you want to say hi." Alex knew the answer was no. His children never got along with his wife or her daughter, and although he loved Dani like she was his own child, he couldn't find a way to make Sarah, Zoe and Isaiah accept the situation. So when they were at his place and Dani was as well, Alex knew that he would probably end up arguing either with his kids or with his wife. Thankfully, at least his daughters acted well enough with the twins, because Alex didn't know how he would have survived if they picked fights with the three-year-olds.

"There are brownies and tea in the kitchen, if you want. How was school?"

"I got an A on my literature test."

Alex put an arm around Zoe's shoulders and placed a proud kiss on the top of her head. "Good job, Zo! My little genius. And what about you, guys?"

Sarah sat on a chair, taking a brownie. "As always."

"Meaning?" he winked. He knew she didn't like school and she would never have great marks like Zoe had, but he believed Sarah was way more smarter than she thought she was, and he wished she studied harder.

"Meaning, normal."

"I was sent to the principal."

"Again?" Alex was incredulous. His kids had been there for five minutes and they were already driving him crazy.

"Yep. Here. You gotta sign this and bla-bla-bla."

Alex threw him a warning glance. "You got into a fight? And what would be the reason?"

Isaiah rolled his eyes and sat next to Sarah. "I felt like it, man."

"Don't-"

"I'm home!" a female voice called, and a mere second later two small kids came running into the kitchen.

"Sarah! Sarah, come see my new doll house!" Kirsten grabbed the girl's hand and started to pull her to make her stand up. Kirsten adored Sarah, for some reason she was her favorite sister. Although Zoe was usually the nicer one, she still disliked the two kids her father had with a woman who was not her mother, while Sarah with time learned to ignore it. Once, she took Lachlan to a football match, and she was just a little more willing to spend time with the twins than Zoe was. After all, it wasn't their fault.

With a repressed sigh, Sarah followed Kirsten through the apartment towards the girl's room. The teenager noticed that Dani's door was open, and she glanced inside. The older girl looked up, but didn't say anything. Sarah didn't even bother. She hated that girl who thought her father was hers as well. She concentrated on what Kirsten was saying. The hyper three-year-old pointed to the wooden doll house before kneeling down to pick up a doll. "Her name's Sky, she's new. I got her for my birthday!" she showed it to her proudly, and Sarah took it reluctantly from her hands. "Why weren't you on my birthday party?" Kirsten scowled in a way that remind Sarah of Alex more than anything.

"Oh, I had to... study."

Kirsten remained silent for a while. "Why is Daddy yelling?"

Sarah glanced at the door; she had closed it but the apartment wasn't big enough for them not to hear Alex and Isaiah fighting. "He's not yelling, don't think about it. You... show me your dolls."

x

"I think this time Iz really crossed the line." Zoe whispered as she sat on the couch next to Sarah. The other girl put down the book she was reading. "Dad called Mom to tell her what happen to Iz's school today, and she brought up the fact that he was out pretty much all night. I've never heard him yell so loudly."

"I heard him too, you know." Sarah rested her head on the back of the couch. "You know what I wanna do? I know it's Dad's night to have us and all, but I wish we could get out of here and crush at Sofia's for the night, or at Zola's house. It would be sooo much cooler than this crazy place."

"Agreed." Zoe sighed, turning the tv on.

"Dinner's on the table, girls."

The two sisters looked up at Rebecca, both silently wishing she didn't exist.