Author's note: I thought it would be fun to type whatever came to mind about how the doctors coped with Slexie being gone and whatever else. Chances are these stories won't match up, so please don't say "The two don't match up." Cause I know they don't. They're not supposed to match up.
AFTER MATH
It had been months since the plane crash, since Lexie had died under the plane, and since Mark had died from multiple organ failure…a broken-heart is more like it. Everyone's lives had gone back to normal. Arizona had her prosthetic leg, but was working again, Derek got his hand back to 100% after multiple surgeries, Cristina had left for at least a month to do her fellowship at Mayo, but then came back soon after Mark died, Alex never left for Hopkins, and Meredith…a miracle happened and she got pregnant.
"You know Dr. Ross, you should really step up your game." Derek had mentioned to his intern who was observing Dr. Shepherd do a craniotomy.
"I'm sorry sir?" Shane had replied unsure of what he meant.
"Step up your game. My last resident…she was great." Derek said while working on the brain.
"Your last resident?" Shane was still confused about where this conversation was going.
"She could do a perfect craniotomy." Derek mentioned as he looked up at the gallery, took a deep breath, before looking back down at the brain.
"What happened to her?" Shane asked before clearing his throat.
"Just step up your game." Derek glanced over at Shane who was holding the suction.
"Yes sir…" Shane nodded, now more confused than ever.
"Dr. Shepherd got all weird on me today during surgery." Shane mentioned to his other intern friends while standing around the nurse's station.
"Weird? How?" Heather Brooks, one of his intern friends asked.
"He started talking to me about how I should "step up my game." And how his last resident could do a perfect craniotomy." The interns all looked at Shane.
"His last resident? Who was that?" Jo Wilson asked while leaning against the counter.
"I haven't the slightest clue, but if he was trying to bring my confidence down, he succeeded." Shane sighed a bit disappointed. The interns all looked at each other before heading to the cafeteria for lunch.
"I still can't get over this." Shane complained while eating his lunch.
"Oh get over it. So Dr. Shepherd told you to step up your game. Big deal. Maybe this is his way of saying you should work harder instead of worrying over small stuff." Jo said while looking around.
"I don't know, but now I feel less confident."
"I'm still curious on who his last resident was." Stephanie said curiously while biting into her sandwich.
"Whose last resident?" The interns looked up to see Jackson Avery standing by their table.
"Oh…Dr. Avery." Stephanie quickly said as the interns sat up straight and acted like they were innocent.
"Answer the question." He said firmly awaiting their answer.
"D-Dr. Shepherd's…" Shane answered.
"Oh…" Jackson chuckled a bit and thought about Lexie.
"Dr. Lexie Grey…" He laughed again, shook his head, before walking off.
"Lexie Grey?" Heather asked as she shared a look with her fellow interns.
"You don't think…?" Jo turned her head to find the table Meredith was sitting at.
"She can't be related to Medusa. I'm pretty sure it's coincidental. I mean…Grey is a common name." Jo said as if she was confident in that answer.
"You never know…" Stephanie looked at Meredith for a bit before she shrugged.
"I wonder what happened to her…" Jo softly said,
"Medusa? Or Lexie?" Heather asked while putting a fry into her mouth.
"Lexie…didn't Dr. Shepherd say his "last resident"? We know that Medusa specializes in general surgery, Karev is in peds, Avery is in plastics, and Yang is in cardio. So what happened to his resident?" Jo turned around and looked at her friends.
"Maybe she got fired."
"That can't be it. Dr. Shepherd said she did "perfect craniotomies." Shane said while mimicking Derek's voice.
"So then what happened?"
"I don't know…does it really matter?" Stephanie asked which caused Jo to look at her.
"No, I guess not, but you were the one who said you were curious?" The interns all shrugged.
In the attending lounge:
"Did you hear the interns?" Jackson said while sitting down at the table next to Cristina.
"No and I don't care what they have to say. Probably talking about some petty thing one of them did to one another." Cristina rolled her eyes.
"Dude, have you been listening to the interns talking?" Alex Karev walked in with a bag of chips in his hands.
"I know." Jackson said a bit annoyed at what the interns had been talking about.
"Okay, seriously…what is so important about intern talk?" Cristina asked; now curious.
"They're talking about Lexie." Jackson brought up,
"Wow…I haven't thought about her since…" Cristina thought about Lexie and then the plane crash.
"Why are they talking about her?" Cristina asked.
"Hell if I know." Alex said before shoving chips into his mouth.
"Does Mer know they're talking about her?" Alex added with his mouth full.
"Do I know what?" Meredith walked in and slowly sat down.
"Nothing…" Jackson said trying to think of a new conversation to bring up. Meredith gave them all weird looks and suddenly the lounge got quiet.
"Okay…I guess I'll go." Meredith got up and left. Right as she did, April Kepner walked in.
"Guess what the interns are talking about today!" April groaned as she sat herself down on the couch.
"Lexie." Alex, Cristina, and Jackson all said in unison.
"Yeah…" April let out a sigh,
"Dude, Lexie would have been a better attending than Kepner." Alex blurted out in which April glared at him.
"She would have passed her boards the first time." Cristina nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, she would have kicked ass."
"Who knows, she might have even chased Shepherd out and became head of neuro." Jackson said which caused them all to think.
"Wow…hey! Remember that time you two made her use her photographic memory to study for your boards? And then Kepner threatened her and she ended up failing?" Everyone laughed except April.
"Oh yeah. Her photographic memory." Alex thought about it,
"Seems like forever ago when we last talked to her." Jackson let out a sigh.
Interns:
"Okay, did you figure anything out?" Jo asked.
"Figure anything out about what?" Heather asked curiously.
"About Lexie Grey."
"You're still going on about this?" Shane raised an eyebrow.
"Don't you work with Alex? Maybe you could ask him?" Stephanie suggested.
"He's not the type to share that kind of stuff."
"Well there he goes now, go ask him!" Stephanie pushed her. Jo turned to look at her friends before she made her way to Alex.
"Alex…I mean Dr. Karev." Jo cleared her throat.
"What?" Alex said a bit annoyed while he checked up on a seven year old patient.
"D-Do you happen to know anything about Lexie Grey?" Alex looked up at her,
"Why do you care?"
"I-um…well Shane told us Dr. Shepherd brought her up and now…we're all kind of curious." Alex stopped checking on his patient, stood in front of Jo, and said,
"She was a doctor here. She was smart." He then walked out of the room; Jo followed after him.
"Okay, but can you tell us more?" Alex stopped walking, turned around, and glared at her.
"Look! You're a freakin' intern! Not some news reporter. So shut the hell up and go do your job!" Alex turned back around and walked off. Jo headed back to her friends and shook her head.
"He wouldn't tell much."
"Oh, maybe Dr. Bailey." Shane said with his eyes lit up.
"Guys, I think we should just forget about this." Heather said,
"I can't forget about it. I need to know. I'm a curious person." Jo said with a slight shrug.
"Then you can ask BCB." The interns all said before pushing her.
"No! Wait, why am I always put up to ask them? It was Shane's idea to ask her, so he should ask her." They looked at Shane before pushing him towards Dr. Bailey. Shane approached her and said with a smile,
"Dr. Bailey!" She glared up at him,
"What is it? Is a patient dying?" Shane looked at her in fear,
"No…"
"Are one of your intern friends dying?"
"N-No…" Shane stuttered.
"Then why are you talking to me?" Shane shook his head before heading back to the group.
"Get back to work! Dr. Brooks, come with me." Dr. Bailey scolded them while she held a chart and walked off.
"Keep me updated if you find anything out." Heather said as she followed Dr. Bailey.
"Maybe Alex was right. We aren't news reporters, but if I don't figure this out…it's gonna bother me all day."
"Figure what out?" The interns turned to see Arizona Robbins.
"Dr. Robbins!" Jo said a bit too excited.
"Well someone is happy today." Arizona smiled softly as she looked at a chart.
"I know it's not really important, but did you know Dr. Lexie Grey?" Arizona looked up from her chart and thought about the plane crash.
"Mhm…it's been a while since I thought about her. Why are you guys asking about her?" Jo shared a look with the interns before looking back at Arizona.
"What happened to her? Dr. Shepherd mentioned his "last resident" and we kind of put together the pieces…"Arizona closed her chart and looked at them all,
"Lexie Grey is Meredith's younger sister and she was a brilliant surgeon."
"We know that much, but what happened to her? Did she move?" Jo asked, but before Arizona could answer Stephanie jumped in,
"Wait, does this tie in with Dr. Sloan?" The interns looked at her,
"How does that tie in at all?"
"The plane crash…" Stephanie slowly said but quickly stopped talking.
"I don't think you guys should be worrying about what happened to her. Focus on your jobs." Arizona told them before she walked off,
"Dr. Wilson, when you're finished being a curious cat, you have pre-ops you need to finish." She added before leaving.
"You don't think she was on the plane, do you?" Jo asked Stephanie.
"I don't know it would make sense, right?"
"Do we dare ask Medusa?" Jo questioned,
"Noooo! She will BITE your head off." Stephanie said in fear. Suddenly Callie Torres stormed up to them with an angry face.
"Will you guys shut up?!" She scolded them.
"D-Dr. Torres…" Jo said nervously.
"You guys have NO rights talking about her or Dr. Sloan. When an attending tells you to get back to work, you get back to work. You don't stand around like detectives and ignore everything around you. You're interns! Listen to your attending or we will KICK you out of this program. Do you understand me?!" The interns all nodded their heads.
"Good! Now get to work!"
"But…" Jo began,
"Uhp!" Callie said as she made a movement with her hand showing "be quiet."
Gallery watching Cristina do a coronary artery bypass surgery:
"Maybe she ran away." Jo said while staring down at the surgery.
"Or maybe she quit being a surgeon." Heather added,
"That can't be it because Robbins said she hasn't thought about her in a while." Suddenly someone cleared their throat. The interns turned around and saw Owen Hunt, chief of surgery.
"Oh…Chief Hunt." Jo nervously said before the gallery got quiet.
"It is not your jobs to worry about doctors we once had in this hospital. I get you're curious, but it's not your place to ask people about them. Sometimes mysteries are better left off as mysteries." The interns suddenly felt bad, but Jo didn't care, she was still so curious.
"Can you just tell us what happened?" She turned around to look at Owen.
"No, because it's not your job to find out whom she was. It's your job to observe these kinds of surgeries so you can learn from them." Jo turned back around to watch the surgery.
"He's right…" Shane suddenly said after a minute of silence.
"I'm sorry I even brought up this conversation." He apologized to his friends. Jo shrugged,
"Doesn't mean I'm not curious."
"She was Meredith Grey's little sister. She was a brilliant surgeon and would have kicked all your asses." The interns turned around and saw Callie standing at the door.
"She would have been a badass attending in neuro. Or whatever field she decided to specialize in." Callie thought about Lexie for a bit before she shook her head to try and focus on the interns.
"Now that you know that much, stop talking about Lexie. Stop talking about Mark, the plane crash, and definitely stop asking all your attendings about what happened. Cause I'm THIS close to snapping every bone in your body!" The interns sat up straight and didn't say another word about Lexie.
Meredith and Derek at home:
"You know? Today people were talking about Lexie." Meredith sat on the edge of the bed before lying down next to Derek.
"Oh yeah?" Derek looked at her,
"Yeah, they all said you brought her up."
"I might have mentioned her to Ross, but I never mentioned her name." Meredith sighed heavily.
"Lexie would have become an amazing neuro surgeon." Derek told her before kissing her cheek.
"Yeah…she would have."
"You would have been the proud older sister."
At Joe's:
"Ever since our talk about Lexie, I can't stop thinking about her." Alex said to Jackson before sipping his beer.
"I know." April sat down next to Jackson and ordered herself a beer.
"Sucks she had to die. I'd choose her over April any day." Alex said which caused April to glare at him again.
"I get you don't like me, but things happen. Life goes on. I miss Lexie just as much as you guys, but bullying me isn't gonna bring her back." Alex mimicked her voice before sipping his beer again.
"Whatever." April grabbed her beer and headed to a different table.
Arizona and Callie's home:
"You know what Callie?"
"Hmmm?" Callie looked at her wife.
"I never realized how quiet the hospital really was until Mark and Lexie left." Callie let out a sigh and nodded,
"Their little love feud." Callie added which they both laughed in agreement.
"I even miss Mark barging into our room to wake us up." Arizona admitted.
"I miss everything Mark used to do and say."
"Lexie would have been great in peds. If she had decided to choose that. She would have also become a great mother one day." Arizona added.
"Yeah…she would have. Sofia would have had siblings and Mark would have finally gotten the family he's always dreamed of." Arizona nodded,
"It's too bad they left us so early. I would have loved to see them get married finally."
Cristina and Owen:
"All day today, I couldn't stop thinking of Lexie." Owen looked at Cristina as they laid in bed together; naked.
"Little Grey? Why?"
"The interns brought her up…they got curious." Owen let out a huff before stroking Cristina's hair.
"I didn't know you had such human emotions." Cristina chuckled a bit before she kissed Owen.