Chapter two- Custody

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10th November 2009

"Excuse me, are you Alexandra Caroline Grey?" A young woman asks as she walks over to where Lexie and Meredith were standing.

"I am," Lexie says putting up her hand.

"I'm Mrs Garcia. I'm Jane and Sam's lawyer. I need you to come with me," she says.

"Only if my Sister Meredith can come with me. I need her with me, and my daughter, I don't want her to hear this. I need to drop her off to the daycare," Lexie says.

"Sure," Mrs Garcia says and they go to the daycare to drop of Layla. "Layla darling, I want you to wait here and play with Zola okay. I'll be back soon," Lexie says her daughter nods her head and she gives her a kiss before they head out of the daycare.

"Is there somewhere private we can chat?" Mrs Garcia asks.

"Follow me," Meredith replies and she leads them into a private conformance room. Lexie and Meredith sit on one side of the table and Mrs Garcia sits on the other. She opens up her folder and plus put her papers.

"Why are we here?" Lexie asks confused, "my best friends just died and you're pulling me away from seeing their daughter," she continues.

"This won't take long. I just need you to sign some paper work for me so I can transfer you custody of the baby," she says.

"Transfer me custody?" Lexie asks stunned.

"Yeah," she says nodding her head, "Did Sam and Jane ever talk to you about who would gain parental rights and custody of their baby in the rare event that they shall both die or become unable to care for their baby?" Mrs Garcia asks.

"No, no, they never said. They never told me anything," Lexie replies.

"Well, because their baby was a struggle they wanted to ensure she was looked after even before she was born so three months ago we prepared their Will. Because you are the biological mother of the child they wanted you to care for the baby should they not be able to care for her. The baby is yours," she says.

"She's mine? The baby is mine?" Lexie asks.

"Yes, that's correct," Mrs Garcia replies.

"Excuse me," Lexie replies as she runs out of the room covering her mouth and heads to the nearest bathroom where she throws up.

Meredith follows her and pats her back as she throws up into the toilet. She throws up three times before heading over to the basin and washing out her mouth and face with cold running tap water.

"Can they do that? Can they give me their baby without telling me? Is that even legal?" Lexie asks panicking and hyper ventilating.

"Well it's happening so I'm gonna jump ahead and say it's legal," Meredith replies.

"I don't know if I can do this again. I already have one child to care for, how can I care for very very very sick baby on top of her? What if she nearly dies like Layla did. Layla nearly died two times on me, I don't know if I can do that again. That was so hard mentally and drained me physically and emotionally. I had Travis with me then but I don't have him this time," Lexie says doubting her abilities to raise a sick child.

When Lexie was 16 she fell pregnant to her then boyfriend Travis Nicolas. At 22 weeks Lexie's water broke and doctors couldn't stop her labour, so she gave birth to a baby Girl, Layla-Rose Caroline Nicolas-Grey. She weighed 9 ounces. She made it through two life endangering infections and both times she nearly died. When she finally made it home Her relationship with Travis broke down and they broke up. Luckily for Layla Travis was still around for her. Lexie never saw Travis anymore though, as all transferring of custody was done at school pick up and drop off. When it was Travis' turn with Layla Lexie would drop her off to school and Travis would pick her and and visa versa. The only things that Lexie and Travis talked about were Layla, so while they weren't on the best of terms they still got along and Layla still had a father.

"Lexie, your baby has a brilliant doctor to look after her. She's a fighter and we're all going to do the best we can to keep on on this world. Now, you are brilliant mum. You've always been so gentle, kid and caring to all the kids that come through this hospital, weather they are patients or the kids of patients. You've always gone out of your way to make sure they are okay. That's how I know you'll be a good mum to her. You are already a fabulous mum to Layla, you've raised her right and she's a great kid. And you have everybody in this hospital to help you out, we're your family and we will help you Lex. You can do this," Meredith says.

"You're right I can do this. I have everybody around me. It's going to be hard and I'll probably screw up the kid no matter what I do, so hey, let's give it a crack. I'm gonna raise another kid, I'm gonna struggle, I'm gonna screw up but that's okay. We're going to be okay," Lexie says.

"Yeah!" Meredith replies.

Meredith and Lexie walk back into the conference room and sit down at the table, "where do I sign?" Lexie asks the lawyer.

"Here, here and here," she says. Lexie grabs the pen and signs the papers. It was official, the baby girl was her daughter. She was a mum to another very sick baby girl, and she was going to do everything in her power to make sure this baby girl had the best life despite having a rough start.

Once everything was signed Lexie farewelled the lawyer and headed back to the NICU with Meredith.

"I can't believe I'm her mother now. I did not wake up this morning thinking I'd be her mother," Lexie says.

"I know. But don't worry," Meredith replies. Meredith and Lexie stand at the window admiring the baby girl when Mark interrupts her thoughts.

"Meredith, do you mind?" Mark asks.

"I'll be at the nurses station," Meredith replies.

"Do you want me to teach you some more tonight?" Mark asks. Lexie thinks back to their 'teach me' encounter two nights ago. It was great great sex. When Layla was with her father she and Mark had been casually hooking up as friends with benefits. That had now been going on for five months. Even though their first encounter had resulted in broken broken genitalia for Mark, he still wanted to have sex with her.

"I can't, I have a kid," Lexie replies.

"I know you have a kid Lexie. You've told me about her before and from what I remember she'll be at her fathers house tonight," Mark replies.

"That's tomorrow night and I have another kid now," Lexie

"Since when? You Lexie Grey were not pregnant. Lexie, are you making up kids for yourself to have?" Mark asks.

"Since 10 minutes ago. Now I think you should go before you start to ask too many questions," Lexie says. Mark walks away and Meredith walks back over.

"What did he want?" Mer asks.

"Nothing," Lexie replies.

"He wanted sex didn't he?" Meredith asks.

"He did, and I said no," Lexie smiles.

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