A/N: Thank you all so much for the reviews. They really do mean a lot. As a reward: here's the next chapter.

Chapter 2: Surprise, Surprise

"Lex," Mark called walking over to Lexie. "I have an emergency surgery to do right now so I can't make the appointment." He said with slight remorse.

"It's okay," Lexie said with a smile. "I can go to the appointment by myself. You go do the surgery."

"Are you sure? I might be able to get Avery to do it."

"Yeah. Go save lives." Lexie said with a smile. "I love you." She was slightly disappointed he was missing the appointment but he could go to the next one. She knew he felt bad about missing the appointment. Ultrasound pictures this early are just blobs anyways. Lexie went up to her appointment with Addison. She was nervous, her hands were shaking. Finally she heard her name called and she went back into an exam room.

"Hey, Lexie." Addison said with a smile as she walked into the room. "How are you today?"

"I'm great, thanks." Lexie smiled. "Nervous."

"Don't be. I'm sure everything's fine." The redhead doctor smiled reassuringly. "Shall we get started?" Lexie nodded and laid back while Addison started the exam. She gave Lexie a pelvic exam before doing an ultrasound. "Everything looks good." Addison said looking around with the ultrasound. "You are about eight weeks. I wi-" Addison stopped and looked closely at the monitor.

"Addison," Lexie said to her nervously looking at her. "Addison, what is it?"

"You, Lexie, are having triplets." Addison said looking over to her.

"Triplets." Lexie said nervously. "Wow."

"There are three heartbeats." Addison said letting Lexie hear her babies heartbeats. "Okay, we need to talk about somethings." Lexie nodded for her to continue. "Carrying to full term is going to be pretty much impossible. With your injuries from the plane crash and the fact you are carrying three babies there's just no way that is going to happen. This is going to increase your risk of miscarriage with one or more of the babies. You may not lose all of them but that it a possibility. We are going to try and keep those three in there as long as possible. We really don't want you delivering before 32 weeks. There's a pretty big chance you will be on bedrest during the end of your pregnancy. Lexie, You are healthy and your babies are healthy and we want to keep it that way. I need to see you back here in a couple of weeks. Congratulations." Addison smiled as she walked out of the room.

Lexie walked over and made an appointment for two weeks from now. She left and went to continue working. "Hey," Meredith said walking over to her. "How's it going?"

"Hey, I-umm-I just had an appointment with Addison." Lexie said her voice kind of shaking. She felt like she was going to throw up but it wasn't from morning sickness. She couldn't believe what she was just told.

"Lex, is something wrong." Meredith asked. "How's the baby?"

"No-umm-the babies are great. Yeah."

"Babies?"

"Oh, yeah, there are three."

"Three?!" Meredith exclaimed.

Lexie shushed her. She didn't want the whole hospital to know just yet. "Be quiet. You and Addison are the only people that know right now and I would like to tell my husband myself rather than someone tell him for me."

"So, you're having triplets?" Meredith asked quietly.

"Apparently." Lexie said pulling out the ultrasound picture. Her pager beeped about the time she pulled it out. "Listen, I have to go. There's a 911 in the pit. I will talk to you later or tomorrow or something."

Lexie ran down to the pit to see what case she had. "Kristine Riley. 28 year old female who passed out. She has seized once en route. Vitals are stable now. The patient is 28 weeks pregnant." Lexie came over and checked the patients pupils before she was brought inside and into a trauma room.

"Her pupils are slow. We need to get her to CT and get her on a fetal monitor." They immediately put her on a monitor. "That baby is showing signs of decels. Page Addison Montgomery and get her up to CT now."

Lexie went up with her patient to CT and watched as the scans came up. "She has a pineoblastoma. Dammit." Lexie said under her breath. "Get Dr. Shepherd. My day just got a lot longer." Lexie said rubbing her eyes.

"You can't do this. It's too risky." Addison said in the conference room later that day after they came up with a plan to remove the tumor from the patient's pineal gland in her brain.

"She is capable." Derek defended pointing at Lexie. "She can do it."

"Derek, the problem is not that she isn't capable. It's the fact that her patient is pregnant and this is a long, risky surgery."

"A surgery that could save her life."

"Or it could kill her."

"Shut up." Lexie yelled over the arguing. The two looked slightly taken aback by Lexie's snap but she brushed it off."Addison, is the baby stable?" She asked calmly.

"Yes, the baby is stable."

"Could the baby handle a surgery without any complications?"

"Theoretically, yes." Addison said. "Although the baby was showing signs of decels when she first arrived."

"Now, this surgery is a life or death situation for an expectant mother and her unborn child. Has anybody found any family?"

"No, nobody." Derek said.

Lexie sighed pulling out the CT. "Okay. Could this tumor possibly last until she was full term?" She asked looking over at Derek.

"Probably not. This is a fast growing tumor in a very dangerous part of the brain. I give her about three weeks until this tumor grows too far into her hypothalamus so that she can't regulate any of her bodily functions. Let alone to keep that baby alive."

"We should do the surgery now." Lexie said with slight remorse knowing a baby's life is in her hands as well as that baby's mother. "We have a better chance of saving both of them and getting the whole tumor if we do this now. If we wait the tumor could recur or worse we could lose them both."

"We could lose them both now." Addison retorted.

"Or we could save both of their lives now." Lexie stated. "Let's book an OR. It's going to be a long night." Lexie stated getting up and leaving the conference room to go find Mark. He found him standing by a nurses station doing charts. "Hey." She said walking up to her husband. She told him what she was doing and that she would probably be home pretty late. He warned her about staying on her feet for too long and she rolled her eyes at him. She hated when he hovered but she also loved it. She then quickly hurried off to the OR. The surgery was long and stressful but it worked. After an eight hour surgery, Lexie and Derek got the whole tumor and the baby was fine.

"Hey," Lexie said walking into the apartment.

"Hey," Mark smiled to her. "How'd your surgery go?"

"Great. We got the whole tumor with clean margins. We'll know more when she wakes up though. When I left she was stable but I'm on call tonight so... I might have to leave later but hopefully not."

"Okay, that's good." Mark said as Lexie leaned over and laid her head on his chest. "What about your appointment with Addison? How was that?"

"It went well. We're all healthy. The four of us." Lexie said sitting up so she could see his face.

"Four? Lexie, what?" He asked with a confused look on his face.

Lexie got up and got the ultrasound out of her bag. "Yeah, four." She said handing the ultrasound picture to him. "There are three babies in there."

"So, we are having triplets?" Mark said with his voice shaking slightly. Lexie could see in his eyes that he was nervous. She wasn't going to deny she was nervous too.

"Yeah, as if a pregnancy with one baby wasn't risky enough. We have now amplified it so it's pretty certain I'll be on bedrest and there's no way I am going to be able to carry to term. So, not only will we have three babies we'll have three preemie babies. I also have to see Addison every two or three weeks instead of once a month now just because there are so many more complications involved with not only triplets but the fact my pelvis isn't fully healed from the crash. Our life isn't slowing down anytime soon is it?"

"No, it isn't." Mark said shaking his head. He couldn't really come up with words to say about the fact that there were going to be three newborn babies in the house in less than nine months from now.

"Hey, we should get some sleep. It's been a long day." Lexie offered getting up and going into the bedroom. Lexie curled up into Mark before falling asleep with her head on his chest. She woke in the middle of night to the sound of her pager beeping loudly next to her bed. She sat up and saw it was a 911 for Kristine Riley. Lexie got up and dressed quickly. "Mark, I have to go. I'll see you later. I love you." Lexie whispered only getting an inaudible response back. She laughed as she left the house.

"What happened?" Lexie asked walking into the room and taking the chart.

"She was seizing," the nurse replied to her.

"Okay, get her up to CT. And quickly." Lexie said to the nurse. They immediately took her upstairs. Lexie was starting to feel nauseous again so she ran off to the bathroom before going up to see the scans. Lexie inspected the scans before coming up with a conclusion. "Scar tissue. There's nothing we can really do. Get her on a dose of carbatrol and we'll reassess. I am going home. Page me if there are any changes. I need sleep." Lexie said before leaving the hospital. She hoped she could at least get a couple more hours of sleep before she needed to be in later. She was already tired from being up at two am. Putting a pregnancy on top of that just made it worse.

Lexie woke up a few hours later to the sound of her alarm. She groaned and hit the snooze button. She did this a couple times before Mark woke up and kissed her on her cheek. "Come on, Lex. It's time to get up." He whispered in her ear.

"No." Lexie said pulling the blanket around herself, forming a cocoon around her body. "I don't wanna go."

Mark laughed, "Lex, come on. You're going to be late."

Lexie groaned and sat up. "No." She said getting out of bed.

"What do you want for breakfast?" Mark asked walking into the kitchen with Lexie behind him.

"More sleep." Lexie said yawning and rubbing her eyes. She needed sleep now more than ever and she had barely gotten any the night before. "Can I just have some coffee and toast please?"

"You can have toast but I'm saying no to the coffee."

"Mark. Please?" Lexie begged giving him puppy dog eyes. "Addison said that it is perfectly okay for me to have one cup of coffee a day. Mark, I need it."

"Lexie..." Mark said.

"Mark quit hovering. I need coffee so I am going to drink coffee." Lexie said a bit louder than she probably should have, immediately regretting it as she watched his eyes look to the floor. "Mark, I'm sorry for yelling at you. I shouldn't have. I just- I'm really tired and I really just don't feel well. I'm sorry." Lexie frowned. Her hormones were already starting to get the best of her. "I'm just going to go get dressed." Lexie said leaving the kitchen and going back into the bedroom. Lexie came back a few minutes later dressed for work.

"Here's your coffee." Mark said handing her a mug.

"I really didn't mean to yell at you. My hormones are everywhere and I really need some sleep. I know you were just trying to protect me and the babies."

"I know, Lex. Its okay." Mark said kissing her on the forehead.

"Okay," Lexie said with a smile before they both headed off to work.

A/N: I really don't like this chapter but it's pivotal (kind of) and I couldn't figure out how to change it... There should be a new chapter up tomorrow since I already have up to Chapter 9 written. Anyway, there is one thing I want to address:

I get mixed opinions all the time, from a lot of different people, on whether or not Addison should even be included. I, personally, really like Addison, and considering she is one of the best neonatal surgeons; it made sense to me. Although, I understand if you find it kind of strange with her being Lexie's doctor and I always debate writing her in. Addison isn't really going to be playing a role in this anyway, except for being Lexie's doctor. It would be exactly the same as picking some random name and adding Dr. to the front. I promise. That's my two cents on Addison. (I just thought I would clarify.)