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I know I portrayed the sisters super evil, but let's not forget McBitchy. And they're way more fun to write this way.
I don't own anything.
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Derek woke up to the sound of Meredith's embarrassed laughter.
He opened his eyes and saw his mom and his sisters standing by his bed.
"We would've been here sooner, but this was the earliest flight we could get." Carolyn Shepherd said as she refolded the blanket that was on messily folded on the end of Derek's bed.
"You didn't have to come." Derek said sheepishly.
"Yes, we did." Nancy, Kathleen, and Amelia all said at the same time.
Just then Meredith's pager went off.
"Crap." She muttered. "I gotta go." She said and quickly kissed Derek on the cheek before leaving the room.
Nancy looked at Derek and started to open her mouth.
"Don't." Derek said looking at her.
"I wasn't." She said looking at him.
"Yes, you were." He said looking at her.
"Well, face it Derek, she isn't exactly Addison." Kathleen said sitting on the bed.
"Thank God for that." He said as he pushed her off with his foot.
"Hey! We just know what's best for you." Amelia said.
"And what would that be?" He asked.
"Addison." All three said at the same time.
"Girls! Leave your brother alone! Out!" Carolyn said coming over.
"Sometimes I hate them." Derek said as his mother sat down beside him.
"You're supposed to. They're your sisters." She said smiling and kissing his forehead.
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"They hate me! It's awful! I mean his mom loves me, but his sisters hate me!" Meredith said as she stood beside Lexie charting.
"They'll warm up to you. I mean you hated me at first, but now you love me." Lexie said smiling.
"Yeah, I guess. Your hair looks good dyed back." Meredith said glancing at Lexie.
"Thanks. I did it last night." She replied.
"You wanna talk about it?" Meredith asked closing the chart she was currently working on.
"I think I'll be good. I just finally remembered who I am." Lexie said smiling and glancing at Mark who was currently walking down the hallway towards the elevators.
"Good luck." Meredith said smiling at her sister and squeezing her hand before walking away and joining Christina.
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"Mark." Lexie said walking towards where he was currently talking to Callie.
He either didn't hear her or ignored her.
"Mark…." She said standing right beside him.
Still nothing.
She stood directly in front of him. He saw her eyes travel to the hair and light up. She watched a small smile spread across his face and then she leant up to kiss him.
It was the greatest kiss of both of their lives. It seemed like time stood still. It seemed like centuries before they finally pulled apart.
"I'm in love with you. Head over heels. So much it's crazy. And I can't spend another day without you." She said smiling up at him.
"You never have to." He said smiling back.
"Okay, sorry to interrupt, but you two gottta go build a little girl a voice box and I have to go build her dad a leg." Callie said glancing at her watch.
"Okay." They both said distractedly while staring into each others eyes.
"Come on…" Callie said laughing and dragging them towards the surgical floor.
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"Did you see that, Mer?" Christina said excitedly as she and Meredith walked towards the nurse's station after Mr. Jones' surgery. "I fixed the entire arterial wall when it burst all by myself. I fixed it before Teddy even got there."
"Yes, I saw when you did it, when you started yelling about it, and the billion times you already told me." Meredith said laughing.
"I gotta go tell Owen! Bye, Mer!" Christina said walking off.
"Christina!" Meredith yelled after her.
"What?" She asked turning around with a huge smile on her face.
"Stop being bright and shiny! It isn't natural!" She yelled.
Christina stuck out her tongue at Meredith and then went to search for Owen.
She found him in the third on call room she checked.
"Hey." She said walking in. "Guess what. I fixed the entire arterial wall when it burst all by myself. Teddy wasn't in there because it was just an orthopedic procedure, but it put too much stress on his heart."
She was smiling, but when she walked over she saw that Owen was shaking and had a look on his face like those she had seen during his PTSD attacks.
"Hey, are you okay?" She asked sitting down and putting her hand on his arm.
"Today was my first surgery since I was shot and my patient died on the table. Maybe if I hadn't come back today, if I would've waited longer, maybe this guy would still be alive."
"Hey, this wasn't your fault. It was a bad trauma. He had about a 20% survival rate. You couldn't save him. Okay?"
Owen nodded, but didn't seem convinced.
"Come on." Christina said standing up.
"What?" He asked looking up at her.
"Get up." She said.
"Okay…" He said standing up.
Christina grabbed his hand and led him towards the door.
"Where are we going?" He asked.
"Where do you think?" She replied, kissing him before opening the door and pulling him down the hall.
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"Hey, I gotta go ask Callie something really quick. I'll see you in a minute. I love you." Mark said kissing Lexie.
"I love you too. I'll be with Mer at the nurses' station on Derek's floor." She said kissing him before smiling and walking away.
"I need a favor." Mark said walking up to Calllie.
"What?" She asked.
"I need you to go by my apartment and get me the thing out of the closet." He said quietly.
"The thing?" Callie asked confused, but then got it, "Oh, you're gonna do it?" She asked excitedly.
"Shhhh." He said clapping a hand over her mouth.
"Sorry." She whispered. "Yeah, I'll go." She said hugging him. "I'm proud of you, Marcus Dylan Sloan." She whispered in his ear.
"Here's the key." He said handing it to her. "I gotta go meet Lexie. Thank you, you're the best. I really appreciate this."
"Mark, go, right now!" She said laughing.
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"I mean seriously though she isn't right for him, at all." Amelia was saying where she and Kathleen and Nancy where standing outside of Derek's hospital room as Lexie walked towards the nurses' station. Meredith was sitting in a chair behind it just out of sight.
"What are you doing?" Lexie asked walking up.
"Lexie, be quiet!" Meredith whispered pulling her down towards the floor and pointing to Derek's sisters.
"Mer, get up, you don't need to listen to this." Lexie said, but after she spoke they caught a piece of the conversation.
"She's just a whiny, pathetic, spoiled little bitch." Nancy said.
"Don't forget slutty. She forced Addison out of that marriage with her whorish intern little self." Kathleen added.
Before Lexie could do anything, Meredith stood up and ran down the hall.
Lexie angrily stood up. "What the hell is wrong with you three?" She asked walking over.
"Excuse me?" Nancy asked. "And who are you?"
"Meredith's sister. Did you know that she was pregnant and miscarried because she thought Derek was dead and that stress and heartbreak caused her to lose her baby? Or did you know that she was willing to die to save your brother? To save me? To stop the shooter? You have no idea what it's like to stare at a gun pointed right at you when the love of your life is less than a 100 yards away!" Lexie yelled. Her face was beginning to turn red and people were beginning to stare. Mark walked towards them and heard about the last half of this.
"Lex…" Mark said walking up behind her, but she was too angry to hear him.
"So you don't get to call her whiny or pathetic or spoiled or slutty or whorish and you definitely don't get to call her a bitch!" Lexie said before storming off.
"Can you believe that? She's like a mini Meredith." Kathleen said.
"Little Grey." Mark said under his breath.
"What?" Amelia asked confused.
"She's Little Grey. Meredith's Big Grey."
"Little Grey is a little slut too." Nancy said laughing.
"LEXIE is my girlfriend and I love her, Nancy Pants." Mark said before following Lexie.
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Alex had to be dreaming. He had to be. That soft hand holding his was one that he thought he'd never feel again. He opened his eyes. The blonde hair. The smile. It couldn't be her.
"Iz?" He said. He held his breath as he waited for some nurse or intern or something to tell him that there was no one there.
"Hey," She said quietly.
"You're… You're really here. Why are you here?" He asked.
"The shooting was on the news last night. I called around and found out that you got shot, so here I am. Why do you not want me here? I know you said you didn't wanna see me again, but I… I thought…" She said standing up.
"No, no, no, Izzie, I want you here, I just didn't think you'd come. Not after I sent you away, not after I screwed up." He said.
"I was just waiting for a good excuse to come back. I know I sent the divorce papers, but I thought it was because you wanted me to." She said.
"Well, I signed them because I thought you wanted me to." Alex said slowly.
"I feel like an idiot." Izzie said.
"Me too." Alex said. They started laughing, but were soon met with an awkward silence.
"Alex thinks that Izzie should move back to Seattle and give them another chance." He said looking up at her.
Izzie kissed him. "Izzie agrees." She said smiling.
"I think I might be able to get you your job back." Alex said smiling at her.
"Let's not worry about that now, let's just worry about you getting better." She said smiling and pressing his hand against her face.
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"He pointed a gun at you?" Mark said as he followed Lexie into the stairwell.
"Yeah." She said sitting down on the stairs.
"Why didn't you tell me? I knew I should have gone instead." Mark said sitting beside her.
"No, because then you might have gotten shot and I'd never be able to forgive myself." She said putting her head on his shoulder and he put his arms around her.
"I'm glad that son of a bitch is dead. First, he shot a bunch of people that we work with. Then, he shot my best friend. Then, he pointed a gun at YOU. If those SWAT guys hadn't killed him, I'd probably kill him myself." He said as he gently stroked her hair.
"I was one of the people he was looking for. I unplugged his wife. The shooting was partly my fault." She said as she began to cry.
"Lexie," He said seriously as he pulled back and gripped her shoulders as he spoke, "It wasn't your fault. He was just a confused, grieving, lonely old man. What he did was no one's fault, but his own." He said pulling her back in his arms.
"I was scared that he'd kill me and you'd never know that I was still in love with you. That I'd die alone in a hallway while you were in a conference room saving the life of the man I had tried to replace you with. I was worried that I'd never get to say the three words that I would want my last words to be. I'd never get to tell you I love you as I took in my last breath. That, to me, was scarier than dying." She said as she gripped the fabric of his scrubs.
"I love you. I can't believe that I almost lost you, but I'm here and you're here and we're okay and that's all that matters." He said as he wiped the tears of her cheek and then gently kissed the top of her head. "We'll be okay." He said smiling.
"I know." She said smiling back at him.
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Derek sat in his room alone. His mom had gone down to the cafeteria to get him a coffee.
He was flipping through a medical journal when Meredith burst into the room. Her face was red and she was crying, but the seemed more angry tears than sad tears.
"I hate them! I mean they could at least pretend to like me! Why are they so hung up on the idea that Addison's better for you? SHE cheated on you not me and that was a long time ago anyway. Your mom knew I was right for you. How could your sisters not know?"
"Mer, what happened?" he asked sitting up as she came to sit beside him.
"Well, I was just charting and then I heard them talking about me so I hid then Lexie came over and said I didn't need to listen to them, but then I heard them say 'She's just a whiny, pathetic, spoiled little bitch.'"
"Who said that?" Derek interrupted.
"Ummm, Nancy. Then Kathleen said, 'Don't forget slutty. She forced Addison out of that marriage with her whorish intern little self.' I mean I know I should just not care, but they're your sisters and they're supposed to like me. So what if I really am as bad as they say?"
"Meredith," He said putting his arms around her, "You're not whiny or pathetic or spoiled and definitely not a bitch, you're just dark and twisty which most of the time is actually a good thing."
"But what about what they said about Addison? Is that true too?" She asked wiping away her tears.
"No. Meredith, look at me. You never forced Addison out of anything. It was doomed from the start. Remember what I said? I was drowning and you were like coming out of fresh air. I met you, the love of my life while I was trying to escape the woman I thought was. My only regret about any of that is that I chose her instead of you, the first time. I've had a lot of time to think and I think that after I've gotten discharged we should take the post it down the city hall and get it legalized."
"Okay." She said smiling and kissing him. "I love you Derek."
"I love you more." He said smiling back and making her giggle.