Disclaimer: Once again I do not own Grey's Anatomy...if only I did...
Epilogue: 5 years later...
Izzie walked into the clinic looking for her husband, her daughter's small hand gripped her much bigger one, she was three and a half years old and just as stubborn as her father. She insisted on walking herself through the halls of the hospital that was as much of a home to her as her own house. All of her aunts and uncles practically lived here and her mommy always brought her to visit.
"Hello Lena, what are you doing here today?" Meredith knelt down to hug her god daughter.
"We came to visit daddy!" Lena jumped up and down, her blonde pigtails bouncing as she tried to drag her mom further down the hallway in search of her father. Izzie wasn't easy to drag anymore, 6 months pregnant with their second child she was larger than she should be, she was supposed to be on bed rest but she was going crazy sitting around the house doing absolutely nothing.
"Aunt Chrissy!" Lena quickly spotted Christina pulled away from her mom to tackle Christina's legs.
"Woah, ankle biter where's your super vision?" Christina picked up the little girl and looked around for her parents, she laughed at the site of the 6 month pregnant woman waddling down the hallway. "Izzie, you look like your going to pop, little evil spawn looks like its going to burst your uterus at any second!" Christina couldn't help rejoice in the fact that Dr. Model was fat and waddling, it made her day.
"Lena Meredith Karev, what did I tell you? No running in the hospital and no wandering off by yourself!"
"Sorry mommy but I saw Aunt Chrissy and I got excited, I have seen her in forever" Lena emphasized the forever and batting her big brown eyes, she was a spitting image of herself, and couldn't resist when she gave her that look, the same look Alex claims that she uses on him whenever she wants something. Lena gave her a beautiful gap tooth smile and the second she saw her daddy she ran as fast as her little legs could carry her. "Daddy!" Lena squealed as Alex picked her up and tickled her belly.
"Hey Lenny what are you doing here!" Alex smiled at her enthusiasm, she was her mother through and through, they wasn't a single moment of the day when she wasn't happy and sometimes annoyingly perky.
"We came to surprise you! Me and mommy were bored and she said that if she didn't get out of the house she was going to EXPLODE! And I don't want Mama to explode I like her! And my baby sister is in her tummy!"
"How do you know its your sister? What if it was your little brother?"
"Daddy, seriously!" Alex laughed, when she gave him a look that he thought only Izzie could give him as she repeated the phrase her mother was so fond of. "Boys are yucky! And he wouldn't wanna play tea party with me! I am having a baby sister and her name is going to be Ella like the story!"
"Oh really," Alex gave his daughter a playful smirk as he spun her around in a circle making her laugh, "Yes daddy! Of course."
"Oh, you know daddy is a boy, does that mean he's yucky?" Alex pretended to look hurt as Lena contemplated the question,
"No you're not yucky daddy, but all of the other boys are, you're just special!" Lena was satisfied with her answer and copied the smirk on her dad's face.
"Ok so let me get this straight you are going to have a sister named after Cinderella and she is going to play tea party with you? You know princess that she won't be able to play tea party for awhile, she has to grow up big and strong just like you. Why Cinderella? I thought Ariel was your favorite or did you change your mind again?"
"I didn't change my mind silly daddy," She looked over at her mom and whispered her secret she was dying to tell someone into her father's ear. "You can't tell mommy that I know," Alex looked at his daughter and her face was completely serious, "Mommy is Cinderella, she looks exactly like the pictures! She just doesn't want anyone to know! That's why she has to name my baby sister Cinderella!" The twinkle in his daughter's brown eyes, amused him to no end, there was no telling where Lena Karev got these ideas or what she was going to say next as she continued to whisper to him. "And I know that if she is Cinderella then you have to be the prince!" Alex smiled and continued to play along, "Well Miss Lena, then you know what that makes you? A princess." He whispered back to her and watched how her eyes grew wide with excitement.
"Daddy, Is the Princess allowed to dance with Cinderella's prince like in the movie? Because that would be really really really fun!" Alex put down the pint sized Izzie and bowed in front of her, and began to twirl her like in the movie that he has watched more times than he can count and smiled at her laughter that rang through the busy hall. An audience began to form in the hallway as people watched in surprise that Dr. Karev was twirling his daughter in the middle of the hallway. Izzie smiled at the sight, Christina rolled her eyes and made a comment about going to vomit as she walked away. Izzie's hands traveled too rest on her protruding stomach and thought about how this almost didn't happen. 5 short years ago she would have never been able to imagine in her wildest dreams that this is where they would be today. If she would have walked away from this life, she never would have been able to get over that man now dancing in front of her and move on once again, Alex Karev stole her heart and there was no way she could have been able to give it away again, he had it forever. He was the guy who spent their honeymoon in the cancer wing, and gave her a plastic ring from a gumball machine to symbolize their love and she loved the plastic white ring just as much, if not more than the real thing that he eventually got her, and he was the one who fertilized her eggs so that they would be more likely to survive no questions asked, she literally couldn't have had babies with anyone else and that's exactly how she wanted it. Alex caught her eye as he whispered conspiratorially in their daughter's ear and then waltzed the two them over to her.
"Cinderella, may I have this dance?" Alex bowed once again in front of her and watched as she blushed at the sudden attention on her as the three of them danced in a circle. Alex, with his usual I don't care what anyone thinks attitude ignored her weak protests and began swaying with his wife and his daughter between them. There was nothing that she would change about their relationship because as rocky as their relationship was before, it got them to their own Happily Ever After.
A few months later, Izzie once again found herself walking into the Seattle Grace Hospital hand in hand with her daughter but this time it was for a whole different reason. Her water had broke and the twins were ready to be born. As much fun as it was to spend her days with her almost four year old daughter, she was ready to meet her babies and get back to work at Seattle Grace. She was eternally grateful that once Derek stepped in for chief he kept his word to Meredith and the first thing he did was hire her back. Derek made a very good chief of surgery once every accepted and adjusted to him now being their superior. Meredith finally came to terms with the fact that although it did benefit him, he did not take the position for that reason, he was trying to protect the patients as well as the staff because the hospital was going down hill fast. It took a lot of work and sacrifices on his part but Seattle Grace was slowly but surely making its way back on top. Izzie broke out of her reverie and ignored the pain she was in and set off to find her husband, or someone who could at least find him for her.
Callie almost ran into her as she was rushing to get to Arizona for their lunch break, Callie stopped and saw the pain that swept over her face as another contraction hit her body with full force.
"Oh, Oh god, ok, Izzie just breathe and hold on I'm gonna go get you a wheel chair, just stay there and don't move, Munchkin just stay with your mama, I'll be right back!" Izzie trying to breathe through the pain while simultaneously trying not to scare her daughter standing next to her. Callie quickly returned with the wheel chair and helped Izzie into it.
"I need Alex...he doesn't know that I'm here" Izzie said gritting her teeth.
"Ok I just paged him" Callie was pretty sure he was in the middle of surgery but she really wasn't about to tell Izzie that, she was overly emotional in general and now that she was pregnant and in labor there was no way Callie was going to set off that bomb. It was funny how things worked out in the end, there was a time when she hated Izzie Stevens and even wished her dead at one point, but they were completely different people and now they were just two people who were keeping George alive in their hearts and living their lives leaving the past in the past.
"Aunt Callie where's daddy? Mommy's tummy hurts and daddy always knows how to make her feel better!"
"He should be here very soon munchkin, how about we take Mommy up to a room and then we can go find Aunt Meredith and Uncle Derek? I'm sure they would be very excited to see you"
"Ok but we have to wait for Daddy to make Mommy feel better, I think she's scared and I can't leave her all by herself!"
"Ok sweetie, we will wait until your dad gets here." Callie was really hoping he would hurry because she did not want their 3 year old traumatized by the birth experience, hell she didn't want to be traumatized by the supposed miracle of birth. She was sitting in the room listening to Lena chatting away like usual when she saw Mark Sloan pass by the window and she quickly grabbed him and pulled him into the room looking for a way to escape.
"Look who it is Lenny, It's Uncle Mark! Why don't you tell him all about Cinderella, while I go find your father!" Callie quickly escaped the room, she just couldn't handle all that perkiness for long periods of time and she was on a mission because right now Isobel Stevens-Karev was pissed off and in pain and that was not something she was equipped to handle and she felt a little sorry for the man who was going to endure the wrath of Izzie. Oh well, he married her so that was all his fault, she laughed to herself. She went to tell Arizona that unfortunately their lunch plans were off and that she had to take over for Alex, who decided to specialize in peds, and was currently in surgery and was possibly about to miss the birth of his twins. She paged the rest of the members of their hospital family and let them know what was going on. They really didn't pay her enough for this, she groaned to herself as she set off once again to find Alex. Once she found him and let him know that Izzie was in labor he broke into a sprint. Callie made her way back to Izzie's room once she made sure everything was going alright in Alex's surgery. Meredith, Derek, Christina, Bailey and Lexie were already waiting outside of her door, watching in amusement as Mark and Lena colored in the waiting room. They remembered years ago doing the same thing, they were waiting outside of her door and once again it was the only place they needed to be at that moment because they were Izzie's people. Only 2 hours later, Alex came out of the room and went to Lena who was currently curled up with Mark Sloan.
"Hey Lena, would you like to meet your brother and sister now?"
Lena looked up excitedly, "You mean I got both?! I must be the luckiest big sister in the whole world!" Lena quickly jumped into her father's arms, ready to see her Mama and new family members.
"Lena, this is Aiden George and Ella Grace," Izzie and Alex smiled as they watched their daughter stroke the babies' faces gently, in awe of the little people that she was now supposed to protect and teach. Izzie closed her eyes, completely drained and exhausted, she felt Alex place a soft kiss on the top of her head. She opened her eyes and watched the door open as her people filed in with balloons, flowers and teddy bears. They passed the twins around, excited to meet the new members of their dysfunctional family. Izzie smiled, she wouldn't trade this for the world.
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