Alright this took me a little while, but I think it's perfect. And congratulations to Nosside for figuring out Alex's relation to Serafina your prizes are a virtual cookie and this chapter. I don't own Grey's Anatomy. REVIEW!
Serafina POV
Meredith got quiet after I told her my father was dead. I didn't know who Meredith could even think was my father. There's no one else anymore Mommy is dead, Father is dead, Grandma and Grandpa hate me. I shoved my hand into my pocket and pulled out the photo I've carried around since father died. I unfolded it and pointed to it. "See. That's Mommy, Father, and me."
Mommy was holding me on her lap as we smiled at the camera. Father was behind us with his arms circled around Mommy and me a small smile on his lips. He already looked sick and the picture was from when I turned three. I smiled looking at me and Father we had the same noses and eyes, we had been so close.
I looked back up at Meredith's shocked face. "Who did you think my father was?" I asked tilting my head to the side.
Meredith blinked, "Sorry, what?"
I groaned, "Whose blood did you use for the test. Since he can't be my father we have to be related another way. Who is he?" I jumped up and down in bed a little impatient for Meredith to answer my question.
She seemed uncertain of how to answer the question, but after a minute she spoke, "He has to be your half-brother, but need to go talk him first because he still doesn't know you're in the hospital. Okay?" I gave her a death glare, but nodded. She got up to leave, but stopped and turned around. "Can I take this?" she asked picking up my picture.
"Promise to bring it back." I said.
"Promise." She smiled. I nodded and she left the room taking my picture with her.
I waited a minute before I crawled out of bed and followed her down the hall. If I had a brother I wasn't going to wait for Meredith to introduce us.
Alex POV
"Alex I need to talk to you." Meredith said grabbing my arm and dragging me into the closest on call room available.
"What's going on?" I said, "You and Cristina have been avoiding me all day."
Meredith started rabbling "Before I say anything I want to tell you that I'm really sorry I didn't tell you sooner. I just wanted to make sure I was right before I told you, but then it turned out I was wrong. Well, I wasn't really wrong, but-"
"Mer, what is it?" I said interrupting her.
"Your sister's in the hospital." She said quickly.
"What." I screamed, "Why's Amber in the hospital."
Meredith shook her head rapidly, "No, not Amber. Do you remember that girl from lunch, Serafina?" I nodded, "Her name is Serafina Karev. She's you half-sister."
I pause for a second before laughing, "Mer, that not funny." My face fell after a second when I realized Meredith wasn't laughing too. "You not joking are you." I said and she shook her head and I feel down onto the on call room bed not able to speak.
Meredith pulled something out of her lab coat and handed it to me. I stared down at it, it was a picture. The girl from lunch was sitting on a woman's lap. Standing behind them with his arms wrapped around them was my father. He was older than I remember, but it was definitely him. They were all smiling.
"Alex, your next of kin." She said. I didn't say anything just stared down at the happy family. "Alex." Meredith said again, "say something."
I shook my head, "I can't. Mer, I have to go." I ran from the room leaving the picture on the bed.
I didn't stop running until outside the hospital. Leaning against the hospital was I threw up. This can't be happening. This cannot be happening. How could he have just walked away and make a new family? Did he even wonder what happened to him, Aaron, and Amber? I wanted to punch something, scream, or just curl into a ball and cry anything besides just standing here.
The sound of footsteps brought me out of my thoughts, I groaned when they stopped a few feet away from me. "Leave me alone." I sighed, but I didn't hear the sound of retreating footsteps. There was a small coughing noise now. "Will you go away." I yelled turning to face whoever was there.
I did a double take when I realized that it was Serafina. She looked at me with her arms crossed over her chest and her messy black hair falling into her piercing green eyes. We stared at each other for a minute before the girl gave me a lopsided smirk, "You look like my father." She paused, "You look like our father."
"So do you." I said. Serafina laughed, an infectious kind of laugh, and soon I was laughing with her.
The laughter died down after a minute. "My mommy's dead." She said.
"I know."
"So what are you going to do?"
"I don't know yet." I whispered. "Shouldn't you be in your room? Who's watching you?" I asked.
"Right now you are," Serafina smiled. "I always wanted a big brother." She said.
I coughed, "Uh, how about we go back to your room, and watch TV, or something. I'm off call now." She smiled grabbing my hand. "Alright then." I mumbled.
I stayed with Serafina all night watching the Disney channel. Her eye drifted closed at about 11pm, but even after that I stayed with her. Meredith stopped by at some point after Serafina was asleep. I blinked sitting when she entered the room.
"Hey," she whispered not wanting to wake the sleeping girl. "How long has she been a sleep?"
I yawned, "A couple of hours now I guess." I stared down at the little girl. "Thanks by the way." Meredith frowned. "For looking after her." I clarified. We sat in silence for a minute, "What am I supposed to do?" I asked looking pleadingly at Meredith.
"Advice is what we ask for when we know the answer, but wished we didn't." She said.
I got frustrated, "No actually I don't have the answer. I have no clue what I'm should. So can you please just tell me?" Meredith gave me a sad smile.
She sighed walking up to me and gave my shoulder a reassuring squeeze. "You'll do the right thing, you can be an idiot sometime but I know you'll be fine." Meredith walked out, but turned around before she walked completely out of the room, "Serafina technically should have been discharged this morning and social services should have been called yesterday. I can hold off for another day, but after that I'm going to need to them call." I nodded going back to staring at Serafina.
After a second I got up and ran after Meredith. "Mer." I yelled, making her turn around. "Don't bother to call Social Services I'll take care of it." I said. Meredith smiled nodding before leaving me to stand alone in the middle of the hall.
