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Meredith's POV

It was nearly midnight when Derek and I finally got home. "Alex?" I said as we came in, "You still awake?"

"In here." Alex's voice drifted in from the television room.

Derek kissed me on the cheek. "I'll be up stairs." He whispered before continuing towards our bedroom.

I walked into the television room and smiled a little at the familiar sight of Alex watching TV while eating cereal. Taking the stopped next to him I grabbed a hand full of cereal and put a few pieces in my mouth. "Is Serafina alright?" I asked.

"Got a broken nose, but other than that she's fine." He said. "She kind of looks like Rudolph now with her cast on."

Alex popped another mouth full of cereal into his mouth. "Did she tell you what happen?" I asked.

"Some kid called her a bastard. I didn't really push her for the details." He sighed and leaned his head back.

I frowned, "You need to talk."

He shouted, "How could he have done this to me? How could my father have just walked out and make a new family?" Alex moaned softly, "Why did he love her and not me?"

"I don't know." I whispered. A small noise by the door caused both us to turn and look. Serafina was hiding behind the door my mouth twitched up a little when I saw her cast. Alex's right she does look like Rudolph.

"Sera," Alex sighed.

"Hi Alex." She whispered stepping out from behind the door, "Hi Meredith."

I got up from my seat on the couch, "Well, I better get to bed. I have a surgery in the morning." Before I left the room I gave Alex a short look and mouthed the words talk to her.

Serafina POV

I rocked slowly back and forth staring uncurtainly at Alex. He was upset, but I wasn't sure if he was just upset at our father or if he was upset at me too. Alex had looked angry when he was talking to Meredith, but now he just looked sad.

"Come here," He sighed as put down the box of cereal he was holding. After a second I walked all the way into the room and crawled onto the couch, sitting with my knees pulled up to my chest. "Look Sera I'm not angry at you. You know that right?" Alex said. I nodded my head slowly even though I wasn't sure.

"But why are you mad?" I whispered.

"Well, uh, dad and I weren't as close as you and he were." He said, "I haven't actually seen him since I was in high school."

My eyes grew wide with surprise, "Wow, that's a long time. Why didn't you see each other?"

"It's complicated," he said, "I'm just confused about why dad would spend so much time with you and your mother, but he just walked out on my family."

I understood now, "You think that our father loved me more than you."

Alex nodded, "Yeah I think dad like you more than me."

"You're wrong," I whispered so low that Alex didn't hear it. "Whenever I'm sad or have a bad dream mommy would make warm milk with honey in it. She said that it was magic and it would make me feel better."

He chuckled a little, "That sounds good right now." Alex got up from the couch and I jumped up and followed him to the kitchen. We didn't talk about our father after that or the fight at day care, but we did talk and laugh about other things. "So what you think, good as your mother's?" He asked as we each took a sip of the warm milk. I nodded a little, but I felt tears start to fall slowly down my face. It taste so familiar, so much like mommy's, it made my chest ache. I want mommy.

"It tastes just like mommy's." I choked. I heard Alex's chair scoot out and heard him kneel next to me. He placed his hand on my chin and forced me to look at him.

"It'll be okay. Someday it will be okay I promise." Alex whispered as he brushed away a few stray tears.

More tears just kept falling though, "I want my mommy." I whispered, "I want my mommy." I wrapped my arms around Alex, and buried my face into his shoulder not caring that it made my nose hurt.

Alex got up from the floor and took me up stairs, the two cups of warm milk and honey left on the table forgotten. He rubbed my back soothingly whispering that it would be okay. I was dimly aware that Alex had stopped and sat down but I didn't care. We stayed like this for almost an hour until finally all the tears were gone. "You want me to read you a story." Alex asked. I nodded doing my best to smile as he picked a book off of the shelf. He flopped onto the bed next to me and pulled me next to him as he opened the book to the first page. "On summer afternoon, a mother duck sat quietly on her nest…"

My eyes drifted in between open and close. I snuggled closer to Alex while he continued to tell the story of the ugly duckling. "And he swam in the lake with the other beautiful swans for the rest of his life, the end." Alex whispered thinking that I was already completely asleep. He gently got off the bed and pulled the covers up around me. "Night Rudolph." He said walking towards the door.

I pulled myself up to a sitting position, "Alex," He turned and looked at me, "My mommy picked my first name and our father picked my middle name."

"Okay," Alex said not understanding.

I watched him for a second deciding if it would be a good idea to tell him. Make my decision I whispered my explanation, "My full name is Serafina Alexandria Karev." Understanding filled Alex's eyes and I smiled at him, "Good night, Alex."

I laid back down and drifted to sleep, not knowing that Alex was still standing there a few tears of his own now falling down his face.