Yeah. Last chapter was kinda anticlimactic. Sorry. Ive just been way busy with exams this week. One more exam and then I'm done, though! Then a long weekend, so hopefully I can get more up for you. Excited for tonight!

Disclaimer: I don't own Grey's Anatomy, just my characters.

Chapter 10

After Lexie and Ileah talked for a little while, the awkwardness hanging in the air around them became a bit too much, and Ileah left. As soon as she closed the door behind her, Lexie slumped back against the pillows. Her eyebrows scrunched together softly, and Mark noticed. Lexie looked as if she was trying to think. And it wasn't making sense, whatever she was thinking of.

"What is it, Lex?" Mark asked softly. Lexie looked over at him, confusion still evident in her eyes.

"I just…I feel obligated to like her. I mean, she is so sweet. And she is a good person. But…but when I think about the kids and ho-how I have only gotten to hold Emily once and now she isn't mine anymore…I think about how it is her fault. And I don't want to like her anymore. I just…I wish anyone but her had come in when I pressed the nurse call button." Lexie said all this in a jumbled rush. Mark got bits and pieces of it, but enough to understand what she meant. He reached out a finger, and softly rubbed out the creases that her eyebrows had made when she scrunched them together. She relaxed slightly.

"I know what you mean." He said, trying to make her feel better.

"But, do you, Mark? Do you understand what it's like to have your dead best friend's sister come and take away almost everything you love?" She was blunt. Mark understood what she was saying.

"No. I don't understand that. Not at all. But I do understand what it's like to have my kids taken away. It happened to me too. We can get through this. We just have to work hard to get you better, and then we can get them back." Lexie contemplated this for a while. Her pager buzzed, and she reached over to the table to look at it. As she read, Mark's buzzed, too.

"Mark, its April. She's out of…" She began.

"Recovery." Mark finished for her. "She's going to be fine." He added. Lexie leaned back, and smiled softly. Even if April couldn't be hers right now, she was so relieved.

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"What the HELL do you mean? Addison what the f—what the…..what the….oh, my GOD!" Meredith was fuming. Addison had just come to tell Meredith the news, and to get Will to take him to Callie.

"Meredith, please. Just…calm down. I know it's bad. It really is. But I'm legally obligated. I could lose my JOB." Addison was trying to make Meredith understand. Meredith stood up, and went over to where Will was sleeping. She gently picked him up, and walked back over to Addison.

Meredith didn't say anything as she handed the boy over to Addison. The glare she gave Addison was enough to say what words couldn't. Addison sighed.

"I'm so sorry. About your sister." She said. And she turned and walked away.

"Bitch." Meredith said after Addison as she left.

/

Callie was moving in two little beds into the spare room in her apartment when she felt as if someone was watching her. She turned around, slowly, and saw that her assumptions were right. Arizona was standing in the doorway, just watching. The tip of her nose was slightly red, hinting to Callie that she was upset.

"Arizona…what's wrong?" Callie said as she stopped what she was doing and went over to Arizona.

"I just….this is so wrong." Arizona whispered. Callie knew what she meant. She meant them being the ones to have to take care of three little children that belonged to Mark.

"I just…I couldn't stand knowing that someone else besides me would be taking care of the kids when Mark and Lexie can't. I don't want to. I have to." Callie said.

"I know. I just…I know I said I would have kids with you. But all of this…" Arizona said gesturing widely to the room that the two older kids would be staying in. "This is just…too much." Arizona said. Callie placed her hands on Arizona's shoulders.

"It's just for a little while." She said simply. "Don't think of them as kids. Think of them as….as…as tiny humans. You know? We're going to be fine." Callie assured Arizona. Arizona smiled softly.

"Where's the baby going to stay?" She asked softly, already knowing the answer. She didn't like it, but it was the safest bet.

"In a crib in our room." Callie said. Arizona sighed. But she saw the look on Callie's face. The way she slightly had one eyebrow raised, the corners of her mouth pointing down, just barely. Arizona knew this face. It was her 'this is the only way' face. And Arizona could never say no to the beautiful expression.

"Ok. We'll just do this one step at a time." Arizona said, plastering a big, fake smile on her face.

The light in Callie's eyes as she realized she had won the argument was worth it.

/

Mark woke up with a jolt as he heard a yell pierce through the silence. He looked over frantically, and saw Lexie was asleep, but yelling, and sweating.

"Don't…don't…" Lexie muttered between yells of terror. Mark shook her awake. He couldn't guarantee that this was a nightmare of the shooting. He hoped it wasn't. He shook her again, and this time she opened her eyes as she said, "Don't shoot." And then she came to, and was herself again.

"Why'd you wake me up?" She muttered, the dream having already left her memory.

Mark sighed as he realized that Ileah and Addison were right. Lexie did need some help.

A/N: I know it's short-ish. But that's all I have for this chapter. Please review. Let me know if there's anything in general that you would like to see happen. Thanks for reading!