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Lexie could hear laughing from Meredith's bedroom so when she pushed the door open and flung herself back onto her sister's bed she wasn't surprised that Cristina and Meredith were both sitting on the bed as well.
"Little Grey is here!" Cristina laughed, not really knowing why.
"I want to get drunk." Lexie groaned. "Like so drunk I can't stand up straight."
"I'm with you." Cristina nodded and passed the bottle of Tequila to Lexie, who sat up and took a big sip.
"I'd drink with you but apparently that would screw up my baby and I don't think Derek would like me getting our baby drunk in the womb." Meredith smiled. "People don't take it too kindly when pregnant women drink."
"I told you that getting pregnant would suck." Cristina sighed.
"It'll all be worth it when I get to hold my little boy or girl." Meredith rubbed her stomach.
Lexie moved to wedge herself between Meredith and Cristina and sighed loudly again to try to get their attention.
"Oh, Meredith, I think Lexie wants to tell us something." Cristina teased.
"Well, she'll have to be a big girl and use her words." Meredith joined in.
Lexie frowned. "Jackson wanted to tell everyone today that we're together." She explained.
"And?" Meredith asked. "What did you say?"
"I told him I wanted to wait." Lexie sighed.
"Why?" Cristina wrinkled her nose. "That was dumb."
"I know." Lexie groaned. "I'm so stupid. I want to tell everyone, I really do…" She shook her head. "I don't know. I fell so hard for Mark and Alex… why can't I do that with Jackson?"
Meredith and Cristina shared at look. "Okay, look." Meredith began. "You're a doctor, you got accepted to Mass Gen and you graduated at the top of your class. You're smart, Lexie, you're brilliant but when it comes to guys you are completely lost."
"Maybe the reason you fell in love with Mark and Alex so fast was because you knew it would never last." Cristina suggested. "You can't get serious with Jackson because deep down you know that he's the one and you're scared."
Lexie frowned. "Okay, who are you and what have you done with Cristina?"
Meredith laughed. "I think Cristina is right. Jackson suits you, Lexie. The sooner you accept that and move past your incessant need to sabotage a perfectly great relationship the sooner you can be happy with Jackson."
"I'm not trying to sabotage anything." Lexie pouted.
"What's going on?" Derek walked into the bedroom, not at all surprised that the three women were taking up the entire bed, leaving little room for him to even sit down on the edge. "Are we having a slumber party in my bedroom?"
"I'm off to have sex with my husband." Cristina pushed herself from the bed. "Thanks to Meredith, Owen decided it would be fun to try to have a baby. I'm down for the wild sex part but I'm not so sure about the wild sex sans condom." She sighed. "See you guys tomorrow."
Meredith turned to Lexie who was still pouting. "I'm going to bed too." Lexie scooted off the bed and was almost to the door when Meredith spoke up.
"Stop sabotaging." Meredith called after her.
"Yea, yea." Lexie grumbled, brushing past Alex on her way up to the attic.
Lexie walked silently beside Jackson the next morning towards the hospital. "You got any surgeries today?" She asked him quietly.
"No." Jackson replied, shaking his head.
"Me either." She sighed. She and Jackson hadn't talked much and she wasn't sure why this was so awkward. "Jackson?"
"Mmh?" He looked over at her as they crossed into the lobby of the hospital.
"Do you wanna maybe go out somewhere tonight?" She asked. "We said we were going to take it slow but we haven't gone on any dates yet. I just thought that maybe…"
"I'd like that." Jackson smiled.
Lexie nodded and grinned as well. "I'll see you later?"
"Yea." He kissed her cheek quickly before heading towards the resident's lounge to change for rounds.
Lexie found Meredith at the nurses' station after rounds and she leaned heavily on her elbows and looked at her sister. "You're glowing." Lexie smiled.
Meredith rolled her eyes. "It's sweat. I've been throwing up all day and I'm all sweaty. I don't know what idiot decided to call it morning sickness because I was up most of the night puking my dinner up. I couldn't even look at breakfast this morning before getting nauseas."
"Have you and Derek thought about whether you want a boy or girl?" Lexie asked.
"Not really." Meredith shrugged. "We spent months trying to get pregnant so now that we are we don't really care what it is as long as it's healthy."
"I have a date with Jackson tonight." Lexie blurted out.
Meredith raised her eyebrows. "Really?"
Lexie bit into her bottom lip and nodded. "I decided to take you and Cristina's advice and asked him out this morning. He said yes and we're going out tonight."
"Sex afterwards?" Meredith asked.
Lexie rolled her eyes. "We agreed to take it slow. No sabotaging, remember?"
"Right." Meredith smiled knowingly. "You're a Grey, Lexie. We need sex like we need to cut. You'll cave and be humping pretty boy by the end of the week."
"I will not cave." Lexie crossed her arms defiantly and Meredith smiled when her sister started to storm off.
"Stay away from the tequila." Meredith called after her sister.
Lexie was actually nervous when she found herself waiting in the lobby for Jackson to get off from his shift. She sank into one of the overstuffed chairs and sighed, taking deep breaths to try to calm her upset stomach.
"Lex? You ready?" Jackson was suddenly beside her and she jumped slightly before standing up to smile up at him cheekily. "I thought we could head over to Joe's for a few drinks or something."
Lexie nodded. "Okay."
"We could get a corner booth, dark and away from everyone else, do a few shots." Jackson leered down at her. "Then we could head home and do a few other naughty things."
Lexie blushed and remembered Meredith's words from earlier. "No Tequila." She said firmly.
"Deal." Jackson laughed and they headed out of the hospital and towards the familiar bar across the street.
Lexie took a deep breath once they reached the bar and the smell of alcohol hit her nose suddenly. She heard people laughing and talking loudly as Jackson led her towards a quiet booth in the corner – or at least as quiet as they could get in the crowded bar.
Just like Jackson had promised, they downed several shots and after Lexie was pretty buzzed she couldn't help but feel the heat flare up in the pit of her stomach and between her thighs when Jackson ran his fingers over her waist and towards her inner thighs. She bit into her bottom lip when he started whispering things in her ear – naughty things he promised to do to her later, once he had her alone – and just kept repeating 'I won't cave' over and over in her head.
Apparently, Lexie had more willpower than she thought because when Jackson asked her up to his room once they got home, she just pecked him on the lips and promised him that she would take him up on that soon before heading upstairs to her room. Alone.