Hey guys!

So while writing this chapter I had so many ideas that it got really long. So I will continue with the party in the next chapter and with all the stories that weren´t totally finished in this one. Also I feel super bad for leaving some things or couples out so I am going back to focus on only a few couples and not mentioning the others (e.g. Benley, Tenry,...). The main couples will be Slexie, Merder and Calzona and with it Mallie because those three have a storyline that kind of comes together is more important. I will finish the Benley story I started here in the next chapter but I will not contiune with it.
Other than that enjoy!

It took me by surprise

Surprises.

They come without warning.

They pull away the floor under our feet and change what we were used to.

It´s not that we don´t want them. It´s just that we aren´t prepared for them.

It was silent. You could of heard a needle drop. Mark just looked down at his hands playing with a tooth picker that was lying on the counter. Lexie stared at him with an open mouth.

"You what?" she asked, her voice almost echoing in the silent room. Mark didn´t reply. He didn´t even react. It was like he couldn´t even hear her. "Mark…I…" Lexie didn´t even know what to say. She didn´t expect him to tell her that he loved her. Slowly, she went towards him, reaching her hand out, but Mark pulled away and now looked up with tears in his eyes. Lexie´s heart broke at the sight of him being hurt. The woman opened her mouth, but nothing came out. Mark pressed his lips together fighting to hold his tears back. It was hard for him, seeing Lexie like that, hearing those words. A tear rolled down his cheek and caused Lexie to try and reach out again. But all Mark could do was to turn around and walk into his bedroom. The pregnant intern was left in the kitchen. She didn´t know if she should go or not. But she needed to distract herself so she started cleaning the dishes. Her eyes welled up as well and she sniffed a few times while scrubbing the fat out of the frying pan. With every move she got more frustrated and started breathing heavily and eventually threw the sponge and the pan into the sink which made a loud, shattering noise. Lexie leaned with her back against the sink and cradled her head in her wet, in foam covered hands. All she wanted to do was to go into Mark´s bedroom and scream at him, yell that she loved him too, kiss him with all the passion she got in her body, but she couldn't. She wouldn´t dare to enter his room as she was afraid of what he would say.

In an o.r. we are often taken by surprise.

A bleeding that we didn´t see coming, a tumor that the scans weren´t showing.

In medical school we learned about how we should face such surprises and how to act.

But let me tell you, sometimes, it´s really hard to do so.

It wasn´t quite morning yet. The sun just started to show itself a little. Derek´s head leaned on his arm as he was watching Meredith breathe in her sleep. He smiled slightly when a little snore escaped Meredith´s lips which woke her up.

"Good morning!" he greeted her with a kiss on her lips.

"Good morning." Meredith turned over to get a better look at him. "How long have you been awake?" she yawned sleepy.

"Not long." Derek meant getting out of bed and walking into the bathroom. "I couldn´t sleep any more, had some thoughts going through my mind."

"Thoughts? What thoughts?" Meredith wondered, now sitting up in bed.

"About our engagement. We´ve been engaged for a long time and I think it´s about time to plan the wedding." Derek stood in the doorway saying the last words. He had a towel wrapped around his waist and the shower was on. Meredith´s smile was gone as she stared him right in the eyes.

"Wedding...right…um…you know I…I need to go…I have…rounds!" she stuttered nervously as she rolled out of bed and picked some clothes out of the dresser. Derek´s eyes followed her as she left the room and appeared to go the other bathroom. Meredith shut the door behind her and leaned against it. She was so confused, she didn´t even notice Alex showering and holding his head out of the shower.

"What are you doing here?" he asked harshly and Meredith looked up surprised.

"I…um…Derek wants to get married." Meredith stuttered looking up to her friend who was rather confused.

"Isn´t that what engagement is all about?" he arched an eyebrow and turned off the water.

"Yes, I know but…he wants to get married. Like he wants a real wedding." Meredith stared at Alex who tried to understand the problem about it.

But with practice comes experience.

With time there comes knowledge.

We can´t be surprised very easily anymore.

At least we think so.

April was standing in the kitchen flipping some eggs in a pan and humming a song while slightly dancing to it on the spot.

"Good morn-…" she greeted Jackson who came out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist and making her speechless. Waterdrops ran down his abs and it felt like he walked to the counter in slow motion.

"Morning Apes." He smiled at her and took a sip of the orange juice that she prepared for him.

"Breakfast´s almost ready." April murmured scanning his wet, muscular body before shaking her head and focusing on the eggs again.

"Are you alright? You look kind of pale." Jackson noticed and April quickly searched for an excuse. She denied it and meant she was fine when she suddenly heard footsteps approaching. April turned around and saw Jackson suddenly standing only inches away from her. "Really? You are a bit…sweaty." Jackson meant and touched her forehead before quickly pulling it away again. "And you are hot. April you might have a fever."

"No…No I don´t I…it´s just really hot here…haha don´t you think? Oh, shoot is it that late already? I…I gotta go work and stuff." April freed herself from this uncomfortably hot situation and walked towards the door where her bag and jacket were hanging. "Um…I´ll see you then." Were her last words before she shut the door close.

Owen and Cristina were in the middle of something in their bed when her phone wouldn´t stop ringing.

"Shouldn´t you look at it? It may be Teddy with a big cardio trauma." He smiled, lying on top of her and kissing her neck. Cristina took her phone and scrolled down.

"Nope just those stupid automated e-mails that wish you a happy birthday. Where were we?" she answered pulling his face to hers and kissing him passionately.

"Hold on…today´s your birthday?" he pulled away and asked.

"Yeah, no big deal." Cristina didn´t understand his confusion and wanted to kiss him again but he rolled down and stopped next to her.

"It is…we should celebrate it." He looked after her she stood up and walked towards the bathroom, her face in a frown, her movements rushing.

"No! I haven´t celebrated my birthday since I was a kid. It´s no big deal." Were her last words before she shut and locked the bathroom door.

Teddy walked down the hallway, staring at her pager and waiting for a reply of the intern assigned to her. She came across Lexie lying on an empty gurney, staring down the ceiling.

"Little Grey? What are you doing here? I paged you at least three times." Teddy meant putting her pager away and acting all mad.

"Really? Oh, I´m sorry doctor Altman I…I must have muted it." Lexie looked down onto the device which in fact showed the missed pages from the attending.

"Come on now, we´ve got no time to lose." Teddy hurried her and Lexie sat up confused.

"But I thought I was working with doctor Shepherd today? On his study for the competition." Lexie remembered quite well what the plan said today.

"I´m sure he can do it without you for one day. I´ve got a very special case for the competition as well, and I hear you are the best intern. Therefore, I need you today. Come on now." Teddy hurried her even more as the intern quickly stood up and walked with her.

"What kind of case is it?" Lexie asked curiously.

"Just wait and see." Teddy grinned down at the intern as they walked towards the cardio-thoracic wing.

Bailey was standing in front of the o.r. board, checking if her laparoscopy that afternoon was all set, when a dark handsome man came and put his name next to anesthesia.

"Excuse me." Miranda cleared her throat as she saw this and the man turned around.

"Doctor Bailey. It´s been so long since we have worked together." Ben Warren smiled down at her and got an angry glimpse as a reply.

"Doctor Warren. I requested doctor Schmitt for anesthesia, and I would very much appreciate if that stayed like that." Bailey tried to lure him away as he came closer and made her more uncomfortable.

"Miranda. Can I call you Miranda?"

"No."

"Miranda. Don´t you see that we should work together? Don´t you see that we make a great team?" Ben stared her right in the eyes.

"But-…uh...Fine." Bailey answered angrily as she took the tablet with all her patients´ information on it and walked away. "And it´s doctor Bailey." She said one last time before she disappeared and left Ben who had a big grin on his face behind.

"You are doing a valvuloplasty ? On a fetus?" Lexie read out loud when she looked down at the tablet, Teddy handed her. Teddy nodded proudly as they continued walking towards their patient´s room.

"But, how are you going to do that? I mean without delivering." She wondered now looking to the attending who clearly had her eyes set on something…or someone.

"May I introduce to you…" she said aiming for a tall woman in nice clothes and a lab coat. "Nicole Herman. World class-"

"Fetal surgeon." Lexie finished for Teddy as they stopped right in front of the woman. "I´ve read so much about you. I am such a fan of your work." Lexie shook Nicole´s hand enthusiastically and she smiled at her.

"I´ve heard good things about you as well, doctor Grey." she admitted and then looked at Teddy again. "So, who else is gonna be on the team?"

"Well, there would be us three and my favorite resident Cristina Yang, outstanding in cardio, Arizona Robbins, head of peds and with her the two residents Alex Karev and April Kepner." Teddy checked on the tablet to make sure she said everything correctly.

"Alrighty, then let´s meet the others." Nicole meant excited and they walked into their patient´s room, where the others were already waiting.

Meredith was sitting in the resident´s room, writing down some things on post it notes, when Derek came in and surprised her with a hug from behind.

"You shouldn´t be here." She squealed happily but didn´t complain as he started kissing her neck.

"I just missed you so much." He moaned in between the kisses, sitting down behind her with his arms wrapped around her waist. Although she enjoyed his attention, she didn´t stop writing down the notes. "Why don´t you want a big wedding?" Derek suddenly spilled out and they abruptly stopped what they were doing.

"I don´t know. Big weddings are for happy people, shiny and bright people. I´m not shiny and bright, you are. A big wedding wouldn´t fit me." Meredith thought about what she was afraid of. About how a big ceremony would stress her out and cause her to run away from her own wedding.

"Then what would you like to have?" Derek continued asking and kissing her neck again. Softly he put her hair the other side and focused on every word she said.

"I don´t know. Just you and me. Nothing more and nothing less. Us being together and telling us we love each other. That´s all I want." Meredith explained and Derek looked up again.

"Turn around." He commanded in a whispering tone. She did so but rather confused than excited. "You see those blue post it notes?" he asked holding them up. "We got married on one of these just a few months ago. And if you want to, I would write a whole speech about how much I love you on all of them. If you want to, this can be the only wedding we´d ever have. If you want to, we can go to the town hall right now and get married in five minutes. I´ll do whatever you want for you. I´ll forget about the big wedding, about guests and cake and presents. All that matters is that we are together and that we love each other."

"You´d do that for me?"

"Do you really need to ask?"

Bailey and Jackson, who was on her service because Mark didn´t need him in the lab, were in the middle of the laparoscopy she scheduled when Ben cleared his throat.

"Are you free tonight?" he asked without any shame.

"Doctor Warren? Is this really he appropriate place and time to ask something like that?" Bailey answered shocked trying to concentrate on the monitor she had in front of her. Although she didn´t look at him she could sense Jackson was holding back his laughter.

"Well, since you never seem to be free to talk to me, I thought I´d better ask you where you can´t just walk away." Ben continued and Bailey shut her eyes and let out a deep sigh while her staff looked at her. "So? Are you free tonight?" Jackson couldn´t hold back a little scoff and earned a furious look from Bailey.

"Doctor Avery!" she said in a harsh tone, "Are you so bored assisting on my surgery, that you are amused by such inappropriate comments?" the small woman looked at him, causing him to swallow loudly.

"No ma´am." He answered in a very scared and quiet tone.

"Good. Then you do me the honor to continue the laparoscopy." Bailey suggested holding the laparoscope towards him and he took it with a big "thank you". Just a few minutes later they finished the surgery and Bailey went to the medical waste bin where she took off her gloves, mask and coat.

"Eight." She said and everybody still remaining in this room looked at her surprised and confused. "And I like Italian." Bailey continued looking directly at Ben

"Who doesn´t?" he chuckled happy that she came around and with a teeny tiny hint of a smile Miranda left the o.r.

Lexie was walking into the cafeteria where she saw Derek sitting with some case files and decided to go to him to have a chat.

"Hey you. Teddy stole you from my service today. She better has a good explanation for it." Derek greeted her when she sat down on the opposite side of the table.

"She does. It´s a major surgery. A fetal surgery to be exact. With Nicole Herman. Like she´s literally there with us and works with us. I am so excited." Lexie told him with a broad smile and he smiled at her enthusiasm. "Anyway, how´s it going with the Alzheimer´s study?" she asked and took some papers that lied in front of him and read them.

"Well, you know it´s a lot of research and so on but I think I´m close to making a breakthrough." He leaned a bit forward and spoke in whispering tone as if it was a big secret.

"You serious? Oh my god that´s amazing. But don´t break through before I am on you service again alright? I want my name in the article as well." She joked and both started laughing.

"Hey big brother." A female voice suddenly said behind Derek and his delighted face suddenly turned into a frown. He turned around to Amelia who was smiling down at him before grabbing a chair and sitting down. "How´s your study going? I can´t believe you didn´t tell me. I had to hear from Nancy. Why do you never call?" she faked a smile and Derek looked to Lexie who was kind of confused.

"Amy, the next time you come by call first and don´t surprise me and also…don´t come by and if you do don´t talk to me." Derek meant putting all his files and papers on a stack and walking away. Lexie wasn´t sure what she should do but she felt as if it was right to follow him.

"Derek hey." Lexie called after him when she saw him stopping at the nurse´s station. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah I´m…I´m fine it´s just…I don´t know what she´s doing here. Here. In this hospital where she´s killed my mother."

"Well, technically she didn´t kill her." Lexie remembered from two months ago. Derek gave her a serious look and she looked down at her shoes. Derek continued reading the files in silent when Lexie suddenly looked up again and started whispering.

"Mark um…he wants the baby." She leaned in so only Derek and nobody else could understand her. Derek looked up surprised of her telling him. "I know that you know. Mark told me yesterday. And he also told me that he loved me…and I told him that I wanted an abortion…and then he left." Derek looked around while Lexie was talking, making sure nobody listened to them.

"You want me to talk to him?" he asked leaning in a bit more.

"I don´t know. I don´t know what to think or do. Can you just tell me if I should get an abortion or not? I mean is it wise to become a mother in my first year?" Lexie struggled with the idea to terminate her pregnancy but also with the fact that it was so early on in her education.

"I can´t tell you what to do. But Meredith and I are also trying to get pregnant and she´s in her second year." Derek explained and Lexie frowned.

"Yes, but she´s best friends with the chief and would never lose her job." Lexie tried to reason with him and Derek sighed.

"Bailey got Tuck when she was in her fourth year. And she could continue her training and now she´s the chief of general." Derek hit her with another reason to keep it.

"Bailey had a husband who stayed at home with Tuck. I don´t have a husband nor is Mark someone who could allow himself to stay home" Lexie meant with a sigh.

"You are just looking for excuses." Derek meant putting the files on a stack again. "I know you are afraid but as you probably found out Mark is all in. He won´t leave you or the baby alone. Yes there´s Callie and the other baby but Mark is a good guy even when I seem to think differently from time to time. And also, Webber won´t fire you. You´re the best intern." he slightly pushed her with his elbow which made her smile.

Owen saw Teddy standing by a nurse´s desk and typing something on her tablet. He walked over and joined her really closely so if he said something, only she could hear it.

"It´s Cristina´s birthday today." He whispered and she looked up.

"Really? She didn´t say anything." Teddy tried to remember if the resident had mentioned anything to her.

"That´s because she doesn´t celebrate it. So…I´m gonna do a surprise party for her tonight. You should come. She loves you." Owen invited his best friend.

"Owen, I´m not sure a surprise party is a good idea, when she told you she doesn´t celebrate her birthday." Teddy tried to talk some sense into him but the trauma surgeon was completely sure she would love it. "Well, if that´s the case then, yes, I´m gonna come." They smiled at each other and after exchanging a few more details they parted ways again.

Owen was still inviting people to the surprise party and writing down things he would need to buy, when he came across Meredith and Derek talking in the big hall.

"You!" he meant walking towards them with fat grin on his face. "It´s Cristina´s birthday today."

"It is?" Derek asked surprised and looked at Meredith.

"Yeah but she doesn´t like it. Last year I got her a present and she told me to never do that again." Meredith remembered as if it was yesterday.

"Well, last year she didn´t have me and I am throwing a surprise party for her." Owen smiled and Derek was kinda fond of the idea. Just Meredith chuckled as she thought it was a joke.

"Oh wait, you´re not kidding? That´s a terrible idea." Meredith tried to convince Owen not to do this but he didn´t want to believe that.

"I don´t care what you think, she´s gonna love it. Speaking of which, I need some more booze so she will really love it." He meant noting something down on the list he had in his hand. "You don´t have to like it but you are her best friend. So are you two coming to the party or not?"

"What party?" Amelia suddenly stood behind the couple and Meredith and Derek turned around. Derek rolled his eyes, not wanting to have more contact with her than necessary.

"Amelia! Hi…I didn´t know you were coming." Meredith faked a smile and hugged her sister in law. She liked that Amelia was messed up just like her and she didn´t think Amelia was guilty of killing her mother but she knew Derek was so she tried to act in his favor.

"Who are you?" Owen asked the petite woman who he thought was really pretty.

"Amelia Shepherd. Derek´s little sister." She held out her hand and they shook it. "So, what party are we all going to?"

"Um…for my…um…Cristina she´s…she´s a doctor here…you should totally come." Owen stuttered and Meredith immediately noticed that there was something going on.

"You sure?" Amelia wanted to make sure she wasn´t bothering anybody, though she clearly bothered her brother.

"Yeah the more the merrier, right?" he smiled at the brunette woman. And as she returned his smile he immediately felt a shower of guilt running through his body.

"Watch closely doctors. I am inserting the needle into the patient´s uterus…there you go…SATs?" Nicole Herman explained while doing as she said. Lexie and Cristina watched her very closely, inspired and overwhelmed by how easy she made that procedure look. Even teddy was amazed by what doctor Herman was doing.

"Baby is stable." Arizona, who monitored the baby´s heart together with Alex and April, meant watching the monitor and the baby´s rhythm closely.

"Dude, that woman´s a freaking hero." Alex murmured to the two women sitting with him. April giggled at his comment and Arizona agreed with him.

"Doctor Altman, can you please reposition the baby just a little bit." Nicole asked and Teddy did as she was told. "Okay, I am inserting the needle to the baby´s chest and…great. Doctor Grey, I heard you have a photographic memory, with aortic stenosis, problems with the aortic valve make it harder for the leaflets to open and permit blood to flow forward from the left ventricle to the aorta. How can the valve look in children to cause this problem?"

"Um…The valve can be damaged by rheumatic fever or bacterial endocarditis, which can´t be the case here so, it can either have thick leaflets, which don´t open all the way, or it can have two leaflets instead of three and…um…" Lexie tried to remember the last thing she read in an journal once but it didn´t come into her mind.

"And?" Nicole asked staring at the monitor where she saw the inside of the woman´s womb.

"The leaflets can be partially fused together, causing it to be narrow and not open up all the way." Cristina answered for her intern.

"Right. Yeah, that's the last one." Lexie nodded remembering it very clear now.

"Yes. So I´m finished. Doctor Grey, would you do me the honor and pull the needle out?" the fetal surgeon asked and all the other doctor´s eyes widened. Lexie nodded slightly, not to show too much excitement, but Cristina was furious, that she didn´t even touch the patient. It hasn´t been her day, and now her intern was favored over her. Lexie went to the other side of the table and took the needle really carefully. She started pulling it out under Nicole Herman´s instructions. Arizona, Alex and April watched the baby´s monitor very closely.

"Very good doctor Grey." Nicole was satisfied with the intern.

"Bet you ten bucks she messes it up." Alex said quietly and Arizona hushed him. "Just saying. That girl´s amazing but she gets to do things no resident gets to do." April´s hormones clearly went through with her and since the o.r. was so quiet at that moment her giggle disrupted it and caused Lexie to get a scare and shake her hands. Suddenly the mothers BP was dropping and her vitals were dangerously low.

"Move!" Herman yelled, and took over for Lexie who was like paralyzed. The monitor in front of them showed a massive bleed in the woman´s womb and the attendings had to work really quick.

"I need to open her up." Lexie just heard faded voices. She stared at the monitor.

"What have I done?" she asked herself when suddenly Alex´ arms brought her back to a normal state. He brought her out of the o.r. as Robbins told him to do. "What have I done?"

"Nothing okay? You´re good! It´s Kepner´s fault." Alex tried to comfort her and wiped away a tear that strolled down her face. "Just leave. Go and freshen up. I´ll keep you posted." He nodded assuring and she walked away towards the lady´s restroom.

Richard and Miranda met in the attending´s lounge and started talking about the procedures they had that day. They enjoyed talking to each other, because they understood one another and had a blast.

"Anyway, are you coming tonight?" he suddenly asked Miranda who was rather confused.

"Coming? To where?" she wondered and Richard nodded in confusion.

"Oh, I´m sorry, I thought you knew. Hunt´s inviting everyone to a surprise party for Yang." Webber explained, feeling kind of awkward that she didn´t know about it. "I´m sure it´s fine if you come too."

"Yang? A surprise party? More like a disaster. Nah, I´m good…besides I already have plans." She denied his invitation and Richard looked at her, his eyes wide and his face shocked.

"Plans? With whom may I ask?" he almost interrogated her and Miranda looked up feeling sorry that she told him.

"Richard Webber, you´re not my father…and…and I do not need to..um…report what´s going on to you." The normally so confident woman tried to stutter her way out of this situation. Webber watched her walk out of the room and still wasn´t less confused. Bailey was like a daughter to him, he raised her and formed her to take over for him as chief of surgery one day. He caught himself feeling too nosy about things.

Lexie was standing in front of a sink in the lady´s restroom, letting the cold water run down her hands for some time and occasionally splashing the water onto her face which was red and swollen from all her crying. Suddenly a door of a toilet swung open and Amelia stepped out and walked to a sink on the other end.

"Hey you work with my brother, right? Derek Shepherd?" she then asked and Lexie, who didn´t want to look up and reveal her pain, just nodded. It was all too much for her. Her hormones were going crazy, her fight with Mark was still bothering her and now she might have killed a perfectly healthy mother.

"Could you maybe talk to him? Convince him to let me in on that Alzheimer´s study?" Amelia wanted to know with an excited smile and again, Lexie just nodded. "On the other hand, I already know he´s going to say no. Sometimes I wish he was more like Mark. Mark would always let me help him." Amelia thought out loud and Lexie now couldn´t hold it in any longer and let out a sob which drew Amelia´s attention to her again. "Did I say something?" she asked concerned and came closer when Lexie looked up and Amelia noticed how long she must have been crying already.

"I´m okay it´s just…" Lexie couldn´t finish her sentence as she started crying again. Amelia, who has a big heart and kind of felt guilty, pulled the intern into a hug. "What are you doing you don´t even know me." Lexie asked but didn´t complain.

"You seem like you could use it." She replied and they remained like that for a while.

"Thanks." Lexie said after she calmed down and pulled away. "I´m Lexie. Lexie Grey by the way."

"Hold on. THE Lexie Grey?" Amelia asked and Lexie gave her a confused look. "You´re dating Mark Sloan, right? ...Wait a minute…is that why you were crying?" the neurosurgeon wondered.

"I am not…we are not...dating…how do you know anyway?" Lexie wanted to know.

"Well, Mark was basically my other older brother, and a better one than Derek as well so…we talk." Amelia replied honestly. "Also, congratulations." She whispered with a hint of a smile.

"I´m not sure gratulations are necessary." Lexie looked down at her shoes feeling her eyes welling up again. "We had a fight yesterday about aborting or not." She explained and Amelia started looking concerned in another way. "I mean we didn´t talk much. He just ignored me from the moment I said it out loud but…isn´t it my decision? We aren´t a couple, I am ruining my body and career with it…I mean does he even get to have say in any of this?" Lexie thought out loud since Amelia stepped back and clearly wasn´t listening anymore but rather thought about something else.

"See, Mark…he um…he always wanted to have a big family but, you know, never found the right woman. He was dating one when he went to medical school, Addison who was with Derek for a brief time in Highschool. She got pregnant and had an abortion without telling him. They discussed it because he was really excited and couldn´t believe she did it without talking to him and she said that she wanted a family, but not with him and that he would have made a terrible father. I think that´s still in the back of his head and he feels very protective over this one. He doesn´t want to be hurt like this ever again." Amelia told Lexie and now she started to understand why he behaved like he behaved. "Anyway, I should get going and try to persuade Derek to let me work with him." The attending meant walking towards the door.

"Thank you." Lexie called after her and Amelia turned around with a comforting smile before leaving the restroom. Lexie wiped away the dried tears and looked up when suddenly another door of another toilet was opened. Through the mirror she saw Callie standing behind her who has listened to their whole conversation. They stared at each other for a few seconds before Callie cleared her throat and stepped forward to the sink and Lexie left the restroom looking down at her shoes.

Surprises can be happy.

They can be sad and terrible.

But you gotta keep up a good face because when you´re talking to a patient

and look terrified, they are gonna be terrified as well.

"Little Grey is pregnant. With Mark´s baby." Callie whispered to Arizona who was walking beside her.

"I know, I did her first ultra-sound." She replied looking at her tablet and not being shocked about the news.

"You knew? Why didn´t you tell me?" Callie, who was angry at Mark for getting another woman knocked up, was now also angry at Arizona.

"Well, because a) Doctor-Patient confidentiality and b) because it´s her choice to tell or to keep it a secret." They both arrived at a nurse´s station and Arizona gave the tablet to a nurse.

"You do realize, that we are having his baby too, right?" Callie, who held her obviously pregnant belly, asked Arizona who was now facing her.

"No, you are having a baby with Mark, I am having a baby with you." The blonde woman smiled and put her hands around the place where the baby must have been at that time. "Don´t be mad at me. You know I wasn´t allowed to tell you." She gave Callie a kiss and it seemed like her anger was washed away by that gesture.

Sometimes people think we like surprises.

That it challenges us doctors and that we get bored easily with routine procedures.

But the truth is, we like when things go like planned.

We do have to think of every possibility but we hope everything plays out in our favor

Owen looked at a text message from Cristina, saying she would leave the hospital now.
"Okay guys Cristina´s on her way, she´s gonna be here any minute. Everybody in position." He yelled through the apartment where a lot of people were chit-chatting and drinking beer or eating snacks. When he finished his sentence, everybody went through what they had to do, when they would start singing "Happy Birthday" and where they should hide. Owen turned the lights out and hid on the right side of the door, whereas Teddy hid on the opposite.

"You really think that´s a good idea?" she asked concerned whether Cristina would like it or not. Owen wanted to reply with a yes bt before he could say anything the door swung open and the lights go back on.

"SURPRISE!" everybody jumped out of their hideout, screaming and at once they started singing "Happy Birthday." Cristina looked around, her mouth open in shock, her eyes widened in terror. Once they were finished and applauded her Cristina started laughing. But with every laugh a tear found its way down her cheek. It was at that moment that Owen realized, his idea maybe wasn´t the best. Cristina turned around and left the apartment with a loud bang when she shut the door.

"Told ya." Meredith, who stood next to Derek, meant drinking from her beer. Owen looked at Teddy who gave him a comforting smile.

"Go." She said with a nod and Owen stormed out of the apartment. "Okay, guys we didn´t invite you here in vain. Party´s started." Teddy then meant and everybody resumed to talk to each other and drink.

Some things are premeditated. Some things are clear.

An inflamed appendix will burst if untreated, that´s clear.

But feelings are so complicated. You can´t control them.

You can´t see what is going to happen once you say something and once you don´t.

You need to expect a surprise.

Lexie stood in front of closed lab doors. Through the slim window in the door she watched him work. He has been in there the whole day, not speaking to anybody. Lexie really didn´t want to confront him but she also new she couldn´t run away. It was his baby too and he had a right to decide with her. She opened one door and stepped inside.

"Mark? Can we talk?" she asked and saw him sighing. He turned around and she could clearly see that his face was red and swollen. He had obviously cried as much as she did. "I am so sorry. Amelia told me what happened when you were in med school. With Addison?" Mark looked away. It clearly bothered him that she was bringing it up, but Lexie had to take all the courage she had and clear things. She took a stool and sat down in front of him, taking his hands in hers and trying to catch his gaze.

"I love you too." She whispered underneath her breath and caused him to look her right in the eyes. "And I now our situation is messed up. Callie´s also having your child and I am an intern and you can´t be a stay-at-home dad because you are the best plastic surgeon I´ve ever heard of. But we can work it out right? Together? We can make it work? Because if you´re not all in and if you don´t support me, I am not doing this. I love you, and I want to have a family, a life with you." Lexie´s eyes lit up more with every word she said and Mark´s lips formed a smile hearing those words. "So, what are you saying? Are you in?" They locked eyes and for a split second, Lexie regretted saying anything because she thought Mark might tell her to go away. But she was wrong. Before she knew, Mark´s lips touched hers and his hands were on her cheeks. She let out a sigh of relief and with it a tear rolled down her face.

"I love you" he whispered once they pulled apart. "I love you so much. You want to go home?"

"Actually Owen´s throwing a party for Cristina and invited me. I think if we really do this people should know that we are a couple. And expecting." She smiled at him and they kissed again. This time both cried in relieve and of happiness. They were expecting. They would have a wonderful life together. At least for now.