Hello guys,

this chapter is not as interesting as the further ones but I'll try to make it better next time. Hope you still like it. I'm not a big Lexie fan at the beginning, so sorry for all the Lexie fan's (it's not gonna be so bad because I know that a lot of person loves her)

Like always, Grey's Anatomy and all the character don't belong to me, only the story development do.

Enjoy your reading!

Kisses


Chapter 7

Mark and Derek quickly turned around. Helena was standing there, the arms wide open, ready to embrace them. First, they both stared at her, not really realizing she was there before standing up and throwing their arms around her.

"Leny, I'm so happy to see you!" Derek said giving her a kiss on her forehead.

"Me too Derek, but you're chocking me," the girl replied with a bright smile.

Derek stepped back and Mark hugged the dark-haired girl tightly.

"A tequila Joe," she asked as the three sat at the bar.

"What happens to your hair?" Mark asked drawing a hand through his friend's short locks.

"You know, it's much handier when you are operating a man in precarious conditions with an insupportable heat and with a mass of hair on your head," Helena explained.

Her brother was watching her with insistence.

"Why didn't you said that you were coming back?" he asked taking a sip of his drink.

"I wanted it to be a surprise," the Shepherd girl said. "And if you want another one, guess who is going to work at the hospital after this summer."

Derek's face brightens.

"I'm so happy that you finally decide to practice medicine again!" he said with a bright smile.

Helena raised her glass.

"To my new job," she toasted.

The three drank their drinks bottoms up and ordered another drink.

"So tell me, what happens at the hospital since the last time I called?" the girl asked.

Derek's face darkened immediately.

"What?" his sister asked watching alternatively Mark and Derek. "Did I said something wrong?"

Mark cleared his throat.

"Well, Meredith just broke up with him," he explained. "Burke run away from his wedding, Addy left and your brother declined the offer of Webber making him the next Chief."

Helena opened her mouth surprised.

"What?! But I thought you wanted to be Chief," she said. "And why the hell did Meredith leave you?"

"I thought Richard was the only one who can continue to be Chief and concerning Meredith, we depart from another."

"I'm sorry Derek," his sister said apologetically. "I thought she was the right one for you. Actually, I still think she is, but every couple has some time with and without."

Derek nodded sadly glancing in his glass of whiskey. Helena turned to Mark.

"And why did Addison left? I thought you two were trying to make it out."

Mark emptied his glass.

"Maybe we weren't meant to be together," he said. "I get accustomed to the fact that she didn't love me anymore and I guess the feelings went away."

"And what about Cristina and Burke?" the black-haired girl pursue.

"Preston realized that she didn't really want to marry him for the good reason so he broke up and disappeared," Derek explained.

"So if I resume, everybody is single," the Shepherd girl stated.

Both nodded sadly.

"Then it was the time that I finally came back to make your lives happy and fun again!"


A few weeks later, after the summer holidays, Helena was getting ready to go to work. In that time, she had moved him with Derek in his trolley. It was narrow but not more uncomfortable than her place back in Iraq. She had heard from Meredith that she and Cristina were gone on the honeymoon that was planned with Burke to make a break from Seattle. Derek had spent the entire time at Joe's, drinking. But in the last weeks, Helena had managed to make him met other woman, to distract him from Meredith.

Today was her first day at Seattle Grace Memorial Hospital and she was really excited to work in a hospital again. Derek was still sleeping. Helena pulled on the blanket to expose him to the cold air.

"Come on Sleepyhead, it's time to wake up!" she shouted as he slowly opened his eyes moaning.

Derek hides his head under the pillow.

"Come on, I don't want to be late on my first day!"

Reluctantly the neurosurgeon stood up and headed to the shower In that time Helena get two mugs of coffee ready. She couldn't wait to work again.

When both were ready they took Derek's pickup outside and drove to the hospital. On the way, Helena was questioning her brother.

"What are you gonna do when you'll see Meredith?" she asked.

Derek threw her a black glance.

"I'm just getting out of her way," he said concentrating back on the road.

The rest of the way, the two Shepherd remained silent. At the hospital, Helena first went to Webber's office.

"Unlike the other new residents, you won't get interns right now," he said. "You have to get accustomed to the hospital yet."

Helena nodded in understanding.

"What I can offer you is to choose one of your resident colleagues and you'll follow him around during the next few days. What about Dr. Grey?" he asked. "I remember you two had a good feeling the first time you met."

Helena nodded. Sure it would be a good occasion to have Meredith's part of the story about the breakup.

"So, now you better go change in the resident's locker room, the rounds are about to start."

Helena politely said goodbye and headed to the locker room. She quickly dresses up in the usual light blue scrub before looking for Meredith. She found her showing a few young interns around. Helena recognized George in the group, she wondered why he was among the interns. The Shepherd girl leaned against a nearby wall, not wanting to interrupt Meredith. Grey opened a door.

"On-call room. Sleep when you can where you can," she explained. "But not with anybody. No attendings. Especially no attendings. Sleeping with attendings, not a good idea."

Helena smiled, knowing she meant her brother.

"Where was I?" the resident asked.

"Um… rule number three," George pursue. "If you're sleeping, do not wake you unless a patient's actually dying."

"Thank you, George. Now disappear, all of you!" Meredith said to the others.

She then noticed the dark-haired girl against the wall.

"Helena?!" she said surprised. "I didn't know you were back."

Helena hugged her tightly.

"It's good to see you Mer!"

The brown-haired noticed the blouse.

"Wait, are you working here now?" she asked.

Helena nodded.

"I'm your new co-resident!"

The girls walked arm in arm in the hallway.

"You have to tell me everything," Helena said smiling brightly.


"I hate them!" Cristina was saying, talking about the interns.

Helena, Cristina, Meredith, Izzie, and Alex were sitting on the stretcher in the basement of the hospital.

"You don't," Meredith chuckled. "You hate you."

"That was hideous, I feel like a fraud," their blonde friend sighed.

"I knocked it, I think I am the new Nazi," Alex said.

"The Nazi?" Helena said.

"So was called Bailey when we were her interns," Cristina explained. "And, no Alex, you're not the new Nazi."

"Hot McArmy is lucky to don't have a bunch of freaking stupid interns following her everywhere," the young man added.

"Hot McArmy? Seriously Alex?" Helena replied with a smirk, lying on a nearby bed with closed eyes.

George appeared.

"Meredith, can I talk to you?"

But before Meredith could even answer, Izzie had interrupted.

"How was your vacation?" she asked the young man.

"Fine," he shortly said not looking into her eyes. "Meredith, could we…."

But Izzie interrupts again. Helena turned to Alex.

"Is there a problem between the two?" she whispered. "Izzie is acting weird."

Alex chuckled.

"Izzie told Bambi that she loves him before the summer break and apparently he never called her back."

"Wasn't he with this girl from ortho?" the Shepherd girl wondered.

"Yes, he still is actually," the young man chuckled. "Never thought I will ever see two girls battling for Bambi."

Helena concentrates back on the main conversation.

"The day of Cristina's wedding which was, well…," Izzie was saying. "Mer and Cristina went on her honeymoon without me!"

"Girl-on-girl honeymoon," Alex cackled.

"Alex took a road trip to see Ava without me," the blonde raised.

"Who is Ava?" the dark-haired girl asked.

"Nobody," Alex hasty said. "I did not go to see her. I didn't see her. I just drove in that direction."

"Why is everyone so tingly and hurt? I'm the one who was left at the altar," Cristina added. "I'm fine by the way. I honeymooned in Hawaii and I snorkeled."

"What did you do George?" Izzie said to the men who were still standing in front of them.

"Meredith, I really need to talk to you," he insists ignoring the blonde.

A group of interns appeared wanting to sit down with them.

"Hey!" Meredith shouted at them. "This is for residents only, no interns."

"Yeah, get out of her," Cristina added.

"Go away," Izzie threw.

"OO7s in training!" Alex jiggled.

George followed the others.

"NO, George! I didn't mean you!" Meredith said.

"I'm an intern!" he shouted without turning back.

"Is this how it's going to be. Bambi has to deal," Alex chuckled.

"Have you seen Burke?" Meredith asked her best friend.

"No," she answered.

"Have you seen Derek?" Helena asked Meredith.

"No," the brown-haired answered.

"Wait, you haven't seen either of them since the wedding?" the Shepherd girl asked.

"Nope!" both answered.

"And you're all fine?"

"Yep."

The pagers started to beep furiously.

"Let's go then," Alex said standing up.

When the arrived at the ER, Helena noticed her brother speaking with a patient.

"There is Derek," she said to the attention of Meredith.

"Is Burke with him?" Cristina asked anxiously.

"I don't see him," Meredith replied.

They arrived in front of a tall and strong woman with long straight black hair.

"Where have you been?!" she said when she saw them. "We have MVC's due any second."

"We're here, aren't we?" Alex replicated.

"Just get ready, Ok" she continues. "And monitor your interns."

She walked away in one of the trauma room.

"One, two, go get stat packs, three, four, met the ambulance," Cristina ordered to her interns.

"One and two?" Helena asked smiling.

"I know, I can't remember their names," she sighed walking away.

George reached out.

"I don't respond to a number," he said.

"George, go wait for the ambulance," Meredith said.

"I'm coming with you," Helena put forward.

Both put on the usual yellow over scrubs before getting out. They could hear the siren of the ambulances coming nearer.

"Grey, don't let them just stand here!" Bailey said when the vehicles stopped in front of us.

"Let's move people," Meredith said with a strong voice.

Helena followed her with Bailey to the second ambulance. The paramedic introduced them to the patient.

"Nancy Walters, 34 years old, 35 weeks pregnant. Complete upper arm amputation. Pressure applied. Two large-bore IV's started."

It was not pretty to see but the Shepherd girl had seen worse back in Iraq.

"Did he say arm?" the patient panicked. "My arm is gone?"

"Miss Walters, you're gonna be OK," Bailey assured her. "Grey? Check on the wound."

"I really need my arm," Nancy whined.

"It's gonna be ok Nancy," Helena whispered. "We're gonna fix your arm and you and your baby are gonna be ok."

"Shepherd, there is no time for small talk," Bailey said harshly. "Get her in quickly.

Meredith and Helena drove the stretcher inside.

"Get out of the way!" Meredith said to an intern who was standing in their way.

"Are you Meredith Grey?" the intern asked.

Meredith nodded quite annoyed.

"I'm Lexie."

"Great, now move we have a patient!" Helena throws to her.

"Lexie Grey," the intern continue." Uhm ...I'm your sister."

Meredith stands still a second with opened mouth.

"Come on Mer, we have to get her in!" the Shepherd girl shouted.


A few minutes later, Nancy was lying in a trauma room where both girls were checking on her baby with George.

"See that girl out there? The dopey wide-eyed one?" Meredith said to George pointing on Lexie who was running around in the ER. "Apparently, we're related."

"You met Lexie?" George asked.

"You knew?" Helena as Meredith inquired.

"I kind of had a lot going on."

Izzie entered the room followed by a bunch of interns.

"This is trauma room one, as you can see, it's… there's a trauma," she was saying to them. "Do you need some help? Please tell me you need some help."

She looked pretty desperate.

"It's a little crowded in here, Iz," Meredith apologizes.

"What do you got?" Mark asked coming in.

"Nancy Walters, complete amputation," Helena cleared.

"Baby looks fine, but she's having some contractions," George said.

"Mind if I take a look?" the plastic surgeon asked.

Izzie leaned close above his shoulder.

"Clean cut," she observed.

"If you want to rub up against me, you gotta buy me a drink first," Mark said with a smirk.

Izzie quickly left the room followed by her interns.

"Hang antibiotics and put on a dressing," he continued. "There's a chance of a good recovery here. Do we have an arm?"

"They're looking for it," Meredith answered.

"My baby has no father," Nancy spoke. "He's already down two arms, so he really needs me to have an arm."

Mark looked over at Meredith and Helena. Both looked determined.

"Get me that arm," he said calmly.

Meredith left the room to make a call for the missing arm. Mark leaned over to Helena.

"It's nice to work with you for one time Froggy," he said.

Helena smiled brightly.

"It's really nice to work in the hospital again," she replied.

"I can't imagine how it was back there," Mark said.

"Not very different," Helena added. "Just that you have to work in the hurry because we had a lot more patients to treat."

"And tell me, did my little Froggy had found a perfect soldier to finish her life with," the plastic surgeon asked.

"No, I wasn't really concentrating on that, you know," the Shepherd girl chuckled.

He didn't know why but Mark felt kind of relieved. A man entered the ER carrying a bloody plastic bag.

"We found an arm in the road," he said. "Here, I bagged that."

"That's my arm," Helena said taking it over with a bright grin.

Sloan smiled. It was good to see her happy again.