"Nooooooo," Lexie moaned as she heard the baby cry again for the millionth time that night.

"You want me to get up this time?" Robert mumbled.

Lexie pondered it and then threw the covers back. "No, I forgot to pump any bottles before bedtime so unless you are lactating then it is all me tonight." She got up and kissed his forehead. "Thanks for the offer." She walked over to William's bassinette and picked him up. "You, young man, are trying to drive your mother crazy aren't you?" He just gurgled and she took that as a yes. She nodded off a few times while feeding him and then rocked him to sleep and lay him back in the bassinette and crawled back into bed.

She fell asleep immediately and what seemed like seconds later he was at it again. Lexie started to cry from sleep depravation.

"Formula won't kill him." Robert said and got out of bed and went to get the baby.

"Are you sure?" Lexie mumbled as she was already falling asleep.

"I don't know, I wish I knew a doctor to ask." Robert said and Lexie opened her eyes just long enough to glare at him. Robert smiled and took the baby down to the kitchen and made him a bottle and sat admiring his son as he fed him. This was so far from where he had seen his life but now he couldn't imagine it any other way. His small son suckled the bottle softly and Robert just smiled. The baby fell asleep and Robert took him back to bed with a second bottle ready for the next time. He lay looking at Lexie and felt a contentment that he never knew he could feel. She had made him into a man, he had been one before of course but now his lonely, cold life seemed like a bad dream he had dreamt a million years ago. He kissed her softly and fell asleep.

William Robert Jonathan Romano was baptized in a simple ceremony and John looked like he was going to pass out as he went through the motions of becoming a Godfather. Lexie wanted to laugh at the men in her life. They could face any emergency in the world but when it came to personal events they were like children. As the priest poured the holy water over the baby both Robert and John were ready to do CPR just in case and Lexie just shook her head. After the ceremony everyone came back to Robert and Lexie's house for food and drink and everyone had to hold the baby, an action that Robert despised because "Who knows what germs those dirty bastards had on them". Lexie just smiled.

"Robert, he is fine." She whispered to him and he shook his head.

"Ok Lex, but when our son comes down with small pox or malaria I am blaming you." He walked over to take the baby from Kerry.

He walked back over to Lexie and stood rocking him back and fourth.

"What was that about?" Lexie whispered.

"God only knows where she has been." He hissed

"Oh yeah and that gay germ too Robert, wouldn't want him to catch that." Lexie said full of sarcasm and walked over to talk to her guests.

The day had been a success with the exception of Robert's paranoia. He had been unsure of anyone from the hospital holding him cuz they could have brought some germs with them and Lexie just took her son and passed him to Abby and walked away.

"So when are you coming back to work?" Susan asked as she sipped her third glass of wine.

"Not for a while. I think I need a break. Kerry isn't happy about it but Robert has me on medical leave so I can take a few months off. I just can't imagine going through what I am going through each night and then dealing with patience."

"Oh I totally understand that one." Elizabeth piped in. "My first few weeks back were unbearable. Take advantage of it as long as you can."

"Shit, why not just stay home all together?" Abby said and the other two women nodded.

"Who knows. We will see." Lexie said casually but it had been on her mind though.

The last person left around nine o'clock and Lexie was beat. The baby was asleep and Max had fallen asleep on the floor in the den. Robert put them both to bed and then helped an almost comatose Lexie up to bed. "Thank you." She mumbled as he tucked her in. He went down to his study to work on a few reports he had been putting off. The baby slept through most of the night and Lexie woke up around 3am feeling way too rested and went to check on the baby. He was asleep but he didn't look right. Lexie turned on the over head light and shook Will who didn't move. He was burning up but he was breathing. Lexie picked him up and ran to the bathroom for the thermometer and took his temperature. The ear thermometer beeped and she almost dropped it when it read 102.3.

"ROBERT!" She screamed and he leaped up and ran into the bathroom. She handed him the thermometer. Robert went to wake up Anna as Lexie put Will in the sink with cold water running over him. Robert came back and Lexie had a cool cloth on his forehead. Robert was getting dressed and came in to take over so Lexie could. They rushed him wrapped in a wet towel down the stairs and into the car. Lexie put him the car seat and sat in the back with him. Robert broke ever driving law there was and got to County in record time. They ran in and ran right past the admit desk and found the first empty exam room. John and Abby had seen them run in and ran to find them.

"Ok Lex where is he now?" Robert asked as he inserted an IV into his little arm. His hands were shaking and he couldn't find the vein so Abby grabbed it and got it right away. The thermometer beeped

"Still 101.5." She yelled. "Ok um, oh God what do you do for a fever?" She yelled? John pushed her aside and took over as Susan and Luka came in. "Why won't he wake up?" Lexie yelled to no one.

"Ok Lex, just calm down, we will find out." Luka said as he pulled her to the side.

"He was just sleeping too long. If I had gotten up sooner maybe…" She started to cry and he took her by the shoulders.

"Lexie! Look at me. You know there is nothing you could have done." Her eyes were wide as she stared at him. "He is probably in shock and probably has an infection."

The amount of adrenalin in the room was over powering as they were doing everything they could but Will was deteriorating before their eyes. John decided to help Will breathe by putting in a breathing tube. It appeared to everyone that he had a life threatening infection; Abby was a step ahead as antibiotics were started.

John walked over to Lexie. "Barbie, I need you and Robert to step out."

"Why, what is going on?" She was loosing it.

"We have to do a lumbar puncture and you don't want to be here for it." Robert took Lexie's shoulders and pulled her out of the room. William barley flinched as they inserted the needle into his back and Lexie couldn't watch and put her head into Robert's shoulder. She looked up as the spinal fluid was collected in test tubes. It looks cloudy and slightly yellow and Lexie almost passed out.

They watched Abby call someone on the phone, the PICU no doubt. Then they wheeled William out of the room quickly and John stopped so Lexie and Robert could give him a kiss and then the team and the stretcher disappeared. Susan and Luka stepped out of the room and led them over to chairs. "We think it could be meningitis or a million other things. We sent everything up to the lab with a rush order on it. I wish there was more I could tell you more but you guys know the drill. We will let you know as soon as he is set up in the PICU and you can go up with him." Susan sounded so calm. Lexie could just nod. A trauma came in and Luka and Susan had to go so Robert and Lexie just sat there staring out into space not saying a word.