Lexie´s eyes went big. Oh my god please tell me it´s just a bad dream...Derek?! She thought. Derek didn´t say anything. He stood there and his eyes switched between Lexie and Mark. Mark didn´t know what to do. He looked down at his feet and tried to look calm but his inner voice screamed, "What the hell...oh my god...he saw her...oh my god what should I do now?!"
Derek cleared his throat closed his eyes and took a long breath. Then he opened them again and looked in Mark´s terrified face. He formed his hand to a fist and hit it against Mark´s eye.
"Ahh!" He screamed and went one step back. Derek shook his hand to ignore the pain and looked to Lexie who was shocked.
"Okay I think I earned that.." Mark said and rubbed his eye. But before he could say anything more Derek hit him again. Mark fell down at the floor and screamed because of the pain. Lexie, who was still wrapped in a sheet ran to him and calmed him down. Derek looked at the two and shook his head.
"I thought you were my friend! I thought you could do something I tell you, for once. But you have always been a self centered jerk!" He said and left the apartment. He was going towards the elevator when someone put a hand on his shoulder. He turned around and the first thing he saw was Mark´s fist which hit against his jaw.
"I´m not self centered. And I didn´t earn the second one!" He said. Only seconds later the two men were fighting and Lexie couldn´t stop them. She put on one of Marks t-shirts and tried to push them apart.
"Stop! Stop!" she yelled but it didn´t work. After a while you couldn´t see who had the bleeding nose and and whose lip was bleeding.
"What´s going on here?!" Meredith screamed as she saw the men fighting and Lexie looking helpless.
"Mer! Please stop them!" she screamed and without asking why Lexie is standing there just in a shirt she tried. After a while she stopped them and was really furious.
"Why are you fighting?!" she asked angrily.
"Ask them!" Derek said and pointed on the other man and Meredith´s sister. She looked at them and now she realized what´s really going on.
"Are you two..." she said and Mark looked to Lexie who bit on her lip nervously.
"We´re a couple!" Mark said and all three looked at him quite shocked. "We love each other and we-"
"You know each other for one week! Why are you talking like you would marry her tonight?!" Derek meant and tried to keep calm.
"Can we please talk about this in the hospital? You two have to scan your nose and jaw! They do not look good!" Meredith said and switched her gaze between Mark and Derek. "Put on something that is more suitable than that.." she said and pointed on Lexie. "And you too!" she looked at Mark who was still in his boxers.
After everyone was dressed they sat in Meredith´s car and drove to the hospital.
"Why were you here?" Derek, who was sitting on the backseat with Mark, asked.
"I was at home but Izzie and Alex were sleeping so I thought you would be here or at Joe´s. This one was closer so I wanted to come here first and guess what..I found you!" she answered still mad.
"I´m so sorry for this Mer!" Lexie said but Meredith ignored her. Lexie looked out of the window and fought with her tears from leaving her eyes.
"Okay it´s not broken but you should get rest and don´t touch it!" doctor Bailey said when she examined Mark and Derek. "I think I don´t want to know but how did this happen?"
"It was because he doesn´t want me to sleep-" Mark said but Derek cut him off.
"You´re right you don´t want to know!" Bailey nodded and put a coolbag on Mark´s hand. Derek looked at it and had to laugh mad.
"Why are you laughing?!" Mark asked madly.
"Haha I thought that we were adults and that the times we would fight because of a girl were over." Derek answered but he didn´t seem to forgive him.
"Okay you´re ready you can go. But don´t forget: you need to rest and you´re not allowed to operate till your hand is okay again!" Bailey said and Mark stood up. Bailey took some Q-tips and cleaned the cut on Derek´s cheek.
"You´ve always had to be the first Mark!" he yelled after him but Mark ignored him. Bailey raised her eyebrows and attended to his face.
Mark was talking with another doctor and gave him his cases.
"I think that you are a surgeon which is okay. So please just don´t mess up with these patients!" he said and the other surgeon left him frightened. Mark put his hand on the desk and gave the coolbag which got warm during the conversation to a nurse and she went back to the freezer to bring him another one.
"Hey you!" Lexie said and laid her hand on his.
"Ahh!" he screamed. "The hand!"
"Oh my god I´m so sorry!" Lexie claimed and put her hand away. "What did doctor Bailey say?"
"Well, my nose isn´t broken and she didn´t had to sew me. But my hand is cheated and I have to rest till it´s healthy and that means two weeks no o.r." Mark explained and Lexie looked down at her shoes and whispered that she´s sorry.
"Well it´s four a.m. I think we can drive home and get some sleep.." Mark suggested. Lexie smiled and Mark put his arm around her shoulder. Lexie was so happy that they could publish their love to each other and grabbed his hand.
"Ahhh! The hand!" Mark screamed and Lexie excused herself again.
"Derek you´re also not allowed to operate the next few days. It´s pretty stupid of you two to fight with your million dollar hands!" Bailey explained and finished Derek´s examination.
"Mhm...So I can´t operate because of this jerk..." Derek meant angrily and went outside the room where Meredith waited. She grabbed his arm and wanted to calm him down but he pulled it away and ignored his fiancé.
7 a.m.:
Mer´s:
The alarm went off and Alex reached his hand out to stop it. As he turned around he saw the empty sheet on the other side and wondered where Izzie could be. Suddenly he heard a voice from the kitchen. He went down the stairs and saw his girlfriend standing in the kitchen and talking to herself.
"I want you to stop!" she yelled and looked out of the window. Alex came a little bit closer and listened to what she was saying.
"What does that mean `I´m here because of you´?" she asked and threw a knife into the sink.
"Iz?" Alex finally said and she turned around with a shocked face.
"Alex!" she said and couldn´t move anymore. Alex came closer and took her hands. He looked worried and asked her what was wrong. Tears filled Izzie´s eyes and she started crying. Alex put his arms around her.
"I can see Denny Duquette..." Izzie snuffled. Alex went back and looked confused.
"I can do more...I can touch him, I can feel him, I can smell him, I can feel his heartbeat and...and...and.." She cried. "I don´t know what´s wrong with me but I know that this isn´t good..."
"You just miss him and I understand that. And maybe you´re just dreaming.." Alex said and hold his girlfriend.
Christina´s:
Owen slowly stood up and went to the kitchen. He didn´t want to wake Christina. He made coffee and called doctor Wyatt.
"I want to make an appointment...As soon as possible...30 minutes? Great I will be right there!" Owen whispered and hung up. He drank his coffee,wrote a note for Christina, took the keys to his car and drove to the hospital. Christina woke up by the noise of her ringing cell phone. She looked around and when she couldn´t see her boyfriend she picked up.
"Izzie? Izzie what´s wrong?" Christina said. "Stop crying I can´t understand you!...Okay we´ll meet in 20 minutes in the hospital."
She dressed up and went to the kitchen where Owen left the note and a cup of coffee.
I´m at doctor Wyatt´s and I´m going to have regular meetings with her.
Love you,
Owen
Christina smiled and drank her coffee. Then she took the keys to her motorbike because her car was still at Mer´s. She drove to the hospital where Izzie was waiting for her and the two went to an empty patient room.
Mark´s:
Lexie and Mark kissed a lot and couldn´t stop but both needed to get dressed for work.
"Lexie we need to go!" Mark gasped.
"Come on! We don´t have to be there till 8 o´clock!" Lexie replied and pulled his face to her´s again.
"But we need to dress up and I don´t really want to see Derek today so I need to be in the changing room before he is." Mark meant and stopped her.
"Okay. Fine. Go." Lexie said flirty. Mark turned around and wanted to stand up but Lexie grabbed his arm.
"No. Noo!" she laughed and pulled him back to her. Both laughed and kissed again. Suddenly Lexie´s cell phone rang. She sighed and told him that she won´t pick up, but Mark meant that it could be something important. Lexie thought a second about it and then looked at her display.
"Izzie Stevens? What could she want?" Lexie asked and Mark raised an eyebrow.
"Hello?...Um..sure, yes. I´ll be there in a few minutes." Lexie meant and looked to Mark as she hung up.
"I think we should go.." she smiled and they immediately got dressed and drove to the hospital.
"Izzie!" Christina asked worried. "What´s the matter?"
"I´ll tell you in a few seconds!" she answered and guided her into an empty patient room where Lexie was sitting on the bed.
"What is she doing here?" Christina asked and pointed on her intern.
"I´m also glad to see you doctor Yang." Lexie smiled and ignored her bored face.
"I need you two because you are the best intern," Izzie said and looked at Lexie "And you and I we are not the best friends and I believe that you don´t like me that much." she continued and looked at Christina.
"Er.." Christina replied but Izzie stopped her.
"No that´s good! I think I´m sick, in fact, I´m pretty sure I am. I want you to do some test. CT, MRI, blood, everything. Just do it!" Izzie meant and pulled a car with all supplies out of the bathroom. Lexie and Christina looked at each other and then at Izzie who ordered them to do what she wanted.
After a few tests and scans they met in the patient room again to discuss what they found out.
"There´s nothing wrong with you Iz." Christina started and showed her the scans. "No tumors, no aneurysm, no fluid, nothing is wrong with you." Izzie looked at the scans and couldn´t believe what she saw. Everything was fine. But why was Denny back?
"But the results of your blood-test showed us something..."Lexie continued and gave the results to Izzie. "Your LDH-worth is too high. But this can have a lot of reasons and it´s not that high." Izzie nodded and checked everything on the paper Lexie gave her. Lexie looked at Christina who showed her with her hand that she should continue.
"We also found out that there is another thing happening with you.." Lexie meant and Izzie looked at her, ready to hear something really bad. "You´re pregnant. For five months." Izzie looked at her and her facial expression didn´t change. It was a kind of shock, sadness, happiness and surprise.
"Excuse me?" she asked and switched between Lexie and Christina. "That´s not possible. I had bleedings. Sometimes they were irregularly, but I got them every month!" Christina nodded and told her that this would be common and that a lot of women got some bleeding during pregnancy. Izzie was sure she had to be sick. These Denny-illusions couldn´t be just dreams and a pregnancy also doesn´t cause this.
"Okay,..um thank you.." she said and took the results. She wanted to leave but Christina stopped her.
"Shouldn´t we do an ultra sound? To check if everything´s fine...with the baby.." she said and pointed on the ultra sound machine. Izzie nodded and laid down at the patient´s bed. Lexie and Christina prepared her and look at the machine.
"Okay everything´s great...oh do you want to know the gender?" Lexie asked and Izzie nodded.
"well,...it´s a boy! Congratulations!" Lexie said happily and Izzie looked at the pictures. Her eyes filled with tears and Lexie noticed it. "Or no congratulations...I...I don´t know...it´s too late for an abortion, isn´t it?" Izzie shook her head and told her that she didn´t want to have one. She took the pictures and results and left the room. Christina and Lexie cleaned up and then also left it for a consult.
Later that day Izzie studied her test results because she still couldn´t believe that she was healthy. She thought about strategies how to find out what´s wrong without everyone knowing that it would be her. Then she had an idea. Lately the interns weren´t as motivated as they should be and so she wanted to do a contest. She crossed out her name on the scans and put a sticker with `patient X´ on it and asked her colleagues if she could borrow their interns. Of course they said yes because for the most they were just a pain on their necks.
"Okay guys..this is patient X!" Izzie welcomed the interns and put her pictures on the light screen. "She is sick but her scans don´t show any irregularities. Her LDH-worth is too high and that´s the only thing that´s not okay...oh and she´s pregnant!" Izzie continued and looked through the crowd. Lexie was also there and noticed that patient X´ scans were Izzie´s but haven´t said anything.
"You have to find out what´s wrong with her and you better do it fast because...she wants a future for her baby!"