Okay so this chapter only contains the last night which started in the previous chapter. So it has Mark, Lexie, Izzie, Mer, Alex and Derek in it and no other characters. I hope you like it though because I just wanted to write more about Izzie and her cancer, about Alex and how he´s feeling and of course about how Thatcher feels about Mark. Oh and I put in some drunk Meredith scenes because I think that these scenes are really funny on TV so I tried. Just imagine her like in the show.
And btw thank you so much for the reviews. I´m so glad you like the story Love ya!
"Lexie told me you´re a doctor. Are you a resident or..." Thatcher asked and ate his vegetables.
"I´m an attending. I´m...um...head of plastic surgery." Mark meant embarrassed and drank from his water.
"Attending?! Since when...?" Lexie´s dad asked suspicious and looked at him with a deep warning gaze. Mark looked at Lexie who was staring at her food and trying to ignore the undertone in her dad´s voice.
"Um...for a few years. I first made my residency in ENT and then in plastics. But I don´t do things like breast implants...I mean I do it yeah..but um...I also do something like nerve reconstructions and that stuff...it´s..um..pretty cool.." Mark stuttered and drank from his glass again. Thatcher watched him getting more and more nervous and that let Mark get even more afraid. Sweat pearls began to cover his forehead. Lexie looked at him with her huge Bambi eyes and tried to apologize by telepathy.
"It´s getting hot right?" he laughed but her dad didn´t "If you could excuse me for a while...I need to go to the restroom." he smiled and stood up and left the table as quickly as he could.
"Dad! You´re making him nervous! Could you please stop asking him these embarrassing questions?!" Lexie whispered to her dad.
"I´m sorry but your boyfriend is way older than you!" he replied quietly. "How old is this man please?"
"41.." Lexie murmured.
"Again please?!"
"41!"
"41?! Lexie this man is nearly the double of your age! Your 24! Kid.." her dad whispered angrily and held his forehead.
"It´s not what you think! I love him and he loves me! We´re happy. I can imagine to live the rest of my life with this man." she described and smiled while thinking about it.
"Well, he won´t be part of it for very long ´cause he´s old! Or because I will kill him because he hurts my little baby!" Thatcher warned.
"Dad!" Lexie replied shocked and looked to Mark who came closer and they immediately stopped talking about it. Mark smiled again and sat down. Thatcher replied it with a kind of fake and angry smile for which he earned a mad look from his daughter.
Mark opened the door to the men restroom and tried to breathe. He splashed some cold water into his face. He took his phone out of his pocket and typed Derek´s number and called him.
"Hello?" he asked when he picked up.
"Derek..good that you´re here I can´t do this anymore! It´s torture! He hates me!" Mark explained stressful.
"He doesn´t hate you! He just wants to make sure you´re the right one for his daughter!" Derek promised but wasn´t sure because Mark really was the type of man fathers hated.
"No I can´t go back. Are you still at Joe´s?"
"Yes I´m still here with Alex Karev but you won´t come here! You are going to go back and finish this dinner and convince him that you are the right man for Lexie!"
"You think I´m able to do that?"
"Yes you are! You just have to believe in yourself. And in miracles because you know you are my best friend but as you said: fathers usually don´t like you!"
"You´re really my best friend Derek."
"I know." both laughed and hang up. Then Mark looked in the mirror and dried his face with some paper towels.
"You got this!" he comforted his mirror image. Then he left the restroom and went back to the table his girlfriend and her dad were sitting.
"Who was that?" Alex asked while drinking the last sip of his bottle of beer.
"Mark Sloan..." Derek told him and put his phone in his jacket.
"Haha is Lexie´s father making him nervous?" he laughed sarcastically but stopped when Derek didn´t answer. "Really? I always thought he was a man who couldn´t get nervous easily."
"Well, he really likes her and that´s the problem for her dad." Derek explained and looked at his watch. "Do you know when the girls finish their `women´s night´?" but Alex shook his head and ordered a new beer.
"Okay Iz...what would you like to watch? `The lucky one´ or `Titanic´?" Meredith asked and held the two DVDs up.
"Um...I don´t care.." she smiled weakly and sat down on the couch with a glass of milk.
"Okay..." Meredith meant and put the DVD into the recorder and also sat down. "Hey what are you doing with that milk? We´ve got wine!" she laughed but Izzie meant that she doesn´t want to drink alcohol.
"Why? It´s not like you´re pregnant, is it?" Meredith laughed but Izzie didn´t answer and looked into her glass. "No! You are pregnant? Izzie that´s great! Oh my god that´s fantastic!" she smiled and hugged her friend.
"Oh no it´s not a big deal."
"Are you kidding? Since when? I mean I thought that your ass was getting bigger but I thought that´s because of the pastries you baked the last months."
"Since a bit more than five months I think.."
"How could you hide it five months from me?"
"Well, I also discovered it a few weeks ago."
"Izzie that´s great! We´re getting a baby as a new roommate!"
"Yeah I guess that´s what happening..." Izzie replied quite sad and Meredith wanted to talk more about the baby but Izzie told her that they should watch the movie and so they did.
"Would you like to have a dessert darling?" Thatcher asked his daughter after the service personal took the plates of the meals. Oh god please not..I can´t be here any longer...Mark thought but smiled.
"Um..sure why not...I think nothing´s wrong with a coffee and a cake or something.." she replied and took the dessert menu. No, no, no, no did she really just say yes? Mark thought and tried to look happy but in fact he looked stressed.
"And you...Mark?" Thatcher asked quickly and still not happy about Lexie´s decision.
"Oh no thank you...I can´t eat more. Maybe just a coffee." he replied still uncomfortable with the situation. The waiter came again and Lexie´s dad ordered three coffees and two cakes. Mark and Lexie were still holding hands but now she noticed how sweaty his was.
"Mark?" she whispered while her dad made the order. "I really love you but your hand is sweating like it would have 40 degrees Celcius."
"I´m sorry Lex but your dad makes me feel really uncomfortable!" he whispered back and both stopped holding their hands and dried them on their clothes. Then Thatcher turned back to them and they started smiling again.
"Can I bring you something?" the barkeeper asked when he saw Derek´s empty glass.
"Yeah water please. I still have to drive." he smiled and looked at Alex. "I can drive you home if you want to drink more." Alex nodded and drank his beer.
"That´s the kind of boss I like! Hey Joe!" he meant and the barkeeper turned around. "Everything doctor Sheperd orders from this moment is going on my bill! So give the man everything he wants and bring me a beer!"
"But you still have half of your beer." Derek noticed.
"So what? I like beer!" Alex explained a little drunk. "So, how´s it going. Are you two gonna get married?"
"Meredith and I...I don´t know...I would love too but she´s like a scared deer. If you move too fast she´ll run away." Derek answered and drank from his water.
"Oh please you are Meredith and Derek..you are Mer-Der! Merder, that sounds funny!" Alex laughed and Derek just gave him a fake smile.
"I could ask you the same question...I mean you and Stevens are doing it a lot...I´m just waiting till the baby comes." Derek admitted.
"You don´t have to wait for too long Sheperd. In a few months or something I will be father." Alex meant drunk
"Wha-What?!" Derek asked shocked.
"Yeah she´s already pregnant." Alex meant and opened the next bottle of beer after he drank out the last one.
"Why didn´t we know earlier?" Derek asked still shocked and now confused too.
"She told me yesterday that she´s already five months along. Isn´t it funny? I´m finally having something good in my life after all the shit I´ve been through and now the possibility that the love of my life dies before she gets the child is higher than surviving the last months and giving birth to a healthy baby." Alex calculated and Derek thought about the information.
"What do you mean with `dies before she gets the child´?" Derek asked.
"This movie was great!" Meredith meant happily and turned off the TV.
"Yeah it was...I´m so tired..." Izzie yawned and was about to stand up and leave the room.
"Wait! We´ve got the second movie too!" Meredith wanted to stop her and pointed on the other DVD.
"Mer, I´m really tired and I have night shift tomorrow.."
"So you can sleep the whole day. Come on let us watch it too.." she begged and Izzie nodded and sat down again.
"But that´s the last one okay!" she meant and Meredith nodded happily. She took the DVD out of the recorder and put the other one into it.
"Okay lets get started!" she said when she took a bowl with popcorn and sat down on the couch again.
"Okay but now I´m really full...I think I have to do a diet for the next week." Lexie admitted and leaned back after she finished the dessert.
"Me too!" Thatcher laughed and everybody started laughing too. "Okay then I will ask for the bill."
"Oh no I can pay!" Mark suggested quickly.
"No, no it´s fine thank you I invited you so I´ll pay." Thatcher explained and asked for it when the waiter came.
10 Minutes later the three were standing in front of the entrance to the restaurant and were about to go.
"It was really nice to see you again dad!" Lexie meant and hugged him.
"Yeah we should meet often, now that I live in Seattle again and not in that clinic." Thatcher replied.
"It was a pleasure to meet you!" Mark said and held out his hand.
"Nah..yeah..it was...kind of." Thatcher answered and ignored his hand but got a bump in his rips from Lexie so he took the hand and shook it.
"Good night dad, I love you!"
"I love you too darling!" they said and went into different directions.
"Are you here by car?" Mark asked Lexie.
"No he picked me up at our appartment." she answered smiling and went towards Mark´s car. Well, he knows where I´m living...If he wants to he can come and kill me now...whenever he wants..good work Lex...Mark´s inner voice freaked out.
"And what do you think about my dad?" she asked when they sat in his car.
"Well,...um...he´seems nice...and if I get to know him better he will start liking me for sure." Mark smiled and Lexie giggled.
"He has to! Because I don´t want to ever leave you!"
"Alex! What do you mean with `dying before she gets the baby´?" Derek asked again louder.
"She has cancer! Which spread to her brain! She has 5 % to survive this and she doesn´t want to fight as long as she´s pregnant..." Alex explained drunk and mad. "And the funniest thing of all is that she didn´t tell me! Cristina did. She told Cristina and Lexie. I didn´t even know they were friends."
"You calm down...I think you´ve got enough beer. Joe we want to pay! We are going to drive home!" Derek meant and put on his jacket but Alex was still sitting there. "Come on! Put on your jacket!"
"I can´t..I can´t.." Alex murmured.
"Why?"
"I can´t live without her! She´s the best thing that has ever happened to me! I can´t lose her!" he thought loud.
"You won´t!"
"Why are you so sure?"
"Because you told me! And you know who I am?"
"Derek Shepherd?"
"Right! I´m Derek Shepherd the best neurosurgeon you could get for this job! You won´t lose her!" he promised and paid the bill.
"No I said that I´ll pay!"
"You can give me the money tomorrow. Now come!" Derek meant and they went to his car and drove home. A few minutes later they were at the house.
"Okay Alex stay quiet! I think Meredith and Izzie are sleeping already." Derek whispered when he opened the front door. Not sure what he just told him, Alex followed his boss into the house and shut the door.
"I told you to stay quiet!" Derek warned whispering and Alex put his hands up like he wouldn´t be guilty.
"Alex? Derek?" Izzie asked from the living room.
"Izzie? You´re awake." Derek noticed surprised.
"Yeah but Mer isn´t..." she pressed her upper lip against her lower lip and looked at her lying on the couch with an empty wine glass in the hand and then back to Derek "I think she had to much drinks"
"Well, your boyfriend too." Derek smiled and looked at Alex who tried to put off his jacket and failed when he bumped against the wall.
"Ow! Damn it!" he yelled and Meredith woke up.
"I will carry him to your bedroom okay?" Derek suggested and Izzie nodded.
"Derek!" Meredith meant happily and sat up.
"I´ll be right back honey." he replied and went to Izzie´s and Alex´ bedroom and put the drunken Alex into the bed. Then he went back down and took his girlfriend by her hand and laid her into their bed. Meanwhile Izzie stood up and cleaned the room and gave the empty glasses and bowls into the sink. Derek went back down and helped her.
"Thank you!" Izzie said when they put the last dish into the sink.
"No problem." he replied and they were silent for a while.
"He told you, didn´t he?" Izzie asked while looking out of the window. Derek nodded. Although she couldn´t see him she knew it was a yes.
"And now you also want me to tell that I have to fight, right?" she asked again and fought against her tears.
"All I want to tell you is that I´m the best neurosurgeon you can get and that, if you want to and if your willing to fight, you and the baby can survive this." Derek answered and Izzie wiped away the tears. "It´s gonna be okay! We´re making a plan! You will have the best team of doctors by your side."
"I know.." she admitted. "But I don´t think that I am able to do this."
"I believe you are." he comforted her.
"You do?"
"Of course I do! Look at you! You´re Isobel Stevens! You were raised in a trailer park, got pregnant at the age of sixteen and after all that crap you graduated from med school and look where you are now!"
"I´m standing with you in the kitchen of my best friend`s house, carrying a fetus in my stomach and having cancer. Is that really something I could be proud of?"
"Yes it is. Because you´re working at the best hospital in Seattle and know the best surgeons and so you have the best surviving chances." Izzie nodded and turned around. Derek looked her in the eyes and also nodded. Then out of sudden Denny was standing right behind Derek and Izzie looked at him. Derek noticed it and turned around but couldn´t see anything.
"What is there?" he asked and Izzie pointed on the place Denny was standing and looking at her with his sad eyes.
"Denny Duquette.." she answered still looking at him.
"Denny Duquette, the heart patient? Your DEAD fiancé?" Derek asked confused and turned around again still not seeing anyone.
"Yes. He´s a hallucination because of the tumor in my brain. He´s the reason I found out I have cancer."
"Then say goodbye to him. You won´t see him any longer because you will fight!" Derek meant and the moment he said it Denny disappeared and Izzie nodded.
"I will!"