A short chapter but hopefully the emotions I wanted to put into a normal length of the chapters is now compressed on the short length. Hope you like it though.
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"Damn it Lexie! Answer your freaking phone!" Mark yelled into his phone angrily and with tears in his eyes. He went down the hallway to the attending´s locker room without paying attention on his way. He already tried it ten times to call her. On his way he looked in every on-call room if she is making out with Alex. When he finally entered the locker room he tried it the eleventh time while going through the room nervously. When she again didn´t pick up he threw his phone against the wall and of course it got damaged.
"Fuck!" he cried and sat down on the couch putting his face in his hands. Suddenly Derek entered the room and found his best friend crying. After a second of surprise he sat down next to him without saying a word because he knew sometimes it´s better to say nothing and just be there.
"Lexie she...she kissed Alex Karev." Mark cried and Derek shook his head shocked.
"What? Why should she do this?" he asked and Mark answered that he didn´t know.
"She is the love of my live...I...don´t know what to do without her." Mark explained sobbing and Derek tried to work out any explanation why she should cheat on him.
"Who told you this?"he asked after some seconds.
"Izzie Stevens. Alex told her." Mark replied when he finally calmed down and wiped away the last tears. Alex wouldn´t lie to Izzie. He loves her. But Lexie loves Mark too. Maybe Meredith knows more...Derek thought.
"Mark, I have to go see for a patient. If you need anything-"
"I know. You´re here for me." Mark cut him off and gave him a weak smile. Derek replied the smile and left the room after a soft clap on his back. As soon as he left the room he saw Meredith and Christina walking through the hallways.
"Mer!" he called her and ran towards her.
"There´s the daddy..." Christina joked and both laughed quietly.
"Can I please talk to you for a second." he asked when he reached them.
"Oh you can talk about your wish for babies in front of Christina. I don´t have secrets from her." Meredith meant smiling.
"Well, that´s nice but I have secrets from her so could you please come with me?" Derek said seriously. Christina understood and left them. Just when Derek wanted to start talking Bailey came interrupted them.
"I´m sorry. Doctor Grey we need you now. It´s the patient from yesterday. The one with the pancreatic abscess. He got a heart attack. You have to come now!" she meant quickly and pulled Meredith aside. Derek looked at her like someone died.
"Mer. It´s serious!"Derek claimed.
"I´m...I´m sorry but the patient...tell me later!" she meant already walking and leaving her fiance behind.
"We´re here!" Arizona meant when the plane stopped rolling.
"Great." Lexie meant and watched Arizona turning off the flight mode on her phone.
"I´m going to write Callie a message. You could call Mark too." she smiled and started typing. Lexie decided to do it and turned on her phone. As soon as it was ready she saw eleven missed calls from Mark. Immediately she felt the lump in her throat coming up. She called him back but the mail box came after a second.
"Lexie? We need to go!" Arizona called and pointed on the cab that waited for them. Lexie hang up and followed the order of the attending.
"Hello doctor Robbins!" the chief of Dillard greeted her.
"Hello doctor Schuster. That´s doctor Lexie Grey she´s an intern at the Seattle Grace." Arizona introduced Lexie.
"Grey? Are you related to Ellis Grey?" Schuster asked snoopy.
"No not really. My half sister is her daughter. We just have the same father." Lexie explained.
"Well, at least you´re related to Ellis Grey´s daughter." the other doctor said laughing and Lexie gave him a fake laugh just as Arizona. "Okay so let us go. The heart doesn´t wait any longer."
"Evil spawn!" Christina shouted through the hallway giggling.
"Yang!" he meant annoyed.
"I saw you confessing your trip into Lexie´s mouth to Izzie." Christina said when she reached him.
"Well...yeah..." he lied.
"Everything´s alright?" she asked him suspicious.
"Yeah..." he replied
"God...what did you tell her?" Christina wanted to know when she pulled him away.
"Nothing! It´s alright she knows the...the truth." Alex protested.
"And what was the truth to you?" Christina asked and he looked down at his shoes. "Alex!" she meant and slapped him. "What did you say?"
"Maybe that she kissed me and not the other way round." he confessed. Christina was shocked.
"Excuse me? Lexie is the most innocent girl I´ve ever seen. Why couldn´t you tell her the real truth when you botched it up?" she asked while putting her hand on her forehead. "Does Mer know?"
"No!" Alex whispered angrily "And you won´t tell her! She doesn´t need to know what I told Izzie. It´s none of your business."
"Ha! You´re right it´s not but if I was you I would tell Izzie the truth soon." Christina meant serious but Alex showed no understanding.
"Why should I? I told her first and she will believe me more than an intern. And now leave me alone!" Alex meant and pulled his hand out of her´s.
"Son of a bitch!" she shouted after him and tried to cover the anger that came up.
"Fuck." Mark cursed when he picked up the pieces of his phone noticing that it wasn´t able to do anything. "I need to go to a shop." he thought loud and because it was still his free day he did it. At the shop he met Callie and wondered what she did here so he asked.
"I wanted to buy a phone case for Arizona with a picture of us on it. Her birthday is in two weeks. And what are you doing here?" his best friend asked smiling.
"I crashed my phone. Did Arizona find something out?" he asked trying to cover that he already knew the truth – well he thought it was the truth.
"Well, she didn´t tell me yet but they will be back in a 3 hours or so. She just landed." Callie meant noticing that something´s wrong. "Hey...don´t worry! I´m sure nothing bad happened. She just stressed because of Izzie and the surgeries."
"If you say so.." Mark replied annoyed and put the pieces of his phone on the cash desk to show the problem.
"Mer! Meredith! Something bad happened!" Christina disturbed Meredith when she tried to bring her patient who got a heart attack to the o.r. wing.
"Christina I can´t right now! Please tell me later." she tried to get rid of her.
"Mer...it´s really bad." Christina asserted.
"Christina! This patient got a huge heart aneurysm. I don´t have time to discuss something with you." Meredith meant now mad.
"Heart aneurysm?" Christina asked interested. "I´m going to go in with you."
"No you don´t!" Bailey said also annoyed from her.
"Doctor Bailey...I will be quiet. And doctor Altman will need a resident who knows what she does. And let us be honest: Grey is neuro or general but not cardio." Christina explained smiling.
"Christina!" Meredith meant shocked.
"She´s right Grey. Yang you come with us." Bailey said only stop Christina from begging. Meredith raised her eyebrows but they already continued their way to the o.r. wing.
"Mer...Alex...he didn´t tell her." Christina whispered when they put on their scrub caps.
"What?" she asked confused.
"He lied. He told her that Lexie kissed him. And now she thinks that it was Lexie´s fault." Christina explained.
"He´s such a jerk!" Meredith said mad and Christina nodded.
"Okay let´s get the aneurysm out of this man´s chest!" Teddy Altman said when she and the residents and Bailey entered the o.r.
"Okay here´s your heart." doctor Schuster meant and put it into a bowl.
"I´m glad that the boy got this opportunity. He´s really weak." Arizona meant and came closer with the cool box.
"Doctor Robbins? Someone wants to talk to you." a nurse meant when she entered the o.r.
"Can´t it wait?" she asked.
"They said immediately." the nurse replied and Arizona nodded.
"Doctor Grey? Can you please take this over?" she asked as she turned to Lexie.
"Really? I? I´m just an intern and and and..." Lexie stuttered.
"Doctor Grey. You can do this." she comforted her and Lexie nodded taking the cool box and watching Arizona leaving.
"Who is it?" Arizona asked as she took off her gloves.
"Doctor Colombani." the nurse whispered and pointed on the door.
"Professor of pediatrics at Hopkins?" she asked surprised and the nurse nodded. Arizona´s eyes opened wide and she looked through the window where she saw the man and a woman. She put of her her scrubs and scrub cap and went outside.
"Doctor Arizona Robbins." Colombani meant happily and reached out his hand. Arizona shook it and smiled.
"Doctor Paul Colombani." she giggled and they went into an empty conference room. "What is a man like you doing here?"
"Well, I am here because we met a new chief for pediatrics since you left us." he smiled. "And then I saw at the chart that you´re in here and as you know you can come back to us any time."
"Paul you know..I´ve got the job at Seattle Grace now." Arizona explained.
"Yeah but we could offer you a higher content." he tried to convince her.
"It´s not just what I earn it´s...I already made friends and..." she started but couldn´t continue.
"And found love? Well, you can think about it. We would pay for the move and you would get your old position. At least think about the offer." he meant before shaking her hand and leaving. What should I do? I can´t leave Calliope...But maybe she wants to go with me? God this is so damn hard...Arizona thought and walked through the room.
"Doctor Robbins?" Lexie asked as she knocked at the door. "We´re ready."
"Okay...great...well done." she stuttered with her thoughts anywhere but at the heart."Let us go. Bryan doesn´t need to wait longer for playing soccer." As she said they did. Soon they were sitting in the plane back to the Seattle Grace.
"Okay Mark what happened?" Callie asked when Mark left the shop.
"What are you doing here? Have you been waiting here since you left twenty minutes ago?" he asked confused.
"Well, I grabbed a coffee but you seemed strange and you´re my best friend so..." Callie explained and Mark looked at his shoes.
"She cheated on me..." he murmured.
"What?" she asked shocked.
"She cheated on me! She kissed Alex! I...I don´t know ...I..." Mark meant trying to avoid crying on the street. Callie immediately hugged him when she noticed it and said that everything´s going to be alright.
"God she didn´t seem like she would do something like that. I mean she looked innocent and cute and her ass was like...an apple." she explained and gestured with her hands.
"Callie you´re not making it better..." he said a little bit mad.
"Sorry..." she admitted. "I´m so sorry Mark. You don´t deserve this."
"I know...nobody does."
"You son of bitch!" Meredith yelled through the hallway when she saw Alex.
"Sh...Izzie just fell asleep!" he meant when she ran towards him.
"How could you dare to tell such lies about my sister?" she shouted and Alex pulled her in the on call room on the other side.
"Cold you please be quiet?" he asked worrying about the truth coming up.
"You probably destroyed her wonderful relationship. They never had it easy because of me but now just when I accepted it you destroy it!" she whispered furious.
"I-I-I´m sorry but I don´t want to destroy my relationship!" he replied without showing any understanding.
"Alex! You can´t blame my sister for something you did wrong." she meant putting her hand on her forehead.
"I´m sorry Mer but I can´t change it now. It´s done...and-and I´m really sorry if it has consequences for Lexie but she has to find out how to fix them. It´s not my problem anymore." Alex explained confident.
"You are such an ass!" Meredith cursed before leaving him and finding Derek.
"Okay, now let´s implant this heart into Bryan´s chest!" Arizona meant happily when the plane landed and she and Lexie left it.
"Yes it was really rough. I hate flying...I´m always afraid of a plane crash and then to be stuck under a wing or something and dying...I now it´s silly because the chances that this happens are really small but it scares me..." Lexie admitted and immediately became goose bumps when she thought about it.
"Wow okay now I´m afraid too...hopefully this will never happen." Arizona giggled and so did Lexie.
"Okay let´s go i-" Arizona meant when her ringing phone interrupted her. "Seems important...Just go I´m coming in a few minutes." she meant and gave Lexie the cool box with the heart. She went in and immediately had the feeling that something was wrong. She went to the o.r. wing where she gave the box to the nurse. Arizona already informed everybody and so Bryan was already on the o.r. table and Alex scrubbed in. Lexie knew she wasn´t allowed to operate so she decided to fill in Bryan´s chart and wanted to check Izzie later. She got her first operation the next day.
"Doctor Grey! Thank you so much for doing this although it was your free day!" Arizona meant when she entered the o.r. wing and saw Lexie.
"No problem...it helped to do this and to...talk with someone I can trust...I don´t have a lot of friends." Lexie admitted.
"Oh come on...you´re a nice girl...don´t you have a lot of the interns on your side?" Arizona asked.
"Well, they are a little bit jealous because I get a lot of surgeries because I´m the best...and I had one...Sadie...but I didn´t see her for a long time here...maybe she changed the hospital...she never told me." Lexie explained and got a bit sad.
"Doctor Robbins? We´re waiting!" Alex shouted from the o.r. and Arizona nodded.
"I need to go...see you around." Arizona meant and left waving her hand. Lexie nodded and started to fill in the chart. After she finished it she decided to look into the o.r. and how it was going.
"Hey...is there something I can tell the mother yet?" she asked as she entered the operating room.
"Everything´s fine till now. I think we need about four more hours." Arizona meant and looked into the hole in the boy. Alex looked quickly at Lexie to see in her face if she already knew what he told his girlfriend or not. Of course she noticed it and wondered why he did it not knowing that she would find out soon.
"Okay then I will tell the mother that he´s doing well." she meant and left the o.r. to go to the waiting room and looked for the mother. After she told her that everything was fine and that he´s strong and so on she left to check Izzie´s vitals hoping she was sleeping and that she didn´t need to have an embarrassing conversation. She quietly entered the room and searched the monitors. Everything was okay. Only her blood pressure was a little bit too high though Izzie was sleeping. Lexie sat down in the chair next to her and noted everything.
"What the hell are you doing here?!" Izzie asked huskily but as loud as she could.
"I´m sorry for waking you up...i just wanted to che-"
"leave now! You stupid bitch I don´t want to see you anymore!" Izzie yelled and Lexie was shocked
"I...I´m sorry did I miss something?" she asked worried and trying to avoid tears from coming up.
"I think I did...how can you dare to kiss my boyfriend?" Izzie answered mad and Lexie just shook her head.
"I didn´t kiss him...he kissed me...I...I would never do something like that...I love Mark and I would never do this to him or to you!" she defended herself but Izzie looked away not able to watch her friend searching for excuses.
"Enough! He would never lie to me and he would never kiss another girl. I have cancer and gave birth to his son 24 hours ago...He would never cheat on me...you´re just an adulterous whore!" Izzie explained. "And now leave me alone!" Lexie pressed her upper lip against her lower and tried to focus on something else than the lump in her throat. She stood up and went to the door but turned around before leaving and looked Izzie in the eyes.
"See, you can think of me what you want...and..and you can believe every lied word Alex says...but I´m anything but a whore!" she meant before finally leaving and running to the locker room where she changed her clothes crying before hopping into her car and driving home. When Lexie arrived she opened the main door and chose the elevator because she was really exhausted and just wanted to go to bed. Before she opened the front door she swiped away her tears and yawned. It was already dark outside and she couldn´t hold her eyes open anymore when she suddenly tripped over a bag. The noise she made woke Mark and he knew what he had to do now. He entered the living room where Lexie was sitting on the floor trying not to cry because of the pain. She hoped that he would sit down next to her and put her in the arms but he did nothing. He just stood there and looked at her. Lexie was a smart girl and put one and one together and knew that Mark also knew the lie Alex told Izzie.
"Whatever he told you I-"
"I want you to leave."
"What?"
"I want to be on my own tonight...I want you to sleep everywhere else but not here."
"Mark...it´s not the trut-"
"Go please. Now."
"Mark.." Lexie whispered when she stood up and looked him in the eyes. She could see the tears and that it was hard for him to say that. She also started to cry.
"In the bag there are some clothes and your toothbrush and something for at least a week...I don´t know how long I need you away from me so we will see..." He meant pressing his lips together to not cry out loud.
"Mark..." she cried and then a tear dropped down his face.
"Go! Now!" he said louder and pointed on the door.
"But where should I-"
"I don´t know...at your father´s, n a motel, in your car but not here!" Mark cried and Lexie nodded.
"Okay...I can´t believe you believe more in his words than in mine and I can only say that I love you and-"
"Lexie please...don´t make it harder than it is!" he begged coming closer and she stepped back.
"He lies...he kissed me...Mark! You have to believe me!" she claimed and went back until she suddenly stood on the hallway. "Mark please! I love you! Mark...mark don´t do this!" she said louder when he was about to close the door. "Don´t do this! You will regret it! Mark!Mark..." but the bolt already slammed into the lock.