"You may hold my hand for a while, but you hold my heart forever" - Unknown.

A few weeks have passed and Bailey has told Alex she's baring him from doing anymore surgeries until he gets the bullet removed from his chest which he claims is his "war wound". Ever since he's met Seth and been helping him with his nightmares and getting over everything that had happened he's realized that his passion is Pediatric Surgery. At the moment he and Christi are making rounds and he was a grump and it was bothering Christi.

"Alex, she's right, you should it removed. You should know of all the health issues that could or maybe arise after having that in your chest after a few years!"

"So what now your siding with Bailey!" he growls biting her head off.

"Believe whatever you want but I'm just worried about your health but I guess you really don't care." She says then goes to find someone to talk to as she was really stressed at the moment and she needed to calm down. She was a month and half pregnant and she needed to calm down. She finds her dad and she goes and grabs him and drags him off making Lexie giggles as they were talking.

"Whoa, okay enough with the dragging I'm coming." Mark said.

"Alex is being such a fucking asshole! Dad talk to him! Please! Because right now he's so far into the dog house it's not fucking funny." She growls.

"Okay baby girl calm down and start from the beginning and tell me everything." He said.

Christi sighs and starts from the beginning and tells him everything.

"Okay where did you leave him?" Mark asks with a smirk.

"Peds. So until he gets his attitude in order he's on the couch and I'm following Arizona. I really don't want to work with him if he's gonna be biting my head off at every little thing. I'm not friggin' perfect so I'm gonna have questions." She says.

Mark nods and goes to find Alex. When he does he goes over to him.

"What's up with you and my daughter?"

"Nothing,"

"Look, I know there's something. She came to me and told me you bit her head off."

"Well, I guess I overreacted a bit. She was siding with Bailey though. They want me to get the bullet removed."

"You should,"

"It doesn't hurt, so I don't need it out." All of a sudden, Mark's hand moved to Alex's stomach and on the left side he hit the skin where the bullet was.

"Hurt now?" Mark asked as Alex gave a cry of pain.

"I'm not getting the bullet removed," Alex said when he recovered; "It's not your business." Then Alex walked away.

Mark sighs and shakes his head. Alex was stubborn and pigheaded. He had no idea on how the hell Christi put up with it. Then he remembered. She was the same way most of the time. XXXXXX

That night Christi was sitting at the kitchen table helping Seth with his homework on his family tree. When they got to his father he looked at Christi.

"Mommy, who's my daddy?"

"He's with Grandma and Grandpa now buddy, and I don't have any more pictures of him. I lost them all when I moved here when I was sixteen."

"So my daddy died?"

"Yea he did buddy. You were really young." She lied.

"Oh okay." He sighs.

"Hey why don't we put Alex there?" she asks.

"OKAY!" he cries excitedly and runs into his room to go and get a picture of him and Alex together from one of his soccer games. There was an indoor pee wee soccer league that Christi had gotten Seth on.

He came running back and almost bumped into Lexie who just giggled.

"Sorry Nana Lexie." He said.

"It's okay sweetie." She smiles ruffling his hair.

Seth smiles and runs back into the kitchen. Christi helps him take it out of the frame and tape it onto the poster board.

"There you go honey all done. Now go and see if Grandpa will help you get ready for bed." Christi said as Mark comes into the room.

"What are you trying to do passing him off to me?" Mark teases.

"No of course not daddy. I just need to call Veronica and have some girl talk." She said then looked at Lexie, "No offense."

"None taken, I need to get to the hospital anyway."

Christi nods then she heads into the living room and calls Veronica. They're on the phone for a while and then all of the sudden a wet headed Seth comes running out giggling and he shakes his head getting him mom wet.

"Seth!" she squeals giggling holding her cell phone between her shoulder and ear tickling him.

"Mommy!" he laughs.

Christi laughs and finishes her call with Veronica then she picks up a yawning Seth who was rubbing his eyes. She goes and brings him to bed and lies him down and lies down with him then reads him a story until he falls asleep.

Christi goes and lies down in bed and starts falling asleep. XXXX

Around three am Christi wakes up with an intense pain in her lower abdomen and she curls in on herself and screams for Mark as she was in a lot of pain and couldn't move.

Mark comes running in and flips on the light and he sees Christi curled in on herself and he runs over to her and kneels down next to her and he sees her drenched in sweat.

"Christi baby girl what's the matter?"

"I'm in a lot of pain. It's all in my lower stomach. It hurts. Daddy help." She whimpers in pain.

Mark looks over and sees the blood on the sheets.

"Christi let me ask you something are you pregnant?"

She nods in tears.

"Okay I think you're miscarrying. I'm gonna pick you up and bring you to the hospital okay?" he asks.

She nods as he picks her up.

"Seth!"

"Lexie is here. She'll take care of him. Right now you need to be in the hospital." He said. XXXX

Twenty minutes later they were in the hospital and Mark couldn't sit still. So he went and make his rounds quickly to keep his mind busy and he went to lie down in a on-call room until he the page telling him that they took care of Christi.

He gets there and he lies down on the bed.

An hour later he gets the page and he heads down to the ER where he bumps into Alex who had taken up extra shifts to keep his mind off of him and Christi fighting.

"Mark what are you doing here?"

"Christi's here in the ER with server abdominal pain." He said.

He wasn't lying he just wasn't being completely truthful. He knew Christi would want to tell Alex what was going on.

Alex goes and rushes into the room where Christi was. She was just getting checked over by her doctor.

"Okay Christi, I want you to stay here for two days. I just want to be sure that there's no complications."

She nods and lies back trying to get comfortable and she winces in pain a bit.

"You're going to be sore for the days. But if you take it and don't strain yourself with to much physical activity you should be fine."

"Okay and how long should I be out of doing my internship here?'

"At least a week." He said.

She nods and sighs.

"Well I have other patients I need to check on. Just press the call button and a nurse will come and help you."

She nods and starts to drift off to sleep as her doctor leaves and Alex comes in.

"Hey babe." He said.

She stirs and looks at him.

"Alex." She said.

"Hey, what happened? Your dad said you were admitted with server stomach pains."

She sighs and says, "I was pregnant and I had just found out this morning. I was going to tell you tonight. But with the fighting today about the bullet in your chest you out right refuse to get removed. I just got over stressed and I miscarried." She says in tears.

Alex goes over and gently pulls her into his arms and holds her close and rubs her back. It was his fault she miscarried their child and he knew. If he hadn't been such an ass about it this would have never happened and he knew it. He makes the choice right then and there to get it removed. He didn't want to fight with her ant more over it. It wasn't fair to her.

"A part of you has grown in me. And so you see, it's you and me together forever and never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart" - Brooke Zuroweste.