CHAPTER 2

My eyes fluttered open slowly and at first all I saw was blurriness. I knew I shouldn't panic, but the fear inside me just wanted to. I thought I was going blind, but not long from that my eye sight began clearing up. I tried to move, but I couldn't. I looked up and noticed a huge chunk of the plane sitting on top of me; I closed my eyes for a few seconds, reopened them, and realized it was an airplane wing that was crushing my body. I struggled trying to get out, but the wing was just too heavy. My breathing started to get heavier and heavier. I closed my eyes again and swallowed hard, trying to think of what I should do. Then I remembered there were five other doctors on the plane with me. Oh god! What if they died?! What if I'm gonna die? I looked around and saw a detached seatbelt lying next to me. I reached over as far as I could, grabbed it, and began banging it against the wing with enough energy that my body allowed me. As I did, in a far distance, I started to hear someone screaming repetitively. This gave me a sign that someone was okay. I continued banging the seatbelt louder on the plane hoping someone would find me, but I felt my energy slowly wearing out. Finally, coming close to me were Meredith, Cristina, and Mark. I let out a sigh of relief; I don't think I could have been any happier to see Mark.

"Oh god! Lexie." Meredith cried out as she ran up to me. Mark began trying to push the airplane wing off me.

"C'mon guys, give me some help here." Meredith and Cristina tried to help, but the damn thing didn't move an inch. Mark pushed some of the dirt away from me and sat next to me.

"Mark…" I softly said with a smile; blood running out of my mouth. He cupped my cheek and smiled back,

"Lex, we'll get you out of here. I promise." He got back up and began talking to Cristina.

"You need to pop my shoulder back." She said trying to act tough, like always. Mark placed his hand on her shoulder and right as he was about to pop it back into place, Cristina let out a "wait" and took a deep breath.

"Okay, okay! I'm ready." She nodded, closing her eyes, and let out a loud scream as Mark shoved it back into place.

"Okay. I'm okay." Cristina said with a soft sniffle acting as if nothing had even happened to her arm.

"I gotta find Derek." Meredith said in which Cristina nodded and told her how she and Mark were gonna take care of me.

"Okay, let's try this again." Mark positioned his hands on the wing again and began pushing, letting out a loud groan as the wing began to budge some.

"M-Mark…" I moaned softly as I felt this heavy pressure on me being released. Cristina stood next to him and began pushing with one arm. Mark stepped back, but quickly put his hands back on and pushed again. The wing flipped over and it made a loud THUD sound; the damned thing was no longer crushing me. I started to breathe quickly as if I were under water and were holding my breath for a long time. I tried to sit up, but as I did, I felt a sharp pain around my left hip. My eyes wandered from Mark down to my leg and I noticed a huge gaping wound on my left leg. Then it wandered back up to where the pain was on my hip and there stuck out a sharp looking piece of the plane.

"Shit!" Mark said loudly as he sat next to me, gently pulled me close to him, and held me close.

"You're gonna be okay, Lex." He comforted me. I looked up at him as my head laid on his lap.

"Don't…ever leave me, Mark." I managed to whisper. He nodded and held my hand.

"I love you Lexie." I laughed softly,

"You don't have to say that because I did." I swallowed hard and looked at Cristina.

"I'm gonna go find some stuff. I'll be back." Mark nodded acknowledging her before turning back to look at me.

"I'm not just saying that. I do love you, Lex. We were meant to be." I smiled as I began shivering. Mark held me closer,

"You can't die on me, okay? Cristina will be back with a few things and we'll fix you up, okay?" I took deep breaths and nodded. I looked down at the piece of the plane sticking out of my hip and tried to pull it out, but Mark quickly grabbed my hand and shook his head.

"Don't pull it out. You could lose more blood. Let's wait till Cristina is back. Maybe she'll have something that can help." The way Mark spoke and held me, it just gave me the power to want to live. I couldn't abandon him after all we've been through, there was NO WAY in hell I would give up and give him back to that eye doctor. Mark looked around, lifted me up bridal style, and looked around for some shade.

"Let's move away from here, okay?" I nodded my head as he made his way towards a tree.

"Okay, we'll sit here and wait." I nodded my head again as Mark sat down and I rested in his arms. Cristina came back a few minutes later with some clothes and a water bottle.

"Okay, this is all I could find." Mark set me down gently and looked through the stuff.

"This will have to do." He nodded as he grabbed a few shirts.

"This will hurt a lot Lex, but bear with me okay? You can grab onto me if you want." I nodded and watched as Cristina pulled out a safety pin from beneath the clothes. Mark grabbed it, took a deep breath, and stabbed my leg trying to close the wound up. I screamed loudly in pain as he finished up and they both wrapped it up tightly with a shirt.

"Shit!" I took deep breaths. Mark then quickly removed the plane piece from my hip, placed clothes on top of it, and added pressure to it. Cristina tied a shirt around my hip and tightened it.

"I can't imagine what that plane did to your organs though." Cristina mentioned as she suggested we find the others.

"Lexie Grey, you are one tough woman." Mark told me before picking me up and kissing my forehead. God, all the thoughts I had while on the plane, began flowing back in. Now I REALLY wanted Mark, more than ever. We began following Cristina and ran into Derek and Meredith.

"How's Lexie?" Derek asked, which by the way, his left arm was damaged VERY badly because it was jammed into an airplane door.

"She's fine, she's right here." Mark answered, sitting next to Derek with me in his arms.

"Thank god." I looked around and sawArizonasitting against the other half of the airplane wing with her jacket covering herself. I couldn't quite tell what was wrong with her, because all I saw was the back of her head and part of her leg.

"Is Dr. Robbins okay?" I asked, she turned her head and laughed a bit hysterically.

"Oh yeah, I'm fine! My bone was out of place so I had to pop it back and now I'm in terrible pain. So yes, I'm 100 percent A-okay!" She said in a sarcastic tone.

"Oh…" I softly said. I was just curious if she was alive or not. She didn't have to be so rude. Besides, if anyone got to complain, it should be me. I was trapped UNDER at least 90,000 pounds of airplane. But whatever, I was just glad I didn't die. I sighed heavily as Cristina found some matches and began making a fire.

"Could you help us Mark?" Cristina asked. I looked up at Mark and noticed him dozing off. I gently shook his hand,

"Mark?"

"Look! We're all tired, so you don't get the rights to doze off. Lexie is fine and you're fine!" Cristina lectured him. I slowly positioned myself so I was leaning against a huge rock before looking at Cristina.

"If there's one thing I've learned with all the bombs, shootings, and friends jumping in front of buses, is that I'm NOT interested in dying!" Cristina began yelling.

"I don't think he's sleeping, Cristina." She grabbed Mark's shoulder to try and shake him, but his body looked dead. I gasped in shock. Cristina ripped his shirt open and swallowed hard.

"Crap, it's a cardiac tamponade." Derek got up, walked up to her and hovered over her shoulder,

"You sure?" Cristina shook her head,

"I'm 75 percent sure."

"You gotta be more sure than that." I told her about ready to cry.

"Mark, you can't die on me. Please!" I begged him.

"Get me an ultrasound if you want me to be 100 percent accurate."

"We need to drain his pericardial sac and relieve the pressure or his heart will stop."

"With what? We don't even have an 18 gauge spinal needle." Derek said as Meredith looked at them both worried. Cristina let out a sigh as they placed an oxygen mask over Mark.

"Here, use this." Derek took the top off an anti-bacterial spray and handed it to Cristina.

"Perfect, this will have to do." I watched closely as Meredith grabbed a pocket knife and slowly cut into Mark's chest. He let out a loud groan as they continued to work. I slowly shifted myself to get closer to Mark and grabbed his hand.

"Please, stay with me, Mark." I whispered as Derek reminded Meredith not to puncture his heart.

"I know! I know!" She replied before pushing the end of the anti-bacterial spray top into his chest.

"Deeper. Go deeper." Cristina said and as Meredith did, blood shot out, and Mark groaned in pain again. I squeezed his hand tightly while Cristina and Meredith placed a bag over the blood to catch it all. We all let out a sigh of relief.

"Stay with me, Mark." I said again as I leaned close, ignoring the pain in my leg and hip and kissed his cheek.

"We'll all be okay." Derek said as Cristina went back to making a fire.

It had gotten darker and Cristina had proposed for us to all stay awake, butArizonaand Derek were already fast asleep.

"How's your leg?" Mark asked,

"It's fine." He wrapped an arm around me and I rested my head on his shoulder.

"How did I get so lucky to still be alive?" I asked,

"Don't ask, just be glad you are. I know I'm glad you're alive." He kissed my head.

"I should have told you sooner, Lex." I looked up at him confused,

"Told me what?"

"That I loved you." I shook my head and rested my head on his shoulder again.

"No, you were with Julia." I mentioned, with a soft eye roll when mentioning the name Julia. I had completely forgotten about Julia until I brought up her stupid name. It felt like it was just Mark and me alone, with no one around to bother us or to ruin our relationship.

"You're still with Julia." I softly sighed remembering that they hadn't officially broken up. Mark sat there silently; this made me feel like I did the other day when I had expressed my feelings towards him.

"Let's not think about her right now, okay? Let's just think about us staying alive and how we have each other right now." I nodded and closed my eyes.

At night, things got really spooky. Bugs flew around us, animals came out searching for dead corpses they could chow down on, it got really REALLY dark when there was no fire, and it got cold.

"Stay with me, Mark." I said again, hoping this time he heard me.

"I'm right here, Lex. I won't leave you." He pushed my shoulder to make me closer to him. I let out a smile,

"I hope someone finds us soon."

"Yeah. I really don't want to be animal meat." I laughed softly,

"Who knows, maybe we don't even taste good." Mark joked. He always knew how to lighten up the mood when everyone was feeling scared or worried or even sad; Even if most of the times his jokes were sexual, people always seemed to laugh. At least to me, he always knew how to brighten up my day.