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Late that night, Lexie is shutting the house up for the night when she hears crying coming from Meredith's room, she knocks lightly on the door, and then enters. Meredith is curled up on the bed, sobbing into her pillow, dressed in a shirt of Derek's that she'd retrieved from his locker.
Lexie moves quickly over to the bed, and sits beside her distraught sister. "Oh Mere. What's wrong?"
Meredith lifts her head away from the pillow, as replies in a choked voice. "I miss him, Lexie." She coughs; her throat is raw from crying. "He should have been here today. We should have brought our babies home together."
Lexie strokes Meredith's hair soothingly. "I know Mere, it isn't fair."
"Why did they do this to us?" Meredith questions angrily, referring to the protestors.
"I don't know Mere." Lexie says sympathetically as Meredith's sobs increase in volume, and all she can do is keep her company until she falls asleep.
It is almost a week later when the phone rings while Lexie is making breakfast. She stops what she's doing, and answers. "Hello."
"Hello." The voice on the other end replies. "Is Ms Grey available to speak?"
"This is she." Lexie says, she has given up on asking whether they want her or Meredith.
"This is Detective Rayes, from the Seattle Police Department. We have some news for you."
"What is it?" Lexie asks tiredly. Susie kept her up almost all night.
"The people responsible for the attack on you and your family are in custody, and we have enough evidence to send them to prison for a long time."
Lexie almost drops the phone in shock. "What? Really?" She asks in disbelief.
"Yes. They were caught at a protest at a drug company in California." The detective informs her.
"Thank you." Lexie says ecstatically.
They exchange farewells before Lexie hangs up.
Once she put the phone back on its hook, Lexie sits down at the table before she falls down.
At that moment, Meredith comes down the stairs, and upon seeing her sister crying at the table, she asks. "What's wrong Lexie? Are you alright?"
Lexie looks up at Meredith, wiping the tears from her eyes as she does so. "I'm fine."
"Why are you crying?"
Lexie pauses for a moment, not sure what effect this will have on Meredith. "The police just called ...They caught the protestors, the ones who planted the explosives."
Upon hearing this Meredith too sits down at the table, overjoyed, but shocked.
Two days later, Izzie moves into the house. Her transition from hospital to home is far from easy though, for the first few days, she doesn't leave her room, she just sits in there crying, that only changes when eventually she has to go to the hospital for a rehab session.
Lexie helps Izzie and Meredith into the van that she hired, with disabled access to use until she buys one, she then loads the kids into their seats before starting the van, and driving away.
The small group arrives at the hospital's rehab centre twenty minutes later, and Izzie and Meredith's therapists quickly come over to meet them. Within a minute, they are off with their therapists, working hard, while Lexie settles into her seat at the edge of the gym.
She watches as Izzie tries, and not surprisingly fails to stand up, even with the support of the parallel bars.
She watches as Meredith goes through a series of hard, muscle strengthening exercises.
Basically for two hours she watches her sister, and her sister's friend go through hell.
Just over a week later, the twins' six month birthday rolls around. Lexie has planned a big party, and early in the morning, she goes into Meredith's room, carrying both the babies. Meredith is lying in her bed, and Lexie greets her by saying. "Morning Mere."
Meredith yawns, and then tiredly pulls herself into an upright position. "Morning Lexie." She holds her arms out to take her children, and Lexie gives them over to her. "Happy birthday, kids. I love you."
The guests start arriving at ten am, Meredith, Lexie, and despite her hesitance, Izzie too, greet everyone. Just as Meredith is slicing into the large cake Izzie has baked, the phone rings, Meredith almost doesn't answer it, but something tells her she should.
A minute later, Meredith comes back outside, a shocked look across her face. Christina moves quickly to her person's side. "Are you alright Mere?"
Meredith nods silently.
"Who was on the phone?" Christina enquires, wondering what has made Meredith practically catatonic.
At that moment, Meredith's no longer able to support herself, and almost falls. Luckily Mark and Christina catch her as she comes very close to hitting the ground.
They help her over to a chair, and wait for almost five minutes before she finally says. "They found Alex's family. His mom's flying in to turn off the life support."
Everyone exchanges shocked looks. Lexie bursts into tears.
TBC...
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