Chapter 10: You haven't heard?

Hunt walked steadily at a quick pace trying as hard as he could to keep his face blank and to look normal. He was Chief of this hospital, he couldn't let his emotions get in the way and he couldn't let the people around him see that he was in a hurry. If they knew that he was acting strange they wouldn't attack him for information. Right now all he was focused on was getting back to Lexie's room trouble-free. He'd received a vague page from Shepherd telling him to report to the patient's room STAT. He wasn't sure what to make of the news…it could be good or bad. It was strange but he was actually worried. This patient wasn't just anyone. She was the baby sister of Meredith and Derek, she was in one of those complicated and twisted love stories with Mark Sloan, she was a friend to everyone in the hospital really. He couldn't let anyone down. The pressure was on with this case. If Lexie didn't survive the hospital would be in turmoil. There was too much death in this hospital. Death and injury and emotional distress. It seemed like every other day they were coming close to losing another member of their team…And with Teddy's husband dying so recently this would just toss everyone over the edge into insanity. Hunt was tangled up in his own thoughts with the facial expression of a madman as he deeply thought of the circumstances while walking closer and closer to Lexie's room. He tried to tune everything out to keep from getting distracted but he couldn't avoid it when his name was being called from across the room.

"Chief Hunt! Hey, Ch…Chief!" He reluctantly turned around on his heels to come face to face with Richard Webber. "If you're not too busy right now do you think you could help me out? I got a patient who won't sign his paperwork and so I can't discharge him. He had a routine appendectomy almost four days ago and we can't keep him here anymore. He hasn't had any post-op complications. He could've left two days ago but he just won't budge. He's afraid he's going to get an infection and die if he goes home alone. I swear he's acting like what he needs is a psych eval."

"Uh…I'm…I'm really sorry I'm in a big hurry right now…I got Lexie Grey upstairs. I just got a page from Shepherd saying it was an emergency. I should really get back up there to check in on her," He replied pointing towards the staircase as he tried to slip away quickly and easily without Webber putting up a fight.

"Wait…Wha…Lexie Grey? What do you mean she's upstairs? You working a case with her or?" He asked in confusion while grabbing Hunt's arm to keep him from scurrying away.

"You…You haven't heard yet?" Hunt asked with shaking his head back and forth and narrowing his eyes in confusion as well.

"Haven't heard? Um no….I haven't heard anything lately…I've been down here all by myself all night. I've been fighting this patient for hours; I haven't really been socializing much." He said with emphasis on the part about socializing.

"Well I figured you'd at least heard already….Its buzzing all over the hospital. Lexie Grey was…She was…assaulted…battered….I mean she was barely hanging….She was comatose the last time I saw her. She was attacked…By her own father." He informed awkwardly.

Richard's face dropped. "You…You're kidding me right? Thatcher? Thatcher did it? My God. Is...Is she alright? Do...Do you thinking she's going to make it? A coma? What the hell happened?"

Hunt's face didn't look to promising to Webber. "She...She's alive. That's all I can say as of now. But I'll tell you something. I've seen people being blown to pieces and tortured and shot…I've seen it all….But it was always from their enemies, from the people fighting against them, from the other side. I've never seen with my own eyes a person being hurt so bad to the point where they almost died because of their own father. I've heard it before, I hear stories on the news but I've never been so close to it. He got so drunk that he picked up a glass bottle and smashed it into her face and then kicked her while she was down on the floor, bleeding and nearly unconscious. He kicked her so hard, so many times that she got internal bleeding. We had to surgically correct it. Shepherd is going to be dealing with her brain functions, making sure she's properly healing and monitoring her to make sure she doesn't get any permanent damage. Torres is handling the other injuries she sustained…A broken elbow and a displaced shoulder I think it was." Hunt spoke firmly.

"that's…That's awful. I'm really speechless. I never thought Thatcher capable of such."

Hunt gave a single nod and then turned to leave after putting his hands into his lab coat pockets.

"Oh wait! I'll come with you." Richard called after him yet again. "I want to…I need to see her. In case you know…This is the last time. I feel horrible. I'm almost responsible for the monster Thatcher Grey became. He first took up drinking during him and Ellis' marital problems which were as you known…Due to our affair."

"Of course. Follow me," Hunt said and motioned Webber to walk with him.

"How's Meredith doing with all of this? And Mark…Oh God, how is Mark? " Webber asked as they moved.

"Well as for Meredith I know that she went home a little while ago. Derek drove her because she was a wreck and she needed to get some rest, plus they had Zola with them at the time so they wanted to get her home so she could sleep too. She was really upset about it. I know it's her sister and all but I never really realized that they were that close. She was pretty hysterical. She almost jumped at a cop from what I heard. And for Mark…Well….God help him, if she dies… He…He won't ever be the same I don't think. He hasn't left her side since they brought her in. And he sat in the gallery during her surgery. He was the one you know that saved her…Basically he saved her life. He rushed over and found her after Thatcher had beaten her. He had to go through that. It must've been tough. I've been through a lot but I could never imagine having to go through what he has tonight…And that's saying something right there."

(Sorry I know this chapter wasn't al too action or too great but I really wanted to update for you all and I didn't have enough time today to type out the rest, plus I found it a good place to end the chapter because if I didn't end it here I'd probably have a 6 page chapter which isn't all too bad I guess. I promise I'll try and get some better more interesting stuff to you all real soon! All the cool will be coming up cos now I've sort of ended the introductory stuff and I can get right into all the fun medical and slexie stuff.)