Chapter 12

"Alex?" April called out for her friend after spotting him by the elevators "What are you doing here?" she asked

"I really don't have the time to explain it…" Alex answered with his voice cracking "Come one…" he whispered to the elevator, looking up to see which floor it was at.

"Alex… Are you okay? Is Jo okay? You're not supposed to be in here." April said putting her hand on Alex's shoulder, which made him turn around and look at her "Oh my God…" she said when she noticed the tears that were forming in Alex's eyes "Have they...? Did they find her?"

"I know this is going to sound really bad but I…I…" he took a deep breath and then sighed letting the tears fall "I hope they didn't." as he finished saying that the elevator door opened and he got on it leaving April looking at him perplexed.

Alex leaned his head on the elevator sidewall and closed his eyes sighing. Oh, God please don't let it be her. It cannot be her.He opened his eyes as the elevator door dinged and opened, stepping out of it he saw Jo sitting in one of the benches that were on the floor he thought he would have never have to go to in his living time. The sound of his steps walking to the direction of the benches made Jo turn her head around and face him, when their eyes met Alex froze on his track.

"…Alex" Jo said standing up and walking fast to where her husband was standing. When she reached him, she threw her arms around his body; Alex immediately wrapped his arms tight around her reciprocating her hug. They both stood there for what seemed years, holding each other and releasing the amount of anguish they had felt for those seven days they spent without their daughter.

"Mr. and Mrs. Karev?" they heard Dt. Morgan's voice coming from behind Alex and Jo saw him first since she could see what was behind Alex. The both let go of each other and turned to look to the detective. "I'm so sorry for having to bring you here, but it is the protocol."

"Are you sure it's her" Alex asked him with tears in his eyes "It can be somebody else, right?"

"The body was found this morning in Waverly Beach. It had been underwater for approximately four days which makes-" Jo interrupted the detective as she lost the strength on her knees and didn't fall because Alex grabbed her before she could hit the floor.

"Do we have to go in there right now?" Alex asked. While Jo cried uncontrollably on his arms.

"No. Take your time." The detective answered comprehending the situation that the couple was facing "Go in when you are ready. Excuse me" he excused himself and left.

"I can't go in there, Alex…" Jo said as they were both walking to the benches so they could sit down for a little, "I'm sorry, but I… I just can't." she said and he kissed her on her temple comforting her "What if it is her?"

"It isn't." he said trying to sooth her and himself at the same time

"How can you be so sure?"

"I just feel it. She is still alive, I know it and you should too." He said and Jo looked up to meet his eyes.

"Can I stay here?" she begged him "I can't go in there…" he closed his eyes and nodded. They stood there in silence not noticing time passing until Detective Morgan showed up thirty minutes later interrupting their moment. Alex sighed, knowing it was time to get in that room, and got up to get inside. Jo was left in that hallway alone with the detective, neither of them wanted to break the silence between them but Jo could sense that the Detective was looking at her and whenever she looked at him, he would take his eyes off her.

"If you want to say something just say it already," she said, "Whatever accusations you want to do to me. Whatever it is, just say it."

"I don't want to accuse you of anything, Mrs. Karev."

"Then what do you want? Why are you looking at me like that?"

"I would like to make an apology." He said and Jo could see that he was being honest and caring, for once, about their situation "About the way I have treated you. I was only following the leads we had from the case, and for that I would like to apologize."

"Saying sorry won't bring my daughter back." She said and turned her head to where Alex was coming from. Jo tried to get up but she felt a sharp pain on her lower abdomen that made her stay still where she was sitting. Alex entered the hallway crying and Jo could immediately tell those tears were from relief, she ignored the physical pain she was feeling, like she had been doing since she had woken up, and got up hugging him when he reached her. He picked his head up form Jo's shoulder, and looked in her eyes for a little before he started to speak.

"It isn't her." He sighed after saying that, looked at the detective, and repeated the same thing he had said to his wife. Alex was relieved that that body did not belong to their daughter but at the same time, he felt truly sorry for that girl's family and was only praying for their daughter's case not end up like that one. After talking to the detective and watching him give instructions to the morgue people, the three of them direct themselves to the elevator. Detective Morgan pushed the bottom to go to main floor and Alex and Jo went to the furthest wall of the elevator.

"Hey, are you okay?" Alex asked his wife after noticing that she was constantly closing her eyes with a pained face and putting her hand on her lower stomach, grasping it.

"Yeah. Just cramping." She answered with her eyes still closed. The elevator's doors dinged just in time as Jo's pains subsided and Jo opened her eyes.

"Oh... hi" Izzie's voice filled the silence that was in the elevator as she got in there with an grumpy child following closely behind her with her arms crossed on her chest.

"Hey, what are you doing here?" the detective asked Izzie, making both Alex and Jo look puzzled between their interactions.

"You two know each other? Why didn't you say it sooner, like a few days ago when I was trying to say that she wasn't blonde?" Jo said with annoyance filling her voice.

"You were referring to her?" he asked and suddenly connect the pieces "Oh... it didn't occurred me at the time that you were talking about my fiancée. I didn't connect the tipoffs."

"You two are...How?" Alex chocked on his words trying to organize his thoughts to formulate a question "I'm confused..."

"I'm confused too" the blue-eyed caramel haired girl spoke making the adults turn and look at her as a response.

"Abby!" Izzie scolded her and then looked back at Alex slowly, fearing that he had already figured it out.

"What? I really am confused, Mom." The girl insisted.

"I'm sorry," the detective started "This is our daughter, Abigail."

"Hi." The girl greeted Alex and Jo with a smile that she immediately dropped to speak again "And he is not really my d-"

"Ahhh" Jo interrupted Abigail screaming and bending over in pain while clutching her stomach.

"Oh my god!" Izzie exclaimed as she looked at Jo and saw the blood dripping down her legs.

The doors to the elevator opened up on the main floor and Alex tried to move Jo out but it was only causing her to suffer more pain and scream. Jo's screams caught the attention of April who was standing closer to the elevator. As April got in the elevator, Detective Morgan pulled both Izzie and Abby out of the elevator and the doors closed once again. Inside of it, Jo kept flinching in pain every single time she tried to stand up.

"We need to take her to OB/GYN," April told Alex who just nodded at her without taking his eyes off Jo "Jo, are you pregnant?" Jo shook her head not sure of the answer for that question, "How long have you been experiencing pains?"

"Since I woke up this morning." She answered, "Oh God, I think something has ruptured inside me..." Jo said and fainted.

"JO?" Alex said and shook her but got no response from Jo "April, I can't feel her pulse" he said after pressing his fingers against his wife neck. From the OB/GYN Jo was rushed into an emergency surgery after they discovered what was causing Jo to bleed and feel in pain. The seconds had turned into minutes and the minutes had turned into hours, Alex was sitting on the waiting room after walk back and forth around the area when the doctor that had lead Jo's surgery entered the waiting room.

"How is she?" he asked fearfully getting up.

"Your wife was having an ectopic pregnancy; the fetus was located on her right fallopian tube and it grew to an extend that made the tube rupture."

"Please tell me she is okay..." Alex begged the doctor

"We had to remove the affected tube. She lost a lot of blood but we were able to replace it. She is going to be okay. She is in the recovery room, you can see her if you want to."

"Thank you. Thank you" Alex said hugging the doctor and rushed to the recovery room to be with his wife.