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-August 6, 2012-
Lexie Grey awoke to the blaring off her alarm clock and the smell of pancakes wafting through the apartment.
She reached out her arm and was met with a cool sheet instead of Mark's body.
"Mark?" Lexie called.
"Good morning, beautiful." Mark said with a smile as he walked into the bedroom. He sat down on the bed beside her and kissed her.
"Are you making me breakfast?" Lexie asked with a smile. They had spent most of the weekend in bed, laughing and talking, among other things. They had eaten dinner on Saturday with Callie, Arizona, and Sofia.
"Of course I am. It's a big day." Mark said, interlocking their fingers. He kissed her again. Both of them leaned into it and began to lie back against the bed.
"My pancakes are burning," Mark said trying to pull away.
Lexie murmured and pulled him closer.
"Lex…" Mark said with a laugh, trying to pull away again.
"Mark…" Lexie replied, looking at him with a pout.
"They're chocolate chip…" Mark responded.
"Go, check your pancakes," Lexie said with sigh.
Mark kissed her and walked off.
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"You're going to take it easy today, right?" Mark asked Lexie as they entered the hospital. He knew that she wanted to be back at work, but he couldn't help but be worried.
"Of course, Mark," Lexie said with a smile. "I'm only allowed to work until four anyway and then I have my first physical therapy session."
Jackson ran over to them, in his scrubs and lab coat. "There's a problem with Mr. Little's skin graft. They're prepping him for surgery right now. It looks like it's infected." Jackson said quickly before turning to run off. "Good to have you back, Lex!" He called behind him with a smile.
"Look's like I gotta go. Page me if you have any problems. I love you." Mark said. He leaned down to kiss Lexie before quickly walking off to prep for his surgery.
Lexie smiled and wheeled herself off towards the residents' locker room.
…..
She opened the door to find her sister standing in front of her.
"You need any help?" Her sister asked her standing in front of her. Lexie still hadn't gotten used to seeing Meredith, Cristina, Jackson, and Alex as attendings. April had been able to convince the Chief to extend her residency for one more year so that she still had a chance at being a surgeon.
"No, I'm fine." Lexie said with a laugh, wheeling towards her locker. "What are you even doing in here?"
"Are you sure?" Meredith asked her worriedly, ignoring her sister's question.
"I'm sure. Stop hovering, Mer. Don't you have a bowel to resect or an appendix or gallbladder to remove?" She asked as she grabbed her scrubs. Dressing yourself when you were in a wheelchair was surprisingly easy.
"I'm sorry." Meredith said, walking over to her sister.
"It's okay." Lexie said with a laugh. "I appreciate everyone's concern, but I want to show everyone I'm capable of taking care of myself. How can I be a good surgeon if I can't even dress myself? I think I'll be able to walk again, but until then I really want to prove I can do this." She said. She begun to dress herself.
Meredith glanced at her watch. "Rounds are in ten minutes. I should probably go." Meredith told her with a smile. "See you at lunch?" She asked her.
Lexie nodded and her sister left.
Several minutes later, Lexie was on her way to rounds.
"Nice to have you back, Lexie," Derek said with a smile as he met her in the hallway. His hand had completely healed about a month ago and though he had to go to physical therapy for it, it was now as good as new.
Once they all entered the patient's room, Lexie read the chart. "Michael Stevens, age 37. Diagnosed with a benign brain tumor two weeks ago."
"And you're gonna take it out?" Michael's wife asked her with a grin. The tumor interrupted Michael's speech patterns. He had not been able to speak clearly since it grew to a problematic size a couple weeks ago.
"Yes, ma'am. It should be a fairly easy surgery. Since the tumor isn't cancerous, we only have to focus on getting clean margins. In fact, Dr. Grey will be performing the surgery." Derek said. Lexie tied to hide her surprise when she looked at him.
Michael and his wife nodded.
"We'll be back in about half an hour to prep you for surgery." Lexie said with a smile.
As soon as the two were out of sight of the patient, Lexie smacked him with the chart.
"Ow! Lexie!" Derek yelped, turning around.
"What the hell is wrong with you? It's my first day back!" Lexie snapped at him.
"Lexie, you're a fifth year. You should be doing solo surgeries by now. I know you got someone to sneak you off to the skills lab every day. It's a simple procedure, you're ready." Derek said with a smile before walking off.
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A little while later, they were in the O.R. and ready to operate.
"It's a good day to save lives, people. Let's have some fun." Derek said. He looked proudly at Lexie.
"Scalpel."
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Several hours later, Lexie was done with her surgery.
After she closed up, Derek began to clap. Everyone else in the room began to clap with him.
Lexie looked around the room, tears forming in her eyes.
"Welcome back, Little Grey," Derek said with a smile as he looked at Lexie.
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In the cafeteria, Lexie went to her normal lunch table.
"This is so weird," She muttered.
"What's weird?" Meredith asked as she sat down.
"Everyone at this table except for me and April is an attending. Now you're all definitely old." She said with a laugh, taking a sip of her drink.
"We are not!" Jackson and Cristina exclaimed.
"Alex definitely isn't," April said with a laugh. Alex was hitting on one of the new interns.
"Alex'll still be doing that when he's in a nursing home," Meredith said with a laugh.
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That night, Mark came to meet Lexie in the resident's locker room.
"How was your day?" He asked her.
"It was amazing," She said with a grin. "I got to do a solo surgery and I walked at physical therapy."
"You what?" Mark asked her.
"They put me in the pool," Lexie explained with a shrug.
"That's a really good sign, Lex," Mark said with a smile.
"Where's Sofia? I thought we have her tonight." Lexie asked curiously.
"We do," Mark responded. "I just had a feeling we couldn't do this in front of her," Mark leaned in and kissed her.
Lexie giggled and pulled him closer.
"Baby in the room!" Meredith yelled as she walked in.
Lexie giggled as she and Mark pulled apart.
"You have your own locker room, Grey," Mark said gruffly.
"Zola wanted to tell her Auntie Lexie goodnight," Meredith said, walking over.
"Hey, Zo!" Lexie said with a smile. Meredith handed her to Lexie.
She threw the young girl up in the air above her several times.
"Time to go home, missy. I'll see you tomorrow." Lexie said, kissing the little girl's cheek.
"Nigh, nigh, Lexie." Zola said with a grin.
"Nigh, nigh, Zo," Lexie smiled, handing her back to her sister.
"Love you!" Zola yelled, blowing her aunt a kiss.
"I love you too, Zola," Lexie said with a grin.
"Ready to go?" Mark asked.
Lexie nodded.
…
"How does someone so small have so much energy?" Mark sighed, sitting down the couch. Several of Sofia's toys were in his hands. He glanced at the clock. There was no way Sofia would be sleepy by her bed time.
Lexie laughed, as Sofia giggled and ran past them wearing a tutu and tiara. Almost as soon as she learned to walk, she learned to run.
"I have an idea." She said, grabbing a book from the floor.
Mark grabbed Sofia and put her on the couch between them.
Sofia laid her head against Lexie's body and stuck her thumb into her mouth as Lexie softly began to read.
Mark rubbed circles on his daughter's back, looking at Lexie with a grin as she read.
…..
About fifteen minutes later, Lexie and Sofia had both fallen asleep. Mark picked Sofia up and gently put her to bed.
Afterwards he came back and picked Lexie up. He carried her to bed, carefully sliding off her jeans and putting her in a pair of pajama pants.
"Mark," Lexie murmured, shifting in bed and opening her eyes.
"You fell asleep while you were reading to Sofia." Mark said with a chuckle.
"I can't be in bed this early. I have things to do," Lexie said, sitting up.
"Lex, you had a big day. Let's just go to bed now." Mark said as he turned off the lights and slid into bed next to Lexie.
"Fine," She murmured.
"I love you." Mark said with a smile, pulling her closer.
"I love you, too." Lexie said with a smile, kissing him.
