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-September 9, 2012-
"LEXIE!" Mark yelled, sitting up straight in bed. He was covered in sweat and his eyes were bloodshot.
"What's going on?" Lexie asked, suddenly waking up. She sat up and put a hand on Mark's bare shoulder. "Did you have the nightmare again?" She asked gently rubbing his shoulder.
Mark didn't answer, he just sat frozen.
"Mark, look at me. I'm right here. I'm okay." She said, looking into his eyes.
Mark nodded slowly and kissed her. "I love you," He said with a smile.
Lexie glanced at the clock next to them.
"Sofia's fast asleep and we have a couple hours before we need to get up for work, do you want to go back to sleep?"
"Not really," Mark murmured, stroking her face.
"Me either," Lexie said, before pulling him into a deep kiss.
…..
Later that day, Lexie was in the pit. She had just consulted on a concussion.
She was about to head back up to rounds when someone ran through the doors.
"Someone help me!" A young man yelled as he entered the E.R. with a bloody and unconscious girl in his arms.
Before Lexie wheeled over, she yelled," Someone page Shepherd!"
In the trauma room, Lexie sat on the side in her wheelchair. She felt helpless, but she would just be in the way.
After several other doctors came in, she went to go talk to the guy who had brought the girl in. He had told the other doctors that his name was Ryan and the girl's name was Sarah.
"Is she okay?" He asked as she wheeled towards him.
"They're trying to stabilize her right now." Lexie said softly.
"I should call her parents." He said taking out a cell phone.
"I can get someone to do that for you," Lexie said, waving over a nurse.
"Okay… Her name is Sarah Jones and her parents are James and Karen. Their number should be in my phone." He said before handing it over to the nurse.
"Follow me. You should change," Lexie wheeled into an empty supply room and handed him a pair of extra srubs.
"This is all my fault," He muttered as he shakily began to change his clothes.
"Don't say that, these things happen." Lexie said softly.
"Sarah and I met freshman year, her dorm room was across the hall from mine. We dated for about a year, and then in the middle of sophomore year I tried to push her into getting an apartment with me. She freaked out and we broke up. We both tried to move on and went home for summer break, but when I saw her again, the old feelings came back, but I was too scared to say anything. Today I finally got up the courage to and I stopped her to talk before class. I was about to tell her I still loved when a car came out of nowhere and just hit her." He said.
"It's not your fault, Ryan." She said, squeezing his hand.
April knocked on the door. "Sarah's awake. We have to take her to surgery, but she insisted on seeing Ryan before she goes."
Lexie followed Ryan to the room.
"Hey," He said, walking in.
"Hey," Sarah said softly.
"You're going to be fine," He said, gently stroking her hair.
"Ryan, I know it's bad." She said softly, cringing in pain.
"Don't say that. You have to be okay. I love you so much. I don't care if you move in with me, I just want to be with you."
"I love you…" Sarah said, stroking his face.
"We need to take Sarah to surgery now," April said softly.
Sarah kissed Ryan. "I'll see you soon."
Lexie followed, glancing behind her.
…
Mark ran into the E.R., where he had been paged.
He immediately ran towards his sobbing daughter.
"What the hell happened?" He asked, looking at the wide gash on her forehead.
"She climbed up on a table in daycare. She fell off and hit her head on a chair."
"Okay, I want a CT. Someone should call Callie and Arizona, they're at a conference. And someone page Dr. Lexie Grey." He said as he prepared to fix Sofia's cut.
…..
"Dr. Grey? You have a page from Dr. Sloan." One of the nurses said during the surgery.
"What does it say?" Lexie asked, looking up.
"911, Sofia." The nurse read.
"Go," Derek told her.
Lexie left the room as fast as the wheelchair could take her.
…..
"What happened? Where is she?" Lexie asked, entering the CT room.
"She fell off of a table in daycare and hit her head," He said, nodding towards the CT.
"Is she okay?" Lexie asked.
"I think so. I'm having a CT done just in case." Mark replied.
Lexie hit him. "911 means someone's dying! I thought Sofia was dying! I was freaking out!"
"I'm sorry, I was worried. 911 was the first thing I thought of."
"You can't scare me like that," She said with a shudder.
Mark grinned at her.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Lexie asked him.
"You're acting like such a mom," He grinned at her.
"She's kind of my daughter too," Lexie said with a smile.
"All done," One of the techs said walking in with Sofia in her arms.
"Hey, bug," Mark said, grabbing his daughter.
"Ouchie," Sofia said, raising a hand to her forehead.
"You were so brave," Mark said with a grin, putting her down.
Sofia noticed Lexie. "Mommy!" She shrieked excitedly, walking over. Sofia called Callie Mami, she called Arizona Mama, and had recently begun to call Lexie Mommy.
"There's my big girl," Lexie said with a smile. Her pager began to go off.
"I gotta go," She told Mark before turning to Sofia. "I will see you tonight, bug. I'm so proud of you." She kissed Sofia's forehead before heading back to the O.R.
….
"What happened?" Lexie asked entering the O.R. Sarah was coding.
"Why aren't you doing anything? Do something!" She yelled.
"It's been five minutes, we have to call it." Owen said glancing at her.
"Time of death: 1:22 p.m." Derek said softly, standing over her open skull.
"They were so close. Ryan's going to be devastated." Lexie said softly. "This isn't fair."
"It never is," Derek responded as they prepared to tell Ryan.
…
"And though we tried everything we could, Sarah didn't make it." Derek said.
"No, no, no. She… She's fine. She can't be…" Ryan said, beginning to cry. "This isn't fair. We were supposed to end up together. She can't be gone. I should've told her earlier. Oh God." He sobbed, crumpling back into the chair.
Lexie wheeled up to him and gently grabbed his hand. "She knew."
"How do you know that?" He asked her.
"Because I was in the same situation and I knew. She knew that you loved her." Lexie said softly.
Ryan nodded.
Lexie squeezed his hand and the doctors left.
….
That night Mark walked into their bedroom. "Sofia's finally asleep," He said with a smile.
Lexie put down the book she was reading.
"Mark, come here." She said, patting the bed next to her.
"Yeah?" He asked, sitting next to her.
"I knew. If I would've… Out there… I knew." She said softly.
"I love you so much," Mark said softly, kissing her.
"I know," Lexie said with a smile, kissing him again.
