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Chapter 12: Can't hold on Anymore

Later that night the family gathered and they went over the events that had occurred at the cabin.

"I've never heard of an Immortal with your type of powers, Lexie." Carlisle said astounded at the news, then looked over to Jasper and Alice. "Have either of you?"

Jasper and Alice looked at each other, and then looked back to Carlisle. "No, we haven't," Alice said, "The closest has been Jane's ability to inflict pain on vampires and humans…. But to heal and bring a human back to life…. That's just… wow." Alice looks over to Lexie who is sitting in a chair by the fireplace. "How are you feeling by the way?"

"Umm…Okay, I guess. I'm a little tired and freaked out about everything. Edward told me that only a small percentage of Immortals gain a power after being turned, but it's usually only one at a time. I'd really like to know how I got two or is it just one power that splits into two based on my emotions."

"It's hard to say" says Carlisle, "most gifts are based on what a person was like as a human. For example, as a human Alice had minor premonitions but once she was turned she could see the future and Edward could guess what a person was thinking, but once turned he could read peoples thoughts."

"Well that explains a few things," Lexie mumbles, thinking about her thwarted escape attempts. Edward chuckles upon hearing her.

"Well, I think her main gift is healing," interjects Esme, "as a human, she became a Doctor to help save lives and it would appear that her new ability is an extension of that desire."

"But what about the blowing up thing…. I mean I'm not a vicious person… I've never hurt anyone before?" Lexie asks and watches as everyone looks over to Carlisle for an explanation.

"I agree with Esme, your gift is to be a healer; that's what you naturally worked towards as a human. As for the second one; I think it's a defensive power, which only flared because you felt angry and threatened. But without actually testing it out on another immortal, I can't be sure." Everyone in the room remained silent until Emmett once again spoken up to lighten the mood.

"So….note to self, don't piss off the newbie." Everyone chuckled at his joke.

Three more weeks have passed since the incident at the cabin and after discovering that human blood no longer bothered her when she began to help Carlisle treat patients from the surrounding towns at his free medical clinic and had even been allowed to go with him to the Forks hospital to "test" her healing abilities. It was there, that Carlisle began introducing her as his sister-in-law, Doctor Allison Scott; a first year surgical resident visiting from England.

After learning, Lexie's desire to continue her surgical residency, Jasper had gotten his "lawyer" to create her new identity and Carlisle had submitted her new credentials to several prestigious teaching hospitals in England. They had just received a response a few days ago that she had been accepted as a first year resident and would leave in 2 weeks to get set up in her new apartment before the hospital's orientation. She hated having to leave the country to start her new life, but after finding out through Alice's visions that the Volturi were still interested in acquiring key Cullen family members, Carlisle decided that they couldn't risk Aro finding out about Lexie's powers. So to keep her safe from Aro, she would have to remain separated from the Cullen family and could only contact them through a protected phone or secured emails.

It was late afternoon, exactly 6 weeks since the plane crash that Bella received a disturbing phone call in regards to Mark Sloan's condition. Anxiously waiting for her return from a shopping trip with Rose and Alice; Bella grabbed Lexie's arm as soon as she walked in the door and dragged her to her bedroom.

"Woah! Wait… Bella, let me put the packages down, before you rip my arm off!" she huffed, mentally exhausted after Alice's marathon shopping spree. Laying the bags on the bed, she turned to Bella. "Okay, what's so important, it couldn't wait 5 minutes?"

"Mark Sloan."

"What about, Mark? Is he okay?" she asks nervously.

"As you know, I promised to keep an eye on his progress and the last report I received a few weeks ago said that he had awoken from his coma and was recovering. But what it didn't say is that he had gone through something called a Surge…"

"Oh my God!" Lexie whispered behind her hands covering her mouth.

"And he slipped back into a coma, the next day." Bella continued. "But before he became unconscious again, he signed something called a DNR."

"Do Not Resuscitate, which means he didn't want any extreme measures taken to save his life." Lexie interrupted, with a choked sob.

"Lexie, listen to me!" Bella said taking her hand. "He requested only to remain on life support for one month. They are pulling the plug on him in 3 days!"

"No…No….I have to go…. I…I ..I've got to stop them…" Lexie said numbly as she grabbed her jacket and then tried to find her purse buried under the shopping bags, then stopped and looked toward the back of the house. "Wait, Carlisle might…..

Wrapping her hands around Lexie's arms, Bella turned her to face her.

"Hey, calm down. Everyone but us four girls has gone hunting, so no one is going to stop you from going to Seattle to help Dr. Sloan. Not that they would have anyway, Carlisle trusts you Lexie otherwise you wouldn't be heading for England in a few weeks. So pack a bag for a few days and I'll let the girls know what's going on." Bella wrapped her arms to give her a quick hug, but was surprised when Lexie hugged back.

"Thanks Bella, with talking me down from my freak out, you've become a great friend."

"No problem," Bella said smiling. "I'll meet you downstairs." then turned and left the room.

Ten minutes later, after saying goodbye and promising to be careful, she was on the road in Rosalie's Lexus. Since the drive from Forks to Seattle was going to take an hour and a half, she wouldn't be arriving until after 10 PM, which would give her plenty of time to get checked into a hotel and sneak in to visit Mark during the night shift.

It was around 2 AM when she left the hotel and parked near the rear entrance of Seattle Grace Mercy West. Getting out of the car, she looked up at the familiar building that had been her home for the last four years and made her way through the service corridor into the hospital, then ran up the back stairs until she reached the ICU. Due to working the night shifts during her residency, Lexie knew that the nurses shift change had just occurred and that the new nurse would be going over patient charts in the shift leader's office. Quietly she looks at the occupant in each room as she makes her way through the dimly lit hallway, then stops at room 210, where the soft glow from a lamp illuminates Marks face. Reaching his bedside, she stands in shock looking down at the pale lifeless body lying on the bed, the only sound coming from the respirator helping him breathe. Reaching down she lovingly runs her fingers along his jaw.

"Mark, it's me, Lexie. I've missed you so much… please wake up." She begs, watching his face for any sign that he heard her.

"What are we going to do now?" She whispered as she bends down to kiss his forehead. "It wasn't supposed to be this way. All those things you said at the crash site… marriage.. kids…growing old together… I wanted that so badly with you. It's not fair, we were supposed to live." She wipes a tear away, and then gently begins to stroke his hair.

"I hate this! I look at you lying so close to death and know it would be so easy to change you, so that we could be together forever. But I won't… I didn't get a choice with this new life and I won't make it for you, I love you too much" Putting one of her hands over his heart and another on his head, she began to feel her healing energy tingle down her arms and into her fingers, but yanked them away at the squeak of shoes coming from outside.

Going down the darkened hallway in ICU, Dr. Ross, a first year intern was rubbing his tired eyes when he quickly glanced into Dr. Sloan's room as he walked passed, then stopped 'Wait what was that?' he thought. Feeling a soft gust air behind him, like someone had rushed past, he quickly turned around and went into Room 210 but there was no one there. 'Where did she go?' he thought, positive that he had seen a beautiful woman with long dark hair standing next to Dr. Sloan's bed. Confused, he shook his head and thought 'Wow, this night rotation is exhausting…. Now I'm hallucinating beautiful women!', then chuckled softly and left the room to head to an on-call room for some sleep.

Already down the stairs and headed out to the car, Lexie was berating herself for not paying better attention to the outside hallway, she almost got caught. Getting into the car, she stopped herself from hitting the steering wheel, but still yelled. "Damn it!" She couldn't believe she hadn't completed healing Mark before that stupid Intern had spooked her. Since they were going to take him off of life support the day after tomorrow, she would have to return later tonight to complete the job.