A.N Hello all! Thanks again for all the follows, makes me happy to see people interested! Also, the chapters are getting longer, yay! I've noticed some errors when uploading onto the site, which I don't realise until I've already posted, so apologies for that. The format and text is all fine on my word document, but apparently the site doesn't like it, so hopefully I'll get better at noticing it before posting. Thanks again!

This chapter is told from Lexie's point of view, just to get the background sorted. Enjoy.

Chapter 4: Death and Rebirth 1: Lexie

Lexie p.o.v

It was three years ago, and I had just started my internship at Seattle Grace Mercy West. Two weeks into my first year, and they appeared. The two new surgeons were both perky and playful; it was nice to see and definitely helped with my first year jitters. They approached me on their first day, and I'd panicked, I had no idea why they were coming to me. I hadn't done anything wrong, yet, but still, it's nerve wracking when attendings approach interns; usually it's to scold them or to use them as errand boys, I silently wondered which treatment I'd get.

"Good afternoon! Great day today isn't it?" The dark haired one spoke first, they both had cheerful smiles plastered across their faces, and it was oddly calming. I mean, don't get me wrong, I was still nervous as hell, but with an opening like that, who wouldn't feel relaxed?

"Go-Good after ma'am." They shared a look between the two of them, heads tilted, holding a silent conversation, which lasted mere seconds before they turned to me. The dark haired one crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow, whilst the blonde one put her hands into the pockets of her lab coat and rocked back and forth on her heels, all the while smirking at me.

"Ma'am? Really? God you make me sound so old, I'm probably the same age as you, ya know Doctor…?"

"Grey!" I practically screamed that in their faces. Did I mention I was nervous? "uh- I mean, Grey, ma'am. My name is Alexandra Grey, but you can call me Lexie."

"Right Doctor Grey, Lexie Grey. How old are you anyway?" The blonde had yet to speak, but I could see she was holding in her laugh at my outburst.

"26 ma'am. I'm a first year intern."

"See? I told you, I'm 25. I'm actually younger than you." The dark haired one grinned smugly at me.

What the hell? She's young, too young to be an intern let alone an attending. She's got to be joking right?

"Uh, sorry?"

"T, we're being rude, let me introduce myself. I'm Arizona Robbins, the new Head of Peds." The blonde finally spoke out, and stretched out her right hand for me to shake. "And I am most definitely older than you" She grinned at me before letting go of my hand and turning to her partner.

"Man, why you gotta spoil my fun?" She held her hand out, "Terri Ryans, taking over for Dr Hunt as Head of Trauma. And yes, I am 25. I technically qualify as a genius, so I got through med school pretty quickly." She grinned smugly.

"You'll have to forgive Terri here, Dr Grey, she's a bit egotistical, and likes to boast about her … talent." They shared a smile at that; it was like they were communicating through a language that was only shared between the two of them. I was slightly jealous at their relationship, I'd never had anyone I was that close to. Hell, I didn't have any real friends now.

"Anyway, I heard you were working under Dr Alex Karev, I was told that he was the one to look out for in Peds, any idea where he might be now?" Arizona looked directly into my eyes, I couldn't help myself, but I felt like I was drowning in the pools of never-ending blue.

"I'm sorry Dr Robbins, he was in the ER the last time I checked." Her eyes, they were so clear, but then, she breathed in deeply and I swear I saw something flicker and change in her eyes. Before I could say anything though, she blinked, rapidly and was pulled away by Terri.

"Oops, look at the time, sorry there Dr Grey, we gotta run. Got patients to see, see ya later." Terri rushed out quickly before grabbing Arizona, and practically running, headed towards the stairs.

The next time I saw them Arizona was rushing towards Terri's office, but something was off. She look pale, really pale, and the speed she was walking at, she may well have been gliding across the floor. She slammed the door shut and within five minutes, was walking back out of Terri's office with more color in her face and a lot calmer. It was odd, but I just ignored it, it really wasn't any of my business really.

More and more weird things started happening around them. For instance, we had a patient who came into the ER; he was drugged up on PCP, and started going crazy. Nurses were pushed away, bedpans were thrown around, even security couldn't get a hold of him; he was just so strong and livid. He was coming straight at me, and out of nowhere, Terri appeared, and in the blink of an eye, had the patient facing down on the floor, right arm twisted behind his back, with her knee placed in the centre of his back, completely subduing him. It was amazing, five men couldn't subdue him, yet she had him taken down within seconds with complete ease, I couldn't even see it all, it happened far too quickly.

"Dr Grey, sedate him quickly!" I jumped into action immediately. When I grabbed the injection and headed towards her, she looked up and I froze momentarily. Her eyes, it was barely noticeable, but they were dark, darker than her usual brown. "Dr Grey!" I snapped out of my brief moment of lapse, and injected the patient. With the help of the nurses and orderlies, we got the patient back into the bed. The sudden appearance of the EMTs with a new patient took Terri away, leaving me standing with the barely conscious patient, staring in wonder.

Another instance was when I was on my lunch break. I had taken a few charts with me to look over whilst I had my lunch, and seeing the elevator packed, decided to take the stairs. I was so focused on the open chart I had in my arms, that I'd accidentally missed the first step, the files flew out of my arms, I closed my eyes and I braced myself for impact. When suddenly, strong arms came around my waist and pulled me back towards a soft body.

"Are you okay?" The voice was so gentle and soothing. My eyes opened and I turned around to see Arizona.

What? Where had she come from? This was the Cardio floor, and she had no patients here, and she was just in the packed elevator I'd seen before.

"Dr Robbins!" She smiled softly at me. I realised that I was still in her deceptively strong arms and hurried to untangle myself from her. She moved away slightly looking over me thoroughly, before heading down the stairs to pick up my fallen files.

"You should really be more careful around the stairs you know? Where are you headed to anyway?" She handed the files back to me and stared at me expectantly.

"Thanks" I muttered shyly, "It's my lunch break and I was headed down to grab a sandwich."

"Great, well I'm sort of headed in that direction too, let's walk together!" She grinned at me, with dimples, and I blushed. In the back of my head, I could hear questions forming, so as we were walking I took a chance.

"Dr Robbins? Not that I'm not grateful that you saved me and everything, but weren't you just in the elevator? I mean I was just there and it was packed, but I swear I saw you in there and all of a sudden you're here." I started rambling, regardless of my curiosity, she was still my superior, and could probably make my life hell.

"Yup, I was there, but it was getting too packed for my liking, too many people rubbing up against each other, not my kind of scene. So I thought, I'm young and healthy, and some exercise won't kill me, so I squeezed my way out and took the stairs instead."

We'd reached the ground floor by this point, where the canteen was, but as I headed to the door I noticed that Arizona wasn't following me. She was going to continue downwards.

"Dr Robbins? Are you not going to get lunch?"

"Oh totally, but I've got something to do first."

"Down in the basement?" I knew I sounded accusatory, but it was really weird.

"Yup, down in the basement, bye now!" She bounded down the stairs quickly, and I had no grounds to follow her, so I just headed towards the canteen with a lot more questions forming.

I started noticing a lot more things from then on, and briefly wondered if I was the only one. There were many times when Terri and Arizona would be caught whispering and then rushing off in an unknown direction together, or there would be times when one of them would come out from surgery and head straight for the on-call room, and not long after, the other would head into the same one. I'd originally thought they were going to hook up or something in the on-call room, considering they're always together, but then there were the moments where one of them would suddenly look oddly pale and would rush off to the other one's office, and then return looking a lot better. Of course I can't forget the times where Terri encounters an aggressive patient and would take them down in a display of surprising speed and strength, or when Arizona would encounter a pushy parent and completely sway them with her charm, all the while remaining cool, calm, collected, and commanding. I swear Arizona could talk someone down from the ledge of a building with ease, but there was something else I'd also noticed, it was their eyes, every time they'd had an encounter, I swear I could see something change in their eyes, it was always brief and quick, that I wondered if I was seeing things, but after so many times, I was convinced that I wasn't.

Finally, I couldn't take it any more, and I followed them into the basement one night, I wanted answers, and the curiosity was killing me. In retrospect, I realised that it probably wasn't the smartest idea considering it was in the middle of the night shift, and I was following two 'suspicious' people down into the basement, with no backup or anything. It was like every other horror book I'd read, and I would probably find out that they're secretly serial killers and I'd get killed or something. Or perhaps I'd been reading far too many fictions lately.

Creeping along the corridor, I realised that I had actually never been into the basement before. We'd always been told that the morgue and storage rooms were in the basement, but whilst I was following the two surgeons, I realised that the basement was more complex than that. It was longer than expected, and had more doors and turns then you'd normally see. When I finally caught up with them, I saw that they had reached a metal door with an electronic lock, one that required a key card and code to get into. I watched as Terri swiped her ID card through the slot and type in a code that I couldn't see, when the door opened, I could hear the sound of a seal being released. I realised that the room was a cold storage room. Strange, why would the hospital have one in the basement, one that no one else seemed to know about? I edged along the walls until I was directly outside the door, I peered in and before I knew it, I had been pulled in and slammed against the now closed door. I looked up to see Terri holding me by my throat, and had lifted me off the floor. Arizona's head popped up over her shoulder and they both glared at me.

"Why are you following us?" The voice was low and dangerous; I looked into her eyes, and shrunk at the ferocity.

I looked around the room and saw that in each of the fridges were blood packs. It finally clicked, "You're Vampires aren't you?" I managed to choke out, and the grip around my throat tightened slightly. They both narrowed their eyes at me.

"It makes sense, I've noticed things; you both seem to have incredible speed and strength. You have this mysterious aura that surrounds you all the time, not to mention your eyes, and obviously the blood in here too."

"What do you know about Vampires?" Terri practically snarled in my face, to be honest; I have no idea how I'd even managed to say anything at all, I was terrified.

"I-I didn't think they actually existed, but apparently I was wrong, the signs all point to that."

Terri growled at me before her eyes turned blood red and she revealed her fangs, "You know I'm going to have to kill you now right?" I looked over at Arizona to see her eye glowing violet, a deranged smile on her face with her fangs out. Oh god, oh god, oh god! I'm going to die! The color drained from my face, I closed my eyes and began to pray to every deity I knew of, I could feel tears streaming down my face.

The pressure suddenly disappeared from my neck and my feet touched the ground again. I opened eyes to see that Terri's eyes had returned to their normal brown, looking at me, face full of concern.

"Hey, calm down, I'm kidding … Well, sort of" She sighed, "Look, we've been watching you alright, and we've noticed that you're very, well, observant and pretty clever," she smiled at this, "we didn't expect this to happen, but you're pretty brave to come here by yourself you know?"

"Yo-You've been watching me?" I stuttered; the tears just wouldn't stop. Then it hit me, "all those times when the two of you appear out of nowhere when I'm in danger?"

Terri grinned at Arizona, "I told ya she was a clever girl" Arizona just rolled her eyes and the both turned back to me. "Ari here noticed the first day we met you, she said you smelled rather … Well, for the lack of better term, delicious." I blushed. "So we kept an eye on you, at first it was just to stop Ari here from pouncing on you and eating you right up." Terri grinned salaciously at me, and I could feel the tips of my ears burning. I really wish she wouldn't use words like that.

"And then, we'd just noticed that you were watching us a lot, so we wanted to know why. We thought you'd been sent by …" She trailed off, deep in thought, before shaking her head "never mind that. Anyway, we wanted to know how far you'd get, thought you could become useful to us really. I mean you know, like recon. No one would expect a human working for us, we were going to come to you later, but guess that plan went out the window huh?"

"Wait, you mean there are more? Vampires? How many? Are they in the hospital? Who are they?" The questions just flew out, my interest and curiosity completely overwhelming my fear of the situation. They both laughed out loud, and I quickly reeled myself in before smiling bashfully.

"Hold up there sparky. We can't tell you any of that, not right now anyway. So you interested? In working for Vampires like us? You know it's like Catch 22 right? You work for us, and only us, you listen to only us, you don't ask questions about others like us, you can't tell anyone else about us, and most importantly you belong to us." She paused to let it all sink in for me, "It's that or we kill you really. Can't let the secret out."

I thought about it for a while, did I really want to submit myself to what the world refers to as monsters? Honestly? It sounded interesting, but dangerous at the same time. I really hated my curiosity at times.

"Would I be in danger?"

"Hm, not really, well, depends on the situation really, but we'll be there for you. If you belong to us, then we take care of you, like property." I winced at the term, "We really don't want to force you into this, but you found out sooner than we wanted to."

"How would you have asked me then? I mean would you have told me about you and then asked for my permission? If I knew, and said no, you would've had to kill me. That not really a choice is it?"

"Boy, you really are too clever. But no, we wouldn't have told you, I didn't really have it planned out or anything, but I'd probably go along the lines of being a secret operative or something."

I couldn't help but laugh, it was ridiculous really. "Secret operative? Really?"

"Terri really likes the whole mysteriousness of it, I think, perhaps in another life, she wanted to be a secret agent." Arizona teased, ignoring Terri's indignant huff of 'hey'.

"But in all seriousness Lexie, if you don't want this, we don't have to kill you, we can just wipe your memory. Terri likes the threat, makes her feel more like a secret agent, you know? The whole 'if I tell you I'd have to kill you' business."

It was the first time either one of them had referred to me by my first name, and it made me feel closer to them already. I took in the situation properly, looking around the room, from the blood packs, to Arizona, to Terri's pouting frame in front of me. I took a deep breath and declared my answer. "Yes."

They both let out sighs of relief, "awesome".

"Right!" Terri took command of the room again, "first order of business, you need to be marked Lex." I blanched at that.

"Marked?

"Yeah, it's for protection. It helps us know if you're in trouble, or if you ever need to contact us, you use the mark."

"Will it hurt?"

Terri scratched the back her head, "Um, maybe? Probably? I don't know, I've never marked a human before, Ari?"

"I haven't marked anyone…"

"That's totally a lie!"

Arizona rolled her eyes before continuing, "I haven't marked anyone female before, T. And besides I've only marked one other person, you go ask him if it hurt."

That perked my curiosity; Arizona's marked someone? It was a guy too, I wonder if it's her boyfriend? No, that's not right, she's gay; I wonder if he works in the hospital? I hadn't realised that whilst I was having my internal conversation that they were still waiting for my reply.

"Oh, um, sure, if it would help then yes. Who's going to mark me?"

"Oh that would be me! Can't have Arizona taking all the pretty girls, don't know what she would do to such a delicious smelling girl as yourself." I blushed again. I shyly glanced towards Arizona who also had a light dusting of pink across her pale cheeks.

"Oh you're one to talk, do I need to remind you of Clio and Thalia?"

"Oh pish posh, you're just jealous Ari, besides, you know that my dad gave me them, and they're my guardians. Well, at least there were when I was younger. Regardless, it's nothing like what your fantasies tell ya."

It amused me how close the two of them were, it was endearing and sweet, and I wanted to be a part of that family. "Anyway, let's get this show on the road, you ready Lex?" I nodded, and Terri walked up to me, her eyes turned bright red and the aura around the room turned suffocating. She raised her index finger and placed it right above my heart. I could feel a burning sensation blooming from my chest, it didn't hurt, but it didn't feel comfortable either. I saw my reflection in the door next to me and noticed that my eyes were red, and that there was a red glow emanating from my chest. Then, the feeling disappeared, and Arizona had approached me holding up a compact mirror. I held it up and lowered my scrub top slightly to see a small mark in the shape of an owl glowing red, before fading away to a black.

"That's the mark of Athena, Athena being me that is." Explained Terri, "Arizona over there is Artemis, and we're both Vampire Royalty. Welcome to the family Alexandra Grey."

It had been a few months since being marked, and nothing had really happened. I'd noticed that if Terri was calling me, the mark would resonate and I'd feel a tugging sensation that wouldn't disappear until I'd found my 'master'. Contrary to the way she had made it sound, Terri had not once treated me like property; instead she had treated me like family. I had been included in all types of events, even small ones such as eating lunch together, or just going for a drink. I had found out that the person Arizona had marked was one of my residents, Alex Karev. It was weird seeing them together, Alex had always been very indifferent and uncaring to everyone else, but with Arizona, he was different. He genuinely cared about her, and even though he was hostile to me at first, I found out that he was actually a really good guy.

A few days later, there was an incident.

The four of us were taking a walk, after going out for a few drinks. One minute we were walking through the park, the next, we were surrounded by a group of men. There were ten of them at least; all vampires, and Arizona and Terri had leapt into action straight away. One of them came straight for me, Alex stepped in front of me to protect me, but he was no match for the vampire, and was thrown away, as if he weighed nothing. Then, all I could feel was pain. "Lexie!" someone shouted my name; I looked down and saw that he had pierced his hand right through me. Blood was dripping down my torso and the pain spread throughout my entire body. Terri was there in an instance, anger emanating from her body, eyes shining vibrantly, fangs bared. He was disposed of in a second and I dropped to the ground.

"No, no, no! Lexie!" I was lifted into her arms. She felt so warm, "oh god, no. Lexie, stay with me Lexie!" She sounded so scared, so angry, I'd never seen her like this, she was always so calm, and at times goofy. I knew I was dying, but to have someone care so much for me in my last moments made me feel so warm.

"Do something Terri!" I could hear Alex shouting at her. Arizona appeared, and I noticed it was quite once again; she must have finished the rest of the vampires.

"I'm sorry Lexie, I'm so sorry," Terri sounded so sad, I wanted to say something, anything. But the moment I opened my mouth, blood came spewing out. I felt a sharp pain in my neck, and then, darkness.

When I woke up, I was in a dark room. It was cold, and I felt so thirsty. I noticed a cup on the side of the bed and I drank it without really noticing what was in the cup. I felt instantly invigorated. The door opened and Terri entered the room, she looked happy to see me awake, but there was a hint of guilt under her smile.

"You're awake! How do you feel?" I saw her look towards the cup on the bedside stand and her smile fell slightly. "I'm so sorry Lexie." She sighed.

I didn't know why she was apologising until I caught my reflection in the mirror on the wall. There was blood on my lips and the corner of my mouth, but what hit me were my eyes. They were red! They were similar to Terri's, but nowhere near as bright.

"I couldn't let you die."

I opened my mouth to reply, and that's when I saw it. Fangs!

I was a Vampire.

A.N: Right, so I'd originally planned for Alex, Teddy and Lexie's story to be in one chapter, but it ended up being a lot longer than expected, so I split them up into 3 separate ones. I hope it all made sense!