Complications

chapter 26:

Meredith tried to get Lexie to come and join in but she sobbed and backed away, shaking her head furiously "you left me. You left me all alone."

Meredith just knelt down her whole body on auotpilot, her body limp as she gaped at her daughter's broken and conflicted retrieving figure. "Lex, don't. Don't say that... I- it's not like that. I wanted to leave you."she trailed off, her heart pounding painfully against her chest. She couldn't even get up to go after her daughter when Lexie bolted up the stairs. The loud slam of a door made Meredith flinch and she immediately got up and started for the stairs.

"Derek let go! Let me be with her! I have to talk to her! She thinks I wanted to leave her!! And that's not true!! Derek!" She wailed when Derek took hold of her shoulders and tangled his arms around her waist.

"No baby, she needs time to heal. It hurt her the most when you went into a coma. Please just let her be." He tried to reason but he tried in vain.

" No! That's the last thing she needs! I know what she needs, she's MY daughter! Let me go! Let go of me Derek!" Her loud screech left her throat achy and raw, " I need to see my daughter. To hug her and hold her, to tell her how much I wanted to be here with her. To tell her how sorry I am for being such a horrible mother. To show her I'm nothing like my mother. I'm nothing like my mother Derek. I'm not like her. Let me prove to her that I'm a good mother. I'm a good mother Derek! Dammit let me go to her!!" Squirming vigorously she escaped his strong hold and bolted toward the stairs.

Walking frantically throughout the house she stopped at the midnight blue painted door and stood frozen as she heard a song play solemnly on the other side of the door. Under the Bridge. "Oh... No baby..." She whispered sadly as the lyrics tormented her heart.

Sometimes I feel like
I don't have a partner
Sometimes I feel like
My only friend...

It's hard to believe that there's nobody
Out there
It's hard to believe that I'm all alone
At least I have her love, the city
She loves me
Lonely as I am, together we cry.

~ Red Hot Chili Peppers.

"Lexie. Baby please open the door." Her sobs racked through her body. "Please open the door." Her pleads went unanswered. Nothing. Not even a "leave me alone." Silence. The silence killed her. She was silent for eleven years and she'll be damned if she was silent any longer. " Alexandra! Open this door! Right now! Before I have your father break it open! You need to understand!" Her throat was scratchy and delicate, but she continued to beg and plead.

"Mah-Mah" Callie's unique voice rang quietly. Regaining her composure Meredith wiped her tears and runny nose before turning around to face the beautiful blue-eyed little girl with a white scar from her earlobe up to her dark eyebrow. She smiled sadly and caressed Calliope's cheek with a shaky cold hand. " what wrong baby girl."

"Key- have key, Mah-Mah." Meredith couldn't even properly decipher the words that slipped through her rosy tiny lips, just hearing her sweet tiny voice filled her heart with love and she couldn't stop herself from wrapping her arms tightly around her body and pulled back to whisper, " you're perfect. You're my miracle baby Callie" her voice was conspirationally quiet and kissed her small button nose when Callie giggled loudly and kissed her mother's nose in return. She smiled mischievously and waved the silver key close to her mother's face. " thank you kiddo, now go with daddy and I'll be down in a bit." She thanked Callie with yet another wet kiss and blew a harsh breath out last her lips. "I hope this girl doesn't have a weapon." She didn't just hope she prayed to God that Lexie wasn't hurt enough to have a hair dryer aimed and ready to be flung in her direction. "Lexie, Honey..."

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