Running in Circles - Lexie Grey x OC

The Long Way Around

Grey's Anatomy Season 7 Episode 12

Monday morning
Dexter Avenue — Eric and Lexie's Townhouse

The knocking started before the sun was fully up.

Not normal knocking.

The kind of relentless pounding that suggested either a catastrophe or Arizona Robbins.

Eric didn't even open his eyes.

"No."

Beside him, Lexie stirred against his chest.

The knocking continued.

Three rapid knocks.

A pause.

Three more.

Eric buried his face deeper into the side of her neck.

"No."

Lexie laughed softly.

"You know who it is."

"I absolutely know who it is."

Knock.

Knock.

Knock.

He groaned.

Lexie's shoulders shook with quiet laughter.

The knocking somehow got louder.

Eric pulled the duvet halfway over his head.

"I'm a neurosurgeon."

Knock.

"I have won awards."

Knock.

"And yet on random days I am bullied by a pediatric surgeon."

Lexie smiled into his shoulder.

"You could just let her in."

"I could also fake my death."

The knocking continued.

Eric finally lifted his head and glared toward the bedroom door.

Then, in a voice loud enough to carry through the townhouse, he shouted,

"For fuck's sake, the spare key!"

The knocking stopped.

Silence.

A beat passed.

Then the unmistakable sound of the front door opening.

Lexie laughed.

"Oh my God."

"I hope she's happy."

A cabinet downstairs opened.

Then another.

Something clattered.

Arizona was apparently already rearranging their kitchen.

Eric let his head fall back onto the pillow.

"See?"

"You did remind her where the spare key was."

"Remind me to move it somewhere she doesn't know."

Lexie rolled onto her side to face him.

"We should probably get up."

"We should absolutely not get up."

"Eric."

He sighed dramatically.