The Sloan Family (the remake)

Chapter 12

Wow, it been a while.
Okay so don't kill me...

"Incoming," April yelled as she pushed a gurney into the ER. "Grey, you need to look at her head. There's a possible head and spine injury. The car hit his side of the vehicle."

"I'm on it," Lexie told the other surgeon. As they made their way to one of the rooms, Lexie opened the patient's eyes and move her flashlight from left to right and right to left into his eyes, looking for possible signs of brain activity. "There's definitely a head trauma. I need to operate as soon as I can."

"Okay, let's go," April said as she pushed the gurney* into the OR 4 direction. "Tell OR 4 we're coming and page Dr. Torres, I need her to look at the patient's arm, tell her there's a possibility of amputation."

They got into the OR and placed the patient's gurney next to the table and let the nurse do their job. Both April and Lexie went to scrub in.

"I hate this kind of case," Lexie told her friend. "All of this could've been prevented if the other driver hadn't been drinking and if he had actually stopped at the red light."

"I know. It's one of the worst situations to work on."

At that moment, Callie walked in and Lexie could feel the room tensing up.

"Dr. Kepner." She saluted the doctor and then paused only to start again with a tone almost inviting disgust. "Dr. Grey."

The three surgeons didn't talk for the rest of the process.

Lexie could feel Callie's staring at her. She didn't know if Mark had talked about their break up already or not. Either way, she was prepared for the worst.

As she started to cut open the man's head, Callie let out a small laugh of annoyance.

"Dr. Torres, may I ask what makes you laugh," April asked her.

"Oh, nothing," Callie said, leaving a moment of silence before she continued. "I'm just so surprised at how right I was about Little Grey's intentions towards Mark."

"Callie," Lexie warned the other surgeon. "That's none of your business."

"He is the father of my child."

"And he's the father of my three children," Lexie said back. "And the relationship I had or have with him does not concern you as it is between him and I. Please leave it like that."

Callie stopped talking for about one hour before she started again. "I warned him. But did he listen? No, of course not. You manipulated him. You got knocked up and you needed a suitable father figure so you chose him. I saw right through you. I knew you'd hurt him again, that's what you do best."

"Callie!" April scolded her.

"It's alright, April. I know what she thinks of me. If only she had been around the past two weeks, maybe Mark's heart wouldn't be broken again." She was referencing to Callie's refusal to see Mark after she had learned him and Lexie were back together. "I'm not the only one to blame it's just easier for her to only acknowledge that only one of us is guilty."

And on that, they spend the rest of the surgery in silence. Sometimes glances were exchanged and the atmosphere was tensed.

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Lexie only had two hours left to her shift and wanted to spend them sleeping as she had to go pick up her kids from school and she was quite exhausted. She knew just the right place. The typical on-call rooms were usually used by the interns to sleep or to hook up, but this one was far enough for all of them to not have the time to get there before they either tore each other's clothes off or before they fell asleep right then and there.