Meant to be

Chapter 20- Mark

As I stand in O.R. two, I proudly finish the last suture on my patient. "Well everybody, that's how it's done"
I had a patient with half of the skin on her hand burned off, I just fixed it and now it looks even better than before.

Later on, when I'm filling out some patient paperwork Meredith starts coming my way. I glance back at her and she's staring straight at me.

"I need to talk to you, in private" she says once she's standing next to me.

"Sorry Meredith, I'm not interested. I'm married remember?" I say not looking at her. She snatches the clipboard from my hands and moves it down the counter. "I'm being serious"

Geez, she does look serious. She's got the same determined look in her eye that Lexie gets, but it's a little scarier. "Alright"

We walk to an empty hallway and she starts taking "Lexie was sleepwalking earlier. She walked all the way to a patient room until she started screaming and crying out 'Stop, no please stop leave me alone'. I think you should talk to her"

I tilt my head slightly. What happened? Is Lexie okay? I should go talk to her. "I'm sure she's fine. and I have to prep for another surgery so maybe you should take care of that" I start to walk away, and Meredith calls out "I did!" she said sounding frustrated. "and she blocked me out. I really think that her husband would get through to her more than her half-sister." she continued. I let out a sigh and continued walking. Once I finish filling out the file then I will talk to her. I hear Meredith sigh and walk the other way. She'll probably just go and stick Derek on me. Yet, it is in fact; none of their business.

I walk back to the counter and take out my pen, and continue filling the paper out. I hear my pager beep and I check it. Trauma down in the E.R. I head down there and I run into Lexie. I smile a little and walk with her. "Hey, Lexie" she smiles up at me half-heartedly and then looks forward. That's odd. Something is obviously bothering her. "Is everything okay?" she nods without saying anything. Alright that's it. I take her arm and lead her into an empty room.

"Mark! What are you doing?" Lexie says surprised and confused. "Meredith told me about what happened." her eyes search the floor, suddenly interested in the bland tile that covers the whole hospital. "Lexie" I say gently, hoping to coax her into talking. "It was just only a bad dream. A patient that I was treating died and I didn't get notified, and I just thought about him before I fell asleep. That's all" Convincing. To anyone who doesn't know her. "Lexie this has happened before" She nods "I know, I've lost a lot of patients, but it doesn't change the fact the it hurts." I shake my head. 'No, i mean that you've had bad dreams like that before. At home." she hesitates and then looks away "I have to get down to the Emergency Room." she opens the door and jogs out. I lean up againt the cold wall and sigh. What's she hiding?

I get down to the E.R. and Kepner comes up to me with a chart. "Gas explosion, blown eardrums, multiple burn victims, a lacerated hand and- Well I think that's all that applies to you" she spoke them off quickly and handed me a chart. Patient name, Francesca Bronner. 19, gosh she's young. Especially to have 20% of her skin burned. Alright, trauma room one. I walk in and slip some gloves on. "Alright what do we got-" I can't finish my sentence. This girl, who's burned so severely, is quite pregnant. Avery looks up from spreading some gel on one of her burns "Francesca Bronner, 19, extensive burns throughout her body" I look to one of the interns. "Page Robbins" I walk down Francesca's body a couple feet so I'm looking her in the eye. Panic, fear, confusion and pain. That's what I see in her eyes. "Francesca, Hi. I'm Doctor Sloan, I'm gonna get you better" I say calmly. A tear slips down her face. "Is my baby okay? I need my baby to be okay..I can't lose it!" She says with a low panic. "Someone is coming to make sure your baby is okay..but right now we need to take care of you. Is there any internal pain?" she nods a little. "My stomach.." I glance at her stomach to be reminded that she's pregnant and there could be something wrong. I turn back to the intern again "Page Robbins now!" the boy nods "I did..but I will again" he mutters.

The door opens and I hope that it's Arizona, instead it's Lexie. This is not going to help her. I start to clean up a burned area of skin on the patient and without looking talk to Lexie "Maybe you shouldn't be here Doctor Sloan" Avery perks his head up and looks at Lexie confused. Then he seems to have remembered something and continues. "I'm not going anywhere, Doctor Sloan" she says back. Alright then. She picks up her chart and reads it, then walks over by me where Francesca can see her. "Hi Francesca" she says brightly. "I'm Doctor Sloan, but you can call me Lexie if you would like" I can see Francesca looking between Me and Lex. "Wait..are you two related?" Lexie chuckles "No, well sorta. We're married" she responds. Francesca looks surprised "Oh..Okay"

After a couple of minutes Arizona comes in and walks straight over to the patient. "Hi, I'm Doctor Robbins, I'm going to take a look at your baby" she says and pulls a portable ultrasound over, and start looking at Francesca's womb.

After a couple minutes I hear Lexie gasp. I look up to see what's wrong and she's looking at the ultrasound. "Francesca, I'm going to have to deliver your baby immediately. If i don't, she'll suffocate" "My-My baby's a girl? I'm having a girl?" She says with a smile. Robbins nods. I stand up after bandaging her. "I'm finished" I take my gloves off and walk out of the room, crashing into Callie. She started to fall but with my quick instincts, i caught her and helped her stand up. "You okay?" she nods and pulls the hair out of her face. "Yeah, thanks. I should go. I have a patient" she says and runs off. I start walking away and Lexie comes over to me. I glance at the room. It was completely full before but now there's only a couple of occupied beds. Almost everyone has been taken to a room, an O.R. or the morgue. "I hope Francesca's baby lives" Lexie says pulling me out of my thought. "Yeah I hope it lives too" I reply looking at her. I see she's a bit offended. "She" "What?" I ask. "Her baby is a girl" I had forgotten. But the thought makes me wonder if Lexie will have a girl. "I wonder what we'll have" Lexie ponders out loud, as if she read my thoughts!
"Yeah. Me too" I wrap an arm around her and start walking.

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A/N

Hi! Sorry I didn't update for 2 months! It's been crazy and i forgot..anyways! 10 votes for the next chapter!

What do you think Lexie and Mark's baby will be? A boy? or A girl?

-Emilee