"Karev! Hold up a sec."

"Robbins, I'm doing this not you," insisted Alex.

"Alex."

Alex stopped, very rarely, did Arizona call him by his first name. The last three weeks had been hell for him; he had hoped that Arizona would support him in his decision to go to Hopkins. After talking with Callie, he somewhat understood why Arizona was pissed at him, Arizona had trained him the best that she could, and now he was leaving her. In hindsight, he realized how stupid it had been to have Arizona find out from Hunt that he was accepting the fellowship with Hopkins.

"The only reason that Lexie didn't argue with you more was because she is out of it, she hopped up on pain meds."

"All the more reason for us to do this as soon as possible, before she is in the right state of mind to argue."

"Alex you can't do this," said Arizona. "This is major surgery, you'll be in recovery at least two to three weeks. You are supposed to start your fellowship at Hopkins in less than two weeks. If you do this, you'll be giving up your chance to do your fellowship at Hopkins."

"What?"

Arizona turned to see Meredith standing behind her. Meredith had gone over to thank Alex for volunteering to donate part of his liver, when she overheard what Arizona had said.

"What do you mean he'll be giving up his chance at Hopkins?" asked Meredith, looking between Alex and Arizona, hoping one of them would answer her.

"Hopkins won't hold his spot for him if he goes through with this surgery," explained Arizona. "There are not that many spots for Peds fellowships in the country, and Hopkins is super competitive. If he doesn't show up on July 1st, they will give his spot to someone else."

"Alex," sighed Meredith, she couldn't Alex to do this. Meredith couldn't ask or allow Alex to throw away his chance to be at one of the best Peds programs in the country, even if it meant savings Lexie's life. Lexie would probably kick both her and Alex's ass if they let Alex go through with this. "I can't ask you to do this. If Lexie knew that you decided to go to Hopkins, she wouldn't have agreed to this. Go to Hopkins we'll find another donor."

"I'll do it," insisted Arizona. "I'll go get tested to see if my cross-match is negative. Alex can go to Hopkins."

"No."

Meredith and Arizona turned to Alex, having temporarily forgotten that he was still there.

"We are not discussing this anymore. I already said that I'm doing this. No one is telling Lexie about Hopkins. I'm going to tell Hunt that I'm staying for my Peds fellowship."

"Alex," interrupted Arizona.

"No, I turned my back on her after the shooting, when she had her nervous breakdown. She was almost shot trying to save my life."

"Alex she isn't angry with you for walking away," explained Meredith, surprised that Alex still felt guilty for something that had happen over a year ago. "Yeah, she was pissed in the beginning, but she already forgave you for that months ago."

"I don't care if she isn't angry anymore, I still walked away!" shouted Alex, startling Meredith and Arizona. "We are done talking about this. I have to go talk to Hunt and go get admitted."

"That went well," muttered Arizona sarcastically, as she and Meredith watched Alex walk away.

"I have to go and talk to Hunt," said Meredith after a brief pause.

"You're going to go behind Karev's back and tell Hunt to not let Karev do this?"

"No. Alex is very stubborn," said Meredith. "I need to tell Hunt that I want my job back too."

"Wait what?" asked Arizona confused. "What about Boston? Shepherd got an offer from Harvard."

"I know but," sighed Meredith, closing her eyes as she leaned against the wall rubbing her forehead, trying to ease the headache that she had. "I hope Derek understands that I can't leave Seattle, not when Lexie's life is still hanging in the balance. I know that Derek wants to cure Alzheimer's but I can't walk away from Lexie. She's is going to be in a lot of pain for the next few weeks, and she isn't going to be able to take care of herself, and Samantha. I have to tell Derek, hopefully he understands."

"Are you sure about this?" asked Arizona. "You and Derek can still go to Boston. We can look after Lexie."

"Who? You're the Chief of Pediatric Surgery, Hunt's the Chief of Surgery, April is going to be busy trying to make up for failing her boards, Bailey has her own kid, Adele has Alzheimer's so Webber is going to be busy taking care of her, Alex is going to be busy with his fellowship, you, Mark, and Callie have Sofia, Mark is the Chief of Plastic Surgery," listed Meredith. "Do you really think that June is going to be okay with Mark spending time with his ex-girlfriend?"

"June?"

"June, July, Julie, whatever Mark's girlfriends name is."

"Oh, you mean Julia."

"Her."

"Based on what I saw today I don't think she is going to be a problem," explained Arizona, smiling. "I don't think Mark even remembers that he has a girlfriend at this point. The only thing that matters to him right now is Lexie. He told me a week after Lexie left; that Lexie told him, the day before she left, that she was still in love with him. I may have slapped him in the back of the head when he said that he didn't do anything after she confessed her feelings to him. Mark loves Lexie. It may have taken a plane crash for him to realize that, but he does love her. The only people who can't seem to see that are Mark, Julia, and Lexie."

"That's also an issue," pointed out Meredith. "Lexie is going to think that Mark is with her out of pity. She tells Mark that she loves him; he doesn't say anything until now."

"Mark will just have to work on proving to her that he really does love her and is not just with her because she had a near-death experience."

"I don't know," sighed Meredith, exhausted by today's events. "That is something that only Lexie and Mark can decide. I just need this day to be over already. I can't have it going worse than it already is. I'm going to go get Zola and Derek so that we can go home and get some sleep, so that we can be here early tomorrow."

"What time is the surgery scheduled for tomorrow?" asked Arizona walking with Meredith to the daycare to pick up Sofia. "What did Bailey say after she kicked us all out? What are you guys going to do about Samantha?"

"Well Bailey basically banned everyone from Lexie's room, except April, until tomorrow morning. She gave Lexie a sedative because her heart rate was going up again, and she really shouldn't have been taken off of anesthesia so soon after a major surgery like that. But, Bailey and Hunt had allowed her to be taken off anesthesia, so that Lexie could talk with us. April is going to be monitoring Lexie overnight; Bailey didn't want any family in that room. Depending on how Lexie's stats are throughout the night, then maybe Bailey and Hunt will do the transplant some time before noon tomorrow. I actually wanted to ask you about Samantha. Lexie said that some of Samantha's baby things should be getting here tomorrow, but that she had been carrying a portable crib with her on the plane, and obviously we don't have that. So, I was wondering if you could, you know, allow Samantha to spend the night in Peds. I'm going to head to the store tomorrow and buy a portable crib for Samantha."

"Yeah, she can spend the night," nodded Arizona as they neared the daycare. "Why don't we throw Lexie a baby shower? I mean, I know that she didn't physically have a baby, and said baby is already here, but Lexie still has a baby, and I think she would appreciate a baby shower once she has recovered. That way anything of Samantha's that was destroyed on the plane can be replaced."

"I'll ask Lexie before her surgery. That way April can organize it. I may not be so dark and twisty anymore, but I'm not organizing a baby shower."

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Derek and Callie led Mark outside of the hospital away from Lexie's room, Bailey having banned everyone except herself, Hunt, Kepner, and Tyler, the nurse. Mark and Meredith had put up a fight but it was useless, Bailey wasn't budging. Bailey knew that neither Mark nor Meredith would sleep at all if she let them stay overnight in Lexie's room.

Mark was in a daze, he still couldn't believe that Lexie had been in a plane crash and had barely survived. He didn't even want to think about what could have happened to Lexie, had April not been sent out. To think that just this morning he had been worrying about his relationship with Julia, and what he was going to do decide to do. It seemed almost laughable, here he had been worrying about whether or not to have kids with Julia, or get back together with Lexie; while Lexie had trapped underneath a plane for who knows how long.

"Mark," said Derek watching Mark, who had suddenly stopped walking. "Mark are you okay?"

"Am I okay?" asked Mark incredulously, looking at Derek as though he had grown a second head. "Am I okay? Where you not in that hospital just now? Lexie was on a plane and it crashed, a plane crash. She was trapped under several tons of twisted metal for who knows how long. She coded in the ER, and now she needs a liver transplant. And to top it all off she has a child that none of us knew about. So, no I'm not okay."

"Mark calm down," urged Derek. "Lexie is alive. She is going to be fine. Yes, she did code in the ER, but we brought her back. Karev is going to donate a piece of his liver to her, and she is going to be okay."

"There is still a chance that her body will reject the liver," muttered Mark.

"Mark she is going to be fine," insisted Derek, grabbing onto Mark's shoulder forcing Mark to look at Derek. "She's a Grey. She is going to pull through this. The odds are that she should be dead, but she is still alive. Lexie is in great hands; she has Bailey and Hunt as her doctors. So, take a deep breath and calm down."

Turning to Callie, as Mark took a few deep breaths, Derek asked, "Can you stay with him, while I go get our things?"

"Yeah, go I'll stay with him," nodded Callie. "Arizona and Meredith should be here soon, they went to go pick up Sofia and Zola."

With one last look at Mark, Derek nodded at Callie before running back into the hospital.

Callie put her arm around Mark and led him to one of the benches outside the hospital. Callie gently pushed Mark down onto the bench before taking a seat next to him. The two of them sat in silence for a few minutes before Mark spoke.

"I have to tell her," mumbled Mark, staring straight ahead, not really seeing anything. "I have to tell her that I love her."

"Who? Julia? Lexie?" asked Callie confused.

"Lexie. I didn't say anything when Lexie told me that she loved me before she left, and now she was in a plane crash."

"Lexie said that she is in love with you," repeated Callie.

"Yeah," sighed Mark. "And I'm an idiot for not telling her sooner. She had told me before when we were together, but I never told her that I was in love with her too. She might die and she doesn't know that I love her. She thinks that the only reason I told her was because of the plane crash."

"Aren't you?" The words were out of Callie's mouth before she could stop them. She had hoped that she had said them low enough for Mark to have not heard them, but no such success.

"What did you say?" Mark glared at Callie, shrugging her arm off of his back. Standing up he repeated, "What did you say Torres?"

Sighing now that Mark had heard her Callie said, "Well, aren't you telling her that you love her only because she was in a plane crash. I mean, you just said it yourself, before Sloane, and Sofia, Lexie said that she loved you, but you never said it to her. So, why now? Why didn't you say it when you were still together? Why now when you are with Julia, who loves you and wants to have a family with you? Arizona and I love Julia, and she gets along with Sofia. How can you choose Lexie over Julia, when Lexie didn't want to stay with you when she found out about Sofia?"

"What the hell is your problem with Lexie?" shouted Mark. "I thought you liked Lexie. Or were you just pretending to like her when I was going out with her? Both times that I wanted to propose to Lexie, you told me that I was making a mistake. You are supposed to be one of my best friends, and support me, but you don't act like it. I supported you when you wanted to be with Arizona. Why can't you do the same for me? This is my life not yours! I get to decide who I want to spend the rest of my life with not you! I get that you love Julia, but I don't love her. I love Lexie. Yes, Lexie did break up with me both times when she found out that I had a kid, but that was because I was making decisions for both of us without asking her."

Callie stared at Mark in amazement and a bit of fear, as his voice got louder. Never once had Mark ever yelled at her like this, not even when she had suggested that he be the cool uncle. Callie just couldn't understand why Mark would want to be with Lexie, when they both were at different places in their lives. Mark wanted to settle down and have kids, but Lexie was still more concerned with her career.

"If she loved you she would have stayed with you. Maybe she just doesn't want you kids," said Callie, bitterly. Callie didn't really mean that, but she couldn't help but be hurt by Lexie. When Arizona had found out about Callie being pregnant she stayed, even though she hadn't wanted kids. Callie couldn't understand why Lexie wouldn't stay with Mark. She thought that Lexie maybe just didn't like Sofia.

"Shut Up! You don't know what you are talking about!" yelled Mark in disbelief, though there was a small part of him that agreed with Callie. Why didn't Lexie stay with me when she found out about my kids? Maybe she doesn't want my kids. "What would you have done if it had been Arizona? Lexie did what anyone would've done in her position. I tried to make her a stepmother and a grandmother at 25 for god's sake. I was too much of a coward to tell Lexie outright that you were pregnant with my kid, I let her figure it out. The day before and the day after you and I slept together I had been telling Lexie that I wanted to be with her. So, yeah she has reason to leave me. And you, you have no right telling me who I can or can't be with. You are my friend and the mother to my daughter, you are NOT my wife or girlfriends. So stop acting like a jealous girlfriend or wife and back off!"

"But Mark—"

"Calliope that's enough," Arizona interrupted Callie, surprising both her and Mark. Arizona, Meredith, and Derek had gotten out of the hospital at the same time, and just in time to hear what Callie and Mark were shouting about. "Calliope you are way out of line."

"I can't even look at you right now," Mark told Callie. "I don't want to you speaking to me about anything other than anything dealing with Sofia or Lexie's surgery."

"Dr. Torres," Meredith glared at the Ortho Attending. "Tomorrow morning I'll be speaking with Dr. Hunt about having you pulled from Lexie's case. Since I am her next-of-kin I want another Ortho attending assigned to my sister."

With that Meredith made her way to hers and Derek's car, Mark followed Derek, who was carrying a sleeping Zola. Leaving Arizona standing, carrying a wide-awake Sofia, glaring at her wife, who looked suitably chastised.

"Do I really need to tell you just how badly you screwed up?"

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AN: Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. I am so sorry for the long wait. School got in the way and I started working last week. I was having writer's block. I knew what I wanted to happen in this chapter but I just couldn't put it down in words, even though I could see it in my head. As you can see Meredith is going to be a little bit OOC, I think she would change a bit if the only person that she considered her blood family, to have almost died.

Also before any Callie fans start a riot let me explain a few things. I love Callie, and I love Sara Ramirez. BUT, personally, I feel that out of all the characters on the show Callie has screwed up but has never really had any consequences for her actions. Callie has sex with Mark, gets the baby that she wants and she still gets to keep the love of her life. Everyone else on the show screws up and their lives fall apart.

Maybe I am reading to far into this but there were times on the show that I felt that Callie was jealous or didn't approve of Mark and Lexie's relationship. So, I am NOT going to bash Callie, but she will have to face 'the music'. Arizona is going to be the voice of reason. Arizona is going to be the mediator between Callie and everyone else, even if she is upset with Callie.

An actual talk, not yelling match, between Mark, Callie, Arizona, and Julia, should take place in the next chapter. I will also try not to bash Julia.

Anyways, question for all you readers, I'm going to have Lexie name the godparent(s) to Sami. Now, the godparent(s), can either be just one or it will be two. Do you want it to be just one, or two people? I have already chosen who the pair would be, or the individuals, I would just like your opinion. I'm going to try to set up a poll, and for those of you without accounts, you can vote in your reviews.

Thank you all for the wonderful reviews. Please, if you see any mistakes, even the smallest little thing, typos or whatever, please don't hesitate to tell me. I change the names and word order a lot so there are bound to be a ton of mistakes. And I have no Beta.

PS. I have created a BlogSpot account, link is on my profile. For those of you interested it's just character images of my original characters. The picture of Samantha is from Morphthing, I did some editing to the picture, mostly her hair, since it was a light brown in the original. I am very likely going to do BlogSpot posts for my other story.