Sorry I don't know if any of you noticed but I posted this and quickly realized it was missing something, so here it is again. Sorry about that, it was weird.

Alright, here's chapter 2. I just want to say thank you to those of you that have Favorited/followed this story and/or reviewed. It really does mean a lot to me. You guys are the best.

In this chapter, I'm going to focus more on Lexie's loved ones that she thought about in the previous chapter and their reactions to what happened. I'm not sure if April has been re-hired at this point, but for the sake of this story she has been.

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April Kepner was so fed up with the lack of traumas coming through the ER. It had been a slow night, a couple sutures here and there, but mostly she found herself occupied with the mind numbingly boring task of charting.

"Got anything good?" Alex asked April as he approached the desk that she was currently sitting behind.

"I wish, it's been dead all night. It's slooow"

"Kepner! What the hell?"

April jumped in surprise at Alex's tone.

"What?"

"You never say it's slow in the pit, or that " he looked pointedly at the phone on the table "will ring, and it'll be the freaking grim reaper"

April rolled her eyes at him.

"Relax, it's a Tuesday night, nothing's going to happen, fewer people get drunk and stupid during the week and that means fewer accidents."

"Whatever you say Kepner, page me when shit hits the fan."

Just as Alex turned to walk away the phone rang. He and April looked at it, then at each other.

"Answer it."

"Seattle Grace Mercy West Emergency Room"

"Alright, got it"

She looked at Alex as she stood up quickly

"Incoming assault victim, she's pretty beat up."

They both ran toward the doors of the ER to wait for the ambulance. Just as they finished pulling on their trauma gowns and gloves the ambulance arrived and the doors burst open.

"What do we got?" Alex asked the paramedic

"Twenty-seven-year-old female, multiple stab wounds to the abdomen, possible head trauma, she's lost a lot of blood. Pulse is weak, but it's there."

April gasped as the paramedic emerged with the patient fully. She was pale, too pale. She had bruises all up and down her arms and her otherwise exposed upper body was being covered only by a blood-soaked jacket and gauze wrapped tightly around her waist. There was too much blood. Way too much blood.

"Lexie" Alex whispered.

He turned to April, tears streaming down her petrified face.

"Find Meredith." When she didn't react immediately he yelled at her "Now, Kepner!"

"Somebody page Hunt!" she heard Alex bark out as she turned and ran towards OR 3 where she knew she would find the eldest Grey sister.

"That went well" said Meredith as she proceeded to scrub her hands in the deep sink.

Derek simply nodded his head in reply as he turned on the faucet next to hers with his elbow. They were both exhausted, it had been a long day, they washed their hands in a comfortable silence. Meredith couldn't wait to get home and sleep, she had just finished a long shift and was ready to call it a night. She and Derek would probably stop by somewhere to get a quick bite to eat and then head home.

Meredith's thoughts were interrupted by a frazzled looking April bursting into the scrub room.

"Are you okay, " Derek asked the younger doctor, he was also clearly taken aback by her terrified expression.

"April?" This time Meredith was the one to address her. She and Derek both turned off the running water with a nudge of their elbows and turned to face April.

"April, you're really starting to freak me out what's going on?"

April stood slightly hunched over taking huge gasping breaths, she had clearly ran straight there.

"I-it's Lexie." she sighed

Meredith and Derek exchanged confused looks.

"Lexie is at my house April, she left a while ago."

April nodded her head violently at her.

"S-she's been attacked, Meredith." April's voice broke before she continued "Lexie's in trauma room one. It's really bad."

Meredith was wide awake now, with one last look at her husband she bolted toward the trauma room.

As they got closer to the room she spotted her sister's limp body lying on a gurney. She was being moved by Dr. Hunt and Dr. Bailey.

"Oh my god! Lexie!" Meredith was sobbing openly now as she tried to reach her sister, but Dr. Bailey blocked her.

"Dr. Grey you need to move, we got her stable. She's going to CT right now, then emergency surgery."

"I'm scrubbing in"

"You most certainly are not, right now you are not a doctor here, you are the patient's family. You can go sit out in the waiting room."

Meredith felt herself being pulled away, it was Alex. Meredith heard the Chief saying something or other to Derek, she wasn't listening anymore. Derek gave Meredith a quick kiss on the cheek before running to join the rest of the surgeons.

Meredith found herself sitting next to Alex, tears streaming shamelessly down her face. She couldn't believe it, her sister would soon be in emergency surgery. She had been attacked and now she might die. Lexie was family, in the past family didn't really mean much of anything to her, she didn't even like Lexie when they first met.

You're not a girl I ever wanted to have to know.

Upon remembering the words she had once spoken to her sister Meredith felt sick. She wished she could take it back. She had grown to love Lexie, with a pang Meredith realized that she had never once told her sister that she loved her, and now it could be too late.

"Alex?"

"Yeah?"

"W-what happened to my sister?"

"Someone tried to rape her" Meredith gasped but he continued "a couple of kids found her, they scared the guy away, by the looks of it she put up a really good fight."

"She's a Grey." Meredith whispered with the ghost of a smile on her face. Alex nodded before continuing.

"She'll be alright Mer."

"I hope so."

They sat in silence for a moment before Alex broke it to speak once more.

"Is anyone going to tell Sloan? He would want to be here."

Meredith nodded and stood up. She needed to get out of there anyway, she couldn't stand just sitting there not doing anything. She had to do something, anything. She would go tell him in person, a phone call didn't feel like enough for what her little sister was going through. She knew that Mark and Lexie weren't exactly on the best terms, but she also knew how much they loved each other. Meredith also knew that Mark would not take the news well, he would probably get in an accident rushing to the hospital. Yes, it would be best if she drove them. Meredith turned to face Alex before she left.

"I'll go get him, page me if anything happens."

He nodded and Meredith made her way to her car and drove to Mark's apartment.

Mark sat alone in his apartment staring blankly at the muted TV. He couldn't bring himself to care about anything. He was heartbroken, Lexie had slept with someone else. She had sex with Alex Karev, the thought of Karev being with Lexie and touching her in ways that only he was supposed to touch her, made Mark's blood boil. His fist clenched around his glass as he downed yet another drink.

Normally in a situation like this he would go to the nearest bar and go home with the first woman he saw, but this time was different. He didn't want anybody else, he loved Lexie. He only wanted to be with Lexie.

He was aware that he was being unfair, because he had also slept with someone else. It was different though, Lexie broke up with him, not the other way around. He was just trying to get over her, but it didn't work. Even Addison saw through him, she knew that he still loved Lexie, it's why she practically sent him back to Seattle. Mark was about to pour himself another drink when he noticed something in his peripheral. He put down his glass and reached for the object that was lodged between his couch cushions.

It was lotion. Lexie's lotion. She must've missed it when she moved out, this was the only remaining evidence that Lexie Grey had ever lived in that apartment. He missed her, he really did, so without a second thought he popped the cap off of the bottle and sniffed its contents.

Immediately Mark was flooded by memories of Lexie.

"Am I really so bad?"

Mark took once last look at the half-naked Lexie that stood in front him before quickly making his way to her, eliminating the space between them.

"No I am."

He captured her lips with his.

…

Mark couldn't believe what he was about to do. He never did this, he made it a rule not to. As he walked towards them he knew there was no turning back now. The strangest thing was he didn't want to turn back, he wanted to do this. For Lexie.

"Sorry I'm late." Lexie looked up at him wide eyed, clearly surprised. She turned to her father to introduce him.
"Ah, dad, this is um, Mark Sloan. Dr. Mark Sloan. He, he's my... ah..."
"Teacher?"
"Haha, no. No. He's my... he's Mark."

Lexie took his hand in hers and Mark knew he had made the right decision.

…

She was watching him in the mirror of the bathroom that they now shared, Mark raised an eyebrow at her and she smiled around her toothbrush.

"What?" he asked her as he spit the remaining toothpaste into the sink.

"Nothing" she replied as she mimicked him and rinsed her mouth out with water. She turned to smile at him again.

"I-It's just… I'm really happy, th-that we- uh that I moved in… here…with you."

Mark felt his face split immediately into a wide grin as he pulled her close to him.

"Me too, Little Grey. Me too."

He captured her lips with his own and kissed her deeply. Lexie's laughter could be heard throughout the otherwise silent apartment as she wrapped her legs around his waist and he carried her to their bed.

He closed the bottle and placed it on his coffee table. It wasn't making him feel any better. He missed her, a lot. He stared at the bottle and couldn't help but wonder why everything had to go so wrong. Why had she walked away from this? From them? As he sat there wondering what on earth had happened, then he realized something. It hit him like a ton of bricks.

He walked away from them too. Had she not come running up behind him earlier that night? Ugh. He cringed at the memory, she had slept with Alex. Still, she had told him, what was she doing? Was she just trying to clear her conscious and move on with her life or was she trying to rebuild their relationship honestly like he had intended? Was it possible that she still loved him too?

Maybe they still had a chance, Mark was not about to let it go to waste. He had fought for their relationship before, Lexie was worth it. She had made him a one-woman man. He was better because of her and he liked to think that he did the same for her.

It was decided, Mark was going to go over to Meredith's and make everything right with Lexie and he would bring her home. They would be happy again. Just as he was about to reach for his jacket, wallet and keys, he heard a sharp rap on the door. He turned to look at his door and he heard it again, but this time it was quicker, more urgent. Mark stood up quickly and made his way to the door and yanked it open. He was taken aback by what he found and Mark's heart dropped when he saw her red eyes and her tear streaked face.

"Meredith? W-what the hell happened?" Marks mind was going a million miles a minute. Why was she here, where was Derek? Something must've happened to his friend to have his wife show up at his door.

"Is-is it Derek? Meredith? What happened?" He led her to his couch and offered her some tissues and watched as she dabbed at her face and shook her head sadly. She looked up at him and he looked at her expectantly.

"It's Lexie."

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