✔︎ TOO SWEET - Lexie Grey (1)

14. SAVE HIM

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Mark and I were in the middle of making out when my phone rang for the second time. "Ignore it" Mark commanded, but something was telling me to pick it up. "Mark I can't it's the second call i need to atleast see who it is" I explained.

I flipped open my phone and it revealed my sister's name. "Hello?" I answered the phone, quickly pressing a finger to Marks lips to shush him. "Char" she said softly, it sounds like she'd been crying. "Yeah what's up Ad??!" I questioned now very alarmed.

    "Somethings wrong with Archer, he has Neurocysticercosis, meet us at Seattle Grace immediately" Addie explained and my jaw dropped. "Okay Addie I'm on my way!" I jumped out of bed. "I love you Charlie see you there" She closed. "Bye Ad I love you too" I replied hanging up.

"We have to go" I informed mark putting my clothes back on. "What? What's going on?" He asked, eyes widened. "Somethings wrong with Archer, we have to go to the hospital" I explained the best I could in my state of panic. "Alright I'll drive, are you ready?" He asked now dressing himself as well. "Mhm" I replied briefly not wanting to waste a single breath.

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Addie climbed out of the ambulance and I immediately ran to hug her. "Don't worry," Richard tried to reassure us but we were clearly a mess, "we already got an ICU bed all ready for him." Nobody wants to hear their brothers getting a bed in the ICU.
   

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    Addie, Naiomi and I were talking to Bailey by Archers room while Derek examined him. "How is he?" Addison asked when Derek exited his room. "He's groggy, his eyes are open, but I don't think he's awake because he hasn't tried to kill me yet!" Derek explained, "their brother hates me."

    "People pick sides in a divorce Derek!" Addie scoffed. "He picked sides in the marriage" Derek continued. Classic Addison and Derek, it will never get old.

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    Meredith was taking a shift examining my brother when Naomi busted out in song, Addison and Dereks love song to be specific. She didn't knowexactly who 'this Meredith girl' was, leading her to not notice she was in the room with us.

    Let me tell you though, the song sounded a lot better when I was at the wedding taking back shots with Amelia half way to blacked out. Talk about one hell of a hangover.

    "Greatest love song of all time!" Mark cheered walking in. "Are you at the part yet where Derek rhimes gross anatomy class with Addisons fine ass?" He asked and earning a playful smack from me. "Hey!" I scolded. "My bad! I was just signing the song!" He justified himself. "Mhm" I felt the edges of my mouth curve into a smile.

    We were all trying with all of our might to convince Arch to get the surgery while Mark kept making jokes. "You know Mark you're really not helping right now!" Addie scoffed, frustrated and scared. "Come here and be good" I ordered him. "We were just trying to convince him surger-" Addison started. "Is not an option" Derek interrupted.

    "According to these scans the single cyst that you had on your last CT has now multiplied by 8 all clogging the third ventricle" Derek explained, "there's no way I could surgically navigate through a nest like that without rupturing one of them."

    So what does that mean? Addie questioned. "you're in a room full of doctors Addison who are all being very quiet right now" Archer paused "I'm going to die that's what it means." "Don't say that Arch" I begged tears welling in my eyes. "I'm so sorry" Derek sympathized.

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     Mark and Mer spent like 50 minutes trying to convince me to eat while Addison was talking to Der. "No i can't!" I begged in between sobs. "Ci you didn't eat all day yesterday or since lunch the day before you need to eat" Mer plead. "Yeah Char please can you try?" Mark begged.

    I have a bad habit of not eating whenever i get busy or stressed out or upset. It's not like I have an eating disorder or something but I just feel so sick.

    "Cici you need to eat baby, it won't do anyone a bit of good for you to rot by Arch's bed all day" Mark said pushing the hair out of my face. "Fine" I agreed and we all walked to the cafeteria.

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     "You want soup?" Mark asked. "I don't really want anything" I cried. "I'll take that as a yes" Mer replied, "ill stay with her you go get it"

    "Here Char" he placed the bowl in front of me. "Thanks" I acknowledged his effort. "Eat it" he instructed putting the contents on the spoon and feeding it to me.

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     We made it back to Archs room and Derek announced he had a plan. This has got to be good.

    "All right Archer i need to create room in the ventricle so i can maneuver the scope, if i deflate each cyst the scope can remove them one by one" Derek explained. "The cysts will rupture" my brother stated. "Im gonna grab each one with forceps and pull it up to the edge of the port and suction out the fluid" Derek evaluated his concern. "The suction would have to be precise" Arch kept coming up with reasons why not. "It will be!" Derek argued.

    "You can't do it" Archer concluded. "Well i think i can" Der remarked. "So basically you can control the way the cyst ruptures?" Addie clarified. "No he can't!" Arch retaliated.

    "Coward!" Derek called. "Excuse me?" He questioned. "I said coward. You're a coward by trade you're a neurologist. You guys feed off us refer your patients to us. Let us assume the responsibility and if god forbid something happens well i tell you what I can assume the responsibility, the question is can you?" Derek closed.

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    Ultimately Dereks convincing worked and he agreed to the surgery. They got started and we all were sat in the gallery.

    They were on the last one when the last one it ruptured before they could get it out.

    They finally found the last worm. He should be alright. My brother's going to live.

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    "Let's get you home and to bed" Mark said seeing me sleeping on the chair in Arch's room. "I thought you wanted to go to Joes with everyone else" I asked.

    "Bub I'd rather be with you and I know you won't sleep if I'm out" He recalled. He knows everything about me oh my gosh. "Alrighty" I replied and he picked me up taking me to the car.

    "It's so crazy how everything can change in 10 years, huh?" I thought staring at the celling. "Yeah It was good to see everyone though" he remarked. "I miss Amy" I curled up against him. "I know you do" He pulled me in. "I should call her sometime."