The One That Got Away

Chapter 6

"ALEX!!" Sam screamed ! "No no no no no! Why is this happening??" She held Alex's hand, she seemed to be suffering. The monitors were beeping loudly as Alex's heart rate increased.

Kara used her x-ray vision to identify the problem. "Her ribs!! They pierced her lung! Probably from laughing too hard!"

"We have to get her to the OR right now! She can't wait any longer." Jo yelled to Webber and anyone who could hear her outside the room.

Some nurses came in the room to help. They took her to the OR as fast as they could. "I'm sorry, you can't come in here, it's a restricted area."

Kara and Sam both stopped and looked at the doctors running down the hallway. Ruby was now crying, hugging Sam's side. "Don't worry. Alex's a fighter! She'll make it." Kara said to Sam who started crying too.

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Alex was asleep on the operating table, and Wilson was preparing everything before they opened her up. Richard, him, was cleaning his hands next the the OR watching Wilson through the window.

Sudently Meredith came into the room. "Hey Richard, a nurse paged me saying you needed help. What you got?"

Richard freaked out instantly. He started stuttering in a non understandable way. At one point he saw Wilson in his peripheral view, she hid Alex's face and nodded to him. "Woman in her early thirties, motorcycle crash a few weeks ago, her ribs perfored her lung causing internal bleeding. We have to replace her ribs correctly."

"Okay, I got this. Let's prepare!" Meredith said as she started getting ready to operate.

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"Thank God! They got close to a catastrophe." Kara said putting her glasses back.

"What happened?" Sam asked confused with Ruby still hugging her.

"Meredith came into the room but they had time to hid her face. Good point, she's got the best general surgeon taking care of her now." Kara still looked in the OR from time to time, checking in on her sister.

"Kara's right you know. Alex is a fighter, she will make it." Ruby tried to reassure her mother.

"Thanks Rubs!" The statement really helped Sam relaxing.

"So.... We never really talked about it but..... You and Alex! How long have you had a crush on her?" A smile appeared on the corner of Kara's mouth.

A blush came instantly to Sam's cheeks. "Oh.. Well.. I don't know for Alex but me, it was a little before the whole Reign thing. She's always been so considerate with me. I..I think I love her you know?" Kara smiled at the comment. "Maybe it's too soon but I really do!"

"Love's never too soon Sam. I can tell she really matters to you."

Ruby looked at the interaction between the two. She left without them noticing.

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"Oh god, I can't see anything! There's too much blood." Meredith said clearly annoyed. "We're gonna have to open more."

"You're right, we can't do anything like that. Wilson! Clear the area so we can open." Webber was aspirating all the blood he could.

"I'm on it. You! The intern! Go get more blood, she's loosing it too fast." Wilson started clearing Alex's upper belly.

"All those scars! They're clearly not from the incident. What happened to her?" Meredith asked confused.

"She's a detective in a dangerous city." Webber blurted out suspiciously fast.

"Well the scars I see on her forarms are clearly not accidents. Doesn't look like mutilation thought, that's weird. Looks like she had sutures." Meredith pointed out.

Webber then remembered the incident when Lexie was still an intern. Her and her friends had trained on each other.

" Oooh, looks like someone got a nice tatto-" Meredith stopped moving. She recognized the little tattoo. Lexie had the same, she got a stupid little heart tattooed for Mark. "That's... That's Lexie's tattoo? Wait, impossible. That must be a coincidence."

Meredith tried focusing back on the surgery but she couldn't. She tried looking at Alex's face to reassure herself, but someone had hid it. "Why can't I see her face? WHY DID SOMEONE HID HER FACE?"

"Meredith calm down! You have to foc-"

"WHY DID YOU HIDE HER FACE? SHOW ME HER FREAKING FACE RICHARD!" Meredith completely lost control.

Richard took the towel off of her face, letting Alex's face showing. "Meredith... I can expla-"

"Lexie......... I have to save her!" Meredith was in a complete state of panic. She started having flashes of the plane crash. "I can't let you die Lexie! Not again!"

Half of the nurses were looking at Meredith in shock and silence as Webber and Wilson helped her operating.

Webber looked up, in the observatory and saw someone leaving in a hurry.

Ruby had witnessed the whole scene.

" MOM! KARA! " Ruby yelled, running back to Sam and Kara.

"Ruby? Where have you been? We were starting to worry." Sam said concerned.

"That's Alex! I snuck in and found the OR."

Sam immediately forgot the incident, her mind went to Alex. "Alex? What happened? Is she okay?"

"Alex is okay, but not Meredith. She found out about Alex, she's completely freaking out."

"How did she found out?" Kara asked kinda panicked.

"Apparently, Alex has a little tattoo on her belly."

"That little heart? I didn't think about it. She told me it was caprice from when she was younger." Sam said realizing the gravity of the situation. "Kara! Can you look if everything is going alright?"

"I'm on it!" Kara took her glasses down to use her x-ray vision. "Everything seems fine. Whatever happened, I think they chose to take care of her first."

"What are we gonna tell Meredith? And Alex too? What are we gonna do?" Sam asked thinking about all the problems they had now.

"I don't know yet. Alex has to be the one talking to Meredith. Not us."

There it is! Posting at 00h30, it's gonna be an habit now hahahaha.
LOVE!