How does lexie die on greys

Saying that he's not taking a side by refraining from messing around with Lexie, she says he clearly is. Then, Ava comes claiming she wants to see Alex perform surgery.

He finds her a pair of scrubs and allows her to sit on the observatory deck while he surgically removes a man's sternum with the help of Dr. Hahn and Dr. Lexie meets Ava and asks if she's here for Sloan, but Ava says no, she's here for Alex. To Mark, Lexie was "forbidden fruit", because she was Meredith's little sister and a "fetus", due to their large age gap. That's how she got her nickname Little Grey.

Lexie came up to Mark and told him that the other interns were trying to take their mind off their so-called secret intern surgeries by having sex, but instead, she wanted to learn and asked him to teach her. Mark thought this was inappropriate, but let her be on his service on "cappuccino duty". Later that day, Lexie came up to his hotel room, took off her clothes, and said, "Teach me". Mark and Lexie's relationship started to get troubled when Sloan Riley , Mark's pregnant year-old daughter, turned up at the hospital.

Despite having a distant relationship with Sloan, Mark grew to become a caring father for his daughter. Since she was not ready to be a good mother for her baby on her own, Mark offered her to move in with him permanently so they could raise the baby together.

Lexie confronted him and told him that she was not ready to start a family and be a grandmother yet. He begged her not to make him choose between his daughter and grandson and her, because, as Lexie figured, he'd choose for his daughter and grandson. This caused her to end the relationship with him.

After Mark and Lexie broke up, she began a short relationship with Alex when she moved back into Meredith's house. They hooked up that day since Alex was missing Izzie as well. The relationship did not last long, however, as Lexie soon got back together with Mark. Shortly before the shooting, Mark realized his feelings for Lexie. After Teddy broke things off with him, Callie told him that his jealousy was showing and was a sign he still loved her.

He confessed his love for her and told her that she should choose him instead of Alex since he would marry her. She didn't have much of a response since Alex interrupted Mark's confession.

Lexie told Alex she loved him, but Alex asked for Izzie, confused. After the shooting, Mark took care of her and told Callie that he wanted to marry Lexie, but she persuaded him not to go to Lexie and propose. Lexie went to find Mark but found him kissing Amelia Shepherd. Even though she tried not to, Lexie went to Joe's and kissed Mark, which starts their relationship again. When Lexie broke up with Mark, she was feeling hurt and started a relationship with Jackson until he realized that she obviously still had feelings for Mark.

Unwilling to wait for her, he broke up with her. When Meredith and Derek agreed that the solution to their relationship troubles was for Meredith to stop being on his service, Lexie took her place as his resident. Hence, Lexie spent a significant amount of time on Derek's service.

She was initially intimidated by Derek due to his exacting standards and quirks, once even asking Meredith to go "have sex with him and make him nicer.

Lexie and Derek tackled a number of hopeless cases together. She was on a plane that crashed with Meredith , Cristina , Arizona , Mark , and Derek , going to another hospital for surgery to separate conjoined twins. Suddenly, the back of the plane broke off and the plane crashed in the woods. A piece of the plane landed on top of her, crushing her pelvis and legs.

Separated from the others, who were in the front part of the plane, she used a belt and knocked it against the piece of plane crushing her. Meredith, Cristina, and Mark followed the sound and found her.

They concluded she was still awake and responsive, and an emotional Meredith went off to find Derek, who was still missing. Mark and Cristina tried to lift up the part of the plane, but without success. Lexie told Cristina her legs and pelvis were crushed and was doubtful if her left arm was still there.

Mark yelled at Cristina to go get fluids and oxygen tanks from the plane, and even though both she and Lexie realized that Lexie was dying, she left to get the supplies. While waiting for Cristina to come back, Lexie asked Mark to hold her hand and tell Meredith that she was a good sister.

She also wanted him to tell something to her father, but Mark refused as he didn't want to accept that she was going to die. After once again unsuccessfully trying to lift the part of the plane on his own, he realized there was nothing he could do for her, and he did take her hand.

He confessed that he loved her, and Lexie said that he didn't have to say it just because she did, but he insisted that he loved her. They fantasized about how they would get married and have kids, specifically a sister and two brothers, as siblings for Sofia.

Mark said she couldn't die, as they were supposed to end up together. He told her that they were meant to be. She then succumbed to her injuries, and a crying Mark closed her eyes with his one hand as he kept on holding her hand in his other hand.

Seconds later, Meredith and Cristina appeared and they mourned her death together. Together with the survivors, Lexie's body was taken out of the woods and transported back to Seattle. Cristina once told Owen about the nights in the woods, when she heard animals fighting and growling. She told him that she realized that they were fighting over Lexie's body and that she did her best to try and keep them off of her.

Lexie was among the spirits who visited Meredith on Day of the Dead. Lexie appeared on Meredith's beach while she fought for her life. Lexie was joined by Mark and together they tried to convince Meredith why she should keep living and not die. Lexie came to Seattle for her mother's funeral and after, she went to Joe's. Like her sister, she met her future brother-in-law Derek Shepherd there and later discovered he worked at Seattle Grace Hospital.

Voted student body president, Lexie was popular by both peers and teachers at school. Her photographic memory also made her one of the brightest in her class and not only made her a natural in the OR but also meant she knew all the periodic elements which she tells Mark Sloan when having a drink at Joe's bar. As an intern, Lexie was portrayed to be emotionally fragile and incapable of lying or covering up. She coped with her anxiety by rambling incessantly or snacking compulsively.

She was liked by the attendings for her knowledge and good instincts, but her residents generally treated her as a scut monkey or their encyclopedia. When Carolyn Shepherd came to Seattle, she asked Lexie how many sexual partners she had, to which she replied that she had six or seven. Lexie learned that George was repeating his intern year and helped him keep the other interns unaware of his failure.

She and George developed an unlikely friendship over intern struggles and their strained relationships with Meredith and Callie, respectively. Lexie was shown to have been smitten with George. Mark Sloan noticed this and vowed to be less mean to George if she'd admit her feelings to him.

As a result, Mark was slightly more polite to the two of them and George misunderstood, thinking Lexie and Mark were sleeping together. Lexie continued to vie for George's affections. George finally passed his intern exam and seemed to pay less attention to Lexie. The final straw occurred when he received his new interns and Lexie discovers he hadn't had the decency to even ask to have her assigned to him.

She broke down in front of him, calling herself stupid and him a jerk. Lexie chose to forgive George and made a peace offering, keeping her feelings for him quiet. As George was retaking his intern year and only Lexie knew, the two bonded and became best friends.

She also moved in with George but later moved out when she felt lonely. Mark then insisted that Derek take her home. While working with Mark Sloan, she developed an attraction, intensified by Derek's ban on them going out. Mark himself was initially reluctant out of loyalty to Derek, as she was the sister of his best friend's wife and their age gap.

One night, Lexie went to his hotel room, stripped and says " teach me ", they began a secret relationship. They grew close very quickly and Mark developed true feelings for her, but Lexie was tired of the secrecy and put their relationship on hold. Eventually, Mark told Derek and they began dating in public. Their relationship hit a small bump when Mark decided he did not want to go to dinner with her and Thatcher because fathers didn't like him, but in the end, he went.

Another slightly larger bump happened when he suggested she move in with him into a condo he was considering buying, but she didn't think she was ready because she was so young. The conversation turned intensely awkward when Mark accidentally brought up marriage.

Lexie told him that in five years she'd still be a resident, and he replied that there were plenty of residents that were married. When Derek performed a 'rogue surgery' on a patient with a highly complex "inoperable" spinal tumor and Lexie wanted to take part, Mark encouraged her with a huge smile and said " Go get your rogue on.

When Mark's year-old daughter, Sloan Riley arrives, she's supportive, even better than he was with dealing with it. But later on, she proves to have some difficulty when his daughter reveals she is pregnant and Mark offers to let her stay as long as she wants in him and Lexie will be there for her, entirely not consulting Lexie on the matter. And her being a grandmother at 26 is way too much for her to take, after an argument about it later, he asks her not to make him choose between her and Sloan his daughter Lexie asks " Why because you'll choose her?

She later discovers that Mark slept with Addison, and he discovers she slept with Alex. He becomes angry at her for this. Lexie began to date Alex after his divorce with Izzie. And now, based on the promo for the 10th episode of Season 17 titled "Breathe," it looks like Lexie will indeed be joining Meredith Grey on her mind's beach! According to the IMDb profile for Chyler Leigh , who played Lexie, she's taking a break from her current main role as Alex Danvers on Supergirl to have a chat with her half-sister in Grey's.

In Season 8, some of the Seattle Grace doctors traveled in a plane to Idaho to operate on conjoined twins. Lexie was among the doctors, but the plane crashed, leaving all of them stranded and fighting for their lives. Many understandably hope for her return on the beach now that Meredith was visited by so many fallen characters. And it looks like they will soon be able to see her return, if only for a night.

She died in season 3 after coding but has since made multiple cameos in flashbacks and dream sequences. Denny Duquette Jeffrey Dean Morgan , who was diagnosed with viral cardiomyopathy, came to Seattle Grace as a patient awaiting a heart transplant.

During his time there, he developed a romantic relationship with Izzie Stevens Katherine Heigl. Through his medical ups and downs, Denny finally was next in line for a heart, however, the donor flatlined.

In order to get Denny to the top of the donor list again, Izzie cut his LVAD wire, which forced her to manually pump his heart. After a successful transplant surgery and a proposal to Izzie , Denny ended up dying from a stroke in season 2.

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