You can run, but the past will catch up.

Chapter 4. Do you see what I see?

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Alex wakes up in a cold sweat.
'Where the hell am I?' She thinks as she slowly opens her eyes.
'Oh right. Hell.' She thinks when she smells the familiar smell of hospital.
"Glad to see your awake, again." Dr. Bailey says teasingly as she walks into the room.
"You have been out awhile, must be the pain meds." She says writing in the chart again.
Alex just looks at her. 'She hasn't changed at all.' She thinks with a smile. 'I've missed her.'
Her heart suddenly aches when she thinks of what everyone else must look like and how much she misses everyone.
'But do they miss me?' She thinks again sadly.
Meanwhile, Meredith Grey calmly approached the 2 distraught women in the hallway. She takes a deep, shuttering breath as she stand behind them.
"E-Excuse me." She says softly causing the 2 women to turn around. "I overheard that your looking for Lex-I mean Alexandra Danvers Grey?" She says.
"Yes. We are. I'm her sister, and this is her girlfriend, Maggie." Kara says with a welcoming smile.
Meredith's breath hitches.
'Sister? Girlfriend? Maybe it's not My Lexie?' She thinks.
"Nice to meet you. I'm Dr. Meredith Grey."
Kara's eyes widen. "Grey?" She asks.
Maggie looks confused. "Grey?"
Meredith nods her head. "Must be a coincidence." Meredith says with a forced laugh.
Maggie smiles hesitantly. "yeah must be."
Kara just looks at Meredith sadly.
"Let me escort you to her room." Meredith says leading them down the hallway to room 204, none of them knowing what to expect.
Alex stares at the ceiling, thoughts twirling about in her mind.
'I've worked so hard to build a new life and freaking accident puts me right back in the past' she thinks as a lone tear falls from her eye.
She's broken out of her thoughts by a soft knock on the door.
She slowly moves her head up to only cry harder tears as she sees Maggie and Kara.
Maggie rushes to her side and grabs her hand. "Hey beautiful" she says wiping Alex's tears away and kissing her forehead.
Alex laughs then winces in pain.
She turns her head and sees Kara standing next to her looking so scared to move closer.
Alex smiles softly at her and slowly lifts her hand and holds it out to Kara. Kara cries and takes Alex's hand and buries her face into her shoulder. Alex just smiles through the tears.
She glances between Maggie and Kara, the 2 people she loves the most and feels love flow through her.
She hears rustling and glances toward the door.
Her body tenses and her breath catches in her throat as they make eye contact. Meredith.
Meredith stands still, her knees locked and eyes filled with tears as she watches the 2 women rush to comfort...Lexie. It is Lexie. Her face is unrecognizable but Meredith would reconize those eyes, that laugh and that smile anywhere.
Lexie. Her Lexie is alive.
Meredith sees Lexie make eye contact with her and sees her entire body tense.
Meredith just smiles through her own tears.
Alex doesn't break eye contact with the woman at the door. Her sister.
Sobs flood Alex's body as she shakes her head over and over again in shock. Maggie and Kara both squeeze her hands and rush to her side in concern. Kara makes eye contact with Meredith already knowing why Alex is reacting this way.
Meredith stands still. Not knowing how to react. Meredith breaths out through her tears. "I'm-I'm sorry." She says as she walks out of the room and Sobs wrack through her body as leans against the wall outside. 'Oh my god' she thinks over and over again. 'Oh my god I can't be here right now, I need some air' she thinks as she stumbles to the elevator and makes her way outside into the fresh air where she continues to cry.
"Dr. Sloan. Dr. Bailey has a consult for you in room 204." A nurse at the nursing station says as she gives me the chart.
"Thank you very much Martha." He says with a wink.
'Alexandra Danvers Grey' he reads and nods. 'Tractor trailer accident. Serious Facial reconstruction needed' he reads again as he closes the chart and enters the elevator.
He exits the elevator to see Meredith Grey sobbing against the wall outside of room 204.
"What the hell?" He says to himself.
He's about to make his way over to her only to see her take off toward the elevator. He stands with his brow raised. 'Okay must be her monthly??' He thinks shaking his head and opening the chart.
"Okay, Alexandra Danvers Grey. Tractor Trailer vs. Taxi. Serious facial recognition needed." He reads as enters room 204 without looking up from the chart.
"Hi. I'm Dr. Mark Sloan, plastics."
He says walking over to the bed to stand in front of Alex. "And it's my job to fix your face" he says looking up at the girl on the bed.
His smile drops and his eyes furrow in confusion. He sees the short haired woman on the bed staring at him with tears leaking down her face and heaving breaths escaping her mouth and a scared yet concentrated look on her face. He rushes over to check her vital signs, responsive yet scared. He backs away confused. He then glances at the 2 women on either side of her who are continuing to squeeze her hands and trying to calm her down, both of them looking just as worried and concerned.
He turns and makes eye contact with the blonde woman in glasses on the left of Alex only to see her looking at him in realization and concern. "I'm going to assume your THE Mark Sloan." She says breathlessly. Maggie looks on confused and concerned. "Who?" She asks.
He furrows his brow again.
"Um. Yeah. That's me. You've heard of my work?" He asks.
"No. but I've heard of you." Kara says glancing down to Alex.
Mark looks back at the girl on the bed whose eyes haven't left his since he walked in. His breath hitches when he sees those eyes up close.
'Those brown eyes' he thinks. 'Only one person has ever had eyes that brown.' He thinks as he looks at her. 'Lexie. But she's. She died' he thinks. He leans down closer to her. Kara slowly backs away and watches, already knowing everything.
He continues to stare into her eyes and slowly grabs her hand that Kara abandoned.
"Lex?" He asks softly his voice cracking.
Maggie watches protectively.
Mark watches as those brown eyes fill with more tears and a sob escapes her mouth.
A small nod leaves her head and Mark releases a shuttering breath as he cries in disbelief.
"Lexie" he says as he softly and gently caresses her arm. He suddenly knows why Meredith was crying and he cries even harder as he squeezes her hand. 'She's alive. But how?' He thinks as he continues to cry.