Lexie walked through the hospital as she got on with her shift, she stopped to talk to Jade Vega who had just checked on a paitent, as she stood at one end of a corridor her eyes met the one and only Astrid Sloan, the two women's eyes met and a small smile appeared on both of their faces. The same question ran through both of their minds and that was 'who is she'

Mark drove us to the hospital and I dashed off leaving my bag in the trunk of the car. I practically ran in through the doors and right into my boyfriend.

"Ash' slow down your going to injure yourself or someone else." Alex said.

"I'm sorry Alex' I'm running late. Gotta get changed into my scrubs like now!" I said really fast as I struggled to catch my breath.

"Hey, calm down. Breath in and out. Pace yourself!" Alex said to me as he held my hands, slowly I breathed in through my nose and out through my mouth as I calmed down from the panicked mode I had gotten myself into.

"Right come find me after the surgery, I'll buy you a coffee and we can talk" Alex said softly to me, I nodded as he cupped my face and leant in, our lips interlocking as we kissed.

"I love you" I said quietly after we had pulled away.

"I love you too Ash' now go, save some lives" Alex said kissing me once more before once again I ran off, up the stairs almost falling face first up the last couple of steps while making an absolute fool of myself. I stood up straight and then finally made my way into the locker room where I quickly changed into my scrubs. I then practically ran to OR 2 where Meredith was waiting for me.

"I'm sorry, bumped into Alex on the way in, I was a complete mess so he calmed me down" I said panting while I leant against the door, the flu I had really took it out of me, I would never usually be this tired after a little bit of running.

"It's fine; Mrs Wilkinson understood, she said she knows what having toddlers is like and you couldn't help being unwell" Meredith reassured me while the pair of us began scrubbing in.

"I swear the last month has just been one of us being sick, it's been the worst experience of my life, I had hardly any energy but mark and Alex were a godsend, especially with Echo" I admitted as we went into the operating theatre.

"Let's do this" I said to myself like I always do before I begins surgery, it's something I have to do, for myself to feel ready for surgeries.. the surgery was around 3 hours long but it was going to save Mrs Wilkinson in the long run

3 hours later

Three long hours later Mrs Wilkinson was back in recovery, i scrubbed out and leant against the wall outside of the operating theatre, a small yawn escaping my lips, i not only was feeling a little tired I felt sick, it reminded me of when I was pregnant with Echo, I would come out of surgery's feeling sick, but I couldn't be pregnant could I?.

"You okay; you don't look yourself" Meredith asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine, probably just need a caffeine fix" I shrugged not wanting to tell anyone apart from Alex; he would be the father after all.

"Go get coffee, I'll page you when Mrs Wilkinson wakes up" Meredith says and I thank her before walking off. I took to the stairs looking for Alex.

"Where the heck is that boyfriend of mine" i grumbled after looking. Another wave of sickness rolled over me so I took a moment to myself, I was stood at a end of the corridor of the cardio ward when I saw someone, I didn't know who she was but she was gorgeous, the smile she had on her face gave me butterflies and I just wanted to know who she was. Why didn't I feel this way when I saw Alex. Our eyes met for a brief second and I noticed a small smile appear once again.

"Who is she" I thought to myself before deciding to find her later and ask who she was, or ask Jade who she was seeing as she was the one talking to this mysterious woman; for now I had to find Alex and that was being a mission itself; it was like he had dropped off the face of the earth.

"Hey Em' have you seen Alex. I need to see him" I exclaimed as I found my best friend.

"Last time I saw him he was in the pit." Emma told me

"Girl your a life saver, thank you" I said quickly hugging my best friend and kissing her cheek.

"It can't exactly be a life or death situation can it?" Emma asked.

"Not really but hey I can make it feel like it" I joked which made Emma laugh too.

"I'll see you later. Echo wants to see her Auntie Emma if your free tonight before her bedtime" I half asked half pointed out.

"Of course I can come round before bed time, I haven't had cuddles from her in so long" Emma said

"Ok, I'm going now." I said and headed off to find my boyfriend. I headed to the pit where I saw Alex, it was rather empty today but I wasn't going to say anything out loud; I'd probably jinx it.

"Alex can I borrow you a moment, in the hall please" I said to Alex quickly who looked at me looking conserned.

"What's wrong?" Alex asked me I bit my lip gently.

"Alex I think I might be pregnant. I wanted to tell you first before I take a test" I tell him anxiously.

"What makes you think your pregnant" Alex asked and I bit my lip.

"When I was pregnant with Echo, I'd come out of theatre feeling sick, I haven't had a period in two months, I thought i was just stressed and then I put it down to being unwell, but the only time it stopped was when I was really sick during my teenage years" I complained.

"You go do a test" Alex tells me and I nodded, I gave him a quick kiss before leaving. I wasn't going use hospital resources so I quickly got some tests, two, like I did when I had Echo. I paced the toilets I waited for the test results to come back.

Positive
Negative

I read both tests while one said positive the other one said negative. I frowned, now this hasn't helped me one bit. I wrapped the two tests up and slipped them into the trash can. I went to find Adam, he was five dies done to know when I was pregnant with Echo, he ran the test then so I needed him now.

"Adam where are you?" I asked after dialling his number, I wasn't up to running round the hospital to find him.

"I'm in the locker room. What do you need" Adam asked while on the phone.

"Stay their. I'm coming to you." I said then i hung up, I took off to the locker rooms to talk to one of my best friends, a wave of sickness came over me and i leant over the trash can which was on the way to the elevator, as I approached the elevator I was curious to the woman I had seen earlier, her smile replaying in my brain, I wanted to know who she was but why was I feeling like this..

I was happy with Alex, wasn't i, But if I was happy with Alex then why was I thinking about this mystery woman who i don't even know... maybe I wasn't as happy as I thought I was but I couldn't think of that now, not when I might be pregnant with Alex's baby.