hello all! so as always thanks for all your crazy awesome support! as of right now i'm not re-opening "moments" but i did want to post this, it's going to be a mini series (3 chapters-ish) i decided to make it it's own thing since it's not just a one chapter moment. hope you like it! :)

this is going to take place a few weeks-month after "how did we get here" ended

The First Meeting

"Ah!" Alexia squealed as Steve snuck up on her at work to scare her at the emergency room front desk. It had been a few months since not only Doris left the island but Wo Fat was also killed. While their family had their hectic days, things overall were much better now, feeling much safer. Julia and Lucy were doing great in school and Jack was growing fast.

"That was mean," Alexia laughed, though she did kiss him, with Steve taking her hand.

"Careful," her friend from work, Michelle, was joking. "She might mistake you for an escaped psych patient next time." She had seen Alexia have to punch a patient that got too physical before; seeing as who her husband was, it didn't come as a surprise she knew how to defend herself.

"Hey," Alexia said fake seriously. "We've talked about how sensitive he is about his time there." She and Michelle laughed.

"You're so funny," Steve made a face at her and she made one back.

"Seriously though," Alexia laughed. "What are you doing here?" She looked him over. "I'm not missing anything that needs stitched or x-rayed am I?"

"I came to surprise you after your shift," Steve told her with a smile. "I thought we could go get dinner."

"Where are the girls?" Alexia asked.

"With Danny," Steve answered.

"And the baby?" Alexia questioned now.

"Also with Danny," Steve replied and Alexia made a face.

"Poor Danny," she said.

"Aren't they your kids?" Michelle laughed from her seat.

"They're also his," Alexia nodded at Steve, then paused. "Well, two of them are," she bit her lip with fake concern.

"Hysterical," Steve told her, kissing her once.

"I'm gonna finish up with this and then we can go," Alexia motioned to her file in hand as she took a seat next to Michelle.

"K, I'm gonna run back to the bathroom real fast," he said, kissing her head and leaving the desk.

"Hey Steve!" she could hear the x-ray tech saying around the corner. "You're here and nothing's broken?" he was joking. Hearing that Alexia snorted a laugh as she finished writing up her notes on her last patient.

"Oh boy," Michelle murmured and Alexia glanced over at her in confusion. "Speaking of escaped psych patients." Alexia nudged her as she noticed who was coming into the ER now. In her first week back after having the baby she had treated a patient who worked construction and his foot got crushed while on the job. Some how, they were miraculously able to save it from having to be amputated. And every month on the date that he had come in, for the last three months, he came in to see her.

"Hi Dr. McGarrett," he said sheepishly.

"Hi Michael," she said politely.

"Oh look, flowers," Michelle was saying sarcastically and Alexia gave her a look.

"That's really nice of you," Alexia told him nicely. "But, we talked about this. You don't have to keep getting me these."

"But I want to, so I can thank you," Michael told her. "For saving my foot."

"I know," she nodded along. "But, it's not really appropriate. I'm your doctor," she emphasized. "And, we've also gone over..." She was saying this as she held up her left hand.

"Lex, you ready to go babe?" Steve was saying as he came back now. Alexia turned to him, feeling a little flustered; when she looked back Michael was already leaving. "Michelle's boyfriend?" he asked, noting the flowers; he wasn't sure what was going on.

"More like your wife's," Michelle said.

"What?" Steve asked in confusion.

"Look, a few months ago he came into the ER," Alexia was explaining. "I really helped him out, so now he does this every month," she nodded her head back at the flowers.

"Like it's their anniversary," Michelle smiled fakely. She clearly thought that it was weird and it was. She knew it made Alexia uncomfortable, but she wasn't making a big deal out of it for some reason. Michelle repeatedly told her if she just told Steve it would get taken care of.

"Don't you have someone to take care of?" Alexia half snapped at her friend. Michelle smiled sweetly at her, grabbing the flowers as she left and tossing them in the trash as was their routine.

"What is going on Lex?" Steve asked seriously.

"It is not a big deal," she insisted. "He just has a crush on me, that's all. I've told him it's inappropriate, everyone knows I'm married-"

"But he keeps showing up here?" Steve interrupted her.

"He's harmless," Alexia assured him. "Seriously, babe, people do this. Ok? I have moms that bring in brownies after we stitch up their kids, other people bring in candy, some people bring in flowers."

"Do any of these people do it more than once?" Steve asked now.

"Ok, Steve, really," Alexia said in exasperation. "Your head would explode if you knew how much I got hit on in this ER." Steve raised his eye brows at her. "That's not where I wanted to go with this," she said, not quite realizing what she was saying until she said it; she waved it off. "Can we just go to dinner?" She didn't wait for an answer as she turned to go.

"How much are we talking?" Steve asked as he followed her.


After dinner since they had two cars Alexia went home while Steve drove by Danny's to pick up the kids. Dinner was tense, with them not talking much at first, then once they did they were arguing. Steve didn't know why she didn't think this was a big deal, that he wasn't jealous but he was concerned. Alexia just wished that he could let things go, figuring he was so on edge because of everything that had happened in the last year.

"What's up with you?" Danny asked as he passed the baby to him.

"How was he?" Steve asked.

"Fine," Danny nodded. He always joked they were in for it once this kid started walking since he was Steve's son, but for now he was a really well behaved baby that made babysitting easy. "What's with you?"

"Are the girls upstairs?" Steve continued.

"I told them they could stay over if it was ok with you," Danny answered. "What's. Wrong."

"Nothing Danny," Steve said, adjusting Jack in his arm.

"You've got," Danny started off.

"If you start on my aneurysm face," Steve stopped him, already annoyed after tonight's events with his wife.

"Uh, that's actually more of your I'm gonna kill my wife face," Danny informed him.

"I don't have a," he started off but Danny was giving him a look. "There's this guy at the hospital that keeps coming in to see Lex."

"With...an emergency?" Danny questioned; Steve rolled his eyes.

"The first time," Steve told him. "But, now he keeps coming in to see her every month, and he's always bringing her stuff like flowers."

"Sounds creepy," Danny agreed. "But, if it was something to worry about I'm sure she would have told you, right?"

"She didn't tell me at all," Steve told him.

"So, he's not a stalker," Danny shrugged. "He just doesn't get we're too old to have a secret admirers."

"Yeah," Steve nodded.

"And, I mean, he saw you today," Danny continued, seeing that Steve wasn't convinced. "Right?" Steve nodded. "Do you think anyone is stupid enough to come near your wife after seeing she's your wife?" Steve gave a small smile, but Danny could tell there was still something bothering him. "We're sitting outside the ER in my car tomorrow, aren't we?"

"Probably," Steve nodded.


That night Alexia got home far before anyone else, figuring Steve would be at Danny's for a little talking. Whatever it started off as, she hoped that Danny helped talk Steve down, that this wasn't as big of a deal as Steve thought. She knew that it was odd behavior, but she refused to read into everything that happened especially after the year that they had.

It was starting to storm now, causing her to run up the driveway with her jacket over her head. With all the wind and rain she fumbled with her keys before rushing inside. While she had been hurrying to get out of the rain she hadn't noticed the flowers knocked off the porch from the wind. Though unrecognizable now, they were the same ones that she had previously tossed in the trash.

thanks for reading! i know it was kind of short (i wanted the second chapter to have more of the escalating stuff all together) but i hope you like it! i've been toying with this "lex having a stalker" idea for awhile so please let me know what you think! more soon! :)