You know I dreamed about you
for twenty-nine years before I saw you
You know I dreamed about you
I missed you for twenty-nine years

(The National - Slow show)

ALEX

It was another wet grey dreary Seattle morning. Alex sighed as he made his was in to work through the busy downtown rush hour traffic. Loosely gripping the steering wheel as his car slowly came to a stand still. He put his hand up to his mouth to yawn, when something directly in front of him suddenly caught his eye. Through the violent swinging of his windscreen wipers, his eyes settled on the larger than life face of a beautiful blonde model staring back at him from the huge 'Bethany Whispers' advertising billboard. She was hot. Damn hot.

She was scantily dressed in a black lace lingerie set, showing off her impressive, perfectly shaped breasts, toned stomach and long tanned legs. Alex found himself memorized as he gazed straight up in to her wide, dreamy come to bed eyes, that seemed to be looking directly at him. Her image was pretty much near on flawless, her long glossy blonde hair falling seductively in waves over her face, her lips full and glossy, looking more than ready to whisper a multitude of erotic thoughts to him. He continued to study the image, as a strange sensation came over him. It wasn't just that the model was super hot and he was feeling particularly horny that morning. There was something about her face, her eyes in particular, that got completely under his skin, like she had him under a spell. She was beautiful in a unique way that he had never seen before and he felt an uncontrollable pull to her.

Hearing the loud sound of a car angrily beeping him from behind, Alex was quickly snapped back in to reality as he turned his eyes back to the road ahead, embarrassed that he'd been so effected by a stupid lingerie advert. They were designed specifically to have that effect on men and he was obviously particularity vulnerable to it that morning, seeing as he hadn't had sex for well over four months.

...

Alex had known for quite some time that he had to change his ways. But it was only when the latest intern that he'd been sleeping with had broken down in tears in the middle of the hospital at his harsh brush off, that Dr Robbins his boss and Head of Paediatrics had called him in to her office to give him a stern but friendly warning. "Stop sleeping with the interns, Alex, because you ruin them. Pick one and make it work, or leave them all alone."

Alex had known then that his professionalism was being called in to question and that he had no choice but to try and put a stop to his promiscuous ways. Besides which he was getting bored of screwing immature interns anyway. He was well aware he was on the wrong side of thirty and although he would never admit it, Alex was starting to get a little lonely, and his life felt almost as though it was lacking in meaning. He'd just got a great promotion to work towards Paediatric Fellow, he'd bought a new house and car and he really felt that he was at a stage now in life where he actually wanted to settle down and share all that with someone.

All his friends were settling down around him. Out of his closest four friends from his original intern group, Meredith and Cristina were both married now, Meredith with a baby. George had just got engaged to his long term girlfriend, and even Jackson was now really loved up and had recently moved in with his girlfriend and Alex knew it wouldn't be long before he proposed too. If Alex was honest he wanted all that too. But in his heart he'd kind of given up on the idea that he would ever find his 'person' to have that kind of happiness with. So it was easier to play the part of the 'man whore', the guy that sleeps with everyone and doesn't care. When in reality with each day that passed, Alex was feeling more and more as though something was very clearly missing from his life.

...

As Alex made his way through the hospital entrance, he simply couldn't get the image of the 'Bethany Whispers' model out of his head, fantasising about what it would be like to actually sleep with a woman like that. Her perfect symmetrical features imprinted in his memory, as he thought about her dream body, her hypnotic gaze and enigmatic smile. She was near on his perfect woman.

He darted it to one of the hospital shops to quickly buy a chocolate bar to eat before his rounds and there she was again, staring at him dreamily from the front cover of a glossy magazine. Without thinking about what he was doing he quickly picked it up and placed it down on the counter to pay for with his chocolate bar. Shoving it straight in to his bag as he walked out, feeling like a horny teenage boy again.

...

After he'd finished his pre-op rounds Alex made his way to grab a coffee, just as his pager beeped. He glanced down at it, to see an emergency was on it's way in, he was needed immediately in the ER.

"Okay, what have we got?" Alex said as he rushed up to greet the paramedics as they wheeled a terrified looking young girl, fitting violently, in to a vacant cubicle.

"Sarah Stevens, collapsed at school this morning, having seizures and experiencing loss of breath and vision." The paramedic said to Alex.

"Okay, Sarah, I'm Dr Karev. I'm just going to listen to your chest a minute, I need you to try and keep still." Alex said calmly as the girl shook violently in front of him.

"My Mom, where is my Mom?" She said as she sobbed.

"The mothers on her way in." A nurse leaned in and said quietly to Alex as he continued to examine the girl.

"Your mother will be here shortly, until then I need you to keep very still and try not to panic." Alex repeated, as the girl nodded, still shaking violently.

"Okay, we need to check blood straight away and then we'll need to get parental permission to run some further tests to see what's been causing theses seizures...Where the hell is the damn mother?" Alex muttered gruffly to an intern that had come across to shadow him. He then looked back at the girl, she had stopped crying and fitting and was sat up with her arms folded across her chest. She was very pretty, with long silky blonde hair pulled back in to a messy ponytail and big wide chocolate brown eyes that looked eerily familiar. He opened his mouth to say something to her, just as a tall blonde woman came rushing towards them, barging straight past Alex and over to the girl.

"Mom." The girl said as her face broke in to a relieved smile.

"Sarah, Sarah. Oh, baby, thank goodness you're okay. I was so worried, I got here as fast as I could." The woman said as she threw her arms around the girl.

"Excuse me, Ms Stevens." Alex said impatiently, as he stood watching the woman with her daughter.

She then quickly turned around to face him and Alex immediately felt as though the air had been completely sucked out of his lungs. He couldn't say anything he could only stare at her, stunned. It was her, the woman from the 'Bethany Whispers' ad, stood directly in front of him. Looking every bit as hot in the flesh as she had in her picture.

As their eyes locked together it was as though the world stood still for a second as he felt a surge of arousal and adrenaline rocket through him with the instant attraction. She was beautiful, but it was more than that, she was so familiar, he felt as though he'd known her face his whole life. It felt like her being stood there with him, was the most natural thing in the world.

Neither of them spoke for a moment, as the woman suddenly said softly. "Do I know you?"

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