Title: Unconscious Reality
Author: LoveSupernaturalFreak
Pairing: Lexie/Mark
Rating: T
Summary: AU. Lexie Grey and her best friend Jo Wilson is starting their internship at Seattle Grey Hospital and has to face many obstacles. When tragedy strikes Lexie's sense of reality starts to shift and she doesn't know anymore what is real or not.
Disclaimer: All copyrighted material in this story belongs to their respectful owners.

Author's Note: This is a Grey's Anatomy and Ghost Whisperer crossover from Lexie Grey's point of view. Some of Ghost Whisperer characters will appear later on in the story and most of the Grey's characters are already in. I really hope you like it.

Lexie POV

It is early Tuesday morning and the biggest move I have ever made. Seattle Grace Hospital internship, I was going to be a doctor. Last night was rough, I had this whole night planned out of getting into bed early so that I won't oversleep, but Jo had other plans.

Throughout our university years it was all about studying and when the next test would be, we had fun though, geeking around. We met a few years ago in one of our medical classes. She has one messed up background, and I a messed up family, so we helped each other through it all. Luckily all the hard work paid off and we graduated alongside each other. Got an old, little messed up, two bedroom apartment with open plan living space and kitchen. We made it work for us because we didn't have a choice. She lived in her car throughout her high school years to save money for medical school, or at least that is what she told me. When she got high grades and stood first in our class with receiving an academic award, she sold the old wreck and bought a scooter. I on the other hand, got my mother's old car, sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't, but it always had that new duck tape smell to it.

So, last night Jo thought we should kick it off with a drink or two at a local pub and then dancing. Ten drinks later we were dancing on the bar and didn't need to go to the club, until they asked us to leave, and that was where things got all fuzzy. We made it home save though… I think.

My alarm should have gone off by now. I can still smell the tobacco in my hair and the taste of tequila in my mouth. Oh yeah, tequila, Jo kept making 'Tequila Mocking Bird' jokes last night, but I don't think she got it right. Oh gosh, was the sun always this bright? Yes, yes I believe it was. I might as well get up if I want to look anything close to representable today. What the… why is there duck tape in my hair? And why is it pink? This is going to hurt; I can see it now, better deal with it later. Were the hell is Jo? I can't remember if she came home with me last night, or it might just be my crazy dream fogging my memory. I remember that it was very vivid and for someone who hasn't been in a falling building, my mind has put in a lot of details.

I can smell smoke, chocking on concrete dust and screams of horror barely breaking through the constant ringing in my ears. It felt like I was suffocating, forcing all of the air out of my lungs.

As I rubbed my hands over my face trying to get rid of the horrible dream, I forced myself up from the bed, I began searching for Jo. "Jo?" O that was loud, "Jo, where are you?" I wobbled out of bed with a killer headache. "Don't scream, too loud." I heard coming from the living room. We had old wooden floors that creaked as you walk on it.

"Time to get up." I said opening up the curtains in the living room then a burst of sunlight came into the room. After I have focused my eyes, I could see the room again and Jo passed out on the beat up couch we have. Her shoes were on the coffee table and she looked like a mess, even worse than me.

"Don't. Too much sun. Ahhh, are you trying to kill me?"

"You know you have a bedroom right? With a comfy bed and everything, just around the corner." I said while trying to help her up.

"Yeah, but it was too far. What the hell happened last night?" She tried to focus her eyes on me. "And what is with the pink duck tape?" She said looking at me out of one eye, or at least I thought she was looking at me.

"I don't know, but we need to get our asses up if we want to get through today." I made my way to the kitchen to see if we have any clean mugs left. It has been a rough week, we moved in about a week ago. We went on a vacation to my grandmother's old lake house, just to relax and get ready for the year that is about to come.

"Oh crap right, almost forgot about that. What time is it?" She tried to walk to the counter that was in the middle of the two rooms, almost like separating the two, but I could see that she was very sore.

That was actually a good question. I haven't looked at a watch since last night, or was it this morning? I looked at the watch that I never took off last night, it's a bit dirty now, but luckily it still works. "We still got time, it's 20 past six and we need to be there at 8 o'clock."

"Oh good, time for a nap." She said while making her way back to the couch to go lay down again and try to sleep. I rushed over to grab her arm just before she could fall down, "No, none of that, we worked our butts of get this far and we are not going to mess it up now. Get up and go take a shower!"

"Yeah, you're right. I'll go and you make coffee, okay? Now just help me to the shower and I'll be good." She said with a smirk. After helping her to the shower and the taking some pain pills, I made coffee that had never tasted so bad before. Not sure if it was because of the taste of tequila still in my mouth or because the sour milk.

"We're out of milk!" I called out to Jo who just got out of the shower. "When were we in it?" She said coming around the corner.

I just gave her a confused look, "I'm not sober yet." She said. "Yeah I can see that, your top is on backwards" she looked down to see if it really was on backwards and then gave a shrug. "Ah man, do you know how hard I struggled to get into it, but you know this time it isn't my bra." She said giving me a grin.

"We need to move it, I'm going to take a shower and then we have to go, luckily the hospital is not that far." I said while making my way to the bathroom. "Yeah, are we going with my scooter?" Jo asked. "No, it'll be too late when we get back so, my car will have to do."

"Okay, but first give it its duck tape back, or it won't start." She said laughing and then I just heard Jo whining in pain while cursing the chair. She must have bumped her toe again. She always bumps it, but never moves the damn thing.

Chapter 1

We made it to Seattle Grace just in time for the introduction. From what I could see, we were more than a handful of interns from all over the state; they didn't look very bright though. Seattle Grace topped last year as the best teaching hospital and they only took in the best to follow in their shoes, and it was very big footsteps.

"I am Dr Bailey. I will be your Gandalf and the damn golden ring. You do as I say and when I say it, understood?" I could not see where this female's angry voice was coming from but that it came from the front. As I shuffled a bit closer, I could see this short woman looking at us like we were rats, with her nose all wrinkled up like she smelled something bad. I could tell that this was going to be a very long year.

"You don't like interns, do you?" I overheard Chief Webber asked Dr Bailey. "No, they are just like babies, complain about everything and think they know everything. The only difference is that babies are cute, that is why we don't eat them." Then she looked at us with her nose wrinkled up again and said "but they aren't cute" and then she walked away.

Jo and I just stick together, me making notes like always and Jo looking for the cute male doctors. She pinched my arm and pointed to a doctor "What is with the hair?" Jo asked. I just shook my head when another girl interrupted and said that she heard that they call him McDreamy. We just looked at her; she had long blond hair and a mouse like face, then she realized that she didn't introduce herself, "Oh sorry, I'm Leah." We exchanged names and so forth, when Bailey started talking again.

"Are you coming or do you need a damn invitation?" She said to us as she walked away, it was more like wobbled, but I won't say that out loud, ever. We all speed walked after her as fast as we could without making a big scene or pushing her. As we all walked through the hospital, we stopped in an operating room with a window at the top, "They call that a gallery, where other doctors sit and observe." I told a girl called Stephanie that was standing next to me. She just looked at me like I was in high school all over again. Knowing too much for my own good.

"I have five rules." Dr Bailey started talking again "Memorize them. Rule number one: Don't bother sucking up. I already hate you, and that's not going to change. Rule number two: You have pagers…the nurses will page you and YOU answer those pagers on a run! Rule number three: If I'm sleeping DON'T wake me unless the patient is actually dying. Rule number four: When I get there the dying patient better not be there when I get there. Do you have it!"

Wait a minute, I only counted four. "Excuse me" I said from the back. "Who the hell said that?" Dr Bailey barked back in my direction. As I walked to the front I realized I may have made a mistake to correct her, "I'm Lexie Grey, you said five rules, and there was only four." As I said it I could see that she was irritated now, I'm so dead now. She walked closed to me and looked at me with her big brown eyes, they were actually beautiful, but I don't think that is what she wanted me to notice. More the fact that it was a hard, cold stare.

"Rule number five." She yelled past me, "When I MOVE – YOU MOVE!" And she walked out of the room. Jo gave me a look and we were first out after her. Later on in the hall way past the nurses desk, Leah kept trying to ask a question "What is an on-call room?" As I looked back to her, I could see her pointing at the sign next to the door. "An on-call room is a place where you sleep while you are on-call, and nothing else, do you get that!" Dr Bailey said with a stern voice while walking back to Leah's direction and pointing at her, "No pajama parties, no pillow fighting and also no sex!" As she said that I could see past her a male doctor stopping in his tracks with a female nurse beside him, and they were looking very suspicious, then they looked at each other and walked away in different directions.

Our final stop of the tour is the locker room. The room was filled with rows of lockers with benches in front of them. Jo's and mine were next to each other like always. We received our lab coats, and then Jo grabbed my arm. "This is what we worked for, finally!" She said with delight in her eyes and I just smiled and toke her hand and gave it a squeeze. The day has finally come where I am Dr Lexie Grey; I'm trying my best not to get emotional now. "So, have you seen your sister yet?" Jo asked curiously. "No, and I don't even know if I want to, we have never met."

My father was married before he and my mother got together. He has an older daughter. All I know about her is that she is also a doctor at this hospital and that her name is Meredith Grey. I have always wondered what she was like, and now I don't even know if I should introduce myself.

As we all got changed into our scrubs, our pagers went off. We were needed at the emergency entrance. Everybody ran out in the same direction, I could see a few of the other interns taking the wrong turn. Luckily I have a photographic memory, and I memorized the chart of the building at the entrance, when we came in, so Jo and I was sorted. We made the entrance in about a few minutes, with the rest following minutes later.

"What happened?" I could hear a shout of someone pushing me out of the way.

"Big sinkhole." A man said, "I think there was a building that collapsed into it." He continued, only glancing in her direction. "Oh, 007 you're still here I see." She replied back to him. "Yang, get your butt over here and help me with the interns." Dr Bailey said to the woman who pushed me.

"Each of you will be put into teams with a resident who would be responsible for you." Dr Bailey shouted at us. "I'm here, I'm here!" A light brown headed woman came rushing past us to Dr Bailey.

"Grey, finally! We could not cope without you, the world is ending!" Dr Bailey said to her.

Grey. Her name is Grey. That is Meredith Grey. My sister. I think I'm going to have a panic attack. "She looks nothing like you." Jo whispered in my ear. And it was true, of what I could see so far, no resemblance. I have dark brown hair and she is almost blond, but we do have different mothers though.

"George, what happened?" Meredith asked the man that was standing next to Dr Yang. "Yeah O'Malley give us the lowdown." another man said coming from behind Dr Bailey, it was the doctor I saw in the hall with the nurse, he was out of breath, but I don't think it was because he ran here.

"Karev…good now that all of you are here, we can place them into groups." Dr Bailey shouted above all of us. For such a little person, she has very big lungs.

Jo got placed with Dr Alex Karev and I got place with Dr Cristina Yang. That Leah girl is with Dr George O'Malley, and I can already see that she is going to be a handful because she can't stop talking, and George just keeps smiling at her like he gives a damn.

We all got into the ambulances that came for us, and then dropped us as the accident site. This was so nerve wrecking. First day and there is already a big trauma. In the bus Dr Yang started talking to us like we were useless. "Don't bother me when I'm busy, unless the patient is dying, then you better hope that you were them." She sounded just like Dr Bailey, all mean and rough. Then she looked at me, "Did I hear right, you're Grey?" I was stunned at this question and also a little scared of her. She just had that 'don't talk to me vibe'. "Yeah, I'm Lexie Grey, I'm from…" She cut me off. "I asked your name, not your life story." She said very unenthusiastically.

On the way there near, the scene, we heard chaos, then we stopped, everyone jerked to the back, the paramedics opened the doors. I wished they could close it again, it was too much to take in…oh the horror these people are going through. The smell of burnt flesh and blood filled the air with smoke everywhere. From what I could make out, a building collapsed into a sinkhole and the area was declared still as unsafe, but we had to rescue the people. Next to an ambulance I saw Leah throw up; she must not be used to the smell or seeing so many dead people. At University we practiced on cadavers, so Jo and I are pretty used to the dead by now, but we also had a few who got nauseous at the site.

Firemen where everywhere, sweating and being all handsome and everything without even noticing us. "Oh I like a man in uniform." I whispered quietly but I think Yang heard me because she gave me a look of disapproval. The men kept going into the part of the building that was still standing to rescue more people. As they went in, we got to work outside with the people lying on the ground on plastic sheets. I have never seen so many doctors in one place before.

"Are you going to stand there or what?" Yang screamed at me. I rushed over to help her with a man who looked like he could not breathe. He had a few cuts and bruises and was mostly just covered in blood. I don't know if it was his own or someone else's. "We need to get him to the hospital now!" Yang screamed. "No." I could hear a whisper from the man. "Why not sir?" I leaned forward. "My kid. My boy is still in the building." I looked up at Yang, and leaned forward again. "I'm sure he is out by now, but we have to get you to the hospital."

As Yang helped him into the ambulance I went to another victim who was sitting with a few cuts. I fixed her up and could not help thinking of the boy who was still in there. As I looked around, I could see a few children, but it seemed like they were already with their parents or a relative.

As I walked over to help Jo, I heard a faint scream coming from the alley that was next to the building. There were bricks everywhere and a wall that was balancing on a truck. I walked closer and heard it again. I ran over to see a brown teddy bear lying on the ground next to a red children's shoe, and then a bloody kid's hand came up. He was underneath a few bricks; I tried to get him out form it when I heard Jo's voice from behind. "What the hell are you doing!" she screamed at me. "There is a kid here, come help me!" Jo ran over to me. "What is your name honey?' I asked the boy to keep him awake, "Robbie." He said. "Well Robbie we are going to do anything we can to get you out." Jo told him while leaning forward to his face. "Is that your teddy bear?" I asked him while holding his hand. "Yes, Teddy." He said faintly. "I'm going to hold him here for you and when you come out, you can have him, okay?" The kid looked at his little bear with tears in his eyes and I could see that this bear meant a lot to him. When we got him out we heard a fireman screaming that everyone should get away from the building because it was going to collapse again. I gave the boy to the fireman and then we ran out of harm's way.

"The teddy bear!" I screamed. "I forgot his bear!" I ran back into the, now smoky alley again, and then everyone was screaming at me. Got the bear, now get out. "Come on Lexie!" Jo screamed at me. I felt the ground moving and then a big crashing noise with black smoke filling the air. Then everything went black.

What just happened? I got up from where I was lying next to a car. Where is everyone running to? Wait a minute, "Jo!" she passed me and then I realized that I wasn't in the alley anymore, it was a few steps away from me. What is going on? Jo screamed my name. As I walked closer to the rubble on the floor of where the alley used to be, I saw a hand sticking out. The gold watch looked so familiar. It was mine, and I think that's my hand too. "What is going on?" I screamed at Bailey who also joined the crowd around the body.

As I looked around I noticed people that weren't here before. They are screaming at their loved one's but it looked like they couldn't hear them, or see them at all. What is this?

Jo was crying and screaming my name. I turned around and saw her huddled over a body, who is that? Is that me? I did not recognize this person with all the blood. "Jo, I'm right here." As I laid my hand on her shoulder it disappeared into her body. What the hell was that! That is not supposed to happen. I'm freaking out over here! Why is nobody listening or helping me?

I ran around trying to make sense of it all when I saw a blond woman looking straight at me. I started walking in her direction when suddenly someone walked right through her, like she didn't even exist. I stopped dead, what was that? Then I heard a screeching noise, and I was suddenly pulled back into the air and then fell to the ground on my back. Flashes of images filled my view. Jo. Dr Yang. Dr Bailey. Some guy I don't know. Was this it? The end.

They say that when you die, you see flashes of your past before your eyes. These people weren't in my past, but more my present. Suddenly I felt someone touching me. Then everything went black again.

What is that smell? Smells just like disinfectant. My head is throbbing. Oh the light is so bright. "Hey, thought I lost you there for a minute." I heard a familiar voice filling the room and then a hand touching mine. It was Jo. "You look like crap, you know that." She said with a smirk.

"Where am I?" I was so confused. "Where do you think, Disneyland?" Dr Bailey came into sight with a file in her hand and she was writing in it. "You're in the hospital, Seattle Grace if you want to be more precise." She said while checking monitors. "What happened?" I tried to say, but my throat was so sore and raw. "You tried to be a hero. A stupid hero! The wall collapsed onto you when you ran back into the alley and I saved you. Why the hell did you go back?" She looked at me sternly. "The kid's bear. I left his teddy bear behind and went to go get it when I heard Jo screaming." I looked down at my hands. "Who the hell is Jo?" She asked with a frown.

"I'm Jo, Jo Wilson." She said to her with a faint voice. All Dr Bailey said was 'Hmmm', like she didn't care. Then I saw that woman again, the blond one. She was outside my room.

"How long was I out?" I asked Jo. "About a day. You died Lex. You died right in front of me." She said with her voice breaking. I took her hand again and held it tight. "What is wrong with me Dr Bailey?" Dr Bailey didn't even look up from her file "You are stupid, that's what is wrong." Then she looked at me and finally said "You have a few bruised ribs and a concussion, which is all. The bin next to you in the alley saved your live, or you would have been minced meat."

Then the doctor with the nice hair came into the room, the one Jo pointed out last time. "Hi Lexie, I'm Dr Sheppard, I'm your Nero consult, I just want to do a follow up to see if you're all right." Wow he has one big smile, and look at those eyes, damn.

When everyone left and it was only me and Jo in the room I could finally relax, but that blond woman was still standing there just staring at me, then she came to the doorway. "Jo, who is that?" She looked over her shoulder to the door and back at me with a face that showed that I was crazy, "Who?"

"The blond lady at the door who keeps looking at me, she was also at the accident scene." Jo looked again, with confusion she looked back at me "Who are you talking about, there is no one there." But she is standing right there, I could see her as clear as day, then I fell back to sleep again.

O boy, I feel great. It feels like I'm floating on a cloud. With my eyes now wide open, I can see that I'm still in the same room with the same disinfectant smell, but now something sweeter fills my nose. Red roses, my favorite. I must have been out for a couple of hours. Then I see McCreamy, or was it McDrooly, can't remember. "Dr Sheppard, is everything okay?" I said while trying to sit up. "Yes everything is fine. Dr Wilson just asked me to take another look at your scans. She said that you saw someone, but she didn't. Do you remember that?" Oh yes, the blond! "Yeah, I remember that, but I don't see her now though." He kept looking at my scans while nodding his head, and then he put them down.

"McDreamy! That is who you are. I almost said McCreamy." He looked at me baffled but then he smiled, "Oh really, who said that?" he asked me, still smiling. "Oh crap, I can't believe I just said that out loud, but I do see it though. Oh that hair!" Then I reached up to touch it, he took my hand and put it back. "Yes, I have heard that before. We upped your dose of morphine, so you will feel a bit dizzy and say things you didn't think through. Did you see the woman before you received your dose of morphine or after?" He was looking at me all knowingly now. Do I always look like that?

"Wait, do you think I saw her as a hallucination caused by the meds?" I was now confused, I saw her when I had the accident, I didn't get anything then, nothing that can cause hallucinating, but I did hit my head pretty hard. "Yeah, maybe it was something like that" I tried to seem convincing when a nurse entered the room and called him out for another consult.

Did I hallucinate seeing her? What happened there? I closed my eyes briefly, then I heard breathing, I was not alone anymore. I opened my eyes and there she stood, right in front of my bed. The blond lady from the building site.

"Hi."