Chapter 2

After getting over her initial shock, Callie returned her gaze back to her charts. Lucy eyed her suspicously and leaned over to her,

"So, do you know him?" Callie shook her head still not meeting Lucy's eyes and continued to scribble notes in her chart.

Lucy narrowed her eyes at the side of Callie's head and gave a disbelieving 'mmmhmmm'. She looked up as the new surgeon made his way over to them. She fluffed her hair, she tried to tame her wild brown hair but failed misserably,f and straightened out her scrubs. She then leaned over and whispered into Callie's ear,

"Oh look, he's coming over here" Callie's head shot up so fast, people could've sworn they heard her neck crack. She glanced to her left and saw Alex mere feet away from her. Without a word, she closed her chart and walked off without another look back.

Lucy stared down the hall as she watched her friend dissapear out of sight. Alex tapped her on the shoulder and she turned to be met with his smiling face. He stuck out his hand and she she shook it,

"Hi I'm Alex Karev" She smiled and replied,

"Lucy, Lucy Hastings, head of OB-GYN" Alex smiled and nodded, he then gestured down the hall,

"If I'm not mistaken, but that was Callie Torres who practically ran down the hall right?" Lucy could only nod. She stared at him in shock, so Callie did know him! Ohh I'm so gonna ream her!

"Do you know where she might be going?" Lucy thought for a moment before snapping her fingers,

"She's probably in the 3rd floor on-call room, she likes to call it her 'thinking place', she's most likely there." Alex smiled and nodded thanking her for her help.

He made his way to the 3rd floor, stopping by everyone room to check the label. When he finally reached the on-call room he hesitated to knock. He hadn't seen Callie Torres in years. After the mess with Izzie and George, Alex began to notice little things about this woman. Like the way her black locks hung loose and her shoulders and bounced with every move she made. How she mindlessly bit her lip when she anxious or trying to concentrate. Most people would think that was a bad habit to have, but Alex thought it was completely hot. He noticed how her nose crinkled when she laughed. He noticed how her smile seemed to lighten any room she walked in to. He noticed all these things about her, but he always wondered if she ever noticed him.

Perking up his courage, he lifted his hand and lightly knocked on the door. Without receiving an answer, he pushed the door open and saw her. After almost 4 years, she still lit up any room she was in. She was laying a bunk, completely unaware of his presence, when he closed the door, she jumped slightly and opened her eyes to see who was at the door. She groaned when she recognized exactly who it was,

"How in the hell did you find me Alex?" she asked covering her eyes with her hands. He walked over to the bunk and pulled a chair beside it before answering.

"Uh, your friend, brown hair, blue eyes, Lucy? she said I could find you here" Callie groaned, she was gonna kill Luce.

She sat up and turned to face him, "So, how have you been?" he shrugged his and gave her a once-over.

"Good I guess, finished up my residency, got a job out here, I wanted to go as far away from Seattle without actually leaving the country." she chuckled a bit, she had the exact same goal when she left. But she couldn't understand why he would want to.

"Why? What happened in Seattle that made you want to be so far away?" He leaned back in his chair before answering,

"Well, after you left, George and Izzie decided to be a couple, which only lasted a few days, it was dumb idea in the first place, it's like a brother boning his sister" She chuckled and waited for him to continue,

"So after that debacle was over, Addison was sad and mopey because you left and she actually had a little showdown with Izzie in the cafeteria the day you left" Callie looked surprised, Addison had seemed to leave out that detail in their conversations.

Alex continued, "Then, Addison decides to channel you and move away, which left me with a asshole attending who basically pushed me into Cardio. Me and Yang were always battling over who got what surgery, so we just stopped talking all together, Meredith was caught up in her 'McDreamy' problems and I just couldn't deal with that shit anymore, so the rest of my Residency I kind just stuck to myself. So summing everything up, it all started when you left!" She was taken aback by his declaration. He had a playful smirk on his face that she just wanted to smack off.

She reached around her and grabbed a pillow and flew it at his face. Alex chuckled and threw it back at her,

"So, you're basically blaming all your problems on me?" Alex shrugged,

"Basically" she playfully stuck out her tongue at him and hit him again.

He stood up and tried to get the pillow away from her and it ended up with a five minute pillow fight with the sheets and bedding of the on-call room scattered all over the floor.

They were inches apart, her breathing hard as she tried to catch it. The room began to feel smaller, and they felt themselves inching ever so closer until someone's pager went off. They jumped away from each other and checked their pagers. It was Callie's. She stood up, extending out her hand to him to help him up. She looked around at the mess they made and made a face at him,

"Sorry I gotta go, you should probably clean up this mess, you started it anyway" She smirked and hurried out of the room before he could hit her with a pillow.

He reluctantly cleaned up the mess the best he could and exited the on-call room.

On the way to the elevator he thought about what it was to see Callie again. Truth be told, he had missed her over the years. And now that they were back in each other's presence, Alex suddenly felt the urge to bring her close and kiss her senseless. But he couldn't do that. Callie Torres didn't see him the way he saw her, and he tried to forget that she never would.