I'm gonna live and live NOW!
Get what I want, I know how!
One roll for the whole shebang!
One throw that bell will go clang,
Eye on the target and wham,

Lexie arrived in Meredith's room, sweat dripping from her forehead as she panted "What have you been up to? You and Mark better not have been screwing up my handiwork with your 'strenuous activities' in a hospital bed!" Meredith explained, a certain degree of cheek to her voice and maintaining a use of code language so that if their father did wake up during the conversation details would be kept to a minimum.

"Derek's… Derek's…" Lexie said, trailing off as she tried to catch her breath, 'Crap that plane crash really screwed up my lungs,' she thought to herself as she continued to breathe.

"Derek what? Lexie what happened?" Meredith asked, suddenly freaked out and fully alert.

"Derek's awake and responsive, trust me he kept trying to fight intubation," Lexie explained before adding "Oh and I may have yelled at Cristina,"

"Get me down there," Meredith ordered and Lexie did as she was told.

Meanwhile, April was just opening her eyes. She blinked a couple of times as her eyes adjusted to her surroundings and focussed on Jackson as he slept. He didn't seem as peaceful as he normally did; he didn't normally toss and turn in his sleep as he was now 'Wait a second. How did I know that? Yesterday I didn't remember a thing,' she thought to herself and a big beaming smile appeared on her face. She wanted to throw a party at the thought of being able to remember one little detail but then thought it would be a little bit too much of a pre-emptive strike. She tried to look back on her life over the previous nine months. Bits and pieces seemed to be there, Hunt telling her to return to Seattle, then there were a couple of blanks and then… a kiss. One filled with fireworks and passion, everything a kiss should be. She remembered opening her eyes after the kiss and seeing Jackson's brilliant, blue, sparkling eyes. She smiled at the newly-rediscovered memory and continued to try and remember the rest of the previous nine months but she drew a blank. She gave up and took up channel flicking eventually stopping when she came across a black and white movie. She got the feeling that she'd seen the film before but she didn't remember when, obviously during the blank time. It was It Happened One Night and she remembered that she'd been meaning to watch it for years but had never found a way of watching it.

She sat and watched the movie and eventually about halfway through the film she heard Jackson laugh, a laugh that sounded familiar. She remembered when she'd seen the film. It had been one of their earlier dates. They'd found a tiny cinema on the outskirts of the city that showed old black and white movies and Jackson had taken her there and that date was where the kiss belonged, where it matched the rest of the events "We saw this together didn't we?" she asked him with a kind small.

"You remember that?" Came Jackson's reply.

"Yeah, well I remember that we kissed outside the cinema and that the cinema was this little place on the outskirts of the City Centre just before you reach the suburbs. That's about it really. Oh wait I remember that you normally sleep peacefully but you didn't last night, you kept tossing and turning but that could just be because you were stuck sleeping in a chair. It's bits and pieces really but you know that's something right?" she said.

"Yeah. Right," he seemed both disappointed and pleased with this result.

"Jackson I know that it's tiny and trust me I know it's frustrating but it… it's something and even if it's lots of little somethings then that's a start. I mean maybe… maybe we're supposed to make new memories instead of living in the old one… maybe it's a new start for us," April said, her voice filled with hope.

"I suppose so," Jackson said resignedly.

It had taken an age, but Cristina had finally found Owen, he was sat in his office looking over paperwork, most likely for insurance claims the hospital was going to make in the post-earthquake rush. "Please tell me you're going to fire Lexie Grey," Cristina said with a sigh as she plumped herself down onto the office's leather sofa.

"Why should I do that? She's the best resident we have in the programme," Owen argued, he wasn't going to let any of the doctors who had been in that plane crash go unless they wanted to, it would look a bit to suspicious legally if he did and by god did he know it.

"How about because she just slapped me in the middle of the ER? Or because she's breaking this whole no employee relationships rule you've put in place because of what went down the other month with Callie and that intern? You've got two reasons right there," Cristina reasoned.

"She and Sloan signed a contract which said that they are in a relationship which means that the rule doesn't apply plus the way you and I have been going of late its sort of hypocritical. What do you mean she slapped you?"

"Well Derek had woken up and Bailey had obviously told her what happened with Mer and I. Anyway she started with these bitchy comments so I took her outside the room and I said a couple of things and then she slapped me,"

"So it is partly your fault. You forget that Lexie is the kind of person who doesn't deal well with emotional stress and to an extent you pushed her. I can't really do anything, she's the only neuro resident who can do surgeries at the moment and I'm not going to leave all of the surgeries to Shadow Shepherd and you know it,"