A/N Things start to pick up get a bit more dramatic in the next chapter. Sorry its taking so long to get into the story but i have a tendency to start out too fast and then its over before it ever began, so i decided to take it slow. i hope you guys are enjoying it, i haven't gotten many reviews but hopefully they start to come with the next chapters.

Ch.7

"Hey, Alice." Izzie said, her voice woke me out of my sleep. I was having a rather good dream about not waking up and 5:00 in the morning. I could have been sleeping in had I just told the chief what I told Izzie. I could be sleeping all nice and warm on the psych floor, had I just told the truth.

I moaned and rolled over on the bed and tried to go to sleep again. I heard Izzie jump down from the top bunk of the bunk beds and I could feel her looking at me. "Come on, get up. I have to go run rounds and you need to go to the chiefs office to get your stuff." She said through a yawn. I sat up in the bed and hung down my head, still half asleep.

My eyes were heavy and gritty from sleep, I threw legs over the side of the bed and stood up with a yawn. Izzie picked up a brush from the bed side table and gave it to me, "Here." I opened one eye and looked at it, it took me a second to realize what it was but eventually I took it and ran it through my tangled hair a few time before handing it back to her, eyes still sealed shut. I forced them open and looked with slightly fuzzy vision at the window. It was still night time and the clouds had come back to block the light of the sun once it came up. I think it's unfair that I have to get up before the sun does. Izzie brushed her hair and pulled it into a pony tail that went to the middle of her shoulder blades, then she opened the door and revealed the white light of the hospital, and it burned my eyes. I was behind her as she walked into the hallway, doctors were bustling about, doing their morning rounds and Izzie turned to me, "You remember how to get to the Chief's office right."

"Yeah." I nodded.

"Ok, well when you get your pager, just page me if you need me." she said. She turned around and accidentally bumped into McSteamy.

"Hey there Stevens." He said. He looked at me and I pretended not to see him.

"Ok I'll see you later Izzie," I said, quickly turning around and walking as fast as I could with out seeming like I was avoiding him. I pushed open the two double doors and walked out on to the cat walk, I turned to look behind me and he wasn't there. I breathed a sigh of relief and slowed my pace, He seemed a lot steamier when I didn't know I was going to have to work with him. I could see the chief on the other end of the catwalk in his office. I took a deep breath and as I drew closer to his office. I was just about to reach for the door handle before I heard a voice.

"Hey, Have I seen you before?" He said.

No! Not McSteamy! I screamed in my head. I turned to him and gave warm smile "You might have."

He smiled and crossed his arms and squinted his eyes, "Yeah. You were that women that semi flashed me yesterday.

I was kind of offended that he almost forgot who I was, I tilted my head slightly and bit my lower lip, "Yeah, I guess I am huh?"

"Are you working here now? I heard there was going to be a new doctor with a different type of specialty"

"Uh, yeah, i'm am." I said. I leaned against the door frame. My name is Alice Kepner." I said, holding out my hand for him to shake.

"I'm Mark Sloan." He took my hand and smiled. "Are you April Kepner's sister?"

I heard him ask the question as his memories flooded my mind. "Um, yes I am." I said in a monotone voice. I let go of his hand and blinked a few times.

"You ok?"

"Yeah i'm fine, just a bit of a head. Nothing to worry about." I said.

He lifted his chin and had a sly smile "So I couldn't help but notice that you and Stevens slept in the same on call room."

I knew enough about him to know where this conversation was going, "You want the details?" I asked in a taunting tone.

He raised his eyebrows, "There are details?"

"Hmm. Maybe." I said biting my lower lip. Really there wasn't any details to be told but I decided why not have some fun with McSteamy, the notorious man whore. His eyes seemed to light up and he reminded me of a eager puppy. Seeing his face brighten up like that crushed me, I couldn't lie to him. "You really want all the details?"

He kept on eyebrow raised in response and I smiled, "Sorry, there are no details." His eyebrow instantly fell and I couldn't help but chuckle, "Sorry dude." I patted his shoulder and opened the Chief's door, I turned to him as I closed it "See you later."

"Ah, Dr. Kepner." Said the chief.

"Hi, sorry I'm late." I said looking at the clock, it read 5:10.

He shook his head, "Oh, don't worry about it, it gave me a little extra time to get your things together." He stood up and picked up a pager and a white lab coat that all the other doctors wore and handed them to me.

I took them and clipped the pager to my waist and put on the coat. I felt very professional as I got ready to go do a job that I totally made up.

"And here is your temporary SGH name badge."

I took the small plastic rectangle, with my picture and name on it and clipped it on the front of my scrub shirt. "Thank you sir."

He handed me a piece of paper with a list of numbers, "This is a list a pager numbers for the doctors. I've have already handed out you pager number to the other doctors."

"Ok." I said as a scanned over the page, of the numbers listed there was Pediatrics department with Arizona, Ortho with Callie Neuro with Derek , General surgery with George, Bailey, Alex, Christina, Meredith and Izzie. Trauma with Owen, Cardio with Teddy and plastics with Mark. And of course the chief of surgery.

"I know it looks like a lot" He began. "But you'll get use to it."

"Oh, no. I 've had a lot worse before. This is nothing." I said looking at the long list of names and numbers. There were names of other doctors too, some for dermatology and urology but I didn't recognize any of their names from any memories of the people that I've had contact with so I didn't really care about them.

"I've asked doctor bailey to give you a tour of the hospital, she should be here soon." The chief said, taking a seat behind his desk.

"Oh, that's not really necessary, I know my way around here pretty well" I said turning to the door.

"Are you sure?" He asked, his eyebrows pulling together.

I nodded, "Yes. I'm sure" I smiled and opened the door and walked out on to the catwalk. Mark had left, probably off the see if he could squeeze some x-rated story out of her. The sun had started to rise and it colored the clouds with a pink and orange that flooded the lobby of the hospital just below the catwalk. I stopped to look at it because I knew I would have this chance again. I would so busy once the patients started to wake up. I leaned on the railing and allowed the top half of my body to relax as the sun continued to rise. I was still sleepy and I wished that I were sleeping right now, but watching the sun rise was the next best thing I guess. I rest my chin on my hand and closed my eyes only for a moment before I heard a beeping. I looked at the pager with a sort of hatred and sighed, it said emergency in the pit -Bailey. Oh boy an emergency! I picked myself up off of the railing and started to slump towards the E.R. I came to an elevator and pushed the button for the first floor. And waited for it to take me to me destination. Just as the doors began to close a voice rang out, "Hold the doors please!" I grabbed the doors and they opened with ease. A woman stood in front of me, panting and smiling, grateful that I held the door for her.

"Thanks!" She said as she got on the elevator.

"No problem." I said looking up to see who I had just help out, then my I instantly stopped breathing. It was April, she stared at me as the doors closed and the elevator started to go down.

Her eyes where wide and her breathing started to become uneven and labored. "Who.." her voice was small and shaky. "A-a-Alice?"

"April -"I began, she backed up against the doors off the elevator.

"N-no." she stopped me, she pointed at me with a shaky hand and tried to form a word but nothing but incoherent mumbles escaped her lips. "You.. You're d…dead. You died!" she finally managed to choke out the words.

I swallowed hard and looked into her terrified eyes. "April, I know this is a little alarming but-"

"A-a little?" she stuttered.

"Ok, a lot." I corrected myself.

"Y-you died!" She repeated.

"Yes, I know!" I said. "Listen to me!"

"No!" she said moving the farthest corner of the elevator. I sighed and rolled my eyes, we were almost to the first floor and I couldn't just leave her in the elevator freaking out. I noticed the red emergency stop button that Izzie had pulled and I pulled it out. The elevator stopped and the alarm began to sound. "Wh-what are you doing!"

"April I need you to listen to me!" I said sternly. "Listen to me." I moved over to her and grabbed her shaking hand. Nothing happened when I did this, I already knew everything about my sister, when I was alive we shared everything together, and when I died I watched over her from above, there was nothing I didn't know about her, no matter how stalker-like that seemed. "Listen to me." I said in a soft tone. "It is me. I know this is really bazaar and you probably wont believe me when I tell you, but I am alive, I am." I said looking into her eyes.

Her breathing slowed, "Alice?" she whispered.

I nodded, "Yes." I said giving a warm smile. "It's me." I could feel her calming down and her wide eyed expression faded into wonder.

"But.. How?" she asked.

"That's a long story." I let go of her hand and looked at her. "Are you ok? You look like you've seen a ghost" I joked.

She was still shaken up and she laughed as best she could, "A-are you a ghost?"

"April, c'mon now, I just held your hand, do you think i'm a ghost?" I pushed in the button and the elevator started again.

"But, how are you here?"

"Like I said.. Long story." I smiled at her at ,the doors opened again and I looked forward, as the door slid open and offered what they had on the other side, that smile was quickly wiped off of my face.