I don't own Grey's Anatomy.

Alex walked into the resident's locker room and stopped in his tracks. His vision was tainted by orange so much orange. That wasn't what had made him stop thought. No that had been her, standing against the locker her brown locks straight and a red note book in her hands.

"What's wrong with you?" he turned to Izzy and tried to smile.

"Nothing, nothing at all I see the Mercy Westerns have descended. "

"Yeah." Izzy scrunched up her nose. "I can't believe they put them in orange so ugly. That bitch over there took George's cubby." She pointed to a short girl next to the one that had caught Alex's attention.

"Did you try to explain to her?"

"Explain to her." Izzy scoffed. "Come on we have to go and get our orders for the day." He followed her out of the locker room but his eyes lingered on the girl in the corner.

Her eyes lingered on him as he walked out and though he was a man now a doctor like her she still saw him as a teenage boy smiling at her as he stood outside her daddy's house holding a bunch of flowers and begging her for a date to the prom.

"What's wrong with you?" she shook her head and turned to her friend.

"Nothing, nothing lets get going before all the good cases are taken." She stuffed her red book in her pocket and walked towards the other residents.

She was assigned to the pit and rushed of. It was crazy but she still caught glimpses of him. And every time she did she felt like she was seventeen again. "Get your head in the game." Lexie Grey snapped at her. "Where have you been I know Karev is hot but he has a wife so don't even go there." April Kepner felt her heart stop. A wife he had a wife. She racked her brain had her mother said anything about Alex getting married. She didn't think so but then again no one had really heard from Alex in seven years so that wasn't surprising and even if her mother had said something it was unlikely that she would have remembered it in all the craziness that had been the merger. She put her head into the case rushing off to surgery with Doctor Shepard but she couldn't help but give one backward glance to him.

He watched her rush off and his mind wondered back through the years her in a flowing red dress her hair a pile on her head. The stars twinkling around them. He hadn't known she was in Seattle but then again he didn't try to keep up on things going on at home in Iowa. So of course he wouldn't have known. He'd left Iowa after he went to Med school and he never looked back not at his family and certainly not at April Kepner. Now she was in the hospital and it scared him. She knew so much about him so much that no one in this hospital or this state knew about him. He tossed his gloves into the trash and went to get lunch he needed to clear his head.

"I stole it." Lexie waved the red book in the air. Alex froze.

"Give it here." He said.

"No." Lexie slipped it into her pocket. "I can't do that I read it and Now I feel bad I can't let you read it to."

"Why steal it then." Alex shook his head but his heart could beat normally again he didn't have to save it and be tempted to read it. It seemed she hadn't mentioned him in it or Lexie would have been all over that.

"Where are they?" Cristina looked around the lunch room.

"What do you mean?" Meredith asked.

"Hey." Izzy said sliding a cup of coffee in front of Alex.

"Hey." He picked up the coffee and sipped it looking up at Izzy he reminded himself he was married, married to a women he really loved married to a girl who he promised forever to.

"I mean they don't eat we are going to be out of surgery's lets go." Cristina rushed out of the cafeteria followed by Meredith Lexie and Alex.

She was frantic she couldn't find her notebook. She felt like she was going to have a heart attack. "What's up?" she turned to see Jackson at her side.

"I lost my note book somewhere I have no idea where."

"Calm down we'll fine it." He patted her arm.

"This hospital is huge I don't think so she shook her head in resignation. She walked away from him. She felt so bare without it. She felt someone grab her and pull her into an on call room shutting the door behind them. "What, what's going on?"

"Shh." She froze she would know that voice anywhere.

"Alex." She turned around to see him.

"Hey April." He reached into his pocket and pulled something out. "Did you misplace something." He held it out to her.

"My book where did you find it?"

"That's not important." He shook his head. "What are you doing here April?"

"I think that's pretty obvious Alex I'm working."

"How come I didn't know you were in Seattle?"

"The same reason I didn't know you were married because you never all you left for Med school and never looked back." She hit him on the arm. "I…." she shook her head never mind.

"You What?"

"Nothing never mind we have work to do." She turned she had been about to say that she'd stayed in bed a month after reading his note that he wasn't coming back she could have said that she had almost failed her first semester of med school but no she wasn't going to give him the chance."

"I'll see you later Doctor Karev."

"April wait." She turned looking at him expectantly.

"What?"

"NO one knows not even my friends they know I'm from Iowa I was a wrestler that's it they don't know about my mom or my siblings."

She shook her head he was still running she was standing in front of him and he was still running away. "Don't worry your secret is safe with me. I won't even act like I know you." She opened the door and walked out. She whispered to herself. "I don't know you anymore anyway.

He leaned against the door and buried his head in his hands. He'd know April Kepner since he was five years old. Her family took him in when ever his mom went off on a binge the Kepners had been his second family his real family and April Kepner had always been his Kryptonite. He'd ran away from his family and her but now it seemed the past was staring him in the face.

"Hey there you are." He opened his eyes to see Izzy staring at him.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing." He shook his head. How do you tell your wife that the love of your life the girl you never got over was now working in the hospital with you?

A/N so this is My AK2 story the premise is that April grew up in Iowa not Ohio and she grew up by Alex and they were teenage sweethearts until everything got to be to much for Alex and he left. Now he's married what will happen to them.