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Lena Luthor had recently merged her company L-corp wth Seattle’s leading tech company Ivo Labs. Her, her wife kara, Her sister in law Alex and Alex's girlfriend Sara were attending the press conference covering the merger. As she was preparing for her speech the doors to the conference room open with a thud and they slammed open reveling three men standing dramatically holding guns. They started shooting into the crowd. The women sprang into action with the same thought on their mind Lex did this. Alex and Sara shared a look and a nod as they moved through the panicked crowd they managed to avoid being trampled and getting shot they took out two of the gunmen and as they were moving fo the next one he saw Alex and fired three shots st her one to the shoulder, One to the abdomen and one to the chest she staggered for a second then fell to the floor. At that moment Sara saw red, she snapped the final gunmen's neck and the sickening crack echoed in the room she looked around the room bloodied bodies lay everywhere those weren't shot were trampled trying to flee. She fell to her knees to get a better look at her girlfriend who was bleeding out on the ground and cried. While this was happening Kara got Lena out of the building taking her to somewhere safe oblivious to what just happened.

Meanwhile across town..........

Dr. Owen Hunt was leaning against the nurses' station playing on his phone it was a pretty quiet day not that he would ever say that out loud. He had enough hectic days to last a lifetime. A new intern Dr. Schmitt came in looked around at the trauma bay "wow this is going to be a boring day look how empty in here is." he sighed. Owen stood still and waited with bated breath for the call to come through after a minute he let out the breath he was holding and heard the nurse behind him do the same. He was about to tell Schmitt to never say that again when the phone rang. He ran to it and picked it up " Talk to me............yeah...........uhhuh........okay" he hung up the phone. " Schmitt I need you to page Grey, Webber, Bailey, Pierce, Riggs, and Shepherd. We've got multiple shooting victims coming in were the closest hospital so they're sending them all to us."

"Yes sir"

"oh and Schmitt this is why we don't talk about how boring the pit is." He just nodded meekly.

Just as Owen finished putting on his trauma gown the first Rigg pulled in. " What do we got"

" We got a woman in her early thirties multiple GSW's to the torso one to the shoulder, abdomen, and chest. Her heart rate and BP are stable she lost a lot of blood. Witnesses say he and a next woman took out the shooters.

" So we got a hero on our hands well let's get her into trauma two." They moved her into trauma Two as the other EMT help a blonde woman out of the vehicle she was on the phone talking to who he assumed was family " Yeah kara we're at the hospital........... Grey Sloan Memorial....... okay see you soon." she said as she hung up " Hi I'm doctor Hunt can you tell me your friend's name?" 

"Girlfriend" 

"Pardon"

"She's my girlfriend and her name is Alex...Alex Danvers.

"Okay, we're going to do everything we can to help Alex, in the meantime let one of our doctors check on you.

" Oh, Okay" Was all she could say

" Alright then ma'am follow me" 

" Sara my name's Sara"

"Alright, then Sara why don't you sit here for me and a doctor will be right with you" By now the Trauma bay was full of chaos, hurt patients, frantic relatives, and busy doctors."

He went back into trauma two to help Alex, as he was doing her workup he noticed a familiar dark auburn hair almost brown for the first times he looked at her face when he saw her face he stilled with shock "Dr. Hunt" one of the interns called "Is everything okay" He sprinted out of the room he scanned the pit until he saw the person he was looking for " Grey" 

"What hunt I'm busy"

"I need you to come see this " 

"Hunt can't you see I'm doing something"

"Grey you need to see this"  She groaned as she got up and took off her gown and threw it into the trash 

"What" 

"Trauma two" She pushed past him into the trauma room when she saw the patient she stopped dead in her tracks, her blood ran cold, and tears sprung to her eyes.

"Lexie....." 

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Meredith just stands there, staring at the patient that looks so much like her sister. Her dead sister, nonetheless. She's in shock. I mean, how can she not be? This stranger looks so much like Lexie that were it not for her seeing her sister's dead body a few years prior, she would have thought it was her.

"Grey," Owen says, snapping his fingers in front of her face and effectively breaking her from her reverie.

"No, it can't be. I saw her body, I saw her dead, she can't be alive, we saw her Owen. I.. I saw my li..little sister d...dead," her voice trembles with the force of her holding back sobs, and her whole body's shaking.

"I know Grey, but we can figure this out later. Right now, we need to save her. I just wanted you to see her."

"Y...yeah, let's save her. I won't let this girl die too.”

At this moment, she sounded more like Harper Avery Award-winning Dr. Grey than Meredith, who had lost so much more in her short life than many lose in a whole lifetime. However, Owen saw through it. She was too emotionally invested in this case to operate.

"No, Grey, by we I meant that Bailey, Pierce, and I are going to save her. You’re too wired for this case to operate. Why don’t you head to an on-call room and get some rest?”

As good as sleep sounded, she had been on her feet for the better part of 24 hours. She couldn’t rest now that her sister... NO! That was a patient. She cut off the thought.

“I can’t rest, Owen. There are still multiple victims who were hurt during the shooting, and they need medical assistance. I may not be able to help her, but I can help them.”

Owen just sighed, knowing he would not be able to talk her out of this. If anyone knew how to shut off their emotions and work, it was the dark and twisty sisters, as he liked to call them. Memories of Derek and Christina flashed in the back of his mind.

”Okay then, but if you need a moment to rest, take it. Got it?”

“I won’t need a moment, but I promise to rest if the time does arrive.”

“Good, now go save lives,” he says with a sad yet encouraging smile.

So she does and he gets to work on saving his patient.

Kara bursts through the hospital door with Lena hot on her heels and scans the chaos looking for Sara. She rushes over when she spots her. She sees Sara being looked over by a boyish-looking doctor. She looks like she is in a daze, and gives a slight nod when the doctor asks her a question.

“Sara,” she speaks in a soft voice so as not to rattle her.

Sara turns to her and her eyes immediately fill with tears. Without hesitation, Kara pulls her into her arms."

“I...I got her hurt. I c….couldn’t protect her. I...I’m s...sorry it’s all m...my f...fault,” she sobs into Kara’s shirt.

”No Sara, no, it’s not your fault. You had nothing to do with Alex getting hurt. You saved so many people, and Alex will be fine… She has to be, or I will kick her ass myself.” That got a wet chuckle from Sara and a snort from Lena.

“Maybe, but if I was quicker, she never would have been shot,” Sara sniffles and wipes her eyes.

Kara just hugs her tighter, and even Lena joins. Across the room, Meredith feels the familiar twinge in her heart seeing them. They must be sisters. Bittersweet memories of Lexie dance in her head. She turns back to her own patient just as Owen, Maggie, and Bailey walk up to the girls.

“Dr. Hunt, how is she?” Sara asks, straightening up.

“Hi, I’m Dr. Bailey. She’s not looking too great, but it’s not hopeless. We’re not too concerned about her shoulder wound, but the wound to her abdomen went through her liver. Luckily, we caught it in time, so we can remove it before it becomes fatal,” a stout doctor answers instead of Dr. Hunt.

“Now with her heart, that’s a little more complicated. While the bullet didn’t puncture the heart, it brushed by pretty close, so I will be performing that part of the surgery. I’m Dr. Pierce, by the way.” Maggie cuts in.

“It is a very delicate surgery. I won’t be performing, as you all have probably guessed, but Dr. Bailey and Dr. Pierce are more than equipped to handle it.”

They all listen to the doctors as they explain the full extent of Alex’s injuries. While they are relieved that she is okay, there still was a possibility that something could go wrong in surgery.

“Now, are any of you her family?” Dr. Hunt asks, directing the question towards Lena and Kara.

“I’m her sister,” Kara answers him.

“Alright then, you should sign these forms. We need it to proceed with the surgery,” he tells her, producing a clipboard they didn’t even notice he was holding.

“Sure,” she answers a little breathlessly.

“Okay, now let’s get her prepped for the OR,” Dr.Bailey says, signaling over the same doctor that looked over Sara.

“Schmitt, take them to the family waiting room on the operating floor and ready OR two,” she tells him authoritatively.

“Yes ma’am.”

The small group follows him, but they keep looking back nervously at the doctors who are going their own way.

They arrive on the floor and get situated about twenty minutes later. Dr. Bailey comes by to tell them that they are taking Alex into surgery and that it should be about five to six hours.

About two hours in, Lena left to get coffee for everyone, and Kara notices that the same blonde doctor has passed them about twenty times. Sara doesn’t think anything of it, but Kara recognizes her immediately and excuses herself to make a call.

“Hey mom. You know the business trip Lena and Alex were on?... well, something happened……. we’re at Grey Sloan Memorial…yes, the Grey Sloan Memorial…..I think she knows.”

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Bailey and Maggie are scrubbing for surgery, when Maggie has to ask the question she has been trying to hold in from she heard about this case.

“Bailey this is weird for you too right? I mean this girl is wearing the face of my sister’s sister, who is supposed to be dead, she lives in a city with a literal superhero, I mean she took out those gunmen pretty far off for someone who was supposed to be a surgical intern, and I’m rambling, but this is weird, She is the first sister, the one who I will never live up to and now she looming over my head coming back and I will be pushed back and I can't because I fought so hard to be accepted and now that’s all going to be undone and I will lose my sister and I really should shut up right now so yeah I’m going to do that now.”

As she said all of this Dr. Bailey just continues to scrub knowing this was going to take a while and that Maggie has a tendency for rambling and if her head was swimming with seeing an aged but nonetheless familiar face of Lexie Grey she couldn’t imagine what Maggie and Meredith were going through even if Maggie never met Lexie. When Maggie finished her ramble then Miranda answered her.

“Yeah Pierce it’s weird, she was a part of our family in the hospital and out. So to have grieved her dying in such a horrific way only to find out she may have never died in the first place… it’s tough and it hurts, but you won't be replaced sure you will never be another Lexie but you don't need to be. Meredith loves you and she leaned on you, Cristina, and even Amelia for support and that won't stop. Plus we don’t even know if this is Lexie, it may just be a weird coincidence. I mean she doesn't sound like she has the qualities of a surgeon. All I am saying is that it’s okay to be scared but she won’t replace you and vice versa. You are a part of our family now and that won’t ever change. So hurry up and finish scrub, we have a life to save.”

As Bailey enters the operating room she releases a heavy sigh and whispers to herself, “Lord what have I gotten myself into? The Greys will be the death of me.” When Maggie is situated they begin the first step to getting answers from the stranger. With the monitors beeping and the calming breaths of the patient, the only words that echo in the room are “Let’s begin, ten blade?”.

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Meredith is at the nurses station handing over a chart, when she feels two hands wrap around her waist and the familiar scent of jasmine fills her nostrils. She releases a sigh and relaxes into the touch, feeling soft kisses trail up her neck to her ear.

“I heard about this morning, how are you feeling?” Addison whispers, pulling her closer.

Meredith releases another sigh and turns to face the redhead “I feel as though a girl who looks eerily like my dead kid sister from her hair color down to the shape of her nose, is in the hospital right now having almost died, bringing up the old feelings of grief and loss. I am also scared and maybe a bit hopeful that this might be Lexie even though I know it’s impossible, which is painful and hard to comprehend.”

Addison just holds her tighter as she is saying all of this. “Those are totally valid feelings to have. Losing Lexie was really hard on you so of course this brings back the same emotions as before, and it’s only normal to hope that she is still alive somehow no matter how far fetched it may seem.”

“ Also I was in the gallery and she literally looks like a clone of Lexie, I mean she even has the Grey ears.” Snorting Meredith questions “The Grey ears? What are those?” “You know the ears that all the Greys have that flare at the top and come in really tiny at the bottom. They move with every facial expression. Kind of like mouse ears. “ Addison traces her ears while speaking, a light smile on her lips.

It’s at this moment where Meredith really takes her in. Her auburn hair is straightened and falls down her back, she has on her usual pink scrubs and black sneakers. Her face is free of makeup and Meredith can smell the faint scent of cherry chapstick on her lips. She looks like Addison, not Dr. Montgomery the hard ass neonatal surgeon but Addison who snores in her sleep and pouts when they run out of chocolate ice-cream. She looks soft. It makes Meredith smile.

“Mer? Hello?” Addison waves her hand in front of her face, snapping Meredith out of her reverie. “Huh? What did you say?” Addison looks at her perplexedly “Where did you go?” “Nowhere, I was just admiring the view” She says with a dimpled smile on her face. “You wanna grab lunch with me?” Smiling Addison voices her approval “Of course I would.” Meredith grabs her hand and they make their way to the cafeteria.

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Coming back from her call with Eliza, Kara sees that Lena has returned with the coffee. She takes hers with a tight but nonetheless appreciative smile, peck on the cheek and a whispered thank you. Noticing something is wrong immediately Lena asks “What’s wrong?” Drawing the attention of Sara who was staring off into the distance. Kara draws in a deep breath and takes a sip of her coffee, before she says “I have to tell you guys something.”

Both Lena and Sara sit up straighter, listening attentively to what Kara was about to say.

“What I am about to say may sound absurd and is probably going to be hard to believe.” Kara says seriously.

“It can’t be worse than I flew here on a bus” Lena says with a smirk making Sara snort and Kara’s mouth twitch upwards.

“ Anyways, as I was saying, I need you to let me say this without any interruptions.” She looks them both in the eyes. They nod and she begins.

Unsure where to start she just begins to talk. “Firstly Alex’s real name is Alexandra Caroline Grey. Her parents were Susan and Thatcher Grey. They lived in Midvale from before Alex was born up until her second year of high school. Her parents and the Danvers were really close friends, Alex or Lexie as her family called her, would call them aunt and uncle. Therefore, when Clark took me to the Danvers it was normal for Alex to be responsible for my assimilation to human culture, due to our closeness in age. We hated each other at first but soon we became best friends after one of our mutual friends died. When Alex was 16 and I was 14, she told me how she might have another sister in the world, from her dad’s previous marriage. She really wanted to find her, so she searched up her fathers ex-wife’s name, and found Ellis Grey, who had a daughter Meredith Grey. Somehow Alex found Meredith’s socials and she began to watch everything she did. I know it sounds stalker-ish but she idolized Meredith, she wanted to be just like her. When she found out Meredith was enrolling in Med school she did the same thing. She even applied to the Seattle Grace intern program, now known as Grey Sloan Memorial, the same program Meredith was in. So when she was accepted she was over the moon. She was so excited to meet her big sister.

She pauses for a second to catch her breath and she notices the wide eyes of the two women before her. Lena makes a hand motion as if encouraging her to go on.
“A few months later, Alex is working alongside her sister. I’ll leave it to Alex to tell all the personal details if she wishes too, but she stayed for about 4 years until I was kidnapped by the DEO. As you know Jeremiah, my adoptive father, joined the DEO to protect me and so the DEO would have an insight into my life. After Jermiah died they no longer had to uphold their side of the deal so they kidnapped me and performed experiments on me.” Kara's voice cracks and her eyes tear up as she recounts this traumatic point in her life.

Lena takes her hand, and swallowing past the ball in her throat she speaks again. “ When Alex found out she was livid, and knowing it was the only way she could save me, she joined the DEO. Wanting to keep her family in Seattle out of it she came up with the idea to fake her own death. The DEO came up with a new identity for her and together they came up with the plan. They made up a call, about conjoined twins needing to be separated in Boise. On the way there the DEO crashed the plane with Alex and a group of doctors, and in that crash Lexie died. That day she left Seattle and never looked back. Taking on the life of Alex Danvers.”

“We are now in the very same hospital that Alex worked in and she is being cared for by the same people who were once her family, including her sister Meredith Grey. I said all of this to say that when Alex wakes up there are going to be a lot of questions, tears and anger. I need you to be prepared and to help me be strong for Alex and her family.”

Nobody speaks for what feels like ten minutes. Feelings of shock seem to have stolen the voices out of Lena and Sara. Another five minutes go by and the ladies still have not spoken. Kara is giving them space to process everything she said. Just as Sara is about to speak, Dr Bailey enters the room stealing their attention.

“Ms Danvers, Alex is out of surgery now.”