Jo Wilson yawned as she walked through the doors of Grey-Sloan Memorial. She made her way to the surgical board then groaned inwardly. Today she was working in General under Medusa Grey. If she was going to get through this day, she needed coffee. Making her way up the coffee cart, Jo swore she could almost hear, as if in voice over, Medusa making some speech about how attending's were meant to be feared and how attending's themselves had nothing to fear except other attending's or something like that. Although she had to admit that after she had started dating Alex, Medusa had gotten a little better. Not a lot, mind you, but markedly so. Maybe it was the post birth hormones.

As she thought about the change in her attending, her mind inevitably drifted to her own attending and smiled subconsciously. Alex was really perfect for her. Smart, funny, sexy, damn good in bed, but most importantly she knew that she didn't have to hide who she was around him. To use a phrase that she'd heard a few times around the hospital, the two of them were equally 'dark and twisty'. She wondered where Alex was. He'd had to leave before she woke up due to some big trauma coming in. As if on cue, she suddenly found herself pulled into a deep kiss in the middle of the hall.

"Good morning, sleep well?"

"You should know."

Alex smirked as he pulled her close. "Didn't sleep a wink." She laughed as he kissed her again.

"Ugh, can the two of you just grab an on call room like the rest of us?" Christina gave a look of disgust as she pushed past them to get to the coffee cart.

"Bite me Yang."

"Looks to me like you've already got your mouth full." Christina shot back, laughing as Alex swatted at her as she went off to greet Meredith, who was just walking in.

"So, what are you doing tonight?" Alex asked once they were alone again.

"Planning on pigging out on the couch in my PJ's, why?"

"Well I was wondering if you wanted to go out to dinner. I mean you don't have to, PJ's on the couch sounds just fine." Alex stammered slightly.

Jo was a little taken aback. This was a supremely romantic gesture coming from Alex. "Going out sounds like fun." She replied.

"Really? You're not just saying that to make me happy?"

"No really, we can go out. It'll be fun, we can try that new Italian place by the Space Needle."

He grinned, "So it's a date?"

She laughed. "It's a date."

"Great," he gave her a final kiss as his pager went off. "Plan on going out about 7." And with that went running off.

Jo gave a happy little sigh, tonight was going to be wonderful. She could feel it.

"Can you believe Hobo Jo is dating Alex? I mean it's so, so..."

"Us when we were interns?" Meredith asked. The two of them were casually eating lunch in between surgeries.

"Whatever, those two are too damn happy. Happy people are annoying." Christina popped another chip. "You know she's basically you right?"

"Excuse me?"

"Come on," Christina exclaimed. "She's had a really crappy childhood, went to a great college, she's seriously dating a formerly married attending even though she tried to avoid it, her attending is feared by all even though she's a happily married mother, she's even living in your house!"

"Ok, 1) Not my house anymore, and 2) Derek was still married when I met him."

"Yeah but you didn't know that."

"What didn't she know?" Derek asked as he joined the pair.

"Just how alike her and Hobo Jo are." Christina chirped, popping the last chip into her mouth.

"Huh, you know now that I think about it, it makes sense. What with the crappy childhood and the dating an attending thing and all. Does that make Alex me?"

"McDreamy crossed with Evil Spawn," Christina mused. "McSpawn?"

"Evil Dreamy?" Derek countered.

"You both are sick, you know that?"

Derek smiled and kissed his wife's cheek. "What've you got for this afternoon?"

"I'm consulting on an appendectomy on an 11 year old," Meredith replied. "Why?"

"Well, we haven't really had a chance to go out since the Gala and I thought that tonight would be a good time to go out for a nice romantic dinner, just the two of us."

"Can Callie babysit?"

"Oh please, she's been over at your place for the past, what, six weeks? She's probably sick of your house." Christina remarked. "Tonight I will play the role of devoted godmother and spoil your children completely rotten."

Meredith shot her person a look that was equal parts thanks and amusement while Derek just rolled his eyes.

"Try not to burn the place down Yang." He quipped.

"I can't promise anything."

Next chapter I'm planning on introducing the patient story. Reviews are very much appreciated!