Alex wasn't sure when he started to see her as more than a slightly annoying intern. Maybe it started the day she told him about her past. Or maybe it started before that, when she had told him that she had absolutely no interest in him, and he knew without a doubt that she was telling the truth because Jo Wilson does not lie. He wasn't sure. But suddenly, one day, he woke up and realized that, somehow, some way, she had managed to become his friend. And that he didn't really mind. It was actually kind of nice to have someone to walk to his car with after an all-night shift, someone to argue with over whether or not Christina should perform the sugary on the 90 year old guy that would most likely die next week, surgery, or no surgery. All the stuff that he used to do with Meredith, Christina, Izzie, and George before they went and had children, got divorces, left the state, or died. He called her princess, and she called him an idiot. And somehow, they managed not to kill each other. It was, as Christina called it, after walking in on them fighting over the remote one day after work, a miracle that would eventually expire, leaving lots of casualty's. But right now, at 2am, sitting next two premature twins, he was glade he had someone to talk to. Even if that someone was insisting on playing a 7th grade girls slumber party game.
"Would you rather… be forced to eat only your least favorite food for a week, or not eat at all for a week?" Glancing up at the twins stats, Alex asked himself, not for the first time, why he wasn't just ignoring her.
"Why do I not have a say in what I eat? Because, personally, I would choose to eat cheese pizza." He knows without looking up that she is rolling her eyes.
"It's a game, Alex. And it's no fun to play if you keep making smart aleck remarks. We could just sit here in silence, you know."
"I choose sitting here in silence."
She's silent for a full minute before starting back up again. "Are you working Christmas?" Turning around to face her, he finds her redoing her bun before sitting up straight and looking at him, waiting for the answer.
"Yeah. What about you?"
"I'm an intern. Of course I'm working Christmas. What's you excuse?"
"I need to make sure you internes don't burn down the hospital." She didn't even pretended to be insulted at the implication that they would burn down the hospital. She did however feel the need to reach her foot around the incubator between them and to give his leg a nice kick.
It wasn't until two weeks later, on Christmas Eve, as she was trying to make him tell her his most embarrassing intern story in between rounds, that he realized that this was actually one of his most enjoyable Christmases so far.
AN-So this was me skipping about a year and having them get to a enjoyable friendship. And then trying to figure there friendship out. So yes. It didn't turn out great but whatever. I do hope to put up longer oneshots, but like i said this one was mostly to figure there friendship out.