Title: A place in this world
Plot: What happened if back in 13X01 Jo did leave without telling anybody? After a tragic event in her life Jo returns to Grey Sloan more then 10 years later in an attempted to rebuild her life and find happiness once again.
Hi everybody! This is a Jo Fanfiction, it is based heavily around her and her life. So while there will be other characters involved, don't expect the story to delve to deeply into their lives. However, with that being said if you feel like a certain character in a storyline needs more attention then I'm giving it, please let me know and I'll see what I can do.
Everything important that you need to know should be explained in the story, but if something is confusing you, or if you have any questions, please leave a review with them or DM me. :) This story was very different for me to write. The story is told from the authors POV, however there is narration and thoughts in the story done by Jo. They kind of indicate how she feels and state her logic around a certain choice or life event ect. Hopefully you'll understand once you start reading.
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Notes:
Bold Italics will indicate Jo's thoughts and feelings ECT. .
Plain italics will indicate flashbacks
Chapter one- July 4th 2028
Chapter one plot: Jo returns to the town that she left behind ten years ago.
"Come on Lily, mummy's tied and you need to go to sleep," 37 year old Josephine Maidenway tells her 4 month old baby daughter Lily. Jo was struggling to get the youngest of her four children to sleep and had been trying for the past hour with no success. She was exhausted and just wanted her daughter to sleep so she could try and get some sleep too, and she didn't want to wake up her other sleeping children. She had now resorted to rocking her daughter in her arms, it was something she wouldn't normally do because she didn't want her daughter to depend on being rocked to fall asleep, but in Jo's mind, desperate times called for desperate measures. And she was pretty certain that she had pissed off everybody in the motel she was staying at.
That afternoon Jo had touched down in Seattle, more then ten years after she'd left her complicated and screwed up life behind. For Jo the move back was a rather scary, however necessary thing after the passing of her husband a little over 6 months ago.
The past years had gone so quickly for Jo and so much had happened. Richard had tried to stop her from leaving, however failed. So on the night that Alex had beat up DeLuca she ran. At first she had no direction, she had no idea where to go and she had nobody to go too. So she headed to a motel and after a few short hours of Internet research had decided to head to the small town of Middleton, New Hampshire.
It was in the following year that Jo met her future husband, David Maidenway. David was a lieutenant in the US Navy. The following November they welcomed soon to be 9 year old Zara Kate into the world. Jo was kept busy with motherhood and her Paediatric and Neonatal fellowship however near of its 3 year duration she found herself pregnant once again, this time with twins. It was a few months later they found out that one of the twins didn't make it and had died in the womb. The following July they welcomed Eloise Paige into the world and decided to become a stay at home mother. Eloise had been born with turners syndrome. The doctors also suspected that the 2nd twin had it, considering that all most all pregnancies involving turners syndrome end in miscarriage. However despite a multitude of medical setbacks Eloise was a happy child. Jo was constantly exhausted and sleep deprived and she longed to have some time to herself, however she knew she loved being a mother and she knew that despite all the hard times, she wouldn't change a single thing. Together with David by her side she knew that they could handle everything.
It was that August when something out of the blue occurred. Jo had found herself served with divorce Papers from her first husband, John. She didn't know how he tracked her down to send the papers, however she was very glad that he had. She signed the papers and was officially divorced.
November came around and David proposed. Jo had said yes and the following October she was married. Josephine Alice Wilson had become Josephine Alice Maidenway. Three years later in May Jo gave birth to the couples third Child, another daughter called Ruby Jade.
In August the following year Jo found herself pregnant for a fourth time, however was met with Tragedy in January, when at 7 months pregnant David died from a routine boarding exercise gone wrong in the Navy. Two months later in March she welcomed Lily Claire into the world.
Desperately needing an escape and a new start Jo found her self packing up her life and returning to Seattle four months later.
Now Josephine Maidenway found herself in a local motel, waiting for night to turn to day so she could go to the hospital and see everybody that she left behind all those years ago. She of course new that she could go to the hospital now, after all it never closed. However she thought it would be weird to show up again for the first time ten years in the middle of the night, and she knew it would be an impossible task to take her four very tired, and mostly sleeping children with her. She knew that showing her face there again would be strange, and everybody would sure to show a lot of different emotions. After running into Jo distressed in the residents lounge that evening, Steph new Jo was leaving. And after failing to stop her from leaving, Richard knew too.
Jo and Steph talked when they could, but due to Steph's busy schedule as a Neurosurgeon, that wasn't very often.
There was a knock on the motel room door and so Jo walked to the door while rocking Lily to sleep. She was still crying, but not nearly as loud as she had been. She opens the door to see an old man standing in front of her.
"Can I help you?" She asks while frantically trying to calm Lily down. The stress was evident in her voice.
"Your baby has been constantly crying for the past hour. You need to get her to stop, I have to get up really early for work tomorrow and I can't sleep," he says annoyed.
"What do you think I'm doing? Sitting on my backside? I am trying okay," she says frustrated.
He doesn't understand. He doesn't know what you've been through in the past few months. If he knew he'd understand that you're doing the best that you can.
"Are you sure? Because that baby is deafening. I need to sleep," he says.
"I am trying my best, okay! I have four children and she is the only one still awake! I'm doing a damn great job. And She's only four months old for crying out loud! So, if you don't like it then find another room!" Jo snaps before slightly slamming the door.
A moment later she began to hear another cry, coming from where all of the girls were sleeping. It sounded like Ruby. "Crap, crap, crap!" Jo sighs stressfully.
What the hell am I doing? Am I even doing this right? Did I make the right choice. Was the right choice to move my family to another state while I'm still a grieving widow? I don't know if I can do this. I can't even get my youngest child to sleep. What the hell am I doing?