Okay so I love Jo and Alex, they are one of my favorite couples on the show and I have been toying around with the idea of writing a fic about them, and then after Thursday's amazing Jolex scene that totally made my night I decided to write this. Plus it gives me something to do while I wait until February 27th, which is an incredibly long 74 days away. This is my first Grey's fic, so bear with me. This is going to start the night after the wedding and continue from there, and they don't know what happened to Alex's dad yet.
Chapter 1: News
Alex and Jo were sitting on the couch drinking a beer and watching some television, just enjoying being with each other. "Hey Alex, can I ask you a question?" Jo asked breaking the silence between the two.
"Sure, you can ask me anything." Alex answered truthfully looking at Jo.
"Did you mean what you said earlier, about us being together forever, and that we're a family?" Jo asked, forcing the last words out of her mouth.
Alex looked at her a bit concerned. "Of course, yeah, why wouldn't I?"
"I don't know, it's just that well no one's ever called me family before, and I just never thought it would happen." Jo answered looking away from Alex.
"Hey," Alex said as he reached a hand out and turned Jo's head to look at him. "I meant every single word that I said, I love you and you are my family the only family that I'll ever need because you're amazing and beautiful and I can't imagine my life without you." Alex said as he wiped a tear from Jo's eye.
"I love you too." Jo said as she leaned in and kissed Alex square on the lips. Alex returned the kiss, and before long they were intensely making out on the couch, and just as things were getting heated Jo's phone rang. 'You have got to be kidding me." She mumbled as she reached for her phone. "Wilson," she answered as Alex continued to kiss up and down her neck. Jo giggled and tried to push him away. "Yeah, yeah he's right here." She said her voice becoming serious as she pushed Alex away and sat up. "Ah yeah, we'll be right there." She said as she hung up the phone.
"What's up princess, and where are we going?" Alex asked.
"The hospital, there's been a complication, with ah your father." Jo said reluctantly.
"He's not my father, and I don't care about any complications, he's just some stupid junkie." Alex said not wanting anything to do with the man.
"Alex, he had a massive MI, Shane and Leah opened him up, and then Dr. Webber came in to help, but Alex," Jo explained before being cut off by Alex.
"Stop I don't care he isn't my family, you are and you here with me, so I don't care what happens to anyone else." Alex said as he sprang up from the couch and stormed into the kitchen to grab a beer.
"Alex please, we have to go," Jo said as she got up and followed him into the kitchen.
"No we don't I don't care about him, we don't have to go!" Alex said raising his voice slightly.
"Alex stop, don't yell at me, you have to go to sign the paper work, so they can send his body to Florida, that's all you don't have to see him, just a few signatures and we can leave, and it will be over and we never have to deal with him again. Okay?" Jo asked as she crossed the room and took Alex's hand in hers.
"Fine, let's just go and get this over with," Alex said as he headed for the door, Jo grabbed the car keys and followed after him.
They rode in silence the whole way to the hospital, their hands locked the whole time. When they got to the hospital Jo and Alex walked in hand in hand and headed for the surgical floor, where they were met by Richard, "Alex I'm real sorry, I did everything I could , but it was too late." He explained.
"Look, I don't care I made my peace and said goodbye, just let me sign the release so he can go back to his family and I can be done with him." Alex said gripping Jo's hand just a bit tighter.
"Here you go, do you want to see him?" Webber asked though he knew the answer.
Alex shook his head and signed the forms before handing them back. "You good to go, thanks Alex, I talked to Owen and he said you could take a few days off if you wanted to."
"I'm fine, tell Hunt I'll be back tomorrow." Alex said as he and Jo walked away. "Hey since I'm here I'm going to quick check on Cody, you want to come with me?" Alex asked as the headed toward Peds post-op.
"Ahh you go check on him, I'm going to see if Stephanie's here, I should see how she's doing." Jo answered.
"Okay I'll meet you in the lounge, in like half an hour?" Alex asked as they stopped in front of the elevator.
"Okay," Jo said with a smile, she then pecked Alex on the lips and bored the elevator.
Alex walked down the hall and stopped in front of the room where Cody was, his dad asleep in a chair by his bedside, still holding the boy's hand. He quietly entered the room, and checked Cody's sats, they were all normal, he was going to check his reflexes but thought it would be better to let him sleep, and wait until the morning.
Alex did one last check before slipping back out of the room. He walked over to the nurses' station, and made the adjustments to Cody's chart. "Karev, how are you?" A women asked.
Alex turned and shrugged when he saw Arizona standing across from him. "Fine," Alex said flatly not wanting to get into a conversation. "Why are you here? You were a brides maid, shouldn't you be with Kepner or something?"
"Well seeing as she didn't actually get married, there isn't really a bride anymore, so no. And Callie got called in on a trauma so I figured why not check on my patients." Arizona explained. "Hey so I ah heard about your dad, are you sure you're okay?"
"Yeah, he wasn't much of a father, so it's not a big deal." Alex said coldly.
"Alex he was your family you-"
"No he wasn't my family, he wasn't there, and you don't get it because your dad was around, and he is you family. He's a junkie who wasn't around, so he's not my family!" Alex said firmly before walking off to go find Jo.
Jo looked at her watch and realized that it had been nearly two hours since she had left Alex, Shit she thought. She hadn't really planned on finding Stephanie, she had something else that she needed to do, but then she had run into Stephanie in the bathroom. She was crying, which was something that Jo never thought she would see, and Jo knew that she couldn't just ignore her friend. So she spent two hours consoling her friend as she cried about Jackson being the one and how she didn't know how this could happen. "Hey Steph, you should go get some rest." Jo said as she stood up and offered a hand to her friend.
"Yeah, I guess I should, what time is it anyway?" She asked as she dried her eyes.
"Almost 1:30, we have rounds on four hours." Jo said, cringing at the thought, she was going to be dead on her feet tomorrow.
"Shit, thanks Jo for being here tonight, but uh could you maybe not tell anyone this happened?" Stephanie asked not wanting the whole hospital to know how pathetic she was.
"I never even saw you." Jo said as she left her friend in the bathroom.
Jo walked through the halls of Grey + Sloan, until she reached the attending's lounge. The lounge was mostly empty except for a few overnight attendingas and Alex. Jo looked at Alex asleep on the couch, and felt bad, she was supposed to be here almost two hours ago. She walked over to the couch, and knelt down next to Alex "Hey, Alex." Jo said as she gently shook his shoulder.
Alex's eyes fluttered open, and a small smile grew on his face when he saw Jo. "Hey, you're late." Alex said as he sat up, and stretched out all the kinks he had acquired from sleeping on the couch.
"I know I'm sorry, Stephanie was having a rough night, but you didn't hear that from me." Jo said remembering that she had promised not to tell anyone.
"Edwards will get over it," Alex said "So you have to back here in like four hours, do you just want to stay here?"
"Yeah, we can just sleep in the on call room." Jo agreed, as she took Alex's hand and helped him off the couch.
Alex stood up and wrapped his arms around Jo, and held her for a few moments. "I love you Jo." Alex whispered into her ear.
"I love you too," Jo said. Alex let her go and then wrapped his arm around Jo's shoulders, and the two headed for the closest on call room. "Hey when you said that stuff about us maybe having kids, do you want kids?"
"Well I don't know, I mean I never really thought about it. I'm good with other people's kids, but I don't know if it being mine would make it different. I think that we could do it, why?" He answered as they reached the empty on call room.
"I was just wondering I guess, the whole thing kind of scares me, I never really had a mother, so I don't know if I would know what to do." Jo admitted as they laid down on one of the bottom bunks, Alex behind Jo with his back to the wall, and Jo curled up in front of him.
"Where's all this coming from? I don't need children Jo, if you don't want them. And we have time to discuss these things." Alex said as he wrapped his arms around the front of her.
"So you don't want kids then?" Jo asked.
Alex heard a slight worry in Jo's voice, and knew something was up. "I didn't say that, I would love to have kids but not until you're ready, and if you're never ready that's okay with me."
"Alex, I ah," Jo said a little unsure about how to say what she was about to say. "I'm pregnant."
Alright there is the first chapter, let me know what you think! There will probably more of the other characters in later chapters, but I just wanted to focus on Jo and Alex for this chapter.
