Pulling down the sleeves of her long salmon pink t-shirt the small brunette made her way into Seattle Grace Mersey West Hospital, making sure that the said t-shirt covered all of her arms – including her wrists, they're clean and pale and dainty right now but later, later they'll be dark and purple and sore. She breathed heavily as she made her way to the third floor where the intern locker room located, marvelling at the fact this is a journey she would be making everyday for the next year of her life. As she walked up she couldn't help but not look around her, it didn't look like this at orientation – she was excited, giddy even. But there was the nagging feeling in the back of her head that if she did anything wrong here, it would be worse than what she does wrong at home. I can't embarrass us.

"Hey! Jo, right?" Jo jumped back as she threw her hand to her chest, the girl in front of her had completely taken her off guard, don't embarrass us. "Sorry, totally didn't mean to scare you! I'm Steph? Stephanie Edwards?" Jo was still too stunned to answer, she promised him she'd be more aware of people and her reactions here, "we met at orientation?" Steph said as she pushed her glasses up from where they had slipped down her nose. Jo remembered her, she was one of the few people she met that she had genuinely liked at orientation, she was funny and geeky, and really easy to talk to.

"I remember you." Jo told the girl who blew a piece of her extremely curly hair out of her face in a sigh of relief and gave her a bright smile, Jo watched as Stephanie pushed her glasses back up her nose for the second time since she had stopped Jo – that must be annoying, Jo thought to herself.

"Good! It's less intimidating when you feel like you have someone you know, right?" Steph carried on to the intern locker room and Jo quickly followed behind, it was filled with interns just like them, excited to start their medical career and excited to get into the OR. Jo wasn't as hopeful as the rest though, he had told her that it was unlikely she would get to see any real action on her first day, and if she slipped up then she would be lucky to see it for weeks, especially if I'm your attending, she recalled him telling her as she told him just how excited she was to finally be stepping into the hospital as a doctor.

"Imagine if I was on his service today! Wouldn't that be a great way to start an internship? A hot love affair with one of your attendings?" Jo looked over to where Stephanie had headed once she entered the crowded room, she spotted a few faces that she remembered; Leah she thinks the tall blonde is called, Heather the short weird one and Shane the over enthusiastic and way too cocky guy who had hit on her at orientation. She decided to follow her new friends lead once again and went over to the empty locker across from Stephanie's.

"What are you guys talking about?" Steph raised her eyebrows at the tall blonde, Leah was the typical pretty, leggy blonde – but from the little that Jo had seen of Leah she seemed to be more focused on her romantic relationships rather than her work. Jo couldn't quite tell what Leah was like, she seemed nice at first but there was something about the way she acted that Jo didn't quite like about her. Like when Shane had asked Jo out, "Jo's just too pretty to go on a date with any old guy," she had mockingly told Shane, afterwards Leah shot Jo a big fake smile whilst Jo had just stood there speechless. She was nothing but nice to Leah, she even offered her the visitor pass she had been given when Leah missed placed hers – Jo didn't mind going to the nurse's station to get another, it would give her a chance to see the hospital on her own.

"Oh, just how desperate Leah is to get laid!" Heather squeaked, she kind of resembled a mouse, Jo had first thought when she had met her. She was tiny and had a high pitched squeaky voice which Jo knew would start to grate on her by the end of the week, unlike Leah though Jo had got on with Heather from the beginning. Yes, she was weird but she'd rather be friends with someone who she thought was a little weird than someone who was going to mock her.

The group of five laughed, which had annoyed Leah. She shut her locker door with a slam and pulled up her scrub pants, her face started to turn into a shade of deep red – what had annoyed her the most was Jo laughing at her, she was so stuck up when she had met her at orientation. The way she wouldn't make conversation with anyone first, the way she would flinch when someone who wasn't good enough to be her friend would touch her, the way she turned Shane down with her nose turned up.

Jo was effortlessly pretty, Leah didn't even think she made much effort with her appearance this morning but she still looked gorgeous. Her long curly brunette hair hung just above her lower back, she had her bangs tied up in a bun at the top of her head, it was a messy up do but it looked flawless, like something that Leah would spend hours trying to perfect. She looked as if she barely weighed 120 pounds, she was thin and from what Leah could tell from when she had leant up into her locker she had the perfect toned stomach, and she had those amazing fluttery eyelashes, and the perfect symmetrical face. Jo had everything that Leah so hopelessly wanted, appearance wise anyway.

"Whatever. You guys will change your tune when you're asking for the juicy details on my hook-ups with Dr. Karev," Leah jutted her hip out and placed her hand on it, that was another thing about Jo. The tiny girl managed to look as if she had zero percent body fat but still happened to have the perfect upside down heart shaped ass, it didn't make sense for someone so small – it looked amazing in the tight black jeans she was currently wearing. God, she is so annoying, Leah thought.

"Or Dr. Shepherd...Dr. Avery," Leah smirked, "Dr. Stadler..." the whole group erupted in laughter as Leah went on, this whole conversation was making Jo squirm – if it wasn't Leah's glaring eyes all over her then it was the mention of the married man. Jo grabbed her scrubs out of the bag she had placed in her locker and made her way to one of the bathroom stalls that was just off the locker room to change.

Jo hated her body, she was too thin, he was always telling her that she needed to put on more weight and that he would like her body more if she actually had a figure. She remembers back in college when she would go to the gym just to do squats and other exercises that would enhance what she didn't have, nothing worked. Everything she did just seemed to make her waist smaller and her legs thinner, she wasn't one to eat much as it was but she made extra effort to always eat very little of her meals around him, so she can finish and quickly put it in the dishwasher before he has the chance to throw her plate at her. Like that one time, Jo recalls.

Her boobs were too small, she could grab them and get a decent sized hand full but they could stand to be bigger. Nothing like the women she would sometimes catch him staring at when they would go out to a bar or restaurant, something which always made her feel inadequate – sometimes she wondered if he wanted her to see him looking at other women, so she would know she's not good enough. At least they were perky. Not to mention the dark purple splotches that started at the bottom of her legs and worked their way up to her shoulders, he never went for her face – not after the fourth time when Jo was running out of plausible excuses, I'm such a klutz! I tripped on a rock, this had caused questions and stares. He didn't like questions and stares.

She pulled her scrub pants up, flinching when she accidentally scratched at a deep bruise on the outside of her thigh as she was tugging them up. She didn't want to take too long and miss being told who she was going to be assigned to for the day, so she quickly threw her top over her head and once again adjusted her sleeves to make sure nothing was on show. Pushing the stall open, Jo quickly exited the bathroom and made her way back over to the bench that was in front of her new locker.

"Hey! You missed Leah foaming at the mouth when they told her she was on Dr. Stadler's service," Steph told her through giggles,

"I missed it?" She had missed it? She should have known by the way they were all scurrying around trying to tidy the stuff they had left all over the floor. Wait. Leah was with Paul. Which meant she didn't have to worry about messing up around him, well for now.

"Yeh, don't worry! I listened out for you, you're with Dr. Karev on peds," Jo sighed in relief, but caught herself afterwards – she hoped Stephanie thought nothing of it. Paul always told her how he hated working with kids as the bad surgery's always felt so much worse knowing that it was a child, he did have some sort of sympathy – just not for her. This time that would be good for her though, if she's on paediatrics then the chances of seeing her husband were at a minimum. She'll deal with him at home.

"Thanks," Jo gulped down some of the water that was in the bottle she had left in her locker, "what about you? Who you with?" Steph took a deep breath and shot Jo an extremely unsatisfied look,

"Medusa." Jo gave her new friend an apologetic look, they had all heard stories of Meredith Grey but they were nothing compared to what they came to meet at orientation. Everyone knew what went on at Seattle Grace; the plane crash, the shooting, and Meredith Grey always seemed to be at the fore front. So, Jo could understand her unapproachable demeanour which she directed to her interns but that didn't mean she would be begging to be on her service any time soon.

"We better go, good luck," Steph rushed off to find her attending as they exited the locker room,

"You too!" Jo shouted back, she'll need it.

"Why are you following me?" Jo had been trailing behind her attending for almost six minutes before he had even noticed her, he had furrowed his brows and then carried on his way without even a single hello, jerk. And now it had been almost fifteen minutes and they were making their way outside to greet an incoming trauma.

"I'm your intern for the day." She told him and as he turned his head towards her, she smiled. She didn't want to get on anyone's bad side today so if it meant kissing the guys ass who didn't even bother to acknowledge her then so be it. Karev is the guy Leah was talking about, Jo will admit that he was cute. He looked muscular, she could see the way his arms tensed as he tied his yellow gown just a few minutes earlier, he was extremely good looking. But also, an extremely big jerk, she hopes Leah has fun.

"Oh. Well, hello intern. Do you have a name?" The surgeon asked as he put his gloves on ready for the ambulance to arrive,

"Jo," she took a deep breathe, "Jo Wilson." Paul had told her to go by her own last name at work, "You can't be tied to the Stadler name Jo! You might be a fuck up of a surgeon," he had told her as she was applying, she ignored his reasoning. She decided to take her own name as she wanted to be her own person, not someone who was getting work just because of the infamous Stadler name, it's what a lot of female surgeons do – keep their own name despite their marital status.

"Oh, nice. I like chicks with boy's names." He turned his head to give her a smirk before he was getting told off by Dr. Torres for trying to sleep with all the new interns, as he reasoned that he thought she, or rather her name, was hot.

"I'm married." She blurted out, Jo knew what men could be like and she really didn't want to lose out on surgeries because she turned down her bosses advances. Not that calling her hot was much of an advance but for when it does come she wants him to know she's not just turning him down but she has a good reason. She didn't want to be at a disadvantage just because she won't sleep with her boss, she knew what can go on behind the doors of a hospital, she didn't know what type of guy Alex Karev was but she just needed him to know.

Alex looked over to his new intern who looked a little frightened, intimidated maybe? What did she think he was going to do? Jump her? How is she fresh out of med school and already married, she's barely twenty seven. Marriage was the last thing on his mind during college. Hell, marriage was the last thing on his mind the day before he married Izzie. Jo was hot, from what he saw earlier when she was just following him around she was tiny but with all the right kind of curves, and usually she would be the first girl he would try it on with – a girl that had a pretty face, a nice ass and a great looking body.

One problem, Jo was married. Alex was done with drama, done with crazy, done with women who are going to drag him into said drama and said crazy. Finding himself attracted to a women who was married just screamed drama, so despite the fact his groin was telling him to fuck his moral beliefs, his head told him to stop the flirting right there. Even if she wasn't going to reciprocate he didn't want to say something that crosses the line and be met with a black eye from her husband the next time he walked into work.

"Right." Was all Alex could say before the ambulance arrived and they were all rushing into the hospital.

A few hours later, Jo was leaning against one of the nurse's stations finishing off all the work Dr. Karev had piled on her whilst he was off performing surgery. She couldn't help but feel annoyed at the fact she didn't get to scrub in, although she wasn't expecting it there was still a bit of hope deep down that she would be able to get in there.

"Oh my god!" Stephanie sounded exhausted as she walked up to Jo and rested her arms on the counter before flopping her head down on top of them. "Medusa is trying to kill me. Death by skut, what a way to go," the pair of interns both giggles as Stephanie continued to over exaggerate about how hard her day has been. The sound of Stephanie whining about Dr. Grey and what kind of attending she was, Jo started to appreciate Dr. Karev. Only slightly, she would still much rather be with Torres – she had let Shane observe her surgery on his first day.

"How are you wearing long sleeves, Jo? I'm sweating so much my sweat, has sweat." Truthfully, her first day had been so hectic Jo hadn't even thought about her outfit choice, she just hoped that they hadn't rode up too much on the sleeves to give anyone a peek at the ripe bruise that had formed on her wrist that morning.

"Nice!" She laughed once again at Stephanie's over exaggeration, she was starting to like just how easy it was to chat and joke around with Stephanie. Maybe one night that Paul was working late she could ask Steph to hang out at the bar with her.

Jo looked up from looking at the back of her friends head which was still firmly placed on the nurses station, she saw a flash of pale blue scrubs paired with a flowing blonde ponytail. Leah. Jo knew what would be following her from around the corner which the blonde had just appeared from, Stadler, her husband. Jo's luck had to run out somewhere, she had overheard one of the nurses say that he had been in surgery all day which explained how Jo had been able to avoid running into her husband all day.

She hadn't told anyone that he was her husband yet, despite the fact that Paul had been all for her not using his last name he still wanted everyone to know that she was his – that was his words anyway. Jo knew that if he found out that she hadn't told anyone then he would use it as an excuse to make her pay for it later, if he knew she was going out of her way to avoid him then he would go crazy. Of course, the chief knew she was Paul's wife, she knows it will come out but she just wanted to delay it for as long as possible.

She wanted to keep her home life and her work life as separate as she can, which sounds silly when they both work at the same hospital and at one point or another she will have to be on his service. That day is something she is dreading, she knows he will find everything in his power to belittle her and she'd be lucky if she ever saw the inside of an OR with him being the decider of that.

"What about you? How's Karev?" Steph finally lifted her head up but Jo was gone, she looked around the large opened area and when she couldn't spot her she just let out a huff and put her head back down. She needed rest.

Jo scurried off in the direction opposite of the one that her husband had just came through, looking behind her every few seconds, if he had saw her then he would be fast behind her.

"Oof," Jo fell to the ground, hard. Had she run into a wall?

"Watch where the hell your going!" Not a wall, but her boss. She would have preferred a wall.

"Sorry, I was- "

"Running away from something?" Alex stuck his hand out, Jo took the hand offered to her and quickly got up from her place on the floor.

"Excuse me?" Has he seen something?

"You just looked as if there was a big grizzly bear running towards you," you could say that, Jo thought.

"Nope. Guess I should've been more worried about the one in front of me," Jo wanted to be on her boss' good side but after day it was pretty clear that he wasn't too bothered about being on her good side and her nice perky attitude has worn out.

"Har Har! Those my post ops?" He mocked her silly joke before snatching the tablet that was in her dainty hand, to be honest he didn't mind the light hearted joke. He was starting to think she was the yes ma'am, no ma'am type, and he would rather his intern have a back bone.

"Yes. I've done your post ops, ran every test you could possible ask for and checked on all your patients," she smiled, "twice." She wasn't expecting him to be impressed, nothing seemed to impress him but she had impressed herself. Her first day was seeming to be a good one.

"No one likes a kiss ass," he looked up from the tablet, he was satisfied with her work but he wasn't going to tell her that just yet. He handed the tablet back to her, accidentally grazing her hand with his thumb. He could tell that her skin was soft just by looking at her but damn, he didn't expect it to feel like touching silk.

"If I was going to kiss your ass Karev, I'd be doing a lot more than just my job." She looked at her boss one last time before side stepping him and heading once again towards the opposite direction of Paul. She needed to find somewhere she can sit without the threat that Paul was going to walk in on her at any second.

Just one day of working in the same hospital as her husband and she was already questioning her choice to become a doctor.