When Jo woke, she was slightly dizzy and confused. It was still broad daylight outside and she was still lying in a hospital bed. Something had changed though. She sat up, rubbing her eyes, trying to put her finger on what it was. She felt… not quite right. What the hell was going on? She tried to make out what happened before she fell asleep. Yeah, she had been in therapy. With Alex. They had had a fight. Yes, they had had a fight. She felt bad because of the fight. Was that it? But why in the world did she feel like that… she felt like… something was wrong. She wanted to talk to Alex. Or Shepherd. Or someone else. She couldn't pick. Jo searched for her phone and tried to ring Alex. Voicemail. She typed a message really fast to let him know she was looking for him.

J: Alex, I need to talk to you. Something weird happened. I can't really figure out what it is. Call me, please

She put her phone down and got up and went to the bathroom to freshen up. Even after the quick wash she felt like… like… something had…moved. Jo frowned at herself in the mirror. What the hell was that supposed to mean? She put on a wool jacket because even though it was warm and cosy inside the hospital, she was freezing, and walked outside to the nurses' station, only to be greeted by Elliot, again.

"Hey, where are you going?" he asked suspiciously.

"I'm gonna go find Alex," she said, absent-mindedly.

"As far as I know he's still in surgery," Elliot hesitated, looking at her insecurely. "Won't take long, though, they just had to do an emergency appendectomy on a 3 year old," he replied.

"Oh, ok, I'll go see the twins, then," she said, already walking towards the elevators, still deeply in thought.

"Do you wanna have coffee with me? I could use a break and we could go out in the park or something," Elliot called after her, seemingly nervous.

"I'm not sure I'm up for walking right now. Thanks, though, you're sweet. I'll take a rain check," she answered, determined to reach the elevators before the nurse could latch himself onto her. Even though they never talked much, before her accident or after, he was slowly but surely annoying her. Elliot looked after her a little disappointed. She went down to daycare and only found Maddie up while Ethan was taking his nap.

"Hey baby girl," she said, smiling at her beautiful daughter. Maddie laughed hysterically and crawled over to her mom. She took her in her arms and hugged her tightly before letting her down and playing with her. Jo's head was buzzing. Something was definitely wrong. She could feel how something wasn't quite right or maybe just different from before she took her nap. Half an hour later, she said her good-byes and took the elevator upstairs again. She decided to swing by the attendings' lounge to see if Alex had made it out yet.

"Hey there, stranger," Dr. Grey greeted her smiling brightly. She was sitting on the couch, having a coffee and reading up on some research. "Come on in, do you want some coffee?" Jo smiled.

"Yeah, definitely," she said, pouring herself some and walking over to where Meredith was sitting and plopped down.

"How are you doing?" the elder asked. Jo sighed.

"Fine. I just went to visit with Maddie. Ethan's asleep." Meredith smiled.

"Were you looking for Alex?"

"Well, yes, but I know he's probably still finishing up his appendectomy, I just thought I might come and see if he made it out already."

"Yeah, he should be done by now. Are you excited to go home tomorrow?"

Jo nodded enthusiastically. "I know I should enjoy it more but being here on a 24/7 basis is only fun when you get to scrub in every once in a while," she chuckled. "And I don't feel like I am sick enough to stay in bed all day." Meredith nodded. They both looked towards the door when it swung open.

"Hey," Shepherd came in, beaming at both women. "This is a surprise," he said, bending down to kiss his wife and then going over to hug Jo. "Are you bored out of your mind already?"

"Oh yeah, you wouldn't believe it," Jo admitted. "Hey, can I ask you something?" she said, a little more serious that time. Shepherd sat down besides his wife, looking at her in concern.

"Yeah, go ahead," he encouraged her.

"I don't know how to describe it really, but I just woke up from a nap an hour ago or so, and I feel really weird. I was really dizzy when I woke up, which is nothing too odd after having slept deeply but then I was really confused and I don't really know why. I tried to remember what I did before the nap and everything's clear as day, really, I just felt like something's wrong. My head has been buzzing since then and something tells me I… I don't know… could it be that I remember something? I mean, I don't seem to remember any situation or something from my past… I just… Alex and I had a fight earlier today and then before I took a nap we talked some more about it and now afterwards I feel a little like… this has happened before. You know what I mean? I kinda feel like this is not the first time I feel this way… Am I making any sense?"

Shepherd and Grey had been following her story closely, and Shepherd got really excited. "No, Jo, that's good, that's really good! Your memories are not limited to episodes like a situation or a story you can tell, sometimes you only remember images or smells or, like you said, feelings. That is absolutely great, Jo! This means that there's a really high chance that this will only be temporary!"

"But I can't even put my finger on what it is, you see? I mean… I have this weird feeling that I can't even place… a feeling of… like we fought about the exact same thing before. Which is complete rubbish because we kinda fought about something related to the memory loss…," she said.

Shepherd studied Jo's face closely. "Hm… well it's possible that you might have fought about something similar before or not even that, maybe it was similar in how you guys parted or some words you said or something like that. It's not necessarily the content of the fight that made you remember," he said. Jo thought about that for a minute.

"You guys are okay, right?" Dr. Grey chimed in. Jo looked over at her in surprise.

"Oh, yeah, sure, of course. Everything's okay, now. Well, at least I hope so," she said, giving Meredith a small smile.

"Would you mind terribly if we did another MRI? It may tell us something more, now something has changed." Jo nodded. "Yeah, sure, I have time," she chuckled. That moment, Alex walked in, talking to Robbins vividly not noticing the people sitting on the couch.

"I'm just saying, it worked out with Oliver back then, why wouldn't it work out now? I mean, I'm happy to go find more sponsors but you know…he's right here," he chuckled, pouring himself some coffee.

"Yeah, but we can't just ask him for money all the time. And besides, how much money can he spend?" Arizona looked at him unconvinced.

"Trust me," Alex said with a wide grin. "He has the money," he nodded dramatically and turned around to look at his colleague in anticipation for a reply but saw Jo first and startled. "Hey," he said, walking closer. "What are you doing here?"

"Oh, I was waiting for you to finish your surgery," she smiled at him. "Don't let me interrupt you, though, you sounded like you had a point to prove," she winked at Arizona who smiled and walked closer as well. He looked at her questioningly before sitting down next to her, stretching his arms from surgery before putting an arm around her shoulder and pulling her closer to kiss her.

"What's up?"

"Well," Jo began teasingly slow. "Don't get too excited but I just told Dr. Shepherd, I might have remembered something." Alex choked on the sip of coffee he just made and looked at her with big eyes.

"You remember something?" he asked, excitement shimmering in his eyes.

"No, Alex," she looked at him pleadingly but not being able to contain a wide grin herself even though she knew there was a high chance this was only a fluke, "I said don't get excited! It's not really anything. I just woke up an hour ago and I felt really weird and I kinda feel like I remember the feeling I had after our fight today," she explained, making Alex blush a little with Jo being the only one noticing.

"What do you mean? I mean, what does that mean?" He looked in between Jo and Shepherd. Shepherd shrugged.

"We don't know yet. I already ordered another MRI," he pointed at his phone. "Maybe we can see something. Not likely but we'll try. It just means if she really does remember a feeling, the chances are extremely high that this is only temporary," he told him. Alex looked back at Jo, beaming. She smiled back at him, touching his cheek with her fingers.

"I said, don't get too excited," she tried to tame him. He chuckled.

"This," he made a point stressing that word, "is something to get excited about," he said, pulling her close, to kiss her temple, Jo leaning into him in complete relaxation. They kept chatting for a while longer until Shepherd told her when to be down at the MRI and Alex brought Jo back to her room after arranging another time for Arizona and him to continue their conversation.

"I knew you could do it," he said, looking at her with loving eyes. She smiled.

"Alex, please, don't put all your hopes on this…feeling. I don't even know what I remember. I just feel like there is something that wasn't there before."

"Well, and that's only the beginning. Let me be happy about it. If there's a chance of you coming back to me, I will be as happy about it as I can," he said, hugging her tightly.

"Yeah I know. But also, if I won't come back you will be desperate. And I don't want that," she said.

"Yeah, but that's fine too. I told you. I'm gonna make you fall in love with me again. It's fine. Not that hard." He winked at her. She laughed.

"Yeah, because you are soooo irresistible," she said. He nodded. She laughed again. Everything was so easy. "Yeah, you really are," she said, looking at his eyes deeply.

"Jo," he said, warningly.

"What?" she asked innocently.

"I know we talked about it yesterday. It doesn't mean I changed my mind." Alex scolded her. She took a step back.

"Yeah, I was afraid you didn't." She sat down on the bed. "So, why do you think I remember something after fighting with you?" Alex raised his eyebrows and grinned.

"Because we fight a whole lot?" he said, questioningly.

"We do?"

"Yeah. All the time," he said, trying to be honest.

"So, I thought you said we are great at being married?"

"We are," he said.

"Doesn't sound like it so much anymore,"

"We fight a lot. But we also make up a lot. This is the only way it works. We are both stubborn and opinionated and honest. We tell each other everything. There's a lot to fight about. Or let's say discuss. We discuss a lot. It's not always fighting. But it's not as bad as it sounds. We need that. To remind us how grateful we are to be with each other. And to tease," he said, winking at her again.

"So, you're saying, we bicker a lot. But do we fight about us – I mean our marriage or relationship – too?"

"Yeah, sometimes," he replied truthfully.

"But these are bigger fights? Fights that continue for longer than 20 minutes?" she asked.

"Yeah," he said, not knowing where she was going.

"So, when we fight about something concerning us, is that really, really bad for our relationship? I mean, did we ever break up?"

"No," Alex said, shaking his head.

"So, we never broke up but were we ever close?"

"No," Alex repeated, still shaking his head.

"But if we fight that much how come we are still that happy with each other?"

"Because we love each other," he said matter-of-factly.

"Yeah, but is it worth it?"

"Every second, yes," he said.

"So, is it really intense when we have a fight?"

"Yes," Alex said, sighing.

"And we don't really like to fight because we'd rather be with each other, right?"

"Well, of course. Does anybody like to fight?" Alex looked at her questioningly. Jo took a second to digest.

"I think that's the feeling I'm trying to describe. When I woke up I felt really tired and exhausted and… like I didn't wanna fight with you even though I really wanted to fight with you because I wanted you to understand but what I wanted even more was not fight with you. Do you know what I mean?"

"I can imagine. You tell me that a lot. Nothing is more exhausting than to fight with me. Because you love me and you don't wanna be fighting with me. But you don't wanna not fight either cause this is what ruins relationships. Not talk things out. That's what you tell me all the time," he contemplated. Jo smiled.

"Sounds like that's exactly what I felt today. Ahhh. I can't believe it," she squealed, jumping up and down. Alex laughed and pulled her into another hug.

"I knew you'd come back to me," he whispered into her ear. "It's not gonna be long from now," he said, Jo nodded and stayed right there, enjoying the strong arms engulfing her.

After a couple of minutes of swaying in each other's arms, Jo loosened her grip on him and looked back up at his still beaming face. She had to giggle. "You are so sweet, you know that," she commented on his reaction.

"Don't do that," he said, trying to pout.

"Do what?" she asked, frowning.

"Call me sweet all the time," he said. Jo had to laugh.

"Awww but you are such a sweetheart," she replied, stretching the word extra long. He rolled his eyes at her. "So," Jo said, looking down at his shirt where she had put her hands and played with the rims of his white coat. "Tell me about our worst fight," she said, not sure how he was gonna react. He didn't. When she looked up at him, he had his eyebrows raised and a smirk on his face. She hadn't anticipated that reaction. "What?" she asked, quite a little offended.

"Why the hell would I do that?" Alex laughed. Jo smiled.

"Because I asked you to?" she said giving him her innocent eyes.

"You do realize that you have been giving me these since day one and I am so over getting on my knees for you," he said, winking. Jo pushed her fist in the air, mockingly frustrated.

"Dangit," she warbled. He laughed but Jo got back to serious pretty fast. "I just… I really wanna know more about us… like… how do we work if we keep on fighting this much…," Jo said, hesitantly.

"I just told you," Alex said.

"Well, that's not what I mean. I wanna judge for myself. Why can't you just give me an example?"

Alex rolled his eyes. "Alright," he said, immediately jumping into a story.

Jo was sitting at the kitchen table, having a bowl of cereal while reading a letter that was propped up in front of her when Alex entered the room. She looked up swiftly before going back to her morning perusal. "What are you reading?" Alex inquired, getting himself some coffee and a pop tart.

"The invitation from the clinic in Malawi," Jo replied soberly. Alex turned round and gave her an irritated look.

"Why are you going through my mail?" he asked, Jo hearing the mad in his voice.

"Because," she said, defending herself actively. "You won't talk to me about it and I wanna know if I'm about to lose my boyfriend to cute little orphans or not," she grumbled at him. Alex turned back to get his breakfast out of the toaster.

"Well, you are not going to find the answer in there," he said. Jo groaned.

"Why won't you talk to me about it? I'm serious, Alex, this does concern both of us," she voiced exasperatedly, getting off her stool and walking around the kitchen island to stand next to him, looking at him pointedly.

"I haven't decided yet," he said truthfully.

"I'm not asking for a decision, Alex, I'm asking you to share your thoughts with me," she pointed out. Alex wrapped his pop tarts in a napkin and bent down to kiss Jo on her cheek.

"Running late, gotta go," he called from halfway down to the front door, leaving Jo standing completely stunned for him running off like that.

"That was it. We fought a little more when I came back home," Alex concluded, looking at her expectantly. "So?"

"You were invited to go to Malawi?" Jo asked completely amazed.

"That's what you got from what I just told you? I thought you wanted to judge the fight," he said.

"Well, you didn't tell me the story of a fight, you told me the story of one of our morning chats. Don't think I'm stupid, I'm not. I may not remember but I know us. The story you told is… well, cute," Jo said, grinning at him. "But has nothing to do with the topic at hand," she completed her thought. Alex sighed, rubbing her arms up and down.

"Let's wait to start the heavy stuff until we're at home, alright?" he asked her turning to serious himself, his guard down completely. Jo looked at his defeated face.

"Promise?" she asked, not sure if he was leading her on again.

"Yes, Jo, I promise," he said before she pulled him tighter once more and pecked his lips.

"Thank you," she said quietly, before Alex was paged away again on an emergency.