[10x12]

Jo walked over towards where Alex was mingling with the bridesmaids speedily, the gravel underneath her high heels crunching loudly. She was pissed. What the hell had Jackson been thinking?

"Whoa, your girlfriend looks like she could kill somebody," Cristina pointed out, interrupting their conversation and making Alex turn around to see Jo head towards him. He frowned, not knowing what to expect.

"What's going on?" he asked her, reaching out for her arm as soon as she was in his immediate vicinity. Jo sighed.

"I could finally get Steph to calm down but she's all apathetic and not talking now and I really don't know what to tell her," she closed her eyes and rubbed her hands on her forehead. Meredith and Arizona looked over at her sympathetically, while Cristina looked around for something or someone and Alex tried to calm his girlfriend somehow but didn't know what to say, either.

"Does she need anything? Is there anything we can do?" Arizona spoke up first, seeming apologetic herself even though she had nothing to do with it whatsoever. Jo looked up and shook her head, taking a dramatic sigh and biting her lip madly.

"Did you talk to him?" she nodded over towards Alex who shook his head.

"After they broke up the ceremony, he and Kepner went somewhere to talk and they haven't come back since…," he pointed out, confused about what exactly she wanted from him. Jo just kept shaking her head in disbelief.

"I can't believe he actually did that," she laughed after a second, overwhelmed with everything. Now all eyes were on her. "I hate him. Oh my God, I hate him so much. How could he do that to Steph? With her sitting there? He had months…. Really…. Years to tell freaking Kepner that he wanted her…. He didn't have to do it with having Stephanie around…he didn't have to stay in a relationship with her for like ever… what about that Matthew guy? I mean...what the hell was he thinking?!" she blew up all of a sudden, making them all hike their eyebrows. Jo exhaled deeply, trying to calm down, seeing all of their stricken faces. "Well, anyways, I was gonna tell you that I'll drive Steph back to the hospital..or... I don't know...wherever, really...far from here… see you later?" Alex just nodded and Jo turned around to stomp away a couple of steps. Just at that moment, Cristina's cell phone rang and Jo changed her mind in a heartbeat. She turned on her heel, walking back up to Alex who had turned around again, only seeing Meredith and Arizona's curious faces and hooked her hand into his elbow.

"Can we talk a second? Alone?" she asked him, determined.

"Uh, yeah," Alex shrugged at her, completely perplexed.

Jo guided him away a couple of feet and stood before him in silence. She stared at him glowingly, still infuriated about what all had happened, before cupping his head and yanking him down to kiss him hard, obviously startling Alex.

"What the hell, Jo?" he asked her with a burning stare when they broke apart.

"Don't you ever do that to me, you hear me? I will kill you with my bare hands… and you know I'm not joking about stuff like that," she shook her head at him madly. Alex had hiked his eyebrows and just looked at her, shaking his head at her too, now, amused though. "You think that's funny?" she slapped his chest, fuming.

"I think it's ridiculous," he told her, chuckling before pulling her into a much fended hug due to various reasons, her being all mad about what happened with Jackson and her superiors standing all around them watching them and if she was being honest with herself, for some reason this whole thing had sparked just a tiny bit of fear within Jo about what all could happen in a relationship even though you had no idea and no chance of preparing yourself for that. After a moment though, since she really didn't know what else to do, she wrapped her arms around his neck and reciprocated the hug.

"Sorry," she murmured, swaying in his embrace, standing on the tips of her toes, sighing.

"What do you mean he froze?" Cristina's sharp voice pulled them out of their momentary trance, parting a bit and looking over in confusion. They watched Cristina glare towards them as well, listening to the person on the other end of the line. Alex shook his head lightly, questioning, for people kept eyeing him madly today for no good reason at all.

"What?" he snapped back, grudgingly letting go of Jo and putting his hands onto his hips. They both watched her walk closer, still listening to the voice, before angling the phone away, covering the speaker and whispering towards them.

"It's your dad. It's bad," she informed him, making Jo snap her head up and look at her furiously.

"Oh my God, what is it? I told Leah to take him over while I was here, is she there? What happened? What did she do?" she asked frantically. Cristina just shook her head and shushed her in irritation. She motioned for them to walk with her over to the parking space.

"I'll try to come in as fast as possible, I'm already at the car. Keep him alive until then," Cristina barked her orders into the phone, making them both wide-eyed. She hung up aggressively and sighed when she looked up, seeing their inquiring faces.

"What the hell is going on?" Alex immediately asked.

"It's bad. He had a heart attack, Shane and Murphy tried treating him," she said, looking at Alex apologetically. "I don't know what happened exactly," Jimmy's doctor explained, already walking over towards her car, Alex and Jo following swiftly. "Shane had to open him up. The nurse said something about him going completely crazy…freezing in the middle of it... I don't know what that means. Webber had to take over," she continued.

"What do you mean crazy? What the hell did he do?" Alex maddened quickly.

"Webber? But he isn't a cardio surgeon? He isn't even really all back to business," Jo immediately interjected.

"Well, I'm aware of that, that's why they called me. I'm gonna drive over there as fast as I can and see what I can do," Yang squeezed Alex's arm, making him nod, before getting into her car.

"I shouldn't have left him, I'm sorry," Jo shook her head at Alex.

"You couldn't have done anything, either, if something had happened on your watch. Let's just go and see what's happening, alright?" he told her matter-of-factly, sounding like he tried to be calm but really, was beyond mad, earning an insecure nod from her. "You should go be with Edwards," he nodded over to her car, in which Steph was occupying the passenger seat, looking all devastated. Jo sighed and rubbed her forehead again.

"What the hell is the point of this day?" she ranted. Alex sighed as well before pulling her a little closer.

"Well, how about you think about what we talked about before the wedding…or non-wedding," he added, looking at the sky, trying to decide. "That'll make the point of it all much clearer, don't you think?" he asked her, trying to lighten her mood, but also trying to distract himself before going into that car and taking out his slowly rising turmoil inside of him out on the road.

"How are you so calm with this?" Jo replied to him. Alex sighed, shaking his head.

"What do you want me to say? I can't do anything about Jackson eventually admitting that he still has the hots for Kepner apparently-," he started.

"I'm not talking about that," Jo interrupted.

"Jimmy… he's had a heart condition forever… if he hadn't come here in first place, I would have thought he had overdosed by now. With having had the heart surgery done a while ago and now going through withdrawal... I'm not shocked about him going into MI," Alex shrugged. "Also, there isn't anything I can do right now. We'll all have to go back to the hospital and see what happened. The only thing I'm curious right now is what role Ross played in all this…," he trailed off, looking back at the barn, pondering.

"Yang will surely fix it, right?" Jo reached out to cup his cheek to bring him back to their conversation.

"We'll see," he turned back, giving her a fake smile, making her look at him in pain. She brought up her second hand too and pulled him towards her again, making their lips touch. When they parted, Jo's eyes immediately fled his, and he rubbed her back. "So, do I have to be scared now that you'll ponder about potential murder plans?" he chuckled. Jo reached up and slapped the back of his head.

"You really think this is appropriate timing? How can you be so chill?"

"I'm not, I'm pretending everything's fine until it's not," he reported to her.

"Well, there's a way to deal with life," she mocked him heavily.

"I'll leave in one second and then I'll be unbearable again if that Ross kid messed up somehow, I promise," he told her, kissing her again, making her roll her eyes. When he stepped back to walk over to his own car, Jo reached out and barely caught his arm, making him look back. "What?" he asked her, surprised. Jo's eyes were narrowed and she looked like she was trying to decide what to say.

"There aren't any… ex-girlfriends or ex-wives that will potentially destroy my plan of keeping my anger down and trying to deal with my violent outbursts, right?" Alex snorted.

"There's lots of them but none of them are worth getting your hands bloody for," he told her, his lips playing a smirk. Jo's face didn't twitch when she stared him down, making him roll his eyes. "Oh, come on. Just because Jackson dumped Stephanie at his ex-girlfriend's…nope, wait… ex-hook-up's wedding… doesn't mean I will, since when are you so paranoid?"

"Since I didn't know that people actually do crazy stuff like that," she pointed out, still seeming mad.

"How do I have to pay for his stupidity?"

"You don't," Jo finally shook her head, sighing deeply. "You're right, I'm being paranoid…and bitchy. I just… ugh, I think I might really hate him," she said, pushing Alex's chest to get him going and turning round to get into her own car. Alex, though, wouldn't let her escape that fast and held her back, side hugging her and kissing her temple.

"You have nothing whatsoever to worry about, alright?" he whispered into her ear, making her close her eyes and nod after a moment.

"It's killing me that I've become one of those sappy, love thirsty girls that have to talk about their own relationships even though their best friend just got dumped at a wedding and is hurting beyond imagination and your father is… is...oh God, Alex, we really gotta go," she yanked open her eyes and kissed his cheek quickly, jogging to her car. "See you over there, alright?" Alex nodded before walking over to his car and shaking his head, chuckling. When he sat down in the driver's seat, he let out a long breath. He really didn't know if he could deal with a fatally ill Jimmy as well. If he had even survived until they got there. He put his head on the steering wheel and sighed. What a crap day. Well, at least he had Jo. Yes, at least he had Jo. Alex smiled, starting the engine, and drove towards the hospital, oblivious about what was really going on and awaiting him there.