I will not make
The same mistakes that you did
I will not let myself
'Cause my heart so much misery
(Because of you - Kelly Clarkson)

"Good morning, Mr Evans," Jo said as she entered the room 4218 at GSMH. Since Jimmy came back to the hospital, she went to check on him every day at the same hour. It was the fifth day; for the first three days, he was sleeping or hallucinating most of the time. On the fourth, he seemed a little better and she hoped that today he would be able to start the next phase of his treatment.

"Morning, doc. How you doing?" The patient replied.

"Good," she said with a little and professional smile. "And it seems like you are better too, since today you recognized me as your doctor."

"I would never forget you, darling," Jimmy said. She had to confess, the man was charming. Like father, like son, she thought, before censure herself. Loyalty. She would be always by Alex's side. She wouldn't be involved by Jimmy again, she was there as his doctor, nothing more.

"Yesterday, you're still calling me Hellen," she pointed.

"I'm sorry. She's my first wife," he explained. Of course, she already knew that. Alex's mother.

"I figured," Jo said, without paying much attention. She was more interested in compare the information on her tablet to see if he was progressing as it would be expected.

"You figured? Or did someone tell you?" Jimmy asked, touching her hand and making her look at him. As she didn't reply, he smirked and started to talk again. "Oh, come on. I may have been delusional most of my time here, but one look is enough to say that you have a thing with my son."

Jo opened her mouth without being sure about what she would say. "I'm not talking to you about Alex."

As she continued the check up, Jimmy didn't seem willing to stop the talking. "You're tough, uh! You were much nicer when I first got here. I bet you already knew and were trying to fix me, weren't you?"

"Jimmy, I'm a doctor. It's my job to try to fix you."

"I know doctors. You were trying too hard. I said I wouldn't make you any promises, and still I disappointed you, so you don't want to talk to me now, right?" A nurse entered the room to adjust his medication, and he stopped for a minute, while Jo gave her the new instructions. "But I like you. You seem to be a good girl. He chose well."

Jo couldn't hide a little smile and a sigh as she heard that. It was ironic. All of her life, she wanted a family. Since she didn't have any hopes to ever find her true relatives, she looked for that on the boys she dated. She dreamed about being accepted by her boyfriend's parents and siblings. Now, for the first time, she received that kind of approval, coming from a father that her boyfriend didn't want even see.

"He's smart. He was a smart boy, you know? I'm glad he managed to get here. A doctor! A surgeon. Pediatric surgeon, right? Who would've thought?" Jimmy kept talking, unaffected by the fact that no one was talking to him. When Jo stood in front of him for her last exam, he looked her right in the eyes. "I'm proud of him. Though I'm not sure if I have this right."

Jo finished her work, said goodbye and was ready to leave the room, when she turned back.

"Actually, I think you don't have the right of being proud. But I'd be too, if I was in your place," she said and then she switched back to the professional mode. "You're doing well, Jimmy. I see you tomorrow."

Like she did every day on that week, at some point of the day, she would find Alex and tell him about Jimmy's treatment. Today, she had a little more to say. As usual, he just listened.

"Karev, I have to get out a little earlier for the wedding, can you talk to Cody's dad?" Arizona asked, as they left the OR after operating on the boy.

"It depends. Can I tell him the truth?" Alex replied. He was still pissed, kids shouldn't have to pay for their parents mistakes like that boy would do.

"And what exactly is the truth? I mean, what exactly we know?" Arizona said and stopped, touching his arm to force him to stop too.

Alex stopped and looked at his boss's eyes. He knew he was about to receive a speech. Still, he answered what he wanted to tell the kid's father.

"The truth is that the man shouldn't have moved Cody, because now, the kid probably is gonna be paralyzed, and it's all his fault."

"The truth is that we still don't know that. You heard Callie, she consulted on Shepherd, Cody still has a chance. Why would you make his father go through more pain that he's already gone?" She replied. Yeah, she had a point. But...

"Either way, I think he should know. Even if the kid is okay." Alex insisted.

"Alex, he knows. He knows what he did was wrong. He doesn't need you to throw this on his face. He need you to focus on his son's recovery. If he's okay, doesn't matter what his father did or did not," she sighed, giving up. "You know? Forget it. I'm gonna talk to him."

He heard frustration all over her voice. Since they started to work together, five years ago, though Alex would never admit it out loud, he admired her as a mentor and as doctor. He wanted to be as good professional as she was. He wanted to make her proud of him, not frustrated. When she started to walk away, he called: "Wait. I'll go."

Arizona turned back and raised her eyebrow to him. "And you'll say..."

"That the surgery went well and we have to wait to know more," he finished, like the resident she had to mold one day.

"Good. Now you can go," she smiled a huge smile, making a gesture to invite him to pass. When he was only a few feet on his way, she called him back. "Alex?" He turned back, to see Arizona's I'm-proud-of-you-Alex-Karev look and hear her last words before walk away.

"It doesn't matter what people did to you. You're okay now."

AUTHOR NOTES:

* No Alex/Jo interaction on this chapter, but the next (and last) one will include some barn scene, so I hope you'll forgive me for that and for taking too long to update.

* For those who still don't know, I'm writing another story, called Miles, which focus on Jolex and Crowen.

* Thank you for the follows and favorites (I didn't expect get them now, when I'm almost finishing the story) and specially for the reviews. I love reading them.