Wow, thanks for all the positive feedback everyone! It's much appreciated. For some reason this chapter took me a little longer to write then usual, possibly because I started dancing around an idea for a new story. Hopefully the chapter turned out good, Enjoy!

"I want to see him." Emily Daniels said bluntly. Currently she was sitting across from Chief Hunt in his office after being brought there by Doctor Wilson who was now standing behind Chief Hunt along with Dr Grey, who had joined them en route.

Owen cleared his throat. "Mrs Daniels," he tried to begin.

"You are keeping me from my son, let me see Robby."

"According to Mr Collins, you have up all parental rights to Robby 8 years ago." Owen attempted to reason with the woman, but it was one of the few battles he was not going to win.

The former Mrs Collins gave an icy smile that made Jo's skin crawl. "I'm going to make this very simple for you Chief Hunt. You ether let me see Robby, or I get my husband to rescind the donation."

Jo saw Owens back stiffen. She studied the woman's face closely.

"It's your choice Doctor Hunt."

"You're bluffing." Jo told her.

Mrs Daniels looked taken aback. "Excuse me?"

"Your left eye started twitching the moment you made that ultimatum."

If looks could kill, Jo was fairly certain Mrs Daniels would be arrested for murder but she didn't care. Who did this woman think she was, abandoning her child only to show up years later and expecting everything to be just fine?

"What makes you think you can speak to me like that? Do you have any idea who I am?"

"You're a woman who abandoned her son!" Jo spat, the rage that had been building towards this woman was dangerously close to boiling over.
Suddenly a thought struck her. "Does your husband know about Robby?"

Jo saw the color leave Mrs Daniels face. "Oh course he does." She stammered.

"See, I don't think he does." She smirked, coldly. "Otherwise instead of threatening Chief Hunt, you'd be on the phone with your husband and
probably your husbands lawyer."

"Wilson" Chief Hunt shot her a warning look but she ignored it.

"What do you think he'd say if he knew, maybe we should tell him?" Jo was practically spitting fire now.

"This is blackmail!"Mrs Daniels wailed.

"Dr Grey, please remove Dr Wilson." Owen ordered, he had lost control of the situation and damn it if he wasn't going to regain control. "Now!"

As Dr Grey closed the door behind them, Jo turned to face her attending. "You're probably furious with me now right? But she deserved it! Who abandons a child only to try to take him from a loving parent?"

"That's not our call, you let your emotions get in the way and you're going to have to pay for it. You'll be banned from the OR for the rest of he day. You can spend it updating patient info."

Jo was shocked. She had expected something far more severe. "Are you sure? You sure you don't want to give me something worse, I might have damaged the possibility of the hospital donation."

Meredith smiled, she was seeing more and more of herself in this intern as the day went on. "No I'm not, but I am going to tell you that if you listen stand next to the supply cart, you can hear everything that happens in the office." She shot Jo a friendly glance as she slipped back into the
office.

Jo listened as the argument inside intensified until the door flew open and Mrs Daniels stormed out. Dr Grey left soon after and gave Jo a small smile. She let out a breath she didn't know she was holding, for some reason that she just couldn't put her finger on, she had a deep foreboding that this was far from over.

Jessica sat miserably picking at hospital cafeteria food. This day was all out shit, on every level. Ok maybe the only bad thing that had happened today was that she had found out she was dying, but that pretty much guaranteed a shitty day all around.

"Mind if I sit?" A male voice pierced her miserable fog. Jessica looked up at the source of the voice. A handsome young man dressed simply in a
white cotton shirt and blue jeans holding two coffees stood before her. "You looked awfully down do I wondered if you might like some company."

Jessica smiled at the somewhat obvious pickup line. What the hell, why not?

"Pull up a chair." She said. The man placed his coffees on the table and sat down across from her. He had really beautiful emerald-green eyes. "So what are you in for?" She asked.

"My son is getting his appendix removed." Jessica tried not to let her face show her disappointment. If he had a son then that meant he probably
had a wife. "That coffee for you wife then?"

"I'm not married," he said with a twinge of sadness in his eyes. "I was actually hoping this other one would be for you."

She smirked, was he actually hitting on her? She hoped he was, it'd be one thing to go right today. "Ok, but only if it's straight black."

"Is there any other way to drink it?"

They laughed, she didn't know why but she felt really at ease around this man.

"How about you," emerald eyes countered. "What's your story?"

She took a sip of coffee. "Terminal brain tumor. Without surgery I've got anywhere between 9 and 18 months."

"Ouch, I think you've got me beat. If it's not out of line, why wouldn't you have the surgery?"

She sighed. "I want those 9 to 18 months. The surgery only has a 10-15% chance of success. It's too big a risk."

"What does your family think of your decision?" He asked her.

She gave a pitiful little laugh. "I couldn't tell them, I dialed each of their numbers but I couldn't bring myself to actually call any of them."

The two of them sat there for a while in silence, sipping coffee. Finally he broke the silence.

"Hey, I don't think we've been properly introduced." He stuck out his hand. "Zach Collins."

She laughed and took his hand. "J...Jess." She stammered, making a split second decision not I tell him who she was.

"Well if that's your answer I'm changing mine to Sir Percy Hogsbottm." He smirked lightly.

"I'm sorry, it's just that outside I'm someone else with a life that's not normal. In here I'm not and for what it's worth, I like that." She tried
to explain. Thankfully he seemed to understand because he didn't push the subject. She started to ask him something but as soon as she looked up the question died on her lips. He was looking over her head and had a look on his face like someone had just lobbed a grenade into his lap. She turned around to see a well dress young woman walking their way looking at Zach. He got up. The woman stopped several feet away.

"Hello Zach." Said Tori

Silence

"It's really me."

Again, silence.

"How've you been? You look good."

This time the pause was long enough that other people in the cafeteria were beginning to take notice.

"I saw that Robby was in the hospital, anything I can do to help?"

Zach swallowed and turned back to Jess. "It was very nice to meet you Jess, I hope we'll see each other again." He said to her before calmly
getting up and walking out of the cafeteria.

Jessica turned to look at the woman. She looked as if she might cry. "I'm sorry Zach." She said in a shaky voice. "I'm so, so sorry."

I know I know, not a lot of Jolex, but fear not, it is coming. I promise! *Insert obligatory plea for reviews here*