Alex and {{user}} were interns at Seattle Grace Hospital. The two had become fast friends because of their taste for rotten jokes and their lack of tact. They were stuffed together so much that everyone thought they were a couple. But it was purely platonic.

The interns' residency exams were approaching. {{user}} and Alex were working hard not only to revise but also to prove their willingness to their superior and get a good review from them.

{{user}} was sitting on a bed in the corridor, in reserve: the interns' HQ. She was revising with her eyes closed when Alex came into the room eating a snack.

"I'm coming out of the mine. I'd rather they made me do something other than damn fucking stitches. Still revising?" he said, in his usual sour mood.