Oh, this is gonna be a gas!

Tell me about your tattoos

A/N: The pictures to get an idea of what all of these look like is at the bottom. If you want I can insert them into the story. Just let me know! I feel like this is a fun way to get to know Jo better. Also, can we take a minute to appreciate just how beautiful she is all the time but especially in this picture right up here👆🏻

Lizzie and Jo were laying naked in bed. Jo was on her stomach and Lizzie was on her side facing Jo. They both were tired from the afternoon's activities. Lizzie let her eyes take in the full wonder and beauty that was her wife's body. It was riddled with scars and tattoos but never had Lizzie seen anything more gorgeous. She reached out letting her hand ghost over the tattoo on the right side of her wife's ribs before her hands went to trace the delicate script running up her spine before finally settling on her "M" that rested just below her hairline. Lizzie spoke soft when she said, "Tell me about your tattoos."

She could hear Jo smirk. Lizzie loved asking about her wife's tattoos she would get lost in the stories she would tell surrounding their origins. Jo turned her head a light smile on her face. Lizzie wanted to take that moment, that feeling, and freeze it forever. Never had she had someone look at her with so much love. "Which one do you want to hear about first?"

"Your ankle."

Jo smiled lifting her left foot so that the cloud on her inner ankle while now upside down can be better seen. Jo was from Georgia and every now and again her thick southern draw would come out. She had learned how to conceal it over the years to better blend in but sometimes when she told certain stories or when she was really tired that twang would come out. It never failed to return when she told this story and man oh man did it drive Lizzie crazy. "My Pawpaw was a wise man, hardworking and full of wisdom. Whenever life would kick me down which back then it always did he would pick me, up dust me off, wipe the occasional tear before saying 'Well angel in life we are going to have storms and sometimes them storms are going to feel like they last forever. Like all your crops are going to wash away and you ain't going to have anything left but Darlin every storm cloud runs out of rain.' that was my first tattoo back when I turned 18."

Lizzie just listened to her wife speak mesmerized by her words like it was the first time she had ever heard it. Lizzie let her hand trace the script that ran up her wife's spine. "This one next?"

This was the only tattoo Lizzie was present to watch. She remembered sitting by Jo's head as she lay face down for hours as the tattoo artist delicately wrote the quote. Lizzie held Jo's hand the whole time and did the best she could to distract her girlfriend. "I think you could tell the story better than I could." Jo laughed "But I'll give it a go. I have always been a lover of film and the wisdom that scriptwriters have to write some of the most beautiful poetry in everyday sentences. This phrase popped up in great films like Jurrasic Park, Lord of the Rings, and a few other films but it stuck out to me the most in Grey's Anatomy season 11 episode 13 called "Staring at the End" I think it is one of the most eloquently written episodes of the show. When I first heard it I was sitting in my Pawpaws living room watching it with him. He had just gotten diagnosed with cancer and he looked over and said 'Well Darlin ain't that the beauty of life it will always keep going.' After he passed I couldn't bring myself to watch it but then my most amazing girlfriend-" Lizzie laughed lightly kissing Jo's spine "-sat down with me and held me as I cried and watched it with me. Then she was sweet enough to call my Grandma and have her send all these letters that Pawpaw wrote. She then went through them and figured out how to take the individual letters and write out the sentence than she stayed with me the entire time why I got Life will always find a way to continue. Always. Life... will... out. etched into my skin."

Lizzie smiled "This girlfriend sounds awfully amazing."

Jo smiled "Oh yeah she was but she's not my girlfriend anymore."