15 Grey’s Anatomy couples ranked on their relationship functionality

12. Jackson and Vic

At this point, we still don’t know much about the newly formed romance between Jackson and Victoria Hughes, a Seattle firefighter who fans of Grey’s spinoff Station 19 absolutely fell in love with in the show’s second season.

However, even though they haven’t gotten much screen time in the most recent season of Grey’s Anatomy, based on what we know about each individual character, it’s almost impossible to believe this romance can survive.

It has been implied that Vic and Jackson met on the scene of an emergency, and may have seen each other around Grey Sloan Memorial once or twice before that. But their sudden fling came as a major surprise and upset to those who know her character’s most recent backstory.

Previously, Vic was engaged to the Seattle fire chief, who she had developed a (quite functional and downright adorable) relationship with over the course of season 2 of Station 19. However, the season tragically ended with his unexpected death, which has likely affected her deeply. And yet here she is, already with someone else?

To complicate things even further, Maggie — Jackson’s ex, as in, the woman he just broke up with — was Vic’s fiance’s doctor. The few times she has tried to make nice with her ex’s new partner, things have been multiple layers of awkward. And in a way, Maggie has a right to think he’s being a little ridiculous.

How could a relationship that seems like much more of a desperate rebound possibly function in a healthy, constructive way? Sure, people grieve in different ways and at different paces, but it all just feels wrong.