the beginning    Born in Albany, New York to a troubled yet well-to-do middle class family. Janet's father, Robert Grey, was a well respected professor and her mother, Emma Grey, was a chef of her own struggling restaurant. While her early life was fairly uneventful, she was heavily influenced by a very fragile home life. She would quickly learn that the Grey family had a very troubled history. On both her mother and father's side, there was a very strong tradition of deviance, substance abuse and overall underachievement. Her mother and father tried desperately to stop the trend by focusing on stable careers, but various conflicts kept coming up. Among these conflicts involved a member of Janet's family that was a known con artist and had dragged her cousin into all of her dealings. It often led to the Grey family dragging them out of trouble only be taken advantage of.

  From a very early age, Janet had showed a substantial talent for empathy for others. When her parents would often fight it affected her a great deal, more so than most children. This kind of empathy was written off as a sort of sensitivity and often it was her older sister, Serena Grey, that helped her avoid being overwhelmed. As a result, Janet had developed a special bond with her older sister. They ended up supporting each other as their parents struggled to keep their fragile lives together. As she grew Janet, continued to walk a fine line between being overwhelmed and feeling empathic. It did not help that her family issues continued to put a pressure on her parents. Then one night everything took a tragic turn.

  While returning home late one night from another incident involving Janet's Aunt, the Grey family was involved in a terrible car accident. The wreck killed Serena Grey almost immediately, leaving a shocked and traumatized Janet to hold her dying sister in her arms. While she and her parents had survived, her mother suffered severe injuries that left her paralyzed from the waist down and in chronic pain. She would live the rest of her life in a wheelchair and rely upon powerful pain kills to allow to her function. Her father, while relatively unscathed, was overwhelmed by the loss of his daugher and the condition of his wife that he will never truly recovered. Janet, who was only eight years-old at the time, was the most affected. Because of what had happened he slipped into a catatonic state for the next three years of her childhood.

the middle   Over the next couple of years after the car accident, Janet had slipped into a catatonic state in which she barely spoke a word to anyone. She barely ate, drank and at time wouldn't look at anyone nor acknowledge them. It wasn't until she was eleven years-old that her parents was visited by a specialist, he recommended that she attend a special private school created to help kids with special needs. They gladly sent her, if only to get rid of trying to take of a child that was barely able to take care of herself. She never once looked back over her shoulder to her parents as she was escorted into the car that was taking her to the school.

  It was during her first few months of attending the academy that she eventually made friends with her fellow students, she started to smile more and speak if only a few words at a time. Taking her until she was sixteen years-old she was at the top of her grade level. And when it was time for her to graduate she never once remembered seeing her parents at her graduation ceremony.

  After her graduating from high school, she moved on quickly with her life and attended New York University in Albany, New York. It was there she met the one person she knew she had a connection with, Lola Daniels. Together for the rest of Lola's school life they did everything together. They were always seen giggling, laughing and studying a hard as they could to at least succeed in school. By the time Lola graduated it was the saddest part of Janet's life. She held her best friend in her arms and cried. They each promised to stay in touch despite failing in the near future.

  While her friend had moved on with her life, so was the time for Janet to do so as well but it would take her nearly six more years to do so. She eventually graduated with a doctorate in psychology but instead of immediately getting into work she decided to volunteer for a charity that sent people to a third world country to help those who needed it the most. Janet spent two years of her life in Vietnam, teaching children to read and write. To provide them with clothing and food. But most of all she wanted nothing more than to prove she wasn't just a normal Grey. She was a Grey that wasn't started over.

the current   The two years in Vietnam changed her immensely. She started to see the world in a different light. A world that needed help, and not just those in the third world countries but right at home. So that was it, she moved Boston and decided to get a job working for the General Hospital. She quickly became a popular Psychologist among her peers and her patients. Even so she became very well known in the local community that she was a reasonable charitable person. She eventually became a member of the local community involving charity and mentoring underprivileged children. It was something she found she enjoyed, helping and fulfilling that need to help others. As for now, Janet keeps to herself though occasionally helping her friend Lola, with whom she grew acquainted with in the past few months, in her charitable work. She still works for the hospital and has turned down numerous offers for promotion and excelling in her profession.