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"Jackson, it's been three months. You must know why April won't return any of my calls or texts!" Lexie hollered down the hall at Jackson who appeared to be avoiding her just as much as April was. April hadn't returned to work yet but she stopped in often so everyone could see Blake.
"You really want to know why Lexie?" He turned around sharply.
She nodded her head and he put his hands on his hips angrily before he finally told her. "Because you announced to everyone that you were pregnant. In our hospital room. A couple hours after April gave birth to our first child."
She thought about it for a minute. "That's unfair. It's not always about you two Jackson," she argued and he became furious. She still honestly didn't get it.
"You want to talk about unfair? Unfair is me having to watch my wife cry in sadness and disappointment on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life." He screamed at her and started walking away. She got it now.
Lexie ran down the hall as fast as she could in her state to chase after him. "Jackson, I'm sorry! That was insensitive of me and I had no business doing that," she admitted. She felt so embarrassed about her behavior.
He turned around again. "You don't have to apologize to me. Apologize to April. She's coming in for Blake's three month checkup today."
She agreed and Jackson was already halfway down the hallway. He was updating the OR board when Bailey found him. "Avery, follow me." She ordered him. He glanced down at her, confused. "Why?"
She looked up at him sternly. "Because I said so." and he followed her into an exam room across the hall. She closed the door and sat the one of the visitor chairs. "Alright then, what can I do for you?" He asked nervously.
"I need you to take my blood work and keep it to yourself. Can you do that?" She asked him sharply as she handed him a syringe and tourniquet. "Uh, yeah. No problem." He agreed and drew her blood quickly. She took the blood sample and delivered it to the lab herself.
He ran into Lexie, April and Blake in the hallway. "I didn't realize that it would upset you if I told people that day. I'm really sorry, April." Lexie apologized but April didn't look happy.
"Lexie, how would you feel if I did that to you? How about when we visit you just an hour or so after you have your baby I announce that we're pregnant again?" She asked and watched Lexie's expression change. That would be awful.
"You're right. I would be really upset. I'm sorry that I did that. I am." Lexie apologized again and April breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank you. That's all that I wanted. You just really hurt my feelings. I know you didn't mean to but it was hurtful."
"I know. I hope you can forgive me," Lexie hugged April easily. "Of course I forgive you. Don't think that I'm not happy for you, I'm thrilled. Your life is going to change completely." April laughed and they looked down at Blake in his car seat.
Lexie motioned towards Blake. "Can I hold him?" She hadn't held him since the first day in the hospital. She had barely even seen him.
"Any time. Feel free to babysit too," April laughed and so did Jackson and Lexie. She pulled him out of his seat and handed him to her carefully. He was dressed in an adorable grey and blue two piece set that had a football on his butt.
"This outfit is adorable!" Lexie complimented. April chuckled. "He'll probably only wear it once. We got so much stuff at the shower that I'm just trying to get him in everything even once."
While they were talking Dr. Hunt approached April and waved to Blake. "Dr. Kepner! I'm so glad to see you. Do you mind if I steal you away for a quick consult?"
She looked over at Jackson and Lexie who were with Blake and they didn't seem to mind. "Uh, no…that's fine." She agreed and followed him down the hallway.
Lexie and Jackson talking about Blake. "He seriously looks just like you. Do you think you're going to want any more?" She asked playing with his feet and making him giggle. Jackson nodded eagerly. "Oh yeah. We're between one or two more…" He told her but she was paged.
She looked down at her pager. "Oh my god! The liver, the liver!" She hollered eagerly. She passed Blake off to Jackson and jogged down the hall as fast as she could. If he didn't know how long her patient was waiting for a liver transplant then he would have been extremely confused by her outburst.
He took Blake with him to his office. Or tried to. Every nurse in the place had to stop and say hi to them. It also felt a little bit to him like they forgot that he was married. One even rubbed Jackson's arm while cooing with Blake. He waited in his office from April to come back but she was MIA. He called the nurses station in the pit to find her.
"Emergency room, this is Sarah." A nurse answered tiredly.
He shifted Blake onto his other hip. "Sarah, this is Dr. Avery. Have you seen my wife?"
"Dr. Avery, someone was supposed to call you. She's in surgery with Dr. Hunt. A trauma came in who ended up needing emergency surgery. Last update I got they were planning to remove a part of his liver and kidney. His organs are crushed. I can call to update you as soon as I hear anything?" She asked eagerly. He was her boss afterall.
Jackson rolled her eyes. Typical April. Comes in to bring Blake in for his check up and ends up performing at least a four hour surgery. He thought about how her passion for medicine is one of the things he loves the most about her.
"That would be great. Thanks again." Jackson told the nurse perform hanging up and looking at Blake.
"Guess it's just me and you today, Bud. Want to shoot some hoops?" He asked Blake and watched him giggle. He may not be able to play anytime soon but that didn't mean Jackson couldn't start planting the seed now.
In all seriousness this time, he scooped Blake up and walked down the hall to find Mark. After searching a couple of labs and lounges he eventually found him hitting golf balls off the roof with Derek Shepherd.
They noticed his presence. "Avery, Little Avery," Mark greeted smartly and Derek nodded his head politely.
"Not much. April came in for his doctor's appointment and ended up handing him to me so she could go into surgery. So now we're killing time," Jackson laughed and Derek held his arms out for the little boy.
Avery took that to mean he could hit a few balls with Mark. "So Lexie told me her and April cleared things up," Mark mentioned while still focusing on his next stroke.
Jackson shook his head. "They did," he told him with a cough. "And I never congratulated you on your news… congrats man." He chuckled and patted his older friend on the back.
"No, you didn't. And thank you. I'm only on board for the boobs," Mark joked and Jackson laughed. Oddly enough he knew exactly what Mark meant. April's breasts must have gone up at least two sizes since she got pregnant and he was not complaining one bit.
"Up high," Jackson sang jokingly and Mark met him with a thrust of his hand. Derek shook his head silently from behind them but completely agreed. Meredith got some too with Bailey and he wasn't complaining.
"What do you say we get lunch? Maybe go to the new sushi bar on 12th?" Derek proposed, nodding his head in the direction of the new restaurant they'd been talking about.
"Sounds good to me. I'm starving," Mark agreed and picked up their sheets of grass and the remaining balls. Jackson had been craving sushi for months, mostly because he hadn't been able to have any since April couldn't.
They ordered a variety of sushi rolls and shared, trying a little bit of everything. Once they were just about done Jackson ordered a couple rolls for April once she was out of surgery since she would undoubtedly be starving.
"Look at Avery, he's whipped." Mark mocked and they both got a good laugh at his expense. He made a whipping motion with his hand with a matching sound effect.
"April just had my baby. She gets whatever she wants," he told them in all seriousness with a hint of a smirk on his face. He still couldn't get over that and seeing her as a mother to their son. It basically shut his friends up too who had nothing more to say. Besides, Mark was already a door mat to Lexie and she didn't even have their baby yet.
They got back just as April and Hunt got out of surgery. He heard her ordering an intern and a resident the exact post-op she wanted done and to page her with any questions.
"Don't page Dr. Kepner with any questions, page me. She is on maternity leave. I don't know how I even let her talk me into going into surgery with me." He chuckled, softly patting her on the back. "You're done here April. Go find Blake and go home. Take Avery with you." She happily agreed and turned around to see her husband and son waiting for her with just beaming.
She stopped to take it all in. She flashed back to when she started off as an intern at Mercy West, barely even making acquaintances. Reed, Charles and Jackson learned to accept her as their friend and made her a member of their group. Through the busiest and most exciting couple of years of her life Jackson became her best friend and eventually her lover. Now she was about to go home with the her best friend, the man of her dreams to a beautiful house and a perfectly healthy three month old baby boy.