AUTHORS NOTE:
If you have been following my fanfiction page, I'm sure that by now you guys would know how obsessed I am with Japril.
However, I have just recently started watching Scandal (yes, I'm a late bloomer so don't judge me) and I'm in deep, mad, head over heels love for the perfection that otherwise goes by the name of Scott Foley.
This fanfiction is a result of that.
I have long been wanting to write an AU FF for Japril wherein their situations are reversed and she's like this Park Avenue, Gossip Girl-esque, bitchy outside, soft inside heiress type of character while Jackson is the down on his luck poor boy with a good heart.
I have thought of doing a crossover with Scott's character from Scandal but since this is an AU and he' d really not be playing a murderous undercover CIA agent but rather as the third leg of an angsty love triangle, I decided to just feature him here as his character from Grey's Anatomy without the sickness.
I really don't know how often I can update.
It might take a while because to be honest, one shots are more my cup of tea.
However, I really am excited about the possibilities of this story.
I hope you'd be looking forward to it as much as I am.
Your reviews are much appreciated.
It would help me decide if I should continue or not.
SYNOPSIS:
They say that true love comes when you least expect it.
When you think everything is perfect and life couldn't be better, then it hits you.
And your life would never be the same.
Jackson Avery and April Kepner are as different as night and day.
Their worlds are so far apart and their personalities so dissimilar that it would have been impossible for them to meet, but then destiny decided to play its part.
In a most unexpected time and in a most unexpected place, they would learn to rely on each other in a most unexpected way.
In a rebellious act towards her controlling mother and salvaging her pride in order to prove to the man she loves that she is over him, April and Jackson would be forced to live together in a contract relationship.
One that April was confident would be all business.
Just another contract that April drew and which she expects Jackson to fill.
However, as they slowly get to know each other, feelings grow, emotions get involved and what they previously could never thought happen, would.
But what if it was their world that was tearing them apart?
And what if Jackson cannot give what it is that April really wants?
Would love be worth fighting for or would the saying really hold that sometimes – love really just ain't enough?
CHARACTER SUMMARIES:
JACKSON AVERY
Widowed at 30, a temp worker who's barely making ends meet and raising his sickly son by himself, Jackson should have hated the world but instead he looks at it with optimism and a hopeful disposition.
Though life has dealt him with some hard blows and even if sometimes everyday was a struggle, Jackson still lives his life simply but contentedly armed only with his righteousness, kindness and sense of compassion.
To Jackson, the world that April lives in is foreign.
An unknown realm of reality that he has never ever set foot on until their paths crossed by accident.
He knew that she is someone that he shouldn't fall for.
She was unreachable, unattainable and a woman that's not meant for a man who's as hard up as he was but from the first moment he laid eyes on her, he was intrigued by her.
Like a moth to a flame, he was drawn to the vulnerability in her eyes which she hides behind the cold façade that she tries to project to the world and by the sadness in her smile.
But would that be enough reason to fight for his love?
Would feelings and emotions suffice when he knows that he cannot offer her more than that?
APRIL KEPNER
Fiercely independent, high maintenance, aloof and every inch the socialite, April was born to a life of luxury and opulence being the sole heiress of the Kepner – Kettering Empire.
Born with the proverbial silver spoon in her mouth and to a medical family that consists mostly of over achievers, to the world April may appear to have everything but deep inside she is constantly fighting herself to be worthy of her mother's love and the deep and painful scar that she carries from being jilted at the altar five years ago by the only man she's ever loved.
Spurred by hurt and fueled by anger, April begins to believe that love is a make believe feeling that is frivolous.
That emotions are fleeting and that relationships are fitted only for immature, foolish, childish people.
And she is not one of them.
Not anymore.
So what does she do about Jackson?
The man who seems to be Mr. Wrong in every which way but who makes her feel so right whenever he's around?
He is everything she wants to run away from.
Everything that she wasn't and which the circle she lives in looks down on and for that alone, she knows that they don't stand a fighting chance.
Especially now that her Mr. Right has come back and he is shaking her heart.
Past or Present.
Right or Wrong.
Heart over Mind.
April has to choose, so will she choose right this time around?
HENRY BURTON
The Kepners and The Burtons.
Two families that have dominated the industry of Science for years and along with the success of these empires, came the deep friendship between it's heir and it's heiress, Henry and April.
Raised in a life fit for kings and every inch the progeny of old money, Henry gravitated towards April not just because of the partnership of their families in business but also because she had always been the only one who truly understands him because of the similarities in their background and social status.
Inseparable since childhood and armed with the deep belief that they are each other's perfect match, April and Henry's relationship flourished and turned into love with the both of them becoming the toast of their circle for being the golden, perfect couple.
But then Henry thought if it was all that there was to his life?
His love for April was great but so is his desire to fulfill his own dreams and ambitions.
After all, love can wait.
But can it?
What happens when Henry achieves his plans but comes back to find out that April's heart may not be the same.
Can regret make him fight for her love the only way he knows how?
LEXIE GREY
Born as an illegitimate child to a poor father and an even poorer mother, Lexie has spent all her life giving way.
In childhood, she gave way to her unknown sister the time of her father during countless Birthdays and Christmases.
In high school, she gave way to her mother's wish to not continue on to college even if her heart was set on medicine.
Even in matters of the heart it was the same story.
She gave way to her best friend Stephanie for Jackson even if she has loved him all her life.
After Stephanie died, Lexie thought that her days of waiting are over.
She loved Jackson's son Jaden like her own, harboring a secret hope that someday Jackson would notice and she'd finally have her turn.
But then, April came into the picture.
And once again, she was left in the wings.
And Lexie is tired.
Tired of being second best, of playing second fiddle of never having what she wants.
It's time for her to put herself first.
Now, she's ready to give it all she's got.