April and Jackson at at the kitchen counter drinking coffee. Jackson was reading the sports section of the paper and April was flipping through a Parent's magazine. Jackson took bites of his t

toast every time he flipped the page of the newspaper. April had a half eaten bowl of cereal on the counter next to her. She was immersed in an article in the magazine.

"Your cereal is soggy." Jackson said getting up from the stool. He brought his plate over to the sink.

"Hmm?" April said looking up from the magazine.

"Your cereal. It's soggy."

"Oh, sorry. I was just reading this article."

"I noticed. You want me to take that for you?"

"Yes, thank you." April smiled and handed him the bowl. "I should go check on Em."

"I'm going to shower before I head in to work." Jackson put their dishes in the dishwasher.

April walked down the hall to Emmy's room and pushed the door open. She went over and opened the shade on the window before going over to the crib. She peeked over the side and saw Emmy

holding onto her foot and sucking on her pacifier. She was looking up looking up at her mobile that was spinning around a playing music. April smiled at her. "Hey, Angel." Emmy spit out her

pacifier and smiled. April turned off the mobile and picked her up out of the crib. "Did you sleep good?" April kissed the side of her head as she carried her over to the changing table. Emmy

drooled on her shoulder. April laid her down and gave her a teether so she should change her without her grabbing at all the lotion and powder bottles. April unbuttoned her foot pajamas and took

off her diaper. Emmy grabbed her foot and started to suck on her toes. "Are they tasty?" April laughed and rubbed her belly. April grabbed the outfit that she had laid out for her and got her dressed.

"Let's go see if Daddy's done getting ready for work." April went across the hall to their bedroom. Jackson was standing by the bed in his smiley face boxers and white sock.

"Where do those come from?" April stifled a laugh.

"What?" Jackson looked around.

"Those." April pointed to his boxers. "I don't remember seeing those before."

"Oh um they were in the bottom of the drawer. We need to do laundry."

"Yeah it's on my to do list." April sat Emmy down on the bed and surrounded her with pillows. "I'll be ready in fifteen minutes." Jackson grabbed some jeans and a long sleeve shirt and sat down

on the bed. He leaned over and kissed Emmy before getting dressed. Emmy gurgled and drooled while she sucked on her fingers. Jackson put on some sneakers and then picked up Emmy.

"Let's go get you something to eat."

April fixed her lab coat as she walked over to the nurse's station. "Good Morning." April smiled at the nurse behind the desk. She took a look at the electronic board and grabbed a tablet. She read

the work up on the patient as she walked over to the exam. She walked into the room. There was a young man in his twenties laying in bed. He was curled up under the covers. He was a clammy

shade of white. "Hi. Tom." April smiled. "I'm Dr. Kepner. It says here that you've had a low grade fever and you've been vomiting for a few days?"

"Y…yeah." He shivered and pulled the blanket up higher. April put the tablet down on the table next to the bed and put on her stethoscope.

"How long have you had the fever?" April asked as she listened to his breathing.

"I'm not sure…maybe a week?" He squinted when she looked into his eyes with the light.

"Okay. Well I'm going to draw some blood and run a few tests."

"Can I get something for this headache?"

"You have a headache too? How long have you had it?"

"I'm not sure."

"Okay. I'll draw some blood and then I'll send someone in here to give you something for your head ache." April walked over to the supply cabinet that was against the wall and pulled out syringe

to draw the blood. Tom rolled over onto his back and sat up. April cleaned off his arm and then drew some blood. "I'm going to run this down to the lab and I'll be back as soon as I get the results."

Tom groaned and curled back up in the fetal position on the bed. April grabbed the tablet and headed out of the room. She heard Tom throw up as she walked out. She walked over to the nurse that

was standing by the desk. "Could you go into room 3 and give him some Ibuprofen for his headache."

"Sure."

"Thanks." April made her way to the lab.

Jackson was in the OR finishing up a cleft palette surgery with Arizona. "You do beautiful work, Jackson."

Jackson smiled with his eyes. "Thank you." He did the last few stitches. "And we're all done."

"He's going to be a very handsome young man."

"He'll be fighting off the girls." They both laughed. Jackson and Arizona went over to the trash can and took off their gowns and gloves and went into the scrub room to wash up. "How is

everything going with you and Callie?"

"We're good. Working through some things."

"Are you still looking into surrogacy?"

"That's sort of on the back burner right now which is one of the things that we're trying to work through."

"I'm sorry I asked."

"No it's alright."

"You still want to do it, right?"

"Yes of course I do. But now there's this fellowship and Callie's busy with her research and we have Sofia…" They finished washing their hands and dried them off. Jackson opened the door for

her and they walked out of the room.

"How's your Fellowship going?"

"I think I might be in over my head."

"Really?"

"I don't know why I thought it would be easy."

"If it's something that you really want to do then you should go for it." Jackson's pager went off and he pulled it out of his pocket and looked at the number. "That's the ER."

"Go."

"You going to be alright?"

"Yeah." Arizona smiled. "I'm fine."

"Alright." Jackson smiled. "I'll see you later."

"See you later." Jackson headed off down the hall.

Jackson and April walked down to the cafeteria together. "How's your day going?" Jackson asked pulling her in close to him.

April smiled and wrapped her arm around him. "Good. I have a patient who has meningitis but we caught it early enough he shouldn't have any permanent damage."

"I had a few liposuctions and I fixed a cleft palette on a three month old."

"You win." Jackson grabbed them each a tray and gave one to April.

"Have you gone to see Em yet?"

"No. I'm going to stop by after we eat." April grabbed a salad and a bag of chips. Jackson loaded up his tray with an array of food.

"Give her a kiss for me."

"I will." April smiled. Jackson pulled out his wallet and payed for both of them and they walked over to the table that Meredith, Alex and Jo were sitting at. April took a seat next to Jo and Jackson

sat down next to her.

"Hey guys." Jo smiled.

"Hey."

"Do you have any new pictures?" Jo asked taking a bite of her sandwich.

"Of course." April pulled her phone out of her lab coat pocket and gave it to Jo to look at pictures.

"Oh!" Jo gushed.

"Kepner you're still scrubbing in with me on the bowel resection, right?" Meredith asked.

"Yes, I'll be there."

Meredith's pager went off. "I have to get back to the ER. I'll see you later."

Jo handed April back her phone after she finished looking at the pictures.

Alex finished eating. "I have to get back upstairs. Robbins and I have a surgery."

"Bye, Babe." Alex leaned over and kissed her. He grabbed his tray and left.

April finished eating her salad. "I'm going to go see Emmy."

"Yeah I have to go do some paperwork for the staff meeting tonight." Jackson took her tray for her.

"Dr. Torres x-rays should be ready by now." All three of them got up.

"Bye, guys."

"Bye."

"Bye."

Jo headed out of the cafeteria.

"Have fun with your paperwork." April smiled and gave Jackson a kiss and then left. When she got to the daycare she found Emmy laying on her belly on her playmat. Emmy was kicking her feet

and grabbing at the toys that were hanging off the arch on the playmat. "Hey, Baby Girl." April bent down and picked her up. Emmy cooed and smiled. April planted a kiss on her cheek and sat

down on the floor next to her mat.

"Hi Dr. Kepner." One of the day care workers walked over.

"Hi." April gave her a smile.

"Did you want to give Emmy her bottle?"

"Yeah, I'd love too."

"I'll go heat it up for you."

Emmy laid back on April's chest and looked up at her. April looked down at her and rubbed her belly. "I love you." April grinned. Whenever she was with Emmy she couldn't stop smiling. Emmy

had some drool dripping down her chin and April wiped it off with the bib she was wearing.

"Here's her bottle."

"Thanks." April took the bottle. "You hungry?" April carried Emmy over to the rocker and sat down. She laid her down in her arms and gave her the bottle. Emmy held it with one hand as she ate.

April loved the cute suckling noises she made as she ate. April stroked her cheek and rocked. Halfway through her bottle, Emmy's eye lids started closing. Every time she opened them again it took

a little longer for them to open until she fell asleep. April took the bottle out of her mouth and kissed her forehead. Emmy squeaked in her sleep. April got up out of the rocker and carried her over

to a crib and laid her down. "Sweet dreams."

To Be Continued...