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"I was starting to think Evan was never going to stop crying, Jesus." Jackson whispered as his fingers reached up to pinch the bridge of his nose. The crying had gone on for longer than he cared to remember and he had a categorically long day at work. Paige was slumbering in his lap, wrapped up in her baby blanket.
"Leave Jesus out of this Jackson. I'm pretty sure Evan hates me now." April rolled her eyes and grabbed the lotion off of her night stand. She squeezed a small amount into her hand and started smearing it all over both arms and then got a little more for her legs. She was applying it a bit too hastily for his liking. He slowly got up and carried Paige back to her nursery, grabbed the baby monitor and shut the door before coming back to argue with his significant other.
"Hate you? Why would he hate you?" He questioned, confused by her declaration. His face was still depicting mild irritation. Every day he was surprised by how his kids looking in his wife's arms. She loved them and nurtured them more than he ever could have wished for. They were their babies.
"Because you always make me play bad cop Jackson, why would he like me? I'm the only one who's constantly picking at him and punishing him when he needs it." April complained. She was clearly peeved with her husband.
Jackson's face softened. "Babe, you're just so much better at it than I am. I try and then I just see his cute little pouty face and big brown eyes and I'm speechless." He countered and grabbed her hand to hold it in his.
"Ohhh. Because you think I like disciplining him? Is that it?" She yanked her hand out of his and got out of bed. She walked into their bathroom and pushed the door shut behind her.
After an eighteen hour shift this was the last thing he wanted to deal with but he saw where his wife was coming from. Clearly disciplining Evan was no fun and that's why he wanted no part of it.
He pulled himself out of bed and knocked on the bathroom door. He heard her sniffling and crying from inside. When he twisted the handle it was locked and he let out an exasperated groan.
"April. Come on sweetheart, I'm sorry. I'll start disciplining him too. I promise. Can you please let me in?" He tried bargaining with her and after a few moments he finally heard her switching the lock open.
She opened the door and walked back over to her side of the bed. He followed her over there and crawled on top of her back to his side of the bed which got a laugh and a weird look out of her.
"I'm going to try to do better, okay?" He promised. She nodded her head and forced a smile. It's not like she didn't think he was a good dad. He was the best dad. He'd suffered through a colicky Evan with her, been at her side through two long and exasperating labors. She remembers finding him in the nursery with Evan and even new Paige at night trying to lull them back to sleep. There were nights he would take them all for ice cream runs and nights he'd fall asleep with his kids on the couch and carry them back up to their bedrooms. It made her heart melt every time. She felt guilty for even getting upset about having to do the hard stuff by herself sometimes. She was probably overreacting and she knew it.
"I mean it's not like I never do any of the hard stuff. I know you're still pulling that "just wait until you're father gets home" crap." She had to giggle at his rant and he rolled his eyes petulantly. He didn't stop there, "You know when you put me in that position I have no choice but to scold him. That should be enough, he's only three." Jackson laughed and she let it go. She didn't mind doing the hard stuff, just not every time.
She leaned over to him and whispered, "Well I'm glad we settled this because we're having another baby." April gave him a quick kiss goodnight and rolled over as if the conversation was over. The room was silent so eventually she sat back up and searched for his pulse to see if he was still breathing.
His eyes were wide open and his face showed shock. After he had a few seconds to digest the bomb she dropped on him so haphazardly he grinned and rolled on top of his expecting wife. Her sour mood completely faded and all he could think about was making love to his wife. They wanted another baby, possibly even two more kids but it was so soon. The math in his head told him it must have been shortly after they got the go ahead from her OB.
Somehow he managed to get her clothes off in record time. "When did you find out?" He asked her, pushing into her already. He loved watching her adjust to every inch of him.
"Yesterday…did a blood test at work." She admitted, her breathing was increasing and her arms were around him pulling him into her even further. "This is good, right Jackson? It's good news?" Even her rambling while they made love was adorable to him.
He beamed into her, "Mhmm. It is good. It's very, very good." And he felt her legs tighten around his waist and pull him closer to her which he loved. He set up a rhythm and his thrusts grew even harder. His lips landed on the curve of her breast and he showered kisses up and down them until he took her nipple in between his lips. It grew even harder when his tongue swirled around it and he went over to the other one. Her head was dropped all the way back onto her pillow and his name was spilling out of her mouth just like he liked it to. One thing he would never forget about their past two pregnancies was how sensitive her breasts were. Squeezing them alone would do it for her if he wanted it to.
When he rolled onto his back with her on top of him he fell even more in love with her. She was riding him hard but lovingly at the same time. With her head thrown back and hands on his chest he could see everything. The scar on her abdomen from Paige just half a dozen months ago and even the extra bit of skin that framed her body. It was all from having his babies and now she was giving him another one. He ran his hands over every inch of her he could while she slid up and down him swiftly. It was time for him to explode but he tried to hold his orgasm in until his wife got there. It didn't take much longer though because he felt her body start to shake and she fell on top of him, riding it out. His arms wrapped around her and he did the same.
The next morning they were woken up the same way as usual. Evan found his way into their room again, jumping at the foot of their bed. The lyrics from Bob Marley's "Don't Worry, Be Happy" were spewing from his little lips. Jackson smiled at how much his baby boy loved Bob Marley jams. They always worked to sing him to sleep and he often sang his favorite part of that song "Oooohhhh oohhh ohh ohh oh oh oh ohhhh ohhh. Don't worry, be happy." which absolutely cracked him up every time.
Paige was still sleeping soundly so he reached up and pulled a wired Evan down between April and he. He pointed at April and showed Evan a "hush" sign to let her sleep even though he knew Evan woke her up too just a couple of minutes ago. It didn't work anyway because he spewed off "Mommy, can we eat pancakes?" and she quickly pulled him into her side and attacked him with kisses while his high pitched laughter overtook the house. Jackson laughed at his sons' lack of ability to keep quiet and how much it reminded him of April. He was just like her…constantly happy and smiling, he had a slight stutter sometimes which reminded him of her rambling and it was sweet.
April slipped out of bed and pulled a zip up hoodie on over her tank top and pajama pants to go make breakfast. While she was gone Jackson flipped on the TV and they found an old episode of Recess that still never failed to make either of them laugh. He heard Paige start to babble and walked across the hall to check on her. It was clear she needed a change and April left it for him. He had to roll his eyes and chuckle at that, he kind of had it coming considering what she dealt with last night. After he changed her he played with her on his bed and finished the cartoons with Evan.
"Breakfast is ready." April motioned back downstairs and pulled her baby into her arms. Jackson scooped up Evan and leaped down the stairs and into their kitchen.
"Goodmorning sunshine." April held her little girl on her hip and followed the boys downstairs. She found Jackson standing above a passed out Alex on their couch and looked over at her confused. Evan was poking him in the face and blowing puffs of air at him. "Uncle Alex, Un-Uncle Alex wake up!" He chimed at him.
"I have no idea, I found him down here when I came to make breakfast." April laughed. She didn't know for sure but she had a pretty good idea about why he was on their couch.
"Karev, wake up." Jackson said while he chuckled at Evan who was now basically standing on top of the sleeping man. He heard Alex groan tiredly. He sneakily grabbed Evan and held him up in the air screaming "I'm gonna get you kid!" and Evan's arms and legs started flailing all over the place while he had him in a fit of laughter.
"Evan, come eat. It's going to get cold." April reminded her little boy and he pattered over to the kitchen and pulled himself up onto the kitchen stool.
Alex finally noticed Jackson staring at him and figured April would have been too if she wasn't so busy trying to cut up Evan's pancakes.
"Alice kicked me out again." He rolled his eyes and slowly stood up from the couch. Couches didn't do it for him anymore; his back was badly in need of cracking.
April eyed Alex and wondered what he did this time to make her sister lock him out. They had been dating now for two years and he still hadn't popped the question. With that crossing her mind she figured she knew what the fight was about.
"Dude, you still didn't do it? What the hell?" Jackson thumped his shoulder but not in too rough of a way.
"Yeah, what the hell?" Evan repeated and the two men's faces filled with laughter while April's looked downright pissed. She shot them a scolding look that whipped the grins right off their faces and she dropped the subject hoping that Evan would forget about the word too.
"I was about to do it, I had the ring in my pocket and everything but she started bitc-complaining about me never being home and I got annoyed. Whatever…" he rolled his eyes some more. "She knows I'm a doctor and a surgeon, she knew it when we started dating. You know how it is, I get called in I have to drop everything and come in." Alex explained to Jackson like Jackson didn't know how being a doctor worked. They grabbed their plates of pancakes and settled at the kitchen table. Jackson took Paige from April and played with her while he talked to his best friend and tried to eat his breakfast.
"You just have to look at things from her point of view. You've been dating for two years and still haven't proposed… she's probably upset about that." Jackson reasoned.
"Trust me, she is upset about that." April chimed in and poured both men a cup of coffee. Her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she was shaking it gallingly. Her sister was a high school teacher who was able to bury herself in her work too but she was ready to settle down now.
Alex looked at April, "Shut up." He mumbled obviously annoyed. "Hey." Jackson scolded him for using the word both in front of his children and aiming it at his wife.
"Sorry. I'm just frustrated. How am I supposed to propose if she won't be nice to me long enough to let me do it?" He asked in all seriousness, obviously he wasn't hearing the humor in his statement. He was putty in Alice's hands; he had been ever since they met. She first flew to Seattle so that Derek Shepherd could operate on her Oligodendroglioma tumor. Luckily, he was able to get it all out and she was in the clear. During her stay she met Alex and for a reason no one was quite able to comprehend they got together. April liked to refer to them as oil and water. They were both extremely opinionated, feisty and seemed to argue all the time but it worked for them. Neither Jackson nor April had seen either one of them as happy as they were together. Initially April was upset that Alex was putting moves on her sister but after some coaxing from Jackson she realized they both seemed happy.
"Try to be home more. If you actually made any effort to, then you could be. We do. It's not like she expects you to drop your work or anything man, she's got her job now too. I'm sure she just misses you. For uh… some reason." Jackson tried lifting his spirits and Alex continued stuffing his face obnoxiously. He hadn't changed much in the past couple of years.
"Well if she lets me into my own house tonight then maybe I'll try again." He grumbled peevishly.
"Actually…" Jackson started and glanced at April. "We were hoping you two could babysit tonight. We have the weekend off and we wanted to go out. Please?" He graveled.
"Unco Alex! We can build another fort and eat ice cream and watch Family Guy!" Evan jumped into the conversation and said excitedly. He was so excited he was stumbling over his words. Jackson and April stared at Alex, most likely for letting their three year old watch Family Guy.
"Well I guess we have no choice now…right buddy?" At least he knew he'd be let into the house today…if he brought her niece and nephew with him.
Jackson pushed Paige into Alex's arms, kissed the top of her head and pulled April upstairs to their bedroom with him. He had wanted to jump her every time he laid eyes on her since she told him their news.