The next few days Owen didn't seem interested anymore. I gave up and just hung out with Jackson a lot it probably made Owen think things but I didn't give a fuck. He suddenly just stopped coming by and I started having Jackson over. Jackson was beginning to help me thru this hell; Jackson and I were at my house drinking coffee one morning. Little did I know this day would change our lives forever. We left my house and went to the hospital for work. I was finally a resident and things were great. Our day began like every other we got our assignments and the day started. We rushed around the ER the clinic Peds plastics until Jackson and I ended up in surgery together for awhile.
Meanwhile there was a crazy guy with a gun running around shooting people. Only no one was aware about it yet, the OR phone rings and Jackson picks it up. It's the call from Kyle about the shooter. Jackson doesn't say anything but good, when he comes back over to assist I look at him
"You good?" his hand shakes
"Yes" his hand stops and he focuses. We finish a little bit later and then he lays it on us "We can't leave this OR...there's a shooter lose in the hospital " at that point I'm scared and freeze taking a deep breath in.
Owen and Steve look at everyone "We have to get him upstairs now"
Jackson looks at them "What part of stay put..."
Owen cuts him off, "Im bringing this patient upstairs now. I shake my head as they leave the room.
Jackson turns to me, "Fuck him. Ill protect you I will not let anyone hurt you" he says I look at him
"You don't have too Jackson" I look down and he comes over to me
"Kyleigh Owen abandoned you and I want to protect you I won't abandon you I promise" I look at Jackson
"Do me a favor then? Promise me...no promises"
He looks at me, "Ok No promises I promise. Owen obviously fucked you up after promising to not go anywhere"
I look back at him "He's going for Teddy I should have just kept myself away" I sigh as we hear voices then see Evan, Meredith, April and Kyle. Kyle's bleeding and has been shot my heart drops and I step back a minute and breath.
Jackson looks at me "Breath its ok"
I breathe deeply "I'm really scared, I don't want to come face to face with this guy. Owen gave up on me..." I pull off my gloves and trash them and wipe my eyes"Im sorry I'm stupid for thinking of him and I'm so sorry for acting crazy"
Jackson turns me towards him "You don't have to apologize to me and as for Owen he's stupid for letting you go" I sigh and wipe more tears.
We walk out and into the next OR to help if needed. Jackson and Evan begin to work, after a little bit Owen comes back as he enters. I'm standing still eyes wide Evan was operating and Jackson was assisting. Owen said something and Boom he was shot he hit the ground and then the gun was pointed at me I stood there losing my breath as Jackson blocked me and got shot in the arm. I was shot in the leg and went down with Jackson covering me. I screamed in pain as he applied pressure to my leg and the guy pointed the gun at Evans head. He was screaming at him as he stayed still I was crying there was a lot of chaos in that OR. I was afraid, terrified and not okay. This was gonna scar us all for life. I was holding my leg to keep from bleeding out Jackson grabbed something and tied it to spot me from bleeding out as he slowly got up to go to Evan and stand across from him not touching Kyle as April stays hidden in the scrub room with Meredith.
I stay put and slid over to Owen and apply pressure to where he's bleeding from. I keep my leg straight and just hold my hands against his bullet wound. I watch everything and everyone's moves taking slow deep breaths trying not to freak. My hands are covered in blood as are my scrubs. Finally the gunman leaves us and Jackson hooks Kyle back up and Evan looks at Meredith and April
"Go save Owen ill save Kyle" Meredith nods and grabs Owen with April's help and goes into another OR and begins to work on him.
I slowly get up and go into a different OR and grab a pair of gloves and put them on then I dig into my leg screaming trying to pull the bullet out. Jackson helps Evan with Kyle. After a few moments Owens fixed up and I'm still fighting to get the bullet out. April comes in and helps me then stitches my leg and helps me off the table. I limp out to the scrub sinks and throw my bloody gloves out then wash my hands crying. I sink to the floor and April sits with me and hugs me as I cry hard. This was the worst day ever; I never knew I'd be shot in an OR at work.
Jackson comes in and April gets up and leaves and Jackson takes her place holding me tightly his arm stitched up.
"It's ok he's gone" I look at him
"I'm really scared still" he rubs my back
"It's gonna be fine" after sitting there for about an hour more some swat guys show up and lead us out of the hospital Jackson doesn't leave my side. After a few moments outside we hear a final gunshot I jump and put my face against Jackson's chest, he holds me tight
"Its okay it's over Kyleigh" a few EMTs walk up to us and see that were already stitched up. Once the hospital is finally cleared out CSI goes in and Jackson takes me home. We pass Owen who gives a look of hurt and I don't make eye contact.
We drive to my house, I don't think I was gonna sleep for awhile. I could still see him shooting me I don't even know if I'll recover from this.
My cell rings and Jackson looks at me as I pick it up" Jesse?" I say then my brother answers
"Kyleigh are you okay? I heard what happened...did you get shot?"
I sigh "Yes and Yes I'm fine I have the best doctors for co workers thank god. One saved my life I saved another doctor; I'm fine "Jackson just listens to me talk to my brother.
"I'm in good hands I have protection Jesse I promise I'm fine" I tell him the.
He says "I heard about Steven..."
I sigh "Don't please just don't he's been caught finally I'm good just don't go there" I look at Jackson who takes my free hand and squeezes it "I love you Jesse I'll see you in a few days ok?"
Jesse replies "I love you too sis alright see you then bye"
"Bye" I hang-up and look at Jackson.
Today I had also found out that this event that happened has happened before at this hospital with a guy whose wife was on life support and had an advanced directive for no machines. The guy that shot up the hospital this time didn't off himself he was shot to be taken down by swat.
Jackson looks at me "A brother? Do you have any other siblings?"
I look down "Yes a little sister and another older brother. I don't really like talking about my family, my parents don't like that I'm here after hearing about me getting shot. There pissed at me, they think I should quit and go home. I told them no I paid so much for college myself I didn't need their help. I worked thru college and paid med school off. My brothers are Jesse who's 29 and Tyler who's 26 my little sister's name is Tanya who's 21." I sigh and zone out seeing the flashbacks of being shot. I wish I could forget but none of us were going too. This was the 2nd shooting in this hospital; Owen had been shot the last time as well. This was going down in history for this hospital and I was a part of it.
Jackson tries to snap me out of it "Kyleigh...you okay?"
I just nod he gets up "I'm gonna go make us something to eat okay? You just relax no one is gonna shoot you again"
I just nod again and turn the TV on I flip thru the channels until I see that The Walking Dead is on and I smile "Yes this is more like it"
I get absorbed into it and don't realize Jackson walk in with our food until he pulls my attention away
"Here what you watching?" I take the plates
"The Walking Dead, I can change it if you don't like it" he shakes his head
"No way this is my shit zombies are cool" I laugh
"Yep and they eat human brains" he laughs and sits next to me. I take a bite and we eat and watch the show, once we finish he brings our plates to the kitchen and brings me some pain meds they sent me home with. He hands me them and a glass of ice water, I take them and lay there with Jackson watching TV. At some point Jackson drifts off to sleep I don't. I quietly watch TV while he sleeps, after a few hours he begins to scream in his sleep I jump. I turn to him and shake him to wake him up
"Jackson wake up!" he wakes up and stares at me
"What?" I stare back
"You were just screaming in your sleep are you okay?"
He looks at me "No I just watched you get shot again and me as well"
I hug him and kiss him on the cheek "I'm right here"
He hugs back and doesn't let go. Now things with us were on a friendship basis at the moment. He was my best friend who I just happened to be falling for now but I'll keep that to myself for now. Too much has already happened that I don't want to ruin our friendship.
He finally let's go and falls back to sleep in my arms. I just watch TV not sleeping a wink; before I know it its morning and our pagers are going off. We get up and get ready he helps me out and we leave for work. As we walk in we pass Owen who tries to get my attention I ignore him and cont walking. We were mandated to talk to a consoler before being cleared for surgery. Once it was my turn I walked in and sat down.
Andrew looked at me "So tell me about that day" he said
I look at him and take a deep breath "Well it started out as a normal day before I know it I'm in surgery with a gun pointed at me. I was scared and I thought I was gonna die. I watched Jackson and Owen get shot and was shot myself. I'm afraid to close my eyes; I keep seeing him shoot me. I dug out the bullet myself and April helped stitch me up. I'm ready to be back here though I really am. I also helped save Owen's life by helping the bleeding stop while the psycho was pointing his gun at people. I'm afraid it'll happen again but I'm sure the hospital will take more precautions now."
He looked satisfied and pulled out a yellow piece of paper and signed it and handed it to me "You're cleared for surgery"
I wiped my tears and smiled "Thank you" he looked at me
"Don't rush it if you're not completely ready please" I nodded and walked out.
Meredith looked at me "Good you got cleared"
I smiled "Yes it is"
"My turn" Meredith walks in and closes the door. I take a deep breath; I hadn't slept since the shooting. I was beginning to see things that weren't there; I think I was going crazy. I walked towards the basement and sat on one of the beds and just zoned out until a voice made me snap out of it.
"You okay?" Owen looked at me
"Go away Dr. Hunt please" he just looks at me then starts to talk then stops and turns around and leaves me alone.
I close my eyes for a moment and bam I'm reliving the day of the shooting again. Tomorrow my brother was coming to town with my other brother. I began to cry and couldn't really breathe for a moment. I pulled out my pager and 911 Meredith I honestly was afraid to show Jackson this side of me. I knew I was having some severe issues since the shooting and I couldn't sleep I didn't eat much.
Meredith arrived running and came over to me "Kyleigh deep slow breaths"
I tried thru the tears and the pain and the flashbacks. Finally after 5 minutes I was calm "I'm good thank you"
"Your welcome" Meredith hugged me then her pager and mine went off
"911 pit" We jumped down and took off to the pit Jackson was already there and once he saw my face he was concerned.
Owen walked out behind me and Meredith "Car crash 4 victims critical"
I stood there and awaited the ambulances. I didn't speak to anyone as the ambulances started to arrive a flashback hit me. I pushed it away taking slow deep breaths as the EMT started to tell us about the patient. I took the first one and walked in with Owen as we went into a trauma room and began to access the patient. I booked an OR and Owen asked me to scrub in I agreed and grabbed coffee before going in. This was my first time back in an OR since I was shot in one a week ago. I didn't sleep at all I have been running on coffee and we began to scrub in. I took a deep breath as I walked in and a flashback hit. Then I snapped you could call it what happened to Lexie difference Owen pulled me out of the OR and 911 paged Jackson.
I wasn't making since "He's here" I said.
Owen looked at me "Who's here Kyleigh?"
I didn't reply I just kept babbling about things that didn't make any sense to Owen. Jackson came running down the hall
"Owen what's wrong with her?" Jackson asked
"She walked into the OR then she just snapped. It's like what happened to Lexie. Has she been sleeping?" Owen asked
Jackson shook his head "No I haven't been able to get her to sleep her screams when she falls asleep so I stopped making her she must still have flashbacks. I'll bring her up to Psych and have them put her to sleep" Jackson put his arm around me and picked me up "Come on Kyleigh"
I didn't even know what was going on. He brought me up to Psych and stayed with me. They put me to sleep and I slept for 3 days, when I finally woke up both my brother's and Jackson was in my room and was asleep. I sat up not knowing where I was and realized I was in a quiet room somewhere. Jackson felt me move and instantly woke up
"Kyleigh you okay?" I just nod and look around as Jackson pages a nurse.
Once the nurse comes in they discharge me from psych and we walk down to the residents lounge. He grabs me a coffee and my brothers leave for a hotel to get some more sleep. Jackson hands me the coffee and I sit down and take a sip he sits next to me "How you feeling?" he asks.
"I'm okay" I reply and sip my coffee trying to straighten my mind a bit. The flashbacks didn't occur anymore, I felt well rested and surprisingly better.
entered the lounge and smiled at me "Kyleigh you're up you ready to work again"
I smile a little more awake now "Yes. I feel much better"
Dr. Webber smiles "Good welcome back don't over stress yourself"
I nod "Ill try not too"
Jackson smiles "I won't let her"
Dr Webber smiles again "Good have a great first day back"
I smile "Thanks I will"
I finish my coffee as Jackson's pager goes off
"Got to go pace yourself page me if you need me" he kisses my cheek
"I will" I respond and smile.
After he leaves I get paged to the pit as I make my way there and outside to await the ambulance Owens already there. I put my trauma gown and gloves on quietly and stand next to him. I hadn't spoken to him since way before the shooting and I was just released from Psych. Owen looked at me as I waited quietly he put his hand on my shoulder
I looked at him "Yes?"
Owen had hurt in his eyes "You doing okay?" I just nod and watch the ambulance pull up. The EMT tells us what's wrong and both me and Owen walk in together and begin to work silently together. Once we figure out everything Owen looks at me "Book an OR page plastics, Neuro and Ortho and if you're up to it scrub in?" I smile "I think I'm ready so yes" I head off to the phone book an OR and then page Jackson, Callie and Kyle. Me and Owen walk the patient to the OR and scrub in I take a deep breath and let it out looking into the OR that I freaked out in 5 days before. Owen watches me as I just scrub and stare then he speaks as Jackson walks in "Are you sure you ready?" I look at Owen "Yes I'm not seeing myself getting shot anymore I had a breakdown and I'm better now" Owen smiles a little "That's good"
Jackson stays silent and waits to scrub in Owen finishes before me and walks in and Jackson begins to scrub as I finish "Are you really sure your good to go in there?" he asks I smile "Jackson I'm really okay now not sleeping didn't help me at all and I really don't keep seeing him shoot me every time I look into the OR. I'm finally better after all this shit I need to get back to work. I can't hide from the OR forever got to face my fears head on fresh" I smile and look at Jackson."I'm ready I promise" Jackson smiles and kisses my cheek "Okay good welcome back" I smile and blush a little Owen watches us from inside the OR. I walk in and get into a gown and gloves from the scrub nurses I look around the OR as I don't see the shooter anymore. After being pumped full of drugs and sleeping 3 days straight from the fear of the shooter getting me again I was ready. Once we were all scrubbed in we began to work, we were in the OR for 15 hours I got to reset some bones and assist Jackson and Owen. I was back and on the top of my game.
Once we had the patient closed up we scrubbed out and Jackson smiled at me and took my hand as we walked out of the scrub room past Owen to go grab something or eat and some coffee. Owen watched us and regretted letting me go but that was on him not me. Me and Jackson entered the cafe and grabbed some food then went to the tunnels to eat and chat. When we got there we sat with April and Meredith who smiled at us.
We sat down next to each other and April looked at us "So are you two a thing?" she asked. "No!" both I and Jackson said at the same time then I blushed badly and looked at my salad and just ate. April laughed with Meredith as me and Jackson ate in silence he peeked at me and I stayed focused on my food as my cheeks returned to normal color. He smiled and April caught him looking at me and that was his ex wife she smiled. She was also my best friend along with Meredith, this was crazy Jackson was hot no lie but I wasn't ready for anything yet. Once we finished we threw out our trash and me and Jackson said goodbye to April and Meredith. We walked down the hall together it was about 10pm and I yawned "I'm gonna go get some rest before I'm paged again" Jackson smiled "Okay want some company?" I nodded "Sure" we walked to an on call room and entered Owen watched us from where he was and looked down once the door closed. I lie on one bed and instantly fell asleep; Jackson laid next to me and fell asleep as well. At some point in our deep sleep Alex entered the room and plopped onto the other bed and fell asleep as well. Until all our pagers went off around 2:35am we all jumped up and looked at our pagers.
It was a 911 to the pit for us all meaning some massive incoming traumas. We all rushed off to the ER and got ourselves into trauma gowns and gloves and stood outside to wait for the ambulances. I took a deep breath and bounced up and down it was getting chilly out with it being Nov and all. Jackson ran inside and grabbed me a coat and put it over my shoulders and smiled "Here" I smiled and replied "Thank you " as he kissed my cheek after a few more minutes the first of the ambulances were arriving. Jackson and I grabbed the first one and walked inside and into a trauma room and began to work. At one point the patient was squirting blood and I quickly found the source and applied as much pressure as possible as they called for an OR and Bailey. Bailey rushed in "Hop on Kyleigh doesn't let that go" I nodded and jumped up onto the gurney careful to not put any pressure on the patient besides the wound. Jackson followed with Bailey as we rushed off to the OR. Once inside Bailey looked at a scrub nurse "Take over holding that bleeder so she can scrub in please" the scrub nurse took over as I hopped down and scrubbed in. Once scrubbed in we all began to work first things first was finding the source of the bleeder. Once we got that under control we moved on and 9 hours later we were done surgery. By the time we finished I was beat and it was only 11:30am.
Jackson and I headed for some coffee passing Owen as we left the OR, Owen looked kind of down seeing me with Jackson. I ignored it since he lost his chance at having me when he slept with Teddy. Jackson and I went to the tunnels where thankfully we were alone we sat down on one of the old beds and drank our coffee. Jackson looked at me "Kyleigh want to grab drinks at Joe's later?" he asks. I smiled; "Yeah sure" I was happy for the first time in my life. Steven was behind bars for good, things were great now that the shooting was finally behind me. I was hoping I could sleep well every night without nightmares of the guy. All of a sudden Jackson leaned in while I was in deep thought and kissed me softly, I kissed back closing my eyes. A moment later Aprils voice broke the kiss as she looked at us "Not an item my ass "she laughed."We're not" I stated "It's just a kiss April calm down we're not official" Jackson said smiling "But maybe one day I'm not rushing anything" I smiled and sipped my coffee "Maybe I'm not ready yet I just got let out of Psych a few days ago. I'm not rushing myself girl" April smiled "We need a girls night...shall I ask Mer and a few of the other interns?" I looked at her then Jackson then back at her, "Fuck it Friday night? Try to make it happen" I laughed and smiled as April replied "Absolutely I'm gonna go find Mer and ask her!" and with that April took off. I looked at Jackson who looked back at me
"What? A girls night might help me let loose after being in psych for 3 days" I say.
He smiles "No that's great. I was just admiring your beauty that's all"
I blush. "Oh stop it" I laugh
He smiles and laughs then kisses me softly. I kiss back smiling my whole world kind of stops when we kiss. I feel safer like nothing can hurt me. Then my pager goes off to head to the NICU
"Sorry Alex 911 me to NICU. I'll see you later" I give him a kiss then rush off to meet up with Alex
"You paged?" I say walking into the NICU.
He looks at me "Yes I need you to scrub in with me on this newborn you up for it?"
I smile and nod "Off course Lets go "we wheel the newborn off to the OR and get scrubbed in. As we do and the babies put under, I stand across from Alex as he begins to operate. I suction and after 3 hours Alex lets me close the baby up. I stitch the newborn closed and we scrub out.
He smiles at me "Great work Kyleigh you'd make a great Peds surgeon"
I smile too "Thank you Alex" we walk to the waiting room to update the family. Once they are updated we bring them to see their baby. With that Alex and I check up on a few other babies before he sets me loose on some post ops for kids he did surgery on the last few days. Once I finish checking on them I head back into the NICU to check on a baby whose family never showed. The baby was holding on by an inch and had no human contact since they put him in the NICU. I took off my scrub shirt so I was just in my tank top and scrub pants and sat in the rocking chair with the baby boy and held him in the kangaroo hold to hopefully nurse him back to life. Alex popped in once I had fallen asleep with the baby as Jackson stopped seeing me thru the window. Alex carefully woke me up
"You need me to take over?" I shake my head
"No I'm good right here" I say sleepily.
He smiles "Page me if you need a break okay?" he says.
I nod and look at the baby boy and softly talk to him "its okay if you're going to give up I'm here for you" I say.
Alex talks with Jackson as they watch me with the newborn. I drift off to sleep again and a few hours later I feel someone putting a blanket on me I wake up a little to see Jackson.
"Shhh go back to sleep Kyleigh" he says I just nod and fall back to sleep.
Around 3am I wake up still holding the newborn baby boy Alex is checking on a few other newborns. He looks up and over at me and smiles
"Hey sleepily head why don't you go shower and change and meet me back in here in like an hour. I want you on my service for a few days" I yawn getting up still holding the newborn I carefully put him back in his bed. I saved that baby's life somehow my day started out great. I grab my scrub top and walk on not putting it back on and head for the locker room to grab my extra clothes then head to shower as I'm walking around the corner I run into Owen.
"I'm sorry" I say looking up
"It's okay I wasn't looking" he replies
I walk away and head into the bathroom to shower. Once showered I head back to meet up with Alex passing Jackson on my way. He waves and I wave back and walk into the NICU, I walk over to Alex.
"Ready for the day" I smile at Alex now alert and awake.
Alex smiles "Good because I'm letting you be in charge for the day after last night you deserve to be in charge of patients you're dedicated it's a nice quality I really think I could teach you a lot"
I grin big "That would be amazing" I reply.
"Well here's the charts look them over and go check on your patient's for the day and which ones are getting surgery. Your scrubbing in on all my surgeries for a few days, you do well with infants I want to see more" he says
Now I know Alex isn't this nice to just anyone...he has a bad reputation for being an asshole. But somehow he liked me enough to teach me for a few days. I did something right with that newborn baby boy; I honestly thought that baby wasn't going to make it. He was barely breathing on his own his parents didn't visit him. I somehow wanted to make his end better but instead I nursed him back to health. I saved a life I didn't think was possible, go me!
I walk into my first patient's room
"Gary Greene 11 post op kidney transplant surgery, vitals stable should be ready to go home in a week if the body doesn't reject the organ" I smile at the parents "Your son's a fighter he's already awake and asking for a cheeseburger. This is good"
The parents smile and laugh "Yes thank you"
"Page if you need me"' they nod and I move on to my next patient and before I knew it was lunch time.
I grabbed my lunch and headed for the tunnels, where I found myself alone. I sat on the old bed and ate alone happy for some silence. My cell chimed with a text from Jackson
'Hey where are you'
I smile and text back
'Tunnels alone' then all of a sudden Jackson appears.
I jump "Oh shit!"
Jackson laughs hard "You okay?"
I laugh a little "Yes you just scared the fuck out of me"
Jackson laughs"Im sorry" he hugs me and sits down next to me with his lunch. I finish mine and throw it out and sit back next to Jackson as he eats. My phone chimes again this time a text from my brother
"Hey Kyleigh, we're coming for a visit this weekend okay?" I smile and text back
'Yes I'll have the rooms made up for you guys don't worry'
My brother replies 'Good see you Friday'
'See you Friday big bro' I reply.
Jackson looks at me after I finish texting, I smile at him.
"You up for a weekend with me and my two brothers and little sister?" I ask him.
He smiles "Hell yeah sounds great I'm off this weekend too" he kisses me and I kiss back
"Good because I'm cooking an amazing dinner"
He smiles, "Oh yeah? You cook?"
I nod and smile "Yes there's a lot to me you'll see. Plus the facts that I'm still a virgin, but don't tell anyone"
"Good because I don't want everyone knowing. After what my ex did to me I never trusted a guy to touch me. I'm still trying to trust you it's just hard on me" I look down then my pager goes off
"I'm sorry my patient needs me in Peds" I give Jackson a quick kiss and take off to meet up with Alex about the newborn boy I saved last night.
As I walk into Peds I walk into the NICU and meet up with Alex
"Hey you paged? What's up?" I ask as I look at him.
"Yeah this newborn baby boy is doing 10 times better than yesterday. Great job saving his life"
I smiled "Thanks I honestly thought he was gonna die in my arms last night "I was proud of myself, I saved a life I didn't think I could save.
A smile which seems so rare for him "You seem to have a thing for Peds. Did you ever consider it for the long run? For a fellowship?" he asks
I shake my head "No I honestly wanted to try it all over the next 5 or so years before fellowship. But Peds seems to be in my top 5 at the moment along with plastics, trauma, cardio and Othro. I'm willing to learn it all but something about baby's calms me down a bit" I smile as I look down at the newborn I had saved.
"The way you look at babies make me think you'll end up here at one point" Alex says with a smile.
"Yeah maybe, depends on how good a teacher you are "I laugh.
He smiles and laughs as we check on our patients, we round on some pre ops and post ops before getting pulled into an emergency surgery on a 3 month old. We scrub in and operate and Alex lets me close after being in surgery for 4 hours I was beat and it was 7:30pm. I scrub out and throw my bloody things out and walk out with Alex and we talk about the surgery. We pass Jackson's office laughing and talking, Jackson looks up and smiles seeing me happy. Me and Alex walk to Peds together and check on a few patients before he sends me off for the day.
"Go get some sleep I know you're on call I'll page when I need you" Alex says to me.
"Alright see you later" I smile and leave and text Jackson
'Hey I'm done for now I'm on call for the night. I'm gonna go to your office and go over some charts. Hope to see you later '
I send it and walk down the hall past Owen Hunt and Meredith Grey. Jackson's office is open so I walk in and see him at his desk doing some paperwork.
"Hey" I smile and sit on the couch pulling out a pen and note pad that I wrote my stuff from surgeries on.
"Hey beautiful "he says looking at me as I begin to write every step I took in the OR today.
We work in silence for a little bit before he breaks it.
"Let's go "He grabs my hand and takes my pen and pad of paper setting them on the table. He then leads me out of his office and down the hall to an on call room, once inside he locks the door. Then he turns to me and smiles then says
"Do you trust me? "He kisses me with such passion it blows my mind.
"Yes I trust you and it's very scary for me" I reply and take a deep breath.
"Okay are you ready for us to be official?" he asks
I nod and reply "Yes I am Jackson" I smile.
He smiles big "Good then we are a couple"
What happens next is both scary and exciting, he kisses me then we end up removing each other's clothes. That was it no longer a virgin and Jackson was the one to take mine. Once we were done having sex and getting dressed again he looks at me and smiles. I smile back at him
"That was amazing and A little different then I pictured, but damn that was great" I kiss him and he kisses back.
"Good but do me one favor?" he asks
I smile "Of course "
"Don't ever regret this please, April was such a turn off a one point because she kept saying it was a mistake before marriage "he looks seriously at me.
I look at him "This was not a mistake and I will never regret it"
Jackson eases up a little "Good because it felt right in the moment, you've been busting your ass around here and you're only an intern. I want you to exceed Kyleigh and never regret your life again. I will never hurt you, or break your heart ever"
I tear up a little "Jackson you're so sweet and amazing and I'm falling in love with you which is so hard for me to do after Steven. I found my happy place and I love my job and my friends and most of all you"
Jackson wipes my tears and smiles and kisses me "I'm here for you, don't ever be afraid to tell me anything please"
I nod and smile "Of course"
With that we walked out of the on call room and back to his office he went back to his computer and I went back to my notes from surgeries. After a few hours I passed out on the couch and Jackson continued to work.
Around 2:15am my pager woke me out of a dead sleep I jumped up and looked at my pager; it was a 911 from Alex on the newborn boy I saved the other day.
"Oh fuck" I say and run out and to Peds.
Jackson just watches me go and mutters to himself, "Damn 911 pages always making us run"
I walk into the NICU to chaos and monitors beeping on the newborn boy.
"What happened?" I ask Alex
He looks at me "He has a murmur on his heart, we need to page cardio and book an OR stat" he says I nod and do what's needed.
Once down in the OR all scrubbed in we begin with the Cardio attending. It takes us a few hours then the baby is all set and stable again. We scrub out and Alex looks at me
"You okay? You seemed a little scared on our way down here. But you kept it together to operate on him don't stress yourself over this. He was fine then a murmur formed things happen you didn't fail this baby"
I breath out a lot and smile "I know Alex, I'm just happy we caught this in time. He deserves a chance at life even if his parent's are scumbags that left him here. I know someone who would love this baby to no ends and would adopt him in a heartbeat "
Alex looks at me "Really? You could call and get then down here?"
I smile "Yes let me make some calls" with that I take off and call my brother who's wife couldn't have kids.
I ask him if he wants the baby and he says yes, I then go back to Alex
"They'll be here in an hour to meet with the social worker" I smile and so does Alex
"Good because foster homes suck and this baby deserves a good family Kyleigh, and your passion for him is amazing. Always remember not to get too attached okay?"
I smile and nod "Of course"
Alex smiles "Now off you go I'll see you for rounds in an hour. Go eat and get coffee and if you're nice enough bring me a coffee?"
I laugh "Yes I'll bring you coffee when I meet back up with you"
I walk to the cafe to grab an apple and some yogurt, sit and eat for a moment. Once I finish I get up and go grab myself and Alex coffee and head back to Peds a little bit early. Once I enter I pass Arizona and walk towards Alex.
"Here" I say as I hand him his coffee and take a sip of my own.
"Thanks" he smiles and takes it and takes a drink of it.
"Let me see your tablet I'll round on the kids" I say with a smile.
Alex hands me his tablet "Okay" he follows me as I check on patients. I answer any and all questions the kids or parents have, once we finish were 911'd to the ER for a mother and unborn baby. We rush down to the ER and greet them at the door, I take the tablet from the EMT and listen to them explain the situation. We roll her into a trauma room then book an OR and page plastics and cardio. Once down in the OR and all scrubbed in me and Alex focus on the baby. Once the moms under we watch the fetal monitor until we have no choice but to deliver the baby. Alex cuts the mom open and takes the baby out handing the little newborn girl who was 3 weeks early to me I carefully walk over to the baby bed and start to get the baby breathing, after a minute she's crying. I hand her over to the nurse as Alex says
"Go with the baby I'll be up after I close up"
I nod "You got it"
I quickly scrub out and walk with one of the nurses up to the NICU. Once we are there they let me bathe the baby and get her hooked up to monitors. As I'm putting the last lead on the baby Alex walks in and stands next to me as I get her vitals and breathe sounds. I smile and look at Alex
"Healthy baby girl"
Alex smiles too "Great good job in their Kyleigh" he pats me on the back as his pager goes off
"See you later" he takes off
"Bye" I say as he walks out.
I smile down at the baby as one of our other patients monitors flat lines.
"Fuck...not today" I run over to the newborn baby boy Gilson and call out "Get me a NICU intubation tray please!" I yell out "And someone page Karev or Arizona!"
I quickly and effectively intubate the baby boy without harming him. Alex comes running in as the baby stabilizes and smiles at me
"Damn your one hell of an intern Kyleigh"
I smile "Thanks. We got to figure out why this baby just stopped breathing all of a sudden" the parents weren't around.
I check the babies lungs "decreased breath sounds on the right my guess his lung collapsed"
Alex nods "Book an OR and page Bailey"
I nod and go page her and call to book an OR. Then my pager goes off with a page from Jackson
"I'll meet you later I'm being paged "
Alex nods "Alright see you later"
I take off and meet up with Jackson in a trauma room.
"You paged?" I ask as I walk in
"Yes could you help me with some sutures the way I showed up?" Jackson asks.
"Absolutely" I say and grab a pair of gloves and a trauma gown putting them on and sitting opposite of Jackson and beginning to stitch up the man's leg after cleaning out his wound. We work in silence until we finish and he smiles at me
"Great work babe "
I smile back "Thanks Baby"
We get up and walk out handing the tablet to another intern who gets the patient ready for a room and gets them admitted. Jackson and I walk to grab coffee and a snack from the vending machine and head to the tunnels to relax for a few.
After finishing I cuddle up to Jackson and he puts his arm around me and we just chat until we both fall asleep. April and Meredith round the corner and instantly whisper and back away seeing us asleep. They smile and go back upstairs and go to the attending's lounge, after a few hours of sleeping both our pagers go off awaking me and Jackson. We jump up and kiss goodbye and go to our patients, I walk into Peds looking tired as hell but ready. Alex looks at me
"You sleep at all?"
I nod "Yeah just woke up"
He smiles "Ready for telling the newborns mom she can finally see her baby girl?"
"Of course!" I laugh and smile as we walk to the mother's room.
"Hey your awake, you ready to see your baby girl?" I say with a smile.
Sara the patient smiles "Yes please"
With that I walk out and go get the baby girl and wheel her into the mothers room
"She is healthy and so adorable, congratulations " I pick up the baby and hand her over to her mother who instantly tears up
"Thank you" she says
"Your welcome Page us if you need anything" I say with a smile.
"I will" Sara says smiling and looking down at her baby girl.
I and Alex walk out and go grab coffee passing Jackson and April in the hall with a patient they were wheeling by us. We stop in the lounge and grab coffee and sit and just talk. I felt like Alex was my best guy friend aside from Jackson who happened to also be my boyfriend. Alex and I got along great and we shared our pasts with each other. He somehow trusted me and it was nice having a friend who'd been through some hell and it turned out that along the lines Alex and I had met before in college. He shared some crazy stories of his ex's with me as I opened up and told him how much of a dirt bag Steven had been. Alex was actually a decent person if he liked you, we talked until the night was over and Jackson grabbed me to go home. I hugged Alex goodbye and said goodnight and me and Jackson left and went home and went to bed for the night.
