It took April Kepner at least three days to be discharged from the Hospital. The last three days were unbelievable; she actually felt like she was loved, she felt like she was being taken care of, which she hasn't been for a while. Alex actually cared for her, whenever she paged him he would immediately come in her need, even if it was for a pudding cup. No one was treating her like they owned her. It felt good, life felt good for once. Every night Alex would come into her room and read her the book that she pleased, sometimes she would catch him reading it to himself instead of her, that made her laugh hysterically and he just grinned.
The day she was discharged Alex took her home on her wheelchair; he would teasingly call her the professor Xavier of Seattle, she giggled at the thought. As they reached her room he took her out of her wheelchair and carried her all the way to her bed carefully not wanting to shake her body and cause pain. He tucked her tightly and let her have some rest. She tugged at his hand.
"Thanks Alex for doing this for me" April said sincerely
Alex felt sorry for her, he was sorry that he treated her like crap, if he knew any of these things would happen, he wouldn't treat her like crap.
"No big deal, it's kinda of an apology of what happened in the on-call room, and plus I feel sorry for you…" Alex said awkwardly
"Yeah well things happen" April said
"Shit happens" Alex said teasingly
He sat down on her couch and watched her sleep, she was beautiful, the way her eyes closed, The way she spread her body lazily, The way she was he thought. Once April was asleep he got up, and leaned down to plant a kiss on her forehead, and put her hair aside.
~ONE WEEK LATER~
Alex had gone back to his old ways, who knew that he would actually trick April Kepner into believing that he'd changed. His attitude just changed the minute that she went back to work. He was avoiding her. Every time she saw him he would either roll his eyes or walk away. Who was she kidding that was Alex Karev, she could never change him even if her life depended on it.
Everyone was going to Joes tonight, April decided to tag along, She decided she wasn't going to drink. The moment she entered she saw Alex, he turned the other way as she was approaching him. It took her at least 7 minutes to actually come up to him for a talk.
"What do you want Kepner?" Alex said casually
"Can we talk.." April asked
"I don't have time" Alex said sounding as though he was already annoyed by her
"You have plenty of time" April said annoyed
"I wanted to ask why you are avoiding me." April added
"That's what you wanted to talk to me about?" Alex said annoyed
"And I'm not avoiding you..." Alex added
"Alex why are you going back to your old ways?, you were so nice to me last week, and I appreciated everything you did for me, but the moment I started going back to work you go back to being a jerk, why?" April asked
"I don't know what you want from me, but I don't need it, I don't have time for woman, they all end up leaving me, what makes me think that you won't be any different?" Alex said angrily and stormed off.