Post 10 x 24, a quiet night at home.

Jackson softly caresses April's belly over her T-shirt, her still very flat belly, as they lie on the couch next to each other watching some chick flick he's not really paying any attention to. When they got home from the hospital his wife declared that night to be "movie night" and promptly chose a DVD as he ordered pizza with extra everything per her instructions.

Hello pregnancy cravings, he thinks.

She's nested on his side concentrated in the movie, but he is much more interested in her. In the past few days, ever since he helped Arizona deliver a baby the day of the Mall gas explosion, he's been much more conscious about the fact she's carrying a baby inside her, his baby.

Not that he didn't realize that before, but it was like in the moment he saw the tiny baby he helped to come to the world he became aware that he was going to actually be a father in a few months, that he in fact had helped to create a tiny new human that was currently growing inside his wife.

He is kind of awed, being a doctor and knowing the whole process doesn't diminish it, in fact it only makes it even more amazing to him.

"You are staring, again" his wife says glancing his way.

Her voice takes him out of his daydreams. "Huh?"

April turns to face him. "In the past few days you've been staring at me, or my stomach to be more accurate. Is not noticeable yet, is it?" She looks down at her belly, trying to see what he finds so interesting about it, it looks the same to her.

Jackson shakes his head, "no, not yet, but I don't know... our baby is growing in there, I keep waiting for something to make it evident," he presses his hand more firmly against her his piercing eyes concentrated on the action causing her insides to flutter, "there's a tiny human inside you, someone we made together, a part of both of us. It's completely amazing if you think about it for a minute."

Their eyes meet and the emotion she sees in his is enough to take her breath away. Sometimes, he can be extremely sweet. She strokes his cheek, loving the feeling of his stubble against her skin. "You are really happy about this," she states surprised.

He's told her he is happy about the baby, but a part of her has been worried nonetheless, that maybe it was too soon after their wedding and with the problems they'd been having, it was not the best timing.

Locking his arms around her he brings her closer, "of course I am, sweetheart," Jackson tells her. "It was kind of unexpected and I guess we both thought we'd had more time to ourselves first, to figure everything out, but we'll get over the difficulties together as they come. I'm happy about this, you?"

Pressing closer against her husband's body she kisses his neck softly, "I'm ecstatic," she answers. He presses his lips against her temple in response, breathing in the scent of her hair.

"So what do you think, boy or girl?" she inquires.

Jackson shrugs, "I don't know, it sounds really cliched, but I don't really care, I just want the baby to be healthy."

"Really? So, you don't want a mini Jackson to take to basketball and baseball games and play sports and all that?" April teases.

He pinches her side lightly causing her to giggle and squirm in his arms. "It doesn't matter," he assures her, "if we have a boy I'll teach him to play sports, take him to games, buy him thousands of sneakers and teach him to be a nice guy."

She can almost see it, a miniature of him with bright eyes and a mischievous smile running around their home, playing games with his daddy, getting into all kinds of trouble.

He smiles at her before continuing, "and if we have a girl I'll teach her to play sports, take her to games, buy her thousands of sneakers and teach her how to punch any guy that comes near a five foot radius, you'll have to take care of the nice part. We'll also move to the desert in that case and return to Seattle when she turns thirty or forty so she can start dating."

She laughs in response and swats his arm. "No violence! And I'm completely serious," he says maneuvering her so that her arms are trapped against her body by his while suppressing a smile,"I'll probably get a shotgun too, you know, just as a precaution."

She pecks his lips. "I hope for your peace of mind that she's more like me than you then, if I remember correctly you once said something about being sixteen and two girls and..." he quickly presses his hand against her lips stopping her mid speech.

"Don't remind me," he says dejectedly, as she playfully bites his fingers in retaliation, "we are definitely moving to the desert if the baby is a girl and she's not allowed to date until I'm dead. Make that until after ten years of my death"

April rolls her eyes at him and mumbles against his fingers, "whatever you say, honey."

He drops his hand. "I'm serious, you know."

"I know you are."

"Deadly serious."

"Got it!"

"Stop patronizing me," he says sullenly dropping his head on her shoulder, "it would be just my luck to have a daughter, as beautiful as her mom," he hugs her tighter and shudders,"just the thought of all those creepy hormonal ridden idiots that will try to corrupt her, I'm not letting any of them near her. I know what they think, I was one!"

You still are, April thinks, but well... no complaints from me there.

"Yes, just build a tower and lock her inside then," April mocks back. "Besides if she's anything like her mom, you have until she's like 28 before you have to start worrying, not that's really likely to happen being your child."

He raises his head to glare at her. "Hey! I might not have been a saint, but I wasn't Alex Karev either," he huffs. "And there's nothing wrong with having safe sex..." he says, seeing April arched eyebrows he hastens to add, "except for any daughters of mine until they are at least thirty... or never, on second thought."

April rolls her eyes again, "your eyes might get stuck like that, you know," he mutters.

She ignores his teasing. "Following your logic my father should have shot you when he officially met you, first for corrupting me and then for stopping my wedding and running away with me."

"Yes! He should have! I'm really lucky to be alive right now." Jackson sighs, "that poor man, four daughters, four!" Then he smirks at her,"as for the corrupting part, I'm not exactly sure who was the corrupted and who did the corrupting, I clearly remember..."

April hits him in the chest. "Oh shut up," she orders him wrapping her arms around his neck, "we don't even know if the baby is a girl, you'll have to deal with your double standards when the time comes."

He brings her closer, burying his face in her neck. "You'll have to find ways to distract me by then, in fact" he says as he presses light kisses along neck, "I think I need to be distracted right now."

She closes her eyes, melting in his embrace. "I can think of a thing or two," she hums.

AN: This one is a little bit longer, Jackson is kind of OOC but well... hope you like it anyway.

Thanks for reading! More soon...