Since it's my birthday, thought I should post a new chapter! You're Welcome! Thanks so much for the reviews, means a lot! Hope you enjoy the new chapter!
Disclaimer: Characters belong to Shonda Rhimes!
April stood out at the emergency room entrance, with the light yellow gown on, waiting on the ambulance to arrive. A group of interns and residents came running up behind her.
"What took you guys so long?" she asked
She had paged them 2 minutes ago and they were just getting there.
"Sorry Dr. Kepner, won't happen again" one of the residents said
"No it wont" the red head said as the ambulance arrived
They ran up to the ambulance as it's back doors open.
"Jeremy Collins, 14. Got trapped in a fire from fallen rubble. Has a fractured femur and suffered third degree burns on his arms and chest. BP, 120 over 70, he is currently stable." The paramedic stated
"Ok" April said taking a mental note of the patients stats. She then looked down at the teenager, who had an oxygen mask over his face. "Jeremy, I'm Dr. Kepner. We're gonna take good care of you ok" she smiled
The boy nodded his head.
"Page Peds, Ortho and Plastics" April instructed one of the interns as they wheeled the boy inside.
They brought him to the closest Trauma room. Once he was transferred to the bed, they were joined by Dr. Hunt.
"What do we have?" he asked
"14 year old boy trapped in a fire, fractured femur and 3rd degree burns" April quickly stated
"OK let's hook up an IV, don't want to send him into shock!" Owen said
"And let's get him on some morphine" April instructed her intern
Suddenly the doors to the trauma room opened and in walked Callie and Arizona.
"What do we got?" Callie asked before April gave her the stats.
"Those are some pretty bad burns" Arizona said looking at the way boy's T-Shirt was stuck to his skin.
"Let's look at this leg" Callie said staring at the boy's foot
She placed her gloved hands on it, trying to feel around.
"Ugh" Jeremy groaned in pain once Callie's hand reach the fractured part of the bone.
"Yep, femur is fractured" Callie confirmed
Just then the door opened once again, and in stepped Jackson, tying his gown on then grabbing a partially filled chart from one of the nurses. He looked up and spotted April. He stared for a second then went straight to the patient.
This had been the second time they've been in the same room, the first was in the conference room. They've been avoiding each other, just so they won't have to be in one of those awkward situations.
Not wanting to be in one of those awkward situations, Jackson quickly began assessing his patient.
"Scissors" he asked as one of the interns handed one to him.
He slowly began to cut open the T-Shirt to expose Jeremy's chest. He examined the partially burned chest. It was pretty bad, but surgery wasn't needed on it. He then removed the gauze that was loosely wrapped around the patients arms.
"Whoa" he said noticing the extent of this burn
The burns on his arm were worse than those on this chest.
"How did his arm worse than his chest?" April asked
She didn't expect Jackson to answer her question.
"Maybe it was the way he was positioned, He was probably trying to cover his face from the flames with his arm, so it got most of the heat." Jackson answered
"So what's the plan?" Owen asked his attending
"I'll do a Open Reduction and Internal Fixation to repair the fracture" Callie responded
"Dr. Avery?" Owen asked turning to Jackson
"I have to remove all the dead tissue first. The chest will just need to get some Silver Nitrate Antimicrobial ointment and bandaging. On the other hand, I'll need to do a skin graft on some areas of the arm."
"Very well, get to work" Owen said, about to leave the trauma room
"What about me?" April asked
The ER has been a little slow these past few days, and this was the only surgical case she's seen. She needed to do some cutting and sewing, which didn't involve suturing some crazy drunk's arm who decided to do a bicycle trick off his roof.
"Uhhhhhh you can assist Dr. Avery with his skin graft" Owen said before leaving
The attendings' eyes widened, each thinking that was probably a bad idea. As Jackson instructed the interns Callie left the room going after Owen.
"Dr. Hunt" she called out
"Yes Dr. Torres?" he asked stopping and turning around
"What did you do that for?" she hissed
"Do what?"
"Put Kepner and Avery on the same case. You know they have history."
"A lot of people who work here have history Torres, but that doesn't stop them. Those two are gonna have to figure out how to work together again" Owen said before turning away from the Orthopedic surgeon.
"These awkward silences are killing me" Callie whispered in the gallery
It was a some hours later, it was night now and Callie had already finished her surgery to repair the fracture. She sat in the gallery with her fellow surgeons watching Jackson and April do the surgery. They weren't talking to each other unless it had something to do with the surgery. If there ever was small talk, it would between them and a resident, or them and Bokey the scrub nurse.
"This is sad to watch" Cristina said watching the two stand there silently
"They're not even looking at each other" Meredith said
"This is pathetic" Alex said getting up "I'll go hang out with the Cancer kids, they're more fun than this"
Alex got up and left the gallery.
"We need somebody down there" Callie said
She turned around and looked at Cristina and Meredith, who were sitting behind her.
"Don't look at us, were too dark and twisty for this" Meredith said
"And I'll make fun of them" Cristina added
"You guys are no help" Callie whined
"Why don't you go?" Cristina asked
"No, I might say...inappropriate things" Callie defended
Just then Arizona stepped into the gallery.
"Hey, how's the surgery going?" she asked
Callie turned to her and smirked
"What?" she asked confused
"We need you to go down there" Callie said pointing to the OR
"Why?"
"To free Bokey and the residents from their misery" Cristina said
Arizona looked down into the OR and realized what they were talking about.
"Ohhh" she said
"Exactly, we need you down there"
"Yeah just say you're there to as a stand, just in case something goes wrong" Meredith said
"Would they believe that?" Arizona asked
"Well the kid's 14, and you're the pediatric surgeon soooooo" Cristina said
"Fine, I'll do it. I'm in a helping mood today" she said turning around
"Just try to lift the awkwardness, make them talk to each other" Callie said and Arizona left the gallery.
A few minutes later, Arizona walked in into the OR. Jackson looked up and spotted her walking in.
"Can I help you Dr. Robbins?" he asked
"Uh no, just came in here in case something happens to Jeremy here" she smiled
"Oh, ok" Jackson said getting back to work
He was glad she was there, he had someone to talk to instead of April. It's not that he didn't want to talk to April, he didn't know how to. What was he supposed to say?
"So how's it going?" Arizona asked referring to the surgery
"Good, we'll be finished here in no time" Jackson said
"Awesome" Arizona grinned under her mask
She looked up at Callie, who was giving her hand gestures to keep going.
"Sooo Dr. Kepner, are you enjoying being back here?" Arizona asked
"Yes, I am" she answered looking up momentarily.
"Dr. Avery, aren't you glad Dr. Kepner is back?"
Jackson regretted being happy that Arizona was there. She wasn't making the awkward situation any better.
"Uh...yeah" he said not looking up
April slightly glanced at him. Was he really happy she was here, or did he just say that so she wouldn't feel bad. When they were in the conference room, he didn't even welcome her back.
"You're not just saying that so I wont feel bad are you?" April nervously asked looking up at him
"No I'm not" he smiled under his mask
Callie danced in her seat giving Arizona a thumbs up. Then then motioned her to continue. Arizona started asking April about what she thought of the changes in the hospital, Jackson occasionally joined the conversation, when they talked about a change that was his idea. But that didn't last long, the OR got quiet again after 20 minutes. Arizona was having trouble on figuring what to do next. She then thought of something that always lifted people's spirit...music!
"It's to quiet in here" she grinned "we need some music"
Jackson frowned his eyebrows looking up at Arizona. He wasn't the kind of surgeon to listen music in his OR. Doing the plastic surgery took perfect concentration, so the end result would be perfect, music would be a huge distraction.
"Music would be nice" April said
"What about you Avery?" Arizona asked
He wasn't for the music idea, but since April was cool with it, he thought he should go along with it. Plus the major part of the surgery was done, all he had left to do was minor suturing. He didn't need total concentration for that.
"Sure, Music is OK" he said
"Awesome" Arizona cheered "Get us some music" she instructed to one of the nurses.
A minute later, Robin Thike's "Blurred Lines" began to play. Arizona grinned, this was her and Callie's song to listen to in the OR when they were sleepy, it always livened things up. It made sense that the nurse chose that song.
Arizona started dancing, she couldn't move around much though, because of her leg.
"Come on April" Arizona said, not wanting to the only one dancing.
April smiled as she slowly began to bob her head along with the beat. Everyone else in the OR was now moving in some way to the music. Even Callie, Meredith and Cristina were having a little dance party in the gallery. Everyone seemed to be enjoying the music, except Jackson. He was still, but nobody seemed to notice. It wasn't that he didn't like the song, it was the memory behind the song that got to him. Once again, the Radio was making it better.
FLASHBACK
Jackson sat in the galley with Alex. It was late, and the two had just finished a surgery of their own. Instead of going to an On call room or the attending lodge, to catch up on some sleep, they decided to check on the surgery going on. Callie, Cristina and April were in the OR. They didn't seem to notice them entering the gallery, they were too into their conversation.
"I'm so tired, how long have we been in here?" April asked
"About 5 hours" Callie answered
"Ugh, I feel like I'll collapse any minute" April said shaking her head trying to keep awake
"I know what you mean, Sophia kept me up last night" Callie whined
"You what we need, some good music to wake us up!" Cristina suggested
"Yes, and I know the perfect one!" Callie dropped her scalpel and walked over to a nurse, telling her what song she wanted. She then walked back to the operating table and picked up her scalpel. "Heard this song the other day, and I could help but dance. This would definitely wake us up."
Suddenly the beat of the song began to play.
"I'm liking this already" Cristina said tapping her foot.
"If you can't hear, what I'm trying to say. If you can't read, from the same page..." they heard Robin sing
They doctors began moving to the music, feeling better by the second. Once the song was over, they all felt awake.
"Put that on repeat" Callie said, not wanting the song to not be over.
The song began again and they continued their surgery.
"So April, how does it feel to be board certified and married?" Callie asked
April had taken her boards before her wedding and had passed, all 3 sessions.
"It feels great" April smiled under her mask
"So the married life isn't treating you crap?" Cristina asked
"No" she said
It was going good for her, but she thought this was just the honeymoon phase, things were gonna get difficult soon.
"How was the honeymoon?" Callie asked, wiggling her eyebrows a bit
"Oh my god, the Bahamas was so beautiful! And we had so much fun together." April cheesed
"What kind of fun?" Callie asked, her mask hiding her dirty smirk
"We went scuba diving, swimming with the dolphins..." April began to ramble
Jackson sat in the gallery, feeling a little uncomfortable. Hearing April talking about her perfect honeymoon made him feel somewhat...jealous.
Callie interrupted April's ramble "That wasn't the kind of fun I was talking about Kepner"
"Then what were you talking about?" April chuckled
Callie wiggle her eyebrows.
"Dr. Torres..." April blushed
"I would tell her to stop, but I kinda want to know too" Cristina said
"How was it? Was it good?" Callie asked
"Well..." April began, not sure if should be talking about this "...I don't know how to describe it"
"It was that good huh?" Callie smirked
"Told you Kepner had a freaky side" Cristina chuckled
"I'm not freaky ok? I mean there was that hot tub thing, but that's not freaky" April said, unaware of the bit of information she just told
"Hot tub thing? You were right Cristina" Callie smiled
"There was also this beach thing" April added
"My god Kepner!" Cristina said causing her to giggle
As the ladies continued talking, Jackson got up to leave. He wasn't going to sit there and listen to April talk about her sexcapades with Matthew. He already felt bad about letting her go, he didn't need to hear about their honeymoon to make him feel worse.
He thought he could have dealt with April being with Matthew, but as the days passed, it was getting harder and harder. Since the wedding wasn't too long ago, it was still the talk of the hospital, and everywhere he went, everyone seemed to be talking about it. He thought being at his apartment with Stephanie would be different, but all she talks about is how she wants a wedding like that one day. Was she hinting that she wanted to get married? Maybe, but he wasn't ready for that, with her at least.
As he left the gallery, he couldn't help but hum the song. Great! Now it's stuck in his head!
END of FLASHBACK
"Jackson!" April yelled bringing Jackson out of his thoughts
"Huh?" Jackson said unaware of what was going on around him
"You ok?" Arizona asked
"I'm good" he replied, returning to his work
There was silence for minute as everyone wondered why he was standing there, silent and still. They got back to work. Jackson stayed quiet the rest of the sugary as Arizona and April continued to talk.
The surgery was done 30 minutes later. Jackson left as soon as it was over. April decided to brush Jackson's awkward behavior to the back of her head as she headed down the hall to the daycare. That's when she bumped into the pregnant surgeon, and her husband
"Hey Dr. Kepner, still thinking about my offer?" Jo said with a perky voice
"Was I this perky?" April thought as she looked at Jo. She missed the somewhat tough intern she knew before.
Jo has been asking April non stop to move in with them. She didn't want her staying at a hotel while she had space for her and her daughter. Plus she thought having Lydia around would be good practice for her and Alex.
"What offer?" Alex asked
Jo hadn't actually discussed this with her husband.
"She wants me to come stay with you guys" April informed
Alex's eyes widened a bit
"Come on Alex she's in some hotel, with her cute daughter.." Jo began before Alex interrupted her
"Daughter?" Alex asked
"Yes she has a daughter. Don't you listen when I talk to you?" Jo rolled her eyes
"It's OK, if you don't want me there Alex" April said
"It's Ok! Right?" Jo said turning to Alex, giving him this puppy dog eyes look
Alex did not want pissed his wife off, her crazy hormone changes caused her to get angry pretty easily.
"Uh yeah it's ok, whatever" Alex said
Jo cheesed hugging her husband.
"Thank You, Thank You" she said kissing his cheek. She then turned to April. "Sooooo?"
April was getting tired of staying in a hotel room. And Lydia wasn't to fond of it either. Getting an apartment was harder than she thought. So staying with them didn't seem like a bad idea.
"Ok, fine, I'll move in" April smiled
"Yay" Jo cheered
"I'll move in my things at the end of the week?" April asked
"No, you move in tomorrow! If that's ok" Jo said
"It's fine" April smiled
"Good, let's go tell Lydia the good news!" Jo grinned as she and April walked to the daycare, and Alex followed them close behind.
Thanks for reading and reviews are welcomed! If you have any ideas for the next chapter, I'm open to suggestions! If my creative juices are flowing, a ew chapter should be up on Monday!
