A/N – Last time I gave you a Slexie chapter and now I'm giving you a Japril chapter and for all of you Mer-Der fans their solo chapter will be the next one. I just wanted to establish the whole Japril ship before I did anything majorly Mer-Der with the story.

I stared up at the sun,
Thought of all of the people, places and things I've loved.
I stared up just to see
With all of the faces, you were the one next to me.

It was in his cubby hole, the ring that is, the beautiful Diamond solitaire ring that Jackson had picked out for April. His mind was whirring with thoughts of April. He'd planned what he thought was the perfect proposal, right down to the finest of details and then the earthquake had happened.

Jackson sat in April's hospital room and watched as she slept peacefully, something that seemed rather ironic considering the fact that she'd just been through a massive trauma. She had her bright, happy smile plastered across her face. That was one of the things Jackson loved most about his girlfriend: you could be having the worst possible day and yet one flash of her perfect smile and suddenly you cheered up and your world didn't seem so bad, it was part of what made her such an excellent trauma surgeon.

She'd been asleep for a few hours post-surgery and Jackson had watched her the entire time. He was starting to get sick of staring at the beige walls that created the room and he hadn't heard from April's parents, something that worried him a great deal. His tan hand gripped onto April's pale one, he never wanted to let go for fear of losing his gorgeous red-headed, smiling girlfriend, the one person who could brighten his day, the only one who could make him see sense. He couldn't help but wish that he was in her place, if there was one person who didn't deserve this it was April.

"Jackson?" he heard his name coming from the door and he turned around to see Dr Miranda Bailey stood in the doorway. She had a look of pure concern in her eyes as she attempted to smile at him. "I thought I'd come and see how she was doing but I can come back later," her voice was unusually shaky as she said it.

Jackson quickly wiped away the tears that had crept up on him and out of his eyes before saying "No, come in, have you heard about everyone else?"

Bailey immediately knew that he meant Derek and Mark and so she told him what she knew "Shepherd has a case of Cardiac Tamponade and a dislocated knee cap," she said looking to him as shock began to register on his face "Sloan had to have an emergency appendectomy as well as having a dislocated hip and a fractured tibia," she used the exact same wording that had been used on her when Olivia had told her.

"Oh," Jackson sighed before turning to look at his still sleeping girlfriend, "I was going to propose to her, tonight, the ring's still in my cubby hole," he told Bailey, other than Mark she was the first to know of his plan and now that April was in this condition he felt it necessary to confide his intentions to someone. He'd said it after a few minutes of near silence, the only sound being the beeping of the heart monitor "I don't know if I can live without her, Bailey, what if she doesn't make it? I'm not doubting your skill it's just she had internal bleeding!" he exclaimed through the tears that he'd let stream down his face from his now misty blue eyes.

Bailey moved closer to the former resident and allowed him to bury his head in her shoulder. Miranda Bailey had truly become a second mother to this group; it wasn't too surprising either: Meredith's relationship with her mother had been almost non-existent before Ellis' death; Cristina's mother was far too pushy; Izzie's was considerably overbearing; Alex's was mentally ill; Lexie's was dead and Jackson's was a legend. In fact, April was the only one of the group whose parents were alive, without illness and perfectly proud of their little girl. "Have you told April's parents? About the earthquake and her injuries I mean," she asked, wondering whether Jackson had even thought of it.

He looked up at her before answering "I called them but I only got their answer machine so I left a message," he said not caring that his voice and his eyes betrayed every single emotion he felt at that moment in time. Jackson brushed himself off and wiped his eyes before allowing himself to settle back into his seat.

"I'm going to go check on the others, you gonna be alright?" Bailey asked as she stood up.

"No, I'll be fine," he sighed and Bailey silently left the hospital room.

Jackson sat and waited for another hour, his fingers still weaved in between April's. The beeping of the heart monitor was the only sound to be made as it continued its repetitive monotonous beep. Eventually April's eyelashes fluttered as she attempted to open her eyelids "J-Jackson?" she said in an almost whisper as her eyes focussed in on his face.

He breathed a sigh of relief "April thank god! I thought I'd lost you," he exclaimed tears of joy filling his eyes as he kissed her forehead.

She stared going cross-eyed with confusion as she wondered "W-what happened? Why am I in a hospital bed?"

"T-there was an earthquake babe, y-you ended up with internal bleeding" he said his voice filled with worry.

"Babe? When did we get together?" she asked and all colour left Jackson's face as the realisation of the possibility of memory loss hit him.

"April what's the last thing you remember?" he asked the concern he felt the only thing that kept his voice from being monotonous.

"Umm, I think I was back on the farm and Dr Hunt told me he wanted me to come back here," she replied with bewilderment.

"April that was about nine months ago," Jackson told her before instinctively grabbing his pager and paging Lexie, knowing that April's sudden loss of memory could be caused by the concussion she'd sustained or it could mean that April's cerebrum could have been royally screwed by the piece of concrete that had hit her head in the midst of the quake.