Hi guys, first of all, thanks so much for your lovely comments and feedback. Sorry it took me so long for update but my wifi is being pretty awful lately and then I got so much to do in real life. Anyways, I have already a couple more ideas and I have already wrote a couple.

I didn't love how this chapter turned, although I liked the idea. I didn't have a beta for this one. Any kind of suggestions are always welcome.

Set between 10x12 and 10x23 with a few Mercy West references. Let me know what you think, I promise that I will update soon if you leave a review ;)


Two weeks have passed since April moved in with Jackson and she was still unpacking boxes. It was incredible the amount of unnecessary things one people can hold.

But at least that was a way to avoid the feeling of guilt of being extremely happy while she was sure Matthew was feeling miserable.

She was at the living room unpacking a big box full of medical books when inside she found a much smaller box with several yellow envelopes.

As soon as she saw them, she knew what to expect. One of the envelopes was labeled as 'Callie and Arizona's wedding'; other one read 'Sofia leaves the hospital'.

April smiled at that memories but there was one particular envelope that caught her attention.

"Look at this," April exclaimed with excitement.

"Anything interesting?" Jackson asked while he was in the kitchen in charge of dinner.

April walked to the kitchen and showed him the yellow envelope.

"Mercy West," Jackson read.

"Old pictures, I totally forgot about them," she said smiling while Jackson turned off the stove and cleaned his hands before grabbed the envelope and opened it.

He had forgotten how much April -and Reed- used to love to take pictures of literally everything.

April rested her head in his arm, so she can look at the pictures while Jackson passed them.

Jackson smiled at the pictures featuring familiar faces, orange scrubs, old O.R.'s, old teachers, old friends, old hallways and patients. Dozens of photos of their intern year, when they did their intern exam, their second year as residents…everything was documented in frames.

"I kind of miss the orange scrubs," April murmured.

In one candid picture Jackson and April were at a nurse station filling some charts. Both looked tense, having a frown on their faces.

"Why we look so tense here?" Jackson asked.

April grabbed the picture from his husband hand and stared at it. A crocked smiled showed in her face.

"Reed took this picture. She insisted in take as many pictures as possible, in case we were fired." April pointed and Jackson could tell she suddenly was holding tears, like she did every time Reed was mentioned. "It was a week before the fusion with Seattle Grace."

April gave back the picture to Jackson and he passed other picture.

Charles Percy and Reed Adamson were wearing civilian clothes. She was holding a microphone and was smiling at the camera with her confident spark in her eyes while Charles was staring at her, grinning like an idiot.

"Pretty sure this is from our third week as interns," April said as she leaned again her head in Jackson's arm. "The first time we went to that karaoke bar, remember?"

Jackson laughed, "Charles and I hated that bar."

"Charles was the one always insisting to go there," April said surprised.

Jackson smiled at her wife's naivety and second glanced at the photo, "Reed said in one occasion she loved that place and Charles loved her so…"

"I knew he liked her but…loved her?" April asked in surprise.

"It wasn't like he was hiding it," at that moment Jackson realized they have never discussed that subject before. They talked a lot about them but never commented their love lives beyond that time when Reed slept with Mark. It was weird considering they based their friendship in the fact that they have lost their best friends.

"Do you think she knew?" Jackson curiously asked

April looked at his husband and took a little time to answer. She would have liked to say that Reed knew and she loved Charles back, but the only sincere answer she could made was, "I'm pretty sure Reed was clueless."

Jackson smiled with sadness, "That is…"

"That sucks," April declared and took the pic from Jackson's fingers and stared at the picture. She did not hold her tears back any longer.

Jackson took the pic from her hand and put it in the kitchen counter. April sobbed harder and he hurried to hug her; she buried her head on his chest. Jackson stroked the back of her head carefully.

"I miss…them," April said between sobs, her voice muffled because she was still hiding in Jackson's chest. "It's silly…but…I wish…"

Jackson hold her more tightly, "Yeah, I know."

After a moment, April seemed to calm a little and looked up at Jackson. Her eyes were all red and puffy.

"At the barn you said 'I think you love me too'," April cleaned her tears with the back of her hand "I was so convinced I didn't love you. I expended days, weeks, months convincing myself that I just loved you as a friend. You told me I was afraid to get serious with Matthew because he was real...It scares me a lot to think I...What if I was Charles and you were Reed...Jackson, how did you know I was in love with you?"

Jackson tried to process what she was saying and what she was really trying to ask. When he fully understood what she was talking about, he controlled the urge to smile at her, he always loved when she babbled but her pretty serious face, indicated him that it was not the best time to tease her but answer with the truth. He moved his arms from her shoulders to around her waist.

"I can't exactly point a moment," Jackson said and grabbed a lose string of red hair and put it behind her ear. "But while I was watching you at the altar getting married, I thought about the day I asked you about the invitations, the whole your name starts with an 'A' thing."

"Really? That's how you knew?" A tiny smile formed in April's lips. Jackson lowered his forehead against hers and closed his eyes.

"In my head you kept saying 'I can't go trough this if I don't have your blessing' and I realized that you were asking me if I did love you back. I've never stood up in that barn if I didn't know at least I had a change. I knew you April, "

"You're a cleaver boy," April grinned and wrapped her arms around Jackson's neck. "That's why you are my best friend."

"Am I?" Jackson teased her before leaning and kiss her.