Hi here is another chapter. I'm hoping to get a second chapter out but i'm giving you a warning in advance I might not make it.
Also this chapter was intended to be this long and quick with the point of views changing very quickly. Bold Text is like the text shown during the episode. This episode was filmed a bit differently and therefore was a bit more tricky to write.
Disclaimer-Nothing is mine just Hugo.
Please Read, Review and Enjoy.
(Also a big congrats to Jessie Williams for his Humanitarian Award)
Little Lion Man
Chapter 26-7x06-These Arms Of Mine
In which a film crew films the residents for a day, Hugo, Jackson and April are all on film and life slowly but surely gets back to normal for the three of them even if it doesn't for anyone else.
'Seattle Medical Road To Recovery'was filming the following week. Hugo was sleeping more and Jackson, Derek and Alex during the week had to get up earlier in the morning than usual to use the bathroom. Meredith had a new hairstyle, Lexie had suddenly redeveloped eyeliner and even April was coming home from shifts with bags of what looked like skimpy underwear (and those were bad, bad images in Jackson's head) just in case there was a good camera angle or whatever. Even Hugo had taken to checking his hair three or four times a day just to make sure that the dark mop of hair (now shaved on the sides) was in perfect condition.
The morning of the one on one interviews, Derek, Meredith, Alex and Lexie were all on opposite shifts ensuring that they would have to change at the hospital. April gave Jackson and Hugo a lift in her car, Hugo having been given off the day at work due to a teacher's strike or whatnot Jackson wasn't sure.
Chief Webber directed the father and son of to a side room. While April was getting a head start on rounds for the day, Jackson had to get a head's start on the interview Hugo was doing. As someone who had been in that room with the shooter and now with Hugo's insomnia under control due to a strictly regulated sleeping pill arrangement and Jackson suspected the fact that he was the son of a teenage dad turned wannabe surgeon, the film crew were more than interested in interviewing him.
The Chief had allowed Jackson to meet the reporters and interviewers before going to rounds and Hugo had assured Jackson that he didn't need babysitting when it came to the tough questions.
"I survived that thing" he would say over breakfast with those impossibly old dark brown eyes, "I can answer anything after that" the bags under his eyes were still prominent but Jackson could see the determination that came with those words and it made his heart almost burst with pride just thinking about them.
April nodded grasping Hugo's shoulder in a hug and then Jackson was steering them towards the conference room. He had been assured that Hugo would be allowed to choose which questions he could answer just like the rest of them.
"Mr James" Chief Webber said opening the door.
The main interviewer was blonde and reminded Hugo of a model that had slightly gone to seed. He was enthusiastic enough reaching forwards to shake both his Dad and Hugo's hands.
"And don't worry" he said once all of the formalities were over. "Hugo controls this interview Doctor Avery and we are sensitive to his concerns, should he feel the need to stop for whatever reason that's fine, if he has a problem when it comes to we can stop rolling"
"Told ya" Hugo said with his trademark grin that he (hoped) girls found charming and that he knew his Dad found soothing in a parentally calming way.
"So Hugo" Mr James said in what he thought must have been a calming voice even if he didn't think it. "In your own words and your own time can you tell me what happened that day and how these tragic events have effected both you and your Dad's everyday life?"
Jackson Avery had his son Hugo when he was fifteen, Hugo Avery was working on a school project when he accidentally found himself in an OR with his father and the shooter.
"I mean" Hugo said as they were halfway through the interview. "I'm not gonna deny it was tough, I mean we lost a good friend...Uncle Charles...he had been a big fixture in my life from a very early age and then he was just gone. And we moved house and all and that was jarring but...now I think we're in a good place."
Doctor Avery operated at gunpoint on Doctor Shepherd alongside Doctor Yang, his son was in the room with him and was knocked to the ground in the ensuring chaos.
"That was hard, I think for any parent seeing their child in that situation, and I think it's something that no matter what would keep any Dad up at night."Jackson pointed out. He had known this question was coming but that didn't make it easier when it had been asked.
"It's been me and my son for a long time and we...we lost some friends that day and it had it's effect on us...but I love Hugo and Hugo loves me and would I walk away from this job in a second if I thought that it could make things better for him but...I suppose...he knows I'm a surgeon and he knows what comes with it. And now...now it's hard I'm not gonna debate that but...it's getting better"
Doctor Kepner was also in the OR with Doctor Avery with the shooter she has also lost a friend to the gunman, since the shooting she, Doctor Avery and Mr Avery have moved in Doctor Grey's house.
"It's a bit of a mess...we share the house with some of our other residents and were all friends, everyone in that house was in the hospital that day and I kinda think it creates a bond...We work very long hours and I think it helps coming home to someone who understands what that's like"
Doctor Kepner and Doctor Avery are the last two of their class from the transfer from Mercy West Hospital. Their other colleges were killed in the shooting.
"Yeah April and I are good friends...we were friends before the shooting but I think being the last two standing..." Jackson struggled to swallow for a second thinking hard.
"I think that's made us best friends. I think that she's great with Hugo. Hugo likes her as well and it's nice...having someone that knows you since your intern day...here it's all kinda been cobbled together. The relationships are all still pretty new"
"Yeah..." April said grinning as she answered the question. "Jackson and I are really good friends and since Charlie and Reed..."her smile faltered for a second before she shook her head. "We've survived a horrific event and it's made us closer and stronger and I think that's only a good thing, and Hugo..." she smiled again this time more genuine. "Hugo is a great kid and I like the fact that he's around all the time. We see so much death and gloom and doom that it's nice to see a friendly face once in a while"
"Yeah Dad and April are like best friends" Hugo said. It was the final question and his very skin was beginning to itch when it came to the events reliving that day. "It's kinda strange actually cause he didn't mention her all that much when he started...i think she was just kinda in the background for him but now there really good friends...i like April, she's nice and she asks me things and like really wants to know the answer to them..."
"It's been tough" Jackson said finally once the interviews had come to a close.
"I won't deny that, It's been hard, we've buried some really good friends and some really good surgeons and operating like that...that was...i don't ever want to have to do that again in my entire career and...you know as a parent and as a resident I can only hope things will be ok..."
"Those weren't interviews" Alex Karev said later that day in the lounge eating pizza with a contemptuous glare. "Those were brutal interrogations. That was like reliving all of it over and over again and camera's shoved in your faces as you explain everything over and over again"
"Police interviews were a bit like that" April said chewing her crust bitterly. "I remember. They tried to be sympathetic and your head just hurts...i was sick during mine I remember"
"Lovely" Cristina said pulling a face. "I don't remember mine"
"They had some woman in with me" Hugo said breaking the awkward silence. He had stayed for dinner in the Resident's lounge and was lounging in a chair next to his Dad, his pizza loose in his hand.
"I remember" Jackson said softly. "They wanted to speak to me alone and you had to have someone in the room with you while you gave the testimony. I would have rang your grandma but she couldn't make airports move"
There was a long pause. Meredith took another bite of pizza. "Hard to believe that people are gonna watch this and call it TV"
There was another long pause.
"Sod it" Alex said finally. "We're off in twenty minutes who wants to get a drink?"
That went down to an unamused yes.
"No" Jackson said with an unamused expression at the look on Hugo's face, April sniggered. "You have school in the morning...and you're in a room with six doctors who have all cleaned up their fair share of teenage vomit"
"You people are no fun" Hugo groaned.
"No" Meredith said with another piercing look at the quiet Cristina Yang who hadn't ate anything since they'd ordered in.
"Were surgeons"
And on that note, I'll leave you alone.
Next Chapter-7x07-That's Me Trying-As Jackson tries to get certified for Trauma, Hugo watches the show with glee and Owen Hunt sees more than he lets on when it comes to the father and son duo. (First Owen Point of View)
