Hi so here is another chapter, it is much longer than the one before and while it does focus again on the Hugo/Aidan element I can promise you that the next chapter will have Japril and Hugo/Jackson moments in it especially the upcoming episodes when I can reveal that the whole Hugo thinking Jackson was gonna be with April thing is gonna come out as well as Hugo's view that he cannot have a say in his father's love life.

I wanna say a big thank you to all of you who have read and reviewed and favourited and followed this story. I know I don't say it enough so here it is, Thank You, truly it is reviews like yours and encouragement like yours that keep this story going, thank you to all of you who have stuck with it for so long. I calculated and we have 16 chapters of this story left, don't worry there is more drama to come as we near the end but again, a massive thanks to all of you that have kept this story alive.

Ok so enough distractions, here is the chapter.

Disclaimer-Nothing is mine just Hugo and Aidan.

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Hopefully I will update as soon as I am able.


Little Lion Man

Chapter 50-8x08-Heart Shaped Box

In which there is a medical miracle that commands everyone's attention, well Hugo and Aidan's anyway and Hugo decides he is one hundred percent done with interfering in his father's love life. Aidan thinks Hugo might be in denial.


The morning after the game Hugo was tired, a little bit hungover and in desperate need of a shower. Typical it was however that the shower he usually used was occupied. By the sound of laughter it was either Meredith and Derek or his Dad and Lexie and he was privately hoping for the first one because that would be easier on the eyes should he accidently be scared for life.

Instead he turned and forced his way bleary eyed into Aidan's room.

Aidan made a very rude noise as he was disturbed and Hugo came into bed with him. There was a second where they were totally undisturbed when Hugo turned to stare at his best friend and then said under the cover of darkness, or at least semi-darkness he tried to fall back asleep again. That being said, that was hardly possible when one was dealing with Aidan. He turned around to face his best friend and Aidan watched him with those brown eyes before he gave a long sigh and then stared at Hugo.

"Don't go there" he said finally. "Don't look at me with those big eyes and try and gauge my reaction to what happened yesterday, you'd have to have like three bottle of vodka and some barbeque chicken because I feel like that right now and you don't. I know Lexie threw the ball at Mark's girlfriend and I know you, I know you like to think ahead without checking where you're feet lie and that is the most dangerous stupid thing that you do and that includes the story of where you ran into a shooter's aim because of your Dad. So if you wanna chat then please get me at a better time"

And with that Aidan tuned over in his sleep and tried to ignore Hugo who had to admit (privately) that he had switched off somewhere in that sentence probably when Lexie's name had been called up into the conversation.

"I mean she threw the ball at the woman's breast" he said shaking his head and staring up at the ceiling.

"Yeah" Aidan said heavily. "And if she'd have thrown like that a little higher during the match then we might have had a shot of winning instead of that bizarre ceasefire"he shook his face there was a second they stared at each other, and then Aidan groaned forcing himself to sit up and prop himself on one elbow. Hugo grinned and then winced as the sunlight hit his sore head full force. Perhaps spending the entire game secretly drinking was not the best thing they had ever done even if Meredith and Cristina had done the exact same thing and were up and about (well at least Meredith was) as if nothing had happened.

"Ugh I suppose that this gives you hope" Aidan said wincing at the bright lights, Hugo wanted to admit that he knew his best friend had a point but he didn't want to give him that kind of satisfaction, as far as he was concerned he had made up his mind a week ago.

"I'm staying out of it" he said tilting his head back. "He's at perfect liberty to sleep with either one of them"

Aidan opened one eye and then snorted into his pillow. "Maybe both of them" he said finally turning over and falling back asleep.

It took Hugo's tired, overworked brain a long time to catch up with the innuendo that Aidan had made. Hugo would have to admit later, when he was more conscious that it was rather impressive that Aidan had made a joke while hungover and sleep deprived but when his brain did catch up with that statement (and the unfortunate images that it conjured up of April, Lexie and then his father together) was to groan and make a rude gesture with hand.

"If I see that again I will suture your fingers together, it won't be good for Zola to see anything when she comes back" came the cheery voice of Meredith through the open door. Hugo groaned again. "I hate everything" he said turning on his side.

"Good" came Aidan's muffled voice. "That makes two of us"


They were forced out of bed some time later, which in turn turned out to be noon by Alex who told them he was locking them in and calling Doctor Bailey for assistance and a lecture on group teamwork and the dangers of liver damage if they didn't prove that they were alive. How Alex knew they had been drinking when Hugo's Dad who was like a sniffer dog at a Thai airport when things like this happened hadn't was something Hugo failed to understand but as Alex rather grudgingly offered to give them a lift (the word force was heavily implied however) they shut the hell up and swigged coffee out of thermos for most of the ride there.

That was when they found out about 'Heart in a Box'

"Wait?" Hugo said as Doctor Webber finished telling them about what was going on looking gleeful. "It's beating on it's own?"

"In a box?" Aidan finished looking exactly the same way Hugo felt.

"Yep" Doctor Webber said. "Yang but it in the Residents longue but it's only gonna be here a while so if you want to see it..."

Hugo didn't wait to hear the end of that sentence he was already following Aidan to the elevator as fast as his tired legs could move him.

"Shit" Aidan breathed watching the beating heart with wide eyes.

"I know" Hugo said back cocking his head to the side. "Hard to imagine that was in a living person three or four hours ago"

"Hard to believe that it's going into a living person once again" Aidan pointed out. "All nice and bright and shiny like none of this ever happened"

Hugo stared at the bright heart in it's box and then shook his head. He wanted to do something that might be stupid, god knows it sounded very stupid but he had to admit...that he so desperately wanted to...

Thankfully Aidan seemed to have the exact same words floating around his head as well.

"You wanna take a selfie with it?"

Two selfies, a disapproving look from Miranda Bailey who was passing by for what seemed like the third time and one chicken casserole later they were sat on the couch waiting for the arrival of the rest of the residents.

"So let me get this straight"Aidan said still watching the box with a rather confused look on his face. "You're not getting involved in your father's love life?"

"Never have before" Hugo said chewing thoughtfully.

"Yeah but he's never had one before"

"That's a good point"Hugo agreed nodding.

"So what bugs you, that it's Lexie or that it's not April. What makes April so special?"

Hugo paused.

"You remember the first shooting, the one that I rang you about all those months ago? When April told me to hide, when she tried to stop me going into that room, when she tried to protect me no matter at what cost?"

Aidan nodded.

"Well I had never had that before. A woman, hell a mother protecting me no matter what, so yeah, I would prefer April over anything. Certainly over Lexie, but he's my Dad, he's given half of his life up for me and I aint gonna make him give up more, so I'm gonna sit here watching heart in a box and make sure that I don't say anything to him because...because as far as it is concerned I am done with that. if he wants Lexie then he wants Lexie and when it all falls apart I will be there with the take out number and the beer when it does"

Aidan shook his head turning back to his dinner stabbing it with a fork.

"Who's George?" he said finally. "The one whose mother was in the hospital today?"

"Resident who died about three or so years ago" Hugo said finally. "Dad never knew him if that was what you were after, Meredith still gets sad about him sometimes though I doubt she admits it, he was married to Callie, before she liked women"

Aidan stared at him for a second and then shook his head.

"This place is like a brothel gone wrong" he said finally.

Hugo snorted into his share of the chicken dish they were eating. The heart in the box gave another beat and the sky just seemed to get darker as the day went on. Meredith and Cristina came into the room effectively ending the conversation and Hugo pretended that when his father came in some minutes later he wasn't in what looked like a deep meaningful conversation with April. After all...he was staying out of it.

And if his Dad's happiness cost him what he imagined would be a great family unit one day then that was just something that Hugo would have to put up with. To most people that would sound rather stupid but most people hadn't had the life that he had had. All Hugo had ever known was his father and he was the only real parent he was going to have. And if Lexie was what he wanted...

Well Hugo wasn't going to stand in his way.

It didn't mean as Aidan pointed out, that he had to like it, it was just the way it was.

Of course that was then, there is no time limit to what might happen down the line.


(After all, as we all know the surgical board exams are coming up)


And there it is, please let me know what you think, I will update again as I said above as soon as I can.

Next Chapter-8x09-Dark Was The Night-As Hugo and Aidan are stuck home with a brewing storm developing, Hugo finds himself dealing with a blow to his father's confidence that not even April can fix when it is revealed that he made a mistake in a woman's surgery that could cost her, her life. Part one of a two part episode.