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JO

"Jesus, Jo – what the hell?" Amber stumbled into the lounge, after I grabbed her from the nurse's station and practically threw her in there. Meredith was already in there, meaning she had gotten my page.

"What's going on? Why did you page me 9-1-1?" Meredith and Amber were both looking at me expectantly, both of them looking slightly annoyed at my behavior.

"I'M PREGNANT!" I started giggling, still finding it so weird to hear myself say that. Then I saw the look on my friends faces and started laughing even harder. Pretty soon I was doubled over, with tears in my eyes.

Laughing along with me, Amber grabbed me. "Seriously?! Jo, that is amazing! You guys are going to be great! How far along are you?" Meredith didn't say anything, she just hugged me tightly, dancing around a bit as she did.

"We have an appointment next week. I obviously don't want anyone knowing yet, but I wanted you both to know. We decided to just let it happen and I'm surprised it happened so soon, but I already love this kid so much. And Alex is so excited."

Meredith and Amber looked at each other and Jo knew they were both thinking of how much they loved their kids. She loved their kids as well and couldn't believe how much she already loved her own. The three women all hugged, all knowing that their lives would change in the upcoming months and all were extremely excited about it.

JACKSON

"I love you." I felt a tickle of a breath on my ear and smiled. Hearing Amber say those three words to me would never get old. "I have a few consults to do and a meeting with Bailey for my 6-month review. You look exhausted. Go to the on-call room on 4 and I'll find you when I'm done. We can cuddle for a bit before my afternoon surgeries start." I quickly kissed her to show that I thought it was a great idea and watched her walk away. I was exhausted. Between the busy weekend with Harriett and Hannah's party, flying Harriett back to April on Monday and a double that ended a few minutes ago, I was starting to barely function. I made my way to the 4th floor on-call room and laid down on a bottom bunk. I was asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.

I'm not sure how long I was asleep for, but I distantly felt someone crawl in next to me. Smiling, I wrapped my arms around her. "Hey beautiful. How was your meeting?"

Not answering, I felt her maneuver herself so she was on top of me and leaned down and started kissing my neck. My eyes suddenly popped open, realizing that this couldn't be Amber. This wasn't her smell, the wasn't her way of initiating something with me. This wasn't Amber. Trying to focus my eyes, I started pushing the person off who was on top of me. I got a glimpse of dark hair and got immediately pissed.

"Maggie, what the fuck are you doing?"

Before I could push her completely off of me, the door swung open and Amber walked in. Before I could say anything, she had walked back out. Scrambling up and putting my shoes on, I looked at Maggie who looked rather pleased with herself. "Do you really think I would want ANYTHING to do with you anymore, when I have her? Even if I didn't have her, we would be nothing. We don't have a future and I sure as FUCK don't want one with you. Stay away from me. I'll make sure Bailey hears about this."

Running out the door I didn't even hear what she was saying behind me.

ALEX

Seeing Red. That's all I could see right now. "I'll kill him." I told Amber, who was sitting in a conference room completely broken. I had never seen her cry over a boy before and I was glad. This was one of the worst things I've ever seen. She had found me a few minutes ago coming out of a surgery and she didn't even have to say anything for me to know something was wrong. As soon as we got into the conference room, she was hugging me, bawling and completely inaudible with her explanation.

As soon as I sat her down she tried to calm herself enough to tell me what she walked in on. Her crying and begging me to not leave her was the only thing that kept me from going and ripping Avery into a million pieces in the hospital that he partly owned.

"He…h-h-he said he was in l-l-love with me." She had started to hiccup now and her face had red streaks down it. The door opened and Meredith walked in and took Amber in her arms.

"Amber, listen to me. This was Maggie's doing. Jackson was pushing her off of him, he was completely asleep when she went in there and he assumed it was you."

"What?" I said, knowing that my tone sounded completely skeptical.

Meredith looked over at me. "Alex, seriously. Jackson about ran me over running out of that room and told me a five second explanation of what he was running for. I went right into the room and cornered Maggie. She tried to say he still had feelings for her and she knew it but she eventually broke down and told me she thought if she could get him to cheat on you he would realize he still wanted her. Amber, he is losing his mind right now. He already went to Bailey and made a formal complaint. He loves you. He hasn't been lying. And you love him. Don't let some misunderstanding get in the way of that. You need to take every day you have together and cherish it. Trust me, I know." Meredith hugged her one last time and got up and walked towards me. "Seriously, Alex. Don't get involved in this, it truly isn't what it looks like. Now come on, I told Jackson he could come in and talk to her."

I looked at Amber who still looked so diminished. "Are you okay with seeing him?" She nodded but didn't say anything. I walked over and kissed her head. "I love you, little sis. I'll be right here if you need me."

Meredith and I walked out of the room and I saw Jackson sitting on the floor against the wall across from the door. His head was between his knees and his hands were balled into fists on top of his head. I couldn't even see his face, but I could tell he was just as broken as Amber was.

"She agreed to talk to you. This was really all Pierce?" I asked him.

Jackson lifted his head up and scrambled to his feet. "I'm in love with her, Karev. I was sleeping and as soon as I realized it was her I was pushing her off of me and that's when Amber walked in. Maggie was actually smiling at her! I could have punched a hole through the wall. I already did a formal complaint with Bailey. I feel miserable knowing how it must have looked."

I nodded. I've known Avery for a long time, through a lot of women and he was different right now. "Go. Let me know how it goes." Jackson practically ran into the room and I looked at Meredith. "What is Pierce's deal?"

Mer shook her head. "I have no idea. Something is going on."

AMBER

I remembered now why I didn't do relationships. I wanted to walk into that room and punch the both of them, but instead I walked out and found Alex. Then I let all of my emotions come out. I had let him into my life. Hannah's life. I had let him in to – no, given him my heart. How could I have been so stupid?

Meredith wouldn't lie to me. Even though Maggie was her sister, she in no way would lie about something like this. Her tone said that she was as upset with Maggie as I was with Jackson. And she definitely wouldn't lie to Alex.

I heard the door open and I could feel his presence, but I couldn't look at him. He came directly over to me and pulled my chair out so he could be on his knees in front of me.

"Please Amber, please look at me. I am so sorry. It wasn't what it looked like but that's not what's important. What's important is that you're hurting because of me. Please, I will do anything to fix this."

I still couldn't look at him. "Why does she hate me? She must hate me if she continues to talk bad about me and to throw herself at you."

Jackson set his hands on my knees. "Please…please look at me. I love you, I can't make these feelings up. She caught me completely off guard. I shouldn't have assumed it was you, I should have woken up instead of just continuing to sleep. I turned her into Bailey, she was completely inappropriate. What she did was disrespectful and wrong. Please don't end this. Please."

I finally looked at him. I was surprised he said that. His eyes were bloodshot. I reached out and took his face in my hands. "This isn't ending. I l-l-love y-y-you," My eyes started to fill up and he put his hands over mine so that he could kiss mine. "I just…I'm sorry, I shouldn't have walked away, I should have asked what was going on."

"No, no, babe…no. You didn't do anything wrong." Jackson sat up and held my face close to his. "I don't know what I did to deserve you, but I can't lose you."

Touching our foreheads together, I let out the rest of my tears with him holding me, whispering everything I could want him to say.

()()()()()()()()()

I asked Jackson to pick Hannah up from daycare and take her to home. I told him I had to finish a few intern review papers and I would pick up food and we could have an easy night. He asked if he could stay over and I agreed because I wanted to be close to him after everything today.

I lied. I already had all the intern paperwork in.

"Hey Pierce!" Maggie turned around in the parking lot, looking to see who called her name. When she saw it was me, she scoffed and rolled her eyes. By the time she turned around, I was right beside her. "Let's chat."

"I have nothing to say to you."

"Good. Because I don't give a single shit about anything you have to say." Making sure to not touch her at all, I got as close to her as I could. "I don't know what your problem is. My brother and sister-in-law seem to like you, so I tried to like you. Your sister is becoming a good friend of mine, so I tried to like you. I was told all about you; super young head of department, graduated early, Richard Webber and Ellis Grey's long-lost child. I didn't think there was any way that I wouldn't like you. You never gave me a chance, but that's on you."

I took a deep breath before continuing, "I'm not going to tell you to stay away from Jackson, it's obvious you can't do that. I'm not going to tell you to stop being a bitch to me, it's clear you can't do that either. I'm going to tell you this; I'm sorry you and Jackson didn't work out. I'm sorry that you seem to think it was because of me. But I'm not sorry that I love him and I'm not sorry that he loves me. Anything that you think you can do to stop that, won't work. Go ahead and try."

Before she could respond, I turned and walked away. Getting into my car I breathed out a sigh of relief and started towards my beautiful baby girl and my handsome man.