Chapter II: Matter of life and death

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"Rescue me
Show me who I am
'Cause I can't believe
This is how the story ends
Fight for me
If it's not too late
Help me breathe again
No, this can't be how the story ends"

"You're ready, April?", Jackson asked quietly while he washed his hands in the scrub room.

"Yeah, I guess. I'm happy that you perform the surgery, I can't thank you enough.", she replied while her boyfriend was rolled into the OR.

Jackson smiled a little sad at her, it hurt him to see April so agonized and he wanted to do everything to comfort her but he couldn't, the pain from the last days was too heavy. He was freaking jealous that Matt had April, and not he. Sure, Matt was a nice guy, but Jackson wasn't able to see the two so happy, while he had to deal with the hospital and the other crap. He was mad at himself, how the hell could he been so foolish that he slept with Stephanie?

"I'm a dumbass..." Jackson murmured to his self, but April noticed that he had said something so she asked:

"You're really okay with this?"

He shrugged and left the washroom to start the surgery. Matthew was already asleep so he looked one last time at April and was about to begin but suddenly the heart-monitor started to beep. Jackson looked shocked to April, she couldn't move so he went to Matthew's chest and started the resuscitation.

"Why is he flat lining?", asked April high-pitched.

"Stop the anesthetic immediately!", demanded Jackson, he was sure Matthew was allergic to the anesthetic.

The anesthetist stopped it like him was told and slowly Matthew recovered.

"Please bring him back to his room, I guess I have to talk to him before we operate on him with an local anesthetic.", Jackson said slowly and turned around to April, she stand there shivering and starred at her boyfriend while he was rolled out of the OR.

He walked around the operating table, grabbed softly both of her arms and whispered:

"Come, we need to get outta here, April..."

As soon as they were out of reach April turned around and felt into Jackson's arm, grasped his torso like it was a matter of life and death and Jackson put his arms even tighter around her to comfort her. April's mind was overfilled with emotions, but the most important for her was that she was laying in Jackson's arms, safe and warm.

"He will be fine, I promise April...He just had a really hard allergic shock which almost killed him but he's alive to...love you and be your boyfriend...", Jackson ended sadly while he started to caress her back.

"It...it hurts you to s-s-say things like this...to me...about Matt, right?", April asked and looked up to him, their faces were almost touching.

"A little bit, I mean you're my best friend, and we had something going on..." Jackson admitted quietly and sad.

April closed her eyes agonized, she knew that Jackson lied, it broke his heart in thousand pieces. And it hurt her to see her best friend so hurt.

"What the hell? Kepner I never thought you would be a cheater! Isn't the paramedic your boyfriend?", sounded Karev's voice a few meters away from them.

April turned around and said angry:

"Yeah, Karev, that's right, Matthew is my boyfriend. But no, I'm not a cheater, okay? By the way, is it your business with who I'm doing what? Not it's not, so just go."

Jackson knew he shouldn't be, but he was pretty turned on by April yelling at Karev, it was kinda sexy. And that April hold his hand didn't helped it in any way.

Alex opened his mouth, closed it again and said laughing: "Then just keep going with what you're doing with whoever."

April nodded still angry at him.

"That was...impressive.", Jackson chuckled.

"Thank you! Now we gotta go and tell Matthew that the OR-plans changed.", April laughed too and smiled at him.

Jackson laid his head crooked and smiled bright at her back:

"Are you more or less fine again?".

April loved that caring side of Jackson so she squeezed his hand that she was holding the whole time and said:

"Yes, thanks to you, Jackson. Not only for being here for me, but also for saving Matt's life."

Jackson smiled back at her, put one arm around her shoulder and walked with her to Matthew's room.

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