Stole My Heart ❤️ {A Jackson Avery love story}

Chapter 5:

Another beautiful day in Seattle, another restless shift at Seattle Grace. I went into a surgery with my dad very early this morning and I've done some suturing and pre and post ops. I end up by the observation deck and I find George, Cristina and Izzie.

Delilah: hey Cris, hey Georgie... Stevens.

Yes, I'm still hostile about Izzie ever since that day. Call me petty but it really hurt me.

George: I wish I could hold a heart.
Cristina: a monkey could hold a heart.
Delilah: who's holding a heart?
George: Meredith. She's doing a CABG with Burke right now. And Cristina, you're just mad Burke didn't ask you.
Izzie: George, I need more ice and chips.
George: who else did you invite?
Cristina: Izzie, we said the list was jocks only. Surgery, Trauma, Plastics. Who else?
Izzie: just some people from Peds.
Cristina: you invited the preschoolers to Meredith's house?! The next thing you'll say is you invited the shrinks.
Izzie looks away.
Cristina: she invited mental defects. This party's DOA.
Delilah: what party are you guys talking about?
Cristina: hold up. Baby Shepherd wasn't even invited? Come on Izzie, not cool.
George: she's coming. She's our friend, she deserves to be there. Right Cristina?
Cristina: totally. A party isn't a party without baby Shepherd.
George: Delilah, will you come to the party at Meredith's house tonight?
Delilah: why yes Georgie-kins, I would love to come to the party.
George: great. You know, Meredith thinks this is just going to a little, small, meet-your-boyfriend cocktail thing. Did you clear this with her?
Izzie: no, but I will.

Cristina, George and I give her a look.

Izzie: I promise.
Cristina: why are you wasting the only weekend your boyfriend is in town on a big party? Is he bad in bed?

I laugh at Cristina's comment and we high five as Izzie gives us a look.

Izzie: no. I just want him to meet some of my friends.
Cristina: right. Sixty geeks in scrubs are your friends.

Cristina's pager goes off and she gets up to leave.

Cristina: bad sex, sucks for you.

I stifle a laugh as Cristina leaves and Alex appears.

Alex: I heard there was a party tonight at Meredith's house.
Cristina: oh really, party?
Izzie: uh, news to me.
George: no party.
Delilah: don't know what you're talking about dude.

After Burke's CABG, George and I meet up with Meredith. We're walking down the hallway and we run into my dad walking and eating at the same time also holding a coffee in his hand.

Dad: hey, I hear you did a CABG with Burke.
Meredith: yeah.
Dad: did you get to hold the heart?
Meredith: yeah.
Dad: it's an amazing feeling. You never forget your first time.
George: it was pretty great just to watch. Vicarious thrills, you know?
Meredith: yeah.
Dad: morning sweetheart.
Delilah: hey dad.
Dad: coffee for you.
Delilah: this is why I love you.

My dad chuckles at me as the elevator rings. Mer, George and I go in.

Dad: see you later.
Meredith: bye.
Delilah: bye dad. Love you.

The elevator doors shut. I lean against George and look over his shoulder to read the article he was reading while Meredith was facing the door with her arms crossed over her chest.

Meredith: I think maybe I did something to the heart when I was holding it. I nodded off a little. Squeezed it.
George: oh, please. The heart's a tough muscle. It could use a squeeze or two.
Delilah: I agree with Georgie, Mer bear.
Meredith: my fingernail popped the glove. Cut straight through. George, Delilah, what if I punctured Mrs. Patterson's heart?