Doing The Dance (Jackson Avery Fanfic)

twenty-four

2016

"Have I ever told you that you look sexy making coffee in your underwear and my shirt?" Luke's hands wrapped around my waist from behind as I stood at our coffee maker. I rolled my eyes.

"Every morning since it got warm enough to sleep in my underwear"

"I'd much prefer you sleeping in nothing"

"Yeah well, you'll be waiting a while for that one" I finished the coffee and poured two cups, handing him one.

"Thank you. Do we have to work today? It seems like such a nice day!" I nodded.

"I agree, it's such a beautiful day. But we're finally fourth-year residents! You've even had some solo surgeries" He smiled. 

It was now August in Seattle and the summer was in full swing. I'm glad it wasn't ending early, it felt like we were waiting all through June and half of July for it to get here. Luke and I had been together since our date to The Pink Room in January, moving all of our stuff into one room and leaving the other as the guest bedroom. Not that we had many guests coming to stay seeing as his family lived in town and my family didn't exist. We'd also just started our fifth year of residency, meaning we had one more year left before our boards and fellowships. Everything was looking really good for now.

Even the chemotherapy had been working, slightly faster than the last one I was on and so far no crazy reactions like when it changed.

"Hey, you know what today is?" Luke asked while we drank our coffees.

"Friday?" He rolled his eyes at me.

"It's our two years of working at Grey Sloan!" I raised my eyebrows.

"Really? two years, imagine that"

"Yeah and neither of us has screwed up so badly we've gotten fired."

"April Kepner did, not long after the merger. Just before the shooting they had" Luke's eyes went wide.

"No way! What happened?"

"A patient died and it was her fault apparently. Doctor Shepherd was the chief then and he still had a few cuts to make, so she was out. It was the first time Karev and Avery nearly beat each other up too"

"I remember seeing that shooting on the news. I was a year off graduating from med school. I remembered thinking 'God, that is the last place I want to work.' Funny how things change"

"Yeah, that was a traumatic day for sure" Luke's eyes flicked toward me.

"You were there?" I nodded.

"I thought I would have told you that. I don't like to remember it or talk about it too much so I thought I would have told you not to bring it up. Avery did that night after the roof collapse when we were in surgery together. He hasn't since, thank god, or else I might have pulled a Karev and tried to knock him out" Luke chuckled and placed his cup on the bench, pressing a kiss to the top of my head.

"Is it bad for me to say I'd pay to see that?"

"Terrible. But understandable" I said with a smirk. "Come on, we're gonna be late if we don't get dressed and leave"

By this time we were all just rotating services every so often but primarily working in the areas we were interested in. Which meant I didn't have to endure peds too much with Karev and Arizona. I could handle Arizona just fine but it had been a year since I'd come face to face with Alex again, and nothing had changed from our first encounter. Gone was the doctor who I trusted with my life, who I cried over George O'Malley to, who I comforted when he cried over Izzie Stevens. Every so often we switched around, more so with the impending board assessments at the end of our fifth year and sometimes due to necessity. Like today, when I found myself being instructed to go to peds by Doctor Webber.