Doing The Dance (Jackson Avery Fanfic)

fifty-eight

This is the final chapter going ahead. I'm so impressed with where this story has ended up, it's everything I wanted it to be. But of course, it gets hard to imagine it continuing without adding some central characters and changing central storylines, with Derek staying alive, Alex not leaving etc. 

But I've managed this much and I think it's gone incredibly. I was inspired by wanting to read a really good grey's fic and not finding any phenomenal ones that didn't follow the storyline so closely. So I decided to write my own and I'm grateful for the support.

So thank you for picking me, choosing me, and loving m...y story

2019

"You ready for this?" Alex asked me while I stood in front of the full-body mirror. I took a deep breath, finally facing the moment I had waited an eternity for. I looked at him.

"In what world did I agree that you'd be the best option to walk me down the aisle?" Alex grinned.

"Well, before you left nine years ago, this would have seemed right. Then everything else happened and it goes right back to being absurd. Either way, it's too late now, Dawson" I grinned.

"Soon to be Avery"

"Are you really gonna make the entire hospital call you Doctor Avery?"

"Your wife did it with Karev" I shot back. He shrugged.

"Touché."

"Besides, I've been looking into some other jobs. And Jackson has been looking into starting his own practice"

"A plastic surgery private practice?" Alex asked. I shrugged.

"Gotta admit, it would pay for itself and then some"

"Then let him do that, you stay at Grey Sloan and we're all happy"

"Okay, we're not getting into this right now, Karev. It's my wedding day and it needs to be the happiest day of my life" Alex seemed to get my hint and dropped it, smiling softly at me instead, making me roll my eyes. "What?"

"Nothing, you just look beautiful, and Avery is one hell of a lucky guy" I smiled.

"Who would have thought after everything we went through in that shooting, huh?"

"I would have. I saw the change the minute you made him bring me into my hospital room. I maybe wouldn't have predicted everything else that happened between now and then, but I would have definitely believed you and Pretty Boy could end up together, happily" I chuckled.

"Teddy said the same thing last year, on Luke's second anniversary." Alex shrugged in a nonchalant way.

"Great minds think alike"

"How does your mind fit in, then?" I teased. There was a knock on the door and Meredith walked in.

"Tay? Are you ready?" I nodded, taking a deep breath.

"He'd better be standing at the end of that damn aisle waiting" Meredith chuckled.

"He is, don't worry. Come on, he's waiting" I nodded and looked at Alex.

"How do I look? Ready to get married?" Alex nodded with a big grin on his face.

"You look great, Dawson. Let's get going" I nodded and grabbed my bouquet off him, following him out of the room where April and Harriet also stood waiting, April being my other bridesmaid along with Meredith and Harriet being our flower girl.

"Oh, you look gorgeous!" I gushed over Harriet, who grinned at me.

"I could say the same for you" April said with a nudge.