Everything Has Changed ❤️ {Jackson Avery}

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15x06

I'm sitting in my office going over some paperwork, and I see Jackson walk in.

Jackson: hey, beautiful.

Savannah: hey, babe.

Jackson: what's all this?

I look around at the ofrenda I made for Dia de los Muertos.

Savannah: it's Dia de los Muertos, day of the dead. In the Latin community, they make a shrine of pictures of the people they love that have passed, and one night of the year, they celebrate the lives of ones they've lost and their spirits come and visit them.

Jackson: wow. This is beautiful, babe.

Savannah: thanks.

Jackson sits with me and placed my feet on his lap while I do my paperwork.

~~~~~

Maggie and I walk into her cardio lab, and I see Meredith staring off into the distance.

Savannah: Mer, you okay?

Meredith: my father's dying.

Maggie: oh my god. Of what?

Meredith: AML.

Maggie: you wanna talk about it?

Meredith: no.

I grab a chair and sit next to Meredith while Maggie sits across from her.

Meredith: he doesn't even know you exist. That's how much of a not-father he's been to me. He doesn't even know I have a sister.

Maggie: I mean, I was sort of a love-child situation—

Meredith: and now he's dying, and he doesn't even tell me that.

Savannah: who told you?

Meredith: Richard, of all people.

Savannah: wow.

Maggie: what are you gonna do?

Meredith: I don't know. I'm supposed to grieve.

I see Jackson walk in two cups.

Jackson: hey, beautiful. Brought you your favourite hot chocolate from the cafe down the street.

I smile as Jackson kisses my nose.

Savannah: thanks, babe.

Meredith: hey. You have a deadbeat dad, don't you?

Jackson: that's a weird segue, but, essentially, yeah.

Meredith: how would you feel if you found out he was dying?

Jackson: what's he dying of?

Savannah: no, no, no, honey.

Jackson: oh, well, I mean, I'd be conflicted about it, sure.

Meredith: would you want to say goodbye?

Jackson: that I don't know.

Meredith: that's not helpful.

Meredith walks off with Maggie following behind her.

Savannah: her deadbeat dad actually is dying.

Jackson: oh. Well, that's... yeah, I don't know.

~~~~~

I'm sitting in my office going over more paperwork, and I see Jackson come into the room with some bags.

Savannah: hey, sweetheart. Whatcha got there?