On The Radio (Grey's Anatomy Japril fanfic)

Chapter 6

"There's my baby boy" Cathrine smiled as she spotted her son standing in the lobby of the Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

She let go of Richard's arm as she opened hers, ready to embrace to her son.

"Mom" he greeted with a smile on his face, more like a forced smile

Cathrine pulled her son into a tight hug. He felt like she was squeezing the living daylight out of him. She finally let go of him after a few long seconds and placed a kiss on his cheek. He turned to Richard.

"Richard" he greeted elder surgeon.

"Hello Jackson" he replied with a smile "How have you been?"

"Good" Jackson replied with a simple smile

He may not have liked the idea of Dr. Webber and his mother being together, but he still respected the doctor enough to have a civil conversation with him.

"You don't look too good baby," Cathrine said feeling on his face down to his biceps "You look skinny"

"Mom!" Jackson whined knowing where she was going

"You need a wife to cook you some good food honey," she said "And give me some grandbabies" she added with a smirk

Jackson rolled his eyes. This was always the topic when she came to town, marriage, and grandkids.

"I'm getting old Jackson, I need to spoil some grandkids before I die," she said

Explaining to his mother why he wasn't married yet, was something he didn't want to do. After April moved, he did try to move on, but things weren't working out, he found himself constantly comparing women to April. When he did think about it, the women he did try to date had something that reminded him of April. He didn't think that was fear to other women, so he just stopped for a while, hoping maybe with time, he could get over it.

"Don't get your hopes up" he smiled at his mother

"Don't worry, I'll find you a wife before I go back to Boston" she smiled

"Awesome" Jackson sarcastically cheered

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The three sat in the cafeteria, catching up, against Jackson's wishes. He didn't want to spend his lunch discussing his love life with his mom in front of her husband.

"I'm just saying Jackson, if you went out more, maybe you would have met someone by now," Cathrine said

He ignored his mother watching his friends interact at their table, well it was more like he was watching April. They were on good terms. They weren't best friends like they were before, but they were at a simple friend level. So far their past hasn't been brought up, but since they were good, they didn't want to make things get more complicated by bringing it up. But if they ever had a chance to getting back to "That" point, Jackson knew that it would have to come up eventually. But then again, she was a married woman, he didn't want to overstep his boundaries, again.

"Is that April?" Cathrine asked when she noticed her son's attention was no longer on her but at the other table

"What is doing here, I thought she moved to Ohio" Richard added

"She moved back a while ago," he said

"Oh," Cathrine said realizing her son's gaze was not at the table, but on the redhead instead

She slowly smiled to herself, concocting one of her Mama Avery schemes in her head, but she slowly backtracked when she remembered April was a married woman. But April being a married woman didn't change the way her son was looking at her.