*A couple of Weeks Later*
Jackson and I have been doing fine these past few weeks. We still haven't told anyone about us.
I finally have some patients and surgeries scheduled almost everyday.
Today I have handy dandy Ben Warren on my service. I just supervised his first ever solo surgery.
"Thank the Lord I switched from anesthesiologist to surgeon." Ben said as we scrubbed out.
I chuckled at him.
"It feels amazing right?" I asked him. He nodded.
"Do you wanna go update the family on how the surgery went so you can keep gloating?" I asked him with a smile. He chuckled and nodded.
"Sure." He said before drying his hands and walking out. I walked out and took my cap off. I looked down at the prints it had on it. It was white with blue polka dots on it. My bestfriend Mason gave it to me when I graduated Medical School. Ever since I moved away from New York, I've used this cap everytime I go into surgery. It reminds me of my family and all of my friends. I smiled looking at is as I bumped into someone. I looked up and saw those eyes I love starring at.
"Dr. Gates, you should really watch where you are going." Jackson said with a fake professional voice. I couldn't help but chuckle a bit.
"I'm so sorry Dr. Avery. I promise I'll be more careful." I said desperately. He cracked a smile as we walked together to the lounge. I put my scrub away in my coat pocket as Jackson started to talk to me about a case.
I layed sat down on the couch as He sat next to me.
"I just don't know what to do. Maggie's my friend and I don't know how much longer I can keep this from her." He said laying his head back and rubbing it.
"Well, now we have to make sure you do everything you can to save her mom. You have to respect her wishes because she is your patient. Think about it, she didn't just come to you because she thought you are the best. I think she sees you as family to Maggie." I said putting my hand on his shoulder.
"Yea I know. I just wish she can tell her already. This is eating me inside. I'm sure if the roles were switched Maggie would tell me but then be hunt down by my mother." He said with a slight chuckle.
"Oh please your mom can't be that bad." I said to him. He nodded.
"Oh she is from my point of view. But I know she's just trying to do what's best for us." He said. I smiled at him. Just then the bathroom door flung open and Dr. Webber walked out. Jackson's and I mouths opened.
"Richard..." Jackson said getting up quickly.
He put a hand out in front of him.
"Don't worry. I won't say anything to Maggie. Only because it's what her mother wants." He said. Jackson gulped and nodded.
Dr. Webber gave me a small nod before leaving us alone. I stood up and Jackson was relieved.
"That was close." He said. I wrapped my arms around his torso and looked up at him.
"Don't worry about anything okay...everything will come out when it's time." I said. He nodded and leaned down, placing a soft kiss on my lips. He left of small kisses down my neck as I smiled. We heard voices comig close to the door so we quickly pulled away as I ran into the bathroom. I felt bad that we have to do everything in secret but I think more people will be less hurt if they don't know.
"Hey Jackson." I heard April and Maggie said walking in. I sighed in relief that there was a bathroom in here. I don't think I'm ready to see anyone's thought on my relationships with Jackson.
After a minute I walked out of the bathroom and April greeted me. Maggie had been paged so she was no longer in the room.
Jackson was just sprawled out on the couch as he ate a bag of chips.
"Sharing is caring." I said extending my hand out to him.
He looked up at me and raised his eyebrow.
"My food." He said holding the bag closer to his chest.
April chuckled.
"Never ask him for food, you'll always get turned down." She said.
"Noted." I said as I eyed Jackson. He gave me a idiotic smile as I stuck my tounge out at him. I may be 25 but I sure as hell act like I'm 5. He smiled and licked his lips. April made herself a cup of coffee.
"Oh I forgot to tell you, Harriet sat up by herself for the first time yesterday." April said to Jackson with a big smile. His attention turned to her. His smile widened.
"Really? I can't wait to see her later so I can see it myself." He said. He was on-call last night so that's why he didn't go home.
I just stood there awkwardly as they kept talking about their baby sharing laughs and pictures. Seeing this makes me feel sort of bad for myself. It makes me think if Jackson and I make our relationship public, I could never fit into the picture with them. I sat down on the chair across from the couch as I checked my phone. I saw I had a text from my mom.
"Hey sweetie, hope everything is going well out there in Seattle! Adrianna and I miss you alot and want to come out there and visit you." It said. I smiled at my phone a bit. I did miss my mom and sister Adrianna. My dad died when I was 7 so those two have been my rocks. I texted her back immediately saying of course they can come. April got paged so she had to leave which left Jackson and I alone again. His attention was finally back on me.
"What are you all smiley about?" He asked being a snoopy boyfriend.
"Nothing just this really hot guy that texted me." I said jokingly. He clenched his jaw and I could see a vein on the side of his head popping out. I laughed at his seriousness.
"I'm kidding you big jealous baby." I said getting up.
He stood up to and walked close to me, cutting the space in between us.
"Who you calling a big baby?" He asked as his face was centimeters apart from mine.
"You." I said starring back at him. He backed me up into the wall as he never broke eye contact. I couldn't help but start laughing at his fake serious face. He stepped away from me as he watched me laugh.
"You ruined our really intense moment." He said.
I smiled at him.
"I'm sorry your serious face is just so adorable." I said. He shook his head at me before he got paged.
"Hand surgery." He said holding his phone up.
He gave me a quick peck on the lips.
"I'll see you later." He said. I nodded.
I was on call tonight so might as well just stay here instead of going home.
I left the lounge and went to check on my post-op patients.
"Dr.Gates!" A little girl said behind me. I turned around and saw Ana Turner, the girl's appendix Jo removed.
"Hi cutie!"I said as she gave me a big hug.
"What brings you here?" I asked her as I crouched down to her level.
"Just came in to check on my scar, it's all better now!" She said with a smile. Her mom then popped up behind her.
"Oh hello Dr. Gates." Her mom said. I stood back up to normal and shook her hand.
"I'm glad everything's going well." I said to Ana.
"Sweetie we have to get going." Her mom said to Ana.
Ana nodded.
"Bye Dr. Gates." She said giving me another hug.
"Bye Ana." I said as she pulled away.
"Have a goodnight." I said to them. They walked away and I stepped by a nurse station to grab a tablet. I suddenly got paged 911 by Dr. Warren for the last patient I had name Alisha Wheeler. I quickly ran through the hallway making my way to her room. I finally reached it.
"What happened?" I said as I put gloves on. She had gone in vfib. I pressed the code blue botton as Warren was getting gloves on. I started performing compressions as they rolled the crash cart inside. Warren started bagging her.
"Push 10cc of epi." I yelled as we were ready to charge.
"Charge to 200." I said. Everyone took their hands of the patient.
"Clear!" I yelled as the patient got shocked. We still had no pulse.
"Charge to 250." I said.
"Clear." I yelled.
Still nothing.
"Charge to 300." I yelled. She was shocked one last time as we all waited. Still a flat line. I started compressions once again and forced Dr. Warren to bag her.
"Dr. Gates, she's been down 18 minutes..."Warren said. I took my hands off the patient.
I checked my watch.
"Time of death 20:16." I said taking a breath. I ripped my gloves off and left the room. I hunched over and regained my breath. I don't get it, she was fine? I quickly went back to the room and Warren was waiting for me so we can go tell the family. I nodded at him so we could go.
"Wheeler family?" I asked. A man and a girl stood up.
"What happened is my wife okay?" He aaked.
"I think you should sit down for this." I said to him.
He did as told.
"Mr. Wheeler, your wife's heart stopped. She went into cardiac arrest. We tried resuscitate your wife for 18 minutes. I'm so sorry but we did everything we could." I said as he started crying. His daughter held on to him tightly. He quickly got up.
"No there had to be something else!" He yelled angrily.
"Sir we did everything we could." Warren said trying to calm him down.
"You killed my wife." He said pointing to me.
He tried to grab me as Ben and Hunt came out no where to detain him. Jackson quickly ran over to us. Everyone was starring at us as Dr. Hunt and Dr. Warren tried to contain him.
"Sir calm down or I will call security." Dr. Hunt yelled at him. Jackson pulled me away from there and back to where the rooms where.
"Are you okay?" He asked me as he checked me.
I nodded.
"He didn't touch me." I said blankly. Jackson looked at my face and he knew all he had to do was just hold me.
I clinged on to arm as he rubbed my back.
"It wasn't your fault, we both know that. Don't beat youself over this. You tried everything you could Mel." He said. I just stood there in shock. I had never experienced someone lash out at me like that.
"C'mon let's go back to the lounge and then get you home." He said.
"I can't I'm on call." I said.
"I don't care Mel, you need to get some rest." He said.
I gave in and nodded. We walked back to the lounge and I sat down for a moment as Jackson gave me some water.
"Thanks." I said. Just then Dr. Hunt walked in.
"Are you okay? Did he hurt you?" He asked me worriedly. I shook my head no.
"I'm okay Owen. Thank you." I said giving him a small smile.
"Let me know if you need anything okay?" He said as he pat my knee and walked away. I just sat there staring at the coffee table. I kept replaying all the test and steps in the surgery and when examining her. I don't understand why she had a heart attack. Her EKG came out fine too. I put my head in my hands and then ran my hands through my hair.
"You're safe with me. I promise." Jackson said wrapping his arms around me. God I hope I was.
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Worthy •} jackson avery ; grey's anatomy
FanfictionWelcome to Melissa Gate's Life at Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital. DISCLAIMER *I do not own Grey's Anatomy nor the characters mentioned from the TV show. I own my characters and the stories I build upon the real show*