Worthy •} jackson avery ; grey's anatomy

twenty three

The alarm awoke us and we groaned. We were in a tight embrance trying to enjoy the couple of hours of sleep we could get.
I stretched and yawned as Jackson turned on the lamp beside him.
"Morning." he said nuzzling back into my neck.
I layed my hand on his cheek. I gave him a quick kiss and then set his face on my pillow as I went for the shower. 
After we finished getting ready we headed to the hospital and got some coffee and muffins from the cart outside of it.
We met Catherine by the daycare because she was dropping Harriet off today and then going to be working with us.
"There they are." Jackson pointed to them walking towards us. Harriet saw us and immediately smiled.
"Dada!" She squealed. We chuckled at her. Jackson took her into his arms as I said hello to Catherine.
Harriet was in a tight embrace with her dad.
"Hey do I get no love?" I asked jokingly. She litfed her head from Jackson's shoulders and threw herself into my arms. I kissed her cheeks and smiled at her.
"Mel." She blurted out as she pointed to me. I nodded.
"Yes baby, I'm Mel."
She put her hands together and started clapping.
"Did you have fun with Grandma?" Jackson asked her.
"Oh we had so much fun, she's such a good baby."
"Alright well I'll see you guys upstairs, I'm going to go drop off Harriet." Spoke Jackson. We nodded and I handed him Harriet. Catherine and I then headed for the elevator.
We stepped inside and it was just us two.
"So how are things, you know with you and Jackson?"
I felt a smile creep onto my lips.
"We're really good. Much better than I expected actually."
"That's great honey! I'm so glad."
I nodded. "Me too."
The elevator doors opened and people came pouring inside so our conversation had to end there.
We went our seperate ways as she went to Bailey's office and I went to the lounge.
"Morning." I said with a smile as I entered the lounge.
"Why are you so smiley?" Asked Maggie.
I shrugged my shoulders as I put my bag away and took my jacket off.
Alex starred at me.
"She got some from Avery." He stated plainly. My cheeks flushed with embarrassment.
I held my hands up in defeat.
"Guily as charged." I said with a smirk as I slipped my boots off.
They all started laughing. (Mer, Amelia, & Alex except for Maggie)
"I wish I got some." Maggie stated with a frown. All laughs quieted down as everyone looked at her confused. I raised an eyebrow at her acting like a jealous girlfriend.
Her eyes widened realizing what she had said.
"Oh God! I didn't mean it like that I meant I want to get laid! Not by Jackson. But I need sex! I literally haven't had any in months." She threw her hands up frantically. We all just laughed at her.
"Oh shut up! You guys have sex at your fingertips since you're all in relationships. I'm not so I don't get any."
"Have you ever heard of one night stands?" Amelia asked jokingly. Maggie rolled her eyes.
"I'll tell you what, why don't we all go out to Joe's tonight. Last time I was there was my first day here. And while we're at it, we'll find you a guy to have sex with. How does that sound?" I suggested.
"I'm in, only because Tequila is calling my name." Mer said with a sly smile.
"First rounds on me." I said bribing them.
"See you tonight" Alex said with a cheesy smile high fiving me and then leaving.
"Okay fine." Maggie gave in.
"I'll go too, this should be interesting." Amelia said nodding her head.
"Sounds good."
I then went to the bathroom and changed. I came out and everyone was gone except for Jackson. He had just walked in.
"Hey so we're going to go to Joe's tonight is that okay?" I asked him.
"I don't know what about Harriet?" He asked taking his shirt off.
"Right um, what about Mer's babysiter?"
He thought about it for a minute.
"I guess we can do that. I'll ask Mer when I see her."
I nodded. Jackson put his scrub pants on as I slid my coat on. He slid his on too and we were ready to go.
"Wait we forgot something." He stopped me as I was headed for the door. I turned around and raised an eyebrow. He grabbed my face and kissed me softly. He pulled away and smiled.
"Now we're ready."
I rolled my eyes and chuckled. He smacked my butt as I opened the door. A gasp escaped my mouth.
He had his hand around my waist as we walked for Nelly Chaves room.
"Good Morning." I said to her and her boyfriend. Jackson let go of me as we entered the room.
"Good Morning Dr. Gates, Dr. Avery." She replied.
Jackson gave her a small smile.
"Dr. Wilson can you present." Jackson said.
"Nelly Chaves, 25, had surgery for the removal of infected tissue due to Necrotizing Fasciitis from the glutes and thighs. The surgery was successful. She went into septic shock, but we were able to control it and her body temperature is back to normal. Today will be her skin graft operation."
"Thank You Dr. Wilson." Jackson said.
So yes, we have your surgery schedueled in about an hour and a half. We-" Before I could continue my phone started buzzing.
I took it out and I was being paged 911 to the ER.
"I'm sorry I'm being paged. Dr. Avery will continue explaining." I said while taking Wilson with me to the ER. We ran through the hallways and finally reached the Ambulance Bay.
"What do we have?" I asked Owen. I put on my disposable gown along with gloves as he tied the back for me. I tied Wilson's and we stepped outside.
"I was told it was an accident. There are two patients and one of the cars was a big truck."
The first ambulance pulled in.
"I'll get this one."
The EMT's busted the ambulance doors open and out was pushed out a bloody body.
"John Doe, unconcious and hypertensive. Trauma to the abdomen, including an umbilical hernia which has most likely ruptured. Also you should take a look at his right side of the abdomen." An EMT said.
We pushed him inside a truama room and then I examined his right side. My eyes widened. He was a metal bar lodged in between his liver and the pancreas.
His hernia was a dark purple.
He started looking around scared.
"Sir? Sir can you hear me?" I asked waving my hand in his face. His scared eyes met mine. He started moving and yelling in pain.  I grabbed his hand.
"I'm Dr. Gates, I'm going to be treating you today. You need to stay still for me so I can examine you. Can you tell me your name?" I asked him.
He nodded.
"Aaron Karev." 
My eyes met Wilson's and they widened. 
"M-my brother, A-alex." He struggled to say.
"Yes your brother is Dr. Alex Karev. We'll go inform him."
"Meet us at CT." I looked up at Wilson as she nodded with a nervous face.
I gave him a general neuro exam and he passed. There's definitely fluid in the belly due to the metal bar.
"Alright we need to move him to CT now, I need to get a view of his abdomen." I yelled out sternly. People got out of the way as we pushed him out and to CT. 
"On three carefully move him onto the bed...One, Two, Three." I directed as we moved him onto the CT bed.
"Alight Aaron you're going to keep staying still for me so I can see what's going on in your stomach okay?"
He nodded slowly.
I pushed the button and went to the other side of the screen.
We stood there waiting for the images to come up when a worried Alex and Jo ran into the room.
"How is he?" He asked nerously.
"We're waiting for the scans, don't be freaked out okay. If you do I'm going to kick you out do you understand?" I said sternly referring to the metal bar. He nodded. The images finally popped up on the screen.
Alex's eyes widened when he saw the bar. Just as I had said it was perforating part of his liver and pancreas. His glucose levels should be sky high right now.
I zoomed in and looked closer at it to see how I could approach without damaging anything more.
"His hernia ruptured too!" Alex said frustratedly as he rubbed the back of his head.
"Luckily it's a small bowel." I replied. I thought about how I'm going to take the metal bar out. I need to do it at a slow and steady pace or he could bleed out on that table. I'm going to do the easy stuff first, which is removing the hernia. Then once I open him up I'll get a clearer field to decide my approach.
"I got it, let's prep an OR stat Jo." I said to her. She nodded.
"What's you're approach?! You need to be careful with the pancreas or else it-" Alex started but I cut him off.
"Enough Alex! I know you're scared but I know exactly what I am going to do. You have to trust me on this one okay? I promise I'm going to do anything I can to save your brother."
I placed my hand on his shoulder. He nodded.
"C'mon, you can help me get him prepped and then upstairs."
He nodded. I opened the door and we walked to him.
"Hey Aaron I brought someone for you."
He had a neckbrace so he could only stare straight up.
"Aaron" Alex said holding on to his hand.
"Big bro." He said with a small smile.
"Who would of thought that this is how we would reunite." Alex said shaking his head.
"Aaron, you need surgery. Like right now, its an emergency."
"Dr. Gates is going to operate?"
Alex nodded.
"Is she any good?" Aaron joked.
Alex looked at me with a smile as a tear rolled down his cheek.
"Yea she is, or else I wouldn't have let her touch you."
"Alright. Let's do it."
After that we got him upstairs and prepped for surgery.
To my luck, we were in the OR with the gallery and all eyes are going to be on me including Alex's.
Aaron was all prepped and ready and I was scrubbing in. Alex walked inside startling me.
"Jesus Alex."
"Now you make sure my brother doesn't bleed out on your table. I meant what I said back there alright."
Before I had a chance to respond he was out of sight. Wilson then came in and scrubbed in.
"You're somewhat related to him so if you have any feelings of nervousness and think you can't go in there tell me now." I said to her. She starred at him for a second and back at me.
She opened the water and grabbed the soap.
"I'm fine."
"Good."
I shook off the excess water on my hands and went inside the OR. I was gowned and ready to go. Wilson joined me and then we were ready to start.
I first off did the Hernia repair, well Dr. Wilson did. I let her do the honors.
It was a laparoscopic procedure which was quick. We now moved on to the metal bar. I analyzed his blood pressure. It was still higher than I wanted it to be but we're going to have to work around it. I made an incision wide enough around the bar so I can see the field clearly. I took a quick glace up and saw that the gallery was getting filled up.
"Suction." I spoke out. My OR is usually never quiet I always try to keep a conversation going. But right now, I was much too concentrated to talk about anything. The bar didn't go completely through him so it made it a bit easier to take out. I was going to pull it out slowly and monitor his heartbeat.
"Wilson you're going to have suction and lap pads on stand by as I pull this out of him okay?"
She nodded.
I mentally counted to three and started.
I gently pulled it a little as I held down his liver and pancreas with the other hand. I applied more pressure and pulled more of it out. I looked up at the monitor.
We're still good.
"C'mon Aaron just a little bit more." I whispered to myself. I did one final forceful pull and handed the bar off. That's when blood started gushing everywhere. His heart rate started dropping.
"Lap pads now!"
I stuffed the cavity with lap pads and suction until I could get a clear view to see where the bleeding was coming from.
"C'mon where are you." I said desperately. Wilson disposed of the lap pads. I dug around with my finger some more and finally found it. There was a tiny hole right underneath the pancreas. I quickly patched it up. His heart beat finally went back to normall as I let out a deep breath.
Wilson and I's eyes met as we smiled at each other. Even though you couldn't see our mouths due to the masks, you could tell by the lines forming around our eyes. I looked up at the gallery and saw Alex smiling teary eyed. He gave me a nod.
I explored the area some more. I removed the small part of the liver that was perforated, but that would grow back in no time. Luckily the pancreas was no hit besides the small hole underneath it. I double checked the hernia repair since he was opened up anyways and all looked good.
"We're ready for closing." I said.
Layer by layer, I stiched him up. After the last layer was done I put the instruments down and went to the scrub room. I ripped the mask off me and breathed out in relief. I took my gloves off and threw them out.
"You did it." Wilson said joining me.
"No, we did it." I said flashing her a smile.
I scrubbed out with Wilson and we walked to meet Alex. Wilson took him into a hug as I watched them in awe. They pulled away and Alex walked towards me. He first starred at me with a straight face and then threw his arms around me. I smiled and then hugged back.
"Thank you." He whispered. I nodded.
"See it wasn't that hard to trust me was it?" I said pulling away.
He nodded.
"You have all of mine now Gates."
He said putting his arm on Jo's waist.
"I better." I jokingly said and pointed my finger at him. He side smiled and shook his head before walking away. Aaron should be up in the ICU soon. I was signing and updating his chart when I heard Jackson's voice next to me.
"Hey you and Wilson completely ditched me." He said.
My eyes widened.
"Oh my God, I totally forgot to send someone to let you know we weren't going to make it. I was pulled into an emergency surgery. It was Alex's brother." I said putting the tablet down in the case. I turned my complete attention to Jackson.
"How is he?" Jackson asked concerned.
"He's good. I just finished actually. He should be up here in ICU any minute now."
He nodded.
"What even happened to him?" He asked.
"Car accident. He had a umbilical ruptured hernia and a metal bar in between his liver and pancreas." I explained.
He raised an eyebrow.
"And you took that metal bar all by youself?" He asked astonished.
"Well I had Wilson on standby with lap pads and suction in case he started bleeding out, which he did, but I controlled it in time." I simply said.
I caught Jackson giving me a sly smile.
"What?" I asked entertained.
"My girlfriend's a bad ass."
I raised an eyebrow.
"Oh yea?"
He nodded and leaned in.
"And not just in the OR." He whispered in my ear, sending chills down my back.
I smirked shaking my head at him.
I then looked around to see if anyone was coming and then pecked his lips.
"How was Nelly's surgery?" I asked.
"Good. I actually made sure she still had a nice butt, which I'm sure she'll thank me later and definitely wish she didn't go to Colombia for it."
I nodded.
"I'm glad. Oh and I should get going back to Alex. Tell Nelly I'm glad she's all good now and that I'm sorry I couldn't be there." I pleaded.
"I will." He said before we walked away from each other. Aaron should definitely be in a room by now. I got a text saying he was and it was Room ICU54. I walked there and knocked on the door before going in. Aaron was just starting to wake up.
"I'm either alive, or you all died with me." He said with a groggy voice. We all chuckled at him.
"Nope, you're alive." I answered him.
"Guess my brother was right about you."
"I sure was." Alex reassured.
"How are you feeling?" Asked Jo.
"Sore and Tired." He responded yawning.
"Hey, do you know how the accident happened? If you don't mind me asking." I said playing with my badge.
"Oh, this girl in the car infront of me was changing her shirt and wasn't even paying attention. We hit a curve on the highway and I honked at her but it was too late."
We all stood there silent.
"How is she anyways?" He asked.
"I'm not sure I'll find out. I'm not really allowed to tell you but I guess I'll bend the rules this time."
"Thanks." He said throwing me a small side smile, just like Alex's.
"Alright then I'll leave you guys alone. Make sure you rest okay."