Between Heartbeats🫀Jackson Avery x OC

When tragedy shakes Seattle Grace, Adriana Vega vows to become the kind of surgeon who never hesitates - who saves lives no matter the cost. But her world is upended when Mercy West merges with Seattle Grace, flooding the halls with new rivals and new threats to her place in the program.

Among them is Jackson Avery - confident, brilliant, and infuriatingly composed. From the moment their eyes meet across the chaos of the merger, Adriana knows he's more than just competition. He's a distraction she can't afford, and yet... one she can't ignore.

As tensions rise, surgeries become battlefields, and every mistake could be the one that ends her career. But between the pressure of proving herself and the pull of a rivalry that feels dangerously close to something else, Adriana begins to realize that survival isn't just about what happens in the OR.

Sometimes the hardest fight is the one between heartbeats.