"Are we seriously not going to talk about this?" Stephanie asked following behind April

"There's nothing to talk about Steph"

"Your Ex-husband is back in town and you're bothered by that. You think that's not anything to talk about?"

The two had just come from checking on one of their patients and were off to do so again.

"I think we should talk about this" Stephanie said

"And I think we should drop this" April said back

Stephanie was about to argue when April's pager went off. She checked it and informed her resident that they had an incoming trauma. Leaving their next patient check up for another time, the two hurried to the E.R then into the entrance to wait for the ambulance. As the two fastened the strings of their yellow gowns, someone appeared next to them doing the same. April looked to her side and instantly grew rigid at the sight of her ex-husband.

"Jackson" she blurted out

Hearing the name, Stephanie quickly turned and looked at the man standing next to her mentor. "So this is Jackson" she thought to herself.

Jackson looked down at her "Hey"

"You got paged too?" she asked recovering from her frozen state

"Yeah" he answered "I believe it's a burn victim"

The ambulance then pulled in and the three doctors ran to it. The door opened and indeed they were greeted with a burn victim. As the paramedic explained the happenings and stats, the young man with his burned leg was rolled into a trauma room. Assessments were done and Jackson quickly realized that he needed a Neuro consult. He asked a nurse to page them, causing Stephanie and April to share a look, the latter hoping it wasn't her fiance.

"You paged?" a voice said

Everyone looked up and saw Greyson standing there. "Crap" April thought.

"Neuro?" Jackson asked

"Yeah" Greyson answered

April and her resident watched as Jackson explained his theory on possible nerve damage. They were getting along, no awkward tension...then again, neither knew who the other was. After the conversation, the interns were instructed to move the patient to the burn unit to be cleaned up.

"Are you knew here?" Greyson asked Jackson once the patient was gone "I haven't seen you around before"

"Yeah I started yesterday. Jackson Avery" he extended his hand

"Avery?"

Stephanie nudged April.

"I guess I should introduce you guys" April said after throwing an annoyed look at Stephanie "Greyson, this is my ex-husband Jackson. Jackson, this is my fiance Greyson"

April waited for the tension, but there was none. Greyson took Jackson's hand with a smile, giving a firm handshake.

"It's nice to finally meet you Dr. Avery" he said "I've heard a lot about you"

"Same here" the plastic surgeon smiled "Like how much my kids hate you" he kept that part to himself

"Well, I have to get back to work, so see you around" Greyson said getting a nod from Jackson

He sent a smile to April before hurrying off to his next destination.

After informing them that he would be in the burn unit with the patient, Jackson left as well.

"Well that went better than I expected" Stephanie said

"Indeed" April said

Then again, it's not like they expected them to brawl out right in the middle of the E.R.

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Jackson walked down the hallway, his twins following behind him. They didn't get to see him since he arrived in Seattle, and they decided to "bend" their mothers rule and stop by the hospital before going home.

"You lied to your mother" Jackson said

The twins groaned, not in the mood for another lecture from him too.

"We didn't lie, we just omitted" Jordan defended

"Well...you lied to me"

Jordan was about to defend herself again but stopped, she really did lie to her father.

"Sorry" she apologized

"Why would you do that? Not tell her then lie to me about it?"

"Well..." Aiden began, hoping a lie would come to him, but his sister beat him to it

"She's been so stressed out about this wedding, I didn't want to stress her out more" she said

Aiden looked at his sister in amazement. Why was she so good at lying? Did she ever lie to him like that?

"Why would knowing about me stress her out?" Jackson asked

"Divorced people reasons" Aiden answered

"So why lie to me?"

"You would have told her, thus defeating the purpose of not telling her" Jordan answered

Jackson shook his head, he had a feeling there was more than he was telling him. He decided to brush it off for now and change the subject.

"Guess who I met today?"

"Who?" they asked in unison, it was still cute when they did that

"Greyson"

Jackson smiled at the groans he heard behind him. He stopped walking when they got to the nurse's station and turned to look and them.

"What is your problem with the guy? He seemed really nice"

"That's just a front" Jordan said "He's so annoying"

"And suspicious" Aiden added

"What about him is suspicious?" Jackson asked

"We know nothing about where he worked before" Aiden answered

"Or why he left" his sister added "Plus he gives off a bad vibes" Aiden nodded in agreement

Jackson was about to give them another head shake when a voice stopped him.

"Dr. Avery, here's the test results you wanted" Stephanie said when she appeared next to him

"Thank you Dr. Edwards" Jackson said getting a nod in return

"Hey Steph" Aiden said with a grin

"Aiden" she said in her usual dry tone, before sharing a look with Jordan "Ian is still doing ok, I'll page you if anything comes up"

"Thank you"Jackson replied before Stephanie walked off

Aiden stared at her as she walked away, and Jackson looked confusingly at his son.

"You're pathetic" Jordan rolled her eyes

"Am not" he retorted

"Wait..." their father said realizing something "...is that the Stephanie you keep going on and on about?"

"That's the one" Aiden answered proudly

He had heard his son talking non stop about the resident, but he had thought it was some girl from his school.

"Aiden she's a grown woman"

"I can handle a grown woman"

"Look..."

Jordan quickly cut her father off "There's no use dad, his dumb ass won't get it. Trust me, I've been trying"

Jackson looked at his "love" struck son, he needed to have a little talk with him. Then again, this was Aiden, and he probably found flirting with a grown woman fun and wouldn't listen. Either way, there still needed to be a talk.

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Jordan had once again decided to invade her brother's personal space, and was sitting at his desk in his room while he was sitting up on his bed.

"Nothing's happening between mom and dad" she said

"You woke me up for this?" Aiden said groggy*

"It's a problem Aid" she stressed "All they do is have awkward conversations that only last a minute...at most"

The teen girl was right. For the past week, whenever they were around their parents, there was always an awkward conversation. Jordan figured it had to be worse when they weren't around.

"We need a plan to fix this" she said

"What do you have in mind?" Aiden asked

"I was hoping you had an idea"

"Well, I don't"

There was a few seconds of silence before Jordan finally spoke.

" Maybe if we get them alone, away from us and the hospital, things will flow between them easier"

"Maybe" Aiden shrugged, just wanting the conversation to be over with so he could go back to sleep

"But how do we get them alone?"

"How about we go to sleep and maybe the idea will come to us in a dream" Aiden joked

"Aiden!" Jordan said annoyed

"I want to sleep!"

"Fine, we'll talk about it tomorrow"

With that, Jordan glared at her brother before exiting his room.

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"Please mom?" Jordan begged as they sat at the table eating dinner

"Jordan we have plans tomorrow" April answered "There's church in the morning and then we meet up with Greyson and his parents"

Aiden rolled his eyes, he was not in the mood, now or ever, to be around those people.

"But mom, we barely get time to hang out with dad" Jordan reasoned

The twins had been wanting to hang out more with their father. That Sunday was his day off, and they wanted to spend the day with him.

"You're not missing church" she said

"God will understand" Aiden reasoned

His mother gave him a stern look.

" Ok, we'll go to church, but can we go to dad's after?" Aiden compromised

"What about our plans with Greyson and his parents?" his mother asked

Aiden was tempted to say " Nobody cares about them", but knew better and kept his mouth shut.

"But moooom" Jordan whined

"We made a promise Jordan" April said

"Actually, you did" her daughter corrected

"When dad was in Boston we barely got to see him. Now he's here in Seattle and it's almost the same. Do you know how much that sucks?" Aiden asked, putting on his best pout

That got his mother, he could tell by the guilty look that came on her face.

"Fine" she finally agreed "You can go hang out with your dad. But you're still going to church"

"Deal" both teens said with a smile

April continued thinking about what her son said. Jackson was in Seattle now, and things had to change.

"Jackson and I should really change around this whole custody and visitation thing"

The few weeks in summer and the alternate Christmases in Boston wouldn't work anymore. They had to come up with a new, more suitable agreement.

"Yeah you should" Jordan agreed with her mother

"Hopefully we find the time to do it, we're both so very busy"

Thinking of her conversation with her brother the night before, Jordan thought of an idea.

"Hey, how about you invite dad over for dinner? Then you guys can talk about this stuff while he's here"

"I don't know Jordan" April said, assuming her daughter wanted to use the reason to hang out with her dad more

"Come on mom, it would be fun" Jordan said

"Plus you know he's probably starving...or eating junk food all the time" Aiden added

"Your father can cook a decent meal for himself"

"Spaghetti and sauce isn't a decent meal mom" Aiden said

"Well to him it is" April argued, sure of it

"Come on mom" Jordan tried again "Imagine dad sitting, eating his spaghetti, all by himself...alone...with no one there...alone..."

"Ok fine, we'll invite him to dinner" April gave up

The twins grinned, they had managed to get their way, twice in a row. They were improving.

"We'll tell him about it tomorrow" Jordan continued to grin

She was especially excited, her plan was working.

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Chapter 4 everyone! Hope you guys like. Please be sure to vote,  leave a comment and or suggestion. 

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