Chapter 54

"You two are like one drink away from crazy monkey sex. Just stuff her turkey, you'll feel better." Cristina says to Alex.

"Alex it's obvious you like Jo and you two are both adults, if you want to have sex just do it." I say as I eat a bag of chips. We were all sitting in the lounge talking about Jo and Alex and trying to figure out what exactly was going on with them.

"Look I don't screw interns. I'm a responsible home owning adult now." Alex says.

"Sure." I frown before leaving to meet Shane. We check in on my patients before I leave to meet Jackson in the hallway.

"You've got this in the bag baby." I smile as Jackson and I walk through the hallway. The hospital is trying to pick a face to be a brand ambassador for the hospital and right now I think it's between Alex and Jackson. "Now Alex is a scrapper and a fighter, some people find that charming, but you're an Avery. Use it, own it, impress them. They want to be impressed." I say and he nods his hand confidently as we stop at the front desk.

"Everytime I touch this thing it deletes another patient." Meredith grumbles as she taps frustratedly on the iPad we now have to use to keep track of updates on our patients.

"It deletes a patient." Cristina says.

"I did the exact same thing this morning. Here let me see." Jo says grabbing the iPad.

"Who are your stalkers?" Meredith asks looking at the publicist who are following Jackson and Alex around taking photos.

"Oh, Uh the new guys are looking for a hospital show pony, a face for the brochure." Alex says.

"Yeah, Karev's my competition." Jackson says.

"If you can call it that." I smirk.

"You can't." Jackson smiles.

"Bite me pretty boy." Alex frowns.

"And why are there no women in the running?" Meredith asks.

"Oh, there was. Liliana and I turned them down." Cristina says and I nod my head in agreement.

"This face only goes on the Nobel brochures." I say making Meredith laugh.

"And here we have a fully centralized electronic records system. Everything you need to know about any client at anytime. Smart, streamlined, efficient." Alana says as she leads a group of possible buyers to the front desk. She's not only closing down the ER, but planning to sell the hospital also, which is why they're looking for a face of the hospital.

"Oh, efficient. It would be more efficient if it didn't keep deleting my patients." Meredith says as she fake smiles

"Sing it Grey." We here Callie say from the boardroom, making us laugh before we all go our separate ways. Shane and I prep one of my patients for surgery before taking him to the OR to operate.

"Hey, where have you been? I've been looking for you." Jackson says walking up to me after I take my patient to recovery.

"I was in surgery. Why, is something wrong?" I frown.

"Follow me." He says taking my hand and leading me through the hallway.

"April was out in the field and there was a kid involved in a hit and run and the other hospital is to far out to take him to, so they're bringing him here." He explains.

"Our ER isn't even open." I frown.

"It is today. We just have to make sure Hunt doesn't find out." He says opening the ER door and pushing a gurney in.

"Wow they really cleared this place out." I say looking around the empty ER that's been under construction.

"Where do we start?" Jo asks as she follows behind us.

"You can start by guarding the door." I say.

"Yeah, no one can know about this." Jackson says.

"No one comes in you understand?" I say sternly.

"Mm-hmm." She nods before running outside to guard the door as Jackson and I start moving things around the messy ER to get it ready for the patient.

"Medusa me all you want. You're not getting in." We hear Jo saying.

"I'll handle it." I tell Jackson walking to the door and cracking it open.

"Jo, its okay. Jackson and I paged her."

"I hope you understand. I would never ordinarily speak to you that way and I look forward to working on your service again soon." Jo apologizes.

"How can I help?" Meredith asks turning her attention to me before I lead her inside and explain what's going on, then we all go our separate ways to gather the materials we'll need.

"I have a monitor." Jackson says as he turns the machine on once we meet back up.

"I have a ventilator and central line kits." I say.

"I have saline infusion pumps, a crash cart, and Cristina." Meredith says walking in with Cristina, Shane, and Brooks following behind her.

"I'm sorry they overpowered me." Jo says.

"The fewer people that know about this, the better." I say to all of them as we continue to get the ER prepped.

"I brought lackeys." Cristina says pointing at her interns.

"I can see that." I sigh.

"We don't need interns." Jackson frowns.

"No, this room has three internal exits. You have a lookout on one. Happy, ponytail, you man the doors. Mousey, um be the nurse, we need gloves." Cristina says causing the interns to scramble away and do what she asked.

"We are gonna need lights." Meredith says.

"No. If I turn on more overheads, you can see it from the hallway." Jackson says as his phone begins to ring and he answers it.

"Hello...yep...okay." He says before hanging up. "Alright they're pulling up now. Let's go." Jackson says before we all run to the emergency doors.

"Oh jeez." I sigh as Brooks runs into the doors, forgetting there not programmed to open automatically anymore.

"I'm okay." She says standing up.

"That's why we needed interns." Meredith say.

"The door won't open." Jackson mumbles as we all run to the door.

"April, what's going on?" He asks as April makes it to the door as we continue to try to pry it open.

"I don't know, Jackson. Jackson." She says frantically as she realizes the doors won't open. Eventually we get it pried open and rush the patient inside.

"We could only get a 20 and a 22 gauge in the field." Nicole, one of the paramedics says as we begin to work on the patient.

"I'll start a central line. I need some lactated ringers." April says.

"On it." Matthew, the other paramedic says.

"I got it. I can see the cords. Paralytics are working. Alright Uh, I need an E.T. tube." Alex who had recently joined us says. "Orange drawer, orange drawer." Alex says to Brooks as she looks for the E.T. tubes.