Chapter 20

"I can't believe you are due next week, it went by so fast. I don't know if I'm ready." Jackson said with a pout on his lips but quickly chuckling as April rolled her eyes.

"Fast? Maybe for you papa, but I am so ready." She grabbed her belly that had now turned into the biggest basketball twice the size as last time, although they never reached this stage of the pregnancy; she had literally started to waddle, she never thought she would be one of those moms that looked like a penguin when they walked but it had happened to her.

It had been a few months that had passed and she had still not completely forgiven Max fully, to be fair it was also easy since she was on maternity leave and had been since a month ago, it made it easier for her to not have to see him or think about that right now. She knew eventually she would forgive him, and everything would go back to normal, but right now she was just enjoying her last week of being pregnant and what the next stage held for her.

Jackson had been staying with her for the remainder of the pregnancy, and they had become closer although they still didn't mention or talk about getting back together, or what their relationship meant, hell they hadn't even talked about a name for the baby. They were enjoying too much this bliss they had created that didn't involve arguing nor lying to not hurt the other; although there was that one time she did ask Jackson if she looked puffy and he had said no, and made a face.

She plopped herself down next to him and sighed, putting her feet up with the help of Jackson who grabbed her feet and pulled them towards him as he started massaging her without asking. She gave him a quick smile as a thank you and placed her head back staring up at the ceiling but quickly closing her eyes as she felt her body soften from his touch and how comfy she felt.

"I hate to get into this right now…."

April groaned because she knew he was going to mention and ask about a name that was on his mind a lot lately but she wasn't even sure what to name him. It had been difficult as it was with Samuel, now even more so.

"I don't want to." She said in a teasing manner but opened her eyes to look at him as he was still massaging her feet; he gave her a half-smile. "Okay fine, but it can't be anything cheesy and no last names as first names either."

Jackson chuckled as they had had this conversation once before, he put his fingers up "Scouts honor."

"Emerson." Jackson said after a long pause, and April furrowed her brow and said 'Emerson' in her mouth without sound, then saying it out loud "Emerson….I don't like it." April said shaking her head, I don't feel a connection to it."

Jackson nodded "Mm how about Elliot?"

"Why all of a sudden E names?"

"I don't know, I just had a thought and it all of a sudden came to me….ooh how about Finn, like Huckleberry Finn, I loved that story."

April scoffed "That was the weirdest story, a hard pass."

Jackson laughed "Okay, how about you say some then if I'm so bad at this."

April shook her head "I don't want to right now."

Jackson moved her feet playfully, but April pulled them away from him and had a serious face, the mood quickly changing to a more serious one.

"Whoa, what just happened?" Jackson said sitting up straight and staring at a very upset April.

She shrugged "Nothing, I just don't feel like talking about this right now."

"When should we then April? This baby is due in a few days, and we haven't even discussed names or even the living situation or the parenting situation."

"I thought that it was going great for that reason…can't we just leave it as is just for a little while longer."

"April, the longer we avoid this, the longer it is that we won't have the time to do so. The baby will be here and that alone is time consuming."

"I don't want to talk about this anymore, why can't you just leave it alone?"

Jackson stared in confusion as April tried but failed to get up from the couch, he grabbed her lower back to assist but April's hands found his and hit him to stop. "I'm fine."

Jackson groaned and scoffed, getting up and walking away, April groaned back and gave up trying to get up; falling back into the position she was just in.

Why did she just do that? She knew why she was pushing him away like that and she hated herself for it, they had been doing so great these last few months and now that it was getting so close it started to get more real and that terrified her, especially when Jackson wanted to make it real and discuss what she knew they were eventually going to have to.

After what felt like 30 minutes, she rolled her eyes at herself and shook her head "Jackson!" She called out, having a sad Jackson pop out from the corner to stare at her with an annoyed expression, but still one of concern.

"Can you please help me?"

"If you admit that you were being a bit moody and that we should discuss these things?"

April scoffed "Come on Jackson, I have to pee, do you want this new couch to be stained because at this point I don't mind peeing here."

Jackson laughed, shaking his head as he walked over to her and helped her up.

She waddled her way to the bathroom, and quickly after grabbed a small white towel and found Jackson. She put it up and heard a laugh from the other room. "Is that your way of saying 'truce'?"

April poked her head around and nodded "I'm sorry Jackson; we can try and come up with a name, I just…." She opened her mouth but nothing came out.

Jackson looked down at her pants that were completely soaked "Ummm." Jackson gulped, and felt his cheeks flush with excitement but fear that immediately settled in. This was it.

April just started laughing but stopped shortly as she felt her chest start to close in on her. "I can't breathe…I-Jackson-I…."

"April…" He ran up to her and caught her before she fell and possibly hurting herself. "April!"

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Jackson couldn't stop the tears "What is going on Arizona? She was fine, you said she was fine! She was fine…she was fine." He kept repeating that not even allowing Arizona or Karev to speak.

"Jackson, please just wait in the waiting room, I will call you when we know more, but right now I need you to let me do my job and you need to do yours which is being patient. I don't know what happened or why her body went into shock" She shook her head when he opened his mouth "nor do I know why her body is reacting this way, her water did break and we are going to do everything to save both of them, but I need you to be a patient not a doctor, okay?" She snapped her fingers in front of his eyes as he stared at her in shock "Hey! Did you hear me? You need to do this for you, April, but most importantly that baby; what is his name?"

Jackson's eyes went wide. "Oh my god, we were in the middle of that and never picked a name, what if we don't get to do that?"

"Okay, hey, Jackson, listen to me you will get a chance to see April soon and name that baby, but until then please stay calm, okay?"

Karev gave Jackson a pat on the back "It's going to be okay, we've got everyone working on her man, she's well taken care of."

Jackson shook his head and started to pace "Please save her….please."

Arizona nodded and pointed in the direction of the waiting room. "Go, I'll get you when it's time."

He walked away and Arizona stared back at Karev. "Is that true?"

"What?" Arizona countered raising her brow.

"That it's going to be okay?"

Arizona pursed her lips "God I hope so, her levels were off the chart, she was fine a few days ago when I saw her last. What the hell happened? Can you go rush those blood tests and lab please?" Karev nodded at her request and left.

"April, honey, can you hear me?" Arizona said as she saw that April's eyes were opened but she wasn't responding.

"Put the baby's heart on the monitor right away." Within seconds the heartbeat was echoing the whole room, which made Arizona smile "Oh thank god, it's strong and steady. Now let's work on getting mama up and responsive."

Arizona jumped a little at the touch she had on her arm, and noticed it was April; she turned her face to look at Arizona the scared expression made Arizona want to hold April and tell her it was okay.

"Can you hear me honey?"

April nodded very lightly and closed her eyes tight. "Okay, now I need you to tell me if you can feel this."

April opened her eyes and nodded at the light touch from the pen on her foot. "Okay, can you breathe okay?"

April opened her eyes. Arizona sighed when she saw her levels. "Are you in pain besides contractions?"

April shook her head and opened her mouth to exhale, but no words came out. "Honey, I'm going to run some tests, but it seems like you just had a bit of anxiety and passed out, was something stressing you out before you came here?"

"Can you call Jackson for me?"

"Sure, I'm going to start you and put you in a room to get ready for that baby to come out."

"I want his name to be Harper…" April trailed off but closed her eyes, and the monitor started beeping.

"What?" Arizona rushed over "April? April?" Arizona started to feel anxiety herself now what was going on. "She's going into shock, we need to get this baby out now, page Karev back here now!"

TBC….

A/N: Okay I want to start off by saying I'm so incredibly sorry it's been sooooo long since I've updated last, I feel so terrible for that especially with how many people have enjoyed this story, I have had a crazy last couple of months and a lot has changed for me. I want to also say that I'm super upset with Japril this season because apart from Japril the sequel we haven't really had much of an interaction and it seems like even with next weeks finale it doesn't look we are going to get much either….so you can also see my lack of motivation as well of writing Japril. I also want to say this chapter is short but you'll get a longer one soon because I'm currently working on it and I love how it's going so far, so it'll be a lot longer than this one. Okay enough of my rant, thank you so much for sticking with this and loving it still so much, I hope you enjoyed!