April Kepner.

I'll never understand

I mean I get they have a lot of energy but I cringe everytime I hear them screeching. Can’t wait to have my own just to say the words “inside voice please”. It’ll bring me so much joy.

You’re going to be a great mom April. And your tiny humans will be saints. Much unlike these hellions that run around this place.

Wow, stop being cute and making me love you! Please tell me more about how lovely my children will be though. [sarcastically cups her ear leaning forward slightly]

It could be worse, they could be screaming in pain.

That is very true, thank god they aren't. A child's cry in result of pain is the worst, it makes your heart shatter into a million pieces. [sighs as she raised her coffee to her lips taking a sip.]

I mean I get they have a lot of energy but I cringe everytime I hear them screeching. Can't wait to have my own just to say the words "inside voice please". It'll bring me so much joy.

Boredom. Eternal boredom.

Looks like you’re too good of a doctor and teacher for your own good! …Actually that probably is a good thing. YOU’RE THE MALE KEPNER.

Oh how rude of me, yes! I'm April Kepner. [Extends her arm, holding out her hand to shake his.] Nice to meet you Clay, I've been meaning to say hello but I always get soaked up in my work!

Looks like you're too good of a doctor and teacher for your own good! ...Actually that probably is a good thing. YOU'RE THE MALE KEPNER.

HI! I'm April Kepner. You don't know me but I wanted to introduce myself, it sure is lovely to see another pretty face around here!

On call || Jackson and April.

Jackson raised his eyebrows as he looked across at April, and couldn’t help the smile that crept across his face.  The redhead was probably the most reliable and caring person he’d met, incredibly selfless, and that was one of the many things that Jackson admired about her.  She didn’t have to be there, but because she had the time she was willing to give it up.  Honestly, that was incredible, and Jackson was grateful.  Having her help meant a lot, since it would definitely shorten the work.  The patient finally calmed down - thankfully the medication had kicked in - because this was going to be an incredibly painful experience for him otherwise.  The glass, the burns, there was so much to do and so much cleaning up to do before he could even think about skin grafts or contacting Mark regarding helping out this patient.  “Thank you.”  He smiled an nodded her way.  “Yeah.  I would, so I’m thankful you’re volunteering to help.  Besides I trust you to do this smoothly.  Unlike the interns.”  He gave her a small grin.  He listened as she explained the patients history.  he was incredibly lucky that he’d gotten out of there - honestly his wounds were bad, but they weren’t unsalvageable.  They could be cleaned up and things could certainly get better.  “That’s incredible.”  He shook his head, his eyes widening.  Jackson grabbed the kit from the intern, and nodded, following April out.  “Whoa.  This guy, that’s so lucky, so so lucky.”

At the same time Jackson spoke April raised her brow. Her eyes shifted over towards him before she turned her head to look at him, a smile quickly composing her lips "He is". Somehow without even trying he always distracted her, and ofcourse she didn't know why or what it was. Sometimes she would catch herself but other times it took her longer than it should've. Clearing her throat her eyes pulled away from Jackson's and she handed the scans back to the intern, "put these with his chart, please?". She followed the intern out and to the nurses station proceeding to take everything out of her pockets and setting it behind the counter out of harm's way. Throwing her hair up into a bun she headed towards the sink to scub her hands. It always took April longer than it should for her to just wash her hands, especially since she always over thought every one of her patient's situations, coming up with every possible out-comes in her head. That was just how she was, with everything not just her work. It won't took her a couple minutes to scub her hands clean before rinsing them off quickly, she grabbed a disposable towel wiping them dry before throwing the towel away. Reaching above the sink she pulled a couple gloves out of the box putting them on her own hands before she made her way back to the patient. "What can I do?" She moved to the opposite side of the table as she looked up at Jackson waiting for him to tell her what he needed help with.

On call || Jackson and April.

Jackson was on call purely because Sloan had wanted a night off and had volunteered his protege for the task.  Thus far he’d been called to the ER mainly by interns who couldn’t seem to handle the simplest of stitches, and he was finding himself getting more and more frustrated by the second as he never seemed to be able to catch a break.  Jackson finished up the sutures on the woman in front of him, giving her the standard information - return in a couple of days to have the stitches removed, and he took the intern aside as he left the trauma bay.  “I’m going to sleep now, I’ve been on shift for 18 hours.  Only wake me if it’s an emergency - a genuine 911 emergency, not for sutures, you can handle sutures, okay?”  He raised his eyebrows and the intern acknowledged that they could in fact handle the stitches.  Jackson left the trauma bay, and immediately headed for the nearest on call room, where he collapsed onto the bed exhaustion over taking him.  He had no idea how long it was, but his pager was beeping incredibly loudly, a 911 page.  Jackson jumped up, and ran to the ER, speed was necessary with all 911 pages.  He found where the page had been coming from and was greeted by the sight and smell of burns all over the patient who didn’t seem to be calming down.  Jackson immediately placed on the gloves, and joined April beginning to inspect the wounds.  “Just breathe slowly, and calm down, this is going to be painful, but you can handle it.”  Jackson said to the guy on the table.  “What happened?”  He asked April, his eyes almost wide at what he was seeing.  Jackson caught a nurse, and immediately asked for a debridement kit.  “This is going to be a very, very long and painful night for him.”  Jackson murmured to April.  “Might be difficult to watch.”

Feeling a hand wrap around her forearm April looked down at the sight of the mans slightly burnt flesh. She could feel the glass that stuck out of his skin on her own arm making her move her it not watching to damage any nerves.  It only took a moment for her to  grab ahold of his hand lightly as her eyes glanced over towards the patient, stunned that he was actually calming down. April shook her head towards Jackson hearing his words, "It's okay, I don't have anywhere else to be" her eyes shifted up to Jackson's with a reassuring look on her face. "I can help..." She added while she felt the patient's hand go limp, a sign that the medication was finally kicking him making him fall unconscious. "There is so much glass, you'd be here all night" Her voice was hushed, knowing that there were patient's all around them that were sleeping... or atleast trying to.  She felt for her patient, she really did but she also knew it could be alot worse. And it very well could be all after the fact he wouldn't calm down until the medication finally kicked in. "Accident.. he flipped his car. People were saying they got him out, and managed to put the flames out seconds before it was going to blow. I don't know how true it is, but..." She finally answered his question seems so the patient had fallen unconscious. Her eyes were quickly pulled away from Jackson's as she felt the woosh of wind from the intern rushing back with the debridement kit, along with everything that was needed to flush the wounds. Another intern came to her side putting the scans they had ran on the patient before April even got to the hospital. "Maybe we should move him to a more private area.." She glanced up at Jackson before removing her hands from the patient and slipping out of the curtain ripping her gloves off her hands all at the same time. Taking the scans from the interns hands she held them up to the light staring at them in shock, "Okay, thank you.. good job." her head bobbed towards the intern before she pushed back through the curtains. "All he has are two broken ribs, and a broken ankle" She held the scans back up to the lights shaking her head in disbelief, "Lucky, orrr lucky?" her hand flashed the scans towards Jackson so he could see without taking his gloves off.

Using that Avery sparkle to my advantage today.

April Kepner calm or normal calm?

I wasn't aware there was an "April Kepner calm" ... but yeah. Yeah that's probably it.

Using that Avery sparkle to my advantage today.

Using that Avery sparkle to my advantage today.

It's only 9am,