Sleepless

13x04

Ivy sits with Jackson in a conference room, "How is such a little being so exhausting? Aurora woke up five times last night."

Jackson sighs, "I know, I'm tired too. We'll find away to manage."

"I know we will, but she's waking the twins up now, too. They're exhausted before the day even starts," Ivy yawns, leaning back in her chair.

Ben jogs in, "Sorry I'm late. What do we have? Jackson? Uh...Ivy?"

He moves over, "Dr. Avery!"

They both shoot up, "I'll get her."

"Hey. Just, um, catching up," Jackson stutters out.

"Tough night with Aurora?" Ben asks them.

Ivy nods, "We should have named her after a villain instead of a princess."

Jackson yawns, "She got up like five times. Maybe six. Does it count if she wakes just as we're putting her back down?"

Ben looks between them, "We? What, both of you? No, you guys, you have to switch off, take turns."

"We are. But, Aurora cries so loudly, that it wakes the twins up. So we are taking turns of what children we are tending to," Ivy lays her head on the table before sitting back up, "Ow."

"What did you just do?"

"Squashed my incision. I'll be fine," she waves him off.

Jackson nods, "Look, our system isn't perfect but, um, I'm ready to work, you know? I'm just- we're just cranking away right here."

Ben snorts, "Yeah, um, well, tell you what. I'll take point on rounds by way of the coffee cart, and um...or not. Got a trauma on the helipad," he says as Ivy and Ben's pagers buzz.

"Owen will get this one. Go," Ivy shoos him off.

"Yeah, you're on your own," Ben pats Jacksons back, running out.

"I'll only be a few minutes," he trails off, laying his head down as Ivy leans back on the chair.

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Ivy yawns as she heads into an on-call room. She sees Edwards laying on the top bunk with April on the bottom. She lays next to April, who is saying, "You know that thing they say about how you're supposed to sleep when the baby sleeps?"

"Its total crap! Babies don't sleep," Ivy complains.

"I'd like to sleep."

"Yours doesn't either? Except when she does sleep, then I don't sleep. You know why?" April asks.

Edwards sasses, "Cause you keep talking to her."

April sighs, "Because I am a guest in Luke's house. And Kepners are perfect guests, and being a perfect guest...is a hard job."

Ivy falls asleep before anyone could say anything else.

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Down in the clinic, Ivy finds her sisters and Alex eating in a separate room. She lays on the bed behind Meredith, "Two hours. I've only gotten two hours-"

She's interrupted by Timir opening the door, "Really? This is not a cafeteria, Karev. We've got two cases of strep, your alcoholic. Your foot guy still needs his foot done."

"I paged surgery," he shouts.

"You're in a room full of surgeons."

Alex looks around, "One of you guys want to lance a patients foot abscess for me?"

Maggie shakes her head, "Residents job."

Amelia adds, "I'm eating."

Meredith shakes her head, "I would, but I don't want to."

Ivy sits up, "Hey, Timir. Lose your freakin attitude. You could be doing stuff to. Part of management is pitching in when needed and if you can't do that, I'll find someone who can. Don't forget who funds this clinic."

"Yeah, I'm gonna pay for that," Alex comments as Timir walks out before following him.

"Two freakin hours of sleep in 72 hours and now I'm dealing with jerks. I hate my life."

"Hey, how much did you know about Jackson before you married him?" Amelia asks.

"Amy, I was best friends with Jackson for five years before we even started dating. And I'm not getting into the middle of whatever is going on. I need sleep."

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Ivy lays on the couch, rocking Aurora. Jackson comes in, "Hey, she's sleeping."

Jackson whispers, "Okay," he lays behind her on the couch, wrapping an arm around her, "The twins?"

"Asleep. I got them to bed before getting her to sleep, hoping they'll be a little less cranky if they wake up," Ivy yawns, turning to snuggle into Jackson.

He kisses her, "Okay. Sounds like a plan. But we've got to figure out a way for all of us to get more sleep cause we can't be going into surgeries half asleep."

She nods, "I know, I know. We'll figure something out. For now, let's just sleep."

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Ivy argues with Alexus, "Allie, I know it's really cool in here, but outside and at daycare is going to be really warm. I need you to put the clothes on that mommy picked out for you."

"No!"

"Excuse me? Yes. Come on, it's the cute little dress that grandma got you. You love this dress," Ivy holds it up.

"I don't wanna!" Alexus shouts, "I wanna wear this!" She holds up the winter coat that Catherine bought her for the upcoming winter.

Ivy takes a breath, "Jackson, come talk to your daughter."

Jackson walks in, "Okay, Chris and Aurora are all set to go, just waiting on- why aren't you dressed, Allie?"

Alexus points at her mother, "Cause she wants me to wear dress but I want to wear ja-jacket from grandma!"

"Allie, it's too hot out for a jacket. You love the dress, so come on. Let's get dress and then go to daycare and play with some toys," Jackson takes the dress from Ivy.

"I'm gonna go get Aurora and Chris in the car, meet us out there when the princess is ready," she picks Aurora up and holds her hand out for Christopher to grab.

By the time Ivy has them situated in the car, Jackson has gotten Alexus dressed, shoes on, and in the car. Ivy shakes her head at him as he sits in the driver's seat, "What?"

"I spent 15 minutes arguing with her. It took you less than five."

"What can I say. I'm just amazing like that."

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Ivy and Jackson are able to drop the twins off at daycare with no problem but before they could drop Aurora off, Jackson got paged so Ivy rides the elevator by herself. As she gets off the elevator, she's greeted by Owen, "Hey, bring a daughter to work day?"