SHE | alex karev

chapter seventy one

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CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE
invest in love.
season six, episode eight.

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Billie arrived that morning at the hospital alongside Miles and Jackson, her and the latter both holding cups of coffee in their hands, slightly sleep-deprived after quite the eventful night they'd had last night. Miles didn't have to ask to know what had gone down, as he was close enough with Jackson to know exactly what that was. Although... well, he did find it slightly disturbing that both of them had now slept with Billie, even if she didn't seem to mind.

But it had accidentally become regular now, ever since the first time Billie and Jackson had found themselves naked in an empty on-call room. They met for drinks then ended up at his place or her place, and got very little sleep.

But also... Billie had found she quite liked Jackson.

Not only the sex, even though the sex was amazing, but also everything else. She liked talking to Jackson, as he was impressively pretty funny. She liked looking at him, looking at his eyes. Jackson even made breakfast for her. Maybe she was slowly starting to grow feelings for him, even though she was utterly scared to admit it.

On Jackson's side... he was a very different case.

Jackson had always liked Billie, ever since his first day at the hospital a few weeks ago. To him, she was beautiful, charming in her own way. She'd seen it and had sworn to himself that oh, he'd get that girl. Now... he had.

Jackson was not scared to admit he liked Billie. He thought they could work. True, they had known each other for very little, but they had spent every day together up to the date, and he was increasingly falling for her.

Miles, of course, knew that. Not only because Jackson had told him, but also because he could just tell. And he wasn't wrong to think that Billie probably liked him back.

The only problem was... well, Alex.

Speaking of which.

Billie was silent amidst Jackson and Miles' absentminded conversation. They stopped by the reception for a second and she sighted Alex close by, on the other side of the counter, alongside Webber. She couldn't help but overhear the conversation.

"Chief, you need me?" the resident asked.

"Uh..." the Chief sighed. "I wish I didn't have to saddle you with this, Karev, but..."

Promptly, he handed over to Alex a thick pile of charts. The resident took them with a frown.

"What is all this?"

"As Stevens left no forwarding address, and as you are officially her next of kin," he explained, "this is her unpaid balance of her medical bills."

Billie frowned. So did Alex.

"Unpaid balance? I don't get it. We work here at the hospital." He shook his head.

"And insurance doesn't take care of everything. I'm sorry, but Accounting's been pressing me since the merger and I can't ignore it any longer."

Then, he walked away. Alex looked down at the files, defeated, and Billie looked at him from afar with her teeth delved hard into her bottom lip.

Behind her, Jackson looked at her, then followed her eye line to find exactly who it was she gazed so longingly at. The answer made him sigh.