jackson avery x ellie sloan
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best friends to lovers

ELIZABETH SLOAN, BETTER KNOWN AS Ellie was the light of her big brother's life. Born to two parents who spent more time on vacation than with their children, Mark stepped up to raise his sister.

She watched as he went through medical school and residency, eventually opening his own practice in New York. It was evident that she would follow in his footsteps to become a surgeon—especially with their family friends being the Shepherds, a family full of doctors.

And she did.

Coming to Mercy West, she met her best friends who eventually became her family, including Jackson Avery, the man with green eyes who always seemed to understand her when nobody else did.

When their hospital merged with Seattle Grace, Ellie was reunited with her older brother for the first time since his affair broke up a marriage.

Little did Ellie Sloan know that Seattle Grace Mercy West would both ruin and better her life...

MELISSA BENOIST
as
ellie sloan

surgical resident • ortho & peds
( human sunshine )

❝He's more than just my older brother... he's
the man who raised me. Who held me while I was sick and cheered for me at everything. I'd be nothing without Mark.❞

JESSE WILLIAMS
as
jackson avery

surgical resident • plastics
( mr. green eyes )

❝Ellie is the type of person who... she lights
up any room she walks into. She always has a
smile on her face no matter how bad her day has been. She's literal sunshine.❞

SARAH DREW
as
april kepner

surgical resident • trauma
( the exasperated best friend )

❝Ellie never made me feel about myself. I got fired and she called me every day just to see how I was. She held me after I failed the boards. I'd be lost without her. She's not just my best friend, she's my sister.❞

ELLEN POMPEO
as
meredith grey

surgical resident • general
( the sort-of sister-in-law )

❝I can see why Derek loves you so much and
why he's so protective of you. You're his sister
as much as Amelia is.❞

SANDRA OH
as
cristina yang

surgical resident • cardio
( cardio goddess )

❝You know, when I first met you, I was a
little threatened. And not just because you were
from Mercy West, but because everybody liked you.❞

JUSTIN CHAMBERS
as
alex karev

surgical resident • peds
( the unlikely best friend )

❝I never thought I would call Elizabeth Sloan
my best friend and yet... here we are. And you're my best friend.❞

CHYLER LEIGH
as
lexie grey

surgical resident • neuro
( the should've been sister-in-law )

❝Please tell me you have embarrassing Mark
stories. because I want to hear them all... well,
maybe not all of them...❞

ERIC DANE
as
mark sloan

surgical attending • plastics
( mcsteamy )

❝I was fourteen years old and suddenly I had
a baby sister. But you made life better. You
always have, sunshine.❞

PATRICK DEMPSEY
as
derek shepherd

surgical attending • neuro
( mcdreamy )

❝Sofia may be Mark's first child, but you, Ellie,
made him a father.❞

[the rest of grey's anatomy as their respective characters]

disclaimer — I do not own Grey's Anatomy, its character or the plot lines. All rights go to Shonda Rhimes and ABC. I only own Ellie, her backstory, her storyline and her characterization. I also own any other OCs that I bring into the story.

notes — this is a repost. Unfortunately, my previous story of Sunshine got taken down and I wasn't able to get it back which broke my heart (since it had over 500K reads) as we had a little community over there. I hope you've all found this story again and that it will stay published.

Because I'm reposting, I may change a few things in the earlier chapters. Nothing major, but this'll give me an opportunity to flesh things out more than in the original.

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