Little things

Chapter one

It was already six months since they were dating. It was an on and off relationship. They could argue about little things and little things could bring them back together. In one word they loved each other, but didn`t know how to make their relationship work properly.

It was one of those days when they were not talking to each other, because Owen forgot to buy a light bulb on his way to Meredith`s house the night before. That day he came home tired after a hard working day filled with a lot of traumas, greeted everyone, kissed Amelia on the cheek and joined now their big family for dinner. They chatted, kids told them about their day, they were really enjoying each others company and they all seemed very happy. After dinner Meredith and Maggie put kids to bed and came down to the front room where Owen and Amelia were watching TV after cleaning up the kitchen. The adults spent some more time chatting, catching up on hospital gossips and sharing interesting stories about their most difficult and breathtaking surgeries. After an hour or so they decided to go to sleep as well, because they all had an early morning shift the next day. Owen and Amelia said their good nights to Maggie and Meredith and headed to Amelia`s room. When they were almost near the room Amelia remembered that the light bulb was not working.

"Did you buy a light bulb?" Amelia asked turning to face Owen who was walking behind her.

"Oh, uhmm. No, I forgot." Owen said sheepishly.

"What?! You forgot?!" Amelia said irritated.

"Relax, I can buy it tomorrow, today we can enjoy each others company in the dark." Owen said suggestively.

"No!" Amelia said louder than she intended to.

"No?"

"I said no! I can`t anymore, you always forget what I ask you to do." Amelia was angry now.

"What do you mean by that?" Owen was completely confused.

"You forget your socks on the floor, you forget to put your boxers into washing basket, you forget everything." Amelia was almost shouting.

Owen froze in his place not knowing what to say or do, he didn`t expect forgetting to buy a light bulb to turn this way. It seemed like Amelia waited for a moment to burst all her anger on him. He tried to say something but was cut off by Amelia.

"Enough. I think you should spend the night in your trailer."

Without even waiting for Owen to say something she went into her room and slammed the door into his face. Owen stood there stunned, then tried to convince Amelia to let him in, but it was like talking to a wall, there were no answers from the other side of the door. Finally giving up Owen went back to his trailer. It was a cold day, rain was pouring and it was very windy. Owen could feel cold going down his spine, he was shivering. He made it to his trailer and went straight to bed, tucked up into the covers and tried to understand why Amelia reacted that way. Meanwhile, Amelia was sitting in her dark room and thinking that Owen should apologize for all the things that he forgets to do. At first she was cleaning after him, but enough is enough, he is a grown up and needs to be more responsible. Amelia was brought back to reality from her thoughts when her phone rang. It was a message from Owen.

"I`m freezing, can you ome over and hug me?"

"Seriously?" Amelia thought. "I`m talking about responsibilities and all he can think about are hugs?"

Amelia turned her phone off and tried to sleep.

The next morning per usual Meredith and Maggie were waiting in the car for the couple to arrive. Whenever Owen would stay the night over he would join the ladies for the ride to the hospital in the morning.

"Where is Owen? We are running late." Meredith asked when Amelia got into the car, as always she was the last one to arrive.

"He is not here. We can go." Amelia simply answered.

"Well I can see he is not here. Why is he not here?"

"He didn`t stay last night."

"Why? You went to your room together last night…"

"I heard voices last night. Did you have a fight?" Maggie interrupted Meredith.

Now both women had turn their heads to look at Amelia who was sitting at the back of the car. Amelia ignored them and just said:

"Aren`t we late?"

Meredith and Maggie looked at each other and understood that Amelia was not in a mood to talk about Owen, so they decided to respect that fact. They turned over, Meredith started the car. The ride to the hospital was silent, no one said another word.

When they arrived to the hospital everyone went to check up on their patients, they decided to meet later for a lunch in cafeteria.

During the day Amelia was so busy with her cases that she didn`t remember about Owen and she didn`t even notice that he was not around. By the time she finished her paperwork it was already lunch time, so she went straight to cafeteria, where Maggie, Alex and Torres were already having lunch. It was a kind of a tradition for all the surgeons to have lunch together and chat about random things. Amelia ordered salad and an apple juice and joined her friends. Torres was telling about a boy who broke his leg in two places while climbing a rock. Everyone`s attention was on Torres. Later Meredith, Arizona and Kepner joined them. Everyone was sharing little stories about their day, when Kepner turned to Amelia:

"By the way where is Hunt?" Now everyone were looking at Amelia. "Haven`t seen him all day. He hasn`t shown up to work yet."

"I don`t know." Amelia shrugged but also got a bit worried it was not like Owen not to show up to work.

"I`ve tried to call him several times but he didn`t pick up his phone."

"Maybe his phone is out of charge." Arizona tried to ease the situation. But everyone seemed worried about their friend. No matter what Owen Hunt was always at work, so it was worrying that he hasn`t shown up yet and that no one has heard from him.

"Maybe…" Amelia said.

Suddenly everyone`s pagers went off. It was a 911. There was a huge car crash not far from the hospital and all the victims were being brought to the hospital.

"Damn it." Kepner said. "Hunt is nowhere seen and there are a lot of people coming in. It`s gonna be a messy ER." She ran away. Every other doctor followed her.

Amelia`s heart skipped a bit. What if Owen was one of the victims. She tried to push bad thoughts out of her mind and followed her friends.

Second chapter is coming your way very soon guys. Hope you liked the first one))