Addison, Derek, Charlie and Nathanial all sat patiently in the waiting room for the paediatrician's, the kids were having their physicals and Charlie needed her shots. As they were called into the doctor's office Charlie amused herself with the various toys situated in the corner while Nathanial had his routine physical. Derek sat with Charlie while Addison spoke to the doctor, next up was Charlie and she was going to be more of a handful. Nathanial was given a lollypop in reward for his good behaviour and he sat obediently on a chair as Charlie was lifted onto the exam table.
Minutes later her shrill cry filled the room and Addison and Derek were instantly rubbing small circles on her back, Nathanial hated to see his baby sister cry so he jumped down from his seat and began making farting sounds with his hands. Addison looked at her son in disbelief but Charlie soon stopped crying and began to giggle, while Addison didn't approve of her sons behaviour she was glad that he had managed to get his sister to stop crying. Derek just chuckled and handed his daughter a lollypop which she soon found great interest in. The doctor gave both the children a clear bill of health and wished them luck; the family exited the paediatrician's office and were greeted by Bailey. "Well hello Nathanial and Charlie"
"No one ever greets us first these days, everyone loves our kids more than us" Derek said as Nathanial and Charlie both waved at Bailey.
"Well you're kids are far cuter than you" Bailey said smugly and Addison just laughed, Derek pretended to be hurt but their conversation was interrupted by the familiar sound of both Derek and Addison's pagers going off.
"It's an emergency, Miranda can you take the kids til we get back" Bailey nodded and watched as both Derek and Addison ran off. Nathanial took his sister's hand and they followed Bailey on what seemed like an adventure.
After a stop in with two of Bailey's patients she had rounded her group of suck ups at a nurse's station and was ready to assign them to further tasks. William, Miranda's six year old son seemed excited to see Nathanial, whenever those two boys go together they were inseparable and always caused a lot of trouble. "Alright my suck ups, we have two new additions to the crew, Nathanial and Charlie Shepherd will be under our watch this afternoon. Karev and O'Malley you have Nathanial and William down in the pit with you, Yang you get the pleasure of looking after Charlie"
Cristina went to open her mouth but Bailey gave her a daring look and she immediately stood down. Alex rolled his eyes and looked at Nathanial who was walking over to them, he remembered having to look after him once when he was three, he was a handful then and he hoped he was better behaved now. Charlie skipped over to Cristina's side and Meredith and Izzie just laughed at her. Cristina glared at her before they group disbanded and went their separate ways.
Down in the pit O'Malley and Karev were busy with sutures and on top of that they had to make sure William and Nathanial didn't mess around, which was proving to be quite challenging. Nathanial and William had managed to find some fun 'toys', nothing dangerous but certainly messy. William had found a roll of bandages, needless to say they soon figured out a good way to use the bandages. Nathanial unravelled them and began wrapping them around William; William did the same with another roll of bandages. By this stage both boys were now covered in bandages, resembling mummies. Alex and George had yet to notice what the boys had done.
They remained quiet and soon stumbled across some gauze which they were sticking on each other; both boys had a brain wave and knew exactly what to do next. The boys snuck up behind Alex and quickly slapped gauze on his back; the doctor turned around and looked down at the boys, with a far from impressed expression. The boys noticed the expression and looked at each other with a scared look before dashing in opposite directions, bandages flailing behind them. "O'Malley you go that way" Alex ordered and both the surgeons abandoned their patients to retrieve the boys.
Nathanial and William had met up and found a good hiding spot; they kept a look out for Alex and George and would every now and then cover their mouths to stifle laughter. "We got em good" William exclaimed, his head pivoting in all directions looking for any signs of the surgeons. Nathanial nodded fervently, they had removed the bandages and thrown them into an empty room on their escape and now were huddled under an empty gurney. "What are you two doing under here?" The boys took a deep breath but soon relaxed when they noticed who it was.
Preston Burke was kneeling in front of the two boys, looking at them with a bemused look on his face. He adjusted his glasses and extended his hands for the boys to help them out from under the gurney. "We're hiding" Nathanial said brushing off his shorts, William smiled at Burke, who he knew to be a close family friend and was not scared of him.
"Who are you hiding from Nate?" Burke was well acquainted with both the boys and had met them on several occasions. Mostly at family barbeques at the Shepherd residence and he knew that when these boys were left alone together they could wreak havoc.
"Dr O'Malley and Dr Karev" William gasped and rushed behind Burke's back when he saw Alex and George running down the halls, they soon slowed to a stop when they noticed that the boys were with Burke.
"O'Malley, Karev, how nice of you to join us. Now may I ask why is it that you let these two boys run off?"
"We were in the pit, doing sutures and they got into medical supplies and were running around"
"How hard is it to keep two boys aged 5 and 6 in check? Seriously you are surgeons they shouldn't be that hard to handle. Keep a better eye on them otherwise I'll have to tell Addison and Bailey that you let their sons alone in the presence of dangerous medical equipment"
"Yes sir" O'Malley said, Karev nodded and glared at the two boys who had stopped hiding behind Burke's back. Burke ushered the boys over to Alex and George and the four of them soon went walking back to the pit.
Meanwhile Cristina was having trouble controlling Charlie, who was on a sugar high after that lollypop. The three year old had been bouncing around and Cristina was unable to keep up with her energy, and now Charlie was begging the intern, who didn't look after kids for a piggy back ride. "No, I said no Charlie" The three year old fell to the floor and began pouting, if Nathanial was here he would have given her a piggy back ride, or Derek would have but she had been left with the one doctor who wasn't child literate.
Cristina didn't want the child to cry and so far Charlie's bottom lip was trembling, so she gave into the little girls demands. Sighing she crouched down and motioned for Charlie to hop onto her back. Charlie wasn't surprised that she had gotten her own way; it worked all the time with Derek, for a three year old she was already the master of persuasion, the only one she couldn't fool was Addison. She climbed onto Cristina's back and held her shoulders, she had already started giggling by the time Cristina started walking.
As the two walked down the halls Cristina was intercepted by Izzie who was laughing at the sight of Cristina and Charlie. "Cristina are you giving Charlie a piggyback ride?"
"What does it look like Izzie?" Cristina snapped as she began to jog down the hall to make the little girl giggle further. Izzie followed her friend down the hall and watched her handle the little girl.
"I needs to go potty" Charlie exclaimed, Cristina stopped and put the little girl down in front of her.
"You can go by yourself right?" Charlie nodded while tugging at the small denim jacket she was wearing. "Izzie can you take her, I need to go and get Mr Jenkins blood-work an-"
"I can do the labs, Bailey left you with her remember" Cristina was at a loss for words and before she could protest Izzie had already taken the patient file from Cristina's hand and walked off. Cristina reluctantly took Charlie's hand and the pair walked off towards the intern's locker room. They soon arrived and the room was empty, Cristina had to ask Charlie a few times if she would be okay by herself, she didn't want Addison yelling at her for being irresponsible with her daughter.
Five minutes later the toilet flushed and the door opened, Cristina had been leaning against the wall but pulled herself away from it when she noticed Charlie, and the lack of clothes she was wearing. "Charlie, where are your pants, and t-shirt for that matter?" The little girl was only dressed in her denim jacket but nude otherwise. No one had warned Cristina that Charlie had a dislike for clothing so she was unsure what to do.
"Da clothes came off" She said bluntly as she walked out of the toilet, she had a nonchalant strut and Cristina was still in shock. The stubborn surgeon stepped into the toilet and picked up Charlie's clothes, the little suede had been abandoned too.
"Charlie come back here, I need to get your clothes back on" As soon as Charlie heard the word clothes she had already ran out of the locker room. Cristina dashed out behind her and chased the girl down the halls, she was glad Charlie couldn't run very fast however the three year old was particularly nimble. She was able to weave in and out of people who would stop and stare at the surgeon chasing the toddler.
Cristina eventually caught up to her and was able to get in front of her and stop her, Charlie ran into Cristina's legs and fell over, she tried scrambling away but Christina had already pulled her in. Charlie squirmed and it was hard enough getting her pants on without her wriggling about. Charlie grabbed her shirt out of Cristina's hands and kicked off her pants that were almost on, Cristina let out a frustrated sigh and watched as Charlie began to put her legs into the sleaves of her t-shirt.
"Yang what are you doing? And why is Charlie undressed?" Cristina looked up at Bailey in shock and began to stammer.
"She went to the bathroom and came out undressed then she ran off"
"Hand me the clothes" Cristina did as she was told and handed Bailey the clothes, Bailey scooped up the little girl and carried her into an empty room, dressing her almost instantly. Cristina was shocked but not surprised. Charlie clapped and began crawling around the room. "Yang I expect her to stay clothed" Cristina nodded and took Charlie by the hand and lead her out of the room and towards the cafeteria.
"Are you doing it right? I think you're doing it wrong, my daddy could do it better" Nathanial and William were sitting on an empty bed opposite Alex who was quickly losing his cool. The boys were no longer running around but every chance they got either one would question Alex or George's medical ability.
"Look kid I know what I'm doing, and I don't care if your dad could do it better coz I'm the one doing it now" Alex snapped and Nathanial quickly shut his mouth, he turned to his counterpart and whispered something to him and they both burst into fits of laughter. Alex ignored it and George just laughed to himself at the fact that the boys really weren't scared of him.
The boys had devised a plan to get away from Alex and George and were now putting it into action, slipping off the bed they walked up to George and tugged at his lab coat. "We're going to the bathroom okay?" William said, he wasn't really asking, more telling. Before O'Malley could say anything the boys had already ran out of the room and down the halls. The hospital was cramping their style and they just wanted to go outside however both of them knew that their parents would kill them if they left the hospital unattended. William and Nathanial were strolling down the halls, they almost had this strut going, and they were stopped when two hands landed on their shoulders. "Nate and Will, where are you two going?" They turned around and looked up at Richard Webber; he was almost like Nathanial's grandfather so they were on good terms.
"We're just exploring" Nathanial said as if it was nothing.
"Really, how about you two follow me we'll go see your daddy" Nathanial looked shocked; he didn't want his dad yelling at him.
Richard could see the shock in his eyes and chuckled. "You're not in trouble, trust me, come on boys" Richard took both William and Nathanial's hands and lead them towards the OR that Derek was in, they were going to watch him in surgery.
Down in the cafeteria Meredith had joined Cristina and Charlie at the table, Charlie was eating a pudding, most of it going around her mouth rather than in it and Meredith just laughed. "So Charlie what do you think of Cristina?"
"She is otay but she doesn't like to play" She shoved the spoon into her mouth again and Meredith just laughed even more.
"Did you hear that Cristina you're no fun to play with" Cristina just rolled her eyes while Meredith continued to have a conversation with Charlie.
No more than 10 minutes later did Addison enter the cafeteria dressed in blue scrubs, she walked up to the table and Charlie stood up on her chair and reached her arms out for her mother. Addison walked around to her and picked her up, wiping her mouth clean with a napkin in the process. "Hey Gummy bear how was Dr Yang?"
"She was otay, can we go home now?" Addison adjusted her daughter's hair and kissed her on the top of the head.
"In a second baby we just have to find Daddy and Nate" They didn't have to look far because Nathanial came running into the cafeteria with Derek, he had an ear to ear grin and looked like he had just had the best time of his life.
"Oh my god, I just watcheddaddyperformsurgeryitwassoawesome" He said without taking a breath, Addison just looked back and forth from Derek to her son, unsure of what he had just said.
"Slow down Nate, mommy can't understand you"
"Oh well I just watched daddy perform surgery it was soooooooo cool" Nathanial stood up on he cafeteria chair besides Meredith and gave a high five to his little sister.
"Ready to go?" Derek asked, Addison nodded, Charlie was dozing off in her arms and Nathanial was still extremely hyped up over the surgery. He had to retell the whole story of the days events on the way home and Addison and Derek just smiled.