A/N. I always get nervous before submitting a new chapter! Haha, I think I've said that before. I don't even read them after I post. Aim to please ;] ( Something Shonda does not seem to understand) Anyways, Im inspired to write if -you- review. So tell me if you like it, or not :] . Thanks you guys!
Also- Next chapter is mostly finished, so expect an update soon soon soon.
Teddy had just finished washing the dishes from dinner that Owen cooked, she was secretly jealous of his cooking skills, but she would never tell him that. At least not right now. The argument hadn't lasted very long, but it had hurt just as bad. It ended in Teddy crying in frustration and Owen getting up and leaving.
'He probably thinks that all women were crazy , or that he himself is somewhat insane.' It went somewhat among the lines of Owen getting too happy about twins, for the thousandth time, and Teddy only seeing the dark side of this, got mad at his joy. 'Why can't he realize that this isn't some kind of fairy tale.' she thought. She walked out to the living room to find he at returned. He was on the couch, watching some kind of of sports event with a beer in his hand, and another one empty on the side table. She walked in front on him and placed the beer from his hand next to the empty one. "That's horrible for your health." she said, and sat next to him. He looked at her with his owen puppy eyes, and she decided she couldn't resist his embrace anymore. She moved over sideways onto his lap, and looked at him dead on in the eye.
Teddy was determining if he had too much to drink somewhere else. Owen moved her hair to one side and kissed her neck. He seemed ,for the most part, sober. So she made up her mind that this was the time they should resolve this. She wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled her feet up on the leather couch. "I am not going to throw away my career to mother ten of your children and be the soccer mommy for the rest of my life. I am not going to wear mom jeans, or give up my heels. You aren't going to give up your career to be the 'cool dad' ether. I'll probably not want anymore children after this. I think two is enough. And we will still have amazing sex." she said, her feelings now out into the open. Owen smiled "That sounds almost perfect." She smiled back and gave him a quick kiss before snuggling up against him. Owen's left hand made its way under her shirt, resting on her belly. She was 22 weeks today. "And I cant have you running off and trying to get drunk every time we argue..." Teddy said, expecting a fueled answer back from him.
"Teddy, I've had to take you home to your apartment multiple times when you were intoxicated out of your mind" "But it's different now." she defended. " I know" he said. She glanced up at him. Owen felt one of the twins kick near his hand. Teddy looked down at his hand, the loose curls in her hair bounced as she turned her head. Owen remembered all the times they had goofed around in Iraq in their freetime. Her hair would blow in his face: he would fake getting mad because she would never tie it back for this reason. Even though, secretly, he thought it was hot. Bringing back a very old conversation, he asked " Why would you want our twins to have -my - hair?".
Teddy raised an eyebrow, then remembered what he was talking about."Oh-" "It would remind me of you. Even though they would be genetically just like us, it would be interesting for them to have some kind of dominant trait that makes people say 'You look so much like your dad' , or mom." she said. Owen laughed. " I never thought of it like that." Teddy nodded. "-And- your hair color is rare, and amazing." she said, running both hands through it "I love it." she added on.
Owen ran his own hand through his hair then leaned in and kissed her, starting the tongue battle. Things started to get heated and excess articles of clothing were shed. Owen was hovering over her, with one hand by her head he ducked down to kiss her, while taking off his pants with his other hand. Teddy's eyes slowly fluttered closed. He tossed his pants aside. She sighed and her hands flopped over her face "What?" Owen said, gently moving her hands and kissing her again. "I'm sleepy." she said, not really caring that she had given him an erection so hard that it was painful. "Why're you so sleepy?" he asked, suddenly out of the mood too. "I'm pregnant." "Oh you are?" He said. Teddy rolled her eyes and crawled out from under him. "And I'm on call tonight." she said, walking to her (now their) bedroom.
She grabbed a pair of dark blue scrubs from her closet, and pulled the top on. She stepped into the bottoms, which were quite loose fitting due to the fact that the matching top was one size too big to accommodate her bump. Owen stepped behind her and tied the drawstrings at her hips. She leaned back against him. "That sucks." Owen said, wrapping his arms around her and looking at them in the mirror. "Hmm, what?" she asked, checking the time on her phone while yawning. "Late shifts." he said. She leaned over to tie her hair in a ponytail. Standing right behind her, Owen couldn't help but think dirty thoughts. She stood back up and turned around to face him. "What are you smiling at?" "Your everlasting beauty." He said in a shakespearian accent. "Bullshit." she said grinning, "Have you seen my pager?" she asked, digging through her purse. "It's in the kitchen." he said, following her into the kitchen. Teddy clipped it to her pants. "I'll be back around four." she said, heading towards the door."A.M?" "Yes." she replied. "Thats only a five hour shift?" Owen said, confused. "One of the perks from being pregnant." she said while putting her shoes on. "You sure you don't need me to drive you?" he said, worried about how tired she was. "No I'm fine," "love you." She said, suddenly getting nervous . "I love you too" Owen replied. And she was gone.
Teddy arrived at the hospital and checked in for her shift. She monitored the growing hearts and eliminated some of the defected ones. She left a note of the glass "Many lacking pericardial fluids, may be caused from faulty injection sites. Be more careful - Altman" She stood up and pulled off her gloves, tossed them in a trashcan, and washed her hands. She went to visit her best friend in pedes, seeing that she never got paged anymore. Teddy would have to talk to Owen about that: all of her patients were planned procedure, she was never called to cardio trauma anymore.
On her way, she saw Yang. She made brisk eye contact and kept walking. Despite what Owen said, Teddy enjoyed having peoples approval. Even though she didn't have Cristina's approval. Why would she?
Arizona was nowhere to be found. Teddy knew she was on call, but she probably knew what she was doing with a certain brunette at two in the morning. She decided what she wanted to talk about wasn't really that important. Teddy went by the CardioRecovery and checked up on some of her most recent patients. Before she knew it, it was already a hour past her shift.
"Yes" "No I'm sure" Teddy gave Owen a look as she walked in the door. Who could he possibly be on the phone with at 6 in the morning? "You'll see when your here!" "Alright" "Okay, Love you." "Yes mom, the 6th is a friday." Owen's parents. Do they know? "Haha okay. Love you too, bye" Owen walked up to Teddy and kissed her on the cheek. "Busy night?" he asked as he hung up the phone. "Yeah we had ten people fall from a building in a straight line, surprisingly they all were empaled in the chest cavity by a fence, and survived all the way to the hospital . I saved every one of them." Teddy said. Owen stood there. "Tell me, -how- did you not catch that I'm joking?" Owen sighed with relief. "I haven't gotten that much sleep. Apparently east coast time, my mom was awake and decided to call for the first time in a year."
"I call my father every week, aren't you the one who is supposed to call your parents?" Owen disregarded her comment. "They're flying over on tuesday to visit old friends, and coming over here on Friday " Teddy sighed. " I can't get off work on friday" "I'm Chief, sure you can." "...It's a matter of choice Owen. Plus the last time your parents saw me I was twenty five on active duty." she said, un-doing her hair and slipping her shoes off. Owen sighed. There was just no wining with her. "Listen I'll deal with whatever kind of fight your father has for me, because of all of this, if you just make yourself present sometime during the day." He said, while looking at the calendar.
"My father thinks your great. He's actually pretty happy about having grandchildren. He says its what my mom always hoped for..." Teddy said, contradicting anything Owen had to say. "Owen , do your parents know?" she asked, yawning. "Well, no." he said, "It's not like they had to. I figured they'd find out when they came." he added. A laugh hitched in her throat. "Wow. Impressive planning skills." she said, as she turned around and randomly slipped off her shirt. Teddy tended to take off her shirt at look at her growing baby bump. Not like Owen cared at all. After all, it was their apartment. He found it amusing. "Your parents are going to think I'm due by the time they get here. They don't even know your 'girlfriend' is pregnant, let alone with twins."
"Agh, don't use the term girlfriend. It sounds ridiculous." Owen said, while thinking of whether to take today off or not. He was pretty busy with life, and all. "What 'term' will you use then? 'My Teddy is pregnant' or my soulmate, lover, affair-doer. Something tacky like that. Your folks will think your out of the right mind." she said, contemplating all of the bad scenarios that could come from her just walking in unexpectedly. "Do they know your divorced?" "Of course they do." he replied mindlessly. Owen decided both of them should take the day off call. They have a lot of last minute planning to do for his parents, he supposed.
"What?" he said, mind blanking. "Never mind." Teddy replied, heading to the bedroom and stripping down naked in the bathroom. Owen followed her to their room and sat on the bed. He had been sleeping for the past 5 hours, so he had his plaid p.j. bottoms on. Teddy always joked at him for owning around fifteen pairs of them, in a variety of colors. He always replied it was just like how she always sleeps without pants on, he can only sleep with them on. He walked into the bathroom and stripped too. "Mind if I join?" he asked. The hot water and steam was somewhat soothing. "I don't mind." she said, distracted by him. She almost stepped in with her left sock on. She quickly took it off and grabbed his hand then led the way inside the glass doors. It reminded Owen of the first time they had sex together.
Unlike what he had lead on, they did have a sexual past: even if it was just once.
When your deployed to a desert wasteland, boredom strikes , and it strikes fast and hard. Cold showers start getting to your head. Due to the lack of females, there was only one 'locker room'. Men were expected to be respectful and wait until any female was finished showering. That was just how it was. But this time was backwards.
Owen was tired from a long day of fixing minor injuries, paperwork, and recommending soldiers with PTSD from recent combat home. 'Why did Altman get to go in-zone today and not me? What gives her that privilege at all." He heard the metal door open, and then close shut on its own. He heard a woman sigh and clothes fall to the floor. He looked around the empty showers around him. Each separated by a two-thirds wall. He searched through his mind of what women were off duty today, and would end up here. "Leah?"..."Nope." he got a response. It was definitely Altman. "Teddy?" he laughed. Of course she would just walk in with him mid-shower, and not care if he noticed her or not.
"What?" she asked. She poked her head around the hall from the lockers. "So hows the weather?" he said while rinsing the soap from his hair, grinning. "You think your just going to watch me walk over naked?" she said, still behind the wall. He made a face at her "Maybe that's what I was thinking." he said, still looking dead at her.
"Owen, just turn your head." He complied. He heard her footsteps. Why were they coming towards him? He opened his eyes. "You really had to choose the one right next to me?" "I did not." she replied, while turning on the water. "I was being sarcastic." he said, glancing over at her. "Fuck, Owen, has the water always been this freezing" she asked, while soaking her hair. "Really. I don't even know where they get water this cold here." Owen replied, glancing again. She crossed her arms and shivered, then let out a loud sigh. "Why don't you come and join me?" he said while smiling, expecting some kind of feisty come-back. Teddy looked around, and she did just that. She kissed him, pushing her body against his. He remembered thinking: forget sparks, it was like fire works setting off for the first time.
She jumped up and wrapped her legs around him. "Feel warmer?" he asked sly-ly. He felt her nod her head in his neck, then he pressed her back against the cold tile wall behind them. She gasped, then went in to kiss him and tugged on his bottom lip a little too hard, tasting his blood. He ran his hands along the inside of her thighs. "I need you, now." she hissed in his ear. Although their first time together was cold, somewhat rushed, and hot at the same time, he knew from that moment on that it was 'pretty much' love.