Chapter 8

This chapter is quite short, and for that I apologise. It's more of a filler chapter

12 weeks 1 day later- January 19th 2019

26 weeks and 5 days pregnant

Alex stands in the scrub room of OR 4. As he does he watches the commotion going on in front of him, as the nurses prep for his surgery on Ethan James, a 6 year old boy with Short Gut Syndrome. Alex had been caring for Ethan since he was a baby and this was just another surgery in a long list of surgeries. Alex had spoken to Ethan mere moments ago and the anaesthesiologist had just put him to sleep.

"Hey stranger," Meredith says as she enters the scrub room. Alex turns and sees Meredith walking in. She joins him at the scrub sink.

"Hey, What are you doing here?" Alex asks as Meredith unwraps her cake of soap.

"What? Are you too cool to do surgeries with me now?" Meredith chuckles as she begins to scrub in.

"Arizona was supposed to be scrubbing in with me," Alex replies.

"She was paged. One of her mothers needed emergency foetal surgery," Meredith explains.

Alex nods his head and smiles, "well, I'm glad that they sent you instead of some idiot intern."

"Ethan is your prised patient. He's been in your care since he was born. Do you really think Arizona is going to let some intern help you?" Meredith questions.

Alex chuckles, "no."

"How's Jo this morning? I haven't had the chance to check in with her yet," Meredith asks. The pair step away from the scrub sink and head into the OR where the nurses begin to help them put their gloves and masks on.

"She's over it. She's still not keeping anything down and most of all she hates being confined to the bed. Her blood pressure got a little high last night so they're monitoring it but there is a chance she may have to deliver earlier then we'd planned," Alex explains.

"Poor thing. I was over pregnancy by the time I reached 25 weeks and I was so ready to meet him. And I was pregnant with just one baby, not 5," Meredith chuckles.

"She is like super woman, believe me," Alex smiles.

Meredith chuckles, "Well, I'm surprised that you're still alive. I thought she would of killed you for knocking her up with five babies." Meredith places some badadine onto Ethan's stomach.

"Your guess is as good as mine as to why I'm still alive," he laughs. "Ten blade," he requests. Bookee passes him the ten blade and Alex makes the first incision.

"So, will you two be making any more babies? Or is this it?" Meredith questions.

"We only wanted three, max, so I think this is it," Alex replies.

"Then it'll be time for the snip I guess," Meredith grins.

"The snip?" He asks horrified and Meredith just nods her head with a grin. "You don't think she'll make me snip my manhood away do you?"

"You got her pregnant with quints without even trying. I thought It would go without saying. She could probably get her tubes tied, but that's far more invasive and a lot for her body to handle, especially right after having Quints. Arizona wouldn't even think about doing it at the same time as delivery. That only means she'd have to undergo another major surgery. Your's is just a simple snip," Meredith laughs.

"You are pure evil, you know that right? I was having a great time. Now, not so much," he replies as Meredith continues to laugh.

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two hours later

"Jo, your BP is too high, we have to get that down. You're heading into pre eclampsia territory," Arizona says as she checks Jo's blood pressure.

"I... I don't know what to do," Jo replies helplessly.

Arizona sighs and she sits on the corner of Jo's bed, "we're already doing everything we can. We just need to hope that it comes down before it gets too high. I called Addison... Dr Montgomery before I went into surgery. She's on her way."

"Wh... what? Why? Do you think I might have the babies today?" Jo questions in a panic.

"Well, it's a very real possibility, so we need to be prepared," Arizona says cautiously, "We are doing everything that we can to get your BP down, but it hasn't been working."

Jo nods her head. She understood why Arizona had called Addison down, but as much as she wanted the babies out, she also knew that they needed some more time to cook and wanted them to stay inside her womb for as long as possible.

"30 weeks was the goal, and it is still going to be the goal, Okay, Jo?" Arizona reassures Jo.

Jo gives a slight smile and nods her head. "I'm going to try get some rest while Alex is still in surgery."

"Okay," Arizona smiles. She gives Jo a reassuring pat in the leg before leaving her in peace.