Yay for updates! Had this pop into my head after a review of more interaction between Emma and her family and I thought what better way to bring them in! Enjoy!
"So it went really good?" Addie questioned her daughter in shock. The last thing she was expecting was to come back to her daughter and to see the two hugging it out. She expected yelling from her fire-head daughter or utter silence with Emma sitting with her arms crossed and stubbornness in her eyes.
"Why do you sound so doubting mom? We had a nice conversation and finally got all the bullshit out of our relationship. This is what dad would have wanted." Emma badgered back as she continued to put her clothes into her duffel bag. She was finally being discharged today and leaving for home by tomorrow. "You know I've really loved being back here in Seattle but, I just can't wait to get home and see all of my friends and finally get back to work." Emma confessed.
The confession left Addison quiet with quilt as she helped fold one of Em's t-shirts. "You know baby, I was thinking about that." She finally spoke up causing Emma to stop what she was doing and look up with confusion. "I talked to Jake last night and told him about the case i've been assigned to while I've been up here with you. The babies are going to need at least a few more surgeries which could take weeks before I can perform all of them and make sure they're fine. Now I could just fly back and forth but I did that enough to you when you were a kid and your brother doesn't deserve that. So I suggested the boys come up here and we stay for a few weeks so-" Addison explained before being cut off.
"Mom are you high right now?" Emma exclaimed in shock. The whole entire idea sounded crazy. "You do understand I still have a job and friends. I still have Prom in LA and I have graduation. Plus you and jake have patients in LA and not to mention Henry is four. He needs to be in preschool and interacting with kids his own age!" the teen continued to ramble.
"Since when did you become a mother?" Addison joked at all of her daughter's points. Even when she was a small child Emma was the parent of her parents. "And believe me sweetie we already have that figured out. Jake and I's patients are going to be handled by Naomi and the new doctor, Lucy. We will be back in LA by the time prom comes around and I promise sweetheart this isn't permanent. This is just for me to be able to do work and have my family close by. Plus you will get to spend time with your family."
"But I have family in LA mom. The only reason we're still in Seattle is because of my stupid heart, and now my stupid heart is all better."
Addison knew Emma was not going to give out without a fight but luckily for Addison, Emma had no say in the decision. It was final, her husband and son were already making their way up to Seattle and they were going to stay with Amelia and Owen. When Meredith moved back into her mother's house and planned to sell the dream house Owen decided to buy it off of her. Three weeks later he was out of the trailer and living in the house and Amelia was living with him.
"Emma, I'm not fighting you on this. I am the parent and I am the one who makes the decisions. For one you need to be the child in this relationship. We are staying until my case is over. Its final.' Addison told her whining teen sternly earning an angry pout from her daughter.
"The one time you don't need to be the parent you decide to balls up. I'm 6 months from being an adult. You can't have this much jurisdiction over me. I am 17 which means I deserve to make decisions on where the hell I get to spend my life." Emma spat in anger.
Addison's jaw dropped to the floor. Never had Emma pulled the almost adult card on anything. Emma usually stopped the badgering after Addison put her foot down. "Excuse me young lady?" Addison was appalled. "Since when do you get to sit here and criticize my parenting? You don't get to use your age as an excuse because as far as I am concerned until you are 18 I'm still your mother which means I have jurisdiction over your medical life, your personal life, and where the hell you spend your life."
You could see the steam coming from Emma's head. The girl stood there for a moment trying to figure a way to express her feelings towards her mother right now. "You know what fine" Emma raised her voice. "I can't wait until I'm finally 18 and can just leave everyone. Especially you!" Emma yelled before storming out of the room.
"Emma!" Meredith and Amelia greeted with smiles seeing her storm out of the room and push between them in the direction they had just came from. The two women's smiles were now frowns and both looked at each other with blank stares. Amelia was the first to speak.
"I've got Tiny." was all she said before chasing after Emma. Leaving Meredith to walk into the room where Addison sat in anger on the bed sniffling.
"I'm guessing there was a fight and a moody teenager said something she didn't truly mean." Meredith spoke with care as she sat next down to Addison. Addison stopped with the tears for a moment and chuckled at the correctness of Meredith's guess.
"I told her we were going to stay for awhile and she lost it." Addison continued to sniffle. "She basically told me I was only a mother when it came down the things that didn't need my input and that she couldn't wait to leave and get away from everybody. Especially me." Addison explained as she wiped her running nose.
The entire situation reminded meredith of a time when she walked in on Emma and Derek fighting. It was over D.C and Emma wasn't the happiest about Derek moving all the way across the country. As Meredith explained the story to Addison the red ahead couldn't help but begin laughing.
"By the end of the fight Emma was so upset she screamed the first 'I hate you' derek had ever heard from his 12 year old daughter and ended up hating himself because he genuinely thought he pissed Emma off that much. 4 hours later Emma crawled out of her bedroom and apologized." Meredith ended.
"Emma and I have never gotten in a fight so big that resulted in her saying any of that. For a moment I felt like Bizzy, something I never wanted to be to her." Addison began "Hell I never even knew that Emma had screamed that at Derek."
"We didn't know what to do and nearly called you. But then again how terrible would it have looked calling you for advice over something parents handle all the time." Meredith laughed leaving both women in a room laughing away the situation together.
Meanwhile…
"Emma would you stop running away from people please?" Amelia stopped again for another breath after chasing Emma all the way from the Peds floor to the tunnel of medical supplies.
Emma herself was getting tired and stopped herself turning back at Amy. "I wouldn't have to run if people would stop chasing me!" She yelled as she plopped onto a gurney. "I just wish people would start taking my opinion in before making decisions for me." Her voice was now quieter than before.
Making her way over to her niece Amelia took a seat right next to Emma on the gurney, leaning herself against the wall. "Mom told you you're going to be staying for awhile?" earning a nod from Emma. "Listen Em." Amelia began, "You're going to hate some of the stuff your mom does but you do know it's for the good right? Seattle may be good for you for awhile. You'll be around family and it's not like you're missing school or anything in LA. You can spend your days at the hospital doing paperwork for the chief or you can get yourself a job making coffee at that little kiosk on the 4th floor? You may not see it now but I think this is for your better rather than your mom just trying to piss the living daylight out of you"
Emma looked up at Amy with a look that Amelia knew very well. It was look showing that Emma wanted to fight what she was just told but had no way of being able to fight it with reasonable facts. "Dad gave you that talk a lot didn't he?" Was all Emma could say earning her a chuckle from Amelia.
"Oh you wouldn't believe how many times he gave me the 'it's for your good' talk. And Who knows maybe I was getting those talks because one day I'd be giving them to you." this time it was Emma who was chuckling. "I mean obviously you aren't as bad but man you are a hell raiser. You know that?" Amelia jabbed playfully.
"Yea I know." Emma responded leaning her head on Amy's shoulder. "I love you Amy"
With a smile forming Amelia turned and kissed Emma's head as the two sat in silence next to each other. Clearing her throat Amelia finally spoke up. "Now, why don't we get you back to your mother so you can say sorry and stop being a little terrorizer."
The two stood up and walked shoulder to shoulder back to the peds clinic, both with smiles.
As always, I hoped you enjoyed and don't be afraid to live a suggestion!