The weekend had passed far too quickly for anyone's liking, Lacey and Kathryn arrived together, fingers interlaced as they crossed the parking lot. The blonde waved to Regina as she emerged from her own vehicle.

Regina smiled as she watched the newly "unofficial" couple, she grabbed her purse from the passenger seat before making her way towards the hospital entrance. She nodded at Emma as their eyes met across the parking lot before continuing on her way.

She made her way through the corridors of the hospital, smiling and waving at various staff members. Once she made it to the locker room, she found Killian midway through a persuasive explanation about why seeing Kathryn and Lacey kiss was good for his health.

"It's not good for your health, Killian. It's good for your erection. Very big difference." The brunette supplied as she put her purse and keys into her locker, her eyes glancing down towards the front of the man's pants. "Or very small, as the case may be." She shrugged a bit, winking at Kathryn.

The blonde leaned closer to her friend, anxious for information. "So, today is the first time that you and Emma are working together since this weekend and it's a double. Are you okay with that?"

"Of course I am, Kat. Everything is fine. Emma and I talked yesterday. There's nothing to worry about." She assured as she slipped on her scrub top, pulling her dark locks up into a ponytail. Blue eyes continued to bore into the side of her skull until she relented and faced the younger woman fully. "Kat, stop staring at me like that. It's annoying and a little bit creepy."

"Good. You've been avoiding my calls all weekend long, Gina. You keep changing the subject when I ask what happened between you and Emma. I'm worried."

"I told you, everything is fine, Kat. It was just a long weekend. That's all." She smiled and squeezed the blonde's arm, her mind traveling back to the older blonde who, she would admit to herself, had incredible arms. "Come on, we're going to be late and Mulan is going to skin us alive."

The interns were delegated to their respective attendings following a brief speech from their Head of General Surgery. Regina waves to Kathryn and began following the familiar path towards Emma's office. They hadn't really spoken much after the weekend they had spent together aside from a few texts ensuring that the other got home okay after they had parted ways outside of Emma's building. Regina's main fear was that she wouldn't be able to hold a full conversation with Emma without feeling obligated to bring up their date. Of course it was something she wanted to talk about but she didn't know if Emma was comfortable with it, especially in the hospital.

" ?" Regina swung around the corner knocking softly on the door, lingering in the hallway patiently to be given permission to enter the office.

"Oh, hey Regina." Emma sat up in her chair and pushed her folders to rest on the far right side of her desk, closest to where Regina was standing in the doorway.

"So what's going on today other than our normal cases?"

"I don't know if Blanchard's let you know yet but we've got a little girls in bed 7 with a few complications. If I'm correct she's 5, has had a perfect record of health for almost her whole life up until this recent year. I'm gonna ask you to check her out after you consult with Blanchard then get back to me with what you've found before we proceed with anything else okay?" Emma looked up at Regina for a second before looking back down at what she was working on.

"Okay. I can do that." Regina said reaching for the folders before Emma stopped her by reaching forward and resting her hand on top of the brunette's.

"I left you something in your locker, just in case I don't see you for the rest of our double, okay?" Emma said with a genuine smile, lifting her hand from the younger woman's and leaning back in her chair.

Regina was a little taken aback by the information Emma had just given her, but she nodded and managed to keep herself together long enough to grab her cases and leave, giving Emma a smile and a wave as she did so.

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Several hours and a handful of patients later, the interns converged on the cafeteria to fill their stomachs and re-hydrate before returning to work. The group gathered around their table, together for the first time in a long while.

"So how's everyone?" Dorothy asked.

"I'm good. I just forget that there are more than just one of me because I never see any of you ever" Neal said before sitting down.

"I mean, you're not wrong. If I didn't have to see you guys in the mornings before our starting shift I'd forget about you guys too." Jefferson mentioned, opening his juice and taking a sip.

"Wow, that shit's depressing. I actually kinda like you guys." Kathryn said sitting next to Regina.

"What did I miss?" Graham sat down before his phone rang again "Are you kidding me?" He stood up with a sigh. "I'm sorry guys, my phone's been blowing up all day"

"It's cool, Graham, just take it."

Graham walked off into an empty on call room before answering the phone sharply, "What is it Malissa? I told you not to call me."

"It's your daughter." The woman responded despondently.

"I'm sorry what?"

"Your daughter. You left me knocked up in Texas because you wanted to be a doctor. So, yeah. Surprise."

"And you didn't think of calling me?!"

"I did Graham! I called you for years!"

"Years?! Malissa, it's been years!?"

"Yes" she answered guiltily

"How many years?"

She went silent,the tension stretching between the phone lines was almost suffocating as he awaited an answer.

"How many years!?"

"5, Graham! She just turned 5!"

"And she has no idea who I am?"

"No, she doesn't."

"What if I wanna be in her life from here on? I have to start from square one?"

"Yeah I just didn't think I would ever see you again. I thought I would just be a single parent from here on."

"Okay, I'll deal with you later. What's wrong with her?"

"Um...she has a um...clogged aorta"

"And you tell me this now? How long has she been in the hospital?"

"Today. She just go there."

"There? As in she's not with you?!"

"No, she's not. I sent her to your hospital. I can't do this anymore. I can't be a parent anymore. It's too much. She hates me already and she's only been alive for 5 years. You're going to be so much better for her, I know you will." She whispered, at least having the decency to sound guilty about her decision.

"Malissa, are you actually joking? You tell me I have a kid first and then that you don't want her next? I'm a surgical intern! I can't raise her by myself. I don't know the first thing about raising a kid!" He ran his fingers through his hair, tugging lightly in frustration.

"I don't know what to tell you, Graham. I'm leaving town tomorrow. Her surgery is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. I already kissed her and told her I loved her. There's a note I have left for her when she asks where I went along with a note that lets you know how to care for her. Her allergies, favorite things, all of the important things you'll need to know. Her name's Schuyler. She's gonna love you."

"Malissa, what?"

And just like that she was gone. Graham had a feeling that it was just no use looking for her, she had made up her mind. So he did what he could only think of doing. He thought in the moment. Graham took a second to collect himself before heading back downstairs with the other interns.

"Hey, Graham, who was it?" Regina asked, throwing a french fry at Kathryn for staring at her.

"It was just one of those random number calls." He shrugged it off before hearing the double doors to the cafeteria swing open.

"Where the bloody hell is my intern? It seems like everyone else in the world can find their intern no problem, but when someone goes into labor mine is nowhere to be found." The fiery redhead shouted, her eyes scanning the room before landing on the petite brunette in question.

Lacey looks down at her pager and sees that Zelena has been paging her for half an hour. "Calm down, West I just got your page." Lacey stands up and kisses Kathryn on the cheek quickly. "Bye babe." She waves at the blonde before following her attending.

"Awww you guys are the cutest! Ahh i love it" Jeff cooed happily.

"How's the prince today?" Mary Margaret chirped, turning into David's office to see him sitting and working on some paperwork.

"Ah, there you are. I've been looking for you." David said, sitting his glasses on his desk before propping himself up with his elbows to give her a little more of his attention.

"Oh, you have?" She smirked and made her way over to his desk and perching herself on the corner closest to his elbows.

"Yeah, Zelena just delivered a baby. she needs you to be her Peds consult." David said almost completely losing interest in the obviously flirty woman as he turned his attention back towards the open file in front of him.

'"Oh, I see…. " Mary Margaret stated quietly, almost deflating as she hopped down off his desk and went back to her standing position at the door.

"Why? Were you expecting something else?" David said positioning his glasses back on his face the way he had them originally,raising his eyebrows at her curiously.

"I mean yeah, we haven't had a decent night out together in a while. I just thought that when you paged me maybe you wanted to talk or something." She shrugged as nonchalantly as possible, her brown eyes looking everywhere but at the man in front of her.

"Right." David drawled slowly, shifting his weight uncomfortably. "I've just been busy trying to keep up with all the work since Killmen's day and I've been pulling a lot of doubles.."

"No, it's okay. Of course I understand. I'm sorry, I'm gonna go and see if Zelena still needs that consult." The pixie haired woman motioned towards the west end of the hospital before she walked out of the room, shoving her hands deep in her pockets.

In all honesty, David had simply been too busy breaking things off with Kathryn. In the beginning of her internship they had been sleeping together purely out of lust. Kathryn was gorgeous so it wasn't too hard for David to indulge in his fantasy, but she was a little too messy for him. Too casual. She didn't ever want to spend the night nor did she want to be an official thing so he gave up on her which, for some reason, caused Mary Margaret to assume the role as lead girlfriend. David wasn't complaining about this particular aspect, he just didn't know that it was something she had wanted. He hadn't assumed that that was something they had to discuss.

He sighed softly and shook his head before focusing his attention back on his case files.

Halfway through their shifts Regina managed to make her way down to the locker room to change scrubs and make an attempt at taming her hair into a neat bun. The suspense of seeing what Emma has left her was killing her, but she hadn't had more than a few spare moments throughout the day and none of them had been sufficient enough time for her to escape to the quiet room.

She opened the door to her locker and glanced around before lifting the long box so she could see it better. Her fingers skimmed gently over the note tied to the top of the box with a silky red ribbon, delicate lettering on the note advised her to read it before opening the gift. She freed the note from it's holder and opened it, a smile breaking across her face as she read the simple message:

You're the apple of my eye -E.S