"Oh Teddy, I thought you had the day off?" Meredith asked as she passed Teddy in the hall.
"Henry is having a surgery to remove another tumor so I'm here for that."
"Wow sounds like a blast. I was wondering why you didn't give me your kids for carpool."
"Yeah."
"Hey Teddy! What're you doing I thought I had your service today." Cristina said as she walked up.
"Surgery." Meredith said before could Teddy could say a word.
"Am I scrubbing in at least?" Cristina asked.
"Yeah who's doing it?" Meredith asked.
"Webber since he's been on the case for General before. He basically assigned himself to it this morning."
"Oh ok." Cristina and Meredith said at the same time. Cristina got a page and left. Teddy smiled at Meredith, "Could you take them to the cafeteria? I'll be right up."
"Of course! Come on guys." Meredith picked up Claire, "Mommy." The 2 year old complained.
"Don't worry sweetie, mommy come shortly."
Teddy smiled and turned around to an intern, "I saw you. It's my day off. What? Why can't you ask someone else?"
"Uh it's one of your long term patients. We thought you might want to check."
"Go talk to someone else I have kids to take care of it's my day off."
The intern scurried away and Teddy heard her name so she turned around.
"Andrew, hi."
"Hi."
Teddy scratched her head a bit confused why he was there and the light caught her wedding ring.
"Married I see. How long?" Andrew inquired.
Teddy looked at her ring and folded her hands in front of her. "Um 12 years." She said sheepishly.
"Wait but 12 years ago you told me you couldn't go to Germany because too many people needed you here and you weren't ready to take that step anytime soon."
"Which technically had no lies in it."
"So what am I missing?"
"Um Dr. Altman." An intern said, "Dr. Grey is asking for you. She has a procedure right now and she doesn't want to leave your kids alone."
"Right. Thank you." Teddy looked at Andrew, "Follow me?"
"You have kids?"
"Yep."
"How many?"
"4."
"That's a lot for 12 years cause I'm assuming you waited a bit?" Andrew asked.
"Um well the oldest is 12."
"So is it mine?!"
"Heavens no she looks just like my husband." Teddy said trying not to choke.
"So who is your husband?"
By then they got the cafeteria and her kids looked at her, "Mommy!"
"The oldest looks familiar, wait so does the boy. I don't know why."
Teddy laughed nervously and tended to the needs of her kids. 5 minutes later Andrew clapped his hands, "I got it! They look like your friend, the VHL guy with diabetes... Wait you married him?!"
"He doesn't have diabetes anymore!" Sadie rolled her eyes and whispered something to Cameron.
"If you want to get technical we were already married before we started dating BUT it was only so he could have health insurance. He got his feet under him and was gonna file for divorce since he didn't need my insurance anymore."
Andrew gave her the strangest look.
"I know. But when you said you wanted to be with someone you loved I realized the first person I went was my best friend, not my boyfriend so."
"This is all too weird for me. So I'll just say what I'm doing here. My girlfriend and I are here on business for me. She has a business that doesn't require her to be in one place so that's good."
A cute little brunette walked into the cafeteria. "There she is now!"
"Teddy, this is Kayla, Kayla, Teddy."
"It's nice to meet you!" Kayla said sweetly, "Hey she looks like my ex boyfriend of 13 years ago! He asked me to marry him but I said no because of circumstances."
Teddy smiled, "He just wanted your health insurance?"
Cameron looked up at her mom. And Kayla said, "Yeah actually, how'd you know?"
"He's my husband. I actually told him you'd be a fool to say no to his proposal but it looks like it turned out ok for both of us."
Andrew was none too amused. "Kayla, want to go out?"
"I want to continue talking to her!"
Teddy smiled, "No it's ok you go ahead."
And so Kayla said goodbye and they left.
Teddy looked at her daughters, "That was weird."
"It was."
Teddy looked over the table at her two sleepy children. Claire already dozed off and Sammy had trouble keeping his eyes open, it was nap time for him. Teddy picked him up and had Cameron and Sadie help with Claire and brought them to an empty on call room, locked the door and put him to sleep.
