Chapter 11: Epiphany
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A/N: (gasp) AN UPDATE! (person) Where? LOL. YAY! Update! My book project is due next week (my summary) and its fairly easier than I thought. Enjoy!
Swollen feet, aching back, mood swings. Oh, the joys of pregnancy. Yay...
Addison visited the hospital once more, after she and Mark moved into the house. It was close by to the hospital, almost one mile. She knocked on her old patient's room, Emily. She was seated in a wheelchair, one girl in her arms and the other in her husband's arm.
"Hey!" Addison exclaimed enthusiastically, one hand on her huge baby bump, leaning against the door frame.
"Dr. Montgomery-Shepherd!" Emily said but quickly took it back. "Sorry. I almost forgot you got divorced."
"How do you know?" Addison asked.
"Word travels fast," Emily half-shrugged. She stared at Addison's stomach. "Wow! Did you pick out names?"
Addison nodded. "I'm having a boy and two girls."
"Triplets?! Oh, man, I had two, but three?! I don't think my old honey bun, Jim, would have lost his hand in there if I had triplets!" Jim raised his hand, careful to hold the baby, showing angry red marks of a small hand. From the looks of it, it probably still hurt.
"I'm fine," he said, "Just need a little circulation here and there." He laughed out and carried the baby with both hands again.
Mark strode down the halls of the hospital, and saw Addison. He smiled and walked up behind her and put his arms around her, his hands resting on the small bump. He kissed Addison's head, smiling. He seems to be doing that everywhere. Just... smiling. He didn't notice Derek standing just a few feet away.
"Addie..." Mark whispered against her hair.
Emily smiled and said, "Dr. Montgomery, by the looks of this, you already had found someone new!"
"I didn't find him." Addison looked up at Mark and thought, All I had to do was open my eyes.
"Would you like to hold the baby?" Emily asked. Addison strode over and took the baby in her arms, the baby's head in the crook of her forearm, both hands holding the baby's body. Addison smiled as the baby yawned and closed its eyes. She rocked her back and forth and then looked over to Mark.
"Whoa, whoa, no!" he yelled, not too loud for the baby to wake up. He held up his arms. "I'm not good with babies, remember?"
She glared at him and said, "You're going to hold a baby sooner or later, Mark." She walked towards him and held out the baby. He glanced back and forth between the baby and his hands. He held them out, holding the baby by her head and the other by her body. He chuckled a little. Addison helped him. "Don't be scared." Mark was holding her correctly now, the same way Addison was holding her. He laughed a little and looked down at the little sleeping baby.
"I-I-I..." He couldn't find the words. "Am I supposed to feel like this?" he finally asked. "Like... when you had your first kiss," he considered his first real kiss Addison's, "When you first fall in love," the woman was right in front of him, "Like you've never had to speak like this before?" Addison laughed.
"Yup," Jim said.
"Hey, what's that song, the one from my favorite movie?"
"Come What May?" Jim asked and smiled and he started singing. "Never knew I could feel like this. Like I've never seen the sky before..."
Mark heard the words and interrupted Jim's singing with his own. He and Addison always watched this movie together. "Want to vanish inside your kiss," he looked up at Addison and smiled, "Everyday I love you more and more..." After a couple more lines, Addison started singing the female part.
"Suddenly the world is such a perfect place. Suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace..."
Emily glanced back and forth between the two lovers and said, "I never pegged your guy as a Moulin Rouge fan."
"I had to watch it with her. Even though I'm a guy, I kind of liked it," Mark replied.
"After watching it ten times, you get used to it," Jim said and chuckled. "And maybe, even start liking it." He gave the baby in his arms to his wife and then took the baby in Mark's arms.
"I think your ready, Mark," she wrapped her arms around his neck and she had to stand on her toes. She kissed him softly on the lips and pulled back.
"I think I just had an epiphany," he whispered.
Short, kind of. (frowns) I'm trying to get at least more than 900 words but that failed. All I want to do is like get to the end! Wish me luck on Saturday, I'm going to be singing in front of people I don't know. I think I'm going to do good. Review please!
