*KIND REMINDER: English isn't my language*

Yesterday I tried for hours to upload the new chapter, but apparently the site was down :/ but better late than never. :)

Chapter 14

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Loving can hurt, loving can hurt sometimes, but it's the only thing that I know; when it gets hard, you know it can get hard sometimes it is the only thing that makes us feel alive... Loving can heal, loving can mend your soul and it's the only thing that I know, I swear it will get easier, remember that with every piece of you...

Days later and not without first checking all the medical reports twice, Addison decided that it was better to discharche Teddy under the condition of staying in bed all the time until she considered it pertinent that she could get up.

In the end Owen and Teddy agreed that he would work shorter shifts and only 3 days a week, in addition to the surgeries he had previously scheduled. Meanwhile she would stay at home with Angela and Mrs. Evelyn Hunt, who had been of immense help during the days that Teddy was in the hospital, staying at home with little Angela, taking and picking her up from school, etc. Besides, it seemed that she was the only person with whom the child acted as her former self; this caused mixed feelings in Teddy.

Finally the day to go home had come and Teddy was extremely excited to see her little angel again. Helping her get out of the car and into the wheelchair Owen and she went inside the house, from the outside they could hear Angela and Mrs. Evelyn's loud laughs. Teddy's eyes began to fill with tears, she missed the sweet sound of her little girl's laughter

When Owen opened the door his mother and Angela were in the living room playing Jenga.

"Hey, look who's back home!" Owen said cheerfully.

Teddy expected her daughter to welcome her with a big hug and that beautiful smile that could illuminate the darkest days, but none of that happened. The moment Owen and Teddy entered the house her smile disappeared and instead a thin line formed on her pinkish lips.

"Hey, my angel, will you not give me a hug?" Teddy said opening her arms to her daughter.

"Are they okay?" Angela asked, pointing to Teddy's belly.

"Yes my girl, your sisters are still here but soon they will be born and you will have two playmates. Isn't that exciting?"

"No, I don't want sisters! Sofia and Zola are my playmates, not them. I don't want to live here with you and your silly daughters, I want to go to New York with grandpa, he does love me." After this Angela ran to her room closing the door with a loud bang. Teddy couldn't believe the words that had come out of her daughter's mouth. Owen was about to go after the child when his mother stopped him.

"Owen, don't! We'd better leave her alone for now."

Teddy couldn't stop crying. "I don't understand, why is she acting like that, she was so happy at the beginning, what made her change her mind?"

"Maybe she's jealous, it's normal for these things to happen. Also... Angela asked me some questions that make me think that she is not only jealous, but afraid." Owen's mother replied.

"Afraid? From what or who? "Owen asked.

"You'd better talk to her and please don't punish her, the poor thing is really scared with all this, when we found Teddy was in the hospital she kept crying and asking if you would also go to heaven like her daddy."

"My poor girl." Teddy said, sobbing.

"Hey, hey, calm down, you'll see that everything will be fine, tomorrow we'll talk to her."

The rest of the day Angela didn't leave her room which caused Teddy to be extremely gloomy, no matter how much Owen tried to cheer her up, everything was in vain, the night came and the couple retired to sleep, both were pretty exhausted so at the moment their heads touched the pillow they fell into a deep sleep.

The next day Teddy noticed that one of Angela's socks was between the sheets of her bed, apparently the little girl had sneaked in during the night to sleep with her, as she used to do when she was about two or three years old and had a phase in which she feared sleeping alone.

Teddy and Owen decided not to tell Angela anything about it, the following days the same thing happened, a sock, her blanket, her stuffed mouse or her soft baby smell exposed that the little girl sneaked in every night to sleep in the middle of Owen and Teddy, there were times when she managed to wake them up, but both of them still didn't say anything about it, especially Teddy, she was afraid that if she said anything to her, Angela would stop doing it. Practically those moments were the only ones she had at peace with her baby girl, there were times when Teddy hugged her tight against her chest, pretending to be half asleep, little Angela just snuggled her little body against her mother's, burying her little face in the crook of Teddy's neck, however, every morning upon awakening there was no trace of the child, so it continued for weeks…

…

The days continued to go by and although Angela didn't have another outburst of anger now it was the opposite, the little girl became extremely withdrawn, to all she answered with monosyllables, shrugged her shoulders or shook her head, she could spend the day locked in her room and leave only for lunch or when Evelyn Hunt came to help Teddy.

The old woman's presence seemed to have a positive effect on the little one, from her room Teddy could hear her child's loud laughter coming from the garden. Surely she and Evelyn had gone out to see the deer, feed the lake ducks or cut some berries. Although listening to her daughter gave her joy at the same time it filled her with frustration, being bedridden and not being able to spend time with her daughter when she needed her most was killing her. Her little angel was slipping away from her hands and she couldn't do anything to stop her.

Soon Teddy turned 30 weeks pregnant and Addison authorized her to get out of bed. At last she could move around the house, this was her chance to get her daughter back.

It was Friday night and Owen was in the hospital, only Teddy and Angela were at home.

"Hey baby, what are you doing?" Teddy asked sweetly as she entered her room. Angela, who was sitting on the floor, just shrugged, she was drawing but didn't say a word. This wouldn't stop Teddy.

"It's a very beautiful drawing. Is it for someone special?" Teddy sat carefully on the edge of Angela's small bed, gently stroking her daughter's soft golden curls.

"Yes". It was all Angela said.

"Can I know who it's for?" The little girl looked at her mother. Her huge green eyes that were once the brightest were now lifeless; Teddy's heart broke just by seeing her little angel so sad.

"It's for grandpa. I'll give it to him when he takes me to live with him."

"B-baby. Where do you get that you're going to live with Grandpa?" Teddy was in shock. Angela just shrugged and keep drawing.

"Angel, look at me." Teddy took the little girl's chin, forcing her to look her in the eyes. "Who said you were going to live with Grandpa?"

Angela's green eyes began to fill with tears.

"Girls, I'm home! I brought dinner. "

Owen.

Teddy loved when Owen came home, but this time he had arrived at a terrible time.

"Come on baby, let's have dinner." Teddy got up slowly from the bed swinging her now heavy body and offering her hand to Angela

"I'm not hungry".

"Honey, you have to eat, please?"

Angela stopped doing what she was doing and immediately left the room, Teddy following behind her, wobbling slowly.

Once in the living room Angela gave Owen a weak hug and immediately without saying a word took her seat on the table placing her little face on the palms of her hands.

"Hey, beautiful!" Owen placed a sweet kiss on Teddy's lips and rubbed her baby bump. "How are my little girls?"

"Pretty restless, they haven't given mommy a rest." Teddy said, joining her hands with Owen's, feeling the twins' vigorous movements.

"Toughs, like their mommy… I like it". Once again Owen joined his lips with Teddy's, in a a hungry but sweet kiss.

"I'm hungry!" Angela interrupted.

"How did it go today with her?" Owen whispered.

"Though I love when you come home this time you couldn't have been more inopportune, she finally started talking to me when you arrived."

"I'm sorry". Teddy was walking towards the dining room when Owen stopped her by the wrist. "I love you".

"I love you too. Now to dinner Mayor, surely you're hungry."

They both joined Angela in the dining room, dinner went by with relative peace; Owen updating Teddy with the cases he had attended during the day and the latest gossips at Grey Sloan while Angela took small bites of her food never looking up from her plate.

…

The next day was Saturday, Owen's day off so he decided to get up and make breakfast for "his girls" as he affectionately called the loves of his life, including Angela.

Owen was in the kitchen when the youngest of the house came in.

"Hey Angel, it's still too early. What are you doing up? Why don't you go with Mommy and keep her company? Then the three of us can have breakfast in bed. What do you think?"

The little girl just shrugged, took a yogurt from the refrigerator and sat on a stool by the kitchen bar.

"I'm making French toast and hot chocolate with marshmallows, your favorites." Owen said cheerfully, but mostly with the hope of cheering up the little girl. "What do you say if we go to the mall today? We can go to the movies or buy some pretty clothes or the light up sneakers that you wanted so much."

Angela still didn't say anything although Owen could see in her eyes that there were many things she wanted to say.

"How did it go this week at school?" Owen asked in a last attempt to make her talk.

"Boring". Angela said. Well, at least it was a start.

"Borin? Why do you say that? You love going to school." It was true, unlike many other children who hated school Angela enjoyed it quite a lot.

"I don't like language classes, I already speak German, I don't need to learn it anymore". She said.

"Well, it never hurts to keep practicing or you can learn another language, nowadays it's very important to know more than one language. How about Spanish?"

"No, tía Callie y Sofía me están enseñado español".

"What?" Owen asked, he hadn't understood a single word of what Angela had said.

"I said that Auntie Callie and Sofia are teaching me Spanish."

"Oh I see". He answered, sheepishly. "How about French? Mommy speaks French, you can practice with her." She shrugged again.

"How about your ballet lessons?"

"I don't want to go to ballet anymore." Angela answered with a pout.

"But you love going to the ballet."

"No, please, I don't want to go to ballet classes anymore." The little girl begged almost crying.

"Hey darling, what's wrong? Do you want to talk to me about what happens? "

Angela's eyes were beginning to fill with tears that soon rolled down her pink cheeks and her lips began to tremble, immediately Owen took a seat next to her and wrapped her in his arms.

"Shh baby, everything will be fine. But you need to talk, mommy and I need to know what's going on."

"When you send me away… Can you send me to live with my grandpa? I know that you don't want me here when my sisters are born but grandpa does love me. Can you send me with him, please? "Angela said, crying.

"Angel, who the hell made you believe we didn't want you here?" Owen couldn't help the curse.

Angela only bit her lips and played with her little hands.

"Angela, who put that crazy idea in your head?"

"Some girls in the ballet said that when my sisters are born you would send me away because my daddy is dead and you are not my real dad". The little girl couldn't stop crying, but at least now Owen knew the source of the problem. No doubt the parents of those girls would hear what he had to say.

"Hey baby, look at me. Those are nonsense, okay? Those girls are jealous. I love you so much, Angela. You are a very special girl for me and no matter what happen your mother and I will always love you, the fact that you will have two sisters doesn't mean less love, on the contrary we will be a big family with more love to share, do you understand me? "

Angela kept crying, just at that moment Teddy came in to the kitchen.

"Honey, what's going on?!"

"Please mommy, don't send me away, I love you and I love my sisters too." Immediately Teddy joined Owen and they both wrapped the little girl in his arms.

Teddy didn't stop stroking her daughter's hair and place kisses all over her small face soaked in tears.

"Why don't you tell mommy what's going on?" Owen encouraged her and Angela finally told her mother everything in tears.

"I want you to listen to me very well, my love. I would rather lose everything rather than allow something or someone to take you away from me… I love you with all my heart, never doubt it, you are the only and most beautiful thing I have left of your daddy, Henry… whatever happens you will always be my baby, you… you saved my life, I love you since you were inside me belly like your sisters and I will always love you, please never forget this."

This time it was Owen's turn. "Maybe you and I don't share the same blood, but I love you with the same love I have for your sisters, you are a very special girl for me Angela."

"So..." Angela began to say but stopped.

"So what?" Owen asked.

"Nothing, I don't want my daddy Henry to get mad."

"Why would your daddy get mad?" Teddy asked.

"From what I'm going to say… you're going to be my sisters' daddy and my daddy is in heaven, so… so, can you be my daddy too?" Angela asked, sobbing.

Owen turned to see Teddy who just nodded with a smile.

"I don't think your dad is going to be mad, he was the nicest man I met in my life, he loved your mom with all his heart, just like I do… and even though he will always be your daddy, it would make me very happy if you called me dad… those ballet girls will be even more jealous, now you will have two daddies". Owen said and then tickled Angela's ribs, making her laugh.

"And Mrs. Evelyn? Can I call her grandma?"

"You would have to ask her that, my angel." Teddy answered.

"I already asked her and she said I had to ask you first, Mommy."

"Of course Mrs. Evelyn can be your grandma." The three remained embraced for a moment, finally things began to get better.

"Mommy?"

"Tell me, my angel."

"Do you forgive me for being a bad girl?"

"There's nothing to forgive, baby. And you are not bad, do you understand me? You are the sweetest girl in this world."

"Ok, enough tears. You two ladies go back to bed." Owen said trying to lighten the moment. "Today we will have breakfast in bed, French toast and hot chocolate."

"With marshmallows!" Angela added, smiling.

"Hot chocolate WITH marshmallows". Owen said, also smiling.

Teddy and Angela returned to bed, the little one snuggled against her mother's body. Teddy hissed when she felt the icy feet of her little girl.

"Sorry Mommy, I lost my socks."

"Always". Teddy said, placing a kiss on her head, in minutes the girl was asleep again. This time in her little face looked peaceful, the frown on her forehead had disappeared.

When Owen returned to the room a big smile appeared on his face at the image that received him. He almost wanted to take a picture and capture the moment forever. Angela had her small head buried in Teddy's side, while with one hand she caressed her daughter's hair and with the other her baby bump.

"Breakfast is ready". Owen whispered.

"She fell asleep again, poor thing, she probably hadn't slept well for weeks."

Owen took his place in the bed leaning against the headboard and also stroking Angela's soft hair.

"We'll be fine, you'll see."

"I know". Teddy answered.

Finally things began to fall into place, the black cloud seemed to clear and the future promised better days, with the arrival of the twins they would finally be complete. Neither Owen nor Teddy could wait to become a big family, luckily the day was getting closer…

Song: Photograph - Ed Sheeran