Chapter 29

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Nineteen days have passed since Zola started sleeping in her own room and while it has been a hard adjustment for Addison and Derek they are starting to get used to having Zola be in her own room rather than in theirs.

It is early evening and Addison is walking into The Attendings lounge, looking for Derek, who she is relieved to find, talking to Amelia.

"Good, there you are." Addison says to Derek.

"Here I am, what's going on?" Derek asks curious.

"Arizona and I just got a call, I've got to go with Alex to a little hospital to get a premature newborn infant who needs treatment that the hospital isn't equipped to handle. Even with what I can do I won't be able to take all the equipment I need with me to operate on her there, so I have to get her and bring her back here, which means I can't get Zola from day care." Addison explains.

"I was going to try to find you, I have to go into surgery with Arizona and Mark, a kid was attacked by a dog." Derek explains.

"Oh." Addison says, looking concerned.

"Don't worry, guys, I'll get Zola." Amelia says, "I'm off for the night so we can have an aunt and niece night."

"Okay." Addison says, with a nod, "If we're not home in the morning when you have to come into work bring her into day care again." Addison requests.

"Sure." Amelia answers with a nod, "Don't worry guys, Zola is going to have a great time with her Aunt Amelia."

"I know." Derek says, clearly trusting his sister, "I'll try to call before bedtime to check in on her."

"Same." Addison says.

"Okay." Amelia says, standing up and walking over to get her bag, "I'll see you both later." She says, before walking out of the room.


A few minutes after she left Addison and Derek Amelia arrives at the Day Care and she walks over to where Zola is playing,

"Hey Zo." Amelia says, kneeling down next to her niece, "Your Mommy and Daddy are both saving kids so you're going to come home with me, we're going to spend some time together." Amelia tells her niece, as she picks her up, "You got your unicorn?" Amelia asks her niece curious, and she checks to make sure Zola has it, and once she does she heads towards the director.

"Doctor Shepherd, taking Zola for the night?" The Director asks.

"Yeah, Addison and Derek are both working late." Amelia explains.

"I just need you to sign her out." The Director says, handing over a clip board which Amelia uses to sing out Zola and then once she does she gets Zola's diaper bag and heads out with her niece.


While Amelia is picking up Zola from the day care Derek, and Addison who is wearing her scrubs with a Seattle Grace Mercy West Jacket over top, are walking towards the ambulance bay.

"You're taking a lot of equipment for a transfer, aren't you?" Derek asks curious.

"I don't know what I'm going to need, the hospital has basically no supplies suitable for an infant, let alone a premature one, and so I'm going to have to MacGyver things as it is." Addison explains.

"Good luck." Derek says, knowing that it is going to be rather difficult thing for Addison to do and once he does he leans forward and hugs, and kisses the women he loves, and once he does the two of them break apart and Addison heads to the ambulance where Alex is waiting while Derek heads into surgery.


A while after she left the hospital Amelia, holding Zola, are arriving back at the house,

"So, it's just me and you tonight, Zo." Amelia says, to her niece, "We've got a bit of time before dinner so what do you feel like doing?" Amelia asks her niece, who just looks at her, "You're not going to answer me, are you?" she asks, and once more Zola just smiles, "Okay, let's go play with blocks." Amelia says to her niece, as the two of them head into the living room and over to where some of Zola's toys are kept, and they both start to play.


A while after they left the hospital Addison and Alex are arriving at the hospital where the baby they have to bring back to Seattle Grace is. As they arrive they are greeted by a doctor.

"Doctor Montgomery I'm Doctor Wagner, it's a real pleasure to meet you." Doctor Wagner says, telling the truth.

"It's nice to meet you too." Addison says, "This is Doctor Alex Karev, one of the finest Residents I have ever worked with." Addison reveals, and Alex feels rather proud of that introduction, not that he would ever admit that.

"What's the situation?" Alex asks curious.

"The baby was born pre-mature and has a tracheoesophageal fistula, which is causing her to have trouble breathing." Doctor Wagner explains, "We're not equipped to treat something like that, in fact we have no neonatal supplies." He explains, "We would usually send deliveries to another hospital, but it happened so fast." He reveals.

"Okay, it's going to be difficult, but we should be able to make do to make her stable enough to move." Addison explains as she and Alex walk with the Doctor to where the baby is, Addison knowing that if she could deliver a baby while a mother was trapped in a crash car then she can find a way to help this baby, and she will.

A few minutes later Addison and Alex walk into the room where the baby girl is in an incubator and Addison walks over to her,

"Hey Little Girl, we're here to help you." Addison says to the baby, and once she speaks to the baby Addison starts to look around the room, "Okay Alex, we're going to have to get creative, so I need you to do what I tell you to do." She explains.

"Okay." Alex says, being completely willing to do whatever Addison tells him to do as he knows, without a doubt, that Addison is the best hope the baby has.


A while later Addison and Alex have done what they could do to get the baby stable enough so that she can be moved, and the two of them are walking, with the incubator towards the ambulance that is going to take them back to Seattle Grace Mercy West.

"Wait!" A voice yells and Addison and Derek turn to see a women being pushed in a wheelchair.

"Dana, you should be resting." Doctor Wagner says.

"I've got to go with her, she's so little." Dana, who is clearly the mother of the baby says.

"Dana, you can't." Doctor Wagner says, and as he does Addison walks over to her.

"Dana, I'm Doctor Addison Montgomery, and when we get back to Seattle I'm going to be the one who operates on your little girl." Addison explains, kneeling down in front of the mother, "I'm the best there is and I promise you that I am going to give your daughter the best care possible." Addison assures her.

"She's so little, she doesn't have a name yet!" Dana reveals.

"She is little, and she may not have a name yet but she will, when you come up to Seattle to see her after her operation." Addison explains.

"You'll look after her?" Dana asks.

"I'll look after her." Addison assures Dana, reaching out and squeezing her hand before getting up and walking back over to Alex and the two of them, with the baby, leave.


A while later Addison and Alex are riding in the back of the ambulance together, with the baby, both of them paying a lot of attention to the baby to make sure she is okay,

"Have you heard anything about Derek adopting Zola?" Alex asks curious, feeling like he can ask this as he and Addison are friends, or he guesses kind of friends is more accurate.

"Not yet, but it could be a few more weeks, even a month, maybe longer." Addison explains.

"I hope you hear soon." Alex says, as he knows how much Addison wants her and Derek to be official, legal, parents to Zola.

"So, do I." Addison admits.

"Do you think she's going to make it?" Alex asks, clearly referring to the baby.

"I think she's got a really good chance." Addison admits, and as she does the ambulance stops, the engine completely cuts off, causing Addison and Alex to exchange looks, "What's going on up there?" Addison asks, talking to the paramedic in the front.

"I'll get back to you." The paramedic reveals, "Just give me a minute." He requests, and as he does Addison and Alex once more exchange looks, clearly concerned about what is going on.

A couple of minutes later the back door opens revealing the paramedic,

"What's going on?" Alex asks curious.

"I don't know, I don't know what happened to the engine, but I called for another unit." The Paramedic explains, "However, we are in the middle of nowhere and it's probably going to take forever." The paramedic explains, as he collects traffic cones, "I'll put these out and run back to the store I saw about half a mile back. I suggest you both get out of the ambulance."

"And take a newborn, premature, sick infant into the rain, we can't." Addison says, completely meaning that.

"We really can't." Alex confirms.

"You're in an ambulance that is filled with oxygen takes, if you get hit by a car it'll blow up." The paramedic explains.

"I'm not leaving the baby." Addison says, and once more it is more than clear that she means that.

"You're on a hill, and in a curve, so you better hope people see the cones." The paramedic says, before hurrying away, clearly going for help, and as he leaves Addison pulls out her phone, being thrilled that she actually has signal.

"What are you doing?" Alex asks curious.

"Calling for help, and advice." Addison reveals, as she places the call.


At Seattle Grace Mercy West, Jackson who answered the call from Addison, is hurrying into the operating room where Derek, Arizona, and Mark are operating on.

"Jackson, what is it?" Mark asks, seeing him.

"I've got Doctor Montgomery on the phone, something's wrong." Jackson explains.

"Put the phone on speaker." Derek requests, sounding worried, and Jackson does just that, "Addie, what's going on?" Derek asks concerned.

"We've got the baby, but the ambulance has broken down." Addison explains, "We're in the middle of the road, on a hill, in a curve."

"Basically, we're sitting ducks." Alex's voice says, causing everyone to be concerned.

"But we can't take the baby and incubator outside, not with everything she needs to be attached to." Addison reveals, as it becomes clear that the connection is terrible, and Addison starts to figure out what she could safety detach the baby from if needed.

"Jackson leave the phone, see if you can get a helicopter." Derek instructs, and Jackson does just that, "Addie you can't stay in the ambulance." He informs her.

"I have to Derek, I'm figuring out what I can detach the baby from, and while I can detach her from some things I can't detach her from everything." Addison explains, telling the truth, "And I'm not going to leave her alone."

"What's her status at the moment?" Arizona asks, hoping that she can give Addison some kind of advice about what to do, though she knows Addison would have thought about basically anything on her own.

"She's stable, but she won't stay that way for long if I take her out into the weather." Addison explains, knowing that Arizona will realise that.

"At least one of you should get out, there's no point you both being sitting ducks." Mark says, it being more than clear that he is concerned.

"You should go." Alex says to Addison, "I'll look after the baby." Alex says, meaning that.

"No." Addison tells him, "I'm not leaving her."

"Doctor Montgomery, Addison, with all do respect, get out of this ambulance you have a daughter at home." Alex says, and as he does Derek is grateful for Alex's words, though he very much doubts that Addison is going to listen.

"Doctor Karev that is the first and last time you get to try that. I am an Attending, and as an attending I am telling you to get out of this ambulance." Addison tells Alex, her voice completely stern, but before Alex can respond Arizona, Mark, and Derek hear a loud noise,

"ADDISON!" Derek yells, his voice full of pain and terror, but the call is cut off and he, Mark, and Arizona just stare at the phone with a cut connection.

"Emergency dispatch has sent another ambulance." Jackson says, hurrying back into the room, and as he does he notices the three attendings staring at the phone.

"We lost the connection after a really loud noise." Arizona explains, and as she does Mark just looks at his best friend and as he does he realises something.

"Jackson, take over for Derek." Mark requests.

"What?" Jackson asks, sounding shocked.

"The fancy part is over; Arizona and I will guide you through the rest." Mark says, knowing that Derek is close to falling apart, and he needs to know what is going on.

"Okay." Jackson says before hurrying away to scrub in.

"Thank you." Derek says, looking gratefully at his best friend before hurry out of the room knowing that he needs to find out whether Addison is okay, and he needs to find out right now, and to do that he needs to go to Owen and get him to get emergency dispatch on the phone.


In the ambulance Addison and Alex are getting back up, both of them are mainly okay except Addison has a cut on her head which she hit on the incubator.

"Alex, are you okay?" Addison asks, needing to be sure of that.

"I'm fine." Alex assures her and as he does he realises something, "Your bleeding." He says concerned.

"It's nothing, I'm fine." Addison says, though having spent eleven years married to a neurosurgeon tells her that she shouldn't just dismiss a head injury, "Pass me that blanket." Addison requests, referring to the blanket behind Alex and he hands it over, once she has it Addison opens the incubator and takes the baby out.

"I thought you didn't want to take her out." Alex notes.

"I don't, but I don't have a choice anymore." Addison reveals, as she switches the baby over to the manual vent, "Get all the supplies you can carry." Addison tells Alex knowing that thanks to everything she and Arizona taught him Alex will know what they need and as he starts to collect the supplies Addison realises something, "I'm going to have to disconnect the antibiotics." Addison realises.

"Is that a good idea?" Alex asks curious.

"No, but it's what we have to do." Addison says, and as she does she fully takes the baby out of the incubator and holds her close while she manually ventilates the baby.

"Let's go." Alex says, and the two of them climb out of the ambulance and once they are outside they see several bodies and a crashed van on the asphalt.

"Go." Addison tells Alex, knowing that they both can't help as one of them needs to keep ventilating the baby and as soon as Addison speaks Alex hurries away and towards people to help.

As Alex helps and Addison keeps ventilating the baby she sees a teenage girl crawling out of the wrecked van and towards an unconscious women, who is obviously her mother,

"Help, please help!" the girl begs, looking towards Addison and Addison hurries over to her,

"Hey Sweetie, I'm Addison, what's your name?" Addison asks, purposely keeping calm as she continues to Ventilate the baby.

"Lily…" Lily says, stuttering slightly, "Please, please help." She requests.

"Okay, I will, but I need you to do something for me." Addison explains, "I'm going to hand you this baby and you need to do exactly what I'm doing." Addison tells the teenage girl.

"No, you can't, I don't even baby sit." Lily explains.

"You'll be fine. I'm a doctor, and I want to help your family, but I can't do that and look after the baby so you need to." Addison tells her girl, her voice purposely being kind and calm while forceful.

"What do I need to do?" Lily asks

"Just watch me, one, two, squeeze." Addison explains, "Okay, you just need to do that, one, two, squeeze."

"What if I mess up?" Lily asks, clearly afraid.

"You won't, I believe you can do this." Addison tells her, handing the baby over to the teenager, "Okay, one, two, squeeze." Addison explains, allowing Lily to take over squeezing, "Count out loud so I can hear you." Addison requests.

"Okay, one, two, squeeze." Lily says, and she keeps speaking and squeezing.

"Good, that's really good." Addison tells her, "No matter what you do, don't stop squeezing." Addison says, and she watches as Lily continues to do exactly what she told her to do, and once she is sure that the teenage girl has things under control she hurries over to the mother to help her.

Over the next few minutes Addison and Alex move the family members of the road while helping who they can, and as they help Lily continues to ventilate the baby.

"Lily, you're going great." Addison says as she stabilizes glass that is in Lily's sisters eye, and as she does she sees something, "Lily, you see the indicator?"

"Yeah." Lily says, sounding nervous.

"Focus on that, it will help you find a rhythm." Addison tells her.

"Okay…" Lily says, doing as Addison suggested.

"ADDISON!" Alex suddenly yells.

"What?" Addison calls back as she stands.

"There is another kid." Alex explains, "His name is Michael." He explains, not being able to go help him himself as he is trying to help the dad.

"Okay, Lily keep doing what you are doing." Addison tells the girl, before hurrying over to the van, where she finds a boy trapped under the van's heavy door, checking the boy Addison realises that his pause is a little weak and so she quickly starts to try and free him.

"ADDISON, CAR!" Alex yells, "YOU NEED TO GET OFF THE ROAD!" He calls back, as he preforms CPR on the father, but Addison doesn't listen she just keeps trying to free the boy, but when she realises she has no hope she runs up to the turn of the road, and starts to wave her arms, trying to get the drivers attention and to her relief it is an ambulance that stops before it hits her.


A little while later Addison, Alex, the baby and the family are arrive back at the ER of Seattle Grace Mercy West,

"Get the baby to the NICU, I'll be right behind you." Addison tells Alex, as she is walking with Lily and there is something she needs to do before helping the baby.

"Okay." Alex says, before hurrying away.

"ADDISON!" A voice yells and Derek hurries towards her and pulls her into a very, very tight hug, it being more than clear to Addison that he was terrified that he was going to lose her.

"I'm okay." Addison assures him, as they hug, and then break apart.

"You're bleeding, you need stiches." Derek realises, looking at Addison's head.

"It can wait, I promise I'll get it taken care of." Addison says, and as she does she notices something, "MEREDITH." Addison calls and Meredith walks over.

"Doctor Montgomery?" Meredith asks, and Addison turns to Lily.

"Lily this is Doctor Meredith Grey, she's a great doctor, your family is in great hands, go with her." Addison tells the teenager and as she does Lily surprises everyone by giving Addison a hug

"Thank you." Lily tells Addison.

"You're welcome." Addison says, "She should be checked out too." Addison tells Meredith.

"Of course." Meredith says, and she gently leads Lily to the treatment area.

"Now will you let me treat your head?" Derek asks.

"No, I've got to go operate on the baby." Addison explains, "There is a girl with facial damage and glass in the eye, you and Mark should check her." Addison reveals, leaning forward and kissing Derek, "I love you." She says, before hurrying of too surgery, grabbing a band aid to put over the cut.

"I love you too." Derek says, as he watches Addison hurry off, being glad that she seems okay, but he is still worried, especially because she wouldn't let him check her out.


A while later Addison, with Arizona, has performed surgery on the baby and Addison is sitting in the Attending's lounge allowing herself a few moments of rest before she goes to check on Lily and her family, but as she rests Addison is suddenly overcome with a fear that is telling her she missed something important in the surgery and so she gets up and hurries out of the room, heading to the NICU.

A few minutes later Addison gets to the NICU and once there she hurries to the incubator that the baby is in,

"Addison? What's wrong?" Arizona asks concerned.

"I missed a step in the surgery, I forgot to place the tension-free anastomosis." Addison says, as she hurriedly tries to open the incubator.

"Addison, you did everything perfectly." Arizona assures her, putting her hand on Addison back, "Come on, you need to rest, and you need someone to stich up that cut." She says, as she gently leads Addison out of the NICU.

"I'm fine." Addison says.

"No, you're not, and that's okay." Arizona informs Addison, leading her to a gurney so that she can start to fix Addison's head, "You need some rest, and you know that." Arizona says, having gotten the supplies so that she can fix Addison's head.

"I'm overtired." Addison realises, "And probably still in shock."

"Exactly. So, once I finish suturing your head you're going to go take a real rest." Arizona tells Addison.

"You do realise that we're equals, you're not my boss." Addison points out.

"That's why I'm telling you as a friend." Arizona tells her, "And as a friend you should listen."

"Okay." Addison says, and Arizona continues to fix Addison's head, doing so for the next couple of minutes.

"There done, now go rest Addison." Arizona says, and as she does Addison's pager goes off.

"Looks like I can't, there's an emergency." Addison reveals, standing up, "Thank you, Arizona, for everything." She tells her friend.

"You really don't have to thank me." Arizona assures her, and as Addison hurries off Arizona starts to clear up the mess.


A while later Addison has finished her surgery and as she walks out of the scrub room she sees Derek who she walks straight to and hugs, and as they hug Derek holds her close,

"Did you hear about Henry?" Derek asks, after a few moments of just holding Addison.

"Yes, Teddy must be devastated." Addison says as Henry died in surgery, a surgery that was being performed by Cristina and because she was operating at the time Teddy didn't find out until hours later.

"She would be." Derek admits, "Lets go home, Addie." He says.

"Let's go home." Addison confirms, wanting more than anything to see her daughter, and the two of them break apart and head to the attendings lounge so that they can get changed and head home.


A little while later Addison and Derek are arriving home and as they walk in the entry way they find Amelia holding Zola and having the diaper bag on her shoulder

"There you two are. What the hell happened? Neither of you called." Amelia says, and then she notices something, "Addie, what happened to your head?"

"It was a long night." Addison says, as she takes Zola, who she cuddles, "Hey Sweetie, I love you, I love you so much." She says, and to her confusion Derek hugs his sister.

"I love you, Amy." Derek tells her.

"Love you too, Derek." Amelia says, feeling even more confused, and as they break apart Derek takes Zola from Addison.

"Hey Honey, did you have a good time with Aunty Amy?" Derek asks his daughter as Addison hugs Amelia.

"Um so, you two look like crap, and are honestly creeping me out." Amelia says, telling the truth, "I've got to get to the hospital, do you want me to take Zola to day care?" she asks curious, and as she does Addison and Derek exchange looks.

"Yeah, I think that would be good." Derek says, feeling like it would be best right now.

"Okay." Amelia says, taking Zola from her brother, "I'll see you both later." She says, end as she leaves Addison and Derek head upstirs.

About a minute later Addison and Derek are standing together in their bedroom,

"I thought I lost you today." Derek says, as he pushes Addison's hair out of her face.

"You didn't, I'm hear Derek, I'm okay." Addison assures him, taking a step closer, "I love you Derek Christopher Shepherd, I love you so much." Addison says, telling the complete truth.

"And I love you Addison Adrianne Forbes Montgomery." Derek says, before leaning forward and kissing her, and as they kiss the two of them both start to remove each other's clothes as they fall into bed together.