Hi! Thank you for continuing to read this! This is a bit of a filler chapter and I wanted to show Teddy being a badass doctor as I feel like all I've shown is her talking to people so far. So most of this chapter is based of season 11 episode 7.
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'Owen?' A sweet calm boxed called waiters by for a response.
'Yeh,' he responded while joining Teddy outside of the trailer.
'I think I'm going to come back to Seattle. I need a change and it means that I can by nearer to Michelle, who's living in Oregon but she says she wants to move to Washington soon.' She had a serous look all over her face but you could tell the idea of coming back excited her. 'This week has been crazy but it has been one of the best weeks on my life and I need to find a place to live and a job...'
'Stay with me...' he spurted out but he meant every word
'Owen looks at this place! I'm not living in that sofa!'
'No we'll get a bigger place near the hospital but far away enough so we can have a garden. It'll be like old times Teddy.'
Teddy knew that Owen had enjoyed this week as much as she did and she knew he was really lonely after Cristina and to be honest she needed some company too.
'Okay then I'm in but it better have big bay windows and a good garden.'
'Don't worry it will have the best bay windows and garden in Seattle!' He joked while just giving the Teddy the biggest smile.
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That night Teddy flew back to MedCon with a long list of things to do as she had to hand in her resignation and sort out selling her apartment and sort out the transition with Greg running it. Luckily for her, Owen promised Teddy a job when she returned as well as many prospective properties for both of them to look around. But never the less the two weeks she spent away were some of the hardest trying to arranging everything in Germany but the motivation of seeing Michelle, Arizona and Owen a lot more got her through it especially since after Michelle visit to Seattle she was willing to move there to be closer to her sister. And soon the two weeks had flown by and Teddy, although not completely happy with how she left MedCon, had managed to some how pack up her apartment and sell it and send some of her things over to Seattle to which Arizona and Callie had kindly agreed for her box's to be in their garage until she sorted out a place although their marriage was still on the rocks.
Soon it was Teddy's first day back at work and she couldn't have been more excited.
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Hi sorry i didn't catch you this morning, it's been so crazy with Herman atm haha - I swear she's running me to the ground as I'm left covering her service again but hope u have a nice first day backs at work! xxx
Teddy glanced at her phone as she was just heading out of the attending lounge to the ER after just being paged to a man, who had just jumped two stores out of a burning building with his wife. The adrenaline was pounding through her veins - this is why she became a doctor the adrenaline, blood and split second decisions- it was the reason why she managed so well in Iraq. Owen had really pulled many strings for her as he'd re-instated her as head of Cardio as the new head of Cardio Dr Pierce was struggling with being managing the department especially being so young and both of them had agreed that she needed a few more years being an attending before running the department.
'I'm here what have we got?' She shouted to Owen, Meredith and the residents in trauma 1. Her eyes met another doctor she'd never seen before but there wasn't any time to introduce herself to the serious looking surgeon.
'Hattie Straghaun, we've just found a pulse but it's barely palpable so can you check the husband and come and join my in trauma 2 to assess her?' Meredith responded while preparing the gurney to move to trauma 2 with Hattie.
Teddy got right to it, ordering an echo on the husband as she found muffled heart sounds so was worried about fluid surrounding the heart. That was when she heard the shouting coming from the central nurses station in the ER.
'I want another doctor now she's a junkie!' the female voice screamed drawing the attention of all the nurses, patients and doctors nearby.
'I need to check on Hattie now, he seems just about stable now but page me if there's any change.' She instructed while dashing to trauma 2.
'Nice to see you again Dr Altman.' Commented a familiar voice and Teddy looked up to see Derek.
'Nice to see you too, now can you give me details...'
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Teddy was just about to go into surgery on Hattie when she just had to dash into a closet to grab something when she saw that same doctor she saw when she first came into trauma 1 but now she didn't seem so in charge and serious. She had tears rolling down her eyes and her mascara was smudged across her face.
'Hey, are you okay?' Teddy whispered while giving a caring and sympathetic look at the doctor.
'I don't even know you.' She responded while giving Teddy a lost and upset stare. 'But you've probably already heard about me - the junkie head of neuro!'
'Teddy, Teddy Altman new head of Cardio and yes I heard the shouting but I can tell by just looking at you that you are strong and fearless and that there was an incredible distressed women out there shouting that and I don't know the whole picture. But you deserve your own rights and you don't have to tell anyone any of your personal details unless you don't want to or it's jeopardising your ability to carry out medicine.' Teddy slowly explained to the doctor.
The doctor smiled at Teddy. Despite not knowing her she had shown kindness when it was needed most and she would never forgot that.
'Thank you.' She said and she had never meant those words so much before. 'Amelia Shepherd - head of Neuro.' She said while wiping her tears and putting out her hands like she was officially introducing herself. 'You're right but I think I need to go to the chief to explicitly say that I'm sober and I'm in no way jeopardising my patients.'
'I'll come with you.' Teddy smiled while opening the closet door and the two walked out and a friendship was born.
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What do you think of Teddy and Amelia's friendship? I really wished that they could of been friends ever since Teddy returned in the show as they're both two strong women! I really appreciate all of the people reading this and please leave me any suggestions!
