A/N: Rating changes from General to Teen/Mature here
Summary: Valentine's morning starts early for some, and finished with family breakfasts...
Ben & Miranda's house
Ben has set alarm early as his shift starts this morning. Station 19 A shift begins today at 7:30 so he sets it so he can hopefully wake his wife with kisses before heading to the Station for his 24 hour shift. He hates that he isn't home today for Valentine's Day, but was glad that Cormac had volunteered to watch their boys so they could have a quiet, intimate evening at home. He'd prepared a special dinner for two and they ate in front of the fireplace, then stretched out on the floor in front of the fire enjoying one another. At midnight, Miranda had woken and suggested they sleep in the bed, knowing it would be so much more comfortable than the floor.
When his alarm sounds, he quickly silences it and rolls over to kiss his wife. He wakes by trailing kissing around her breasts while his hand reaches between her legs, loving that they'd slept naked without the teenaged boys at home. He wishes he could stay and cuddle, but knows he must get up not long after another amazing orgasim. He has his shower, dresses in his uniform and pulls out his pre-written Valentine's note and bubble bath for his wife.
Miranda falls back asleep, sated, exhausted, knowing she has plenty of time before she needs to rescue her teens from Cormac's house. When she finally rolls awake it's 10am, she checks her phone and she just has one message from Ben saying he got to work. She looks on her bedside table and there is a note saying, "Enjoy a bubble bath before you pick up the boys. Love you. Ben"
She thinks that is a great idea, but first decides to ensure the living room and kitchen were cleaned up from their activities the night before. Seeing that Ben has already cleaned both areas, she flips the laundry and heads to enjoy her bath.
Before slipping into the tub, she sends Ben a text, "Thanks for tidying up. And love the strawberry bubbles. You are amazing."
After finishing some more laundry, having a quiet coffee and croissant, Miranda decides she should get dressed and heads to pickup her boys.
Amelia & Link's hotel room
Amelia rolls over, realizing her breasts are hard and sore, so she quickly and quietly slips out of the bed so she can pump. Link had remembered to bring her pump when they were packing up, knowing that she would need to pump in the morning. One morning when she'd unexpectedly been called into work to help with a number of emergency craniotomies from a car accident, she'd called him at 4am crying that her breasts were so sore. At Link's suggestion she'd headed up to the maternity floor. The head overnight nurse took one look at her and discreetly led her into the pumping room and set her up with the double pump.
Once Amelia pumped, she placed the full bottles into the fridge, slipped into the bathroom and then back into bed, snuggling with her partner.
"Mm-mmm, you smell like milk. You OK?" he asks, nuzzling close to her.
"Thanks for packing the pump. I feel much better," she replies.
"Are you ready to go back to sleep, or do you need some activity before sleeping," he wonders aloud.
"Hm-mmm…" she moans as she feels his hand slip between her legs.
It is a few hours later when they finally hit the shower and enjoy the amazing hotel shower with endless hot water, then head downstairs to breakfast before heading home.
Meredith's house
Meredith woke early hearing Scout on the baby monitor. "Infants," she moans to herself as she rolls out of bed and heads down the hall to grab him from his crib and changes his diaper. Scout tries to nuzzle in looking for his normal morning source of milk, so his aunt quickly turns him around so he is facing away from her chest and whispers in his ear, "Sorry sweetie, Auntie Mer can't help you there. We'll get your bottle."
Quietly she takes him downstairs, grabs him a bottle of breastmilk from the fridge and takes him to the couch. She hopes she can keep her three sleeping, so she can doze while Scout has his first feed of the day. He will sometimes go back to sleep, but not always, and she's hoping that since she has all four kids, he'll sleep and so will hers.
About 7:30 she hears footsteps quietly sneaking down the stairs and some whispering. She thinks that it must be Zola and Ellis, Bailey can't be that quiet unless he's sitting drawing. To her kids she quietly says, "Scouts asleep here. Morning, happy Valentine's."
"Morning mom," Zola says quietly. "Mommy, its Valentines!" says Ellis a little louder.
"Shhh… Auntie Maggie is on her way home and will cook waffles for breakfast. If you want a pre-breakfast snack, please have fruit. Any chance you can make me a coffee?"
"I can do that," Zola says.
"ZoZo, can you open a banana for me?" Ellis asks.
"Let's go," Zola says as they scamper into the kitchen. She purchased a keurig just for mornings like this when she needs a cup of coffee quickly. Zola and Bailey can make her coffee unassisted, as long as the cream container in the fridge isn't too full.
Cormac's house
Cormac texts Meredith with a corny Valentine's Day message and heads out a run. It's early, but he knows the four teenagers won't be up before 10. They had been playing video games until after 2am.
Instead of heading to the lake this morning, he jogs to the florist, picking up a single lavender coloured rose and then heads to Meredith's house. Once at her house he knocks gently before unlocking the door and slipping inside. He is quickly met by Ellis, "Dr 'Mac, it's Valentine's Day! Auntie Maggie is making strawberry waffles"
"Aren't you lucky. I think you are a strawberry monster. Now where is your mommy?" he teases, pulling her up and into his arms.
"She's changing Scout. Did you bring her a flower? Purple is her favourite colour," Ellis whispers in his ear.
"I did. Let's go into the kitchen so I can grab some water," he says, walking towards the kitchen and setting her on the bar stool.
"Morning, Hayes," Maggie says from behind the waffle maker.
"Morning, how was the night shift?" he replies, grabbing a glass and filling it with water.
"Not too bad, I got some sleep. Now it's breakfast time. Are you staying?" she says.
"No, I'm on my morning run, just stopped by for a minute. I have four teenage boys to feed."
"Mer's changing Scout and waking Bailey. Four? Did they multiply?"
"I have Ben and Bailey's two. Gave them a night to themselves," he says as he feels an arm sneak around his waist and turns to place a kiss on her cheek but finds Scout and ends up kissing him forgetting she might have him in her arms.
"Just let me put him down. I wasn't expecting you to stop by this morning," she says.
"I needed a kiss from my girl," he whispers in her ear once Scout is placed in his highchair and he wraps her securely in the circle of his arms.
"This is a great surprise. And a beautiful rose. My favourite colour," she says.
"Ellie saw it and knew it was for you because of its colour," he replies.
"Smart kid. Guessing yours aren't up yet?"
"Too early for them, but I should get back and feed them breakfast," he comments. And then quietly intended just for her, "I'm so glad we've found one another."
"Me, too," she says, leading him to the front door for a little privacy.
Cormac finishes his run, showers and heads into his kitchen, first making himself a pot of tea. Then starts breakfast, Irish soda bread, scrambled eggs, sausage and hashbrowns. The smells of the food cooking brings the teenagers slowly to the kitchen.
"Wow! This smells great dad," Liam says.
"Smells wonderful, Dr Hayes," Joey adds.
"Thanks, can you two set the table? I have tea in the teapot. If you want coffee, you'll need to put the pot on," he says.
"Joey, do you drink tea? Coffee? Hot Chocolate?" Liam says, pouring himself a tea.
"A hot chocolate would be great. Ben doesn't like us having coffee," he says and Liam shows him the Keurig and hands him a mug.
"I'm going to get the other two. Breakfast is ready to be put on the table," Cormac says leaving the kitchen. Getting the other two up takes a little bit. He rarely lets his boys sleep in, but it was nice not to have to race them out of the house this morning.
It was nearly noon when Miranda arrives and picks up her two boys. "Thank you Dr Hayes. It was a great night without worrying about them," she says.
"They weren't a problem. They all played soccer before dinner, tested the new games room at Meredith's and then played games here too," he replies.
"And we'll take your two on Friday?" she confirms.
"Thanks," he says.
A/N: Thanks for the likes and comments. There will be at least 6 chapters to this story...
If you are enjoying this story and want to read more about Meredith and Cormac and their families, check out my other stories in this series including But I'd Rather, A Christmas Future, Christmas Together and On Call New Years Eve.