Chapter 4
Two and a half years later
"I never thought I would walk into that building again." I stated when we stood in front of Seattle-Grace hospital.
"Me neither. But here we are again. We're complete new people. Now we're a family with three beautiful little children."
"I wanna go with dada" Laura said. Laura is a very happy little girl. She's very open towards strangers which I sometimes don't like at all because if someone would want to kidnap her, it wouldn't be difficult. She would easily just go with him, no matter who this person is.
We were currently trying to change that.
Samira on the other hand, who is only one year and six months old, is the complete opposite to her sister. She has brown eyes, just like Alex's, not as much hair as Laura but still blond.
Samira is very shy and would never let a stranger touch her. She starts screaming instantly.
In many ways, they are complete opposites to each other.
But either way, they are both beautiful. Laura is daddy's little girl and Samira is completely mommy's little girl.
Only three weeks ago we welcomed our third child. This time a boy. We named him Sanders. Alex wanted him to be Alex Junior, but after many, long arguments we agreed on Sanders because it means Alexander's son. From the moment he was born we could tell, he would be different to his sisters. He again had blond hair and blue-green eyes, just like Anouk and about his personality the only thing we could say so far is that he has a strong and loud voice.
"See you later then."
"Are you sure you can take them with you?" Alex asked me. I wanted to take the baby with me and of course Samira wanted to come with me too.
"Yes. Richard only wants to talk to me and I will meet the patient after lunch. You can take them then, okay?"
"Sure, love you." he smiled and gave me a quick peck.
"Love you too. Bye Laura. Does mommy get a kiss?"
"Yes." She smiled and gave me a quick peck as well and then said bye with her sweet voice.
Most of the time I had Sanders in a baby sling so Samira could be in the buggy but of course this day I didn't have a buggy with me, so I walked into the hospital with the baby in the baby sling and the toddler on my hip, because she was very whiny today, straight towards the elevators.
Of course I had to run into some familiar faces in the elevator.
"Addie?" Mark and Derek said in union, slightly surprised to see me. Maybe because I was back and never said goodbye when I left or because of the children in my arms. Probably both.
"Hello Mark, Derek" I greeted them, shifting Samira on my hip.
"What are you doing here?"
"Richard asked me to come here for the TTTS-case you guys admitted last week."
"Right. So who are those two little cuties?" Derek asked me smiling while Mark looked at me like I just ripped his heart out.
"This is my daughter Samira, can you say hi sweetie?" I asked her. Because of her shyness she quickly buried her face in the nape of my neck.
"I guess that's a no. And this is my son Sanders."
"Wow, two kids Addison, impressive."
"Well Derek my biological clock is ticking. I won't be able to have kids forever."
"Right. So how old are they?"
"Samira here is one and a half and this little man is only three weeks old and their sister Laura is two and a half." I told them proudly.
"Three children? Wow, congratulations I guess."
"Thank you Derek."
"Well who's the happy guy?" Derek continued asking me questions while Mark eyed me hurt and disappointed.
"Alex Karev."
"Karev as in that intern Karev?" Mark asked, shaking his head in disbelieve.
"Yes Mark, as in the intern, but he's a resident now. A really good one."
"You were pregnant when you left, weren't you?"
"Yes."
"So you kept his baby but not mine?"
"Yes Mark. And I can't say that I regret my decision. He's a great father."
"Well I guess congratulations." He then said with a really, really small smile. I think a person who didn't know Mark would have never called it a smile but I could tell. He tried to be happy for me.
"Thank you."
"You're welcome." He said and his smile grew a little because Samira looked at him curiously.
"You should know that Mark has a daughter and that he's going to be a grandfather soon?" Derek said, then grinning widely at the thought that his best friend who's only forty-two, is already becoming a grandfather.
"You're a grandpa." I laughed teasingly. It was almost like we were five or six years back in time and we were best friends again. And all that in less than a minute.
"I'm not a grandpa, I'm going to be a grandpa." He stated.
"Well it's kind of funny anyway. My oldest kid is two and a half and yours is already having a child herself. How old is she by the way?"
"Seventeen"
"That's young."
"It is, but I'm going to help her."
"You?" I asked, laughing loudly, which made Samira look at me in surprise.
"Yes, I grew up you know."
"Good. That's good."
"What about you and Meredith?" I now asked Derek. I knew how much he always had wanted children but it never seemed to be a good time for us during our marriage.
"Well, I think she's ready to try."
"That's good. You know your child will be younger than Mark's grandchild." I continued laughed at the irony.
"Yeah I know and I'm glad I'm not going to be a grandpa yet."
Then the elevator doors opened and all of us stepped out. Mark and Derek walked towards their offices and I walked directly towards Richards. On my way there I met Miranda Bailey and Callie Torres, Isobel Stevens and George O'Malley.
They were talking about a case they were currently working on together.
"Addison Montgomery!" Bailey greeted me, eying me closely.
"You could have at least e-mailed me that you're a mother now" she said and glared at me.
"Sorry Miranda, no one around here knew, except for Richard. And in about five minutes the whole hospital will know. Listen, I don't have time right now, I have a meeting with the Chief ten minutes ago. We'll talk some other time."
"You don't get away so easily." She told me, looking at me like she was my mother and I did a really bad thing. But she also looked a little disappointed.
Samira was already hiding her face in my hair again, not looking at the scary little woman.
"See you guys around."
Only twenty seconds later I knocked on Richard's office door and he opened it smiling, pulling me into a soft hug to not squash the children in my arms.
"Addison it's good to see you. And you too Samira." He greeted her and she eyed him carefully because he tickled her stomach and she didn't know whether to laugh or to cry.
"Hello Richard, it's good to see you too. How are you and Adele?" I asked him while placing Samira on the ground but she instantly wrapped her arms around my legs.
"We're doing better. We've had marriage counselling and I think we've really made progress."
"That sounds good. Tell me about the case?" I reply and stroke over my daughters hair, smiling at her slightly.
"Well you actually already know everything. Nothing changed since I sent you the file."
"Okay. Then I think I'll talk to the patient later and book an OR for tomorrow. Is that okay?"
"Yes we can book an OR later but I actually told the patient and her husband you would come now because the husband has to go back to work in an hour. I hope that's okay."
"Well I have the kids with me." You say a little uncomfortable.
"You could leave them with me while you're talking to the Riley's."
"I would but Samira won't stay with you. She's very shy and doesn't even like being touched by strangers."
"Then just take them with you. I don't think they'll mind. They already have two children and they are there most of the time."
"Okay. If you say so."
"I'll take you to the room. Do you want to come to dinner tonight? Adele wants to cook and wants to finally see the kids again."
"Sure. I'll talk to Alex but I don't think he'll mind."
"Good. We're here." Richard said when he stopped in front of a door. "Hello Mr. and Mrs. Riley, this is Dr. Addison Montgomery and she's going to do the surgery."
"Hello it's nice to meet you. I know it's not very professional but would you mind if my children would stay here? I actually planned on meeting you this afternoon, I didn't know that I would meet you now, if I had known I would have left them with their father."
"Of course we don't mind. Ours are here too most of the time."
"Thank you. So I'd like to do an ultrasound first so I can have a picture of the current situation."
"Okay."
"Samira mommy has to work for a second."
"Okay" she said quietly with her hoarse voice, clutching my legs so I can barely move.
"So that's going to be a little cold."
"I know." She chuckled. "It's not my first pregnancy or ultrasound."
"Of course not. Well luckily it is like we expected and not worse, so I would say I schedule the surgery for tomorrow morning if that is okay with everyone. Richard?"
"Yes that's great. I'll book an OR for you."
"Do you have any questions?"
"Yes."
"Sorry I have to interrupt, I have to go, bye Mr. and Mrs. Riley. Addison, dinner at six."
"Right, see you later Richard."
One hour later I arrived at our hotel room.
"Hey you're back" Alex greeted me.
"Yes we are. Where's Laura?"
"Taking a nap."
"Samira could use one too. She's been whiny the whole time."
"Ohh are you tired sweetie?"
"Yes" she said, looking at her daddy with her big brown eyes.
"Come on let's get you changed in your pyjamas and then you can take a nap like Laura, how do you like that?"
She nodded her head and reached out for Alex to pick her up. When he had her in his arms she immediately laid her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes.
"I'll put Sanders down. He's been up the whole time, too."
"Well that means we have some alone time then" He smirked.
"Don't even think about it. I'm sorry but I'm still sore."
"It's been three weeks." He whined. I could understand that he was craving for sex as we haven't had sex in more than three months.
"Well, your son has a pretty big head, Dr. Karev." I stated annoyed. It had been a difficult birth. He was much bigger than the girls, through the entire pregnancy already, and he was sixteen days late. We had to induce labour because he didn't want to come out himself.
"But it has been three weeks" he cried.
"Well as long as you don't have to push a ten pound baby out of your vagina you don't get to complain Karev!" With that I walked into the bigger bedroom, changed Sanders` diaper and then placed him in his crib.
Then I walked into the living room where Alex was changing Samira in her pyjamas to not wake up Laura.
"Mama bed?"
"No sweetie, mama doesn't go to bed now."
"Mama me bed?"
"You want me to take you to bed?" I asked my baby girl.
"Yes" she said smiling.
"I'll take you to bed then."
Ten minutes later
"I'm sorry Addie."
"You should be a little more understanding. Or at least try to understand Alex. Even if I wasn't sore anymore, I wouldn't even want sex because the hormones that are still driving me nuts and I just don't feel like it. I totally understand that you want to have sex, I really do but I just can't. Okay?"
"Yes it's okay, I'm sorry. I don't know what got in my head to be such an ass."
"Exactly that's what you are, an ass!" I said still a little mad.
To be continued…
So this was chapter 4 and it was betaed. I really hope you liked it. :)
I`ll update as soon as possible but it might takes a little longer this time.
