Oh yay a review! I know there aren't many drabble fans out there, but c'mon...It's Addison!
Insides
The life of a woman and her child are in her hands right now, as she's carefully cutting through the uterine wall, in a standard Caesarian section operation. She's learned not to think of it like that by now, but sometimes these things creep up on her, and she wants to scream.
The baby is there, alive but so small, so tiny, much like her mother, and Addison hates this part, this part after getting the baby and making sure it's safe.
She stitches the mother back up, and watches absentmindedly as the happy (deliriously tired) woman receives her child.
It's not lost upon her that for most of history, C-sections are performed by the lonely medicine women.
Reference: Lonely medicine woman throwback to Scarlett, the (slightly disappointing) "sequel" to Gone With the Wind, by Alexandra Ripley.
I don't know where this one is set. Probably in Seattle, after Christmas, before Prom. Dunno.
Please review!