A/N:
So I updated… later than I planned, but there you go. Anyways, to clarify some stuff: Lorelai got married to Luke on June 3rd, because that was the day they were supposed to get married and coincidently it was also a year after Rory's court date. It was however Lorelai who accompanied her daughter to court and she did do all her community service while continuing to study at Yale. Logan did ask Rory to marry him and she did decline, (though I still don't understand why that idiot of a Logan broke up. I mean, seriously, if you love someone, you don't walk away just because they don't want to get married yet). Lorelai and Addison attended High School together and they were friends, even though Addison was geeky and Lorelai was anything but. Read and review darlings…
"Come in."
"Mommy!" Lucy let go of Mark's hand and jumped on her mother's lap.
"Hey Luce," Addison was surprised, why was she here with Mark? "where's aunt Adèle?"
"I said hi to uncle Mark and then we can searching for you." Addison looked up at Mark for a real explanation.
"I thought Adèle might like to see her husband."
Addison eyed him suspiciously. "Who are you and what have you done to Mark Sloan?" Mark shrugged, that was a good question.
"I guess I miss being Uncle Mark."
"You wanna know what I did yesterday?" Lucy demanded her attention back. Mark nodded at Addison and left her office.
"Did you have fun?"
"Lots! First we played Operation and I won and then we saw Snow White and then we ate ice cream."
"Don't forget to breathe honey." Addison told her rambling daughter.
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"Who's presenting?" Bailey asked as she entered the room.
Meredith slightly raised her hand before starting. "Lorelai Gilmore, 22, post-op day 1 from a repair of a subdural hematoma, bomb attack victim. She also has multiple first and second degree burn wounds on the abdomen, arms and legs. "
"What's the follow up on the surgery?"
"CT scan and MRI after she has woken up, to rule out postoperative complications."
"Possible complications?"
"Intracranial pressure, brain edema, infection and seizure." Cristina answered.
"What about the burns?"
"Compresses are being changed at regular intervals."
"I hope they catch the bastard and make him suffer." Alex said to Izzie.
"They just have dr Karev, caught him, that is."
The interns and Bailey turned around to face Derek Shepherd. "Some idiot that decided he didn't like the idea of a black man running for president."
"I hope they accidentally harm him." Bailey muttered.
"So, how's Rory doing?" Derek changed the subject. The six other doctors just stared at him. "The patient?" He asked again.
"I thought her name was Lorelai?" Meredith said.
He didn't get a chance to explain.
"Derek! Is something wrong, is she awake? Why are all these people here? I just went to check my messages and…"
"They're just doing rounds, Lorelai, this is Dr Bailey and her interns. Dr Grey here assisted me on my surgery. This is Lorelai Gilmore, Rory's mother."
"You're her mother?" It was out before Alex could stop himself. Izzie slapped him in the stomach. The woman, fortunately for Alex, grinned.
"My parents didn't find it necessary to talk to their 16-year-old about contraceptives."
Lorelai returned to her place next to the bed, holding her daughter's hand.
"So, Dr Grey? What about it, how is the patient doing?"
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"So, I'm hearing funny rumours about you." Callie cornered Mark outside Addison's office. He grinned when he saw her.
"Do they involve hot smoking sex with you in an on call room?"
"And apparently only with me."
"So my dirty little secret is out."
"Well, it's the kind of dirty I like." Callie teased.
"Is that so, Dr Torres? Maybe we should discuss this issue further in my office."
Callie giggled.
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The hallways are clear again and the noise is gone. They caught the bastard, I saw it on CNN. I hope they torture him. Bastard. 23 people are dead because of him and he was laughing in the camera. You should have seen the faces of the people in the waiting room. This is one of these days that I would've preferred not to work in a hospital. I would've just seen it on TV, sighed about the horridness of this world and gone back to life. Then again, I helped save some of their lives again. Like the little baby Addison Montgomery-Shepherd brought to the world. We did lose his mother unfortunately. I'm against the death penalty, but this guy, well, I hope he gets the chair.
On a brighter note, I have gossip. So first today he is running around with little cutie Lucy Shepherd and then I discover who he's being with exclusively… Joe might not want to tell on McSteamy, but my own eyes have seen it and I know you all have been waiting for this. Hold on to your hats people, it's Callie Torres! Yes, you've read that right. Callie Torres and Mark Sloan are an item. And yes, I am sure. I was doing some paperwork and I see them walking into his office. To my great joy, I was told to page McSteamy about fifteen minutes later because he had a surgery and she came out first, hair still messy and he waited like a minute to come out afterwards. Has McSteamy been tamed, or is it just some weird phase?
Cheers
Nurse Debbie
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"Alex?"
Alex groaned softly. "What?"
They were lying in a bed in an on call room, spooning, Alex's arm around Izzie's waist. "You know that night I was going to an old friend?"
"Yeah?" He still wasn't really awake, but she had gotten his attention.
"I was at the Shepherds."
"The Shepherds?"
"Yeah, I eh." Izzie sighed. "Addison Shepherd invited me because…"
"Iz, everything all right?"
"Yeah, it's just." She turned around and looked into his eyes. "I got pregnant at sixteen."
"You have a kid?"
"I gave her up. I couldn't take care of her." A tear appeared on Izzie's cheek. "It was her birthday that day."
"Hey." Alex wiped the tear away. "Don't cry."
"It's just, you know, seeing Lorelai Gilmore, what if I hadn't"
Alex didn't say anything. He really didn't know what to say. He just held her and let her cry. For her daughter, for all the patients they'd lost today, for the exhaustion.
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"He's so hot when his hands are holding a heart." Cristina looked down intently at her boyfriend in the OR.
Meredith suppressed her grin. "Seriously?"
Cristina looked at her friend and raised her brows. "What? Like you're not turned on by surgeons. Remember when we first saw McSteamy?"
"Hey, I've never slept with him." Meredith answered in her defence.
"He's sleeping with Torres."
"Really?"
"Only with her."
"No way."
"Seriously." Cristina persisted.
"Seriously." Meredith was perplexed
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A sound came from Rory's mouth. Lorelai jumped up and looked from her daughter to her husband, who had recently arrived and back to her daughter, who tried to open her eyes.
"Rory?"
Her eyes opened. "Mom?" A confused weak voice asked.
"Go ask the nurse to page Derek." Lorelai whispered to Luke, who disappeared.
"Honey, you're at the hospital."
"Why? What happened?"
"There was a bomb attack at the Obama rally. There was something with your brain so they operated on you…"
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"Come in." Addison answered the knock on the door.
"I hear you are being held hostage by a little girl?" Derek entered her office with a big grin on his face.
"Daddy!" Lucy jumped of her mother's lap and into her father's.
"Hey, munckin." He twirled Lucy around before setting her on the floor and going to kiss his wife.
"Iew!" Lucy shouted. "Cooties!"
Her parents frowned. That was new.
"Good, that means she'll stay away from boys for a while." Derek whispered in his wife's ear.
"Don't worry. Uncle Mark will help you scare the poor kids to death." She reassured him.
"Uncle Mark?" He repeated, looking confused at his wife.
It was Lucy however, who answered his question. "He's your bestest friend here, isn't he daddy! Like uncle Weiss."
Derek grinned. "You're too smart Lucy Shepherd."
The girl giggled.
A beeper went off. Both Shepherds looked down.
Derek looked up from his beeper to his wife. "She's awake."
Addison sighed. "Thank god."
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Derek looked at the girl, sorry, young woman, lying in the bed. "Derek?"
"Hey, didn't your mom tell me I operated on you?"
She remained silent and stared at him.
"Do you remember what happened?"
Rory shook her head. "No, but Mom told me."
"That's normal." He looked at her chart. "So how are you feeling."
"Like shit." Derek grinned, there was the girl he remembered…
Fourteen years ago
Derek looked around him. He had grown up in New York and he'd been out of the city many times, but he'd never really been in a small town like this before. It was one of those places you drove through hardly even noticing there had been a town. If Addison hadn't told him to park, he probably would've driven through this one too.
"So you come here a lot?"
"Every couple of weeks." Addison smiled at her boyfriend. She wondered if he knew how important this visit was for her.
"My my my, Addison, what a handsome man you have there." Derek's eyes grew at the comment. He looked surprised at the woman standing at what seemed to be a room full of little girls in pumpkin outfits. There was no way that that woman was Lorelai.
"Why thank you miss Patty. He's mine."
"That's a shame dear. But you've done well, he reminds me a bit of husband number two."
Addison grinned. Derek didn't know what to do. Saviour came in the voice of a eight year old girl.
"Addison!"
Addison turned around and hugged the girl. "Hey Rory. This is Derek."
The girl just giggled. Derek lowered himself to the girl's level, if there was anything he knew, it was children. Thanks to his nieces and nephews he had a lot of experience. He motioned her to come near and whispered in her ear.
"I don't have a chocolate factory, but I really love her, so do you think you could pretend that I'm a nice Willy Wonka and tell her how nice I am?"
Rory giggled and nodded. She had the bluest eyes he'd ever seen.
"I'm Rory." She said, shaking his hand.
"Rory, what have I told you about shaking hands with strangers." Rory, luckily, already knew what sarcasm sounded like, certainly when it came to her mother.
Lorelai hugged her friend. "Hot." She whispered in Addison's ear.
Derek got up again and looked into a pair of eyes matching those of the girl.
"Hi, I'm Lorelai Gilmore and I presume you are Derek Shepherd."
"It's a pleasure."
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