Alright, so I had this chapter written for a few days, but I've had absolutely no time to get online until now. I wanted to add more actually, but if I did it would take me like another week to update the story. So I went ahead and ended it where I did, and I will try to get the next one out as soon as I can. If any of you readers were in the path of the hurricane this weekend I hope you all came through alright.
Thanks for reading and reviewing!
Addison and Arizona stood in silence for a moment before Arizona finally spoke up,
"You know, Callie's downstairs with Sofia, if you want to go see them," she told her. Addison quickly agreed, Callie had sent a few pictures here and there, but she was excited to get to see the little girl in person for the first time since she was born. The pair made their way down to the surgical floor and found Callie by a nurse's station, Sofia sitting on the counter in front of her.
"Mommy," Sofia called out excitedly when she spotted Arizona. Callie turned around and was shocked to see the red head standing next to her wife.
"Addison? What are you doing here?" she asked, lifting Sofia onto the floor then walking over to give Addison a hug.
"I'm here to help out on Derek's case. I figured someone would have told you I was coming," Addison said, returning the hug.
"Nope, no one told me. Derek and Meredith are usually really busy with Olivia though, so it might have just slipped their minds," Callie said. Addison looked a little confused,
"Olivia, like the little girl upstairs Olivia? She's their daughter?" Arizona answered,
"Yeah, I thought you knew that. I thought that was why she was with you."
"No, she was looking at the babies and I found her up there. I knew they had a baby, but I didn't know that was her."
"Yeah, that was Olivia. And this is Sofia," Callie said, picking up the four year old, "Sofia, this is Addison, one of momma's friends."
"Hi," Sofia said a little shyly. Addison smiled, she remembered the little girl right after she was born, clinging to life in the NICU and it was amazing to her how far she had come since then.
"Hi Sofia," she said, "How old are you?"
"Four and a half!" Sofia told her proudly, holding up four fingers.
"Wow, that's awesome," Addison said, she turned to Callie and Arizona, "She' so cute." Callie and Arizona nodded in agreement as Meredith walked down the hall towards them, holding Olivia's hand tightly.
"Hey, you guys still need us to watch Sofia tonight?" She asked. Sofia nodded excitedly, wanting to go play with her best friend. She wiggled out of Callie's arms and ran to stand next to Olivia, taking hold of her free hand.
"That would be great," Arizona said, "we're both on call and Mark has a d-a-t-e," she spelled, not wanting either of the little girls to ask what a date was.
"Sure, it's no problem, Liv's excited to have her over," Meredith assured Callie and Arizona before turning to Addison, "You and Amelia are welcome to stay with us while you're here if you want to."
"I don't know, we should just get a hotel," Addison said unsurely. Meredith shook her head,
"No, we insist. Besides, Amelia is begging Derek to meet Olivia, so I'm sure she would love it if she stayed." Addison nodded,
"Alright we'll stay with you then. Thank you," she said politely.
"It's no problem. We're leaving now, do you have a car? Or you can ride with us."
"We rented a car, so we can just follow you. Do you have any idea where Amelia is?"
"I have no idea, she was with Derek the last time I saw her, but that was about an hour ago." Addison nodded and pulled out her phone to call Amelia and tell her to meet them at the entrance. Callie handed Meredith an overnight bag for Sofia then left with Arizona. Meredith, Addison, Sofia, and Olivia walked out of the hospital and to their respective cars. Meredith had both girls settled into their car seats by the time Derek got there.
"Ready to go?" he asked, giving her a kiss as she shut the door.
"Yepp. Your sister and Addison are following us home."
"That's fine. What do you want to do for dinner?" he asked, knowing they didn't have much food in the house that would serve as dinner.
"We can just order takeout. Do they like Chinese?" Derek nodded and looked at his daughter, whose hair was still choppy and uneven. Meredith saw what he was looking at and chuckled,
"I can fix it myself," she told him and he smiled at her as they pulled into the driveway. After both girls were out of the car they instantly shot off to the tree house in the backyard. Despite the chilly weather it was their favorite place and there was no way they weren't playing in it. When Derek and Meredith found out that they were pregnant Derek knew that he wanted a tree house for his child to play in. They had designed it so that their daughter could use it from an early age and it had steps leading up to the tree house itself. Addison and Amelia pulled in a few seconds after the girls were in the backyard and got out of the car. Amelia looked at the house and the land surrounding it,
"Wow, I'm a little jealous," she said, admiring the view. Addison laughed a little but silently agreed,
"Thanks for letting us stay with you guys. We won't be in the way will we?" she asked.
"Of course not. Why don't we get inside though and order dinner. Are you guys ok with Chinese?" Derek asked. Addison and Amelia nodded and the small group headed inside.
"Where's my niece?" Amelia asked excitedly. She had yet to actually meet her niece and was looking forward to it. Sure she had lots of nieces and nephews from her other sisters already, but the fact that she was Derek's child was a little different.
"They're out back, playing in the tree house," Meredith told her as they walked into the kitchen.
"They're? More than one?" Amelia asked, confused. She was pretty sure Derek had said she had just one niece.
"Her friend is over," Derek informed her. Amelia nodded,
"Got it," she said, heading for the back door.
"Where are you going?" Addison asked for all of them.
"To meet Olivia," she said as the door closed behind her. Meredith followed, knowing her daughter was a little touchy about new people coming into her tree house and the fact that Amelia was her Aunt did nothing to help her.
Amelia climbed the steps and knocked on the door,
"Who is it?" a little voice asked through the wood. Meredith spoke up,
"It's Mommy, I have a surprise for you," she said, knowing her daughter loved surprises. Sure enough the door flew open and Olivia's eager face appeared,
"What is it?" she asked excitedly. Amelia stepped into view,
"Baby, this is your Aunt Amelia. She wanted to meet you," Meredith said. Olivia looked at Amelia who knelt down to her height,
"Hi there, it's nice to meet you," She said, "this tree house is sooo cool," She said over exaggeratedly, knowing little kids loved it when adults thought their stuff was cool.
"Thanks, wanna play with us?" Olivia asked, surprising Meredith at how willing she was to let Amelia in. Not waiting for an answer she took Amelia's hand and pulled her inside. Meredith looked in on them,
"We'll come get you when dinner is ready," she said before climbing back down the stairs as the door shut.
Amelia looked around at the inside of the tree house. IT was full of everything a little girl could ever want. There was a box overflowing with fair dresses and princess outfits, a bin full of Barbie's sat next to a Barbie dream house and a kitchen area was set up with a table in the middle.
"We havin a tea party," Olivia told Amelia, dragging her over to sit next to Sofia. Olivia had on a pink princess dress over her clothes and Sofia was wearing a green one.
"Do you want to join us?" Sofia asked.
"I would love to," Amelia said, grabbing a sparkly crown and placing it on her head.
While Amelia was playing tea party with the two kids Derek, Meredith, and Addison were inside.
"So how's LA?" Derek asked his ex-wife a little awkwardly.
"It's great. I really like it there," She said, "The practice is doing well and everyone there is really nice."
"That's great, you still work with Naomi right?" he asked.
"Yeah, why?" she asked, wondering why Derek was asking about Naomi.
"Well, we were thinking about maybe coming to LA soon and talking to her," he said and Addison suddenly understood.
"You want her to get you pregnant," she said. Meredith nodded,
"We want another baby, but it's hard for me to get pregnant and most of the fertility treatments have side effects for me. And Derek thought that maybe Naomi knew something that could help us."
"I can call her tomorrow and see what she thinks," Addison agreed. It was a little awkward talking to her ex and his wife about them having another baby, but she knew what it was like to not be able to get pregnant and she wanted to help them.
"That would be great," Derek said, "thanks."
"No problem," she said as the doorbell rang.
"That's the food, I'll get it," Meredith said walking to the door. Meredith paid for the food while Derek stuck his head out the back door and called the girls in for dinner.
"Think Amelia's having fun up there?" He asked with a smile as he faced Addison.
"She probably is," she answered. Who knew with Amelia. Meredith was placing food on plates for Sofia and Olivia when they walked through the back door, both of them holding one of Amelia's hands.
"Did ya have fun?" Derek asked the three of them in general. Amelia smiled a nodded,
"Oh yeah, it's been years since I've had a tea party," she said.
"Will you sit next to us?" Olivia asked Amelia, looking at the dinner table.
"Sure girls," she said as they all took their seats and helped themselves to the food scattered around.
Yepp, so that's the end of this chapter, hope you liked it. Leave me a review to let me know what you think. And I'm not really going with any of the private practice storyline that was on the show. I still need Naomi there to get them pregnant. I toyed with the idea that the new doc that's going to be on there was going to help them, but decided since we didn't know much about him yet that I didn't want to, SOOO if you watch Private Practice, just pretend Naomi never left.
Also, I'm going to need help deciding if Meredith and Derek should have a boy or girl and what the babies name should be. I won't do multiples though, just so you know. So let me know what you think so I know what to write.