Author: PeppermintPatty09
Title: What Makes A Family
Rating: K for Kiddie safe. Rating will change in later chapters.
Fandom: Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice
Pairings/Characters: Addison/Meredith
Genre: Romance, Family
Summary: A/U; Single moms Addison Montgomery and Meredith Grey start a friendship through their young daughters, that develops into more. This is pretty much a fluffy, romantic, family centric story with slight angst and drama.
Disclaimer: The characters of Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice are proudly owned by Shonda Rhimes, production company ShondaLand, and broadcast station ABC. No copyright infringement is intended. Alyssa Harper Grey and Ella Rose Forbes Montgomery are my own.
Authors Note: If the idea of two women or men loving each other and are in a romantic relationship are against your views, please look elsewhere. All mistakes are my own.
Playlist: My Little Girl - Jack Johnson
Chapter Two
My Little Girl
Meredith smiled when she saw her daughter waiting patiently by her class room door. Ally's class still had two minutes before the bell rang for dismissal and the teacher had made them stand in a orderly (or as orderly as you can get with twenty-five excited, hyper, six year olds) line outside the door. When Meredith started to head Ally's way, Ally starting grinning and rocking on her toes, like she was fighting an urge to run to her mommy.
Just as Meredith made it to Ally's class room, the bell rang and Ally plowed into her mommy, thankful her mommy caught her, but then again, her mommy always, always caught her.
"What's up, buttercup?" Ally wiggled her eyebrows.
Meredith barked out a loud laugh causing a few people to look their way. "I am so limiting your time with your aunts and uncles." Meredith took Ally's backpack. "You ready to go? Nana Susan and Grandpa Thatcher are waiting for us."
"Not yet," Ally said. She grabbed her mommy's hand, starting to drag her toward the slender red-head woman she saw early this morning. "I want you to meet my new friend. Her name is Ella. She's really cool and girly but not really girly like Auntie Izzy. My friend Ella knows Batman and she's not afraid to play in the sandbox. We made a huge, huge sandcastle then we jumped in it."
Meredith groaned, she knew what that meant. She would be feeling and seeing sand for weeks and weeks to come. You can never get rid of sand. "Be sure to take your shoes off before you enter your grandparent's house," Meredith informed Ally when they came face to face with - what Meredith thought - to be one of the most gorgeous woman she ever saw and one of the cutest little girl she saw. The little girl, Ella she presumed, was adorable with her lightly wavy strawberry-blonde hair, bright blue eyes and sweet smile. The older woman standing next to her, her mother, Meredith thought was beautiful. With her flawless, delicate milky skin with a hint of tan to it, big, seductive blue eyes that sucked you in, high cheek bones and a heart stopping smile.
Meredith shook her head, getting back to the matter at hands. Her daughter wanted her to meet her new friend.
"Mommy this is my new friend Ella," Ally introduced her mommy to her new best friend. Meredith smiled sweetly at Ella who was shyly hiding behind redhead "gorgeous" woman leg's. Legs that were long, slightly muscles and oh so delicious. Meredith swallowed. "Ella, this is my mommy. Her name is Meredith."
Meredith stepped around her daughter to do the parent thing. "Meredith Grey, Ally's mom," Meredith introduced herself, holding out her hand.
Redhead "gorgeous" woman, took Meredith's hand in her, giving it a nice firm but gently shake. "Addison Montgomery. As you know, the shy princess behind me, is Ella."
Meredith smiled, "Hello, Ella. It's very nice to meet you."
Ally came bouncing around Meredith to see Ella. "It's okay, Ella. My mommy is very nice, and she's a good guy like Batman and Robin, 'cause she makes people feel better."
Addison looked towards Meredith. "You're a doctor?" Addison questioned with an eyebrow arched.
"Surgeon," Meredith corrected kindly. There wasn't a vast difference between a doctor and a surgeon but a couple more years of experience and degrees but still she was a freaking surgeon for Pete's sake!
"My mommy cuts people's heads open," Ally told the duo of redheads. Ella's eyes grew wide, and Addison looked impressed. "Yeah, sometimes she let's me watch her but not all the time. This one time I saw her put a needle into the mans brain when he was awake and stuff. The needle was really big, too. Like bigger than me," Ally said, exaggerating a bit. And how can you not, not when you're six and you're mother sees brain everyday.
"Yucky!" Ella grimaced, her little body shaking a little in disgust. "My mommy is a good guy, too, but she doesn't do real nasty stuff. She helps mommies have babies. She won't let me go see her work. She says I'm too young," Ella said in a mocking voice.
"Then, you can come see my mommy work. It's real cool."
Meredith cleared her throat. Her expression was half-amused, half-chiding. "Ally, you're not Ella's mommy. If Ella's mommy doesn't want Ella to see that kind of stuff then you need to respect her wishes. Please apologize to Mrs. Montgomery."
"I'm sorry, Mrs. Montgomery," Ally apologized, looking at Addison's with tearful apologetic eyes.
"It's okay, sweetie." Addison looked at Meredith. "It's Ms. I'm not married."
Meredith nodded in acknowledgment and wondered mentally why she was slightly thrilled at that news but didn't dwell on it too much. Meredith looked at her watch. "I'm sorry but we really have to go. We're having dinner at my parents house."
"Oh." Addison said, shocked at the disappointment she felt. "Okay. Um…maybe we can get together and set up a play date for the girls. They seem to have taken a shine to one another."
"Yes," Meredith laughed. "I can see that." Meredith looked to where her daughter and her daughter's new friend were playing hopscotch and giggling madly. "Tomorrow when I drop Ally off and talk to her a bit, we can set up something. Does that work for you?"
"That sounds great. It was nice meeting you, Dr. Grey."
"It was a pleasure to meet you, too, Ms. Montgomery."
Addison helped Ella into her booster seat, double checking if it was on right and Ella was safely buckled in. She ruffled her daughter's hair eliciting giggles from Ella. She smiled at her daughter before making her way to the driver's side.
"How was your first day at school?" Addison asked, backing up the car. She knew how hard it was hard for her daughter to make friends. She never got invited to sleepovers with other girls, play dates or invitations for birthday parties. So, when her daughter had told her she made a new friend, she was beyond ecstatic.
Ella thought about it for awhile. She was a little scared and nervous at the beginning. She became even more scared when Michael Jacobs starting making mean faces to her and at recess called her a cry baby and said she has cooties. Ella had started to cry at that moment. It was always hard for her to make new friends. She didn't know why, either. She was nice, never made fun of other people, and smart. Just as Ella was about to run into the bathroom away from the laughing kids a blonde blur came running past her and pushed Michael Jacobs into the ground causing everyone to laugh at him now. And that was when she met Ally, her new best friend.
"It was the best day of my life!" And it was because she had met her first friend today. A friend that she knew would forever be her best friend. "I really like Ally. She's fun and sometimes scary but not mean. She 'minds me of Aunt Charlotte. And likes to talk about nasty stuff like dirt and blood and worms. Ally also likes superheroes like Uncle Cooper. Her favorite superhero is Batman. Oh, and, guess what, mommy?" Ella said with excitement in her voice, she bounced a little in her booster seat.
"What?" Addison said grinning madly.
"Ally doesn't have a daddy either. She told me so." Ella frowned a little has remember that time. "But then she got a little sad. I told her not to be sad because mommy's give the best hugs and kisses not daddies. Never daddies. When I was done telling her that, she hugged me and shared some cookies with me. Isn't that cool, mommy?"
"Yes, baby, it is," Addison smiled at her little girl that had stolen her heart the first time she heard the rapid beating of her baby's heart, and had never given it back. And Addison was just fine with it.
Ally kissed her mommy on the cheek before she took off running towards her grandparent's house. Meredith chuckled when she heard Ally's yell out that the queen has arrived and the party can get started.
"Damn Christina," Meredith muttered. She made a mental note have a very long stern conversation with Christina and Alex. She'd thanked God that Ally did have some good influence in George, Lexie, Izzy and Laura.
Meredith made her way to her parents house. She entered and was met with her whole family. Her step-mom, Susan, walked up to her pulling her into a tight hug.
Meredith pulled back from the embrace. "Hi, Mom," Meredith greeted. Meredith kissed Susan on the cheek.
"Hello, My Merry. I'm so glad you guys are here."
"Me too, mom," Meredith smiled at her mom causing unexpected tears to rush to her eyes. She had missed her family and moving to Seattle to be with them was the best choice, she'd realized.
Meredith was soon pulled into another pair of arms. These arms were nothing like her mom's. These were strong, protective and loving. They were the arms of her daddy, Thatcher. "Hi, daddy," Meredith said softly. The tears that she's been holding in finally fell cascading down her pale cheeks.
"Hi, pumpkin." Thatcher Grey held his daughter tightly in his arms. It's been two years since she's been home. He had missed his pumpkin and his little tiger. Though they talked everyday and emailed each other daily; it wasn't the same as seeing his daughter and granddaughter in person.
Thatcher and Meredith held each other for a few more seconds. Meredith inhaling her father's spicy and sweet scent of Old Spice, cigars and coffee. Thatcher, for himself, was thanking God for bring Meredith and Ally back home to him.
Meredith removed herself from her father's arms. She felt a little embarrassed to have broken down like a little girl when she was a grown woman and shouldn't be needing her daddy anymore but that never seemed like that case. She needed him always. She needed him when she first got braces, she needed him when she had broken her leg from skating, she needed him when she needed to learn to drive, she needed him when she graduated from college and her first day of Medical school, she needed him when she found out she was pregnant with Ally, scared to death and what it would do to her career and fears of becoming a mom, and she needed him the most two years ago. She will always need her daddy.
"I'm going to say him to Laura, Lexie and Eric."
Just as Meredith uttered those very words she was pulled into a triple assaulted hug from her siblings. Six arms wrapped tightly around her, cocooning her and making her feel safe and loved and finally at home. Oh yes moving back home was the best choice.
More to come.
Additional Info:
Meredith is an attending in this fiction. She's thirty-five. Addison is Addison. I don't know her age on Private so I'm putting her at forty-five. Also, coming soon I will be uploading a photo on my profile of what I envision Ally and Ella to look like. So look out for that.
Thanks for all that reviewed, added me to their favorites, and added me to their story and author alerts.