"You're so close-"
"Don't tell me I'm close when there's still two freaking babies in me!" Teddy screamed in pain, her knuckles white as she gripped her wifes hand.
"Just one more push, baby. You can do this!" Addison said encouragingly as she kissed her wife's head and held her hand.
Teddy's skin was drenched in sweat, her hair was in a messy bun out of her face and tears were streaming down her cheeks.
"I can't... I caaaaaaaghhhnt! It doesn't feel right" Teddy cried, almost squeezing Addison's fingers off her hands.
"I know it hurts, baby. I know it does, but you just need to push and then our baby will be here, okay? Just one more big push"
"I can't, Addie. It hurts so much and I'm so tired. Something's not right, I know it"
"Um, Teddy?" Dr Mays, the midwife, popped up from between Teddy's legs. "I can't feel your baby's head-"
"-Is it breech?" Addison asked.
"No, I think... I think its transverse-"
"-what the hell does that mean?!" Teddy screamed.
"It means the baby is sideways" Addison's heart started to race.
"We can deliver by C-section-" the midwife started.
"No! No C-section. I'm not going into an OR, you hear me?! Addie tell her no OR's!"
Teddy refused to go into an OR because of what had happened to Henry's all those years ago.
"Teddy, if you don't have a C-section, Dr May's is gonna have to do an internal podalic version" Addison informed her wife, stroking her sweat drenched blonde hair.
"What's that?" Teddy asked, her breath scattered and uneven.
"She's gonna have to reach in and rotate the baby till she can grab one of the feet and then its gonna be delivered breech" Addison kissed Teddy's temple seeing the fear rise in her beautiful green orbs.
"So its still gonna hurt like hell?..." Both Addison and Dr Mays nodded "Just do it, just get it out of me!"
"Are-are you sure that's what you want?" Dr Mays asked nervously.
"Why is she nervous, Addie?! Why the hell is she nervous?!" Teddy roared.
"I-I just haven't personally done one of these before, I've read about them and seen them performed but, this will be my first time performing one" Dr Mays, the young mousey brown haired doctor swallowed hard.
"You're not touching me, Addie you have to do it!" Teddy looked deep into her wife's eyes. "Please" she pleaded.
"I can't but I'm gonna talk Dr Mays through it, okay? Step by step" Addison looked into her wife's eyes reassuringly.
Addison kissed Teddy again before leaving her side and going to stand behind Dr Mays. As she promised, she had talked the young woman through it but her heart broke when she heard her wife roar in pain. The cries from their new born son, Luke filled the room and Addison's heart melted as she cut the spongy cord.
"Teddy, its a boy" Addison beamed before looking to her wife. "Teddy?!" Her eyes filled with terror as she looked at Teddy lying limp on the bed, her eyes closed and her head hanging to one side.
"We need to get her to an OR NOW!" Dr Mays shouted as Teddy started to bleed profusely from her uterus. "Page Dr Robbins!"
"What the hell is happening?!" Addison demanded, following the team of doctors as they ran with Teddy passed out in the hospital bed towards the OR.
Arizona, who was checking on a baby in the NICU, caught sight of them running down the halls, her best friend looking almost lifeless in the bed and Addison running behind them as the beeping of a 911 on her pager went off.
"What's going on?" She asked as she darted out of the room and caught up with them.
"Baby number two is still inside her!" Dr Mays looked at the blonde Pediatric Surgeon with terrified eyes.
As Teddy was wheeled into an OR, Arizona ran and started to scrub in, followed by the redhead, who too started to scrub in. Normally Arizona would have told Addison to wait outside but she knew exactly what the red was going through. She knew what that fear was like. If Addison needed to be in that OR then she wasn't going to tell her otherwise.
As Arizona ran into the OR, freshly sterilised, Dr Mays handed her the tiny infant who was starting to look blue.
"Come on, baby!" Arizona huffed as she took the child in her arms and placed it on the tiny baby OR table opposite Teddy.
"I need more suction in here!" Dr Mays demanded, she couldn't see anything but a pool of glistening red blood. "Dammit I can't stop the bleeding. Where is this fucking bleeder?!" Her hands searched Teddy's body cavity frantically, looking for any holes or tears that would be causing her to bleed out this much.
"Move!" Addison growled, pushing the younger doctor out of the way so she was now lead surgeon.
"Dr Altman-Montgomery-"
"-I got it!" Addison smiled slightly, plugging the hole with her finger. "How's my baby doing, Arizona?"
Arizona stayed silent. She hadn't even heard her best friends plea, let alone noticed that Addison was now operating on her own wife. She was too busy trying to get the little baby to breathe.
"C'mon little girl, breathe for me!" Arizona pleaded, rubbing the baby's chest with her fingers.
"Arizona!" Addison snapped.
Before Arizona could answer, Emma started to pink up and let out a hearty cry. A wave of relief washed over everybody in the room.
"Dammit, I can't stop the bleeding!" Addison growled as she clamped her wife's artery off.
Teddy's heart monitor started to beep frantically and Addison felt like her heart was in her mouth.
"She's in V-fib" one of the doctors alerted the room.
"She's crashing!" Another one added as the low ominous beep rang out. "Start bagging her!"
"Starting CPR!"
Addison watched as the scene folded out, she was physically unable to do anything. She felt Arizona push her out of the way as she took Addison's place.
"Charging 120... Clear" Arizona yelled as she shocked Teddy, that low ominous beep still ringing out. "She's still in V-fib... Charge the paddles at 200!"
"Charged at 200" she heard a random doctor shout.
"Clear!" Arizona shouted again, shocking her best friend once more.
"Sinus tach!" One of the doctors breathed a laugh of relief as the heart monitor returned to normal.
"She's back, Addison. She's back!" Arizona sighed as she took over sewing Teddy back up.
Addison let out the giant breath she didn't know she had been holding in, before pushing herself off the wall and moving so she was next to Arizona.
"I got this, you go be with your babies!" Arizona turned her head to look at Addison. "You saved my wife's life and I'm going to save yours, okay? I promise you, I've got this"
Addison and Arizona shared a look, Arizona's eyes promising Addison she had this and Addison's pleading with her. The look of trust was obvious in both women's eyes and Addison took one last look at her wife before running off to check on her babies. As she ran out of the OR, she saw Callie, Owen and Cristina waiting outside the door, terrified looks on their faces.
"She's gonna be okay" Addison choked out before breaking down.
Callie caught her best friend in her before she hit the floor. Addison grabbed the material of Callie's scrubs as she cried on her chest, the two of them now sat on the floor.
"I thought I lost her, Cal" Addison cried. "I was so scared I just-I just stood there"
"Shhhhh, Addie" Callie stroked Addison's silky red hair. "She's gonna be okay, Arizona isn't going to let anything happen" Callie tightened her soothing, loving grip around her best friend, trying herself not to cry with Addison.
"The babies?" Addison sniffled after a few minutes, looking up into Callie's chocolate eyes. "Where are they?"
"They're up in maternity, Karev is with them"
"Karev?" Addison's eyes widened. Why the hell was a Pediatric Surgeon with her kids?!
"Nooooo! They're fine. They're perfect. He went up there to double check, that's all!"
Callie stood up and held out a hand for Addison and pulled her up. They both walked towards the maternity ward in silence, Callie not letting go of her best friends hand. She knew Addison was still worried about Teddy and she knew that, despite the gesture being small, she was comforting Addison in some way.
They hadn't wanted to know the sex of the babies, and so far, all Addison knew was that she had a son. Everything in the OR with Teddy had been so rushed she hadn't even registered that she now also had a daughter too. Addison walked into the room to find Karev holding her son in her arms while her daughter slept soundly in the cot.
"Hey little fella, time to meet your Mommy!" Alex smiled as he handed the boy to Addison once she was sitting in the chair.
"Hiiii little guy" Addison smiled as she looked down at the tiny perfect bundle of joy on her arms.
"Aaaand this is your daughter" Alex smiled, placing the baby girl into Addison's other arm.
"A girl?!" Addison breathed, smiling more to herself. "Hiiii there little girl"
Callie and Alex watched Addison for a few moments before they left the room, Callie heading to the daycare so she could go and cuddle her own baby.
"Hi you guys" Addison smiled. "I'm your Mommy, Addison. Your other Mommy is still in surgery but you're gonna meet her really soon. I promise! You're gonna love her, she's so beautiful and kind and funny and she's so smart, and no matter what, she always smells amazing... Although you probably know that as you lived in her for 9 months. I'm so glad I finally got to meet you guys".
Teddy was wheeled out of the OR and into recovery within 40 minutes of Addison leaving and as soon as she had come to, she was giving the nurses and Arizona, who had stayed by her side, a hard time.
"I'm fine. Now let me go and see my babies!" Teddy snapped.
"Tedds, you can go and see them in an hour. You know you need to stay in recovery until we know you're okay" Arizona scolded her friend, although she did want nothing more than to wheel her up to the room so she could see her wife and her two precious, beautiful babies.
"Arizona, you can either wheel me up there or I'll walk up there myself!" Teddy huffed, trying to push herself up from the bed.
"Fine!" Arizona rolled her eyes and helped Teddy sit up so she wouldn't rip her stitches. "Just sit there and I'll get you a wheelchair!"
"Thank you" Teddy said in a serious tone.
"For what?" Arizona asked as she helped Teddy from the bed into the wheelchair.
"Everything" Teddy took Arizona's hand in her own.
"Don't thank me. Just sit there quietly and don't say anything until we get to the maternity ward"
Thankfully the ward wasn't too far from where Teddy and Arizona were, but breaking Teddy out of recovery was a challenge until Cristina Yang -who had originally come to check on Teddy- yelled at the recovery nurse and scared the crap out of her.
Teddy really loved Cristina sometimes!
Before Arizona had broke Teddy out of recovery, she had showed her pictures of her son and daughter and had informed her that their son was born 7 and a half minutes later.
When Arizona wheeled Teddy to the room, Addison was sat in the big pink chair, a baby in each arm.
"Teddy?!" She asked in a loud whisper. "Shouldn't you be in recovery?"
"I am" Teddy smiled, her family being the only thing she needed right now.
"Hey guys, this is your other Mommy" Addison smiled as the babies blinked their eyes sleepily, carefully -with the help of Arizona- placing their babies into Teddy's arms.
Teddy's face lit up as a wave of joy emerged from her. She had never felt this happy before. She didn't even know she was capable of such a strong feeling. She loved these two perfect little lives in her arms more than anything! Addison smiled as she watched her wife, who had literally been dead just a few hours before, light up and beam over the children in her arms.
Arizona had left the room, a goofy smile on her face, although she didn't go far in fear she might be needed if something happened.
Teddy handed their son back over to Addison, their daughter still in her arms.
"We need to pick names" Teddy smiled, not taking her eyes off the adorable, button nosed little girl in her arms.
Teddy and Addison had decided that they were going to wait until the twins were born to pick names, hoping they would know when they held their babies. Wanting a name that would suit the child, not a child that would suit a name.
"I kinda like the name Luke for a boy" Addison cooed.
"Me too"
"Do you like that name, little boy? Luke?" Addison looked down at her son, and smiling when he gurgled.
"So we've got Luke and what about... Lucy?" Teddy asked, scrunching up her face as she realised she didn't really like the sound of it.
"What about Ellen?" Addison asked.
"No... Oooohhh-"
"-Emma" both Addison and Teddy said in unison, smiling.
"Em-ma" Teddy smiled, looking down at the girl in her arms. "Emma...I think she likes it!" Teddy laughed, looking at her wife and biting her lip as she smiled.
"Luke and Emma Altman-Montgomery" Addison said aloud. "Its perfect... You're perfect"
"We're perfect" Teddy corrected her wife before leaning over and placing a kiss on her lips. "I love you so freaking much, you know that?!"
"I love you so freaking much too!"