AU: if amelia never told link he was the father
"Amelia, you have to tell him eventually. Especially if he's asking." Meredith reprimanded as she stirred in sugar into her coffee. Since Scout was at school age everyone had been telling her he'd be asking questions about his father, and Amelia had been dreading that conversation. He had asked the question last night though, he asked Amelia why he didn't have a dad present, his friend has two dads, and he could never recall him having one or mention of one.
"There's nothing to tell him, Mer." Amelia sighed as she situated her lab coat, and pulled her hair back.
"Well, he has a dad. Who may I add has no idea, that it's their child."
"Link made it clear if the baby wasn't his he wasn't interested. So when I found out the baby was his I realized, if he can't love me for me he doesn't deserve to love my kid. At the end of the day he's mine."
"And Link's kid. It takes two to make a baby."
"And only takes one to give them sufficient love no matter what." Amelia sighed, sending a glare towards her sister before leaving the attendings lounge. Since Link left her and she's had no contact with him, and wasn't interested in doing so.
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"Mom?" Scout asked as he walked into his mother's room.
"Yeah babe?" She patted the space in her bed next to her. Scout crawled into bed next to her and passed her a paper.
"We have to do a project about our lives, like where our names come from and our parents and like where we were born and stuff like that." He pointed to each bullet point that had the criteria.
"Alright." Amelia smiled, knowing her son he was going to try and find information about his father through this. "Seems simple enough, you want to get started now?"
"Hmm." Scout seemed to contemplate this. "No, but maybe you can tell me the things I need to know?"
"Okay." Amelia braced herself and sat up before passing the piece of paper back to him. "What do you need to know?"
"How did you and my dad meet?" Amelia leaned over to see the sheet of paper.
"I don't see that as a question on the list." She then pointed to one of the bullets on the list. "Here, we can do the 'where we're you born question'." Amelia chuckled scooting closer to her son and wrapping her arm around her son. "I was in LA that's in California. It was late at night and I couldn't sleep, because you were kicking up a storm."
"Did I hurt you when I would kick."
"Nope, didn't hurt a bit. It was just hard to get comfortable. Back to my story, I went outside and sat on the beach, then your Aunt Addison came and sat with me for awhile. It took her a long time to convince me that I needed to go to the hospital."
"Why didn't you want to go to the hospital?"
"I was scared." She forced a smile, thinking about her first son, but she wasn't going to get into that at the moment. "But then early early early in the morning you came, and I saw your cute little face and you were healthy and perfect. And I wasn't scared anymore because I had you." Scout smiled at his mother, before asking the next question.
"Why'd you name me Scout?" Amelia hesitated for a moment. He'd been named Scout because it correlated with his fathers name, and when she told Link it was a boy he'd suggested the name and at first she hated it, but when she saw her son for the first time she knew he was a Scout.
"Your name comes from a character in a book. You'll get to read it when your a bit older."
"I don't have siblings, so can I talk about Zola and bailey and Ellis?"
