tamelia: what if?

i love it when we play 1950

3 months later

amelias pov: i wake up to willow licking my hand, and my arm around teddy, like always. i let her outside after kissing teddy softly, and moving her arm off of me, so she can sleep, like always. i fill up willows food, and set it down in front of her and she eats it up, like always. i fill up a mug of coffee, and i put some toast in the toaster, like always. after the toast pops out, i put butter and honey on it, like always. then, i walk over to teddys side of the bed, and i kiss her, and gently shake her, like always. then, i hand her her toast and coffee, like always. "good morning babe," i say, and i sit next to her and drink my tea, and eat my bagel. i rest my head on teddys shoulder, and we sit there for a while. this person is my life. this amazing, beautiful, smart, sweet person. we have a perfect family. me and her and willow. we finish eating, and say goodbye to willow and get in our car. my car broke down, so we got a new bmw a few weeks ago, together. i sit in the passenger seat, and i kiss teddy as she pulls out of the parking garage. we have been together over a year, and it has been the best year of my life. she rest her hand on the inside of my thigh as we drive to the hospital.

teddys pov: amelia and i walk up to the doctors lounge our hands both in her jacket pocket. i change into scrubs, and i can feel her eyes watching me as i pull off my shirt. i know i watch her. i give her a quick kiss as i get paged to the cardio icu. "see you later ames. i love you," i say. "bye teds, love you," she says. i walk out, to where my CABG patient has woken up. "hey dr. altman," she says. "thank you for fixing my heart," "all part of the job," i say. her wife hugs me. "you saved her. you saved my life just as much as hers," she says. "of course. its my pleasure," i say. it truly is my pleasure. i know how her wife feels. i feel it every day with amelia. and, of course, i love surgery. this happiness is what fuels me to do this job. the losses are horrible, but the joy makes up for it. 

amelias pov: i walk into the cafeteria, and get in line. soon after, teddy joins me in line, and i kiss her cheek quickly. "hey," she says. we get our food, and sit down with derek, meredith, alex, cristina, and owen. (a/n: again, i do not condone any owen idiocy, but his friendship with teddy is important to her) "hey," owen says. teddy sits down next to him, and i sit next to her and meredith. we eat our food, and as i am taking the last bites, i get paged to the pit. "crap. i gotta go. bye," i say, and kiss teddys cheek. i run down to the emergency room, where there is a kid with a massive skull lac, and bruising around it. edwards meets me down there. "what happened?" i ask the nurse. "corey feldman, 9, fell off his bike and ran into barbed wire," she says. god, poor kid. i ran through some barbed wire once as a kid and it sucked. "edwards, get him up to ct now. he doesn't seem to have any other injuries, but page dr. karev after he finishes ct." i say to edwards, who wheels him up. i check on a patient in the icu, when edwards pages me to radiology. she hands me his scans with a weird look on her face. "there is a small bleed, should resolve itself, keep him here for monitoring- whoa is that a tumor?" i ask, shocked. there is a tumor pressing on his cerebellum, and getting close to his brain stem. "this must have been what caused the crash," i say solemnly. "i can definitely try to take it out, but we need to get the parent's permission," "going to inform them now," edwards says. i sigh. this poor kid. he was riding a bike one second, and is in the hospital the next. as i walk down to talk to the parents as well. these tumors are very difficult, and generally are fatal eventual. but i can take it out. or at least i can try. i have to talk to teddy. she always knows how to talk to me about these things. she knows the odds of these tumors. she was focused on neuro before she switched to cardio. i just need someone to help me know what do. i walk up to the doctors lounge, where she is drinking an iced coffee. her eyes light up when she sees me. "hey ames," she says, and i wrap and arm around her and kiss her cheek. "i have this kid with an astrocytoma. he came in after a bike crash and we found it on the ct," i say. "he could have 5 or 6 years with chemo and radiation, but i think i could take it out, but a millimeter to the side, he could be paralyzed or dead," "are you asking me what to do?" teddy says. i smile at her. "maybe?" she gives me a hug from the side. "you need to talk to his parents. in the end, they make the decision. but i think you could do it, even though i am a tiny bit biased," she says. "thank you babe," i say, and i kiss her lips softly before going to talk to his parents.