Link sat in the familiar waiting room with his mother. Suddenly remembering the time he had to break the news to a heartbroken boyfriend, that despite their best efforts, they couldn't save his girlfriend. All the doctors on the case knew she was a goner when she came in. She was just at the wrong place at the wrong time, a stowaway jumping out of a plane and onto this poor girl. After the conversation with the broken college kid, he went back to Amelia's, and that was the first time he confessed how he was starting to fall in love with her. He could almost feel her hands guiding him to the small bump. He shook the memory out of his head and rested his head against his hands, willing himself not to throw up.
"Is there anything I can get for you?" Maureen asked; she didn't know what was happening, but from what she pieced together, a woman who she assumed was her son's partner was in a car crash. The man shook his head, clueless about what to do. She stood up to make her way to the coffee cart she saw as they came into the hospital. While she stood in line, she listened to a conversation behind her by two surgeons.
"How's she doing?" Maggie asked as Meredith met up with her at the coffee cart line.
"Not good; how's Scout?"
"Fast asleep in my office, Winston is with him. Have you called her mom yet?"
"I did. This was the second time I called this woman to tell her that her neurosurgeon child has been in a car crash and getting emergency brain surgery."
"Well, technically, Derek never had emergency brain surgery." Maggie tried to joke, as Amelia would in a situation like this, but by the look on Merediths face, she realized it wasn't a very good joke. "You really don't think she's gonna pull through?"
"She's strong, but her brain has already been through a physical trauma with the brain tumor removal. She's not a kid, so it was still just CSF fluid where that tumor was and now with the bleed..."
"She's gonna pull through," Maggie affirmed; she needed her sister to stay alive. There was still so much Amelia had to do with her life. She needed to see Scout grow up, and they also had to get around to that trip to Paris the two sisters always talked about.
"I don't think we ever talked about what happens to Scout if something happened to her." Meredith suddenly realized, how have they not had that conversation?
"He stays with Winston and I." Maggie confirmed; after he was born, Amelia made sure to have all the papers in order and ready for Maggie to sign. "Everything's set; she made sure of it, especially being a single parent she didn't want him to be without."
"What about Link?"
"He's not on the paperwork, and I don't think they've told him yet. Speaking of Link, has someone called him?"
"Yeah, I did. I think he's here somewhere. After I get my coffee, I'm going to check on Amelia's progress and then find him, let him know what's going on."
"Alright, I'm gonna take Scout back home; just try to get him out of here."
"He's not gonna want to leave, and you know that."
"It's worth a shot. I want to try and give him some normalcy before everything falls apart. Either way, if she lives or doesn't, it's going to be hell."
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Maureen handed a cup of coffee to her son and sat down next to him, trying to process the information she just heard. How could her son not tell her about this? How could he get someone pregnant and not be there for her and his child? Though she had a million questions running through her head, she refrained. The woman from the coffee cart started to approach, and Link eagerly stood up to talk with her.
