Meant to be.

Tomato Soup

Addison's POV

"Addie?" Zona?" I hear a voice behind me, as I turn I see Meredith standing there,
"Hey, bug did you have a good nap?" I ask walk-in over to her, and picking her up, she nods against my chest,
I look over and Arizona has stopped playing, and is just looking at me, I smile at her and nod and she turns back to her crafts,
"Mer baby, come sit with me for a moment." I coo, sitting down on the couch
"Is eweryfing ok Addie?" She asks and I can see the concern on her little face,
"Yeah baby, but I wanted to talk to you about something, you know how you are little right now and you play and are looked after by me and Zona?" I ask, and she nods,
"Well, Zona told me today that she also sometimes likes to regress just like you, so she is still going to look after you when she's big, but she is also sometimes going to be little like you," I continue, stopping to see how Meredith reacts and give her time to process,

"So she little like me? She going to play and drink bottles?" Meredith asks, and I smile
"Yes, but she probably won't drink bottles baby, she's a bit older than you when she regresses," I explain,

"So me going to have a big sister?" Meredith asks a huge smile on her face,

"Yes you will have a big sister is that ok?" I ask,

"Yeah, so ok, me never had a big sister, I have someone to pway wif" Meredith said, starting to wiggle on my lap, "can I pway now Addie?"

"Of course you can bug," I say as she runs over to Arizona

"Zona what you pwaying?" She asks smiling

"I'm making a craft, look it's a horsey," Arizona says holding up the collage she'd put together from brown pieces of paper,

"That's amazing pumpkin," I say smiling at the two of them,

"Do you want to play dollys?" Arizona asks, and Meredith's face lights up,
"Yes pweese" Meredith says, "I go get some more of the dollys from the nursery, is that ok Addie?" She asks turning to look at me,

"Of course bug go for it." I reply laughing as she runs down the hall before I even finish my sentence.

The two of them sit and play for ages until I look at the time and realise I should probably get dinner ready,

"Ari, Mer," I say and they both look up at me smiles plastered across their faces, "I'm just going into the kitchen to prepare dinner, come get me if you need anything." I explain, they both nod before returning to their playing,

It doesn't take me long to prepare dinner, I've got some pan fried tomato some sausages and some rice, Meredith's been amazing at eating this last week, I can see she's still struggling with the idea of eating and gaining weight but she's trying, I walk back into the lounge to see them still playing together, and it melt my heart,

"Hey my little monkeys," I say standing in the doorway and they both turn to look at me, "come on dinner is ready."
They both get up and start walking towards me, I can tell Meredith is still hesitant so I walk over to her picking her up, causing her to giggle.

Arizona's POV

As we walk into the kitchen, I freeze for a moment looking at the table, Addie's served me up my food on one of the plastic plates we bought and she's given me juice in a sippy cup,
I look at her smiling, and she smiles back, and I feel a sense of relief was over me, maybe she's right, I've always felt I could be myself with Addie but know she knows everything and nothings changed, she still loves me, and she is willing to do what I need to feel safe and happy I don't know what I did to deserve her but I'm so unbelievably grateful.

Meredith's POV
Addie puts me down in my chair, it's not quite a high chair, we discussed it and I said I didn't want a high chair I didn't like the idea of being trapped but we settled on a chair that still had a tray attached so Addie could put food on there allowing me to focus on the food in front of me and not all the other food on the table,
As I saw dinner, I felt myself tense, I've been trying I really have to eat and be good, it hard and I can still here my mothers voice in the back of my head but I try and let Addie and Zona's voice be louder telling me I'm perfect just the way I am, but I don't like sausages the skin makes me feel sick the feeling no I can't, it's making me feel nauseous just looking at it, and I normally like tomato but these ones look soggy and weird,
"Addie I'm not hungry," I say pushing the food away,
"No baby girl you need to eat." She says gently, "do you want me to feed you?" She ask, her voice soft but stern, I shake my head,

Addison's POV

"Bug are you not hungry or do not like whats for dinner you can have something else if you want," I ask, unsure,
"Um.." she goes to say something but stops, she's been really good at eating she actually asked for seconds of her soup last night, to be fair I did give her quite a small serving, but still
"Would you like some more of the soup from yesterday?" I ask, knowing she liked that last night,
"Yes pweese" she says quietly,
"Baby girl, you don't have to feel bad, I'm just happy your eating, let me get some soup, I'll pop it in the microwave" I explain, quickly dishing up a small serving, before turning to check on Arizona who had just been watching the whole interaction,
"Pumpkin would you like me to cut up for sausage?" I ask smiling as she takes a bit of her rice,
"Yes please" she replied her mouth full of rice,
"Sure my love, but let's work on not eating with our mouths full," I say laughing,
Once Meredith's soup is ready I pass it to her along with some toast and she immediately starts eating it, I don't know why she didn't want sausages but if she's eating she eating, that's the important part.

Authors Note

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