Parenting

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AMELIAS POV
Today was my first day back to work after literally being in hiding with Derek. I walked into the hospital with Owen and we went our separate ways. I was walking in the hallway when I saw Riggs.
"Hey you're back," he said.
"Yeah," I said.
"Doctor Shepherd!" Stephanie said and hugged me.
"Did neuro fall apart without me or something," I chuckled.
"You left me with Koracick," she chuckled.
"Yes and I'm very sorry," I chuckled and hugged her.
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I was scrubbing out of surgery when the OR door opened and it was Owen.
"Hey," I said.
"Hey," he smiled, "Steph could we have a minute?"
"Yeah of course," Stephanie said and left the room.
"What's up?" I said.
"You have a minute?" He chuckled.
"Yeah why?" I said.
"My office is open," he said with a smirk.
"Oh come on don't do that I still have to scrub out," I chuckled.
"It's open," he chuckled and walked out of the room. I finished scrubbing out and ran after him.
"Hey," I chuckled.
"Hey," he said.
"Your office still open?" I chuckled.
"Think it is," he said. We got to his office and I locked the door behind me. He crashed his lips into mine and I wrapped my arms around his neck and he picked me up.
"I love you," I smiled.
"I love you too," he said as he moved to the couch. He started kissing my neck when our pagers went off.
"No oh my god," I complained.
"Ugh," Owen complained. I looked at my pager and it was Derek.
"I'm going to kill him," I said and got up. I ran downstairs and ran into CT.
"What's up?" I asked.
"Look at that," Derek said. I sat down and saw a massive brain tumor.
"Wow," I said.
"It's waiting for us in OR 4," he said.
"No way," I said.
"You don't want it?" He said.
"Hell yeah I do," I chuckled and we walked upstairs. We both scrubbed in and started the surgery.
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I was scrubbing out of surgery when my phone rang, it was Olivia.
"Hi Liv what's up?" I said as I walked out of the OR.
"Um when do you come home from work?" She asked.
"In a few hours why?" I asked.
"Well there's kinda an issue," Olivia said, "I tried calling dad but."
"But what? What's wrong?" I said.
"There's something wrong with Ava," she said, "I don't know, she won't talk to anyone, she isn't speaking at all," Olivia said.
"I can push my surgery," I said.
"I can call Aunt Maggie," Olivia said.
"No, no it's okay I'll come home," I said. I ran upstairs and opened Owen's office door.
"Hello Mia," He said and looked up from his phone.
"Hey so Liv called and said Ava's upset about something and I need to go check on her," I said.
"Okay, yeah, I'm sorry I saw she called me I was in the ER I texted her she didn't respond," Owen said.
"It's okay, I might be back I'm not sure," I said.
"Okay, call me if you need anything okay?" He said.
"Yes of course," I said. I changed and ran out to my car and drove home. When I got home I unlocked the door and Noah was reading on the couch. He was so studious.
"Hi mommy," he said.
"Hi buddy," I said, "how was school?"
"It was good," he said.
"Any tests today?" I asked and Olivia came down the stairs.
"Nope," he said.
"Okay well I'm going to go say hi to everyone else okay?" I smiled and kissed his head.
"Okay," he said.
"Mom I don't know what happened," Olivia said worriedly.
"Okay, just clam down okay? It'll be okay," I said.
"Okay," she said.
"Okay," I said calmly and kissed her head. I walked upstairs and opened Ava's door. She looked over at me and then looked back out her window.
"Hey honey," I said. She didn't say anything and I closed the door.
"You okay? You need a meeting? What's up?" I said. She looked at me and I could see tears forming in her eyes.
"Hey baby what's wrong?" I said.
"H-he c-cheated on m-me," she stuttered.
"Oh honey," I sighed, "I am so so sorry."
"I thought he loved me," she burst out crying.
"Oh come here," I said and wrapped my arms around her as she cried into me. I rubbed her back and kissed her head.
"I'm so sorry this happened," I said.
"I loved him so much mom," she cried.
"I know you did," I said.
"It's not fair," she started sobbing.
"Okay, okay," I said softly, "it's okay, it'll be okay."
"How?" She cried.
"I know it sucks now, it does and nobody deserves this pain, but now you know he wasn't the one for you, you deserve better than him," I said.
"I loved him! We had-" I cut her off by pulling her into a hug.
"Shh it's going to be okay," I said. She continued crying and I wrapped my arms around her.
"You know," I said, "maybe we could just have ice cream for dinner."
"I'm not hungry," she mumbled.
"Yes you are," I chuckled, "you are me, you look like me, you act like me, and I know for a fact you have locked yourself in your room since you found out and haven't spoken a word or eaten anything."
"You know me better than me," she chuckled.
"Of course I do, I'm your mother," I chuckled.
"So ice cream?" She asked quietly.
"Sure let's go," I said. I opened her door and Liam was waiting outside.
"Ava are you okay?" Liam asked.
"I'm fine," Ava mumbled and walked past him.
"Mom she won't talk to me," Liam said.
"Let it go okay?" I said.
"Is she okay?" Olivia asked.
"Just let it okay," I said, "don't keep bringing it up." I heard Logan open his door and I turned.
"Don't ask if she's okay she's fine don't keep bringing it up okay?" I chuckled.
"Alright mom," Logan chuckled.
"Anyway I guess we're having ice cream for dinner," I chuckled.
"She talked you into that?" Logan chuckled.
"She wouldn't stop crying I had to do something," I chuckled.
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Ava has been okay for the rest of the night. She's been very quiet but I'm not going to put her in a worse mood than she was already in. She was sitting on the other couch on her phone and I was watching cartoons with Riley and Noah. I heard my phone go off in the kitchen.
"Hey Riley?" I chuckled.
"Yeah?" She said.
"Wanna go grab mommy's phone?" I chuckled.
"Sure," she said.
"Thank you sweetheart," I said. She ran off to the kitchen and came back.
"It's from daddy," she said.
"Okay," I said as she handed my my phone, "you're the best." I unlocked my phone and opened my messages.
"Is Ava okay? Leaving work now," it read.
"We'll talk about it later, okay, love you," I sent. He sent the message a little while ago so he should be home in a few minutes.
"I'm going upstairs," Ava mumbled.
"Okay," I said.
"Good night," she said.
"Ava honey it's only 8 o'clock," I said.
"Yeah I'm tired," she said. She walked upstairs and I sighed.
"Mommy why is ava sad?" Riley asked.
"Oh, uh, she's just having a hard time with something," I said.
"Is she going to be okay?" Noah asked.
"She'll be okay," I sighed.