this is taking place when amelia is pregnant
"Sorry I missed your call earlier, I was in surgery." Amelia said once her mother answered. She flopped down on the couch in the attendings lounge. She just finished a grueling surgery, the toll of her new pregnancy finally getting to her.
"No worries, I've raised five doctors I know the drill by now. So how have you been? It's been a while since I've spoken to you."
"Yeah, yeah I'm good. Busy, lots of surgeries and stuff."
"Hmm, anything new going on with you?"
"No, nope not really." Amelia quickly answered, she doubted that her mother knew about her pregnancy. The two were working on mending their relationship, and she was weary to talk about her pregnancy in the first place.
"Hmm, really? Nothing? Nothing you want to tell me?" Amelia sighed deeply.
"How'd you find out?"
"Addison may of mentioned something to Nancy who mentioned something to Kathleen who mentioned something to me. Why didn't you tell me you were pregnant?"
"I don't know."
"I thought we were to the place where you could tell me stuff like this. This is a good thing Amelia."
"I know, I just haven't really told anyone, sorry." Amelia felt as though she was little again and had just gotten scolded.
"Amelia I know that this-" Carolyn began, but then stopped herself, she didn't want to upset her daughter. "Never mind."
"No what were you going to say?" Amelia asked quickly sensing what her mother knew. She sat up on the couch.
"I was just going to say that this pregnancy must be hard on you, because of your son."
"Addison told you?" Amelia asked with tears in her eyes. She quickly got up and grabbed her bag from her cubby, heading towards her car not wanting to cry in the middle of the attendings lounge.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said anything."
"No, no it's fine. It's just I don't know how you know.I just can't believe she broke HIPPA, I can sue her." Amelia practically yelled as she slammed her car door.
"We both know your not suing Addie. She was worried about you, and when she told me about your pregnancy it was before she knew the diagnosis."
"So you know what happened?" Amelia asked in a small voice, trying not to cry.
"I do" Carolyn hesitated for a moment. "I didn't have words for to comfort you on the cruel ironies of the world. I didn't know how to help you. I wish I could've, I wish I would've come down and just been with you, but I think you made a very brave decision. That wasn't a decision many other mothers could've made."
"I didn't want you there, I didn't want anyone there, you couldn't have helped." Amelia wiped at the tears falling down her flushed cheeks.
"I know this pregnancy must be very hard on you. Does Link know about your baby?"
"Yeah, I told him. About everything."
"That's good."
"Yeah, he was the first person I told the full story to. And when I did it, I knew he wasn't going to judge me or look at me differently. He accepted it and accepts me and he just understands."
"I'm glad Amy, he seems very kind."
"He is inexplicably kind."
"I know you love the OR, but now that your pregnant you really need to sleep, Amy. You've never really known when to slow down, even as a kid. One day when you were in the third grade you were working on a science project for the science fair. And you stayed up the whole night to work on it, you had refused to turn the light off so Lizzie came in to my room to sleep with me." Carolyn laughed recalling the memory.
"I can't imagine you letting Lizzie sleep with you. She's so restless, whenever we had a share a bed at a hotel or something she'd always kick me in her sleep."
"Well when you have kids you get used to the abuse. And your avoiding the question."
"I feel fine for now, once I have this baby I'm not going to be in an OR for quite awhile, so I'm just squeezing in as much as I can."
"You need to find a different way to avoid your problems." Amelia tried to interject, but Carolyn continued. "Amy, when you want to avoid something you push your way into an OR. And don't try to tell me I'm wrong. But are you able to sleep? When I was pregnant with Derek I had the worst insomnia."
"A little bit, but if I can't sleep I just catch up on paperwork or research."
"Try valerian root, it may be able to help you sleep. It's perfectly safe to take while pregnant."
"Thanks. Link will be happy, he always gets so mad at me when he wakes up and sees me working on something." Amelia chuckled thinking back to the night before when link threw her IPad across the room.
"I'm glad your not like your sisters in this regard, they've always thought my herbs and homemade remedies were jokes."
"Nice, looks like I'm moving up the favorite child leader board."
"Amy, I do not have favorites. I love all of you equally."
"Mom, your obligated to say that."
"Well, you all have your good days and bad days on the leaderboard." This caused Amelia to laugh, making Carolyn smile.
"I hope you'll call if you need anything. I'm happy we've decided to put past our conflicts and differences."
"Me too."
"I've got to get going, Lizzie will be here soon. I love you, and don't forget to take your prenatal vitamins it's crucial."
"Love you too." Amelia said softly, trying her best not to let her hormones take over. She rested her head on the steering wheel. She hadn't realized how much she needed her mother. A knocking on the window caused her to jump, dragging her out of her thoughts.
"Whatca doing in your car?" Link asked once Amelia rolled down the window, leaning against her car. He then noticed she'd been crying. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, yeah, I'm really great actually." Amelia genuinely said wiping the remnants of her tears. "Umm, I was on the phone with my mom."
"How'd that go?" Link asked his eyebrows raised, he wasn't expecting to hear that.
"At first I was pissed, but now I'm really really good. I hadn't realized how much I needed her." Link smiled, happy his girlfriend told her about their baby. "Are you on your lunch break?"
"Yeah, I was just coming to find you."
"Okay get in. We'll got get some burgers."
"Sounds like a solid plan to me." Link smiled making his way to the other side of the car.
