None of these characters belong to me, I'm just playing around with them.

1. What if Ellis needed help from her Uncle Owen?

Owen was finishing cleaning the kitchen when he heard a knock at the door, trying to remember if he was expecting anyone he went to answer it. He definitely didn't anticipate seeing his niece who was supposed to be in school on the other side of the door. 'Uncle Owen! What are you doing here?'

'Funny, I was about to ask you the same thing,' he responded as he stepped aside to let her in.

'I thought Auntie Amy had the day off today?' she replied attempting to distract him from asking why she wasn't in school.

'She got called in for an emergency surgery. I didn't think you had the day off today?' he knew she was usually good and he couldn't think of a reason why she would want to skip today.

She'd come looking for her Aunt to get some advice, she needed it desperately and she'd rather have talked to another woman about it but she knew she definitely couldn't ask her Mum so it was going to have to be her Uncle, 'Please don't tell my Mum I'm here, she'd go crazy at me. I'm not missing anything big I promise.'

'Alright, if you tell me why you're here.'

'I needed to talk to Auntie Amy about something,' how the hell was she supposed to bring this up with him? They'd always been quite close, she sometimes liked to think that he was her substitute dad, but she was terrified of disappointing him.

'And it couldn't wait until after school?'

'No, not really,' looking down to the ground, this was harder than she thought.

'Elle, what's going on?' they'd never had problems talking before, whatever was worrying her must be pretty big and he was starting to get concerned.

'There's a girl in my class,' she just needed advice, he didn't need to know it was for her, 'and she thinks she might be pregnant,' she watched as the colour drained from his face.

'A girl in your class?'

'Yeah,' she knew her Uncle didn't believe her, but it was easier to tell him this way.

He never thought he'd see this day, sure he knew just how common teenage pregnancy was but he never expected it to happen to anyone he knew. Taking a second to collect his thoughts, he didn't want to fly off the handle and scare her away, 'Why does she think that?'

'Well she said that she was a bit worried. You see this boy and her had been doing some things and they'd been really careful the whole time, but then she realised she was late. So she took a test and it came back positive,' reaching into her bag she produced the test for him.

He took it from her, he couldn't believe it until he saw it with his own eyes. 'Well I guess the next thing would be to get to the hospital and check this is right.'

'OK.'

They made their way to the door, grabbing his keys and wallet on the way out. The drive over to the hospital was silent, the cheery tunes playing on the radio clashing against the tense atmosphere.

'Right, I text your Aunt and apparently your Mum is in surgery at the moment,' he told her as he parked the truck. Sensing her becoming worried he'd told on her he quickly continued, 'Don't worry, I didn't mention anything about this. I just sent a casual text asking her how her day was and what was going on, she knows I can go a bit stir crazy at the house on my own sometimes. We're going to use the side entrance, it's closer to gynaecology department so hopefully nobody should spot us. You just need to stick close alright?'

Nodding her agreement they got out of his truck and made their way into the hospital.

Finding an empty room was relatively easy, locking the door behind them he got to work straight away, 'OK Elle, I'm going to draw some blood so that we can get it tested. It's the most reliable method and we should get the results within half an hour.' Working as quickly as he could, focusing on the tasks he had to complete and not letting any of the millions of questions he had slip into his mind. 'Right, I'm just going to run this to the lab and then I'll be right back.' Seeing the tears beginning to form in her eyes he wrapped his arms around her, she immediately clung to him, 'Hey, it's going to be alright. We'll see what the results say and then we'll go from there. I'm going to be here no matter what. I'll be there if there's anything to tell your mum and I'll be there to help you every step of the way.' Feeling her nod against him he dropped a kiss to the top of her head and went to leave the room, 'Make sure you lock this behind me OK?' Making his way straight to the lab he told them to put a rush on it and then headed back to the room.

Turning round he found himself with his arms full of his wife, 'Owen? What are you doing here?'

'Erm I got a call about one of my patients. Just running a couple of tests to make sure everything's alright,' he replied as quickly as he could, he'd never been very good at lying to her.

'Don't we usually send interns to deliver samples?' she questioned with a smirk.

'Yeah, none of them were available so I thought I'd do it myself, try and save some time.'

'Uh-huh,' she clearly didn't believe a word he was saying.

'Look I need to get back, see you later?' he dropped a quick kiss to her lips before running off ensuring she didn't have a chance to keep questioning him.

Knocking on the door, 'Hey Elle it's me, can you open the door?' He couldn't remember the last time she looked so young, she always seemed to be wise beyond her years, skipping a grade in school and always getting good marks, he couldn't remember her ever getting in serious trouble, that was always his kids. Now she was standing in front of him looking so small, her blue eyes glassy with all the unshed tears in them. Wrapping his arm around her he ushered her back over to the bed. 'So I need to ask you a couple of questions alright? I know they might be a bit embarrassing but just remember I'm a doctor alright, I've seen much worse than anything you might say. You ready?'

'Yeah,' she said in the smallest voice he'd ever heard come from her.

Deciding it was best to dive right in he got started, 'So when did you get your last period?' he started to fill in her information on the tablet he'd grabbed, making sure to file it all under Jane Doe.

She felt the blush fill her cheeks, she knew he was a doctor and he'd been to the shops to buy things for her more than once but they'd never actually spoken about this before, 'Two months ago, I didn't even realise I'd missed the first one until my friends were talking about it and then I figured I'd wait to see if it was just a bit late but I should've had two by now.' She couldn't hold the tears in anymore and they began streaming down her face.

Putting the tablet down he moved to sit next to her he pulled her into his arms, resting his chin on the top of her head whilst he gently rocked her, 'Hey it's going to be alright. You're sixteen so it's entirely up to you if you want to have sex and you said earlier that you were safe. Sometimes these things happen and it's nobody's fault. I'm going to be here no matter what and you know you can come to me with any questions you have,' she looked so much like a young Amelia, clearly taking entirely after Derek in the looks department, he couldn't stand to see her hurting.

'What if I'm pregnant and my Mum gets mad and I can't stay with her?'

'Then you come and stay with me.'

'What if Auntie Amy doesn't want me to?'

'Then you come and stay with me. I'm not kidding Elle, I'm here for you no matter what. I think it's safe to say your Mum's going to be mad if it comes back positive, but it's just because she cares, and there's no way that your Mum and Aunt are going to abandon you, we all love you far too much to ever risk losing you. I know it seems like the world's ending right now but trust me it isn't. I've been where you are when I wasn't much older than you so I get how terrifying this is, but this isn't it. If there's anyone who can get through this it's you.'

She looked up at her Uncle at his surprising revelation, 'You thought you got somebody pregnant?'

'Yeah. We were eighteen, it was the summer before I left for med school. I'd been seeing this girl but it wasn't anything really serious when she shows up at my door one day telling me she's pregnant. Of course we went straight out to get a test and then on to the doctors when that came back positive, it was a false positive,' the tablet chimed, interrupting them and indicating the results were back.

'That's them isn't it?'

'Yeah.'

'What does it say?'

Bringing the results up he quickly studied them, 'Elle.'

'Oh god. No! We used protection and everything. How the hell am I supposed to tell my Mum? What am I going to do? I can't have a baby, I've got a math test next Tuesday, I can't have a baby.'

'Look, we'll tell your Mum together tonight, but right now we're going to get you some prenatal vitamins and run a couple of tests to make sure everything's alright and then we're going to get some ice cream and spend the rest of the day curled up under a blanket on the couch. Sound good?'

She could only manage a single nod as the tears continued to flow. Her obvious pain caused him to take her back into his arms, 'I'm going to text Dr. Robbins and ask her to come help. She's much more qualified at all of this than I am and she can answer any questions you don't feel comfortable asking me,' waiting for her confirmation he took his phone out of his pocket and sent Arizona a quick text asking her to come to the room.

A quick knock on the door informed him that Arizona had arrived, moving to let her in he quickly filled her in on the situation after making sure she promised that what happened in this room was to stay in this room. Seeing Ellis Shepherd lying on the bed Arizona couldn't believe it, none of them had ever been worried about Meredith's children ending up in this situation. Quickly prepping for an examination Arizona made sure to stay comforting and friendly whilst she checked everything over, 'It's all looking good to me. I'm going to go get you some prenatals and then you'll be good to go. We'll schedule your next appointment in a couple of weeks,' moving to leave she was stopped by Owen grabbing her arm.

'Thank you for doing this. We really appreciate you not saying anything.'

'No problem, she's not the first girl I've seen in this situation and she won't be the last. But she's got some good people on her side, she'll be fine.'

Amelia arrived home with her two children that day to find her husband and her niece watching films together on the couch, 'Hey you two, what's going on here?'

'I got a call from Elle's school whilst Meredith was in surgery to say she wasn't feeling too good. I sent Meredith a text to let her know we've got her,' he explained as he wife leant over the back of the couch to drop a quick kiss to on his lips. 'Hey Noah, Maddie do you mind giving us some privacy?'

'Dad…' they whined in unison.

'Come on, I'm sure you've got plenty of homework, you can go to your rooms and get on with it.'

Sighing they picked up their bags and made their way to their bedrooms.

'I'm sorry to hear you're ill Elle, how're you feeling?' she asked as she ran a hand through her niece's hair.

'I'm alright,' came the muffled response as she burrowed in closer to her Uncle Owen.

The scene tugged at Amelia's heartstrings, she always loved to see Owen acting fatherly no matter if the children were theirs or not. Noticing the empty ice cream tubs and tissues scattered around she quickly surmised there was something they weren't telling her, especially when she added her awkward run in with Owen at the hospital earlier, but she knew right now wasn't the right moment to push. Her thinking was interrupted by a knock on the door, Meredith had arrived to pick Ellis up.

'Hey, where is she?'

'With Owen on the couch.'

Meredith rushed over to her baby, immediately checking for a temperature and quickly scanning her over with her eyes, 'Are you alright honey? What's up?' She watched as Ellis quickly looked over to Owen and he gave her a quick nod.

Taking the lead Owen answered, 'I think you two should probably sit down.'

'Owen what's going on?'

'Elle's got something she needs to tell you,' Noticing the look of terror on her face he gave her another comforting squeeze, 'You can do this and remember I'm here no matter what,' he lowered his voice so only she would hear.

'I'm so sorry Mum, please don't be mad at me,' she couldn't keep the tears from overflowing once more.

'Ellie what's going on?' there was no mistaking the concern in Meredith's voice.

'Owen, please tell me this has nothing to do with why you were at the hospital earlier,' Amelia basically begged of him.

'Elle come on, you need to tell them.'

Looking to her Uncle she took one final breath for courage and turned to the others, 'Mum, Auntie Amy, I'm pregnant.'

The silence that followed was deafening.

'You're what?!' Meredith screamed at her child. 'How? Who? When?' she could barely form words let alone put them into sentences.

'Mum, please,'

'No, don't you dare. I, I just need a minute,' she declared before storming out of the room.

After watching Meredith leave Amelia moved to sit on the other side of her niece, 'I guess you were at the hospital earlier making sure?'

'Yeah,' Ellis released on a breath.

'I know it seems like it's the end of the world right now, your Mum's definitely making it out to be, but it's going to be alright.' Ellis couldn't help but laugh at what her Aunt said, 'What? What's so funny?'

'Uncle Owen's spent the whole day saying the exact same thing.'

'Well that's because your Uncle is a very smart man,' Amelia replied as she leant over Ellis's head to press a kiss to her husband's cheek.

'It helped that he went through the same thing,' Ellis continued not realising Owen had never told Amelia that story.

'Oh he did did he?' she looked at him clearly waiting for an explanation.

He turned to her a sheepish expression on his face, rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly, 'Yeah, the summer before med school there was a bit of a scare. Turned out to be a false positive though.'

Amelia nodded in response but Owen could tell she clearly had many questions about it that he was going to hear later.

'I'm going to go talk to your Mum now she's had a chance to calm down,' he dropped a kiss to the side of Ellis's forehead and left her with her Aunt.

Realising that Meredith was out in their garden he made his way to her.

'Who else knows about this?' Meredith asked as soon as he was standing next to her.

'Arizona, she did a full work up on Elle. She said everything looks good and she doesn't foresee any complications; that is of course if Elle chooses to go through with this.'

'How the hell did this happen? My baby is having her own baby. She's sixteen years old and she's pregnant. You'd think they'd been through enough but then the universe has to go and screw everything up again. How could she be so stupid?' He could see the tears streaming down Meredith's face reflected in the moonlight and drew her in to his arms.

'From what she told me it seems they did everything right, they were just one of those unfortunate cases.' He informed her, trying to keep his voice as calming as possible, 'Listen, why don't you let her stay here tonight, give yourself a chance to process this. It's Friday tomorrow, she might as well take it off, give herself a chance to come to terms with it as well. Amelia's not in so they can spend the day together, sound good?' just like her daughter earlier that day he felt Meredith nod against him and then push away from him.

'Thank you for being there for her, it means a lot. God I wish Derek was here to help with this,' with a small, sad smile she started to make her way back into the house.

'Hey honey.'

'Mum,'

'I'm going to head home, Owen's said you can stay here tonight alright? I just need a little bit of time to get used to this OK?' her heart breaking as she saw her daughter nod in acceptance, obviously thinking this was her way of telling her not to come home again. 'I'll come by tomorrow after work and we can talk properly and decide what you want to do then alright?' the smile that lit up her daughter's face when she realised that they were going to get through this was priceless and reassured her that they could do this.

'Night mum,'

'Night baby,'

'Come on we should probably have some dinner, I didn't realise how late it was,' Amelia helped her up of the couch as they all said their goodnights and Meredith left. Owen called for a pizza, none of them in the mood to cook, whilst Amelia shouted up to their children that it was alright to come down now. 'Elle's going to stay with us tonight. She's not feeling too good though so just let her be,' Amelia informed her kids when she could see they were confused about why Auntie Meredith had left but not Ellis.

Later that night, after finding something for Ellis to sleep in and seeing her off to bed, Amelia made her way to her bed for the night. Walking in on her husband half way through changing she wrapped her arms around him from behind, placing a kiss on his bare back and laid her cheek between his shoulder blades, 'I can't believe this is happening. Can you imagine if it was one of ours? I'm impressed you're handling this so well, I always expected you'd go crazy if one of our kids came home and told us they were going to have a baby.'

Spinning around her brought her body right up against his, marvelling in how incredible it still felt after all these years and the strain that it had been through after giving him their two amazing kids, and kissed her deeply, 'I didn't really have a choice. She came round here looking for you and had to settle for telling me instead.'

'There is no settling when it comes to you,' she replied before kissing him once again. They continued kissing as he helped her remove her clothes, breaking apart so they could both climb into bed. As soon as they were under the covers he brought her back to him.

'You know it's odd, I've spent so much of my day with different women in my arms and this is the first time one of them has been my wife,' he joked.

She playfully slapped him on the chest in response, 'Well I think it's definitely time you told me all about this summer before med school, it sounds pretty exciting to me.'

'Oh I think I can come up with some better ways to spend our time,' kissing her before she was able to respond.