Here is the last chapter. I'm glad so many of you enjoyed this story. I had fun writing it.

I'm thinking about writing some adventures with Mia and Emma. What would you like to see?

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The signature read Cristina Hunt. Her curiosity was still unresolved.

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Mia and Emma stayed non-disruptive through the New Year. It was near the end of January when Beth announced her annual career day and sent a note home for parents to volunteer to come in and talk about what they do. She got quite a few replies, including Mia and Emma's mothers. That would be interesting – to see if their mothers were actually as close as Mia and Emma were.

The day came for career day. Owen dropped off the kids at school since he ended up with the day off as well as Cristina. Meredith was at work but she was leaving early to do career day.

An hour before they had to be at the elementary school, Cristina's pager went off.

"Aren't you off?" he asked while she checked it.

She started calling to find out why she was paged, "Yeah, I am."

After a short conversation, she hung up. "I have to go," she frowned, "My transplant patient finally got a heart."

Owen nodded. Her patient had been waiting for a transplant for a few months now. Cristina had done all the surgeries on that patient and had almost lost her a couple times.

"I can go to career day and Mia will understand," Owen told her. And Mia would, she got to visit that patient a few times.

"We'll get ice cream after," Cristina promised.

Owen chuckled, "Ice cream it is. Call me when you're done."

Cristina said she would while she collected her purse and keys. Owen caught her arm after she put on her coat and kissed her gently but with a passion that was ever present in their relationship before she rushed out.

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Mia looked to the door again. Where was her mom? Aunt Meredith was already here. Because it was a special occasion, she got to sit by Emma.

"Look, Mia, it's Uncle Owen," Emma pointed.

Owen had found the room and spotted Mia along with Emma and Meredith before being able to meet the teacher.

Beth was finishing up talking with a parent who was going to talk about being a police officer when she heard Mia.

"Daddy! I thought mommy was coming."

Beth turned to see Owen sit in one of the second grade sized chairs next to Mia.

"Mommy had to go do surgery on Tara. She got a new heart and mommy had to go put it in."

"Yay! Well you can talk about what you do then," Mia said decidedly.

Meredith laughed. "That's nice of you, Mia."

"Thanks Aunt Meredith!"

Beth made her way over. She had to speak to Owen, he was her student's father and he was here for career day. Even so, he was her ex-fiancé. He broke up with her in a two-line email over ten years ago. He was completely different from how he was when they were together.

Beth took a calming breath and went over to the small group.

Mia saw her teacher approaching. "Daddy! This is my teacher Mrs. Moore."

Owen stood up to greet his daughter's teacher, turned around and was face to face with Beth.

"Oh, uh, hi," Owen said stupidly, surprised to see Beth there, "I didn't know you were Mia's teacher."

"Yeah. I got married a while ago," she said to explain why her last name is different, "I had a feeling Mia was your daughter, though."

Owen chuckled, "Yeah, the red hair. We were pretty surprised. Her brother doesn't have it."

"Mia and Emma talk about their brothers all the time," Beth told him, "They've both gotten a lot better about not talking during class time."

"Good," Owen nodded, "Mia is a little too much like her mother sometimes."

"Cristina…" Beth thought back, "She worked on my father, too, didn't she?"

"Yeah. How are you doing?"

Beth smiled, "I'm good. I have two sons – they're six and three."

"That's great," Owen smiled back, happy for her.

"Well we need to get started, let me get everyone settled down."

Beth went to get things in order and Owen sat in the tiny person chair next to Mia again.

"How do you know Mrs. Moore, daddy?" Mia asked.

"We were friends a very long time ago," Owen told her and that seemed to satisfy her.

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Beth felt it was a very successful career day. She had a police office, a fire fighter, a CEO, two surgeons, an attorney, a veterinarian, a social worker, an electrician, an exterminator, and a photographer.

She scheduled the parents to come after lunch so that the parents' talks lasted until the end of school and they could take the kids home.

The bell rang and the students got their things together. Mia and Emma went to get their backpacks and coats; Meredith went to the kindergarten room to gather up Lucas and Ethan.

Beth started tidying up. Owen went over to where she was organizing papers.

"It was good to see you again," he told her.

"You too," she smiled, "Mia is such a pleasure to have in class. She's so smart."

Owen grinned, "Thank you. She has wanted to be surgeon for as long as she knew what we did. And she and Emma are inseparable. I'm glad she's finally keeping the stuffed animal surgery out of school time."

"You and me both," Beth laughed.

Mia poked her head back in, "Come on daddy! You said when mommy was done, we'd get ice cream!"

"Ok, ok," he headed towards the door, but called back, "See you later, Beth."

"Bye, Owen," she replied.

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That night, after Mia and Lucas were in bed, Cristina and Owen sat together on the couch, a surgical video on, now able to talk about their day.

"You'll never guess who Mia's teacher is," Owen said.

"Uh…Mrs. Moore," Cristina replied, slightly confused at his statement.

"Yeah, but Mrs. Moore is Beth," he told her.

Cristina looked at him, "Beth, your ex-fiancé Beth?"

He nodded, "Yep."

"Well that's interesting. I would have never guessed that."

"Me either."

There was a similar conversation going on a Beth's house.

Beth and Greg were both sitting at the dining room table, grading papers – their sons had gone to bed hours again. Greg was an 8th grade history teacher and he had a bunch of tests to grade.

"I was right," Beth told him after she finished grading a math quiz.

"About what?" he asked, not looking up.

"Mia Hunt," she replied.

"Ok?" he marked the test. What was she talking about?

"Her father is Owen."

Greg looked up, "Owen as in your ex-fiancé?"

"Yeah," She nodded.

"Huh," he said before going back to the history test, "How 'bout that?"

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Thanks for reading!!