MFC#8
Criteria: Take your favorite couple and write about them ten years from when we last saw them.
Length: Any
Challenger: Wolvie

A/N: Kerry and Kim 10 years after Season 7…they are together and have been since. In other words, all the crap that they went through never happened and they've been a couple ever since. The story is canon up until season 13 (i.e. Kerry's surgery, Luka and Abby having Joe, Gallant, Romano and Mark Greene are dead, Carter is in Africa, Elizabeth is wherever, Luka is chief etc.) except Sandy Lopez wasn't working the night of that huge thunderstorm/ambulance crash and Kerry never stole Morris' 15 minutes of fame and in result, she never met Courtney nor did she work for the TV station. Also, everyone has progressed and aged accordingly (i.e. Abby, Neela and Ray are all attendings) but EVERYTHING after, say, "Bloodline" NEVER happened (i.e. Kerry is still Chief of Staff, Luka is still Chief of the ER and the whole mess with Abby and Luka in S14 never happened). Phew, I'm sorry-- that is a lot to keep in mind. Anyway, hope you enjoy…

2010

"Madeline Grace Legaspi-Weaver, come down here right now!" Kerry yelled from the foot of the stairs, a stern expression spread across her face and a whimpering four year old on her hip. She had been working in her study when Emma had come in, her blue eyes rimmed bright red, nose running and hot tears running down her face. No more than three Mississippi's after she'd called for her daughter, the lanky strawberry-blonde, green-eyed seven year old turned up at the top of the stairs, a look of pure guilt strewn across her face. Tentatively, she walked down the stairs until she was in front of her mother and little sister.

"What do you have to say for yourself, young lady?" Kerry had altered her infamous 'chief-voice' to use on her two daughters. Receiving only an attempt at an innocent face from Madeline, she lowered her voice and looked her in the eyes,

"Madeline, what did you do to Emma?" Kerry knew the answer, but was curious as to whether or not the seven year old would own up to it. Madeline looked at her feet and played with the hem of her black, long sleeved shirt.

"I…She was bothering me and coloring in my coloring book and so I took the crayon from her." Kerry sighed,

"Did you ask her to stop before you took it away?" Madeline began to nod, then reconsidered and took a more truthful route,

"No…I…she was just annoying me, mom!" She complained.

"Madi, that does not mean you can snatch something away from her. You can ask her politely to stop, then, if she doesn't, you can come find me. But we don't steal things from each other. Okay?" Kerry's tone had softened and she was responded to with a nod. "And Emma, you need to color in your own coloring book unless Madi wants to share with you, okay?" Emma, whose sniffling had subsided, nodded.

Kerry nodded to both girls, set Emma back down, had them apologize to one another, and retreated back to her office. Sitting back behind her desk, Kerry continued to look over the paperwork she had brought home from the hospital the day before; a document that needed revising for the upcoming budget meeting with OB/GYN.

No more than an hour—an undisturbed hour—Kerry signed the bottom of the freshly printed document and put it in her bag. She took off her reading glasses, checked the clock on the bottom of her laptop's screen—4:45—then shut it down and left her office.

The first floor of the house was completely quiet and Kerry figured the two girls had either succeeded in tieing each other up—though she figured she would have heard one of their yelps—or were, by some miracle, getting along. Kerry climbed the stairs, walked down the carpeted hall, and peeked into Emma's room; empty. She continued walking until she came upon Madi's room. Looking through the cracked door, she smiled to herself when she saw the two girls sprawled out on the floor both coloring in their respected coloring books.

"Hey girls…Mom will be home in about…" Kerry checked her watch, "fifteen or twenty minutes. We're going to eat a little early tonight then we're going to go to the movies...alright?" The two girls looked up and nodded silently before going back to coloring with great haste. Kerry let herself out then headed back downstairs to heat up the dinner she had prepared earlier that day.

*

Kim shielded herself from the pouring rain with her leather messenger back as she sprinted from where she parked her car in the driveway to the front door of the house. She let herself in quickly then shed her jacket and attempted to shake the wetness from her hair.

"Well, that's an interesting method of drying off," Kim looked up when she heard Kerry's voice. Smiling, she responded,

"It's raining like crazy out there!" Kerry nodded, planted a quick peck on Kim's lips then took the wet coat in her hands. She walked towards the kitchen, Kim on her heels,

"How was your day?" Kerry hanged Kim's coat on the back of an open chair in hopes it would dry then turned back to face the blonde, waiting for a response.

"Long…I spent half of it in the ER for consults…it was o.k., though. What about you? How were the girls?"

Kerry went on to tell Kim how their daughters were—apart from their slight run-in over the coloring book—fine.

"Well, that's always good...you know, that they only bickered a little bit..." Kim smiled, "I half-expected you to take them out or something forsake of your own sanity." Kerry smiled back to Kim and nodded,

"I was about to take them to get groceries— just to get them out of the house— but I had to finish a few things leftover from yesterday...." Kim shook her head disaprovingly, and moved to place her hands over Kerry's

"Why don't you just leave work at work?" Kerry only shrugged before turning to the counter to get dishes out for the table,

"Let's just call it homework."

*

The rain had, thankfully, let up and it was barely sprinkling by the time the movie had ended. Walking across the parking lot, Kerry held Kim's hand in her left and Emma's in her right, while Kim held Madi's in her left.

"Mommy?" Emma tugged on Kerry's hand, "why did that man say mean things when we walked out of the theatre?" She was speaking of the 'ignorant asshole' — as Kerry had called him under her breath— who had so-rudely called the four of them a few names neither Kerry nor Kim wanted their daughters to ever hear again. Kerry looked at Kim, who only gave her a half-frown, then hoisted Emma onto her hip.

"Because, Em, that man is very, very rude. He thinks that it's wrong that you and Madi have two mommies." Kerry hoped that'd be enough of an answer to her daughters questions; she knew that it would be a situation that would be sure to arise multiple times in the future. Thankfully, Emma nodded in understanding. Kim let out a slight sigh and squeezed Kerry's hand a little tighter.

A/N: Just incase you're wondering and didn't catch the subtle hints I dropped...Kerry carried Madeline and Kim carried Emma...I couldn't not have a cute, little red head! Haha. Thanks, as always, for reading! I'm probably going to continue this...it just may come in sporadic updates :)