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Chapter 12
Mark held his new son close to Teddy so she could see him. Ethan Michael Sloan was born at six pounds eight ounces and twenty-two inches long.
"He looks exactly like you," Teddy said, unable to control her smile. She reached out to touch the baby's soft skin.
"He's way too cute to look like me," Mark said. Teddy shook her head.
Callie, Arizona, and Sophia came into the room quietly not wanting to disturb Ethan who was sleeping.
"Oh my God," Callie and Arizona cooed. "He's so cute."
"Daddy, what's his name?" Sophia asked loudly.
Callie shushed her. "Sophia, we told you that you have to be quiet if you want to see your brother."
"His name's Ethan," Teddy told her scooting over in the bed so Sophia could sit on the edge.
"Why didn't you have a girl?" Sophia asked.
"You don't get to choose, baby girl," Mark explained.
"Daddy, where do babies come from?" Sophia asked.
Mark looked at Callie, Arizona, and Teddy for help but they just smiled at him and waited for his response.
"Well, it comes from the mom's belly," Mark answered.
"How does it get in there?"
"You'll learn when you're older," Callie swooped in.
Sophia waited a few seconds. "I'm older now."
"Sophia, eat your lunch," Teddy said watching as Sophia ignored her lunch and put her face an inch from Ethan's.
"Why is he always asleep?" Sophia asked.
"Because that's what babies do," Mark explained. "Now eat your mac and cheese."
Mark picked Sophia up and turned her forward in her chair. She ate her lunch but kept looking back at Ethan to see if he was awake.
"You excited to go back to work tomorrow?" Mark asked, kissing Teddy's shoulder as she finished making her lunch.
Teddy smiled. "I think so."
Teddy brought her sandwich to the table and sat next to Sophia.
"No!" cried Sophia. "You can't go!"
"Why not?" Teddy asked.
"I'll miss you," Sophia replied. She had been staying home with Teddy and Ethan instead of going to the hospital's day care.
"Sophia, we're still going to see each other all the time," Teddy said, trying not to burst into tears. She was looking forward to going back to work but couldn't stand the thought of being away from Sophia and Ethan for most of the day. "Besides don't you have a bunch of friends at day care that you miss?"
Sophia shrugged. "Day care is boring."
"Well you start preschool next week," Mark offered. "You're going to love it."
"Come on, Teddy," Mark urged. "You have to get to work."
"How can we work when we just left him with complete strangers? Him and Sophia!" Teddy exclaimed.
"They aren't strangers," Mark said. "We've met everyone who works here. Sophia talks about them all the time. They're well qualified to take care of Ethan."
"But there are a lot of other kids too!" Teddy yelled. "He's little. What if he gets lost? Or gets some terrible disease from the other kids?"
Mark put on hand on each of her shoulders, "Teddy, he's going to be fine."
"Look it's normal for new moms to be scared of leaving their babies alone for the first time," Arizona said, trying to make Teddy feel better. "You can always check on him whenever you need to."
Teddy took a deep breath. "Okay."
"Ready for surgery?"
Teddy nodded. They scrubbed in.
Teddy broke down when they finished their surgery.
"Teddy, we saved her," Arizona said.
"But what if we hadn't," Teddy asked.
"But we did."
"But how would we have told the mom?" Teddy sobbed. Arizona tried to console her knowing that she was just worried about Ethan.
"Come on," Arizona said. "Let's go see him."
Arizona walked her to the day care but left when her pager went off. Teddy went into the room and found Sophia pushing buttons on one of the toys for Ethan. The buttons would play music and Ethan seemed amused.
"Hey," Teddy said, sitting down with them.
"He likes it here," Sophia said, making Teddy both happy that he was okay and sad that she wasn't with him.
"Good," Teddy said. Teddy ran her hand across the top of Ethan's head. It felt warm which made her panic. She immediately paged Mark who ran into the room in a matter of seconds.
"What's wrong?" Mark yelled looking nervous.
"His head is warm," Teddy said.
"You paged me 911," Mark said with a sigh. "God, Teddy, you scared me half to death!"
"I'm sorry," Teddy said. Mark sat on the ground and put his hand to Ethan's head.
"It doesn't feel warm, Teddy," Mark said. Teddy looked at him unconvinced. "I'll go get a thermometer."
Mark came back and checked Ethan's temperature. "No fever."
"I'm sorry," Teddy apologized again. "I was just worried."
They said goodbye to the kids and left the room.
"Babe," Mark said stopping Teddy from walking away. "Kids get sick. And Ethan will too."
"I never thought I'd be this overprotective," Teddy said.
Mark smiled at her. "I knew you would."
"How?"
"Cause I knew you'd be a great mom."
"No way," Mark protested.
"What?" Callie asked.
"Her outfit," Mark clarified.
"She's wearing a cute little dress," Callie said.
"Yeah little being the keyword," Mark said. "It's too short."
"Mark, she's four," Callie said. "It's her first day of preschool."
"If she dresses like this when she's four imagine how she'll dress when she's fourteen," Mark argued.
Callie sighed and called out for Arizona who came downstairs for the tiebreaker. "Is Sophia's outfit okay?"
Arizona looked. "She looks adorable."
"See," Callie said to Mark.
"Fine but when our daughter becomes a hooker I'm blaming it on you guys," Mark said.
Teddy and Mark woke up when they felt Sophia jumping wildly on the bed.
"Wake up! Wake up! Santa came!" Sophia yelled.
"We're up," Mark grumbled rolling over hoping to get more sleep.
"No, daddy. Get out of bed!" Sophia said. Sophia eventually got them up and they got dressed to go across the street where the presents were.
Teddy sat Ethan down next to Sophia on the floor by the Christmas tree.
Sophia put a present in front of Ethan and one in front of herself. She helped Ethan open his first by giving him a piece to tear. Then she continued to open her gift.
Ethan was amused by the crinkling of the wrapping paper and Sophia's reactions to her presents were great. Christmas was great and they spent the whole day together despite a few pages from the hospital.
"Hey," Mark said sneaking up behind Teddy and wrapping his arm around her waist.
Teddy turned around and kissed him. "Hi."
"Callie and Arizona are going to watch Ethan tonight," Mark said. "I made dinner reservations for seven."
"You're the greatest," Teddy said, kissing him again.
"God, this food is great," Teddy said, playing with Mark's fingers as she ate her dinner.
"Dessert's even better," Mark said seductively.
"Can't wait," Teddy said, squeezing his hand. They hurried home after dinner. Teddy tried to unlock the door but found it hard while Mark was breathing on her neck. She got the door open and they shut it quickly behind them. Their lips found each other and their jackets were pushed off and left on the floor. They tried to find their way to the stairs but failed and instead collapsed onto the couch.
Teddy pulled off Mark's shirt and touched his perfect abs. She reached for his belt buckle and he helped her push down his pants and boxers. She stroked his penis until he begged her stop. He tore off her shirt and unclasped her bra in one slick movement and replaced them with his mouth. He then unbuttoned her pants and explored her further until she pleaded him to go inside her. He obeyed immediately and thrust into her making her moan. They came within minutes and relaxed on the couch for a while before making their way to the bed.