All In the Past || Amelia & Teddy

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     “Page cardio!” Amelia yelled at one of the interns
     for what seemed like the fiftieth time. Her patient
     was  crashing fast,  and it was clear the  problem
     no longer laid with her brain, but rather her heart.
     Highly-trained hands slammed against the chest
     of  the woman.  Her third day as an  attending  at
     Seattle  Grace  Mercy West, and she was already
     going to  lose  a  patient because of  incompetent
     staff. Awesome. 

                    C  l  e  a  r  !

     She tried, but to no avail, and the woman was gone
     before reinforcements could come running in. “Time
     of death: three-fifty-four P.M.,” she sighed. Stepping
     back, she threw to the ground the nearest towel she
     could find in sheer exasperation. Running her hands
     back through her hair, the youngest Shepherd turned
     to see a blonde enter the room.

     “Cardio, I’m guessing. Sorry to have wasted your time.”

    “These damn interns don’t seem to know how 
    to  use  a pager —” Teddy began, only to stop
    short  at  the sight of the woman before her —
    for  in  this  time and place, Amelia Shepherd
    was  nothing  less  than a ghost from her past.
    Teddy  had long since known the name of the
    mother  who’d  given  it   a l l  up  to  give  her
    everything,   but  she’d  never once imagined
    that she would meet her. 

    Amelia and her son  —  they’d  given Teddy all
    the things they couldn’t have;  they’d  given  her
    a  life  with  Delia  when  life wasn’t  something
    they  took  for  granted.  Amelia had made sure
    that Teddy wouldn’t have to go through the pain
    of             losing             a              d a u g h t e r .  

    And  here she was, no  warier than the next —
    the  very  person  Teddy  owed  a   lifetime  to.