#paraevan

“Yea yea, that’s fine. I’ll just take her back afterwards,” Derek shrugs, grinning. “I’m going to the bathroom, anyone need anything on my way back?” She asks, shaking her head. All the older kids were back in the playroom, watching a movie and playing. 

Derek gets Meredith’s message just as he’s leaving a consult, and his brow furrows. He can’t wait to get any further information, because just as he’s about to reply, Evan rushes past him. He’s fast, and about 12 years younger, so Derek sighs, dropping his phone in his lab coat pocket and going after him. “Evan!” He shouts once he gets out of the hospital. “Hey! Wait up!” He calls, managing to catch up to him a few feet away from his car.

Allie sighs as she exits the bathroom into their bedroom, reaching her side of the bed and reaching down to pump some of her lotion into her hand. Rubbing it over her hands and then on to her belly, she slides her rings off and puts them on the dish on her nightstand, sitting down on the bed. “Today was exhausting, but the kids loved it,” She remarks to Evan. It had been the big birthday party for Olivia, Liam, Michael, and Logan. “It was great...besides the cold front coming in from Meredith,” She mutters, pulling her legs up under the covers and laying back against her pillows with a sigh.

Allie fidgets in the hospital bed. She’d gone twelve hours without bleeding, and so she’d showered and changed into some of her own clothes that Evan had brought from home, had put some makeup on in an attempt to hide the dark circles under her eyes. Evan had texted that they had parked, and so she had removed the fetal monitor from her belly and tucked the cords away. Rebecca had arrived yesterday, and as Allie had suggested, they’d held off on bringing the kids. But Evan was on his way up with them now, and she was nervous. She didn’t want to scare them, but she didn’t want to lie. She desperately wanted to see them, though, she missed them so much. Evan was bringing dinner, too, and she bounces her leg, waiting, finally hearing them coming down the hall. 

Arriving at home, Allie enters through the basement, as per their COVID decontamination plan. She strips in the bathroom and tosses her clothes into the washer from the door, then shuts it and gets in the shower. After showering, she grabs some of the clothes that they’d left down here for this purpose. She grabs her own yoga pants and steals a worn in Stanford t-shirt from Evan’s pile, one that she constantly steals and he constantly takes back, an ongoing game. Running the towel through her hair and brushing it out, she tosses the towel into the washer as well and turns in on, before grabbing her disinfected phone and heading up the stairs. “Hello, family,” She calls out, Molly running over tail wagging as she shuts the basement door. “Mommy!” Lilia exclaims. “Come look!” 

“Alright kids, come on!” Allie calls out, her and Evan stepping out onto the deck and heading down to the yard. The Logan, Michael, and Lilia are on the swing set, while Ella is throwing the tennis ball for Molly. Several weeks prior, Ella had mentioned that maybe it’d be fun for them to wait and find out what the baby was when it was born, which had gotten her thinking...the house had been divided. After a lot of back and forth, and Allie realizing in order for her to not know, she couldn’t look at the ultrasounds basically at all, they’d all agreed to find out. 

She’s sitting at her desk and her phone goes off, an alert from her resident. Putting her phone in the pocket of her lab coat, she heads out of her office, upstairs, and down the hall to Evan’s office. “Hey,” She says, tapping on the door and leaning against it. “Results are in.” They’d come in early this morning, and she’d had a full work up. Blood draws, pap smear, checking her hormone levels. If everything checked out, her IUD would be removed. “You able to step away?” She asks, tilting her head. 

She and Evan had thrown the idea around, of having it be a surprise, but had both agreed that they didn’t want to make it harder for them. She wanted this to be a positive event for her sister and brother in law, and that meant cluing them in. It was to honor Abby, and further the work they could do in her name. “Hey, have you heard from Lexie?” She asks, wanting to wait until Evan and Derek joined them, and curious as to whether Lex had made contact.