𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗹𝘀, 𝐝.𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐝

xciv. big news and a talk with grey

Derek pulled the phone away from his shoulder, still smiling as he pressed a few buttons and strolled forward closer to his still husband.

"The Shepherd Lee-Sunny family! I'm calling to say you've been approved. You'll be able to adopt as soon as the finishing touches on all the paperwork come through. Everyone at the agency here thought you'd be great, and it helps that you've got little miss Star." The voice was cheerful, happy, kind. "Of course as you go along, there'll still be some more bumps in the road, but you'll all be wonderful adoptive parents for your soon to be kids. I'm glad that I've been able to work with you this far. Congratulations Shepherd Lee-Sunny family."

Derek and Atlas embraced in a hug. More so Derek holding onto Atlas as he cried happy tears. This was a moment that would replay in their heads for a long time, until they died even.

"We get to have more kids." Derek whispered, placing a kiss to his husbands lips.

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"Grey!" Atlas stepped into the c.t room where Meredith Grey was leaning away from a patient that she had just gotten a heart beat from. "Talk to me."

"He was coding when I got here. I defibrillated hun three times, I gave him three rounds of epi, two of atropine. I loaded him with amiodarone, but he's tachycardic now. I mean, he's barley handing on." Meredith rambled, looking from Atlas to the scans on the computer screen.

Atlas nodded along. "He needs surgery." Atlas said to Meredith before he looked towards one of the nurses in the room. "Book an O.R please."

"Okay. I'll get a room prepped and ready." Meredith nodded, stepping away to go get things ready.

"There's no time. His aortas dissecting as we speak. He needs surgery right now." Atlas and Meredith made their way towards the operating room, stopping when someone on the phone leaned closer to them.

"They say all the operating rooms are booked."

Atlas shrugged. They guy would die without surgery. "Tell 'em go bump someone, we're coming up either way."

Meredith stoped and thought before she looked to the guy on the phone. "I have one. Tell them to bump mine and prep it for an emergency cardio."

"All right, here we go." Atlas said, moving along with the gurney and Meredith. He told her once they were in the elevator that they wouldn't have time to scrub, nor would they really have time to do anything else other than gown and start the surgery. "Just pour the betadine straight on his chest, it doesn't have to be pretty."

Atlas and Meredith started the surgery. It went quick in the begging and things weren't going great but not terrible. Shortly after Atlas and Meredith started to work, getting into the chest past the rib cage, he started to bleed out. When that happened, there was nothing else they could do.

"Call it Grey."

"Time of death — 18:52."

When the gowns were done, and the blood was washed away, Atlas and Meredith made their way towards the nursery where they looked at the baby's.

"It's okay, you know." Atlas said, hand near the glass as he waved towards the babies. "That you didn't catch it on time."

"Maybe there was something else..." Meredith trailed off sadly, she hates this part of being a surgeon, the losing part.

"They're so hard to catch. These patients are so hard to save." Atlas shook his head. "You did everything right."

"Thank you." The two say in silence before Meredith spoke up. "Callie asked Christina to be her baby's godmother."

Atlas laughed lightly. "I heard."

"I don't want her to though. I don't want to be selfish, but if she agrees than it's like her saying I'll never have a kid, you know?" Meredith whispered, eyes locked onto a smiling blabbering baby.

"That's not her intentions you know." Atlas whispered back. "Callie didn't want you to feel that way, and neither does Christina."

Meredith nodded. "I know."

"You and Olly can be mine and Derek's babies godparents." Atlas was trying to be subtle as he slipped that into the conversation.

"Olly and El are already Stars godparents."

"The adoption agency accepted us. And we all know that if anything happened, Olly would take in as many kids as he could."

"He's like a kindergartener."

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not including this chapter, there's four more to go before we hit act four, the last act! they should be up soon this week :)