✕ tell all; be free.

IND. TEDDY ALTMAN WRITTEN BY ANGIE ❝ –– perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. and when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house—the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture—must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. and suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

[rcdivivus-blog]

abigailspencer: teddy & megan. one week till 14x05 of #greysanatomy 🖤  little #bts of the goddess that is @kimraver & i… #tgit

[teddyaltmcn]

MARK SLOAN

{ for @plcstics​, the one true daddy }

she hadn’t called. not because she didn’t care, but because no words could ever hope to bear the weight of their collective tragedy. two lost soul mates and six years of enduring grief had forged a divide between them, so vast that teddy couldn’t see the other side — and even if she had picked up the phone, there was nothing left in her to give. 

could the brief interlude they’d shared be lost to them for good? could mark forgive her for all these years of neglect? looking up into the eyes of her old friend, she feared more than anything that her words had come too late. 

“i... i heard about lexie,” teddy whispered at last — voice frayed, as was her heart. “i know it was a long time ago, but it doesn’t feel that way, does it? god, mark... i’m so sorry i wasn’t there for you.” 

[teddyaltmcn]

ARIZONA ROBBINS

{ for @strongscribed​ }

seeing arizona here again was like hearing music to an old dance she had long since forgotten the steps to. once so natural, these words had become worn and forced between them — no doubt a product of too many years spent apart. how could teddy possibly repair this relationship she'd so thoughtlessly lost to neglect? 

yet, she had to try. 

“so,” teddy started hesitantly. “what happened with you and callie? I know we haven’t spoken much this year, but... I thought I’d have known about something like this. I’m so sorry I wasn’t there, arizona — really, I am.”

[teddyaltmcn]

SENTENCE STARTERS FROM THE DUNGEON

in honor of the discord group chat pins running out, here’s a compilation of our degeneracy.           {  presented by @strongscribed, @mcmachine, @tragichunt, @plcstics, @calliemetorres, @rcdivivus and other assorted trash  }

“ catfishing seems to be the preferred solution these days. ”

“ I didn’t offer to buy a strap on and wear it around. ”

“ be gone, straight boy. ”

“ this paper is so full of shit, I should make the text brown. ”

“ sounds like a whorehouse. ”

“ is this why I’m fat? ”

“ i’ll snort lube off a hooker’s ass. ”

“ you just cum? ”

“ city people nourish with juice and resentment. ”

“ I love falafel but falafel does not love me. ”

“ I flinched and tried to grab her arm but there was boob there instead. ”

“ I thought I was in labor at one point but it turned out I just needed to take a shit. ”

“ rhode island is a bitch ass dot. ”

“ I want a baby but then I remember I can’t give it back. ”

“ no one should eat any tampons. ”

“ I ripped my anus once. ”

“ at least I’m not a duplicitous bitch. ”

“ I see someone has a strong opinion about walmart’s plants. ”

“ too bad I can’t play with myself. ”

“ I am not hip with the kids. ”

“ it’s like, 8 inches, maybe. ”

“ they grip my balls and make me cough. ”

“ it’s symptomatic of being a chronic bitch. ”

[teddyaltmcn]

who's the chocolate sauce daddy

omfg SHAME

[teddyaltmcn]

MEGAN HUNT

    {    for the best and only @rcdivivus​    } 

“I didn’t have a maid of honor, you know,” Teddy mused, her eyes as distant as the horizon. “It didn’t seem right to have someone other than you there... Maybe that’s why I never wanted a real wedding.” So many stories had passed them both by, absent and unvoiced. And Megan - somehow, somewhere along the harrowing way, she had become a mother. How had they done so much living without each other? Years of waiting and wasted days - but they had survived it.

Teddy turned to Megan at last, her smile sad but true: “Anyway, you didn’t miss much; just City Hall and my pager going off in the middle of it. But I do wish you had known the man I married - Henry Burton.”

[teddyaltmcn]

DELIA BURTON

@soldierheartcd

looking down at her daughter, teddy felt a strange kind of shame settle dark and heavy on her shoulders. delia’s entire lifetime had elapsed in megan’s absence, and all these years teddy had managed to love and live on. she’d started a family; a chapter of her life removed of the friend she loved as a sister. how could she have been so thoughtless?

but the past was too distant to retrieve now, and what mattered was that megan was here; megan was home. teddy was finally about to do what she should have done years ago - introduce her best friend to her daughter. 

“delia, we’re going to the hospital today,”  teddy said softly. “I want you to meet your auntie megan.” At last.

[teddyaltmcn]

OWEN HUNT

“When..when are you going back? I’d really like to you stay for a bit..” His old friend finally back in the city. And seeing Teddy, he realized just how much he’d missed her. A little slip and he’d kissed her, something that perhaps he’d held onto for years. A weak moment though. Owen knew better and thankfully she had too. 

she couldn’t stop thinking of him; not of the kiss, not of the future that she could suddenly see so clear. her favorite human being on this planet - why shouldn’t Teddy want to be with him? yet it seemed that their clocks tolled at different midnights, for their timing had never, ever been right. 

“I’ll stay for as long as you need,” Teddy smiled, hoping Owen couldn’t see through to her bitterness.

[teddyaltmcn]

❝  –– HOME is where your story begins.                            welcome home, teddy altman. ❞  

[teddyaltmcn]

❝  –– and we are led                  to those who help us most to grow,                                   if we let them...  ❞  

[teddyaltmcn]

❝  –– it’s okay...               i’m not going anywhere. ❞  

[teddyaltmcn]

final - fucking - ly        {  @drmcperky + @strongscribed, this one’s for you }

[teddyaltmcn]

            ❝  –– another summer day                           has come and gone away in paris and rome                                           but I want to go HOME... ❞  

[teddyaltmcn]

8 minutes into the new episode and i’m already near death so like this for a teddy starter for the first time in two years !!!

[emily-axford]

THEODORA ALTMAN HAS RETURNED FROM WAR. (x)

[teddyaltmcn]

          ❝ –– if only I could break the chain of DISAPPOINTMENTS weighing me down ;    shake off the GHOSTS that whisper warnings whenever you’re not around.           BUT IT’S THE FEAR AND NOT THE GHOSTS THAT KEEP ME HAUNTED.

[teddyaltmcn]

HENRY BURTON

lips turn up into a small smile as slender fingers maneuver his wife’s hair into elaborate braids. “you know that sister I told you about? well she’s got a daughter who loves her uncle henry– but the one thing uncle henry couldn’t do was braid hair… and my little monkey loved her hair braided, so I took the time to learn how to do almost any type of braid…” he admits as he finishes her hair. “it’s a hidden talent of mine.”

"You never told me you had a niece,” Teddy said softly, thoughtful but never accusing. “How come I’ve never had a chance to meet her?” In that moment, Teddy was struck by just how little she knew of Henry’s past—as if in all their haste to get married, they’d missed so many crucial pieces of their hearts. “I guess I haven’t had the chance to meet any of your family yet, either.”