Pru Miller

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# Early Life

Pruitt Arike Miller was born on February 27, 1420 to Dean Miller and Gigi Lau at Station 19 during a serious blizzard. Gigi was at the station with Dean when she went into labour. Maia Bishop called Carina DeLuca, who advised over the phone how to handle the labour, since they were unable to get to the hospital for the delivery. Gigi was upset with this, saying she wanted an epidural to handle the pain. Maia told her that Carina had suggested masturbating in order to progress the labor and help with the pain and Gigi did so happily. Not long after that, labor progressed and she gave birth to Pru.

## Childhood

### Mom Leaving

When Pru was less than a week old, she still didn't have a name. Dean and Gigi learned they had different ideas of how to parent. After a few days, Gigi packed her things and left the baby with Dean, saying she'd never intended to stay and just wanted to give Dean the chance to keep Pru if he wanted. She told Dean to give her a good name and a good life before leaving.

### Getting a Name

With Gigi gone, Dean struggled to take care of the baby. When Captain Pruitt came over to help, he tried to reassure Dean that he would be okay, but quickly discovered that Dean wasn't sure he was going to keep her. After they spent the day talking, with Pruitt helping with the baby, Dean decided to keep her and named her Pruitt Arike Miller, after Pruitt. Arike comes from the Yoruba origin and it means "The cherished one". Soon after, Vic, Dean’s best friend, also moved in and agreed to take shifts with Dean to care for Pru.

During the pandemic, her aunt Yemi started living with her and took care of her.

As a baby, she couldn't eat orange foods after dark or she vomited all night.

She went to Sunny Friends Daycare

### Dad's Death

After her father died in a heroic move saving Vic, another firefighter, Andi Herrera, who had been staying with the make-shift family, brought her to the hospital to go home with Ben Warren and Miranda Bailey, since Ben had agreed to take her if anything happened to Dean.

Thanksgiving
On Thanksgiving, Ben brought Pru to the station for the station's meal. When he had to go out on a call, he left her with Maia, who struggled as she hadn't spent much time with children. While Maia was watching her, Pru said she needed to potty, so Maia picked her up to take her, but Pru pooped in her diaper before they got anywhere. Carina then came in and took Pru from Maia and changed her diaper and her socks. Pru then spent some time coloring in the barn while the tables were being set up. When her grandfather, Bill Miller, arrived to take her, Bailey talked him into staying for dinner. He did so, but as soon as dinner was over, he took Pru with him, calling her Arike, which he said was her true name.

### Living with Her Grandparents

Pru remained with her dad's parents while Ben and Bailey explored their legal avenues. Dean's parents remained insistent that she would be living with them. However, one night, when Pru woke up crying for Bailey, they called her and had her help get Pru to sleep.

### Christmas

About a week before Christmas, Ifeya Miller, Pru’s grandmother, allowed Bailey to take Pru to the station for a visit.

Anna, Pru's nanny, later dropped her off for a visit with Ben and Bailey on the same day they were meeting with Ifeya and Bill Miller to discuss their custody arrangement. She said they'd been held up at a medical appointment and asked her to drop Pru off. When the Millers arrived, they told Ben and Bailey they'd decided to let her live with them, with caveats. They eventually worked things out.

### Going to Work with Bailey

After Bailey took a few vacation days, she returned to work with Pru, but then had to put Pru in daycare when she discovered several surgeries had had to be cancelled or postponed.

### A Party

Ben and Bailey threw a party for Pru at the station. At the party, Ben gave a speech about how being a dad, especially to Pru, had helped him learn to stop taking so many risks at work.

### Bailey Quitting

In the wake of the surgical residency program being shut down, Pru helped Bailey erase surgeries off the surgical board. Then Bailey quit and she and Pru went home to bake cookies.

### Play Date

Bailey took Pru to the park to have a playdate with Lulu Ashton.

### Halloween

Pru came to the station for the Halloween open house. She was originally supposed to come as a firefighter, but changed her mind and came as Megan Rapinoe instead. At the party, she saw and hugged her Uncle Taylor Gibson.

From there, she went to the hospital to trick or treat there, despite already being tired. Bailey changed her into an Ewok costume and took her around. Afterward, she fell asleep in her stroller as Bailey packed up to go home.

### Biting

Pru was at the hospital daycare playing when Alyson Hunt bit her. Both sets of parents were paged to fill out a report about the bite.

### Bailey's Doxxing

When Bailey was doxxed by anti-choice extremists, she decided it wasn't safe anymore for them to stay in their home or for Pru to go to daycare, so they moved into a rental and she had Lukas Addams, one of her interns, watch Pru for the day. Lukas took her to the cafeteria to get a brownie and had her help blow up balloons for Grayson Friedman's bar mitzvah.

# Mid Life

## Family

Mother: Gigi Lau

When she was less than a week old, her mother left her with her father, saying she couldn't be a good mom. She told Dean to have their daughter look her up when she was a teenager if she wanted.

Father: Dean Miller

Adoptive Mother: Miranda Bailey

Adoptive Father: Ben Warren

After Dean's death, she was adopted by Ben Warren and Miranda Bailey.
Adoptive Brother: Tuck Warren

Maternal Grandmother: Petra Lau

Maternal Grandfather: Henry Lau

Paternal Grandmother: Ifeya Miller

Paternal Grandfather: Bill Miller

Aunt: Yemi Miller