That one night changed everything
There was a satisfying clack when I dropped the last of my master tools onto the tray. I moved away from the table and made my way out the OR. It has taken me 12 hours to put that man together and I wasn't tired and I should be.
"Hey Torres."
I looked up from scrubbing my hands to see Mark.
"We are going to Joe's you're coming." He says
"You can't make me go somewhere I was already going." I tell him
"Well hurry up." He says.
Mark was like a little boy when it came to going out, outside of work he was all about the fun and party.
"Look let me change and sign my post op and I will meet you there."
"You better Callie or I will come back."
I smiled and shook my head before going back to scrubbing out. I took my time after signing my post ops I changing my close. And I slowly made my way to Joe's enjoying the cool crisp air that came along with fall.
Not watching where I was going I walked right into a group of Marines.
"Oh I'm sorry."
"Damn right your sorry, look at what you did you stepped on my boot!"
Yelling wasn't something that bothered me but a 6'9" drunk marine yelling in my face did. And I wasn't going to back down. I opened my mouth when I was cut off by a strong but beautiful voice.
"Camp what the Fuck is your problem?"
Everyone stopped and turned to the voice, even me. There stood a Hot blond hair pulled back in a tight bun she had on the same camouflage uniform they did.
"Master Sergeant." The all say as she walked over
"I sad go out and have fun I didn't say get drunk."
"Master Sergeant we aren't drunk, Camp went off on his own and we found him here." A younger woman said.
Blue Eyes looked her over then back at me before…
"Everyone back to the hotel, do not leave do not think about leaving and do not order anything."
"But…."
"No Buts Grey when you get there, tell Altman to keep a look out on Camp. Let's see how much he likes to run with a hangover at 5 am." She says.
I look at my clock; it was still very early in the evening only just 8pm. But this guy looked like he jumped head first into a distillery of whisky, smelt like it too.
We watched them walk away with the drunk marine around two of their shoulders. The other two Women walked ahead of the clearly pissed off that one of the boys got them in trouble.
"I am sorry about that Ma'am, let me buy you a drink as an I'm sorry for his behavior." She says
"Oh you don't have to."
"Humor me Miss?"
"Calliope….Callie Torres"
"Calliope, that's a beautiful name.
"Now that you know my name what's yours?" I ask
She smiles at me and dimples just pop
"I'm Master Sergeant Arizona Robbins of the US Marine Corps."
She pulled the door open for me and we walked in and found a booth away from Mark and every one so we could talk.
And that's all I remember, well that's a lie I remember her telling me all about how she went to a Marine academy all her life when her father opened it when she was five. How she shot to Master Sergeant after in listing as a Gunnery Sergeant after graduating from said academy.
I remember her telling me some rather personal things about herself that If I had not fallen into bed with her I wouldn't believe.
I remember how hard she was and how strong her arms were, how gentle she was with me because well I am or was a virgin. I remember her gently wiping the tears from my eyes as I pushed through the pain. I remember the great sex and how I knew that she ruined me for anyone and telling myself that she was going to leave and that was it. But for now I was going to enjoy her now, I'm thirty one years old and I just gave my V card to a 30 year old Marine that was a perfect specimen of woman. More of her running around even straight women would have to put up with their dick boyfriends/husbands
And I remember waking up to an empty bed at 4am with a note and her dog tags on the pillow next to me.
Colliope
I shouldn't do this and I'm lucky I always have an extra set at all times. But I'm leaving behind my dog tags to give reason to come back when I am able. I dressed in the dark so I wouldn't wake you and my t-shit is there somewhere. You gave me something amazing and I gave you nothing but I ask that you pray for me keep me in your thoughts so I can know someone is out there for me hopping I'm ok.
MSgt Arizona Robbins =-)
That was almost 10 months ago, I folded the paper back up and put it back in my jewelry box when I heard a knock on the front door. I had yet to try to contact Arizona and not by choice, Mark let it spill to Daddy that I was pregnant and now I can't get rid of them.
'Callie do this Callie don't do that. Callie you shouldn't be on your feet so much. Who are you calling don't call them if you're on hold it will make your blood pressure go up.'
All I wanted was Arizona I was told that she was overseas and there was no way they could tell me when she was coming back. But the lady did take pity on me and told me early today that she could set me up with a video call to her Saturday morning my time and just after 1am Sunday her time.
I took it I was on my way to the hospital now to have labor induced and it was Thursday.
"You ready Callie?" Daddy asked
I had him stop calling me Calliope it just felt so wrong when all I can think about when I hear my own name is Arizona moaning it in my ear with every thrust.
"Yes."
"What are you doing? And why are you still wearing that?" Mom asked as I picked up my laptop bag.
She went to grab the tags and I slapped her hand away.
"Honey this Robbins; he's not really someone you want in your life if he got you pregnant then left. Why do you wear his tags?"
My dad is an old war dog himself so he knows all about the tags.
"I haven't told her that's why." I say walking out the door.
I got nothing but Silent's from them all the way over to the hospital no one spoke until I was in bed.
"Her?" Mom said
"I'm not going to talking about this with you right now." I say as my phone starts to ring.
"Hello?" I answer the unknown number just to stop my mother from talking.
"Callliope!?"
It was Arizona and she sound out of breath.
"Arizona.."
"Where are you Shelly told me that you have been trying to find me so I'm here in Seattle."
"Yes I have its…. We have….OH god this hurts." I moan
Just my luck it would happen now.
"Calliope what's wrong?"
"Just come to my hospital and ask for my room."
I hung up the phone.
"You two need to leave." I say
"Call….."
No Daddy go I have to have this talk with Arizona alone and I haven't asked for you two to do anything so pleas just LEAVE." I say.
She's is everything that I ever wanted.
All my life I wanted to be a Marine; but it ended with me having the most amazing sex with the most beautiful woman I have ever meant and I have been around the world. I left my tags with her to have some half ass reason to come back and I told her so. But now it's not a half ass reason and I don't want to be in the Marines anymore. So they as decided that for me, they don't know what to do with me because of my condition. It says Female on my birth certificate and all the blood test says the same. But I'm too much of a man to buck with women and too much or a woman to bunk with the men. So save all the hell I just went with the honorable discharge and left. I'm always going to be a Marine I gave them my all and I'm proud of that.
But after meeting Calliope it's not worth the trouble anymore I always thought it would be. Dad told me when you meet your soul mate nothing is worth the trouble unless it's that person isn't with you, then you would move heaven and earth to be with them. Do anything to be with them.
And that's how I feel about Calliope after one night one fucking night of amazing conversation and sex. That woman the way she ran her hand over my callused fingers and down the scar on the side of my face. How she undressed me that night, so slowly kissing every ab muscle.
That thought alone almost got my head knocked off by Teddy when noticed I wasn't paying attention to her. 'Almost' is the key word Teddy got beat up that day.
So I guess it's wise that I do leave or I would get myself killed.
As soon as I reached DC for my debriefing Shelly told me that some woman name Callie Torres was looking for me. Right away I couldn't get done fast enough it took three days but I finally got to Seattle.
She wasn't at her apartment so I called the number that was given to me only to hear distress in her voice.
"Just come to my hospital and ask for my room." She says grunting.
She hung up before I could say more leaving me looking at my phone like it was some kind of alien.
"Oh my god."
I took off running for the Hospital across the street not bothering to stop for traffic sliding through the doors and catching myself on the nurses desk when my wet boots couldn't get traction.
"I need the room number to Dr Callie Torres."
The nurse looked up at me taking in my wet uniform and hair.
"Room 643 labor and delivery 6th floor." She says after typing in her name.
I made my way up to the room I didn't stop til it was too late, I was right outside her room. What the fuck Calliope.
"What?"
"Arizona."
I look up to see her looking at me with those big brown eyes.
"Your pregnant and you called me?" I ask
My heart felt like it was being squeezed in the unforgiving hands of a nightmare.
"No no Arizona let me explain."
"Why should I?" I ask anger in my voice.
"Because you are level headed and always listen no matter what, you said it yourself." She said
She's right on that.
"Please come in and close the door."
I did as she asked and moved over to the bed, I wasn't sure if I wanted to sit or stand.
"She's yours." Callie says
"Say what?" I ask.
"The baby she's yours." Callie says again
In all my years I have never got any news that left me speechless, but this knocked the wind out of me and kicked me in the back of the knees. Callie grabbed my arm over the bedrail and a grabbed the arm of the chair to sit down.
"Arizona when I said I was a virgin I meant that when I woke and you was gone you took a part of me with you. I don't know what happen or how it happen but I fell in love that night, I fell in love with you."
I looked up from her swollen belly back into her eyes.
"I…I noticed a month later that I was late, I thought it was stress that I was over…that I was working too much I took a pregnancy test here, Addison did it for me."She says.
I remember that name she told me all about her bestfriend.
"And it's mine, like your really sure? "
"Arizona this is your child, if you don't….."
"Don't even say it….I will be right here Calliope. That is my responsibility and I will do everything I need to do take care of her." I say
"What about me?" Callie asked
"Calliope I'm in love with you but you as far as everyone knows are straight. Plus I wasn't to do things right but after you come out."
"I never said I wasn't a lesbian Arizona." Callie said smiling at me.
I looked at her then back at her stomach
"I have a baby in there, hey baby." I say kissing her stomach
"Owwww don't do that." Callie says when the baby shifted
"Well I think we should tell your parents." I say.
"No no we don't have the time for that." Callie said gripping my hand.
I don't know what happen but the next thing I knew I small army or nurses ran in and a blonde doctor took her place between Callie's legs. Never have I see a child being born, guts blood brain matter bodies burnt to a crisp. But the gift of life, Something I helped make. That is something all together new and amazing.
"Here we are a beautiful little girl." The Blonde doctor says.
A cry filled the air and I started to cry.
"Are you crying?" Callie asked panting at me
"Marines don't cry their eyes sweat." I say my eyes never leaving the bundle
"What's this little angel's name?" a nurse asked
"Sofia Torres Robbins." Calliope said.
"Callie you don't hav…"
"Your name has always been part of her name Arizona, You are part of her." She says
I watched closely as the weighed her measured her and cleaned her up. When the nurse walked over to the bed Callie pointed at me with a tired smile and the little pink crying bundle started to whine then grunt before stopping completely.
"Hey Sofia look at you, you are beautiful."
A puff of air came from a perfect nose and I smiled, the tears started to slip down my face and I didn't try to stop them.
"Ok now I'm crying." I say
Everyone in the room started to laugh but was soon cut short by the same people that I ran past getting here.
"Oh Callie, why didn't you call?" The woman asked walking over to me.
She took Sofia from me and moved over to the man who was giving me a hard look. I let out a sigh and made my way out of the room with the group of nurses.
2 hours later
I found myself looking in the window at all the babies but my eyes was locked on my little girl. She was so perfect and crafty; I watched a number of times as she wiggled her arm out of the blanket wrapped around her to pull off the little pink hat. She has a head full of dark brown hair like her mother with 4 tuffs of blonde hair spaced equally around her head.
I was taking pictures through the glass and debating if I was going to call my parents when I felt some one walk up to me.
"My daughter tells me that you are the father, that you are…That you are the father." The man says
"I'm intersex I have both male and female working parts, while I never knew that was possible I didn't set out to impregnate Calliope the way you must be thinking." I say not taking my eyes off Sofia.
He reached into his suite pocket and pulled out a check book.
"I'm going to write you a million dollar check."
"What?" I turned to look at him for the first time.
"OK 2 million to stay away from both my Daughter and her child. I will find a suitable Father figure for baby Torres if not the actual father and they will be married and raise her." Carlos says holding out the check
I slapped his hand away.
"Her name Is Sofia Torres ROBBINS and she is MY CHILD. No amount of money in the world will get me to abandon my child or Calliope. If you don't believe me I will take a paternity test I will take all the damn test in the world to prove you wrong."
I got right in his face and looked him dead in the eyes.
"But if you try to leave this hospital with Callie or my child if you try to keep me from seeing them I will hunt you down. I will kill anyone that gets in the way and there will be nowhere on earth or any galaxy that you can hide from me." I say before taking one last look at Sofia then walking off.
Callie
"You did what?" I ask from my bed.
I hadn't seen Arizona in a day but the nurses say she spends hours standing at the window just looking at Sofia. When they bring her to me be fed Arizona leaves and always shows up just when they sit her back in her spot.
I don't have any doubt that she is stalking around watching my room.
"She treated to kill anyone that got between you the baby and her; do you really want an unstable woman from the army around you or Sofia?" He asked
"She's a Marine Carlos." Mom says looking up from her book
I was shocked that mom was as calm as she was about this. She was the one that told me to keep my virginity til I was married. 100% devout Catholic always wakes up to go to mass at 5 am before going to work all day.
"And what do you think would happen you tried to pay her off to leave her child and the woman she loves." She added.
"Lucia you are ok with this?" Daddy asks waving his arms
"No I am not, I wanted Callie to marry a man and have a family just as bad as you do. But all the signs was there from the time she was 13, and she tried she really tried to be the woman we raised her to be. But by the time she was 20 I knew I knew that our baby girl is a lesbian and she was struggling to be something she wasn't. Now I know what the church says I read the bible I know all about it."
"It's a SIN." Daddy yells
Mom jumped up and stood in front of him.
"And you don't sin Carlos? No sin is greater than the other if she is going to hell then so am I for the abortion I had all those years ago. If she goes to hell then so are you for your gluttony and the mistreatment of your mother and father. There isn't a person in this world that doesn't sin every single day and if it wasn't for the mercy of God we would all go to hell. Callie was unhappy and close to suicide. And I for one am glad she found Arizona or we would be grieving over her death and not celebrating the life that she just brought into this world."
I looked at mom shocked that she knew about my suicide thoughts and the fact that she had an abortion.
"Mom you had an abortion?" I asked.
"Yes Callie I was 53 years old much too old to be having a baby, and one with another man no less. That was when I and your father were fighting. So I have no right to judge you on what you do and with whom, as long as you haven't killed anyone porously or anything along that line. And as for knowing you wanted to kill yourself you left your laptop open a month or so, I know I shouldn't have but I read some of it thinking it was one of your stories that you love to write on your down time. I knew about Arizona for months I just wanted you to tell me on your own." She said.
That was the time Addison walked into the room.
"Callie I know that you didn't ask for these but Arizona asked me to run these test after explaining why and I for one don't blame he." Addison gave my father an evil look.
"What are you talking about?" I asked
"She asked me to run a paternity test so she could shut your father up and cover her ass if he should try something stupid. And I have to say that she can't get any closer to Sofia being her child unless she pushed her out of her own body. Be it I have never in all my years as a Doctor seen a case like this but I have read about them and it is possible." Addison says giving me the file she was looking at.
"I doubt that." Dad says
"Are you saying that I would risk my career just to make you look bad? There are more important things in my life then to worry about you." She says
"Oh my god Daddy really, why are you doing this?" I ask looking up at him.
"I just want you to make the right choice Callie."
"Arizona is the right choice for me and my child not for you. I did this I slept with her and I we made this child and you can't change that."
"So you're just going to walk off into the sunset and get married to that…Thing and raise my granddaughter?"
I snapped at him.
"She is a WOMAN and I care about her deeply; I don't know if we will get married but I want her in my life and that isn't going to change." I say.
"I can say the same."
We all turned to see Arizona standing at the door, everything that I was thinking about at that moment flew right out my head. She stood wearing a black suit and the tightest dress shirt that matched her blue eyes. Every time she took a breath in I could see her perfect abs, or maybe that was just my wishful thinking.
"Carlos I told you that I wasn't playing games with you, this is my family. That's my child and she is the mother of my child, so that means her health her financial our child and any other issues outside family has nothing to do with you." Arizona says.
"Well if that's how its going to be I will call and take back her trust fund."
"You see its funny that you say that because my father and I have come to an agreement that the mother of his only grandchild should have a very nice nest egg to fall back on no matter if we get married or not."
Arizona pulled something out of her jacket pocket and handed over to me.
"What's this?" I ask
"That is 50% of my shares of my shipping company and the as well as shares in the Robbins family fortune. But I guess that doesn't matter since your taking away her trust fund."Arizona says
My eyes felt like they were going to pop out at all the words and numbers on the page. This was something I was going look at later; I have to really get into it to understand what the hell just happen.
"I want to go see if all the paper work is ready, is it ok if I drive you home?" She asks.
I look at her giving her a smile everything that just happen we need to talk about but.
"Yes you don't have to ask." I say
I got all kinds of giddy when she leaned in and kissed my head before leaving. I'm about to take the biggest step away from my family that I think I ever could take. I really hope I am doing the right thing.
Part two: The Beginning
Arizona
Callie's apartment wasn't anything like it was when I was here last, sure my eyes was locked on Callie but I took a good look around when she was getting wine. I was placing the little bottles of milk Callie pumped before leaving the hospital, away in the fridge when she called my name.
"Master Sergeant." She calls
"What that hell?"
"Language, come here." Callie says from the door of Sofia's room.
I took off my suite jacket and laid it over the bar stool and followed her into the room. I froze at the door; there over the crib was the Marine insignia on the over the changing table was another large painting of my bars and my dog tags hanging from it. It was done so well that I walked over and ran my hand over it.
"It took me all weekend to do them both, and Addison had to call in a favor to get the blanket. 100% authentic like her mom." Callie says
I look into the crib to see Sofia sleeping on top of the Marine blanket she had a fist full of the blanket. I did an about-face and pulled Callie into my arms and looked into her eyes
"Calliope this is amazing all of this, what you have done…"
"I just wanted her to know that you're a hero even if I never saw you again."
"I would have come back anyway Callie I just if you would have had me." I say before kissing her
I felt her nails dig into my hips and I had to pull back before the throbbing in my lower stomach became more.
"We have to stop you aren't in any condition for this and we are going to get something right. We skipped over the dating and went right to having the kid part. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't change any of it but I want to get it right this time around.
Callie gave a grunt before stepping out of my grip and slowly.
"Do you want something to eat?" she asked
"That would be great, I haven ate in a few days."
She stopped and looked at me from the sink where she was washing her hands.
"Arizona you cannot do that." She says going in to the fridge.
"I'll be fine." I say sitting at the bar to watch her.
"You know to start us out on the right foot you have to agree to have dinner here every night. We can work out a schedule with Sofia for when I go back to work. But you have to eat and you will eat here." Callie says
I watched her with a smile on my face as she warmed up some stir fry.
"Well in a few says I would like to take you two to see my mom and dad. They really want to meet you and Sofia."
"Ok." Callie says.
We ate and I held Sofia before letting Callie take over.
"I have an early meeting but I will be over by 10." I say kissing her then Sofia's head.
I let myself out the apartment and made my way home; letting myself in to my penthouse apartment I let out a sigh. This was the first time that I hated being alone in my own home I wanted to go back to Callie and climb into bed with her.
"Come one Arizona get your shit together, you have to do this the right way."
I say into the quiet room..
TBC Maybe