Title: Two's a treat
Couple: Callie/Arizona
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Just a little one shot that wouldn't leave me alone
Disclaimer: I wish I could claim that I own Grey's Anatomy or the characters but the simple fact is that I don't, I own nothing.
ATTENTION: So I am so very sorry, I have been MIA for a while now but life has really taken over. Had some huge stuff happen in Jan and working through the aftermath has not left much time for the muse to be at work, let alone be kind enough to give my mind a good enough space to write in. But alas, this morning this idea popped into my head and I haven't been able to shake it all day, so there is nothing like a little one shot to hopefully get back into it, but of course, I make no promises. I am hoping to get to my other stories and this was supposed to fit in with Their Belated Honeymoon, but reviewing previous chapters, it just doesn't fit with what has already been written, so it is a stand alone. Sorry again for the long absence.
Callie rolled over and threw her arm around Arizona's swollen stomach, smiling at the feeling of her heavily pregnant wife. She loved the feeling, there was nothing like it, and she had waited a long time and struggled through many arguments, trying to get a blatantly protesting Arizona to carry their second child.
"I love you," Callie whispered in Arizona's ear, the smile that adorned her face clear in her voice.
"I love you too sweetie, but I am so ready for this baby to evacuate my body, I mean they say nine months, but what they mean by that is at least nine months, and those nine months will feel like nine lifetimes," Arizona grumbled as she leant back into her wife and enjoyed the feeling of Callie rubbing circles over her belly.
"She'll come out when she's ready baby, and obviously she's not ready yet," Callie said secretly loving that Arizona had gone over term, loving the glow to her skin and the fact that she was carrying their baby.
"Well he should hurry up and get this soccer playing butt out of my belly and onto the field," Arizona finished as she started turning to get out of bed.
"You sure you don't want her out and playing soccer already?" Callie asked, raising her eyebrows in a cautioning way.
"Oh so it's her fault today is it," Arizona replied blankly.
"Well considering you always blame him, I thought I would even out the field, I mean you really don't know if it is the Emma or Oliver that is kicking the hardest, do you?" Callie replied as she too jumped out of bed and approached Arizona who was now standing at her dresser deciding what clothes to wear for the day. Callie wrapped her arms around her blonde beauty, her hands automatically going to her stomach again and beginning to rub circles. It had taken Arizona a little bit to get used to this gesture, at first she thought it was a little odd Callie would constantly rub her belly, but she slowly got used to it. What she didn't so much get used to were the strangers at the hospital feeling that it was ok to do it like they had known each other for years. She had to frequently excuse herself from a room when a family approached her, arms at length with their hands ready to rub her stomach and coo at the tiny human growing inside of her.
"I don't know sweetie, I just feel like it's the boy. But you are right, it could be Emma," Arizona replied as she turned in Callie's arms so that they were facing each other.
"Yeah, ok sweetie," Callie explained before leaning down and kissing Arizona firmly on the lips, "Well whichever one of you is beating up on my wife, I am gonna get you" Callie started, now directing her speech the Arizona's stomach, "well at least I will say that now, gotta protect your Mamma and all, so watch out Gerty and Jude."
"We are not naming our child Gertrude or Jude, Calliope," Arizona defied before heading to the bathroom and locking the door, effectively denying Callie their routine morning shower.
"Oh, come on babe, I was just joking," Callie said as she approached the door, knocking lightly. After she heard the shower turn on and Arizona hum lightly at the feeling of the hot water Callie decided her fate had been decided. "Ok then sweet heart, I will go see if Sofia is awake."
It was when she was about half way to Sofia's room that she heard the Arizona yell out her name and she turned immediately on her heels and ran for the bathroom, knowing that it was serious by the shrill in Arizona's voice
"Baby, what is it? Open the door sweetie? Talk to me Arizona, please," Callie panted as she arrived at the door, grabbing onto the handle immediately. Arizona slowly opened the door, her face was pale and Callie could immediately tell that something was not right.
"Callie," Arizona said, raising her eyes to meet those deep brown ones of her wife which were now filled with nothing but concern, "I think we are having a baby today sweetie."
"What?" Callie replied before frantically looking around as if to gather her bearings.
"Hey, sweetie, stop for a second, look at me," Arizona said, softly grabbing Callie by the cheeks and directing her face to her own, "Take a big breath," Arizona ordered, "Now, the bag is packed, can you can Teddy to come and collect Sofia and then come back ok. I will get some clothes on and then come into the kitchen ok."
"How come you are all calm and I am mess this time around, was it not switched last time?" Callie asked as she tried to breathe calmly like her wife had suggested.
"Yeah well times change," Arizona giggled before bending over as a contraction, all be it not that big yet, but a contraction none-the-less, rippled through her body.
"Ok sweetie, let me help you get to the bed, and then I will get Sofia while you wait ok, I will help you get ready ok, do nothing without me, you hear me," Callie ordered as she helped Arizona sit down on the bed.
"And my wife is back," Arizona said with a small giggle.
Callie giggled too and then went to head for the door, stopping in her tracks as it all hit her and she turned back to Arizona, knelt down a little and placed a soft but firm kiss to her lips. "We're having another baby sweetie, today, we are having a baby," she said in awe.
"Yeah we are baby, we really are," Arizona replied with the same amount of awe.
OOOOO
"So Sofia is all dressed and ready to go, she has a little bag packed but all she wants to do is give Mummy a good morning kiss, can I bring her in?" Callie said as she walked over to the dresser in the master bedroom and grabbed some clothes out for Arizona, then placing the clothes on the bed before helping Arizona to get into them.
"How is she feeling about it all?" Arizona asked, trying to gauge how their first born was coping with the prospect of a brother or sister.
"She is super excited surprisingly," Sofia had been rather adverse to the idea of another addition to the family at first but after some convincing, and the investment of some big sisterly power by Arizona, she had come around to the idea.
"Oh good, I was kinda worried she would go back to hating on the idea once it became a reality, you know?" Arizona asked, to which Callie nodded in agreement, "Well, considering she is in good spirits you should bring her in."
"Ok, I will go get her," Callie explained as she finished helping Arizona into her clothes, but not before dropping another kiss of her forward, so incredibly proud of her wife and her family and so ready to become a mother to another child.
"Mummy, Mummy, Mummy," Sofia squealed as she ran through the door and towards her Mum, Callie following closely behind. She has always loved seeing Arizona with Sofia, even from the first time she was allowed to hold her in the NICU and every moment including the current one unfolding. For a women who had no intentions of having kids, Arizona sure made a spectacular Mum.
"Good morning my beautiful girl," Arizona said as she held her arms open for her daughter to jump into. Over the duration of her pregnancy, Sofia had leant that she could no longer jump from a distance into her Mum's arms, but rather had to be more gentle, and as Callie had encouraged her before she entered the room, Sofia slowed right down before slowly sitting in Arizona's lap, her caution causing Arizona to giggle a little.
"Good morning Mummy, you are looking fine this morning," Sofia giggle, practicing the line Arizona had taught her to say to the other doctors at the hospital.
"So are you ready for today sweetie?" Arizona asked, holding her little girl close, both her arms wrapping her up in a tight hug.
"Yes ma'am," Sofia replied, nodding definitively.
"Well then, we better get on our way then hey hun," Arizona said as she begun to get herself up off the bed, her protruding stomach making what was a simple task, exponentially hard.
"Ok Sofia, why don't you run out to the kitchen and pop your shoes on while I help Mummy," Callie suggested as she approached the bed a little quicker than she usually would in order to help her wife to her feet. "And remember," she started again to Sofia, "don't mix up your shoes and accidently put Mummy's on even though they are pretty much the same size," Callie joked making reference to Arizona's abnormally tiny feet, giggling to herself a little at her joke while Arizona lightly slapped her over the shoulder and Sofia just shook her head and chuckled.
"Ok, ok," Arizona started to Callie, gripping her arm tightly, "I'm not a cripple."
"I know," Callie responded, not giving up her hold on Arizona, knowing that despite how strong she wanted to seem, deep down she really needed her wife right beside her today. Throughout her pregnancy Arizona had many moments where she was fearful that something, anything would go wrong, quite possible rooted in the near death experience of not only her wife but her very prematurely born baby in their first pregnancy. She had been hesitant to even tempt fate again, but there was a urge inside her that was so foreign to her and it was driving her to have another baby, to add to the already splendored family she had. Today, more than ever, she needed Callie right by her all day, and she would try and pretend like she was ok, but Callie could see the fear in her eyes and she knew what she had to do.
"Teddy," the pair heard squealed from the mouth of their young daughter, "Mummies, Teddy is here," she shrieked again, the excitement clear in her voice.
"I'm guessing Teddy is here," Arizona said flatly as she exited the bedroom, her hand tightly clung to Callie's.
"Ah, there are the Mamma bears," Teddy said as she approached the couple, a broad smile on her face at the anticipated birth.
"Yeah, here we are," Callie said, outstretching her arms a little, excitement spread all over her face.
"Well, shall I take the young lady off your hands, you can give me a call when they know how long she is going to be and I can either bring Sofia if it's not too late or I can bring her by in the morning," Teddy asked as she gave Callie a small hug and then did the same with Arizona.
"Yeah sounds good, thank you so much Teddy," Callie said as she leant Arizona against the couch and then went to make sure that Sofia had the right bag and had a nice collection of toys to take with her.
"How you feeling, hun?" Teddy asked once Callie was out of the room and with Sofia.
"Yeah good at the moment, they are hoping to do it naturally but we just have to get their early and make sure everything is ok and then go from there I guess," Arizona explained. Her contractions were not too close together yet, but she knew from her medical knowledge that, from the how close they had started getting in the short amount of time, she was going to have a quick birth, something she was yet to decide was a good or bad thing.
"Alright," Callie said as she exited Sofia's room with Sofia in tow, her Barbie bag strapped to her back which made Arizona smile knowing that that love she had gotten from her, "She is all ready to go." Callie handed the bag full of toys to Teddy before picking up Arizona's bag and heading to her wife to help her out to the car.
"Let's go," Arizona said, standing up slowly, the discomfort apparent on her face.
Like Arizona had predicted the birth was quick, well 6 hours which was quick in the schemes of other deliveries she had worked on. It felt like years, whilst feeling like only minutes at the same time. There was a moment there where she demanded Callie take her home, proclaiming that she had enough today and the babies would just have to wait until she was ready to finish, but after some talking down by Callie she realised that she didn't quite have a part in the decision making of when they were going to arrive. But six hours later and she was having one baby taken from her arms in preparation for the second.
"Ok Arizona, one last push and we are done for the afternoon," the nurse said to a unresponsive Arizona, all Arizona was looking at was the pure joy she could see gleaming from the eyes of her wife who were looking right back at her.
"Ok sweetie, you ready for number two cause I think Oliver Joshua wants to come in to the world," Callie said, the smile never leaving her face. It had become apparent throughout the delivery that Arizona was going to listen to no one but Callie, so Callie was in the position of repeating everything the nurses and doctors had to say in order to have Arizona take them on board.
"Ok baby, I think I am ready," Arizona said, letting out an exhaustive sigh before gripping Callie's hand tightly and giving one big push.
"There we go Arizona, great job, good work, and there he is," the nurse said as she caught the boy, wrapping him in a towel before passing him to his mothers.
"We'll get the girl so you can have them both," another nurse said. It is common, almost expected that with twins the mother gives birth before full term, usually four to six weeks prior to the due date but Arizona had spectacularly taken the twins to but two weeks before they due, something she was not too pleased about, but no one else was worried, and it made for two healthy babies.
"Look at them," Arizona said, her eyes fixated on the two babies in her arms.
"They are beautiful sweetie, they are absolutely gorgeous," Callie said as she stroked Arizona's brow before dropping a kiss on her forehead. She knew that Arizona would soon crash, birth being one of the most tiring things known to womankind, if not the most tiring, and she would get all night to cuddle and snuggle with the newest additions to their family, so she simply enjoyed the moment, her wife couched up with their second daughter, Emma Ariel, and their first baby boy, Oliver Joshua.