A/N: This is my first Calzona fanfic so I'm sorry if it's not very good! This first chapter is my least favourite (I have 4 already written) but please let me know what you think :)
The storm rolled in outside as she sat inside on the couch. The tiny human in her arms breaths comforted her as she gently rubbled the infants back.
"Hey," Callie said, squeezing her shoulder as she came in from the kitchen.
"How's Ellie?" the brunette asked.
"Ellie?" she replied, not knowing anyone by that name.
"Yeah, Ellie, our baby" Callie laughed, obviously thinking she was just being silly.
"We don't have a baby called Ellie. We have Luke and Ruby, but no Ellie" she said, seriously confused.
"Come on Arizona, who do you think you're holding?" her wife replied, still laughing.
Looking at the child that lay on against her chest, for the first time, she was shocked to see that it wasn't their 5 year old son Luke, or their 18 month old daughter Ruby, who were both spitting images of Callie, but insteas a blonde haired girl of no more than 16 months, who looked suprisingly like her as a child. A beeping noise filled the room as it dawned on Arizona. This was her daughter. Her biological child.
The beeping filled the room as she woke from a weird dream.
"Sorry that's mine," Callie said, reaching over her for the pager.
"Go back to sleep"
Nodding sleepily, she rolled over to her stomach and immediately sucked in her breath, in pain.
"What's wrong?" Callie asked, concerned.
"Cramp" she lied, breathlessly, rolling back.
Callie kissed her goodbye, a relieved look on her face.
"I'll be home by breakfast. I love you"
"I love you too" Arizona replied, yawning.
"Try and get a few more hours sleep before the monsters wake" Callie said, leaving the room.
The image of the young girl in her dream flashed in her mind when Callie refered to their two children who were asleep down the hall.
As soon as she was sure Callie had left for the hospital, Arizona pushed the covers back and raced to the bathroom. For the past week or so she'd psyched herself out of believing that what she'd been feeling was real, telling herself that it was only a figment of her imagination. She hadn't wanted to get her hopes up for nothing but now she couldn't help but hope. Opening the bottom drawer, she reached right to the back and pulled out a long, thin box. She was familiar with these now. As soon as she'd told Callie that she'd wanted to have a baby they'd gone to their IVF specialist and began fertility treatment. They'd used the same sperm donor that they had for Luke and Ruby, so they were all biological siblings, but this time she was going to be the one to carry the baby. The first roud of IVF had failed and the second they had gotten a false positive, crushing them. They had seriously considered not continuing to try but the want of another child had out-weighed the possible heartbreak. Pulling the stick out of the packet, she sent out a wish that "third time lucky" was true this time.
It felt like an eternity as she waited for the result. She sat on the edge of the bathtub, her leg bouncing anxiously. She hoped to see a little '+' sign when she checked. Checking her watch, she jumped up when she saw that enough time had passed. She tentatively picked up the stick off the counter and glanced at it. She couldn't help but cry when she saw the all elusive positive sign staring back at her. She knew it could, however be another false positive so she calmed herself down and hid the test back in the drawer she'd got it from. Climbing back into bed, she was overcome with a sense of peace. She knew it wasn't a false positive. This time she felt pregnant.
-End chapter-
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