Here we are again. As always, I own nothing. Thanks for keeping up with my stories. I have a few that are giving me the writer's block from hell. Like I said before, this one was written years ago, so the hardest thing is changing names and surrounds. Believe me that can be a bitch though. So it does take a minute, but the storyline is already done.

I understand that this is not the way we wanted this to go. I hate the thoughts of them staying apart, but it's one that y0ungalaska has been kind enough to assure me it needs to be revisited.

Hope you enjoy and reviews are appreciated, helps a bitch no you are with me. Happy reading.

Chapter 1

"I love you and I can honestly say that I would love your baby, but somehow I have to agree to a lifetime with Mark. I never picked him and don't hate him, but I don't want a life with him. However, this is the life I have to choose. I wanted 'our' baby, not your baby with someone else. This is not my dream. My dream doesn't looks like. I'm sorry Callie."

Fourteen years later…..

The young girl looked at the paper in her hand. Yes. This was it. This was the moment that she had been waiting for. The coolness of the fall day didn't faze her as she took in a breath. You could just smell the fall season in the air as she closed her eyes, taking in another deep breathe. She wasn't sure if it was the smell of the city or the calming action of taking a breathe, but it was now or never. She knew that her aunt would be waiting at the hotel if she didn't move now.

She was brought out of her thoughts by a nudge on the arm. "I knew you'd chicken out."

"No, I'm not!" She said to the boy standing to her right.

"Come on. We gotta hurry. Mom will be back soon and she's NOT gonna be happy we're gone."

"If you want to go back, then go." She said turning her attention back to the building. "I have to do this."

"No, no you don't. What's this going to help, Sofia."

"What do you know. You're just a kid."

"I'm a year and a half younger than you. So if I am a kid, then so are you!"

"I'm not a kid!" The young girl spouted.

"You are thirteen! We are standing here on the street alone looking at this crazy building." The young boy turned, huffing as he started to walk way saying, "I am so grounded!"

"Matthew!" The boy stopped and turned to his sister. "Please, don't leave. I can't do this by myself."

He walked back toward Sofia. His young blue eyes looking into brown with a pleading sorrow. "Mom and aunt Teddy are going to kill us for this, Sofia. Don't even get me started on what aunt Cristina will do. They told us to stay in the room and not be around this place."

"I had to."

"Listen Sof, I didn't want to say anything, but Mom told me to make sure that you stayed in the room. Now, if we're not back when they get there, its me that will be in trouble."

"You are just a kid. You can't stop me!" Sofia shouted.

"Not only did I not stop you, I helped you sneak passed the nannies. I think that is where dad is gonna draw the line."

"Look at you. You're twelve and talk like you're thirty. You are the son of the world saving Mark Sloan. This is your destiny to help me."

"But I'm also the son of Lexie Gray and I have Meredith Shepard's blood running through my veins. So as your mom says, I can either save the world or destroy it."

"Please, Matt."

"But I promised Mom that.."

"Fine then go back. I can do this alone. I don't need your help." Sofia turned her back on her little brother that was obviously not moving. "I said, go!"

"I cant leave you, Sofia. I would get in even more trouble." The young boy walked back to her and began to try and plea with his sister. "They're going to notice that we are gone any minute."

"You can go. I don't need anyone to hold my hand."

"We are kids, standing on the streets of Maryland, with no adults around and you don't think that you need anyone. If you don't need anyone, why did you stop me from leaving? And why haven't you gone in?"

"I don't know what to say to her." Sofia said as she walked over to steps of the building and sat on the first one.

Matthew looked at his sister as she sat with her face in her hands. Her long black hair was now falling on her shoulder and her upper arms. It made him sad to see her this way. "That's what I said before we left. What do you think you're going to say to her?" Matthew said as he sat down by Sofia. "I know that you want to see her, but what do you want her to say." He took a deep breath. "Your mom is going to die when she finds out. No, correction, I'm gonna die when she finds out. You know that's the only reason she let you come was because Mom promised to keep you away from the place. That's the reason Callie hired the nannies to begin with."

She looked at him, with what he thought, were tears in her eyes. "Our hotel is one block away. I may never get this close again."

"To what? The steps?"

"No, her."

"Well since she isn't out here, maybe you should go in."

"Alright." Sofia stood and started walking into the building. "You coming?" She said to her brother with a begging look.

"Right behind you, Sof."

As they approached the front desk, Sofia's heart started to beat faster. She walked up and the lady on the other side of the desk that looked at her with a warm smile. "May I help you?"

"Ummm...yes..I..I.." Sofia felt a nudge in her ribs causing her to look into Matthew's reassuring eyes. "I would like to see Arizona Robbins, please."

"I'm sorry. Doctor Robbins is in a surgery this morning. She'll be done later this afternoon if you would like to leave a message."

"Umm…."

Sofia felt a hand on her shoulder as the person behind her answered, "No, thank you." She turned to see Teddy standing behind her. The young girl lowered her head as her moms friend continued to talk, "We'll just see Doctor Robbins at another time." Teddy could feel the deep breath that Sofia took as she she had finished and escorted the two kids out of the Robbins-Culter Wellness Center for Women and Children.

Once on the street, Sofia tried to talk to the woman. "I want to see her!" Sofia yelled. As the woman continued to walk. "You can't keep me from her forever!" Sofia announced.

Teddy stopped. "Maybe not, but a least for today. You and Matthew are out on the streets alone. Anything could have happened to you." She said as she was showing every ounce of disappointment and anger in both of the youngsters staring at her. Seeing the hurt on Sofia's face, Teddy began to melt as she always does. "Sof, you can't just run in there and expect the world from someone you've never met."

"It isn't my fault that I don't know her and she isn't just someone I've never met."

"I know that, but Arizona has a life now. A life that doesn't have anything to do with any of us. You need to respect that. She deserves that much." Teddy then turned to Matthew. "And you…."

"He didn't want to come." Sofia tried to defend him. "He knew that I was coming down here with or without him. He didn't want me to come alone."

"Well as good as it is that you didn't let you come by yourself, you two can't leave alone. Anything could have happened."

"Nothing worse than me seeing Arizona, right?" Sofia said as she walked off from the women and Matthew.

"This is really bothering her." Matthew said looking up at Teddy.

"I know." Teddy said putting her hand around his shoulders and walking behind a furious Sofia.

"Is Mom mad?" He asked.

"She isn't back yet. Somehow I just knew that I could find you two here when I went home and you were gone. Besides your Mom knows that you cant stop a Torres woman. You are in a Sloan. It's in your DNA to try and help a Torres woman. She excepts that."

"Why won't she let this go?"

Teddy watched Sofia walking ahead and found her heart going out to the kid. Teddy knew just what Sofia was feeling. "She just can't."

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Callie was working on a chart when Mark leaned against the Nurse's station desk. "Hey, you ok?"

Callie continued charting while she spoke, not looking at her friend. "I'm fine. My daughter is gone with her Aunts to Maryland, the one spot on the map that signals hell for me, but yeah, I'm great." Callie gave me her famous fake smile, closing the chart.

"Cal, she's gonna have a good time. While Lex and the Cardio twins are in the conference, the kids get to see the Nations Capital. Go by the white house and get one of those 'standing in front of the gates' pictures, see the monument, come on. It will be good for her."

"Right. And maybe if we're lucky she will fall in love with Maryland and want to go to school there, or maybe one day she will work at Hopkins or maybe, GOD FORBID, she will get a job at Robbins-Culter." She walked away.

"Hey, I thought we were over her." He yelled toward Callie. She never stopped walking. "Dramatic much?" Mark whispered.

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Later that night

Sofia heard a soft knock at her door. "Yeah."

Cristina stuck her head in the room. "Can I come in?"

"Sure." Sofia said while she was laying on her bed reading.

"What you reading?"

"Just looking through some magazines."

"Any cute boys?"

"Always."

"You want to talk about today?" Cristina sat on the bed beside Sofia.

"Nope." She continued to look at the magazines.

"You sure? You haven't said two words all evening."

"Just didn't have much to say I guess."

"Sof..." Sofia sat up interrupting.

"You don't understand."

"No, I'm sure that I don't know what it feels like to know your entire life that someone knows that you exist and wondering if they ever think of you. Wondering why they never came looking for you or if they would except you if you walked into their office." Cristina rubbed her back "Arizona felt rejected by Callie, so what else is there to know?"

"Her. I just want to meet her."

"Why? That will only hurt both of you. Arizona and your Mom had this amazing bond and to hash that all back up...well, that just wouldn't be good for anyone."

"I wonder if she ever thinks about us."

Cristina smiled at the thought of Arizona's love for Callie. "I'm positive that she does. In her own way."

"Why didn't Mom ever try to find her?"

"That's something that often baffled us all."

"Are you going to tell her what happened today?"

Cristina put her arm around Sofia. "No. I made Matthew promise that it was our little secret. I promised Callie that I wouldn't let you near that place and the first day we are here, you go and try to see her."

"I just needed..."

"Sofia, you have to promise that it won't happen again."

"Why did you tell me about Arizona if you didn't want me to meet her?"

"You didn't give me much choice. You were demanding answers."

Sofia motioned for Cristina to leave her bed. She then climbed under the blanket. "I'm tired."

Cristina stood over her bed. "Promise me, Sofia. Teddy, Lexie and I have a lot of meeting to be in the next few days and we can't be worried about you going to see Arizona. Now Promise." Sofia turned on her side, away from Cristina and pulled the blanket up to her shoulders. "Sofia Torres, I want an answer."

Sofia hesitantly answered. "Alright! I promise!"

Cristina leaned over and kissed her god daughter on the cheek and whispered, "Trust me. It's the best for everyone involved."

After Cristina left the room, Sofia grinned and whispered, "We'll see about that." When uncrossed her fingers beneath the blanket she fell to sleep.