AUTHOR'S NOTE:
Hi everybody! I'm back with a new multi-chapter story for you all today! This is an idea that I've been playing around with for a couple of months now, and I think it will make for a pretty good story!
In this story, it is canon up until the end of season 11, with the exception of Calzona's divorce (aka, Arizona is now in fetal, Derek is dead, etc). However, this story takes place many years in the future, as Sofia is sixteen years old. That's pretty much the only difference in this timeline!
I really hope you all enjoy this story! Please let me know what you think by leaving a review for me to read!
Chapter 1
"Sofia! Dinner's ready!" Callie stood at the bottom of the stairs and called up to her mini-me.
"I'll be down in a bit! I'm finishing my homework!" Came the teenager's response.
Callie rolled her eyes.
"Take a break for now and come back to it later. You don't want your dinner to get cold!" Callie pointed out.
Callie heard the sound of a binder closing, and seconds later Sofia appeared on the staircase.
Her waist length shiny dark hair was carelessly thrown up in a side bun, and she was wearing a t-shirt and sweatpants- her normal attire on these non-stop study days.
While Callie was very proud of her daughter's grades and academic success, she feels like she never sees Sofia anymore due to her busy work schedule and Sofia's school and soccer schedule.
When Sofia reached the bottom of the staircase, Callie kissed the top of her head before following her daughter into the kitchen.
"Hey, Little Miss!" Arizona said, using her timeless nickname for the girl as she entered the room. After setting down the pasta bowl on the kitchen table, she wiped her hands on a dish rag before kissing Sofia's cheek.
Sofia truly was the perfect mix of her parents: she had Mark's nose and build, as well as Callie's flawless skin and luscious hair. Arizona liked to think that she saw her own smile and dimples in the girl as well, despite not being her biological parent. One thing that Arizona wasn't so thankful Sofia had inherited from Callie and Mark was their height. At sixteen, she was now a noticeable few inches taller than Arizona, and it was just a constant reminder that this was not the same little girl that had fought for her life in the NICU. She had grown up!
Sofia took her seat at the table between her mothers, as Callie pulled out Arizona's chair so that she could easily sit down.
"Thank you, Calliope," Arizona grinned as grasped the table with one hand and her good leg with the other as she slowly lowered herself into the chair. Once she was seated, she tilted her chin up, sharing a kiss with the brunette.
Once she had helped Arizona down, Callie took her place in her own seat. It wasn't too often that the three of them got to enjoy a family dinner together, so it was a pleasant surprise that they were able to tonight.
"So Sof, how was school today?" Arizona asked, taking a bite of her pasta.
"It was okay. We have a bio test next week that I'm totally freaking out about," Sofia told her mothers.
Both Callie and Arizona's eyebrows shot up at the mention of biology, and the two of them exchanged a glance.
"No! Nope, don't give each other that look!" Sofia pointed as she immediately regretted telling her moms that she was struggling in their top subject.
"What? What look? We didn't give each other a look," Arizona played dumb as she shook her head.
Sofia mimicked Callie's signature eye roll.
"I'm just saying, you have doctors for parents, mija. You have no reason to resent bio when you have two qualified tutors right here," Callie said, giving Sofia a serious but caring look.
Sofia shook her head, once again declining her mothers' offer.
"I'm gonna figure it out for myself. Thanks for the offer though," she said, taking a bite of her dinner.
Noticing the disappointed look on Arizona's face, Sofia quickly swallowed her food.
"But, hey Mom! I'm super excited for tomorrow, and I know Briley is too!" Sofia said with a smile.
"Oh, yay!" Arizona perked up immediately. "It'll be fun!"
Callie looked back and forth between her wife and her daughter. Had she missed something?
"Ummm… What's happening tomorrow?" Callie asked, evidently very confused.
"Oh! I'm bringing Sofia and Briley Locke into the hospital tomorrow as a part of Bring Your Child to Work Day. I thought I told you," Arizona replied simply.
"Nope. This is the first I'm hearing of it…" Callie shook her head, her brows still furrowed together.
For as long as they could remember, Sofia and her best friend Briley had wanted to be doctors. Surgeons specifically. Sofia had had medical school practically mapped out since she was a baby, and her and Briley were constantly found in the Robbins-Torres house's study flipping through medical journals or parked in front of the television rewatching surgery tapes. There was no doubt that they were dying for a chance to shadow at the hospital.
"Isn't your day off tomorrow?" Callie asked Arizona, knowing that she had been anticipating this much-deserved free day to relax.
"Yeah, but I figured I would just take it easy and teach the interns how to read scans or something. Plus, I think Mer is bringing Zola in too. I'm not gonna be on-call or anything crazy."
When she was little, Sofia would come with her moms to the hospital all the time, but since school and soccer have made her busier over the last few years, she hadn't gotten the chance to visit in a while.
"As long as I get to whisk them away for a bit to show them ortho!" Callie smiled.
While Sofia knew she wanted to be a surgeon, she still didn't know what kind. Both Callie and Arizona were trying to persuade their daughter into joining their specialty, and Callie knew that maybe spending a little bit of time watching her Mama set a few bones could sway her.
"Can we watch a surgery?!" Sofia's face lit up. That's another thing she inherited from all three of her parents- enthusiasm for the operating room.
"Maybe… from the gallery," Callie smirked as a jealous look appeared on Arizona's face.
"Well I just might have to scrub in on a procedure tomorrow. Just so I can show you how we do it in fetal!" Arizona said, standing up as she cleaned her dishes off the table and brought them to the sink.
Callie and Sofia followed her, and soon the kitchen was cleaned up from dinner and Sofia had returned upstairs to finish her homework.
Arizona was standing at the kitchen island, reading one of the magazines that came in the mail today, as she felt the familiar feeling of Callie's strong hands around her waist and butterflies in her stomach. Arizona wrapped her arms around Callie's and leaned back, tilting her head up and making eye contact with Callie's warm brown eyes.
"You really thought you could get Sofia to join you in ortho that easily?" Arizona asked, leaning lovingly into her wife.
"I had hoped so," Callie admitted with a smile before kissing the top of Arizona's head and resting her chin there.
The women stayed like that for a long while, both just enjoying each other's embrace.
…
Callie had a morning packed full of surgeries, so Arizona had agreed to have the girls shadow her for the first part of the day. Her plan included using her special assistants to help teach the interns how to read magnetic resonance images.
Arizona entered the intern locker room with Sofia and Briley (who were both psyched that they got to wear their very own white lab coats for the day) close behind. Every head turned when they entered the room, surprised to see the Chief of Fetal Surgery accompanied by two teenage girls.
"Okay, first years, you can come with me today. I have my assistant doctors with me today, this is my daughter, Sofia and her friend Briley," Arizona said, introducing the brunette and blonde teenagers. "They will be your radiology models today. You will be practicing setting up the Lodox machine and taking pediatric scans today, and they will serve as your patients. Sound good?"
The group of interns that had assembled around them nodded. Arizona turned on her heel and went back through the doors leading out towards the hallway. The girls and the interns trailed behind her like ducklings as they travelled from the locker room towards radiology.
"This is super cool," Sofia leaned over and whispered to her friend.
Briley nodded, her sandy-blonde ponytail bobbing up and down.
"I've never even been in a real hospital before. Did you see the way that those interns hung onto every word your mom said?! So cool."
"I know right!"
Hearing every word of their conversation, Arizona smiled to herself. She had never even imagined she'd have kids someday, now here she was as the "cool mom". Sweet.
A couple of minutes later, they reached their destination. Each of the interns sat down in a chair in the scan viewing room, and Arizona made sure they were settled before returning back to the attached scan room where Sofia and Briley were waiting.
"Okay, doctors, who wants to go first?" Arizona asked, slipping her hands in the pockets of her lab coat.
The sentence was barely out of her mouth before Sofia started jumping up and down, waving her arm around in the air. Her behavior reminded Arizona of what it was like when Sofia was a toddler- boundless and full of pure energy.
Arizona instructed Briley to stand against the wall as she got Sofia comfortable on the machine's table. When Sofia was ready, Arizona gave a thumbs up to the doctors in the viewing room and they pressed the start button.
The machine whirred to life, making a loud noise as it scanned Sofia's body. Just thirteen seconds later, it was over just as fast as it had started. Sofia giggled as she hopped off the table and skipped over to join her friend.
Arizona entered the viewing room just as the scans were coming up on the screens in front of the intern class.
"Reading pediatric scans can be different than reading the scans of a full grown adult," Arizona said, crossing her arms as she leaned against the door frame. "What do you see?"
The doctors crowded the computer screens from all angles. There was a hesitation in the room before one of the young doctors spoke.
"Uh, I see a healthy teen," an intern with dark brown hair and a faint mustache and beard.
Arizona nodded.
"Correct, Dr. DeLuca, however, if you were to have seen a scan of hers from sixteen years ago, that would not have been the case. During her first week of life Sofia endured a PDA surgery, as well as a brain decompression done to remove a hemorrhage. But now, she's a healthy teenager. That's the miracle of modern medicine, people!" Arizona said, smiling at the young doctors.
Heading back into the scan room, she motioned to Briley to hop up on to the table. She happily obliged, and as soon as she was laying perfectly still, Arizona sent another thumbs up through the window at the interns.
The machine came to life for a second time as it scanned the younger blonde's body. When the scan was complete, Briley had the biggest smile on her face.
"That was SO cool, Dr. Arizona! Thank you!" Briley said, using the name she has called Arizona since she was young.
"I'm glad you are having fun! But we've got lots more planned for today!" Arizona replied, just as the intercom system crackled overhead.
"Uh… Dr. Robbins, will you, uh, come in here for a second?" a blonde male intern (Arizona couldn't remember his name… Cross, maybe?) called to her through the window. Judging my the look on his face and the color-drained faces of his fellow interns, Arizona had a bad feeling that something was wrong.
"Girls, you can head down to the cafeteria and get yourself a snack. I'll meet you there in a few minutes," Arizona told them.
The teenagers nodded and Arizona watched them walk down the hallway before entering the scan viewing room, where she was met with shocked faces and big-eyed interns.
"Is that… what I think it is?" Dr. Cross used a pen to point at the MRI.
Arizona's face went pale as her mind registered the image.
There, right in front of her, was Briley's scan; her left leg had two spots that lit up like lights on a Christmas tree.
"Someone page my wife," Arizona gulped. "Page Dr. Torres STAT!"
Oooh, a cliffhanger!
I hope you all enjoyed this first chapter! Please leave your reviews below, and if you have any suggestions, feel free to leave those as well!
I hope I'l get the chance to update you all with another chapter soon!
xoxo Arizona Robbins MD