As Arizona drove down the road on her way to the hospital for an operation her mind started to wander. When she was a young surgeon nothing was more important to her than cutting. Going in the OR with a kid, diving in helping them like no one else could. It gave her a high like nothing else did. And young Arizona Robbins wasn't going to let anything get in the way of her and her OR….or at least that is what she thought before landing a wife and a couple of kids.
"Mommy!" Timmy called from the back seat of their jeep in his booster seat. "When are we going to be there?"
"Soon." Arizona shook her head at her four year old son.
The son that was so carefully planned by her and her wife, the young rambunctious little boy with blond spiky hair and big blue eyes, eyes that he got from his name sake Uncle Timothy and his Mommy. Arizona was thrilled when Callie brought up the suggestion of her carrying Arizona's baby knowing she wasn't really up for it. They both wanted a mini Arizona, especially after having a very special mini Callie.
"Mommy can we get a monkey!" Sofia called from the back seat in her own booster seat.
"No we cannot get a monkey!" Arizona said laughing slightly at her 6 year old little girl.
The little girl that was not so carefully planned, but a beautiful surprise in her parents eyes. She was the result of two friends trying to comfort each other but ended up being the dream Arizona didn't know she had. And soon that dream grew into a beautiful little girl with big brown eyes and long straight dark brown hair with a shy exterior but on the inside a passion for adventure and humor.
"Please." Sofia begged one more time.
"Sorry baby, no monkey." Arizona said as she pulled into the hospital parking lot.
Soon Arizona stepped out of her silver jeep grand Cherokee and opened up the side door helping Timmy out of his car seat. "Alright guys, let's go find Mama." She said unbuckling Timmy from his booster seat looking over at Sofia in hers. "You got it Baby."
"Yep." Sofia nodded her head as she unbuckled herself and opened the door jumping out on to the ground.
"Alright let's roll." Arizona said as she put her bag on her shoulder before taking a hold two little hands guiding down the sidewalk in to the hospital.
"Mommy I thought we were going to the park." Sofia said confused as they started to walk.
"Baby remember, Mommy has surgery so Mama is taking you guys to the park." Arizona said looking down at the young girl briefly.
"Oh yeah." Sofia said smiling at the fact that she forgot.
"Mommy what is the capital of Alaska?" Timmy asked.
"Juno." Sofia informed him.
Confused and amused Arizona looked down swinging Sofia's hand with her own. "Ms. Sofia how did you know that?"
"He asks that every day….it's weird." Sofia said rolling her eyes.
Arizona bit back a laugh as the three made their way towards the nurse's station where Alex was taking care of some paperwork.
"Oh no." Alex joked shaking his head putting a chart away on the desk before putting his pen in his coat pocket. "Here comes double trouble."
"Hi Alex!" Sofia smiled up at her mommy's colleague.
"You two assisting your Mom and me on our surgery?" Alex asked the two kids.
"No." Timmy laughed covering his mouth with his spare hand.
"We are going to the park with Mama while Mommy works." Sofia informed seriously.
"Yeah…I don't think so." Alex said.
Arizona confused raised her eye brow at Alex. "What?"
"Dr. Torres is in emergency surgery, a car crash victim came in with his legs mang..." Alex started but stopped when he noticed listening ears down below. "Hurt."
"Right." Arizona huffed blowing her bangs in the air wondering what she should do now. "What about Teddy?"
"Dr. Altman's in OR 3." A perky April Kepner said smiling walking by. "Hi Kids."
"Hi!" Timmy waved to a disappearing April.
"Great." Arizona huffed once again. "Okay can you just go get Melissa prepped?"
"Go it." Alex said giving each kid a high five as he left.
Sofia watched Alex leave before looking up at Arizona noticing a funny look on her face. "Now what Mommy?"
Arizona looked at her daughter and son trying to figure out what to do with surgery in half an hour. "Umm…"
"How about an afternoon with your favorite Abuelo." A voice said from behind the group.
Surprised at the voice Arizona whipped her head around to see her father in law standing behind them.
"Abuelo!" Timmy and Sofia exclaimed letting go of their Mommy's hands running to their grandfather.
Carlos smiled as his two grandchildren latched themselves on his leg. After they let go of him he jokingly put his hands on his hips and looked down at them. "Now wait…you two can't be my grandchildren you're too big."
"Abuelo it's us Timmy and Sofia." Timmy laughed looking up at him.
Carlos playfully squinted his eyes at the children. "Are you sure?"
"Pretty sure." Timmy said shrugging his shoulders.
"But you guys look about 30." Carlos joked.
"Abuelo I'm six remember and Timmy is-." Sofia informed the old man.
"Four!" Timmy cheered holding up four fingers.
Carlos then let out a chuckle as Arizona stepped over to them. "Hello Arizona."
"Carlos." Arizona smiled leaning over to give her father in law a kiss on the cheek.
"And how is my favorite daughter in law?" Carlos asked.
"Good."Arizona smiled. "I thought you weren't coming till next week."
"I decided to come a little early. I'm guessing my daughter is in surgery." Carlos said.
"Mama's helping a guy whose legs got hurt!" Sofia exclaimed up at her grandfather clearly proud of her doctor mama. "Right Mommy."
"That's right." Arizona smiled running her hand down Sofia's long dark brown hair. "And I have surgery in about 25 minutes so Carlos if you were serious about watching the kids."
"Serious." Carlos laughed. "Of course I am serious!"
"Awesome." Arizona smiled relieved before looking down at her children. "What do you say guys? Want to hang out with Abuelo?"
"Yeah!" Timmy and Sofia both cheered causing Arizona to laugh.
"That's what I thought." She said bending down to give each child a kiss and a hug. "You two be good for Abuelo, okay."
"Otay." Timmy joked grabbing a hold of Carlos's hand.
"We'll be good Mommy." Sofia reassured her mother taking the other offered hand from Carlos.
"Good, umm…" Arizona started to Carlos thinking about something. "Callie and I should be done around 5, why don't you bring the kids back to our house and we can have dinner."
Carlos nodded his head thinking that was a good idea. "That sounds lovely."
"Mama made chicki ladas!" Timmy cheered informing his grandfather.
Arizona smiled at her young son before looking up at her confused father in law. "Callie made chicken enchiladas this morning; we just have to throw them in the oven."
"I love Calliope's enchiladas." Carlos smiled.
"They are awesome." Arizona smiled at the thought. "Well I have to go, but I will see you guys later."
Carlos nodded as each child waved to their disappearing mother down the hospital hallway. He then looked down at the kids. "So what shall the three of us do with our afternoon?"
"I don't know." Timmy said as the three started walking towards the entryway.
"Me neither." Sofia said looking up at Carlos.
"Well we could…" Carlos stated stopping in place. "Oh never mind."
"What?" Sofia asked.
"Yeah what?" Timmy then asked just as curious as his older sister.
Carlos eyed both kids before shrugging his shoulders. "Well we could go swimming at the hotel, but you two probably don't like-"
"We love to swim!" Sofia interrupted.
"You do!" Carlos joked.
"We love swimming even more than strawberry ice cream." Timmy smiled nodding his head.
"Strawberry ice cream is our favorite." Sofia nodded her head in agreement.
"Oh my gosh." Carlos joked shaking his head as he guided the children towards the door. "You two like strawberry ice cream."
"Uh-huh." Timmy nodded his head.
"It just so happens we have strawberry ice cream at my hotel." Carlos said as they walked out of the hospital.
"No." Timmy said dumbfounded.
"Yep." Carlos said smiling.
"This is gonna be the best day ever!" Sofia cheered.
At the hospital after a long operation repairing two nearly decapitated legs of a 25 year old young man Callie headed to the nurses' station to wipe her name off the board and finish filling out the patient's chart. She took a long deep yawn just as her old roommate and fellow colleague Cristina Yang walked over.
"I need to borrow your kids." Cristina said flat out.
"No." Callie said not looking up from her chart.
Cristina let out a pout as she slapped her hand to her forehead. "My mother is visiting and she thinks I need to have kids."
"And…." Callie drawled confused.
"And…" Cristina drawled right back. "If my mother sees that I have a relationship with your kids she'll back off about me having kids….I think."
"Oh…so you want to use my kids to get your mother off your back."Callie said smiling.
"Right." Cristina smiled back.
"No." Callie said quickly looking back down at her chart.
"Come on Torres!" Cristina begged before having something pop in her brain. "Remember how I am Sofia's godmother…huh."
"Yeah…not my best decision." Callie said.
"Come on please." Cristina begged.
Callie looked at Cristina and let out an annoyed grunt at the pathetic look on her face. "I'll think about it."
"Great…fine." Cristina smiled walking away not wanting her to change her mind.
"I have to check with my wife first!" Callie called after Cristina not seeing Arizona walking up to her from behind.
"Have to check what?" Arizona asked.
"Hi." Callie said confused and surprised at the sight of her wife. "What are you doing here?"
"I had Melissa Dante's liver surgery today remember." Arizona said tilting her head at her wife waiting for her to remember a couple of important details.
"Sofia and Timmy." Callie breathed hitting her forehead with her palm in frustration. "You had surgery and I was supposed to take them to the park…I'm an idiot."
"Honey, it is okay." Arizona said letting Callie off the hook.
"Were they upset?" Callie sighed.
Arizona immediately started to laugh. "Ahh no, they weren't."
"Okay….ouch." Callie said.
"Your dad is watching them Calliope." Arizona stated.
"What?" Callie asked confused. "My dad is in Seattle."
"He decided to move up his visit. The kids are with him at his hotel."Arizona explained.
"Nice." Callie smiled thinking about her father spending quality time with her two amazing children. But soon her smile disappeared when a thought entered into her mind. "What about my mother."
"Umm, he didn't mention her." Arizona said thinking it over.
"What am I saying. "Callie sighed blowing a breath of hair up to her forehead. "My mother wouldn't set foot in Seattle, people might talk."
"Yeah." Arizona sighed softly sympathizing with her wife. "Let's go home." She said holding out her hand for Callie to take.
"Yeah." Callie breathed taking her wife's hand in her own.
"We have chicki ladas to cook." Arizona joked causing her wife to chuckle as the two headed down the hallway towards the locker room.
Back at the hotel after a long afternoon of swimming and playing around by the pool Carlos, Sofia, and Timmy went back to the hotel suite and engrossed themselves in three big bowls of strawberry ice cream while in their very fluffy white robes.
"Abuelo…" Timmy started before he took a bite of his strawberry ice cream. "Remember when I did a huge cannonball."
Carlos nodded as he took a bite of his own strawberry ice cream. "The cannonball you did an hour ago…yup."
"It was awesome!" Timmy laughed.
Carlos chuckled once again at his young grandson before turning to Sofia. "How's your ice cream Sofia."
Sofia looked at her grandfather and thought about the right word to describe it before breaking out into a huge smile. "Magnificent!"
"Magnificent." Carlos repeated smiling but soon the smile disappeared when he heard the door open and his wife walk in. "Lucia…I thought you were spending the day with Francesca." Carlos said confused.
"Something came up at the art gallery, she had to go supervise." Lucia said setting her bags down on the floor before turning to the table to see her husband and two small children covered in strawberry ice cream. "Hello."
"Hi." Sofia said politely to the woman just like her mommies taught her even though she got a bad feeling from the woman. She looked over to Timmy and could see he was thinking the same thing starring at her with his big blue eyes dumbfounded.
"Sofia, Timmy you two remember your Abuela."Carlos said standing from his chair wiping at his face with a napkin before walking over to the woman. "You two were both pretty little the last time you saw her."
"You are Mama's mommy right." Timmy said confused.
Lucia paused for a moment starring at the young man before nodding her head. "I am."
"Oh." Timmy said quietly.
After 30 seconds of pure awkwardness that felt like hours Carlos decided to step in. "How about you two go get dressed in your clothes and wash up. Your Mommies are expecting us for dinner."
"Okay." Timmy said jumping from his chair and running towards the room on the ground floor.
"Walk!" Carlos called after his grandson before turning to a wide eyed Sofia who was still starring at Lucia. "Sofia."
Hearing her grandfather's voice Sofia was pulled out of her daze. She then nodded her head and walked over to the room closing the door behind her.
A few minutes later in the bedroom Timmy then dressed in his street clothes walked out of the bathroom with wet swimming trunks and bathrobe into the bedroom where he saw his sister also dressed in her street clothes with her head pressed against the door. "What you doing?"
"Observing." Sofia answered.
Timmy walked closer to his sister and looked her over once. "It looks like you are spying Sofia."
"Shhh." Sofia hushed.
Timmy not liking being hushed placed his hands on his hips and got up on his soap box taking the opportunity to lecture his big sister. "Mommy and Mama told us we can't spy anymore."
"That's just cause we spied Alex go in a room with a nurse at the hospital and they started jumping on the bed." Sofia said still keeping an eye on what's happening with her grandparents.
Timmy nodded and then shook his head. "I wish Mommy and Mama let me jump on the bed."
"Shh Timmy!" Sofia hushed once more wanting to hear the conversation between her grandparents.
Back in the main living room Carlos got up from his chair as Lucia took of her jacket after a long day of catching up with her old friend Francesca Corpora around Seattle.
"Arizona has invited us to dinner." Carlos said wiping off his face walking over to his wife.
Lucia simply lets out a sigh as she runs her hands through her hair. "Oh."
"Calliope's made her enchiladas." Carlos smiled.
"That sounds lovely, I'm sure you'll have a great time." Lucia said.
"You don't want to come." Carlos sighed.
"How many times do I have to voice my opinions?" Lucia said calmly.
"Lucia…" Carlos tried but immediately got shot down.
"No! I will not condone the choices my daughter has made!" Lucia yelled leaving a speechless Carlos. "My daughter deserted every value we have taught her for that woman!" Lucia said disgusted.
"That woman is Calliope's wife Lucia." Carlos said.
"That woman is the worst thing to ever happen to Callie, well her and those children." Lucia said.
"Lucia!" Carlos snapped appalled.
"Our daughter would be better off without any of them." Lucia said shaking her head. "Those kids whether she wants to admit it or not are bastards as well as mistakes."
"THAT IS ENOUGH!" Carlos snapped.
Lucia stepped back caught off guard at her husband's yell. "I will not be silenced."
"Those children are our grandchildren." Carlos said.
"Last time I checked we had only one bastard grandchild." Lucia said.
Carlos simply stood there shocked at his wife. "Our two grandchildren are not bastards."
"That girl is Callie's child, the boy is not. Just like the boy is Arizona's child and the girl is not." Lucia said coldly.
Carlos stood there speechless before shaking his head. "You just have so much hate don't you Lucia."
Lucia let out a heated breath as Carlos watched her for a second. "I will not be at dinner tonight, and I will not support the life and family my daughter has saddled herself with."
"I think that is best." Carlos agreed.
Lucia simply nodded before walking down the hallway into the master bedroom slamming the door behind her.
Meanwhile in the other room after hearing the whole conversation, Sofia and Timmy both jumped at the sound of the door slamming down the hall.
"Sofia." Timmy said quietly in a sad small voice. "I don't think Abuela likes us."
Sofia swallowed the lump in her throat. "Me neither."