Title: Family of Honor
Summary: Arizona's family comes to the hospital for a visit.
Disclaimer: Would I be writing here if I actually owned them? Not mine, sadly never will be.
Note: So, I thought it best to put something of a family tree in here, just to give you an idea of who's who. I also took a gander to Arizona's age to help with the ages of her siblings. And then for some I used actual actors/actresses to give you an idea of what they'd look like (it actually does help me to write the character!) though maybe with a few minor changes like eye color... sometimes it does happen while I'm writing and not thinking much... though I must now stop my ramblings before I give away all the secrets to what makes my writing so awesome :P
Daniel Robbins – 68 (R. Lee Ermy)
Katherine Grant – Robbins – 56 (Kate Caphsaw (I tried coming up with someone else, honest! I even considered using Christie Brinkley, but in the end... who better to play Arizona's mother than JC's mother?))
Danny junior – would be 37 (Adam Baldwin). Married to Colleen, 35 (Christina Hendricks). They have a 12 year old daughter, Kate (Hallie Kate Eisenberg), named for his mother.
Arizona – 35
Emerson – 29 (Rachel McAdams). Married to Jacob Haswari (Rudolf Martin), 39; two children, 6 year old, Sarah, 6 month old, Eli.
Brandon – 28; (Zachary Levi)
James – 21 (Will Estes)
Lea – 21 (Diana Agron)
"You have got to see this," as soon as Callie exits the scrub room, she's dragged away by Mark Sloan.
"Can it wait? I've got to get my patient to post-op and start monitoring him.
"Lexie's taking care of his post-op care; you really have to see this."
"Fine," she allows herself to be dragged down the hall, continuing on with the conversation. "Did you see my guy's uniform? Owen checked in with me during my surgery and gave me the rundown. The guy's a hardcore hero; he's served in every international conflict our nation has served in since Korea."
"Good to know," Mark stops them outside of an ICU room, turning to his friend while she rambles on.
"I mean the guy has seven Purple Hearts, that's seven injuries sustained in combat. And that's just one individual award… he's got even more awards for valor, including two Navy Crosses and two Silver Stars… Why are we here?" She finally stops, and Mark uses his hand to turn her head towards the room, and it takes her a moment to come to grips with the view she's faced with. Lying on the bed is a woman she's never seen, and she quickly takes in the monitors before her gaze strays to the figure in the chair at her bedside. It takes a moment before she recognizes the figure of her girlfriend seated in the chair. She's wearing a pair of scrubs and has her arms around a tiny figure in her lap. Seated in her lap, sleeping, is a young girl that looks to be no more than six, with dark curls and a pale complexion. Her head is tucked neatly under Arizona's chin while the blond strokes her head soothingly.
"That's a good look on her." Callie nods silently at Mark's assessment. She can't seem to take her eyes off the vision of Arizona with a child in her arms.
She's brought out of her musings by a soft cough coming from the side and the pair turns toward the young man standing before them. His dark pants are torn and dirty, his tie loosened around his neck, and his white dress shirt is torn and bloody – likely from the cut over one of his blue eyes or the cut curling around the lobe of his ear under his dark blond hair – and his jacket is slung over his arm.
"I'm sorry to disturb you, ma'am, sir," he motions towards the room they're staring into, "I need to get into that room."
"Of course," Callie glances into the room, moving her gaze between the woman in the bed and her girlfriend before returning her attention to the young man standing before her. "You're James." She finally starts putting the pieces together.
"Yes, ma'am. I do wish that we'd been able to meet under better circumstances… not shortly after you'd completed your operation on my father. Speaking of: Is he alright?"
"He's… uh, he's being moved into post-op as we speak, and I've got a resident watching over him."
"But he made it through the surgery?"
"Yes." James relief is evident.
"Good, thank you. Uh… may I?" He motions to the door once again. "I need to relieve Arizona with Sarah."
"Sure," the pair separates, allowing him past them, watching as he kneels before the blonde, gently slipping his arms under the child, relieving his sister of her burden, and taking her seat as she gets up.
Arizona stretches out her back as she makes her way to the door. Callie steps aside to let her past, noticing that Mark has slipped away to leave the couple alone.
"Hey," Arizona leans back against the sliding door to her sister's room, sighing at Callie's greeting.
"Hi," she smiles softly at the brunette, slipping into her embrace at the silent request. "So Bailey says that she's going to be alright; she had to have her spleen removed, and there was some damage to her small bowel that she repaired."
"Your dad is going to be alright, too. He's got a long road of physical therapy ahead of him, but he'll be fine." Arizona groans softly at that news. "What's wrong?" Callie questions, concerned.
"He's always been a nightmare after an injury – especially one that requires physical therapy. I've been around for two of them. I'm so thankful that they live in DC." The two women smile at her statement.
"Question?" Arizona leans back to look into the taller woman's gaze.
"Shoot."
"Why – if they live in DC – was the ceremony held in Seattle? Isn't DC like the military capitol of the nation? There are tons of places to choose from to hold an award ceremony. Why here?"
"Dad's first Navy Cross… he was stationed on the Kitty Hawk when the nomination came through – and he was still on board when the Marines decided to hold the ceremony. And Danny – our brother – he was stationed off the Kitty Hawk when he received his Cross nomination as well. That was Emma's one request – she wanted the ceremony to be held on board the Kitty Hawk. And as she's going through decommissioning at Fort Bremerton, it had to be held here in Seattle.
"How's the rest of my family?"
"They're doing alright, I think."
"James said that Lea is in with mom – she had a brain bleed, where's Brandon?"
"Clean break to the forearm, but I don't know where he is."
"And Jacob?" Callie is prevented from answering as a woman approaches them, carrying an infant and followed by a young girl with her dark hair and bright blue eyes.
"Arizona! Have you heard anything?" She pulls away from Callie's embrace to take the infant from the woman's arms, holding the child close. Callie stands by silently, allowing the two women to converse, watching the blond with the child. He has the same dark curls as the child in the room behind her, and he rests in the blonde's arms just as easily as the older girl did. He was momentarily fussy when he was switched from one embrace to the other, but calmed down quickly with a few quiet soothing words from the blond. The young girl stands by, before moving into the room Arizona just exited. Callie watches her take the chair on the opposite side of the bed, settling in to read the book she pulled from her bag.
Callie looks down at the sound of her pager to read the tiny screen, silently holding it up to her girlfriend before heading off to respond to the page.
"Hey," Callie smiles at the floor nurse that paged her, before she can ask why she was needed, she feels a hand on her shoulder and turns to see her mother and father standing behind her. Immediately her mother pulls her into a hug and it takes Callie a second to respond. As soon as she's released, her father pulls her into one as well, releasing her much quicker than her mother did.
"Hi! What- what are you two doing here?"
"Well, I got tired of your father telling me how amazing Arizona is and thought it was time that I found out for myself. He won't admit it, but he missed the two of you and wanted to see you both again."
"Right. I wish that you would have called ahead, today really isn't a good day."
"Is everything alright?" Sophia Torres takes note of the serious face her daughter is sporting an immediately goes into her 'Mom mode'.
"Fine… sort of… It's just a crazy day." They are interrupted by James, who speaks up softly.
"Excuse me, Dr. Torres,"
"You can call me, Callie, James." She smiles at the young man.
"Yes, ma'am, Callie. Um," he looks between her and her parents before hesitantly continuing on. "Colleen was asking about everyone, and Arizona doesn't think that it would be prudent of her to check herself, given the situation, and since you're the only doctor that we're on a first name basis with, I was hoping that you could get a status update on everyone for us."
"I'd be happy to. Just give me one moment."
"Yes, Ma'am." He walks off to the side to give her a bit of privacy. Callie turns back to her parents to find that they're staring after James in curiosity.
"There was an accident today involving Arizona and her family, they're all patients here today. That's her youngest brother. I need to go and check up on everyone for them."
"Of course, dear." Sophia looks after the young man before reaching out to drag her husband away. "You give us a call if you need anything, we'll be staying at the Archfield."
"Thanks," she sees them onto the elevator before joining James at the foot of the stairs. "Your timing is impeccable, James."
"Thank you?" He looks to her confused.
"My parents like to pop in with little warning, this time it was with no warning. Then again," she pulls her phone out of her pocket and finds a missed call from her parents from 10 hours previous, just after she'd gone into surgery with Daniel Robbins. "No, they did give me warning, I was just two hours into your father's surgery and couldn't reply."
"Well then, I'm glad that I could be of service." The two are silent for a moment while they make their way back towards Emerson's room.
"I must admit, Arizona didn't make you sound quite so… demure, when she was telling me about you." He motions to his attire while answering.
"It may be ruined, Callie, but I am technically still in uniform and must conduct myself as such."
"Right. I'm not totally familiar with how all that works out."
"Stick around, we'll be happy to educate you." He flashes her a grin that is strongly reminding of Arizona's, and Callie can't help but smile back.
"Alright, why don't you stay here with your sisters while I go and find out how everyone is doing. I'll even see what I can do about getting everyone in rooms next to each other so you don't have to move so far when everyone gets out of surgery."
"Yes, ma'am."