A/N: Make sure you go read chapter 2 cause I uploaded it at the same time and shit goes down that makes this chapter make sense!
A Tricky Situation
A few days later she found herself sitting in a procedure room preparing to get rid of their baby. She was crying and feeling lower than she had ever felt. It was comparable to the darkness she was consumed by after Tim died. A nice nurse came in to work out some more paperwork and noticed Arizona was crying.
"Are you okay?" She asked with concern.
"I'm….I'm fine," Arizona responded trying to put on a brave face.
"Do you have a friend or someone who could help you through this?"
"I can do it alone. Can we just get his over with?" Arizona shot back.
"I have to go over a few more routine questions and then we can get moving."
"Fine whatever. Ask away?"
"Are you sure you want to do this and have you heard about other options?"
Arizona just cried harder then managed to get out a weak, "Yes."
"I have to ask you to sign the consent form now, but in good faith I feel like I can't let you do that. You seem to have some things to work out before you can do this."
"I don't have anything to work out. Just give me the form."
"Ma'am I am not trying to pry, but you are very visibly upset. When I see women sobbing like you in this situation it usually means a few things. Are you in danger? We have services for women who need them."
"Ugh. I'm not a battered wife lady. This baby doesn't even have a father."
"Okay, I know it is hard to do this alone and the man not being involved is difficult."
"No, you don't know. There is no man, the baby doesn't have a father, it has another mother."
"Oh, well I see. I'm sorry to pry further, but this obviously isn't an accident. You planned to have this baby and I have never seen a woman get rid of a baby they purposefully impregnated themselves with. Why would you want to terminate?"
"Its…Its complicated. Just give me the form."
The nurse handed over the form reluctantly honestly thinking that she was going to require a psych consult before she let her go through with it, but she held her tongue for right now. Arizona put the pen to the paper and went to sign then stopped. This wasn't her decision to make. This was Callie's baby, a baby that Callie wanted desperately. She couldn't take that away from her. Arizona dropped the pen, looked up at the woman and muttered, "I can't do this."
She quickly got dressed and rushed out of the clinic. She went to the hospital and ran around trying to find Callie. When she located her, she dragged her into the nearest on call room.
"Arizona, what the hell? I told you…."
But she was cut off by Arizona, "No stop. Stop talking. I know you hate me and you don't want anything to do with me, but you are going to listen because I have something seriously important to tell you. Now shut up and listen."
Callie raised her hands in surrender seeing how serious and distraught her ex was from whatever she needed to talk about.
"Okay, well. Gosh this is harder than I thought. Will you come sit down?" Arizona asked as she took a seat on one of the beds.
Callie slowly moved and sat on the other end just waiting for what Arizona had to say.
"I.. I don't really know how to say this, but I… well… I was throwing up the other morning, so Teddy made me take a test and turns out that first test didn't catch it cause I'm pregnant."
Callie's face was in total shock, "Preg—Pregnant. You're pregnant?"
"Yes, I am."
"Is this why you came to my apartment Saturday?"
"Yeah," Arizona said softly.
"Oh my god! Arizona, I was so horrible to you. I'm so sorry," she said moving closer and taking Arizona's hands.
It was the most contact they had since the breakup and it made them both long for each other.
"I just came from the abortion clinic and…"
But she was cut off before having the chance to explain by a furious Callie who pulled her hands away like Arizona was the plague, "You aborted our baby! I can't believe you wou….."
"CALLIOPE! I didn't abort the baby. I was going to do it, but I just couldn't get rid of something you want so badly and something that is a part of you. I wasn't able to bring myself to throw that away."
"Oh, um. Well thanks for that I guess."
"I'm so confused. I don't know what to do and this is all a mess."
"I know you don't want this, but thank you for not getting rid of our baby."
"What are we going to do?"
"What do you want to do Arizona?" Callie said sincerely because she was totally concerned for her and what this all meant.
"I already said that I don't want a baby and I know you do. I guess I can just carry it for you. Then you can have your baby and we can move on with our lives."
Callie was hoping she would say she changed her mind, that they should be together and have this baby. What Arizona just said broke her heart all over again.
"I guess we can do that. Thank you so much for doing this for me."
"Calliope, all I ever wanted was to make you happy and make your dreams come true. I guess in a way I get to do that still."
"Yeah I guess," Callie responded, but what she really wanted to say was that her dream would never be complete if Arizona wasn't in it.
"You can be involved in everything and I guess it will be just like that freaky surrogate stuff, but you already know me and can boss me around and stuff."
"Ooo I like the bossing you around idea," Callie said kind of flirtatiously because she couldn't help it.
"Ha, of course you do."
"I think you should move back in!" Callie blurted out next.
"What?"
"I mean that I want to be there every step of the way and I can't do that if you are across town at Teddy's. Plus a couch is no place for a pregnant woman. You can take over the guest room. That way I can be just a few feet away to help you with the morning sickness and run out when you get ridiculous cravings."
"Callie you don't have to do all that."
"Yes I do. That's my baby in there and I don't want anything to happen to my baby. You are doing this for me. It would be the least I can do for you. Plus, I can't boss you around very well if you aren't near me."
"Okay, I guess you have a point. The guest room it is."
"Great," Callie said as she pulled Arizona into a deep embrace. They held onto one another for quite a while, neither one of them wanting to let go.
