A/N: thanks so much for all the feedback and reviews, I'm happy that you've stayed with it to watch them evolve back into the Calzona that we all wish we could have on again...


On the couch Sofia lays between them, her head on Callie's leg and her feet in Arizona's lap. The movie they are watching is one that Arizona's parents sent Sofia for Christmas, it's called The Nut Job. And while Sofia is enjoying it, Callie and Arizona are stealing glances at each other, clearly distracted by their earlier encounter in the hallway.

After sitting still for while, Callie shifts her position and lays her arm across the back of the couch, her fingers landing softly in Arizona's hair.

Arizona shifts her position a little and reaches her hand out to rub Sofia's belly and the little girl laughs and squirms a bit. Arizona laughs softly and rests her hand on the couch beside the little girl. Callie looks over and smiles, before reaching over and covering the blonde's hand as it lays on the couch and she watches as a soft smile spreads across Arizona's face.

Once the movie ends, Callie slips her hands under the little girl to pick her up and take her to bed. When she returns to the living room, Arizona is sitting on the couch with her eyes closed. Callie sits down close beside her and she opens her eyes. "Hi," she says softly.

"Hi," Callie replies.

"What are we doing Calliope?" Arizona asks softly.

Callie doesn't reply, instead she leans over the blonde and kisses her softly.

"Mmm," Arizona moans breathlessly as Callie pulls back.

"Arizona," Callie's voice is thick and she sinks her hands into the soft blonde curls and smiles.

"Cal," Arizona says her breath catching as she enjoys the feel of Callie's hands in her hair. "I admit that I miss you, I miss this," she says breathlessly. "But we can't just fall into this after everything that's happened."

Callie sits back, "I know what I want, but you're not sure, yet," she replies.

"How can you be sure?" Arizona asks nervously.

"I'm sure because I tried to move on but no one makes me feel the way you do," Callie confesses, biting her lip nervously.

"And you think that's a good thing?" Arizona asks. "Because I have to tell you the other night you kissed my cheek and I felt that down to my toes, I think that you've ruined me, no one affects me like you do," she admits.

"I've ruined you?" Callie questions, taking the blonde's hand and pressing it to her lips.

Arizona pushes herself up, watching the brunette's lip, she adds, "Maybe we've ruined each other," she suggests.

Callie smiles sadly at that thought, resting their joined hands into her lap, "I know that I said a lot of hurtful things when I was dating Penny; I think that I was trying to convince myself that I was moving on and I thought that if I could do that it would help you to move on too." Callie explains tearfully. "But it didn't work for many, many reasons, but the main one was that I am still in love with you."

The blonde blinks back tears and looks away for a minute as she considers the confession.

But Callie continues, "Arizona, you are brilliant and beautiful and an amazing mother, I was an idiot to think that I could walk away from you, from us."

"But you did walk away Cal, you blew us up, you sold our house, you practically lived with someone else," Arizona points out sadly.

"I know and I'm sorry," Callie replies sincerely.

"I'm not saying that I don't believe you, but I need some time. I-I-I can't just fall back into this with you, okay?" Arizona says leaning forward and pulling her hand back.

"Okay, but you're not saying no, right?" Callie asks.

"I could never say no to you," Arizona replies leaning in and pulling the brunette in for another kiss.

Encouraged, Callie wraps her arms around her and deepens the kiss.

Then just as suddenly, Arizona breaks the kiss and the embrace, "I should go Calliope, before I can't" she explains.

"Okay," Callie replies accepting the blonde's terms. "Can I see you tomorrow?" she asks.

"I have plans with Meredith to review the surgical plan, she wants to make sure she's ready to step into that OR with me and Addison," the blonde explains.

"Right, well I'll see you Monday then at work," Callie says a little disappointed.

"Why don't we have lunch together on Monday in your office?" Arizona suggests.

"That sounds great, I'd love that," Callie replies.


"How's it going?" Maggie asks entering the dining room and sitting down beside Meredith.

"It's going really well," Meredith replies looking up at her sister, "Arizona is an amazing teacher."

"Thanks, but Meredith you are a great student," Arizona replies.

Maggie smiles at both of them and then scoots in close to look at the surgical plan in front of Meredith. She quickly begins asking questions and after a few minutes it becomes obvious to Arizona that she should have her join them.

"Maggie, you really know a lot about AVMs, have you performed fetal surgery before?" Arizona asks.

"I assisted on a fetal valvuloplasty during my Cardiothoracic fellowship," Maggie replies.

"Oh my, why didn't you tell me? We need to spend more time together, are you available to assist on this case?" The blonde asks.

"Yes, I can clear my schedule. Riggs is proving to be more than capable. Send me the info, I'd love to assist, can I work up an alternate plan in the event that there's a cardiac event?" she asks.

"Yes please, I mean Addison and I have one and it sounds like we should go over it with you," Arizona exclaims. Now Addison will be here on Tuesday morning, the patient is coming in from Salt Lake and we'll get our first look at her that afternoon and the procedure is scheduled for Wednesday."

"Arizona, are you recording the procedure?" Meredith asks.

"Meredith, I record all of my procedures, when I trained with Nicole all she had were notes, and they were amazing notes, but they don't really help you to understand the procedure like seeing the surgery," Arizona explains.


On the way home from Meredith's Arizona remembers that she needs to call Carmen back and apologize for overreacting last night. Unsure exactly what she's going to say, she makes the call anyway. It goes straight to voicemail, which isn't really unexpected.

"Hey Carmen, it's Arizona. I just wanted to apologize for last night. The thing is, I had plans with my daughter and my ex and I wasn't sure how to say that because it kind of was a date. Um, it was good to meet you." Arizona says ending the call.


"OB is going to monitor Trauma 2 and call me if there are any complications, but we should be able to discharge her in a few hours," Arizona says updating Hunt on her consult before returning to her unit.

"Thanks Arizona," he replies, then noticing Callie approaching he barks, "Torres Trauma 1."

"Are we still on for lunch?" Callie pauses to ask before rushing over to the Trauma room.

"You tell me, you're the one heading into a trauma" Arizona teases, then adds, "I'll be upstairs."

"Okay," Callie says flashing a smile at the blonde before entering the Trauma room all business.

Arizona smiles after her and doesn't notice Meredith standing beside her.

"Uh, what was that?" she asks flashing the blonde a mischievous smile.

"You saw that?" Arizona asks chewing on her lip nervously.

"I thought something was up yesterday. Spill it! Arizona what happened between you and Torres?" Meredith asks pulling her into an empty supply room.

"I went over on Saturday and had dinner with her and Sofia," Arizona replies.

"Yeah, so are you guys back together? Dating? What?" Meredith ask impatiently excited.

"We're talking, but taking it slow. Can you really just date your ex-wife?" Arizona asks.

"Of course, you can. You can't rush this. It means too much," Meredith reminds her.

"I know, I know. It was all I could do to leave her place Saturday night," Arizona admits.

"So how do you feel?" Meredith asks.

"Confused. Excited. Hopeful." Arizona replies.

"So the date on Friday was a bust?" Meredith asks.

"Not really, it was a lovely date, but at the end of the night we kissed and it was a nice kiss, but it just didn't feel right. I didn't tell you that I ran into Callie on Tuesday and I won't go into all the details, but she kissed my cheek when we parted and damn, that kiss was like a current of electricity going through me." Arizona explains.

"She told me about it and she felt the same way," Meredith says smiling at her.

"Wait, she told you about that night?" Arizona asks.

"Yes and I told her to talk to you," Meredith replies.

"So that's why she invited me over on Saturday," Arizona says softly to herself. "So maybe it's not pathetic that I'm still in love with her after everything we've put each other through?"

"No, and neither of you have your feet on the ground, so no, it's not pathetic, it's actually really wonderful!" Meredith replies as her pager goes off. "Okay, I need to go. We should talk more later," she says before rushing off.

Arizona walks out of the supply room smiling and runs into Alex.

"Why are you smiling like that? Wait, Meredith and you?" He asks alarmed.

"Alex no!" Arizona says pushing him. "We were talking about my weekend," she replies.

"Oh, so your date Friday was good?" He asks.

"It wasn't bad, but my date on Saturday was much better," Arizona teases and steps into the open elevator.


"Hey Dr Torres!" Arizona says stepping into the open office door.

"Hmm, Dr Robbins, you're just in time," she says stepping in close to the blonde so that she can reach behind her to shut the door. Then pausing a moment as she notices Arizona's reaction to her, she dips down and kisses her lightly.

Arizona trembles and then slips her hands up and into the brunette's curls and deepens the kiss.

Callie breaks the kiss and asks breathlessly, "Should I lock the door?"

"No, no we can't. Not here," Arizona says gathering her senses.

"Right, lunch," Callie suddenly reminds herself why the blonde is there. "Let me page Cross and find out where he is with our food," she replies.

"Uh, maybe we should open the door while we wait," Arizona suggests biting her lip nervously.

"You're right, we should, uh, open the door," Callie says stepping closer to the blonde.

"Oh, I've got it," she says reaching back and opening the door.

"Oh hey Cross," Callie replies when she sees the intern waiting outside.

"The, uh, door was closed and it's never closed, so I wasn't sure if I should knock or what... Oh hey Dr Robbins," he says when he finally stops stammering at Callie.

"Cross just give me our food, did you get yourself something?" She asks.

"Yes, thank you Dr Torres," he replies still standing at the door.

"Okay, be ready in an hour for afternoon rounds," Callie replies shutting the door in his face.

"Callie, you bought him lunch? You're getting soft," she teases.

"He's like a goddamn puppy, I can't be mean to him. I don't even think Yang could do it," Callie replies, handing Arizona a salad.

"Oh I've seen her with kids, trust me, she could," Arizona says laughing as she opens her salad and then looks up at Callie surprised. "Wow, you remembered no sprouts and extra goat cheese?"

"Yes, how many times have I ordered that salad for you? Of course I remembered," Callie replies proudly.

"So all the times that you forgot to say no sprouts, those were..." Arizona teases.

"Oversights, everyone has temporary lapses of memory from time to time," she says defensively.

"Well, thank you this is perfect," the blonde replies taking a bite.


Arizona is in her office wrapping up for the day when her phone rings, "Dr Robbins?" she answers.

"Dr Robbins, Dr Torres is heading into an emergency surgery and wants to know if you can take your daughter home and she'll stop by and get her later?" Dr DeLuca asks rapidly.

"Yes, tell her yes," Arizona replies quickly.

Walking into the daycare, Sofia rushes over to her excitedly, "Momma!" she exclaims, "Where's Mami?"

"Mami has to work late tonight little miss, so you're coming home with me and Mami is going to come pick you up later, okay?" Arizona asks her daughter.

"Can we have pizza for dinner?" Sofia asks as she rushes to get her coat on.

"Yes, but we have to make a few stops first. Aunt Addison is coming tomorrow to stay with me and we need to get a few things that she likes at the store," Arizona explains as they walk out to her car.

They get to the first store and Arizona turns to the little girl, "Sofia, we only need to get three things here. Can you please take my hand and help me find them and not run off?" Arizona asks.

"Yes, Momma, I can help," Sofia replies.

In the store, Arizona takes a moment to plan the route and is amazed when the 5 year old does as promised and they are in and out of the store in 15 minutes.

"Okay, Sofia one more stop and then we'll pick up the pizza, okay?" Arizona informs her as they head to the next stop.

An hour later, they are home having gotten through all of the stops without Sofia declaring total boredom and becoming impatient.

"Can we text Mami?" Sofia asks setting her pizza down on her plate.

"Oh well, let's see if she's out of surgery yet," Arizona says going over and getting her phone out of her bag. She has a missed call from the hospital, so Arizona listens to the voice mail from Callie.

"Is she on her way?" Sofia asks.

"Not yet, but why don't you go ahead and get ready for bed, just in case she doesn't make it before your bedtime," Arizona suggests.

"Am I going to stay the night here tonight?" she asks.

"Well I'm not sure baby, it just depends on what time Mami is done. Now are you done eating?" Arizona asks as she begins picking up their plates and taking them to the sink.

Sofia pushes her step stool up to the sink and announces, "I can do the dishes, Momma."

"Okay, just rinse them off and we'll put them in the dishwasher, okay?" Arizona reminds her. Then turns to wrap up the pizza, planning to heat it up for Callie later.

Taking the pizza box out to the garage, Arizona returns to see Sofia pulling her stool back so she can open the dishwasher.

"Here, I'll hand them to you," Arizona offers.

"Thank you Momma," Sofia says carefully setting each plate into the empty dishwasher.

"Sofia, thank you so much for your help tonight. Now why don't you go get ready for bed and then we'll watch one program before bedtime," Arizona suggests.

Going into her own bedroom, Arizona changes out of her work clothes but not her pajamas, since Callie's stopping by.

Just as she starts to wash her face, she hears her phone in the other room and then hears Sofia answer it. "Momma!" she calls out.

"Sofia, did you forget that you're not supposed to answer Momma's phone?" Arizona asks her daughter.

"It's Mami," Sofia replies, "I saw her picture."

"Okay, thank you for checking," Arizona says putting the phone to her ear.

"Is it still the picture of the three of us in the photo booth?" Callie asks when Arizona answers the phone.

"What?" Arizona asks confused.

"The photo in your phone when I call, is it the same one?" Callie asks.

"Actually it is," Arizona replies. "You know I'm terrible at remembering how to change those things."

"Yeah, I do remember that. Hey, I'm almost done, I'm just going to grab something to eat and I'll be there in an hour, okay?" Callie asks.

"Of course, but we had pizza and we saved you some if you just want to come here," Arizona offers.

"Oh awesome, thank you. I'll see you shortly," Callie replies.

"Okay Sof, we have time for one program, what is it going to be?" Arizona asks setting the phone down.

"Sofia the First with Olaf and Miss Nettle!" She says excitedly.

"Okay," Arizona says picking up the remote and finding it on the DVR. Once the program begins and Sofia settles in to watch it, she picks up the Fetal Medicine Journal and thumbs through it to find the article on the new Doppler Ultrasound.

A soft rapping at the door gets Arizona's attention and she carefully gets up and rushes to the door.

"I'm sorry, I dozed off. Come in," she says pulling the brunette in by the hand.

"Is Sofia in bed?" Callie asks.

"No, we both dozed off on the couch," Arizona replies going into the kitchen and getting the pizza out of the stove, she had set to keep it warm. "What time is it?" she asks setting the food down.

"It's 8:30," Callie replies, yawning. "I'm sorry, I know that you have an early call tomorrow. I'll just take her and head home."

"No, sit and eat. Actually, you should just stay here. You look exhausted," Arizona points out as she pours Callie a glass of water.

"I am, actually. Are you sure that you don't mind?" Callie asks.

"No, you eat and I'll put Sofia to bed," Arizona replies reaching over to squeeze the brunette's hand.

Smiling as she watches the blonde go in and pick up their daughter and carry her to bed. A few minutes later, she returns. "I'll go find something for you to sleep in," she says heading down the hall to her bedroom.

Callie finishes eating one piece of the pizza and decides she's full, so she puts the rest in the refrigerator and then checks that Arizona turned the warmer off on the oven. Then she dumps out the water and places the glass into the dishwasher before going over to check the door is locked.

"Um, I laid out some clothes on my bed for you, you can use my shower, I mean, I know you prefer to shower before bed," Arizona says nervously.

"Oh yes, that would be amazing. Thank you," Callie replies. "Should I shower in Sofia's room?" she asks.

"That bathroom doesn't have a shower yet," Arizona replies, "Callie just go use my shower, it's fine."

"Sorry, I just don't know how we do this," Callie admits and walks over to face her.

"I don't either," Arizona confesses, then leans in and kisses the brunette.

Callie returns the kiss, but keeps it light. "Okay, well I should go shower," she says looking around a minute, realizing that she actually hasn't been in Arizona's bedroom.


Stepping out of the shower, Callie slips on the t-shirt and shorts and then realizes they are hers. Laughing she walks out of the bathroom and then notices Arizona asleep with the journal open in front of her and reading glasses on. Callie had no idea that the blonde wore them. Now unsure if she's supposed to sleep with Sofia or on the couch, Callie takes a minute to close the journal and take the glasses off the blonde and just as she's about to turn off the light, Arizona wakes up.

"I'm just going to go sleep with Sof," Callie says leaning down to kiss the blonde good night.

"Stay, please?" Arizona says softly.

"If you're sure," Callie whispers.

The blonde nods and pats the bed beside her, "I'm sure."

Surprised but rather pleased with this option, Callie goes around the bed and slides in beside her.

She no sooner gets in the bed, before Arizona snuggles up to her, "Is this okay?" she asks.

"Yes, it's perfect," Callie replies, closing her eyes as a huge smile spreads across her face.


The alarm wakes her up from a deep sleep, reaching for the phone to turn it off, Arizona smiles as she realizes Callie's there, so she turns around and kisses her lips lightly.

Callie's eyes fly open, "Uh oh, wow," she stammers.

"You don't have to get up, but I've got to get ready. Do you want me to wake you before I leave?" Arizona asks softly as the brunette closes her eyes again.

"Yeah," Callie mumbles rolling over, "I just need a few more minutes, k?"

Arizona smiles as she reaches over for her crutches and then makes her way into the shower. At least she thought to set out her clothes last night, so she grabs them and steps into her bathroom to get ready as quietly as possible.


Ready to go with just a few minutes to spare, Arizona sits down on the bed and carefully wakes up the brunette again.

"Arizona?" she says confused. "Oh right," she says raising up on her elbow and looking around the room.

"Hey, I set out my extra house keys for you to use. It's almost 7, Sofia will be up in a few minutes," she says waiting for the brunette to open her eyes again.

"Okay, yeah. Um, either I was more tired than I realized or your bed is really amazing," Callie says sitting up.

"It's a pretty amazing bed," Arizona admits. "I've got to go, I made coffee. I'll see you later, okay?"

"Yeah, thank you," Callie says watching the blonde leave, she begins to get out of bed and then hears Sofia coming down the hall, so she flings the covers over her head.

"Momma?" Sofia says climbing on to the bed, confused because her mom is on the other side of the bed.

Callie flings off the covers and Sofia squeals, "Mami! I didn't know you were here!"

"I know, you were asleep when I got here little miss," Callie says pulling her under the covers.

"Where's Momma?" Sofia asks.

"Momma went to pick up Aunt Addie at the airport, so we need to get dressed and get going, okay?" Callie asks.

"Okay," Sofia says excited and still a little confused. "Mami, why did you stay the night?"

"It was late and I was tired, so your Momma let me stay over," Callie replies.

"You slept on my side of the bed," Sofia informs her as they enter the kitchen.

"I did, I was going to sleep with you but your bed wasn't big enough, so Momma let me sleep with her," Callie explains. Then watches her daughter push her stool up to the counter and open the cabinet and carefully take down her cereal bowl, then she carefully pours the cereal from the box, Arizona left on the counter and then climbs down from the stool.

"Can you add the milk?" she asks.

"Yes," Callie says opening the fridge and pouring milk into the bowl. Turning around she sees that Sofia has a spoon and napkin and is climbing up onto the bar stool at the breakfast bar, so she sets the cereal bowl in front of her daughter. Then notices the coffee cup setting out for her and she pours herself a cup of coffee and watches her daughter eat breakfast.

"Sof, I'm going to go get dressed. I'll be right back," Callie says topping off her coffee and heading back to the bedroom.

She has to admit that it's going to be a bit distracting to spend the day smelling like Arizona. Not to mention that was the best night's sleep that she's had in months. Quickly getting dressed, she heads back into the kitchen just in time to see that Sofia has rinsed out her bowl and is putting it into the dishwasher.

"Sofia, how come you don't do that at my house?" Callie asks.

Sofia turns around and shrugs. Then climbs back down and pushes the stool back to it's place under the island.

Callie laughs, "Okay Sof, time for you to get dressed, do you want me to help you?"

"No, Mami. I can do it," she says and runs into her room.

Callie starts to wonder where she put her phone, when she sees it on the counter plugged into the charger. She punches in the unlock code and sees a message from Arizona. "See you soon, oh and the security code is 0510."

Callie looks around, she never even noticed that the house had a security system.

"Thank you for everything!" Callie replies.

A few minutes later, Sofia comes out of her room dressed and ready to go. "Seriously?" Callie says to herself and rolls her eyes.

"Okay Mija, where's your bag?" Callie asks looking around for it.

"I left it in Momma's car," she remembers.

"Okay, well Momma will bring it to you later, okay?" Callie asks.

"Okay," the little girl replies calmly.


Callie walks up to Meredith the next morning and says, "Okay, so I'm just going to ask how is it that my child is a completely different child at Arizona's house than she is at my house?"

"What are you talking about?" Meredith asks turning to face her confused. Then it dawns on her what Callie just said, so she grabs her arm and drags her into the conference room. "You stayed at Arizona's last night? I thought you guys were taking it slow?"

"We just slept Meredith, I had 15 hour day yesterday and when I got to her house to pick up Sofia she told me to stay, so I did," Callie explains.

"Okay, good. Don't screw this up Torres, you guys can't rush into this," Meredith reminds her.

"I know, I know. But get this. Sofia got up on her own at 7 am, got her cereal and asked for help with the milk, then rinsed out her bowl and put it in the dishwasher," Callie exclaims, "Then she got herself ready in 20 minutes without any melt down of any kind. Oh and she left her bag in Arizona's car... no big deal," Callie adds.

Meredith laughs, "that's funny," she replies. "It's killing you that she's the better parent, isn't it?"

"I just don't understand it. I've tried to get Sofia to do all of those things and she'll do them occasionally, but not consistently," Callie confesses.

"Sounds like you're going to have to ask Arizona what her secret is," Meredith says laughing again.

"You two are friends, hasn't she told you?" Callie asks.

"I will admit that when Arizona asks Ben and Zola to do things, they typically do them without a fuss, I just figured that it has something to do with her being around children all day, she somehow speaks to them differently than we do or something," Meredith replies.

"Hmm, I'm going to figure this out," Callie says turning to leave. "Talk to you later."


"Hey, I'm going to run and see Callie before we get started, I'll meet you up there," Addison says when she and Arizona arrive at the hospital that morning.

"Sounds good," Arizona replies.

"Callie Torres!" Addison says greeting her friend and giving her a big hug.

"Addie, it's so good to see you," Callie says returning the hug and pulling her into the office.

"When did you and Arizona get back together?" Addison asks bluntly.

"Uh, we're not back together, but we're friends now and it's new," Callie replies.

"Callie," Addison says crossing her arms, "Do you remember when we talked about how Arizona always smells like sunshine and rainbows?"

"Uh, yeah, it's her shampoo and body wash..." Callie says, then she laughs, "Okay, I stayed at her house last night and took a shower there, but nothing happened Addison. She took Sofia for me and it was late when I went to pick her up," she explains.

"Hmm, are there any benefits to this new, ah, friendship?" Addison teases.

"Not yet, but I'm hopeful," Callie replies.

"Well, it's about damn time," Addison replies.