"So I'm back two months later than I should have been and I know, I know, how hard it must have been for you to have had the night we did in New York and then have the distance between us because it was so hard for me too…" Between Callie's ramblings and Arizona giving her the time that she needed to say what she needed to say, their hands had intertwined while sat on the couch. They didn't know exactly when it happened, it was a natural progression – something they had done many times before in their marriage, and something you get used to doing subconsciously when you're in love with someone – but it was a progression that signalled that Callie was back in Seattle, that their daughter was asleep down the hall under the same roof as both of her mothers and that their family was officially home.
"You know I kicked DeLuca out when I got back from New York. Everyone thought I was crazy. When I told them that you and I were potentially together again but you hadn't come home yet people judged, we became the talk of the hospital and all that had happened between us in two years was that kiss in New York!" Arizona chuckled at how the hospital talked so much about the prospect of the great love story of Callie and Arizona becoming a reality again. They'd made their mistakes but everyone knew ultimately they would find their way back to one another someday. Arizona's final night in New York with Callie while Sofia slept next to them was just the beginning of things to come. The thought of how that night ended made Arizona beam and made her heart swell.
Arizona could have kissed Callie all night and never let her go, but if they hadn't stopped after that first kiss chances are things would have gone too far before they'd even officially gotten back together.
"I'm coming home …" The brunette held the gaze of Arizona's blue eyes for as long as possible; soaking up the vulnerability in her eyes that were filled with tears yet to fall. "I wish I could come back with you tomorrow, but …"
"You have things to finish up here …" Arizona finished.
"I do. But I'll be back, I'll be home …" Callie let the word home slip out of her mouth effortlessly allowing it to grace the biggest smile on her face that Arizona hadn't seen in years. This was the Calliope that she knew and loved. The feelings never faded, and while both may have strayed from one another, they had found their way back to each other somehow. " … as soon as I can. Sofia finishes school in a few weeks and then they'll be nothing stopping us … you, me and Sofia together." Arizona shudders and her legs go weak at the sound of the three of them together. Callie holds her steady while chuckling to herself.
"It's late, I should go." Calliope said heavily knowing that she really didn't want to go. Everything she wanted was here in this one hotel suite, the woman she knew as home was in her arms and she didn't want to let go.
"Stay, you should stay." Arizona's smile was enough to light up the room, her eyes now beaming from excitement that her and Callie could be together tonight knowing they weren't doing anything wrong.
It didn't take much convincing for Callie to spend the night. In fact it took no convincing at all. With Sofia already asleep, and the blonde and brunette exhausted from talking for hours, sleeping together was the only thing they wanted to do for their remaining time together. They didn't need sex to be intimate, just sleeping together in the same bed for the first time in years, interlocked and wrapped in each other, was enough for them both to know that they were where they were meant to be; and with the person they were supposed to be with. Callie wrapped her arms around Arizona from behind, kissing her shoulder as they gently drifted off to sleep. Every now and then Callie could feel the blonde pulling her in closer and Callie tightened her grip on her ex-wife assuring the blonde that this was real; that she was really there, that they were really lying in bed together.
Sofia was sound asleep in the bed next to them, and Arizona was almost too excited and giddy to drift off to sleep. But for the first time in a long time falling asleep was easy. She felt safe, and loved, and cared for – so much so that none of the rest of it mattered. When she would leave in the morning to return to Seattle she knew it would be hard but the prospect of something greater would keep her going. However long it took Callie to return home didn't matter. Though she wanted her back as soon as possible she too had things to sort out in Seattle. For starters her house resembled the Easter basket that Callie once upon a time refused to live in, and she still had a roommate that she would have to kick out so her and Callie could be a family with Sofia. Callie had a job to give notice on, Sofia had school to finish and of course there would be things to sort out with Penny regarding getting possessions back and living arrangements. Arizona didn't really want to think about that but even though she had Callie wrapped around her, not knowing what would happen after she leaves was playing on her mind.
"Mama!" Sofia woke up long before Callie and Arizona did – after all they had a late night figuring things out. But Sofia hadn't seen her mother's together like this in years. Any time she had seen them together as a couple was when she was much younger and she didn't really remember much of it. But the sight of her mother's wrapped around each other in one big embrace made the little girl so happy that she wanted to get in on it too. Sofia loosed Callie's grip on her blonde mother and wedged herself in between the two of them. The commotion of their daughter woke them up; usually both would be grouchy if woken abruptly but not this morning. With a slight gaze at one another while throwing their arms around the little girl in between them, both knew that this is how mornings should always begin.
"Mama, you're still here. You spent the night with me and mommy?"
"Erm, yeah Sof I did …" Callie said nonchalantly trying not to get the girls hopes up that her blonde mother would be staying longer or that their family was back together officially.
"You slept in the same bed as mommy? But what about Penny?" The little girl was far too observant for her own good at times. Her mothers had barely been awake five minutes and already they were faced with hard questions that they too hadn't figured out the answers to just yet.
"Everyone always knows everyone's business in that hospital. God I missed that." Both Callie and Arizona just looked at each other and chuckled at the fact that they were going to be the centre of attention for some time. Both fell closer together before finally their hands unlocked and the brunette gently brushed a lock of blonde hair behind Arizona's ear. Pulling the blonde closer to her their lips met in a kiss reminiscent of that in New York only this time neither would have to stop; no one would have to let go; no one would be leaving.