A/N: So the general thought seemed to be to give a view from all three so that's what I'm going to go for. Enjoy. Please review :D
Mark's POV:
I hated this. I hated that I'd found comfort at the bottom of a whisky bottle. I hated the fact that my daughter was dead. More so, I hated the fact that all Callie seemed bothered about was Arizona. I got that she was her girlfriend, wait...her fiancée now, and they were in love or whatever but no one seemed to have time to grieve for their daughter...most of all Callie. He had seen this big and perfect life for them, in truth I'd seen it even including Arizona as my daughter's other mother but now that wouldn't be happening and it truly broke my heart.
I'd been made some coffee and toast and was sat on my own in the attending's lounge when Callie came in looking furious. She always seemed to be mad at me lately. I suppose I couldn't blame her...much.
'Sobered your sorry ass up?' Callie spat in my direction.
'I suppose...'
'Look Mark, I'm not going to bother talking to you and making you see sense cause frankly right now all I want to do is hit you. Hard. But Arizona wants to talk to you. I don't know why she thinks that she can make you see sense in all of this Mark but she's determined. Now I swear to God Mark...if you make her upset or angry or hurt her...emotionally...physically...god forbid...that'll be it Mark, you'll be out of my life for good...the only time I'll see you will be at work and if my scalpel slipped well my bad...' Callie finished with a small smile.
'Why does Arizona want to talk to me?'
'I honestly don't know Mark...how she can stand to talk to you after the things you've been saying...but she wants to...I'm gonna be there in the room but she's asked that I keep quiet...so I will...unless you step out of line...again.'
'Ok...let me freshen up and I'll come up to her room...ok?'
'Yeah alright Mark...just...be nice...please?'
I flashed her a smile, 'Course.' With that she left the room. I walked off to the shower and turned it on letting the cold water hit and wash over me. I couldn't begin to imagine what Arizona was going to say to me, I had said some pretty awful things and the fact that she wanted to talk to me was...strange. We'd never seen eye to eye and I know she had always seen me as a threat but if I was honest with myself, I had totally played on that fact. Pushing the buttons that I knew would get a reaction. In truth; I was jealous...Callie and Arizona had this relationship that even something as fucked up as Callie being pregnant by me couldn't pull them apart. Me? I was alone. Lexie had left me...again...I know I deserved it...but that didn't stop it hurting like hell.
Once I'd showered and gathered my thoughts I walked up to Arizona's room and knocked gently on the door.
'Come in.' Came Arizona's voice. When I walked in Callie was sat at the side of Arizona, holding her hand and as she showed no sign of moving I took up the seat in the corner, not wanting to sit too close. I held my breath and waited for Arizona to begin not really knowing what to expect.
Arizona's POV
'Firstly Mark, I haven't had a chance to say this so...I'm sorry about the baby.' I knew that would take him by surprise, but more than that it was something that I had wanted to say. I was sorry. I was sorry that the baby was dead...I was sorry that it was partly my fault and I was sorry at how Mark was dealing with his grief.
'I...er...well...look...I'm sorry too Arizona...and you too Callie...I've acted like a total jerk...I know I have but I've felt pushed out and alone and Callie all you seemed to care about was Arizona...'
'That is so not fair Mark and you know it...' Callie interrupted Mark's rant.
'Calliope...let me talk to him...please?' She surveyed me for a minute before just nodding, not releasing her grip on my hand for one second. I turned back to face Mark. 'No matter what you feel Mark, you've said some damn awful things and acted...well...like a complete asshole...'
'Now look here Arizona, you can't just lay there like God's gift and point the finger at me! I know you're Callie's fiancée now and whoop-di-doo for you two but our daughter just fucking died and you're both moving on...how the fuck do you expect me to behave? You left Callie in an airport without a second thought so that you could go and play God over in Africa...Callie came running straight back to me...she knows that I won't go anywhere. EVER! You? You just bail at every fucking chance...and now...now you've killed our baby...' Mark's words hit me like a stone; of course I'd expected them, but still hearing someone accuse you of killing your baby hurts like hell. Callie went to get up and shout back but I just gripped her hand, letting her know that I'd got this.
'You don't think I don't know that Mark? You don't think that that very thought has overtaken my life since I found out about her? But you know what...it was an accident...it could have happened to anyone; even then the thought that I was driving the car that crashed which caused Sophia to die will haunt me forever. For the rest of my life I will have to live with that fact Mark and believe me I'll punish myself enough for it without you punishing me for it too...' tears began to fall down my face for the first time since Mark had come in. Voicing the thoughts inside my head was hard, but if it would make Mark see sense and sort his actions out then it would be worth it for everyone involved. 'I know you're hurting Mark, and I can see why...you've never liked me really and I know you've tried to for Callie's sake but at the end of the day you watched me break her heart when I left for Africa...you were the one that had to pick up the pieces...and again, that is something that I will have to live with for the rest of my life. Every day I will re-live the pain that I saw in Calliope's eyes at the airport when I left her and then again in her eyes when I came back...sure it will get easier and Calliope agreeing to marry me will definitely help with that fact...but the fact still remains that I hurt the woman that I love more than you ever have or probably ever will. Because of that fact I know that you will always be a part of our lives...even now that Sophia is gone it doesn't mean that you will automatically disappear from our lives. I personally think that that's another reason why you've been so mad...you're scared that you'll go back to being a lonely bachelor again...am I right?'
For the first time Arizona looked straight into Mark's eyes and was shocked to see that tears had formed in the corner of his eyes and were slowly making their way down to his well defined jaw line.
'You're right Arizona...everything you've just said...but..how did you know? I haven't spoken to anyone about it, not anyone?'
'It doesn't take a genius Mark to think about how you'd be feeling and although you think I'm a heartless bitch...I do care about you Mark...in some weird way.' I gave him a small smile to encourage him to talk; everything needed to be said so that we could all move on and concentrate on the important things in our lives.
'I've never thought you were a heartless bitch Arizona. Never. Yes, a small part of me will always hate you for what you did to Callie...I'd never seen her so...broken. Not even when George did what he did or when Erica left...never...and that just confirmed the fact that she loved you so much. But you came back. You did what neither George nor Erica did: you fought for Cal. That day when you came back...me and you talked like we never really had before even though it was mostly in passing...for the first time I saw how insecure you were about yourself, about your relationship with Callie and most significantly, I saw how insecure you were about my relationship with Callie. And...as we're being honest here...I totally played on it...at the baby shower...all through the pregnancy really, I've played on your fears of Callie running back to me...why? Because I'm so fucking insecure myself. I have nothing. I have no one. Not really. I put Lexie through too much shit to expect her to be anything more than a work colleague. Sloan left without a second thought...not that I made a great father to her... Even Derek, who I've always considered a brother has his own life now with his own little family and me? I'm just me... When I found out that Callie was pregnant I just saw this amazing chance at the one thing I'd never really had...a shot at having a family...Now...I'm back to having nothing again and I took that out on you...and on you Callie... And for that I am so so sorry. I don't expect you to forgive me...I've said some fucking awful crap over the past few weeks but I don't want to lose you...either of you in my life...I know we don't have a strong connection anymore like we might've had with the baby...but Cal you're my best friend and I love you...Arizona...as my best friend's fiancée I know I've got to try better with you and just hope that you give me the chance to do just that.'
All through Mark's speech the tears had continued to fall down Arizona's face and she saw them fall down Callie's too. Some people might have thought that Mark was just saying the words to get him out of the bad books but you could see the raw emotion and obvious truth in his eyes. He was a lonely man who craved a family, craved people to love, and mostly, he craved people to love him in return. I still felt a lot of anger towards Mark, and indeed part of me still wanted to re-break his nose, but I couldn't help but feel sorry for the bloke.
'Mark you'll never be absent from mine and Calliope's lives. That's just impossible. You're like that piece of furniture that you contemplate throwing out...then a certain light will catch it and you'll see its true potential and remember why you had in your life in the first place. Besides, you do live across the hall and work in the same place as us.' Arizona smiled again and was pleased to see that Mark gave a small smile in return. 'But you've got to stop getting so mad all the time...we're all going through the same pain right now and so we need to fight this together not fight at each other. You've said some shit things Mark but for the sake of Sophia I'd say that this is it now...we've talked about it and we should put it firmly in our past... go to the funeral as a united trio of parents of a beautiful little girl...and then go from there...but I will say this Mark...if you have just one more outburst I'm not sure I could be this forgiving again...'
Callie's POV
I'd sat quietly as Arizona had asked, and had listened intently to what the both of them had to say. Both had said things that shocked and upset me. Both saying things that brought tears to my eyes. Arizona again blaming herself for the accident and Sophia's death, but then going on to say about living with the pain of that and leaving her at the airport every day; I'd never even thought about that hurting Arizona in the way she said. Then Mark further shocked me by revealing his darkest fear: being alone. Part of me wanted to just say that he was pathetic and be done with it but I could see that he was genuinely sorry for what he had said and was keen to put it behind us.
'Can I talk now?' No one had spoken in a couple of minutes so I wanted to say my bit too. Arizona just smiled and nodded whilst Mark just looked up at me.
'You've both astounded my over the last half an hour with the things you've said...I know it's been so hard for the both of you over the past...well really the past couple of years and it's no good you blaming yourselves without me taking a fair share of the blame too. I should've seen how each of you were feeling for a start; understood your insecurities...both of you...but instead I remained oblivious and for that I am sorry. It was my fault for sleeping with Mark when you went to Africa Zona... it shouldn't have happened and out of the two of us it should be me that gets the blame for that one...so for that I also am truly sorry. I just wish that you'd both talked to me about these things before! Mark you should have told me about you being all lonely...I mean we live across the hall! And Zona...babe...with everything that happened when you came back from Africa I suppose we never really got chance to talk about that whole situation...about how I acted before you left nor about you leaving me...and maybe that is a conversation we do need to have further down the line but you need to stop blaming yourself...for Africa and for this accident.' I finished defiantly. I needed Arizona to stop blaming herself for everything more than anything else; it was hurting me to see her pile so much blame and angst on herself when no one else was thinking what she was.
'I don't know about you two but I could do with some coffee...fancy one?' Mark broke the silence after Callie's speech. Arizona smiled and asked for a hot chocolate with loads of marshmallows whilst I asked for just a black coffee. 'Cool, I'll go grab them now...umm...thanks guys... and I'm sorry...again...for the way I've acted...I'll always be sorry...'
'Stop stumbling with your words Mark and go get some coffee man!' I shouted playfully at Mark giving him a wink so he knew that it was a joke. He smiled back and left. 'Well I'll give it to you babe, I didn't think that would work...'
'Ha well you know I'm just super awesome aren't I?' Arizona flashed a dimpled smile.
'Yes babe you really are just that.'
A/N: So not entirely happy with that chapter...just wanted to get an update out...what did you guys think? Reviiiiieewwwww please :D
