Exiting the OR, Arizona checks her phone and is happy to see messages from Kiaria, scrolling through them, she sees that her girlfriend has had a busy day. Sending a quick message to let her know that she just got out of surgery, she slips the phone back into her pocket and heads out to recovery to give the interns her post op instructions.
"Hey, you've had quite the day." Arizona says when she finally gets a chance to call her girlfriend.
"I have." Kiaria agrees, "So what do you think about lunch tomorrow and looking at a condo?"
"I think we should talk about it tonight." Arizona replies.
"Okay, but is there something wrong?" Kiaria asks, noticing that Arizona's response is a little flat.
"Not really. It's just that I saw Callie today at lunch and we talked, she and JJ broke up last night." Arizona explains.
"Uh, okay." Kiaria replies, "I'm sorry about the timing, do you want to wait on this?"
"No, no let's just talk tonight. It's fine." Arizona replies.
"Did you talk with Arizona?" Meredith asks when she sees Callie at the end of the day.
"Yes, we talked. She and Kiaria are happy together. I need to stay out of it and find my own happiness. I'm the one who wanted to be free, so I need to do that and be free." Callie reminds herself.
"Are you telling me or yourself?" Meredith asks sarcastically.
"I just need to get my daughter and go home." Callie says tiredly as they approach the daycare to see Arizona and Kiaria there with Sofia. "Perfect." She says.
"I'll go in first, wait here." Meredith says stepping around her.
"Hey, I hear congratulations are in order Dr Jordon." Meredith says entering the room, as Bailey rushes over to her.
"Yes, thank you, Dr Grey. Is this your son?" Kiaria asks as Meredith picks him up.
"Yes, and I'm Meredith, over there is my oldest daughter, Zola helping to get her little sister Ellis ready to go home." Meredith says proudly watching Zola put the baby's things in the bag.
"Well, three beautiful kids and you're a surgeon, I admire you already." Kiaria replies, stopping herself as Arizona gives her a look.
"Meredith just got promoted to Chief of General Surgery actually," Arizona adds.
"So congratulations are in order for you too." Kiaria says smiling, "Wait, so how many Chiefs here are women? I met Shepherd, she's chief of Neuro, Torres is Chief of Ortho. Oh and didn't a woman just get promoted to Chief?"
"We own the hospital, what can we say." Meredith says nudging shoulders with Arizona.
Beaming Arizona smiles back at her, but before she can respond, Callie comes up from behind them and adds, "Its true, we do own the hospital," Callie points out as she walks up and joins the conversation, "Miranda Bailey and I were interns together and now she's Chief of Surgery; we also have Maggie Pierce as Chief of Cardio and Arizona as Chief of Peds and Fetal Medicine."
"Well, it sounds like an exciting time to move to Seattle." Kiaria says excitedly looking around at the three successful women.
"Mami, can I stay at Zola's tonight?" Sofia asks taking Callie's hand and looking up at her with soulful eyes..
Meredith looks over at Callie and knows that she's not up for being alone tonight, so she says, "Hey, why don't you both come over tonight and you can cook us dinner!"
"Oh, what an offer," Callie says smiling at her. "Let's get the kids in our cars and we can discuss it." Then to Kiaria she adds, "Congrats again on the job, we should talk about a fellowship program. I need better residents."
"You're still pissed that I got Edwards and Wilson?" Arizona asks her.
"Wilson is built for Ortho, I'll get her back!" Callie says over her shoulder.
Watching them leave with all the kids, Arizona laughs.
Kiaria reaches over to touch her shoulder, "Oh what was the look for with Meredith?"
"I wasn't sure if you remembered that she's a widow, I just didn't want you to ask about her husband." Arizona explains.
"Oh god, thank you. I was going to. Wow, nice save Dr Robbins." She says smiling at her.
"I'm awesome." Arizona admits playfully.
"You are, now let's go be awesome together." Kiaria says pulling her to her and kissing her against the wall.
"Hmm, I could get used to this." Arizona says, pulling back slowly.
"Used to what?" she asks.
"Used to ending my day with you." Arizona replies, kissing her lightly one more time, before pulling away to walk out to the car.
"Okay, so are you going to come over? I was just kidding about you cooking for us, it's Amelia's turn to cook tonight." Meredith says as they walk out to the car.
"If you're sure she won't mind, I'd like to come over. Please promise me that we don't have to talk about JJ or Arizona or Kiaria. I need a night off from it." Callie exclaims.
"Oh don't worry about that, Maggie had an overnight guest last night, so we have plenty to talk about at dinner." Meredith replies.
"Seriously? Who was it? Anyone we know?" Callie asks curious.
"Oh yeah, she hooked up with the hot new intern." Meredith replies shutting the passenger door and opening up the driver's side.
"Okay, well I can't wait to hear the details. I'll be over in an hour with the girls." Callie says as Meredith gets in her car to leave with Bailey and Ellis.
As Callie starts to pull away, she spots Arizona and Kiaria leaving the building arm in arm. Kiaria opens the car door for her and then bends in and gives her a quick kiss before shutting the door.
It's a bittersweet moment for Callie, because she's happy for Arizona, but angry that it's not her making her happy.
Putting her sunglasses on, Callie drives off, listening to the girls chatter about what movie they're going to watch tonight.
"Would you be disappointed if we didn't go out tonight? I kind of want you to myself tonight." Kiaria says as they pull away from the parking lot.
"Not at all. We can get take out from that Thai place down the street from my place, I'll call now and order." Arizona says taking her phone out of her bag.
"Okay, that sounds good," Kiaria says turning to smile at the blonde. Then she asks, "So do you want to talk about it?"
"Talk about what?" Arizona says after she orders their food.
"Talk about why Callie and JJ breaking up bothered you?" Kiaria replies.
"I just hate seeing her upset, although it's nice that I wasn't the cause of it this time." Arizona points out, "And I'm happy so I want her to find happiness. We both deserve to be happy. Don't you feel that way towards Jessie?"
"Actually, I don't. She's been a total ass to me and now that she knows about us, I don't see that changing anytime soon." Kiaria admits.
"I'm glad that you and Callie get along, it makes everything easier, especially with Sofia. Thank you for that." Arizona says sincerely.
"Okay, well that makes me feel better. Especially since Callie and I will be working together through the Sports Medicine program, she's one of the best orthopedic surgeons on this coast and I'd love to develop a real partnership with her and Grey-Sloan and the University Med School." Kiaria remarks.
"Where's Maggie?" Meredith asks Amelia when she enters the kitchen.
"She texted and said that she was working late." Amelia says raising her eyebrows as if she doesn't believe it.
"I bet she's going to try to avoid us," Meredith admits laughing about it.
"Where's Zola?" Amelia asks noticing her missing niece.
"Oh, she and Sofia went with Callie. I hope you don't mind, but I invited Callie and Sofia to dinner tonight. Callie and JJ broke up and she needs a distraction, so don't ask her about it or say anything about Arizona and Kiaria." Meredith explains to her sister-in-law.
"Okay, okay. I've got it. Oh wait, Arizona and I did have an interesting case today though. A twelve year old girl with repetitive sneezing." Amelia replies.
"Did you figure it out?" Meredith asks, dipping a piece of bread into the Alfredo sauce.
"We had to sedate her to get the MRI and CT done. But get this, her body stopped sneezing, but her brain continued to spasm. So, I'm still working on it. Hey, you should come by tomorrow and look it over, it's really an interesting case." Amelia suggests.
"Okay, I'd love to see those scans." Meredith replies.
"Hey, we're here." Callie calls out from the front room. "Oh dinner smells great." She says entering the kitchen.
"Girls, go wash up and help me set the table." Meredith says as they enter the room behind Callie.
"But Mom..." Zola begins to protest.
"Zola, help set the table is all I'm asking, after dinner you're free to go watch whatever you want on the TV in my bedroom." Meredith negotiates with her daughter.
The two girls look at each other and run upstairs to wash up.
"Nice negotiation, Mer." Callie replies as Amelia hands her a glass of wine. Then noticing that the other sister is missing, Callie asks, "Where's Maggie?".
"Oh she's avoiding us." Amelia replies, "With good reason, too."
"I really thought that was you last night, I still can't believe it was Maggie." Meredith says taking a sip of Callie's wine.
"Get your own glass, Mama needs this tonight, all of it. Hell, I may be sleeping on your couch tonight." Callie says taking the open bottle of wine with her as she moves around the counter.
"You should have seen DeLuca's face when he was sneaking out of her room this morning. I think he had just realized that not only had he slept with the Chief of Cardio, he was sneaking out of the Chief of General Surgery's house and then ran into the Chief of Neurology..." Amelia says delighted at the memory.
"Poor guy," Callie says, "Meredith, you should mentor him. He's already following in your footsteps."
"Ha ha, Torres. I heard that he's staying in one of the on-call rooms, so maybe you should mentor him on how to live in the hospital undetected." Meredith retorts.
Glaring at her, Callie takes a big sip of her wine.
"Wait, you lived in the hospital? When you were a resident?" Amelia asks.
"After fourth year, my roommate kicked me out and I was too busy to find a place, I had just been appointed Chief Resident and I was practically running Ortho at that point." Callie explains.
"Then she married George and moved in here for a hot minute." Meredith says laughing.
"Shut it Mer," Callie says glaring at her again, "We're not going down memory lane tonight."
Zola and Sofia enter the kitchen and Meredith instructs them on how to set the table while Callie and Amelia finish dinner.
"Okay, so what do you bet, Maggie shows up in the next thirty minutes." Amelia says from her spot on the floor.
"Let's see it's almost ten, I think she's not coming home. Maybe they got smart and shacked up in an on-call room tonight." Meredith replies.
"My bet is that she's at Joe's right now trying to decide what to do and he's probably watching her from across the room, nervous, trying to decide if he should approach her or leave her alone." Callie suggests.
"Okay, I like yours better." Amelia says laughing.
"I'm going to go tell the girls to go to bed or we'll never get them up in the morning." Meredith says getting up from the floor.
"Let me know if you need help." Callie says from the couch.
"If you want I can drive you home. You don't have to sleep on this couch." Amelia offers.
"I don't know if I want to be home alone tonight." Callie admits.
"Oh right, I get that." Amelia remarks.
"Wait, what does that mean?" Callie asks looking over at the brunette.
"Mer told me about JJ, I'm sorry Cal." Amelia explains.
"How are you and Owen?" Callie asks, suddenly remembering their last conversation.
"You know we went out on a date last night and it was fifty shades of awkward." Amelia says sarcastically.
"Oh my god, really?" Callie asks.
"He drank too much, I had to drive him home. Then he got all handsy with me and I just wasn't feeling it, so I called a cab and came home." She explains.
"Ouch, so did you spend today avoiding him?" Callie asks.
"Of course I did. It helped that I got the new peds case, I hid up there most of the day." She replies.
"Oh the sneezing girl, you guys were talking about at lunch. Did you figure it out yet?" Callie asks.
"Not yet, but I asked Meredith to look at the scans with me tomorrow. I'm close, I just know it." She says confidently.
Just then the door opens and Maggie stands there a minute, listening to see if anyone is up. Callie and Amelia trade glances and stay silent.
"Hey," Amelia says as soon as she puts her foot on the first step.
"I'm not talking about it." Maggie says continuing up the stairs.
"He's hot as hell, nothing to be ashamed of." Callie calls out to her.
"Oh god, she told you?" Maggie stops and comes back down the stairs to confront Amelia. "Why are you enjoying this so much?" She asks her.
"Because you're making me look like the normal one and trust me, I've never been the normal one." Amelia says sarcastically.
"But I am the normal one." Maggie says protesting.
"Hey all I'm saying is that my inappropriate sexual relationship at work is at least with another department head. You're the one screwing the first year intern." Amelia says laughing again.
"It was a one time thing." Maggie says frustrated.
"That's good, because otherwise we'll have to have you do that relationship paperwork," Callie points out.
"No, no, there is no relationship. It was just a one time thing." Maggie says storming back up the stairs.
"Shhh, Meredith says on the landing, I can hear you guys up here." She says as Maggie comes toward her. "Do you need anything? Are you sure that you're alright?"
"I'm fine. I just need to get some sleep." Maggie says brushing past her sister on the landing.
"There are fresh sheets in the hall closet." Meredith says as she passes.
