A/N:Ahhh Alas…This is the final chapter in this story. I just want to say how thankful and grateful I am for all of your reviews and comments. They have taught me quite a bit. Please take the time to read the comments I have placed at the end of this chapter to those who I could not reply to personally through FF due to circumstances beyond my control. I hope everyone that reads this story has enjoyed it as much as I loved writing it. And as today is my birthday…I just want to leave all of the readers of this story with a question…If you were Callie in this situation…would you forgive Arizona for her adultery? Or not? Write a comment/review and let me know.
THE EMEREALD CITY FREE FAMILY CLINIC
CHAPTER 11
I saunter up to my wife as I slide my hands and arms around her mid section as her hands and arms automatically slide over the top of mine as I moan into her right ear kissing the small patch of skin behind her ear as I say holding her close to me "Penny for your thoughts". My wife tilts her head backwards to grant me more access to her neck as I kiss the length of her jaw line and pull her closer to my body as she moans to my every touch. I rest my chin on her collar bone as I say "So" and my wife says "I was just thinking about the day we first heard Sofia's heartbeat. How happy those sixteen beats of her heart made me feel about you, her and Mark". My wife then turns in my arms as she places her arms around my neck and my hands fall to the small of her back as I still hold her close to me and kiss her lips softly. My wife begins to say again "On our wedding day, Mark came to get me but I was not ready as he entered our bedroom to find me crying. He asked what was wrong as I told him about the conversation I had with my brother when I came out to him. Timothy asked me if being gay meant that I was going to marry a chick someday and when I answered yes he smiled at me and said that he was going to dance so hard at my wedding. But he wasn't there…all my dreams were coming true…marrying you…being Sofia's mama…but my brother was not there…and I just needed a moment to remember my brother. Then Mark came up to me as he held out his arms and swallowed me up in them as I rested the side of my face on his chest and I heard his heartbeat…just as I heard Sofia's a few months earlier. Then on our wedding night after we made mad, passionate love to one another I laid my head on your chest as we fell asleep in each others arms but before I fell completely asleep I listened to your heartbeat as it too sounded just like Sofia's". My wife pauses for a moment to catch her breath and tenderly kiss my lips as she continues to say "That is when I knew…I finally knew for myself that all of my dreams were coming true. Dreams I did not even know I ever wanted…dreams of being a wife and a mother…dreams of finding the love of my life and spending my life loving her until the day I die. You Calliope, you made my dreams come true. From the moment we all heard our daughter's heartbeat for the first time…this has been my dream. And now our daughter is having a baby of her own. I hope she realizes how special bringing a child into this world and loving and raising that child is because I have loved every minute of being with you…being your wife…and raising our children with you. I love you Calliope with all my heart and will love you until the day I die". Then my wife says smiling from ear to ear "Calliope, our baby girl is having a baby of her own…our grandbaby".
I kiss my wife passionately as we explore each of the insides of our mouths and without any warning I pick my wife up in my arms as our kiss never breaks or falters as I walk her to the chaise lounge chair that adorns our beach area as I gently place her body on the length of the chaise lounge. Then when our kiss breaks, I take a seat next to my wife as she finds my face in her delicate hands and kisses me again. After kissing each other several times, I finally say to my beautiful wife "Baby, here take this" as I hand her the glass of champagne. With my left hand resting on the right side of my wife and in my right hand I hold the other glass of champagne, I look deep into those ocean blue eyes of my Arizona and say "All my life I have never loved anyone like I love you. Through everything we have been through over the past twenty seven years, all the good and all the bad, I have never stopped loving you. When I see all three of our children smile, when I hear Sofia giggle or Daniel's laugh or Carlos as he laughs so hard he snorts, all I can think of is how lucky we are all to have you in our lives because none of this would have been possible if it weren't for you. You once told me a long time ago when I was pregnant with Sofia and you and Mark and I were discussing whether or not I should get an amniocentesis, you and Mark were arguing about it as you were for it and he was against it. You told me later that evening that I got everything I ever wanted as this was a bi dream come true. You told me that I got the girl of my dreams, a guy best friend who is also a great lay and a baby…I got it all. But you, this was not your dream…your dream never looked like this". I lower my head for a moment as a tear escapes the confines of my right eye only to have my wife place her precious hands on my face once again and wipe that single tear away with a slight brush of her thumb as she looks deep into my eyes and says "Dreams change, Calliope…people change…I've changed…because after hearing your heartbeat on our wedding night…your heart that beats the same beats as our daughter's heart beats…my dreams became your dreams". I kiss my wife with all the passion in my body and then I say to her without any hesitation in my voice as I tap her glass with mine "To you my Arizona, for making all my dreams come true and to me for making your dreams…the dreams you never knew you even wanted…come true…I love you my beautiful wife now, always and forever until death us do part". We both drink the last of the champagne from our flutes as we toss them aside as I kiss my wife again and again and under the Miami moonlight as the crashing of the waves is music to our ears, my wife and I make mad passionate love to one another as we wake up the next morning naked and in each others arms as we made love to each other all night long to the most beautiful Miami sunrise ever.
8½ Months Later…August 9th…At St. Mary's Hospital Birthing Suite…
Addison Montgomery Riley removes her head out from under the sheeted canopy tent that is straddling our daughter's most private part of her body. Everyone in the birthing suite has their eyes glued to our best friend right now as we wait for her to say something…anything. But it is her husband Jake that removes his head out from under the canopy tent as he says "Six centimeters…six centimeters Sofia…just four more to go baby girl". He pats our Sofia's knee as he kiss his wife's cheek and says "I'll go tell the others out in the waiting room as I say "Thank you" to him as he leaves the room. Addison stands up but looks into our daughter's eyes as she says "Shouldn't be too much long longer, baby girl" as she rubs Sofia's thighs with the palms of her hands and removes herself as she walks towards the monitors that are regulating Sofia's heart rate and blood pressure. With Teddy and Christina by her side, she quietly asks them to follow her outside. Upon seeing this, I motion to our sons to sit by their sister as I ask my wife if she would like to join me as we go and get everyone some coffee. Calliope rises from the chair she has been sitting in since we arrive over twenty hours ago as we both walk out of the room. Once outside of our daughter's birthing suite, my wife Calliope collapses in my arms as all of her resolve she has been holding in has finally reached its peak. When I ask very loudly for some help, Addison, Teddy and Christina all run to help me and my wife. When we find and empty bed to place my wife on, the four of us go into doctor mode as we all check my wife's blood pressure and heart rate and her lung function as her breathing becomes more and more separated…like she is gasping for air.
After several minutes my wife has calmed down enough for the four of us to finally concur that my wife was having a panic attack all along.
With all the drama and concern about Sofia's blood pressure and heart rate and my wife's panic attack and the thirty two hours of pain staking labor our daughter has endured, at 8:23 p.m. on August 9, 2037 our grandbaby is born. With her husband and her mamas by her side, Sofia's Aunt Addison says loudly and with such joy in her voice "It's a girl". As she then hands the little bundle of joy to the awaiting arms of Sofia's Uncle Alex as he and her Aunt Christina check the little "mija" out and clean her up as she is then handed to her mami and her father kisses her forehead as he removes the little pink cap to reveal all the long black curly hair that comes popping out from under that little pink cap. With a round of "Ohs and Ahs" coming from everyone in the birthing suite as she is passed around from one family member to the next, a nurse comes into the room to take our newest Robbins Torres family member to get her newborn check up and to get weighed. Calliope and Diego leave the bedside of our daughter as I take my wife's place so that our baby girl is looking at me as my wife examines Diego's hand. I take a cool wash cloth as I wipe my daughter's forehead and brush back her long black curly hair as our Sofia says "I thought maybe Aunt Addison might have to take the baby by cesarean because I didn't have the strength to have her naturally". I stroke my baby girl's face as I say lovingly to her "You have your mami's strength" as she takes my hand and kisses the back of it as she says "I also have my mama's strength too. You are my mama from the day I was born until the day I die… you are my mama and don't you ever forget that". I kiss our daughter's forehead as I say "I never have and I never will…I promise you that…you have always been and will always be my baby girl".
All the family members that are here at the hospital have come down to the cafeteria to eat some food. I see my wife as she is sitting with Teddy and Christina and our sons at a table as I see some food on a plate that I assume is for me. Diego and I had to go to x-ray to see about his hand after our daughter squeezed and twisted his hand during her delivery. Diego's hand has been placed in a splint as he has a hairline fracture of his right wrist. My wife has gotten him a sandwich, a bag of chips and an iced tea as he tells her thank you and makes his way back to his wife as I tell him "Tell Sofia we all will be back up shortly" as he nods his head in the affirmative and I sit next to my wife give her a kiss and eat the food she has purchased for me. We all talk about today's events and the new addition that is a replica of her mami.
All of the family arrives back in Sofia's room as she and Diego are taking a nap after Sofia has eaten some food herself and has fed our new little grandbaby for the first time. Everyone is being as quiet as they can as I look around the room wrapped up in my wife's arms and I think how lucky and grateful I am for having such a wonderful family. Daniel has left the military but is still active for the reserves as he has found his calling as a state trooper with the Washington State Police. Carlos has passed the bar exam and has moved to Miami to work along side of his abuela at her law firm. Both have found women that they are dating as Daniel's girlfriend Jessica, who he stopped for speeding back in March, is a sports writer for the Seattle Times newspaper and Carlos's girlfriend is someone we all already know and love as he began dating Diego's sister Marisol when he moved to Miami in June. And now our daughter has just given birth to our first granddaughter. Just as I am thinking all of these things, our daughter and son-in-law wake up from their nap just as the nurse brings our beautiful granddaughter into the room and place her in her mother's arms. Sofia looks at all of us as she says "Ladies and gentlemen, I have the pleasure of introducing all of you to the newest member of the Robbins Torres and Mendez families as Diego and I have thought long and hard about her name. When we chose our daughter's name we wanted it to represent the three people in our lives that have meant and still mean the most to us. But we were afraid that some family members would not agree with our choice for her name or the order in which we have chosen her name to be. Then I remembered something my mama Arizona said a long time ago and though I will not use the curse words that she did at the time, the premise is still the same. So Diego and I decided to use a more modern approach to our daughter's name as we agree to name her alphabetically. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you our daughter Arizona Calliope Eva Mendez. We wanted to utilize the three women in our lives that gave us life and we could not think of any other way to honor these three great women". Everyone in the room claps their hands at the announcement as I think how our daughter named her daughter in the same way my Arizona and I name our children. You think of the most important people in your life that have made you who you are today as you are who they have raised you to be as you remember them by naming your child after them…to honor them. Because for the rest of Arizona Calliope Eva Mendez's life…she will be the daughter her parents raise her to be…and just like her abuela's Arizona Michelle Robbins Torres and Calliope Iphigenia Robbins Torres…she will be a good man in a storm.
Thank you all for reading my story. Don't really know what direction Season 10 will take us this time…but you can be sure it will be a fun, wild and exciting rollercoaster of a ride…and I for one can't wait to buy a ticket. KB.
As for all the comments to this story, I have sent comments back to those who have left their FF screen names but to those of you that have left "Guest" comments, I cannot comment to you personally, since you have not given me the courteously of allowing such an option, so I will try to comment to you this way:
Guest comment #1 Left on 8/11/13 about Chapter 1 "WOW that was refreshing I loved this story pps".
Answer: Thank you for your comment and I hope you enjoyed my story.
Guest comment #2 left on 8/13/13 about Chapter 3 "That's not really fair of Arizona. Callie did do everything she could to save her leg, it was just unsavable".
Answer: True…but I hope I explained the reason why I thought this way in the story. Thank you for reading and reviewing.
Guest comment #3 left on 8/13/13 about Chapter 3 " is english your first language because this is terrible"
Answer: Yes English is my first language…I write these stories for my own pleasure and I am the one to blame for any and all grammar errors. I do not claim to be a world class writer, by any means, and I probably have a lot to learn about writing and how to structure my sentencing. But then I guess that is what I have you for…to point out the errors of my ways. Thanks for reading.
Guest comment #4 left on 8/14/13 "You like to use the words boob and boobs a lot. You write like a teenage virgin.
Answer: I am not a teenage virgin…I have been in a loving and committed relationship with the same woman going on fifteen years now and yes I do like the words "boob" and "boobs" a lot. My wife likes these words too and she would rather hear me say them to her instead of the words "tit" and "tits". So since she is the woman that I wish to please on this subject matter, I'm going to go with what she likes to hear…as she likes to hear these words a lot too. And in the words of one Calliope Torres…"They're good boobs" as she is talking about Arizona's boobs…see I just can't help myself. Thank you for reading.
Wellnow comment left on 8/17/13 Umm...you totally lied! You said I would not be disappointed if I read you story. I am very disappointed. Wtf Callie! If she had an affair with someone in Boston that would suck. But to have sex with Arizona like that and then tell her she met someone else; well THAT is beyond cruel. Very disappointing. I'm hoping you're just messing with us with this cliffhanger and it will turn out in the next chapter to be something harmless...please?
Answer: As the old song lyric goes "You have to be cruel to be kind" and that is the reason they are called "cliffhangers" so they make you want to read further. Please keep reading further and like I said in the beginning…you won't be disappointed…I promise you. Thanks for reading and reviewing and I promise that after you read Chapter 8…I will not be cruel any longer.