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A/N: Okay so awesome people, I have to apologise for the atrocious quality of this chapter. I tried to see what I could do with it, but I just wasn't feeling the kinks – and therefore could not iron them out.

Without further ado, the final chapter of this adventure...

Ch 12:

The car pulled to a slow stop outside of a relatively new apartment block. Callie thanked the heavens that she had managed to get them here in one piece. The blonde beside her had not made driving easy. Her intoxicating smell had made Callie's mind go fuzzy, her laughter had caused her heart to stop beating. She took a deep breath and finally allowed all her muscles to relax.

The brunette looked through the rear-view mirror, into the piercing blue eyes of a smiling child, her heart immediately swelled. She was so happy right now, in this moment. She glanced at the woman in the passenger seat. Her gaze was met with another pair of shining blue eyes and a striking dimpled smile. She gently squeeze Arizona's thigh, careful of her injured knee.

"Right, your Royal Fairyness of the Peds Kingdom, let's get you and the Fairy Princess up to your apartment and settled in." Arizona's dimples popped even more at the loving tone of Callie's voice.

Moments later Callie had watched Arizona fight her way into the apartment, she had had to stifle a few laughs at the angry look on the blonde's face. The crutches were going to take some getting used to. As the small woman slumped defeated onto the large blue couch, Callie leaned over the back and placed a tender kiss on her cheek.

As the brunette stood up she looked around the open-plan apartment. The glistening and evidently unused kitchen was the most striking thing that hit her. She smiled, realising that the blonde clearly didn't cook. Her eyes followed the flow of the immaculate room, the wooden flooring and bright paint gave the place a homey-feeling.

Her eyes landed on a photo of three people, the dazzling blue eyes and crater-like dimples of the middle person popped out at her. She recognised the woman on Arizona's left as Grace, but didn't know who the man on the right was. She took a closer look, realising that he had the same eyes, the same dimples and the same hair as Arizona. I'll have to ask her about him some time.

"Not fair." Arizona huffed, she folded her arms cross her chest whilst a pout settled over her soft, pink lips. Callie raised her eyebrow in questioning. "Well you got the easy job. You only had to carry Sophia up. I had to fight with these stupid things." She kicked the crutches that were now resting against the couch. "I hate it. It's worse than being cooped up in bed al day."

"Aww babe I know you hate them, but without them you don't get to rock the Peds floor, so unfortunately you need to make them your best friends for the next six weeks." She placed the blue eyed baby into Arizona's awaiting arms. "And I'll have you know missy, I did not get the easy job, I now have to go down stairs and offload all the baggage that your sister brought with her."

"Don't take too long babe." Arizona teased.

After lugging all of Sophia and Arizona's things upstairs, Callie realised what she had gotten herself into. There was no way that she could leave Arizona alone in her apartment with Sophia. Arizona wouldn't be able to cope, what if Sophia woke up in the middle of the night and Arizona needed to feed her, to rock her? How will she move her from room to room? How will she get to and from work? She realised what position she had put herself into, and wondered if Arizona had realised it too.

After placing the last suitcase into the hallway, Callie slumped down onto the couch next to Arizona. She pulled the blondes legs into her lap, softly massaging the foot of her good leg. "Oh god, you have no idea how good that feels." Arizona moaned as she let her head fall back against the arm rest.

"Just out of curiosity, what did you do with the bear?" Callie asked, realising that she hadn't seen it for the last few days. She felt a pang of fear, scared that Arizona had thought it was cheesy and had chucked it away or something.

"I'll have you know, 'the bear' has a name." The blonde scolded matter-of-factly. "His name is Dr. Snuggles, and he is the official mascot of the Peds floor now. You will see him happily perched at the nurses' station, thanks to Mark." Arizona beamed.

"Dr. Snuggles?" Callie raised one eyebrow at the blonde, trying to hold in the fit of laughter that was threatening to escape. At the sight of Arizona's pout Callie lowered her brow. "Okay I won't ask. I think I maybe should have learnt that by now."

Sophia sat across the living room, on a blanket, with toys scattered all over the floor around her. Callie smiled to her, watching her as she stuffed a block into her mouth, chewing happily on its corner.

Arizona watched Callie from underneath hooded eyes, the smile that the brunette wore watching Sophia made her heart sour. Maybe it hadn't happened in the right way, but this was the beginning of forever and she could feel it within every cell of her body.

"Ari, how is this going to work exactly?" Callie questioned hesitantly. She didn't want Arizona to think that she had changed her mind about being there for her.

"Well, I was thinking that we can relax for a while, you can carry on doing that." She nodded her head in the direction of Callie's soft hands that were finding all the knots in her feet. "We can give Sophia a bath after we feed her dinner. I generally read or sing to her then put her to bed after her bath. I was thinking after that maybe you would want to go home to get a few things?"

"Sure." Callie smiled into Arizona's eyes. She knew what they were getting into, she knew that this arrangement was basically like them moving in together. Callie would be around constantly for the next six weeks.

Callie trailed her hand up Arizona's foot, softly squeezing the blonde's ankle. Her hand continued to move up the smooth flesh of Arizona's leg, causing goosebumps to form beneath her wondering fingers. She looked up into the blue eyes again, to see that the blonde's eyes had turned into fire and longing.

"Calliope you have to stop doing this to me." Arizona whispered with longing and desire evident in her voice.

Callie took her hand from Arizona's leg unwillingly. If she had her own way, she would have scooped the woman up and carried her into the bedroom right now. Her heart fluttered in her chest thinking of what may happen later tonight.

Arizona led Callie into the large bathroom. Sophia was already putting up a fuss in Callie's arms, she had hated bath time since the first time that Arizona had put her in the water. Arizona perched herself on the chair that Callie had carried in from the dining room, she reached out for the squirming bundle so that Callie could run the bath.

Twenty minutes later and Callie was soaking. Sophia had squirmed so much that Callie had ended up with more water on her than on the infant. Arizona hadn't been much help either as she had sat there giggling to such an extent that her stomach had started to ache and tears ran down her cheeks.

"Right madam, tomorrow night this is definitely not happening." Callie lifted Sophia into the air, blowing a raspberry onto her tummy in the process. "You and I, we need to have a talk." She kissed the infant on her head before taking her into her room. "What do you say we get you some rubber duckies... and some bubbles? Bubbles are always good to have."

Arizona had made sure that her daughter would want for nothing. She had the best of the best. Her bedroom was decorated just like any little princess' should be. The walls had all kinds of Disney characters painted on them, but nothing was over the top. The wooden crib was placed exactly in the middle of the room with a butterfly adorned mobile hanging over it.

Callie placed the now relaxed child into Arizona's arms. Callie had watched in awe earlier as Arizona had made all kinds of noises and faces at Sophia whilst feeding her. She loved the way that the blonde glowed when she was in the presence of her daughter.

Arizona sat with Sophia on her lap. She had her daughter's back resting against her chest so that it would be easier to dress her. She thought of the way that Callie and her daughter were interacting with each other, she loved the way that Callie's eyes lit up when Sophia directed a smile at her. Arizona delicately buttoned up her daughter's white Pooh Bear baby-grow.

The blonde snuggled the baby up against her chest as she sang softly to her daughter. Her eyes closed and her head against the back of the rocking chair. Callie watched as the gorgeous woman sang beautifully to her slumbering baby.

Arizona slowly opened her tired eyes when she felt the young child's breathing become deep and steady. She panicked momentarily wondering how she was going to get Sophia from the chair to the crib. Her eyes darted around the room, trying to gauge whether she would be able to make it to the crib without too much pain.

Callie watched from the doorway as Arizona stirred, she noticed her frantically looking around the room, glad that the rocking chair was placed facing away from the door. She stepped forward and walked toward the chair quietly, stopping just behind the blonde Callie leaned down to kiss the golden crown.

"I'll take her for you babe." She whispered into Arizona's exposed ear. She kissed the lobe and smiled as she watched the goosebumps shoot down her ivory neck and under her baby blue top.

Arizona waited until her pulse had calmed, and her legs had recovered from their jelly-like state, before she pulled herself awkwardly out of the chair and hobbled over to the crib, conveniently having forgotten her crutches in the bathroom.

Having placed the baby into her crib, stroked the soft blonde curls and kissed her temple, Callie turned back toward the door. As she passed Arizona, she felt a hand grab her own, pulling her back in the direction that she had just come from. Callie wrapped her arms around the body in front of her, resting her head on the blonde's shoulder. They both watched the slow rise and fall of Sophia's chest.

The feeling of Arizona's back against her body, the blonde's scent finding its way into her senses, and the heat mingling between their bodies, was all driving Callie crazy, she needed her. She turned her head and placed her lips on the blondes ear once again, loving the fact that no matter how many times she does it, it still sends goosebumps all over the blonde's body.

"I'm going to go see what I can whip up, I'm starving." She whispered soothingly, watching fresh goosebumps shoot over the soft skin. She couldn't help herself anymore, she lowered her mouth to the blonde's earlobe, sucking it into her mouth, biting it gently then stroking it languidly with her tongue. She could feel what she was doing to the petite woman when she felt the warm body press further into her, Arizona's butt pushing into her pelvis and her back pushing into Callie's chest.

The Latina could feel herself losing control, and this was not something that Sophia needed to witness. "Babe, where's the baby monitor?" She groaned, desperate to get out of the sleeping infant's room.

"There... on the shelf... by the photograph." She panted between breaths. Callie was definitely going to be the death of her. She groaned at the loss of contact when Callie left her to get the monitor.

"And your crutches?" Callie asked with a raised eyebrow.

"What crutches?" She smiled. "Oh you mean my crutches?" Callie walked over to the blonde and handed her the monitor. She bent down and picked her up in one swift motion, cradling her in her arms. "Calliope put me down." The blonde giggled.

Callie walked into the living room, placing Arizona onto the couch gently in a laying position. "So what is there for me to whip up?" She asked as she sat on the edge of the coffee table.

"Umm, well the thing is, I don't actually cook, so there isn't anything, unless you want to eat baby food." Arizona lowered her head trying to hide the blush that was spreading up her cheeks.

Callie smiled at the blonde, reaching forward she lifted Arizona's chin, forcing their eyes to meet. "At least I know that now. However your kitchen gave that fact away the moment I stepped into it." She pushed herself off the couch and planted a soft kiss on Arizona's lips. "Will you be okay here for an hour or so?"

"Yeah, I think I should be." Arizona smiled, pulling Callie in for another, less chaste kiss. Callie moaned as soon as Arizona's tongue brushed against her bottom lip. The blonde's tongue snaked its way into the brunette's warm mouth, duelling with the other woman's tongue, fighting for control.

Both women moaned into each other. Arizona wrapped her arm around Callie's neck, desperate for more contact. Callie obliged, sliding onto the couch, leaning over the blonde's body. She cupped Arizona's smooth cheek brushing it with her thumb. The blonde mirrored Callie's movements with her free hand. She wanted more, she needed more.

Callie pulled, sucked and nibbled on Arizona's bottom lip, drawing it into her own mouth. She reached down between them, sliding her hand over the silky flesh of the blonde's exposed stomach. She felt the blonde gasp and arch her back, begging for more contact.

Electricity coursed through them from where their bodies touched. Callie and Arizona were losing themselves in each other. As Callie was about to pick Arizona up and move them into the bedroom, the blonde's stomach declared it's need for food.

"Oh my god that is so embarrassing, and unsexy." She covered her face with her hands, trying to hide yet another blush.

Callie couldn't help but laugh. She pulled the blonde's hands away from her face and placed a kiss on each cheek. "Looks like I need to go and scavenge some food for my damsel in distress." She placed one last chaste kiss on the soft lips before moving away from her.

The frustrated Latina walked through to the bathroom, retrieved the crutches and placed them back in the living room next to a rather irritated blonde. Callie laughed at the blonde's child like antics, kissed the pouty lips then walked toward the front door.

"Chinese or pizza?" The brunette questioned with her hand hovering over the doorknob.

"Ooh pizza is always good." She felt like they had been doing this for years. "Just a plain one though."

Callie walked out the door with a huge smile on her face. Yup, this was definitely something that she could get used to.

A/N: I thought that this would be a good place to end it, we know they are both serious, they are comfortable with each other, and they have their happily-ever-after. AND NO ONE GOES TO FLIPPING AFRICA! :p (thought I might just throw that one in there)

Departing note: I want to thank everyone who put up with my inconsistencies and my difficult-to-read chapters. I want to especially thank every single person that reviewed this story, I know how hard it is to review some times, so thanks. *VIRTUAL HUG*

I am currently in possession of plans to three stories. One of them I may never get to, the second is shaky because I'm lost as to how to go about it (funkshaz57 has been helping me out a bit – thanks :D), and the third is NCIS - so I don't think you guys will be too interested.

Until the next one, thanks and lots of love. You guys have been great!

WI x