The next few days passed comfortably. Arizona and Callie spent more time together as Callie was recuperating from the accident. It had been a week since the accident and Arizona entered her weekend off of work. Three whole days of no uniforms or vests or guns. Three days just to relax. Speaking of relaxing… What time is it? Arizona rolls over in her bed and looks at the clock. 654 AM. The start of her weekend off and she was up before 7. Arizona pondered calling Callie but knew that there was a possibility of waking a sleeping Sophia so she decided against the call. Callie would call her when she was ready, right? If she isn't already getting tired of…. Callie's thoughts were interrupted by a text message coming through on her phone. Smiling lazily, she wondered what had Callie up so early in the morning. Looking at her phone she saw that the message was from Joann. Arizona's heart sank. It had been nearly a week since they spoke. The longest they had gone without speaking in their entire relationship. Opening the message she read "I am still in love with you. Can we work this out?" In a text message? Really? You want to try to get back together with me in a text message? You leave me on one of the worst nights I have had in a long time and you want to make up for it in a text message. Feeling too emotional to answer and not wanting to say something she would later regret, Arizona closed her phone and rolled herself out of bed. She jumped into a cold shower, trying to shock her body awake. She sang a few songs to herself, only partial songs, not remembering the entirety of any of them. Singing in the shower was not something that she was used to. It was a recent development.

"Arizona I know that you two both just met and everything, and I am counting on the fact that you don't turn out to be a serial killer or baby snatcher, but I am feeling gross from the hospital and really want to jump in the shower. Sophia will play on her own if you can just make sure she doesn't try to make a break for it or anything. I won't be longer than 10 minutes, tops." Arizona saw the pleading look on Callie's face and could not turn her down.

"Definitely not a baby snatcher. Go take a shower. You smell." Callie feigned a look of insult and popped Arizona on her arm with the back of her hand. Arizona smiled playfully and watched Callie saunter out of the room with a slight limp, her leg obviously still in pain.

"Mami…" Sophia gave Arizona a worried look as her mother escaped from her vision. "Mami…" Sophia whined again as her little face contorted to show sadness. Arizona saw tears fill the little beauty's eyes as she looked toward the door that her mother just left out of.

"Sophia sweetie, she is coming back. She is smelly, she needs a bath" Arizona crooned in a baby voice as she closed the distance to the baby. Arizona knelt down on one knee and touched the little Latina's face and ran a thumb across her pouting bottom lip. "Aw, sweetie, she will be back. How about we take a walk around and wait for her ok? How does that sound?" A single tear fell from Sophia's eye as she shook her head up and down. "Alright, big girl, up we go," Arizona said as she scooped the little one up into her arms and bounced her up and down in her arms. Sophia let out a slight chuckle at the movement, her belly protruding into Arizona's chest. Arizona made a few silly noises with her mouth and talked in an adorable baby voice to the baby in her arms. Sophia responded with little laughs and hands on either side of her face. Sophia leaned in and rested her head on Arizona's chin, allowing Arizona to kiss her forehead sweetly. "There we go, we are happy again. See, we are ok. I will tell you a secret, I don't like when your mommy leaves either. I kind of like her around ya know? And I kind of like you around too. I mean I know this is the first time we meet and all….. aaand I am having a conversation with a one year old. Nice Arizona." Sophia yawned widely like Arizona had seen her mother do, and Arizona positioned her lying in her arms, facing her chest. Slowing her bouncing to a gentle sway, she sang to the baby. Not knowing any appropriate baby songs, she sang the lyrics of a song that she had loved for years.

A fire burns

Water comes

You cool me down

When I am cold inside

You are warm and bright

You know you are so good for me, yea

With your child's eyes

You are more than you seem

You see into space

I see in your face

The places you've been

The things you have learned

They sit with you so beautifully

Arizona crooned to the infant who was quickly fading in her arms. Completely unaware that the child's mother watched from the doorway at the care and love that she was showing her daughter when she thought no one was watching. "Badass cop, huh" Callie whispered to herself out of earshot of Arizona. Callie retreated back into the bedroom and made herself as noisy as possible while coming out so as to not embarrass Arizona by catching her singing. Emerging clean from the bedroom, Arizona saw Callie clad in an oversized t-shirt and sweat pants, hair still wet and hanging around her face.

"Wow."

"What?"

"You, look amazing…"

"Arizona I am in sweats just out of the shower, I look like a bum."

"You look… amazing."

"Thank you. Is my little one out?"

"I think she is."

"Here, I will take her to her bedroom" Callie said reaching toward Arizona's arms.

"Um…" Arizona said turning her body slightly away from Callie eliciting a raised eyebrow, "If it is ok, can we just sit with her for a little while? I mean if you want to put her down you can, it is just really nice to have a healthy, happy baby in your arms after holding all of the scared and hurting ones. I would really like to just hold her for a second longer. If that is ok?"

"Ok, of course. I am sure she would love that" Callie said sweetly.

"Plus she smells soooo good, Oh My God." Arizona groaned as she put her nose to Sophia's black hair.

Callie fixed the sofa so that Arizona could lean back against the arm with a pillow behind her back to be more comfortable and not have to support Sohpia's whole 18 pounds. Arizona snuggled into the couch, taking comfort in the fact that this baby was not bleeding, was not crying, was not scared. She took comfort in the fact that she was not scared to lose this one. She slid down on the sofa so that her head was resting on the arm and let Sophia's weight rest on her chest and stomach. The toddler nuzzled her nose into Arizona's shoulder and placed her little hand in the center of Arizona's chest. Arizona stared at the baby for a while before looking up to see her beautiful mother on the opposite end of the couch. I could definitely get used to this.

Arizona let the memory flood her senses, smelling the toddler again and feeling the warmth that was a product of their contact and her emotions. She finished her shower and stepped out, drying her body and hair with a towel. She dressed herself in a pair of tight boy shorts, a pair of running shorts, and a sports bra, intent on starting her morning exercises. One quick look at her phone revealed another message from Joann. "I think we should talk." Ignoring this message again, she started on her sit-ups. She was starting to feel the burn sooner than normal, probably a product of being so tired after all of the late hours with Callie which interfered with her exercise time in the morning. "330. 331, 332, 333" Arizona breathed, her voice strained and breathless. *Knock Knock Knock* Shit… who is here at 745 in the morning. Fuck Joann, she wanted to talk. I am not in the mood. Why would she just come to the house without asking first? What if I wasn't even here?

Arizona padded over to the door, not thinking to put a shirt on and flung the door open, "Joann, I am not in the... shit, Callie…" It was Callie. And Sophia. At her apartment. "Callie, come in, it is so good to see you, Arizona leaned in for a quick hug. Expecting her to reciprocate the hug, she was surprised when she didn't. Looking to Callie for an explanation, she noticed her eyes wide, and her mouth slightly agape. Following her eyes, she saw that Callie was looking straight at her midsection. "Shit… sorry… I didn't put on a shirt", Arizona said as she covered herself with her arms. "Callie, say something, please."

"You are… Hot. Arizona. Shirt, now." Callie said, tearing her eyes away from the sweating abs and breasts in front of her. Arizona smiled and cocked her head to the side, widening her grin as she saw Callie's eyes dart back to her scantily clad body. "Arizona…. SHIRT!"

"Oh, right, ok, Be right back."

Callie watched the blonde woman walk away from her, admiring her back side as much as she admired her front. She looked down at her baby girl wide eyed in her arms and leaned into her ear, "We have our work cut out for us, baby girl. Whew, work cut out for us." Sophia shown a smile with the attention and bounced herself in her mother's arms. Callie was content with watching her child and saw her clap clumsily and laugh as Arizona entered the room, fully clothed.

"I think she likes you," Callie smiled at the blonde.

"Well good, because I like her too, so much!" Arizona said in her best baby voice, eyes wide to show the toddler her excitement at her presence. "I do! So what brings my favorite girls to my house so early in the morning" Arizona asks still in a high pitched baby voice.

"Well Sophia has been up since 3 am, she was cranky this morning, I think she is coming down with an ear infection. Usually I am able to calm her and get her back to sleep with a drive in the car. We have been driving since 4. As you can tell it didn't work. So we thought we would stop by and see if you were up for breakfast."

"Oh of course! Ms. Zona loves breakfast" Arizona exclaimed.

"I am seriously going to need you to drop it an octave or two if we go out in public though" Callie chuckled.

"Oh, ha.. Sorry about that."

"So cute" Callie said. "So do you want to go out or do you want to have breakfast here, or we could run back to my place…"

"Breakfast here will be great. I don't have a high chair but we don't need that do we?" Arizona asked Sophia, throwing on the baby voice again for good measure.

"Ok, well lets get started!"

The two women prepared breakfast together in Arizona's small kitchen, making moving around each other difficult. The tension in the air was palpable as each brushed against the other several times eliciting nervous glances and shy smiles. Sophia played with everything located on the floor, accidentally pulling over a small fake tree which struck her right on the top of the head as it toppled. Arizona heard the crash but remained silent, trying to allow Sophia to process what had happened without her scooping her up and making her more afraid. Sophia sat stunned for a few seconds before turning and finding Arizona's gaze. Just as their eyes locked, Sophia's bottom lip stuck out and her little eyebrows pulled together tightly. Sophia stretched her chubby arm straight up and was barely able to place a hand on the effected spot on the top of her head. Arizona's heart broke at the sight of the saddened girl. The tree was not large enough to even hurt, but it was enough to scare her.

"Oh Sophia…" Arizona heard Callie moan. "I am sorry Arizona, I should have been watching her."

"No, no… Sshh.. Watch" Arizona instructed Callie.

"Wha"

"Sshh…"

Sophia looked at the two women, unsure of how to react. Her little baby palm rubbed the top of her head and she brought herself to her feet, bottom lip still sticking out inches from her face. Without a cry she walked to Arizona and put her face right into her naked knee, rubbing her face into the skin she found there.

"Aw, baby… Did that mean plant hurt your head?" Arizona asked as she knelt down, taking Sophia's chubby cheeks in her hands. Sophia shook her head up and down and displayed a full bottom lip which she definitely got from her mother. "Do you want Zona to kiss it and make it better?" This elicited another shake of Sophia's head. With an exaggerated kissing noise, Arizona kissed Sophia's head and picked her up to place her on her hip.

"You are so good with her" Callie interrupted the exchange. "At home she would have wailed and milked the accident for the next hour, being pitiful. She just picked herself up and walked right over to you!"

"She wasn't hurt. She was scared. If you are calm then she has no reason to think anything is out of the ordinary and she is able to calm herself. If you act abnormally then she thinks something is wrong and her fears are validated. Simple crisis management!" Arizona said with a smile and a bounce of the baby.

"Crisis management works with a one year old… hm" Callie said skeptically.

"But of course!" Arizona gave Sophia another kiss on the forehead and smiled as the baby pressed her forehead further into her lips and began turning her fists into her eyes.

"You have got to be kidding me…" Callie proclaimed.

"What? What?" Arizona asked lowering her eyes

"She is sleepy. As soon as we get breakfast almost ready, she is sleepy."

"But mom, I have been up for hours, of course I am tired!" Arizona answered for the baby girl. "Here Calliope, you take her and I will finish breakfast."

"How about you keep her for a second. She obviously likes your attention." Sophia gave a content yawn and, with lazy eyes, patted either side of Arizona's face and giggled faintly.

"I can do that." Arizona smiled at Callie. She leaned in and placed a soft kiss on Callie's left cheek. With closed eyes and a smile from the beautiful woman, she placed another lingering kiss. Arizona closed the distance between them which caused Callie to take a step back and press her back to the island. Arizona continued her trek forward until both of their bodies touched Sophia who had taken her normal lying position in Arizona's arms. Callie opened her eyes slowly in just enough time to see Arizona's flutter shut and lean in toward her lips. Callie took a quick intake of breath and waited. Her arms rose to find both of Arizona's arms and ran her hands up the warm skin to rest halfway between her elbow and shoulder. She felt Arizona shutter under her touch and then she felt the kiss. Arizona's lips met Callie's in a slow, tender kiss. Arizona gently took Callie's full bottom lip between her own, tracing her tongue across the soft skin. Trailing her hand up to touch Arizona's cheek, she pulled her into the kiss and deepened their contact, parting her lips and letting Arizona's tongue explore softly. Arizona moaned lightly, tightening her hold on Sophia for fear of dropping the baby while her mind was entrances with everything that was Callie at that moment. Both women moved their mouths delicately over the others, exploring the smell and taste of each other. Arizona pulled back first, with hazy eyes, she tried to form words but was unable, her mouth forming a series of vowels but none had a voice behind them. Callie smiled tenderly and dropped her hand from Arizona's face and rested it on her tired baby's shoulder. Remembering the delicate being in her arms, Arizona dropped her head to place a chaste kiss on her forehead. Looking back at Callie she breathed, "I have wanted to do that for a long time."

"That makes two of us" Callie retorted.

Both women were jolted by a hard knock at the door. Handing over the almost sleeping toddler to her mother, Arizona padded across the apartment to see who was interrupting such a moment.

Opening the door she saw her, "Joann…."