I have no valid excuses why this took so long. So please enjoy!

Chapter 14

Life had never been greater for the happy family. Callie was doing risky surgeries with enthusiasm whereas before she might have second guess her skill the ortho surgeon was a force to be reckoned with in the OR. Arizona on the other hand became even perkier, if that was possible, as she now rolled around the hospital in Heelys and an almost blinding smile. Although those shoes were great in her PEDs ward they caused a couple of fights with her girlfriend, but Arizona won the argument stating that it would be rude to not wear them as she had received the shoes as a gift from a long term patient who had been discharged from the hospital. And Mikey had enjoyed the visits his mom's made on their lunch to break to eat and play with him. Yeah the Robbins-Torres family couldn't get any better if they tried.

Callie was trying now to enjoy the outdoors, but all of her well-developed patience was long gone as she fought off the hordes of bugs that seemed to follow her wherever she went. Arizona had planned a week-long trip for them all to Baltimore where Mikey could see his grandparents and go camping for his birthday at the end of the week. The brunette had been riding off of her girlfriend and son's highs throughout the week, but it seemed her promise to allow Mikey a camping trip wasn't her best plan as she learned for the first time in her life she absolutely hated it. There was nothing fun about sleeping on cold hard dirt or having no easy accessibility to a bathroom.

They had only been up in the mountains for no more than an hour and Arizona, Mikey and Daniel Robbins all decided to do a little adventure of their surrounding area. Callie and Barbara stayed behind to help make lunch, which she was grateful for.

"You and Arizona seem to be doing great from the last time we visited," the older woman stated into the silence, "She doesn't call all that much, but I assume it's because she's so busy being a mom to Mikey and well by the looks of it your girlfriend."

Callie couldn't help that giddy feeling that washed over her at the sound of Arizona being her girlfriend. They were doing great in their relationship and at times the brunette thought this time around was better than the first time.

"I'll take that silly look on your face as a confirmation," the older woman chuckled.

"She really is great. I don't know why she was so scared of being a mother because Mikey adores her. Sometimes I think Arizona is his favorite," she said with a shrug while cutting the crust of the sandwich.

"Nonsense, that boy loves both of you. As a mother I know it seems like a child prefers one parent over the other. Arizona was such a daddy's girl, but when I look at it now that girl always came to me when she was in trouble. She could never disappoint her father. Mikey might want to follow in Arizona's footsteps…"

With a roll of her eyes Callie interjected, "Because I was selfish and kept him from her."

"Now hold on we all make mistakes and you're not the only one who kept a secret as big as that."

"Yeah like you ever hid a child from their other parent."

"I did," Barbara stated simply.

"What?"

"Yep, when I met Daniel we only knew each other a few weeks before he was deployed overseas. Of course at the time I thought it would be the last time I would see him since I was going to go off to school. So I sent him away with a little memory of me."

Callie shook her head a little embarrassed where this conversation was going, "We don't have to talk about this."

Ignoring the younger woman's comment Barbara continued, "Well a month and a half later I was feeling sick, which I attributed to stress, but next thing I knew I'm peeing on a stick and it's saying I'm pregnant. I was scared and had no clue what to do. It didn't help that I had no way of contacting Daniel to tell him, but six months into the pregnancy I received a letter from him. He said he would be home in three months and wanted to take me on a date."

"Wow what did you say?"

"I wrote back saying yes."

"That's it?"

"Well I also attached my new address and phone number. Every time I would prepare myself to tell him about the pregnancy he would talk about his goals in life and none of them included a pregnant woman with his child. Of course when he came back and saw my pregnant self at almost nine months he put two and two together."

"Well I'm guessing he did want a pregnant woman with his child since you two have been happily married," Callie pointed out.

Shaking her head, "No, he didn't. In fact the next time I saw him I was in a hospital bed in labor with his son. It was one of my friends who informed Daniel of the situation and he was there as soon as he hung up. When he saw his son for the first time it was as if all his anger towards me no longer existed. I'm not saying it was easy afterwards, but time allowed us to heal."

"I know Arizona doesn't hold any hard feelings of me keeping Mikey from her anymore though," the brunette tried to keep herself busy setting the food out in order to let her nerves get the best of her.

"That's right she doesn't, but you need to let go of it too. Coming from the woman who understands it is just as important to forgive yourself as it is others. No one is angry with you Callie. Look at that little boy you did a great job at raising him and someone who wasn't good could never manage that. Now come over here and give me a hug"

The brunette walked around the bench to embrace the older woman, "Thank you Barbara for taking care of Arizona when I couldn't."

"Well I'm grateful she is out of my hair. Even as an adult she can be a handful."

They were both loudly laughing when the other three adventurers returned from their small hike around their camp sight.

"Mami I saw a dear," Mikey ran over to the brunette to hug on to long legs.

Callie bent over to pick up her son who was beginning to get too heavy to hold, "And you weren't scared? Huh you must be really big not to be scared of such a big animal."

Giggling the little boy shook his head, "Mami I am not scared of aminals."

"Good because I need you to protect me if one comes too close."

"Okay I can do that," wiggling to get down on flat ground, "Can I eat now?"

"Wash your hands first," she said pointing to a faucet next to the trash cans.

Arizona made her way to the brunette who was setting up Mikey's plate, "Hey beautiful, having fun?"

"I would if I get a better greeting than that," she spoke while wiggling her perfectly manicured eyebrows.

"Mmmm is that so," Arizona stood from the picnic bench to stop in front of the brunette. She rested her hands on jean clad hips as she tugged Callie closer to place a chaste kiss on her girlfriend's lips.

But kissing Callie was hardly ever chaste since she could never get enough of those plump lips that at times could make her forget a simple procedure like an appendectomy. The blonde's hands moved from curvy hips to grab at Callie's firm ass only to cause the brunette to moan into her mouth. In the back of her mind, Arizona knew she should stop with her parents and son closely nearby, but being with Callie always caused her to forget why stopping would be any good for them.

"Mom's move it," Mikey pushed the back of Callie's knees causing her to buckle at the pressure. Fortunately Arizona had the support of the table to hold them up.

"Mikey manners," both parents chastised the young boy.

"Mom's please move it," he spoke kinder showing off his dimples.

Arizona had to laugh at the brunette who easily complied with her son as his use of his secret weapon that even she herself used on Callie multiple times.

"You know you can't let those dimples have that kind of power over you. Imagine when he's a teenager and asks to go to a party, what then?"

"Easy I'll let you deal with it then," Callie said with a cheeky grin.

"I-I- I can't do that Calliope. He looks like a mini you with dark curly hair and those eyes. He- he's going to get away with murder Calliope. How are we supposed to ever say no to him?" Arizona looked completely worried as she chewed on her bottom lip and paced the forest floor.

"Hey he's still four until tomorrow. We have years to prepare ourselves and knowing you Arizona you will plan everything out, that by then we will have it all figured out. How about we enjoy these moments while we still can okay?" Callie reached out for the blonde to stop her from making a trail into the dirt ground. "Plus your son has mustard all over himself," pointing out the yellow topping that was smeared on his chin and down the front of his red shirt.

"Mami you make great sandmiches," he spoke with a mouth full.

"I can tell it's all over you mijo,"Callie crossed her arms as she looked over to the smaller woman.

"I know, I know. Mikey once your done eating we need to clean you up before the bugs think your food," Arizona took a seat next to the raven haired boy who looked frightened to be someone's meal.

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"For someone who claims to be a badass, bugs really are not your thing Calliope," the blonde said with a snicker.

"Don't," Callie pointed, "do not make fun of me. Arizona have you not seen these bugs? They keep flying at me and they are not little or even normal looking bugs for that matter. Gosh why did I agree to this," waving around the now dark campgrounds.

"Because of that," Arizona nodded her head towards Mikey and his grandparents who were seated around the campfire.

The little boy was roasting marshmallows while he sat in a deep conversation with Grandpa Robbins. His face was scrunched up as he tried to concentrate on the story Daniel was telling him about his time as a Marine. It was clear the little boy had no clue what he was talking about, but he tried so hard, as he idolized his Grandpa.

Mikey pulled back his stick from the roaring fire to blow out the marshmallow that had caught on fire. His tiny puffs of air that came from his mouth did little to stop the marshmallow from becoming charred. In his attempt to save the once white fluffy treat, Mikey began swinging the stick around only causing a ball of fire to go flying in the air and land in front of his mom's feet.

Arizona quickly stomped out the fire only to be left with her new hiking shoes to be covered in the sticky white goo.

"Aww man Calliope my new shoes are ruined," the blonde was running the sole of her shoe to wipe off some of the burnt marshmallow.

"Oh boo hoo-" Callie was cut off by the yelling of her son.

"I hate camping," Mikey yelled as he threw the stick that was used for roasting smores.

"Now Mikey, don't go around shouting and throwing sticks. Making smores is not always easy, but you have to be patient," Daniel stated as he tried to sooth his grandson.

"I'm allowed to shout when I'm outside. Mami said so and she does it sometimes too," Mikey knew he should not argue with the older man, but unlike the blonde Mikey was not afraid of authority leaders.

Mikey's statement caused Arizona to give her girlfriend a questioning look who could only respond with a sheepish shrug as she answered the unasked question, "It happened once while Mikey was with me and to be honest he started it."

Arizona gave the taller woman an incredulous look for stooping so low to act like their four year old, "Callie."

Huffing, Callie made her way to the raven haired boy with the blonde following closely behind her. "Mikey you know better than to argue with adults. Now if Grandpa says no shouting then there is no shouting understood?"

Mikey tried giving his mom his most vicious glare, but really he was upset at himself for not being able to roast a marshmallow as well as his Grandpa. He was supposed to be growing up yet here was still feeling like a baby. "It's not fair Mami. I don't want to be little anymore. All I want is to be able to do big kid stuff now," he threw his arms in the air to make his point to the older woman.

"Do you want to know a secret," Callie squatted down to be eye level with the frustrated little boy.

Mikey responded with a head nod.

"I didn't know how to tie my shoes until I was seven. It did not help that I had people at my beckon call to help me with everything," the brunette sighed remembering how ridiculous her parent's lifestyle was, "and you're four and you have no problem tying your shoes."

"That's because you are an under achiever Calliope," the blonde said in a teasing tone, but still causing Callie to be annoyed.

"I was never an under achiever. I just didn't see the importance of needing to know how to tie my shoes until Johnny Prescott, the classes' cutest boy, called me a baby. And might I add that I became the fastest at tying my shoes."

"See Mami I don't want people calling me a baby," Mikey cut in.

"Mikey you're a Robbins and as a Robbins all you need to do is hit hard so you only have to hit once. Then all the kids on the playground will know not to mess with you," Arizona had her fair share of scuffles during recess and was taught by her father exactly how to deal with these problems.

"Arizona!" Callie could not believe her girlfriend was telling their son to resort to violence.

"We aren't allowed to hit others Mama," Mikey had learnt that the hard way when he had hit one of the other daycare children for stealing his blue crayon.

"Exactly Arizona, who even told you hitting was okay?" Barbara was curious as she thought she had raised her daughter better than that.

Daniel had the decency to look ashamed as he knew his wife would not be happy to hear about his parenting techniques to ward off rude kids.

"Well Dad-"

"Daniel!" Barbara shouted at her very quiet husband.

"Grandma no shouting," Mikey chastised, if he was being scolded for raising his voice then he was going to make sure everyone else couldn't either.

"Mikey," his two moms again shouted in unison.

"This is confusing. I thought we were here for my birthday why does everyone keep shouting at me? I don't care anymore," he stormed off making his way to the tents.

"You wanted to look at the stars though," the blonde called as she raced after him. Grabbing him from behind, Arizona turned him around so they were now facing each other, "No one is mad at you Mikey. If anything we love you so much and I'm sorry you feel like you're being picked on. Can we go back to making smores and maybe afterwards we can look out for shooting stars?"

The comfort of his Mama's arms around him had soothed him enough to see reason, "I guess, but I get two smores."

Arizona looked over to the brunette who nodded her agreement, "Alright deal little man."

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The little gasps to her right only made Arizona's smile bigger with joy for her son.

All three of them lied bundled up in the back of Daniels truck looking up at the sky as star after star shot across the night sky. The older Robbins had called it a night moments ago, allowing the little family some time alone. Arizona greatly appreciated it as she got to be next to the two loves of her life who were both excited with the show above them.

Arizona was surprised to see the similar expression on her girlfriend's face, who liked to walk around all tough, but could easily get mushy too.

It was well past Mikey's bedtime and the sound of the yawns emanating from him instead of gasps signaled it was time they too called it a night.

"Alright little man it's time we all went to our tent now," Arizona sat up causing the blanket to move with her as the other two groaned when the cool air hit them.

"Okay," he immediately wrapped his arms around the blonde's neck as his little body was too exhausted to make the small trip back to the tent.

"Wow no arguments. That's a first," Callie commented as she hopped off the bed of the truck.

"I know. Do you think he'll be up for our hike and fishing for tomorrow?" the blonde whispered to Callie.

"Like you said earlier he's a Robbins so he will have lots of energy come morning," Callie wrapped her arm around the smaller woman's shoulders, steering them in the direction of their tent.

Arizona had claimed that she was a master in all things camping so she had taken the liberty of setting up their four man tent. Callie had no problem standing off to the side and supervising the blonde, but now she was hoping that everything her girlfriend brought for them would keep them warm during the surprisingly cold summer night.

The blonde easily dressed Mikey in his night clothes and then did the same for herself. She could still feel some of the dirt that always seemed to cling to your skin when you camp, but was completely drained to care. Arizona practically threw herself down into the awaiting blankets that surrounded them.

"Arizona warm me up I'm freezing," Callie latched onto the warm body beside her trying to suck some of the warmth from the blonde who looked comfortable in her cocoon of blankets. Even the little boy on the other side of Arizona was bundled up looking just as relaxed.

The pant leg to Arizona's sweats had ridden up and she could feel cold bare feet on her warm skin, "Hey get those cold feet off of me."

"No, I'm shivering over here," the taller woman's hold grew harder, while Arizona wrapped her own arms around the brunette to help her out.

"Put some socks on."

"I can't sleep with socks. That's too weird you know that."

"I do, but in this weather you'll get sick. Although," the blonde glanced back at the sleeping boy seeing only his back facing them, "I know other ways to warm you up."

"No funny business Arizona. Mikey is here."

"Didn't stop you last week in the conference room last week only seconds before the entire department heads came in," Arizona teased as she slowly traced the skin under Callie's waste band.

"You know I want you all the time, but that was a completely different time."

Moving her hand even southward Arizona grinned wickedly, "I can tell you want to," she spoke as she ran two fingers through the brunette's wet slit.

Callie tried to hold in her moan, but Arizona always knew how to pleasure her, "Girls these tents aren't sound proof and I suggest you listen to Callie Arizona."

"Oh god Arizona this is embarrassing."

"How do you think I feel? It's like I'm a teenager again."

"You make me feel like a teenager," Callie husked causing both women to erupt in a fit of giggles.

"Girls!"

"Sorry Barbara" "Sorry Mom"

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"Look Mama I caught another big fish," Mikey held up his third big trout of the day.

Arizona tried to show her excitement for Mikey, but everyone had already caught their fish and all the blonde was getting was this same tropical looking fish that was as big as her fist. She was certain that this had been set up or at the least something was wrong with her fishing pole. Arizona didn't pride herself on being an expert in all things outdoors, but this was getting to be ridiculous.

"Me too babe," Callie waved her fish in the blonde's face, "its huge Arizona. Maybe I should just quit being a surgeon and become a fisher," the brunette walked off laughing at the eye roll she got from the blonde.

"This isn't fair. You guys are taking up all the good fish and leaving me with Nemo over here who I think is dead now," the blonde looked down at the semi floating fish. She nudged it a bit with the toe of her shoe, only causing disappointment when the fish swam off probably to attach itself to her line again.

"Arizona your sounding like a child," Barbara chastised her daughter.

Arizona wasn't trying to be pouty; she just wanted to catch a damn fish to be proud of. The plus side to this all was the joy on Mikey's face. He had woken both moms and probably the whole forest with his excitement of turning five.

After a nice breakfast the whole clan had hiked a good mile down to the lake, where they still were enjoying the view and catching fish.

Daniel had taught both Callie and Mikey how to set up their poles and hook their bate, while Arizona set up her own area to get to work. After a couple of test runs on casting their line both Latinos looked like experts on the shore of the lake.

"I am not-" a tug on her fishing rob caused her to stop short of the tongue lashing she wanted to give her mom, "Oh oh my I think I have something." Whatever was at the end of her line was pulling hard and it had caused her to forget everything she needed to do.

"Well pull it in honey," Daniel approached the smaller woman ready to help when needed.

"Step back Dad I got this," Callie had to chuckle out the serious look Arizona had on her face.

"Ease up you don't want to break the line," Daniel suggested.

"I know what I'm doing."

Everyone became silent as they watched in anticipation for Arizona to pull in her catch. As soon as the fish was lifted from the water there was a round of cheers at the sight of the big fish.

"Yay Mama you finally did it!"

"Of course I did Mikey. I'm no chump when it comes to fishing," Arizona spoke in a cocky tone while releasing the hook out of the fish's mouth. What she didn't expect was for the fish to fight back and the hold she had was not tight enough as the trout freed itself from her grasp back into safe waters. The shock was so clear on the blonde's face as she stared quietly at the now empty waters.

"Well chump it looks like you're not as great at fishing as the rest of us," Callie kissed her check before making her way to their camping chairs they brought.

"It's okay Mama," Mikey tried rubbing soothing circles on his devastated mother's back. "I'll share my fish with you and if anyone asks I can say you caught them all."

"You have to be fucking kidding me," Arizona growled out, still staring at the murky water.

"Whoa Mama that's a bad word."

"Arizona relax. Let's just take our things back to our campsite." Daniel knew his daughter well and right now she needed to walk away before her anger got the best of her and she exploded.

"I feel like there is a higher power up there laughing at me for my failures."

"I think that's a little bit dramatic dear and the only one laughing at you is us."

Daniels response lead the others to follow in his laughter at the blonde's misfortunes.

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Callie peered over Mikey's raven curly hair to watch her girlfriend singing 'Happy Birthday' as loudly as she could for the five year old. After the blonde had calmed down they had enjoyed the fish they caught for lunch and played a few games that Barbara brought up. The brunette was glad that her time away from her hectic life brought her family even closer. If only they couold this more often to reconnect Callie would be up for it, but she knew that with Mikey starting school in a couple of months it was unlikely they would have time for something like this for at least another year.

The cheering around her as Mikey blew out his five candles broke Callie from her thoughts. She pulled the little boy into her side to place a kiss on his forehead.

"I love you so much mijo."

Matching brown eyes looked up to meet her own, "Thank you for being my best Mami," he said giving a kiss to Callie on the cheek. Turning around to face the blonde, "and thank you for being my best Mama."

"Anything for you little man." Arizona tried not to get emotional, but the several months she got to have Mikey in her life had been the best part of her life. She pulled back from their embrace, "What did you wish for?"

"Hey if he says then his wish won't come true."

"It's okay Mami, because I already have everything I could ever ask for."

The weight of Mikey's words caused everyone to smile around the picnic table. Callie and Arizona knew they were true since they had both fought so hard in life to achieve all they had at this point of time. Yeah tomorrow they might dream of something new, but today their life was complete.