A/N: hope that you all enjoyed this story, I'm wrapping it up with this chapter. Don't worry, I have an exciting new one that will start on Jan 1st, stay tuned!
"I'm nervous all of the sudden, like crazy nervous," Kara says as Arizona parks the car.
"I'm nervous too. But it'll be fine. Callie will be excited, they'll talk about Iceland, all we have to do is listen politely and smile and nod at the appropriate places," Arizona explains.
"What if they ask us questions? There's a lot we haven't talked about yet," Kara says worriedly.
"They won't ask us anything like that. They're new too and they just got back from an exciting trip, trust me, they'll talk about themselves all night." Arizona says, kissing her lightly to reassure her.
"Okay, I hope that you're right." Kara replies.
"If we need to change the subject all we have to do is Callie about the Peace Corps, she can talk for hours about her time in Botswana," Arizona says taking her hand as they walk up to the door.
"Callie, this is fantastic. Kara makes an amazing Osso Bucco," Arizona replies smiling at her girlfriend.
"Osso Bucco? Veal or pork?" Callie asks.
"Pork usually and polenta instead of risotto," Kara replies anticipating the next question.
"I love polenta," Callie says looking around the table. "Ingrid tried polenta for the first time this week. We went to Novelle for dinner."
"I'm surprised that Novelle would have polenta on their menu," Arizona questions.
"I was too, it was brunch and they served it with their Eggs Benedict," Callie explains.
"Interesting," Kara remarks. "We should try their brunch our next weekend off," she says to Arizona.
The blonde glares a bit at Callie, brunch at Novelle was their thing and she's annoyed that Callie would take Ingrid there. Kara notices it but doesn't say anything, instead she reaches over under the table and squeezes her leg lightly. Arizona glances down, then over to Kara and smiles. It's fine, she says with her eyes.
"Ingrid, Callie says that you live in LA. Are you from there?" Arizona asks the blonde.
"No, I'm from New Hampshire," she replies. "I moved to LA after college and got my MBA at Stanford."
"Where did you get your undergrad?" Kara asks.
"UConn," she replies, "Callie says you both went to Johns Hopkins?"
"We did, but not at the same time, Kara was a few years behind me." Arizona explains. Then turning to her ex, she changes the topic, "Callie you haven't really told us anything about your trip."
"Iceland was amazing, you know I'm from Miami and I freaking hate winter, but I loved it there. The hot springs, the Northern Lights, it's all so magical." She exclaims. "Oh and of course it helped that I had a tour guide."
Ingrid smiles at the brunette and adds, "For someone who is always hot, she's such a baby when she's cold."
At this overshare, Arizona visibly holds her tongue and looks over at Kara.
"Is Iceland your first trip outside of the U.S.?" Kara asks Callie.
"Oh no, I've been all over Europe and I've even been to Africa. I served in the Peace Corps, in Botswana." Callie says excitedly.
Under the table, Arizona squeezes Kara's hand, a silent thank you exchanged between them.
"Wow, you weren't kidding. She loves to travel and talk about traveling," Kara says as they walk into Arizona's place.
Then realizing the blonde hasn't said anything since they left Callie's, Kara pulls her to her, "Hey, I can hear your wheels spinning, talk to me."
Arizona smiles nervously and then takes a deep breath, "I don't know what I expected, but that wasn't it. Thank you for keeping the conversation moving and getting her to talk about Botswana."
"Of course," Kara replies. "But what's really going on?"
"Callie and I weren't friends first, we met and pretty much started dating, this was probably the first time that I've socialized with her that we weren't together, it was just a bit weird," Arizona explains.
"Is that all it is, or are you still having feelings for her," Kara asks nervously.
"I only have feelings for you," Arizona says pulling her closer.
"I'd understand if you were having feelings for her, you have a history together and a child." Kara says pulling back.
"Yes it was weird to see her holding someone else's hand and looking at her like she used to look at me, but that's all it was, weirdness." Arizona explains.
"Hmm," Kara considers that, then asks, "is this the first time that you've seen Callie with someone else?".
"Uh, no. I've met a few of her dates before. Kara, it was her first time meeting someone that I'm dating, so she was nervous too. It's just new territory for us." Arizona explains.
"Are we going to invite them over here?" Kara asks.
"God no, not unless we have too," Arizona blurts out.
Kara laughs out loud and leans in to kiss her. "I thought it was nice, not near as awkward as I thought would be."
"Hey, I left you a message and you didn't call back. Where were you?" Kara asks Arizona when she walks in the door.
"I had a meeting," Arizona replies, setting her things down as she enters Kara's condo. A bit restless she walks over to the window and stares out for a minute.
Kara watches her but silently, waiting for her, obviously she has something heavy on her mind.
"Arizona, talk to me," Kara says softly when the blonde sits on the couch beside her.
"The Seattle Pres offer came in, I've been reviewing it with my attorney," she explains.
"Okay, is it a good offer? Are you considering it?" She asks, nervous because her girlfriend could suddenly be her boss.
"It's a good offer." Arizona says turning to look at her.
"But..." Kara says waiting for her to say the rest.
"But I have another offer to consider," Arizona replies.
"Another offer?" Kara asks confused.
"Yeah, its here in Seattle, it's pretty amazing," Arizona remarks.
"Okay, so what does your attorney think?" Kara asks.
"She hasn't told me yet, we just reviewed them both," Arizona explains, "Kara I also have offers from Hopkins and Baylor Women's and Children's Hospital."
"Ah, of course, but you're not leaving Seattle, right?" She asks.
"I don't think so, but the offer from Baylor is pretty amazing," she replies.
"Would you really consider it?" Kara asks suddenly concerned.
"They offered Callie a research grant at the University," Arizona says softly.
"Do they not know that you're no longer together?" Kara asks.
"They know," Arizona replies.
"Uh, have you told her?" Kara asks.
"No, I haven't," she admits. "It doesn't matter, I'm not going to move to Dallas."
"Oh," Kara says visibly relieved.
"I heard that you have multiple offers," Callie says the next morning.
"Well, that news traveled fast," Arizona remarks.
"Did Baylor really offer me a research grant?" Callie asks.
"Calliope, how did you hear about that?" Arizona asks.
"Your attorney is the one my Dad recommended," Callie explains.
"But she's my attorney, why is she talking with your Dad?" Arizona asks.
"She didn't, someone else in the office did," Callie remarks. "So the Baylor offer, was it good?" She asks.
"They're all good offers, Calliope. What about your offers?" Arizona says turning it around on the brunette.
"I've got some interesting ones, Cedar Sinai is the best one so far," she admits.
"Did they offer anything to me?" Arizona teases.
"No, but I could ask. Would you be interested in living in LA?" Callie asks.
"Do you really want Sofia to grow up in LA?" Arizona asks.
"Miami isn't that different from LA and I turned out okay," Callie remarks.
"You hated it," Arizona reminds her.
"Okay, you're right. Well Baylor is in Dallas, it's not much better than LA or Miami for that matter," Callie points out.
"I know, that's why I've already rejected that offer," Arizona informs her. "I'm looking at two offers here in Seattle. One is a long shot, but it's the most interesting one though."
"You'd leave Sloan-Grey?" Callie blurts out.
"Not exactly," she says as they get into the elevator.
"Wait, did Sloan-Grey make you an offer without board input?" Callie asks grabbing her arm and turning her around.
Arizona smiles at her, "Calliope, the offer came from the Harper Avery Foundation," she explains. "They've offered to build a Women's and Children's Hospital here in Seattle, but I have to raise $50 million dollars and agree to be the Chief of Surgery for 5 years."
"$50 million is a lot of money," Callie remarks.
"Your Dad's foundation has already agreed to match whatever I raise," Arizona informs her.
"Wait, what?" Callie asks.
"Your Dad wants us to stay in Seattle, apparently," Arizona remarks.
"But how did he..?" Callie stammers.
"Apparently the attorneys work all the angles, she just told me this morning on my way in," Arizona explains.
"Uh," Callie says a bit stunned by that news. "Your own hospital? Arizona, you'd have your own hospital?"
"Pretty much, exciting huh?" She exclaims. "It still has to be built, so it won't happen tomorrow or anything, but yeah, my own hospital."
"But how are you going to raise the money?" Callie asks.
"I'll raise $100 million and I get to name the hospital after my brother," Arizona replies.
"Well, they certainly won't expect that in a counter offer. Are you sure you don't want to ask for anything else?" the attorney asks.
"No, they've been generous in their offer. Everything else is fine," the blonde replies.
"Okay, I'm just going to add a few standard clauses and requests," the attorney explains, "The hospital won't be built for at least three years, are you sure that you don't want to take the Seattle Pres offer for the interim?"
"No, it will be a distraction. I've got a lot to do before the Timothy Robbins Women's and Children's Hospital is up and running." Arizona says smiling at her.
"The Fetal Surgical Fellowship will be two years and we're going to have two fellows that start in July, then next July we start 2 more. That will give us four Fetal Surgeons when we open the new hospital," Arizona explains, outlining her plan to the Board.
"What about the Pediatric Fellowship? You can't supervise both programs," Richard points out.
"I don't have to supervise both programs, Karev will take over the Pediatric Fellowship," she replies.
"Are you sure that he's ready for that responsibility?" Bailey asks.
"Oh, he's ready. And, we've put together a plan, let me show you." Arizona says taking over the meeting.
"Wow, I don't think the Avery Foundation knew what they were getting into when they offered to build her a hospital!" Meredith exclaims as they take a break from Arizona's presentation.
"She built a clinic in Malawi, they should have known that she was up for this." Callie says laughing.
"Did she really raise a $100 million already?" Meredith asks.
"Yeah, remember that family that donated $25 million after their son died? She reached out to them and they organized a fundraiser for her, she raised $75 million there and my dad's foundation put up the rest." Callie explains.
"Wait, your Dad's foundation is helping Arizona?" Meredith asks.
"Yeah, he had agreed to match whatever she raised, but then she raised more than he could match," Callie explains.
"Impressive, but why didn't he offer to help you?" Meredith questions.
"Oh he is helping me, my presentation is after lunch!" Callie replies.
"I bet that you're feeling pretty good about yourself right now," Bailey remarks to Webber as they head back in after the lunch break.
"Well, I did recruit Robbins to Seattle Grace," he admits. "And practically mentored Torres."
"They were a mess when they got here, I still don't know how this all happened, but then look at Karev, he's head of Pediatrics and Grey is Chief of General, it just shows that you never know," she replies.
"Uh, Miranda now don't you forget that you were a mousy little thing before I got a hold of you and now you're Chief," he points out proudly.
"What I want to know is how come you didn't know that Robbins could raise money like that?" Miranda asks.
"What makes you think that I didn't know she could do that?" He asks stepping back into the room and moving to his seat beside his wife.
Epilogue
"Excellent job Dr Talbot," Arizona says as they leave the OR, her blue eyes twinkling at her wife.
"Thank you Dr Robbins, I learned from the best." She remarks as she tears off her mask and begins to scrub out.
"Hey, I'm going to head to recovery then I'll get Nikki from daycare and meet you at home," the blonde says leaning in to kiss her goodbye.
"I'll finish up here and do evening rounds, see you at home." Kara replies.
"Hey Alex, I didn't realize that you were back already," Kara remarks.
"Yeah, we got back last night. Jo told me to leave because I was making her crazy," he says grinning.
"You don't fool me, you couldn't wait to come check on the construction," Kara teases.
"It's pretty awesome", he says staring out the window at the new hospital being built across the parking lot.
"It is, but you just got back from your honeymoon, go home and help your wife. Oh and stop and get dinner, you don't have any food in your house, you've been gone for two weeks!" Kara reminds him.
"Good point, thanks Kara," he says giving her a quick hug before dashing out.
"We need to do a play date or something, soon." Amelia says as she watches Arizona put Nikki in the carrier.
"Babies don't play Amelia," Arizona replies laughing at her. Then goes over to help her with Jake's carrier.
"I meant for us, now that we have kids we never do anything. We're boring," she says dramatically.
"You and Jess might be boring, but trust me. Kara and I are not. We went out last weekend." Arizona teases her.
"I know because we had the babies, so rude." Amelia replies playfully.
"It was our anniversary. If you guys would get married, then you'd have an anniversary to celebrate too." She points out.
"Me and committment, not a good track record." Amelia replies shaking her head.
"Amelia, you guys have been together over two years and you have a child together, I got news for you... you've committed. Now get a ring, make an honest woman out of her!" Arizona says forcefully.
"I know, I know and I've picked out a ring. We should go to lunch tomorrow and I'll show it to you," Amelia whispers.
"Yes, yes. We're doing that and then you're going to tell me how you're planning to propose," Arizona says excitedly.
"I'll tell you but you have to promise not to tell Kara anything," Amelia replies.
"What are you two whispering about?" Callie asks entering the daycare and looking at the babies.
"Callie what are you doing here?" Arizona asks.
"I wanted to see Nikki before you left, Sofia won't stop talking about her." Callie explains. "Oh and Jake's still here too, my lucky day!"
Arizona laughs, she's been really amazed at how close Kara and Callie have gotten since Kara had the baby.
"Did you guys have a good time on your anniversary?" Callie asks.
"Yes, we did," Arizona replies. "How was your weekend at the winery?"
"It was perfect," Callie replies.
"Calliope Torres put the baby down and walk away slowly," Meredith says entering the daycare.
"How did you know that I was here?" Callie asks handing Nikki back to Arizona.
"Because I know you, now come on or we'll be late," Meredith says taking her hand.
"Mer, relax we have plenty of time." Callie says laughing and following her out the door.
"I'm still not sure how that happened," Amelia says shaking her head.
"Well, I always suspected Meredith," Arizona replies, "Now if we find out Addison's into women, we'll really have to rethink everything we think we know about your brother."
"How do you know it was Derek, maybe it was Mark Sloan?" Amelia replies laughing at the blonde.
"Do you think he and Mark ever?" Arizona asks.
"God no!" Amelia replies quickly, "Well, now that you mention it, they were oddly close..."
A/N: Callie/Mer and Mark/Derek ... Those are not easter eggs for a sequel, I was just being funny!