Final AN
Hey guys!
So I hope you enjoyed the ending.
This is another fanfic that wasn't supposed to happen, because I'm busy beyond belief, but alas, the brain won't listen. It was meant to be shorter than Unorthodox (which if you haven't read yet, now's your chance!) and it is, if we got by number of chapters, that said the word count is higher so… I lose again. My conversations with Blue were like "well, don't let me write more than 8 chapters!" a week later it was 15, and of course it ended up being 24. Oops?
Just a couple of things that we suspected might come up.
as their donor: Listen, as far as I'm concerned Sofia couldn't be Sofia without him. There could be another little girl, and she could even be named Sofia, but it wouldn't really be Sofia and I wanted them to have her. In this version Arizona and Mark get along really well and I always love that. I also feel like even though Callie and Mark don't have sexual history in this story, subconsciously it still makes me feel like Arizona totally accepts Callie's bisexuality. All that aside, they knew the source of Sofia's gene pool. He was always near by and he is good looking and intelligent. So it made total sense to me.
2. That very last line killed us. No pun intended. I wrote it a while ago and I loved it. Might be my favorite one in the fic. But it's a confusing line. I had to play around, I had to add quotation marks, and it annoyed me. For me, from the get go, this whole story happened after Callie's death. It's not a real death, but Arizona treated her as dead for a whole year and all of a sudden Callie was resurrected in Arizona's eyes. That's why it's called Post Mortem. It all happens after Callie's death. In a way, it happens thanks to her death. These extreme circumstances pushed these two together with higher stakes from the get go. So it is only natural that at the very end of this story Arizona thinks "if Callie hadn't 'died' we wouldn't have been here." I hope this thought is clear with those damn quotation marks. I really wanted you guys to know that's what it was about. I feel like it's really easy to misread it as "they wouldn't be here if Callie had died," but that's not what the sentence says and I hope I made it clear as to why.
I'm leaving you now, and this time I mean it. Donteatblue and I are finally ready to work on my novel which is what we set out to do before Post Mortem decided to come into existence.
I promise to post an update once the novel is on Amazon. I think and hope you'd like it. The best way to stay posted (when it comes to this and all other shenanigans, for example, I didn't want to have any new projects so naturally my brain decided it was time to write a graphic novel,) is on Twitter or Tumblr. I'm shokoshik on both.
I own blue a huge thanks. You have no idea how much time and effort she put into this story during what I can assure you is a challenging time. She really did make it better when it comes to the nuances and the nuances are so very important to me. They make a story if you ask me.
I'd like to thank you guys for reading. I tend to write when the show is on a break, it seems. Give us all something to keep us afloat almost until the show is back and we're indeed less than a month away, so I hope this helped.
Enjoy our last days of summer and keep reading with passion!
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