Chap 28- I own nothing.
Callie took Arizona's hand as they walked down the street to the same Italian restaurant where Callie proposed. The day with her parents had, so far, started off great.
"Jackson Avery and your sister are getting married. Can you believe that?" Callie asked Arizona.
"No… not only can I not believe that Kate may be getting married again, I can not believe that Jackson actually is ready to settle down." Arizona laughed at the thought.
"So Calliope, what is this place we are walking to?" Carlos asked his oldest daughter.
"It's the best Italian place in Seattle. It's where I asked Arizona to marry me actually." Callie answered and smiled at Arizona.
"Do you two come here often?" Maria asked.
"Oh, you'll see…" Callie answered as the walked in the door.
"My two pretty ladies are back… oh with Callie's family! Here right this way I have the perfect table." Mario said as they walked into the restaurant.
"I take it you two come here often.." Maria laughed.
"Here we are… I will be right back." Mario said as he walked off.
"Thanks Mario!" Arizona called after him. They all sat down at the table. "The alfredo is to die for… so Maria, what is it you do, like what kind of work is it you do?"
"I own a clothing boutique in Miami. I just opened my second store a month ago and Aria helps me with all the work there is to be done there." Maria answered. "And you are the head of peadiatrics? I believe that is what Callie told me."
"You would be correct." Arizona answered smiling at the woman.
"You work in Peds and you didn't want kids? That's a little off isn't it?" Aria asked.
"Aria, seriously…" Callie snapped at her.
"No, Callie, it's ok… I never pictured my life with kids, I never really wanted any, so naturally when your lovely sister decided to throw that idea in the mix I panicked. But, I realized that her being happy made me happy and I wanted her happy… and when your sister holds my nephew, it is the best immage I've ever seen." Arizona answered the woman and Callie's family sat and listened. "I love Calliope, with all my heart and soul. I have never felt this way before in my life and she is the only woman I ever want to wake up next to each morning and fall asleep next to every night."
"I just, and this is for both of you… Calliope dating a woman was suprising, but Carlos told us how happy she was and that he had never seen her that happy, in the thirty years she has been on this earth, he had never seen her smile the way she does when she is around you. We were shocked, and we were in the wrong… not Calliope." Maria said and as she spoke she took Arizona's hand. "Spending what little time with the two of you, and you especially Arizona, I can see why my daughter is as happy as she is. You are a remarkable woman and I can tell that you love my Calliope. And you have my blessings for anything either of you want for the future."
The rest of their day with Callie's family was filled with lots of small talk and ideas of Callie and Arizona's commitment ceremony. Once they were done eating and talking well into late after noon they 5 of them walked back over the their apartment building where they said their goodbyes and went their separate ways. Once they were back in there apartment Callie was the first to speak.
"Have I told you that you look extra hot in that sweater?" Callie asked pulling the blonde close to her. She held her for a moment, breathing in her scent. "You wanna walk with me to pick up your nephew? It's almost 5, I figured we could get him early so Kate could get ready."
"You really just can't wait to have those arms around a baby." Arizona laughed as she followed her girlfriend down the hall.
"OK, OK, you caught me." Callie smiled. She knocked on the door and both of the women were surprised by what they saw when Kate opened the door.
"Hi guys, are ya'll here to pick up Daniel? He's asleep…" Kate paused looking at the two women closely.
"Kate, what have you been doing?" Arizona was the first to speak. "Oh, no… you've been painting, ok, spill. What's going on?" Arizona stared at Kate, as did Callie. Kate had on a smock that was covered in different speckles of paint as was her face and hair. She had two paint brushes in the pocket of the smock.
Callie looked past her to see 4 paintings sitting on the floor and one sitting on a easle in the middle of her living room.
"What do you mean what's going on? My boyfriend is planning some romantic evening, and sent my son down to my sister's apartment… something fishy is up." Kate said. "I mean, it's Jackson for god's sake…" Kate opened the door a little more and let the two older women in. "He's not exactly romanitc man of the year."
"Kate, I think you need to calm down." Arizona said staring around the room.
Kate walked back into Daniel's room without even glancing at the two older women.
"Arizona, what is this all about." Callie whispered to Arizona.
"She's nervous, she paints when she is nervous… like a lot as you can see…" Kate came out of Daniel's room holding a still sleeping Daniel and his bag ready and set for the evening. "Kate, you need to chill out. It is Jackson… he is the love of your life. And it's one night and Callie and I are both doctors, I mean it's not a big deal… it's dinner."
"Ok, ok…If you all need anything please just come get it… it won't be a big deal." Kate said handing Arizona Daniel and Callie his bag. "I still don't understand why he can't just stay here but whatever." Kate said. She leaned down and kissed the sleeping baby.
"We won't have any trouble…except for arguing about who held him longer." Callie laughed out. "Look you go take a shower and get all pretty for your man who has been at work for 2 days."
"Ok, ok… thanks you two again." Kate said as she spun on her heel and headed towards her bed room.
Callie and Arizona carried Daniel and his bag back to their apartment. On their way they watched as Jackson came off of the elevator.
"Hey! There's my boy… is Kate getting ready?" Jackson asked the two women.
"Yes she is, but Jackson you should know something… she is nervous. Not like normal nervous, she is like, extremely nervous." Arizona said shifting the sleeping baby. "She painted today… she only paints when she get's nervous that's what she does."
Jackson starred at the two women.
"Ok… so, is she ok?" Jackson asked.
"Yeah she is fine…" Arizona smiled at him as he smiled back at her and leaned over to kiss a sleeping Daniel.
"Wish me luck…" he said as he brushed passed them and into the apartment.
"I'm not gonna lie… I'm kinda worried." Callie said as they stared at an empty hallway.
"Me too." Arizona almost whispered. "Let's go inside." Arizona walked off toward their apartment and Callie followed. Once inside their apartment, Callie put Daniel's bag down and walked over to the iPod deck on the window seal and turned it on to her jazz playlist.
Arizona walked over to their couch, still holding a sleeping Daniel, and sat down, watching Callie as she walked over to where Arizona was sitting and sat down next to her curling her feet up under her. She grabbed a blanket from behind the couch and draped it over herself and Arizona.
"I can't wait for moments like this with our kids… a little baby with your blonde curly hair and ice blue eyes asleep in your arms. Us cuddling as we watch the faces he makes while he's asleep?" Callie said as she put her head on Arizona's shoulders.
"He? Why he?" Arizona asked.
"Well, it could be a she… I just, I've always wanted a boy… but a girl would be perfect too." Callie smiled and placed a kiss to Arizona's pulse point.
"Calliope, that is not wise to do as I have my sleeping nephew in my arms." Arizona sighed.
"That is exactly what makes me want to do it." Callie let out a quiet laugh. "Babies are perfect when they are asleep, of course, Daniel here is such a good baby…"
"If I remember correctly, Kate was a really good baby as well. She hardly cried, she was always so happy." Arizona told Callie. "I secretly hope that Daniel's hair turns into Kate's brown."
"I secretly have been thinking the same thing…" Callie laughed. "It is a darker blonde ya know? Do you remember Kate's hair when she was born?
"Oh, it was brown… I remember because you had Danny and I with silvery blonde hair and blue eyes and fairer skin and then you had Kate with black eyes and brown hair with that olive skin tone. She was funny cause when she was born, you know how usually, babies have blue eyes for a while and then they change? Well Kate's were always that black color they are now… my dad's mom asked my dad for a long time if Kate was even his, but she noticed that if you put all three of our baby pictures next to each other, you only know who's who because Kate has brown hair and Danny has on blue and I have on pink."
"I never noticed how exactly the same you and Kate look until we went to your parents house and they had the baby pictures over the fire place." Callie said as she began to trace circles on the back of Arizona' s neck. "As much as I love watcing this sleeping baby, we need to wake him up or he is going to be up all night." Callie took her hand that wasn't tracing circles on the back of Arizona's neck and put it on Daniel's stomach and began to gently rub it. "What did you think of my parents today?"
"I think I'm glad that they accept you and us as a real couple… I think your mom accepted us way before your dad and I had that little talk." Arizona said.
"Well, I think you are right… I also think that your sister helped to." Arizona said.
"Well she should! She has had a girlfriend before… only difference is she never told dad… granted it was when she was in college and experimenting but still!" Callie said.
"I would have never have guessed her to come visit the dark side…" Arizona said with a laugh.
"This coming from a woman who wears a pink scrub cap and butterflies on it." Callie laughed. "There is our little guy… did you have a good nap?" Callie asked as she noticed Daniel waking up.
The baby stretched and smiled up at his aunts. Arizona sat him up on her knees so that he was still facing them.
"Gosh, he is delicious." Callie said smiling at Arizona. "Here, let me see him." Callie said taking Daniel from Arizona and standing up with him. Just as she did "Tiny Dancer" came on the iPod Callie had turned on earlier. She began to dance with gently with him. "Blue jean baby. LA Lady…" she began to sing and Daniel smiled at her.
"Calliope you are too cute right now…" Arizona said as she watched from the couch.
"Aunt Arizona… come dance with us! Daniel tell your Auntie to get off her hot little booty and dance with us!" Callie turned Daniel around so that he was looking at Arizona. He cackled at the movement. "See, he said it… now get up and dance with us!"
Arizona smiled at Callie and her nephew. "Ok, ok, I'm getting up." She got up and walked over to where Callie was dancing and wrapped her arms around her. The two of them dance like that for what felt like hours as Daniel laughed and smiled at them. Arizona looked down at her watch, it was nearly ten and she knew that Jackson had probably proposed by now. She wanted to know but she didn't want to pry on the special night.
"Should we go check on them?" Callie asked as if she read her mind.
"I don't know Callie… surely Kate would have come over here by now either way. I'm getting worried though." Arizona said. She looked at Daniel who had gotten a serious look on his face like he could tell something was up too. Their thoughts were interupted by a knock at their door. Arizona almost sprinted to the door and nearly knocked herself out opening it.
When she opened it there stood Kate wearing one of Jackson's shirts that she had clearly buttoned in a hurry because she had missed a few or mixed up a few, she had on a pair of lacey black boy shorts, and her usually perfect hair was mussed up. Arizona laughed when she noticed her eyeliner was slightly smudged.
"I'm guessing you said yes?" Callie said from behind Arizona.
"OH MY GOSH YES! Wait, how did you two know?" Kate said stepping into their apartment and shutting the door.
"Jackson asked my permission to ask you." Arizona said.
"I'm so excited… he even had adoption papers all ready and filled out. He's going by first thing in the morning, so as of tomorrow Mr. Daniel Jacob Robbins will now by Daniel Jacob Avery. I've never seen him so excited. I just came to tell you both the good news and pick up my son. I know you two have a busy day tomorrow… Ok, hey Arizona, thanks… for everything." Kate said. She hugged her sister and she and her son went back to her apartment, ready to start their new lives.
Well, there it is! THE END. I will be starting a new story, a sequel to this one. So don't anyone panic! 3 U ALL!
