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Chapter Thirty-Seven
Callie's POV
Okay, so the beach wasn't as successful of an outing as I thought, but Sofia seemed to enjoy herself if there's a silver lining. As soon as we got back to the house she was practically already sleeping. Her eyes were fluttering close while I was bathing all the sand off her. Arizona and I each took quick showers before going down for a nap as well. I think she's still a little upset about the whole Jesse situation, and when I think back on it I probably, no I definitely could have handled it better. Hopefully my day with her tomorrow will cheer her up. Before all of that can happen we have to get through dinner tonight with my dad. Aria and Arizona both have said that my father is coming around and I should give him another chance, so I will tonight. I will listen to what he has to say and hopefully he will be honest and truthful. If not, I don't have the energy to keep playing games with him. My life is in a really good place right now, and I don't want him to interfere with that. Once again Aria has hired a chef to come over to prepare a meal. I would've offered to cook, but I just would've used it as a distraction instead of paying attention to my father. So now we are seated waiting for my father. I'm sitting next to Arizona with Aria saving a seat next to her for my dad across from us. Sofia is still upstairs sleeping, and I'm a little happy about that because depending on how tonight goes I don't want my dad rubbing off his negative energy on my precious, innocent daughter.
"Are you sure he's coming tonight?" I ask impatiently. My dad is rarely late.
"Yes. He will be here, something must of come up." Aria answers. "In the meantime let's talk about tomorrow. Everything is still good, right?"
Happy by the change of topic I look to Arizona and smile, "Yes, everything is good."
"So who is going to fill me in on what's happening tomorrow?"
"Aria is going to watch Sofia during the day while I take you out for something special." Arizona looks between Aria and I and has a suspicious smile on her face.
"Calliope…"
"It will be fine, I promise. Be ready by ten in the morning, and dress casually. Also bring a bathing suit." I finish taking a sip of my wine. "What are you and Sof going to do while we are gone?"
"Well considering how much you freaked out over taking Sof to yoga with me, I was just thinking we would hang out here. You guys should be back by the early evening it's not too bad. Maybe we will go out for lunch."
"I just get nervous when Arizona or I am not around her. Hell I got nervous when she was with Mark and that's her father. Just text me if you guys go out."
"Of course…maybe Peter can bring out the salads, I'm starving and I don't know what's keeping father." Just as luck would have it the doorbell rings. "I'll get it!" Aria exclaims excusing herself. I look at my fiancée and just gives me a comforting smile and a quick peck on the lips. Aria comes back into the dining room with my dad at her side. Arizona and I stand when he comes into the room, but we all quickly take our seats. Peter comes out of the kitchen with salads for everyone and we wait for him to leave before we began talking.
"Calliope, Arizona thank you for having dinner with me."
"Of course, Carlos. It was our pleasure." Arizona says warmly.
"If you don't mind me asking, where is Sofia?" I'm slightly taken back by his questions because before he always said 'your daughter' or 'your child' instead of her actual name or 'granddaughter'.
"She's upstairs resting." I answer flatly.
"Will I get a chance to see her?"
"I don't know…depends on how tonight goes."
Sensing my tension, Aria decides to speak up, "Daddy, why don't you tell Callie and Arizona what you told me a few weeks back?" She says nodding towards us.
"Right, of course. Calliope I want to be around for Sofia's life. Aria told me she went to her birthday party and had a lovely time. Sofia has done nothing wrong and I've come to realize that. She's a Torres and needs to be raised like one."
"What do you mean she needs to be raised like one?"
"She deserves the best, much like what you and Aria got. Is this daycare you send her to the best one possible? What about preschools and elementary schools? She needs to have the best education possible. She needs to be engaged in social activities, and athletics when she gets of age. You live a modest life in Seattle, which is okay, but it's not the best. Every child deserves the best and I can give it to her." Whoa, whoa, whoa. What the hell is getting at? Of course Sofia deserves the best and I plan on giving it to her.
"Dad, Arizona and I can provide the best for Sofia. We have, she doesn't want for anything. She has everything she needs and more. She just turned one. The daycare is more then capable of taking care of Sofia. Right now, Arizona is watching her because she has the summer off. I don't know what you're trying to get at."
"Dad, this wasn't what you told me, where is all of this coming from?" Aria asks confused.
"When we talked and you told me everything it raised a few concerns."
"Concerns?" Arizona asks, now intrigued.
"I don't know if 'concerns' is the right word, but I just worry that Sofia isn't given the best. I have resources, Calliope. Let me use them to help you."
"With all due respect, Carlos. We don't need your help raising our daughter. Sofia is a completely happy child. Quite honestly I take offense that you are so concerned about your relationship with your granddaughter, rather then your relationship with Calliope. You won't get to be apart of Sofia's life if you aren't part of Calliope's and I will make sure you have no contact with Sofia personally if you don't start respecting and accepting your daughter."
Is it bad that I'm slightly turned on right now hearing Arizona talk like that? Clearly my father wasn't expecting that from Arizona, and honestly neither was I. We sit in silence for a little bit before Peter comes back into the room and clears our plates. I hardly touched my salad, but I don't even care.
"Dad, you told me you wanted to work on your relationship with Callie."
"You right Aria, I'm sorry. I guess I got ahead of myself. Arizona you are correct as well." He says looking at my fiancée. "Calliope, I'm sorry how I've acted lately. Not even the last few months, but the last few years. You're my daughter and I'm your father. That will never change. If you wish to live your life with Arizona that is your choice." He says somewhat sincerely. He looks to Aria for approval and she just gives him a little smile. His answer seems a little rehearsed, so it's hard to tell if he is one hundred percent serious. I do give him some credit because what he just said is more positive then anything he's said about me in the last few years. I just hope he isn't saying that to convince me to let him be part of Sofia's life. In the back of my mind I can't help but think he wants to essentially start over with Sofia and turn her into what he wanted me to be. I don't think my father is that manipulative, and there is no way in hell that it I would let it get that far.
"That's great, dad but I'm more then just living with Arizona. As you already know we're engaged and are going to get married some day." I take Arizona's hand and give her a warm smile. "We will have more children and those children will be your grandchildren as well. You can't just treat Sofia like she's the golden child. You have to accept all our kids. Most importantly you have to see Arizona as an equal. She's going to be my wife; and she already feels like it to me. She makes me unbelievably happy and we would love to share that happiness with you if you decide you want to be in our lives. Don't ask me to move back to Miami, don't try and set me up with a man. Just love me for being me. Please." Arizona gives my hand a tight squeeze, but I don't break my gaze from my father. This is the last time I'm explaining myself to my father. There will be no more little speeches or me pouring out my heart to him.
"Calliope, I promise you have my full respect, acceptance, and most importantly, love. As do you Arizona. I know I don't deserve one, but I would love another chance to show you how serious I am. Above all I'm your father and a parent should never turn on their child regardless of anything. I am ashamed that I turned by back to you. I can never get that time back. I didn't like not talking to you all those years, but I thought it was the right thing to do. I know now it wasn't. Ever since Aria came back from meeting with you and she told me everything I was jealous. She was happy to have her sister back and I wanted to have my other daughter back. I'm glad that you are successful, although I still wish you were in the family business, I'm happy that you are succeeding in your profession. As you know marriage isn't something to be taken lightly. If you have found your life partner in Arizona then I wish both of you all the best. I don't want to get a phone call ten years from now saying you need a divorce lawyer, there is only so much I can take, Calliope."
"Daddy, no one is getting divorced, I promise." I say letting out a light sigh. A silent weight has been lifted off my shoulders and it feels like I can breathe a little better. The tension in the room is gone and everyone has a smile on their face. "I'll give you another opportunity to be in my life. You only get one chance with Sofia, if you mess it up there won't be a second."
"You have my word, Calliope."
"Well I think I deserve a thank you." Aria exclaims. We all just give her a perplexed look. "I mean I'm kind of the reason why we are all back together. So a thank you would be nice."
"Thank you, Aria." Arizona says, I just ignore her request. Aria is always so full of herself.
"The next course is ready." Peter says coming into the room with two plates. "You told me to let you know when I heard noise from the baby monitor in the kitchen. I believe Sofia is up."
"Thank you, Peter." Aria says before he returns to the kitchen to bring out more food. "Callie, can I bring her down?" I guess this is an appropriate time for my dad to meet Sofia.
"Sure." I nod and Aria dashes upstairs. The rest of us begin eating in silence. Five minutes later an alert Sofia is walking into the living room with the help of my sister. "Dad, do you want to meet your granddaughter?" I ask. He turns around in his chair and sees Sofia for the first time in person. Aria picks her up and passes her off to my father. He stands up and starts rocking her from side to side.
"My goodness Calliope she looks just like you. I've never seen her father, but she's a Torres through and through." He says proudly. "She has your hair and your eyes."
"Thanks, daddy." I can't help but smile at the scene before me. I honestly didn't know if I would ever see it. Arizona is quietly snapping photos on her iPhone. The rest of the evening involves my dad acquitting himself with Sofia and everyone talking. We stick to light topics and enjoy being around one another. After my dad leaves we stay up with Sofia and talk with each other. We decide to go for a night swim because no one is tired because of our late afternoon naps. Luckily after forty-five minutes in the pool everyone is ready for bed. The next morning comes and I wake up before Arizona and Sofia. Aria is up in the kitchen eating some fruit.
"Make sure Arizona leaves at ten, I'm headed over there now to get things set up."
"Relax sis, I got it. You have a good day with your girl and I'll keep my niece company." She winks.
"Thank you, we should be back six five, six at the latest."
"Yeah, yeah…bye!" Aria says shooing me out the kitchen. I decide to take Arizona on my yacht. Well it's actually me and Aria's. We got it as a gift from our parents a few years ago. It has three levels. I barely use it being that it's docked in Miami and I live in Seattle. Aria on the other hand uses it all the time, but she let me have it today. There will be one chef and one captain on the ship. I've arranged for us to have brunch and pretty much relax all day. The weather is great and it will be nice to have some alone time with my fiancée. Once I get to the boat I say hello to Charles, the captain, and Mike, the chef. We put together a little menu and then I set up the top level with towels and lounge chairs. I also took this time to sit down and write a letter to Tim. I didn't want to make it too long but I just asked that he contact me when possible. I gave him my email address, as well as my address at the hospital and my phone number. I didn't give him the new house address because I don't want Arizona to freak out if something comes in the mail. Hopefully I'll hear from him soon. I decide to go back down to the first level to wait for Arizona. She should be here any moment now. I had someone pick her up and bring her straight here. As soon as I see the car approach I hop off the boat and go greet her.
"So imagine my surprise when I woke up and you weren't there. Then Aria forces me into a black car and doesn't tell me where I'm going."
"Well you here now and that's all the matters." I say taking her hand and walking her along the dock to the boat.
"Calliope, where are we?" She asks looking around. There are other boats docked at the marina too. "Why are we around boats and yachts?"
"I'm taking you out on the water today!"
"You're what?"
"I'm taking you out on the water! Captain Charles is going to take us out for a couple of hours. Did you bring your bathing suit?"
"Uh yeah, but…you have a boat?"
"It's a family boat…but yes. I have a boat, well yacht but that's almost the same thing." Still a little speechless, I help her on board and we meet with the captain.
"Who is this lovely lady, Ms. Torres?"
"Captain, meet my wonderful fiancée, Arizona." They shake hands and smile.
"It's lovely to meet you Arizona. Today is a perfect day for going out so it should be a smooth ride. If you have any questions feel free to find me in the control room. We will be moving shortly. Have a good time ladies."
"Thanks, Captain!"
"My pleasure Ms. Torres. It's nice to see you again, come back again soon!" He says walking away.
"Let's go get changed, then we can head up to the top level."
"Okay, sure…" She says hesitantly.
"Arizona, are you okay? Are you afraid of boats or something? I ask concerned.
"No, it's not that. It's just I wasn't expecting this. Thank you, Calliope."
"I just wanted to do something nice for us. It is our vacation after all. As soon as we head back to Seattle I'll be wrapped up in work again. I just wanted to do something for us, hopefully something we'll remember."
"I remember everything about you, Calliope." She says gripping my hips. I put my arms around her neck and give her a lustful kiss on the lips.
"Let's go get changed, okay?"
"Fine." I take her hand and we walk down the stairs to the lower level. There's a small bathroom, and a medium size master bedroom.
"Ohhh Calliope did you bring me down here to change or to just have your way with me?"
"Maybe both." I say with a quick wink. "I'll change in the bathroom and you can change out here."
"Calliope I've seen you naked plenty of times we can just change in the bedroom together."
"Actually we can't because if I see you naked, especially around a bed, I won't be able to keep my hands off you and we'll never leave this room."
"Are you sure that's such a bad thing?"
"Normally no, but today yes. I have brunch planned for us on the upper level and there is a Jacuzzi. So, I'll be out in five minutes. Chop chop!" I clap. I make my way into the bathroom and switch out of my day clothes and into a light blue bikini. I ruffle my hair a little bit and rub on some sunscreen. I step out the bathroom and see Arizona sitting on the bed in a royal blue bikini. Her hair is slightly wavy and falls just below her shoulders. She is absolutely stunning.
"Calliope, you look pretty." She says getting up and standing before me.
"Thanks, so do you. I like this color on you." I give her another look over and take her hand. "Ready to go up?"
"Of course! I wanna check out this Jacuzzi!"
"Alright then let's go!" We head up to the top level and Mike is there standing next to the table with our food on it.
"Mike, meet Arizona, she's my fiancée and the person who I set all this up for."
Mike extends his hand to Arizona, "It's lovely to meet you. I hope you and Ms. Torres have a lovely time. The food is all out as well as the drinks. Let me know if you two need anything else."
"Thanks Mike"
"My pleasure, of course." He nods and walks away.
"Where is he going?"
"He has a small room on the first floor. Do you want to eat?"
"Yeah in a second. Look at this view." She says walking over to the railing. "Miami is truly beautiful. Are we sailing to any place in particular?" Arizona asks turning to look at me. I walk up to her and wrap by arms around her from behind.
"Nope, nowhere in particular. I told him just to sail around for a few hours. We should be back by sunset." I kiss the back of her neck and put my head on the shoulder. We watch as the dock gets smaller and smaller as the boat begins to move away. There is a nice breeze and being on the water helps cool is down from the smothering Miami sun. After a few minutes we decide to sit down and eat. I kept the menu light with just some fruit, French toast, yogurt and granola. Mike also has a light lunch prepared for us later. We sipped on mimosas and talked about dinner last night with my dad. She was happy that he came around and thinks he is here for the long haul. We looked at the pictures she took of Sofia with him. After we ate we sat on the lounge chairs side by side and took in the sun. Lying on my back with my eyes closed and sunglasses on, I feel a shadow above me.
I lift up my glasses and find my fiancée staring down at me. "Arizona?"
"Can we go in the jacuzzi now?"
"Yeah, of course. Why do you look sad?" I ask sitting up at attention.
"I'm not sad, I just didn't want to interrupt you. You looked so peaceful." She says shyly.
"Babe, don't worry about that. We can do whatever you want." I get up and we walk to the back of the top level where the jacuzzi is. We both step in slowly, adjusting to the temperature and sit down on a seat.
"Ahhh, this feels amazing." Arizona says relaxing into the bubbling water. "We need one of these at home."
"Babe, our bath has almost the same exact jets."
"I know, but it's something about being outside. The contrast of a cool breeze and the warm water is comforting. I want one at home."
"Okay, I'll see what we can do about that. Come here." I say pulling her towards me. "I want to ask you a question." She raises an eyebrow in question but comes to sit on my lap. I pull her as close as possible and wrap her legs around my waist. "Don't get mad, okay?"
"Oh gosh, nothing good starts with that.
"I was just wondering if…"
"If…."
"Do you ever feel like you're missing out?" I ask quietly.
"Missing out on what?"
"I don't know like your twenties. I mean you're only twenty-six and you're already engaged, raising a child with me. You just finished grad school a year ago. We've only been together almost nine months. Does it feel fast to you? I'm not doubting being with you, I just thought maybe this is a lot for you."
"Calliope, what are you talking about?" She asks cupping my face. "Where is this coming from?"
"I guess it's just something that's always been in the back of my mind. Aria is a couple years older then you and her life is so different. She travels wherever and whenever, she goes out with whomever, she has nothing holding her down. Her only responsibility is her job. Then Jackie made that comment at the bar about you already being engaged."
"Okay, well first off don't listen to anything Jackie says. Second, I absolutely love my life right now. Sure a year ago I didn't think I'd be here, but I'm happy that I am. Aria and I are two completely different people and you know that. I've always been a family person. I grew up with two loving parents, an annoying but awesome older brother. I always wanted to get married, you know how I felt about kids but now that has totally changed. So maybe some people think we are moving fast or that I'm too young to be in this position, but I don't care about that. If anything your little speech last night to your dad confirmed everything for me."
"But you'd tell me if something was up, right?"
"Of course, Calliope. Where is all this doubt coming from, baby?"
"I don't know…like I said it's something I've always thought about. Then when your mom brought up the wedding and Tim at breakfast. You got upset, you said we would talk when we got home, but maybe it's getting to be too much…" I say looking down at the bubbles around us.
"Callie…Callie will you please look at me." I slowly raise my head and meet her eyes. "I promise you everything is fine. We do have some stuff to talk about when we get home, but it's nothing major. I love you and Sofia so much. I'm the luckiest person in the world. I mean let's be real, how many people get to say they are sitting in the lap of Calliope Torres on a yacht in Miami?"
"Arizona…"
"I'm serious, babe. Life doesn't get much better then this." She says laughing. I don't know where the self-doubt came from, but it has slowly been creeping up on me. I guess I just needed some reassurance. "Are we good now? I really want to get back enjoying my position."
"Yes, we're perfect. I'm sorry for bringing it up, especially right now."
"Don't be sorry, I'm happy you voiced your concern, but you whole heartedly have nothing to worry about." I smile at her with all my doubts completely gone and she leans down to kiss me. Soon our tongues and mouths do their familiar dance and I find myself needing to feel more of Arizona so I undo her top and throw it out the side of the jacuzzi. My mouth immediately wraps around a pink nipple and a moan escapes from Arizona's lips. I feel her body push into me more and I use my other hand to massage other breast.
"Jesus, Callie don't stop…that feels so good baby." Arizona husks out, within twenty minutes Arizona is naked and I'm topless in the jacuzzi. We continued to explore and enjoy each other's bodies and private time. Once we finish we dry off and wrap ourselves in towels and eat a late lunch. Soon we are headed back to dock fully relaxed, rested…and satisfied. Once back in the house we relived Aria of her babysitting duties as she goes out for a drink with a friend. The following day we do some light shopping and hang around town with Aria. It's our last night in Miami so we decided to go out to dinner. Sofia was able to say 'Aria' and Aria was ecstatic for the rest of the evening.
Once we got back on Sunday we had a lazy day. We did loads of laundry, went grocery shopping and got the house back in order. I went to bed early being that I had to get up early for work on Monday. That being said I was ten minutes late to work, which isn't how I want to start my first day as an attending. I snuck into the back of the room for the attending's meeting hoping to hear the end of the Chief's speech.
"What did I miss?" I whisper to Alex who is standing near me in the back.
"Nothing much, be nice, work hard, make Seattle Grace the best hospital in the country, the usual. How was your vacation?"
"Good…actually great. Much needed."
"Did you and Arizona…ya know?" He asks sleazily.
"Whether we did or we didn't is none of your damn business, Karev."
"Sheesh let a guy live a little."
"Whatever…I'm gonna set you up. Hopefully once you start getting laid you'll stop questioning me about my sex life."
"You know—"
"Oh look, the meetings over, bye Alex." He rolls his eyes and walks out of the room.
"Torres! Just a minute please!" Chief Webber calls. Shit, I probably shouldn't have been late this morning. I walk through the crowd and come face to face with the Chief.
"Sorry about this morning, I was—"
"Nonsense, I have something else to ask you. I need your help with something."
"Um, okay. How can I help, sir?"
"Since you're back today, the head of ortho started his vacation. He'll be back in a few days, that being said we got a case that needs your attention. A kid came in early this morning with a broken leg. We would have passed it off to someone else, but he had to get some general surgery work completed. Bailey just finished up and the boy is in recovery. Take a look at his scans and consult with Bailey and Dr. Mitchell. Dr. Mitchell is new and I thought this would be a good case for them to sit in on. It's nothing major, but I thought you could use this case to help Dr. Mitchell get introduced to the hospital."
"Sure thing."
"Great. Dr. Mitchell" He motions for someone to come over, "I'd like you to meet Callie Torres. She's an ortho attending and well liked at this hospital. She will get you up to speed on everything and would be more then likely to answer any of you questions. If for some reason she can't you can come to me, but I know you'll be in great hands. I'll check in with you two later." Chief walks away, but I barely noticed, I barely heard anything he just said because of the sight before me. Dr. Mitchell….as in Jordan Mitchell.
"Callie, it's great to see you again." She smiles.
This really can't be happening. "W-what are you doing here?"
"I'm the new pediatrics attending."
"I'm sorry?" I know I did not just hear her correctly.
"Well don't look so shocked. I took my boards and applied for the position."
"Why? What happened to L.A.? Mark?"
"We broke up, I wanted more and he didn't. He's still caught up over some girl, Lexie…I believe she works here too. This was a perfect chance for me to get away. Start new, kind of like what you did. You know, after you left me."
"But why Seattle? I'm sure you got other offers."
"You're right, I did but none of them were as good as Seattle Grace. You don't look happy to see my Callie. I thought we ended things on good terms last time?"
"We did, but in all honestly who wants to work with their ex?"
"Well I'm more then just your ex, I was your first. You may have kissed other girls in college, hell you may have even touched them, but I was your first. That's something you'll never forget." She takes a step closer to me, leaving barely any room between us, "You'll never forget the first time I took my fingers and ever so slowly pushed th—"
"Torres! You're back, the meeting is over and we need to discuss the course of action on Sam Williams. Chief said he talked to you." Bailey interrupts, thankfully. Jordan backs away and grins at Bailey. "I see you've meet Dr. Mitchell. Let's go!" She says turning around and exiting.
"I really look forward to working with you, Callie." She grins knowingly. She walks away and leaves me alone in the room. I just need to shake it off. She's here so I'll just have to deal. I'm not gonna let her mess me up. If I need to play nice, I'll play nice. Besides, Arizona and I are great. I don't even think about Jordan that way. I haven't for years, but something about her being here isn't sitting right. It's a little naïve of me to think she came all the way to Seattle for me. That's just crazy, right?
"Torres! You got a promotion and now you can't hear? I said let's go!"
"Sorry Bailey, here I come."
AN: Mmmm…more Jordan drama? Thanks for reading!