A/N

This one is the last chapter of the story.

I hope it meets most of your expectations. It's been a long road for me and I've been very lucky to have dedicated readers who reviewed and came back after my absence.

I might publish another story sometime, or I might just be a one "hit" wonder :) This was definitely much harder than I thought!


Chapter 43

I'm in my office going over the final list for the party tomorrow when there is a light tap on the door. I look up to see my wife leaning casually on the door frame, "Hey gorgeous, are you going to spend all day in here?"

I close my planner and shake my head, "Not a chance. Just going over some stuff, what's up?"

"I was thinking that we could take Wyatt to the park and enjoy a little picnic. What do you think?"

"I think that sounds awesome, it's a nice day out," I smile. "Just let me change into some shorts and then I'll get little man ready."

"You go change, I just changed him and his bag is ready to go. I'll just put together some snacks for us."

"So sure I would say yes, were you?" I flirt.

"I had a pretty good idea, yeah. Now go," she winks as she slaps my butt as I pass by.

I just laugh and make my way upstairs to our bedroom to change into shorts and a t-shirt. I grab a light button-down just in case it gets windy and I head back downstairs to find my wife waiting for me, Wyatt already in his car seat. She is wearing a sundress and has thrown on some gladiator sandals, she looks much younger and innocent than normal and I smile at her beauty.

"What's that look for?" she questions.

"No reason, you just look so beautiful and I love you is all."

"Oh, is that all?" she smiles back and pulls me in for a kiss when I am within reach.

"Mmm, it's not all. But it's a start. Now let's hit the road."

I pick up the car seat and snap Wyatt into the stroller once we are outside. I tuck the diaper bag under the stroller and throw my backpack on, which I am assuming has some snacks and drinks judging by the coolness I can feel on by back. Pulling my sunglasses over my eyes we make our way to the park.

The normal ten-minute walk takes about twenty with the baby in tow. It's no matter though, because it's a nice day and it feels good to be in the sun. We pass by a few neighbors who stop to say hello and that adds another ten minutes to our journey.

Thirty minutes later we arrive at the small park that has a few picnic tables, swings, and a jungle gym. I pick out a flat area that is in the sun but close to a tree for some shade and forgo the picnic tables. I throw a blanket down and Callie immediately lays in the sun as I take Wyatt's car seat out to rest on the ground with us.

"Are you comfortable?" I laugh.

"Mmm, yes. The sun feels so good. Why can't it always be summer?"

"Because it's Seattle."

"Good point. Why do we live in Seattle?"

I just laugh at her while I unpack the goodies from my bag, "Because you love Seattle. And you love the rain too, remember?"

"Oh yeah," she giggles. She is adorable.

We lounge around peacefully for a while just eating the fruits and other snacks that Callie packed for us. Wyatt spends a majority of it sleeping but it's still nice to be out as a family. The sun is warming me so much that I can feel myself starting to doze off. As soon as I close my eyes I feel Wyatt starting to stir.

He doesn't cry, he just looks at us both with his big blue eyes like he's waiting for us to do something. I smile and pick him up, which causes him to smile and laugh. Standing, I turn to Callie, "I'm going to go take him on the swing. Wanna join?"

"Definitely," she smiles.

We make our way to the swings and I gently sit on one and start to move slowly back and forth. He's babbling away and grabbing onto my hands. I start to swing faster and he lets out a loud laugh, "Are you having fun, little man? Yeah, you are. Tell me all about it."

He babbles back and Callie's face lights up. We move to the slide after spending a few more minutes on the swings. Wyatt doesn't really seem that impressed with the new toy but instead he just presses his face into my chest and then lets out a yawn.

"How is he always so tired?" Callie laughs.

"He gets that from you. Don't you, baby? You like your sleep just like your mamí."

In response, he tries to bury his face into my chest more, getting slobber on my t-shirt. "Hey, little man. Wrong set, did you get that from your mamí too?" I laugh. "Did you bring a bottle for him?"

"Yeah, but I need to pump anyway so I'll just take him."

Nodding, I hand him over so we can make our way back to the blanket for Wyatt to have his lunch. Once Callie is covered with a blanket and our son is happily nursing my sleepiness comes back. I rest my leg on her thigh and close my eyes for just a minute to rest.

The next thing I know is that Callie is tapping me on the shoulder to wake me up. "Sorry," I mumble. "I didn't mean to fall asleep on you. Are you ready to go?"

"It's okay. I just need to get in the diaper bag," she smiles. I take Wyatt and lay back down with him beside me on his belly.

We stay at the park for another twenty minutes before we pack everything up and make our way back home. When we near our house I see a pickup truck in our driveway. I look to Callie who just shrugs. I open our front door and call out, "Hello?"

"Zebra?"

"It's just Tim," I tell Callie and we make our way inside.

"What are you doing here? Other than worrying me that a strange car was parked in our driveway," I seriously joke.

"Sorry, I just got it today. But I uh, I forgot some stuff in the guest room so I thought I'd swing by and get it on my way home," he answers while giving me a look.

I nod, clearly, he's here because of the party so I go along with it, "Oh yeah, did you get everything that you needed?"

"Yep, all set," he smiles.

"Do you want to stay? I was thinking of ordering a pizza, I've been craving it all week," Callie asks.

"If you're sure you don't mind."

"You're always welcome, brother. And you can stay the night again if you want, there's beer in the fridge."

"I won't say no to that," he grins.


'Operation Distract Mama Bear' is officially underway. Today is Callie's birthday and though I want to treat her like it's her day I also don't want her to know about the party so I have to be subtle in my plans to get her out of the house. I made sure to set an early alarm that wouldn't wake Callie so that I can wake her up with kisses. Or something.

Planting a series of kisses down the column of her throat I can feel her stir, "Wake up, pretty lady. It's your birthday."

"Five more minutes," she mumbles as she turns her head away from me, giving my lips better access.

"If I give you five more minutes we might be interrupted. Don't you want your first birthday present?"

"Hmm, present?" she says, voice still full of sleep.

"Mhmm, but you have to wake up to have it," I giggle at her adorable sleepiness as I start to run my hands over her body.

Her eyes finally open with more alertness when my hand makes its way to her breast and gives it a gentle squeeze, "Mmm, is this my present?"

"Mhmm," I answer with my lips pressed to hers eagerly. Pulling back, I look into her eyes, "Do you like it?"

"Love it," she grins and pulls my head down to deepen our kiss. Our tongues are dueling for dominance before I relinquish it to her. It is her birthday after all.

"What time is it? Do we have time?" she asks as she continues to kiss me and starts grinding her hips up into mine.

"Early, we have time. But let's hurry just in case," I answer desperately. I pull at her tiny boxer shorts that she is using for pajamas and lift her tank top as far as I can in this position. Not satisfied with the amount of skin that I've managed to expose I sit back on my heels so that I can completely rid her of her shirt.

"You too," she motions for my clothes as she seems to struggle to decide between pulling off her shorts or my own. Making the decision, I take off my own shirt and then help her out of her shorts. Callie is left completely bare and I quickly descend her body.

"Mmm, you smell so good already," I moan once I reach her core.

"Your kisses have me more than ready, please don't stop."

Knowing that we could very well be interrupted I obey her command and quickly part her folds with my fingers and take a long swipe of her juices with my tongue.

"Oh god," she says as she threads her fingers through my hair. I moan at her taste and the feel of her pulling at my scalp.

I maintain a relentless speed. Her juices are pouring out of her center almost faster than I can lap it up. She always responds this way when we have to hurry or we might get caught. I reach my right hand up to massage at her ass while my left finds her nipple. I flick my tongue around her clit with the same pattern as my thumb on her nipple and she starts writhing even harder under my touch.

"Fuck, Arizona. You feel so good, more. I need more," she begs out with a pant.

I move my right hand to her entrance with the intention of using my fingers to give her more while my mouth still works its magic, but she grabs my hand.

I look up to see what she has planned and I feel my cock twitch as she takes my three fingers into her warm and wet mouth. My brain fries and my mouth stops working. I can only stare at her from over her mound as she fucks her mouth with my fingers.

"If you can't keep working with me baby, I'm going to need you to put something else to good use," she says with a sultry wink.

I shake myself from my stupor and make my way up to her face, I enter her mouth once more with my fingers before pulling out and replace them with my hungry mouth. Without warning I use those same three fingers to enter her dripping core.

"Oh my – fuck, Arizona!"

I smirk and lean in to kiss her again as my fingers continue to work her back up. I place kisses along her jaw and to her ear so that I can whisper, "Is this the more that you wanted? Is this how you want to come?"

"Mmmn-no."

"No?"

"I want you to make me come with you."

"Mmm, gladly," I continue to work her core for a few more moments before I pull back. I sit back on my heels once more, looking her directly in the eyes I take one of my fingers into my mouth. I make a show of cleaning off her juices with a moan. She really is delicious.

When I go for my second digit Callie grabs my hand again. She takes my middle finger between her lips and swirls her tongue around it to make sure she doesn't miss a drop of her own wetness. My eyes roll back into my head and I groan.

"Oh god, I love it when you do that."

"I know," she winks. "And I taste really good."

I pull her up into a sitting position so that I can once again smash my lips to hers. Only this time her tongue tastes like her own essence and my cock twitches even more.

"You need to take these off, how are you still wearing these?" she groans as she pulls at the waistband of my boxer briefs. Not waiting for a response, she instead reaches her hand inside and cups my erection and starts to run her hand up and down.

"Oh shit. It's because you're so fucking sexy that I keep getting distracted," say with a long moan. Her movements are sure and I could easily come in her hand if she doesn't stop. "Hold on, let me take these off. I want to be inside of you, please?"

"Hurry," she demands and I have no choice but to listen.

I quickly hop off the bed and discard my boxers. I open the nightstand drawer and hurriedly find a condom. I waste no time tearing it open and rolling it down my fully erect cock. I look back to the bed and see Callie staring at me with a hungry look.

"Come back here, sit just like you were," she once again makes her demand.

I climb back onto the bed and sit with my legs on either side of Callie's hips. She reaches her hand behind my neck and pulls me in for a kiss. As her tongue is probing at my mouth she straddles my lap and wraps her legs around me.

She grabs my dick and guides it into her entrance. I go slow but she takes control by quickly rocking her hips forward to fill herself completely.

"Oh fuck!" I cry. I will never get tired of having her around my cock like this.

"You feel so good," she pants. She locks her ankles behind me and uses my shoulders to support herself as she rolls her hips into mine with a steady pace.

I grab both of her ass cheeks and use my strength to pull her into me faster and harder causing us both to moan. I have no idea how long we have been at it; my idea of a morning quickie has turned into something much more athletic. I really don't want to have to stop before the grand finale.

"Fuck, Calliope. We need to hurry. I really need to come, baby."

"I'm not there, I need more. Keep fucking me."

"What is it, what do you need?" I ask desperately.

"Just don't stop," she begs.

I lean back and hold myself up with my left arm, my right still clutching desperately to Callie's ass. I can't reach her clit in this position; her legs are holding me too closely. But with this new angle I can thrust harder and deeper into her.

"Come on baby, make yourself come. I love watching you ride me. Keep going, don't stop, baby."

"Oh, god. I'm going – I'm about to – don't stop, don't stop!"

She thrusts twice more before she explodes with her orgasm, "Oh my god, Arizona!"

"Fuck me, Callie. Keep fucking me," I cry. My release is seconds away; I can taste it. "Oh shit, I'm coming!"

I keep rolling my hips as my orgasm washes over me. I can feel my release spilling into the condom and Callie is still shaking on top of me.

"Oh my god, Arizona. That was incredible. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you," she says, planting my face with kisses.

I fall back onto the bed, still inside of her, with a groan, "Thank you. Happy birthday, love."

"This has been the best year of my life. I'm so in love with you."

"Mine too, I love you more than ever."

We lay there in our afterglow for a few more minutes. I look to the clock and see that it is almost seven o'clock. Thankfully the fates were on our side so far and Wyatt did not wake up early. We might even have time to shower together.

"Do you want to shower?" I ask.

"Together?" she asks gleefully. "Of course."

Just as we maneuver our way out of bed to head to the bathroom our luck has run out and a cry comes from the monitor.

"I can't even be sad; this morning was absolutely perfect. Even if I have to shower alone now," Callie says as she kisses me on the lips and reaches for her robe.

"I can get him. Why don't you enjoy a nice long shower while I get him up and then I'll make mine quick and I'll take you both out to breakfast?"

"You've got yourself a deal."


Operation Distract Mama Bear is coming to a close.

Home base is a go.

ETA 1100.

Roger, Alpha Zebra. Tango Romeo, over and out.

I laugh at my brother's antics. I have managed to distract Callie for the last few hours. After leaving the house at around eight thirty we went to breakfast and I stalled as much as I could. But with a nearly four-month old it is hard to stay in a restaurant for too long. After our fill of pancakes, I reluctantly paid our tab at only ten o'clock. I had another hour to kill but easily talked Callie into walking around the nearby shopping mall saying that I wanted to walk off all the sugary syrup.

"What's so funny?" Callie asks as we load up into the car.

"Tim, he's a nutter today."

"Isn't he always?"

I laugh at the truthfulness to that statement, "You're right. Is there anything else that you wanted to do before heading home?"

"Nope, I'm ready to relax, you wore me out already."

I hope she doesn't mind the delay in her relaxation. Surely she won't be mad at having everyone over to celebrate her. She can't get mad at me after this morning, I smirk to myself.

"You are one to talk," I wink as I point the car in the direction of home.

I drive home slowly. Once we reach our neighborhood I try to distract Callie in conversation so that she doesn't notice all of the familiar cars on the street. I made sure that no one parked in our driveway. Home free, I pull into our garage and shut the door before hoping out and helping Callie with Wyatt.

"I've got him, babe. Can you get the door for me?"

"Of course," she answers with a kiss.

I make sure to hang back and let her enter first, I don't want to scare Wyatt with the loud noises.

Sure enough, as soon as Callie enters the house I can hear a large group of people shout, "SURPRISE!"

I smile and follow her in just in time to see her face register the party, "Oh my god!"

"Happy birthday, beautiful."

"Arizona, did you plan this?"

"I had plenty of help, are you okay?"

"Yes, of course. You're so wonderful. Wait, is that why you stalled all morning?"

"Busted," I grin and she laughs.

We make our way further into the house so that Callie can greet her guests. The housewarming will come later, for now the house is full of family and friends. Callie's family flew in this morning and she immediately spots her niece.

"Olivia?"

"Tia Callie! Feliz cumpleaños!"

"Gracias," she responds while lifting her niece up onto her hip. "¿Dónde están tus padres?"

"Ahí," she points and Callie's eyes light up again at seeing her sister, brother-in-law, and parents talking to Tim and Addison.

"I can't believe that you did all of this. You're amazing," Callie says to me and leans in to kiss me on the lips.

Olivia reaches for Callie's face and pulls her away from me causing Callie to laugh, "You don't want me to kiss Arizona?"

"You can kiss Tia Zona later, I want to show you my new dress!"

Everyone who was paying attention laughs at the girl's antics. I go upstairs to put Wyatt down for his nap before grabbing the baby monitor and shutting the door behind me. Once I join the party again I spot Callie in a group of people, still holding onto Olivia. I can see my brother working his charm on Addison so I decide to leave them be for now and make my way over to a ready-to-pop-at-any-second Teddy.

"If your water breaks, my car isn't blocked in. Plus Dr. Maddox should be around here somewhere," I joke.

"Har har. I'm miserable. The only reason I'm not in bed right now is because I love your wife too much."

"Not me?"

"Today isn't your birthday, so right now I only stay for Callie."

"I can deal with that," I laugh.

The party has been in full swing for a little over an hour. I invited the neighbors to come over at around twelve thirty so I decided to start up the grill so we can have lunch soon which means that the crowd has migrated outside. There are people milling about in the yard and on both stories of the deck. This house really is perfect for parties, even if I went for more suburban house wife over frat boy today.

I hear the doorbell so I pass the grilling duties to Tim. Making my way through the house I go to greet my first neighbor. I open the door to reveal a couple with a boy of about five, "Hi, come on in. I'm Arizona Robbins."

The woman extends her hand, "Hi, I'm Jessica Zheng and this is my husband Jim and our son Chris. We live right across the street."

"It's nice to meet you. We have food and drinks outside," I point. Looking at Chris I smile, "There are some other kids outside too and there are some different games set up if that's okay with your parents."

He looks at them and they both smile, "Let's go check it out."

I lead them outside and spot Callie in the crowd. I make introductions and we both spend time getting to know our new neighbors. Jessica is a kindergarten teacher and Jim is a pharmacist, they are shy at first but soon they loosen up and let Chris go and play with the games.

This process repeats another nine times. Some of them new faces and some we've passed by on the way to the park, but all of our closest neighbors able to attend. Most of them are young families with small children. There is even another same sex couple, Harold and Steven, who have a teenage son and daughter. The only couples who didn't have children are a newly married couple and an older retired couple. Though I found out that they have three grown children and a new granddaughter not much older than Wyatt.

Everyone seems to be getting along well. The young kids have all migrated to the games that Henry and Owen set up and they are currently being supervised by the two teenage neighbors. I was keeping a closer eye on them until Harold told me that both kids are used to babysitting since they have lots of younger cousins. I decided to trust them, and I can see that the other parents are still close enough for comfort.

I make my way to the front of the crowd so that I can get everyone's attention, "Hi, everyone. I want to first start by thanking all of you for coming to wish my beautiful wife a happy birthday and breaking in the new house. It seems to be holding up well."

Everyone chuckles and I continue, "I couldn't have done this without the help of my brother and closest friends. She didn't suspect a thing. And if she did she will keep it to herself until we are old and grey. Isn't that right, sweetie?"

"I didn't have a clue," she smiles sweetly.

"That's my girl," I wink. "All kidding aside, today has been great. I am happy to welcome our new neighbors, who I soon hope to consider friends. And my in-laws are here all the way from Miami to celebrate the gift that they bestowed upon the world twenty-four years ago. I couldn't be happier to be spending today with each and every one of you. Thank you all for coming. Continue to enjoy the food and drinks. To Callie, happy birthday baby."

I raise my drink and everyone follows suit, "To Callie!"

My gorgeous wife makes her way over to me and kisses my lips with a smile, "That was very sweet. Thank you, my love."

"I meant it, you're a gift. I love you."

"I love you too, are you trying to get lucky later?"

"Luck has nothing to do with it, Calliope, it's all skill," I wink and she laughs.

"I'm so glad I fell for that same charm a year ago."

"I fall for you more every day," I say as I kiss her.

"Mmm, your skills are definitely working still."

And I'm putting this skill to work as often as possible.

The End.


A/N2

I thought ending the story a year after they met was a nice bookend.

But stay tuned for the epilogue :)