It's a pretty small chapter, but it has a pretty big impact.


Even three weeks after they returned back home, the Torres girls couldn't stop talking about Los Angeles. Sofia had successfully made her little brother jealous and Faith kept telling her preschool teacher that the Seattle sun was "just little good"on nice days now that she had experienced the weather in California.

It was Mother's day, so the entire blended family of seven was hanging out at Mark and Lexie's place. Arizona was texting back and forth with Dr. Brady and Teddy regarding the reasons why they had lost their last three trial patients. None of them had even made it off of the table, which made Arizona feel like they had just taken a giant leap backwards instead of forwards. Addison was still working on ideas, but nothing had come of that path yet.

"Arizona?" Callie asked.

"What?"

"Disneyland next year?" she replied.

"What?"

She had zoned out and missed an entire conversation that the adults were having about vacation plans. They typically took separate vacations because that was just how things worked out, but they were discussing planning this one for all of them.

"I've wanted to go back since Sofia was a fetus, but we never did it. And then we had Faith and the world stopped for three years. Now we totally could go. Not this year because I know you'll be working on the trial all summer. Plus, Mark and Lexie are taking Sofia and Max to Vancouver in August. But next year, we could actually do it. Sofia'll be nine, but you're never too old for Disney fun and Faith would be the perfect age. Max, too, really."

"Okay," she smiled.

"We talk about Disney and her response is 'okay?'" Lexie asked. "She wears roller skates for shoes. Shouldn't she love Disney?"

"She lives in H.L.H.S. land," Callie said.

"I can't help it."

"I know," she replied. "But can you put the phone down for just a few minutes? The kids are about to come down with our 'secret' Mother's day cards."

"Okay," Arizona smiled.

There was only one thing more important to her than her trial and that was her family. If suppressing her need to think about it would make them happy, she would do it.

"Thank you."

"And Disney sounds great."

"Sof is less than thrilled about Vancouver," Lexie said.

"I told her and her response was 'it's not L.A., Daddy! I only want L.A.'"

"I do!" Sofia replied as she walked into the conversation. "We don't even gotta get a hotel! We can stay with Madre's friend Addison!"

"She's my friend too, Sof," Mark laughed. "And we're going to Vancouver."

"Why?" she asked. "That's like...I don't even know where that is!"

"It's actually not far from here," Lexie explained. "But it's in Canada."

"Really?"

"Really."

Arizona's phone rang and she didn't answer it. It was hard not to, but her wife had asked her, so she didn't. Instead, the other two kids came down and the moms all received their Mother's day cards.

"Is that me, Faith?" Callie asked of one of the figures in her card.

"Yep," she nodded.

"I'm wearing quite a big hat," she laughed.

"Go to a beach," she explained.

"Oh, I'm on the beach, so I need a hat?"

"Yeah."

There was no hat involved in Arizona's card. Instead, she appeared to be laying down in some strange sort of box.

"What about my picture?" she asked.

"You seep," she said.

"I'm sleeping?"

"Go to bed."

"How come Madre gets to be on a beach and I'm in bed?"

Faith rolled her little eyes as if this was a ridiculous question. She drew what she felt like drawing and her parents were way too into this.

"'Cause."

"Is that you cuddling with me?"

"Yeah," she said.

"Oh, okay. That's much better than the beach."

"No, it's not," Sofia said.

Callie's phone rang next. She too ignored it. She had asked her wife to, so she had to do the same thing. However, when they both rang at the same time just minutes later, she took it as a sign and answered hers.

"Hello?"

"Hi, Callie," a familiar voice said. "It's Austin. Happy Mother's day. Where's Arizona?"

"Right here."

"Can I talk to her?"

Callie passed her phone over. It turned out that he and Teddy had been the ones calling this whole time. They had some news for her. Arizona looked confused when she hung up the phone.

"What?" Callie asked.

"Hunt called a meeting about the trial for tomorrow morning. Until now, he's pretty much left it up to me and stayed out of it."

"Oh."


"He can't just shut it down, can he?" Dr. Brady asked as they waited in the conference room that had become known as theirs the next day.

"Why couldn't he?" Arizona responded. "He's the Chief."

"The trial hasn't been successful, but we've managed to learn that our technique can be," he said. "He can't stop us now. Deaths happen in trials. That's normal. Horrible, but normal."

"But we're not exactly making the hospital look good," Teddy said.

"No," Arizona agreed.

Unfortunately, Dr. Brady was wrong. Owen could, and did, decide to shut the trial down. The hospital was putting too much time, money, and other resources into it. It had been months and there just wasn't enough progress. He did acknowledge that they had learned a lot, but he still couldn't let it continue. Arizona and Teddy needed to start taking on more non-H.L.H.S. patients again. That part of their jobs had started to suffer.

"I understand why you're so attached to this and I'm not faulting you for it," he said. "I'm really not. It's just that I have a whole hospital to worry about, not just one condition. Other specialties are starting to talk about the amount of resources that this trial has taken up."

"What specialties?" Arizona asked. "Because it's not Ortho, Plas-"

"I'm not saying no forever," he promised. "Just for now."


"So, good news and bad news," Arizona said when she saw her wife a few hours later.

"Start with the bad," she told her. "I'm guessing this has to do with your meeting."

"Hunt shut the trial down," she said. "Which I understand, but this isn't some business decision. These are infants."

"Sorry," she said. "What's the good news?"

"You and the girls will see my face more often?" she replied. "Really there's not much good in having my trial shut down, but I'm trying not to hate Hunt. I actually think he's a good Chief. So yay for more time to be Mommy. He said that when we came up with something better, he'd consider it."

"Did you tell him about Addison?"

"We don't have anything."

"I'd still tell him," she suggested. "Once this thing gets completely shut down, it'll take more to start it up again."

Arizona picked up her phone and dialed a number. Why hadn't she realized that? For someone so focused on this trial, that seemed pretty stupid of her, she thought. She had an idea.

"Hello?" Addison answered.

"Hi, it's Arizona," she said in her most cheerful voice. "My Chief shut down my trial, so I'm going to tell him you have a super genius idea, alright? We can work on it more once you get here."

"Get there?" Addison laughed. "What?"

"I'm begging. Literally begging. Give me a few days out here. Please, Addison. I know you really don't know me well, but my wife is your friend. Do us a favour."

"What about my job? Not to mention my husband and kid?"

"One week," she said. "You've travelled for cases before."

"Before I had Henry."

"Please?"

"You're annoyingly persistent," she said.

"C'mon. How long has it been since you've seen Mark and Derek? Even Bailey? It'll be like a reunion!"

"I'll talk to Jake."