You Make me Smile (Merzona)

A/N: I spent most of my afternoon rewriting chapter 19 for the third time and I swear to god it's still not perfect but I'm tired of it. Anyway, there is a little angst in this chapter regarding the custody case so a warning towards that!

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Chap 13

Penny goes to New York even after Callie had told her that she wouldn't be able to go due to the fact that she had just lost her daughter custody, at the moment Callie only has visitation rights and going to New York would mean seen her daughter once a year or no see her at all. Callie has been at Meredith's house a lot since Penny had left, the brunette needed company but Meredith was getting mad about Callie playing the victim in here, she was the one who chose to take things this way not Arizona.

At dinner, Callie was once again talking about how things got so messed up between her and her ex and Amelia was not here for it. The brunette had been quiet about her thoughts but enough was enough.

"You know it's funny Callie, you like to play the victim but you're the one to blame in here" Amelia barks. Meredith looked at her sister with wide eyes, she couldn't believe this was happening right now especially with the kids watching.

"What are you talking about?" Callie argues back. Maggie was just as surprise as Meredith but she knew Amelia was tired of this pity scenes and honestly so was her.

"You know very well, 'oh look at me I'm Callie the woman who asked for a divorce made the divorce happen later then it was supposed too then got mad at my ex-wife for cheating, which wouldn't be consider cheating if I hadn't postpone my divorce twice, and asked to take my daughter across the damn country only to my ex-wife say no, reasonably may I add, and take her to court to fight for this stupid custody that I made it happen and now that I lost because the judge saw how shitty of a person I was I'm here crying a river for being selfish'" Amelia remarks while looking sternly at Callie. Maggie reached over for the bottle of wine and poured the liquid on Meredith's glass.

She knew Meredith was always a person to say what it's on her mind even if it hurts the others, but lately her sister has kept all that inside of her and she knew it was due to respect for her friend but she also knew Meredith only had a little more patience.

"Is that how you see things Amelia? First of all, I had to postpone the divorce despite no wanting to, second she cheated because she was still married to me- "

"But it wouldn't be consider cheating if you hadn't postponed the divorce so"

"So nothing, she still cheated, third I wanted to take my daughter with me across the country because she's mine"

"She's Arizona's too" Meredith finally remarks.

"Yes, but it's not the same and Arizona can visit her any time she wants"

"You're the one leaving Callie so you should be the one visiting your daughter whenever you can, not Arizona, and most important of all she might be yours biologically but she's Arizona's just as much so don't you dare use the biological card ever again on her. I couldn't be more disappointed on you than I am right now, when I heard this on court I was shocked because not only you knew what your lawyer would say but you also knew that I have an adoptive child and still had the courage to call me to stand for you. What you did was low on so many levels and I didn't snap early due to respect but just like Amelia I'm tired of you playing victim. Yes, Arizona cheated but you should've put your differences aside like she did when it came to Sofia custody" she saw how embarrass Callie started to be about the all situation, she just wanted her friend to understand what she did was very wrong no matter how stormy her situation with Arizona was. At the end of the day the kid was the one suffering from all this and only one parent was paying attention to that.

"I hope you know that Arizona waited until last minute for you to step down with this craziness but since you didn't she had to fight back" Amelia explains in a harsh tone. She was closer to the blonde this last few days, they had to operate a patient together and after that case conversation flew easily between them. She had a crush on the blonde before and if she didn't suspect that Meredith might feel something for the blonde she would actually ask Arizona on a date.

After hearing all this Callie realized how bad she had screw up, she needed to apologize to Arizona for what her lawyer had said about the blonde and for being so unfair about Sofia. The kids weren't stupid and although they heard everything they understood most of it specially Zola, the girl was a little sad to heard from one of her aunts that not being biologically from her mother was being less of a daughter than the others. Zola was upset but she tried to disguise, only after going to bed the little girl asked her mother if she loved like the others to which Meredith answered with an 'of course'. So sad to see her daughter with doubts that she suggested for them to sleep together.

The next day at the hospital when Arizona drops Sofia at the day care she sees Meredith kids excited to see their friend, Arizona smiles at the kids an gives each one of them a kiss on the cheek and a hug. She picks Ellis up and plays a little with the baby while seeing Zola and Sofia run to the toys section, Bailey is watching her with Ellis so the blonde kneels down next to the boy so she can play a little with him too before leaving. Amelia sees the scene from the nurse desktop and smiles, the blonde usually visits the children at her lunch time so she can play a little with them and the kids are always eager to see the blonde and play with her, she had caught this a few times and apparently no one else knew about it. She didn't know if it was a way for the blonde to avoid her thoughts but she thought that it was really sweet.

At lunch time Meredith and Callie were talking about Penny, and Callie was explaining that now that she didn't have Sofia's custody she couldn't go to New York and be with her girlfriend. On the other side of the room was 'The Robbins' plus Richard, they were laughing at something that Alex had said, probably some joke or something stupid he had done.

The rest of the days after that went pretty well with no gossip or scandals, on the other hand Meredith realized that Arizona was avoiding her at all cost, the dark blonde had tried a few times to talk with her but the other woman was always busy with something. She notices that Alex has been helping the blonde avoid her too and when he's not with her he texts her, Meredith starts to get worry about her friendship with Arizona, she knew she had screw up but she didn't know it was this bad.

Meredith has notice how not only Alex and April have been helping Arizona avoid her but so have been Amelia and Richard. She knew the blonde was hurt by her actions and didn't wanted to talk to her but she needed to explain and apologize to her friend. She was falling hard for Arizona and she knew that what she had done, did nothing good to it.