Callie's POV

"No! Please stop!" I can't with Emma right now. She invited me over for pizza and now she's building a case for my being pregnant. I share one detail about my boobs being extra sensitive, now I'm knocked up?

"You realize that soreness can be a symptom of so many other things, right?" I'm seething at her just casually holding a slice in her hand while discussing my possible future. She doesn't take a bite just yet, she just swings it around.

Emma's coy as she questions, "Yeah like what?"

I counter her argument with, "Like PMS!"

She does take a bite. She holds up a finger so she speaks without a mouthful of cheese and marinara sauce. I let her take a beat. I think to myself about where this conversation could be going. Is this happening? I'm just not used to pregnancy scares or anything remotely close. Not even when I was working with Mark. When I say Mark was careful, he was extremely so. Plus, most of the clients were equally interested in not having children as we were.

When Emma is done chewing, she has the chance to continue with the conversation. "You've said that you hadn't had your period yet. Besides, we usually sync up, and I've been off of mine for like two and a half weeks now."

Knowing how solid of a point she has I can only whisper, "I can have a late period, I haven't been having an exactly easy time."

"You haven't." This is the first point she concedes.

I try to keep the streak going, by adding, "I'm also on birth control."

"Not one hundred percent effective. We use condoms in conjunction with birth control for that reason. Were you and Arizona using condoms?" She asks the question she already knows the answer to.

She gets an even quieter, "No..."

"Hate to tell you this babe, because even if you were being all the way careful; this could be a real possibility."

"I'm not even sure she can have biological children. She never once brought it up. I told her I was on birth control so we could stop using condoms. Would that have not been s a good time for her to tell me that she could get me pregnant?" Slowly but surely freaking out here.

"Maybe she thinks she can't or she simply wasn't ready to share information with you."

Okay once and for all, let's be serious. "Do you seriously think I need a test?" Because I'm starting to think I do.

I appreciate how gentle she's being. She suggests, "Just to be sure, yeah you should take a test."

And this is okay. All good. It'll be good to know for sure. Chances are I'm not even pregnant. This can all be a funny story between me and Emma later. And If I am pregnant, that has to be okay too. I am an adult. Even better I'm an adult with resources. I can handle this. I will handle this.

Shopping for pregnancy tests is new territory. I did some searches as to the most reliable ones. I wasn't too sure if some of the good reviews were advertisements so I decided to buy a couple of different brands. I bought six tests, three different brands. If they all point in the same direction then that's almost a definitive answer. I hope these will go in a certain direction as I do hope I'm not pregnant.

I drank a bunch of water and I think I'm ready. Emma is outside the bathroom door, waiting for an answer. She thinks it smart to give me this space. I couldn't disagree more. I don't think I have ever been this nervous to be in my bathroom before. It's so weird to have this emotion in here. I mean I come here for relief, and sometimes to unwind. I love self-care routines. I rarely have to wait in here. It's only me, so I just go. My body is usually ready to go and I just do. Now I find myself with time.

I look around the room to try and make the time go by faster. These five minutes have been long as hell, but now the wait is over. Okay, Clearblue am I pregnant or not? "Pregnant," is the response. Let's keep going anyways. What does the first response have to say? Hmm, ironic how it wasn't the first test I tried.

The stick reads pregnant with its two lines. It's real, I'm experiencing this. This is me. The woman looking back at me in the mirror is pregnant. The underprepared, unexcited person with tears flowing down her face. I am pregnant.

I wash my face then wipe it clean. Going outside to Emma, I put, "I have to make an appointment."

Emma affirms my statement. She doesn't have to ask about the results. She does think it necessary to assure me, "Hey, I'll go with you and we'll do whatever else we need to." She reminds me that I'm not alone in this. I did try to keep that in the back of my mind, that but as soon as the tests come back positive, I was sure I was on my own.

Arizona's POV

Things haven't slowed down here. Though the energy in the office is back to normal. Only at work of course. I don't know. I never imagined that after all this, I'd lose Calliope. I saw things going differently in my head. I thought a bit about my survival, my firm's survival but not at all about my relationship surviving. Who just leaves someone after all of that? She could have just left when things got hard then. She would have been safer for it. I just- all the time I was trying to figure out ways to protect her, was she just thinking about leaving me? And I'm sorry but her reasoning is bullshit. I don't see how she could even believe I would give up such a big part of my career. I'm a lawyer, she's known this from the day we met. It's the reason we met in the first place. So, it was okay when I was helping Mark, but not when I'm helping other people? She should be grateful that I do what I do and I am who I am because it's allowed me to look past everything. Her old line of work didn't phase me. Where many people would judge her for it, I did not.

Betrayal has become a theme in my life, especially as of late. The person who attacked us? Yeah, that was Sam's long-time associate. He got jealous and saw an opportunity to land Sam in prison. He figured that with me on Sam's team, it would be a long shot so he shot at us. Too bad it's he who will be going to prison now. I think I've already spoken about my betrayal. It's a good thing both people can't cause me any more trouble. Sam's associate is being taken care of. Since the breakup, Callie and I only communicated about getting some of her things back to her. I have only seen her like twice since that fateful day. I handed over things to Emma and went on with my life. She's out of my life completely. Yes, only physically as I'm still very upset with her and how things played out.

It's kinda funny how much busier I am with work. Cases like Sam Rich's have been rolling in. I've taken quite a few of them. They've been great distractions in getting days to move faster. It's always interesting to get yourself wrapped up in someone else life. It's easy to consider someone a bad person based on one really bad thing they did (sometimes it's a few bad things). When you learn about who they are and their why, it's a lot harder to judge them. It's even important to find out why they don't want to be in prison. We all know the consequences of our actions. It can be that they made a misstep. Or that they were given a set of cards that made it impossible for them to get ahead, so well, you do what is necessary, legal or illegal. The point is I spend a lot of time outside of my head these days.