Just to clarify since I forgot to put it in the authors note in the first chapter this story does follow Grey's. Everything happened up until the divorce and then after our girls get divorced that's where things are changing here. I don't own of the characters or anything. This chapter was after the song One Number Away by Luke Combs. Thanks for reading and all the reviews, it's why I continued this!

It's funny the way life works. How one decision, one choice can have such a ripple effect. How once you make a decision there's often no going back, it's too late the damage has already been done. You always here the saying everything happens for a reason. But what reason could this possibly have happened for? When something so terrible happens why? Why can't you just be happy the way you were before?

On nights that Callie didn't have Sofia, she normally spent them getting drunk. Sometimes she drank at Joe's, other times she just drank at her house. She often caught herself wanting to call Arizona when something good or bad happened or whenever she just wanted to tell somebody something. After all this time she still knew Arizona's phone number by heart. Most of the time she would just pull up Arizona's contact and stare at it. Or she would dial those six numbers and stare and debate on whether to dial that seventh number and hit call.

On nights Arizona had Sofia she would often leave her phone on silent. She wanted to enjoy her time with her daughter. She would leave her pager on but other than that she really had nobody who needed to get in touch with her. Which is why she didn't hear her phone go off that night when Callie. She seen she had a voicemail when she woke up so she listened to a very drunk Callie rambling on it.

"Arizonaaaaa it's me Callie...Calliope Torres. But I just wanna hear your voice so I guess this voicemail will just have to do" Callie says letting out a sigh and pausing for a minute "you know I don't really know how we got here. You were my best friend and now, now I just ..it's like every time I'm one number away from calling you. I know I said I was through, I know I was the one that walked away but Ari I'm dying inside. My head and heart is a mess. I shouldn't have walked away that day, I shouldn't have said I wasn't coming back because all I want to do is come back to you, to be with you. Everywhere I go I see you, everything reminds me of you. And everytime...everytime I dial those six numbers I plan in my head what I wanna say but then i just can't dial the seventh. I'm still one number away from you. I wonder if you changed your playlist with all our favorite songs. Maybe it's a mistake, maybe I should hit the brakes on moving on. I wonder what you do at night if you're all alone, or watching a movie that you've seen a thousand times or if you just stare a hole through your phone hoping that it rings, hoping that it's me. I always wondered if you would pick up if I called you...well I guess not now. I wonder if you would just forget about us and forget about that we ever loved at all. It might make things easier for you that way. But if you're like me you must be doing whatever you can to drown out the noise, trying to outrun the storm. We don't have to talk Ari, I just...I just wanna hear your voice one more time"

Arizona kept replaying the voicemail. She felt the tears just silently falling down her face. Hearing Callie's voice, hearing Callie say that she still thought of her, Arizona couldn't deny she felt a little relieved. A part of her was happy to hear Callie say all this but this a part of her it just hurt. How did the great love she once had turn into this? It hurt her to hear Callie hurting but at the same time that meant that this wasn't as easy for Callie as she was putting on. She was putting on a front, a damn good one but still a light was finally shining through it. There was hope for them after all...maybe.

When one of them didn't have Sofia that night or day, most of the time they could be found visiting her and playing with her in daycare at the hospital. That's currently where Arizona found Callie. As she watched them play together through the window. Callie could feel Arizona's eyes on her. They always had that kind of connection where they both could feel the other's presence in the room or could feel when the other's eyes where on them and that's one thing that never changed. Even though their minds made a mess of their relationship, there bodies didn't seem to catch up or get that memo. Callie got up wondering why Arizona was watching them

"Hey is everything okay?"

"Oh ummm yea" Arizona answers looking like a deer caught in headlights

Callie lets out a little chuckle even now Arizona still looks adorable "okay because you were just staring. She's your daughter too, you can come in and play too, we can be civil."

"Yea okay thanks"

"Yeaaa" and with that Callie turns around going to make her way back in the room

"Wait Callie! Actually can we um...can we talk?"

"Um yea sure everything okay?"

"yea i guess...sort of. um it's about the voicemail you left me last night"

"What voicemail?"

"You did sound pretty drunk, figures you wouldn't remember doing it"

"look Arizona I'm sorry. I don't know what I said but I hope it wasn't anything that made you uncomfortable"

"Is it...is it true?"

"Is what true?"

"What you said in the voicemail?"

"um Arizona I don't remember it, remember?"

"Rightttt well okay then have a good rest of your day Callie" Arizona says going to walk away

"It's Calliope to you" Callie calls back making Arizona stop in her tracks "i'm still your Calliope, I always will be and if that voicemail is anything as what I always been wanting to run back and say to you then yes it's all true Arizona."