On the other side of the country, Arizona was woken up by her maddening alarm clock forcing her awake at five in the morning. Being one of the founders of a women's health centre with a partner as brilliant as Nicole Herman definitely has its up and downs. Stirring around in her bed, Arizona noticed the blonde woman lying asleep next to her that she had completely forgotten about. Sighing to herself, she gently tapped the woman's shoulder to wake her up. She needed to leave and she didn't trust her one night stand with her apartment.

"Hey…Katherine? Listen, I had a really good time last night but you need to go… now. I'm sorry." Arizona said in the nicest tone she could muster out despite the lack of caffeine in her system.

The woman, looking up at Arizona, hurt, awkwardly got up and started putting on the clothes scattered across the bedroom floor. "You know, I thought that you would be different from the others. Turns out I'm wrong."

Right before she left the bedroom, the woman turned around and sighed, "Oh by the way, my name is Karen not Katherine."

Arizona sensing the shameful feeling that's brewing inside of her head started her morning hygiene routine in the bathroom to suppress yesterday's memories.

After she was done with that, she went to her kitchen to brew herself a much needed cup of coffee. First, she routinely filled her kettle with water. While she waited for the water to boil, Arizona walked over to her French press and picked up the bag of empty coffee beans next to it. Wait… empty? Groaning internally, Arizona reached up and looked through her cupboards for a new bag only to be disappointed by her empty shelves. Of course Arizona's habit of pushing back her shopping days would come back and bite her ass… again.

Pushing herself out of her apartment, she walked over to the nearest coffee shop to buy herself a much needed cup of Joe only to be greeted by a waiting line that stretched out of the shop, because of course everyone wanted coffee in the morning.

After around a thirty minutes long waiting time, Arizona finally got her cup of over sugared coffee and a disgusting pumpkin scone because the shop sold out on pastries it was either that or overpriced sandwiches. At this point, she was pretty much done with her day. But, the day wasn't done with her because, as soon as Arizona started driving to work, she was greeted by the most infuriating sight on earth, New York traffic. At this point, Arizona's definitely going to be late for work, so she sent Nicole a short text stating her reasoning. Besides from that, Arizona snapped a photo of the New York traffic and sent it to Meredith with a single sad emoji.


Finally, after being stuck in traffic for an hour, an exhausted Arizona walked up to her office and changed into her scrubs. Everything started to better because she was now at work with a passionate group of resident eager to learn the minimally invasive surgical technique using small incisions, fetoscopy and sonography on foetuses with myelomeningocele at 23 weeks of gestation.

Standing in front of her patient, Arizona asked her residents, "explain to me what myelomeningocele is?"

Picking the hand in the back, Dr. Miller replied, "myelomeningocele is the condition in which the vertebral column and meninges around the spinal cord do not join together and close completely leading to the protrusion of the spinal cord through the opening."

Following up with her question, Arizona asked, "and what are the benefits of performing a prenatal repair as opposed to a postnatal repair?"

Dr. Miller quickly replied before anyone else could, "a prenatal repair reduces the need for a VP shunt placement and reduces the rate of hindbrain herniation at twelve month of age."

"And what are the benefits of not performing an open in-utero repair?" Arizona asked.

Before Dr. Miller could answer this time, Dr. Davis replied, "open in-utero repair is associated with higher rates of preterm birth, oligohydramnios, placental abruption, pulmonary oedema, maternal transfusion at delivery, and risk of uterine thinning or dehiscence."

Arizona, impressed with the answers of her residents nodded in acknowledgement and started explaining the procedure step by step.


After the procedure, Arizona changed out of her scrubs and went to Herman's office and was greeted by the welcoming sight of a slice of white pizza.

Sitting down next to her partner, Arizona started eating her lunch as she checked her messages, a few from her friends, past hook-ups asking for a second date, a text from Callie reminding her of their dinner tonight, but out of all the messages, the one that stood out was Meredith's text with a photo of the road with no traffic jam followed by smiley face emoji and a 'more reason for you to come back' message.

Herman, noticing the glaring smile on her friend's face joked, "is that your little girlfriend from Seattle again?"

"No, Meredith… Meredith is not my girlfriend, she's not, she's… she's just a friend." Arizona replied, flushed red.

Herman chuckling at her friend's embarrassment said, "at least she's better than all the trollops you sleep with. Don't worry, she has my approval."

"Wha…. again, we're not dating, she's a friend, and Trollops?" Arizona said, even more flushed than before.

"Oh Robbins, don't be shy with me. You're dirty, you're a dirty girl, own up to it!" Herman said, extremely amused by this conversation.

Arizona, done with this conversation attempted to divert it into a different direction. "So, about the expansion, I talked with the Seattle Presbyterian Hospital and we have a meeting this Thursday to discuss make final adjustments to the contract. I'll be flying to Seattle on Tuesday."

"To see your girlfriend?" Herman suggestively asked.

"No… Nicole, I'm going for the meeting and again she's not my girlfriend, she's my… this is going nowhere. Anyways, can you just cover my class before Dr. Russell flies in?" Arizona asked, finishing the last bite of her lunch.

"Sure. I just hope that the Russell guy is actually as good as Addison said he is. Oh and it's almost three now so you have a class in ten minutes." Herman said typing in her new schedule into her tablet.

"Oh my god, thanks for the reminder, and I owe you." Arizona said before she rushed out of Herman's office to her destination.


After a long day at work, by the time she arrived at Callie's apartment, it was already eleven at night. Arizona quietly goes over to Sofia's bed and for a moment, she just sits next to her watches her sleep peacefully. These are moments in her life where Arizona considers giving up medicine, to just watch her daughter grow. But deep down, Arizona knows that medicine just means too much to her. Noticing Callie at the doorway, she gently kisses her daughter's forehead and leaves the room.

"Remember when she was still a toddler? She was so small and chubby and cute with her tiny pink hat." Callie reminisces.

Arizona smiling, replies, "and remember the first time she stumbled her way into our bed in the middle of the night? I can't believe she's so grown up already."

As they settled down at the dining table, Callie handed Arizona a plate of Arroz con pollo she saved up from dinner for her.

"Callie, I'm so sorry for being late, I was stuck at work arranging the time schedule since I'll be flying to Seattle next Tuesday." Arizona said as she dug into her dinner.

"Arizona are you really going back to Seattle?" Callie asked as she reached over for Arizona's hand, "what we have here is good, we live close to each other, Sofia has her two moms, Arizona, stay please, New York can be your home."

"You know I can't. As much as I love spending time with Sofia here, I miss Seattle, so much, I miss the weather, the people, that weird diner near my old place. And every day when I wake up, instead of embracing my new life here, I just keep on noticing the things that are missing here. I don't feel like I'm home because New York is not my home." Arizona replies with a solemn look.

"But… what about us, we can try again. I promise you, it took me a while to come to love New York, and just like me, you'll come to love it. I'll be here with you." Callie said in desperation.

"Callie, the last time we got back together, Sofia asked me why we were arguing all the time. I love you Calliope, and I will always love you, but we're in different places in life." Arizona said. "And I know you're worried about Sofia but don't worry, her home is now in New York. I love her and I will desperately miss her, but it just isn't fair for me to uproot her again. Just, promise me that I will get my daily FaceTime calls with her and I get a week every two month when I fly to New York to visit."

Callie tearing up replied, "I will miss you Arizona, and I love you too."

After Arizona finishes her dinner, she gives Callie a hug before she leaves to head back to her apartment.