Disclaimer: The characters in this story are not mine and belong to Grey's Anatomy.
AN: I'm sorry English is not my first language, so it was finish the story with all these mistakes or just leave it unfinished.
When the bell was heard, Sofia ran out the door, "Mommy, Mommy ! It has already arrived "Sofia jumped in front of the door jumping while clapping excitedly "Hurry! Can I open it?" She consulted her mother when she saw that she was not yet ready to open the door when 5 seconds had passed ...
"No, you know that no" Callie replied with a smile as she headed toward the door enjoying seeing her daughter's excitement. "I'm already opening." She did not finish opening that Sofia pounced on Arizona who was standing on the other side of the door.
The blonde leaned down and hugged her tightly. "I missed you," Callie heard her daughter say. "Me too baby, me too. Do you remember what are we going to do today?" Arizona asked the girl playfully.
"Yes! let's plan my birthday party! yeah! " Sofia began to clap and jump everywhere, both women could not contain their laughter, for both of them seeing Sofia's joy was a magical sensation.
"Sof, let Arizona get in the house, at least," Callie indicated to her daughter. Once inside the apartment and while Sofia was still jumping, Arizona approached Callie and gave her a tender kiss. "I thought you weren't interested in saying hi to me," she said, pouting.
"Has anyone got jealous?" Arizona asked her in a sensual tone, and began to kiss her, while Callie nodded her head. Of course she wasn't jealous of her daughter, but they enjoyed making jokes, Callie couldn't be happier with the bond her daughter and her girlfriend had formed.
When they parted from the kiss, Callie asked her sweetly "how are you? I thought you'd come later, aren't you tired? "
"I thought there would be two people eager to see me, but apparently there is only one ..." she said playfully
"I was expecting you!" shouted Sofia, who apparently hears the whole conversation
"Sofia! What did I tell you to intervene in adult talks! " her mother scolded her
"Sorry, mommy" the girl apologized
"And as for you ..." she continued looking at the blonde "of course I missed you, but I wanted you to have a little more rest"
"I'm fine, honey, seriously." Since the night they returned from the Arizona parents' home, she began practicing medicine again. In the midst of the chaos and the number of accidents that occurred that night, the lack of doctors forced Hunt to give her the benefits to enter the operating room after consulting with Derek, obviously.
Arizona knew that for any symptom, no matter how small, she should leave the room, and the interns were warned that they should be attentive to everything, and the blonde agreed from the first moment.
For her it was incredible to be able to be in those rooms again doing what she loved the most.
The following days, when things returned to normal, Hunt forced her to take several tests with Derek and they decided that Arizona could return to work at Seattle Grace Mercy West, always under strict supervision and on the condition of periodic evaluations to prevent any inconvenience.
Arizona was happy, and Callie, could not help but feel happy to see her girlfriend so happy, but that did not stop her from continuing to worry about her, what terrified her the most was that the blonde seemed to have forgotten the reality, the tumor was still there, but Arizona seemed to want to put it out of her mind, or at least that was the feeling Callie had.
The only cons was that work hours had meant that Arizona could no longer go to Callie's house so often and she missed Sofia, just like the girl missed the blonde. They missed all those family moments that used to live regularly and now they were a little more sporadic
It had been almost a week since Arizona had visited Sofia, so the girl had been looking forward to seeing her, but she had promised that today they would plan Sofia's birthday, which was coming soon.
"You want a drink?" Callie asked
"Maybe, later, now I have to plan a party with Miss Sofia, right?" She asked looking at the girl smiling
"Yes !, can there be clowns?" Sofia inquire expectantly
"Sure! we're going to have clowns! "
"Yes!" and again Sofia started jumping around the apartment
"Ok, I'm going to make lunch, since it seems nobody need me here" Callie winked at Arizona
"I'm going to miss you" Arizona murmured her
"You know where to find me," the brunette replied playfully.
From the kitchen Callie could hear them talking about clowns, magicians, ornaments, decorations ... She heard them laugh and it was music to her ears, Arizona and Sofia had been planning the girl's birthday party for a long time.
Arizona was really trying hard, and although Callie told her on several occasions that it was not necessary, Arizona always responded the same with a smile from ear to ear "I want to do it, Sofia asked me and I want to do it with her"
It was not going to be a very big party, it would be in Callie's apartment and only a few colleagues and her children would attend, who shared time with Sofia at daycare, but Sofia had told Arizona that she wanted to plan a birthday party and it is what they did…
"Remember that it will be here in the apartment, we cannot bring the whole circus ..." Callie warned them with a laugh when she heard them speak, if it was for them, Cirque du Soleil would be present on the birthday.
"Don't you want us to do it in a bigger place Callie?" consulted Arizona. The truth is that Arizona had already asked this question on several occasions
"We already talked about this, honey" warned the brunette
"She's right" Arizona whispered accomplice to Sofia "But, don't worry, it will be a great party, you will see how we are going to have fun" she said tickling the girl
"I bet you two at least are going to have a great time" Callie commented as she put the food on the table. "Come on, wash your hands that lunch is served"
"We are coming mommy!" The girl replied as she ran to the bathroom to wash her hands "I beat you Zone!" she yelled when returned to the dining room and the blonde was still in the bathroom
"You cheated!" answered the blonde
"God, what am I going to do with you two ..." Callie commented laughing
Arizona approached her girlfriend and said in her ear "I can think of several things you can do to me at nap time ..."
"You can bet ..." she said taking her hand
"What are you going to bet Arizona?" Naively asked Sofia, who like all children, although they seem not to pay attention to their surroundings, they do not lose detail.
"This is going to be the delicious food we've ever had," Arizona responded quickly.
"You know I can feel your gaze drilling me, right?" Arizona asked without opening her eyes as she continued enjoying Callie stroking her head
Callie smiled "Can't I delight in the beauty of my girlfriend?"
Arizona opened her eyes and was lost in the brunette's gaze for a few moments. "I love you" that statement did not need further explanation, it was simply reality, a reality shared by both
"I love you," she answered, staring at her. Callie, approached to the blonde's lips to kiss her sweetly. "thanks"
Arizona frowned "thank you? why?" she asked, surprised.
"For being the way you are, for everything you did for Sofia these days, for being in my life ..." her voice was broken with emotion.
Arizona sat up in bed "hey, hey, what's up?" she took Callie's face in his hands "Are you okay?" Arizona asked, as Callie nodded her head on her shoulder.
"I'm happy, it's just that ... I dreamed about this so many times that now it seems incredible to me, when Sofia was little I wanted so much that you had been with me preparing her parties, seeing her first steps ..." she wiped away the tears that ran silently on her cheeks , Arizona looked at her without saying a word so that she could continue "Mark was always present, I can't complain about that, he was always a very loving and present father, he was always as much as for Sofia and for me, but ..." she sighed and stared at her hands, which Arizona tenderly caressed.
She looked up and smiled at the woman in front of her "but still I always felt an emptiness that I could not fill with anything, or anyone ..."
Arizona quickly wiped away her own tears "you don't have to do it anymore, I'm here" she took Callie's face in her hands and began to kiss her "I'm not going to go anywhere, Sofia and you make me the happiest woman on earth, so there is no way you can get rid of me "
"you promise?" that question was very emotionally charged, it was almost a prayer that Callie uttered
Arizona smiled sadly, she knew that that promise hid a lie, because eternity on earth does not exist, but the love they professed went far beyond distances, times and life. "I promise, you two are here" she said, placing her hand on her heart "forever. I don't want to go anywhere Calliope, I swear "
"Ok, we better go to bed before the earthquake Sofia wakes up" said Callie trying to lighten the mood. "I imagine you must be tired, so a nap is going to come very useful" her hand went to Arizona's head and began to caress her again, that was her routine, she knew that the blonde fell exhausted every time her fingers they began to play with her hair
Arizona closed her eyes and nodded her head, the dream was beginning to catch her and she did not think to resist, sleeping in the arms of her beloved, it was a sweet pleasure that she adored to enjoy.
The apartment was perfectly decorated, it was not very big but Arizona had taken care of distributing the furniture to make it seem more spacious so that the guests would be comfortable.
Part of the living room had been transformed into a stage for the magicians and the clown that the blonde had hired, which the children who had attended were enjoying themselves.
Their laughter flooded the atmosphere, among which were hung some of the adults who, remembering the beautiful moments of their childhood, watched attentively the tricks of the actors on stage
"I don't know who is enjoying it the most?" Mark commented to Callie, referring to Arizona standing near Sofia applauding the tricks.
Callie laughed "I think both of them the same way." she felt Mark's sight on her and turned her head back to her friend
"You're happy," he commented. It was not a question, it was a statement and he looked at the woman next to him smiling satisfied
"Much" was the truth, at that moment Callie felt complete. Mark put his arm around his friend's shoulders and they continued to look at their girls
"Callie" Lexy approached them, her belly very big now. "Your parents arrived"
"Oh, ok, thanks" the brunette turned her eyes to look for them. "I'll come back in a while" she commented to the couple and went away to look for them
"Mom, Dad, you came!" Callie hugged her parents affectionately
"My girl" replied Carlos, who was always the most demonstrative with his daughter
Lucia looked around "Where is my granddaughter?" asked anxious to see the girl
"Grandma! Grandfa!" it was heard yelling as she waved at them at the other end of the room.
Sofia took Arizona by the hand and dragged her toward the entrance "come on Arizona, I'm going to introduce you to my grandparents"
At that moment the blonde swallowed, she knew Carlos but, she didn't know if he was going to be very happy with her presence after what happened years ago
"What is this woman doing here?" Lucia asked coldly without taking her eyes off the blonde.
"Lucia" Carlos warned his wife and bent to pick up his granddaughter. "look how you have grown"
"I'm four years old now," Sofia replied proudly.
"Hello, grandma, this is Arizona" she said looking at her grandmother, who turned her eyes to smile at the girl "Happy birthday little girl"
"Carlos, ma'am" Arizona greeted them politically as if she had not noticed the fury in the eyes of his girlfriend's mother
"Mom, this is not the time" Callie knew a scene was coming from the mother, she looked for Arizona's hand to hold her as support
"Arizona, so long" replied Carlos "How have you been?"
"How have you been? How have you been?" Lucia asked her husband furiously, "Is that important? What is this woman doing here, daughter? " This question was direct to Callie, but Sofia was ahead of her mother
"Do you like the party grandma? we planned it with Arizona, my mother's girlfriend" Those words seemed like a dagger to Lucia, who looked at her daughter with contempt
"Again? haven't you learned anything all this time? "
Callie closed her eyes for a moment and took a deep breath, she didn't want to ruin her daughter's party. "Mom, I ask you please, it's Sofia's party, then we can talk, Arizona is here because I love her and she loves me, we both made mistakes in the past but we already talked about it and it is left behind "
"The mistake is that you are with this woman again who is going to take you straight to hell" Lucia spoke interrelated due to the anger she felt "If you say so much that you love her I don't know why you try so hard to ruin her life, and now you don't seattle alone with my daughter, you want to lead my granddaughter to perdition too, showing her the path of sin"
Lucia had held Arizona's arm, who looked down, she didn't know how to act, they were in the middle of a party and she didn't want to make a scandal but also not allowing them to treat her that way.
"Mommy, what is grandma talking about?" Sofia asked innocently.
"I'm talking about your mother shouldn't allow you to hang out with this woman," she said looking down at Arizona who let go of Lucia.
Lucia frowned, she couldn't understand what her grandmother was saying. "But I love her grandma, she is very good with me," she replied smiling at Arizona
"Mom, I'm not going to let you ..." Callie cut herself off when she noticed Arizona braking her with her hand to avoid a scandal
Arizona knelt in front of Sofia, "You know what? Unfortunately I'm going to have to go ... "the blonde said making a great effort so that the girl does not notice that she was about to break
"But why? you were going to stay the whole party, don't you like the magician's tricks? " Sofia held Arizona's hands imploring her to stay
"please ..."
Arizona sighed "I'm sorry baby, I have to go to work" the blonde felt Callie's hand on her shoulder and squeezed it, she wasn't upset with Callie
"I have to go to the hospital, they called me for an emergency" she tried to explain
"But I heard you tell Mommy that Uncle Hunt gave you the day off for my birthday" Sofia pouted
"What did your mother tell you about listening to adult conversations?" Arizona joked trying to alleviate the situation "Doctors have emergencies sometimes, but I promise you that I will make it up to you"
Sofia lunged at Arizona to hug her "Can you forgive me?" The blonde asked her already with a broken voice, but it was unnoticed by the girl who only nodded her head on Arizona's chest, she kissed her and started to leave.
"I can't believe it," Callie whispered to her mother and ran to find Arizona who was leaving the apartment.
Mark, who had noticed the situation from afar, came to look for his daughter so that she could enjoy her party again
"Arizona, honey, wait," Callie yelled in the hallway as the blonde headed for the elevator.
Arizona wiped away her tears before turning around trying to keep Callie from noticing them. "Callie, go back to the party, go with Sofia" she said with a sad smile
"I'm sorry, really, I can't believe my mother's behavior ... sorry ..." Callie felt terrible about the situation, "You don't have to leave, you planned all this with Sofia, I can ask them to leave" Arizona no deserved this, but she didn't want to ruin her daughter's birthday either, she was between a rock and a hard place
"No, it's okay Callie, don't worry, let's not make a scene, Sofia doesn't deserve it, I'm fine, have fun in the party, I'm a little tired, I'm going home"
"Arizona ..." it brokes brunette's soul to see her girlfriend fighting to hide her feelings.
"I love you" said the blonde, she knew that with these words Callie would understand that she was not upset with her.
"I love you too" she gave a soft kiss on the lips "are you sure you're okay?" she asked worried
Arizona simply nodded and withdrew. Callie stood for a few minutes watching the elevator go down. She had to go back to the party but first she needed to control herself so as not to make a scene with his mother.
When the minutes passed Mark went to look for her "Is everything okay?" he asked in dismay
"No, nothing is fine Mark, nothing ..." she answered with anger. "But my mother will hear me"
When both parents entered to the apartment Sofia was again watching the show, but when she saw her mother she came running and asked her to bend over to whisper something in her ear, Callie smiled "sure" she answered and gave her a kiss on the cheek who ran again to enjoy the magicians.
Callie went to the kitchen, she needed to get away from the noise for a while. She took his cell phone and decided to write to Arizona, not long ago she had left the party, but she felt her absence, and could not help feeling that he should have acted differently, that he should have asked his girlfriend to stay and that let her mother leave if she disagreed, but for Sofia's sake she had to avoid a scene,
"Hello how are you doing? I miss you already" she write and looked at the cell phone for a few seconds, waiting for an immediate answer, but it didn't come
Callie stayed in the kitchen, lost in thought until her father brought her back to reality.
"I'm sorry Calliope, but maybe you should have warned us"
"What? warned you? What did you want me to warn about? " Callie was red with rage
"You know what your mother thinks of ..."
"From what dad? To see me happy? That I am with a person who loves me and loves my daughter? of that? The brunette walked through the kitchen like a caged tiger
"No, what I think about your direct way to hell" her mother interrupted. "What I think about you allowing that woman to entangle you again in her nets and seduce you to lead you astray ..."
Callie laughed bitterly "What the hell are you talking about mom?" what way? We love each other, we love each other, understand it at once! "
"But you had been cured, and now again she appears and deceives you and .."
"Oh my God! what the fuck are you talking about? " Callie screamed at her mother, it was not usual, she had been raised to respect her parents, but her mother was not respecting her and she could not bear it anymore
"Watch out your language" warned her father
"You had returned to the path of good, you were with Mark, you had a daughter, you had left behind that horrible past, of perdition"
"Mom, I'm bisexual, let it enter your head, I was with Mark because I like men and women, and I had Sofia because a mista ..." at that moment he stopped, she could not say that his daughter was a mistake because it was not
"I had Sofia, because I was with Mark, but I did not love him then, and I do not love him now, at least not as a couple, I love Arizona, I want to spend the rest of my life with her, not with Mark, he is the father of Sofia and my friend, but nothing more…"
Callie was crying in anger when she had to explain to her mother again her choice life. She thought that this had been overcome, that the relationship between them had improved because her mother accepted her as she was, but no, she was apparently wrong, her mother lived in the fantasy that one day she would form a couple with Mark
"You better go," she said without looking at her parents, while tears ran down her cheeks.
"Come on Lucia, it's time to go, let's say hello to Sofia and let's go" Carlos approached Callie to greet her but only got a "goodbye" for response
The vibration of the cell phone caught Callie's attention. "I'm fine" was all the response she got from her girlfriend. She sighed and hesitated to write to her again, knowing from the way she responded that the situation had affected Arizona.
- "Do you want to come in a while? the last guests are leaving luckily" she decided to insist with the conversation
- "Not today, I'm a little tired, I'm going to bed early" the answer was cold, but Callie was not going to give up easily.
Usually it was Arizona who went to their house because it was usual for her to stay the night as ws more easy because Sofia, but Callie would try again
- "Do you want us to go and make you company for a while?" Come on Arizona, don't close on yourself, she whispered to herself
- "Excuse me Callie, if you don't mind I'd rather not, I don't feel very well, as I told you I'm going to lie down" that answer only made Callie choose to call her directly
"I'm fine Callie" Arizona answered automatically, without even saying hello, she knew she had worried the brunette
"But you said you weren't feeling well, what have you got?" she consulted in dismay
"A little headache, nothing serious, seriously, in a while I'm going to lie down and tomorrow I'll be like new"
"Are you sure?" she insisted again
"Sure, baby" that calling her baby reassured Callie a bit.
"are you mad at me?" she asked shyly
"No, seriously Callie, can we do this another time?" Arizona asked in a tired tone
Callie hesitated for a moment but did not want to continue pressing "Ok, I'll let you rest, take care, I love you"
"I love you too, send my regards to Sofia" Callie couldn't help but smile, the bond that her daughter and Arizona had was getting stronger.
After all the guests left the party Callie was tidying up the apartment with Sofia's help
"It was an incredible birthday," the girl commented while highlighting the words with her arms, and she lifted up papers
Callie laughed at her daughter's enthusiasm "I'm glad you had a good time baby"
After a few minutes Sofia commented something sad "too bad Arizona had to go"
Callie sighed "yes, too bad" she replied
"Mommy, can I ask you a question?" Sofia was staring at Callie who hadn't noticed
"Sure, tell me" she replied without leaving what she was doing
"Arizona did something bad to Grandma?" at that moment Callie froze, she hoped her daughter hadn't noticed the tension between the two women but unfortunately it seemed that this was not the case
"No, of course not, Arizona didn't do anything, why do you ask?"
Sofia shrugged "I don't know ... Grandma said nasty things and then Arizona left ... she doesn't love us anymore because of grandma?"
Come here, said Callie to her daughter and sat her next to her on the couch "of course Arizona loves you honey, and she did nothing wrong, on the contrary, she makes me very happy, but grandma still doesn't realize that ... " Callie signed
"It must be because she doesn't live with us, maybe if she were more often she could notice it, right mommy? I am also happy with Arizona, she is very good to me" Callie smiled touched at the girl
"I know she does" she kissed her daughter on the cheek and got up from the couch "Ok, little miss, we still have to clean up this mess"
"When we are done, can we go to the Arizona house?" the girl asked excitedly
"Of course, we can, and we'll do" That was not what she had arranged with her girlfriend but she was sure that the blonde would not mind if it was a request from Sofia.
In less than an hour, mother and daughter were ringing the bell in Arizona's apartment who opened the door puzzled since she was not expecting anyone
Callie could notice the red eyes on the blonde and break her heart, but fortunately for Sofia they went unnoticed
"Arizona!" Sofia said jumping into her arms
"Hey, Sof, I didn't expect you two here today" replied the blonde looking directly at Callie, with whom she had agreed that they would not see each other today
"I know sorry, but this lady here insisted on coming, she wanted to show you something ..." said Callie smiling
"As you have to leave, I asked mommy to record the magician while he did the tricks so you wouldn't miss them." Sofia looked at Arizona with a tenderness that touched her heart.
"Really?" she asked with a lump in her throat
"Yes, come on mommy, show her, show her! Sofia took Arizona's hand and ran to the couch
"Play the video mommy!" the girl instructed her mother "you're going to love it, they were amazing tricks!" It seemed like it was Sofia's new word
The three of them sat on the couch to watch the video on Callie's phone, that was Sofia's request to her mother, to shoot a video for Arizona.
A few minutes after the video began, and while Sofia was describing everything that Arizona could see for herself, the blonde turned her head and stared at Callie, who already had her eyes on her girlfriend
"Thank you" murmured the blonde to her girlfriend. Callie squeezed Arizona's arm in a caress mode.
The three of them enjoyed that moment and seemed to erase the bad drink of the day.
