OMG I coulda swore that I posted this chapter. FF was acting weird that day a few weeks ago. For my job at the hospital I have to do continued education hours to keep from having to take my medical boards again. They expire on the 17th and, since I am a HUGE procrastinator, I waited till the last minute. Sorry for the delay here but my wife would have NOT been happy with me if my story was updated and I lost job. I know, whata ya gonna do? So all that is taken care of so we are back. Thanks you all SOOOO much for the reviews. They are wonderful. Where were we? Oh the phone call, right...

Chapter 8

"We need to talk about Sofia."

Callie took a deep breath, that wasn't unnoticed by the person on the other end of the line. "She'll be fine. She's home and we'll work this out."

"So she told you?" Arizona was suddenly more nervous.

"Yes. As a matter of fact she had just told me when the phone rang."

"I just need..."

Callie interrupted her. "She's fine, Arizona. I have this. There is no reason for you to be concerned."

"I never meant to hurt her, Callie. You have to believe that."

"I know that. I know that you would never hurt a child."

"No. I would never hurt her."

Callie's heart sank at that statement. "Thanks for checking on her. I'll handle it from here."

"Callie, I didn't know who she was."

"I know. She told me."

"Can I ask you a favor?"

"Sure."

"I need...I want to make this up to her. Maybe we could meet..."

"Why are you so concerned with my daughter?" Callie stopped when she realized how hateful that must've sounded. "She will be fine, Arizona. Thanks for calling, but please, this wasn't a job you wanted so let me handle Sofia."

The words stung just as must as they were meant to. Callie had regretted them the minute they came out, but Arizona just skipped over the statement. "Ok. I just...I don't want her thinking..." Arizona wondered why she couldn't find her words.

"Look, it's late there. I'm sure you have an early morning, so it's enough for tonight."

There was a long silence. Suddenly the last thing Arizona wanted to do was hang that phone up. "Ok. Please tell her I called to check on her again."

"So this isn't the first time you've called?"

"No there have been two other times. She's very protective of you."

"Yeah we look out for each other. I will tell Sof that you called."

"Ok then. Goodnight, Calliope."

Callie felt her breathing catch. It had been so long since she heard that name from that voice. As a tear suddenly came to her eyes, she spoke. "Goodnight, Arizona." Callie quickly hung up the phone before she changed her mind and found something stupid to talk to Arizona about.

She rubbed her face in her hands and made her way upstairs.

Sofia was laying on her bed doing homework when she heard a knock at the door. "Yeah?"

"Can I come in?" Callie said as she stuck her head around the door.

"Sure." Sofia sat up and let her mom sit on the side of her bed. "What's up?"

Callie didn't say a word and only handed Sofia a picture. It was of her Mom and Arizona. They were smiling at each other and Callie had her arms wrapped around Arizona's waist. The look in their eyes was unlike anything she had seen from her Mother. "It was taken during a birthday party Arizona surprised me with. I had no idea until every jumped out at me annnnd I almost decked Jackson Avery. They shouldn't jump out at a woman like that." Callie smiled.

Sofia chuckled as she continued to look at the picture. "She looks happy."

"Honey, that's just it. She was."

"Then why did she lie?"

"You lied to her first, remember?"

"Yeah, but..."

"Ok you and I need to talk about Arizona." Callie took the picture from Sofia in order to regain her attention. "When Arizona left here she was very upset. With me, with Teddy, with Alex, with anyone she thought knew about Mark and didn't tell her. She cut us all off because she felt betrayed by everyone. Teddy made the horrible mistake of telling her that she and Bailey told me that Arizona hadn't asked about me, causing this. She just felt betrayed by everyone she knew in Seattle. She took a very prestigious job at Johns Hopkins and did very well there. " Callie took a deep breath. "She had been at Hopkins about a two years when she met a OB surgeon there. They started to date and did so for a couple years. They had been together 5 years when they found out that Rebecca was sick."

"What was wrong with her?"

"She had breast cancer. Arizona stood right by her. It went into remission for 18 months and during that time, she and Arizona got married."

"WHAT?"

"You wanna hear the story or not?" Said as she raised an eyebrow at that her daughter.

"Sorry. Go on." Sofia said as she gathered her pillow in her lap preparing for the story.

"Not only did they get married, they decided to join forces to help woman and children. That's when they opened the Robbins-Culter Center. They had Doctors on staff for woman, cancer patients and children. When the cancer came back it had progressed very quickly. Once they found it again, she lived almost 2 years."

Sofia couldn't help the emotion that she felt. "She died?"

"About 2 years ago, yes." Callie put her hand on Sofia's knee. "That's the thing, Sof. Arizona wasn't gonna tell a kid that she had never seen all that stuff. She thought you wanted to hear the good parts of her job. When you started to ask personal questions, she went into auto pilot." Callie chuckled. "I know that auto pilot. I've seen it before. She's sweet and good and perky, but between me and Rebecca there wasn't a lot good to tell a 13 year old."

"Ok, now I feel bad."

Callie chuckled. "Don't. She just called to check on you."

"Again?" It came out before the young girl could stop it.

"Yeah she told me about the other times?"

"I thought you were telling me a story" Sofia was excited now and smiled. "Sooooo. You talked to her?"

Callie couldn't help the grin. "I did."

"What'd she say?"

"She just wanted to make sure that you were ok because she hurt your feeling and she wanted you to know that she would never intentionally hurt you."

"I have to admit she was nice until she said that she was happy."

Callie laughed saying, "Well God forbid she be happy.", while she slightly pushed against her daughter's shoulder.

"You know what I mean."

"I do. I also hate that you didn't meet the real Arizona and she didn't meet the real you."

"Yeah me too."

"Ya know, she was just about to suggest that you two meet."

"What'd you say?"

"I cut her off and told her you were fine."

"MOM! Good grief. Do I have to do everything?" Sofia chuckled.

Callie started to tickle her, causing the young girl to fall backward. "No you don't have to do everything."

Sofia yelled out in laughter. "Ok, ok. Uncle!" When Callie stopped tickling her, she was now towering over her daughter.

"Mom?"

"Yeah."

"Will you take me to meet Arizona?"

Callie sat back up and sighed. "Sof, it's been 13 years since..."

"You loved anyone else that much."

Callie turned her head to look at her daughter. "I just don't know if I can."

"It was her idea, Mom. She knows that seeing me means seeing you. Must be something she wants."

"You think?"

"How should I know. I am a kid, remember?"

"Ok. We will fly out Friday when you get out of school and fly back Sunday night. Good?"

"Perfect. Arizona will be so surprised."

"Yeah." Callie suddenly had a nervous grin. "Cause she loves those."

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Sofia felt like she had just been here. It was only days ago that she was sitting in a plane seat and on the way to Maryland to see Arizona. She actually thought that this time she might be even more nervous than the first. It was hard to beat that feeling. She looked at her Mom talking to the man in the seat next to her. It was obvious to Sofia he was hitting on her mother. Men always did, well women too. Sofia hated that she was making her face Arizona again. She saw how much pain that Callie had been in just talking about it, but there was still so much that Sofia wanted to know.

"Mom?"

Callie looked up from the magazine that she was now flipping through. "Yes."

"Can I ask you something?"

"Anything." Callie knew what was coming and really didn't know if she wanted to answer.

"Will you tell me about Arizona?"

"I thought I already did." Callie seemed confused

Sofia and her Mom had never talked about Callie's love life, so it was a new area for both of them. "No...I mean...about you and Arizona."

"Well, what do you want to know?"

Sofia smiled. "EVERYTHING!"

Callie laughed. "Where to start?" She said touching her finger to her mouth and looking up at the top of the plain.

As she teased Sofia, the girl played right into her hand. "The beginning!"

"Well she came to Seattle when the head of peds passed away. She was this bright eyed new attending. She was perky. Sickeningly perky."

"Did you like her from the beginning?"

"She didn't give me much choice. She kissed me just moments after we met."

"Really?" Sofia gushed.

"Had me hook, line and sinker from the start."

Sofia giggled. "Wow, that's so romantic."

"Yeah being kissed by a stranger in a bathroom is really romantic, Sof."

"A bathroom?" The girl giggled.

"Yes, a dirty bar bathroom."

"Nice." Sofia giggled.

"Everybody liked her, loved her. She was amazing with patients. The best pediatrics had seen in a long time. Well everyone loved her but Bailey."

"Why didn't Bailey."

"Cause, let me get this right, she didn't have the sense to change her name from Arizona and she wore skates around the hospital."

"Skates? You can't wear skates in a hospital."

Callie grinned at her daughter. "Well she thought Heeleys were different. The kids loved them. Your dad and I were..."

"Hey!" Sofia interrupted with a shout. "This isn't the story that I wanted to hear." She smiled and covered her ears.

Callie giggled as she pulled Sofia's hand away from her ears. "Alright. I was just trying to tell you the story."

"The wrong one."

"Now where was I before I was soooo rudely interrupted?"

Sofia said the words slowly and as if she hated them. "You and Dad were..."

"SOF! I wasn't going to tell you about that." Callie said surprised.

"Well I got here somehow and you guys were together before Arizona. I'm not a baby, Mom."

Callie raised her eyebrow. "Back to the story." She puckered her lips together in true Callie form. "Now where was I? Oh yeah, your dad. He told me that I should try with Arizona. She scared the crap outta me."

"Why?"

"Hey, she had butterflies on her scrub cap. And that was on her 'dangerous' days. Normally it was holly hobby or Strawberry Shortcake or Sponge Bob."

"Who?"

"Oh lord, never mind. Anyway she was really perky and I, well I wasn't. I was all tough and bad and wear leather jackets." Callie looked down and smiled. "She was like the sweet little delicate thing that I would break."

"What changed?"

"To know Arizona Robbins is to love her. You'll see. You can't help but love her."

"And you still do, right?"

"Sof, it's been a long time."

"If she didn't care she wouldn't have kept calling."

"Exactly how many times did Arizona call Seattle?"

"Just a couple." Sofia smiled.

"What am I gonna do with you?"

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Teddy was looking over some of the charts that she had been working on today when she heard footsteps approaching. "You know, Cristina. You did a really good job on that atrial repair last week."

"Well, if I were Cristina I would be proud."

Teddy then looked up to see the person in front of her, in fact, wasn't Cristina. "NO. NO. NO!"

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A/N 2 See you next time. It wouldn't be that long again I promise. I also did a video for the finale if any of you are into videos. You can see it on Youtube under 'Grey's Anatomy - Wont give up'. It the one published just a few days ago under TnDani0314.