Thank you all so much for the reviews. I am glad that everyone seemed to like the twist. I did get a couple of reviews that I would like to address. First and foremost I am a writer that likes the story taking on a life of it's own. I wrote this story about 10 years ago but never finished it. So I had no idea where it was going. When I wrote the chapter before last, it hit me. She is gonna be dreaming. I actually stopped typing and laughed. I thought there is no way that I can pull that off. As I sat there my next thought was 'how in the hell are you gonna pull off a 13 year separation smart girl'. So it became clear that either was going to be a uphill fight. I hope that I explain in this chapter that Arizona is just giving in. Arizona loves her and knows that it's going to be work, but it's where she wants to be.

Secondly, someone replied that Arizona left at another time. Before the first chapter I put "This isn't my dream". When I wrote that it wasn't a time line in the story. Matter of fact, several times it has been mentioned that Arizona left the night she found out. Someone was confused by it being a dream and starting there and not at the "this isn't my dream" moment. That isn't where the story started. Callie told Arizona, went to Mark's to tell him, and Arizona left.

Thirdly, this is a shorter chapter. We are now gonna drop in and out of the lives of the Torres-Robbins clan. We will hit the big moments in their lives now. Thanks for reading. We have I would say at least 3 or 4 more chapters left.

Chapter 16

Callie and Arizona had just laid down. It was dark and unusually quiet in the room. Callie turned to see only the outline of Arizona in the darkness. "You wanna talk about it?"

"No." Arizona answered.

"You can tell me."

"I don't want to relive that again."

"You had a dream about our...daughter or whatever. I would kinda like to hear about it. It can't be that bad."

"I left." Arizona said flat.

For a moment Callie wasn't sure what to say. "When?"

"Last night. After you told me, I left."

"You couldn't forgive me?" Callie said and even in the pit dark Arizona could see the fear by her tone.

"No. I don't know that I could forgive either of us." Arizona said as she sat up and turned on the lamp. She laid over on her side and looked at Callie. "It was so real."

"But you came back, right? I mean you did see our daughter."

"I saw your daughter." Callie just blankly looked at her. " At 13."

Callie was stunned. "You never...we never...13 years."

"14 if you count the pregnancy, but yes, I didn't come back. She came looking for me."

Callie took a deep breath. "So do you feel that way now?" Arizona didn't answer the question. "Be honest. Do you feel that way now?"

"Maybe I did last night."

"Maybe we should hold off on all this." Callie started to get out of the bed until Arizona grabbed her by the wrist and stopped her.

"No. I saw what my life was like without you. I know that ultimately my love for you never changed."

Callie wasn't sure that she wanted to hear this part. "You mentioned that you were married. I know that it wasn't to me."

"I married someone else. I left and I never looked back and married someone else...but was still in love with you."

"So did you ever come back?"

"Yeah, to see Sofia."

"Wow, thanks." Callie nervously chuckled.

"I love you, Callie. Even when I was so angry with you over all this, I still knew that I loved you and always would. No matter how much time had passed."

"Promise me that if you ever start feeling like, that we will talk about this. I know it was a dream, but you left. Because of this baby, you left."

"I'm not going to lie, Callie. Knowing that you were living with Mark, didn't bother me. Knowing that you were living with Mark and sleeping with him - that bothers me."

"It was a moment where I needed everything to stop. I needed to stop worrying about you and wondering what I had done so bad that you left. I understand that you have a lot of questions, but so do I."

"I just don't understand."

"Maybe you said you were all in too quickly. Maybe you still need some time with this. I promise that won't make me angry. I want you to be sure."

"I'm sure. Trust me, I don't want to live that life again." Arizona said through clinched teeth.

"And I don't want you to do something that you will regret later."

"I don't like what happened. I was in Africa crying myself to sleep while you slept with Mark. I am never gonna like that, but it's what happened. I just need time to adjust to that. I know that I love you. I know that I'm the one that left and left you feeling like I didn't love you. I understand that I play a role in this too, but it is still the same. I just need a minute. I don't know how I am gonna feel when I see him for the first time again."

"Well you will have Lexie to talk to about this if that helps at all. She is gonna kill him." Arizona chuckled. "What?" Callie smiled not knowing what was so funny.

"Matthew." Arizona smiled.

"What? Who's Matthew?"

"Mark and Lexie's son."

"Awww." Callie smiled. "They were together?"

"Yeah. Matt was with Sofia when she came to see me."

Callie laid back down and looked at the ceiling. "I don't know. Aside from the 13 year thing, I kinda love this dream. Oh and the marriage thing. Pretty much hating that. How could you marry someone?" Callie laughed. "Cold."

Arizona jumped on Callie and started tickling her. "Oh you think my shity dream is funny."

After Callie finally stopped the attack from the woman above her she spoke. "Are we gonna be ok?" The nervousness was still there. "Can you live like this?"

"I want nothing more than to try. We have a lot of work ahead of us, but yeah, I think we'll make it through it." Arizona looked down at Callie. "I know that I love you and the rest will just take time." She placed a kiss on Callie's lip and rolled off of her. She leaned over to turn the light off and felt Callie snuggle in next to her. It was the first time in months that she had felt that body laying against hers. Even though her mind was spinning out of control, her heart and body knew this was the exact place she wanted to be. She remembered hearing a song once that said if you're ever gonna see a rainbow, you stand a little rain. This was their rain. It wasn't just rain, it was a full thunder storm.

Just before she dozed off to sleep, Callie whispered in her ear. "I love you, Arizona. I am so sorry."

Arizona rubbed the arm that was tightly wrapped around her waist. "I know. We'll be ok. We have to be."

xxxxxxx

Arizona and Alex had been in surgery for about an hour when Alex was informed by a nurse that there was call he needed to take. The intern took his place while he walked over to the phone in the OR. As the nurse held the phone, Alex replied. "I understand."

He then returned to his position next to the OR table.

"What was that about?" Arizona questioned while still working on the 9 year old on the table.

"Interns." Alex said concentrating on the child. "Idiots."

"Be nice, Karev. You were an idiot once."

Suddenly the OR doors opened and Miranda Bailey walked in and over to Arizona's side. "I got this, Robbins." She said as she extended her hands for the tools.

"Excuse me?"

Arizona could tell by the squint in Bailey's eyes that she was smiling. "Rumor has it that you're needed in labor and delivery."

"Oh my GOD!" Arizona said as she handed Bailey the tools. "Interns my ass, Karev!"

"Your welcome." He said as she rushed out of the room.

Arizona ran the entire was to L&D. When she got there, nurses started pointing her in Callie's direction and offering a quick 'good luck'.

As she walked in, Callie was in the bed talking to the new L&D nurse. Callie chuckled at a frazzled Arizona. "Calm down, Mama. It's gonna be a while."

"I thought-"

"I am only dilated to 4."

Arizona took the sit next to the bed. "You ok?"

"I am about to have a something the size of a watermelon come out of my vagina. Are you ok with that?"

Arizona smiled. "She is gonna be an adorable watermelon."

Callie chuckled. "Annnd we are back to dream Sofia."

"Hey dream Sofia rocked!"

"We don't even know that it's a girl, Arizona."

"I told you, it's a girl. Now, do you need anything?"

"No. Mark called from LA. He said that his surgery was running long and he didn't know if he would be in time for the delivery." Mark moved to LA six months ago and opened a plastics practice there. He was doing extremely well and the women were sure that he would never return to Seattle to live. That meant it was just them and their daughter.

"So it's just us." Arizona smiled against her better judgment.

"It's just us." Surprisingly Callie returned the genuine smile.

Within in the next four hours, Callie had threatened everyone in the room's life at least once. She was now 9 centimeters dilated and they would start pushing at any moment. They were surgeon. They could handle blood and gore after a four course meal in day of the week. This, this was different. Callie had thrown up twice, the first epidural had missed the mark, and Arizona's hand was nearly crushed once by the vice that Callie had on it. This was different. Arizona's nerves were shot already.

As the doctor settled in between Callie's leg, she gave the orders. "Ok ladies, we are here. Callie, I'm going to need you to push in just a second ok?"

Callie nodded her sweat soaked head as Arizona took her place beside her. She took Callie's right hand in hers and rubbed Callie's back with the other. "It's almost over, honey."

Callie tried to smile at the loving woman beside her. "She rocks, right?"

Arizona smiled at her again. "She TOTALLY rocks." She then placed a kiss on Callie's forehead.

"Ok. We're ready. On the count of three, I need you to push." She then looked at Arizona. "Count out the breathing coach."

"Got it." Arizona nodded.

The doctor prepared herself and nodded at the patient. "Let's do this. One...two...three puuuussshhhh..."

After three pushes, Arizona heard a cry. Her mind immediately went to a 13 year old sitting in front of her that she didn't know. She was here. She would see the first steps and hear the first 'mommys'. She would see it all. Overwhelmed with emotions, Arizona couldn't fight back the tears as the doctor said "It's a girl."

She leaned over and wrapped her arm around Callie's head, pulling her cheek to Arizona mouth. She placed small kisses on the woman's face. "You did wonderful, Calliope."

Suddenly the doctor interrupted the moment saying, "Here is your daughter." She placed the baby in Callie's arms and Arizona's heart melted. She had never been in love with two people more in her life.

"She's beautiful." Arizona said wiping the tears.

"You wanna hold her?"

Arizona nodded and took the baby from Callie. She smiled down at her daughter. "Hi, Sofia. I'm your Mama." Callie wiped the tears running down her face at the conversation before her. "I promise that you will never spend a day without me. I will always be there. For your first birthday, your first day of school, the first boy that breaks your heart and to watch you become an amazing person. Mama promises that I will be there every day."

The nurse smiled at the couple. "Ok Doctor Robbins, you ready for the first family photo?"

Arizona nodded and sat down on the bed next to Callie. They snuggled in together and Callie placed her hand on Arizona's arm that cradled their daughter.

"Ok, on the count of the three, smile. One...two...three..."