Chapter 16

"Can I stay with you?"

Those words just kept circling in Arizona's mind. "I would love for you to, but there are laws and there is a way this will have to go."

"He is not going to just give me to you."

"I know that, believe me. Now that I have this journal I have a leg to stand on. I'll have to contact an attorney and see what our options are."

"Why can't I just…."

"Conner." Arizona noticed the look on his face. "Jacob, there are ways we have to do this. I know better than anyone how this works."

"But I wanna stay with you."

"And I want you there, but we have to do this their way."

"Is it cuz of her?"

"Callie? No. She is the one that found you."

"Found me?"

"Yeah, she hired a private investigator and actually found you just days before we saw you in Miami."

"Then why can't I go?"

Arizona decided that he deserved to know the truth. "Your Grandfather hates me. He hadn't spoken to your mom in years when she was killed. He didn't agree with her lifestyle and with me. He had never even seen you until the night he stole you from me. So yes, there is a way this has to go."

"I know all that." He confessed. "It's in the book."

The two were interrupted by someone coming in the door. "Hey." They looked up at Callie. "There is a MVA coming in. Two of the patients are children. Ages two and four."

Arizona looked at her son. "I have to go. Callie is going to tell Michael that he can come back in and sit with you while I am gone."

"But…"

"He is your grandfather and has taken very good care of you of the last several years. As much as I dislike him, he is worried I am sure. Even as bad as he was Jessica always held out hope he would change. She loved her father and, in his own way, he loved her. I know that he loves you. He just isn't very smart in the way he does it." Arizona stood. And walked over to the door. "Callie, will you get Michael?"

"Sure." Callie noticed the journal in Arizona's hand. "What's that?"

"Proof." Was all Arizona said as she walked out the door.

Jacob watched as Michael entered the room. Michael sat on the stool that Arizona left by the bed. "You feeling better?" There was no answer. "Jacob?"

"Why did you not like my mom?"

"I don't know what she told you, but…"

"I know. I have known. I found my mom's journal. She wrote a lot about how you didn't like her anymore and you didn't like Arizona."

"Where did you find that? Where is it? You have to give that back."

"I don't have it."

Michael knew where it was. "Did you give it to Arizona?"

"Yes."

"Jacob, how could you do that? That is all we have of your mother's."

"It is about us."

"What do you want Jacob?"

"I want to be able to see you and you be my grandpa, but I was suppose to be with her."

"You want to live with Arizona?"

"That's where my mom wanted me. That's where Arizona wants me, but she doesn't know how to get me."

"So what is it that you want from me?"

"I want you to let me stay with my mom."

"Your MOM is died, Jacob."

"I want to stay with Arizona!"

Michael saw every ounce of Jessica that was in Jacob come to the surface. He loved his daughter, he did. He just did what he thought was best for her. He saw Jessica fight for Arizona just as Jacob was now doing. He couldn't let Jacob go. He just couldn't. Jacob was his life now. "I can't do that."

Jacob started to cry. "Well….that's fine….but when I get old enough, I will come here and stay with her. This is where I belong."

"Jacob…"

"She is my mom! You may can keep me from her now, but I will come back."

Callie came into the room. "Everything ok in here?"

"We're fine, Callie. This is a family matter."

"Ok." Callie closed the door behind her. "Well since this is a family matter, I can hear you two all over the ER. Now I understand that this needs to be talked about, but his heart rate spiking is causing alarms to go off and you two are screaming Arizona's business all of this hospital. You are family, you just said that. Families talk. They listen. Even when their wrong they listen. I know that you two love each other. I also know that Arizona loved your daughter and she loves Jacob. He wants her. You can't keep fighting this or you will lose him too. Now, you two need to come up with a plan that everyone can live with." Callie turned her attention to Jacob. "And you young man, if I see that heart rate spike again, I am calling your mother." Callie smiled "Now chill out."

Callie left the room. "She's cool." Jacob laughed.

An hour had gone by when Arizona returned to Jacob's room. It was now nine o'clock and Jacob was sleeping. Michael was also sleeping in the bed in the corner of the room. Arizona walked over and kissed Jacob on the head. She whispered to him. "Sleep good. I love you. She would have adored you." Jacob never woke, but Michael heard every gesture of love that Arizona gave her son. She kissed him one last time and started to leave the room.

"Thank you, Arizona."

"I didn't do this for you. I did this for Jess and for him. I will be back first thing in the morning."

"Do you think maybe I can talk to you? Maybe coffee in the morning?"

"Sure. I'll come get you when I get here. If he wakes, tell him I will see him tomorrow."

"Ok."

Arizona left the room and went to the apartment. She knew Callie was still in surgery for another hour, so it was a good time to do a little reading.

Arizona had been reading the journal for hours. She had laughed and cried at the memories that one little book held. She looked at the picture of Conner's first steps. She hated not to call him that. That was the name she and Jessica had chosen for him. She knew that everyone was having to give and that was her part. If that is what he wanted, she would call him Jacob. Arizona was so into the journal she almost didn't hear Callie come in the apartment.

"Hey." Arizona smiled while standing up to meet her girlfriend with a kiss.

"Hey, to you too." Callie didn't want to break the kiss, but she had to ask. "How's Jacob?"

"Fine. Michael wants to talk to me in the morning."

"Really? What do you think he wants?"

Arizona smiled. "He knows I have him now."

Callie watched Arizona happily go back to the couch. "Ok what's that?"

"When Jess and I decided that we wanted to have kids, the doctor told us to keep a journal. That way one day a kid would know what we went through to have them. Kind of their story. Anyway, Jacob found this journal in the attic of his grandparent's house. This is it, Callie. This is what they stole from my apartment that night. This was the one piece of evidence that he is mine too. He found it." Arizona said so excited.

"So now you have proof."

"I do."

"Well good. I am happy for you. I am going to take a shower."

"Wait!" Arizona shouted.

Her excitement caused Callie to giggle. "What?"

"I need to talk to you." Arizona seemed to calm a lot when she said that.

Her sudden calm worried Callie. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing. I just need to talk to you about something."

"Ok." Callie went to sit by Arizona. "What?"

"Addison called me today."

"About the case the two have been working on?"

"Callie, McKenzie came to see me just after the shooting….." Arizona told Callie the whole story about what Dj had left behind. Callie was stunned.

"So they use my egg, his sperm and you will carry the baby?"

"Yeah. Addison said that it of course, would be like any other surrogate. She called today to tell me that all the tests came back perfect. If you want to do this, Callie, we can try."

Callie was still in shock. "So….so it would have my DNA and yours?"

"Yes. You saw the pictures of Dj, we look just alike." Arizona noticed the look on Callie face. "You, don't like it?"

"No! No it isn't that. I just…..are you sure you want to do this. I mean Jacob is here and you really didn't want this."

"We talked about this. It wasn't that I didn't want this. This scared me. I mean look at the Conner/Jacob situation. It is a mess. That is what I didn't want. This baby would be ours. Little pieces of both of us. We couldn't ask for more."

Callie smiled. "Ok then. We are having a baby!" She kissed Arizona.

"First things first. God, lets get through this wedding first."