Well the words I am so sorry seem not to even cover this. I had no idea it had been this long until I started to update. To say that I had writer's block is an understatement, then yesterday out of nowhere it was gone. There is this chapter and two more then we are done. The other chapter is also done and the final one is on it's way. So there will be an update tonight, tomorrow and Friday night. Thanks again for finishing this out with me.

Chapter 17

Arizona had been at the hospital for half and hour and made her way to Jacob's room. "Good morning." Arizona smiled as she entered the room.

"Morning." Jacob said returning an equal smile.

"Well we have some good news, kiddo. We're gonna let you go home today." Jacob's smile fell. "But first, I think that me and your Michael have a few things to talk about. Doctor Kepner is just outside the door. If you need anything you let her know."

"Ok." Jacob said with sadness in his voice.

Arizona placed a hand under Jacob's chin raising it until his blue eyes met hers. "It's gonna be ok. I promise."

He smiled the best he could. He knew his grandfather and knew that Arizona had a fight on her hands.

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Michael and Arizona entered the cafeteria and got their coffee and Michael some breakfast. There was a brief moment of silence until Michael decided that he should start. "I need for you to believe that I loved my daughter. I need for you to really believe that."

"I do. In a way that I don't understand, but I do believe you."

"I'm not a monster. I did what I felt was right for my grandson and for my daughter's memory." He paused and took a deep breath. "When you have children Arizona. When they are truly yours, you will understand. I think maybe in some ways you already do. That night in Miami you could have caused a scene or you could have caused one here. You call him Jacob when everything in you knows he's Conner. You do that out of love for your child." He now had Arizona's gaze. "I love him, Arizona. She was my daughter and I believe that your lifestyle is wrong. I wanted something else for him. Now, now he knows and he, just like his mother is going to choose you. If I keep him in Miami with me, the minute he is eighteen I will lose him forever. He'll run to you. Just like she did. I will lose him like I lost her. I can't do that, Arizona."

"So what do you suggest?"

"Maybe-maybe I can find work here in Seattle. He can stay with you, but I get him every other weekend and two nights for a few hours during the week. On school nights I will make sure he is home by his bedtime and that his homework is done."

Arizona was in shock. She couldn't believe what just happened. Had he really…. "Are you giving him to me?"

Michael lowered his head. "Not giving, just returning. I don't want him to hate me like she did."

"She didn't hate you. She loved you, and until the day she died, she hoped that you would just except who she was."

"I let her down. Arizona, I don't want to let him down too. He WILL leave if I don't stop this somehow. I'm torn between him and what I believe. I talked to Doctor Torres today." Arizona immediately smiled and she wasn't even sure why. "She told me about when her father came here and found out about you. She told me that she chose you. Jessica chose you and Conner chose you. Two of those three, I love more than anyone. I respect Doctor Torres for the stand she takes for you. So those three people can't be wrong about you. You have earned there love and respect…."

"So I can't be that bad?" Arizona smiled.

"Something like that. I see that she loves you deeply and she has tried to protect Jacob and watched over him since we've been here. I know that if I were gone tomorrow that the two of you would love him. I mean, really love him. Like your own."

"He IS my own. I have never thought of him as less."

"I would like to take him back to Miami to finish out this semester of school. I think that would be best for him. During that time we could sell the house and he could pack up his things and say goodbye to his friends."

"I think that would be a good idea. It would also give Callie and I time to get him a room and some things together."

"Ok."

Michael stood. "I better get back to him before he drives Doctor Kepner crazy."

Arizona laughed. She stood up with Michael and walked over to him pulling him into a hug. "I forgive you and I understand. May not agree with the method, but I really believe that you did what you thought was best for him. Thank you for taking such good care of him."

Michael pulled away. "I think that you should be the one that tells him what we have decided."

The excitement was all over Arizona's face. "I would like to find Callie first so we can tell him together. When I find her we'll be right in."

With that, the two went there separate ways. Michael was relived in a way. He had lived in fear of Arizona coming after Jacob or him passing away and Jacob finding out that way. He was glad that Jacob would remember him as a man who loved his family enough to bend. One that did his best, but made mistakes. He wanted Jacob to be loved like Jessica would have loved him. He was content that now he would be.

Arizona found Callie in the Doctor's lounge. When Arizona walked into the room Callie put down the chart she was working on. "Hey." Callie smiled.

Arizona sat beside Callie. "Whatcha you working on?"

Callie's smile grow bigger when she saw the excitement Arizona was trying to contain. "Just some boring charting. What happened with Michael?"

"Well he realizes that he will lose Jacob before long. He said that when Jacob turns 18 he will run to me."

"Do you doubt that?"

"No. He told me that you had talked to him." Callie's smile faded not knowing if Arizona was mad. "Thank you. I think you really made a difference in the way he looks, not only at me, but you too. He sees that I love you as much as I did Jess and the you are already very protective of a child that you don't even know."

"He's yours, so how could I not be protective of him? So what are we going to do?"

"He is taking Jacob back to Miami where he will finish out this semester of school. During the summer break, Michael is moving here."

"REALLY?" Callie was so excited that Arizona chuckled.

"Really." Arizona stalled before going on.

"What else?"

"Would you….would you care if….."

Callie placed a reassuring hand on Arizona's. "Whatever it is, I can assure you, I am good with."

"He said that Jacob could live with us. He wants him every other weekend and a couple of nights for a few hours during the week."

"He is letting you have him?""He knows that he will lose in the end, so he wants Jacob to know that he loved him enough to do what was best for him."

"Oh my God. We can't bring a kid into that little apartment. It's barely big enough for the two of us and we know that, while living with Cristina and Owen, the walls are paper thin."

A look of panic fell over Arizona's face. "So you don't want…."

Callie smiled. "No, that isn't what I mean. We need a house. We are parents now and we need a bigger place. He is a kid and needs a yard….and a dog." Callie raised her finger to point at Arizona. "But I draw the line at chickens."

"Have I told you how much I love you today."

"Not in a way that makes me weak in my knees, no."

"Oh wait til we get home." Arizona leaned over to kiss Callie. "Come on. We're going to tell Jacob. I wanted you to be there."

"So what are we waiting for?"

"There's something else." An almost scared and defiantly unsure look came over Arizona's face.

"What?" Callie said sitting back down and taking Arizona's hand in hers. "Tell me."

"When I went to LA a few weeks ago for that consult on a patient…..it wasn't a patient." Arizona hesitated.

"You were the patient? You went to see Addison? Without me?"

"Callie I didn't want to get your hopes up. I mean what if I can't carry one and then you found that out too. It would have been devastating for you."

"I understand." Callie took a deep breathe. "So what did Addie say?"

"That even though you had lost the ability to be able to carry a child, you still had viable eggs. So she did an exam on me and turns out that I am a perfect candidate to a surrogate. Good health and all." Arizona laughed for just a moment and then turned back to Callie. "We would have one going into high school and at least one in Kindergarten."

Callie laughed and laid her head back against the couch. "Well…that's the way it was suppose to be. Wait!" Callie sat back up. "Did you just say 'at least one'."

"Callie, they implant three eggs."

"What?"

Arizona chuckled. "They implant three and hope that one attaches. It's very rare that more than two would attach anyway, but with three your chances are better that one does and that it isn't a waste of time, money and the chances that we have."

Callie suddenly got a nervous laugh. "So we could have one in high school and a set of triplets in Kindergarten?"

"That is a possibly, yes." Now they both had a nervous laugh.

"Well, like I said, the way it was meant to be." Callie took Arizona's hand and stood. "So let's go get our first kid."

Arizona smiled and stood. "After you, dear."

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"WHAT?" Jacob looked from Arizona to his grandfather. "Really? I get to have all of you?"

"Yes." Michael smiled. "But you and I are going back to Miami and finishing your school year, then we'll come back here."

"Yeah." Arizona adds. "That gives you time to say goodbye to your friends and gives all of the adults time to get things in order for the move."

Jacob walked over and put his arms around his grandfather. "Thank you."

Michael held back the tears.

"Jacob, you will be spending some evening with him and every other weekend. During school you need to be home by 10:00 and your homework done. We have both agreed to this." Arizona said.

Jacob looked between the three adults in the room. "I have question."

"What?" Callie spoke for the first time.

"If we're moving here, to a place that no one knows me and who I am…." Jacob looked now solely at Michael. "If no one knows my name anyway….she wanted it to be Conner. That was what she picked." He looked back at Arizona. "I would like to go by the name you gave me."

Arizona couldn't help the tear that ran down her face causing Callie to place a hand on her shoulder. Arizona tried to speak. "She'd like that. She would be so proud of you. She would." Jacob walked over to Arizona and hugged her. "Ok, I'll see you in couple of weeks, Jacob."

He pulled back and smiled then corrected her. "It's Conner, Mom."

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See y'all tomorrow night.