Chapter 5
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Arizona was leaning against her car, taking a few deep breaths. She was standing in front of the Hospital, today was finally the day she waited for. She was happy but somehow really nervous.
"Pff, stop being a chicken shit and get in already" the peds surgeon whispered to herself.
"Since when do you talk to yourself?" Arizona jumped as she heard a familiar voice.
"Callie, what are you doing here?"
"Oh well, Good morning to you too." Callie played
"Sorry, I thought you had the night shift and were home sleeping."
"Mh, that was the plan but I might have changed it a little." Callie said with a smirk.
"What do you mean?" Arizona asked being a little confused.
"I changed my shift so you wouldn´t be alone on your first day."
"That´s really nice of you Callie, but what about Sof? She´s with you today and now you´re here all day?" the blonde worried.
"Well I certainly didn´t forget my daughter in that plan" Callie said with a wink.
"I talked to the chief and he has no problem with me leaving to pick up Sofia and take her to the daycare, where we will pick her up after our shift. And to celebrate your first day we will have a pizza night all together, how does that sound?" the brunet asked, feeling pretty confident that Arizona will love her change of plans.
"That sounds lovely, thank you Callie." Arizona said with a dimpled smile.
"Come on, let´s get through this"
The two made their way to the entrance. Callie looked over to watch the blonde. She could tell that Arizona was nervous.
"Are you nervous?" the brunet asked
"A little but I´m more excited than nervous. I´m worried though, I was the head of the peds wing for so long and now I´m not. It might be a bit hard for me to listen to someone telling me what to do" the blonde stated with a small laugh.
"Well, I never heard anything bad from peds, you might be surprised and everything will go smoothly. They are lucky to have you here, Arizona and it´s only one year till you take over the department."
"I can´t wait" Arizona said with excitement already looking forward to be the head again.
"Okay, see you at lunch?"
"Yea sure, I need to go to the chiefs office now."
"Enjoy your day Arizona, page me if you need me." Callie said walking in the opposite direction.
Arizona didn´t have much to do, the chief gave her a grand tour of the hospital, she met most of the nurses and co-workers. The blonde was reading some of the patients charts to know what she will deal with. Other than that she made some small talk with a few interns. She felt good and welcome, everyone was being nice, all her worries long forgotten, the blonde made her way to the cafeteria to meet her ex wife for lunch.
Entering the cafeteria she didn´t see the brunet anywhere yet, so she decided to get a small salad and a drink before she sat down on an empty table.
"Welcome to the hospital Dr. Robbins" Arizona looked up from her salad to see another blonde standing at her table.
"Penny, well thank you." she replied, not sure if the other Dr. was trying to be sarcastic.
"You´re welcome..." luckily Penny´s pager interrupted any more talk. And without another word Arizona watched her leave.
A few minutes passed till the peds doc saw Callie entering the cafeteria and heading straight towards her.
"Hey, sorry. Surgery run long." Callie said with a huff.
"How´s your day going so far? Saved any tiny humans already?" the Latina joked.
"No, just the usual meeting and small talk and all but its great, everyone seems pretty nice around here." Arizona smiled.
"That sounds good, things will start to speed up before you know it."
"I can´t wait to be back in the OR."
Callie just nodded in response.
"Don´t you want to eat something?" Arizona questioned.
"No, I don´t have enough time anymore" Callie saw a little frown on Arizona´s face.
"I´m going to get Sofia now and take her to the daycare." the brunet immediately watched Arizona´s face light up.
"Give the munchkin a kiss for me please, I can´t wait for pizza night" the blonde stated with a dimpled smile.
"I´ll meet you at 5pm at the exit, alright? We can go pick Sof up together then." the ortho doc asked while standing up.
"Awesome, see you later" Arizona waved a little good bye
A couple of hours passed, still not much to do for Arizona she was heading to the OR. If she couldn´t be the one cutting, she at least wanted to watch someone cutting.
While she was sitting there, she started to get lost in her thoughts. Pulling out her phone she clicked on Callie´s chat. Immediately smiling at the device as she looked at a picture Callie sent earlier.
Sofia was sitting in the back of the car while Callie took the picture sitting in the drivers seat. Both had a similar big smile on the face. Underneath the picture there was the text "You´re missing"
The past weeks were great, since their talk in the café Arizona recognized a big change in their relationship. Recently, it just felt easy, they had a good schedule, Sofia was excited about the family day, Arizona started to open up a little more to the brunet and they could just enjoy spending time together. The peds surgeon thought that maybe being away from Seattle is helping, because here it was just the three of them, no gossip, no nurses causing trouble, but just them. So she wondered, she wondered if they could start over, she wondered if she could forgive Callie, she wondered if Callie could forgive her, she wondered if she should talk to Callie about it, she wondered if they could love each other the same again. Or maybe more? Or maybe still love each other?
Shaking her head she checked the time. Happy that her first shift was almost over, the blonde made her way to get changed and meet Callie and Sofia.
When Arizona stepped out of the elevator she spotted the brunet talking with another Dr., she didn´t want to interrupt because it kind of looked serious. It only took a few seconds for Callie to see her ex wife standing in a little distance.
"We will talk about it again tomorrow, okay? I need to go. Bye" Arizona could hear Callie saying.
"Hey, why didn´t you come over?" the taller women asked with a questioning look.
"I didn´t want to interrupt, it looked pretty serious."
"Oh no, we were just talking about my research. He´s from neuro."
"Ready to get our munchkin?" Callie asked.
Arizona just nodded with a dimpled smile, starting to walk over to the daycare Callie saw the blonde shaking her head just little.
"What are you thinking about?"
"Just….you said our munchkin"
There it was again, that spark in the eyes….
Callie didn´t say anything, she just put on her megawatt smile.
Arriving at the daycare, the two women could see their daughter helping a smaller kid to build something with Lego.
"She´s great" Arizona said.
"mhh" Callie could watch her daughter all day.
"Somehow, we obviously did something right even in all that mess we went though" Arizona said with a smirk
"Somehow we did." Callie smiled.
"Hey Sof, are you ready for mommy´s pizza night?" Callie said a little louder to get her attention.
"Momma, Mommy! I´m always ready for pizza!" the little brunet said as she came running.
"Well then let´s get the party started!" Arizona said, giving her daughter a hug before taking her hand and making their way out of the hospital.
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Next up would be Pizza night. Who knows what can happen? ;)