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Chapter 8

Arizona was standing in the elevator to Callie´s apartment, it has been almost two days since the blonde spoke to Callie but now it was her turn to pick up Sofia. After the Latina left the on call room Arizona got paged so she was busy with patients, which was good otherwise she would go crazy. She was happy that work was going really well.

Knocking on the brunet´s door, she waited for Callie to open it but was surprised to see her daughter first.

"Hey Mommy! I missed you"

"Hey baby girl, I missed you too! Where is your momma?" Arizona gave her daughter a tight hug.

"Momma is here, Penny is here also." The little brunet said, not recognizing Arizona´s expression.

"Okay" was everything the blonde could say.

Walking inside, Arizona took a look around, not seeing anybody till Callie´s voice came out of the back of the apartment.

"Sofia, who was at the door?"

"Mommy is here!"

And as soon as Sofia finished her statement the blonde watched Callie running out of her bedroom.

"Arizona! You´re early….Hey!"

"No actually, I´m just on time and I hope Sofia is ready to go?"

"Yes Mommy, I´m ready!" Sofia answered.

"Arizona, it´s not what you think…"

"How do you know what I think? But anyway, I´m here to pick up my daughter, everything else is not my business. I just hope that you didn´t do anything while Sofia was here sitting in the living room."

"I didn´t do anything. Penny is here because she misses something and wanted to know if I took it when I moved. That´s it."

"Alright then, I´ll leave you two to it."

"Come on Sof, say bye to momma." And with that Arizona already walked out of the door waiting for the little brunet.

"So, what would you like for dinner tonight?" Arizona asked when her daughter came running behind her.

"Can we have mac and cheese?"

"Of course we can" the blonde said, giving her daughter a dimpled smile.

"Mommy, are you and momma fighting again?" Sofia said with sad eyes.

"No baby, we are not fighting." Arizona started

"What do you think, I´ll make dinner and then we talk, okay?"

"Okay" was all Sofia said and Arizona immediately felt bad but somehow she wondered why Penny didn´t come out of the bedroom to at least say hello. Penny was weird when they first met in the hospital, Arizona remembered.

Arriving home, Arizona didn´t waste any time and started making dinner while Sofia was having a bath. Thinking how to explain the situation to Sofia, the blonde pulled her phone out and sent a quick text.

"Sofia thinks we´re fighting and wants to talk! We need to get our shit together!"- A

It didn´t even take a minute for Arizona´s phone to ring

"I´m coming over"-C

Arizona was a little shocked, but somehow relieved that Sofia was Callie´s priority even though Penny was there. And just while Arizona and Sofia were having dinner, there was a knock on the door.

"Are you expecting someone?" Arizona joked.

"No Mommy!" Sofia replied with a laugh.

"Well, who knows?" Arizona opened the door and found Callie with a small smile on her lips.

"Hey Munchkin!" Callie said to her daughter.

"Momma, what are you doing here?"

"Momma is here so we can talk to you, Sof." Arizona answered for Callie.

"Is something wrong?"

"No baby, but I promised you a talk and it´s better for your momma to be here too. Let´s just finish dinner. Callie, do you want some?"

"Mac and Cheese, of course! But you sit down, I can get it."

The trio finished dinner almost in silence. Only Sofia spoke a few times.

Arizona was the first one to speak.

"Okay munchkin. I want you to know that momma and I aren´t fighting, it´s just a little complicated sometimes but you don´t need to worry about us okay?"

"Okay mommy, but why can we not be a family again? We moved here and I like it but I have two homes here now. I wish I could have one home with you and momma. But today Penny was there….Momma will Penny be there more times?"

Callie and Arizona shared a quick look. "Oh god, that kid is too smart for her age" both thought to themselves.

"No Sofia, listen, Penny won´t be there again. It was only today and I promise that she won´t come to us again." Callie said, pulling Sofia on her lap she continued…

"I love your mommy, Sofia and I love you. You two are the most important people in my life and I would love nothing more than to have one home with you and mommy again, but it´s not easy. Mommy and I sometimes make mistakes and it takes a while to forgive and be happy again. But I love your mommy, munchkin and also if we can´t be together again your mommy and I will always be there for you, together just like now."

"I love you too, munchkin and I love your momma" Arizona was looking into big brown eyes.

"We are a family, please don´t think, that we are not a family just because we don´t live together. You have two loving moms and we are so, so proud of you! Do you remember when you fell and hurt your knee?" the blonde asked and continued when the little brunet nodded her head.

"You had a wound and it took some time to heal but now it´s gone and you only have a small scar. When I make a mistake I hurt your momma and it leaves a wound but you can´t see it, it´s on the inside, you know? And it needs time to heal and when I´m lucky your momma will forget it but there will be a little scar. Do you understand that baby girl?"

"Yea, I think so. So momma are you still healing?"

"Yes munchkin, I´m still healing and your mommy is too but you know what helps to heal faster?" Callie asked and Sofia only shake her head.

"A lot of your cuddles!" the brunet said pulling Sofia into a big hug

"Mommy too, we heal together!" Sofia stated as she stretched her arm out for Arizona to join the family hug.

Both adults where looking into each other eyes while tears run down their cheeks. Arizona could see Callie silently saying "I love you" which almost made cry, so she closed her eyes to hide more tears.

An hour later, Sofia was peacefully sleeping in her bed, the ex wives were sitting at the kitchen counter.

"It was really sweet how you handled the talk today." Arizona said

"You too." Callie gave a shy smile

"So you wanna talk about what happened the other day?" The blonde asked, knowing that it was now or never.

"Well, yeah. I mean, I told you you should let me know what you want but we didn´t speak since then so I wasn´t sure what it all means." Callie tried to explain.

"Is that why Penny was there? I didn´t speak to you for two days, so you were looking someone to take your mind of?"

"What no!?" Callie´s response was louder than expected.

"Well how does it fell when someone just jumps the gun at you and then wouldn´t even let you explain." Arizona said, trying to make Callie see how she felt.

"Callie you didn´t even let me talk, I had no chance to explain myself and you got it all wrong."

"Really?" Callie asked with her head down.

"Really."

"I´m sorry, I didn´t realize. I was so confused when you didn´t answer my texts and then I got mad and..." Callie couldn´t finish.

"I know….. I should of texted you but I was overwhelmed and happy but also worried and confused. I just wanted to think about what happened that night, before making a wrong decision."

"I understand, I didn´t mean to make it more difficult between us."

"I know… I really enjoyed what happened." Arizona said with a smile.

"Me too"

"But then the argument in the on call room, it made me realize that maybe we are not ready for more?"

"So, what do you want to do?"

"Honestly? I don´t know. You asked me to trust you but what you said to me in that room showed me that you don´t trust me. And like this it can´t work Callie."

"Do you want couples therapy?" Callie asked

"Arizona we can´t hide how much we still love each other and I know some people think that sometimes love isn´t enough but I believe in our love. Our love is bigger, our love survived too much, so I do everything. Do you want therapy?" Callie took Arizona´s hand.

"I don´t know…. it´s nice of you to ask but I feel like it would be too much pressure and too much like old times, so no I don´t want therapy."

"Okay, no pressure, no old times." Callie repeated

"That night, I really felt like we could start over, Callie."

"Well let´s start over then. Arizona, will you go on a date with me?" the brunet asked.

"What?" Arizona didn´t see that coming.

"Please go on a date with me?"

Arizona hesitated a little before saying

"Mh...maybe" with a smirk on her face.

"Maybe?" Callie smiled standing up to stay in front of Arizona, she leaned in and kissed the blondes cheek before moving her ear and saying…

"I know that means yes. Good night Arizona"

The two smiled at each other and when Callie reached the door she could hear Arizona saying

"I would love to go on a date with you. Good night Calliope"

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