Disclaimer: I don't own Grey's Anatomy, I just borrowed the name of the characters for entertaining, no intention to violate any copyrights.
A/N : Sorry that this chapter has taken so long. Half way through I didn't know where I was going, I blame GA for letting Jcap go :( Luckily that I've got my mojo back and the story is back on track. I've found the path and even know how I'm going to end it, maybe 5 or 6 more chapters, maybe.
All mistakes are mine, sorry about that.
Chapter 15
"Hey Alex," Callie arrived on the Peds floor looking for her girlfriend, but she found the protégé instead. "Is Arizona here? Her name is not on the surgical board and I couldn't find her anywhere."
"She's at her office." The man standing by the nurse station gave her a smirk, gesturing his thumb toward his boss' office. "She was there playing mommy all night."
It didn't take more than a second for Callie to figure out what it meant. Ever since the parentless baby boy was found about 2 weeks ago, the blonde surgeon had paid extra attention to this particular patient. But it was a little odd that she took the baby out of the NICU to her office all night.
"Huh? She just told me that she had some works to do." Callie scratched the back of her head with a frown between her brows. "Why would she...?"
"Oscar wouldn't stop crying yesterday. Whenever the nurses put him down, he started crying bloody murder." Alex shrugged a shoulder, signing off the charts and handed them to the nurse. "NICU was shorted staff last night. Robbins volunteered to stay taking care of him. She took him to her office because the cry was disturbing all other babies."
The attending nodded her understanding. Usually the kids that were staying in the hospital would have their parents by their sides tending them, but poor Oscar got no one. The job of taking care of this baby had fallen on the shoulders of the nurses and doctors.
"So she doesn't know Teddy is here?" Callie fished out her phone from the lab coat pocket checking for text message. It was really strange that she hadn't heard anything from her girlfriend all night, and all morning.
"No idea. I mean, I don't know." The resident patted his superior's shoulder before walking away.
Approaching the office of the head of Peds surgery, Callie found a post-it note saying 'don't knock' on the door. Slowly and quietly opening the door, the sight brought a smile to her face.
There was Arizona had the desk chair reclined, comfortable lying back with her eyes closed. And she was not alone. Baby Oscar was on her chest, sounding asleep in the protective arms of his temporary care taker.
No wonder why Arizona didn't text her.
"Hey," Callie walked closer to the sleeping duo, putting a hand on Oscar's back and the other caressing her girlfriend's face, waking up the sleeping beauty tenderly.
"Hey." Arizona smiled sweetly seeing who was there before her as she opened her eyes. She loosed the hold on the baby as the brunette attempted to pick him up.
"Com'on baby." Callie cooed at the baby when he got startle and started to fuss. Luckily, he settled down quickly as soon as he was held tightly against a cushiony shoulder. Gently bouncing the baby boy, Callie asked. "You slept like this all night?"
"About an hour, I guess. He was very clingy the whole night, it was impossible to put him down at all." Arizona gave a small yawn as she responded. "I didn't realize how tired it was to taking care of a fussy baby all night."
"Why wouldn't you call me? I'd come to help." Still bouncing Oscar in her arms, the brunette said with a pout. She liked this baby, and she really wouldn't mind to help taking care of him.
"You had a long surgery yesterday." Arizona brought her arms over her head stretching her body before getting up to join her girlfriend. "And I didn't know Oscar would be this difficult. No one in the NICU could calm him down."
"Yeah?" Callie eyed the blonde doctor with concern. It's never a good sign when a baby cried all night. "Something's wrong with him?"
"Yeah, I think he's teething." Arizona scrunched her nose to a cute little smile.
"Teething?" Pulling back her head, the brunette tried to look into Oscar's face. "Aren't babies sprouting the first teeth at 4, 5 months?"
"He's failure to thrive, remember? Luckily we've kept some teething toys in here." Reaching behind her, Arizona picked up a silicone chewing ring from the side of her desk showing to the concerned woman. "It helped Mr. Trouble settling down and got some sleep."
"Does he have a fever?" Callie pressed her cheek against Oscar's forehead in order to feel his temperature, relieve slightly feeling that it wasn't so warm.
"It broke this morning, but I've told Yang to postpone the second surgery." The blonde put a hand behind the baby's head rubbing gently and signed. "There's no way he'd survive that in this condition."
"Poor baby... and you too." Callie felt a tender pity for the foundling, and her girlfriend. "You look tired. Do you have any surgery today?"
"Two simple ones in the afternoon. I'm gonna put Mr. Trouble back to NICU and then maybe I'll take a power nap in an on-call room." Arizona took the baby from the brunette's arms and she added playfully. "Do you want to join me? I always sleep better with you next to me."
"Believe me, I would if I could." The brunette opened the door for her girlfriend, the two of them walked side by side down the hall. "I have a surgery in about an hour. I'm just here grabbing you to see Teddy together."
"Oh right!" Arizona gasped aloud, startling the baby in her arms. Luckily, Oscar was too exhausted to be awoken. "Teddy ran into labor around midnight. I told Henry to page me as soon as the baby was born, but I've heard nothing from him. They had their baby already?"
"Well, I think the only way for Henry remembering to find you after his son was born, would be if the baby came out of Teddy and immediately yelled 'awesome!'" Callie chuckled to her own joke, as the two strode toward the NICU.
After settling baby Oscar in the crib and checking on her other patients, Arizona went with Callie to the OB ward visiting their friend. The smiles on their faces froze when they found Teddy was crying in Henry's arms, and a bundle of light blue lying in her arms.
"Something's wrong with your baby?" Arizona rushed in the room as her pediatric doctor instinct kicked in. She was ready to pull out her stethoscope from the pocket but the new mommy waved her hand.
"No no, my baby... our baby is fine." Teddy smiled to her friend through the tearful eyes, and she extended her hand showing off what was on her finger. "Henry just proposed to me."
"Congratulations!" The blonde leaned in to give her best friend a hug, and Callie went to the other side of the bed pulling the smiling man in her arms.
"Congrat... Wait, Teddy's crying because she said yes, right?" The brunette half joking as she let go of Henry. "Not because she doesn't want to marry you?"
"It's pretty late for her to say no now." Henry laughed out as he resumed to the position next to his now engaged fiancée, with a proud smile hanging on his lips as he stroking his newborn son tenderly.
"Hey, I have your son doesn't mean I have to marry you, Mr. Burton." Teddy glared at her fiancé with a feign annoyance. "I want to marry you because I love you. I'm more than capable of being a single mom if I have to."
"Of course you do, babe." The man spread his lips to a sweetest smile before giving the mother of his child a peck on the cheek. "I'm just happy that you want to be my wife. Now I'm gonna leave the room before you change your mind."
The women shared a knowing smile watching Henry walked out of the room, knowing very well that the man was giving a moment for the girl friends catching up.
"We'll get to your ring later." Arizona reached for the baby as she spoke. "First give me the baby."
Carefully, Teddy lifted the baby from her laps and the perky blonde quickly held it against her chest. Arizona couldn't hold back a grin seeing the newborn was giving her an innocent smile and opening his eyes.
"Oh my gosh, he's so precious." Callie stood behind her girlfriend, resting her chin on the soft shoulder as the both of them smiling down at the baby boy. "He has green eyes from the both of you. What's his name?"
"Joseph." The new mother picked up a box of tissue, pulling out papers to wipe off her never ending tears. "His name is Joseph, after Henry's grandfather."
"Teddy, are you alright?" Seeing the usually together Cardio surgeon soaked with tears, Callie asked with concern as she sat down on the bed, laying a comforting hand on Teddy's knee. "You don't like the name?"
"No no, I like it. It's not about the name..." Teddy shook her head while cleaning her nose. "It's not... Gah! This is so not me! I don't cry... hormones are in control now!"
"You just had a baby, and you boyfriend just proposed to you, Teddy. It's normal to feel a bit overwhelmed." Arizona said lively. She had seen numerous of post-partum mood swing on the new mothers, she was no stranger to it but it was kinds funny to see that on her friend though.
"Oh my god, Henry proposed and I said yes!" The crying woman exclaimed, and a new wave of tears gushing out of her eyes. "What was I thinking?"
"Wait... you don't want to marry him?" Both Arizona and Callie shared a look and then the blonde asked with some hesitancy. They thought Teddy wanted this...
"Of course I want to marry him! I love him but..." Wiping off the tears with the ball of tissues, Teddy exclaimed again. "It's too soon!"
"You two have a baby together, Teddy. It's not too soon..." Callie gestures the newborn baby in her girlfriend's arms, her chuckle was cut off when Teddy snapped at her.
"I got pregnant by accident after we were together for just 8 months. More than half of the time we're together that I was pregnant, Callie!" The more she thought about it, the more panicky she got. And it was shown in the green eyes. "What if... what if he wants to marry me just out of obligation?"
"Don't be silly. He was over the moon when you told him that you're pregnant, remember? The way he took care of you in the last few months? Believe me, that's not a man doing it out of obligation. He really wants to make you his wife, Terry." Arizona's smooth voice went on and on, and the anxiety displayed on Teddy's face earlier was considerably lessened.
"You really think so?" Exhaling a long relieving breath, the new mother asked with a small smile on her lips.
"We know so." The ortho surgeon brought out her brightest smile backing up her girlfriend. "This is the ultimate goal of a relationship. Getting married, having children... yes, you're not doing this in a normal order, but still, you have achieved the goal."
"Yes, I do." Terry's frown replaced by a huge grin in a split second. "I've achieved the goal. I'm getting married."
"Yes, you're..." Callie was interrupted when the phone in her pocket went off. Checking the incoming message, she couldn't help to curse under her breath. "Damn it, it seems one of the interns messed with the external fixation that I've put on a patient yesterday. I have to go."
After taking one more look of the adorable newborn Joseph, Callie ran out of the door to save the day.
Carefully holding the baby, Arizona resumed to Callie's previous spot sitting next to her friend. She couldn't hold back a soft laugher when the innocent face broke into another smile. Her little moment with the little guy was interrupted hearing Teddy asked.
"I was in labor for 14 hours, how come you look even tired than I am?"
"I didn't sleep much last night taking care of Oscar. He was acting out. I think he's teething..." Swaying her body slightly for the baby boy in her arms, Arizona filled Teddy in with the situation of the other baby boy.
"That poor kid..." The hormonal woman choked back a little sob. "I can't imagine how a mother can just abandon her child."
"I'm sure his parents have a reason. Oscar needs medical care and it's gonna cost a fortune." The blonde sighed heavily. "At least they left him outside the hospital."
"And he's lucky enough to have you found him." Teddy gave a small smile while wiping off the tears off of her face.
"I wouldn't say he's lucky. If he's lucky, he would have born without the health condition, or have parents that can afford it." Arizona cast a momentary glance at her friend before looking back at the baby in her arms. She wouldn't wish for anything bad to happen to this sweet baby, but even so, she knew that Joseph would be well taken care of.
"I know what you mean." Teddy nodded her head, reaching out to put a hand on her son's chest, silently thank god for the healthy boy. "No one can have it all. But really, you weren't supposed to come to work on that day. It was the anniversary of you and Callie, you had a day off."
"I know, and thank Sloan for that." The blonde chuckled sarcastically, remembering the day that Mark barged in her apartment demanding for her to give Lexie a check up in the hospital, that led her finding the baby in a box.
"If anyone else found him, they may probably just give him to the police." Ignoring the not so funny jest, the new mother looked at her friend with a thoughtful look. "Instead, a Peds surgeon found him and brought him in for a check up right away."
"Anyone would do that..." Arizona shrugged her shoulders carelessly, but Teddy blurt out instantly.
"Yang wouldn't."
A second of silence between the two women until both of them burst out laughing spontaneously of the trueness behind this statement. Cristina would have just walked away from a crying baby.
The sudden outburst stirred the sleeping baby, Arizona got up from the bed and bounced the fussy baby around the room. Green eyes followed her and asked.
"So, what's going to happen to him?"
"I've kept in touch with Janet, the social worker. She said that she has put Oscar in the system, but right now there's nothing she can do considering Oscar's condition is still unstable." Walking the room from side to side, the blue eyes never left the angelic face in her arms. "But as soon as he had the second surgery, she would be able to put him for adoption or being put in a foster care."
"How about you?" Teddy asked again.
"How about me... what?" The blonde stopped to a halt, looking hesitated and confused.
"Adopt him, or being his foster mom?" Lips stretching to a wide grin, the new mother said matter-of-factly.
"Teddy, we are good friends, but it doesn't mean that you have a baby, and I have to have a baby too." Blue eyes rolled skyward, sneering at the absurd idea but her friend just grinned at her from ear to ear.
"I mean it, Arizona. Like you said, Oscar needs medical care. What is better than having doctor around him at all time? And you have good insurance." Excitement was written all over Teddy's face. "You know what? This might be the best idea that I've ever had."
"You know that I don't want children." Arizona hissed at her friend as she resumed strolling the room.
"Are you sure? I know what you've said, but you... I don't know, seem pretty attach to that little boy." Teddy gave a sly, meaningful look to the woman holding her son, even though she knew the blonde was purposely avoiding her gaze. "I was not around in the last week, but each time I had you on the phone, you talked about Oscar."
"I'm not attached. It's just..." Arizona opened her mouth to refute, but then she realized that Teddy was right. "He has no one around so I just... I paid a little more attention on him, that's all."
"Say all what you want, but I think deep down, you like babies." Teddy smiled complacently at her own cleverness seeing the hesitation on the blonde's face.
"I like babies, but that doesn't mean I have to have my own." Patting the baby in her arms tenderly, Arizona said. "I'm completely okay to be the cool aunt of your boy."
"And Callie?" With eyebrows arched for the sky, Teddy challenged the stubborn woman. "Don't you think that she wants a baby someday?"
"Callie knows what she has signed up for." Sensing the conversation had driven to a direction that she really didn't want to visit, Arizona passed the baby back to his mother. But Teddy just couldn't let up.
"Didn't you hear what she said earlier?" Settling her son on her laps, the mother continued. "Getting married and having children, the ultimate goal of a relationship."
"She said that to get you stop crying." Arizona put a hand on Teddy's shoulder smiling kindly. "You know what, future Mrs. Burton? You are flooded with postpartum hormones and having all these crazy ideas in your mind. I'm gonna leave you before you making me crazy as well. I'm come see you and Joseph later, okay?"
After leaving the room of Teddy's, Arizona went into a nearby on-call room trying to get some sleep but it was in vain. She tossed and turned for half an hour but just couldn't shut her mind off. The word of Teddy's ringing in her head and she kept laughing at the idea. Well, Teddy was right, of course. Oscar needed a stable home that could take care of him, but...
Finally giving up the idea of getting any rest, the blonde got up from the bed. Knowing very well that she was in no condition of operating on anyone, she assigned her surgeries to the trustful resident, and Alex accepted the jobs with a feigned annoyance - the surgery thirst resident wouldn't pass on a chance to get into the OR, and his attending knew that very well.
After clearing out her afternoon, the blonde doctor wandering down the hall to the place that she had spent a lot of time in for the last 2 weeks. However, she found that one of the cribs in the NICU was empty.
"Where's Oscar?" Arizona asked the nurse, with a hint of panic in her voice.
"You haven't seen the sky for 2 weeks, have you?" Callie cooed at the baby in her arms as they walked into the little garden behind the hospital main building. The curious little blue eyes were too busy looking around to give her any response.
The Ortho attending was supposed to be performing a hip replacement right now. It got cancelled when the patient's wife brought him a huge breakfast, saying that the old man needed all the energy that he could get to survive the surgery. So, with the unexpected free time that she got, Callie decided to go visit little Oscar.
The sight in the NICU had touched a very raw nerve in her heart. There were about six little babies in there, almost every crib had at least a parent hovering around, except for one. And that lone baby was crying through a pacifier.
The cry subsided to a whimper as soon as he was in the comfortable embrace of the woman that he has come to know in these past weeks. Holding the baby tight against her chest, Callie had an idea. After clearing with the nurse and borrowing an extra baby blanket to wrap around Oscar, the two headed out of the NICU.
"I know how bad it is to stay inside for so long. I went crazy the last time I was stuck at work for 3 whole days." Callie sang out as she sauntering along the garden path. "A little sunshine will do you some good, don't you think, Oscar?"
Oscar answered by flinging his little arms and kicking his legs seeing a pair of birds flew by them.
"You like birdies, huh? Let's sit down here and watch the birdies fly, okay?" The brunette chose a bench that was located in the open area of the lawn, with the gentle spring sun shinning upon them. Carefully maneuvering the baby to sit on her laps facing forward, Callie covered their laps with the baby blanket and then pointed to the few birds not so far away from them.
The adult and child interacted with a few laughers and hand gestures, little did they know that someone was watching them from a distance.
"Excuse me," A young woman, probably in her early twenties walked up to Callie and Oscar, asking timidly. "Are you a doctor in the hospital? I mean, you're wearing the uniform."
"Yes, I am." Still wearing a smile on her face after laughing at little Oscar's antic, the brunette answered absent-mindedly. "And we don't call this uniform... Well, in a way, this is a uniform but we call it scrubs."
"I'm sorry." The blush on the young woman's face went deeper. Her eyes glued to the baby on the doctor's laps, who was stretching his arms, seemingly excited to see a stranger other than the usual faces from the hospital. Shifting the weight from one leg to another, the woman asked again. "Is this your baby? He looks really cute."
"No, this little guy," Callie slipped her fingers into Oscar's palm, holding the little hand as she answered. "he's a patient in the hospital. I'm just taking him out for some fresh air."
"He's a patient." The woman nodded her head with her lips pursing tight, as if she was swallowing something hard. "Is he alright?"
"He was born with a heart condition but he's a real campaigner. As far as I know, he had one surgery before we found him." Rubbing the baby's belly with her free hand, Callie placed gentle kiss on top of Oscar's blonde head. "Had one 2 weeks ago, and going to have his third surgery in a few days."
The young woman's face turned white and her knees buckle slightly. Callie shifted on the bench and offered the woman to sit down next to her.
"Are you okay?" The brunette asked.
"I... I'm fine." The young woman took a few deep breaths, pulling up a weak smile.
"Hope you don't mind me asking," Callie watched the young woman with curiosity. She had her blonde hair tying in a messing ponytail, face looked really pale and her blue eyes seemed clouded with some sadness. "Why are you in here? I mean, in the hospital? Are you... not feeling well or something?"
"No no, I'm here..." The young woman said so falteringly, and seemed to hide some painful notion that was so persistent. "I'm visiting my family. He... um... he's going to undergo surgery, a heart surgery, and I'm just worry about him."
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that." Callie gave her a sympathetic smile. "I hope he'll get well soon."
"I hope so." The young woman smiled back faintly, and her eyes dropped to the baby flinging a little arm reaching out at her. She took the little hand in her hand and sighed. "The surgery... it's expensive."
"Yeah, thanks to our government." The brunette looked forward laughing dryly, missing the subtle change of expression on the young woman's face. "However, the insurance should be able to cover most of the cost."
"What if he doesn't have insurance?" The stranger asked, and the question made Callie looking at her with some surprises. She covered up quickly. "I mean, my family has, but what if... For example, this little boy? It must have cost a fortune for that many surgeries."
"To be honest, he actually doesn't have any." Callie picked up the baby and readjusted the position, holding him against her chest because Oscar was squirming restlessly. "But a few of the doctors had come up a plan with the hospital. The doctors are working pro bono, and the hospital donates the OR times and nurses."
"You'd do this for him?" The young woman gasped aloud, looking up at the doctor with incredulity. Callie bit her lips knowing that she had made a slip of tongue.
"Uh... normally we don't, but this little guy is a foundling. He has no one. We have a pro bono budget for this kind of situation. He was found in a box outside of the hospital, he'd die if we don't do anything." The brunette rambled on and on. "We don't usually offer this to everyone."
"I understand." The young woman sniffed loudly, apparently touched by the good deed that was offered by the doctor. "So he's gonna be okay?"
"He will be." Callie smiled, and pulled the baby to her face, cooing sweetly. "You're gonna be just fine, aren't you, Oscar?"
"Oscar?" The woman asked, and Oscar's face turned to the side hearing someone called his name.
"He has no ID when we found him. One of my colleagues named him Oscar, after a character from Sesame Street." The brunette chuckled, recalling the quick wit coming from one Cristina Yang.
"Goodbye, Oscar." The young woman took hold of little Oscar's hand once again and gave it a squeeze. And then she addressed Callie before standing up to leave. "And nice to meet you, doctor."
Callie called after the young woman seeing she was walking toward the side of the garden instead of taking the short cut behind her.
"Hey, aren't you going to visit your family? You can enter the building following the path..." The brunette gestured her thumb backward, but the young woman just shook her head.
"No, I have already met him. I... I have to go." She waved at the duo one last time before walking away from them.
"You're a little chick magnet, aren't you little man? A few minutes out in the garden and you have had a pretty lady coming to talk to you?" Callie chuckled at the baby in her arms. Oscar didn't understand what it meant, but chuckled along see the beaming smile before him.
"So, you're the one kidnapping my patient." A voice came up behind them, but Callie didn't need to turn around to see who it was.
"I didn't kidnap him. I asked Andrea and she agreed that going outside would be good for Oscar." Callie titled her head greeting her girlfriend. Arizona gave her a peck before kissing Oscar's on the top of his head.
"Who was the woman that you were talking to?" The blonde asked as she sat down on the spot that was occupied by the stranger minutes ago.
"Family member of a patient. She saw this pretty face and couldn't help to come to us." Callie added quickly after getting a stink eye from her girlfriend. "Oscar's! Oscar's pretty face! I was just telling him that he's a real chick magnet."
"Come on, baby." Arizona gave the brunette another squint before clapped her hands before the baby, and Oscar almost jumped into her arms. "She's a bad influence, you better stay with me."
"Yeah, right." Callie said sarcastically, placing the baby blanket on Oscar keeping him warm from the spring breeze before moving closer to her girlfriend, wrapping an arm around her. "Why aren't you sleeping?"
"I couldn't sleep." The blonde sank deeper into the embrace, rubbing the baby's back tenderly as Oscar rest cozily against her chest. "And you? I thought that you have a surgery."
"A full American breakfast." Callie's lips contorted into a grimace that made the blonde laughed.
"Ouch."
"Yeah, ouch. We have to reschedule it." The brunette sighed before turned to the woman in her arms. "Are you hungry? Do you want to get something to eat?"
"Maybe later." Arizona answered softly. She had her head rested on the crook of Callie's neck, and Oscar was quietly nodding off on her lap in the sun, it's too comfortable to move.
They sat there on the bench in a comfortable silence. A few people passed by and gave them an amiable smile seeing the couple snuggled up together with a baby between them. Arizona found herself enjoying a moment like this - not the warm smiles from the strangers, but sitting peacefully in the garden, wrapping in Callie's arms and a small body clinging on her...
"Calliope?" Arizona asked in a whisper after a few minutes. "Do you think I... we are too attached to Oscar?"
"Why would you say that?" Callie pulled back slightly, looking into the blue eyes in confusion.
"Earlier, Teddy pointed out that I am." The blonde screwed up her nose with a sheepishness smile, avoiding her girlfriend's questioning eyes.
"Well, this is one of the so many reasons that I love you, Arizona." The brunette planted a soft smile on Arizona's nose, kissing away the wry grimace. "You care about your patients. A little too attached to them is not a bad thing, especially for Oscar. He has no one."
"What about you?" The blonde smiled back. "He is not your patient."
"He has no one. He is all alone. When I go to the NICU and see that all other babies have their patients loving them, worrying about them... it breaks my heart. The least I can do is to go see him, showing him that he's not alone in there." Placing a tender hand on the sleeping baby, Callie said with a soft smile on her face. "Besides, we are not the only ones. I've seen Alex singing to him when he thought that no one was around. And the stuffed Oscar the grouch doll that Cristina got him, saying that she found it in the dumpster? Meredith told me that Cristina actually went to the mall, bought it for Oscar."
"Yang really did that?" The blonde's face broke into an incredulous smile. Of course she knew that Cristina wouldn't bring a dumpster toys for the kid in NICU, but she thought the resident just took it from Meredith's daughter.
"Yeah, we're all doing our part." Callie nodded her head. "Until Oscar's strong enough and Janet is able to find him a home, a loving home with people that love him."
Talking about Janet, Arizona recalled the conversation that she had with Teddy. Her train of thought was interrupted when Callie spoke up again.
"I now understand why you don't want to have children, Arizona." Callie sighed heavily as her gaze drifted to the innocent baby. "My heart aches for Oscar and he's not even related to us. I can not imagine what a horrible pain it would be if it was our own child in the NICU."
"So, you don't want to have kids now?" Arizona glanced tentatively at the face before her, and the brunette just grinned at her.
"We've talked about it already, remember? We don't need kids to be happy and we surly don't need the stress of keeping the kids alive." Callie tossed her head and laughed. "I could just see us ten, twenty years from now, living in a big house with fancy furniture that no fear of being dirtied or damaged by children. We could just hop on a plane for vacation anytime we want. And from time to time, Teddy and Mark's kids could come to us for advices because their parents are so lame and we are their coolest aunts..."
Callie went on and on, and the blonde listened with a smile... and her hands holding the baby was getting tighter.