"Oh Jesus" Sofia groaned when she woke up to a marching band playing inside of her head, she had drunk before but she had never suffered a hangover life this before. She forced her eyes open to find her mama's face beside her sleeping soundly, she couldn't help but smile softly at how content her mum looked, glancing at her watch and seeing the time she decided she needed to wake her mama up and start getting them sobered up and ready for work.
Reaching across, she stroked her mama's face softly telling her to wake up and couldn't help but grin as her mother grunted and scrunched her nose up.
"Come on mama, it's time to wake up... come on wake up sleepy" Sofia called softly.
"Calliope I don't wanna, just snuggle with me and let's go back to sleep" Arizona mumbled sleepily. Sofia's heart broke at the sound of her mama's begging for her mum.
"Hey Mama, come on wake up" Sofia shuck her a little harder. Arizona's eyes opened foggily and upon seeing her daughter laid next to her, her heart sunk visibly and her smile dropped.
"Good dream?" Sofia asked softly seeing the pain in her mama's eyes.
"Mmm" Arizona mumbled noncommittally as she stretched before kissing her daughters head.
"I love you baby. It's been a long, long time since I woke up to your beautiful face" Arizona cooed.
"You still love her don't you" Sofia asked nervously but keeping her eyes fixed on her mothers.
"Who?" Arizona asked, feigning ignorance.
"You know very well I'm talking about Mum..., the woman you were just calling out for in your sleep! you still love her don't you?" Sofia asked again, not letting her off lightly.
"Of course I still love her Sof, she's the mother of my child... I will always love her" Arizona offered sadly.
"Ok... but that's not what I meant and you know it... you're still in love with her" Sofia stated, not asking anymore.
"Sof come on, your mother and I, we have been separated now way longer than we were together. God I haven't even seen her for what, ten years since you started traveling on your own... I don't even know her anymore" Arizona stated sadly.
"Yet you're giving me excuses of why you shouldn't be in love with her, you're not admitting that your not in love with her" Sofia grinned triumphantly.
"You're too clever, when did you get so clever" Arizona smirked as she glared at her daughter.
"Stop avoiding answering me" Sofia laughed as her mama rolled her eyes.
"Sofia, your mum... she's the love of my life, she's my soulmate, she's my one true love. I will always love her, I will always be IN love with her and she will always be the one that got away. It doesn't mean anything and I don't want you to think that it does, or that anything is going to change, or for you to get any silly idea's that your mother and I may reconcile after all this time. We are different people now, very very different people" Arizona admitted with a tear in her eye. Sofia grabbed her and pulled her into a tight hug.
"She's not happy you know" Sofia confessed as she laid her head on her mother's chest and felt her mother's fingers playing with her hair as she listened to the soft thudding of her mothers heart in her chest.
"I'm sure she is happy Sof, she seemed to really love Penny, she moved away from her home and all of her friends to be with her… I mean I asked her to move to Africa with me for just three years and she couldn't but she made the move for Penny" Arizona tried to be upbeat, but couldn't keep the pain from her voice.
"No... she's really not happy. She's miserable. All they do is fight. And she cries all the time not that she realizes that I know that. And they barely see each other, other than at the hospital... and when they do see each other and think no one is watching its so awkward and tense… like they actually hate each other not love each other and Penny is such a bitch to her, all the time" Sofia confessed.
"Sofia stop... your mum has moved on. I have moved on. You need to stop this right now... we will not be getting back together, and I'm sorry, I'm so, so sorry, but it's just not ever going to happen baby. I don't want to hurt you, but you need to stop thinking like that… I'm almost certain that what you think your seeing is just a whole lot of wishful thinking on your behalf baby" Arizona soothed.
"Ok mama, if you say so... I love you, but you suck for making me drink so much tequila" Sofia grinned before pulling away to get ready for her second day, determined to keep pushing the topic even if she had dropped it for the morning. She just had a feeling deep in her gut that the story of her mothers love for each other wasn't finished yet.
-oOo-
"Dr. Sloan" Stacy grinned as her new friend entered the locker room and began changing from her street clothes into her scrubs.
"Dr. Brown" Sofia smiled, sitting next to the dirty blonde with a smile after she had finished changing. "How was your night?"
"Boring, I moved into my new apartment, which is totally overpriced for the shit hole it is..., I'm pretty sure it comes with free pet rats! You?" Stacey asked with a warm friendly smile.
"Oh, I went to Joe's and got drunk on Tequila with my Mama, and woke up hungover in bed with her... awesome night" Sofia laughed.
"Wow... you drunk Tequila with your mum? That's wild" Stacey laughed.
"No my mama... Dr Robbins is my Mama, Dr Torres is my Mum... I know, it gets confusing" Sofia rolled her eyes.
"Got it... so what exactly is Joe's" Stacey asked with a nod.
"It's a bar across the street, it's like the official drinking place of the hospital... we should go for drinks later, if you feel like it?" Sofia asked nervously.
"Sound's like a plan. I'll meet you after work here?" Stacy asked with a hopeful grin when Sofia nodded her agreement.
Their morning went by smoothly as they were placed into their final intern groups, Sofia being happy to find herself in the same group as her new friend Stacy. And today they were on general surgery with Dr Meredith Grey, the one and only, also known to Sof as Aunty Mer and much to Sofia's amusement, known to the interns as Medusa. Sofia was happy when Grey treated her exactly the same as all the other interns, and it was a breath of fresh air as she ran around the hospital on missions that Grey had set.
Just before lunch, Grey set a mission for the interns to locate information for a surgery for a seven year old boy, Sofia and Stacy had spent an hour in the library researching information before Sofia had the idea to question her Mama to see if she could impart any advice from a Peds point of view.
The two interns stepped off the lift into the peds floor to hear a commotion, the closer they stepped, the louder the voices got until Sofia's heart dropped when she realized who the owners of the two voices were.
"Shit!" Sofia sped up and rounded the corner only to have her suspicions confirmed as there in front of her going head to head, were her two mothers who had spent a decade avoiding each other.
"Arizona, you can't mess with her career like this, you need to grow the hell up" Callie screamed, not caring about the people who were massing around them, interested in seeing a bit of free drama.
"Callie, I am NOT messing with her career. God you drunk when you were an intern. I drunk when I was an intern. And look at us, we are both the leading surgeons in our field nationally, and from what I hear for you, internationally. She needs to have a life outside of this place, we both know that better than anyone" Arizona yelled back holding her ground despite Calliope Torres towering over her, her Latina fury unleashed and aimed directly at the blonde. Neither women caring about the staff and patients watching their argument unfold with interest.
"Of course you would want her to have fun, cause your mrs nice mom" Callie accused with a scoff.
"Oh here we go again... Callie she is a grown up, she can make her own damn decisions. She's a damn surgical intern, just be proud that we raised such a great kid who is on the right track, the same track we were on at her age!" Arizona retorted, sick of hearing how she was good cop and forcing Callie to be bad cop just because the other woman had a stick up her ass and had decided that fun was such a terrible thing.
"That is not your decision to make Arizona!" Callie screamed before bursting into a fit of Spanish that Arizona had no chance of keeping up with.
"Guys enough!" Sofia snapped before storming to both of her mother's, grabbing both of their hands and dragging them towards her mama's office. Which luckily they were stood just a few steps in front of. She guided them into the room before pushing them through the door and slamming it behind her as she stepped into the room too.
"Sit... now" Sofia ordered with her hands on her hips as she glared at both of the women in front of her, daring them to challenge her.
"Don't you raise your voice to me like that young lady" Callie snapped angrily as she turned towards her daughter in shock at the tone in her voice.
"I said sit your asses down!" Sofia yelled taking both women back by the ferocity of her voice. Arizona moved to the chair behind her desk and slumped into it. Callie slumped on the couch that she had known intimately a long time ago.
"What the hell is going on here... first of all... Mum, what are you doing here, why aren't you in New York?" Sofia snapped focusing all of her attention on the Latina who sat squirming uncomfortably on the couch at having her child chastise her.
"I decided to move back home. I spoke to Bailey and she just so happened to have an opening for an Ortho Attending as the current one retires in a month and she was about to start head hunting for a replacement" Callie told her matter of factly.
"That's a demotion for you mum, you were the chief of orthopedics in the leading hospital in America for skeletal care... The leading hospital in New York" Sofia asked in shock that her mother would just up and leave a position she had worked her whole career to achieve.
"Well my daughter isn't in New York, and I'm not quite ready to never see her because she will be too busy to visit, and after our conversation yesterday it made my mind up for me... it's something I have been thinking about for a few month's now" Callie pouted.
"Ok so your moving to Seattle?" Sofia asked for confirmation and watched as her mum nodded.
"And Penny?" Sofia asked in confusion, half hoping to hear that Penny would be staying in New York and they had opened their eyes that they weren't happy together and had decided to part ways.
"Is speaking to Bailey right now to see if there is a position on staff for her here before she reaches out to the other hospitals in the city" Callie confessed nervously throwing a glance at Arizona.
"Right... so what exactly were you two arguing about. Please tell me that you weren't arguing about me?" Sofia asked as she looked between both of her mothers and seeing their guilty faces.
"Ok right now we need to set some ground rules. I am a surgical intern on my second day. I can't have both of my mothers arguing about me in the middle of the hospital around the other interns, the residents, the attendings, the chief... all of the people I have to work with and have to prove that I'm not just here because of the surnames I have" Sofia snapped in frustration as she rubbed her forehead with the back of her hand.
"You're so right baby, I'm so sorry" Arizona offered guiltily.
"Yeah me too... sorry baby" Callie answered tightly.
"So rule one... inside this hospital... you are Dr Robbins" Sofia pointed at her mama angrily before turning her finger to her mum "you are Dr Torres... and I am Dr Sloan... there is no mothers and no daughters here, am I understood?" Sofia stated and waited for both parents to agree.
"Rule two... if you absolutely need to argue, find somewhere that no one will hear you, especially me... I don't need to hear you both arguing over me like spoiled children… your adults, I am an adult. Grow up both of you!" Sofia demanded and watched as her parents nodded again shamefully.
"Rule three... you are both my parents... act like it. You brought me into this world with love and raised me together and separately with love and respect. You liked each other. You loved each other... treat each other like the mother of your child and not like your worst enemy otherwise you may as well go back to New York mum" Sofia snapped as both women nodded as they looked anywhere but at their little girl, too ashamed to make eye contact with their daughter.
"Get your shit together right now because I don't want to have to tell you both again!" Sofia stormed from the office and slammed the door as she grabbed Stacy's arm and dragged her away from the ped's floor to rant about the complete embarrassment she was feeling.
"She gets that temper from you, you know" Arizona smirked as she watched Callie sit with a slack jaw at the bollocking the two of them just received.
"Shut up, she does not" Callie scoffed with a roll of her eyes before leaving her ex's office and making her way to her own department, an amused smirk playing on her face at her ex's accurate comment.
-oOo-
"What a day" Sofia sighed as she swigged at her beer from a booth.
"Yeah... your mom's are a little intense" Stacy grinned.
"Yeah they get like that sometimes" Sofia laughed. "I haven't seen them fight like that since I was a little girl, that's probably why they haven't seen each other for over ten years"
"And that's how they greet each other, wow" Stacy asked sadly as she studied her friend, really feeling for her. She came from a happy home with parents who loved each other as much as they loved her and her siblings, so to see her friend come from a home with parents who did nothing but argue, really pulled at her heartstrings.
"Yeah" Sofia sighed thoughtfully.
"What's on your mind?" Stacy asked after several moments of silence between them.
"If I tell you something, do you promise to keep it a secret?" Sofia asked nervously as the other woman nodded.
"Mama admitted she's still in love with mum this morning" Sofia said, studying her friend to gauge her reaction.
"Holy shit... what does that mean, is she going to try and get your mum back?" Stacy leaned forward excited.
"She said not, she told me it was never going to happen and that I need to put it out of my mind... but I can tell that she is so in love with her still" Sofia admitted sadly. "and mum isn't happy, she hasn't been ever since I remember… she's just coasting through life now"
"So maybe we need to give them a helping hand" Stacy smirked mischievously.
"No... we cant... my mum is with Penny" Sofia laughed, despite wanting to get instantly on board with Stacy's suggestion.
"But you just admitted that she's not happy... so maybe we just need to remind her that she was happy with your mama" Stacy grinned.
"But my mama cheated on her, she said mum could never forgive her and she could never forgive herself... so it's not going to work" Sofia confided and hoped that her new friend wouldn't pass that information on to any of the other interns.
"So we help them both forgive and forget, it can't be that hard" Stacy shrugged at what she expected was a simple resolution. "I mean come on, you only argue like that with someone you still have some pretty strong feelings for"
"It's not that easy... and it's their lives, we shouldn't meddle in it" Sofia shook her head.
"Probably... but when has that ever been any fun?" Stacy asked with a playful smile.
"It's not meant to be fun... we're talking about my mother's lives here" Sofia complained.
"Come on Sofia... do you want them to be happy or not?" Stacy grinned as she raised her beer and waited for Sofia to chink it. With a roll of her eyes, Sofia chinked the bottle and grinned.
"Ok... so how are we going to do this?" Sofia smirked as she leaned forward and prepared herself to get her family back together regardless of how long it would take.