Disclaimaer: 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 is another un-beta chapter. Not sorry for the happy time.
Chapter 16
"No way! I didn't do that."
"You did, it was you! You were the only one who could shake the hips like a freaking motor! Really, she was like Moses in the Red Sea, people on the dance floor made space for her. And there was a guy jumped out from the crowd gripped her and then the two of them danced or ground or humped… I didn't even have a word for that."
"It was salsa, supposed to dance like that!" Callie exclaimed.
"Ha! You remember!" Addison pointed a finger to the blushing Latina.
"No… but the way you described it, it was salsa." Callie turned her gazed to the girlfriend in her arm, Arizona just looked back and forth the bickering friends with amused.
"No, that was dry humping on the dance floor, Callie." The redhead pointed her finger again to emphasize her point, Callie rose up from her seat attempted to slap it away, but Addison quickly retracted her hand.
"It was salsa, and for god sakes I was 25, 26!" Callie flopped back on the bench angrily, threw her hands in the air with frustration.
"Anyway, since then we could easily enter that club, no waiting outside." Addison winked to Arizona, who was comfortably snuggled back to the side of her woman.
"Yea, there was a time." Callie said, hand slowly stroked the thigh next to hers.
"I don't know you go clubbing, I don't even know you dance." Arizona tilted her head to look at the brunette.
"I wasn't really a club going person, just went for some distractions that I needed." She shrugged casually.
"That's true, she didn't go clubbing with me since she settled down with a girlfriend." Addison picked up her glass of wine to take a sip slowly, it was after 5pm and Henry was taking his afternoon nap, so mama was going to relax a little bit with aunties.
"You didn't need me to go with you anyway, you were protected by a SWAT guy." Callie smirked, grinned happily as her found a way to get back her friend.
"A SWAT guy?"
"She dated a police, and later that guy transferred to SWAT team, what was his name again?" A naughty smile found a way to the plump lips, she remembered the name, just want to make Addison to admit that she remembered the guy as well.
"Kevin, nice guy, good kisser." A wry smile tugged at the corner of the lips of the redhead woman.
"Addie was crazy about him, she stalked the guy after a date." Callie said to the blonde sat next to her with excitement, it was a great story and she planned to tell Henry when he got older, for sure.
"Stalk – stalk, followed him around in the dark, stared at him from afar, that kind of stalk?" Arizona was so shock that her eyes almost popped out of her head. "Addison Forbes Montgomery, a world-class neonatal surgeon with board certifications in both Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Maternal and Fetal Medicine, stalked a guy?"
Addison didn't answer but sipped her wine, but Callie on the other hand, let out a full belly laugh. "I had to go bailed her out in the middle of the night."
"You were arrested?" Still wide-eyed blonde gazed at the redhead on the other side of the coffee table.
"First of all, I am just a woman. Secondly, I wasn't arrested, a nice police officer gave me a ride to the station downtown, I just called her to come pick me up." Addison put the glass down slowly, tried to act as cool as possible.
"… because…?" Callie smirked.
"I didn't know Kevin was in a mission, how could I knew when was not a good time to tailgate a nice guy who didn't call me back after a date?" Addison threw a cushion across the coffee table to try to hit her best friend, Callie caught it and put it on her lap.
"Addie, I think the answer is NEVER! You should never stalk a guy!" Callie burst into another round of guffaw when she saw the blonde next to her wiped away the tear in the corner of her eye.
"Yea, laugh as you want, but I got the guy, he liked my craziness." Addison ran a hand through her silklike red hair with a proud smile, Callie was about to bicker back, a cry from the baby monitor indicated that Henry had awakened, mama strode back to the house for her baby boy, the other 2 stayed on the deck to enjoy the ocean breeze and LA sunshine.
Callie closed her eyes and dropped her head against the back of the bench chair, a ghost of smile in the corner of her mouth as she missed the time being with her best friend, and the smile grew wider when blonde head found the way to nuzzled against her neck. She wrapped a hand around Arizona's shoulder to tug the blonde closer, the other hand found the fair hand which was resting on her inner thigh, fingers interwound instantly.
"Thank you for bringing me to meet Addison." Arizona said in a whisper.
"Hmmm…?" Callie asked without opened her eyes.
"I want to know you, everything about you. Hearing the stories from Addison, I know it's just a small part of you, but still it's interesting."
"What do you want to know about me?" Callie kissed the top of the blonde head.
"Everything, everything about you."
"Well, not to freak you out but I have quite an interesting life so far, I'll tell you my story but you gonna give me time." Callie buried her face into blonde hair and breathed in deeply, she was glad that Arizona remembered to pack her own shampoo in the suitcase, she already addicted to the smell of her girlfriend's rosy shampoo smell.
"I don't know if you noticed, I plan to stick around as long as you allow, so yea, you have time to tell me anything you want."
Callie smiled to her girlfriend and leaned toward her for a slow, linger kiss, let out a light moan when the blonde deepened the kiss. A matching smile showed on their face after the lips unlocked.
"That is the first girl on girl action you had witnessed, Henry. Can you say thank you to those ladies?" Addison reappeared with a happy baby, a broad smile plastered on his little face from a long nap.
"You are a terrible mother Addie, do you know that?" Callie said and reached out her arms for baby Henry.
"He is all happy and laughing now, so you want him, huh? How about hours ago when he was cranky and crying? And you call me a terrible mother!" Addison rolled her eyes while handed Henry to her friend.
"Hey, I'm his fun aunt Callie, I'm going to show him how to have fun and do naughty stuffs, even pick up girls when he's older, not to change his diaper or make him stop crying, that's your job, or Arizona's." Callie said when she settled the little boy on her laps, made a grimace to Addison.
"Hey, leave me out of it." Arizona said in her baby voice when she was trying to get Henry's attention, this baby was too cute that Arizona just wanna kissed those chunky little cheeks.
"So is this how you two are going to deal with your future children? Arizona has to get up in the middle of the night to change diaper and feed the monster alone, Callie you just show up when the child is all cheerful? I'm sorry for you Arizona." Addison sneered at her friend and sat back on her previous spot, she missed teasing her best like this.
Callie glanced at Arizona who was still making funny face to Henry, pretended didn't hear a word, then mouthed to Addison I will kill you, the redhead just stuck her tongue out to her.
Looking at her girlfriend coaxing at the baby in her arms, there was a funny feeling inside of Callie, a good funny feeling. Of course every little girl dreamed about having their own babies, but in her twentieth, having a child was never in her mind, even she was in love with Malena, they didn't talk about starting a family together. They were young and they were busy, being a parent was the last on the to-do list.
Arizona looked up and caught the smiley face with loving eyes from her lover, her own smile went wider when they locked eyes, they got lost in their little love bubble again.
Baby Henry took this time to remind everyone his present, a grumble came from his little belly, then a strong smell told that a diaper change was needed.
"Oh Henry, I just changed you before came down to here." Addison rose up slowly to take her son, Callie passed him over willingly.
"Anyone wants to practice diaper changing?" Addison asked the two before strode away.
"Oh I'm good, we don't know the other that well, it's too soon for me to see his shit." Callie laughed, then the mother and son went down the hall to the bathroom.
Callie clasped her hand with her girlfriend's, brought them up to place a kiss on the fair hand, smiled to the blonde who was smiling back to her.
"What are you thinking?" Arizona asked softly.
"I'm thinking how much I love you, and how lucky that I've had found you, and how much I want to kiss you right now." Nothing but sincerity and love poured out from the brown eyes, Arizona felt her soul had been drawn into them. Slowly, she leaned forward to place her lips on Callie's, a hand reached up to cup the face, her thumb stroked the plump lip after pulled away from the kiss. "I love you too, but no, not yet."
"What?" The brunette pulled further away to look at her girlfriend.
"I see from your eyes, you want a baby. But we are together for just a month, a baby, a family is a huge deal, it's a life, we can't rush it just because your clock is ticking." Arizona put her hand back on her girlfriend's face, slightly caressed it with her thumb, smiled when Callie leaned against her hand and sighed on the contact.
"Am I that obvious?" The brunette pursed her lips, Arizona just nodded. "You are right, I was thinking how great it could be to have a baby, but it wasn't because I want a baby, it was because I want to have a baby with you Arizona."
"You crazy woman." Arizona chuckled and pecked on lips of the brunette's. "I'm good with kids because I'm a kids doctor, it doesn't make me a good mother, don't let it fool you."
"So, do you want to have children someday?" Callie asked when the blonde shifted and rested the head on her shoulder.
"Is it a deal breaker?"
Arizona lifted her head to gaze at the Latina when she didn't get an answer, she sighed and pull away from Callie to sit up straight.
"Not that I don't want to have children, when the time is right, maybe I would like to have even 10 kids, with you if you don't mind. But I work in PEDS, I see sick kids all the time, take Wallace for example, no matter how rich his father was, he died, and left his parents heart broken. And sometimes the parents fought about how to deal with their sick child, or in our case, what if our child was sick but either one of us was not allowed to make medical decision when the other was not around? I know it because I see it everyday." Arizona said sincerely, but the brunette in front of her just look at her biting the lips, so she continued. "I love you, I really do. But I don't… we shouldn't, make a life changing decision irrationally."
Wetted her lips, Callie shook her head slightly and wrapped her arm around the blonde to pull the woman closer to her side. "You know, I never thought one day I would want to be a mother. Especially, I am a bartender, I work at night. How can I take care of a baby?"
Arizona tried to answered, but wouldn't come up with anything.
Callie used her free hand to grip the fair hand rested of her lap, "I don't know it's because of the things happened to me in the last year, or seeing Addison glows whenever Henry smiles at her, I want a family, I want to be with someone I love so deeply that we would raise a child together. That's what I'm thinking, that is my goal right now, at this moment when I have you in my life, the woman I love so much that I would do anything for."
"Callie..."
"I am not saying let's do this now, go down to Addie's office grip some sperm and put them inside you. We can talk about it 2 years later. And listen to me, if you still don't feel like having a child, I can live. If I have to choose between you and a child that may or may not love me back, you are always my priority." Callie kissed the top of the head that rested on her shoulder, "Just don't go crazy and break up with me because I seem having baby fever and you don't, we will work it out."
"What are you guys talking about? Work what out?"
Arizona looked up and found that Addison returned with Henry, she gazed into her girlfriend's brown eyes for a second, then turned to the redhead. "There is a very big chance, Callie and I will start a family in 2 years."
Addison's well shaped eyebrow raised up to her forehead with surprise, she looked at the brunette sat in front of her, who had the biggest smile on the face, but looked a bit stunned as well.
"Is this a mutual idea or...what? 'cos Callie, I never know you wanna be a mother." Addison looked between Callie and Arizona, she afraid her best friend made a decision liked that just to please the blonde.
"Addie, I never thought I want to be a mother, but now I do. I mean, I can wait until we are ready." Callie turned to her girlfriend to affirm that. "It's Arizona here who doesn't want kids, so you may have to help me to convince her."
"I am not saying I don't want kids!" Arizona exclaimed, but she was cut off by the brunette.
"I know sweetie, I am just teasing you." Callie kissed Arizona on her cheek before rose up from her seat to take Henry, the baby was happily jumped into his auntie Callie's arms so that he could grab a handful of raven hair. "Let's go make some coffee, what do you say little man?" She got a toothless grin in return before they headed to the kitchen.
"So, you don't like children? I am surprised." Addison said while she was clearing up the wine glasses on the table.
"I like children, I like all those tiny human even the naughty ones. I just never thought about to have one for myself." Arizona stood up to help, she picked up the wine bottle and found it wasn't empty, with a baby in the house really made them aware of the alcohol intake, the three of them didn't even finished a bottle.
"Well, if everything goes well, you won't be having a child on your own." Addison glanced over the kitchen direction.
"I know, I just need sometime to prepare myself. You should understand this, we saw so many sick children in our professional, it's kind of scary." The two picked up everything and headed back to the house together.
"Tell me about it. I... had an abortion, many many many… many years ago." Addison stopped before she passed the threshold, turned her head and found Arizona looked at her with wide eyes. "I was young and I was with a wrong guy at that time. And being an excellent OB, I dealt with difficult pregnancy most of the time, it was horrible to just think about what could go wrong. So, I took the easy way out."
"Did you regret that decision?" Arizona blurted out before she could stop herself.
"No." Addison strode away and Arizona followed suit, they walked side by side and the redhead doctor continued. "I wasn't ready to be a mother, and the father won't be a good father anyway."
"What made you changed your mind?"
"I don't know, my clock maybe. I wanna have a child, but I was too late, world class OB doesn't have any egg left to make a baby, irony isn't it? Luckily I got the chance to adopt this wonderful boy."
The two smiled to the sight in front of them, Callie held Henry sat up on the kitchen top and making funny face to the beaming baby, giggles came from the small kid when the big kid blew him a raspberry.
"Ok ok, don't play too rough, I'll have to be the one to take care of him when he woke up from nightmares." Addison said when she set the empty glasses in the sink, her son didn't even turn his head when his mother started to talk, he was so engaged in playing with his favorite auntie Callie.
"But he likes it." Callie chuckled when the chubby hand held up to reach her nose.
"He is just few months old, he won't know much, you really should be careful." Arizona went over to kiss her girlfriend on the cheek, and then leaned down to blow a small raspberry on the chubby cheek before putting the bottle in the fridge.
"Not you too!" Addison scowled and placed a hand on her hip, maybe it wasn't a good idea to have these two around her baby.
"Come on, he likes it, and he likes me, don't take away our fun, mama." Callie said before blew another raspberry against the fat tummy, it made the baby writhed and Callie almost lost her grip on the little boy, he almost, just almost fell backward.
Addison gasped.
"Oh my god, Callie Torres!" She ran around the kitchen top to pick up her son and held him tight. "You are too rough around babies, how can I make you my son's godmother?"
"You want to make me godmother?" Callie gazed at her friend in surprise.
"Well, I was thinking between you and Naomi, Mark and Sam to be the godfather. Now I think I have a pretty good idea who should be the godmother."
"What does a godmother has to do? Talk to him about god? You know my mother said I'll go to hell." The idea of reading the bible to the child brought back bad memory, the Latina couldn't help to scrunch her face.
"Huh?" Arizona snapped her head to look at her girlfriend, she just shrugged, "because I'm gay."
Arizona opened her mouth but couldn't come up with anything, and then Addison continued. "No, just if anything happened to me, I need to make sure Henry will be in good hand, after all, I am a single mother."
"That means I will have this little guy?" Callie went over to get the boy, and he happily leaned his tiny body forwarded to jump out of his mother, Addison turned her back to Callie to block them.
"Over my dead body, literally. And I haven't make my decision yet, as I said, it's between you and Naomi."
"Your friend who got angry with you because you dated her ex-husband, the husband divorced her for no good reason? Really?" Callie said as she kept playing peek-a-boo with Henry over Addison's shoulder. "And don't forget, Naomi has a daughter, she has a child but I don't have anyone. If Arizona and I decided not to make any, Henry will be my only chance."
"And you are not much better, you have a reputation, when things get hard you vanished." Addison was still trying to block between her son and the evil aunt, being too excited meant he would be cranky later the night.
"I… I…" Callie was speechless because it was true. She turned her gazed to Arizona, finding the smiling blue eyes looking back at her, she knew her answer. "I don't think I want to run anymore, I found a place that I don't want to leave, as long as I'm allowed, I will stick around."
Arizona walked toward her girlfriend, wrapped a hand behind her and pecked the cheek, "you better stick around."
Addison looked at the beaming couple with a smile. She knew Callie nearly 10 years, saw her ups and downs, always amused by how strong this Latina was no matter what shit life threw to her. Never thought she would see this cheerful side of Callie ever again after Malena passed away, who knew a certain blonde surgeon would bring sunshine back to her life.
"Fine, you can be Henry's godmother," She faked a sigh and handed the baby to Callie, but retracted her motion before the grinning godmother-to-be could reach her godson-to-be, "only if you stick around with this PEDS surgeon, he might have a lot of accidents if you keep being so rough around him."
Finally got to hold Henry again, Callie held the boy tight against her chest, she looked at her girlfriend who just put a loving hand on the back of Henry. "Sorry babe, for Henry's sake, we have to stay together."
Resting her face against the brunette's arm, making funny face to the chubby boy, Arizona whispered, "I have no problem with that."
"OK, about godfather, Sam seems not a good idea, right? I mean, he did break up with me because he doesn't want another kid, so why would he want to be Henry's godfather? I think I better pick Mark, he is so desperate to be a father anyway." Addison clapped her hands as she finally made up her mind for one of the most important decision in her life.
"Mark? So I'll have to raise Henry with Mark?" Callie screwed up her face, added quickly when she met with Addison's gaze, "I mean, if anything happened to you."
"Ha, so you will have your first child with Mark, Callie. Congratulations?" Arizona teased her girlfriend, earned herself a playful slapped on the shoulder.
"Seriously, we need to celebrate. I will get a sitter tomorrow night, let's go dancing. I bet Amelia knows a place or two that we could get into." Addison said as she walked toward the living room to grab her phone.