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 : just saying, I'm on a trip right now and gonna miss the season premiere. For years, it's the first time that I don't really care that Grey's returns... It's kinda sad, isn't it?

All mistakes are mine, sorry about that.

Chapter 72

"Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue. And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true..." Arizona was humming a merry little tune, oblivious to the looks that were shooting to her in all directions.

"Dr. Robbins, are you singing?" Bailey stared at her colleague dumbfounded. "Are you aware that you're going to put a giant needle through the patient's uterus?"

The nurses in the OR burst out giggling. The General surgeon hadn't scrubbed in with the bubbly Peds/Fetal surgeon for too long.

"Tell me about it." Alex leaded closer to the assisting surgeon, whispering loudly. "She has made the OR like a freaking Disney movie lately. I wonder when will the instruments jump up and do the dance."

"Yes Bailey, I'm aware of that." The lead surgeon chuckled joyously, ignoring the mocking coming from her resident. "We're intruding the baby's safe home. He's supposed to be protected within his mommy's tummy without interruption but instead, we're poking him with a needle. The least I can do is to soothe him with a lullaby."

Big round dark eyes stared across the table.

"Babies love this song." Still smiling with her eyes, Arizona told her colleague. "I've been singing this to Sofia every night."

"I saw the little nugget in the daycare." Understanding what caused the perky blonde being extra cheerful, Bailey softened her posture. "She's growing like a weed."

"She sat up on her own this morning! When I came to her crib, she sat up and called me mama! I know it was just babbling and we have decided that I'm mommy and Callie is mama but OH MY GOD! You have no idea-" The blonde was saying with enthusiasm, forgetting that she was in the OR holding a needle about to insert it in the heart as the size of a walnut until she met with two pairs of smirking eyes. She glanced at the General surgeon timidly. "You think I'm acting silly."

"I think you're acting like a parent." Bailey said without looking at the lead surgeon, moving the ultrasound wand in order to give a clearer view to insert the instrument, but the affection wasn't unnoticed in her tone.

The procedure went on in silence until the balloon was deployed, opening up the narrow aortic valve of the baby's. Both surgeons let out a relief breath.

"So, when is the big day?" After a while, the short woman asked. The blonde looked at her confused. "You and Torres."

"Oh, that." Arizona took a breath. Bailey was known as not openly butting into someone else personal matter. She didn't expect the question was to be asked in the middle of a surgery.

"You two are going to get married, right? You have a daughter together." Still keeping her eyes on the monitor, Bailey said matter-of-factly.

"Yes, of course. It's just..." The Peds surgeon continued with her hands, answering airily. "We kinda have an understanding that we'd wait after moving in the new home..."

"And you've moved months ago, Robbins." The shorter woman reminded her colleague.

"And we're happier than ever." Arizona smiled to the General surgeon. "I want to marry her, believe me. But if Callie doesn't want to bring it up yet, I'm more than okay to follow her pace."

"You're right. She broke off the engagement. She should be the one to grovel." Alex inserted himself into the women's conversation. He liked Torres for giving him a friend and family discount in her pub, but not as much as he liked and respected his boss. He was there when the attending turned into a grumpy mess while Callie tore her heart apart. In the young man's logic, the Latina had to pay for it.

"Karev, do you think you are the right person to give relationship advice? How long did your last relationship last?" Bailey gave the resident her famous glare before turned to the blonde. "That girl loves you. Who cares who propose to whom, again?"

"So you think I should just ask her to marry me?" The blonde looked between Bailey and Alex, where the resident was eyeing the short woman curiously.

"I'm just saying, life is too short for waiting around." Bailey shrugged a shoulder before adjusting the instrument that was deep inside the patient, getting a better angle to open up the aortic valve thoroughly.

"You're right." Arizona kept her eyes on the monitor but her mind was else where. To where she could finally call the love of her life 'her wife'. "She loves me and I love her. None of the rest of it matter, right? I just have to try to find the ring that she had thrown into the woods..."

"How are you going to find it?" Alex chuckled out aloud to the ridiculous idea. "You're talking about find a tiny ring in the freaking woods."

"I have to try." The blonde looked at her trustful resident hopefully. "Can you help me?"

"I'll have to be crazy to do that for you." The man declined it without a second thought. But he gave his attending a suggestion. "Get the interns to find it. They'd do anything just to get to the attending's good side."

"I can't do that. That's an abuse of power." Arizona looked at the resident with disgust in her eyes. The idea of using her position to order anyone for a personal favor was beyond acceptable.

"That's how it works. When I was an intern, I picked up Sloan's drying cleaning. I ran Bailey's groceries so that I could assist on an appy." Alex looked at his former resident, who shrugged a shoulder with no shame. They all did that. "Tell those losers whoever found the ring gets to scrub in your next surgery. Hell, tell them that they can touch the baby still in ultero. I guarantee you that they'll come with the ring in 24 hours."

"I'm not gonna do that." The Fetal/Peds attending said firmly after retracted the needle that was connected to the baby's heart. Her part of the surgery was done but the mother still had a bladder repair that was going to be performed by Bailey. After a few more exchange of words with the resident and the General surgeon, Arizona excused herself from the OR with a little pounce on her steps. She had saved yet another baby.

Turning her head to make sure the chirpy blonde was out of earshot, Bailey whispered to the resident.

"Karve, the pool you have going on about Robbins and Torres? Put me down for within a week."

Arizona could hear the round of laughter through the window while she was scrubbing out. She laughed along without know what was happening. But who cared? The world was much better when everyone's happy.

Walking down the hall with a beaming smile, the blonde found the Plastic surgeon was standing in front of the surgical board with hand under his chin.

"Hey, checking your schedule?" Arizona stood next to the man scanning the board, but she couldn't find any Plastic surgery was scheduled.

"Actually, I'm checking yours." Mark turned to his friend with a grin. "My surgery is cancelled and I'm free for this afternoon. I see that you have another surgery and I guess you won't be finished until 6. Do you think I can take Sofia home now?"

"Have you asked Callie?" The smile on the fair face dropped slightly.

"Oh, she'd be fine." The tall man waved his hand carelessly. "Sofia is always here in the daycare or at home. Didn't Callie say that we should take her to the park more often?"

"She said that to me..." The blonde swallowed hard. It wasn't the first time that the man included himself in the 'we'. She and Callie had talked about this with him but...

"I'm here to help." Mark didn't get the irritation in the blonde's voice. Instead, he gave her a wink before walked toward the elevator. "I go pick her up."

"She wouldn't like it." Callie said to Mark who was sitting next to her on the couch, a hint of worry on her face. Too engrossed into the conversation she was having with her best friend, the brunette didn't realize that the front door was opened and the woman who she shared the loft with had come home.

"Who wouldn't like what?" Arizona asked, putting her bag and key on the little table next to the door. Her good mood had faded slightly seeing the intruder of her family was there as well.

"Mark thinks it's too soon to replace the bottle with a sippy cup." Callie said sheepishly, avoiding the frown coming from her side.

"We've talked about it. It can improve hand-to-mouth coordination and Sofia has the motor skills to handle a cup." The blonde gave the other mother of her child a pointed stare. As a trained Peds surgeon, she sure had more knowledge in this area than the Plastic surgeon. And Callie should know it. "Where is Sofia?"

"Napping." The brunette gave a soft smile, but Arizona had already headed down the hall.

"Thanks for throwing me under the bus, Torres." Mark mumbled under his breath. "I've said nothing about bottle or sippy cup."

"Well, I couldn't tell her what we were talking about. It's supposed to be a surprise." Callie smacked the man on the shoulder, saying as quiet as she could.

"You know she hates surprises, right?" The man rubbed his shoulder with a smirk.

"That's why I don't want to make a big deal of it. Stop suggesting live musicians and rowboat, or skywriting." Callie hissed out, keeping an eye on Sofia's bedroom hoping the blonde couldn't hear anything from them. "And stop talking."

"Whatever." Mark stood up from the couch. "I have to go anyway."

Arizona knew the friends were still talking out there in the living room but she didn't really care. As soon as she pushed open the door of Sofia's bedroom, a suckling sound brought a smile to her face. Slowly approaching the crib, she could see her daughter was wide awake with the pacifier in her mouth. And the second the little brown eyes focused on who was there hovering above her, drowsy face spread to a broad toothless smile. Sofia let her beloved pacifier fell off her mouth and babbling out loud.

"Mammm... Mammm..." Arms flinging in the air, baby needed some cuddling time with mommy and she was granted.

"Hello little miss," Arizona held her daughter tight and placed a resounding kiss on the chubby face. "You had a nice nap?"

The blonde took the giggle and another round of babbling as a yes. Carefully putting the baby on the changing table, the mother and daughter were chatting back and forth with incoherent baby talks and actually baby talks during the diaper changing process. And Callie was hearing the whole interaction through the baby monitor with a smile hanging on her face.

"So, I'd hear that you two have had a really heated discussion in the room." The brunette greeted her family with a mega-watt smile as soon as the two entered the living room. She gave her daughter a kiss on the cheek and a lingering kiss on her lover's lips, the one that was missed when the blonde arrived a home a while ago. "She doesn't agree with you for giving the baby an extra week before undergo surgery?"

Arizona laughed out with her head throwing back. She didn't know Callie was listening to her while she was telling their baby about a patient that she was working on. Sofia tilted her head staring at mommy. She didn't understand a thing they were laughing about but she laughed along with her hand in her mouth. She liked it when mommy was laughing.

"Oh little miss, look at you." Arizona nuzzled the baby's little dark hair while pulling the hand out of her mouth. She turned to Callie. "She's eating her hand. Can you get her one of those teething biscuits?"

"She maybe teething, but I think the hand eating thing is taken after you." Callie strode toward the kitchen, throwing a smirk to the blonde over her shoulder.

"Excuse me?" Arizona followed with Sofia in her arm. They watched the brunette mother opened the cabinet taking out a box of biscuits. Sofia recognized the box immediately and wriggling in mommy's arm and reached out a hand to mama. Callie opened the box and handed it toward the blonde, she took a piece from it and gave it to the eager baby. Little Miss took it and put it in her mouth instantly. Arizona looked at their baby with a smile and unconsciously, brought her fingers to her mouth licking off the crumbs on her finger tips.

"See? You always lick your fingers. Whenever you touch foods, or read papers." Callie poked the blonde's nose with a finger across the kitchen counter and smirked. "Or while we are having S-E-X. You always lick your fingers."

"Hey, don't talk about S-E-X in front of our baby." Arizona placed a hand over Sofia's ear trying to block away the PG-13 conversation. And she looked around. "Mark is gone?"

"Lexie is cooking for him tonight." The brunette moved around in the kitchen getting the ingredients that she needed for their dinner. "Mark said Sofia had a great time in the park. He took some pictures of her in the swing. She laughed so hard, no wonder she was completely out cold when they arrived home."

"Cal, we need to have a talk with Mark." Pink lips pursed to a pout remembering what was bothering her the whole afternoon. "Again."

"About what?" Had her head buried in the fridge, Callie asked casually.

"Boundary, Callie." Arizona sat down on the stool next to the counter top, resting the baby girl on her laps. "I know that he thinks he's helping us, but sometime it's just... too much."

"I think he got the message when you tossed him back his set of baby monitor." The brunette placed the foods on the counter, and turned around again when Arizona pointed to the dish rack behind her. Months after moving onto the roles of parenthood, the two had built a certain kind of telepathy when it came to Sofia.

"Apparently not." Arizona rolled her eyes to the ceiling while Callie picked up the sippy cup and filled it with water for their baby.

"He is our friend, Arizona." The brunette leaned on the counter top, watching their baby let go of the biscuits when the cup was brought to her mouth. She was amazed by how fast their baby grown up every day. "And you two were closed before I came to Seattle, no? You were each other's wingman."

"Don't get me wrong, I like him." The blonde glanced at her girlfriend. "But... being friends and being partners of a child are different things."

"Hold on a second. Who said anything about partnering?" Callie stood up straight with wide eyes. "Did Mark say something?"

"He doesn't have to. He's acting like he's another parent of Sofia." Arizona put the sippy cup on the counter top after Sofia was done with it and went back on her treat again. Her free hand joined the other one holding her baby tight protectively. "Having Sofia in the daycare that means we can go over there seeing her anytime we want, and picking her up to go home together. Do you realize that it's already 3 times in this week that Mark has picked her up before you and me?"

"We've talked about this. We should take her out more often-" Brown eyes looked up, trying to count the time. She didn't really pay much of attention on that.

"We, Callie. You and me, we." Arizona waved a hand between them. "I'm a lesbian. I've never thought of co-parenting a child with a man."

"Well, I'm a bi, so..." Callie chuckled teasingly. However, the blonde didn't find it funny at all.

"So you're saying you'd have a child with Mark?" Arizona took a shocked intake of breath." Or even George?"

"Don't be ridiculous. I've already told you that I've never thought of having baby with anyone else before I was with you. Not George." The brunette added quickly before Arizona could raise a follow up question. "Or Mark. No, eww!"

"Then, are we going to talk to Mark about boundary? He is uncle Mark, period." The blonde turned her gaze to the little bundle of joy in her arms. "I don't need him questioning my parenting skills. Bottle or sippy cup? What's next? Basketball or tap? Dartmouth or Berkeley?"

Callie made a grimace hearing her girlfriend went on and on. She really shouldn't throw the poor man under the bus with that one. But the explanation was choked in her throat when the blonde threw her a questioning gaze.

"Yes, of course we'll talk to Mark."

The couple fell into a comfortable silence when brunette mama starting dinner, and blonde mommy put her focus on their baby. Suddenly, Callie heaved a deep sigh mid chipping the lettuces.

"God, I haven't thought of George for a long time."

"Why would you? You have a busy life. You have a demanding job." The blonde rested her chin on their daughter's little head, looking at her girlfriend lovingly. "You have a daughter, a lesbian lover and a best friend that claims to be your baby daddy."

"But still, I was married to that man. You'd have thought that I'd think about him from time to time but no," Callie pulled her lips to a frown and shrugged a shoulder. "Nothing."

"Yeah, you were married to George." Arizona nodded her head slowly. Maybe it was the chance to talk about their pending marriage. "Do you still want to marry me?"

"Of course." That's not even a question.

"We should put the wedding back on the table then." The blonde perked up immediately. "And start planning our wedding party."

"Sure..." Callie trailed off. Not that she didn't want to marry the blonde, but she had plan. A big plan. She needed to shift the topic to somewhere else and quick. "Speaking of party, do you remember little Miss is about to turn 6 months old in a few days?"

"What? You want to throw a birthday party for a 6 months old?" Arizona looked at the woman before her bewildered and confused. How could Callie go from wedding party to a non-birthday birthday party?

"Not a birthday party for her, more like a celebration for you and me. You know, we became parents. And Sofia's still alive. And thriving. She's sitting up on her own, chewing biscuits and having baby foods. Can you imagine anyone would love those nasty green bean pastes?" The brunette was so nervous, the word salad spilled out of her mouth before she even knew what she was talking about.

"6 months." The blonde said questionably.

"It's a pretty significant mile stone." Avoiding the blue eyes stare, Callie went back to finish the dinner.

"Okay, it sounds fun." Arizona squinted at the brunette. Callie was acting weird all in a sudden and she didn't know why. "What do you have in mind? Chuck E. Cheese's?"

"No, she's too young for that. I'm thinking..." Callie was patting her own back mentally. She had found the way to put her plan in action. "Since it's our celebration, how about we go for a date night? Without Sofia?"

"Yeah?" Still confused, but Arizona would never turn down a date night. "We can bring Sofia to my mom. She'd love to have a sleepover with her granddaughter."

"Great. We'll have a date night this Friday." The brunette clapped her hands together with a self-satisfied smile. "Now go clean her up, dinner is ready."

Watching the mother and daughter walked down the hall toward the bathroom, Callie took a deep breath. Her blonde deserved a proper proposal again and she was going to deliver it, in 3 days.