Chapter 7

"I'm telling you Mer," Alex said in between bites of his mediocre cafeteria burger "Dr Minnick is into her but she won't even consider it because of Dr Webber".

Meredith stole one of Alex's fries and said "I'll talk to Richard, he used to be her wingman. He can get this going." Maggie sits there contemplating and finally spoke up "Meredith, are you sure this is a good idea? Bailey did tell you not to interfere, to not start any trouble." "I'm not interfering, I'm trying to be a good friend, oh look there's Richard" she said as she waived him over and started to explain her idea to him. Richard agreed that Arizona needed to move on but he told them "we went out for months and she never was really interested in anything that wasn't casual."

Maggie said "why don't we invite them both to Joe's?" They decided that was a great idea, Richard went to find Arizona and Alex went to find Dr Minnick.

Arizona and Richard walked into Joe's and was waived over to a table by Meredith. Alex got up to get another round for the table. Meredith was trying to talk Arizona into dancing but Arizona just laughed and kept saying she needed more alcohol for that. When Alex returned he handed out drinks and said "hey look who I found at the bar. It's Dr Minnick" "Please, we're not at work, can we just use first names? Call me Eliza" Richard smiled and said "Well Eliza, come sit over here next to Arizona and me" "Arizona will you let me buy that drink now?" Arizona looked up and saw Richard, Meredith and Alex all nodding their heads at her. She just smiled at Eliza and nodded her head in response. After a couple of more rounds Meredith said "okay come on you guys" grabbing Arizona and Eliza and drug them both to the dance floor. After a few fast paced songs the tempo slowed down and a slow song came on and Meredith backed away and said "I'll just sit this one out"

Eliza raised her eyebrows questioningly asking permission and Arizona nodded as Eliza put her hands on Arizona's waist and pulled her closer. Arizona put her arms around the brunette and smiled. Alex and Meredith high fived each other and Richard just laughed and shook his head.

The next day Arizona and Eliza were in the cafeteria eating a late lunch as Meredith and Maggie looked on. Maggie could not believe how happy the blonde seemed. She told Meredith that she thinks they did a good thing. "I haven't seen those dimples in a long time."

The lunches and the coffee breaks continued for the next few weeks. Everyone at the hospital noticed the difference in the blonde, she hasn't been this happy in a while. The gossip was kept to a minimum because too many people respected the double board certified surgeon and her kind personality. But the word was that it was Dr Minnick that had brought the sparkle back in those bright blue eyes.

That in turn, made people more cooperative with the teaching doc. Things were going well at Grey Sloan Memorial.

Things were not going well in New York. Sofia missing her mother more and more was starting to become a different child. She was not as talkative and she was often grumpy. She didn't sleep all through the night and would often end up asking Callie if she could join her. Most nights, Penny was not there so it was not an issue but tonight when Penny came home again to find them both in her bed again, she was not happy and she let Callie know about it.

She was tired of a 6 year ruling their life and relationship. Callie tried to explain to Penny that this was parenthood and Penny simply stated 'I am not a parent '. Penny had hinted on several occasions that if Sofia was not happy with them, then Callie should send her back to live in Seattle. But tonight she didn't hint at it, she flat out gave Callie an ultimatum. Their relationship or the little girl, it was not even an option in Callie's eyes so she made arrangements and they were now staying in a suite at one of her fathers hotels. She wanted desperately to return to Seattle, but wasn't sure what her reception would be if she returned. She really needed a push.