A/N- Hey guys! Don't be mad at me for waiting this long to update! I planned on having this up awhile ago, but I never found it in me to type it. But I do have the next couple chapters written! Anyways, what did all of you think about the finale? *spoilers for those who haven't actually seen it yet* I have many mixed feelings about it. But the number one shocker was Kim Raver leaving! I can't believe that we won't be seeing anymore Teddy. :( On the other hand, my mom and I spent an hour, after watching the episode before the finale, coming up with an idea of who died/how they did. Sadly though, we were spot on with our assumption. RIP Lexie Grey. *end* Enjoy this update!
"No, not another crying baby," a very tired Callie muttered as she prepared to get out of bed.
"It's okay Callie, I'll get this one."
"Are you sure? You got up last time."
"It's fine. You have work tomorrow. You don't want to kill a patient tomorrow because you are way too tired on your first day back." It was two in the morning, and the babies liked to keep them awake at this hour. They were just shy of a month old and it was more than hard for the moms. They wouldn't trade their life for another one, but they wished that taking care of three babies would be easier than it has proven to be.
Now that Sofia was off of school for the summer, she tried helping her mommies out as much as she could. When one of her moms would wake up in the morning, they could almost always count on finding her in the nursery with the babies. Thankfully she wouldn't try to take them out of their cribs, but on occasion they would find a couple hazardous toys lying in their cribs.
Arizona removed the warm blanket from her pajama clad body and started making her way towards the nursery before all three of them were awake. She pushed open the half closed door and made her way to the crying infant.
"Hey baby girl. Why are you crying?" She asked as she lifted her youngest daughter out of the crib. "Do you need a diaper change or are you just hungry?" Arizona checked Addie's diaper and figured that she was just hungry when she didn't have a full diaper.
Arizona cradled the now quiet baby in her arms as she made her way to the chair in the room. She was breast feeding the babies, for now, and she let Adalynn eat. Arizona was slightly rocking the chair as she let her baby eat. Once she was done eating, Arizona burped her and worked on getting her back to sleep.
As she was rubbing Addie's back, Ethan decided to start crying. It wasn't horribly loud, but Arizona was worried about him causing Adalynn to start crying again. When she didn't stir, Arizona placed her down in her crib and went to her only son. He stopped crying almost as soon as Arizona picked him up. All he wanted was attention from his mommy. Arizona decided to feed him now that he was awake since she just fed his youngest sister and he was awake.
She brought him over to the chair she was just sitting in and started to feed him. He didn't eat as much as his sister did, but he ate quite a lot. The triplets sure had a great appetite. She burped him and laid him back down in his crib. She then checked on Charlotte before she headed out of the nursery, to make sure that she hadn't woken up.
Slowly she made her way back to hers and Callie's bedroom. She half expected to hear Charlotte start to cry, but she got lucky and she climbed into her vacant spot on the bed.
"Goodnight, babe," Callie mumbled, half asleep. Ethan's crying must have woken her up a second time tonight.
"Goodnight, Calliope."
By 8:30 the next morning, the Torres-Robbins family was up and ready for the day. All three babies were fed and lying in the play pen set up in the dining room, Sofia was eating breakfast at the table, Arizona was making a pot of coffee, and Callie was getting ready for her first day back to work. It was going to be a long day for both adults, but they had to get through it.
"Okay, I'm about ready. It's my day back into surgery."
"You'll do great babe; and look, I made coffee," Arizona responded to a rhetorical Callie.
"I love you. You sure know how to make a woman's day," Callie winked at her wife, who was filling a travel mug with coffee.
"I'm glad I could be of assistance then," Arizona said, handing he the cup of coffee.
"Be good for mommy and help her out with the babies, okay?" Callie told her oldest daughter while walking over to her.
"Okay momma, I will."
Planting a kiss on Sofia's head, Callie said, "I love you. Have a good day."
"I love you too, momma."
"Don't go crazy today," Callie said, turning around to her wife. "Your parents said they'd be over before lunch time."
"Yeah, they called last night to confirm. I told them I would need all the help they could offer if I'm going to be here alone."
"Okay, I love you. I'll see you as soon as my shift is over." After giving her wife a chaste kiss, Callie walked over to the play pen to look at her babies one last time for the morning, then walked out the door.
"Callie!" Callie spun around the corridor she was headed down after being at work for only two and a half hours. She was exhausted, so she was making her way to an on call room. Only being at work for a couple of hours and ready to crash sucked; hopefully the feeling would pass soon.
"What?"
"How are the babies? I haven't seen them since you brought Charlotte home from the hospital. I mean, Arizona has been sending me pictures, but…"
"It's nice to see you too, Teddy. The babies are a great handful. They wake us up at horrible times and they love to eat. But on the plus side, they are adorable and look just like their mom."
"That's good. How's Sofia handling being a big sister? I know she wanted her only child life back the last time I talked to Arizona on the phone."
"Sofia is adjusting. Now that she's at home all day, she gets to interact with the babies more individually and learn about their own personalities. She doesn't understand that we can't always do what she wants to anymore, but everything is starting to come together."
"That's good, right?"
"Yeah, I guess. She's not acting out or anything horrible, so that's good." Somehow they ended up outside of the on call room while engaged in their conversation. They finished their conversation rather quickly as Callie was about to fall over from being so tired. Teddy was paged off to a consult anyways.
Once inside the room, Callie was lavishing in the fact that she could get some uninterrupted sleep. Unfortunately, ten minutes later, her pager started going off. It was a 911 page for an ortho consult. No sleep for her, she groaned as she sat up and threw her shoes back on. She got up and ran to the pit.
"Shh, Ethan, be a happy little boy. You don't want to cry, do you? I just fed you and changed you and I got you to smile." Arizona was trying to comfort her son, who was upset over an unknown cause. She was home with her mom and the triplets and it was definitely proving to be hard.
"Is everything okay?"
"Yeah mom, Ethan here is just upset. He doesn't seem to want to stop showing off his powerful lungs."
"Did you try burping him? Maybe he just has gas; it gets uncomfortable. When you were a baby, every time you started crying and you didn't need to be changed or fed, we burped you."
"Thanks mom. This is a lot harder than it was with Sofia."
"I couldn't imagine," Barbra replied with a stifled laugh.
"At this point in Sofia's life, she was one pound and a couple ounces. We couldn't even guess if she would make it through the night. It was a scary part of all of our lives, and none of it helped prepare us for these three."
"Honey, I couldn't even picture anything that you've gone through, or are even going through right now. I had two healthy, beautiful babies. One isn't here, and one is stressing out over her family."
"Mom," Arizona paused. She had absolutely no idea what to say. She knew her mom was right, but it didn't change anything. She let what her mom said sink in. She wanted nothing more than for her brother to be here. He would have done something to help her. He was he brother, her best friend, her confidant.
The change in the atmosphere left mother and daughter silent as Arizona gently patted Ethan's back. He started to quiet down as her phone started ringing.
"Can you get that, mom?"
"Yeah, of course… It's your father."
"Why would he be calling? He's at the pool with Sofia."
"Hello?" Barbra answered the phone as she walked into the kitchen.
Arizona was sitting on the couch thinking the worst when her mom came back into the room. By the look on her mom's face, nothing was wrong. It didn't stop Arizona's maternal instincts from kicking in though.
"Is everything okay? Why did dad call?"
"He's on his way back from the pool with Sofia. I guess she fought him about putting on sun screen."
"Oh boy, I don't need four unhappy, crying children. I'm going to go get out the aloe gel. Can you take Ethan please?" Barb grabbed the slightly dozing baby as Arizona stood up. She went into the bathroom cabinet, looking for the gel. She then remembered that they threw it out at the apartment. They cracked the bottle, dropping it on the floor, when they were packing.
"It looks like I have to go buy some," Arizona said out loud to no one in particular.
A/N 2- I hope you enjoyed. Seeing as it's finals week, I should hopefully have the next update up tomorrow. I only have one scheduled class, which means that I have all day to type and write more. Please R&R, and let me know what you think about this story! I love you all. ~Ari
