Arizona had managed to avoid talking about her "situation" for the better part of the day. She had noticed that a few of the nurses were sending extra lingering glances her way as they chatted amongst themselves, and a few interns had tried to question her, assumedly put up to it by Mark. Yet she still hadn't spilled the beans.

Callie had texted her a few times earlier in the day to apologize for her behaviour in the morning but they chalked it up to it just being a hectic morning and brushed it off. That seemed to be easier said than done though; she hadn't heard much from Callie and she was a little worried that the woman might be freaking out or avoiding her. The logical part of her knew that Callie was at work and was likely just very busy, but who listens to the logic part of themselves when they're worrying about something.

She there she stood, surrounded by charts and paperwork at the nurses' station, really just staring at her phone hidden amongst the papers when she overheard something between a few of the nurses and lingering interns that caught her attention.

"…I can't believe it. She's totally sweet! She wouldn't – "

"Sweet? You only slept together! She's obviously not that sweet."

"We went on a date first! And so not the point! That told me a lot about – "

"Oh, get off it – someone sweet doesn't abandon their child!"

"Guys, it probably isn't even hers, they look nothing alike!"

"The Ortho nurses said that it's the kid of some married chick that Dr. Robbins screwed around with; the marriage fell apart and the lady ran away and left the rugrat with Robbins."

"I heard it was a lover's quarrel, she offed the mom so now she's stuck with the kid." Deadpanned a familiar voice suddenly at her side.

Arizona rolled her eyes and snapped the folder she had in her hands shut, turning to see "the twisted sisters" of Seattle Grace. "Yang. Grey." She nodded "Anything I can do for you?" She asked flatly, knowing the only likely reasons they'd both be on her floor would be for gossip.

"Is it true?" Meredith asked

"Yeah, are there little Robbins running around barfing rainbows and magic." Cristina threw in.

"Ooo, rainbows and magic. Good one, Yang!" Mark walked up, stopping opposite of Cristina and Meredith and holding his hand up for a high five that Yang refused to return.

Arizona huffed and crossed her arms, once again rolling her eyes "Don't you three have jobs to do?"

Receiving three blank looks she turned and began to walk away "Last time I checked, I wasn't the only one of us that's a surgeon!"

"No, but you're the only one that came in with a mystery baby." Cristina quickly retorted, easily catching up to the blonde, along with Mark and Meredith.

"Why aren't you bothering Sloan about having a girlfriend? That's got to be more gossip-y than me bringing a child into the PEDs Ward."

Mark muttered "low blow" and Cristina scoffed "As if anyone could tie down the manwhore. He doesn't have a girlfriend. No changing the subject. Spill, Robbins."

"He does so! He has for a while." She turned to him with a raised brow "Apparently I'm the only one that has to listen to his girly gushing."

At his sheepish look she groaned "Again?"

Meredith and Cristina just looked back and forth between the two with curious expressions.

"Someone care to explain?" Meredith asked impatiently.

"They get together and break up for stupid reasons. He finally convinced the poor girl to have kids but they're having 'issues'" She smirked at Mark, who huffed and crossed his arms.

"That's low, Robbins. There was no reason to bring that up." They had spent many lunch breaks talking to each other about their love/lust lives; he just hadn't really thought it would be turned against him.

"There was no reason to get interns question me all morning either. Care to explain how every one of them that came to talk to me seemed to come from wherever you happened to be at the time?" She quickly supplied.

Arizona stood there defiantly, as did Mark, both wearing cocky smirks waiting to see who would crack first.

"As fun as this game of back and forth is, we need answers. Robbins, Sloan. Spit it out." Cristina crossed her arms and looked to Meredith to back her up.

Meredith offered a simple "Yeah." And crossed her arms too, leaving four surgeons standing in the PEDs hall having a staring contest.

Dr. Yang sighed and turned to Mark. "You're easier to crack, manwhore. Who's the girlfriend? Why haven't we heard the gossip?"

"And you're still sleeping around!" Meredith smacked his arm

Mark raised his hands in defence and grunted "I only told Arizona about her! And we were never together when I slept with other girls!"

"As if that makes it any better." Meredith scoffed, and leveled a glare at him "No wonder it's an on/off thing."

Mark almost looked a little hurt, but Cristina carried on "So who is she? What department does she work in?"

Arizona's interest was now piqued, the only thing Mark would let her know was that his girlfriend is also a surgeon and around her age, making her at least 5 years younger than Mark.

"She hasn't chosen a speciality yet. She doesn't work here. And I'm not telling you her name so that you can hunt her down." He finished with a pointed glare at Cristina, knowing that out of the two twisted sisters that she would have the least amount of qualms of hunting a stranger down to question them.

Cristina rolled her eyes and turned towards Arizona "I'll come back to him. You. Spill."

Arizona rolled her eyes in return and narrowed them slightly "She's the daughter of a friend. She can't go back to daycare until she isn't sick anymore" She shrugged

"You two suck."

With that she turned on her heels and dragged Meredith away with her mumbling about this being a "waste of her time" and now more determined to find out about Robbins and Sloan, certain that she wasn't being told everything she wanted to know.

The two remaining surgeons silently eyed each other, becoming aware that they probably should have just supported each other instead of throwing each other under the bus.

"I'll tell you if you tell me?" Mark offered

"Sure." Arizona sighed "I'll page Teddy too. She'll kill me if I tell you before her."

x-x

Callie's day seemed to be dragging on. After berating herself for her behaviour this morning with Arizona, she had finally figured out what she deemed to be an appropriate apology to text the blonde.

She hated working while her little girl was sick, and it was driving her crazy that her day was so busy that she couldn't even keep texting Arizona for updates.

The part of her that didn't want to be that annoying mom that checks on her daughter every five minutes was kind of glad, but she would still check her phone as often as she could to make sure she hadn't missed anything from Arizona.

She chuckled softly, realizing that Arizona wouldn't really need to consult her about anything; she was a PEDs surgeon, after all. Her smile quickly disappeared though, seeing the scowl that her whimsy caused her new client.

Several times she had tried to converse with the woman, only to be shot down after brief and curt responses. The woman was downright bitter. Any time she did speak she was complaining; the "staff" she hired (Callie included) couldn't do anything right, her ex-husband is horrible, she used to be the best and still could be, her children are ungrateful and should be caring for her, etc, etc.

Callie tried to like everyone, or at the very least be kind to everyone, but this woman was making it difficult. She had made the woman three separate lunches by the time one was deemed "acceptable" and still hadn't been told when she would be relieved for the evening and it was bordering on 9 o'clock.

Inwardly sighing, she reached for her phone to text Arizona to let her know that she had no idea when she would be done and to apologize as much as she could through a text message without being annoying or obnoxious.

She wasn't exactly sure what she was expecting Arizona to respond with, but "That's fine, Calliope! Don't work too hard :)" was not even on the list of possibilities.

A million different thoughts ran through her head. She didn't know Arizona well enough to know if it was genuine, or passive aggressive, if she just didn't care…she did know that she took back everything she ever said about Apple's iMessage being creepy because she felt relieved to see that Arizona was typing something else.

"Miss Torres." Came the drawl from the other room, somehow sounding monotone and royally miffed at the same time.

Staring at her cell phone screen, mentally trying to make Arizona's message appear before she had to go see what her client wanted, she held back a groan as her name was called again. It would seem as though luck just wasn't on her side.

"Yes, Ms. Grey?" Callie asked from the doorway of her client's study, trying hard not to fold her arms and return the attitude she had been receiving all day.

"It's Doctor."

Had the woman been looking up, she would have seen Callie's jaw clench, her whole body subtly stiffening, as she tried to hold back her temper.

"What can I help you with, Doctor Grey?"

"You'll be relieved at 2 AM."

Callie's eyes bugged out, "2? AM?"

"Yes, Ms. Torres. Possibly later. Your colleague is running late. I'll have a warm bath drawn now, please."

Callie held back from cursing at the woman and silently left the room with a nod of her head and went to prepare the bath.

Sitting on the edge of the bathtub, using the sound of the water pouring out of the facet to calm herself, she pulled her phone out of her pocket and texted her friend/colleague, Miranda Baily, with a blunt "What the hell, Baily."

Moving to the texts from Arizona, she smiled. Arizona wanted to take Kelsie back to her place so that the little girl wouldn't be left alone in a strange environment. She had texted her address and then followed with a message apologizing for making assumptions and asked if it was alright if the little girl came home with her and that it was "totally okay if you want her to stay at the hospital".

Callie smiled and replied that it was fine and thanked her for all of her generosity and added that she might change her mind though, that she found out she wouldn't be off work until at least 2 AM.

She turned off the water and checked for a reply from Miranda, only to find out that her son, Tuck, had also come down with something, and she wouldn't make it to the Grey house until closer to 8 AM when her boyfriend would be home and able to take care of him. As some form of silver lining, Miranda had arranged with their boss that Callie would have the day off to catch up on her sleep, but would unfortunately have to be back later in the evening, so it wasn't really a day off.

She passed along the news to Arizona, with another apology, only to receive a "Don't worry about, us girls will make sure to party hard without Mami around ;)" attached to a picture of Arizona and Kelsie wearing goofy smiles, seemingly impeding a taller blonde doctor from working on her charting.

"I have a daughter, you know. She'll be a great surgeon." A soft voice coming from above startled her.

She looked up at the woman who had clearly been looking at the picture on her phone, where she had zoomed in on Arizona and Kelsie. She seemed to be having one of her softer moments, and as the woman spoke of her daughter, Callie chastised herself for enjoying "out of it" Ellis Grey much more than lucid Ellis Grey.

x-x

Arizona had brought Teddy and Mark to an empty conference room to talk. Mark explained everything that had been going on between him and his girlfriend, still withholding her name, which Teddy and Arizona thought was a bit ridiculous.

He had thought of just telling them everything, but he kind of liked not having to share with anyone, in any sort of capacity. He was fairly new to committed relationships and found that jealousy was not something he found himself fond of feeling.

After he had told all he was going to tell, Arizona finally explained to Teddy and Mark everything that had led up to her bringing in Kelsie to work.

She almost felt a little better getting everything off of her chest.

The three of them brainstormed ideas to help Mark and Arizona with their situations and it helped both of them just to talk things through.

Deciding that it was best to just go with what feels right, it was agreed upon by Mark and Teddy that Arizona should just go with the flow and not worry about Callie being a "newborn" and just be the "good man in a storm" that they had both heard her father go on about on one of his visits to the hospital.

The trio spent the rest of the afternoon taking turns hanging out with little Kelsie, keeping her company and making sure she was well taken care of.

Arizona was happy when she first saw Callie's name flash across her screen, but not so much when she finally read the message.

She didn't know what to do. Her shift would be over soon and she didn't really want to be at the hospital longer than necessary, even if it was at the bedside of an adorable little girl. She wanted to just go home, relax, have a lazy night in her pjs…but she didn't want to leave Kelsie here alone. Especially not with some of the rumours that she had overheard about her and Kelsie.

The last thing she needed was to come into work tomorrow to find out some nurse called Child Services because they thought she had done something crazy and was some kind of monster. She quickly made up her mind and texted Callie, only to realize that she had basically told the woman she was taking her child with her, and sent another text making sure that it was okay.

She met up with Mark while getting changed after her shift and he stayed glued to her side, sharing his opinions of how to win over "her girl", as she made her way back to Kelsie's room to collect the tiny human and her belongings for the night.

With Kelsie in her arms and Mark at her side, she made her way to say bye to Teddy for the night. When they found that Teddy was upset that one of her patients wasn't doing as well as she had hoped, Arizona took it upon herself and the adorable tiny human to cheer her up before leaving.

Mark had taken the opportunity to take a few pictures of how cute they were together and sent them to Arizona; it was part of his plan that he devised for Arizona, to show Callie how good she was with her daughter, and what better way to show that than visual proof.

Arizona ended up sending one of them to Callie, hoping that it would bring a little joy to her night to see her daughter smiling and well, from what Arizona had gathered from the few messages they had shared Callie's day hadn't been a very good one.

After eventually giving their goodbye to Teddy, Arizona with Kelsie on her hip and Mark at her side made it back to the apartment building they shared.

After parting on their floor and heading to their respective apartments (which happened to be across from each other), Arizona got Kelsie ready for bed and gently let her down on her bed while she got changed into a pair of Disney patterned shorts and a light tshirt so she could get some sleep too.

Only after she was all ready for bed did she realize she didn't have anywhere proper for Kelsie to sleep. She huffed and turned to look at the tiny human that had already fallen asleep on her bed.

Rolling her eyes and muttering to herself, she made her way down the hall to the guest room and scooped up all the pillows from the bed and made her way back down the hall to make a wall of pillows along the edges of the bed and carefully climbed in next to the slumbering child.

She sighed as the little girl seemed to wiggle closer to her and instinctively wrapped a protective arm around her, gently holding her close.

As her eyes closed she relaxed further into the bed. She was in way over her head, but when tiny hands wrapped around her hand she couldn't help but wonder if she had the wrong idea about having kids.

Booo, I'm sick. I've basically spent all my time sleeping and/or complaining. So I consider it a small miracle that this chapter is finished!

Also, yay to everyone who knew it was Jacks Mannequin! You win...something? I'll draw/write something for you; you request it, I'll try it!

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