A/N: So if you read my other story (A hard road back) then you'll probably have seen that I'm struggling to update regularly as I'm now back at uni and as I'm in my final year the work load is pretty ridiculous, anyway, I've had a brief chance to update and so here we go.

Thanks for sticking with me, if you're still here!

'Ok, are you ready Arizona?' Dr Hammond asked as he positioned himself ready to insert the needle.

Arizona nodded her head and firmed her grip on Callie's hand.

'Yeah she's ready.' Callie signalled for Dr. Hammond to proceed. Callie, knelt down so that she could look into Arizona's eyes and reassure her that everything would be ok.

As Dr. Hammond pushed the needle straight in Arizona winced in pain and felt tears prick her eyes. Callie felt helpless but tried her best to comfort her girlfriend, running her hands through her hair with one hand whilst holding onto Arizona's with the other.

The procedure was over as quickly as possible; Dr. Hammond working quickly to avoid keeping Arizona in too much pain for too long. 'All done Arizona.' He announced as he placed a small band-aid over the place the needle had entered her body.

'You were amazing babe.' Callie said as she kissed the top of Arizona's head as she helped her to sit up.

'I don't feel amazing.' Arizona mumbled as she awkwardly moved herself back into the wheelchair.

'Right, let's get you back to the ward so we can hook you up to some drugs.' Christina moved forward now, taking charge of the wheelchair and wheeling Arizona back down to her room.

'Calliope?'

'Yes babe?'

'Go and see Jess.' Arizona said it as an order more than a question or suggestion.

'Ari...'

'She needs someone to explain it to her, she'll be scared and she trusts you; I don't want her to see me like this, in obvious pain...please...Callie this could be the last...' Arizona couldn't finish that sentence.

'Don't Ari...' Callie didn't like the way that Arizona was talking.

'Just please go and see her Cal?' Arizona asked, the tears falling down her face. 'Christina's looking after me.'

'Yeah, I've got her Cal, I might not give her a kiss, but I'll hold her hand if she needs it.' To the average person walking past it would sound like Christina was joking, but to those that knew her, this was Christina being her most sincere.

'Ok, but I'm coming back when she's gone into surgery.' Callie said defiantly. 'I love you.' Kissing Arizona, she left them too it.

'Love you too Calliope.' Arizona wiped her tears away as Christina wheeled her back into her room.

'She'll be ok Arizona.' Christina said with conviction. Arizona wasn't sure whether she was taking about Callie or Arizona, but she just prayed that Christina was right on both counts.

XX

Callie rounded onto the peds ward and saw Jarrad stood against the reception.

'How is she Jarrad?'

'No better than earlier I'm afraid. Arizona?' Jarrad asked.

'She's good, just finished so I suppose you'll be heading into surgery soon?'

'Yeah, I was just about to explain to Jess what's going to happen.'

'Do you mind if I do it?' Callie asked. 'It's just this is going to freak her out, and...'

'And she's not too fond of me?' Jarrad smiled through his words. 'It's fine, I know she doesn't like me too much, your girlfriend is a tough act to follow.' Jarrard signalled that Callie should continue.

Callie silently opened the door knowing that Jess would probably be asleep.

'Cal..' Jess tried to say Callie's name but her breath gave out before she could finish.

'Hey sweetheart,' Callie moved round and pushed herself up onto the bed, letting Jess settle into her crook. 'Look Jess, I need to talk to you about something and I don't want you to get scared or worry about it ok?'

Jess nodded so that Callie knew that she had heard her. 'Ok, well in a bit Dr. Foster is going to come in and take you to go and have some special medicine that we think will help you get better.'

'I don't want Dr. Fost...' Jess began.

'Shhh, he's trying to help you Jess, I'm going to come with you ok?' She felt Jess nod again. 'And then when you wake up Arizona and me will be here ok?' Jess nodded once more.

'Where Ari...'

'Well you know I told you about the special medicine?' When Callie felt the movement of Jess' head she continued once more. 'Well Arizona's getting that medicine for you. She'll be here when you wake up, with me too.'

'Awlways?' Jess asked.

'What was that Jess?' Callie asked, confused at what she was asking.

'You and Ari...awlways there when I wakes up?' Callie couldn't stop the tears from falling at those words. What could she say? Could she promise her that? 'Cal?'

'If you want me and Arizona to be there every time you wake up then I think we can try and make that happen.' Callie said, careful with her wording.

'Pwomise?'

'I promise we will try.' Callie said, again not wanting to fill the little girl with false hope. Jess seemed to accept this answer and snuggled in harder to Callie's side. Meanwhile Callie's head was working in overdrive; she needed to talk to Arizona. Could they possibly adopt this little girl that they had both grown to love so much? Did she have a place in their lives?

Her thoughts were interrupted as Jarrad entered the room. 'You all set?'

'Yeah we're good, is it ok if I walk down with her though?'

'Course.' Jarrad replied, as he went to go and get ready for the surgery. The nurses came in along with Alex Karev to wheel her down to the surgery.

Callie held her hand the whole way and when they reached the OR doors, she gave Jess' hand a squeeze, 'I'll see you after sweetheart, be brave.'

Jess just nodded, not having the energy to do anything more.

'You take care of her Karev.' Callie said as she turned and walked away eager to go and see Arizona.

XX

Arizona was twiddling her thumbs, she'd sent Callie to see Jess an hour and a half ago and it was driving her mad that she couldn't be there with them too. Christina had stayed with her until she got paged and although Arizona had tried to sleep, she just couldn't, therefore she was relieved when Callie came bustling into the room.

'Hey babe.' Callie greeted the blonde with a kiss. 'Right I need to just go straight into this because otherwise I'm not going to say it, and I need to. I was just explaining to Jess and she got scared so I told her it would be ok because we would both be there when she woke up and then she asked me if we would be there always, be there every time she woke up and it got me thinking, you know, why not? Why not be there every time she wakes up, whether it's for another month or whether it's for the rest of her life, why can't we be her parents? And I know that we'll have to wait a bit and you know we should probably get married so that we show that we're committed or something, I mean I want to marry you anyway and that wasn't probably the best way to bring that one up, but anyway I think we should adopt Jess.'

Once Callie had finished she took a deep breath and just stood there, playing back what she had just said in her head, realising she had probably just asked Arizona to marry her in a roundabout kind of way as well as suggesting they operate a child who was possibly about to die in theatre.

'Ok so maybe that all came out in an insane ramble and you can say no but...'

'Calliope.' Arizona spoke finally, she had needed time to process what Callie was saying. 'You want to adopt Jess?'

'Yeah...I just think that...'

'Calliope.' Arizona stopped her before she could set off on another ramble again. 'Let's do it.' Arizona said simply, she didn't really know what else to say, Callie had knocked her for six, in a good way.

'Really?'

'Yeah, I can't think of anything I'd want to do more, even if the transplant doesn't work at least we can give her a comfortable and happy last couple of months.' Arizona couldn't hide the tears falling down her face.

'Oh Ari...' Callie climbed onto the bed and the couple embraced like they never had before, kissing with so much passion.

'Let's just get Jess through today and then we'll go from there.' Arizona said into Callie's shoulder. 'Oh and as far as marriage proposals go...' Arizona couldn't help but chuckle as she felt Callie tense up beneath her.

'Yeah, didn't mean for that one to come out like that...' Callie admitted, of course she wanted to marry Arizona, but she had seen it as a very romantic proposal. 'You like the idea though?' Callie couldn't help herself.

'How could I not like the idea of a day with you in a gorgeous dress signalling that we are going to spend the rest of our lives together?' Arizona said; her smile lighting up the whole room as the image formed in her head.

Callie mirrored Arizona's smile as she leaned in for another kiss. 'I love you Ari.'

'I love you too Calliope, more than I can say.'

Their kiss was only interrupted when Bailey came into the room with Christina. 'God you two are like horny teenagers!' Christina joked.

'Sorry guys.' Callie blushed as she removed herself from the bed allowing the other doctors in the room to do their job.

'Right, I just want to check the needle site please Arizona.' Bailey prodded gently at the site, causing Arizona to wince slightly. 'Sorry sweety.' Bailey apologised knowing that it was tender. 'Right, you can go now.'

'Really?' Callie's voice sounded, concerned that Arizona was getting discharged too soon.

'Yes, it's doing you two no good being here when we all know you'd rather be waiting for that little girl.' Bailey said knowingly. 'Just stay in the wheelchair whilst your here and use the crutches carefully when you're at home, not that you will be there tonight.' Bailey knew that the couple would be staying by Jess' bedside until she woke up. 'Just put some ice on it if it's sorer than usual.' With that Bailey signed the relevant forms and left with Christina saying her goodbyes as well.

Arizona got dressed as quickly as she could with Callie's help, both of them eager to find out what was going on with Jess. They knew that she wouldn't be out of surgery yet so they headed to the OR gallery. When they entered they were surprised to find both Mark and Teddy there.

'What are you two doing here?' Callie asked as she sat down next to them, Arizona in the wheelchair on her other side.

'We wanted to see how she was.' Mark said simply. For both Callie and Arizona it meant a lot that each of their best friends had used their free time to check on Jess, obviously knowing how much she meant to the couple.

'How's she doing?' Arizona asked.

'She's stable, Jarrad's doing a good job.' Teddy replied. 'How are you feeling?'

'Oh I'm fine, the pain meds I'm on for the shot wounds are covering up the pain from today nicely.' Arizona smiled briefly before turning her attention back to the OR below her; she only wished she could be down there herself. She had every faith in Jarrad's ability as a surgeon, she just didn't like things being out of her control.

To everyone's relief Jarrad finished with ease and all the injections were completed with no more difficulties than normal. Now it was up to Jess. Her body could reject Arizona's marrow within 24 hours and if that happened, it would slowly poison her blood stream and could ultimately kill her if it wasn't all removed quickly. If this marrow was rejected then Jess would only have a couple of months to live and to find a donor in that short space of time would be virtually impossible.

Arizona and Callie headed quickly up to the Peds ward and made their way to Jess' room. She'd already been taken off the ventilator but was still on the nebuliser and looked deathly pale.

'Hey guys.' Jarrad greeted the couple, 'she's holding up, no signs of rejection yet but I'd like her to be awake by this time tomorrow otherwise...' No one wanted to finish that sentence. 'Someone will be in every half an hour or so to check on her but I take it you'll be here all night anyway?'

'Yeah I think we will, thanks Jarrad.' Arizona replied. She'd grown to like Jarrad more and more as he'd shown his softer side after the initial resistance to the whole situation.

As Jarrad left Callie shifted so that she could link her hand with Arizona's. 'You wanna settle over on the sofa?'

'Yeah it might be more comfortable than this thing,' Arizona gestured to her chair. Callie smiled and helped Arizona onto the sofa so she could lie across the length and stretch out her injuries. 'You don't want to sit on here with me?'

'I think it's best for you to be able to stretch out babe, besides, sitting here at least I can hold Jess' hand and yours.'

Arizona smiled as she let exhaustion wash over her, she wanted nothing more than to be awoken by the sounds of Jess but the fight was going to be a hard one. 'I love you Calliope.' She breathed out as she drifted off into sleep.

'I love you too babe.' Callie replied, and as she sat their holding the hands of the two women in her life that she loved and cherished the most. She'd came so close to losing Arizona and now so close to losing Jess; she vowed that when they were both better, if that happened, that she wouldn't waste any more time in making them both legally 'hers.' All she could now is pray that Jess showed the same fight that Arizona had and come back to them.

A/N: Reviews please folks :D