A/N: So, thank you again for the reviews, as the unanimous vote was for the Uncle NOT to appear I shall stick true and he shall not be appearing, hopefully it shall just be happiness and fluff from here on out. If you read my other stories you will know that I probably won't be able to update very quickly after this as I'm then back at university with exams and a 10,000 word essay on cows! Anyway, enjoy.

3 weeks later.

It had been a busy three weeks since Arizona and Callie had filled in the paperwork to adopt Jess, they'd had interviews, more forms to fill in, CPA had had to talk to Jess herself and now here they were sat in their apartment whilst they waited for their house visit to check that there living arrangements and the couple in their own environment were suitable for a five year old girl. Arizona was now hobbling around on one crutch, her shoulder also still proving painful but she was a lot more independent now and the physical therapists were very happy with the progress she was making.

Jess herself was getting stronger each day; there had been absolutely no signs of rejection and she was almost ready to leave the hospital, hence the haste of the operation.

'Arizona?' Callie came running frantically into the bedroom where Arizona had just come out of the shower.

'What's wrong?' Arizona asked, concerned at why Callie was running so frantically around. Her concern turned to laughter as the Latina came in clutching about five bottles of wine and a crate of beer.

'We need to hide these!' Callie said as she knelt down and started to try and stuff them under the bed.

'Calliope, the CPA won't hold it against us for having alcohol in the apartment!'

'With this lot they'll think we're bloody alcoholics!'

Arizona couldn't help but smile; for the last couple of days Callie had been running round the apartment like a woman possessed, having taken the week off work to make sure everything that was in order for the visit. They'd taken the spare room to pieces, even enlisting the help of Mark and Teddy, completely redecorating the room into a scene from the Jungle Book after much discussion with Jess herself.

'Calliope, stop!' Arizona said forcefully as Callie began to mutter in Spanish, getting flustered. 'Just come and sit down for a second.' Callie sat next to Arizona, instantly taking her hand in her own.

'I'm sorry, we're just so close now and I don't want anything to go wrong.'

'I know babe, I know, but it'll be ok, you heard what Hannah said last time, they really like us so far so it's just this like hurdle and then we'll be on the home straight.'

'I love you, you know that right?'

'Of course Calliope, and I love you too.' Arizona smiled and kissed Callie chastely. The doorbell rang, practically sending Callie through the roof. 'Calm.' Arizona said simply as she followed Callie out into the lounge. Opening the door they saw Hannah on the other side along with two other people who introduced themselves, shaking hands with the two women.

'Can I get you a drink?' Callie asked, immediately becoming the hostess with the mostest.

'I'll have a coffee please Callie.' Hannah said as did the other two CPA workers. 'Firstly we just want to look around, have a grand tour so to speak?'

'I'll show you whilst Callie makes the drinks.' Arizona said showing willing. Showing them through the whole apartment she made a point of showing them the newly decorated room for Jess which got nods of approval and scribbles in their notebooks. As they sat down in lounge, Callie next to Arizona, they waited for what came next.

'Ok, we need to ask you a couple of questions, if that's ok?' Hannah asked, 'I know you've answered a lot already but I'm afraid it's protocol.'

'That's fine.' Arizona replied.

'Can I ask how long it will be before you're back at work Miss Robbins?' The man to Hannah's right asked.

'Um, I'm not sure at the moment, it's going to be a fairly long process, I'll probably be back at work in about a month, but then I may not be able to perform surgery for a while.'

'I see, and whilst you're at home, will you be here also Miss Torres?'

'Not all the time, I'll be at work.'

'Right, and do you think physically you would be able to look after Jessica Miss Robbins?'

Arizona was a little taken aback by his tone of voice but she had dealt with these people before and knew what they were like; 'Yes I am one hundred percent confident I would be able to take care of Jess...being a paediatric surgeon and all.' Arizona said shortly. Callie gripped her hand, a friendly warning to take it easy.

'And what will happen when you go back to work? Who will take care of Jessica then?'

'Until Christmas she will go to the day care at the hospital, then after Christmas we've made sure that she will be able to start at the local Elementary.'

'Will she be ready for school?'

'She already is. She's missed out on too much through this illness, we're not about to start holding her back more than she has to be.' Callie said.

'And will either of you always be around to take and collect her?' Arizona was getting angry at this bloke, she knew what he was getting at and wanted to floor him.

Callie spoke before Arizona could say something she would regret. 'We will make our schedules so that one of us is around as best as we can, but as you know that will not always be possible in our line of work, if an emergency call came in or we got stuck in surgery. If that happened then we would ask one of our friends to collect her.'

'A stranger?'

'No. She knows all of our friends from the hospital, she calls them Auntie and Uncle.' Arizona said, unable to remove the anger in her voice.

'I see.' His pause to scribble notes only infuriated Arizona further, Callie squeezing her hand once more; it was usually the fiery Latina that would get irate in this situation but Arizona was the crazy one in the relationship today. 'If Jess were to get ill again, what would happen?'

'The likelihood is very slim now that she hasn't rejected the replacement marrow, but if she were to then she would be taken back into hospital and the process would have to happen again.' Arizona replied.

'And would you be able to cope with that?'

'Certainly. We would be there for Jess no matter what.' Callie said, rewarded with a squeeze from Arizona.

'Is it on the agenda for you to have more children?'

Both women were left speechless for a second until Callie spoke, 'Um, that's not something we've discussed at this stage...'

'...but it's a definite possibility.' Arizona finished for her, even though she had told Callie countless times that she saw them with loads of kids now, she knew that Callie was always reluctant to say it out loud in case it freaked the blonde out.

'And if you were to have children, how would you go about it? Adoption?'

'Again, we haven't spoken about it, but I would imagine that one of us would carry the baby and we would use sperm donation.' Callie's heart swelled with love even further as Arizona spoke.

'And do you think that Jessica would feel inadequate in the family if that were to happen?'

'Absolutely not. Jess will always be a part of this family.' Callie said.

'I see you two aren't married?'

Again the two women flailed for the right answer, 'That's not to say it's not in the future.' Callie said.

'The only reason I ask is obviously if you were married there would be no question of commitment?'

'And deciding to adopt a child with someone isn't a sign of commitment?' Callie asked.

'Well, I suppose you could say that...'

'You needn't be concerned with the commitment we have for each other, I love Calliope very much, and I plan to grow old with her and our children and their children.' Arizona said, Callie shedding a tear at the image she had just created.

'Ok, that seems to be everything I had to ask today.' The man sat back in his chair, hands folded and surveyed the couple.

'So what happens now?' Callie asked.

'We will let you know within the week what our decision is.' Hannah said as the three stood to leave. 'Thank you for your time, I'll see you soon.'

Shaking all hands once more, Callie and Arizona showed the CPA out and shut the door firmly behind them.

'That man was a jackass.' Arizona said.

'I know babe, but he's just doing his job.' Callie said.

'I'm sorry I got angry there.'

'It's ok, it's important to you.' Callie smiled as she kissed Arizona firmly on her mouth. 'Also, those answers you gave towards the end, totally perfect.'

'Yeah?' Arizona smiled with her dimples.

'Absolute perfection.' Callie grinned as she carried Arizona back into the lounge where they sat for the rest of the afternoon watching television and making out like horny teenagers.

XXX

Two days later.

'No fair!' Callie exclaimed as Jess beat her once more at Kerplunk.

'You is not very good at Plunk Cal!' Jess grinned broadly. She was looking better than Callie and Arizona had ever seen her, she was off all drips except one and was even allowed to eat solid foods again, much to the youngsters delight.

'I know! And I'm meant to have a steady pair of hands!' Callie laughed, she was on her lunch break and had decided to spend it with Jess as Arizona was in physical therapy at the time.

Their fun was interrupted by a knock on the door, 'Hey Callie, can I have a word please?' Jarrad popped his head round.

'Sure thing, I'll be back in a sec Jess, set it up again.' On exiting the room Callie dropped her cheeriness instantly, 'What is it Jarrad? Is it Jess? Is it back?'

'Callie!' Jarrad exclaimed, laughing. 'CPA are here to see you.'

'Oh!' Callie exclaimed hoping against hope it would be the news that they so desperately wanted.

'In my office.'

'But Arizona's not here?'

'I don't think it will matter, if it does, I'll go and get her.'

'Thanks Jarrad.' Callie went into the office at speed, noticing that it was only Hannah here again. 'Hi Hannah.'

'Callie. No Arizona?'

'She's in physical therapy. Is that a problem, cause I can go and get her?'

'Oh no, it's fine, I'll need her signature but we can go down and get that.'

'Her signature?' Callie asked, confused.

'Yes Callie! You got Jess!' Hannah smiled, 'The courts awarded you and Arizona total custody.'

'Wha-wh-att?' Callie stuttered, she couldn't believe the words she was hearing. 'Ohmigod!' She didn't know what to do first, so just ended up hugging Hannah instead.

'Just need you and Arizona to sign on the dotted line and then everything is done.'

'Arizona! I need to tell her! And Jess!'

'Calm down Callie, I'll wait here!' Hannah said as the disappearing form of Callie ran from the room, she was torn between where to go first, deciding that she wanted Arizona to see Jess' face she legged it down the stairs, the elevators not coming quickly enough.

Bursting through the doors of the recovery room Callie's heart almost burst at the sight before her; Arizona, though extremely slowly, was walking with no crutch, no support, just herself. When she saw Callie stood there she almost toppled over, 'Calliope! What are you doing here?' Arizona was really surprised to see Callie at the other end of the room.

'We did it.' Callie said, 'Hannah's here, we got Jess!'

Arizona couldn't believe what she was hearing, they'd got Jess! Without even thinking about it, from somewhere deep inside of her she found the strength to almost jog into Callie's arms, kissing her with the fullest force she could muster.

'Well I think we can safely say that your thigh wound has healed well.' The physical therapist laughed and showed himself out.

'We got her?' Arizona whispered when Callie and her broke off their kiss.

'Yes we did, we just have to sign the papers.'

'Well what are we waiting for then!' Arizona began to walk out, Callie following behind, the blonde feeling not a twinge of pain.

Barging into Jarrad's office, Arizona greeted Hannah with a hug, the papers were signed and Hannah left, telling Arizona and Callie that they would get a check up every month before they gradually became non-existent in their lives.

'Can we go and see her now? Can we tell her?' Arizona was like an excited child herself.

'Babe?' Callie said quietly, signalling to Arizona that something might be wrong.

'What's up babe?' Arizona turned.

'I just...this is the start of the rest of our lives right? The beginning of such a big chapter, and...I just...well I love you and I'm so excited about this...' Callie finished, realising she probably just sounded lame.

'Oh Calliope, I'm so excited too...I never thought this would happen, I never thought I would want kids...hell what...four months ago I thought I was dead Cal...I thought I would never get this, that I'd never get the happily ever after with you that I wanted so much...and now I've got more than I could ever have imagined and I love you so much.' Arizona sealed her speech with a kiss before dropping her voice, 'I'll show you just how much later on.'

Callie grinned broadly and led her Arizona out into the Paeds ward and back into Jess' room.

'Ari and Cal!' Jess beamed, kneeling up onto her bed. 'I setted up plunk Cal!'

'That's awesome kiddo, but me and Arizona need to tell you something first, ok?'

'Umm...ok?' Jess was concerned that it was going to be bad news, it usually was when someone said they needed to talk to her.

'Well...Arizona and me...we've just been told...well when you're allowed out the hospital, you're coming home with us!'

Jess looked confused for a minute, 'What, so you are my Mommies now?'

Neither Arizona or Callie could form words after that statement; Arizona just nodding her head as the tears fell down her face. 'Is that ok?'

'Yeah!' Jess stood up on her bed and made her way over to Callie and Arizona, flinging herself off of the bed, Callie catching her and hugging her with all her might. Arizona joining in too. 'Can I comes home with you nowww?'

'Um, we have to wait...'

'You can go home.' Jarrad's voice sounded from the door. All three girls whipping around. 'Normally, I'd say no but I'm sending her home with two of the best surgeons I know...one of whom I happen to know is pretty good with the kids stuff. Go, take her home, I'm sick of the sight of you.' Jarred grinned broadly as all three women engulfed him in a hug and kissing session; this was doing his reputation no good. 'Just...look after yourselves.' Jarred said as he excused himself and walked off.

'I pack, I pack!' Jess jumped down from Callie's arms and began to run around, throwing things in the air as she began to pack.

Callie looped her arm around Arizona's back, pulling her into her and kissing her head. The couple watched as their daughter, their daughter, packed to go home so their new lives could begin. Together.

A/N: After the way this chapter has gone I'm debating leaving this story here... let me know what you think...more or finito?