A/N: Hey Everybody! My apologies on the delay. I've actually had this written and finished for over a week and I've been so busy working and taking care of other things that I just couldn't find the time to sit down and post this. But here it is the final chapter. It isn't very long but it is short and sweet and I hope you all enjoy it. Thank you again to everyone who has been following the story...and I would like to take this opportunity to ask you all for your opinion. I'm not too sure I want to do this, but I was considering writing this story from Callie's perspective as well, as sort of a companion piece. Any thoughts? Suggestions? I would love to hear. I've already started writing the next story and I'm really excited about it. It's unlike anything that has ever been done in a Calzona fanfic. At least from what I can see.

Anyway, thanks again everyone and I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I had writing it. I promise to have 'Till Death Do Us Part's sequel story up within the next couple of days... maybe even this afternoon...

happy reading!

~hASHbrown

Chapter 17

I said in the very beginning of my story that life is fascinating. I stand by what I said. I would also like to bring to light something that Callie once told me. Life is an adventure. At the time when she said that to me, I wasn't too sure what she meant. But now I know. The universe definitely set me on this incredible adventure. An adventure that hasn't ended yet.

That day in the hospital when I was waiting and praying that Callie would make it; that she would live I thought that if some twist of fate decided that I were to lose her, I would die. If I lost her I wouldn't want to go on living. As I have said before, Callie saved my life. She brought me out of my darkest hour and showed me what my life could truly be like. A life filled with love, happiness and joy. A life full of hope and promise. In doing so, I fell in love with her. Deeper and deeper everyday. I became so deeply attached that I didn't want a life where she didn't exist.

But here I am today. I am alive, I am healthy and I am living my life. And I don't just mean getting up and going to work every day, I mean really living.

"I will beat this daddy. I will not be responsible for taking her happiness away. I will not be the one who breaks her heart and kills her all over again. I won't leave her, I can't. I cannot be another dead girlfriend in the story of her life. I won't have that be her story, because she deserves better. She will have a future, and I am going to fight with everything I have to make sure that that future has me in it."

Those words stay with me always. I have never forgotten them not even for a moment. They are words that I hold on to and hold them close to my heart because she stayed true to her word. She fought. She fought and she had won. Callie had beaten the cancer and has been cancer free ever since. The regular check ups that she gets every few months, always come back with the same result that there are no new cancer cells and that she is doing well.

Don't get me wrong. Nothing was "easy peasy". Her recovery was long, stressful and a little painful to watch. All I wanted to do was protect her and make it all better, but only time and patience could do that. But today, today we are in a good place. I love her more and more as the day goes by and she makes sure to tell me as many times as possible every day that she loves me.

My life is filled with love, and I couldn't ask for anything more. I can finally say that for real this time I have everything in life that I could possibly want. I have a woman that I am head over heals in love with who loves me back; I have a fantastic job and live in a fantastic city. And I will soon have a fabulous house to come home to where Calliope will be there to welcome me home after a long days work.

But right now, right now we're taking another adventure. Today Callie and I are on our way to Spain. To lounge on the beach and sip on sangrias. This trip will be perfect. Why? You might ask. Well, while there I am about to embark on the biggest adventure of my life.

When Callie was well enough to finally come home she said something to me that completely through me for a loop.

"Arizona, I have just survived something terrible. For awhile there I thought I was going to die and couldn't bare the thought of leaving you."

"I'm so happy Calliope that you didn't. I don't know what I would do if I lost you." I said tears at bay as I leaned down to kiss Callie as she sat on the hospital bed waiting for discharge papers.

"I am so happy that I'm still here. So happy to be alive, because for once I have someone who is worth going through hell for. I had always thought that I was just meant to be alone my whole life. But then you came into my life and I truly felt what love was."

"Oh, Calliope I love you so much."

"And I love you. So, call me crazy if you like but I'm alive and I don't want to waste any second. I know it's too soon we've only really been together for a few months but deep down I know this is right. So, I'd like to ask you to take a leap of faith. To take a chance and marry me because I want nothing more than to spend the rest of my life making you smile and going on adventures."

So that is where we are today, on a plane for Spain, for our wedding. It will be small with only both our parents, Teddy, Mark and Addison. I don't think I could imagine my life being any different now. I'm definitely taking a leap of faith and diving head first into this next adventure. You might think it's too soon. But truth of the matter is, when you know it's right, you take the chance.

I have to thank Joanne. I still miss her. I miss her everyday, because well like she said to me that night that she left me, we were best friends before we were ever lovers. I thank my late best friend every day now. Every day I say thank you because if I didn't go through what I went through with Joanne, I never would have met Callie. If I hadn't met Callie, I don't think I ever would have discovered just how strong I could be.

So I thank Joanne everyday, because thanks to her I found everything I needed. Callie makes me a better person. She showed me I was stronger than I thought and taught me that as complicated as life can be, the simplest thing is to choose to be happy. To live your life to it's fullest. So that is what I'm doing. I'm choosing to be happy. I'm choosing life. I'm choosing Callie.