Title: Aftermath

Author: Danielle

Summary: post 7:18, post accident

Disclaimer: only the story is mine, the characters belong to Shonda and ABC.

Sorry it's been so long, life happened, including my 30th birthday at the end of last month. Big party and good times were had.

Callie's POV

It's been an amazing month, first Sofia and I came home from the hospital and then two weeks ago the love of my life and I got married. It's been an adjustment having a four month old at home but thankfully she's started sleeping through the whole night. Waking up every three hours to breastfeed is so exhausting and adding that onto recovering from multiple surgeries it was wiping me of all of my energy. So now she falls asleep at ten and wakes up at three and then goes back to sleep until eightish. Arizona still gets up with me for the three o'clock feeding on the days that she doesn't start early in the morning and the two of us sit there in the nursery talking and spending time together while Sofia happily feeds and sometimes Arizona takes over the feeding time by feeding Sofia my pumped breast milk. That's nice because it gets me more hours of uninterrupted sleep. Babies are exhausting.

Dr. Webber gave Arizona off a week after the wedding, not that we went anywhere for a honeymoon but it was nice to have the time with my new wife. I still can't get over being able to call her my wife. Our time was spent with our daughter, watching movies, cooking together, sleeping in as late as Sofia let us and enjoying the freedom to do nothing.

The day Arizona went back to work was rough, Sofia was out of sorts, and she was missing her Mama and was taking it out on me. Arizona had taken to waking up with her in the morning and holding and cuddling her letting me sleep a little longer until Sofia's hunger won out and then she would bring her into the bedroom and I would feed her or she would feed Sofia a bottle. That was when I began pumping my breast milk and Arizona would feed her the first feeding of the day. It was their special time of the day. But Sofia cried and complained for two hours the morning that morning, Arizona left before Sofia woke up for the day and I swear that the baby was looking for her Mama. Sofia cried for almost an hour and I was getting frustrated so I called Arizona and thankfully she was done with rounds so was able to pick up her cell phone. She heard Sofia screaming in the background and suggested I put the phone on speakerphone and she could talk to her. I did and it worked wonders, just hearing Arizona's voice calmed the baby down and she settled enough that she was able to eat. I thanked Arizona profusely and hung up to the sounds of Arizona saying "I love you my girls." I told her we loved her too and Sofia response was to keep on eating.

When Arizona got home that night she quickly kissed me and then went right for the bouncy chair that Sofia was sitting in picking her up and hugging her tight. "I missed you so much baby girl."

"She missed you too. She kept on looking for you every time she heard a noise. I put her in the crib and when she woke up I went in there to get her up to change her diaper and feed her and I swear she was looking around me trying to find you."

"What can I say, she loves her Mama."

"That she does Arizona, that she does."

That night I fixed dinner and we sat at the breakfast bar eating with Sofia babbling away on the floor in her bouncy chair. It was perfect.

That all happened on Monday and unfortunately Wednesday night Arizona was on call and got called in at midnight for an emergency surgery on a kid who got up in the middle of the night and fell down the stairs causing severe internal bleeding, a possible lacerated spleen, and an open broken femur. It was something her fellow couldn't handle on her own and so Arizona had to go in. I was itching to go with her and fix the femur myself but I had another few days until I was back at work. Then Sofia woke up at three o'clock and ate okay but was looking for her Mama and when she finished eating had figured out that Arizona wasn't there and started screaming her head off.

Sofia screamed for three hours until all her tears were gone, her face was red, she was sweating and her cute little voice was hoarse. Arizona walked into the apartment at 6:15am to me walking Sofia around in the living room with the lights dimmed and I was attempting to bounce and sing to her to calm her down. Arizona must have noticed the tired and frustrated and tear covered look on my face because she put her bag down on the couch and took Sofia from my arms. Within ten minutes Arizona had hummed, bounced, swayed, sang and walked Sofia to sleep. She quietly walked the baby into her room and softly put her down into her crib, then came out of the nursery, took my hand and guided my into our room bringing me over to our bed and laying down with me.

"What happened?"

"Well, she woke up at 3am for her feeding and she ate without a problem then yet again began looking around the room for you and didn't see you so started screaming."

"She screamed for three hours?"

"Yup, she quieted down for the five minutes it took to change her diaper because you know how much she loves having her diaper off but then as soon as it was back on the screaming started again."

"I'm so sorry baby; I wish I could have gotten here sooner. The both of you are probably so exhausted. I wish I didn't have to go in but Jaime couldn't handle the surgery on her own and I really needed to be there."

"I know, is the kid okay?"

"The kid is fine, missing his spleen and connected to the apparatus keeping his femur in place. But he's fine."

"Good. Well I am exhausted but let's just go to bed now."

"Sounds good to me, I just spent five hours standing in the OR and could use some pillow time before our howler monkey decides to wake up again. At least I am off today and we can spend the day lazing around the apartment."

Thursday was spent the three of us catching up on sleep from the night before and Friday was a great surprise, Mark came over early in the day and asked if her could take Sofia for that day and the next so he could give us time before I went back to work on Monday. We were hesitant at first but Mark was right, he hadn't taken her overnight before but we were sure that she would be fine.

So by lunchtime Sofia was all packed up and ready to go to Daddy's apartment for the next two days. Mark took her and Arizona and I didn't know what to do with ourselves. I decided to take matters into my own hands and went into our bedroom and put on the lingerie that I wore the night we first said 'I love you' to each other and walked out into the living room. Arizona was sitting sideways on the red couch facing away from our bedroom door reading 'The Journal of American Pediatrics' so I walked over and sat in front of her. After a few minutes she looked up and noticed my state of undress and blushed.

"Uh, what are you doing?"

"What do you think I am doing?"

"Calliope you know that we shouldn't."

"Arizona it's been four months since the accident and longer than that since we have had sex. And I want to be with my wife."

"But you are still healing."

"Babe, as I said it's been four months since the accident and eleven weeks since my last surgery I talked to Bailey and Teddy at my appointment Wednesday and they said I was approved for 'strenuous activity'."

"Oh, well I uh,"

"Arizona, let's go to the bedroom."

"Uh, well okay."

And so we did.