Chapter 3 of "The Whole Clan"

Arizona woke with a start but turned right back over and into her fiance's warm embrace.

"I'm happy that we have today off… this is all I want to do all day long." Arizona said snuggling into Callie.

"Me too…" Callie kissed the top of her fiance's head. "How about in a couple of hours we order take out and lay right here all day long."

"I think that that is an awesome idea." Arizona said looking up at Callie and kissing her lips gently.

The two were interupted by a knock at the door. Arizona got up and threw on her robe and walked to see who it was. When she opened the door there stood Kate, her eyes puffy from crying. She looked like she had been up all night. Arizona looked at her and noticed she was holding a canvas.

"Jackson didn't come home last night… and I didn't sleep. Here, I painted this picture and thought it matched ya'lls living room." She handed Arizona the picture. "I need to get back, Daniel is asleep." Kate turned to leave but Arizona grabbed her arm with her free hand.

"Kate, what all was said? What did Dr. Avery say?" Arizona was surprised by the sadness in her own voice but she loved her sister and hated seeing her this way.

"He said that he couldn't believe that Jackson would throw his life away on some slut with a baby… and Jackson stood up for me of course but he never came home which makes me wonder where he was or if he ended up following his Grandfather home…"

"Callie and I saw Jackson at about 1 at Joe's… he was drunk when he got there… Katherine he will come home ok? He probably stayed in an on call room or went to Merideth's to sleep it off-"

"Or Mark's to sleep it off…" Jackson walked out of Mark's apartment. He looked about the same as Kate did. Eyes puffy, clothes disheveled. He looked like he had lost a lot of sleep the night before. "Kate I love you with all my heart and I knew how my family felt about me being with you but it never stopped me then and it's not going to now ok? I went to the park and drank a whole six pack and then to Joe's and I came down the hall to our place but I couldn't make myself open the door so I sat in the hall till Mark got home from work and he let me sleep on his couch… I couldn't face you like I was last night. And seeing how I hurt you is killing me now… come on let's go home and talk this out." Jackson said putting his arm around Kate who kissed him on the cheek.

"Thank you Arizona…" Kate said glancing back at her sister.

Arizona smiled at her sister and then turned back into her apartment and shut the door. She saw Callie standing at the bedroom door. She was only wearing a pair of red bikini style panties.

"You Calliope Torres need to get back in the bed right now because I am far from done with you… you and your sexy panty clad self get back in there!" Arizona said discarding her robe on her way back to the bedroom. Callie squealed when Arizona caught her and pushed her onto the bed. Arizona straddled her and pinned her arms above her head. She captured Callies lips with her own grinding hard against the brunette. Callie let out a moan. She pulled her hands free from Arizona's grasp and found the hem of Arizona's tank top pulling it off with one quick move. Arizona pulled away for air. She looked at Callie with a hungry look then moved down to capture an erect nipple in her mouth and loving the moan that escaped her lover's mouth. Callie couldn't take it anymore and she flipped Arizona onto her back.

"Hmmm… someone is a little pushy today aren't we…" was all Arizona could get out before Callie's mouth was on hers. Arizona let out a moan as Callie sent trails of kissed down her neck and to her breast where Callie gave the same attention to them as Arizona had given to her. Callie then moved down the blonde to her boy short panties and pulled them down with in what felt like to Arizona slow motion. Arizona squirmed under Callie trying to make her pull her panties down faster but Callie was enjoying the torture she was putting on her fiance.

The two women made love most of the day until they both became extremely hungry and put in a call for Chinese take out from down the way. They desided that it was also time that they venture out to the living room and put in a movie.

"So, I have been thinking-" Arizona began.

"Oh lord." Callie mumbled.

"I heard that… anyways, I have been thinking of our commitment ceremony and I want it to be in the spring… the spring time is so pretty here."

"But it's raining here most of spring."

"I know that Calliope. I was thinking inside somewhere. With a big window so we can see outside… by the way have you looked outside… the weather is awful. I hope our chinese food makes it."

"And I hope our families can't… that's awful but I really just thought the 5 of us would just hang out and enjoy the day." Callie said. "Oh that reminds me, I invited Mark to-"

"I know…"

"You know? How?"

"He told me. And I'm ok with it. I know you two are best friends and he doesn't have family really so of course it's fine that he come over for Christmas." Arizona said leaning into Callie giving her a kiss.

"Thanks baby. You know what I really hope?" Callie asked.

"What's that?"

"I really hope our parents get along… I just realized this will be the first time they are meeting." Callie said and she could tell by her look that Arizona had forgotten this tad bit of information.

"Oh dear… Oh Calliope I hadn't even thought of that…" Arizona said rubbing her temples. "I don't know why but I kept thinking they had met…"

"It'll be fine! Just calm down ok? It's Christmas, surely they won't be too harsh." Callie said getting up from the couch and walking over to the windo to peek outside. "Oh it's getting bad, I won't be surprised if we get paged soon."

"Ugh… maybe not. Surely not… you probably just jenksed us." Arizona said laughing at her fiance's face she made as she pretended to hit her head against the wall. "Oh, I forgot to show you Kate's picture she painted last night… she said she thought it matched our living room." Arizona got up and picked up the painting that she had placed on the island in the kitchen. She gave it a once over then looked up at their living room. "It will go perfect in here." Arizona had talked Callie into redoing their apartment in less "frowny" colors and Arizona had picked beige much to Callie's distaste, but had allowed the bright red couch in their living room to stay. The painting picked up on the red but added blues and greens as well. Kate had successfully painted a medow landscape full of bright red poppies.

"Your sister is really good… I had no idea she had it in her." Callie said walking up to where Arizona was.

"She has always done this when she is upset. I remember when she was about 4 and Danny had told on her for taking one of dad's dress shoes and trying to flush it. Well Danny got in more trouble because my parents found out that Danny had put her up to it. She was so worried that he was going to be mad at her and got out her crayons and, I kid you not, drew 25 drawings and they were good!" Arizona said with a chuckle. "She could never draw when she was happy it was only when she was sad or nervous or worried. Of course it would be my sister to do everything kinda backwards."

"You two are polar opposites you realize that right?"

"I know… She is… I never saw it until Teddy pointed it out but she reminds me of you. Headstrong, smart, dry sense of humor… and I'm perky, and cry when authority comes up to me… I mean, Chief Webber told me last night that Kate went above the boards head to get that heart for Stephen… I could have never done that." Arizona said.

"Yes you could have… you and your sister are alike in that way. You care about the ones you love and you will do anything to protect them… you are good men in a storm." Callie said and she leaned over to capture Arizona's lips with her own. The pair were interupted by a knock at their door. Callie walked to the door and opening it revealing a teenage delivery boy who looked half frozen. "Hi, how much?"

"15.50" The boy said and Callie handed him a twenty and told him to keep the change. The boy left and Callie brought the bag of take out to the island.

"So, Arizona, I have been thinking that we should make an appointment with Addison soon."

"Why? I thought we decided to wait on kids until we are officially together."

"I know but I've been doing some reading and we should start treatments and things because it can take a while ya know? I mean, it could take a few tries."

"Callie… can we not have time for us? A year or two for it to be me and you being maried and living a married life… why rush?"

"Why rush? Because I'm worried you'll go back on your promise and on top of that I'm ready… I'm so ready to start a family with you and be with you 100% but you always seem to find a way to keep a distance."

"Calliope, that is not true…"

"It is though Arizona! It is! We aren't getting any younger and yeah we have time, but what if in a year or two things change and we don't have the time to take to start a family… right now we do, right now we can make the time and work our schedules perfectly… who's to say in 2 years we will be able to do that?"

"Who's to say in 9 months we'll be able to… Callie we will have kids, but can we wait?"

"Arizona Robbins you kill me, and I don't get you one tiny bit. I feel like the minute I am able to wrap my arms around what you are thinking you change…"

"What's that mean?"

"It means two months ago you were ready right then to start talking about it and thinking about it. Wake up call, it's been two months and I bring it up and you are backing out."

"Calliope… listen please. I'm not backing out, I just-"

"You what Arizona… I really can not wait to hear this! You aren't backing out you just are making an attempt at backing out to what, to see if you can?"

"Calliope stop… don't do this. I am trying to do this the right way Callie. You know get married, then have a family. I want a family with you so bad, just, I want to spend as much time as I can with just you. Ok? I mean look at my sister… she has Daniel, a gorgeous little boy, and I know that he wasn't planned but she has told me that she wishes she had done more to hold off because he interupts everything… she said her and Jackson literally kissed the other day and he started crying… I don't want our little moments interupted. I want to make sure we have time for our own moments." Arizona explained.

"I understand Arizona but I'm not asking to have a kid right now… I am asking for us to make an appointment with Addison. Like a meeting so we know what we need to do… it takes time Arizona and it takes us talking about it. I know you hate that but, that's what it takes, us talking it out." Callie said she had moved closer to Arizona and put a hand on her shoulder.

"Ok."

"OK? That's it?" Callie asked.

"Calliope, what do you expect me to say? Huh? I agree with what you just said… so I say Ok…" Arizona said she pulled away from Callies hand and stormed towards their bedroom, but when she got to the door she turned quickly, "You know what Calliope, you push and push with stuff, I am one person who really just got perfectly feeling great witht the fact that one day I am going to be a Mom… I am going to be responsible for someones whole life. The fact is, we haven't even met with anyone about what to do and I am freaking out, like, a lot. More than a normal person freaks out about babies and whatever. I want babies, I want a million of them, but you keep pushing and pushing and I freak out-"

"Arizona, please, calm down ok? I didn't realize I was pushing that hard. I just, I don't want you to back out."

"Calliope, I would have thought with me proposing you would see that I am in this for the long haul… not just for fun." Arizona looked almost hurt.

"I know, I know I just… I'm sorry ok? I really am." Callie said pulling Arizona into her. The two were seperated by a knock at the door. Callie went over to open the door while Arizona began to scoop out their take out onto plates. When Callie opened the door she was surprised to see Harper Avery standing outside in the hall.

"I… uh, am looking for a Dr. Arizona Robbins? I was told she lived her but I could have been-" He began but Callie stopped him.

"No, she's right here, come in Dr. Avery" Dr. Avery walked into their apartment and Arizona walked over to the older man.

"Hi, Dr. Avery, what can I do for you?" Arizona asked.

"I know you are Kate's sister and I need you to know that I didn't mean what I said about her earlier. I'm sure she told you, it's just, Jackson does irresponsible things and doesn't think twice about doing them and I am afraid this is one of those things. It is nothing against your sister."

"Ok, I'm going to stop you right there because Jackson, I know for a fact because he talked to me about it, ran this through his mind for weeks… he couldn't decided if he should or not, he told me that your family didn't approve and that he was worried Kate would say no… trust me he thought about it… but, Jackson and Kate are grown people with jobs and a son… Daniel may not be Jackson's son biologically, but he is physically. I know the way he looks at him, the way he hold him, it's a father's touch and he had been that way since day one. So you can come in here and be mad and think this is all Kate's fault, but they are adults who are capable of making their own decisions." Arizona nearly spat back at the veteran Dr.

Harper Avery stood there in shock, but he knew that Arizona was right.

"And if you are looking to say you are sorry to someone, Kate, Jackson, and Daniel live right down the hall on the left… go tell them. Not me." Arizona said and she walked around Harper to the door. She opened it and Harper Avery knew exactly what she meant. The two women watched as Dr. Avery walked out into the hall without looking back.

"Arizona, you are so not getting the Harper Avery Award…" Callie said and the two women laughed.