The Whole Clan Chapter 5
Christmas Eve 9:00 AM
Arizona and Kate were piled in Kate's car and were headed to pick up the parents. And Callie was in her car. They were happy that their parents had luckily booked flights that happened to be landing within thirty minutes of each other.
"Is it really bad that I am secretly dreading this?" Ariozna laughed and Daniel cackled from the back seat.
"No… no it's not. I am dreading it and it's just my parents coming up… I can only imagine how you and Callie feel. But I think that it can end up being fun." Kate said and Arizona stared at her.
"Do you hear yourself? It's our very open minded parents versus Callie's extremely traditional parents… it's going to be absolutely terrible." Arizona said sadly.
"Don't worry… I bought lots of alcohol." Kate glanced at her sister and Arizona laughed.
"Kate, I have a serious question…"
"Shoot." She said reading the directions as she pulled into the air port.
"If by some chance you are pregnant, what are you going to do?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, you have a baby and you are pregnant… what are you going to do?"
"Arizona, we can not talk like this… let's pretend I am not 7 days late, and let's pretend I am not pregnant… the end… I haven't even taken a test, I keep waiting for something to happen that never does."
"Kate, you have to tell Jackson. At least give him a heads up…" Arizona said.
"Arizona, I'm not going to add more stress to his already stressed week. It would be adding fuel to the fire and I'm not doing that, not until I have to." Kate said. She found a parking spot and pulled into it and shut off her car. She looked over at Arizona who was watching Callie pull into the spot next to her. "She wants kids now you know…"
"I know…" was all Arizona said as she opened the door and stepped out of the car.
Kate pulled the keys out of the ignition and stared at them. She then opened her own door and got out. She then opened the back door and got Daniel out of his car seat. She walked to te back of her car where Arizona had already gotten his stroller out and was watching Kate walk over with Daniel. She placed the now sleeping baby in the stroller and then covered him up.
"I'll push him" Arizona said as she took off in the direction of the front door of the airport. Kate glanced over at Callie who was watching Arizona.
"Come on…" Callie mumbled as she took off after her.
Kate stood and watched the two and then finally headed after them. Once inside the airport Arizona stopped to figure out where they needed to go next.
"Arizona, what is your deal?" Kate said walking up behind her with with Callie.
"I don't know what you are talking about." Arizona said not even looking at the two women behind her.
"Yeah ok… so who's flight is getting here first?" Kate asked looking around.
"Mine." Callie said looking up to see which gate they would be at. "We need to go to gate 12 which is…"
"Over there." Arizona said taking off in the direction of the gate. Kate and Callie followed her.
"What is wrong with you two?" Kate asked.
"She has been like this all morning… she's nervous about something. I can tell from the constant biting of her lip."
"Hmmm… I may know why she is nervous." Kate said. She made sure her voice was at a whisper so that Arizona wasn't able to hear her.
"Why?" Callie asked nervously.
"She was on the phone the other night with an Addison… I have no idea who that is, but-"
"Addison Montgomery?"
"Yeah, I guess… why?"
"She is my very good friend who just happens to be one of the best OB/GYNs on the west coast… possibly in Amer- oh my gosh…"
"What?" Kate asked, but before Callie could answer Arizona stopped and turned around to look at them.
"So do you guys wanna find somewhere to sit?" Arizona asked and Callie and Kate nodded. The three women found three empty seats and sat down. Kate checked on Daniel who was still sleeping.
"Arizona, what is wrong… and be honest." Callie asked putting her arm around Arizona.
"I'm tired Calliope… I'm tired and I am not mentally prepared for the wrath of parents coming, and I just… there is just a lot going on… can we please talk about this later?" Arizona said bringing a hand to her temple and slowly massaging it.
"It can't be so bad that you are basically silent and bite anyone's head off if they ask you a simple question."
"Calliope… please." Arizona begged and Callie pursed her lips together.
"Ok, whatever you say…"
Kate glanced over at them then back at Daniel. She rubbed his head, watching as each individual blond curl bounced with every touch.
"Ok you know what? Yeah I'm in a terrible mood… I don't want our families to come, I don't want you to be all stressed all weekend over what to cook, I have had hell week with 5 kids dying and having to tell multiple kids they are terminally ill and I hate airports." Arizona rambled on. "All of that while trying to make this Christmas, our first together-together, special… so yeah Callie I'm in a terrible mood…"
Kate stared at her sister and Callie and looked down at Daniel. She picked him up and walked over to look at the planes landing. She could tell that Arizona and Callie needed some space.
"Arizona I'm sorry… I just, I thought it was something I did."
"Of course not Calliope. You did nothing wrong. I am the one being a bitch. I love Christmas and if it wasn't for this past week I would be in a much better mood. It sucks watching kids die at anytime, but it's worse around Christmas." Arizona placed her hand on Callie's leg and gave it a gentle sqeeze. "I want to give you my present tonight… in private… if that's ok."
"Of course Arizona, that's fine. I will give you mine then too. I'm sorry I pushed you so hard about this, I was just so worried that I had done something to make you upset."
"No, no. You are perfect Calliope." Arizona leaned in and gave Callie a gentle kiss on the lips.
"What time is it?" Callie asked.
"They should be landing at any minute…" Arizona looked over at where the planes were landing and watched her sister as she rocked back and forth making sure Daniel stayed asleep. "I can't get over how grown up she is…" Callie snorted. "No Callie, you don't get it, she used to be wild, I'm talking coming home drunk at 16, having boyfriends when she was 15 who were 30, I'm talking… my sister was a nightmare… I can't believe she has turned around like she has. My parents were always calling me trying to get me to talk her out of whatever she was into that week. I could talk to her, but the only person who could talk her out of anything was Danny…"
"Wow… she's so well grounded now, I would never picture her to be like that."
"Oh, she's had piercings and the whole 9 yards…" Arizona laughed "I wish Daniel was a girl, secretly, sometimes because Kate needs some payback."
"You are ridiculously evil… you can't wish that on anyone!" Callie laughed nudging Arizona who was smiling. "Except, my mom did wish on me the same thing… but I was a good kid I thought."
"We all think we are good kids, and then we grow up and our parents make sure we know how awful we really were." Arizona smiles at her fiance. They watch as Kate walks back over to them.
As the three women sit at the air port they finally hear an anouncement coming over the intercom that Callie's parents flight was fixing to be coming into the gates.
"Ok, once they are here do you wanna wait thirty more minutes to see my parents or are you going to take your parents home?" Arizona asked.
"We can wait, it would only be fair." Callie said taking Arizona's hand. They both watched for Callie's parents as people began to funnel through the gates. Finally they spotted them walking towards them carrying their carry ons. Both Callie and Arizona stood leaving Kate in her seat tending to a newly awake Daniel.
"Mom! Dad!" Callie called as the four of them walked toward each other.
"Calliope!" Maria Torres began walking faster towards her daughter and Arizona. "How is my daughter doing? Hello Arizona. How are you?"
"I'm doing fine Maria. I hope your flight wasn't too long." Arizona said hugging the older woman.
"Oh, no… it was just fine." Maria smiled at Arizona and walked over to luggage claim where Carlos Torres, Callie's father, had gone straight to after they got off the plain. Arizona and Callie looked at one another and Callie sighed.
"This is going to be one long Christmas…" Arizona smiled and leaned into Callie capturing her lips in a soft kiss.