A/N I HAD TO THROW ERICA IN BECAUSE I WANTED TO SEE "THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST" GET HER BUTT KICKED ARIZONA ROBBINS STYLE. THIS IS PART ONE.
MEETING THE MOTHER OF ALL MOTHERS
As Callie was cleaning up from the mess she made while eating her comfort food. Miranda was parking and walking into the airport to wait on the Torres family. It didn't take her long to see them, for she had seen Carlos Torres on several different occasions. The last one was the whole fiasco with the priest, he made himself known that day for sure. When she waived to them, he smiled and waived back. "Ahh Miranda its nice to see you again. Where is this daughter of mine?" Carlos asked while giving her a hug.
"Waiting and resting at home on Dr's orders I hope. I'm still not letting her get to active to soon."
"Yes that is something she always did. She pushes herself to the limit, and then she remembers she's not a superhero. She's human. Oh Dr. Bailey this is my wonderful wife Lucile, and this young lady is my Calliope's little sister, Aria."
Miranda greeted the both of them, and glancing at how pale Callie's mom seemed to be she asked,
"Carlos did your wife do okay on the flight, she seems pale to me."
"That's because mama isn't even supposed to be flying, or that's what her doctor told her last week." Aria answered,
As Lucile countered, "That was last week, when my daughter was still in the hospital herself. Now she's home with a baby and she has a baby that needs to be taken care of. Plus I want to meet this person, before I even approve her getting married to anyone again." Lucile stopped to try and catch her breath, and was realizing that it was getting more difficult to do so. Miranda automatically went into doctor mode, as Carlos was flagging down security for there assistance, Aria reached for cell phone and called her mother's cardio-thoracic surgeon in Miami.
"Hello, Oh thank god I caught you." Aria rushed out as the doctor answered on the second ring.
"Aria, why did you just thank god for catching me? What did your mother do this time."
"Well she kind of convinced my dad that she was able to fly." Aria confessed into the phone.
"Wait are you guys still at Miami International? I can get an ambulance there fast."
"Well we aren't in Miami right now."
"Aria Torres please tell me that your family isn't in some place exotic."
"No. What other place in the world is more exotic than Miami or Cuba? No we are all in Seattle. There is a doctor with us, its not my sister, but she seems to be a good doctor."
The person on the other end stifled a groan, and then she pulled herself together.
"I know how stubborn your mom is, so it looks like I will be joining your family excursion soon. Now put this doctor who is attending to my patient right now on the phone." Aria did as the doctor on the phone requested and handed Dr Bailey her phone.
"Hello?" Miranda barked into the phone.
"Dr Bailey? Is that you."
"Yes now are you going to tell me who you are, and how to treat this woman when she gets to Seattle Grace Mercy West? I don't really have time to play 20 questions right now." she said into the phone as the paramedics were getting Lucile ready for transport, " Here my car is the crème colored SUV in the short term parking lot. You can see it from here, you can stay behind us if you want to, but don't worry about getting lost, I have a built in GPS just say Seattle Grace and it will take you straight there. Carlos let me call Callie to let her know, because we both know she is going to panic."
"Dr Bailey this is Dr Erica Hahn, I know that I'm the last person you would think would be the cardio-thoracic surgeon, to a Torres but I am the best in what I do. Who is the current attending in Cardio-thoracic at the hospital?" Dr Hahn asked, curious to see who Cristina hadn't gotten rid of yet.
"Its Teddy Altman, she is a war veteran and she is excellent at her job."
"I'm faxing her records over to Seattle Grace right now C/O Teddy Altman and you. Keep me updated, or have Aria do it. What are they all doing in Seattle anyways? I heard my patient talking about some sort of wedding but Miami is a prettier place for Aria to get married rather than Seattle." she said her voice filled with distain.
"They aren't here because of Aria getting married. Callie is getting married. You mean to tell me that you have a patient with the last name of Torres in Miami FL and you didn't even think to ask if they were related to Callie?" Miranda asked in disbelief then she added after not getting a response. "I'm getting off with you now, we are here. I'll update you when I can. Also am I going to need to talk to the chief about getting you some privileges if your patient asks for you?" Miranda asked.
"If you would it will be great." Dr Bailey climbed off the ambulance right behind the paramedic. The doctors in the bay were surprised to see Dr Bailey in on her day off and that she was with a patient.
"Listen up folks, we will be treating this patient as a V.I.P., she is Lucile Torres, no Callie doesn't know her mom had a rough time of it on her flight here. Please page all three of them stat."
"But Miranda they are all on maternity leave," the chief started to say, but catching the look Dr Bailey was shooting him, he personally paged all three of them to his office stat. He even backed that page up by calling Mark and Callie's apartments personally.
"Dr Robbins? Yes I paged all three of you to my office stat. You and Sloan need to bring Torres to my office straight away. Have Sloan bring along the port-a-crib if he needs to. I will send for an apnea monitor to be brought down form the NICU. Bring whoever and whatever Army you want, just get here, and come through the main lobby."
"Mom, dad, we all need to get up to the hospital right now. I don't know exactly why, but I do know that all three of us got stat pages to Chief Webber's office. It seems that he needs us to bring her to his office right away. Mark grab the port-a-crib, we all are obviously going to be up there for a while." "I thought that we were all on maternity leave together? Why are we being stat paged to Webber's office anyways? Miranda should be here soon with my family." Callie said pouting as she pulled on her shoes. Barbara had gotten the baby into her carrier without waking her up. Mark had the port-a-crib and The Colonel had the diaper bag hanging off of his shoulder as they all walked up to the hospital. Mark lead them all through the main lobby, and all the way to the Chief's office. They were surprised to see that Carlos and Aria were also waiting in there.
The Chief looked up as his three doctors and their newest addition walked in with two extra adults. The Chief was startled when the older gentleman extended his hand and stated, "She wouldn't be bringing anyone in the Army, but she will surely be bringing a Marine. If that's ok with you Chief."
"You're a Marine? Its nice to meet you, I can see where she gets her fierce determination from now. You surely raised her well Sir."
"Dad? Aria? What are you two doing in the Chief's office? Where's Mama?" Callie questioned. Seeing that she wasn't getting an answer she looked over at Chief Webber and asked in a tone laced with panic, "Chief where is my mom? What happened to her?"
"Dr. Bailey is with her right now, and that's all I know for now." The chief answered, again Callie looked over at her sister, and seeing Aria's guilty expression she said, "Aria you have to the count of five to tell me what happened to her."
"Don't do the whole five count, I'll tell you. She was on doctor's orders not to fly, but when she found out that you were out of the hospital. She wanted to see you and the baby, to make sure that you two were settled and stuff like that."
"Why was she grounded from flying, and what happened on the flight, that made Miranda bring her straight here instead of the apartment." Callie asked her sister while pacing.
"She was starting to get short of breath, so they gave her some oxygen while we were at 30,000 ft. She refused for paramedics to meet the plane. Thank God they were still on airport property when the airport security called them." Aria explained watching her sister's every move.
Arizona and her parents all felt the tension in the room building with every step Callie made. Arizona stepped up to Callie and stopped the pacing, she then guided her over to the couch, and sat her down.
"Your mom is going to be okay. Miranda will be coming with an update soon. Relax, Mark can you go get us all some of Seattle's Best coffee please? My mom takes it like I do, my dad is pure black." Arizona asked him.
"So three sugar and spice and everything nice, and two black, anyone else?" Mark answered.
"Mark I will take a Pepsi instead of a coffee, and I wish I knew where I could eat at. Aria you want anything?" Carlos said.
"Don't worry about finding a great place to eat, I'll run to get the pizzas when I finish delivering the coffees, and Pepsi." Mark said walking out of the Chief's office.
Aria didn't appear to hear the question as she was watching her sister sitting with her head on Arizona's shoulder.
"Dad since you seem to know who she is, can you clue me in please. Also who are they, I heard him mention to the Chief that he was a Marine." Aria said softly to her dad.
"Arizona, have you met Aria yet?" Carlos asked her walking Aria over to the couple.
"No, I haven't yet. Hi your sister has told me a lot about you. I'm Arizona Robbins." Arizona stated holding out her hand for a handshake. Aria shook the given hand, and said, "Well dad told us about the two of you, obviously. However, when mom found out that Callie was pregnant she was overjoyed. She said that her daughter had finally come to her senses. I don't know how she is going to react to you two still being together, but I know that you love her, and I know that she loves you very much. There aren't many people who can stop a ranting pace like that without getting hit. I know I've tried. You're the first one to ever completely stop it from happening." Aria said in awe of the young woman.
"As for the other two people in the room, they are my parents. Colonel Daniel Robbins and his wife Barbara." Arizona explained to Aria. Then she looked at her parents and said, "Mom, dad this is Carlos Torres and Callie's younger sister Aria. That is who you are right?" Arizona said with a dimpled smile which broke some of the tension in the room. Mark walked into the room with seven coffees and one 20 ounce Pepsi. He gave the coffees to the ones who had ordered some, but then surprised Aria by placing a warm cup in front of her.
"I figured you wouldn't want to be the only one in here without something to drink. I was thinking that the chief wanted a coffee also, seeing that he's hosting us in his office for the time being. Chief, do you want any pizza?"
"Yes, I would like some, but its to late for them to deliver tonight."
"Don't worry I'm on a pizza run, we have some at the house. Colonel can I bring what's left of the combination?"
"Sure there is enough for it to still go around." The Colonel answered. When he heard that Mark turned back around and walked out of the hospital headed for the apartment.
Shortly after Mark left, Dr Bailey and Teddy both walked into the room. They were hit with questions from every occupant in the room.
"How is she Miranda?" came from the Chief, Arizona and Callie.
"Is she doing good?" came from The Colonel and Barbara
"Is she still alive?" came from Aria and Carlos.
"She's stable for now, she didn't exercise a whole lot on the flight and ended up with a blood clot. She had a panic attack when she was up on the plane, that's why she refused the ambulance to meet the plane. She realized that it the second it was over. She didn't think that she needed to continually walk during her flight. She started hurting as the plane was descending, but didn't want to tell you all. She didn't want you to worry about her. As you three were all walking to the baggage claim the pain got ten times worse. Which is why she was so short of breath." Miranda stated.
" She was stressing out when she got here, so we had to sedate her. She is sleeping right now, and we need to run some more tests on her tomorrow to see if the flight hurt her in anyway. Callie do you want to see your mom. You and your family can follow me, and I'll take you straight there." Teddy said compassionately guiding the ortho god out of the Chief's office.
"Arizona I need you to wait here for Mark, plus we need someone to keep an eye on her." Miranda stated pointing at the sleeping infant. "When he gets here, you can join them." Miranda said as Arizona and company went to follow suit. Callie turned around and nodded, knowing that she would join her soon. As soon as the door was closed on the Torres family, Arizona turned to face Miranda and everyone in that room knew that the look that Dr Bailey was getting was a look she was used to giving herself. The Colonel and his wife noticed the look that their daughter was giving and they turned their heads to hide the smiles that they had.
"Why do I have to wait on Mark? Bailey what is going on here?" Arizona asked sitting down next to the pack and play. Miranda thought about answering, but decided to wait until Mark arrived. It would be easiest to break the news all at once. She surely didn't want to repeat this more than once.
"Chief I need to make a request to you, the patient is insisting on her own personal physician come to Seattle to treat her, with Dr Altman's assistants of course." Dr Bailey started, and was interrupted by an irritated Arizona,
"Miranda why are you ignoring me, why do I have to wait on Sloan, and why couldn't I follow her. She needs me right now."
"Arizona you were just about to find out, hang in here for a few minutes and I will explain why you have to wait for Sloan. Oh here he is now."
"Did I just hear my surname? What is going on, where are the Torres's?" Mark asked confused. Miranda rolled her eyes in annoyance for being interrupted yet again, but she let it drop. She knew that these two were going to need to be there for Callie, and for each other. As soon as Erica showed back up to this hospital.
"As I was saying Chief, you need to be able to grant Mrs. Torres's physician the requirements for her to be able to treat her patient here. Now I must say that I was surprised to see how misguided this specific Dr could be, but that's not the point. The point is we need to keep Callie away from this hospital during the times that her mother's personal doctor is tending to her." Bailey stated nervously.
"Bailey its not like you to talk in circles, so can you please enlighten us all who I need to allow services at my hospital." The Chief asked irritably, he was starting to see that Mark and Arizona both had some sort of idea who Miranda might be talking about, and they both hoped not, but they had started preparing themselves for what Bailey had to say next.
"Ok Chief," Bailey said taking a deep breath and blowing it out slowly, "Callie's mothers doctor is Erica Hahn. That is who you need to give privileges to while she is at this hospital." Both Mark and Arizona both gasped aloud, as the colonel stated,
"Wait is this the same Erica that basically abandoned Callie in the hospital parking lot, and her life because she was defending this hospital?"
"Yes Mr. Robbins it's the very same one." Miranda explained wearily.
"What! How on Gods green earth did that happen? When she got a patient with the same last name she didn't think to ask if they were directly related to Callie?" The Chief stated exasperatedly.
"I asked her the same thing Chief, but I got no answer. Maybe she thought that Mrs. Torres was a distant relative? I don't know how her mind works and for that I'm grateful. Several people around here are going to be very upset when she arrives, but we can't refuse a patients right to her doctor either, even if it is Dr Hahn." Miranda stated then she saw the look that the older military type gentleman was giving her.
"Its Colonel Robbins, not Mr., so what are we going to do now? How do we break this to her that wont send her into a weird mood right before the wedding?"
"I'm not sure yet, but just let me and Arizona put our heads together to see if we can figure it out." Mark stated but then he caught the look that the Colonel was shooting him. He added quickly,
"We might need to use some distracting strategies from you though sir. This is going to be a big operation. All of our friends work here at this hospital," the colonel nodded his head as if saying that is his area of expertise.
"Okay; Arizona I will be the one to tell Lexie. I will ask her to spread the news to Meredith, who will then tell it to Cristina, Derek, April, and Jackson. Arizona I want you to be the one to break the news to Alex, since he's been there for you throughout all of this stuff. He might need a heads up on what he might need to be a brotherly type again. I'm going to page both of them right now. Is that okay with you Chief?" Mark stated. The Chief said,
"Of course, go page them and have them page the both of them here stat." Arizona nodded her head in agreement to everything Mark was saying. Then started to explain who her parents who they all were.
"Ok, Lexie is the type who can't keep a secret to save her life. If you saw Lexie stuffing her face it meant either Mark and Derek still weren't talking to each other, or she has this huge secret she is trying to keep. So if Mark goes and tells Lexie, Lexie will tell her half-sister Meredith, who will then tell her husband or her person. Depending on which one she finds first. Lexie will then tell her current boyfriend, Jackson, who will tell April, who will inform the other residents not in our circle, and they will then tell their respective interns. Wait, what are we going to do if she does find out that she's here? You know how much the nurses like to gossip." Arizona finished looking worried.
"We will deal with that when it happens. Now Chief what can I tell Aria to tell Dr Hahn?" Dr Bailey asked.
"Tell her that she has her privileges but I will be overseeing her supervision while she is back in my hospital." The Chief answered. Miranda nodded and then went in search of Aria Torres's cell phone. As she exited the room, she accidentally shut the door a bit hard. The sound of the slammed door startled awake the young infant in the room.
The Colonel and his wife were please to see what happened next. Arizona reached over and picked up the baby holding her close, seeing if she had a dirty diaper at first, then she glanced at the clock on the wall above the chief's awards.
"Yep, now Mommy doesn't have to be mean to your Aunt Miranda for startling you awake. She woke you a bit early, but only by about fifteen minutes. Dad can you hand me the diaper bag?" Her father had forgotten he was still wearing it, as he handed it over to her. She pulled a clean bottle out and opened the formula and scooped about three ounces into the bottle.
"Dad, can you please go down to the cafeteria and ask them for a to go cup of warm water. Its right near the lobby doors we came in." Her dad smiled, then he straightened up, and went out the door. As he was walking down the hall towards the elevators, he passed Mark as he went back in the Chief's office. As the elevator doors opened, the two residents stopped short, as they saw a man who looked like he was on orders by the President of The United States had just sent him on a very important mission. He nodded at them both as he moved passed them and stepped on the elevator.
"Arizona why did you send your dad to get warm water?" The Chief asked curiously.
"Because I didn't feel like freaking out Alex and Lexie anymore than we already are. I hope now you can see why I have my issues with authority figures. He's tough." She stopped when there was a tentative knock at the door.
"Come in." Alex and Lexie both entered the Chief's office, looking a bit perplexed, because of all the people already inside. Arizona could see the confusion written all over both of there faces. They approached the Chief's desk, and stated,
"You paged us Chief?" in unison.
"Yes I had Dr Sloan page you both here. Please get comfortable, because you two are going to be instrumental in the crisis that our VIP patient has now imposed on our hospital." As Alex and Lexie were getting themselves comfortable; they were both again startled to see the man they saw at the elevator walk in several minutes later.
"Hello again you two; here you go Arizona. Its lukewarm and everything. Can I hold her while you make that up?" he asked.
"Sure dad, I think that she would like to be held by her Grandpa Dan or are you wanting to be called The Colonel?" Arizona could tell that Lexie and Alex were more confused now than they were when they first stepped onto the elevators. They looked between Arizona and her dad, and the other woman in the room, and waited for someone to say something. Arizona added the water to the formula and shook it up, and after testing if the bottle was just right; she nodded to her father so he could hand her back her daughter. Then as she started feeding her daughter she said,
"Lexie, Alex please meet my parents. The Colonel and my mom Barbara. They flew in to help put the finishing touches on the wedding."
"Is that why we were paged here? So we could meet your parents?" Lexie asked.
"That's part of the reason, the other part is Erica Hahn will be back here soon." Mark said solemnly.
"Wait, what are you talking about! Why is 'The Wicked Witch of The West' bracing herself with her presents again!" Alex exclaimed. "She is the doctor to our very own VIP. Callie's mother is requesting her to come to Seattle and help in her treatment." The Chief explained.
"Are you telling me that Erica Hahn went from Seattle to Miami, and she was treating a patient with the last name of Torres but didn't make the connection?" Lexie stated.
" That question has come up several times in the last six hours. Lexie I need you to get the ball rolling. Tell Meredith, and Jackson; he will probably tell April.
We all know that Mere will tell Derek and Cristina. Alex you are going to need to channel the way you were nice to me, right after the accident, and put it to good use. Can you do that?" Lexie nodded, and Alex replied,
"Yeah sure, Cristina is going to have a cow. Erica made her life a living hell. This will be a first for me, thank goodness that Izzie isn't here anymore." Arizona's dad sent him an odd look with that, like he wanted to know what the last sentence meant.
"Okay, now that this little powwow is over, I need to go see my fiancée before she starts to get worried." Arizona said, handing over to Mark his daughter.
"I have one more question, are you going to tell her that she's coming?"
"I'm still trying to figure that out, well cross that bridge when it happens." she said. With that said she left the room in search for her precious Calliope. She found her in the cardio wing, sitting vigil with her mom alone. She quietly tiptoed in to the room, she could see that Callie was crying so she placed a hand on Callie's shoulder. Callie looked up and smiled lovingly at her fiancée.
"Dad and Aria went in search of Dr Bailey, she supposedly has my sister's phone. Aria handed it to her via my mom's doctor's request." Callie sniffled, "I didn't even know she was sick, why did she tell them not to tell me? Dad told me that it was a 75% blockage in three different arteries. She had a triple bypass and I wasn't even told about it."
"Hey she loves you, she didn't want you to worry I'm not saying she was right in doing it." Arizona stated.
"Your right I guess I'm just tired and scared. Lets go find my family so we can figure out where they are staying. Where are your parents at?"
"They are still in the Chief's office. Lets go check the attending lounge. Maybe Miranda is in there. If she isn't there well page her. Then we got to get you home, this has been a very long day for you, emotionally. Did the nap you took help any?"
"It did, some. I woke up freaking out because it was after 5. Mark heard me screaming; he rushed right over to see what was wrong with me, and that's when he pointed to my phone and I saw the text messages. I thought that I made you late in picking them up," then Callie chuckled lightly, thinking about what Mark had said about her meeting the O'Malley boys.
They opened the door to the lounge and seeing she wasn't there, they walked up to the nurses desk and paged her. While they were waiting for her to respond to the page, Callie asked still chuckling, "Hey baby, what made you think that the O'Malley boys were related to Mark?"
"I don't know, but they looked like they were lost of words when I answered the door in one of your sleep shirts. I was thinking it was Mark, he promised me a cup of coffee. Instead its those two, Mark responded to my knock since I knocked on his door at the same time he was opening it. I remember asking him, if they were friends of his. He was like yeah, they obviously didn't believe there mom when she told them that you were in the hospital recovering from injuries sustained in a bad accident. Mark told me that they were here on a mission from Mrs. O'Malley and Dr Bailey. I went and finished painting the nursery with my coffee in hand. After I was done, I hopped in the shower and went back over to Mark's to see if I could help with whatever the mission was. They were a little bit more relaxed around me now that they knew who I actually was. They didn't know what to think when I opened the door, but Mark explained who I was and they were ok with it now. I still wonder how George O'Malley was able to survive with those two." Arizona explained.
"You two paged me? Your sister and father are waiting for you in the Chiefs office, your sister has her phone back, she said she was missing playing Angry Birds whatever that is. I suggest we all walk down there, so I can take your families to there hotel. Callie your dad has both families set up at the Archfield. Carlos thought that it be easier that way. Also there are rooms opening up for other family members who will be arriving in the next few days. Arizona, Mark already retrieved your parents luggage from the car, so you don't have to worry about getting them there clothes to them. The hotel has already selected two rental vehicles that will be ready for them tomorrow. Go on in Cal I want to talk to Arizona for a minute," Miranda said.
"The Chief gave me the day off tomorrow, I need to be there when you tell her, he told me to tell you that. It will hit the fan if she finds out by herself, you and I both know that. You two complete each other, and Erica Hahn isn't going to get in the way. Mark is no longer on Maternity Leave as of now. Chief Webber is going to need a second pair of eyes and Mark volunteered. Lexie is already on her mission, and Alex is going already channeling caring abilities. What time do you want me to come over?"
"10 am sounds good, what time is she arriving?"
"7 pm tomorrow night. Carlos already has a hotel room and a car set up for her too. Do you want Cristina at the meeting tomorrow? She has asked me if she could be there for support, seeing that Callie is one of her two best friends."
"Yeah sure that's fine. What are we going to do, with Sophia I mean, Mark needs to have some time with his daughter too."
"On the days that Mark needs to bring her to the hospital with him I've made sure he will have no surgeries that day. Just consults, or paperwork; the Chief and I have already worked that out. Don't worry about it. Now lets get this show on the road." Miranda finished as the group all filed out of the Chief's office.
The group got a lot of looks, as they all were walking towards the exit. Callie, was too tired to notice though, Arizona, Mark and Bailey all recognized it. They all wanted to make a comment on the looks, but decided against it for the moment. Bailey made sure that they were all properly seated, and buckled before she left the parking lot. Callie looked at Arizona and Mark, and then announced,
"I'm exhausted. Lets go home." They could tell how drained she was, as the four of them walked home. During the time that Arizona and Callie were searching out for Miranda; Mark had gone to get the luggage and the Baby Bjorn. He enjoyed carrying his daughter that way, rather than the carrier. When they arrived on the fifth floor, Mark kissed his sleeping angel as he passed her onto her mothers.
"Goodnight ladies. See you three tomorrow." Mark said as they all went to there respective apartments. Callie and Arizona, were both exhausted, so as soon as they laid Sophia down in her crib; they went to get ready for bed themselves.
As soon as they were dressed for bed, they fell on to it snuggling each other close. The two of them just laid there and thought about the things they had done that day. Callie looked over at Arizona, and smiled, and she returned the smile to her Calliope. "I love you Calliope. I wish I had a camera on me earlier, you looked at Mark like he was a two headed monster this morning."
Callie chuckled, then whispers, "I wish I had one too, coffee coming out of that cute little nose," Callie sighed and pulled Arizona closer, before she continued, "I wonder how my mom is going to react to us. The whole 'came to her senses' comment is rubbing me the wrong way. My dad took a little while to handle us, I don't think that my mom is even aware that she's here because I'm wanting to spend the rest of our lives with you."
"I'm hoping she has changed her mind on you being a lesbian, because I'm not going anywhere. You and Sophia are my family. Goodnight my sweet." Arizona whispered back.
As Arizona felt Callie fall asleep snuggled up close to her, she sighed, 'How is she going to react to Erica being back here? I'm her strong man in the storm, I protect the things that I love, if she says something to my Calliope that is wrong in anyway, I will literally hit her with a brick. I need to stop thinking about this or I won't be able to sleep. I need my rest too. She is going to be fine, because I am going to be there for her. When that thought went through her head, she felt herself start to relax. She knew in her heart that Erica showing up in Seattle was going to be a shock, but that they would be able to handle it together. She fell asleep feeling a little more content than she did when she laid down. The next time she woke up, she was pleasantly surprised to see that there was an extra person in the bed with them.
"Hey, how long has she been up?"
"Not long, she woke up hungry, and I didn't want to be away from you for to long, so I decided to feed her in here, so I could get away with watching you sleep," she replied as she leaned down and gave Arizona her morning kiss.
"Huh, I guess I can be able to use on you someday."
"Yeah I guess so." Callie chuckled.
"What time is it?" Arizona asked.
"Its almost 9:30. Why do you ask?"
"Miranda has the day off today, she is coming over at 10, so we can talk to you about something." Arizona answered.
"Who is we? Isn't it going to be just you and Miranda? Who else is coming over?" Callie asked, as there was a sudden knock on the door.
"I'm taking that we are about to find out. You stay here with her and I'll get the door. Then we can both start on breakfast."
Arizona stated as she reached for her yoga pants and John Hopkins oversized tee shirt, or as she calls it her comfort clothes.
As she exited the bedroom, and made a bee lie to the door she had some idea on who was raising hell. When she opened the door, she wasn't surprised to be face to face with Cristina Yang.
"Does she know yet? What are we going to do about this whole situation?" Cristina demanded as soon as Arizona answered.
" No she doesn't know yet. I'm on orders by the Chief to wait until Miranda shows up. So please keep your voice down." Arizona stated to Cristina in a low voice, Cristina was surprised to see the eyes that were pleading her to not mention anything about Erica when Callie emerged from the bedroom with Sophia in her arms.
"Who are asking about out here Cristina?" Callie asked,
"If you are looking for Aria she's staying at the hotel that I lived in while I was married to George. Also she and I are working out my feelings on when the whole family turned there back on me."
" That's a good thing you two working it out, I mean. The other reason I'm here is I wanted to see her. Hello my featherless chicken, how are you this morning." Yang said cooing at her goddaughter as she took her from Callie's arms.
"Why do you allow her to call her that?" Arizona said to Callie with a chuckle in her voice.
"It's how she described her to me when I was recovering. When I really wanted to see her, she told me, ' you want to wait, right now she's nothing but tubes and wires, she looks like a featherless beakless chicken, you want to wait until she's cuter.'" As Callie finished there was another knock at the door.
Arizona went to answer it, as Callie finished mixing the eggs, and then she poured them into the awaiting pan. Arizona walked back into the kitchen with Miranda in tow, as Cristina finished the conversation.
"That's when she came back with I'm the worst godmother ever, and I was like you picked me. Hey Callie, does Arizona know about the great escape?" Cristina asked mischievously.
"What great escape? The one where all you residents decided to hook her up to the portable monitors so she could go see her daughter for the first time. Yes she knows, and so did I; Cristina did you really think that Avery asking me about my day wouldn't of raised flags, but since there was a 6 inch glass in between them, I knew that it wouldn't do her any harm. I mean seriously come on now." Miranda answered briskly.
"So not that I mind the company, but what are the two of you doing here at 10 in the morning. Don't you both have to work?" Callie asked.
"Not really. I have a late surgery today, so I wanted to come see her." Cristina stated glancing at the infant in her arms. Callie shot Cristina a look, that stated that she wasn't convinced, but at that point the eggs were finished, so she served up the eggs. As Miranda, Arizona and Callie all started to dig in, Cristina put down Sophia down in her pack-in-play and also began to eat. The four of them ate breakfast in silence, but Callie could see that all of the other women at the table were tense.
"So who wants to tell me what is going on, because you all are looking like you all are going to get heartburn later on, I don't use chili powder in my breakfast food." Callie said jokingly. She wasn't sure the joke went off well, because all she got was sad smiles.
"Calliope they are here for a reason, because the Chief knew that I would not be sure how to tell you, so bear with us. We are pleased that you have made so much process in the last three months, but there is something about your mom's doctor that you need to know." Arizona stated. There was a knock at the door for a third time that morning, and this time Bailey went to answer it.
"Good morning Colonel, Mrs. Robbins. How well did you sleep?" Miranda said as she greeted them.
"Well enough for a 4 star hotel. I think I could get used to that. Does Callie know anything yet?" Barbara asked.
"Not yet. I think she's about to come to the conclusion on her own. You arrived just in time." As Barbara, Bailey and The Colonel walk back in the room they hear Callie say,
"What about her doctor do I need to know? Come on, its not like her doctor is Erica or anything," Callie interjected, seeing the look of shock come across all there faces, she stopped.
"Wait who told her, because I hadn't had the chance." Arizona stated while looking at Cristina with the wait-until-I-find-a-brick look on her face.
"Whoa I didn't tell her anything, I swear!" Cristina stated defensively.
"Wait I was kidding, but by the looks I'm getting; that wasn't a joke. Erica is really coming back to Seattle? When, is she coming? Wait are you three actually saying that Erica Hahn is my mom's cardio thoracic surgeon. What the hell is she doing operating on my mom, much less treating her! Obviously she didn't fill out the family work paperwork properly, or Erica would of noticed that I was her daughter. Hang on a minute," Callie paused her rant, and raced out of the room in search for her cell phone, she brought it back into the room, as she got her sister on the phone she put it on speaker and placed the phone down on the table.
"Aria, were you with mama when she started to feel ill? Did you see her fill out the paperwork, for the whole family information part?"
"Yes I was; why are you asking?"
"When she filled it out, did she mention that she had me as a daughter?"
"No, she didn't, but that was shortly after the whole you are now a lesbian, I don't understand what is with all these questions?"
"Well Aria, the doctor who cut opened up my mother's chest was my first ex-girlfriend, Erica Hahn. Did she say anything to you both when she heard about a wedding here in Seattle?"
"Wait Erica is your ex? This is starting to make some sense, when we mentioned a wedding, she was totally against one being up here in Seattle. She said that she despises Seattle more than any place in the Continental US. She was seriously convincing the wedding to be held in Miami. We didn't know why she was so adamant." Aria stated.
"Is she coming to Seattle?" Callie asked seething.
"Yes Callie, that's why we are here. Right now she's flying over Alabama, her flight left an hour ago. I talked to your father this morning and found out when she was taking off. She'll be here in about 7 hrs." Miranda answered her.
"Dr Bailey, is that you? Callie do you have me on speaker?"
"Yes I do, I saw that Arizona, Bailey and Yang were tense and you know as well as everyone, that eggs and chorizo you can't be too tense because it will give you heartburn. So imagine to my horror, that when they all sit me down to tell me about our mom's doctor, is the woman who walked out of my life without even a proper good-bye. Do you know what its like to be celibate, when everyone around you has a sex life?" Callie screamed hysterically into the phone.
Mark had been overhearing the whole conversation, for he had Sophia at his place since 8 am. Callie had gotten up to feed her, and Mark came over to see if he could help in anyway. As soon as Sophia was finished eating, she didn't seem like she was sleepy so Callie gave her to Mark to watch for a few hours. So when Callie started screaming hysterically; Mark who was in the middle of feeding her ran over to the apartment across the hall. He was happy to see The Colonel and Barbara there as he opened the door, for he handed Barbara her granddaughter. Out of all the people staring at Callie only four had seen her go off this bad. Mark, Cristina and Bailey, were in the OR with the homeless guy, whose new leg bones she has built from titanium. He ended up dying as she was implanting them from other injuries instead. Arizona had watched her breakdown from the gallery. She knew now that Erica leaving was part of that, and she also knew that the only one who could help her through it was Mark. He had been there for her that day, and she was silently relieved to see that he was here for her now.
"Callie there is nothing to be screaming about. What's done is done. Calm down please!" Mark demanded as he grabbed his best friend by the shoulders. She went from screaming hysterically to crying. Mark and Arizona shared a look, and The Colonel was surprised to see Mark back off and Arizona step up, with a simple nod of the head. He was actually starting to have a little bit of respect for Mark Sloan, but he would keep that to himself for the time being. Callie sensed Arizona was there through her tears, and she reached for her. Arizona was helping her calm down when there was a knock at the door. Mark walked to the door and opened it to find Aria standing there. She still had her phone in her hand, it was shut though, and look on her face that was a cross between fear and sadness with a hint of anger in her eyes.
"I need to talk to my sister." Aria stated.