Hello everyone! I am so so so so very sorry about such a late update. I will offer no excuses! just apologies!

Callie's POV

I can't believe it has already been half a year since I enlisted. I was to go on tour to Afghanistan next week. After juggling my job at Seattle Grace and basic army training. I was ready.

My parents did everything they could to convince me to change my mind but I was ready for them too. We sat down and talked about it all night. By the end of my visit, they were supportive and already eager for the end of my tour. It was going to be a tough year. 12 months running around to where I was needed.

I made sure to spend more time with Owen in the hospital to gain more experience in the trauma field. It was Owen who got Cristina to be more supportive of my decision, she didn't say it to my face, but I knew she still felt uncomfortable with it. I knew my roommate better than she thought I did.

On the other hand Mark tried to be cheery. The cheer may have been forced, but he was as proud as my father was of me, he was always telling everyone I was practising my godliness just a little farther away and that my badass attitude would be back at Seattle Grace before they knew it. But there was something else that I hadn't told anybody.

I hadn't told anybody that Chief Webber had sat me down one afternoon. He had looked tired and I could tell he was finding it difficult to say what he was about to tell me.

He took a deep breath before he started and crossed his arms before me, "Dr Torres." He started, and then took another deep breath, "I'm afraid I cannot guarantee that your job will be here when you get back."

I knew it was coming. I was prepared for it to happen.

"Yes sir."

"I'm more than sad to see one of the best ortho surgeons I have ever come across leave my hospital. So you better come back alive Torres."

I stood up and shook his hand firmly, "I plan on doing that Sir. Thank you."

Arizona's POV

"And this is where I hang out most of the time." I point to the attending's lounge. "Filling up paperwork or updating charts. That sort of thing."

"I see." My father gruffly replies.

I can see the approval and pride in his eyes even though he refuses to let it show in his voice.

"Not that I want you gone so quickly Daddy, but how long are you here for?" I stand on my tippy toes as I nervously ask him.

"Just a couple of days. Your mother wanted me to check on you. So where's Callie?"

Ahh there's the father I know and love. Straight to the point.

"She should be in the hospital. Somewhere?"

"Should be? You should know. Don't you two live with each other?"

I was just about to answer when an intern and said person came into hearing distance.

"Handle Mr. Kay's post ops and let me know if there's any changes." Charts switch hands and the click of a pen is heard.

"Right away Dr Torres." The intern shuffles off leaving Callie on her own.

Before I can stop him he walks right to Callie. Damn my father walks fast!

"You Callie Torres?"

She shifts a little uncomfortably and places the pen in her coat pocket.

"Yes Sir. And you are?" Her eyebrows fold together in the most adorable way before my father spreads out his arms to welcome her into the Robbins famous bear hug.

"Come here and give this old man a hug!"

An audible 'Ooff' is heard from Callie as my father gave her a bone-crushing hug.

I see her look at me, expecting an explanation. I mouth to her, "My dad!"

She mouths back, "You didn't tell him?"

Before I get a chance to reply, the hug is over and he wraps the two of us in another bone-crushing Robbins hug.

"Gotta be my lucky day ey? I get to spend time with my two favourite girls in Seattle!"

I give him a big toothy grin and pray that Calliope will tag along.

She gives a big smile when he turns to her and I feel a little teeny bit of relief.

I haven't told my parents about the break up because I know they will be super disappointed to find that their daughter didn't want kids.

None of her previous relationships had gone as far as this so her parents wouldn't have known about her not wanting to have kids.

They barely make ten steps when April stops right in front of them and scoops Arizona away for an emergency surgery. She gives her dad a quick hug and suggests going back to her apartment.

"I'm already here! I'll just spend time getting to know Callie while you're gone. Go on then. Get going already!"

He turns around to face Callie and I give her an apologetic smile, again hoping that she will play along.

"Why don't we head to the cafeteria Sir?"

"Call me Dan! So tell me Callie, where did you grow up?"

Callie's POV

"I grew up in Miami, weather is a lot better than over here in Seattle that's for sure!" I give him a nervous chuckle and hope that I don't give away what I assume Arizona has yet to tell her parents.

He stares at me while I'm talking and I assume that he's sizing me up. Checking whether I was good enough for his daughter. I smile, seeing how much he cared for Arizona.

"Are you going through a rough patch with my daughter young lady?"

Ouuu damn. Wasn't expecting that! Think Callie think...

"Well, Sir- I mean Dan, I just… Well… You know-"

"I thought so."

"Huh? What are you on about? Of course not!"

"I may have just met you Callie, but you're making it painfully obvious here."

The jig is up Arizona.

I sigh. "I'm sorry."

"Nothing to be sorry about. I knew there was something off the moment I came into the hospital. She talks about you all the time Callie, the moment she answers my phone call. And yet, when she saw me, she insisted we go on a hospital tour rather than introducing her father to her girlfriend like she said she would."

I stay silent because I know he has more to say.

"So what I want to know now, is why."

He folds his arms and he suddenly looks very big.

"I joined the army Sir."

"Hmmmm."

I have a feeling that her parents don't know about the whole kids thing so I make it seem as if me joining the army was the sole reason of our break up.

"I'm sure you have your reasons as to why you would do that. But you know what Callie? I sure as hell am damn proud of you."

The way he's looking at me, with pride written all over his face, as if I was his own daughter!

For the first time since I met him today, I give him a genuine smile. That is, until I remember Arizona and I were still broken up. But I quickly dismiss the thought and hope that he didn't catch that.

Arizona's POV

"I can't believe you're going already." I say, my voice muffled from being pressed into my father's coat as we hug goodbye at the airport.

"Well, you're 34 already. That's how quick time flies ey?" My father chuckles as we let each other go and he picks up his duffle bag.

I smile at him and remember how many times I had to say goodbye to him when I was younger, when he had to go on tour.

And suddenly, I realise that Calliope will be leaving for her tour soon. We haven't spoken since that day my father realised that we were no longer living under the same roof. I could never bear to think 'broken up', yet be able to say it.

"She's a good person."

"Daddy?"

"Callie. She's a good person." He emphasises.

I nod and then realise that he's expecting me to say something about her.

"She leaves on her tour in a few days."

He folds his arms and I can tell he's really thinking about what he's going to say to me next.

"See her off."

I had found that my shoes were very interesting when I told him that she was leaving on tour. But my head snapped up when he said that.

"She needs your support. She needs all the support she can get to come back alive." He pauses there, takes a breath and continues, "What she also needs, is to know that you still love her with all your heart."

He knows. I envelop him in another bone-crushing Robbins hug, "Thank you."

I have big plans from here out! So keep reading to find out!