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CHAPTER 5

"Well, that's great, congratulations, I guess." Alex said awkwardly, trying to hide the shock from coming through in his voice as he sank down on to the empty sofa behind him.

"Well, I've just found out so its still early days, but I just wanted you to know straight away and to thank you… That's some prize swimmers you have there, Alex." Arizona said, joking at the end of her sentence to lighten the mood slightly. As she was met with a stark uncomfortable silence from Alex on the other end of the phone, causing her to giggle nervously. This conversation was turning out to be a little more awkward then she had first anticipated. When she had so eagerly picked up the phone in the spur of the moment to call Alex and tell him the good news.

On the other end of the phone, Alex gently rubbed his chin with his thumb and forefinger as he searched for something to say. He was more than a little taken aback at Arizona's announcement. He honestly hadn't been expecting it to have happened this 'quickly, or for her to have called him with the news so suddenly either.

"Well, they've never failed me yet," he then joked back, still a little awkwardly, as Arizona responded with a small chuckle again.

"I can't tell you what this means to me, Alex." Arizona then said, adopting a slightly more serious and sincere tone.

Another uncomfortable silence followed, as Alex tried to fully process the situation, and to make some sort of sense of it all, now that it was so very real. He'd actually impregnated another woman, without any sort of physical act, and with his wife's knowledge. But the kid itself would be nothing to do with him, apart from carrying his DNA.

Alex yawned sleepily, putting his hand up to his mouth, before he spoke again. He'd been up all night performing an emergency surgery, and now Izzie had been called in to work he was left in charge of their two lively children. Who seemed to both have never ending supplies of energy, as they caused a trail of destruction everywhere they went, bounding around the house after each other and 'Miranda' the family cat. Being a parent at times was even harder work than being a doctor, Alex thought as he tried to shut out their excited yelling and focus on his conversation with Arizona.

"So…you and Callie must be really happy?" he eventually said.

Arizona was then the one to freeze, as it suddenly hit her that Callie didn't even know yet. It was Callie's baby too and she was totally oblivious, whilst Arizona had rushed in to taking the test on her own and then telling Alex, who from the sounds of it was finding the whole thing more than a little weird. It was all wrong and Arizona knew it. Alex wasn't the baby's parent, Callie was.

But before she actually had the chance to say another word, she heard loud crying from the other end of the phone, and Alex said hastily "I've got to go, looks like someone's got too carried away and taken a tumble and Izzie's not here so I've got my hands full…..but, congratulations again and take care of yourself, okay."

...

Arizona smiled then, as she heard Alex comforting his little boy as he hung up. 'He's such a great Dad' she thought, just as the door to her office violently swung open and Callie stood there rosy cheeked, looking a little puffed.

"Are you okay? You paged me like six times. I got here as soon as I could, but the surgery went on slightly longer than I expected." Callie said, slightly breathlessly.

Arizona suddenly felt a warm rush spread inside her at the sight of her beautiful wife, and as she moved closer to her, her voice trembling with emotion, she said "I'm more than okay….I'm great. I'm pregnant Callie. We're going to have a baby," and as she stopped talking, her whole face lit up and her eyes moistened with tears of happiness, as she watched Callie, waiting for her reaction.

Callie's face instantly broke in to a wide grin as she took in Arizona's words and she said excitedly "That's amazing, really amazing. But are you sure? Have you done a test? I thought we'd agreed to wait and test together."

"As sure as a positive test can be. I'm sorry, I had a feeling and I just couldn't wait." Arizona said, as she flung the white stick with the bright blue cross on it, directly in to Callie's hand and she added. "I mean these things are 99.9% accurate right?"

Callie looked down at it, lost for words, hardly able to believe that it had been that easy for them. Before she moved to fling her arms firmly around Arizona and squeeze her tightly, pressing their bodies together.

As they finally broke apart, Callie lightly stroked the side of Arizona's cheek as she said "This is so great. But it's early, we can't get too excited yet, we know we're still in the high risk category. We probably shouldn't tell anyone just yet either."

"Okay," Arizona said, her tone changing subtly as she looked away and avoided eye contact with Callie.

"What?" Callie instantly said. She knew her wife and she knew that she was terrible at hiding things from her. "You've told someone already?" She said, a little accusingly.

Arizona brushed her hand through her hair, as she said as casually as she could. "Only Alex."

Callie froze, her body language instantly becoming more hostile, as her dark eyes flashed angrily and she said "Karev? You told, Karev, before you told me? Your wife, the parent of this baby!"

Arizona took a step towards Callie and placed her hand on her arm. Callie flinched and abruptly brushed it away, causing Arizona to say desperately "I tried to page you and tell you first. But I was so excited I had to tell someone, and well I felt Alex had a right to know. If it wasn't for him, there wouldn't even be a baby."

"No, Karev has no right to know. He's not involved with this baby at all, aren't you forgetting we had him sign his rights away, which he was more than cool with. It's our baby. He has his own kids, remember?" Callie said loudly, as she tossed her arms up with emotion.

"I know, I know all that and well, would it help if I said I was sorry?" Arizona said, as she pressed her lips together, looking guiltily at her wife. This wasn't how she had envisaged this moment to be panning out. She had wanted them to be overcome with joy together, to celebrate and excitedly make plans to tell Sofia and to plan for their family's future, like any other newly expectant parents.

Instead Callie gave her one last lingering look of hurt and anger, as she turned and walked out of the room, closing the door quietly behind her.

Arizona was crushed, she had hurt the one person she loved the most in the world.

Callie was pacing the living room, glass of wine in hand, as she pinched the bridge of her nose with her fingers. She was overjoyed that she was going to be a mother again. But she couldn't allow herself to embrace those feelings, as she was so mad at Arizona. She didn't wait for her to take the test, she didn't wait to share the news with her first and she didn't listen when Callie had said it would be a mistake to use a friend as a donor. Callie knew she was being ridiculous, but she couldn't help but feel a little jealous over Arizona's emotional attachment to Alex as well.

Still sighing deeply, Callie was suddenly snapped away from her thoughts by the sound of the doorbell. She took a small swig of her wine and placed it down on the side, as she went to investigate who it was.

"Oh, hey Mark," she said, opening the door to see her friend and father of her daughter, Mark Sloan, stood there.

"I just stopped by to say goodnight to Sofia," he said. Mark only lived on the next street, so he regularly called in on his way home from work. He was a great father to Sofia, but Callie also suspected he was a little lonely these days, as all his relationships seemed to have fallen apart.

"She's asleep, but come in, have a drink with me." Callie said, glad to see a friendly face and Mark had always remained one of her closest friends over the years.

As he took his jacket off, Mark turned to Callie and said, "Is everything ok? Robbins was looking for you earlier before her surgery, I told her you'd left to pick up Sofia."

Callie took a deep breath, as she said, "Arizona's pregnant, Mark. But we've not told anyone yet, not even Sofia."

A look of shock crossed Mark's face, before he broke in to a smile and said, "Congratulations," as he added, "You kept that quiet though, didn't even know it was on the cards."

"Neither did I until recently" Callie replied.

Mark sipped his wine, as he said half seriously and half-jokingly. "You guys didn't have to fork out for a donor. You only needed to ask. I would have come up with the goods for you again. You know complete the set for you," and he winked.

Callie bit her lip, as she debated whether to actually tell Mark the truth or not, before she blurted out "We didn't use a donor, we used Karev."

Mark paused, before then letting out a small awkward laugh as he said "Arizona and Karev? I thought she was? and he's married?…."

"No." Callie quickly exclaimed. "We just used his…. 'you know'. It was what Arizona wanted."

Oh," Mark said, as he sat back on the couch, this time he really was completely lost for words.

Alex was exhausted, as both children finally asleep in bed he walked across to the fridge to take out a beer, just as his phone rang. He looked down and smiled to see it was Izzie.

They'd barely seen each other the past week. Both being doctors, they had been like two passing ships in the night since Izzie had taken on more hours, and when they weren't working they were either asleep or with their children. Alex would be lying if he said he wasn't finding their lack of time together a little difficult. He respected and supported Izzie's decision to return to work, but he had told her that she didn't have to, that he earned enough money for her to remain a stay at home Mom if she wanted.

"I'm on my way home. I'm sorry I'm so late. How was your day?" Izzie said, as Alex picked up.

Hearing her voice Alex felt his heart race slightly, as he thought of his earlier conversation with Arizona. He knew he needed to tell Izzie the news. Although he had no idea how she would react, they'd barely mentioned it since Arizona and Callie had left. But Alex could tell Izzie wasn't comfortable with the idea of Arizona having his baby, even it wasn't actually his baby. He knew it was cowardly, but he decided to put off telling her as he said casually "It was fine, boys are ok."

"Great. Because neither of us are on call tonight….. so... I've got some take out and wine and I was thinking, after the kids have gone to bed we could get an early night…." Izzie said suggestively.

Alex grinned, he liked the sound of that. It had been over a week since he'd made love to his wife, and that was unheard of for them, so putting all thoughts of Arizona's pregnancy firmly out of his mind, he said in a low voice "Kids are already in bed…."

"Mmm sounds perfect," Izzie replied.

…..

"I love you." Alex whispered to Izzie, as slowly getting his breath back, he held her trembling in his arms as they lay naked together in their bed.

"I love you too." Izzie replied, as she repositioned herself to face him, causing her long silky blond hair to brush his bare skin as she looked at him. Alex then shifted to prop himself up on one elbow and he swallowed slightly anxiously. He didn't want to spoil the moment, but he also knew he couldn't relax. He hated having secrets from Izzie. He had to tell her about Arizona.

As his fingertips lightly traced a pattern on her soft skin, he looked in to her eyes and said "Iz, I didn't tell you earlier. But I spoke to Arizona today and….well, turns out she's pregnant already." He paused and looked at her face, waiting for her reaction, the last thing he wanted was to hurt her.

Izzie felt a lump form in her throat, as she tried to fight back the tears. She knew she was being stupid, she'd given Alex her full blessing to go ahead and she knew how much he loved her. She just hadn't anticipated that Arizona would fall pregnant so quickly, or how much it would actually hurt to find out she was now carrying a life that was half her husband. Sensing Alex's eyes staring at her, desperately waiting for her to say something. Izzie replied quietly, "that's great news."

Both Mark and Callie jumped, as they heard the front door close and Arizona's loud footsteps walking across the hallway towards them.

As she opened the door, Arizona looked from Callie to Mark, and then to the empty bottle of wine placed on the centre of the table in front of them, and she just wanted to cry. Callie hadn't returned a single of her calls earlier after their fight and to top it all off she'd had a long gruelling surgery, where she would have made more than one mistake, if it hadn't have been for Bailey being there to 'have her back'.

It was Callie that finally broke the silence to speak first, as she looked at Arizona and said "I'd offer you a glass but….." and a faint smile crept on to her lips, as she waited for a reaction from her.

Mark then shifted uncomfortably, as he sensed the tense atmosphere and he said hurriedly. "I'd better be going," and as he stood up, he glancing tentatively at Arizona and said "I'll see myself out."

After he'd gone, Arizona sat down awkwardly next to Callie and said slowly "You told him didn't you?"

Callie clasped her hands together, as she looked her directly in the eye and said "Yes. But he won't say anything. I needed to tell someone I was upset."

"A little hypocritical don't you think? After you gave me such a hard time for telling Alex." Arizona replied coldly.

"That is completely different and you know it." Callie snapped back.

"Yes, because this baby has nothing to do with Mark" Arizona said raising her voice.

"It has nothing to do with Alex either. It's supposed to be our baby. I have supported you throughout this. But if you're going to keep shutting me out then I'm not sure I can carry on. You're so busy thinking about your feelings that you're completing forgetting about mine." Callie yelled back at her.

Arizona hesitated, as she said "I'm sorry I took the test on my own and I'm sorry I didn't wait to tell you first, okay."

"Well, I guess I'm sorry I told Mark too then. But, if you really want to know, he made me realize that we're completely missing how lucky we are here by arguing over this. You're pregnant and we're going to be parents again, that's wonderful. We're going to bring another new life in to the world, Arizona." Callie said, as she smiled and reached out for Arizona's hand.

"I know, you're right. We are lucky, so, lucky." Arizona replied as her eyes glazed over.

She leaned in and kissed Callie slowly and passionately, causing her entire body to tingle as Callie gently ran her hand inside the back of her blouse. Call it the pregnancy hormones Arizona thought, but something had kick -started her sex drive, which had been fading rapidly over the past few months.

After a while the kiss broke apart and raising her eyebrows slightly, Arizona said seductively, "You fancy an early night?" …..

...

"I love you." Arizona whispered, as they lay in bed together later facing each other, their foreheads touching.

"I love you too." Callie whispered softly back.

Causing Arizona to smile. Her blue eyes sparkling as she said excitedly "We're going to have another baby!"

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