Chapter 5. Flash
About a week after their last negative test, Arizona decided she needed to break the ice again; she needed to do something to bring the sexy back, something to remind her wife why they fell in love and why they both needed to spend the rest of their lives together.
Arizona started at work, pleading the Chief for her and Callie to both have two uninterrupted, pager free days off. It was a hefty request, but who was he kidding, she was Mrs. Arizona Robbins-Torres, with dimples to die for, and very few people had been known to endure those dimples and not cave.
Walking away from the Chief with a little extra bounce in her step, Arizona literally ran into the person she was looking for.
"Oh My God! Teddy. I'm sorry. I was sort of in la-la land, but I'm glad it was you I knocked over," Arizona said as she helped her best friend off the floor, "I need a favor."
"First you barrel into me like a bat out of hell and now you want favors? This better be really enticing…" Teddy joked.
"How about a weekend with your favorite 'almost-four' year old?" Arizona smiled, again putting the Robbins dimples on display.
"You need me to baby sit?"
"Please, please, please. Callie and I have been such a mess recently and I just want to do something nice for her, for us; we just need a little us time."
"Maybe it's the seven year itch…" Teddy offered.
"Teddy, you're a doctor, you know how to do math. Arden's almost four, we were in Africa for three years; there's seven years already. Next year we'll have been together for ten years. Try again." Arizona pleads, her eyes showing her sincerity.
"Arizona, of course I'll watch my god-daughter, you know I love my time with her, I was just giving you a hard time. Are you sure you guys are okay?"
"I think it's just all this trying for a new baby, we've gotten so many no's and it's all Callie has wanted for so long." Arizona trails off, not wanting to rehash her previous talk with Callie.
"It's not all she wants. She has you and Arden and she love you both very much, I think she just wants more of that." Teddy justifies, "But yes I will be glad to take Arden, where and when?"
Later that afternoon, Arizona creeps into Arden's playroom and watches her and Mr. Bear have a full conversation about chocolate chip cookies. Her heart melts a little at the sincerity of her "almost-four" year old.
Walking over slowly, Arizona sits down at one of the very tiny chairs at Arden's play set.
"Hi Mama."
"Hey baby, how's Mr. Bear?"
"Good Mama, but he says he like peanut butter cookies butter than chocolate chip and I think he might be loco."
"Arden baby, it's okay if Mr. Bear, or anyone else doesn't always like the same things you like. It just means you're different. And that makes you special." Arden continues to eat her cookies and drink her milk not really listening to her Mama anymore.
"Arden, how would you like to spend the weekend with Aunt Teddy?"
"Really Mama?
"Yep. Aunt Teddy and Uncle Henry and Cousin Kyle said it's been too long since you spent time with them. And Mami and I are going to be busy with an extra special surprise, but you can't tell her about it okay?"
"But I'm not a'posed to lie, Mama."
"Surprises aren't lies, they're like secrets but better, because surprises mean that the person you're keeping them from gets something really special after you do tell them. And Mama wants to give Mami something really super special, so can you keep it a secret for Mama?"
"Yes Ma'am."
"Thank you, baby."
"Mama, are you going to give Mami my baby?" Arden asks.
Arizona closes her eyes for a minute to try to figure out how to explain to her almost-four year old that they're trying. "Baby, Mami and I are trying really hard to make a baby; but sometimes it takes a long time. Don't worry; we aren't going to stop trying. Now finish your cookies and then wash up, Mami should be home any minute." With that, Arizona got up to the kitchen for a drink. Turning the corner she, for the second time today, ran directly into the person she was looking for.
"Woah there, Flash. Slow down." Callie joked.
"Sorry baby. How much of that did you just hear?" Arizona asked, worried that her surprise had just been foiled.
"Just the part where you told our daughter that we weren't going to stop trying." Callie replied with a smile of her face, enveloping her with in her arms. With her lips next to Arizona's ears she whispers, "I love you."
After dinner, and bath time, and play time, Arizona and Callie finally got Arden to bed. After grabbing a glass of wine for she and her wife, Arizona met Callie in the living room. Putting both the glasses down, she took her normal spot, on Callie's lap. After a few minutes they fell into their normal routine. Arizona was playing with Callie's hair while, Callie slowly traced patterns on her wife's thigh.
Turning away from the TV, Arizona placed a chaste kiss on Callie's neck, just below her ear. Callie turned to meet her gaze.
"I have a surprise for you," Arizona confessed.
"You do, huh? Is that why all my surgeries for tomorrow have been pushed back?"
"Yep. You and I have two uninterrupted, pager free days." Arizona stated.
"Arizona Robbins-Torres, did you use your dimples on the Chief?"
"Maybe," Arizona shrugged.
"Thank you," Callie responded placing a quick kiss on her wife's lips, "I'm assuming you're not going to tell me what else we're doing until it happens, so I'm not going to ask, but thank you in advance. You really meant it when you said you wanted us to get back to being love-sick, didn't you?"
"I did, I do. I love you so much. I never want you to forget that."
"I know. I love you too." Callie replied. "Now let's go to bed so I can have my surprise when I wake up!"
"I think you're more excited than our three year old."
"Arizona, she's 'almost-four'" Callie giggled, quoting her daughter.
"And how could I forget? She reminds me daily. There are 43 days until her birthday. But enough about her take me to bed."
"Yes ma'am." Callie replies, standing up from her position on the couch, with her arm stiff wrapped firmly around her wife.
A/N: I had a couple people ask me about how they were creating this baby. Sorry if it doesn't make sense, I really wasn't even thinking about it the logistics. I know nothing about actual baby making. I have a degree in Marketing, I know about value-added and competitive advantages and SWOT analysis. Lol. Anyway, for the sake of moving forward, I'm going to keep it as is. Wouldn't it be nice if two ladies could make a baby the old fashion way? Hmph. A girl can dream.