Ch 9. Pinky Promise

Callie Robbins-Torres had made the decision that she would definitely meet them for pizza. Arizona-the love of her life, the mother of her children- had been more than right and she had been feeling awful throughout the pregnancy, but she shouldn't have taken it out on the two people she loved most. She was bound and determined to meet them at Marco's for pizza. She stopped short just outside Arizona's office when she overheard her wife talking to their daughter.

"Hey baby, where you good for Aunt Teddy?" Arizona asked her still quiet daughter.

" 'Course Mama." Arden responded definitively.

"Will you tell me why you glued yourself to Mami today?" Arizona watched emotion flicker across her daughter's face. She first recognized remorse, then fright, then sadness. "Baby, you're not in trouble. Mami and I just want to know why you did it."

Arden pondered mother's words before she spoke, "I'm really not gonna be in trouble? You pinky promise?"

"Pinky promise," Arizona linked her pinky with her daughters and kissed her thumb, a sure sign that no punishment would follow.

"Okay Mama. I glued me and Mami together 'cause I didn't want her to leave again. I was scared that she wasn't gonna come home and I wouldn't get my baby. And I didn't want you to cry anymore because you miss her. And I didn't wanna miss her anymore either. I thought that if we were stuck together we wouldn't hafta miss her." Arizona listened to her daughter thoroughly, why hadn't she thought of that? She took a deep breath before responding.

"Thanks for telling me that baby, but you know that super glue isn't for people, and it means so much more to Mama-s and Mami-s if you tell them that you're scared."

"I was afraid that her would be mean to me again. If we were stucked together she would hafta be nice, but she wasn't."

"I know, baby, I know." Arizona conceded defeat, when did her daughter get so smart? "What do you say we go get some pizza, would you like that?"

"Is Mami gonna come? It's been so so so long since her comed with us!"

"I think Mami's just going to meet us at home later, is that okay? And maybe you and I can get in some snuggle time with the baby if Mami's feeling better."

"I hope so, you're a good snuggler, but Mami, she's the bestest."

"She is, isn't she…" Arizona agreed before taking her daughters hand and walking down the hall of the Ped's floor on the way to the elevator.

That was all Callie needed to hear. She wasn't going to meet them for pizza. She needed to do something much bigger than that. Her girls needed to know that she heard them. And she had. She really had. She sat back down in Arizona's office. She needed a plan. She didn't want to erase the last few months because she knew that part of being in a marriage, being in a family was growing together through the hard stuff. Instead she needed to show the girls she was recommitting herself to them; that they were stuck with her, because she loved them, more than life itself. She just hoped it wasn't too late.