Young and In Love

by camilovesgreys

Callie, with a daughter, is in the middle of her residency at Seattle Grace. Arizona, a new school teacher, moves into the apartment across from Callie. They meet quickly and fall in love, but what happens when life catches up with them. Can the young couple handle it, or will life get in the way? I don't own the characters. All credit goes to ABC/Shondaland.

60. Chapter 60

I don't own anything…all credit goes to ABC/Shondaland

Chapter Sixty!

Hope you enjoy!

Callie's POV

"Hey Chief, can I come in?" I ask knocking on the office door to alert my presence.

"Ahh Torres. Yes, yes come in of course." He says welcoming inside the room from his seat behind his desk. "How can I help you?"

"I was wondering if—"

"How's the Patterson case coming along? I know it's difficult, but you're the best. How's Lexie Grey? She's on your service isn't she?"

"She's great, the case is great but I was wondering if I could start my maternity leave now?" I inquire taking a step in front of his desk.

"Now?" He asks, shuffling some papers around on his desk to pull out a little calendar. "I thought I had you for at least one more week? This wouldn't be an attempt to get some extra days off would it be, Torres?" He says giving a pointed glare.

"NO, no. It's nothing like that I swear. It's just that my wife, Arizona, is in the hospital now."

"Well is she alright?" He asks concerned, standing up to lean against his desk.

"Yeah she's fine, but she's in labor right now. We just got the hospital an hour ago."

"She's in labor?! That's wonderful news!" Chief Webber says smiling and giving me a hug. The hug took me by surprise. Chief and I get along, but he's still my boss. It's a little weird to hug your boss, but nonetheless he's just happy for me. "What are you doing here talking to me for then?"

"About my maternity leave."

"Right! Of course you can start it now. I'll switch some things around, but you don't need to worry. Be with your family. Take eight weeks, if you think you need more time we can talk about it." He says giving me a congratulatory pat on the back.

"Thank you."

"Not a problem. Congratulations and good luck!" He says opening the door for me. With a warm smile to him and his secretary in passing I make my way back to the maternity ward, but before I get there my phone rings and it's my father.

"Hi Dad."

"Calliope! It's always good to hear your voice. I'm calling to give you an update on your mother. Our prayers came through because she woke up a few hours ago. She's groggy and going through some tests, but the doctors believe she will be perfectly fine in a few days."

"That's good to hear." I say genuinely. As much as I despise my mother currently I don't want her to die. If anything, my father and sister would be devastated and I don't want that for them. "Look it's actually good that you called because Arizona is in the hospital now in labor."

"That's wonderful news, mija!"

"Yeah," I say grinning, "We probably still have a couple of hours before our little guy finally arrives, but she's in her room trying to get comfortable."

"Word of advice, just listen to whatever she says and smile. Arizona is a lovely young woman, but I've seen pregnancy bring out the worst in your mother." For some reason I don't find that particularly too hard to imagine. "All you can do is be supportive."

"I wish I had support when I was having Sofia." I grumble out. I'm still a little bitter about that whole situation, but I guess it's better to have at least one of my parents involved in my life now instead of none.

"Calliope, I'm sorry…"

"I know. Do you think you and Aria can come out to visit?"

"Maybe in a day or two. Let's just see how things go with your mother. I promise to visit as soon as I can. I want to be there, Calliope. Honestly."

"I understand. Tell Aria the news."

"I will. Give my love to the family." My father says before disconnecting the call. Continuing my journey back to Arizona I'm interrupted again by someone calling my name. Turning around I see Jordan walking up to me. I give her a slight eye roll and turn back around, ignoring her request to stop. Ever since our last conversation at Joe's things have been awkward. I've been avoiding her as much as I can because I just don't feel like dealing with her. It's one thing to be cordial friends with your ex, but it's another thing to be friends with your ex who still has feelings and wants to get back together with you. I'm not even sure that's entirely the case, but whatever it is, it's annoying.

"Callie, please wait." She says pulling on my shoulder to get me to turn around. "I just want to talk."

"Not right now, Jordan." I state crossing my arms. "I have somewhere to be."

"Just a second, okay? All I want is a friendship." I give a dry laugh at the statement because her words have been saying otherwise. "So maybe I want more, but I know that will never happen."

"Never." I strongly emphasize.

"Never," She echoes. "But we can be friends."

"I've been trying to do that, but you took advantage of that when you started confessing your thoughts and feelings."

"I know, and I'm sorry about that. It was inappropriate of me. I just wanted you to know."

"Yeah, well now I know and I don't care."

"That's a little harsh." Jordan says taken back at my tone.

"All I can commit to is being work friends. We work together; maybe sit together in a group setting at lunch; I may see you at a work event socially and I'll say hi. Otherwise I want nothing to do with you. I'm not trying to be a bitch or come off rude, but personally we're not going to be friends. It's not just me, it's my wife's feelings too. How would it look if you and me were friends and had lunch on the weekends? I didn't tell her about our Joe's conversation because frankly it's not important, but what is important is the birth of my son that you are preventing me from witnessing. I'm going to go be with my wife, and this will be the last time we have this type of conversation. You are a good doctor Jordan I give you that, but I swear if we have to speak like this again, especially in the hospital I will certainly march on up to human resources and file a complaint." To that end, I walk away thankfully knowing that I won't have to see her face for at least eight weeks.

Walking into my wife's maternity suite I see her propped up in the bed and Dr. Caplan finishing up another exam.

"Dr. Torres, glad you're back." He says ripping off his latex gloves and lowering the hospital blanket to cover up my wife's lower half. "I was just telling your wife that thing's are progressing nicely. It seems as though she was in early labor this morning and just didn't realize it. Right now she's about five centimeters dilated. Five more and she will be ready to push. I think by tonight you two should have a healthy baby boy."

"Thank you."

"Not a problem. I'll be back to check on you, Arizona. If you need anything just page me." He says getting up from his stool. "Let me know what you decide." He says before he and his nurse assistant exit the room.

"How you doing?" Sitting on his stool, I roll myself over next to Arizona and take one of her hands in mine.

"I'm alright. I think I want the epidural though."

"Are you in lots of pain?"

"Just a little, but I have a feeling it's going to get worse. What took you so long?"

"I got a little sidetracked, but I did talk to the Chief and I'm officially on maternity leave."

"That's good…can you pour me some water, please?"

"Sure thing." I refill her cup from the pitcher of water that's in the room and she takes a few eager gulps.

"Calliope, I'm scared." She says nervously.

"Why are you scared, babe?"

"Because I have to push this big baby out of my small vagina and then it's going to cry. It's going to cry loud and I'm going to be overwhelmed with everything. Then we go home with him and we have to take care of him. I've never taken care of a newborn I have no clue what to do. I'm scared that I won't be enough for him. What if I hold him the wrong way? Or what he doesn't stop crying even after I feed and change him? I'm scared and nervous, and on the verge of a breakdown." Arizona says on the brink of tears.

"Hey, hey, hey. It's going to be okay." Giving her a kiss on the forehead and sitting on the edge of her bed. "Truthfully I'm scared too."

"Why, you've done this before."

"I know, but it's not the same. I'm scared that he won't like me as much as you. I'm scared that another human life is going to be dependent on me, on both of us. What if Sofia doesn't like the new baby or get along with him? I'm nervous because this is my first boy. I've never dealt with a baby boy before. What if I'm not a good mom? I mean Sofia is awesome, but I still have my doubts. Two kids is way different from one. I'm scared and nervous as all hell, but I'm also really excited."

"Me too…and a little anxious. I'm can't wait to meet our little Noah." We decided on the name Noah Caleb a few weeks back. We each picked a name and then true to our earlier words, flipped a coin to decide which name went first.

"Noah is going to be perfect, just like his mommy."

"Mhmm, I hope so cause I'm pretty awesome." She says self-assured. I lean down to give her a quick kiss.

"That you are, babe. That you are." I give her longer, more affectionate kiss. I momentarily get lost in her lips before another presence enters the room.

"Let's work on delivering this baby before you two start working on the next one!" Barbara says entering the room with Daniel right behind her. "How's everything coming along?" We both straighten up a little, surprised by the intrusion.

"Mom, Dad what are you doing here?"

"Your mother couldn't wait."

"Don't blame this on me Daniel, you're just as excited." She says swatting her husband lightly on the arm. "I know you said wait for Callie to call, but I just couldn't. Sofia is napping, but I told Tim to bring her when she wakes up. I took the liberty of packing your bag because your brother had absolutely no clue what to do." Barbara makes her way over to me and graciously, but somewhat forcefully pushes me out the way and takes my spot next to her daughter. I look to my father-in-law for some kind of help, but he just smiles and shrugs.

"Callie, you and Daniel go get Arizona some ice-chips, please." My wife gives me a slight nod in affirmation and then I dismiss myself from the room.

"Take it all in stride, Callie. It's going to be a long day." Daniel says walking beside me.

One epidural, a couple thrown ice chips, a few hours, and many, many contractions later it's finally time for Arizona to push.

"Callie I swear you need to find Dr. Caplan immediately because I'm about to push this baby out of me right NOW!" Arizona yells at me.

"I know I paged him. He should be on his way."

"NOW, CALLIOPE!"

"Breathe in and out, Arizona. Keep breathing." Barbara says trying to calm her daughter down. Thankfully Dr. Caplan walks in with some assistants and equipment to help deliver baby Noah. Although a nice break down the hallway to go find him wouldn't have been too bad because Arizona is a little angry. Not like hot angry, that I can deal with, like I-will-personally-strangle-you-right-now angry and that I cannot deal with.

"Ladies, and gentlemen," He says nodding to my father-in-law. "I hear its time have a baby." Dr. Caplan states putting on some gloves and gown and taking a seat between my wife's legs.

"Please!" Arizona shrieks.

"Alright let me take a look…oh wow! Yeah, it's time. Okay, Arizona I need you to get in position, like we talked about earlier, and get ready to push on my count, okay? Is everyone ready?" I move to stand at my wife's side so she can hold my hand to help her.

"Wait! Mom and Dad get out!" Daniel leaves without question, but Barbara doesn't budge.

"Arizona, I—"

"No! Get out. Go wait with Sof, Tim, and Dad."

"But—"

"Out! It's just going to be Callie and me for this. So respectfully get the hell out of my room nowww ow ow ow, contraction!"

"Mrs. Robbins I need you out the room now, and I need you to push Arizona! 1…2…3 Push!" Dr. Caplan instructs. In a flash Barbara leaves and Arizona grips my hands, leans forward, and pushes with all her energy.

"Excellent! Okay, in a few seconds I need you to give me another one."

"Another? Oh I can't do that." She says flopping back on the pillow defeated. Her face is collecting a sheen layer of sweat and her cheeks are already flushed.

"Yes you can, Arizona. Another big push will get the shoulders out." Dr. Caplan says encouragingly.

"You totally got this, babe. Give us another big push." A loud shriek bounces off the walls of the room as Arizona leans forward again for a forceful push. I never knew how tight a grip my wife had until she squeezed the life out of hand, but it was totally all worth it because a few minutes later the one sound I've been dying to hear for almost nine months erupts in the room.

"Arizona you did great! You got a beautiful baby boy!" Dr. Caplan says raising him up so we can see before passing him to a nurse to get cleaned off.

"Cal-Callie is he okay?" Arizona asks completely spent, leaning back against the bed.

"He's perfect, Arizona. You did such a good job, baby. I love you so much." I say with a few happy tears filling my eyes.

"Bring him to me…I wanna see him." I walk over to where the nurses are tending to my son and one of them places his little wrapped up body in my arms.

"Hey there little Noah. I'm your mama." I say in a hush tone, trying to calm his little excited body down. "I'm so happy to finally meet you. Your mommy really wants to meet you too." Walking carefully back over to Arizona, I place his tiny body into her waiting arms.

"Calliope, he's beautiful." She says looking at me with tears in her eyes as well. "Hi Noah, it's your mommy."

"He's got your piercing blue eyes, babe." I say in awe of looking at my new son. He's skin tone is close to mine, but maybe a shade lighter. He's little head is covered in a small blue cap, but I briefly saw some brunette hair. We take a few minutes just to stare at our baby boy together before bringing everyone else in the room.

"He's so handsome." Barbara gasps when she sees Noah for the first time.

"I'm very proud of you, Arizona." Daniel says positively. I take Sofia from Tim's arms and sit her on the bed next to Arizona and Noah.

"Sof, meet your new baby brother Noah." She slowly reaches a hand out to touch his cloth-covered body and looks up at Arizona to make sure it's okay to touch him.

"It's okay, Sof. Just be gentle."

"Hi baby. Me Sof." She says introducing herself, which makes us all chuckle.

"Can I hold him, sis?" Tim asks perking up. Arizona passes Noah to me and I pass him gently over to Tim.

"His full name is Noah Caleb Torres." My wife states.

"I'm your cool Uncle Tim, Noah. It's about time we got another boy in the family." Tim says slowly rocking him back and forth. After some more family bonding a nurse comes in to take Noah for some routine tests and Arizona drifts off to sleep. The rest of us quietly talk until Sofia falls asleep too. Tim takes her home with Barbara and Daniel right behind them. When the nurse brings Noah back in Arizona is still resting, so I take some quiet one-on-one time with my new son. I can't help but stare at his precious face. I start to memorize everything about him. His button little nose and pursed little lips. Cradling him in my arms, I stare are his little cheeks. I know I can't wait to see him eventually smile. I feel in my heart he will have Arizona's dimples. I hear him start to whimper that suddenly turns into a cry, waking Arizona up.

"What's wrong with him?" She asks slowly becoming more alert.

"I think he might be hungry. Hold him for a sec while I go get a nurse." Five minutes later a nursing assistant comes into the room with me to help Arizona learn how to properly breastfeed. It takes a few tries and lots of encouragement, but Noah eventually latches on and starts to make little sucking noises. When the nurse leaves I sit next to Arizona on the bed and watch the beautiful sight that is my wife feeding our son for the first time.

"He's perfect, Calliope."

"I know."

"No, I mean he's literally perfect." She says never taking her eyes off Noah.

"He reminds me of Sofia a little bit already."

"How is it possible that we got two perfect kids?"

"I don't know, but it's pretty darn amazing." I turn to watch my wife watch our son and I feel indescribably happy. I know that I'm the luckiest woman in the world to call Arizona my wife and have her as the mother to my children. The only thing that could make this moment better was to have Sofia here with us, but once at home we will all be together again. For right now, it's just the three of us and I'm okay with that.

"Why are you staring at me like that, Callie?" She asks turning her attention to me.

"Because I love you so much and I'm extremely happy right now."

"I love you too, Calliope." Our lips meet for a short kiss before Noah takes our attention again. The rest of the night is a blur between feedings, crying, short naps, and phone calls with a few friends and family. The next day the nurses do a few more tests on Noah to make sure he's alright since he came a couple weeks early. Naturally he passes all the tests because he's the best baby ever, and Dr. Caplan informs us that we can leave in a few hours.

"I don't know how such a tiny human can make such a stinky poop." My wife says giving Noah a new diaper. "It's crazy how life works. A day ago I was just a pregnant lady and now I'm a mom of two."

"Kinda crazy, huh?"

"Definitely." A nurse comes into the room briefly interrupting our thoughts.

"Dr. Torres can I talk to you for a minute?"

"Uh sure. I guess I'll be right back." Stepping out of the room, I follow her to the nurse's station.

"So it seems that Washington hasn't caught up with reality yet." I stare back her blankly waiting for her to continue because right now I'm totally lost. "Although it's completely messed up in my opinion, following protocol I can't legally list you as the other parent on Noah's birth certificate." She says shyly and placing the paper in front of me.

"Oh um…"

"We can leave the second parent information blank so only your wife's name is listed, but I can't listed you as the second parent. I'm very sorry." That didn't even cross my mind during this entire pregnancy. I guess I just always figured I'd be listed since I'm his other parent. Just another setback, but I'll get it fixed. I don't want this to become an issue going forward, but I'm not going to lie it does hurt a little bit. "Most couples in this situation file for a second-parent adoption, it takes some time but it's worth it in the end."

"Thanks."

"Of course. I'll have your wife's discharge papers ready soon." Giving her a tight smile I take the birth certificate with me back into the room.

"I think Noah knew you were gone because he started whimpering when you left." Arizona says sitting with Noah in a rocking chair.

"You ready to go? You should be discharged soon."

"If you could sit with him I'll finish packing." We switch places, passing her the certificate in the process. It doesn't even take her more then a minute before she gives me a knowing look.

"Are you serious? You know he's yours."

"I know."

"And I would never even try to—"

"Arizona, I know. You don't have to say it. I'll start the adoption process as soon as I can."

"I don't like this. It's not fair."

"It's okay, I mean it's not, but we will deal with it. I just want to take you guys home." I say snuggling Noah close to my chest.

"Mommy! Mama! Look!" Sofia says excitedly greeting us at the door hours later. Bending down to place Noah's carrier on the floor, I pick up Sof and the drawing she has in her hand.

"It's baby NoNo."

"NoNo?"

"Yeah she can't really say Noah so she calls him 'NoNo'" Tim says. "Look at you sis, all skinny again."

"Uhhh thanks? Where's mom?"

"In the kitchen, dear!" She yells. "Making some food for everyone. Should be ready shortly!"

"Dad is putting a bassinet in your bedroom as we speak."

"That's nice of him."

"Mama me see NoNo?"

"Okay, but be careful. He's sleeping." I gently put her on the floor in front of the carrier. Sofia stares at him as me, Arizona, and Tim watch for what she's going to say or do.

"NoNo small."

"I know he's a baby." Crouching down to her level, I give her a kiss on the cheek and she mimics my action by giving her brother a kiss too, but unfortunately the small movement woke him up and now he's crying. Sof looks at me worried and then breaks down too.

"It's okay, Sof. You just have to be really careful with him." I say picking her up. Sadly, my words just make her cry more. Arizona comes over to pick up Noah and calm him down.

"I can take Sofia, Callie." Tim offers.

"No it's okay. I got her." Walking up the stairs with a sobbing Sofia I enter her room and sit in a chair with her in my lap. "Shh, shh Sof. It's okay. It was an accident." I continue to rub her back soothingly for a few minutes until her sobs turn into hiccups. "How about we play with some of your toys. Sound fun?"

"Mhmmm." She nods crawling off my lap. I join her on the floor while she digs through her toy bins to find something to play with.

"So Sofia you know you're a big sister now. Noah is really small right now and will need lots of attention. We might have to be extra careful and quiet around him so he can grow big and play with you."

"NoNo play dolls?"

"Not right now, but he might when he's a little bigger. You will have to show him how to do stuff."

"Mmkay." She says more focused on her toys then me.

"You know mommy and me love you very much, right?"

"Mhmm. Wuv you too."

"Good. We love you and Noah so much."

"Kay. Play now, mama." I can only hope she registered some of what I just said. We play until Barbara calls us down to eat. Everyone gathers in the dining room to eat, and Barbara holds Noah to give Arizona a chance to eat.

"So talking with your father we decided that he and Tim could go home at the end of the week and then I could stay as long as you want. One week or one month. I just want to help out. It's up to you both though." She says looking between my wife and I. Personally I don't mind Barbara staying for a little bit, but I know it's been a touchy subject with Arizona.

"Mom you can stay. We'll take it week by week."

"Wonderful! Now I'm going to make a grocery list for the week. We need some more food in this house. Let me know what you want."

"Ooohh I want fried chicken!" Tim says piping up.

"Anything thing you cook is fine, Barb." Her husband says lovingly.

"Such a ladies man, Dad."

"No Timothy, he's just honest." From across the table I see my wife let out a yawn and I can only imagine how tried she is considering everything her body went through in the last forty-eight hours.

"Do you want to go up and take a nap? I can bring Noah up when he gets hungry."

"Okay, I'm exhausted." After she excuses herself the rest of us continue to eat until we all part. Daniel and Tim go off into the basement while Barbara cleans up the kitchen. I sit with Noah and Sof in the living room. Sof is prancing around in her own little world while I keep watchful eye on Noah. I count all his ten little toes and ten little fingers again, just soaking up his perfection. Everyday my life somehow seems to get better, and I'm excited to see what tomorrow brings, but for right now I'm just happy my daughter has a smile on her face and my son – It's going to take me a minute to get used to saying that –sleeping soundly in my arms.

Thanks for reading!

AN: Thank you again to the name suggestions! It was hard to decide on just two!