3.
Walking out of the familiar doors of Seattle Tacoma airport Callie balanced her sleeping daughter on her hip, grateful that she had only brought a small carry-on bag as she headed towards the pick-up bay where Meredith was waiting.
"How is she?" Callie asked, buckling Sofia into Zola's car seat as the youngster mumbled a few unintelligible sounds before falling back asleep.
Meredith waited for Callie to buckle her seatbelt. "Hello Meredith, thank-you for picking me up Meredith."
"Hello Meredith, thank-you for picking me up Meredith," Callie parroted. "How is she?"
"They started her on BiPap not long after I finished speaking to you, she had a large right sided complex empyema which caused a pneumothorax so they inserted a chest drain and since then she's been steadily improving. They managed to lower the pressure, her fever is coming down and her blood pressure is almost normal now," Meredith explained, relaying what little information she had been able to get.
Callie looked over at Sofia. "Who is her medical proxy?"
"Richard," Meredith sighed, remembering back to an earlier conversation she had overheard between Alex and the older man. "Of course, her parents are her next-of-kin but Richard is her proxy."
"That's good," Callie whispered. "Richard is sensible, he'll make the right decisions," she added.
Meredith pulled the car to a stop at the red light. "Callie she's not unconscious, I mean she's exhausted, sleeping most of the time but she's awake, alert and she's fighting Callie. For Sofia she's fighting."
"How did this happen?" Callie wondered out loud. "I mean Arizona is healthy, she takes vitamins, eats well, exercises as much as she can with her prosthetic, normal, healthy people do not end up in ICU with bacterial pneumonia. Is this because of the plane crash? I know it takes more energy for amputees to get through the day and she had that PE … this shouldn't happen, this shouldn't be happening to her."
Wondering how much to reveal Meredith sighed. "Arizona has been … I mean we're not close, not like you and I and her and Alex but I've seen changes; she's lost weight, she stays at the hospital almost 24 hours a day 7 days a week and takes on double case-loads with both pediatric and fetal surgeries, she doesn't laugh, I never see her in the cafeteria and … she's just different Callie and I'm not the only one that has noticed it."
"Is it … my fault, is this because I took Sofia away?" Callie asked, needing to know what her friend was thinking.
"I think it runs deeper than that Callie, I mean you and Arizona have been over for a while now and you were amicable but then, the custody battle happened and I think it just brought a lot of unresolved issues to the surface. Issues Arizona has never dealt with, issues you have never dealt with and … Sofia was gone, her distractions and reasons for getting out of bed were gone so she had to face things she didn't want to," Meredith said, trying to explain her take on what had happened to the usually happy, double-board certified surgeon, completely unaware of the truth behind her current state of mind.
Callie watched her daughter sleep. "I don't know what to do Meredith. I thought moving to New York was what I wanted, I thought Penny was who I wanted to be with but, Sofia is miserable, she's having nightmares, she doesn't want to read the books she was reading because she was reading them with Arizona. She won't eat her favorite food because it's what Arizona used to always make for her when she stayed with her, she hates school, she doesn't sing anymore."
"Cal-"
"My daughter is miserable. Arizona is so miserable she's actually made herself physically ill and it's all because I wanted to be happy. I was so desperate to be happy, to prove to myself that I could live my life without her that … I did this … but I can't live my life without her because she's Sofia's mommy and the bond they have … I took that away from them," Callie cried.
"You're here now," Meredith pointed out.
Wiping tiredly at her eyes Callie nodded. "But what if it's too late, what if she can never forgive me? The things I let my lawyer say to her, the way I let them portray her, that's not who I am, that's not who we were to each other. Once upon a time she was my everything but I let them turn her role in my life, in Sofia's life into nothing."
"Yes. You made mistakes, but so did Arizona, you have a daughter together and so much history between you that you can't give up on that, maybe, just maybe it's time to try and be friends with each other, you never tried that and I think for Sofia you need to try that," Meredith suggested, hoping that all of the progress Callie had made in coming to terms with her emotions regarding Arizona would not be undone when she found out about her ex-wife's pregnancy.
"I want move back to Seattle," Callie announced after a few minutes of silence. "Penny and I, it's not working and I'm not sure I want to fight for us because she resents Sofia and Sofia always has to come first. It was supposed to be easy, it was supposed to be my easy relationship but it's just causing so much pain, to everyone and … I don't love her enough to fight."
Meredith let Callie's words sink in before speaking. "Are you sure? Because I don't want you to wake up tomorrow and regret this decision."
"I'm sure," Callie assured her.
"You really need to be Callie because it's not just you that matters in all of this, there's Sofia and Arizona to consider too," Meredith reminded her.
Callie nodded. "I know. Sofia may have grown inside me, her biology might be Mark and I but … she's all Arizona, the way she smiles, the way she wakes up bouncing … that little bounce she does when she gets something right or learns something new. The bond they have; I never should have taken that away from her, away from Arizona but … she broke me and now I've broken her and I don't know how to fix it, I don't know if I know how to be her friend, we've never been friends before it's … new and scary but I need to try, for Sofia I need to try but first … I need her to get better, I need her to be ok."
"She's in really good hands," Meredith said as Sofia stirred slightly in her sleep.
"I need to see her but Sof, they won't let her in the ICU and she's so desperate to see Arizona that she won't understand being there and not being able to see her," Callie panicked as they pulled up in front of GSMH.
Meredith knew Callie was right, I mean there was no guarantee that Arizona's friends and doctors would let Callie in as it was. "How about I take Sofia to daycare and then when I have to pick Zola up from school I will take her with me and then she can stay at ours tonight and you can too."
"Ok," Callie agreed. "Thank-you."
Stepping out of the car Callie carefully woke Sofia. "Hey Baby Girl," she smiled as the little-girl wrapped her arms around her neck, letting her mother lift her out of the car.
"Mommy? Is she here?" Sofia asked as she realized they were at the hospital.
"Mommy is with the doctors right now Sof because they are helping her get better," Callie tried to explain.
Sofia climbed out of her mother's arms. "I can make her better, I give super-magic hugs."
"I know Sweetie and I'm sure she can't wait to see you but we have to let the doctors finish first. So Meredith is going to take you to daycare for a little while, then you are going to have a sleepover with Zola," Callie explained.
"Zola is going to be so excited to see you," Meredith smiled, taking the youngsters hand.
Sofia looked up at her best friend's mother. "Really?"
"Really," Meredith reassured her.
"What if she has new friends and doesn't want me anymore?" Sofia worried.
Meredith bent down so she was at eye-level with her. "Sofia you are Zola's best friend, she has missed you so much and will be so excited to see you. She already has a crazy fun night of ice-cream, movies and games planned."
"3 flavors of ice-cream?" Sofia asked as she waved goodbye at her mother and followed Meredith towards daycare.
"It's not an ice-cream party unless there is 3 flavors," Callie heard Meredith laugh as she watched her friend and daughter step into the elevator.
Walking over to the coffee cart Callie ordered a triple shot latte as she ignored the hushed whispers that she could hear starting to swirl around her reappearance.
"You can do this," she whispered to herself. "You need to do this."
Taking a sip of her drink she winced as the hot liquid burnt her tongue, stepping toward the elevator she waited for it to arrive, once inside she tried to make herself as small as possible as she pressed the button for the ICU floor.
Exiting she headed towards the nurses station, she knew from Meredith that Arizona was in room number 7, she also knew that she had someone with her all the time and that getting inside her room might be easier said than done.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Alex Karev raged as he stepped out of the room, being careful to fully close the door behind him.
"I, er, Sofia she wanted to see her so I just came to check when it would be ok," Callie hedged.
Alex shook his head, seeing straight through Callie's half-truths. "Right."
"She's her daughter, she has a right to see her mother," Callie replied as she could feel his eyes burning into her.
"That's not the tune you were singing when you took her daughter right across the country and then yelled at her because she couldn't get on a freaking plane," Alex ranted, his voice low yet full of anger.
Callie had expected his reaction, she had even thought she was prepared for it but now she was here, faced with so much animosity she didn't know what to say to explain her actions. "Will she see me?"
"She doesn't know you're here," Alex said, closing Arizona's chart and tucking it under his arm.
"Could you tell her? Ask her if she'll see me?" Callie asked, knowing she was asking a lot but needing Arizona to know she was here, that she was trying.
Considering his options Alex sighed. "Look, I get that coming here was a big step and I don't know who told you that she had been admitted but, you're here, that will mean something to her but right now she's not strong enough to deal with those added emotions."
"She's stronger than you think," Callie countered, hating that way that everyone was acting like Arizona was some fragile little bird that needed protecting from the big, bad, prey.
"Are you freaking kidding me; Robbins is one of the strongest the people I have ever known. She has been through more than anyone should ever have to even try and overcome and she comes out fighting every time. But right now, in this very moment she needs space, she needs time to recover, to get her health back and I don't know if she can do that if you add what you want, what you are feeling and what you need into the equation," Alex explained.
Callie looked down at the floor. "I just need to know she's going to be ok."
"Are you kidding me? She's Arizona freaking Robbins of course she will be ok," Alex insisted.
An uncomfortable silence settled over the pair as Callie looked anywhere but at the young attending, the silence only ending when a young intern handed Alex some results.
"Are those Arizona's results?" Callie asked.
Alex nodded. "Yes."
"I know I have no legal right or even moral right to ask but despite my actions over the last few months she is still the mother of my child, she will always be a part of my life and I just need to know; good or bad?" Callie breathed, knowing she was pushing her luck put right now she felt like she had been thrown adrift with no life craft.
"Better," Alex answered, knowing she needed to know something.
Smiling softly Callie nodded her thanks. "I'm going to leave now. But I will be back, every day I will be back and when she's ready then, please tell her that I am here and that I want to be her friend, if she will let me."
Not saying anything Alex just nodded as he watched her turn to leave, his eyes clouded with confusion as he watched her walk away before stepping back into Arizona's room.
Walking over to the bed he was relieved to see that she was still sleeping, a pillow behind her back so that she was tilted slightly onto her left side, the bed raised to allow her into some sort of seated position. Her eyes were closed but she looked relaxed, some of the color having returned to her cheeks and her face having now lost the absolutely terrifying ashen color that had started to border on cyanotic before the BiPap had been started.
A central line was sutured into her neck administering fluids, antibiotics and regular doses of antipyretics and low dose anti-emetics, sedatives and pain relief to help her rest and allow the medication and non-invasive ventilation do its work. The BiPap mask almost totally obscured her face as it helped support her struggling lungs, a chest tube snaked out of her right side but despite all of that he couldn't help but think how relaxed she finally looked. Smiling lightly his eyes travelled down to where her right hand rested on her barely their baby bump.
Until an hour earlier she had been on continuous CTG monitoring, but once they were reassured that despite everything Baby Girl Robbins heartbeat had remained steady and stable, the decision had been made to discontinue it and a routine 20-week scan had been scheduled for tomorrow.
"Hey," Alex greeted as he watched her eyes slowly open.
"Callie, did I … was that Callie I heard?" she questioned, her voice barely audible under the positive pressure of the BiPap.
Alex nodded. "Yeah. But we can talk about that later, you shouldn't be talking, you should be resting."
"Sofia?" Arizona wondered.
"She's here too," Alex reassured her. "So you really do need to stop talking, get some rest and just concentrate on getting better ok because you're little-girl is here for you and she needs you, they both do."
Nodding her agreement Arizona closed her eyes, running her fingers in lazy circles over her stomach as she allowed herself to drift into a somewhat drug-induced sleep again.
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As Richard, April, Alex and Michelle assembled inside Arizona's room they couldn't help the collective smiles that spread throughout them as they looked at her latest blood gases, the ultrasound of her lung and full blood panel.
"I switched her to just CPAP last night and she's been tolerating it really well on minimal pressure so I want to trial her off the NIV, I think she's ready," Michelle suggested.
"Her blood gas supports that suggestion," April added as she handed the results to Richard.
"Her WCC and CRP are down, they're still not normal but her fever hasn't gone above 100 for 6 hours and she hasn't vomited since the BiPap was started, everything really is moving in the right direction," Alex agreed, smiling over at his friend. "Also her electrolytes have normalized and the ultrasound shows no recurrence of the empyema, although I think we should leave the chest drain in for another 24 hours though, just in case," he concluded.
Richard nodded at them at all before approaching the bed. "Did you get all of that?"
Arizona nodded, shifting as much as she could without disturbing her lines and drains. "Yeah."
"Good. So if you agree we will leave you in Michelle's very capable hands and let her get this off of you," Richard smiled, giving her hand a reassuring squeeze as the 3 doctors left, leaving Arizona and the respiratory therapist alone.
"You got this?" Michelle asked, approaching the bed.
Arizona nodded, after 30 hours being confined to the bed with the BiPap attached to her she was more than ready to get it off, because getting it off meant that she was one step closer to getting out of ICU. And then once she was out of ICU and in a normal room she knew that Sofia would be allowed to visit and right now, what she needed more than anything was cuddles with her little-girl.
"When I take it off I need you to try and cough for me ok? And then I'm going to set you up with an albuterol treatment to loosen and secretions that might have formed. Once that is finished we'll see how your oxygen levels and lung function is holding up before we decide ok? Now it may be that we need to put you back on the CPAP and change to a slow wean but hopefully, seeing as how well you've already progressed I'm hoping that won't be the case and you'll be ok with just supplemental oxygen," Michelle explained.
Although she already had figured it all out Arizona was grateful to Michelle for taking the time to explain everything to her. "Fingers crossed."
"We don't need luck, not when my patient is such a bad ass, you've got this," Michelle reassured her. Arizona Robbins had always been one of her favorite doctors, she respected the woman and felt a sense of pride that she had been one the people chosen to help get her through this. "Ready?" she asked, setting the breathing treatment up ready to go.
Once Arizona had nodded her consent Michelle turned off the BiPap, taking the mask off as she helped her sit up, encouraging her to cough as hard as she could before taking a series of long, deep breath. Listening to her chest she was reassured that enough oxygen was getting in and out of the fetal surgeons' lungs as she helped her to hold the mouthpiece of the breathing treatment. Knowing that she was probably still quite weak from everything her body had been through.
Sitting down in the chair she waited until the albuterol had finished before turning it off and taking the mouthpiece from Arizona, watching the numbers on her monitor to see what her oxygen levels were doing.
"How am I scoring?" Arizona asked, too tired to turn her head around and look herself.
"93%," Michelle read.
Arizona closed her eyes. "Could be better."
"Yeah but it could be worse, you were heading into the 70's when we started the BiPap so 93% is pretty damn awesome," Michelle tried to assure her. "I would have been more surprised if you didn't need a little oxygen right now, it's not a sign of failure, your air entry is good, you're breathing is 99% better than when you were admitted so this is good Dr. Robbins, it's all really, really good now … nasal cannula or mask?"
"Nasal cannula," Arizona chose, knowing it would give her more freedom.
Hooking it up to the humidifier she helped her into a sitting position before hooking it around her ears and turning it on. "You want me to let them in now?" Michelle questioned, motioning towards the door where she was pretty sure her friends would be anxiously hovering.
"Yeah. Because I give it 20 seconds until they start knocking," Arizona joked, feeling more like herself than she had in a long time.
She knew she had a long road ahead of her, that she had some big changes to make and that at some time down the road she would need to talk to someone, a professional someone to help her find healthy, long-term ways of dealing with what had happened to her but right now, in this moment she was ok with the choices she had made.
She was going to have this baby, she was going to talk to Callie, try to build a some kind of relationship for the sake of Sofia and she was going to do everything she could to get healthy, stay healthy and be the best mother she could to her daughters.
"Where's April and Alex?" Arizona wondered as Richard entered alone, having been given strict instruction from Michelle to call him if her oxygen levels dropped below 92%, her respiratory rate went over 32 or she seemed to be having increased trouble breathing.
"MVC in the ER, unrestrained 6 and 8-year-old passengers," Richard explained.
Arizona nodded, liking her suddenly too dry lips she realized it had been well over 24 hours since she had been allowed anything to eat or drink.
"Thirsty?" Richard asked, as if reading her mind.
"Yeah and hungry," Arizona said as suddenly all she could think about was a vanilla, multi-colored sprinkle doughnut.
Helping her sit up even more he handed her a cup of water. "Slow sips. Michelle wants you to have small amounts of clear fluid only for the next 12 hours though just in case …"
"I need to go back on the BiPap," Arizona finished for him.
Richard nodded. "Sorry."
"It's ok," Arizona reassured him. "But as soon as I reach that 12 hour mark one of you had better have a vanilla, multi-colored sprinkle doughnut ready and waiting for me," she ordered.
"Deal," Richard promised.
Looking around the room Arizona seemed almost nervous for a few minutes before asking the next question. "Is Callie still here?"
"Yes," Richard nodded.
"For how long?" Arizona wondered. "I mean … is she here because she knew I was sick or is it just a coincidence? If so will she leave as soon as I'm better and take Sofia away again because I don't think I could cope with that, when she left the first time I … she's going to be so mad when she realizes I'm pregnant … she'll think I did it to spite her because she doesn't know … she doesn't know that even though I want my baby … I love my baby … I didn't want how it happened … I didn't want it … I … but I can't tell her that … because she's not that person anymore … she's not my anchor … she's not … my Callie … she's Penny's Callie … so … I … can't tell … I .. "
Standing up Richard helped Arizona sit back against the bed, turning her oxygen up a fraction more as the number dropped slightly. "I know this is all confusing and painful and horrible but you don't have to figure anything out right now. Right now, you just need to rest, recover and concentrate on getting your strength back. Ok?"
"Sofia-"
"Will still be here when you wake up," Richard promised.
Arizona shook her head. "You don't know that."
"Yes, I do," Richard assured her. "Callie is going back to New York on Monday to sort some things out and Sofia is staying with Meredith until she gets back."
"Ok," Arizona whispered, feeling comforted in the fact that her daughter would still be in Seattle for a little while longer yet she closed her eyes and allowed herself to rest, even though she felt like she had done nothing but sleep for close to 2 days now.
Leaning back in the chair Richard opened some charts to finish his post-op notes whilst she slept until April entered, having finished up with her trauma in the ER.
"Do you want me to take over for a little while?" April offered.
"Are you sure? You've been here just as long as I have," Richard pointed out.
April sat down in the empty chair. "I'm good, I have some charts to catch up on anyway," she said pointing to the pile in her lap.
"I might just head down to cafeteria," Richard suggested getting up and heading towards the door. "Get something to eat and check in on my post op patient. Kepner," he stopped at the door and faced the younger surgeon. "I don't suppose you know the name of that bakery she likes? The one with the brightly colored doughnuts?"
"Sorry," April apologized.
Stepping out Richard frowned, desperately trying to remember the name of it, he was sure she had mentioned it once and how they had the best baked goods in Seattle but he just could not recall what she had said it was called.
"Daily Dozen Donuts," Callie informed him, pushing herself forward from the wall she had spent the last 10 minutes leaning against.
"I-"
Callie couldn't help the smile that spread across her lips. "She's asking for doughnuts, right? After the plane crash, when she woke up for the first time since being transferred back from Boise and was feeling well enough to eat, the first thing she asked for was a doughnut. I know it's not exactly the healthiest choice, but she smiled and back then I would have done anything to see that smile … so I bought her 6 of the brightest colored doughnuts I could find."
"Right. Thank-you," Richard nodded.
"Does she know I'm here yet?" Callie asked, she had tried to keep her distance after her conversation with Alex yesterday but she was flying back to New York soon, just for a week or so but she still needed to see her before she left.
Richard crossed his arms. "Yes. And she does want to see you she's just not strong enough yet for everything that will bring."
"I promise to keep it simple, we will talk about Sofia and I will tell her that we're moving back and I won't put any pressure on her, I promise, I just need to see her," Callie pleaded.
"She's sleeping right now, it's been a busy few hours since she was weaned off of the BiPap so … maybe come back in a couple of hours, I'll talk to her, see what she says," Richard suggested.
"Thank-you," Callie whispered, her eyes bright with unshed tears.
Richard could see the pain in her eyes, a pain that he knew wasn't going to go away any time soon. "I'm not making any promises, she might be out of the critical phase now but she's still got a long way to go Torres. She's not well, she's still recovering from sepsis, near respiratory failure, pneumonia and a nasty empyema and although she's doing better than any of us thought she would be at this point, she's still got a long road ahead of her."
"I'm not here to make things worse for her Richard, Sofia needs her mommy to be ok and I'm not going to do anything to jeopardize her recovery, I promise," Callie vowed.
Walking away Richard nodded. Although he knew Callie was full of the best intentions he also knew that there was still a great big secret waiting to be told. Arizona's bump was small for 20 weeks but it was still noticeable, and although he was sure Callie probably wouldn't notice under the hospital gown and blankets, he also knew it was only a matter of time before the other woman found out and he had no idea how she would react. Especially with Arizona insistent that Callie not know how her pregnancy came to be, the devastating truth behind the baby's existence and what she had been through.
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12 hours after his conversation with Callie he found himself back in Arizona's room, the blonde in question was sat up in bed, her eyes bright and her hands resting on the tiny, baby bump.
"That bag had better contain a vanilla, multi-colored sprinkle doughnut or you are not coming in here," Arizona warned, motioning to the bag in his hand.
"Even better," Richard chuckled. "It contains 3 vanilla, multi-colored sprinkle doughnuts,"
Arizona held her hands out in an almost begging pose. "Not sure I could manage 3 but … give me, give me, give me," she ordered as he sat down, handing her the bag.
"You look good," Richard observed, looking up at her numbers and then at her, she had minimal respiratory distress, her color was almost glowing and her temperature had finally reached normal.
Shaking his head, he couldn't help but feel awed how well she had done. In just under 48 hours she had gone from being on the verge of total respiratory collapse to being almost completely off oxygen and breathing by herself. Although he knew she still had days of recovery ahead of her; the chest tube still remained, her infection markers were still raised and they didn't know yet how she would tolerate a solid diet he knew she had this, that she would be ok.
"What?" Arizona asked as she realized he was staring.
"Nothing," Richard chuckled.
Taking a small, tentative bite of the doughnut she chewed it carefully before swallowing, waiting a few minutes to see how her stomach felt before taking another bite.
Realizing she had eaten half of the doughnut she put it down on the table, leaning back against the pillows as she licked the icing off of her lips. "You're still staring," she observed.
"I was just remembering something," Richard admitted.
"Remembering what?" Arizona wondered.
Richard leaned back in the chair, resting his feet up on the edge of her bed. "When you first started here I was in a bad way. Dr. Kenley's death made me face my own advancing age and I put myself out of commission for a while. Bailey she was mad, you infuriated her with your insistence on changing her patient's treatment plan; she called you an infant on roller skates, but you won her over and soon she knew exactly what I did, that you were just what our pediatric department needed."
"I remember that," Arizona chuckled.
"McHale at Hopkins told me that you were one of the best he had ever seen, he was devastated to lose you but he said that after a personal tragedy he knew you needed a change," Richard explained.
"My brother died," Arizona whispered.
Richard squeezed her hand gently. "I didn't know. Just like I didn't know back then that not only was bringing you here one of the best professional decision I have ever made, but one of the greatest personal gifts I have ever received. You are … an outstanding surgeon, people travel across the country to be seen by you but you are also one of the most important people in my life Arizona, whatever you need, whatever you decide I am here for you."
"I'm not leaving Seattle, my village is here Richard," Arizona reassured him.
"Callie has been camped out in the hospital since yesterday," Richard told her, changing the subject one he was reassured that he wouldn't be losing one of this hospital's greatest surgeons and his closest friends.
Arizona nodded. "I know. I've heard her."
"What do you want to do?" Richard questioned.
Looking up at the clock Arizona closed her eyes. "Peters is going to be here to do my 20-week scan in half an hour, I need her to not be here when that happens, but I do need to talk to her."
"Ok, so what do you want me to tell her?" Richard asked, not really sure what she was asking of him.
"Tell her I'll speak to her just, later, I can't have her here when Peters is here," Arizona panicked.
Understanding Arizona's need to have things revealed on her terms Richard nodded his agreement. "She wants to talk to Bailey about coming back to work here, I managed to talk her into holding off for a while until I knew how you felt about it but … I could have her schedule something now, that's if you're ok with her coming back to work here?"
"Callie coming back means Sofia coming back so, talk to Bailey, tell her the hospital needs Callie because it's true, we do, her post is still open and she's the best, everyone knows that," Arizona pointed out.
"You sure?" Richard needed to know.
Arizona squeezed his hand. "I'm sure, I need Sofia here, in Seattle."
"Do you er, do you want me to be here when Peters comes to do your scan?" Richard asked, whilst he knew Arizona trusted him he also didn't know how comfortable she would feel having him there.
"Yes," Arizona replied without missing a beat. "Please. I mean … if you are free that would be. Please."
Richard stood up, gently letting go of her hand. "I would be honored. I'll be back straight after I've spoken to Bailey."
"Thank-you," Arizona said, relived that she wouldn't have to go through it alone. Although she knew the baby was ok, had seen her heart beating with her own eyes she hadn't had a proper scan yet, hadn't had an expert check the growth of her unborn child, perform an abnormality scan and make sure that despite the abuse and stress her body had been through everything was as it should be.
"We're going to be ok," Arizona whispered, running her hands softly over her stomach. "You, me and Sofia we're going to be a family. I am going to be the best mother I can and Sofia she will be the best big-sister, ever," she reassured her unborn daughter, silently pleading with her to be ok.
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Once again thank you to everyone who took the time to review. So Callie and Sofia are in Seattle, Arizona is on the mend ... I promise there will be Callie and Arizona interaction in the next chapter.
