A/N: ok I lied I said I would update sooner but it took longer. I apologize.
I forgot to mention in the last chapter that I have no medical knowledge, everything comes out of my head and all mistakes are mine.
Thanks to pounkcakereal20 and bekki222 for their help.
Enjoy!
Chapter 15 :
"What?" was the only thing Arizona could say for now, shock written all over her face.
"She is two month pregnant. It's a miracle that the fetus is still viable with all the trauma and stress Callie's body received. From now on every second is crucial for the fetus and we are going to be monitoring it 24/7." Addison finished explaining.
The waiting room was silent except for Sofia's light snoring. Arizona didn't say anything for a while and then she just handed Sofia to Mark and made her way to the door. "I need to see her, "was all she said before she left the waiting room leaving five people dumb founded behind her.
Entering Callie's room in the ICU, Arizona's breathe hitch. Callie looked like she was sleeping except she had a bandage wrapped around her head and a tube going down her throat was the only evidence that she had surgery.
Sitting down on the chair next to her bed, Arizona took Callie's hand in her own. She looked so peaceful it was hard to believe that fourteen hours prior they were both covered in her blood and that she almost died.
Arizona's eyes trailed down Callie's body and they stopped at her belly. She couldn't believe it, Callie was pregnant with her baby! Arizona remembered the day before all of this happened, Callie was feeling sick and she felt stupid for not making the connection. However, they had been very cautious about this and she didn't understand how it could have happened. She suddenly remembered the last time they forget to use protection but Callie had taken the pill right after, but then again the pill doesn't always work.
She needed to know what they will do when Callie wakes up especially with a baby in the picture. It was too soon for them to be having a baby; she didn't even have the chance to tell Callie that she loved her. Erica still hasn't signed the divorce papers and Sofia was still young. There was too much things to think about that it hurt Arizona's head. Now was not the time to be thinking about that.
Arizona brought Callie's hand that she was holding to her mouth and kissed it. She then stroked her cheek and whispered.
"Please wake up soon, I need you."
One day later:
The next day, Arizona woke up to the sound of people whispering in the room. They were still no changes in Callie's condition and she still hasn't shown any signs of waking up soon.
She sat up straight and saw two people whose faces she didn't know, one of them were holding Sofia. They were talking with Bailey and Addison.
Even if she didn't know who this people were, she guessed that it was Callie's mother and sister because they looked so much alike.
She quickly stood up and made her way toward the women. Despite the fact that there eyes were red and puffy from crying, they still manage to send a small smile toward her. She sent a small one back and took Sofia in her arms holding her protectively.
Even if they seemed nice, Arizona didn't trust them after her confrontation with Carlos.
"Hi I'm Lucia Torres, Callie's mother and you must be Dr. Robbins?" Callie's mom said extending her hand. She was a woman in her late fifties, with short brown hair. It was like an older version of Callie and her sister was a younger version.
"I am, nice to meet you Mrs. Torres" Arizona said with her voice still hoarse from sleep and shook Lucia's hand. She turned toward Aria who introduced herself and shook her hand.
"I was hoping that we could have met under better circumstances," said Lucia.
"Were we ever going to meet?" Arizona pointedly asked with venom, laced in her voice making Bailey and Addison's mouths fall open. "I mean you were never there for Callie before, so what change now?"
She usually didn't act like this but knowing how they ignored Callie all these years and treated her like shit and then come back as if nothing ever happened especially with Callie in this state made her blood boil.
"You are right Arizona, we were never there for her but it wasn't by choice. You can't go against what a man like my husband says. Aria and I tried to contact Callie but it was in vain because Carlos stopped us. However, now that my daughter is in a critical state I won't let him dictate what I can and can't do. I am very grateful that she found someone like you to take care of her and Sofia." Lucia said meaning every word she said.
"You don't need to thank me for being here, I'm here because I love them both and there's nothing I wouldn't do for them. I can't let you come back in their life if you plan on letting them down later, especially with Callie this vulnerable. She doesn't need any more heartache." Arizona said stroking Sofia head. She recently discovered that it soothed both Sofia and her.
Bailey cleared her throat making their attentions go toward her. When they were all listening to her, she started her update on Callie. "So her wounds are healing nicely, her tension is better than yesterday but she still needs the ventilator. However there's no change on the…um…baby… the heart rhythm is still low and Dr. Montgomery is still monitoring it."
When Bailey and Addison had finished talking they left the room, Arizona went to Callie and kissed the top of her head. She grabbed Sofia's bag by the door and left the room ignoring Callie's family.
She went to an on call room, placed Sofia on one of the beds. She changed her diaper and her clothes. Once Sofia was all cleaned up and pretty, they went to the cafeteria to grab something to eat and then Arizona dropped Sofia to day care for the day.
Arizona tried to spend a few hours with Sofia outside of the hospital. It had already been two days and the little girl was now noticing her mother's absence. At the end of the day, Arizona managed to avoid everybody inside of the hospital as well as Callie's family. She split her day between Sofia and quick visits to Callie's room.
24 hours and she still hasn't wake up, Arizona started to get worried. She should had been awake a lot sooner.
She spent the night in Callie's room and entrust Mark with Sofia. He took her to Callie's place where they spend the night.
One week later:
7 days. 7 long, freaking days and still Callie is showing no signs waking up. Her wounds got better every day but she was still very unconscious. As for the baby the state was still critical but nothing major happened yet. All week the cops tried to get a statement from the blonde and interrogate her about who the man was and what was his motive but she always found excuses to avoid them.
"You said she was fine so why isn't she awake?!" Arizona yelled at Derek. She started to get frustrated by this situation and by how she was powerless to do anything except sit, wait and hope for the best.
"I… I don't know-" Derek tried to speak.
"How can you not know? Aren't you supposed to be the best surgeon in the country, hell the whole world? 'I don't know,' is not a good enough answer! I need something real, not just some promises that something will eventually happen." She ranted. She was so sick of this! She had a crappy week, sleeping on the couch in Callie's room, having to affront her parents, Erica was too close for comfort being in places where shouldn't be and to top it all Sofia was super clingy. She couldn't stay away from Arizona's arms for one second fearing that is the blonde would suddenly vanish like her mother... and honestly she couldn't blame the girl. She too felt the absence of the brunette and missed her more with each passing day.
Arizona felt a hand on her shoulder and turned around to see her best friend.
"What?" she snapped at Teddy.
"Arizona, Derek is doing the best he can. No one could have known that she wouldn't wake up. You just have to be patient and keep the faith. I know it's hard but we are all trying-" Teddy stopped talking when Arizona started to laugh loudly when nothing was funny. She looked at her confused and to be honest she was a little freaked out. Derek also seemed to be scared by the blonde.
"You're funny" Arizona said between intakes of breath. "If I remember correctly, you were the one who stopped trying. You gave up on her in that OR and you let me down! If I hadn't been there she would be six feet underground right now! So don't come and tell me to try and be So don't come and tell me to try and be patient! I am patient!" she yelled and stormed out of the room leaving a dumbfounded Teddy and scared as shit Derek.
They didn't say anything for a while until Derek got closer and raised his hand to put it on Teddy's shoulder; she took a step back and put her hand in front of her halting Derek.
"I'm fine." Was all she said before leaving the room as well.
Teddy went to the closest on call room. Closing the door and turning around, she saw a red head sitting on the bed with her head in her arms. She didn't seem to have noticed Teddy. Getting closer to the bed, Teddy noticed her body shaking and guessed that she was crying. She sat next to Addison and gently put her hand on the redhead's back. Addison looked up startled by someone else's presence. Her body tensed at first but then relaxed when she saw that it was Teddy.
Teddy unconsciously brought her hand to Addison's face and wiped one tear strained cheek then the other. She didn't know why she did that but now she kind of didn't want to take her hand away.
She noticed how Addison had change over the week. She hadn't been the same since the incident. She stopped talking when it wasn't work related and barely ate anymore. She spent all of her time monitoring Callie.
Teddy looked at Addison's face and saw the dark circles under her eyes.
"Are you ok?" Teddy asked. Addison just shook her head negatively. "Want to talk about it?" she received another shook of the head but a few seconds later, Addison started talking.
"It's been a tough week Teds" Addison whispered and started crying again. Teddy took her in her arms and let her cry in her shoulder.
Moments later when Addison was done crying, she lifted her head out of Teddy's shoulder and looked at her. She was so close she could feel Teddy's breathe wash over her face. She didn't notice they were this close until now. She saw how Teddy looked at her lips and subconsciously looked at Teddy's. Teddy leaned slowly until they were only an inch away. Addison looked one last time in Teddy's eyes and then closed the gap between them pressing her lips tenderly on Teddy's.
They were forced to break their kiss when Addison's pager went off. Looking down, she saw it was a 911 for Callie's room.
"Shit, shit, shit!" she quickly stood up and ran toward Callie's room with Teddy hot on her trail.
After storming off on Derek and Teddy, Arizona went to the roof top to try to calm herself.
Leaning against the wall, she took out her phone from her pocket. Unlocking it, she was met with a picture of Callie, Sofia, and herself from the day they went to the zoo. She stared at the picture for far too long. A drop fell on the phone screen, thinking it was starting to rain, she looked up but it wasn't. It was then that she noticed that she was the one crying. She couldn't keep up like this; she was exhausted and angry at the world. Wiping her tears she dialed a familiar number. The phone rang but it went to voice mail. She was about to leave a message when her pager went off. She saw the 911 to Callie's room and quickly ended her call putting her phone back in her pocket.
When Addison arrived at Callie's room, the monitors where blaring. She and the baby where in distress; she went to Callie's side and retrieved the cover over Callie to examine her when she saw blood everywhere between her legs.
The thing she didn't want to happen happened and she didn't know if she would be able to fix this. "We need to take her to the OR now!" Addison yelled. Teddy and the nurses soon came, helping her push the bed to the OR.
When Arizona arrived in the room, she found it empty, only Mark standing in the middle waiting for her.
"Mark, where is she? What happened? Is she ok?" she fired him with rapid question after question.
"Ok first I need you to breathe Arizona. They had to take her back into the OR, she and the baby were in distress and she was bleeding. That's all I know, they won't tell me anything. We just have to wait." He said taking her to the waiting room.
Arizona couldn't do that again, she couldn't just sit and wait like the first time.
"I can't do this." she said and ran in the opposite direction.
She went to the day-care. She needed to see her baby. Wait… her baby? Well she didn't know if Sofia was her baby but it sure felt like she was.
Arriving in front of the day-care window, she saw something that made her blood run cold. Erica was there with Sofia. "What the hell are you doing here?" Arizona said ripping Sofia from Erica's hold. She smiled at Sofia happy to see her. Little Sofia hugged her as tight as her little arms could.
"Well I was enjoying a nice moment with my daughter until you so rudely interrupt it." Erica smugly said.
"First of all you are not her mother, you have absolutely no right and if I see you near her again you could be sure that you'll regret the day you were born." Arizona said and went toward a young lady who probably worked at the day-care.
"You" she said getting the attention of the girl. "Why did you let her near Sofia? She's not on the list."
"She said she was her mother and I didn't know it's my first day here I…" the young girl tried to explain herself but Arizona made a stop to her excuses.
"I don't care what you thought! She is not her mother, only the people on the list are allowed to be near Sofia. Do your god damn job properly!" Arizona finished and left the day-care with Sofia on her arms but she was soon followed by Erica.
"You know that I'm still married to Callie, so I have more rights over Sofia than you do." Erica said making Arizona stop walking. She slowly turned around now facing Erica. "What's that supposed to mean?" Arizona asked through greeted teeth.
"It just means that if I want to take Sofia, and I could eat easily and you wouldn't have any say in it."
"Is that a threat?" Arizona asked holding Sofia tighter in her arms.
"Just informing you." Erica said, turning around and leaving.
"Bitch." Arizona said, covering Sofia's little ears.
Arizona was anxiously waiting for someone to update her on Callie's condition. She was pacing the room not being able to stay at one place not having anything to do.
Mark had taken Sofia home with him and Callie's family was waiting with Arizona. Aria and Arizona were getting along; Arizona understood why she couldn't keep in touch with Callie when her father cut her off. She was 12 at the time and couldn't really stand up for what she wanted.
However she was tolerating her parents, if they were still here meant that maybe they changed their mind about Callie. Soon, Arizona realized that it was Carlos that had trouble with Callie being gay rather than her mother. She was always trying to engage a conversation with Arizona and never once did she look at her with disgust like Carlos did the first time he saw her.
"Would you please stop pacing?" Aria said having had enough of Arizona stressful behavior. She needed her to find a spot to sit and stop moving. She was making her dizzy with all this agitation.
"I can't! What if something is really wrong with her or if something happened to the baby! I wasn't even with her when it happened." She was really freaking out; she didn't how much bad news she could take.
"The baby?" both Aria and Lucia looked at her shocked. Carlos looked at her surprised but with a knowing look on his face.
She was about to answer them when Addison and Alex came through the doors with sombre looks on their face and at this moment Arizona imagined the worst and all colour was drained of her face…
A month later:
She stood there all dressed in black with Sofia in her arms while they were putting Callie six feet underground. She didn't move, didn't talk, she barely reminded herself to breath.
A lot of people were there, people she didn't know, all crying the loss of Callie. She was still standing in front of Callie's grave long after the service was over.
When it started raining, she turned around to go and saw him standing in front of her with Sofia in his arms crying her lungs out. She didn't know how he managed to take her from her arms.
He had a sadistic smile and looked at her with crazy eyes while he was loading his gun. Arizona's eyes grew wide and tried to run toward him but she couldn't, her legs didn't want to obey her. She was yelling and crying while she watches him point his gun toward her and then….
Beep, beep, beep!
Arizona jolted awake, hitting her head on the bunk above her. "Ow fuck!" she cursed rubbing her head. It was just a nightmare, again.
It was a month after the shooting and three weeks since Callie emergency surgery. Arizona reluctantly got back to work a few days ago.
Everywhere she went, people looked at her with pity eyes, whispering and giving her sad smiles or telling her that they were sorry. She tried to ignore them as best as she could but lately it seems to be more difficult than usual.
Sofia spent her days with her grandparents and her aunt. Things finally got better between them and Arizona realized that they really had changed. Her parents were also here. They took the first plane available when Arizona called them 3 weeks ago sobbing on the phone. Surprisingly, both sets of parents quickly got along and Arizona's parents were in love with Sofia as soon as they laid eyes on her saying that she reminded them of Arizona at that age.
She still hasn't heard from Erica since their last encounter at the day-care which was good because she couldn't deal with this shit right now. She had more important things to take care of.
Arizona finally gave her statement to the cops after her friends pushed her enough to stop running away and the mans trial was in 2 weeks.
Arizona stood up and put her hair in a messy ponytail and left the on call room to go see who paged her.
She was walking down the corridor; a few nurses looked at her sadly and offered her sad smiles. She was really getting sick of their comportment so she didn't acknowledge and continued walking toward the ER.
When she arrived, 3 interns were standing in front of the trauma room she was supposed to go for a consult. Getting closer to them, she realized that they were talking about her.
"Can you imagine your girlfriend getting shot and in the coma while you're waiting at her bedside 24/7 you learn that she cheated on you and is pregnant and then she..."
"Yeah, no I can't. It's horrible"
"Poor Dr. Robbins. If I were her I wouldn't even care about that bitch-"
"Ok, enough!" Arizona yelled making her presence known and startling the interns. "If I hear anyone talking about my girlfriend or me and making up false rumors, I swear to god you'll regret the day you were born!" she was yelling at everybody now. Everyone in the ER stopped to stare at the blonde who was blowing up like a bomb in front of them. "Stop with your pity look and your 'I'm sorry' Callie is not dead! And she will wake up soon!" she started to walk away but suddenly stopped and turned around facing them again. "Oh and she didn't cheat on me, I have a freaking penis, I made her pregnant!" she finished and left the ER, not looking back to see all the peoples shocked, jaw dropped and eyes wide.
After leaving the ER, Arizona took a deep breath and realized what she just said in front of the whole hospital. Did she just outed herself in front of everyone? She didn't even mind because her physical condition didn't even compare to what she was facing now. She looked at her watch and saw that her shift was over. She went to change her clothes and then to Callie room.
Entering the room, Callie looked like the last time she saw her. She still had the bandage around her head but didn't need the ventilator anymore. Arizona went to her bedside and kissed her on the forehead.
"Hey baby" she said. She then bent over Callie and kissed her small baby bump "Hey peanut." She said in a baby voice.
She sat in the chair next to Callie and started telling her about her day and about Sofia as if Callie was going to answer her.
"I really need you to wake up soon. I miss you, Sofia misses you, and everybody miss you. Please wake up and prove them that I'm not crazy." she said with her eyes starting to water. They had all lost hope of Callie one day waking up. But she didn't, she never would.
"I need you to wake up so I can tell you how much I love you Calliope Torres and that you're the best thing that ever happened to me. I don't want to live without you, I can't live without you."
She spent the next hour talking to Callie until her phone ringed. Retrieving it from her bag, she saw that it was a call from Aria.
"Hey, I'm about to head out, I'll be there in 15 minutes." Arizona said as soon as soon as she answered the call.
"Oh thank god! Sofia won't stop crying and asking for Callie. I don't know what to do." Aria said in a panicked voice. Arizona could clearly hear Sofia crying and calling for "Mommy."
"Hang on just a little bit longer." Arizona said and hung up. She stood up, said goodbye to Callie and ran across the street to Callie's apartment.
Arriving there she saw Aria struggle with Sofia trying to calm her down. As soon as Sofia saw her she started kicking her feet for Aria to put her down and when she did, Sofia ran in Arizona's awaiting arms. She put her head in the crook of Arizona's neck and softly murmured "Mommy," holding on tight to Arizona.
Aria looked at Arizona who didn't seem to understand what just happened with wide eyes.
"Holy shit!" Aria exclaimed.
"Language!" Arizona hissed throwing a hard glare to Aria.
"Did you not just see what I saw?" Aria asked. Arizona just looked at her questioningly.
"She just called you Mommy!" she squealed exited.
"No she didn't." Arizona said looking at her incredulously.
"She totes did! Look." Aria said getting on eyes level with Sofia.
"Sofia where is your Mommy?" she asked the little girl. Sofia just looked up and gently patted Arizona's cheek.
"Oh my god!" Arizona said her eyes wide and a big smile spreading across her face. "I'm you're Mommy!" She squealed hugging Sofia tight.
When she released Sofia from the hug she had tears in her eyes making the little girl look at her confused.
"Mommy no cry..." the little girl said wiping a tear from Arizona's cheek and pulling her lips into the cutest pout ever.
"I'm not crying baby girl. Mommy is just really happy" she said the word 'mommy' felt weird on her tongue without Callie there or her permission to be that role in Sofia's life.
Later that night, Sofia was asleep and Arizona was coming out of the shower. It was going to be her first night not sleeping by Callie's side since the shooting. It felt weird being in Callie's room without Callie in it. Everything was so consuming, her stuff were everywhere around the apartment and when Arizona stepped in the room she was met with Callie's unmistakable scent and she once again almost broke down. But this time she stayed strong. She couldn't break downs because everything something reminded her of the brunette, it wasn't healthy and it wouldn't change anything.
Aria proposed to stay with them for the night and sleep on the couch but Arizona had assured her that they were fine and that she could go to her hotel.
However, Aria didn't leave until Arizona promised to call her if she needed anything.
She went to Callie's drawer picking out an oversized shirt. She wanted to feel close to her and it was the best she could have right now.
Taking out the shirt, she felt something like a paper under it. She quickly pulled the shirt over her naked torso and reached for the envelope (The French spelling is similar to the English one but I assume the pronunciation is different!) sitting down on the bed she pondered if she should open it or not. She knew that she shouldn't, it wasn't her place to open it but Callie wasn't here and curiosity got the best of her.
Biting her lips she opened it and retrieves the papers inside.
Studying the papers, she saw that it was papers about Callie's life insurance, Sofia's birth certificate. The two last papers she saw made Arizona's jaw drop and her eyes wide. It was Callie's living will and the profile of Sofia's sperm donor.
She barely had the time to digest the new information she had learn when her phone started ringing.
Looking at her phone she saw that it was Addison calling.
"Arizona! She's waking up!"
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