It was finally date night. Meredith was actually a little nervous. She said goodbye to Maggie and the kids and left to pick up Arizona. Arizona greeted Meredith with a kiss. They drove to the restaurant and were seated right away. Meredith told Arizona that she thought this place was really hard to get into. Arizona smiled and said it is but the owner was the grandfather of a patient that Arizona had treated. Right as she said it, the older gentlemen walked up and greeted Arizona. He proceeded to tell them that he was having the chef prepare a medley of the restaurants specialties for them as poured them each a glass of some very expensive wine.
The conversation came easily. Arizona was telling Meredith about her childhood with her brother. How because they had moved so often they mainly only had each other. She told the story how one time when they had moved to a base in North Carolina, Tim was 11 and she was just 9. Tim had decided that she needed to pretend to not be able to talk and he would be her 'interpreter'. They went on like this for almost 3 weeks before the school called the Colonel about setting up special classes for Arizona. Boy were they in trouble.
Meredith enjoyed listening to Arizona's laugh. When she spoke about her brother she had a certain sadness in her eyes but the stories always brought out the dimples. They talked and enjoyed the food and were have a genuinely good time.
The owner was bringing the dessert tray for them to choose when Meredith received a text. Maggie was having a hard time with Ellis, she had been crying nonstop for about an hour and Maggie didn't know what to do. Arizona advised the owner that they couldn't get a dessert tonight that it appeared they had a sick baby at home and they needed to leave. She asked for the check and he said nonsense, you saved my grandson you don't pay. He also had the waiter to pack up several of the desserts to go. Arizona left a hefty tip for the wait staff and thanked the owner again for a lovely evening.
Meredith was concerned about Ellis, normally Maggie was very good with the kids so if it worried her enough to interrupt Meredith's date, then there must be something really wrong. They pulled up to the house and you could hear the little one crying before they reached the door. They walked in and Meredith walked up to Maggie and took the little one from her. She tried to comfort her and calm the crying baby down and nothing worked. Arizona held out her arms and Ellis came straight to her. Arizona could tell she wasn't running a fever she put her finger in the babies mouth and could feel the swollen gums. She proceeded to walk into the kitchen and get a popsicle out of the freezer. As soon as Ellis put it in her mouth she stopped crying. Both Meredith and Maggie just stared at the blonde holding the now happy baby.
Maggie looked at Meredith and said "I thought you said you had a date, if I had known you were just out with Arizona I wouldn't have felt so guilty about calling you."
Meredith replied "Arizona is my date." Maggie looked bewildered and said "Oh." And then a second later she said "Ooooooh. I'm sorry, I had no idea. Wow."
Meredith handed off the sampler platter of desserts to her sister as she went to get three forks. She looked at Maggie and asked "Is it going to be a problem for you?"
Maggie took a bite of one of the desserts and said "If she's going to bring back these kinds of desserts from dates, then I want to date her too."
Arizona walked in holding Ellis and said "She's teething, do you have some baby Tylenol or ibuprofen? The popsicle has numbed her gums for now but that won't last."
Meredith walked over and kissed Arizona and said "Thank you for being so good with her, I'm sorry our date was ruined."
Arizona told Meredith "Don't ever be sorry about your kids needing you. You are a good Mom. Now give me a fork before Maggie eats all our desserts."
They finally were able to put Ellis down for the night and Meredith asked Arizona to stay. She agreed and they went to Meredith's bedroom and shut the door.