Meredith stood up and said "What? What did you just say?"
Arizona stood between the two women and said "Callie, I think you should go."
Callie said "Arizona can we please talk in private?" Arizona shook her head and said "I don't t know what that would accomplish."
Callie ran her hands through her hair in frustration "Arizona, can't you see? This isn't real. Meredith has never been interested in women. You haven't been with anyone since we broke up."
Meredith started to speak, but Arizona wouldn't allow it. She turned to her ex wife and said "Pay close attention, I am not going to repeat myself. I didn't date anyone after we broke up because of what you did to me. You came to me the night before our trial separation was supposed to end and you used me. You told me the very next day that you wanted to be free of me. Apparently I wasn't good enough. Then you get a new girlfriend and you tell everyone she made you happier than you've ever been. I had to sit back and watch and let me tell you, it hurt. But it didn't hurt near as much as you deciding you wanted to take our daughter halfway across the country without any regards to my or her feelings. You let your lawyer call me a slut and a not even a real Mom. I was stupid, even though I won, I let you take her anyway. You had taken away all my confidence, all my self esteem. But this woman" she said pointing to her girlfriend "this woman, she brought me back. She saw me as a person worthy of love. She loves me. I am good enough for her and I love her. You don't get to tell me this isn't real. It is real. We don't need your approval, or permission. This is happening. I am moving in here, we are a family and you need to accept it." She grabbed Ellis' bottle and said "I'm putting her down for the night" and she walked out of the room.
There was silence in the room. Meredith looked to Callie and said "I'll walk you out."
After the baby was asleep, Arizona returned to the kitchen. Meredith had cleaned up the dinner mess and was in the living room on the couch with Sofia's head in her lap and Bailey leaning against her other side. Zola was sitting in the recliner and she scooted over and asked Arizona to sit with her. There was only about 10 minutes left in the movie. After the movie, Arizona asked Bailey and Zola to go brush their teeth. They needed to talk to Sofia for a minute.
Sofia sat up and started tearing up. Meredith pulled her into a hug and said "Hey, what's that for?" Sofia looked at both women and said "I don't want to go back to New York."
Arizona came and sat next to her daughter and said "No Sweetie, you aren't. You and Mommy are moving back to Seattle. I have already called your old school and you will be starting on Monday. Plus, on the days when you are with me, we will be staying here because Meredith asked me to move in here with her. Is that okay with you?"
Sofia jumped up and hugged her Momma, "Yes, yes, yes. I love you so much, and you too Meredith. Can I go tell Zola?"
Meredith pulled her girlfriend into a hug and said "I am so sorry that you had to go through this tonight." She kissed her girlfriend and when it became too heated she pulled away, lets tuck in the kids and I'll tuck you in." As she wiggled her eyebrows.
The next morning, Arizona was in the kitchen cutting up fruit for breakfast. Meredith walked in "You're up early." She kissed her girlfriend. Arizona looked up with tears in her eyes and said "I couldn't sleep." Meredith held Arizona in her arms and the blonde started crying. This lasted for several minutes. Meredith held her girlfriend's face so she could look into her eyes. Arizona broke the silence "Why is she doing this?"
Meredith held her and said "I don't know, but I promise I will take care of this." She kissed her girlfriend.
Several days went by and everything was pretty uneventful. Maggie had actually expressed interest in taking over Arizona's lease. She didn't want to intrude on the love birds. That was going to leave Maggie's room empty. Both Meredith and Arizona talked to Zola about what she wanted. Since Arizona was moving in, it also meant that Sofia was going to be staying at the house more. They did not want Zola to think that her opinion didn't matter. Arizona was insistent that Zola make this decision, she didn't want the little girl to be resentful later on. The little girls and best friends could share Maggie's room as it was bigger or they could move Bailey into Maggie's room and give Sofia Bailey's room. Zola chose to share Maggie's room with Sofia. Zola couldn't wait to tell Sofia. They were going to pick out matching furniture. Meredith loved how Arizona was always thinking about her kids and the way she treated them.
Sofia has started back at school already and Arizona was returning back to work today. As much as she loved her job she could really see herself in the role as a stay at home Mom. She loved spending time with Meredith's kids.
She was paged into an emergency surgery almost as soon as she started her shift. After several hours she was finished and had updated her patient's family when she was paged by the chief. She went to her office and knocked. Bailey invited her in "Arizona, how was your time off?
"Oh Miranda, I enjoyed every minute of it." Arizona said with a smile.
"I wanted to talk to you about a few things. First, how is it going with Callie being back?" she was concerned about her friends and didn't like drama in her hospital.
Arizona said "I love having Sofia back." Avoiding the difficult conversation that she was sure to come. The chief smiled "Let me know if it becomes a problem, okay?" Arizona nodded.
Bailey told Arizona that she had some good news. Dr Richardson has agreed to come to Grey Sloan. Bailey also told her that she tried to get Addison to return but she was very happy where she was. Bailey asked Arizona what she thought about adding two fellow positions. They agreed to wait until Gwen was there before they started interviewing for fellows. Bailey told her friend that she hoped this would ease some of her workload. She also mentioned that she thought that the charges against Alex were going to be dropped and he would be coming back soon.
Arizona couldn't wait to tell her girlfriend the good news.