Time of death, 11:38pm "Thank you everybody, we did our best, it just wasn't the day for a 16 year old boy to be driving his dad's car on the freeway, can you close up please. Arizona said as she walked away from the surgical table. Walking from OR 2 Arizona checked her phone, three missed calls, their corresponding voice mails and 4 text messages, 3 from Callie the wife she'd walked out on earlier that evening and one from Alex, a selfie of himself and Jo one of the many she'd received during his 6 month tour of the world.
Message 1: " I gave you an hour Arizona, where are you? We need to sort this out" delete
Message 2: "Are you being serious? Running the paediatric ER on our first night off together in three weeks, fabulous, I guess I'll see you later, regardless of the time" once again delete
Message 3: "I'm going to bed,Sofia is in with me, thanks for a wonderful night" the cold sarcastic message left by Callie made her more angry, " Who does she think she is" she yelled as she walked into attendings lounge to get a coffee.
"Trouble in paradise Robbins?" Replied an evidently sleepy and awoken Miranda Bailey, "working on your night off and screaming about your wife in the halls, defiantly trouble, what's wrong?" She said with a reluctant tone in her voice.
"That selfish, man loving, arrogant, trust fund baby, yet at the same time she is a beautiful, intelligent, orthopaedic surgeon that I like to call my wife, well, well, ergh" Arizona fumbled as she sat down next to her colleague and dear friend.
"Babies, B" nickname she used for Bailey, was only appropriate when friends, not at work but she didn't care.
"Babies, my baby, my child, our baby, our child, Mark Sloan's child" Arizona sighed and she took a sip of her coffee.
A shocked then worried look came across Miranda " Sof, is she okay? Is she asking questions? I'm confused"
"Yup, I'm confused too, did you know that Mark Sloan wanted more children? With my wife?" Bailey looked more confused
"That wanker, quite literally knew he wouldn't be able to go near my wife so froze his sperm, obviously the plane crash happened, and I miss him, but Callie wants him".
The thought of Callie with Mark destroyed Arizona, tears began to stream down her face.
"Arizona, I'm still lost?"
"Callie and I want another child, my biological child, I chose a sperm doner, I mean we have a surrogate its all good to go but Mark, there he is again coming into our life, taking control"
Taking her hand Bailey looked at her friend, "You left your wife at home, with a seven year old running a temperature, because of that?" She couldn't hold in her laughter.
"Arizona,don't you see how good this is, your baby and Sof would be biologically related, and would have you two it's perfect."
"You sound like Callie, I get it's a good idea, I understand it's a good idea, but I don't understand why now, Mark has been gone nearly 5 years. You know what we've been through, hell you've pulled us together again, I feel betrayed, I can't help to think that if we'd have split up for good, she wasn't too bothered, because she still had Mark, she still had the ability to give Sof a sibling, I feel irrelevant, like a spare part in the Sloan show.'
Taking a breath and another sip of coffee, Bailey and Arizona sat in silence.
"Do you want my advice Robbins?" Nodding slowly she felt a speech coming her way…
" Go home, get into your bed, give your wife a goodnight kiss and sleep. Wake up tomorrow, stay at home and talk, because I know you Robbins, you don't hate this idea, you're still worried about you two, you think this could be another thing to ruin you and Callie but trust me, walking away to run the ER or to save tiny humans every time you argue is far worse for your relationship"
"Better for the tiny humans though surely" Arizona laughed, "thank you,B, I owe you one" as she turned around to head to the lobby.
It still creeped her out, hospitals at night, she'd done countless night shifts and to this day she couldn't quite figure out what is was, it's too quiet, or daunting, or eery.
The drive home was quiet, radio was off, her phone was in her bag, and all she could hear was Baileys voice in her head. "Go home, get into your bed" that thought was still worrying, what if Callie didn't want me in bed tonight…
12:23 when she arrived at home, in her scrubs, which was against hospital policy but hey she was the board, did she care?
Throwing them into the laundry basket in the bathroom she put on her comfies in the same place she left them hours before. This walk up the stairs and into her bedroom would be the longest walk of her life, what if Callie was awake, what if she knows I'm there and forces me out, all these questions were going through Arizona's mind.
Stood in the doorway of her bedroom she saw a sight she would never get bored of seeing, her Callie, arms wrapped so securely around her LC, so protective. Taking her prosthetic off and brushing her teeth Arizona finally took the plunge into bed, to potentially disturb two happily sleeping people.
"What do I do" she thought to herself, normally a not a question she'd have to think of when in bed with her wife, after any shift she'd get into bed, lay on her side, wrap her arm around her wife's middle and hold her, much like Callie was doing to Sofia, as securely as protectively and with as much love.
Turning over she felt a groan, Callie's groan, letting go of Sofia she grabbed Arizona's hand placed it into hers and onto Sofia's, like nothing had happened the three of them together.