Shout out to my beta, Calzonaheart. If it wasn't for her, this story wouldn't be where it's at! THANK YOU!

Chapter 61

Rolling over, Callie felt the cool air on her skin causing a shiver to run down her spine. Looking around for her blanket, she saw that River and Charlie had managed to pull her cover off her body during the night and were both now lying asleep on it. Scooting closer to her wife, Callie got under

the blondes blanket and laid her head close to Arizona's on the same pillow before cuddling up to her warm front after she saw she had a few more hours of sleep left before she had to catch her flight to Miami.

Stirring, Arizona felt Callie's cold legs come in contact with hers. Wrapping her legs around the Latinas to warm her up as she pulled her closer when she felt the cold brunette snuggle up to her. Letting out a content sigh she cupped her wife's caramel face with her palm, something that always seemed to sooth them both.

Waking up again after what felt like only a few more minutes of sleep, Callie saw Charlie whimpering by the French doors in the kitchen. Somehow during the past few hours, their positions had change and Arizona was now spooning her. Stretching her body before she stood up from the floor and made her way to the back of the house letting the dogs out to use the bathroom. Walking to the coffee pot she went about making a pot before she got going this morning. Leaning back on the counter waiting for the pot to brew, Callie yawned as she saw the clock on the stove that showed 10:09 a.m. "Shit." She quickly turned and made her way back into the living room. "Arizona." She said tossing a pillow at her wife. "I'm late."

Feeling a pillow smack her right in the face, Arizona darted up. "What was that for?" She whined.

"I'm late, my flight leaves in less than an hour. Call me a cab.." She said, running up the stairs to quickly change. Throwing on a tshirt and sweats, she quickly went to the bathroom to brush her hair and teeth. Callie didn't care what she looked like at the moment she wanted to stay comfy on her six hour flight so sweats were her best choice. Rushing back into her bed room, she threw on her tennis shoes and grabbed her coat out of her walk-in closet.

"What are you doing?" Callie asked the blonde when she saw her pulling on a pair of jeans in the closet.

"Well, if you won't let me go, I'm at least taking you to the airport." Arizona said zipping up her pants and then pulling a blouse down off a hanger.

"Arizona, it's after ten in the morning. You're over two hours late for work."

"Oh.. shit." The blonde yelped, quickly slipping on some shoes. "Why didn't Teddy call me?" She said picking her phone up off the night stand. "Damn." She growled seeing six missed calls from Teddy and two missed calls from the clinic. "How the hell did we sleep that long." She said sending her friend a text.

"I don't know." Callie said, throwing her hair up in a pony tail. "When will my cab be here?"

"I didn't call. If you won't let me go, I'm at least taking you to the airport." Arizona said.

"Arizona, you're late for work." Callie said, leaving the room. "I'll just take my jeep."

"No. I don't care how late I am. I'm taking my wife to the airport." Arizona said, running downstairs with her wife. "Please. I won't see you for a few days" She said, looking up at her sadly.

"Okay." Callie replied, picking up her suitcase and walking to the door with Arizona on her heels. She didn't want to leave her wife right now with all that had happened yesterday between them. But she also knew if she didn't go ahead with her trip to Miami now, it would be a while before she would have the nerve to go again.

"Are you sure you don't want me to come?" Arizona asked as they jumped into her jeep.

"Yeah, I'm sure." Callie said, taking her wife's hand as the blonde navigated through the wet streets of Seattle. During the night, a thin light and fluffy blanket of snow had fallen down covering the grassy areas making for a beautiful view on their drive.

"I'm sorry we didn't get to talk." The brunette said, after a few silent minutes.

"Yeah, me too.. me too." Arizona said sadly as she drove her vehicle down the exit for SeaTac Airport. She couldn't shake the feeling her wife was just wanting a few days away from her also and the upset her.

The trip to the airport was quick and felt kinda awkward between the two women, but before they knew it they were both standing at the gate for Callie's flight. Noticing it was only mere minutes before her wife's flight should be called, Arizona stood a few feet away from her brunette a little taken back that they were leaving things like they are. "Callie..." She whispered, with her hands in her back pockets.

"We will... we will." The brunette said, cupping her wife's cheeks when she heard the bit of sadness in the blondes voice. Laying a soft kiss on pink lips, she then circled her arms around her wife's neck. "We'll talk when I get back okay?" She whispered, just as they heard her flight being called.

"I don't want you to leave like this." Arizona mumbled into her wife's ear, as tears formed in her eyes. "Not when things are awkward."

Feeling her wife wrap her arms around her waist as she held on tight. "I don't either, but if I don't do this now, you and I both know I won't." Callie whispered, kissing the blonde under her ear.

"I'll miss you." Arizona said, pulling back from the hug as they called her wife's flight again.

"I'll miss you too." Callie said, wiping the wetness from her wife's eyes. "I'll call you when I land."

"Okay." Arizona said, holding onto her wife's hand. "I love you, Calliope." She said meeting brown eyes as other passerbyers walked passed them.

"I love you too." Callie squeezed the blondes hand. "We'll FaceTime tonight, okay?" She said, running her hand over her wife's cheek and leaning in for one last kiss.

"Kay."

"I got to go. Have a good day at work." Callie said, resting her head on her wife's. "Remember... I love you." She whispered, pecking pink lips one last time before she walked to the gate and handed her ticket to the attendant. Turning back around before disappearing, Callie waved and blew a kiss at her upset wife.

Watching the brunette turn, Arizona waved goodbye and dried her eyes as her wife disappears down the terminal. Just mere moments after seeing her wife vanish, she felt her phone buzz in her pocket. Retrieving the device, she looked down at the screen and saw a text from her brunette.

-Miss you, already. - XO Callie -

- Me too! Have a safe flight, Calliope. - XO -Arizona -

Waiting around the airport, Arizona watched her wife's plane take off down the runway and ascend in the air before finally deciding it was time to head to a long day of work even though she was now already three hours late. Walking into the clinic after stopping by her and Callie's favorite cafe to grab a quick lunch seeing she already missed breakfast, Arizona made her way into the empty clinic.

Seeing Teddy, shuffling through papers at her desk, she made her way up to her friends space. "What's going on Teddy? There isn't anyone in the waiting room. You didn't cancel anyone did you? I thought we had a full day scheduled?" Arizona questioned.

"Arizona.. hey." Teddy said, looking up from her papers. "We have been busy, but with Cal gone the rest of the week I've had the extra nurses and we've zoomed through the schedule. Most were just follow ups. We've already saw over thirty patients." Teddy grinned, proud of herself.

"Wow. Thanks Teds. Anyone still waiting to be seen?" She asked, sitting down in the vacant chair beside Teddy.

"No." Teddy answered, noticing her friend was a little off. "What's wrong? Last night didn't go so good?"

"You said, Callie's gone the rest of the week?" Arizona asked.

"Yeah, she asked me to take care of her schedule the rest of the week so I pushed everything back. I figured you'd go with her actually."

"It's just Tuesday. The way she talked she'd only be back in a day or two at the latest." Arizona slouched on her chair at the realization that her wife might not be home for days. Was it really because of their fight yesterday she began to wonder. They still hadn't made up really and it was killing Arizona knowing Callie was going to be all the way across the country when they still were at odds with each other.

"Why didn't you go? I thought for sure that was the reason you weren't here this morning. I figured you'd forgot to call me in the haste of packing and all the love making." Teddy said, finishing her charts.

"Yeah, there was definitely none of that." She said, resting her head in her hand.

"What happened?"

Shaking her head, "I was laying by the fire asleep, so I don't know how long Callie was home before she eventually laid down with me. We talked but we didn't talk, ya know." Arizona admitted.

"No. I don't know." Teddy laughed. "You talked, but you didn't? Fill me in here."

"When we fight, we always talk it out and we didn't last night. I mean, she apologized for getting mad and stuff, but we didn't talk about it. There is so much I want to say about what was said." She said, fighting off her emotions as she replayed the fight in her mind. "She hurt me yesterday Teddy." Arizona said, bringing her knees to her chest and crying into them.

"Awe, Zo." Teddy soothed, standing from her seat to caress her friends back. "What did she say that bothers you the most, honey?"

"It's not her being upset at me for buying the tickets... I understand that. And I told you... she may be pissed but... I didn't care... I mean I do of course but I still.." She said, between tears.

"Don't start rambling on me." Teddy laughed, kneeling in front of her friend.

Blowing out a huge breath of air, "She said that she couldn't believe she let herself get excited about having a baby with me and then she just left.. like it was nothing. She said what she needed to say and just walked out. I don't know why, but those words hurt so bad." Arizona said, wiping the tears from her face. "I've done nothing to make her believe I don't want this and just because I rescheduled the appointment doesn't mean I'm backing out. Hell Teddy, me.. me." She said, pointed at her chest. "Arizona Robbins was the one who came to her about it, not the other way around. You know I wouldn't initiated this if I hadn't thought it through." She said angrily, new tears forming with the more words she said.. "And now she just.. left me.." She broke down again.

"She didn't leave you.. She just went to see her family, that's what you wanted, sweetie."

"No. What I wanted was to go together. She didn't want me to go." Arizona said, raising her head from her knees. "Me sitting here and her up a mile in the sky was not what I wanted."

"I know.." Teddy said, wrapping her friend up in a hug as she continued to cry. "Why don't you just go home today. I've got things covered here."

"No, if I go home all I will do is mope around. At least here I have a purpose." She said, watching Teddy sit back down at her desk. "What are you doing?" Arizona asked as Teddy took a bunch of charts that she had put to the side.

"I'm going to reschedule your patients for the rest of the week. I'll see the ones I can and we'll just reschedule the others and tell them we have to cancel because you're out with a family emergency." Teddy said, pulling her first chart for tomorrow.

"No, Teddy. She told me to stay here since Avery is off." Arizona said, standing from her seat and walking up to Teddy's desk.

"Since when have you listened to her when she said she didn't want something?"

"No Teddy. She doesn't want to be with me right now. That's evident."

"But what if she was just saying that hoping you'd follow her like you always do?" Teddy said picking up the phone to call the first appointment. "Since when did Arizona Robbins listen to Callie Robbins when she said she didn't need you by her side?" Teddy questioned as she started dialing a number. "See... I'm right."

"Wait.." Arizona said, stopping the call. "She said, she didn't want me going. What if I show up and she gets even more mad."

"Not gonna happen. She can't resist that Robbins charm." Teddy said, smacking her friends hand off the phone. "She won't get mad, as much as she may deny it only because she may be upset," Teddy shrugged. "She needs you right now."

"And I need her... Tomorrow.. I'll go tomorrow. I'll give Calliope some time with her family by herself today.."

"Arizona, you are her family now and a part of that family so you need to go now, you're upset.. she's obviously upset and she's getting ready to see Maria. She needs her wife by her side." Teddy said, as she began calling Arizona's patients.

"Wait... She's suppose to FaceTime me this evening. I'll catch a flight after that, but I won't tell her. I'll surprise her. Maybe I'll take the red eye tonight be there when she wakes up?" Arizona rambled as Teddy talked over the phone. "What do you think."

Hanging up the phone after she left a voicemail with the patients parent, Teddy gazed up to her friend and laughed. "You'll FaceTime her as soon as she gets in. That'll be what... Seven or eight o'clock east coast time?"

"About." Arizona answered.

"That's about four or five our time.. so get a plane for right after. That would put you getting there about three a.m. East coast."
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After landing and fighting with baggage claim over her lost luggage. Callie climbed into the yellow car she hailed and gave her parents address to the man. Retrieving her phone from her pocket, she quickly sent off a text.

- Hi. I landed and I'm in the cab on my way to my parents. The airlines lost my luggage. :( I'll call you later. - Callie -

- Calliope... - XO - Arizona -

- Is something wrong? - Callie -

- Yes something is wrong! My wife flew across the country and is being short with me. I don't get nothing but a hi, I'm here? - Arizona -

- Arizona, I just hav

Callie began to type as her phone started ringing. Sighing when the picture she took last night of the dogs and her wife sleeping came across her screen. "Hello?" Callie answered her wife's call, not getting an answer right away. "Honey?" She said, when she heard the blondes sniffs. Callie never could stand to here her wife cry, it always broke her heart. "Why are you crying?" She asked softly. "Answer me, baby. Are you okay?" With the mood she was in she felt like crying right along with her.

"No." She sniffed on the other side of the phone. "How am I suppose to be okay when you're in Florida."

"Baby." Callie sighed. "I'll be home soon, this is what you and everyone else wanted."

"No. It's only Tuesday. You told Teddy to push your patients the rest of the week. That's four days. Not a day or two." Arizona cried.

"I don't know exact how long I'll be here. It just depends on my nana honey. That's all."

Sighing, "I'm sorry." Arizona whispered. "I just... I wish I was there with you."

"I know, me too." Callie whispered. She regretted telling her wife not to come the moment she stepped foot on the plane. "Hey, I'll call you in a bit okay? I'm pulling up to my parents property. I'll call you after I see my nana."

"Okay," Arizona mumbled, barely audible.

"How about we FaceTime in a little while. Okay?" Callie asked her wife.

"Yeah. Give Maria my love."

"I will. I miss you." Callie admitted.

"I miss you too."

"Love you."

"Love you too, Calliope." Arizona sighed, hanging up the phone and walking upstairs with her dogs following behind. Making her way into her closet, she pulled out her suitcase and began packing her clothes also adding some for her wife incase they never find her luggage.

After taking her time packing, the blonde decided to take a hot bath to relax a little bit before her flight left for Miami in two hours. Hearing her phone vibrate on the floor, she leaned over the tub to see who was disturbing her bath. Seeing a picture flash across the screen of her brunette wife holding up Charlie and River as puppies, she quickly reached for her phone and accepted the Facetime call.

"Hey." She said when the picture came through. "Callie?" Arizona sat up in the tub. "What's wrong?" She asked, seeing her wife's tear stained face. Callie was sitting in the bed that they had shared on their first visit to the brunettes parents house with her phone propped up on her pillow that laid in her lap.

"I... I don't know if I can do this Arizona." Callie sounded upset.

"Do what baby?" She asked, forgetting she was naked in the tub.

"I don't know if I can see my grandma."

"What do you mean? Someone told you you couldn't?" Arizona asked confused.

"No, I just.. I don't know if I'm strong enough to do this." Callie answered, finally registering her wife was in the bathtub.

"Of course you can Calliope, you're the strongest person I know." Arizona said, standing from the tub and reaching for a towel to dry her body.

"I'm sorry. I didn't know you'd be in the bath. I'll let you go." Callie said wiping her eyes.

"Don't you dare hang up on me Calliope Robbins." The blonde said, stepping out of the tub and covering her wet body up with a towel."

"Don't cover up on my account." Callie tried to joke.

"You'd like that too much." Arizona countered, walking to their bedroom and sitting on the edge of their bed. "Talk to me Callie, what happened?"

"After I hung up with you, I went inside the house. I figured my grandma would still be staying at her place in the guest house, but she's not, she's staying in the main house. She must be feeling that bad, Arizona because she has always refused to stay even one night in here." She said, blotting her eyes with a tissue. "When I got here, I went to put my bags in my room and the nurse whose helping with my grandma came out of the room beside me. Nana's room is next to mine."

"Well, did you go see here?"

"No. The nurse said she was just starting to give her a bath, so I walked down to the beach for a little while to think about us. And when I got back..." Callie started to break down again. She was so close to her nana but she also felt so far away from the lively woman she was used to. "She was already back in bed..." She said between tears. "and I heard her.. breathing machine helping her and I just dont know if I can do this." She cried, her head falling down in her lap.

Seeing her wife cry her eyes out only brought fresh tears to Arizona's face too. "Aww.. Calliope." Arizona whispered. She couldn't stand being this far away from her wife in the first place and now the pain only doubled seeing the brunette this upset. "I'm sorry, baby." She tried to sooth. She didn't know what to say right now, because usually she would just swoop in and cradle her wife while she cried it out. "Callie, look at me..." She tried getting her wife's attention. "You are strong and you are brave." Her voice started to break. "But if you feel like you can't do this.. don't. Okay. I know I pushed you to do this, but if you don't think you can, it's okay."

"You didn't push me." Callie sat up after listening to her wife. "You knew I needed this, I'm sorry I was so mean to you." She said, wiping her eyes.

"It's okay, baby. That's not important right now." Arizona said, her heart breaking for her wife.

"I needed you here. I'm so stupid, cause I told you to stay home."

"Stop." She said, not wanting to hear her wife scold herself. "I wish I was with you, sweetie." Arizona said, not wanting to tell her wife she was on her way to her. "You'll see me before you know it."

"Will you.." Callie said, hiccuping mid-sentence. "Will you talk to me until I fall asleep?" She asked, laying down on her bed and covering up.

"I'll do anything for my girl." Arizona said as she watched her wife roll over on her side and prop the phone up on her pillow. "I love you with all my heart, Calliope." She'd give anything to be there holding her wife right now.

"I love you too, just as much." She said, wiping her nose.

"Only just as much?" Arizona teased, trying to get a smile from her wife.

"No." She gave her a half smile, with tears still brimming her eyes. "You know how much I love you." Callie mumbled. "Beyond words."

"My loves the same, baby." She said, winking at her wife, thinking it was kinda funny the last time she talked to her wife she was the one that was hysterically crying and this time it was now Callie. "What do you want me to talk about?"

Hesitantly, she bit her lip, but decided to say it anyway. "Talk about our babies. What do you think they'll look like?" Callie asked.

"Our babies." Arizona said, a bit caught off guard by that question. "I don't know really. But I'd like to see a little caramel skinned little boy or girl running around our back yard chasing our boys. Wouldn't you?"

"Yeah." Callie gave her a small smile. Picturing a toddler running around with her wife's blue eyes and dimples. She didn't care whether it was a boy or girl, as long as it looked like Arizona.

"I hope they look just like both of us. I'm sure we could find a donor that looked like you or I. Depending which one of us carries I guess." The blonde shrugged. If she said it didn't bother her talking about having these so called babies right now shed be lying, especially after their fight the other day. But right now, Callie needed this, so this is what she would do. Watching her wife shut her eyes, Arizona babbled on about what their baby would look like to whose personality it would have until she heard her wife's light snores begin. "Sleep tight, Calliope. I'll be there soon, baby." She whispered as she ended the call so she could head off to her flight.

24 days till Grey's returns.