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Chapter 93

Callie groaned as she entered the front door of the house. Walking down the foyer, she saw remnants of snacks from her wife and Teddy's movie night left strewn out in the living room to go to waist. Right now she could care less about the mess because she was beyond exhausted. She had been at work for over sixteen hours and she had never been more grateful for the weekend in her life. Turning the lamp off on the table by the door, she walked through to the kitchen to make sure the backdoor was locked before going upstairs to bed. All she wanted to do was fall into her comfy bed and sleep till noon.

Walking upstairs into her bedroom, Callie saw her wife sound asleep in the bed with her journal laying over her chest. Putting the book away, she kissed her forehead and fast growing baby bump before falling into bed, feeling too tired to change out of her t-shirt and sweatpants she had changed into after her last surgery.

Callie had been going full force lately. Work had been uncommonly busy for her as of late and she was also trying to get everything ready for the baby. Her and Arizona were suppose to decorate the nursery room together, but Callie had requested that they wait to get the room ready at a later date much to the blondes discretion. However, the brunette had went behind the blondes back and bought a knew lock for the baby's bedroom so Arizona couldn't go in the room without her knowing it because she had been working diligently on the nursery after her wife had went to sleep at night. She wanted to do something nice for the blonde and she couldn't wait to see Arizona's face on Christmas when she saw what she had done.

Arizona had stirred when Callie had let out a loud moan as her body molded into the bed. Looking up at the time she saw that it was close to two in the morning. Rolling over, she attached herself to the brunettes back as best she could with her bulging stomach in the way. "Mmm.. I missed you." She cuddled up to her.

"Mmm.." Callie was too tired to form words. She was in a light sleep when her wife let out a loud sigh after a few minutes. "What?" She groaned.

"Nothing." Arizona rolled on her back.

"I know that moan." Callie sleepily said. "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing. You're tired, you've been running yourself ragged lately. Just get some sleep." She told her as she turned on the TV. Lately it seemed that the blonde couldn't go back to sleep at night once she had been woken. As the days passes and she grew more, it was becoming harder and harder for her to get comfy.

"It's not nothing." Callie finally said, rolling on her back. "What is it." She said, rubbing the tiredness out of her face.

"I want some watermelon."

"I cut the rest of it up this morning for you. It's in the fridge."

"I ate it after work."

"You ate a whole watermelon in less than twenty-four hours?" She looked over to her wife.

"Don't say it like that. It's not like it was a huge melon."

"It took me almost a whole day of searching around Seattle to find a watermelon for you mere days before Christmas. And it's taken you less time to eat it all."

"You say it like I'm some porker." She huffed, crossing her arms.

"I'm not babe." She giggled. She was so tired it was either laugh or cry so she figured laughing was the better choice for them both. "You're only pregnant." She said, rolling over and pulling up her wife's shirt to caress her stomach.

"Don't." Arizona stopped her. She hated the way her body was looking right now.

"Arizona." Callie sighed, when the blonde rolled over away from her. "Baby don't turn away from me." She said, trying to get her to roll back over. Over the past few weeks, the blonde had a few stretch marks develop on the sides of her stomach and she was feeling embarrassed by them right now. "I'll give you five seconds to roll back over here before I take matters into my own hands and force you."

Giving into the brunette, Arizona rolled on her back and looked up to the TV that was hanging on the wall.

"Talk to me?" Callie said, leaning up on her elbow and throwing her leg over the blondes.

"I don't want you to see them." She said, tugging her shirt down, making sure no skin was exposed.

"Why not?"

"Callie." Arizona rolled her eyes.

"I'm serious honey. You were the one telling me months ago in Miami that it didn't matter if I had them. So what's the difference if you have them?"

"There just is." She said, covering her eyes up with her arm.

"No there is not." Callie said, lifting her wife's shirt up against her will. "Being a mom is going to be worth every stretch mark you get when you hold that baby girl in your arms." She kissed her wife's stomach. "You know what I'm going to think every time I see them?"

"What?" She said, still covering her eyes, but curious to what her wife was thinking.

"I'm going to think about how beautiful you were when you were pregnant." She said, caressing her wife's stomach. "Not that you weren't beautiful before, but you have this new level of beauty. It's like you have this bubble around you that is shinning with perfection and beauty." She moved her wife's arm to look her in the eyes. "You're so beautiful Arizona. And I for one will be grateful for the rest of my life to have that reminder of the time you carried my baby." She leaned down and kiss the one scar on the side of her wife's stomach.

And there she did it again, Arizona didn't know how, but Callie always seemed to make her feel good about herself even when she felt her worst. Giving the brunette a shy smile, she ran her fingers through brown hair. "Thank you, Calliope."

"Don't thank me. I'm just telling you the truth, baby." She leaned up to kiss her wife's lips before falling beside her in exhaustion.

"You're tired babe. Go to sleep." Arizona said, leaning over to kiss her wife's forehead.

"Where you going?" Callie yawned.

"I'm going after watermelon." Arizona said, rising from the bed.

All Callie wanted to do was sleep, but she couldn't let her wife roam around Seattle looking for fruit when she was twenty one weeks pregnant. "No you're not." She said, rising up. "I'll go get you one." She moaned, standing from the bed.

"No. I'll get it. You just got in from work. You're exhausted. You've done so much for me lately, I can get it for myself. You need to rest." Arizona said, standing from the bed.

"Arizona Michelle Robbins." Callie said, standing from the bed. "That is my baby in there." She pointed at her stomach. "And I don't want anything happening to my baby. Now lay your ass down." She pointed at the bed. "I'm not letting you go out this late at night roaming the streets of this city by yourself. You lay your butt down and I'll go find you some watermelon. I will not let you leave this house this late. I would never forgive myself if something happened to you or my baby." She said, slipping her shoes back on. She was tired and didn't want to go back out, but she wasn't letting her wife leave the house.

Arizona was taken back by her wife's demeanor. She had never really seen her wife so protective over her before and she really didn't know how to take it. "I'm sorry. I don't want you going out. It's too late and you're tired." She told the brunette. "It can wait until tomorrow. You're so tired."

"I'm okay. I know where to go this time, so I don't have to search everywhere. I'll run across town and get you some watermelon and be back before you know it." The brunette said, walking up to her wife. She was physically exhausted, but she'd do anything for her lover. "Get back in bed and watch some TV or something, and I'll be back before you realize I'm gone." She said, helping her back in bed.

"Be careful, babe." Arizona said, snuggling back under the covers.

"I will." She tried to hide back her yawn. "I'm going to take River with me to keep me company. You'll be okay with just Charlie?"

"Yeah, we'll be fine." She said petting the dog beside of her.

"Kay, we'll be back soon." She leaned down and kissed the blondes forehead. "Come on River." Callie patted her thigh to get her dog to follow her. "Come on." She said as the dog just sat there at the end of the bed.

"River." Arizona said getting his attention. "Go with mommy." She snapped her fingers and pointed to her wife to get him to follow the brunette.

Jumping in her jeep, Callie and River headed out to a little market all the way across town. It felt like she had to stop at every red light coming and going before she finally made it to the store on fifth street. Searching the store over twice before talking to the cashier to call their sister store all the way across the other side of town to make sure they had the melon her wife was craving. After getting the affirmation she wanted, Callie drove to the opposite side of town to grab her wife the fruit.

After purchasing three watermelons, the brunette and her dog were finally on their way home over forty-five minutes after they had left. By now it was close to three in the morning when Callie carried the items into her house. Heading straight into the kitchen, she cut her wife up some fruit before dragging her tired body back up the stairs where the blonde was waiting. "Okay, I have enough watermelon for you to..." Callie stopped when she saw her wife was sound asleep again in the bed. She knew the blonde hadn't been getting much sleep at night as of late so she didn't want to wake her up, but she didn't want her late night run all over Seattle to be for nothing either. Deciding it was best to let her sleep, Callie ran the fruit back downstairs and stuck it in the fridge before going back upstairs and falling into bed yet again for the night. After getting comfy she felt Arizona subconsciously wrapped her arm around her as they both drifted off into a deep sleep.

"Callie?" Arizona knocked on the nursery door a few rooms down past their room.

"Yeah baby?" Callie called from behind the locked door.

"What are you doing?" She had no clue as to what her wife was up too in this room as of late.

"Umm.. I'm just wrapping some last minute gifts I had bought you yesterday." She told her wife as she put the finishing touches on the room. It had been a few days since Callie spent almost an hour roaming around the town to find her wife some watermelon, only to find her asleep when she arrived home with the fruit. The brunette had an extra few days off of work because her patients family didn't want to schedule a surgeries so close to Christmas, so Callie had the last few days off work. Usually she would have spent it helping around downstairs in the clinic, but this time she took advantage of the time she had alone and finished her wife's gift she had been working on for weeks.

"We said no gifts this year."

"I know, but I couldn't get you nothing."

"I'll let it slide then, because I did the same." She laughed.

"See."

"Yeah yeah. I can't let Christmas go by and not get my love something."

"I know." Callie laughed behind the door.

"Well I need your help downstairs in the kitchen when you're finished."

"Okay honey. I'll be down in just a few minutes."

"Okay, don't be too long."

"Arizona?" Callie yelled through the door, as she gathered the trash up.

"Yeah?"

"I love you and our baby girl go much."

Smiling at her wife's sweet sentiment, she rubbed her swollen stomach. "We love you so so much too, baby." She said, turning and walking back downstairs.

Looking around the room, Callie made sure she had everything in place for tonight when she showed her wife the finished nursery. Turning the rocking chair more towards the window so they could sit and see the beautiful view of the bay, she then threw the throw her grandma had made for her when she was younger, across the back of the rocker.

Unbeknownst to Arizona, Callie had went and purchased every piece of furniture she had wanted for the nursery. Their first time in the baby story when Arizona went crazy over all the items, Callie had the sales clerk, Dan, sneak around behind them and write down all the items she and her wife had wanted. The next day during her lunch break, the brunette had ran down to the store to give him her credit card and pick up a few items she needed to start putting the nursery together.

Many of late nights later, the room was absolutely perfect to her and she hoped her wife would feel the same way. Sitting down in the smaller glider by the door, Callie just took a few quiet minutes picturing what their life would be like when the baby arrived. One more glance around the room, she deemed the nursery a success and left, locking the door behind her.

"Whatcha need babe?" Callie asked when she got to the bottom of the stairs. "Honey?" She said, walking into the kitchen as her wife turned around with a look of panic on her face. "Arizona?" She said, as the blonde clutched her stomach. "What's wrong?" She asked, running up to her wife.

"I.." Her eyes were trained on her stomach. "I think the baby just kicked." She looked up at her wife and grinned.

"Really?" Callie asked, kneeling down in front of her. "I can't wait until I can feel her." She said, lightly laying hands on the blondes stomach.

"Yeah. I've never felt her kick before. I've felt a flutter, but this is totally different." She laughed as Callie lightly kissed her belly.

"Are you playing soccer in there my baby girl." Callie said to her wife's stomach. "Or are you just excited that it's Christmas Eve just like your mama?" She looked up and winked at her wife.

"We're Robbins girls, we love Christmas." Arizona shrugged. "Oooh." She said placing her hands on her back.

"She did it again?" Callie looked up, her hands still on her wife.

"Yeah. She's killing my back today."

"I wish I could feel." She pouted, standing up from the floor. "Come here." Callie walked over and sat down at their dinning table. "Sit on my lap." She patted her thighs.

Sitting on her wife's legs, Arizona felt Callie grab her waist and press her thumbs into her lower back, deeply massaging her. "Mmmm.." The blonde moaned. "That feels really good." She closed her eyes and just relaxed her body as the brunette tried to give her some relief.

"Why don't you sit down for a little while and relax. You've been busting your ass getting things ready for tonight. I'll finish up in here." Callie said after a few minutes of massaging her wife.

"Yeah, but you've busted ass getting the house decorated and ready for everyone too."

"But you're pregnant." She said, scratching her wife's back softly. "What did you need my help with?"

"I needed you to get the coco off the top shelf in the pantry and I also need the platter off the top cabinet."

"Okay, everything else ready?"

"Yeah. I think so."

"We have about an hour or so before everyone shows up. Why don't you go upstairs and soak in a warm bath with some Epsom salt? Maybe that'll ease some of your back pain."

"Will you bring me some coco?"

"Yeah." Callie laughed.

"Hey, don't laugh. Everyone's going to be drinking wine or beer tonight and I want something besides water."

"I'm drinking coco with you sweetie." She patted the blondes thigh. "Go on upstairs and I'll be up in a few."

"Arizona, where are you?" Callie asked after making their little make shift bed by the fire. They had spent the evening entertaining their friends for the holiday and now it was time for their favorite part of the night.

"I'm in the bathroom. Your baby's squeezing my bladder." She said, washing her hands.

"I want to give you one of your gifts right now. I wasn't going to give it to you until tomorrow morning, but I can't wait any longer." Callie said as her wife walked into the room.

"Is that?" She pointed to the bed her wife had made in front of the fireplace.

"It's the mattress out of the downstairs guest bedroom. I had Mark and Derek bring it out here before they left." Arizona was just starting to be able to tolerate Mark again. Callie had told her several times that if she wasn't comfortable with him being over during the holiday that she'd have no problem telling him that he couldn't come, but Arizona insisted she couldn't do that to him or anyone. "With the way your back has been hurting lately, I figured it would be better than just a bunch of covers."

"You're too good to me, Calliope." She said, walking up and hugging her wife. "I'm serious, you need to dial it back some, you're going to ware yourself out and get sick. You've been going none stop here and at work as of late."

"I'm okay. Things will calm down a little bit after the holidays."

"Well I appreciate everything you've been doing for me." She leaned in to kiss her cheek. "Thank you."

"Well, don't thank me just yet. I want to show you something." Callie held out her hand for her wife to take. She was getting a little nervous, she had put so much hard work into the room and she couldn't wait to see her wife's face when she saw it.

Squinting at her wife, trying to think of what it could be, Arizona placed her hand in her wife's and let the brunette lead her upstairs. "Where are we going?" She asked, when Callie stopped at the top of the stairs.

"Hush." The brunette shushed her. "Put this on please." She said, holding out a blind fold.

"You have some weird thing about blindfolds." Arizona laughed and let her wife place the cover over her eyes.

"Wait until you see the one I bought for the bedroom."

"Ooo, kinky." Arizona shook her boobs at her wife.

"Don't do that, not yet anyway." Callie giggled. "Okay." She waved her hands in front of her wife's face to see if she could see. "Come with me." Wrapping her arms around her wife's, she slowly lead her down the hallway. Unlocking the room she had been so focused on as of late, she stood behind her and guided her into the room.

"You have me slightly worried."

"Don't be." Callie said, quickly turning the light on and sweeping her eyes across the room to make sure everything was still up to par. "Okay. I just want to say before I take the blindfold off that, I love you." She moved to peck the blondes lips, only a peck wasn't enough.

Feeling her wife run her tongue slowly over her lower lip, Arizona pulled back from the kiss. "Callie, it's not that I don't like what you're doing because I do. I really really do." She grabbed onto her wife's arms for stability. "But I can't see so this is feeling a little creepy."

"It's not my fault you have tasty lips." She chuckled. "Okay, back to task. I just want to tell you how much I love you. You are my world and I can honestly say, I don't know where I'd be without you here with me, life with you makes perfect since."

"Calliope." Arizona said with a content sigh. "I say the same thing to myself everyday. Nothing made since until I met you." She said, searching blindly for her wife's face. "I love you, you're my everything." She said, caressing her wife's face.

Taking her wife's hand. "And you're mind." Callie said, kissing her hand. "I feel like our baby's mom. And I can honestly say, this baby already holds a place in my heart that I never knew existed and I've not even met her yet."

Hearing her wife say that, reminded Arizona that she needed to address something now before this went any further. "Stop." She paused. Can we talk a minute? Before you go any further, I need to talk to you." Arizona stopped her.

Happy TGIT!

I don't know if I can handle Derek dying! Here's to hoping he'll make it!