Callie waits for Meredith and Amelia outside Arizona's recovery room. Tori left for a meeting with Jackson and Bailey is sitting with her now. The procedure went well, they know that. But Callie is still nervously waiting to see her.
"I don't know what happened. We just slept." Callie repeats.
"Torres, I don't need to know what you did or didn't do in bed with Robbins last night. Although I do question why you were there, she just had sensors implanted in her brain!" Bailey exclaims.
"She asked me to stay, she was scared. That's all it was." Callie says.
"Keep telling yourself that and maybe you'll believe it." Bailey remarks.
"I thought you were staying out of my personal life?" Callie says sarcastically.
"Oh I am trying to, but you need help. You're still in love with her you and you're an idiot if you don't know that she feels the same way." Bailey says bluntly.
"You don't know what you're talking about." Callie says dismissing her.
"Okay, then why have you spent the last two years working on designing a new leg for her?" Bailey asks.
"Miranda, I've been working on designing prosthetics for the Wounded Warrior Project, Hunt brought it to my attention, it just happens that Arizona will benefit from the project." Callie explains.
"Torres, two years ago you were growing cartilage in the lab. Two years ago, Arizona lost her leg and you switched your focus from cartilage to prosthetics. Sure Hunt introduced you to the project, but why do you think he did that?" Bailey asks.
"Because he has faith in me and my abilities." Callie replies smugly.
"And he knew that you'd do this for her. Because of her. Admit it to yourself, then admit it to her." Bailey says just as smugly.
Annoyed, Callie folds her arms and glares at Bailey silently.
"Callie?" Meredith says as she enters the waiting area. "Arizona is asking for you."
Standing up quickly, the Latina rushes to follow her, "Is everything okay? She's okay, right?" Callie blurts out.
"Yes, she's okay." Meredith replies, then asks, "Are you? Are you okay?"
"Me? Of course. Why wouldn't I be okay?" Callie asks. "I mean, yeah, I was worried about her. Weren't you worried about her?"
Nodding, Meredith replies, "Yes, I was worried about her. But you were more than worried, you thought you were going to lose her, which doesn't make any sense considering that the two you aren't together and haven't been together for two years. But right now, neither of you is acting like you're not together, so it's a little confusing to me. Is it confusing to you?"
"Uh, yeah. It is confusing to me." Callie says clearly, stopping just outside the door but looking directly at the blonde lying in the bed in the recovery room. "But right now, she's asking for me. So I'm going to go in there and be there for her and maybe things will get less confusing," Callie admits to her friend.
"Hey," Callie says walking over to the bed and taking Arizona's hand.
"You're here." Arizona says, relief visible on her face. She keeps closing her eyes, still struggling against the anesthesia.
"Of course I'm here." Callie says squeezing her hand. "I've been here the whole time Arizona."
"You have?" Arizona asks confused. "Y-You weren't in the OR, so I thought that you were busy or something." She adds unable to stop the tears from leaking out of her eyes.
"I wasn't in the OR because Shepherd wouldn't let me be in the OR." Callie says softly, "But I was watching and you did great. Everything went perfect." She carefully wipes her own tears away with her sleeve, not wanting the blonde to notice them.
"Calliope?" Arizona says so softly that at first Callie thinks that she imagined it, but then she repeats it and Callie bends closer to her to hear.
"I'm right here, honey what is it?" She asks
"Thank you for being here. I know things between us aren't great... this means a lot to me. Thank you." She admits.
"Oh my god, Arizona." Callie exclaims, "There's nothing that could ever stop me from being here for you, okay? I love you. We're family, we have a child together and I will always be here for you."
Opening up her eyes again, Arizona sees Callie's face and knows that she's being very honest right now. Reaching up, she wipes away a tear as it makes its way down her face. Then she closes her eyes again. Unable to stop herself, Callie leans forward and lightly kisses her lips. Arizona drifts off again and Callie pulls away. Taking a moment to wipe the tears running down her face, she takes a deep breath and composes herself.
Then she turns around and sees Meredith at the door and she asks. "Oh my god, have you seen Sofia? Alex took her yesterday and then everything this morning. I'm a terrible mother!" She says about to spin out.
Pulling the brunette over away from Arizona's bedside, she tells her, "You're not a terrible mother. And Alex and Jo have her up on Peds. Jo brought her in earlier to see Arizona before the procedure and she's fine. You trusted them to take care of her and they have." Meredith reminds her.
"I didn't even think of her this morning. Meredith what kind of mother does that?" Callie says still being critical of herself.
"Callie, the kind of mother who knows that her child is safe and being taken care of. Now what are you going to do about this?" Meredith asks gesturing to Arizona. "You both obviously still have feelings for each other. So do something about it!"
Taking advantage of the blonde sleeping in the recovery room, Callie makes her way up to peds to see their daughter.
As she comes off the elevator, she hears Sofia talking to Alex and she smiles. The little girl is wearing her lab coat and she's imitating what she's seen them do with patients.
"Dr Sofia, can I have a consult?" Callie asks as she approaches them.
"Mami!" The little girl exclaims, "Can I see Momma now? Is she all better?"
"You can see her in a little bit, she's still sleepy from surgery. Have you had a good time with Uncle Alex and Jo?" Callie asks.
"Oh, yes. We just finished rounds." Sofia informs her.
"Really?" Well I need to go do rounds, would you like to come with me?" Callie suggests.
"Okay, but then we can see Momma?" Sofia asks.
"Yes ma'am. Rounds and then we will visit Momma." Callie says agreeing to those terms. Then turning to Jo and Alex, she thanks them for taking care of her. "I didn't plan on staying here last night. I thought that I would be home." She explains.
"It's no problem. We stayed at your place and then Jo came over this morning and brought me scrubs so I could shower." Alex replies.
"Yes, and then we snuck in and visited Arizona and found out that she was going back in this morning." Jo adds. "So we just kept this one out of daycare and busy up here with us."
"Thank you for doing that. You both are awesome. I'll get her down to daycare later after we see Arizona." Callie adds.
"There's my girls!" Arizona says brightly when Callie and Sofia enter her room later that morning.
Callie can't help but return the smile, it's been awhile since either of them have used that particular phrase.
"How are you feeling?" Callie says, watching Sofia climb right up on the bed.
"I'm good. I hate this contraption though." Arizona says referring to the brace that Amelia installed to keep her from moving her head.
"It's just a precaution." Callie reminds her.
"Momma, Momma, I did rounds with Alex and Mami today." Sofia says excitedly, curious about the halo brace.
"Oh my, you've been very busy sweetheart." Arizona says reaching out to run her fingers through Sofia's long hair. Staring at the little one who reminds her so much of her mother.
Watching them contentedly, Callie sits on the edge of the bed and Sofia leans back on her.
"I'm hungry," the little girl says suddenly.
"Oh well, so am I." Callie admits and looks over at Arizona. "Have you eaten anything yet?" She asks, suddenly realizing that Arizona had nothing last night but jello.
"Actually, I haven't." The blonde admits and just then Amelia enters the room.
"How's the patient?" She asks.
"The patient is starving and has a headache." Arizona replies, glaring at the neurosurgeon.
"Okay, okay. You can eat now. I just told the nurse to order you a tray." Amelia says, trying not to laugh.
Then she motions to Alex to enter the room. He comes bearing take out from the Chinese place down the street.
"Don't get excited there blondie, it's just steamed rice and vegetables for you right now." Amelia informs her.
"I don't care. I haven't eaten since toast yesterday morning." She admits.
Callie takes the containers and opens them for her and hands her a fork, so she can eat out of them. Then she does the same thing for Sofia. Amelia and Alex have already begun eating theirs too.
After a few bites, Arizona looks back over to Amelia and asks, "When will you take this thing off and when can I go to PT and walk with the new prosthetic?"
"Says the patient who just got out surgery." Amelia replies teasing her. "Okay, here's the deal. You take it easy the rest of the day and I'll come back in and we'll test again. But you're staying another night and then if everything is good in the morning, we'll discharge you and take you to PT. But the rest is up to Dr Torres."
Arizona looks at Callie and smiles and bats her eyes, "Dr Torres?" She asks sweetly.
"We'll see. I don't want to commit to anything until you're discharged." Callie says cautiously.
"Okay, we'll see." Arizona repeats and everyone is a little shocked that she is taking it so well.
Then the blonde turns to her daughter and asks, "Sofia, do you want to see Momma walk tomorrow on her new super special leg that Mami built?"
"Yeah! Oh Mami, can I? I wanna watch Momma walk! You said that her new leg was awesome. I wanna watch!" Sofia says excitedly.
"Really? You're using our daughter to get your way?" Callie says raising an eyebrow. Trying not to smile. She hates that she can't just acquiesce, but she'll be damned if she makes another promise to the blonde that she can't keep.
"Please Calliope?" Arizona asks sweetly.
"Arizona, probably. But I can't say for sure until we see where we're at tomorrow." Callie says, still avoiding making a promise to her.