The minute they closed the door, Sofia was racing up to them shouting which doughnut she wanted, obviously she wanted the biggest one. Showing off her best puppy eyes Sofia managed to get the biggest doughnut, but she was allowed it if she was to show her momma some affection. This wasn't an issue for the little brunette who sat herself on Arizona's lap while they ate their doughnuts. Her mother's couldn't take their gaze of one another but Sofia was too interested in her doughnut to notice. Once she had finished her doughnut she looked at her mami, she wiggled her sugary hands before pointing to a smaller doughnut at the back of the box. Callie raised her eyebrows before nodding. Sofia squealed as she reached for the second doughnut and returned to the comfortable position in the blonde's arms.
Arizona couldn't help the smile that grew on her face, she could feel the deepness of her dimples. Having Sofia around was the main source of her smile, wrapping her arms around the little girl she squeezed and placed several kisses on the top of her head. Between each kiss, Arizona would inhale the sweet smell of Sofia. As a baby, Arizona was obsessed with the innocent smell of her baby girl, it always made her bad days feel that little bit better.
The moment the last bit of doughnut hit Sofia's throat, she jumped off her mother's lap and ran into her room babbling on about her dolls. "Thank you for bringing her over Cal." Arizona smiled.
Callie, who was reaching forward for another doughnut, shook her head. "When I picked Sofia up from Meredith's, we were in the car and I just felt the need to come see you."
The confession from Callie made the blonde squeal inside, it had been a long time since Callie did something out of spontaneity and for that spontaneous moment to involve Arizona, she couldn't help but feel like a love sick teenager. Even if the love of her life had just ended a relationship.
"So… how did Penny take it?" Arizona asked, she had planned to be discrete but her impulsive nature took centre stage.
"Surprisingly well actually, I'd been avoiding her but she knew what was coming. Probably the most laid back break up I've ever had."
Arizona laughed, she knew most of Callie's breakups weren't smooth sailing. The end of their marriage was definitely not smooth. "Least that's over and done with."
"You never told me how things went with Jennifer?" Callie asked, her ex-wife didn't go into detail about how she ended with Jennifer, she had briefly mentioned it during an exchange with Sofia. In that moment, Callie wanted to scream with joy but for the sake of her own relationship status she stayed quiet.
"Nothing really happened, she asked me to go away for a weekend and I turned her down. She asked me why, and I told her I was still in love with my ex-wife" Arizona took a sip of her wine. "Apparently she could see the tension between us at my birthday and put the pieces together."
Looking down at her lap, Callie began to pick at a small thread in her jeans.
"Guess we weren't that discrete?" Callie spoke as she continued to pull the thread from her jeans, Arizona noticed what she was doing and sighed. Whenever Callie was uncomfortable she would always distract herself but picking at her closes, or pick at her finger nails. During their relationship, Arizona had tried to get the brunette to stop her habits, but some are just harder to stop than others… a bit like her occasional cigarette.
The silence was quickly disrupted by Sofia running back into the kitchen dragging ted by one arm, the little girl stood up straight in front of Arizona and gave her best imitation of a perfect smile.
"Either you really love your momma or you want something?" The blonde smirked, it wasn't often her daughter would present such a perfect smile without wanting something in return.
Sofia stayed in her spot but her eyes drifted towards the box of doughnuts.
"Sofia Robbin you've already had two."
"But momma!" Sofia's smile dropped and a frown appeared on her face.
Callie sat back in the chair and crossed her arms, the second Arizona looked at her for help she raised an eyebrow. She always had the reputation of being the bad cop, Callie wanted to see how Sofia would react when her super magical momma told her no. She knew she would intervene and become the bad cop but she couldn't help but sit and watch.
"You can have one tomorrow bug." Arizona spoke as she pushed Sofia's hair out the way of her face.
"I want one now momma!" Sofia pucked her bottom lip out.
"Sofia no, Momma said you can have one tomorrow." Callie sternly told her daughter, as she watched the girl back away.
The little girl dropped her head and stared at the floor, after a moment Sofia whispered something.
"What was that Sofia?" Arizona asked, as she scooted to the edge of her chair, she reached out to hold one of Sofia's arms.
"Please can I have one?" The little girl looked up at her mothers, her little brown eyes began to fill with tears as she clung onto ted.
….
Arizona flung herself on the sofa as she took the wine glass Callie held out for her "Definitely shouldn't of let her have the third doughnut."
"I told her no, you are too soft on her!" Callie laughed as she rested her head on the back of the sofa. It had been forty five minutes since Arizona had taken Sofia up to try get her to sleep. Callie's intention wasn't to come over and let her daughter stay, but watching Arizona and Sofia together trying to complete a puzzle she thought a spontaneous sleepover would benefit both Sofia and her momma. Callie had surprised herself with how spontaneous she was being, she had to admit she kind of liked it.
"How can I be the bad cop when our daughter is the definition of cute? Did you see her face when you said no?" The blonde moaned, she turned to look at Callie who in return was laughing.
"Our daughter is cute but come on Ari, you have to have tougher skin!" The brunette laughed as she nudged Arizona's arm.
"You sounded like Mark then… he always tried to make sure we had tough skin."
Callie sat up in the sofa and puffed her chest out "Robbins you have to toughen up, our daughter has Torres genes we have to be one step ahead." The brunette mimicked Mark as she gazed at Arizona.
Arizona laughed, she could picture Mark in front of her giving her a lecture. During the pregnancy they often had conversations over how they would be outnumbered once the baby was born. They both agreed that a task force should be created once the baby was old enough to talk back, it was almost definite that the child would have Callie's fiery temper. Both Arizona and Mark knew they didn't stand a chance.
"Did you know me and Mark were going to create a task force?" Arizona admitted as she turned herself on the sofa to face Callie. The brunette didn't reply, just continued to gaze at the blonde. "We had a case together and the child was an absolute brat, the mother had no chance. I remember coming out of the room with Mark and we made a pact that once our child was old enough to talk back we'd start a force."
"Why would you start a force though?"
"Your temper Callie! Your fiery Torres gene was almost certain to be a part of our child genetics, me and Mark knew we had no chance. I was a doormat when it came to you, whenever you wanted something I gave it to you because I couldn't cope seeing that face when I said no. Mark knew that if we had a daughter she would be a replica of you and your genes. If we had a son he wasn't worried, he said himself and Derek had it sorted."
Callie laughed, she knew where the blonde was coming from. All her life the Torres gene had got her in some bad situations. She and Aria would argue for days and days, neither of them wanting to be the first to back down. The minute she came around from surgery and found out she had given birth to a daughter, she instantly thought of the moments her and Aria would stand up to one another. The fire in their eyes would roar She knew that any daughter of hers would try and stand up against her, luckily Sofia had only just started to show signs of using that Torres gene.
"That face she gives us is only going to get worse as she gets older." Callie whined as she gulped down the last of her wine.
"It would be easier if we had Mark around."
Agreeing with the blonde, Callie allowed herself to rest against Arizona's body. "I miss him."
Sensing Callie's need for comfort, Arizona opened her arm and allowed the brunette to fall into her arms. Callie let her body fall into the blonde until her head was resting in Arizona's lap, she let out a sigh. "He would have love to see Sofia start school."
"Can you imagine his pep talk to her outside the gates?" Both the adults chuckled, the image of Mark giving his favourite team player a pep talk clouded their minds.
Arizona smiled as they entered a comfortable silence, her hands found their way to play with the ends of Callie's soft locks. Taking a strand she unconsciously began to twirl it between her thumb and two fingers. After a few moments, Arizona noticed the drop in Callie's shoulders and the levelling out of her breathing.
Arizona couldn't help but feel content, many days she had wished to be back with her family and now she was on the road to coming home. Even though, neither of them had put an exclusive label on their relationship, they knew they were on their way to being in a relationship. She silently thanked herself for falling asleep with Sofia that night she took her home .That one off accident shook the waters in which the doctors were swimming in.
"Cal, what you doing Saturday?" The blonde asked as she continued to play with the brunette locks.
Getting no reply, Arizona reached forward carefully and noticed that those precious brown eyes she often get lost in were closed. Smiling to herself, she untangled her hand from Callie's hair to grab the throw at the end of the sofa. Using one hand Arizona managed to unfold the throw and lay it over the brunette. It had been a while since Callie had fallen asleep on the blonde, this was just another factor that Arizona missed.
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The following afternoon Arizona was sat in the canteen eating lunch, she had just finished a gruelling three hour surgery on a premature baby, and the outcome wasn't looking successful when the surgery started. Arizona had refused to leave the OR until she had tried every last resort and thanks to her determination the surgery was more of a success than she imagined.
The time alone allowed her to think back on the previous night, once she had realised Callie was asleep she herself began to doze off. It wasn't until she heard Andrew come home after his shift that she realised her and Callie had been asleep for hours. Stretching her neck to focus on the clock that read five, she knew she only had an hour left of sleep before she was due to begin her morning routine. Arizona had let Callie sleep that extra hour before she work her up, the brunette had woken up in a state of disorientation. Callie couldn't remember falling asleep, but she could remember how relaxing it felt when Arizona had played with her hair. She definitely didn't regret falling asleep.
Arizona's thoughts was haltered by the sound of Alex throwing his tray down on the table.
"So word on the street is that Torres is single." He muttered as he slid into the chair next to Arizona.
Arizona didn't reply, just looked at Alex and smiled.
"I bloody knew it!"
"You can't say anything okay? We haven't spoken about what it means yet, Sofia was around when she told me." Arizona explained as she continued to eat her lunch. "I'm thinking of asking her out." She wasn't thinking about it, she knew she was going to ask her out. The thought of going on a date with Callie made the butterflies in her stomach come to life.
"Asking her out? Robbins you both got married, survived a handful of crappy situations not to mention you have a child... don't you think asking her out is a bit outdated?!"
"What? Do you really think I'm going to jump into a relationship straight away?" Arizona raised her eyebrows. "Sofia's got a sleepover on Saturday, so I'm thinking of taking advantage of a free child evening."
Alex continued to drink the coffee from his mug as he listened to Arizona formulate a plan for a possible date with Callie. He was happy that his mentor had managed to find happiness again, as much as Callie and Arizona belonged together Alex couldn't help be sceptical over the reunion.
"Do you really think she's changed?" Alex honestly asked, he knew he was the only one Arizona would be completely honest with.
"She's owned up to a lot of things that she did wrong during our marriage, I guess only time will tell." The blonde muttered, she hoped she could convince Alex that Callie had changed. Arizona was still having small doubts over the brunette, she knew Callie truly loved her but could they fool themselves into having a 'perfect relationship'.
"Well for your sake I hope that it's different this time around!"
Arizona nodded back at Alex she knew that this was his way of giving her his blessing. "Least I now know I wasn't seeing things."
She blinked in confusion.
Rolling his eyes Alex explained. "Few months back, when we were in the canteen. You and Torres acted as if you were still married, especially when Sofia told us all how you had pancakes together."
Arizona's eyes widen, she assumed only her mother and Penny knew about the pancake morning. "Oh yeah, that morning."
"Yeah well, I heard from Jo who heard from Steph who heard from DeLuca, that you never went home the night before, and when Sofia told us we knew you'd been there."
The peds surgeon couldn't help the blush that was rising in her cheeks, she was surprised that it was their daughter who had ratted their cover…. With the help of her roommate of course. "Yeah, well now you know. I stayed over blah blah, go and gossip!"
"Robbins I don't need to gossip, the hospital knew you were going to get back together before you did."
It was Arizona's turn to roll her eyes, she started to feel slightly annoyed. "I forgot what a rumour mill this place is."
Shrugging his shoulders Alex went about eating his lunch, he tried to change the subject so his mentor could take her mind the rumour mill hospital they worked in. "Sooo... where are you taking Torres then?"
Arizona threw the carrot in her hand towards Alex and faked a growl "Stop fishing for gossip!"
Alex sniggered as he picked up the carrot that had landed on the lid of his mug, without taking a second guess he placed it in his mouth. "I'm not fishing, just providing the hospital with the information they all want. The romance of Torres and Robbins is hot news, trust me!"
Me again! I hope you all enjoy this chapter, I've started the next one already so hopefully it wont be too long. I appreciate all your comments, and like I said I hope you enjoy it! xo