Arizona sat leaning against the headboard with Callie across from her, sheets tangled around them and a box holding a half-eaten cold pizza and a few bites of cake sitting between them. Callie leaned forward, stuck her fork into the cake and fed it to Arizona while asking, "How many times do you think we've done this?" Arizona arched her brow and declared, "I'm going to need you to be more specific. Like how many times have we slept in a castle, went away for a night, had hot sex on our birthday, eaten pizza and cake in bed?" Callie slid her foot over, tapped Arizona's leg and responded, "Had hot sex then eaten pizza in bed, smart ass." Arizona laughed, her azure blue eyes twinkling with mischief, and Callie narrowed her eyes, poked the fork at her and accused, "You knew exactly what I meant." Arizona took a forkful of cake, fed it to Callie and replied, "Of course I did and to answer your question, I'm not sure I can count that high." Having a mouthful of cake, the brunette chuckled and tried not to choke. She leaned over to grab her wineglass from the bedside table, swallowed her cake, then washed it down with the last of her wine. Arizona dropped her fork into the box and asked, "Are you finished?" Callie nodded and replied, "With the food, yes. With you, not by a longshot." Arizona moved the pizza box to the floor and Callie immediately crawled up the bed and lay on her side facing her wife.
Arizona slid down the bed, turned to face Callie, lifted her hand and ran the back of her fingers down her toned caramel colored arm and smiled as she watched the little goosebumps rise on her skin. Once she reached her hand, Callie pressed their palms together, played with Arizona's fingers for a moment, then linked their hands and rested them on her hip. As they stared into one another's eyes, Arizona could feel herself getting lost in those deep pools of emotion like she had so many times before, leaned forward, and with the same tone she used that night so many years ago, she quietly said, "I love you." Callie smiled brightly, leaned in as well and asked, "You do?" Arizona tilted her head, nodded, and answered, "I do." Callie leaned in so their lips were only millimeters apart and murmured, "I love you too." At the same time, they closed the space between them and Arizona took Callie's bottom lip between hers while Callie sucked lightly on her top lip. Arizona ran her tongue along the luscious red lip and was instantly granted access, both of them humming their pleasure as their tongues connected.
As the kiss came to it's natural end, Arizona made a trail of soft wet kisses down Callie's neck and chest, licking the top of both breasts, then starting up the other side. She released Callie's hand, skimmed her soft pale hand up Callie's arm over her shoulder, down her chest, tracing each mocha colored nipple, and whispered, "I have one final birthday wish." Callie let her head fall back to give Arizona better access to her neck and breathed out, "What's your wish baby?" Arizona licked and sucked on Callie's pulse point while her hand slid over Callie's breasts, caressed her tight abdomen until she reached the top of her mound, and started her trek back up again, stopping when she reached the sensitive skin between full round breasts while answering, "I wish to please my wife, to show her how much I love her, appreciate her, want her, and desire her." Callie moaned, "Yes please," and arched into the touch when Arizona's hand covered her breast and gently squeezed it while occasionally flicking her nipple with her thumbnail. Kissing her way down the warm tan skin, Arizona licked around the curve of Callie's breast, up the inside, rolled her tongue around the areola several times before finally closing her lips over the erect nipple and sucking it between her teeth, nibbling gently.
Callie closed her eyes briefly, enjoying the first shockwaves of arousal flowing through her body, feeling the moisture begin to pool between her legs. It never ceased to amaze her how quickly Arizona could get her to this point with just a touch or a kiss, or sometimes with her words alone. She cried out when she felt the sharp bite to one nipple at the same time the other was pinched and rolled between deft fingers, and her hips bucked involuntarily at the pleasurable pain. As Arizona's hand disappeared from her breast, Callie whimpered at the loss until she felt the soft skin against her abdomen travelling lower to where she wanted it most. Both women let out a lewd moan as Arizona's fingers slipped between Callie's lower lips and started caressing her sex with a soft gentle touch. Callie cried out in protest as the hand disappeared from between her legs and the mouth from her breast and she looked down to see Arizona lifting her hand to her mouth, humming in delight as she licked and sucked her creamy arousal off her fingers. Callie quickly pulled Arizona's hand away and replaced it with her lips, tasting her own juices as their tongues dueled for dominance.
Arizona slowed the kiss by caressing the back of Callie's head, she knew that move would drive her wife wild, but she needed to taste her, she felt like it had been so long, since it wasn't exactly comfortable to lie on her stomach now. Arizona pulled back from the kiss and whispered, "Come up here, I need to taste you." Callie felt a shiver of excitement run down her spine, quirked her sexy brow, smiled brightly, and asked, "Yeah?" Arizona returned the smile and answered, "Yes please." The blonde rolled to her back, lifted her head when Callie picked up another pillow, then tapped her firm round ass, letting her know what she wanted. Callie leaned down to place a soft kiss on Arizona's lips, then carefully lifted her leg and straddled her wife, scooting up slightly until they were both in position. Arizona looked up into Callie's sex and could see how wet she was for her. Unable to help herself, she lifted two fingers, swiped them through Callie's lower lips, pulled them out, held them up and stated, "Look how wet you are for me baby." Callie wrapped her hand around the slim pale wrist, leaned down and sucked her own juices from her wife's fingers, watching as her eyes turned deep blue with desire.
Arizona watched as Callie lapped at her own arousal, felt her warm tongue dart between her fingers and shivered as electricity flowed through her body, hitting every nerve ending. When Callie released her hand, Arizona raised the other and slowly ran her fingertips down Callie's chest, stopped briefly to knead her breasts, then continued down her torso and around the lush curves of her hips, and gently guided her down to where she wanted her to be. Arizona closed her eyes as soon as the spicy-sweet aroma of Callie's sex invaded her senses. She inhaled deeply, swiped her tongue through her wife's juices, and started a slow pattern as if she were making a figure eight around her clit, down the sensitive skin, crossing over just before she reached the opening of her tight channel, circling around and back again over and over.
Callie's breath hitched as soon as Arizona's tongue touched her skin, she grabbed the headboard, and cried out, "Jesus fuck! Oh yessss." Tossing her head back, she closed her eyes and moved her hips to the rhythm of her wife's lips and tongue. Arizona felt the creamy juices cover her tongue and groaned at the taste she had been craving. After teasing her wife relentlessly with the slow lazy pattern, refusing to touch her clit no matter how much she wiggled and squirmed to put it in the path of her tongue, Arizona slid her hands around to grip Callie's ass, lifted her right hand, gave it one hard slap, then moved her tongue at lightning speed over the swollen bundle of nerves. When Callie felt Arizona's hands move, then the stinging strike to her ass, she knew her wife was about to switch things up but wasn't at all prepared for the overwhelming jolt of electricity that flowed through her veins as that oh so talented tongue flicked at her clit causing her to cry out, "Yes baby, right there." As if to emphasize her point, Callie lowered her left hand to tangle her fingers in tousled blonde curls to keep Arizona's head right where she wanted it.
Feeling the strong fingers get wrapped up in her hair, Arizona broke from her pleasure induced haze and looked up her wife's long lean torso and dug her nails into her ass as she watched those perfect breasts sway and bounce and nearly lost her rhythm altogether when Callie lowered her free hand and started pinching and tugging at her nipple, throwing her head back in pure bliss. She loved how the other woman was so free with her own body and knew she would never get tired of seeing her like this. Hearing Callie's moans get louder, feeling the trembling of the muscular thighs around her head and the grip on her hair tighten, Arizona knew Callie was close, slid her right hand between them, and easily slipped two fingers into her tight channel, provoking her to cry out, "ARI…ZO…FUCK BABY!" Callie was so shocked and pleased by the added sensation of her wife's fingers thrusting in and out of her, she released her hold on her hair and slid her hand up her rippling abdomen to tease and fondle her other nipple.
Callie lifted her head, looked down between her legs, and saw sparkling navy blue eyes full of love and desire staring back at her and without warning, her climax slammed into her causing her body to go taut and start jerking, she opened her mouth to scream but nothing came out but a deep animal-like growl and she reached out to grab the headboard as her hips bucked and rolled while riding out the last waves of pleasure. Still staring into one another's eyes, Arizona slowed her pace then held her hand still as Callie came down from her high. She lovingly caressed her side with her left hand and smiled when her wife croaked out, "God, I love you." Callie carefully rolled away from Arizona then immediately cuddled up next to her, caught the hand rising to wipe away her juices from the glistening pale skin in midair, and leaned down to clean up her own mess ending in a long sensual kiss that left them both breathless. When Callie lifted her head, she looked down at Arizona, smiled her mega-watt smile and whispered, "Hi." Arizona caressed her face, released her own super magic smile and murmured, "Hey." Callie leaned down, kissed her chastely, then rested her head on her chest while her left hand automatically went to her protruding belly and started making soothing circles on the soft pale skin.
Arizona ran her fingers through Callie's hair, kissed the top of her head and asked, "Did I already tell you this was the best birthday ever?" Callie drew a heart on Arizona's stomach with her finger and answered, "You did tell me that." She then lifted her head, propped herself up on her elbow, looked her wife in the eyes and declared, "I know some of it was a little emotional and this day will always be emotional for you. But we don't have to stop celebrating Timmy's life just because he's no longer with us and I certainly want to celebrate yours, I've lost you too many times not to." Arizona smiled softly, leaned in to brush their lips together and whispered, "Thank you. Thank you for saying that, most importantly, thank you for making me see that." Callie kissed Arizona's forehead then rested hers against it and said, "Any time. Are you ready to get some sleep?" The blonde nodded and Callie rolled over, turned off the bedside lamp, lie on her back, then waited for Arizona to take her place on her chest, both of them giggled when it took them a little more maneuvering than it used to. Once they were finally situated, Callie's hand went right back to Arizona's stomach and she whispered, "Goodnight babies." She then kissed the top of her wife's head and murmured, "Goodnight baby and happy birthday." In response, all she got was a contented sigh and smiled, knowing she had worn her wife out.
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After a lazy morning in bed, brunch in the hotel restaurant, and a good ole high school make out session back in their room, Callie and Arizona pulled into the gas station just down the road and Arizona laughed, "Of all things, I can't believe you forgot both phone chargers." Callie shook her head and answered, "In my defense, I was thinking we could use the one in the car." Arizona looked around the car and raised her brow, then Callie sulked, "I just forgot to put one in the car." Arizona laughed again, opened her door, and suggested, "You pump, I'll go get the phone chargers. Do you want a snack or something?" Callie knew her wife was going to come out with a bag of junk food and responded, "A Mountain Dew please." Arizona nodded and went into the gas station. Callie laughed when, as she predicted, five minutes later Arizona walked out with a full bag, containing what, she had no idea.
Once they were on the road and both phones had enough charge to turn on, they instantly started vibrating, indicating they both had messages. Arizona looked at each phone, saw that neither had anything from their respective centers, then immediately called her mother who had called and messaged both devices. She barely hit send when her father's voice boomed through the speakers of the car, "Where the hell have you two been?" Callie glanced at Arizona, concern taking over both of their faces and at the same time, they asked, "Is Sofia okay?" The older man huffed and started to say something when Barb's much calmer voice took over, "Sofia is fine, we are all fine. We were worried about you. Your daughter wanted to call to say goodnight and both phones went straight to voicemail, we figured you, ah, were finishing up your celebration. We tried again this morning and just a few minutes ago. Surely you couldn't have been celebrating that long." Both women bit back their laughter and Arizona explained, "We're sorry, Callie forgot the phone chargers and we didn't realize our phones were dead until we tried to call this morning." Barb asked, "Why didn't you call from the hotel dear?" Callie laughed and answered, "We tried, but somebody forgot your phone number." Arizona muttered, "Way to throw me under the bus." Callie hissed back, "What goes around comes around." Barb scolded, "Well while you two are arguing, we are wondering what to do with this moving van in front of your house."
The two women looked at one another in confusion, then Callie turned onto the nearest side street and stopped along the side of the road. Arizona asked, "What moving van?" Daniel got back on the phone and answered, "They said you were expecting them, something about driving all the way from California." Callie checked her phone to see who her messages were from and noticed she had three missed calls and two voicemails from Addie. She listened to her first voicemail and nodded her head then explained, "That's Jake and Addie's belongings. They'll be staying in the pool house. Would you mind directing them back there? I'm really sorry Daniel, this first message said they would be arriving tomorrow and I'm guessing the second message is correcting that statement." Daniel chuckled and replied, "Will do. You two be safe coming back." Barb got back on the phone and Arizona asked, "Where's Sof?" The older woman answered, "She's been outside with Tobin for the last hour teaching him new tricks with her grandpa, until the truck pulled up." Both women laughed and Callie proclaimed, "Tell her we love her and we are on our way." Barb responded with, "I will drive safe," and disconnected the call.
Once they pulled back onto the main road, Callie explained, "Apparently rather than have us remove our bed from the guest suite, they decided they'd feel more comfortable in their own beds and sent some of their other belongings as well." Arizona asked, "Why didn't she tell us sooner?" Callie laughed and answered, "She said she and Jake talked about it once and when she came home from work Wednesday, he was taking the beds apart. She was too busy arguing with him Wednesday night. Was in surgery all day Thursday and forgot until she got home and found Henry on an air mattress and she and Jake were sleeping in the guest room and by then, it was too late here to call us. Friday she left messages at both centers, but we were tied up all day and neither of us got them." Arizona laughed and shook her head, then pulled out Callie's pop, her grape juice, and a bag of chips. As soon as she opened them, Callie smelled the familiar pungent scent of her favorite hot chips and glanced over just in time to see Arizona sticking one in her mouth. Callie laughed out loud and asked, "Are you seriously eating, and I quote, 'these nasty things'?" Arizona stuffed two more chips in her mouth, licked her fingers, and muttered, "Shut up." Callie shook her head and asked, "Are you at least going to share?" She laughed even harder when another bag was thrown in her lap and Arizona declared, "Pregnant mommy doesn't share."
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Arizona turned into the Brooklyn Medical Park in her shiny new SUV and pulled up in front of Fresh START to drop Callie off. Callie turned to look at her and claimed, "Honey I could have walked…" She stopped as soon as she heard the words come out of her mouth, snapped it shut, and turned to see laughing blue eyes staring back at her as she repeated her sentiment from a few weeks ago, "I know you are perfectly capable of walking, but it's getting colder and I don't want my wife walking across the parking lot in the cold when she doesn't have to." Callie smiled, leaned over, kissed her smart mouthed wife goodbye and got out of the car. Arizona grinned widely as she continued to her own parking space; she absolutely loved her new car.
When she walked into the center, she nearly bounced up to the reception desk and greeted, "Good morning Dee, do I have any messages?" The older woman replied, "Good morning, I put them in your office on your table along with your mail." Arizona looked at her in puzzlement and asked, "The mail already came?" Dee shook her head and replied, "No, but you've had a couple of deliveries over the weekend." Arizona scrunched up her nose and tried to recall if she ordered anything, then just asked outright, "Was I expecting an order?" The administrative assistant laughed and shook her head as she answered, "Apparently not." Still confused, Arizona informed her, "I'll be in my office preparing for my surgery if anyone needs me." Dee smiled, nodded, then as her boss was walking away, she called out, "Happy Monday chief." Arizona turned, gave her a confused look, and said, "Thanks, um, you too," then continued to her office.
When she opened her door, Arizona couldn't help but smile when she found the floor littered with colorful latex balloons along with bouquets of helium filled balloons and various mylar balloons in the shapes of rainbows, unicorns, cupcakes, and of course, the dreaded 40. Her desk and table were filled with gift baskets, bouquets of flowers, and wrapped presents as well as cards. She doubled over in laughter when she walked toward the desk and saw a banner that was supposed to read, 'Happy Birthday' but the 'Birth' part was covered with 'MON'. She took several pictures and sent them off to her wife. She knew Callie didn't do this, yet she was certain she was currently speaking to the people who did.
Me: (Photos attached) Guess what I walked into today.
Wife: Oh my God! Who did that?
Me: Look at the two faces in front of you.
Wife: Oh yup, I see the guilty expressions starting to form now, I can only assume there is a third culprit roaming around your building somewhere.
Me: Ooh you're probably right! Tell them I said payback is a bitch…oh and thank them, it made my day, aside from my amazing wake up call. They don't need to know about that though.
Fighting her way through the balloons, Arizona went to the table that held the majority of the gifts, rubbed at her belly, and smiled when she realized that she had not only become a part of Callie's village, but she had created her own as well and the two were a perfect mixture of the types of people they both felt comfortable with. Taking a moment to enjoy her gifts, Arizona saw a basket full of lotions, bath soaps, essential oils, and other self-care essentials from her scrub nurses. A bouquet of flowers from Dr. Yaeger and her associates from the weekend clinic. Another gift basket with her favorite snacks, teas, non-caffeinated pop, candy, a gift certificate for a pregnancy massage, a comfy pair of pajamas, a robe, slippers, and other pregnancy related items along with a card from Nicole, Julie, Kim, and Dee. She opened one of the cards and found a gift card to a boutique in the city from all of the attendings. Another card contained a certificate for dinner for two at Michael's restaurant from Max and Michael, and the final card, she was sure was from Lorraine and Maria, and was somewhat afraid to open, she nearly screamed when she saw two tickets to The Rockettes for the Annual Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall. Unable to resist, she took a picture of the tickets and sent it to her wife with another message.
When Arizona finally sat down at her desk, she noticed one last gift basket filled with items she could only find in Seattle and smiled as she read the card signed by her Grey-Sloan family. When she looked at all the cards together, she realized they all had 'Birth' crossed out and 'Mon' written above it. She shook her head at the thoughtfulness of her friends, the way they loved her and respected her now former feelings about her birthday but still wanted to celebrate her and knew she had been accepted, she wasn't just at home with Callie, she had found her new home.
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Callie was standing at the front desk talking to Lorraine and Maria about her schedule for the day when her phone started playing Arizona's text tone. She watched as the two women exchanged a knowing glance then pulled her phone out of her pocket to check her messages. Her eyes went wide in surprise when she saw the state of her wife's office then glanced up to see Lorraine looking toward the ceiling and Maria pretending to go through a file on the desk. She knew in that moment her wife was right and she was staring at the guilty parties right now. She glanced up at her friends and relayed, "She said thank you and it made her day." Both women sighed in relief and Callie chuckled at their nervousness. Maria offered, "You told us she doesn't like her birthday, but we couldn't let it go unrecognized, so we decided to throw a surprise birthday party without the birthday and the party." Callie laughed out loud and pointed at the surly head nurse and teased, "You like her. Admit it!" Maria smirked and argued, "I will admit no such thing." Callie just shook her head and remembered, "Oh, I forgot. I'm supposed to tell you both payback is a bitch." Maria huffed, crossed her arms and proclaimed, "And that is exactly why I don't like her." Lorraine laughed then and quipped, "Funny, since it was your idea." The brunette turned on the older woman, muttered, "Who asked you?" then stormed away.
Callie shook her head at Maria's grumpiness, looked at Lorraine and with a little more emotion than she intended, offered, "Thank you really. It means so much to me that you two have accepted Arizona into our little village and have shown her so much love." Lorraine smiled softly, covered her chief's hand and revealed, "It was hard not to fall in love with Arizona from the first time we met her. Seeing the way she loves you, made it even easier. She is one of us and as you well know, we take care of our own. We didn't let you know about our surprise because we didn't want you talking us out of it. Plus, if you didn't know about it, you couldn't get into trouble for it." Callie laughed, heard her ring tone go off again, looked at her message, let out a gasp and exclaimed, "Tickets to the Rockettes! I can't believe you two did that!" Lorraine shrugged and replied, "We thought you'd get a kick out of it." Callie stared at her friend for a minute, blinked her eyes, and said flatly, "There are so many bad puns in that one statement, I'm just going to walk away now." Lorraine let out a cackle and proclaimed, "Good, maybe I'll get some work done."
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"Callie!" Arizona called out, trying not to be frustrated by her situation. Callie ran out of the bathroom completely naked, in a panic, to find her wife struggling to put her leg on. She knelt down on the floor in front of the bed, started to grab her leg to put it on, remembered how that made Arizona feel, and instead asked in a calm quiet tone, "What would you like me to do honey?" Arizona started to snap that she wanted her damn leg on, until she took a breath and thought about all the times before that she unnecessarily yelled at Callie for trying to help and this time she was the one who called for her. She lifted her head, looked at the loving expression on Callie's face, saw the concern in her eyes, and recognized that her wife was being respectful of her autonomy and space, something she hadn't done in the past, and was waiting for her to tell her what she needed and wanted. Reaching out, she caressed the soft tan cheek and answered, "Could you help me get my leg on for now? Maybe if you have time today, can we try to work on a strap or something, like Dr. G suggested so I can do it on my own?" Callie leaned forward, kissed Arizona softly and responded, "I'd love to help and I have time this afternoon after 3:00 pm unless you want to do a working lunch together." She offered a sexy wink then helped Arizona with her leg.
Once the leg was secured, Arizona murmured, "Thank you." Hearing the shy tone, Callie looked up into the blue eyes she loved so much and saw they were filling with tears. She reached up to wipe the moisture away and whispered, "Hey, hey talk to me." Arizona swallowed the lump in her throat and replied, "My first instinct was to snap at you." Callie smiled softly and returned, "And my first instinct was to just put your leg on for you." Arizona looked at her and asked, "Really?" Callie nodded and answered, "Really, I rushed in here and saw you struggling and I just wanted to do it for you, but I stopped and remembered that's what I used to do, so I gave you the chance to tell me what you wanted." Arizona sighed, relieved that it wasn't just her and admitted, "I was afraid…I thought maybe my PTSD was coming back." Callie shook her head and replied, "No baby, we just haven't found ourselves in this situation before and I think innately, our brains tried to throw us into our old habits." Arizona nodded and answered, "That makes sense. Thank you, I just don't understand why it was such a struggle today when it wasn't yesterday."
Callie stood up and pulled Arizona with her, looked down, smiled brightly, dropped to her knees again, put both hands on her wife's much fuller belly and cooed, "Well hello, did we do a little shifting in the middle of the night?" Confused by her wife's behavior and question, Arizona looked down and squealed, "Calliope!" The brunette looked up at her, the smile on her face nearly blinding as she replied, "Someone decided to join the party." Arizona laughed, "I'm fifteen and a half weeks pregnant! I look like I'm going on five months for someone of my size." Callie lifted the blonde's shirt, placed three kisses on the taught skin and said, "Good morning babies, how are you today?" Arizona expected the tingle she always felt whenever Callie spoke to the babies, but she gasped in surprise when she felt a little fluttering inside and her eyes instantly welled with tears again. She whispered, "Keep talking!" Callie looked up and saw Arizona's eyes twinkling with joy, the bright super-magic smile on her face, the deep dimples in her cheeks, the tears running down her face and was almost positive what was happening. She leaned closer and asked, "Is someone in there trying to kick mommy? Are you ready for breakfast?" She looked up when she heard, "Oh my God Calliope! Come here, come here." With tears streaming down her own cheeks, she quickly stood up and wrapped her arms around Arizona, both of them clinging tightly to one another.
Arizona pulled back and answered Callie's unasked question, "That's the first time I've felt that. It's like a little flutter." Callie sniffled and asked, "Isn't it the most precious and amazing thing you've ever felt in your life?" Arizona nodded and responded, "It is and I'm so happy we were together when it happened." Callie leaned in, brushed their lips together and replied, "Oh, me too baby, me too. See, I told you I'd be here for everything." Arizona kissed her again and answered, "You did, and you've been incredible and I love you so much." Callie started walking her toward the bathroom so they could shower and get ready for work and replied, "I love you more." Arizona shook her head and argued, "Not possible." Callie nodded, lifted Arizona's shirt over her head, caressed her belly again and replied, "Totally possible." Arizona smirked and quipped, "I'm loving you for four." Callie retorted, "And I love you four times as much." Both of them started laughing and Arizona asked, "Did you ever think we'd be those people?" Callie laughed and replied, "If only Bailey and Yang could see us now." Arizona looked down at her half naked body then realized for the first time that Callie was completely nude and responded, "Yeah, I'm not sure they'd want to see that." Callie chuckled and replied, "We look good for our age." Arizona arched her brow and proclaimed, "We are fucking sexy, but not to two straight women." Callie threw back her head and laughed then proceeded to help Arizona in removing her shorts.
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Later that evening, Sofia walked into the dining room with Tobin following behind and saw her mommies feed each other bites of the food they were cooking. She laughed when her mama leaned in to kiss her mommy and Tobin started barking and growling at her and ran to attack her feet like he always did. Callie called out, "Ow! You little shi…No, bad dog! No biting." She picked him up and put him in his crate and explained, "You get ten minutes in the slammer to think about what you've done." She couldn't help but laugh when he tried to sneer at her. Walking back into the kitchen, she saw both Sofia and Arizona trying not to laugh and whined, "He's getting bigger and his bites hurt now!" She then turned to her daughter and asked, "Sof, will you set the timer for ten minutes please, then take him out when he's served his sentence." Both women laughed when Sofia replied, "Yes officer mama." Sofia went to her room to get her tablet and Arizona whispered, "I'm getting bigger and you don't complain about my bites." Callie bent her head, nibbled on Arizona's earlobe and quietly replied, "Because you're getting bigger with my babies and your bites turn me on." Arizona turned her head for the kiss they never got when Sofia returned to the kitchen and asked, "So why are you making so much food?"
Callie muttered under her breath, "I just want to kiss my wife." Sofia asked, "What did you say?" Arizona popped a carrot into Callie's mouth so she wouldn't repeat what she said and answered her daughter, "We are cooking so much food because Aunt Addie, Jake, and Henry are supposed to be arriving soon and even if they don't make it for dinner, we want to have something waiting for them. They've been eating at hotel restaurants and fast food places for the last three days." Callie added the vegetables to the wok and added, "Knowing Addie, she will be complaining about it for the next three days." Arizona shrugged and answered, "That's her cross to bear, I offered them the use of my car so they could fly out." Callie shook her head and responded, "They wanted to have this time with Henry, to show him places he's never seen, and Jake felt like using your car was a lot to ask. He's really independent and stubborn." She looked right at Arizona when she spoke her last statement and laughed when her wife retorted, "Must be hard being married to someone like that." Arizona winked at her and they leaned in for another kiss when Sofia's tablet chimed and she called out, "Time's up Tobin." Callie pulled back and hissed, "Son of a…" She was cut off when Arizona's hand grasped the back of her head and pulled her in for a hard searing kiss that lingered until they heard their daughter's foot steps getting closer.
When they pulled apart, Callie sighed, "Thank you. That's all I wanted." Arizona bumped her hip against Callie's and they continued to work in tandem, making stir fry chicken and vegetables along with fried rice, while Sofia told them all about her day. When she was finished, she asked, "What did you do today?" Callie replied, "I fixed a man's hip and gave a young girl a new arm." Arizona stirred the rice and answered, "I met some new patients, helped a baby who was sick, and mama and I, well mama mostly, made a strap that will help me put my leg on when she's not here to help." Sofia tilted her head and asked, "Can't I help too?" Arizona looked into her daughter's puppy dog eyes, saw the same compassion she always saw in Callie's and though she never wanted to have to rely on her children or feel like a burden to them, she realized Sofia's question came from her heart, from her love for her, but also from her genetic makeup and she loved her all the more for it. Looking at Callie, she saw her wife was leaving the decision completely up to her and had no opinion one way or the other and answered, "Of course you can sweetie. Before we tuck you in tonight, mama and I will show you what to do okay?" Sofia smiled brightly, went into the kitchen to hug her mommy, giggled, and declared, "My hands don't touch." Both women smiled down at their daughter and Arizona warned her, "Oh baby, I'm going to get much, much bigger."
When they sat down for dinner, Arizona asked, "Callie, what are we going to do with all these cars?" Callie thought about it for a minute, they currently had two cars each and Jake and Addie's car would make five. Tilting her head she asked, "What would you think about putting your car in storage with mine, at least until spring so all three of our cars will fit in the garage for winter?" Arizona furrowed her brow and asked, "Aren't we just going to sell mine?" Callie took a drink of her pop and asked, "Why would we do that? That's your car honey. Besides, it gets way better gas mileage and if one of us is just running to the store or dropping Sofia off somewhere, or we go out alone, it makes more sense to keep it. You own it outright and would be losing money if you sold it." Arizona shook her head and replied, "I don't know, I guess I just…" Callie took Arizona's hand in hers and softly replied, "I understand why you would think that. I do. But that was never my intention, honestly the thought didn't even occur to me." Arizona looked at her confused and asked, "Why I would think what?" Callie put down her fork and replied, "Why you would think I meant for you to sell your car. I mean, I would have bef…" "Callie, that thought never crossed my mind. I just wondered why we needed four cars." Both of them looked at each other and smiled as they realized that part of their history was no longer even a thought in either of their heads.
Sofia looked at both of her moms as she tried to follow the conversation and asked, "Why are you smiling like that? It's creepy." Callie chuckled and took a bite of her food and Arizona answered, "Because your mommies are silly." Sofia muttered, "I already knew that," then shoveled food in her mouth so she didn't have to repeat herself. Arizona and Callie both shook their heads at their daughter's comment and continued to eat their dinner. Halfway through their meal, the doorbell rang immediately followed by, "Hurry your ass up, it's cold out here." Callie asked, "Now who could that be?" Sofia ran to the door to let their long term house guests in and without any greeting at all, Addison started in, "Next time you have a baby, you either do it in the summer or you're coming to me." Callie and Arizona both stood up to hug their friend and Addison squealed when she saw how much Arizona's stomach had grown since her twelve week ultrasound. Bypassing Callie she went straight to Arizona, got on one knee, put her cold hands on Arizona's belly, making her gasp, and cooed, "Oh look at Aunt Addies little babies, you're getting so big. Are you being good for your mommy? I can't wait to see you Monday, no I can't." Arizona felt the fluttering on the other side of her abdomen this time, looked up at Callie, smiled, and declared, "I feel it again. I think they like being talked to."
Addison looked up and she and Sofia asked at the same time, "What do you feel?" The blonde chuckled and answered, "I can feel them kicking. It just started this morning." Sofia gasped, ran to Arizona's other side and said, "Hi babies, it's me Sofia, your sister. Can you hear me? Mommy says your kicking her and I don't really know what that means, but when you come out, kicking means a bad thing, so don't hurt her okay?" Arizona's eyes grew wide when she felt the flurry of little butterfly flutters erupt in her womb and exclaimed, "Ooh, I think they're all awake now." Happy to hear she could make her babies kick, Sofia smiled up at her mommy and asked, "They heard me?" Arizona nodded and answered, "It feels like they did." Sofia clapped and exclaimed, "Yay!" then ran over to hug Henry who was playing with Tobin. Arizona chuckled at her daughter's short attention span then looked down to see Addison still whispering to her belly and occasionally feeling a little flutter. She realized just then that the tingling only came when Callie was talking to them.
Callie was standing next to Jake who hadn't ignored her and gave her a big hug when he came in and cleared her throat, then declared, "It's nice to see you too Addison." Arizona stood with her hands on her hips and asked, "How do you think I feel? She's got her hands all over me and hasn't even introduced herself." Addison laughed, stood up, hugged Arizona, and whispered, "I hear back in the day you were okay with that." Arizona blushed, slapped her friend's shoulder and ordered, "Shut up." Callie looked at them questioningly, then let it go when her best friend finally got around to hugging her.
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After enjoying the rest of their meal together and the kids disappearing into the back of the house with Tobin, Addie asked, "Is it okay if we crash in here tonight? Jake will put the beds together tomorrow." Callie replied, "You're more than welcome to, but Arizona's dad was here when the movers came and he put them together for you and we bought you both new bedding and put it on last night." Arizona added, "I even went out and turned on the heat for you when we got home this afternoon so it should be nice and toasty." Jake smiled at both women and offered, "Thank you. We really appreciate it and thank your father for us also please." Callie nodded and replied, "Well it's the very least we could do since you have moved out here just for us." Addie lifted her glass of wine to her lips and declared, "Well it sure in hell wasn't for the weather." Arizona laughed and replied, "I'm sure it's such a big shock, you know, being from New York and all." Addison held up her middle finger as she drank her wine and Jake asked, "Are they always like this or is it only when I'm around?" Callie shook her head and answered, "They're being good." Jake shook his head and muttered, "God help us all." All four of them burst into laughter, then started cleaning up the table.
After helping their friends unload their car, Arizona and Callie left them to get settled in and found that Sofia had just finished with her shower. Arizona suggested, "Mommy is going to get changed then mama will bring you in and we will show you how my leg works okay?" Sofia nodded and Callie and Arizona both went into the bedroom to change their clothes. Before they got more than their shirts unbuttoned, Arizona went to the patio doors and closed the blinds. Callie looked up and claimed, "Oh shit, I almost forgot about that." Arizona laughed and answered, "Me too until I looked up and saw the light on in the pool house." While they were changing, Arizona could see Callie biting her lip nervously and asked, "What are you thinking?" Callie looked up and answered, "I just, I want to make sure you're really okay with this. You said you didn't want to have to ask Sofia to help." Arizona nodded and replied, "I did say that and I don't want to have to ask her for help. I understand that I might have to though and for the safety of me and the babies, I want her to know how to do it properly in case she ever needs to. So we will let her practice for a few days until she can do it without our instruction or guidance." Callie pulled her t-shirt over her head, walked to Arizona, wrapped her arms around her from behind, kissed her neck and declared, "You amaze me more and more everyday and I just love you so much and I am so proud of you." Arizona leaned back into Callie's warmth and answered, "I'm so proud of us. We hit a couple big milestones today without even realizing we were there." Callie pulled her tighter and whispered, "We did." Before she could pull away, she heard a knock on the door and Sofia calling out, "Aren't you ready yet?"
Callie rolled her eyes, released Arizona and said, "Come on in Sof." Arizona sat on the bed with her back against the headboard and Callie stood behind Sofia, took her little hand and placed it on Arizona's left knee, she flattened her palm out and explained, "Do you see where your tallest finger is right here?" Sofia nodded and Callie asked, "Do you see that freckle right next to it?" Sofia nodded again and Callie took both of her hands and directed, "Okay stick out your pointer fingers for me." Sofia did as she was told and Callie said, "Now we are going to put your left finger on the freckle first and draw a straight line down until you feel it push in a little like your belly button okay? You tell me when to stop." Callie guided her little hand down Arizona's leg and both women smiled when Sofia exclaimed, "STOP!" in exactly the right spot. She did the same with the other hand then let go of both hands and suggested, "Now I want you to find those spots on your own okay?" Sofia nodded, traced the same path her mama just showed her, smiled when she felt the soft spots, and declared, "I did it! Now what?" Arizona answered, "Now when mama says go, you're going to push both fingers at the same time until you hear a sound like the air coming out of a balloon." Sofia tilted her head and asked, "When it pops or when you let go of it?" Callie stood behind her daughter and tried to fight her laughter and the blonde answered, "When you let go of it."
Callie stated, "At the same time now, 1, 2, 3, go." Sofia did what she was told and stopped when she heard a whoosh. She looked up and asked, "Now what?" Callie demonstrated and explained at the same time, "Now you'll slide the hand you write with under the top part of mommy's leg and the hand you don't write with on top and pull it down." She stood back and both women watched as she did as directed. Sofia pulled gently at first, looked down at her mommy's leg, up at her mommy who was smiling at her and back to her mama who was watching her closely, then back to her mommy and asked, "Am I hurting you?" Arizona shook her head and answered, "No baby, that doesn't hurt me. But if you don't feel comfortable with this, it's okay to tell us." Sofia bit her lip and answered, "It feels weird. You can feel in this leg now and I'm afraid if I pull too hard it will hurt you." Arizona nodded and responded, "I understand that. Mama did such a good job making it look real that it's hard to remember it's still a robot leg. When you pushed those buttons, you turned it off and I can't feel it anymore." Sofia looked down at the leg and asked, "Really?" Arizona nodded and answered, "Really. I'm going to close my eyes and cover them and you touch it wherever you want." Sofia nodded and watched her mommy cover her eyes then poked around her leg. When she saw she didn't respond, she poked the other one and laughed when her mommy giggled and said, "Umm that's not the leg you were supposed to be poking." Arizona uncovered her eyes and saw that her daughter looked more relaxed. She asked, "Do you want to try it again or maybe some other time?"
Sofia put her hands back where her mama told her to and answered, "I want to try again." Arizona nodded and watched as her daughter put more effort into pulling at her leg. Without realizing she was still holding the leg, Sofia turned to Callie and exclaimed, "I did it." Callie chuckled and answered, "I see. Now you're the one pulling mommy's leg." Callie and Arizona both started laughing and Arizona accused, "You've been waiting to use that line since we arrived haven't you?" Callie nodded and replied, "Once I got over being the butt of your little joke, I thought it was funny." Not humored by her mama turning her joke around on her, Sofia looked down in her arms and asked, "Uhh, now what do I do?" Callie looked at the little girl and answered seriously, "Well normally when mommy takes it off, she leans it against the wall. So hand it to mommy and she will lean it against the wall." Sofia did as she was told and Arizona declared, "Now you may not ever have to take it off, but I'm sure I will need you to put it on, so this is the most important part okay?" Sofia nodded and replied, "Okay. I'm ready."
Arizona handed her leg back to Sofia and directed, "Hold it just like you were before. Now carry it to the bed and lay it down so the top of the socket is right in front of my thigh." Sofia carefully lay the leg on the bed, moved it to where she was told to move it then looked down to her foot and saw it didn't look right and asked, "How do I put your foot?" Both women looked at each other, impressed that their daughter thought to ask that question and Callie responded, "I have a little cheat for that too." Sofia looked at her mama and asked, "What is it?" Callie directed, "Point mommy's toes toward the ceiling." Sofia gently moved the leg into position and Callie pointed to the top of Arizona's residual limb and asked, "Do you see these two dark freckles here?" Sofia nodded and Callie pointed to the prosthetic and asked, "Do you see this one here?" Sofia nodded again and Callie continued, when you slide the leg on, this freckle will cover up the bottom freckle and if the one on mommy's leg is directly above this freckle, then you have it on right." Sofia nodded, carefully slid the leg up Arizona's limb, lined up the freckles, looked down at her foot, saw that it looked right now and asked, "Now what?" Callie looked at Arizona, who nodded for her to continue and finished, "Now you find the buttons again and seal up mommy's leg." Sofia took no time in finding the indents, pushed in and heard a different sound this time, and smiled brightly as her mommy held out her arms and exclaimed, "You did it big girl!" Callie sat on the bed next to them, waited for her turn and gushed, "We are so proud of you." Sofia smiled, looked at her parents and said, "Thank you for teaching me." Callie rubbed her back and suggested, "You go hop into bed, we will be in soon to tuck you in." The little girl nodded and skipped happily into her room.
Still smiling, Callie turned back to Arizona and her face fell when she saw that her wife was scowling at her. Completely at a loss, she asked, "What did I do?" Arizona asked, "Seriously? There were cheats?" Callie sucked her lips between her teeth, scratched the back of her neck and asked, "Did I not mention those?" Arizona looked at her and drolly asked, "Does it look like you mentioned those? Do you know how frustrated I got with this damn thing some days?" Callie crossed her arms, scowled back and retorted, "No, I do not, because my stubborn, independent wife didn't tell me." Arizona opened her mouth, snapped it shut, then opened it again and sighed, "Well fuck." Callie's lips twitched and she teased, "You walked right into that one." Arizona let out a bark of laughter and Callie just stared at her until she realized what she said and started laughing right along with her. Arizona shook her head and declared, "You know, I never even…damn, you know my body better than I do." Callie wiggled her brows and murmured, "You bet your sweet ass I do." Arizona grabbed the front of her shirt, pulled her closer and connected their lips in a long languorous kiss. When they finally broke for air, Callie suggested, "Why don't you stay in bed and I'll go tuck the little one in. I'll give her a kiss for you." Arizona sighed, "Thank you, I'm so tired and comfortable." Callie kissed her forehead and replied, "I know. I'll be back in a few minutes." She stood up and started to walk away when she heard Arizona mutter, "Talk about a sweet ass," and added an exaggerated sway to her hips as she walked out the door.
A/N: Thank all for the great reviews on the last chapter. I wanted to finish Arizona's birthday with something sweet being done for her by her new chosen family. There was also a little time jump in there and we are coming up on 16 weeks which is also Thanksgiving. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and are having a great new year so far.