Oh Baby

"Where are our residents?" Meredith asks glancing around the room.

"Jensen has three cases she's monitoring here, so let me see if she's in one of the other recovery rooms." Arizona replies.

"Oh wait, found them." Meredith says nudging the blonde to look down the hall. Blake and Jensen are laughing and leaving an on-call room.

"Oh no, do you think they...?" Arizona asks, not wanting to say it out loud.

"They definitely did." Meredith says looking down. "I'm not telling Callie. You tell her."

"I'm not telling her. You're her friend, you tell her." Arizona replies.

"Why do we have to tell her?" Meredith asks, "They're not even dating right now."

"Wait, what? They’re not?" Arizona asks.

"No they broke up. Let's wait, maybe it was a one time hookup." Meredith whispers as the two interns enter the recovery room glancing at each other nervously.

"Who's ready to present?" Arizona asks looking down at the chart, not making eye contact with either of them.

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Wrapping up her day, Arizona calls Melanie to find out where she is and she's shocked to hear Callie's voice.

"Where are you?" Arizona asks.

"Uh, we're at Joe's celebrating. Come over and join us!" Melanie replies.

"You're drinking? We have dinner with my parents tonight?" Arizona exclaims.

"Just one drink, babe. Don't worry." Melanie replies, come over, please.

"Okay, I'll be there in about 15 minutes. Melanie, don't let Callie talk you into tequila shots!" Arizona says before hanging up.

Entering Joe's, Arizona is surprised to see Callie and Melanie each with one glass of wine, talking animatedly. The blonde walks up to them and Melanie slips her arm around her and smiles. "Hey there."

"Arizona, the data from your day was amazing, it's doing everything Derek wanted it to do, now we just wait and see how it adjusts to your weight changes." Callie says excitedly.

"You're sitting here talking about my leg and my weight? " She asks making an odd face.

"Well but in reference to your prosthetic," Callie reminds her.

"Still weird." Arizona replies.

Laughing Melanie stands up and slides a card across the bar to pay the tab, but Callie slides it back. "I've got this one. You get the next one, I have a feeling we'll be celebrating often over the next few months," Callie says smiling at her.

"Okay, well we should probably get going, thanks for everything Callie." Melanie replies.

As they get in the car, Arizona pauses and looks over at her girlfriend, "You have charmed your way into Callie Torres good graces. She genuinely likes you." Arizona points out.

"You say that like its not a good thing?" Melanie questions.

"It's a really good thing, I just didn't know it was possible." Arizona explains. "But Callie has definitely changed, usually a celebration at Joe's means tequila shots."

"It just shows that you're both healing, I can't tell you how relieved I am to be able to spend time with her like that. I was a little worried that she wouldn't want to work with me when she found out we were seeing each other." Melanie replies.

"You were worried? Why didn't you say anything?" Arizona asks concerned.

"I'm an optimist," Melanie replies smiling.

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"Mom? Dad?" Arizona calls out as they enter the house.

"Momma!" Sofia comes running from the kitchen when she hears Arizona's voice. Then stops in her tracks when she sees Melanie holding her Mom's hand.

Dropping Melanie's hand and bending down to greet her daughter, Arizona gives her a hug and kiss, "Sofia I want you to meet my friend Melanie." Arizona says standing back up holding the little girl's hand.

Shyly, Sofia wraps an arm around her mom's leg and waves.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Sofia. I heard that you like whales, so I found this today and bought it for you, I hope that you like it." Melanie replies pulling a small rubber whale out of her pocket and holding it out for the little girl.

Arizona is surprised when she sees the small gift, she doesn't remember telling Melanie about Sofia's whale fascination.

"Hello Melanie," Barbara says entering the room and offering her a light hug and kiss on the cheek. "It's wonderful to see you again."

Sofia watches her grandmother greet the other woman and she relaxes her grip on Arizona's leg and ventures out to look at the whale.

"It's a blue whale," she says reaching for it and showing it to her Mom and Grandma.

"It is a blue whale. You really know your whales." Melanie replies.

Nodding, Sofia explains that she's seen grey whales and Orcas in the harbor with her moms.

That morning while she was waiting for Arizona to get dressed, she had peeked into the little girl's room for an idea of something to get her to break the ice and besides all of the princess stuff, Melanie had noticed she had a couple of these whales, so she stopped by the gift shop at the Aquarium today and picked up another one for her.

"Okay, who's hungry? I'm about to put the salmon on the grill." Daniel replies entering the room and kissing his daughter's head. Then he reaches over and shakes Melanie's hand, "Good to see you again." He says.

"Can I watch?" Sofia asks him.

"Of course, now what do you have there?" Daniel asks when she shows him the whale.

"It's a blue whale grandpa, they are the biggest whale in the ocean." Sofia informs him.

"Have you seen one?" He asks her.

"Not yet, but I will." Sofia replies confidently.

"Girls come in and get something to drink while I finish up the salad, the salmon won't take long at all." Barbara reminds them.

"We'll be right in Mom." Arizona says going over to Melanie and taking her hands. "How did you know she likes whales?"

"I may have snooped in her room this morning and saw a couple on her dresser." Melanie admits.

"Ah, well thank you. She loves them. Now, of course, she may talk your ear off about whales the rest of the night." Arizona says giving her a light kiss on the lips.

"I'm not worried, my nephews love whales, so I can hold my own." Melanie smiles back at her.

By the end of the night, Sofia is sitting between Arizona and Melanie showing them her whale encyclopedia and explaining which whales they can see if they take the whale tour from the pier downtown.

"Sofia, it's time to get ready for bed." Barbara tells her granddaughter.

"Momma, can I come home with you tonight?" Sofia asks, closing the book and standing in front of her mom.

"Baby, I have an early morning. You're staying with Grandma and Grandpa and they're taking you to school tomorrow, remember?" Arizona reminds her daughter.

"Oh right. Grandpa is going to make us pancakes!" Sofia says going over to Daniel and patting his leg.

"How about I come up and tuck you in?" Arizona suggests, walking over and taking her hand.

Melanie watches them go up the short flight of stairs and smiles. Then turns to see both of Arizona's parents watching her.

"You care for my daughter a great deal." Daniel says, it's not a question.

"Yes sir, I do. I will admit that I haven't known her long, but she's a remarkable and stunningly beautiful woman." Melanie replies looking him in the eye.

"That she is, just know that she's my only daughter. I'd do just about anything to make her happy. She's come through one hell of a personal storm and she's just getting back to herself, you understand?" He asks.

"Yes sir, I do understand. I want you to know that I've recently made the decision to relocate to this area. I'm going to be living near Tacoma, my sister and her family are there. I'm telling you this so that you'll know that this isn't casual for me. I don't date casually and there is nothing casual about this relationship with your daughter. My intention is to spend as much time as I can with her and take care of her as long as she'll let me." Melanie replies.

"Well, I can't ask for anything more that that. Have you met Calliope?" He asks.

"Yes, I met her last night and spent a few hours in the lab with her today." Melanie replies.

"You were in her lab? Oh my," Barbara remarks.

"We were analyzing the data from Arizona's new prosthetic. Dr Torres wanted to compare it to the data from the robotic leg that she designed for the Wounded Warrior project. She and I have two projects coming up at the VA next month that we'll be working on together." Melanie explains.

"Well, that's fantastic. Daniel, isn't that fantastic?" Barbara asks turning to him.

"We love Callie like she's our own, even though she and Arizona are no longer married, she's still a part of our family." Daniel explains.

"Understood sir. I find Dr Torres to be a brilliant Orthopedic surgeon and I'm looking forward to getting to know and work with her." Melanie adds.

"How was it?" Arizona asks as they get in the car.

"It was great. Your parents love you very much." Melanie replies smiling at her.

"Dad gave you the talk, didn't he?" She asks.

"Of course he did, he's your dad. But it was fine. He wanted to know if I'd met Callie yet and he wanted to make sure that I knew how special you are." Melanie says reaching over and squeezing her thigh. "You know Callie gave me the same talk yesterday."

"She did not!" Arizona exclaims.

"Oh yes she did and I expected it from her. Its obvious that you two still care a lot about each other. I still don't understand what happened between you two, but I'm not going to push it. I know you'll tell me when you're ready." Melanie replies, then asks, "I know that you said that you have an early day tomorrow, any chance you'd like to come back to the hotel and stay with me tonight? I mean it's right across from the hospital."

"Oh, now that's a great idea. Let's stop by my place so I can get a few things." She replies. "And yes, I will tell you what happened between Callie and I but not tonight. Okay?"

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"How was dinner last night?" Callie asks.

"It was great. It took a little while, but Sofia eventually warmed up to her. It helped that Melanie got her a whale from the Aquarium gift shop." Arizona adds.

"How did she know about the whales from the gift shop?" Callie asks.

"She saw them in Sofia's room when she was at the house, so she decided to get her another one." Arizona explains.

"Oh, well which one did she get her?" Callie asks.

"She got her the blue whale." Arizona replies, "I know we haven't seen that one yet, but Melanie didn't know that we were only buying them as we saw them in the Sound. It's fine Callie, and Sofia didn't point it out to her either."

"Okay, well maybe we should take her on one of those whale excursions for her birthday, then she'll get to see a blue whale." Callie points out.

"Oh, that's a great idea. Something that we can do as a family. Mom and Dad would love it." Arizona replies.
"Well, let's not suggest it just yet, you've got enough on your plate right now" Callie reminds her.

"Mom and Dad asked Melanie if you two had met, they were worried about how you're doing with this." Arizona remarks.

"It's hard, but it helps that she seems really great. And I can tell how much she cares for you. You do know that it's just a matter of time before she falls in love with you, Sofia and that baby. Are you sure about this?" Callie asks seriously.

"Everything just clicked and I can't explain it, but it feels right. I guess it's true that everything happens for a reason. Now how are you doing?" Arizona asks.

"I'm fine. My ex-girlfriend is hooking up with another resident in on-call rooms all over the hospital, apparently." Callie replies. Then looking up at Arizona's face she realizes that the blonde knew about that. "Wait, you knew?"

"Meredith and I saw them yesterday, but we weren't sure. I mean, we saw them exiting an on-call room. But we didn't see them kiss or anything, they could have just been in there talking or something." Arizona blurts out trying to explain.

"Well, Alex and Jo caught them last night and Alex couldn't wait to tell me. He actually called me last night, he didn't know that we broke up." Callie explains.

"I'm sorry Calliope, that sucks. And you deserve so much more than a resident. You deserve someone who's on your level, established and your equal." Arizona replies reaching out and squeezing her hand.

Callie can’t help but shiver at the touch, the blonde doesn’t seem to notice it, so she plays it off and just smiles back, but inside she’s trembling at the contact.

Arizona has to admit that she was relieved when she got paged. It began as a simple reassuring touch on Callie’s arm, but then she felt Callie shiver at her touch and it made her tremble inside, it was all she could do not to respond herself. How long has it been since she’s touched Callie, she wonders. And how is it that she still makes her feel a little untethered?

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"Are you ready?" Addison asks. The last ultrasound revealed that Arizona was carrying twins, so this one is going to likely tell them the genders.

"I'm as ready as I'm going to be." Arizona replies heading into the exam room.

April and Melanie are already there waiting and Callie is out in the waiting room with Barbara and Daniel.
Addison squeezes the gel on her stomach and then begins moving the wand around as she examines the babies. Melanie and April come over to watch and Arizona takes Melanie's hand and squeezes it.

"Well, we definitely have one boy." Addison remarks, moving the wand to see if she can get a good view of the other baby.

"Addison, back up." Arizona says suddenly.

Addison looks at her a moment and then begins moving the wand back, she bites her lip.

How did Arizona see that before her, she wonders, reaching over and tapping the keyboard to grab a screenshot. Then looking over to Dr Miller, she asks, "Can you get the Doppler in here?"

Miller leaves the room and Melanie and April exchange confused looks. "What's wrong? April asks.

"Nothing is wrong, we just need a better view so we can further assess..." Addison begins to say.

Miller interrupts her bringing in the Doppler 3D ultrasound and quickly sets it up and hands Addison the wand. "Okay, there's Twin A, he looks great, now let's look at Twin B.' Addison remarks, her face etched in concentration.

Impatiently Arizona asks, "Addison where's my blood work? Was it normal, April hand me that tablet."

"Kepner do not hand her that tablet. Arizona, you're not the doctor here, you are the patient." Addison says angrily turning the monitor so that she can't see it any longer.

"Addison, turn that back around. I have a right to know..." Arizona begins to say loudly.

"Arizona," April says trying to get her attention. "Arizona, you said yourself that Addison was the only one you'd trust if something came up, well this is it, trust her."

Arizona bites her lip and takes a deep breath and closes her eyes. "Okay," she says simply.

"What exactly has come up?" Melanie asks quietly.

"Twin B is smaller than Twin A, it could be a sign of Twin to Twin transfusion." Arizona replies.

"Thanks Dr Robbins, but again, this isn't your case so shut it." Addison replies glaring at her.

"Addison, I am a fetal surgeon and I know what I saw," Arizona replies rolling her eyes.

"Okay, but Dr Miller and I have the whole picture, so let us do our jobs," Addison reminds her.

The two doctors continue to exam the babies and take screenshots before turning off the equipment.

"Arizona, give me a few minutes to discuss this with Dr Miller and we'll be back to discuss it with you." Addison replies standing up to go.

"Addison you may as well review everything with me, because if you think I'm going to agree to a fetal surgery without having a look at the tests, you don't know me very well." Arizona points out.

"Noted. But I'm still going to look at this first. So sit tight." Addison says as they move the equipment out of the room.

"Arizona, just breathe." April tells her. "Do you want me to go talk to your parents?"

"Not yet. It may not even need intervention, and if it does, it may just be a minimally invasive laparoscopic procedure," Arizona explains as she wipes the gel off her stomach and pulls her scrubs back in place and sits up.

A knock on the door gets their attention and Arizona nods as April goes over and opens it.

"What's going on? I saw Addison and Miller leave, but you're all still in here. What are you waiting for?" Callie asks concerned. Then seeing the panic on Kepner's face and the concern on Arizona's she steps into the room.

"Callie, if you're in here my parents will think there's a problem," Arizona points out.

"Well is there a problem?" She asks.

"Please just go back out there Callie or they'll start to worry. I promise you that everything is okay, the babies are healthy right now." Arizona replies.

"Uh, okay. But there is something, right?" Callie asks worried.

"Yes, there is something. But it's not anything to freak out about. It can be corrected." Arizona explains.

"Okay, I'll stay with them until you come out." Callie replies and begins to shut the door behind her.

Melanie says, “Wait!” and Callie stops and looks at her."Arizona, are you sure you want me in here for this. I don't really understand what's going on. You should have Callie in here, I’ll go out and sit with your parents" Melanie offers nervously.

"Melanie," she says going over to her and noticing that she looks uncomfortable, "sure, if you want to go out and sit with my parents that’s fine.” Arizona says a little disappointed.

"Arizona, it's just this is a lot, I’m a little overwhelmed and I don't know what to do. You're so calm and I'm freaking out, until I met you I had no idea that there were doctors who could perform surgery on babies before they were born." Melanie replies trying to help her understand.

“Look, Melanie go out and sit with her parents. Arizona I’d like to be in here, I want to know what’s going on, is that okay?” Callie asks stepping back into the room.

Addison walks back into the room a few minutes later and notices that Melanie’s gone and Callie has taken her place and is standing directly behind Arizona. She nods to Callie and then begins to explain what she's found and how she wants to treat it. Arizona asks several questions but finally agrees to the course of treatment.

Leaving the exam room, Arizona goes over to her parents who now are worried. Callie follows her and rests a hand on Arizona’s shoulder as the blonde sits down on the table in front of them and April sits beside them in a chair. Melanie is nervously standing off to the side.

"Mom, Dad, the twins are okay. But there is a situation that needs to be addressed. It's called Twin to Twin Transfusion, which means that one twin is getting more of everything than the other. Now we caught it early and Addison is going to monitor it closely, most likely though she'll have to go in laparoscopically and laser some of the blood vessels that the twins are sharing in order to correct it." Arizona explains. "I've done this procedure a few times with good results and Addison has been a fetal surgeon longer than I have and she's even better at it than I am."

"Do both babies have a good chance of developing normally?" Barbara asks softly.

"Yes Mom, and right now the difference is barely perceptible. As soon as that begins to change then we'll need to correct it." She explains. "We caught it early and we'll monitor it and this is why we're doing these tests. This is one of the risks of pregnancy at my age and using in vitro fertilization", she explains further.

"Addison and Arizona are the two best fetal surgeons around, so if they agree, then there's nothing for us to worry about." Callie adds moving around to crouch beside the blonde and reassure her parents.

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“Melanie are you sure that you’re okay?” Arizona asks as they pull up in front of her house.

“That was intense, I’m sorry I didn’t react the way you needed me to.” She says turning to face the blonde.

“It’s fine, I’m sure that it was overwhelming, this whole thing is overwhelming.” Arizona admits. “This is new between us and we should be going to movies and having amazing dates, but instead we’re going to doctor’s appointments and talking about babies.”

“Please don’t take this the wrong way, I just need some time to think. I’m going to go back to the hotel tonight, okay?” Melanie asks.

“Of course, I understand.” Arizona replies getting out of the car slowly.

Melanie feels badly now, so she gets out of the car and goes around to her, “I’ll call you later, okay?” She says hugging her and kissing her lightly on the cheek.

Nodding, Arizona watches her get back in her car and drive off.