"Arizona, this is good news." Callie repeats.

"I know, but what if..." Arizona begins to ask again.

"Stop. Arizona stop. We can take her home, now." Callie says excitedly.

Unsure what else to do. Arizona is frozen to the chair. Addison, Derek and Norman have all examined Zara and run every test available. She's a normal premature baby at 6 months old. Looking up, Callie sees Arizona's parents at the door, so she stands up and goes over to them.

"Let us try Callie." Barbara says gently, stepping into the room, she goes to her daughter.

"Arizona?" Barbara says sitting down beside her daughter. "Honey, I know that you're scared. But Zara is healthy. You can take her home now."

"Mom, I just didn't plan this far ahead." Arizona says softly. "I couldn't let myself think that this would actually happen. I've spent the last six months hoping that she would live, but also terrified that she wouldn't. Now that I know, really know that she's okay, I'm even more terrified to lose her." The blonde says breaking down.

Taking her daughter into her arms, Barbara realizes now that her daughter is a mother. "Arizona, what you're experiencing is normal, unfortunately every parent feels this way when their baby is born." She says soothingly, "Making a decision to have a child, is to forever decide to have your hear go walking outside of your body."

Laughing, the blonde pulls back. "You've said that quote forever, but this is the first time I really know what it means." Arizona confesses.

"Now let's see about getting you girls home." Daniel says reaching over to rest an arm on his wife and daughter.


Sitting on the plane between Callie and her Mom with Zara on her lap, Arizona can't help but feel enormous love. It's not something that she's entirely comfortable with yet, even though she's always been a happy person, this is totally different. Looking over at her Dad sitting with Meredith and Derek, she can't help but smile at the thought of them flying to Baltimore just to make sure Zara was okay. It's insane, but now she understands how much they want to have a baby, so it makes sense. Derek told her that they would adopt Zara if there was any chance that Arizona wouldn't get approved.

Taking a deep breath, Arizona starts to doze off, so Callie takes Zara and pulls the blonde over so she can rest her head on her shoulder. Callie's never been so happy as she is today. Glancing over at Meredith and Derek, she can't believe how much her life has changed since she first met Meredith Grey.

Daniel wakes up and immediately notices that Zara is just across the aisle in Callie's arms, so he reaches over and touches Callie's shoulder. "Callie," he says nudging her. "Let me take her." He says turning in his seat.

Not realizing that she had almost dozed off, Callie passes the baby to Daniel, which totally delights Meredith and Derek. Callie watches the three adults with the baby and smiles. Feeling Arizona stir beside her, Callie reaches down and takes her hand, then points across the row so the blonde can see.

"My god, Arizona. We have a baby." Callie says softly, kissing the blonde's head.


"I told Mark and Karev to have the crib set up," Callie says as they walk across the concourse, then she stops. Reaching out she makes them all stop.

There's a huge banner that reads, "Welcome Home Zara!" and holding it up are their friends from the hospital.

"Oh my god!" Arizona says loudly, "Callie did you do this?" She asks, then looking over at Meredith, she shakes her head.

"We didn't figure you'd want us all in your apartment and we wanted to see the baby, so here we are." Bailey says pushing her way forward and reaching for the baby.

Arizona laughs and lets her take her. "Just you Bailey, I don't know if I trust anyone else right now." Arizona teases.

"I'm next", Mark Sloan says stepping forward.

"You want to hold her Mark?" Arizona asks looking up at him questioningly.

"Yeah, I want to hold her. She's a freaking miracle and who knows it may rub off on me." He says smiling as he takes her from Bailey. Then holding her up so he can look at her he says, "Hey Zara, I'm your Uncle Mark. I'm going to be your favorite Uncle, let's just get that right out there." He adds looking around.

In the distance, Callie sees Natalie watching the whole scene, and the brunette quickly looks around for any signs of a camera crew. There are none, so she motions for her to come over.

"Hey, I just wanted to welcome you all back." She says moving in to hug Callie and then tapping Arizona on the shoulder and hugging her as well.

"Natalie, what a surprise! How did you know about this?" Arizona asks surprised to see her.

"I made some friends at the hospital and I've kept tabs on you both. I just wanted to see for myself that everything is okay." She explains.

"Everything is awesome." Arizona replies smiling.


A/N: I'm ending this story here. I already took way past where it started. I may write a sequel, which will make three that I've said that about. I'm going to continue writing, but it's going to be difficult to maintain a story and update it. Thank you so much to those who've read and commented on my stories, you've all (Mostly) been awesome and amazing. I have written a book and am in the editing process, which means I'm two steps away from rewriting it completely. But I'm sure I can't stay away, you all make writing so much fun.