A/N: So ever since the American bake-off episode I have fallen in love with this song. And I really wanted to do a Calzona songfic. I hope I did alright. I got a bit carried away and may have strayed from the lyrics just a bit. But I hope you enjoy.
I could feel the effects of the alcohol clouding my brain as I stumbled my way through the crowd. Since when did walking get so hard? When I finally spotted the table all my friends were seated at, I let out a loud cheer and threw my arms up in victory. In my drunken state, I lost balance and fell backwards, knocking the person behind me to the floor as well. As we picked ourselves off the ground, I turned and smiled shyly at him. He grinned back and unashamedly raked his eyes up and down my body. I rolled my eyes at this stranger and walked off. He was just some random. Nothing to me.
I guess I should be flattered, I mean a cute guy checking you out in a bar, but my heart belongs to another and now… now she's gone. And all my confidence with her.
As I walked back to our table I caught myself thinking about her again. I felt like the walls were closing in on me. Everything was getting to be too much. I wonder if she even thinks about me anymore. It's only been a few weeks. Three to be exact, but I can't help but wonder; if she misses me, if she tried to contact, how she's doing. I wonder if she'd even recognise me, it hasn't been long but it feels like an age since I'd seen her last.
As I sit back down, I glance out into the crowd. My eyes connect with a person standing by the door and my heart stops. She can't be here, it cannot be her. I blink a few times, but there she remains. I take a sharp breath and down my nearly full glass, before standing again and heading back to the bar.
I was told once that you never go back to an ex of yours, told that only bad can come of it. That old flames should never re-ignite. But as with everything else, she would be ultimately my exception to that rule.
And now I can see her walking towards me slowly, apprehensively. My heart is in my throat as I watch her come closer and closer, until she's standing in front of me. I don't say a thing, but she knows… she always knows.
She bites her lower lip as she studies my face, figuring out what has happened since she left. I watch the slight changes in her features as she notices the little differences in mine. She knows me too well, she knows I haven't slept while she was away, I can tell by the way her brow furrows just a fraction more.
Her body always kept me safe at night. Her kisses and soft, melodious voice the only things that could soothe me after the nightmares that came from our profession. I noticed she looked exhausted too, as though she carried the weight of the world on her shoulders.
"Calliope." she finally sighed.
I reached out, pulling her flush against me as I crashed our lips together in a frantic and passionate kiss. She sighed into my mouth and kissed me back for a few seconds before pulling away and resting her forehead on mine. I could see tears in the corners of her eyes and moved a hand to her cheeks to wipe them away as they fell. With my other hand I took a hold of one of hers and laced our fingers together. She pulled me in for a hug and I eagerly wrapped my arms around her, holding her tight. I buried my face in her hair and sighed. I really had missed her.
I felt her crying into my shoulder and held her closer, while running a soothing hand up and down her back. Once she calmed down, she pulled out of my grasp.
"Callie… I-"
"Arizona, it's okay. Take me home."
A/N2: The song this story is about is Home by Daughter, from episode 4 "I saw her standing there."
