1. Beginning of the kiss
Arizona Robbins was rolling through the hospital on her wheelies. She was in a particularly good mood, for she had just been offered a permanent contract at Seattle Grace Hospital. Nothing in the whole world could change her mood at that moment. She stopped dead when she heard someone singing, a voice so beautiful and warm she felt nerves tingle all around her body. She moved in the direction of the sound and found out that it came from behind a door on her right hand side. Slowly, she walked to the door. The sign next to it said 'Supply Closet'. Unfortunately, she couldn't look inside; there was no glass. Instead, she bent her knees a bit and peeked through the key hole. She felt her mouth fall open as she saw a stunning scene before her eyes. A gorgeous woman, dark hair and brown eyes, was singing out loud and swaying her hips, dancing to her own song. The bandages she had collected were crushed in her moving hands. Her little dance party was disturbed by her beeping pager. The Latina sighed and stopped dancing. Arizona came back to senses and moved away from the door as quickly as possible. She rolled through the corridor, taking a first turn to the right. Panting heavily, she stood around the corner as she heard the door of the supply closet open and close and footsteps fading away. Arizona was relieved the hot woman didn't come her way. Arizona stood there, unable to move, for a few minutes, thinking about what she just saw. Suddenly, Chief Webber came around the corner. He looked at her. 'You're not really trying to make an impression on me, dr. Robbins, standing here doing nothing on your first day'. Arizona felt her cheeks flush. Chief Webber smiled at her and said: 'Just kidding, your arrival to this hospital is a major addition to our peds department. We are lucky to have you. Have a nice day dr. Robbins!' He walked away, leaving a very releaved Arizona behind. She needed a minute to remember where she was headed in the first place, but then she recalled it and made her way to the first floor to get some labs for a patient of hers.
Her first day seemed to be endless and she couldn't stop thinking about the cute dance session from the Latina. She was thinking of a way to make a nice first impression on this lady, but she didn't come up with any good ideas. One of her patients, a 12-year-old boy, noticed the change in behaviour of his doctor and asked her what was on her mind. She obviously couldn't answer truthfully, because what was on her mind involved a tanned Latina and two bare legs.
She tried to forget her thoughts about her and the Latina doing naughty little things and explained her patient that she was just tired. It seemed like he didn't believe her but he didn't ask her again, so she just continued doing her job.
On the way to visit her next patient she saw the Latina talking to Chief Webber. Her heart stopped for a second and she tried to look in her direction unobtrusively. She was thinking about waiting for her until she finished talking to and starting a conversation with her, but then she thought that it would perhaps be a bit creepy if she would wait so long for a women who doesn't even know her. She sighed and looked at the Latina once again and had to smile, remembering how cute she had looked while she was swaying her hips to her own song.
Then she remembered that she still had a few minutes left until she had to resume her work. So she decided to go to the cafeteria. Maybe she could drink a coffee with anyone over there or just get to know some new people. As she entered the cafeteria after a short bathroom break, she suddenly heard a beautiful voice behind her saying 'Hey, you have to be dr. Robbins, the new peds surgeon, am I right?'. Arizona turned around and looked directly in the face of the breathtaking Latina, who was smiling at her with the most beautiful smile she had ever seen. 'Hi, yes... my name is Arizona Robbins. What's your name?' Arizona said, trying not to sound as nervous as she was. 'I'm Calliope Torres, but everyone calls me Callie', she answered, still smiling at her. Arizona didn't know what to say anymore and got more nervous with every second she was next to . She tried to think of a good way to keep the conversation going, but then Callie asked her if she wanted to drink a coffee with her. Arizona felt like the happiest person on earth. 'Yes, I would love.. uhm, really enjoy drinking a coffee with you', she corrected herself and felt really embarressed for what she just said. -Damn Ari, you can't show her how much you like her-, she thought, trying not to show Callie anything of what was going on inside of her. 'Good', Callie answered. 'You can just sit down over there, I will come in a minute'. 'Okay', Arizona said, still feeling a bit awkward about the whole situation. She sat down at the table Callie had pointed out. She couldn't help but look at the back of the gorgeous Latina, who was ordering two coffees. Callie suddenly turned around to face Arizona. The blonde froze in her chair. She had just been staring at Callie awkwardly obvious, and Callie had caught her in the act. Callie tried to hide a smile as she saw Arizona's face turn bright red. 'Do you want sugar in your coffee?' she asked the cute blonde. 'Uhm.. y-yes please', Arizona stammered. Callie grabbed some sugar sachets from the counter and made her way to their table, holding two cups of coffee in one hand. 'Sooo, how's your day so far?' Callie asked as she sat down opposite Arizona. 'It's ok, I really love the hospital and my co-workers. I haven't talked to any of my patients yet, they are asleep. I only talked to their parents. Oh, and to a 12-year-old boy, but he won't need me anymore today. He can go home at the end of the day. And how is your day? Any interesting cases?'. Arizona felt herself calm down as the conversation became less and less awkward. Callie told her about a nine-month-old boy with a club foot she was treating. 'Hey, since your patients are all asleep, maybe you can help me with mine?' Callie suggested. 'The boy I just told you about cries a lot. Maybe you can calm him down, I heard you are amazing with kids!'. Arizona tried to be modest and said: 'Yeah, well, I'm not as good as a parent in calming kids down...'. 'Don't underestimate your qualities', Callie responded with a smile, 'I heard you are one of the best pediatric surgeons in the country!' Arizona smiled and said: 'I hardly think that's true, but thanks anyway.' Callie checked her watch. 'We better get going, our patient is waiting for us! Or at least his parents are waiting for us. The kid is too young to understand anything of what's happening to him.' They stood up, got rid of their coffee cups and made their way to the second floor, where their patient was located. They entered the room and saw that the parents were gone. 'Probably went to grab some coffee too', Callie said. She started inspecting the kid's foot, while Arizona stood next to her. The boy was very calm and Arizona didn't need to comfort him in any way. 'Treatment with braces isn't working very well so he needs surgery. I will do it this afternoon.' Callie said to Arizona. Arizona thought fast and decided she really wanted to spend more time with Callie. 'Can I join you on the surgery?' she asked Callie. 'Of course, if you want to!' Callie responded. Arizona smiled and tried not to show how much she enjoyed spending time with . But Callie was not stupid, Arizona's shy smile and her fidgeting with the blankets on their patient's bed made it obvious that being around Callie was making her nervous. Callie was wondering why. She couldn't imagine that a hot girl like Arizona Robbins was a lesbian, like she was. Well, technically she was bisexual. She had even been married to a guy. But Arizona's weird behaviour made her doubt if she was straight. She decided she really wanted to find out and said: 'Hey, it's almost lunch time, do you want to grab some lunch together?'. Arizona felt honored she was asked to have lunch with the best orthopedic surgeon in the hospital on her first day already. 'Yes, I'd love to, all the impressions of today have made me quite hungry', she answered. She hoped her ambiguous answer wasn't too obvious for Callie. She wasn't solely referring to the medical stuff when she said"all the impressions" … 'Nice', Callie said, smiling, 'let me just finish this examination, then we'll walk to the cafetaria together.'
Callie and Arizona were sitting opposite each other at a table for two. In front of Arizona, there was a plate filled with salad and carrots. Callie was eating some sandwiches. 'Would you like a coffee?' Arizona asked Callie. 'Yeah I'd like a cappuccino please!', Callie responded. Arizona stood up and walked to the coffee bar. Callie observed her closely. 'Like what you see?' The sound of a familiar voice in her ear made Callie jump. 'Oh my God Yang, stop sneaking around and scaring the shit out of me! And I don't know what you're talking about.' Callie's cheeks turned red. Cristina Yang smiled widely. 'You are SO defending yourself right now. I can see you falling for that new chick already and she has barely been in the hospital for one day!' 'Falling for her? What the hell are you talking about?' 'I know you Callie, we've been flatmates for three years now. The way you look at her...' 'I'm not looking at her in any special way! And keep your voice down, the whole hospital can hear you!' Callie whispered back. She glanced in Arizona's direction nervously. At that same moment, Arizona was looking at Callie too and their eyes locked. Arizona gave Callie a dimpled smile and turned to the lady behind the coffee bar again. Callie felt her knees weaken. It was a good thing she was sitting on a chair. 'Can you leave now, thanks', Callie asked Cristina curtly. Yang gave Callie a knowing look and walked to another table, where Meredith Grey was having lunch. Arizona came walking to Callie's table and put the fuming cappuccino in front of her. 'Thanks!', Callie said happily, 'I really needed that'. 'Who was that?' asked Arizona, nodding in Cristina's direction. 'Ugh, my psycho flatmate, Cristina Yang. She's best friends with Meredith Grey, the woman she's sitting with right now. You know, daughter of Ellis Grey.' 'Ah, yeah, I heard her daughter worked in this hospital... Why do you call Yang psycho?' asked Arizona. 'Because she is. She's an annoying know-it-all and she puts her job above everything else. But she's fun to talk to and she's a nice flatmate. Mostly because she isn't home most of the time. She's either at the hospital or at Meredith's place. I feel sorry for Derek.' 'Derek?' Arizona interrupted Callie. 'Yeah Derek Shepherd. Neurosurgeon. He lives with Meredith.' 'Ah yeah I've heard of him! Heard he's very handsome too!'. Callie was taken aback by that statement. She had kind of convinced herself that Arizona was likely to be gay. Just by the way she acted. But she was showing interest in a guy right now. Arizona saw the confusion on Callie's face. 'I even heard some jealous guys talking about his handsomeness', she added quickly. She didn't want Callie to think she was interested in him. Suddenly, Arizona started to smirk. 'You've got...', she giggled, 'you've got some foam on your upper lip!'. Callie turned bright red and tried to wipe her mouth with her fingers quickly, but missed a spot. 'Let me do it', said Arizona. She grabbed a napkin and reached over the table to wipe the remaining foam off Callie's lips. It felt like one of those romantic movie scenes. There was a fluttering movement in her lower belly and she pulled her hand back. Callie was looking at her with her beautiful big brown eyes and she could feel her heart melting away slowly. Arizona cleared her throat: 'So, where do you live?'. 'Just a five minute walk from the hospital. It's called Obama Street. I live on the third floor of a flat.' Arizona smiled and said: 'I just got an apartment in the J.F. Kennedy Street! That's like two streets away from your flat!' 'Nice! We could walk to the hospital together if our shifts start at the same time!' Callie replied. 'Yeah that would be nice, I'd love to have someone to talk to. I don't know a lot of people yet...'. There was a silence. Both of them stared at their almost empty plates. Arizona grabbed a carrot from her plate and started nibbling on it. Callie was overwhelmed by her cuteness. She stared at the blonde's face. Her wavy hair was shaped around her face perfectly. Her eyes were as blue as... Well, she couldn't describe it very well but they were beautiful. Callie felt like she could drown in them. Her nose was small, very cute. And her lips... They looked really soft, and Callie loved the way they moved when she was eating. Arizona was perfectly aware of the fact that she was being checked out by the woman in front of her, and she liked it. She tried to act as if she didn't notice it though. Callie might feel awkward then and she would stop, and Arizona didn't want her to stop. In fact, this made her feel very good. But after about one minute, Arizona started to feel a little uncomfortable about the silence and she decided she wanted to talk to Callie some more. 'How long have you worked in this hospital?' she asked Callie. 'Uhm, about eight years I guess, including my internship. I have known I wanted to be an orthopedic surgeon from the beginning. Did you always know you wanted to work with children?'. 'Yeah pretty much. I just love the fact that it's challenging. It's grown up medicine in miniature. Kids react to therapy differently. They look at their illness differently. I think it's fascinating.' Callie smiled. 'I can imagine there are good parts in the job. But I could never do what you do. I don't have enough patience. That's why I like ortho. It's pretty rough.' 'Yeah I know, a bit too rough for me.' They laughed together. 'So I guess we both made the right choice', Callie said. 'Yep! And speaking of our jobs, shouldn't we prepare for our surgery?' Arizona replied. Callie checked her watch. 'Yes, you are right, we should probably get going.'They stood up, cleared their table and wandered in the direction of the OR together.
On the way to the OR Callie broke the silence when she asked:'Where are you from, by the way?' 'I'm from Baltimore. I studied at Johns Hopkins.' Arizona replied while they entered the scrub room. 'Wow, impressive! That's one of the best med schools in the world!' Callie said, mouth wide open. They started to scrub in together.'Yep, I learned a lot over there!' Callie's amazement made Arizona smile widely. 'Ugh, I'm so jealous of you', Callie said, 'you get these cute dimples when you smile. I've always wanted to have dimples myself..'. Arizona's whole body started to tingle at this compliment from Callie. 'A couple of weeks ago, I read an article about exercises to mimic the appearance of dimples. Maybe you can try those!' she blurted out. She immediately regretted her fast answer; if she was going to babble stupid things to Callie, she would never win her over. Callie, on the other hand, gave Arizona a huge smile and said: 'Are you kidding? I'm totally gonna try those! Maybe then I have a shot with you', she added with a wink. Arizona was flabbergasted. Was Callie flirting with her? It sure looked like it! She gave Callie her best dimpled smile and walked into the OR, where their young patient lay on the operating table, already under anesthesia. Callie paused for a moment to appreciate Arizona's sexy back before she followed her into the OR.
Two hours later, dr. Torres and dr. Robbins came out of the OR, looking tired but satisfied. 'That went pretty smooth!' Callie said. 'Yeah, glad there were no complications!' Arizona responded. 'You did a great job, dr. Robbins! It was your first club foot operation right?' 'Yeah, it was! But you helped me with everything so it wasn't that hard', said Arizona, thinking about Callies hands on hers during the surgery, trying to correct their position. It was hard for her to focus on the OP while Callie touched her. Everytime she did, it gave Arizona some butterflies. Callie interrupted Arizona in her thoughts when she said, smiling, 'I would enjoy to work with you again dr. Robbins'. 'I would like to work with you again, too, ', Arizona agreed. Spending time with Callie felt so right and she would have loved to keep the conversation going but Arizona remembered that she had to check on her patients one last time before her first day was over. 'I'm sorry, but I have to check on my patients before I head home. Will I see you tomorrow?' Arizona asked. 'Yeah sure! I'm done here so I'm going home, I'm kinda tired. Bye dr. Robbins!' Callie waved at her and headed to the locker room, while Arizona walked to Peds. She had just entered the room of a sleeping girl when her pager started to beep. It was the NICU. 'Shit', mumbled Arizona and she sprinted out of the room. Fortunately, the NICU was near Peds. An intern came running towards her: 'It's Toby, something is wrong with his breathing. Mask inflation is ineffective. We need to intubate.' 'You gotta be kidding me', whispered Arizona. She was tired and less focused than usual after the surgery with Callie. 'Give me the laryngoscope', she ordered the intern. It was pushed into her hands immediately. 'Thanks', she said, lifting the baby's chin and putting the laryngoscope in the right position. Slowly, she pushed the blade into the kid's throat. 'Come on, kiddo', she whispered at Toby. The blonde had a hard time getting the blade in correctly. Toby was only one week old and very small. 'YES', dr. Robbins exclaimed when she finally got the blade inside of the throat the right way. 'Ok, give me the tube'. She pushed the tube through his throat slowly. 'Done. Now attach the ventilator.' As Arizona pulled the laryngoscope back, the intern connected the tube to the mechanical ventilation machine. 'Well done. We must keep this little boy on the machine throughout the night. I'll tell the nurse to check on him every 30 minutes.' Arizona went to the nurse's office right away and decided to check on her other patients quickly. Every kid was sleeping peacefully and Arizona decided she could go home. It was a shame Callie already left. Arizona walked home by herself, and her mind was with Callie Torres the whole time. Her dance moves, her smile, her big, strong hands on her own hands during surgery. It looked like she was obsessed by the Latina. What was happening to her?
Arizona went to bed early that night, after a long warm bath. She curled up under the blankets and fell asleep. Suddenly, she heard a knock on the bedroom door. She moaned and watched as the door was opened by someone. She couldn't see who it was, darkness impeding her sight. She felt the person coming closer to her. Her mattress was dented when the figure climbed onto the bed. Arizona was aware of the fact that she should be extremely scared at the moment, but she was oddly calm. She felt the stranger move across the bed, and as her vision became more clear, she noticed it was definately a woman on her bed. The woman moved untill she was hanging above Arizona, their noses facing each other. And then Arizona recognized Callie, the woman who had been on her mind the whole day and evening. They stared into each other's eyes for a moment, and Arizona felt a warm rush searing through her body. She had not been this close to Callie before and the dark brown eyes looking into hers, their noses almost touching, turned her on very much. Callie smiled at her and she returned it with a dimpled smile back. Callie put her hands on Arizona's still damp hair and stroked it gently. Then she brought her face even closer to the blonde's, nuzzling her nose in her hair and smelling it. 'You smell so good', Callie said, the sentence ending in a moan. Arizona was really aroused at this point, her center getting as wet as the blond hair Callie was examining. Callie opened her mouth and sucked on Arizona's earlobe. Meanwhile, she was stroking the blonde's belly under her pyjamas with her left hand, her right hand still tangled in damp hair. After sucking the earlobe for a minute, eliciting moans from Arizona, she placed some wet kisses on the blonde's jaw line, moving in the direction of her chin. When she reached the chin, she looked at Arizona's eyes, which were closed, and at her mouth. Her teeth were biting down on her lower lip, desiring a kiss from Callie very badly. But Callie was in no hurry to do such a thing. Instead of moving to Arizona's mouth, she examined the other side of her jaw, planting soft kisses on it while moving on to her right ear. She sucked the earlobe and Arizona's body moved upwards in arousal. Arizona decided there needed to be some action or she would pass out in excitement. She took Callie's face in her hands and pulled it gently back in front of hers. Their lips were barely one inch apart. Arizona moved closer and opened her mouth in anticipation. Callie moved closer too. Their lips almost met, Arizona's body on fire. She closed her eyes as she saw Callie do the same thing. She had never felt better in her life before. Callie's smell, her hand still touching her belly, the feeling of the lips almost touching her own. She had never been more turned on in her life. She wanted it to never stop. She was going to kiss Callie so passionately, the Latina would never want to let her go. A loud noise made her open her eyes in shock. Callie was gone. Sunlight was shining through the curtains. Her alarm was beeping loudly.