A.N. Just a quick one to pass the time. Enjoy!
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Callie sat alone outside the hospital so deep in thought that she didn't even hear Arizona calling her name until the blonde sat in the seat across from her and placed a salad and bottle of water in front of her.
"I brought lunch," Arizona chirped as she sat down with a bright smile.
Callie didn't spare so much as a glance for the other woman as she continued to sit deep in thought.
"Calliope?" Arizona asked. "What's going on, are you okay?"
Callie's eyes finally seemed to focus on the blonde sitting across from her and she sighed heavily. "Did you need something?"
Arizona's face fell and she started to grow concerned. "I thought we could have lunch."
Callie shook her head and ran a hand through her hair. "I kind of want to be alone right now."
"Cal, what's going on?" the blonde asked, leaning forward to grasp the other woman's hand.
Callie drew her hand back and shook her head. "Arizona, I really just want to be alone right now."
Arizona took a few moments to rethink every thing she'd said and done that morning to be sure that there wasn't something Callie could be mad at her for but she was coming up totally blank. "Sweetie, did you have a bad surgery or something this morning?"
"Don't call me that," Callie mumbled, her eyes unfocused.
"Okay, I'm coming up with absolutely nothing," Arizona started. "I can't think of anything I've said or done that could have you upset with me. Unless you had a fight with Mark or Christina or something went bad in the OR, I have no idea why you're acting like this."
Callie slammed her hand on the table, startling both of them and she quickly leaned forward and tried to collect herself. "Listen, Robbins, I don't know how to make myself any clearer to you. Leave me alone. Don't call me Cal, or sweetie or anything else. Just leave."
Arizona sat in stunned silence for a few moments before swallowing hard and biting back her tears. She stood up with a nod of her head and did her best to keep from crying even though her heart was breaking.
"I don't know what's going on with you, Dr. Torres, but when you figure it out, I hope for your sake I'll still be around to care," she told the other woman quietly but firmly.
Callie watched her go and she swallowed her tears when the ache in her chest grew bigger with every step Arizona took away from her.
As Arizona flung the door open, Mark happened to be coming out and Callie watched as the two of them exchanged words and she felt her heart ache a bit when she saw Arizona smile and laugh at something he was saying. She had her brave face on. It broke Callie's heart.
Mark smiled once more at Arizona and he made his way to Callie's table and sat in the seat the blonde had occupied moments ago. When she didn't say anything Mark leaned forward and began eating the salad Arizona had left on the table for her.
"Don't eat that," she told him.
He looked up with a mouthful of food and questions in his eyes. "Huh?"
"She brought it for me and I told her to go away and I told her not to call me Cal or sweetie," Callie mumbled.
"What the hell are you going on about?" he asked as he continued to eat her lunch.
Callie finally broke down and her tears began to fall. "I made her go away."
"Why?" he asked. He knew from experience to just get to the bottom of the girl drama.
Callie shrugged and stood up and began to pace. "I don't know. Maybe because I'm an idiot and I don't deserve to have her for a girlfriend and I'm a total ass right now."
"Torres, shut up with the self pity crap and get to the good part of this," Mark demanded in his usual way.
Callie let out a frustrated sigh and flopped back in her seat. "Last night..Arizona and I, we did it."
"Oh God, not again," Mark whined as he set the salad down and started to stand up.
"No!" Callie exclaimed, a bit too loudly. She looked around to see several people around them looking at her. "Sit down."
He smirked. "So it was good with Roller Girl then?"
"I saw leaves," Callie admitted.
"I don't even know why I try," he told her with a roll of his eyes as he began to stand up again.
"Sit. Down." Callie paused a moment and looked around to be sure nobody was in ear shot before leaning forward. "She did things to me last night that I can't even spell. It was…life altering."
Mark's smirk returned and he leaned forward. "Never mind, I know exactly why I try."
"I'm being serious," Callie told him.
"Oh believe me, I am too," he told her.
"Can you please knock it off?" she asked with a smack to his arm.
He nodded and rolled his eyes. "Fine."
Callie sat and thought for a few moments before sighing. "I think that last night I realized for the first time that I don't want anyone but her. Ever. And I'm scared to death."
Mark nodded his head and placed a hand on her arm. "Hate to tell you this, Torres, but I'm not really the one you need to be telling this to."
"I know," Callie whined. "But she probably hates me right now."
"I doubt she hates you," Mark reasoned. "But I'm sure she's pissed."
"What do I do?" she asked.
Mark thought for a moment. "Bring her flowers and tell her you're an ass and tell her how you feel. Believe me when I say that when you tell her what you just told me, she'll forgive you."
"Really?" she asked hopefully.
"If she doesn't, then she's the ass," he told her seriously. "She's a lucky girl."
"I'm the lucky one," she told him.
"Yeah, yeah, " he mumbled as he stood up. "Don't start with the hearts and rainbows. She's definitely rubbed off on you."
"Shut up," she told him with a grin.
He winked and slung an arm around her shoulders and they walked back into the hospital together with Callie feeling better than she had all day.
Arizona watched the two of them from a second floor window through her tears. She decided in that moment that she was going to get very, very drunk that night and forget all about the gorgeous woman that had just broken her heart.
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Callie knocked on Arizona's front door later that night, armed with flowers and a bottle of wine. She had knots in her stomach as she stood waiting for the door to open.
Arizona pulled the door open a moment later and took one look at the brunette and slammed the door again.
"Arizona!" Callie called out as she knocked again. "Open the door."
"Go away, Torres," the blonde called out, her voice slurring slightly.
"Please stop calling me that," Callie begged as she knocked again.
A moment later, the door opened slowly and Arizona's face appeared on the other side looking angry. And a bit drunk. "What?"
Callie took in the sight of the other woman and smiled a bit. She'd never seen Arizona drunk before and it was completely endearing.
"No," Arizona told her sternly as she leaned heavily against the door. "You do not get to show up looking that good and smelling that good with flowers and wine and stand there with that smile on your face.'
"What smile?" Callie asked as she pushed past the blonde and entered the apartment.
Arizona turned as she shut the door and downed the rest of the wine in her glass. "The one that made me fall in love with you. The one that makes me think you're in love with me. The one that I love so damn much. Don't. It's not fair."
"Zona, come on," Callie coaxed as she moved towards the kitchen and poured herself a glass of wine.
"Don't call me that either," Arizona told her with a pout.
"Why not?" Callie asked with a smile. That smile.
Arizona shook her head and pointed a finger at her. "You don't get to come in here after telling me to go away and telling me not to call you Cal or sweetie. You don't get to come in here and try to make me forget how horrible you made me feel today." She paused and nodded her head. "I'm drunk, not stupid."
Callie smiled but quickly grew serious as she set her glass down. She watched as Arizona picked it up and drained it quickly. "Last night. It was…," Callie struggled to find the words.
"Amazing?" Arizona offered with a hint of a smile.
Callie shook her head. "No." She smiled when Arizona looked offended. "I mean, yes it was amazing, but it was beyond that. It was so far beyond that."
"Right, so that's a perfect reason to act the way you did today," Arizona mumbled as she poured herself more wine. "I don't get you."
"I'm obviously not explaining myself very well," Callie sighed.
"Obviously," Arizona told her.
Callie was silent a moment and collected her thoughts. "When Erica and I first got together it was awkward and new and I had no idea what was going on and what I was doing."
"Talking about her isn't helping," the blonde told her with a pout.
"Just hear me out." Callie smiled and leaned in to kiss the blonde's protruding bottom lip. "Anyways, when we finally got it right, Erica went on and on about seeing leaves for the first time because she realized she was gay. I figured I never saw leaves because I wasn't gay, I just felt what I felt with her." Callie paused and grasped Arizona's hand and met her gaze evenly. "After last night, I realized that I never saw leaves with Erica because she wasn't the one. Last night I saw leaves. Lots and lots of leaves."
"So what you're saying is…," Arizona trailed off. Her buzz had tapered off signifigantly with every word that Callie had said.
"I never want to see leaves with anyone but you," Callie told her. She swallowed hard when Arizona didn't say anything for a few moments. "Ever."
"You think I'm the one?" Arizona asked, still buzzed, but suddenly deliriously happy.
"I know you are," Callie replied without a second of hesitation.
"How do you know?" the blonde asked as she moved closer to her girlfriend.
Callie smiled wider, knowing she was forgiven. "Seeing you smile makes me happier than anything has ever made me in my life. And every time you smile I vow to myself that I will do everything in my power every day to make you smile so I can feel my heart swell in my chest with a happiness that I never even knew existed." Callie leaned in and kissed the blonde. "When you leave my apartment in the morning I lie in bed and breathe you in on the pillow next to me until the last possible minute. When you're sad or upset, like I made you today, it breaks my heart and it's a pain that I've never felt before. I'd go to the ends of the Earth for you. I'd give you the world if I could."
Arizona's chin quivered and tears swam in her eyes. "All I need is you."
"Then I'm yours," Callie answered with a smile as she reached out to swipe away a few stray tears.
"Forever?" Arizona asked seriously.
"And a day," Callie promised. She smiled when Arizona finally moved towards her and they wrapped each other in a warm hug.
"I love you so much," Arizona told her.
"You are so cute when you're drunk," Callie finally blurted out.
Arizona pulled back and pouted again. "Tell me you love me, then you can tease me."
Callie leaned in and kissed her gently. "I love you."
"You better," the blonde told her and pulled her close again. She inhaled deeply and smiled. "I breathe you in every morning too."
"I know," Callie admitted softly with a grin. "I've seen you do it a few times when I've gotten out of the shower. I always thought it was really cute."
"You smell really amazing," Arizona told her as she ran her nose gently across the brunette's neck and inhaled deeply.
Callie felt her body react instantly and she smiled. "Careful, you know what that does to me."
"Oh I know," Arizona told her and she pulled back enough to pull Callie into a smoldering kiss.
Callie pulled back a bit and Arizona noticed immediately and looked up in confusion. "Calliope, what's up?"
Callie swallowed hard and she felt her palms start to sweat. "I picked something up on my way over here that I was kind of hoping you'd wear tonight."
Arizona's eyebrows knitted together. "Is it from that store downtown that you always want to go in that I refuse? The one with the…stuff?"
Callie laughed and shook her head. "No. This won't make you blush."
Arizona actually blushed a bit at that and looked up at Callie through her lashes. "Okay what did you have in mind?"
Callie reached into her jacket pocket and pulled out a small black box. She slid the top open and met Arizona's shocked gaze. "A diamond solitaire maybe?"
"Oh my God," Arizona breathed.
"Marry me," Callie whispered.
Arizona's eyes welled with tears and she pulled Callie into a soul-stealing kiss.
Callie stood trying not to hyperventilate as she waited for some kind of response. "Is that a yes?"
Arizona pulled back and met her eyes with a smile. "Yes."
Callie grinned pulled her into a hug. "Really?"
"I love you," Arizona told her. "Of course it's a yes."
Callie laughed. "Okay, I lied before. This is the happiest I've ever been."
"Me too," Arizona agreed.
Callie kissed her gently and slid the ring on her finger. "It looks good on you."
"It's gorgeous," the blonde told her.
"You're gorgeous," Callie replied.
Arizona sighed in total bliss. "Take me to bed."
"Happily," Callie told her.
Arizona grinned. "Forever?"
"And a day," Callie promised.
The end.
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A.N. Well? What did you think? Hope you enjoyed it and thanks for reading!