A few people wanted to know what's going on with Callie, Arizona and Charlee. Nothing major, just a small glimpse into their life before the sequel picks up.
Hope you guys enjoy. Happy Halloween.
Halloween Eve
The River
Walking into her home after a long day at the clinic, Callie threw her purse and keys on the table near the door before walking further down the hall of their home. It was oddly quiet in house for a Friday evening. "Arizona?" She called after noticing the living room was void of her usual seventeen month old daughter running around destroying the place. "Charlee," She yelled out. Usually when the little girl heard her mom walk through the front door she would dart in the direction and latch onto her mother's leg.
"Ari?" She called again as she walked into the empty kitchen, only to see dinner slowly cooking on the stove.
Hearing a little yelp in the back yard, Callie saw a glimpse of her daughter and dogs running in the grass.
"There you are," she sighed, walking out onto the patio of their home.
All the brunette wanted to do after this short, but yet, long work week was come home and spend some quality time with her two favorite girls for the next three days.
God, she loved only working part time now. She didn't know if she could ever go back to a full workweek after working three or four day weeks for the past year and a half. How did she ever manage five and sometimes six?
"Hi baby," Arizona grinned, looking up from the box she had just opened when she saw the love of her life walk through the French doors into their back yard. "How was your afternoon?" She questioned her wife as she leaned over and accepted the kiss the woman was offering her. "Did your last surgery go well?" Arizona still continued to work a day or two a week at her practice, and just so happened today she got to work most of the morning beside her wife.
"Hi, honey," she breathed, greeting her wife. "It was good, just took a little longer than I expected," she said as she glanced out to the little girl who was trying her best to sit on Charlie's back, but just as she would get a leg thrown over him, he would walk a few feet away causing the little toddler to fall to the ground in hysterics.
"What are you all doing out here?" she kissed her cheek before moving to stand behind her and inspect the contents of the box.
"Well, when I picked your daughter up from mom and dad's they had her out playing, and when we came home she wanted to go, side, again." Arizona repeated her daughter's words from earlier. "So since it was a nice day I figured we'd get some fresh air and play while I let the sauce simmer." She answered as she grabbed the packing from the box.
"What are you cooking?"
"Spaghetti,"
"Yum," she whispered, inhaling her wife's scent on her neck before resting her chin on the blonde's shoulder. "I missed you this afternoon."
"You saw me most of the day, babe," she smiled as the woman wrapped her arms around her waist and bury her face in her hair to kiss the back of her head. God she could never get enough of her wife's hugs.
"So?" She complained. "Would you rather I say, oh God, you again?" She giggled into the nap of her neck.
"I mean," Arizona shrugged. "You can if you want to sleep in the guest room for a few days," she said nonchalantly. "Be my guest... literally," she laughed.
"You're so mean to me," she whined. "If I slept in the guest room you and Charlee both would probably end up in there with me and you know it." She said, hugging her wife's body tight.
"I know I would," she smiled, turning around in the brunette's arms. "I missed you too, baby," she said as she nudged her nose against the woman's cheek before planting a gentle kiss on the side of her mouth. "I love you." She said softly.
"I love you too," the Latina leaned in and kissed her wife's pink lips.
Just as Arizona started to deepen the kiss they heard a screech from a little girl that caused them to break out of their little moment.
"'Ma," Apparently Charlee had just noticed her mommy standing nearby and she forgot all about playing when she saw her other parent.
"Charlee," Callie knelt down on one knee and held her arms out for her daughter to run into. "There's my baby girl," she wrapped her arms around the little tyke and kissed her on top of the head. "Were you a good princess for mamaw and poppy today?"
"Not particularly," Arizona said as she watched on while her wife and daughter had this usual quality time together. Every time Callie came home from work in the evening the little girl would cling to her mommy for at least thirty minutes before she'd finally go back to her toys. "Mama said she was into everything, and when she corrected her my little princess would put that hand on her hip and start back talking," she shot a glare over to her wife. "Who does that sound like?"
"I have no idea," she groaned, picking her daughter up. "What you're talking about," she said, doing her best to ignore her wife.
Of course she knew, but she didn't want to admit it. Charlee knew her mommy meant business when she would put her hands on her hips and give her a stern look.
No matter what the little girl was doing, all Callie had to do was walk into the room, stand with her hands on her hips and clear her throat to get Charlee's attention. The little girl would flop to the floor on her butt and just bat her eyelashes up at her mother which would melt the older brunette's heart. Her daughter looked so much like her and her wife it was uncanny.
The little Latina had a lighter color skin than her, but she was darker than her mama and brown hair that kept getting darker every day, but yet, her dimples and blue eyes could light up a room just like her wife.
"I bet you don't, Calliope."
"Ma," the little girl repeated, laying her head on her mother's shoulder as Callie held her in her arms and swayed them back and forth.
In the past few months, Charlee had started calling her Ma instead of Ma-ie. And just like Arizona had said on the little girl's birthday seven months ago, she missed it, but she would happily take to being called anything by her little girl.
"Fly,"
"No, baby," Callie patted her on the back. "Mommy has had a long day and she's tired, we'll fly tomorrow, okay?"
"Fly," she raised her head to look at her mother with a pout. "Fly."
"Baby," she sighed, looking over to her wife who couldn't stop giggling. Arizona had told her she would come to regret playing superhero all the time and the day had come many months ago, but Callie never had the heart to tell her daughter no more than twice. "After dinner," she bounced her in her arms. She knew her daughter didn't understand, but still, she tried. "We'll eat spaghetti, carve a pumpkin, have a bath, and then we'll put your Wonder Woman sleeper on and we'll fly." She said kissing her daughters cheek, trying to make the little girl forget about it. "Okay?" She asked, kissing her all over, causing the toddler to belly laugh at her mommy.
"I remember when you used to do that to me," Arizona said, coming to stand behind her two favorite brunettes'"
"Are you jealous?" Callie slightly turned her head to look at her wife's face which was perched on her shoulder.
"Totally,"
"Mama's jealous Charlee," she turned to face her wife. "What should we do, Wonder Woman?" She asked her daughter.
Arizona couldn't help but chuckle when her daughter reached out and poked her lips with her index finger before slinging herself in her arms. "Whoa there," she caught the little one.
"What do you say, Wonder Woman? Should we show mama how much we love her?" She questioned, not long after the words left her mouth Charlee kissed Arizona's cheek. "Love you kisses," Callie grinned, when she saw bright blue eyes wink at her. "Ready?" She asked her daughter, causing her to pat the blonde's cheek. "Go," she laughed when she saw the little girl plant several open mouth kisses on the woman's cheek. "My turn," she said, grabbing her wife's cheeks and planting several open mouth kisses of her own all over the woman's face while Charlee and Arizona giggled at her.
"Oh, wow," Arizona exclaimed once the kisses ceased. "Those made me feel so loved," she hugged her daughter close. "Thank you, princess." She kissed her daughters cheek. "And thank you, mommy," she pulled her wife in by the hem of her shirt and pecked her red lips.
"Anytime baby," she purred against pink lips. Before slightly tilting her head to the right to bring their lips together in a slow open mouthed kiss.
It didn't take Arizona but a second to slip her tongue into her wife's mouth as she placed her hand behind her neck to deepen the kiss, until Charlee pressed her forehead to both her mother's cheeks, breaking them from their intimate moment.
"I guess I should go check my sauce," she said pulling back from her wife. "Dinner should be ready in about fifteen," she said, putting the girl down so she can go off and play before it became too dark out. "You want a salad?"
"Yeah, I'll make our salads," Callie insisted.
"No," she declined. "You stay out here and play with her for a few more minutes; I'll call you when it's ready."
"No, I was supposed to cook tonight, the least I can do is prepare the salad."
"Okay, but you have to convince the monster to come in."
"Easy peasy," she waved her wife and tried to wrangle in their daughter.
Most of their days consisted of exactly this. On the days Callie and Arizona worked all day they'd go pick up their daughter from Barbara and Daniels house before traveling home and getting the little one fed and bathed so they could try to get a few minutes alone with each other, but sometimes those intimate moments felt like they were few between, however neither woman complained.
It was nights like this that Arizona treasured the most.
Nights where they would share family time before having dinner and playing with their daughter until she would tire down enough to drag her away for bath time quickly followed by a bedtime story read by both the women until the toddler was out like a light, and that was when mommy and mama time usually came into play. Usually by eight o'clock they were finally able to sat down and enjoy a glass of wine, catch up on their DVR or practice some baby making.
After Charlee's first birthday party, they decided to try for another baby again, but wanted to hold off until fall because they wanted to enjoy the summer with their daughter before the stress of conceiving commenced.
Callie had been on the shots for a few weeks now and Monday they were supposed to go see a doctor about making a baby and neither woman could be more excited.
She was actually going to have a check up to make sure her body was ready, and then the baby making would commence. Either way, they were extremely excited at the thought of bringing more love into their tiny family.
Callie had eventually rounded up her one and a half year old after a crying fit and brought her into the house so she could help her wife finish dinner.
The only way she could get the young one to calm down was to buckle her into her high chair and let her go to town on her spaghetti while they finished up the salad.
After enjoying a nice family dinner, Arizona had grabbed their daughter and cleaned her up a little while Callie cleaned the mess she had made up.
They had fallen into a perfect rhythm with everyday home life. Someone would always take charge of cleaning their daughter up while the other would clean up after dinner.
Finally getting everything squared away after supper, they went out to the patio since it was still warm out, and prepared a spot in the grass to carve their pumpkin with their daughter.
"Okay, Char," Arizona said after cutting the top off their pumpkin while Callie kept her daughter still on her lap while her wife maneuvered the knife through the squash. "Time to get messy." She said as the girl stood up from her place on her mommy's lap and looked inside the hole.
"Please tell me she's not going to be the prissy kid that's too good to get her hands messy," Callie watched as her daughter stepped back when Arizona pulled some of the guts of the squash out. "Her mom's a surgeon. I love getting my hands messy," she said, sticking her hand inside the pumpkin and pulling out the insides. "Help mama, Bug," she said, placing some of the guts on her daughters hand which caused the girl to scrunch her face and try to sling the slimy mess off her hands before letting out a whimper.
"Oh lord, this is going to be a long night," she laughed as the two cleaned out the pumpkin while Charlee sat down on the blanket near the dogs completely uninterested in the pumpkin.
Spending a good ten minutes scraping the guts and thinning out the squash, they hadn't paid much attention to the girl sitting beside them who had begun to experiment with the slim or that was until Callie got smack right in the face with some seeds and slim.
"Charlee," Arizona looked up when she heard her wife yelp out in surprise. "No, baby," she giggled when she saw her wife with goop all over her cheek, nose and opened mouth.
"I just got bitch slapped with pumpkin guts," Callie whispered in surprise. "By a one year old."
"Calliope, your mouth," Arizona picked some up from the small trash bag they had placed them in and slung more at her wife.
The brunette's mouth fell open in shock when her wife slung the insides all over her face. "You two are just mean," she pouted as the picked the slim off her face. "You're lucky I want to get this finished to we can enjoy a glass of wine and carve our own pumpkin that isn't a cartoon," she said cleaning her face. "So, I will let this slid for now, no promises for later though," she pointed.
"You better not," Arizona eyed her, knowing good and well that Callie would rub it in her face later if she had the chance. "No sexy time for you."
"You can't resist this," Callie slid her hands down the side of her body and threw her head back with a laugh when her wife rolled her eyes. "You know it's true."
"Maybe so, but I can bring you to the edge and leave you hanging there begging for mercy," she winked at her wife before grabbing her daughter to sit her down between her legs so they could start carving her pumpkin.
"That would be so mean," she huffed. "But I'm not opposed to it," she threw the guts in her wife's face. "I'm sure I'll have fun in the process," she laughed.
"Wait until I get my hands on you," she growled wiping her face off, then grabbing Charlee's Mickey pattern she had picked out earlier in the day. "You will beg like you've never begged before."
""Mmmm..." Callie wiggled in her seat at the thought.
Finally settling down, the two moms carved the pumpkin with help from the little munchkin in the beginning, but before they were even able to show her the finished product of Mickey Mouse trick-or-treating, the little Latina had fallen asleep between her mama's legs.
Cleaning up the mess in the back yard, they took the little girl and cleaned her up the best they could without waking her up. After putting her down for the night they returning back outside to have some quiet time as they carved their pumpkin together.
"I got Aria's wedding invitation out if the mail today," Arizona sat down on the lounger between her wife's legs after she sat the baby monitor down on the table.
"Oh, yeah," Callie asked, grabbing her wine glass and sipping the red liquid while her wife snuggled into her.
Addison had warned her to stay away from alcohol, but told the brunette that a glass here or there once in a while was okay as long as she didn't make a habit of it. "She said she mailed it a few days ago. It's still a little early in my opinion but to each their own."
"She's excited, Calliope. It's a Christmas wedding," Arizona pointed out. "It's less than two months; I remember how excited we were right before our big day. Don't you?"
"Of course, I wish I could re-live some of those days; they were fun, she said roaming her hand down the woman's sides.
"They were, but I wouldn't give up the now." She laid her head back on her wife's shoulder.
"Me neither." She said, placing her glass down on the small table beside her so she could hug her wife from behind. "Hey," she recalled her wife digging around in a box when she came home. "What else came in the mail? Was it our costumes?"
"Oh that," the blonde nervously said. "Promise you won't be mad?"
"Uh-oh, that doesn't sound good." Callie leaned back in the seat.
"It was our costumes." She confirmed, turning to gaze at her wife beautiful wife.
"I feel a, but coming,"
"But the crazy thing is, they," she threw up her hands, acting like she was annoyed. "Sent the wrong costumes for some odd reason, but hey, they still fit, so I can't complain." She shrugged.
Callie could tell her wife was feeding her a bunch of bull. She knew Arizona too well to know she was lying. "We're all supposed to match, Arizona. You said I could choose our outfit and I did. You said you were fine with my choice."
"I was," she insisted. "I am... but..." She nervously bit on her lip. "Please don't be mad." She implored.
"But…" Callie waited for her to confess.
"I saw something else, and I may have ordered them instead."
"Arizona," she whined. Not that she was surprised because she suspected her wife wasn't content with her choice, but she left it up to her and she chose.
"Wait until you see them, babe. You'll fall in love with Charlee's." She jumped up to retrieve the box.
"Why am I not surprised?" The Latina asked when she saw her wife walking back outside with a box in hand and a huge smile on her face. "I knew you wouldn't order my choice," she huffed, trying to make her wife feel slightly bad, but apparently Arizona was too excited to notice. "All I can say is it better not be anything Disney."
"Look at this," Arizona ignored her wife's words and pulled out the toddler Dumbo costume out of the bag. "She will be the cutest elephant to walk the face of this plant." She just knew Charlee would look adorable in the outfit.
"Oh my god," she couldn't help but giggle. "She will be so cute," she took the suit from her wife and held it up, realizing something. "Oh no," she looked to the blonde and shook her head. "No,"
"What?"
"I'm supposed to be sexy cat woman, you're supposed to be sexy Robin and Charlee is supposed to be adorable batgirl," she insisted. "I don't want to be an elephant."
"Oh no," she shook her head. "That would be ridiculous," She shook her head.
"Well then what are we?" She asked, while the blonde dug around in the box. "I am a sexy circus ringmaster," she pulled out the long red jacket and short black skirt along with the hat out of the box.
"Oooo," Callie could see her wife wearing the piece now. "That's hot, baby," she purred. "But what am I?"
"You," she said putting the outfit aside and grabbing the last costume. "Are Timothy Q. Mouse," she said pulling out the mouse ears and red hat and jacket out of the box.
"What?" She exclaimed. "Arizona Michelle, no way," she protested. "I was supposed to be sexy cat woman. If I can't be cat woman, I am going to be your sexy ringmaster," she snatched up the costume off the table. "You can be Timothy Q. Mouse," she said, taking the ears from the blonde and placing them on her head.
"Are you mad?" Arizona asked, giving her wife her best puppy dog face.
"Well, I had big plans for the cat woman suit after we went trick-or-treating," she shrugged. "But I guess that doesn't matter now."
"But you can be the sexy ringmaster," she reiterated. "You would make a hot ringmaster."
"I can be ringmaster and you're the mouse?"
"I'll be the mouse."
"Okay, if..."
"Only..." Arizona interrupted her. "If you still continue with your plans of the cat suit." She blushed slightly at the thought of her hot wife wearing the black leather.
"Okay, but you make it up to me tonight!"
"Hell yeah, deal," she grinned, sitting the items down on the table and stepping in closer to her wife. "Wanna start right now?" She asked, gently brushing her fingers over her wife's clothed breasts, immediately seeing Callie's nipple harden at her touch.
Callie couldn't find the words, so she nodded her head vigorously while the blonde teased her.
"We don't have to carve a pumpkin tonight; Charlee's is enough, right?" Arizona squinted her eyes seductively before pulling the brunette in.
"Oh yeah," Callie agreed, when her wife started teasing her other breast too. "Mickey mouse is plenty," she purred as she leaned in to kiss her wife's waiting lips.
"Good," she breathed against her mouth.
"Very good," Callie bend down and wrapped her arms around the back of the blonde's thighs, picking her up and getting her to wrap her legs around her waist.
"Hungry?" Arizona giggled, tightening her limbs around the woman's body while Callie started kissing all over her chest and up her neck.
"It's been too long," she said, walking them inside the house while Arizona pulled their faces together to bring their lips in an intimate dance.
"It's only been a few days."
"Exactly," Callie whispered, as she made her way through the house with her wife wrapped around her.
"Oww..." Arizona squalled out when Callie ran into the corner of the wall.
"Sorry," she laughed, as she let go of her wife so they could make their way upstairs.
"Come on," she took the woman's hand and rushed up the stairs to their room where only the light shining from the street lit up the room enough to find their way to the mattress and tumble down on the bed together after disposing of their shirts.
So," Arizona said, rolling on top of her wife and straddled her waist. "I think I have," she murmured while dragging her finger over the Latina's bra covered breasts, eliciting a shiver from the woman beneath her. "Some making up to do," she whispered, leaning down and gently kissing the spot between her wife's mounds.
"Mmm..." Callie hummed in agreement while Arizona slowly kissed a trail up to the top swell of her left breast before pulling her black garment down exposing her hardened peak.
Seeing her wife's tongue slowly peek out between pink lips sent pleasure straight to her core with anticipation.
Arizona glanced up at her wife when she saw the chill bumps make its presence known on her wife's body before smiling and slowly gliding her tongue over the bud.
"Ooooh...baby," The brunette moaned with pleasure, arching her back off the bed, pushing her breasts into her wife's touch. Gently, she brought her hand up and placed it behind the blonde's neck to keep her in place as the woman had moved and pulled the other side of the martial down to exposed her other breast as she continued to suck her nipple into her mouth.
Callie couldn't take much more of the blonde's teasing. She loved when Arizona took her time, but tonight she needed her wife and wasn't in a mood for thirty minutes of foreplay even though it was both of their favorite part of the night.
Just as the Latina gathered enough strength to turn the tables on her wife, a phone started ringing on the bedside table.
"No, no, no. We have a deal," she whined when Arizona detached herself away from her nipple with a loud pop.
"I'm just checking," Arizona sat up, still straddling her wife's legs. "If it's not Teddy, I won't answer," she said, leaning down to kiss the woman's pouting lips. "I have to, Calliope."
"I know," she said, blindly reaching for the phone herself. "Hello?" Callie answered when she saw it was their friend. "Yeah," she breathed as she listened to the man on the other line. "She's here." She confirmed. "Okay, see you soon." Callie huffed as she threw the phone down on the mattress.
"Well?" Arizona asked, looking down at her wife who didn't show much emotion.
"We better get going," she said smacking her hand on the blonde's thighs.
"Really," Arizona perked up.
"Yeah, baby Jax is coming," Callie grinned. "Her water broke about an hour ago; she wants us to meet them at the hospital."
"Oh..." Arizona's eyes widened. "Finally," she grinned in excitement. Teddy was now almost two weeks over due and they had been trying to wait patiently for the woman to drop the baby boy out already. "We're about to be aunties, Calliope," she leaned down and kissed her wife's lips. "I love you," Arizona never imagined her life would be like this. Six years ago she wasn't fond of the idea of having a kid much less planning for more, and she definitely didn't expect to be an aunt, but now she wouldn't have it any other way.
"We are," Callie confirmed. "I love you too," she smacked her on the hips to get her to move. "Let's go prepare to meet our nephew."