Arizona

Arizona could not understand why she was doing what she was doing as she waited for her airplane to arrive. She sat in the terminal thinking over the past events of this month and wondered why she had decided to go back and if it was worth it. She didn't know how Callie would receive her coming back especially after their little fiasco in the airport.

She really hadn't meant to hurt Callie. Hell, she loved Callie with all her heart but she knew that Callie wouldn't have been happy in Malawi. As much as her lover had convinced herself that it would work, Arizona knew that in the end Callie would come regret moving and eventually come to regret Arizona as well. Arizona could not allow Callie to hate her, so she knew she had to go alone.

Now here she was back in a similar airport, except this time she was going back to Seattle to claim her woman. She began to remember what had driven her to this point besides those sleepless nights and bouts of crying she reduced herself to everyday. She began to think back to that morning and her conversation with Teddy about another fiasco of a date.

"I'm telling you, Arizona, it was awful. He was such a dork, he kept trying to show me how he could recite the entire periodic table."

Arizona let out a stressed giggle. It wasn't that she didn't find any of her friend's story funny it was just that this was her only contact in Seattle and she missed Callie so much sometimes, but she promised herself she wouldn't bring her up with Teddy.

"That sounds awful, Teddy."

"Oh, it was awful. Half way through the appetizers he wanted to know if I had brought my stethoscope with me. Said he wanted to listen to his own heart beat."

"Seriously? He can do that already."

"I know. You should really come back home and save me from all of this."

Arizona had not been expecting that at all. In all her conversations with Teddy she had not heard one plea to come home. She had figured the blonde heart surgeon was trying to help her transition without bringing up home. As far as she was concerned her heart was home, it was still with a tall brunette that had taken it three years ago.

"Arizona, you are so stupid. You do know that right?"

Arizona snapped out of her usual thoughts of her ex-girlfriend and returned to the conversation when Teddy called her stupid. "Excuse me, Teddy?"

"Here I am fighting to find a guy that will like me and coming up with duds, but you-you have someone that loves you right here and you're away from her. That sounds a little stupid to me."

Arizona was at a loss for words. She knew that Teddy was right in a way but what could she do. She closed her eyes to block off some of the tears that were threatening to spill at the thought of Callie. She could still see them at the airport and Callie's pleading brown orbs begging her not to go. Its three years. How much did she regret that she threw those three years away? The tears she tried to keep at bay began to spill.

"Arizona I'm not saying this to make you cry. Honestly I'm not, but you got to come home and get your girl. She is a mess right now and the only thing that can fix that is you." Teddy may be having her own problems but she recognized that her friend's problems were worst. She didn't mean to make Arizona cry by mentioning Callie but she knew something had to be said at some point.

"I-I know. It's just so hard, Teddy. I cannot function without her, either. I need her to live, to survive. But I hurt her Teddy. She doesn't want me back, not after that. You weren't there, you didn't see the look in her eye. She was broken and it was my fault. How do I make that up, huh? Tell me and I will sure as hell do it. 'Cause right now I'm sure in her eyes I'm the same as George and Erica."

"Arizona, you can never be the same as those two in her eyes, sure she had feelings for them but not like she has for you. Do you think that she hates you?"

"Yes I do. I can't get her out of my mind. I love her so much it hurt me when I had to leave her. I kept looking over at the seat next to me the entire flight to Malawi, her seat. If I felt that bad, I don't have inkling to what Calliope must feel."

"She feels like crap yes. But she also feels like she needs you. Trust me Arizona under whatever malice she might be feeling right now, it's all a cover of how much she loves you. So if you truly want some advice on how to ease her pain. Hop your ass on a plane and get back down here because we all miss you and your replacement is an ass."

Arizona couldn't help but laugh as she remembered the turn of events from that one phone call. She continued her conversation with Teddy about her replacement and talked a little bit more about Teddy's dating problems. After she hung up her mind was set and she began making the necessary calls to the necessary people in charge of her new job in Malawi.

Now she was seated at the airport waiting for her plane to arrive.

"Now boarding passengers to gate F for plane headed for Seattle." She stood up and collected her bags. She had wanted to skip any stops that would keep her from her destination in Seattle. She was going home.

Callie

Callie's head was reeling from all of the commotion that happened at the bar. She couldn't take her mind off of Mark's comment of a sexual sorbet. If only it were that easy, if only that would make her forget. But she knew no matter how many people she slept with none of them were Arizona. None of them could do the things Arizona could do to her. But she couldn't help thinking that it was worth a try.

Sure she had tried once with the redhead but that had been a dud. The busty redhead had just wanted the number to her hairstylist. She was okay with that. Any other time she would have felt dejected but she didn't care. The redhead wasn't who she was craving right now. The redhead wasn't Arizona.

The night continued on with a lot of slurred speeches from the entire gang, particularly Teddy and Bailey. Both of the surgeons were hammered. She looked back on her outburst that had led her to even approach the redhead. "Does she ask about me?"

She knew asking Teddy that question was futile, the blonde had been tight lipped about her continued relationship with Arizona. She had yet to mention anything to anyone about what the two of the talked about. But see Teddy peer down at her messages and then back at Callie then back down to Callie, she knew exactly who it was the blonde was corresponding with.

As expected she had gotten the typical Teddy answer about Arizona being busy. Callie couldn't wonder what she was busy doing. Or should she say whom? She didn't think Arizona would sleep with anyone else but, then again she had also thought Arizona wouldn't leave her.

Eventually they called it a night and she went home with Mark. She could no longer stay in her apartment, it held to many memories. As she lay down she began to recall some of those fonder memories. Like when she and Arizona danced it out in the living room to Gomez "Little Pieces". Or the time that they had laid in bed the Valentine's day morning and watched the sun rise. The same bed that after Izzie and Alex were married, they shared their first time together. No she could no longer stay in that apartment, so she stayed with Mark.

She got up when she heard him at the refrigerator. She walked in to find him with a pitcher of water.

"Oh, I was just thirsty. I didn't wake you did I?

Giving Mark a small smile she said, "No I was awake."

Mark began to pour his drink. "Why?"

Callie let out a deep breath. She knew what she had to do to get herself out of this slump. "I want…uhm…sorbet."

Not getting Callie's meaning, Mark asked "Sweet tooth? I think I got some cookies around here somewhere."

Callie was trying to be as discreet as possible when asking for this but Mark was just not getting it. "Mark…." She let the thought hang in the air and gave him a suggestive look.

Finally realizing what she wanted, "Oh, oh really?" He looked at the sad and pleading look on Callie's face and watched as she nodded her head "Really."

He sat down his glass and began walking toward Callie. She took a few tentative steps toward him. Meeting in the middle the two found each other in a heated kiss. The next thing Callie felt were her shirt being removed and her bra clad chest being pressed into a hot hard chest.

It wasn't the body she was craving. It did even compare to the shorter, softer body she wanted but it would do. This being in Mark's arms would do. It would do because she didn't think she would see Arizona again. It would do because in this moment she needed to forget Arizona. She need to forget the pain that thinking about her instilled.

Unbeknownst to her, Arizona was rushing to the elevator wishing she could find anything to block out the pain she felt after witnessing what she just saw. She turned in the elevator tears streaming staring at the glittering object outside the door.