Okay I know it took me a bit longer but lately i have been very busy (school, christmas, new year) and I went to england for a couple of days. So anyway HAPPY NEW YEAR! Sorry for the delay and I hope you enjoy this (sligthly longer ch) new story and sequel to my previous story: "You are my light in the darkness" This one will go on, with a time jump of three months so no big chances expect for the location. reviews are still extremely awesome :)

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Three months. Three months had passed since Callie had seen Arizona and three weeks had passed since she had last spoken to her. The first few days had been terribly hard. Callie had thought about her every second, her colleagues were all glad to see her again but they noticed that she was distant, upset and not as happy to see them as they were to see her again. The only thought on her mind was when she was going to see the blonde again with those magical blue eyes that never seemed to lose their twinkle. They called at night, during Callie's break and even when she was supposed to be working. Mark had asked her about it a couple of times but even though she used to share everything with him she didn't like telling him about this. After those first days the contact faded to normal contact. They called once a day and told each other how much they missed each other and sometimes they laughed and sometimes they cried. But then Callie got more busy at work with though cases and lots of new people. Izzie was gone, and of course so was her ex-husband. Alex, Meredith and Cristina were still there but she was now dating Owen, a man that she didn't know very well. And also there were Teddy, April and Jackson. Teddy and Jackson were okay but April was probably one of the most annoying persons she had ever met. Her voice was so high pitched and she was so very perky. She wasn't really into perky people, usually they annoyed her.

She had no idea if and when Arizona would be coming soon. Apparently there had been an opening in peds but she didn't know how good the job was and she also didn't know if Arizona took it. She hadn't known it at first but she heard someone from peds talk about it to a nurse. Something about an opening in the department and that there were a lot of people applying for the job. Of course she had immediately called Arizona after that and the blonde had told her that she knew already and that she was looking into it. She didn't say much more because after that she went on to talk about something that had happened in her hospital.

Callie wanted to hear something from Arizona. She had called her four times yesterday and five times the day before that. The blonde hadn't answered and she also hadn't been online on Skype or answered either one of her texts. What in the hell was going on?

"Everything alright?" Mark asked as he stood next to Callie at a nurse station. She immediately woke from her day dream and stared at him. "Yeah yeah fine." She sat and she grabbed some charts from the desk and started flipping through them. "You don't look fine." He said. Callie focused her eyes on his and realized that she had been holding back on Mark. It was just hard to fall back into their old level of trust and openness. First it had been a bit awkward because she didn't know what to do when she saw him again after those many years. Of course she had talked a lot with him when she was in Iraq but they had talked about hard and sad things instead of the gossip and his sex life, which had been their usual subject of a conversation. It had been hard to build up their friendship again when she came back but slowly they had fallen back into old habits, except for the openness they used to have. Callie hadn't told him anything about Arizona and he hadn't told her anything about if he was dating anyone. She did hear some rumors about him and little grey though but she didn't know if they were true. She didn't want to answer his question so decided to ask him. "So.. I heard about you and little grey." She started. He sighed and didn't seem like he wanted to answer that, probably because he knew she was just avoiding talking about what was going on with her. "Yeah we uh.. have been dating, sort of." He said as started fidgeting with his fingers. She smiled. "What does Derek think about you dating his post it wife's sister?" Mark laughed, he hadn't expected the Latina to remember that. "He was angry first, of course but it's all good now." Mark answered. They stood in silence for a couple of minutes before Callie felt the courage to speak up. "I uhm.. met someone.. when I was working over there." She spat out, but not too hard because they didn't want the nurses to hear them of course. Mark raised his fist in the air, "I knew it!" He said but when he saw that Callie wasn't smiling he immediately let his smile drop and rested his hand on Callie's back. "He's okay right, Callie?." He asked. Luckily Callie sighed deeply and then smiled. Mark also let out a deep breath. He smiled and leaned in a little. "Is he hot?" he asked, "please tell me that he's hot." Callie busted into laughter, that was the Mark she had always loved. "She.." Callie started and she saw Mark's eyes widen, "is the most beautiful person I have ever met, and her smile.." Callie took a moment of silence to think of that amazing smile with those dimples of hers, "when she smiles at you everything just gets better." Callie smiled at the thought of Arizona. God, she missed her. She was startled when Mark suddenly touched her arm. "A woman?" He asked and she nodded, she had no idea what he would think. He surprised her by suddenly hugging her, "I'm happy for you Cal." He said and she smiled into his neck. "Thanks. But the thing is she is just kind of ignoring me lately and I don't know what's wrong. Maybe she's just not into me anymore or she is not willing to give this a shot, I don't know it is just very confusing." Suddenly Mark's pager went off, just when he about to ask her everything about this mysterious woman, was she back yet or was she still in Iraq, how did she look like and all sorts of things. He stood up and started to walk away. Just when he started to walk away he turned around. "What's her name?" He asked and Callie smiled warmly at him. "Arizona." She said. "Her name is Arizona Robbins."

Mark walked towards the chief's office. It had been a while since he had been in the office of chief Webber and he had no idea what it was going to be about. Halfway on the runway he heard someone yell something and automatically he turned around to find the cause of the sound, not realizing someone was running towards him. He bumped into a person and when he looked down he could see the woman on the ground. The chief was not far behind, looking with wide eyes at what was happening right in front of him. Mark looked at the woman on the ground, her face was red and she was clearly very embarrassed, and hot he thought. "I'm sorry," she said while Mark helped her up on her feet again, "I was using my wheelies and I must have been a bit too enthusiastic." Mark laughed at that, a grown woman on roller skates, that was something he hadn't seen before. "It's fine." He said and then he outstretched his arm, giving her his most charming smile. "Mark Sloan, plastics." The doctor said. The woman smiled back, dimples wow, and took his hand. "Arizona Robbins." Mark froze and his smile slowly faded as he let go of the woman's hand. He opened his mouth to say something but the chief interrupted him.

"Doctor Sloan. I see you've met our new head of peds." He said as Mark gaped from one to the other. "Uh.. yeah I guess I did." He answered. He couldn't believe what was happening, did Callie know about this? She probably didn't if she said that she hadn't spoken to the blonde in a while. And head of peds, that's impressive. He realized he was still staring and them so he closed his mind and looked at the chief. "So.. why did you.. why did you page me?" He stuttered. Chief Webber smiled at him, clearly not seeing that there was something going on. Arizona had her eyebrows raised in question, she had had man falling for her before, but if never reached the point where they were practically drooling all over her. "I need you to show her around a little, I saw you only had one surgery today and since you're good with people I thought maybe you could show her the hospital, introduce her to the other attending maybe?" He asked. Mark just nodded. All of the sudden he caught Callie in the corner of his eye, she was downstairs but if she looked up she would probably recognize the blonde. Immediately he grabbed her elbow and yanked her through the doors. "Ouch." Arizona just said, while she tried to get away from his grasp. Mark dragged her to peds where they were on a safe distance from Callie. "What is happening?" she asked him, "are you now going to drag me in an on call room or something and try to get your moves on me." Mark almost choked on his own breath and stared in complete surprise at the doctor. He hadn't expected her to be so blunt. Arizona smiled when she saw his reaction. "Sorry but I'm not interested." She said while she pulled her arm back with more force than Mark was used to with girls. He could see what Callie saw in her. "Trust me." He said as he looked around to see if no one was listening , "I know." He watched Arizona's smile fade to a frown and then to raised eyebrows and an open mouth. He smiled at her. "You're Calliope's friend, aren't you? The McSteamy guy?" He nodded, Mark couldn't believe that Callie allowed people to call her by her actual name, he used it sometimes to tease her but mostly she would hit him afterwards. She knew Callie hated that name. But he had to admit, when the blonde said it, it really did sound like music, she said it so beautiful. Arizona's face had turn all red in the meantime, this was pretty embarrassing. All the confidence she had, disappeared and she felt like the insecure new girl in a big hospital. "It's okay." He said and he pointed towards an on call room. The blonde followed him inside. "How is she?" She immediately asked. "Fine. Upset. In love. Angry. I don't know." Mark said as he watched Arizona walk in circles in the little room. "Why didn't you call her for the last week or something? She thinks that she said something wrong and that your relationship or whatever is over."

Arizona stood still. She was shocked. She knew that she hadn't contacted for a while but things had been tough at work and just when she felt like there was never going to be an ending and she was never going back to Callie she had heard about the opening in Seattle Grace. But it was higher than the last function she had so there wasn't much chance that she would get it. Then she had to arrange so many things and she was just buried with work. She lost her job at the hospital in New York and she just couldn't tell Callie, until she was sure she was going to be fine. And then she got it and now, only two days later she's in Seattle. "I have to fix this." She said, "do you have any idea where she is?" He checked his watch and sighed. He knew exactly where Callie was at this time but he wasn't sure if he should tell the blonde. Maybe Callie was struggling too much with her feelings and he needed to warn her first, or maybe the surprise of Arizona so close would wash all the anger away. He made a decision. "She's having lunch in the cafeteria. I'll take you."

Callie entered the cafeteria and after she got some food she went to sit down at one of the empty tables. Soon enough Mark would probably join her and she knew some others would follow. She was first joined by little Grey, which was a bit awkward since the whole 'I know you're sleeping with my best friend' thing. She decided to torture the girl a bit more by just staring at her and not saying anything. She was actually quite okay with this, Lexie was a sweet girl and Mark deserved her. Then they were joined by the other Grey and her shadow Cristina. About five minutes later Alex and Teddy joined the group too. But Mark still wasn't here, which Callie didn't like because she had looked forward to seeing him, maybe they could also talk a bit more about the whole Arizona thing once everybody would have left the table.

Arizona felt nervous when she reached the cafeteria. She recognized Callie immediately. She had her back towards her and was talking to a blonde doctor that Arizona didn't know. Of course she didn't know her, she knew nobody except for Callie, Mark and the chief. Mark noticed her insecurity and smiled warmly at her. Slowly she walked towards her. Just as they reached the table Mark stopped her and whispered in her ear, "I'd probably lose the Calliope for now, she doesn't really like it." The people that were facing her noticed her and Mark and they left the conversation they were in, only to stare at Arizona. Callie was drinking and it seemed to realize she didn't know something was going on, at least not until Arizona spoke up.

"Dr. Torres." She said and immediately after the words left her mouth Callie's body froze up. Cristina bumped Meredith's shoulder and both looked from the blonde to the Latina, extremely interested in whatever was going on between the two of them. "Callie." Now the whole table was watching Arizona. "Who is she?" Arizona heard the blonde next to Callie ask her. The Latina didn't answer. Arizona shifted on her feet and looked down, this was getting more awkward by the minute. Finally Mark spoke up. "Cal." This time she seemed to lose a little bit of the tension that was visible in her entire body. She slowly turned around and Arizona noticed all the emotions in those beautiful dark eyes that she had missed. The first things she noticed was excitement and happiness. Then the twinkle changed and made place for a shield inside those eyes. A shield of anger and distance. Callie was protecting herself and Arizona could see it right in her eyes. The Latina stood up and first looked at the blonde again before she rested her gaze on Mark and when she saw the calm there she looked back at the blonde. But she surprised Arizona by walking past her and in the direction of the exit of the cafeteria. The whole table, Mark and Arizona gaped at the Latina. Arizona started to panic, she wasn't one to panic fast, usually she just stayed calm but watching Callie just leave her there made her feel embarrassed and left alone and she felt her face get all red. Just as Callie reached the exit she turned around, raised her eyebrows and made a gesture with her hands.

"You should probably follow her." Mark whispered in her ear. Arizona smiled and nodded and wheeled after Callie. Just when she started she realized that roller skating in front of all these new people wasn't the best idea ever. She caught Callie's surprised look and her eyebrows raised even higher. She could swear that she saw a smile creep on the woman's face but she quickly caught herself.

Arizona had followed Callie in an on-call room and she now closed the door behind her. Callie wasn't facing her so the blonde couldn't read what was going on with her. "You're here." She finally said after a couple of quiet minutes. Arizona nodded but realized Callie couldn't see her. "Yeah." She answered instead.
"Callie.." Arizona said after a couple of minutes. The Latina didn't turn around but at least she started talking. "Why did you stop talking, only just to show up here and surprise me in front of all my colleagues and friends?" The blonde regretted not taking the time to just update Callie, she had been so busy and she had thought that maybe the doctor would love the surprise. "I uhm.. wanted to surprise you." Arizona tried. Callie just dropped her head and used one hand to wipe at tears that had apparently left her eyes. She seemed to be trying to cover it up but Arizona could notice it. "You can't just do that." Callie said softly. "You can't just-" she turned around and increased her volume, Arizona now clearly noticed the tears.
She hadn't thought that it had affected and scared her that much. "You can't just ignore me." She said and Arizona opened her mouth to say something but Callie raised a finger to indicate that she wasn't done yet. "I thought that you left me, that you realized that we are being stupid. That all we have is this amazing psychical pull. We don't even know that much about each other. You know, I just thought that you faced reality." Callie said, she had started her sentence with anger and she was almost yelling but now her voice slowly faded away and her pain and insecurity was fading away. Arizona couldn't realize that Callie had thought that would just walk away. "I would never, ever, ever walk away from this." She took a deep sigh and notice the tears still falling from Callie's face and the shield in her eyes. "From you. What we have-" She took a step closer but Callie immediately took a step back and she had to swallow back some of her own pain, "is so much more than just a psychical pull, and we do know a lot about each other. Maybe just not in this setting but I know you Callie. And you know me. And I lo-" She shut herself up when she saw Callie's reaction. She shouldn't be saying this, it was too soon. "I care about you. And I'm in love with you." Callie turned around again and Arizona sighed. "And I know you're in love with me."

A couple of quiet minutes went by and still nothing had changed, the blonde had heard the sniffing of the Latina though. Arizona started to turn around and move her hand towards the door knob. She sighed deeply and although Mark had warned her not to use it when Callie was pissed off she tried it anyway.

"Calliope.." She said and immediately she heard the footsteps and a second later she was turned around with more force than she preferred and pushed her hardly against the door. Her head hit the door hard but she forgot about it the instant those perfect lips crashed against hers. A tongue didn't ask for permission but pushed into her mouth. Arizona moaned at the taste but there was a bit too much anger and frustration in the kiss. She started to move her lips along with Callie's, trying to slow the kiss down but Callie just groaned and pushed into her even harder. It was getting harder to breathe in this position so in response her body just lifted up higher in the air. Callie noticed it and removed her hands from the blonde's waist down to her just under her ass where she grabbed Arizona and lifter her in the air. Arizona's calves wrapped around Callie's waist and her hips pushed into her, making Callie moan. She felt like she was getting some of the power back and so her tongue started circling around Callie's tongue slower. It was still not working because now that Callie knew that Arizona was secure she pushed her hips into the blonde again and her hands moved towards her stomach and started to touch the blonde there. Arizona groaned and turned her head. She was out of breath and Callie was going too fast and too hard. "Arizona.." the woman breathed and the blonde's arousal won and she turned her head but not without first staring into the brown eyes that had now turned completely dark, but the shield was gone now so Arizona gave her the best smile she had and Callie just seemed to melt as she smiled back at her and her hands moved to Arizona's legs to make sure that the blonde was secure there. Arizona was startled when Callie moved away from the wall and carried her across the room. She giggled because they sort of lost their balance but Callie moved with her and they restored it again. They were lucky that this room only had single beds. Callie carefully turned and slowly moved down to place Arizona on the bed and when she wanted to move of her, because she didn't like to put all her weight on the blonde, the grip around her waist got stronger and Arizona looked pleadingly in her eyes. "Please stay." Callie smiled and slowly rested her weight on the blonde again. Arizona's hands tangled into the Latina's hair and she pulled her head down. Their lips met again. But this time slower, more gentle and instead of anger it was filled with just how much they had missed each other and everything magical that there was between them.

Unfortunately their moment was broken by a loud knock on the door. Callie, broke the kiss and sighed deeply while she raised her body a bit. "Mark go away." She said and Arizona was just surprised by how she knew that it was her friend. "Sorry. Can't" He said and while the Latina looked extremely irritated Arizona couldn't help but laugh. Without knocking again he pushed the door open, surprising both woman who were still tangled on the bed, with Callie still on top of Arizona. "Mark!" Callie yelled while rolling of Arizona and sitting on the edge of the bed. "Ohh nice!" Mark said, as he of course had seen the girl on girl action. Callie yanked the pillow from under Arizona's head and threw it at Mark. Arizona's head fell back and she let out a groan of pain. Callie turned her head and gave the blonde a teasing angry look. "Oh don't be such a baby. You're fine." She said as she kissed the blonde's head. Mark coughed. "I'm still here you know." He said and both woman smiled apolitically at him. "Okay, enough of this fun," Mark started, "I was supposed to show you around the hospital, remember. Let's go Blondie." He said as he took Arizona's hand and pushed her out of the room. Just as he opened the door Callie called out and mark let out a sigh. "You maybe wanna come over to my place tonight, for a date? I'll text you the address." Arizona smiled. "That sounds like an awesome idea, Calliope."

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