Author Note : Hello Calzona's fan ! This isn't my first story but this is my first attempt of writing a Callie and Arizona fanfiction . I am nervous with the reaction and how it goes as I am new in the world of Calzona fanfic . And sorry for the bad grammar , English isn't my first language . This story is more about Arizona at first . Rated T (language) for now , might change to M in the future . It is depressing and weird to watch Grey's Anatomy without Callie Torres . I hope Sara will return back . Sara and Jessica have a great chemistry together . Frankly speaking , their chemistry is unreplaceable .
Summary : Clumsy Callie Torres met Arizona Robbins for the first time .
PROLOGUE
Resuscitation is the process of correcting physiological disorders in an acutely unwell patient . It is an important part of intensive care medicine , trauma surgery and emergency medicine . Well known examples are cardiopulmonary resuscitation and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation . Well , that was in medical terms .
But how ? How did you resuscitate someone who wasn't medically dying . Someone who was healthy but broken inside . Sure , she was still standing up . Living the remaining time of her life before she was taken away forever . But her soul was so broken , she was dead inside . She was living with the old memories that she had with her . And now she had no purpose of making a new one with someone that maybe could actually gave her the love that she actually deserved .
Wait … Did she actually deserved a love ? A new kind of love ? To love and to be loved ? She had a love and she was loved but she screwed it up . She fucked it up . So how ? How did you actually resuscitate a broken soul ? How did you resuscitate a purpose ? Light up a spirit in someone's life ? How did you get someone looking forward of waking up for tomorrow when all she wanted to do was to sleep forever with all the memories ?
General POV
0700hrs
It was a lazy Monday morning when Arizona Robbins slowly opened her eyes . She was hiding under her blanket , shaking in cold . Her right hand reached out for the aircond remote control on the nightstand , turning it off . Her eyes wandered around the room . It was dark as the window of her bedroom was still covered by the curtains . She slowly sat up and leaned her head against the headboard of the bed with the blanket was still covering her body , from her stomach to her toes . The cold air inside the room hit her again , making her shivering . It must be raining outside .
Arizona finally found the courage to got out of her warm comfy blanket . As soon as she stood up on her feet , she stretched her body . She made her way to the window and pulled the curtains open , revealing the rainy Monday morning of Seattle City . The skies were dark , perhaps the sun light was too shy to do its job today . She rubbed her eyes as she walked toward the bedroom door to switched on the light . She took a moment of staring at her own bed before decided to went downstairs .
"Joanne !" Arizona said in her sleepy voice while walking down the stairs .
Silence .
"What are you cooking , honey ?" Arizona asked before she could enter the kitchen . She stood froze at the realization of the fact that no one was in the kitchen .
Arizona could only sigh . "Oh , Joanne ."
Now she had to go out to get her own breakfast .
0747hrs
She got out from her bathroom wearing a plain white bathrobe . Her hair was covered with a towel . Arizona was thinking about to stop by at the usual coffee shop to get a breakfast and her morning caffeine . She glanced at the window as she walked toward the wardrobe . The rain already stopped by now but the sun was still hiding beneath the skies . She slowly opened her wardrobe . Her hands was searching for something not so formal and not so casual to be worn today . Arizona was a very organized person . She sorted all her clothes from light color to dark color and also from short to the long one so that she could easily choose which one she would like to wear . Her hand stopped at the shabby white lab coat . Usually , she would pretend the lab coat wasn't there . It was easier that way . She didn't have to remember all her memories of being a doctor . There was once she thought of throwing it away , but she was still keeping it until now . And somehow , this morning Arizona found herself staring at the lab coat . She slowly ran her fingers on the bear that was printed on her old lab coat .
Arizona Robbins M.D. F.A.C.S. She read it out loud before tossing it away .
Let's just pretend it isn't there .
Cubano's Fresh Brew Café
Calliope Iphegenia Torres was pacing back and forth . She thought it was so easy . But it wasn't easy . She was used of having two barristas in the morning and now one of them called in sick and the other one didn't show up , she was screwed . Usually what she had to do was just woke up early in the morning and unlock the door and then her workers would do all the work like , getting the counter and the coffees ready , took the customers's order . They would do all the front , face to face work as Callie wasn't good at it . And Callie would visit the kitchen and helped her best friend's girlfriend preparing the breakfast order which Lexie preferred doing it alone because she was fabulous at cooking and baking and that Callie's presence would only slow down her movement .
Thank God , Mark suggested Lexie to helped me .
After that she would sit at her own table far from other people with her laptop on for the whole day and drank coffee while her fingers working on a new writing project . It had been almost one year she opened this coffee shop . She owned this place together with Mark Sloan a.k.a her invisible business partner slash best friend . By the end of the day , Callie would do all the calculating job , calculated their profit and paid their workers's salary . And now she was panicking . She had just left the crowded front counter with her now pale face .
"Who's at the counter ?" Lexie asked while her hands busy getting the muffins out of the oven . "Connor ? He arrived already ?"
"No one ." Callie said with her nervous voice .
"Whattt ?" Lexie's eyes went wide . "Then what the hell are you doing back here ?"
"I can't do this . I mean , I am the one who's taking the order . I am the cashier . I am making the coffee and I am the freaking person that will send the coffee to the table . It's 5 things for me to do alone . I am not a robot !" Callie replied , still marching around the kitchen . "Maybe we should close our business for the day ."
"You are panicking , Callie . Breathe in , breathe out . I will join you as soon as I finish with the pastries ." Lexie tried to console her boss . "And it's a little too late for you to do that . You can't just ask the customers to leave and then lock the door . They will be mad ."
"I can't do this ! The que is getting longer ."
"Which is why you have to return at the counter and try as fast as you can to reduce the que ." Lexie talked . "This is the kind of situation that Connor , Hannah and I have to deal with every morning especially on Monday . And this is why you actually have to take part in your business operation rather than to just opening it and depending on the workers . Because stuff like this will happen and you have no choice but to handle your own business by yourself ."
Callie was looking at Lexie by now . "Luckily you are Mark's girlfriend . And please stop giving me advice on how I should run my business . I hire Connor and Hannah for some reason . So that I don't have to do all the work ."
"And now you are pissed because I am correct ." Lexie shook her head . "Come on , Torres . You can't just leave your counter with a bunch of people lining up waiting for their coffee . They are our customers , some of them are our regulars ."
Lexie was right . Disappointing her customers wasn't what she intended to do today . Callie took a deep breath before exited the kitchen .
Arizona was sitting at a secluded table inside of her favourite coffee shop . She opened her leather briefcase , taking out all the document that she had sorted earlier by dates . Her thumb was running through the papers until she found the paper that she hadn't read yet . She then quickly began reading it while her left hand tapping her own pen on the table . Nothing she read was going inside the storage of her brain . Her brain was still in the sleepy mode . She needed her triple shots coffee or else , what she had been reading would be useless . And she needed it to be not useless as she had to remember the crucial fact of the project . She didn't want herself looking dumb in the meeting this afternoon , awkwardly rereading the fact straight from the paper in the middle of the meeting later .
And Arizona was an overachiever . Whatever she was doing wether handling the family business or simply being a surgeon , she would like to do it right . She would like to be great at everything she did .
Arizona looked up , staring at the busy barista behind the counter . What the hell with all the commotion ? She pulled down her aviator that she left on top of her hair just now . Sighing , she walked toward the counter that was full with people lining up waiting for their turn to make an order . She stood in front of the counter as she waited for the woman in front of her to look up at her .
But it was hopeless . The woman was busy doing absolutely nothing . Arizona found herself eyeing the woman shaking hands . They were stirring a cup of latte for three minutes now , way too long for someone to stirred their coffee . Usually , she was served by a blonde woman named Hannah . And sometimes , by a boy . She had never seen this woman before until today .
Is she new here ? Then it explained the shaking hands , the anxiety of this woman doing her job and why the hell her coffee still hadn't being served to her even after twenty minutes she ordered it . Arizona rubbed her chin weirdly as her eyes still watching the woman . Judging by her skin and face , she was definitely a Latina . Arizona glanced at the younger man standing next to her , one of the now getting impatient customer . He was glancing at his watch for every one minute by now . She shook her head . What the hell is happening at this coffee shop today ?
"Excuse me ?" Arizona said , a little too firm as the woman in front of her jumped upon hearing her voice .
"Oh , god !" The brunette was shocked .
It was very clear to Arizona that the woman's mind wasn't here but flying over somewhere else . Behind the aviator , she was staring at the lost , distracted woman .
"Excuse me ?" A voice was interrupting Callie's deep thought .
"Oh , god !" Callie looked up .
At the same time , the blonde woman in front of her took off her aviator sunglasses as her gaze met with a pair of most intense blue eyes she had ever seen in her entire life . And those eyes were the bluest she ever seen . It was beautiful and magnificent and beautiful .. and really intense . Wait … Did she just say 'beautiful' twice ?
"Hello ?" The voice killed Callie's thought again .
"Umm .. Yes .. ? Can I help you ?" Callie asked nervously .
"I haven't receive my order yet . I ordered it twenty minutes ago . It will be great if you could at least send my drink first ." The blonde said . Her tone was cold .
"Yes , of course . What did you order ?"
Blue eyes's eyebrows arched . Callie couldn't read the blonde facial expression . Is she pissed or is she okay ?
"What did I order ? Don't tell me that you lose my freaking order ." The tone was sharp . She was obviously pissed off right now .
Oh no , blue eyes is mad . Callie was nervous . "No , no . I g..got your order .. Just sit back , I will send to you in five minutes ." Callie stuttered . She was lying , she had no idea what the hell happened to the blue eyes's order paper . It was okay , she would try to find it .
"Two minutes ." Blue eyes demanded before she left the counter .
Callie just looked at her , speechless as she started not to like her intense blue eyes customer . Well , it was all her fault by the way . Twenty minutes and still had not received the order . If she was the blue eyes , she would be mad too .
"Can you finish my order first ?" A man in front of her asked .
"Yeah , and mine too ." Another voice followed .
"Sure , sure . I am so sorry ." Callie said , apologizing to her customers .
Moments later , Callie brought a cup of hot chocolate with a plate of pumpkin scones to be delivered to the blue eyed blonde . She put it down on the table , carefully not to disturb her customer's paperwork . While setting down the plate , she was waiting for the blonde to say something like a 'thank you' but the blonde said nothing . She was busy with her papers . Callie left with a sigh as she made her way back to the counter where Lexie had taken over .
She noticed that 'Miss Not So Skillful' already sent her coffee and breakfast but Arizona just continued reading the details of the land that her company would soon be working on as her brain tried to memorize them . Her right hand was roaming on the table while her eyes was focusing on the paper . She grabbed her scones and took her first bite but then she quickly stuck out her tongues .
Yikesss , pumpkin scones . She didn't order this . Arizona loathed pumpkins and anything that related with it . She quickly grabbed the cup in front of her as she brought it near her nose . She smelled it . It wasn't a coffee . The whole thing on her table wasn't what she ordered . She ordered what she regularly ordered almost every morning . Arizona snorted angrily as she walked back toward the counter with her plate .
"What the hell you just sent me ?" The plate was clinking loudly against the counter as Arizona put it down harshly . "I want to see your manager , stat !" Other customers was looking at both of them by now .
Callie was staring into the blonde's blue eyes . "I am sorry , Miss . What's wrong ?"
"What's wrong ? What's wrong you asked me ? You sent me a pumpkin scones . Now I want to ask you , is there any old faces in the kitchen right now that could recognize me and my regular order ? Because they would have known me better than to send me pumpkin scones . Like you just did . Because I DO NOT EAT A FREAKING pumpkins !" Arizona said as her face started to reddened . "And I did not order a hot chocolate ! You lost my order receipt , right ?"
Callie just stood there . She didn't want to say anything . The blonde was mad . Anything that Callie said would only make it worst .
"Are you deaf ?"
"I'm so sorry , I … I …"
"Doctor Robbins ." Lexie suddenly appeared in the middle of the heated situation . Arizona seemed to look like she was about to launch a RPG toward Callie's direction . She was really pissed . Lexie knew Arizona because she was her half sister's teacher at Seattle Grace Mercy West . And she was also a regular customer here .
"Doctor Robbins , calm down . May I help you ?" Lexie said .
Callie turned around to face Lexie . She was puzzled .
"It's only Arizona Robbins . I am not a doctor anymore . How many times do I have to tell you that ?" Arizona replied but with a waaaaay different tone than how she spoke to Callie . "Your new worker . She lost my order . And then she sent me a wrong order ."
"Actually , she's not a new …."
"It's okay . It's my fault , Lex ." Callie cut off , whispering to Lexie .
"Okay , what did you order ? Your regular one ?" Lexie asked to the blonde , acting as the middleman between the blonde and the Latina .
Arizona nodded . As Callie raised her eyebrows , did not understand .
"Her regular order is a triple shots of Americano and chocolate chips scones ." Lexie whispered in Callie's ear.
Callie nodded . "We will prepare it for you now ."
Arizona said nothing to the 'Miss Not So Skillful' . She wasn't interested in making any conversation . All she needed was a cup of coffee before she went all cuckoo mood on everybody today . Wait , isn't that is her mood on almost everyday ?
Arizona took her seat . She sighed . She needed to calm down . Chill a bit . You are scaring the shit out of other people , Robbins . She shook her head . She didn't want to be as cold as this but … She guessed , she was still pissed at how the world works . She used to be cheerful . Perky and bubbly . And after what happened with her life , she changed a lot . Changing completely to the opposite side .
She used to be a morning person . A person that woke up from her sleep early in the morning with a smile . She sang while driving to work or while she was waiting for Joanne to prepared the breakfast . And then after she got back from work , she would sing a goodnight song to Aiden . Or read a bedtime story to him . She was a joyous person on the earth for once . And now everything was gone . When Joanne and Aiden left her , she took away the perky and cheerful Arizona Robbins too .
Arizona was staring at the wall when Callie walked toward her . The Latina was about to put the cup on the table , she accidentally dropped it as the coffee splashed on the blonde's white shirt .
"Holy shit ." The Latina gasped in shock .
Arizona stood up instantly as she tried to save all the already wet papers on the table . Her eyes couldn't believe what she was seeing . All of the important papers ! She looked up , angry blue eyes met worried brown eyes .
"You !" Arizona barked . "Not only unprofessional , you are freaking clumsy too ! Why the hell did I meet you today ?" She looked down on her wet shirt .
Her body smelled like coffee . Great , this is just great ! Now she had to go home and take another shower . And then rushed back to the office , get Evelyn to reprint the papers . Arizona took a quick glance on her watch . It was already nine o five . Meaning she only had less than three hours left before the meeting .
"I am so sorry ." Callie apologized but the blue eyes just shook her head , a few times .
"You have been saying sorry to me for a few times today ." Arizona snapped . "What the hell is wrong with you ?"
"I am really sorry . I am .. truly sorry ."
"Is there anything you could actually do properly other than apologizing ?" Arizona wanted to add more but stopped when her cell rang . She took out her cellphone from the pocket hurriedly .
"Speak , Evelyn !" Arizona answered it , almost yelled . "Okay , okay .. I know it's today ! I am coming in but I will be a little late . And I need you to reprint those papers you printed for me last Friday . Get it ready on my table ." Arizona's chilling mood was done for today thanks to the brunette that was standing right in front of her . She took out a few notes from her briefcase before throwing it angrily on the table . She left as soon as she gathered all of her things .
Meanwhile , Callie just stood there and watched the blonde until she finally disappeared . She sighed . Why the hell she couldn't do anything right without making a stupid mistake ? Callie shook her head . Stupid much .
Reviews are really welcomed .
Wednesday
23rd November 2016
0030hrs
