Disclamer: unfortunelly I don't own any of the Grey's anatomy-characters, they are all shonda's creations. and ofc ABS has all the rights...
Rating: Safe for now, will probably get Mature later on though
Pairing: Callie/Arizona
Summary: At the end of season 6 there never was a shooting. Callie is still mad at Arizona and this is how Arizona copes... eventually CALZONA
Anyways: Thanks for the reviews and the story/author alerts for last chapter. They really cheer me up and bring a smile to my face everytime I here the sound of my mailbox telling me I've got mail! :)
I'm living, loving, laughing over you
Tossing, turning, trying over you
Kicking, screaming, crying over you
Wanting, needing, dying to get over you
(Beth Hart - Over you)
Over you
Chapter 2.
Mark walked into Seattle Grace Mercy West's cafeteria to find his best friend grumbling under her breath and looking extremely annoyed as she repeatedly stabbed her fork into the bowl of salad that sat in front of her.
"Hey there sunshine" he quipped as he plopped himself down opposite of the Latina, earning himself a glare from her. "What's eating you?" he asked, not at all faced since lately he had gotten quite used to her foul moods.
"Nothing, Mark" she barked, finally shoving the bowl of food away from herself.
"Well maybe something, or someone should. You obviously need to get laid." Mark concluded while taking a bite out of his standard lunch and in his mind already running down the list of all the sexy nurses that might be able to show his friend a good time and get her to loosen up.
"I don't need to get laid Mark. I'm just pissed ok! Now leave me alone!" Callie almost snarled at his smart ass comment, getting sick of his insistent tries to get her to bang some nurse she didn't even know.
At this the plastic surgeon threw up his hands in surrender. Not wanting to piss her off even more he kept silent and simply continued on with his apple. If Callie didn't want to talk about what was bothering her then fine, he wasn't going to push any further.
Just then however his friend blurted: "Arizona has disappeared."
Raising his brow in question at this he waited for her to elaborate since he knew that if Arizona had really disappeared he would have heard about it before this moment.
"Well ok, not really disappeared... more like gone very unnoticed..." she trailed off while shrugging at her own stupidity. Even though she and Arizona had broken up she had still noticed the lack of Arizona-spottings. It was as if the blonde suddenly didn't work at the hospital anymore, a thought she actually contemplated in a brief surge of panic before calming herself down with the knowledge that she would have heard if the blonde had really left.
"I thought you were mad at her?" Mark responded, confused as to where this was going.
"That is so not the point!" she let out while running her hand through her hair in a frustrated manner. Ugh, why couldn't Mark just be less of a guy sometimes and just understand what she meant!
"The point is that she can't just ignore me, that's just rude!"
Ok so yeah, she may have been a bit on the rude side too lately but that was no excuse for Arizona to suddenly start ignoring her and act like she didn't even exist.
"I mean what is she even doing with her time! She's never at Joe's either and I heard that she doesn't even hang out with Teddy anymore!" Now Callie had finally voiced her thoughts there was nothing stopping her from going into a full blown rant about what had been occupying her mind for quite some time.
Opening her mouth to comment some more about the blonde's recent absence she was stopped short as the tell tale sound of rolling wheels entered her hearing.
Having heard that sound before a thousands of times she was immediately alert and on the look out for the only person that she knew who was stupid and silly enough to actually wear heelys.
And sure enough: there was Arizona. Rolling in with a smirk and a red tray that, Callie bet, was surely filled with some sugary goodness.
Callie watched as the PEDS-surgeon stopped short and glanced around the cafeteria as if she was looking for something. She however did conveniently manage to not look into the direction of Mark and Callie's table and the latina briefly wondered if that was done on purpose.
Pondering that Callie kept on looking without shame and saw the blonde frown a little when she obviously hadn't found what she had been looking for. It wasn't long however before a, to Callie unknown, man sneaked up behind Arizona and playfully covered her eyes with both hands.
The orthopedic surgeon kept on watching in amazement as Arizona immediately brought out one of her famous dimpled smiles and turned around to punch the guy in his arm as she balanced her tray in one hand.
At this the guy made a funny face and rubbed the spot that she just hit before grinning and taking the blondes tray and leading her towards one of the deserted tables at the far end of the cafeteria.
"Who's that with blondie?" Mark said, unknowingly voicing his friends thought.
"I don't know" she shrugged, trying to sound as nonchalant as possible, not at all willing to show her jealousy of the man for receiving one of her ex's 'super magic smiles'.
Mark, being the idiot that he was, fueled her jealousy even more by adding: "Are you 100% sure she's gay though? Cause even as a guy, even I can see that he is good looking."
"Gee thanks Mark" Callie sarcastically responded while rolling her eyes at him before getting up, muttering something about a surgery that she needed to prepare for and heading out, leaving her best friend to wonder what he had done wrong.
Meanwhile on the other end of the cafeteria Jack was still rubbing the spot Arizona had hit him on stating: "I can't believe I put up with you and our abusive relationship."
Arizona giggled lightly "Serves you right for almost making me drop my tray and making me ruin my treasures". To prove her point she grabbed one of said treasures and took a big bite out of it, moaning slightly as the taste of the glazed donut hit her tastebuds.
Jack too grabbed one of her tray and dug in and, though she normally was very protective of her sugary goods, this time she didn't mind one bit.
After that one drunken night at the Lounge in which Jack had kidnapped her drink they had actually hit it off greatly. Finding that other than both of them being gay they did indeed have a lot of things in common. So once they had left the lounge Arizona had, to her own surprise, invited him to her home where they had watched a ton of movies and pigged out on popcorn before both falling asleep on the couch.
The morning after they had continued their friendly banter and nice talks and thus a friendship had began to form. A friendship that had grown exponentially when they had found out that they surprisingly worked at the same hospital and were able to share lunch every day.
This had lifted Arizona's and Jack's spirits greatly, both of them being in need of a friend at the moment due to her recent break up and the fact that he had just moved here and hadn't made any friends yet.
So yeah, she was glad to have found Jack and if that meant she had to share her food than so be it.
"Sooo how does it feel to be out in the cafeteria again rum-girl?" Jack inquired after having finished his part of the lunch. He too had been having his lunches in his own office, not really looking forward to sitting alone in the cafeteria and enduring the stares that he as the 'new guy' was sure to get.
But, as soon as he had found out that his new found friend had been avoiding the cafeteria too, he had suggested making a deal. A deal that they had both agreed on quickly and included the rule that they should both start eating in the cafeteria again. Together that is.
Arizona being his safety buffer for the stares he kept getting and he being Arizona's safety buffer in the form of distracting her whenever the topic of Callie entered her mind.
It worked out perfectly.
And while helping each other out, they certainly had some fun along the way!
"It's fine actually" the blonde responded, shrugging a bit. "Glad we didn't have to sit at the table right next to Callie though. I'm not positive if I would have been safe from having a salad bowl thrown at my head" she joked, trying to lighten the mood a bit before she once again got sucked into her sadness filled thoughts.
Jack, getting her drift opted to change the topic and went on to talk about what the could do tonight. "You want to go out and grab some drinks or stay at home and have a movie marathon again?"
"drinks would be great" she replied, knowing that's what they both wanted anyways "we can do the whole broken-hearted, eating ice cream and watching movies thing tomorrow when we are hung over."
She smirked, knowing how cliche their previous movie night had been with the ben and jerry's and the broken hearted love stories they had shared. Not that it mattered though, in fact the whole night had been a great help to both of them. Both being able to voice their thoughts about their recent breakups (which was also the main reason for Jack to have moved to Seattle) had lifted a weight of off both of them.
"Brilliant plan for a blonde!" Arizona's new found friend easily joked back earning himself another smack and a righteous "I'm super smart" as a comeback.
So that was chapter two of my story...
Hope you guys enjoyed it!
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thanks,
GHF