Callie waved her pass at the security guard as she expertly guided her BMW through the barrier and into the exclusive sports complex. She wasn't looking forward to today, she didn't relish the idea of playing doubles, and playing with a partner she had never met, let alone really heard of, not exactly high on her things to do list! But, she had to grudgingly admit Teddy was right. She was sluggish in her reactions, oh the shots were still there, and the skill, but her timing was just, off. So, yeah, doubles would help. She parked in her designated spot, gracefully climbed out and reached in to the back to retrieve her practice kit. She had barely turned from her car when she was spotted, and quickly surrounded by young enthusiastic tennis players, all clambering for an autograph or words of advice. She laughed and happily posed for "selfies!" with several of the youngsters, before gratefully allowing herself to be escorted to safety by the on site security who had quickly turned up to rescue her.

"Hey Teddy!" she mumbled as she met her coach in the locker room, the athletic blonde just tying her trainers before pulling her hair back in a ponytail. "So, where is?" Callie glanced around the room. "Not late I hope? I need someone dedicated, not unreliable!"

"Relax!" Teddy chuckled. "She is already on the court, she wanted to warm up a bit, she only flew back into the US two days ago and took a day off to recover from jet lag!"

"Uhm" Callie grunted as she quickly changed. "Ok then!" she finally muttered. "Let's do this!"

She followed Teddy towards the practice court, her lips twitching into a small smile as she glanced at several youngsters learning the ropes of her favourite sport. She had been like that once, she thought as she looked at a young girl no more than six years old, the racquet almost as big as her, yet managing to hit a wonderful return shot across the net, much to what must have been her dads delight. She took a deep breath and chuckled bitterly. She no longer spoke to her own parents, not even when they had come to the hospital to "visit her"…they hadn't set foot inside her room, but had made sure that every major news network and newspaper had known they were there, to love and support their child through this tragedy. Two days after their visit, a glossy five page spread on how they were grieving for Mark and suffering for Callies injuries, appeared in a major magazine. Callie reckoned it would have netted them a few hundred thousand dollars for the exclusive story, and felt the familiar flash of anger.

She looked up as she heard a woman laughing, and momentarily stopped in her tracks. The laughter came from a beautiful blonde, her athletic frame bouncing up and down on the spot as she giggled at her opponent. Her hair caught the sun and seemed to be almost spun gold, her tight shorts and crop top showed her perfect muscles, and Callie found herself mesmerised. She continued to stand and watch as the blonde beauty walked to the baseline and bounced the ball, before casually tossing it in the air. Callies mouth fell open as the ball fired across the net like a bullet. "Impressive!" she heard Teddy call out

The woman turned to look in their direction, and Callie could have sworn she saw the faint tint of a blush across her skin. "Thanks!" she heard the woman reply

Finally moving her feet, Callie walked over to the court. She came to stand right in front of the younger woman, noticing how blue her eyes were, and smiling shyly as she realised she had been caught staring. "Hi" she stammered, "I'm Callie!" she held out her hand, laughing as the blonde grabbed the offered hand and playfully dropped courtesy. "What?" she grinned at the giggling woman

"Sorry!" Arizona giggled again. "But you're like, wow….tennis royalty! Calliope Torres, Grand Slam winner, in only her third year on the circuit. And not to mention a further win at Wimbledon AND two US Open wins and French Open Wins. Oh yeah, and an Olympic gold to. Wow. I mean. Wow!"

Callie grinned shyly and slightly scuffed her toe on the ground. "Yeah, that's me. But not royalty, just…"

"One of the best tennis players like EVER!" the other woman laughed. "Oh, sorry, my bad. I'm Arizona. Arizona Robbins!"

"I know!" Callie laughed to. "This years Australian Open winner, I googled you. Not bad, not bad at all!"

"I got lucky!" Arizona admitted quietly. "I mean, I played well, the first set, second set, my game kinda…"

"Fell apart, yeah, I watched the match!" Callie agreed. "But, you still won!"

"On a lucky tie break!" Arizona huffed. "I was 5-3 up second set, and I allowed her to drag me into a tie break, let her that much back into the game. I got lucky!"

Callie pursed her lips and softly nodded. "Yeah, you did. But sometime luck is the deciding factor more than skill!"

Teddy and Miranda both asked Callie a few questions, and Arizona took the opportunity to study the woman she would be playing doubles with. She was a legend. One of the greats. And Arizona could barely contain her excitement at the chance to play on the same court as her, let alone as her partner. But, it wasn't why she was studying the other woman so closely. No. She was doing that because she didn't think she had ever seen a more beautiful woman in her life! Her hair was silky soft and shining in the sun, her dark tanned skin seemed to glow. When she had smiled at her earlier, Arizona had nearly crumpled to a heap at how perfect that smile was, the perfect teeth, perfect lips. Just. Perfect! Everything about her, her toned body, her graceful height, and her eyes, oh GOD, her eyes. Arizona chuckled to herself as she thought again, perfect, but I must buy a dictionary to find another word to describe her.

"Okay then!" Callie suddenly said and clapped her hands. "Shall we?"

"Huh?" Arizona mumbled

Callie grinned and Arizona swallowed quickly at the way the Latinas face lit up. "Shall we see how we get on together?"

"Get on?" Arizona repeated

"On court? As a doubles pair?" Callie laughed then looked questioningly at Miranda. "Jet lag huh?"

"Yeah, yeah! Jet lag!" Bailey nodded, before swiftly pushing Arizona and hissing, "Now move your butt girl, go show them what you can do!"

Teddy and Miranda set themselves up on the other side of the net, and Callie walked to the baseline. "I'll serve first, if that's ok? I saw your serve before, you seem to have a hang on that!"

Arizona chuckled and replied. "Luck!"

"Um hmm!" Callie chuckled back, turning into a full on belly laugh as she saw Arizona do a little butt wiggle as she took her place at the net, the laughter dying out as she found herself staring in wonder at the same perfect butt for a few seconds longer than necessary. She was snapped out of her fixation when Teddy yelled. "When you're ready Torres!"

Three hours later, and a red faced Teddy and a sweating Miranda stumbled in to the changing room and practically fell on to the benches. "Mercy!" Miranda gasped as Teddy passed her a bottle of water. "I beg mercy, don't make me play against those two again!" she groaned

"Hey!" Arizona said cheerfully as she bounced into the room, followed closely by a smiling Callie. "That was fun huh? We make a pretty good team dontcha think boss?"

"Go away!" Miranda groaned as she tried, and failed to sit up

Arizona looked up at Callie who was shaking her head as Teddy tried, and failed to kick off her trainers. "These are the people we trust to coach us!" Callie laughed

"I know right!" Arizona giggled as she carefully helped Miranda to sit up

"Hey hey hey, watch it blondie!" Teddy moaned. "We may not be able to keep up with you two wonder kids, but we're smart, real smart. After all, I think we just put together the doubles team that will win every Grand slam tournament around!" she grinned, and feebly clinked water bottles with Miranda

Miranda grinned and nodded. "We have three weeks of practice time left, maybe you two can help each other with your singles practices to ya know, hit a few balls together 'n' practice before we do doubles training. But, yeah, three weeks, and I think we have a shot of you two taking the French open title, a damn good shot!"

"Yeah?" Arizona grinned and glanced up at Callie

Callie merely nodded and muttered. "We seem a good fit, she could be right!"

"Yeah, a good fit" Arizona mumbled, before quickly turning around and grabbing her towel. "I uh, I need a shower!" she said quickly, before hurrying into the cubicles.

"Me to!" Callie said as she grabbed her stuff and walked to the cubicle at the opposite end to the one the blonde had gone into

"AM I missing something?" Miranda asked as she narrowed her eyes and glanced at Teddy

Teddy pursed her lips and shook her head a fraction. "I'm not sure. I'm really not sure!"