"Are they asleep?" Meredith asks looking up from her journal as Arizona stands at the door.
"They are, but they're asleep in my bed. Help!" She says laughing and leaning in the doorway.
"Leave them, just come in here and sleep." Meredith pats the other side of the bed.
"Uh, that's not necessary. I'll just wake them up and tell them to go to bed." Arizona says trying to be cool about it.
"Arizona, we're both exhausted. Just leave them and sleep here. It's a big bed." Meredith replies, yawning.
"If you're sure," she says nervously walking over and sitting tentatively on the bed.
"I'm sure. Now what do you need?" Meredith asks.
"What do you mean?" The blonde asks confused.
"Cristina had a special pillow and Amelia didn't want any pillows on the bed, so what do you need?" Meredith asks again.
"Gosh when you say it like that I sound so cheap." The blonde teases, "I'm just one of the many women who share your bed."
"You do know how much I hate to sleep alone. So I have an ulterior motive here." Meredith replies smiling at her friend.
Relaxing a bit, Arizona pulls the covers down and sits away from her to remove her prosthetic before slipping in under the covers. "Okay, this mattress is amazing," the blonde says closing her eyes and willing her body to relax.
Dropping the journal on the floor, Meredith turns off the light and rolls over on her side to face the blonde.
Feeling her staring, Arizona opens up her eyes curious as to what she's doing.
"How do you do that?" Meredith asks softly. "Are you one of those people who can lay down and go to sleep?"
"Not really. But after my accident when I was having problems with PTSD and phantom leg and everything, Derek taught me biofeedback, so now when I lay down, I just do that and sort of drift off." Arizona explains, "Didn't he teach you how to do it. You must have gone through PTSD once or twice by now."
"Oh, he did. I'm just no good at it. How do you do it, teach me." Meredith asks.
Raising up on her elbow, Arizona lightly pushes her over on her back, "Lay flat on your back. Tell each section of your body to relax." Reaching over, the blonde rests her hand on her shoulder, "release the tension in your neck and shoulders, sometimes, I have to think about getting a massage in order to get them to relax."
Meredith nods and Arizona can see the tension release from her face, god, she's beautiful. Then remembering what she's doing, she rests her hand on the other woman's stomach, "now release the lower back and let go of the tension you're holding there." Arizona says softly, then pauses and leans a little closer. She's snoring softly. A little amazed that it worked that quickly, the blonde rolls on to her back and closes her eyes and repeats the exercises herself.
Feeling the blonde lay back down, Meredith opens her eyes carefully and steals a glance at her. It took all of her biofeedback knowledge to still her heart rate after the blonde touched her. My god, what was that about. Meredith wonders laying there beside her. Her eyes are almost as dreamy as Derek's that must be it. Meredith tells herself as she closes her eyes again and makes herself drift off to sleep.
Meredith wakes up the next morning on her side wrapped around the blonde, who's on her back. She's had a really good night's sleep and feels amazing. She can tell it's early, so she just closes her eyes again and starts to drift off, when she feels the blonde stir beneath her.
Reluctantly, Meredith pulls back to give the blonde some room, but doesn't move very far.
"Oh, good morning." Arizona says softly, also not moving much.
"Sorry, I'm not sorry. That might be the best night's sleep that I've had in over a year." Meredith confesses as she stretches a little, then looks over at Arizona and suddenly she can't help herself. She leans in and kisses her lightly.
"Um..." Arizona says now totally confused and a little nervous.
"You look amazing in the morning and I just, um, still not sorry, actually." Meredith says now unsure of herself.
"It's okay. It doesn't mean anything." Arizona says making light of the kiss, even though her heart is pounding out of her chest.
Leaning over her again Meredith smiles playfully and then kisses her again, this time, she puts her hand lightly on the blonde's chest. "What about now?" She asks, taking the blonde's hand and resting it on her chest, so she can feel her heart pounding too.
"Meredith, what is this?" Arizona asks softly, not pulling away but definitely confused.
"Yesterday you said that being here in the house with the kids makes you want this for real. And well, me too. I just didn't realize it until you said." She explains, then adds, "The last few months have been really good. And we are really good together, so I wanted to know if we could you know, try this." She says a little nervously.
"I didn't know... I can't do this..." Arizona stammers and pulls away.
"But we are attracted to each other, why can't you do this?" Meredith asks confused.
"You're not, I mean are you? Have you done this before? Are you just confused because I'm here in your bed and your home?" Arizona asks rapidly.
"No, I'm not confused. And yes, I've done this before. Well, not with three kids obviously." Meredith explains, dropping her head down on to the blonde's shoulder.
Arizona relaxes a little and brings her arms up around her. "So we're doing this?" She asks softly.
Meredith wraps her arms around her and nuzzles her neck, nodding and kissing her neck lightly.
"Oh you are good at this." Arizona replies, pushing her over and kissing her.
Returning the kiss, Meredith breaks away and says breathlessly, "You're pretty good at this too."
The next week, Maggie and Amelia come over to babysit so that Arizona and Meredith can go to Callie's for dinner and meet her girlfriend.
"I'm kind of nervous," Arizona admits when they are driving over.
"I'm nervous too, but mainly because Callie's going to figure us out and be weird about it." Meredith replies.
"Is that really what you're worried about? That she'll be weird about it?" Arizona asks.
"Yes, you know how she is. We could end up talking about this all night. So we need to distract her, what can we do?" Meredith asks the blonde.
"Oh, I know. I'll ask if she's told Penny that she spent her youth surfing? She can talk about surfing all night." Arizona replies.
"Oh and Botswana, don't forget about that too." Meredith suddenly recalls one night at her house when she fell asleep while Callie told Derek about her Peace Corps time in Botswana.
"Surfing and Botswana. Got it. Good plan." Arizona says leaning over to give her a light kiss at the stop light.
"Are we going to remember not to do this in front of them? Meredith asks suddenly shy about the kiss, that's become so natural, they've almost done it at work a few times.
"Trust me, this dinner will be so awkward, we won't even think about." Arizona replies laughing at the thought of what lies ahead of them.
"Well, with two surgeons babysitting, it's not like we'll get called home for an emergency, so hopefully it won't be too awkward." Meredith says reaching over and squeezing the blonde's hand.
"Are you kidding? Have you met Calliope Torres?" Arizona replies playfully.
Stopping a few houses away, Arizona parks the car and turns to Meredith.
"Why are you parking here?" Meredith asks confused.
"Because I want to do this." Arizona says pulling her to her and kissing her.
Deepening the kiss, Meredith slips her hand inside the blonde's leather jacket and works it under her shirt.
"Um, wow. You know, this was a bad idea." Arizona says breathlessly pulling away from her.
Pulling the mirror down from the visor, Meredith laughs and reaches into the console and pulls out a tissue. "You're lipstick is a mess." She says laughing at her and wiping it off. "Good thing we wore the same shade."
"Oh crap, Callie will notice that. Its a trick that we used to do. Fuck, do you have another shade of lipstick with you?" Arizona asks freaking out a little.
"No, I don't think I do. But now I kind of want her to figure it out. She's gonna flip, isn't she?" Meredith asks amused.
"Oh she'll flip. Probably accuse me of taking advantage of you." Arizona admits.
"Please, has she not met me. I don't do anything unless I want to." Meredith reminds her.
"That is a very true statement." Arizona agrees, smiling at her.