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Callie walked to Lauren and the blonde smiled. "How are you, Dr. Torres? If you're looking for Arizona, she just took Sofia to kindergarten"
"Listen Lauren, I don't want to fight here. This is our place of work so I don't want to do anything that may embarrass me. But if you hurt my wife, I'll swear you're going to regret this" Callie said angrily. She almost threatened blonde.
"Why would I want to hurt Arizona?" she asked nervously. "We're just having surgery today" she played the stupid one.
"Lauren, I know what you're doing. Arizona is so naive since accident and you can't take an advantage of her, you hear me? I love her and there no place for you in her life, my or my little girl's"
"You just called your wife naive, I didn't know that when you love someone, you're mean." Lauren smirked.
"You don't get to tell me how can I treat Arizona. She's broken, don't you see it?" Callie said that but soon she understood that it wasn't the words she wanted to use.
"Excuse me, as far as I'm concerned Arizona is just fine" Lauren said indignant.
"I didn't mean that, she's the most beautiful woman in the world for me so let's make it clear for once and for all. Leave my Arizona alone." Callie said that as she walked away from blonde. She didn't mean to call Arizona broken but their relationship wasn't in happy place right now. Her pager went off and she run to emergency room.
Lauren was shocked with this conversation, she couldn't believe that she might destroy a relationship, a family. She felt guiltily, however she didn't mean to apologise for her feelings. She stepped to the room in which Arizona was talking with a parents of little Tyler. Girls smiled to each other but then it was the time for work, not for flirting. As they made sure that everything was clear for the parents, they left room and talked about each other's past.
Suddenly Lauren offered "Do you want to go get coffee before we start this? There's this thing I need to talk about with you. So please, let me invite you for a coffee" Lauren was almost begging.
"Actually, I'd love to go on a coffee with you" Arizona smiled. "What did you want to tell me about?" she asked as they were walking to cafeteria.
"You see, I don't want to be dishonest with you but today me and Callie had a little talk" she smiled but she wasn't sure if she was supposed to tall Arizona about this whole conversation.
"Wait. What?" Arizona was surprised. "With my Callie?" she added.
"Yes, the same one" Lauren smiled.
"What were you talking about?" Arizona had feeling that it may be the continuation of jealous talk but she needed to be sure.
"Callie told me that I should stay away from you" Lauren was looking at the floor. For the first time, she was afraid to look in those beautiful, blue eyes.
"Excuse me?" Arizona was angry. "Lauren, sweetie I'm so sorry but we have to postpone our coffee" She touched Lauren's arm and Lauren had shivers under feeling of Arizona's hand on her body.
"Arizona, don't do it anything. She's just protective, she loves you. I don't want you two to fight because of someone like me" Lauren tried to convince the other blonde.
"What do you mean someone like you? You're perfect but I really need to leave you now" Arizona said. "see you around" and again she gave Lauren one of her super-magic smiles.
She took a step to cafeteria to look for her wife, she was humiliated by the situation so she decided to have real conversation with Callie. She saw her sitting next to Owen, they were laughing and having a lunch. Arizona came to them and asked Callie if they could talk but brunette wasn't interesting in Arizona's words.
"It's important" Arizona said firmly as looking deep in Calliope's eyes. "Please"
"Okay, I have operation in like 20 minutes so I just leave you alone" Owen smiled and he walked away.
"how are you today Arizona?" Callie asked and she wanted to gave the blonde a kiss but Arizona rejected it. "what's going on?" brunette was surprised with an action of his wife.
"You're asking me, what's going on?" Arizona was truly mad at her partner. "Why did you tell Lauren such a crap, huh? Why you're putting her between us?"
"Ohh awesome, I knew that she would told you everything, that skinny bitch is starting to annoy me" Callie said more to herself then to Arizona.
"Callie, why are you so mean and pissed of today?" her anger went away. She knew that it wasn't her wife, something was wrong with her. Arizona added "Is it because of Mark? I know that tomorrow will be a year since our plane crash." Peds surgeon looked with sympathy in her eyes.
"Damn, Arizona! It's not about Mark or this stupid plane crash. It's about you, I'm scared that you'll leave me, that I'll lose you again."Callie said as her eyes started to get wet.
"You won't lose me, I'll always be there for you. I'm not only your wife but you're friend right? And I'm also friends with Lauren, she gets me so please try to understand" Arizona said.
"You see that? All you're talking about is that blonde girl. You're surprised that I told her to stay away from you? You obviously like when she admires you" now brunette was yelling.
"Yes, I like it" Arizona yelled back. " Callie, I'm going to leave you because you're mad at me for no good reason, I can't pick up Sofia today – I have surgery. We'll talk at home, calmly" Arizona added and leave Calliope with so many thoughts. Ortho surgeon had an idea how she could kept Boswell away from her wife.
Arizona walked away from cafeteria, she walked away from her wife. Callie almost accused her of cheating, she just couldn't handle it anymore. She was afraid to admit that she indeed had enjoyed spending time with beautiful Lauren who was the most sincere person she had ever met. She felt like they had so many in common that they could become best friends. She hoped that Lauren would want to be friends with her in spite of the event of today.
Two hours later, around 12am it was high time to start Tyler's surgery. Lauren was so scared that she might lose control around Arizona that she decided to prepare to surgery earlier. Little did she know but Arizona also used to go to scrub earlier so she had to resist the temptation of things that may have happened between those two. She decided to talk about anything and the first topic she had in mind was controlling the world. They laughed at the fact that they were so similar, Arizona admitted to looking for Lauren on Internet but Lauren didn't mind. Actually, she was quite happy about it since she knew that Arizona was also thinking about her.
Surgery was long, it took almost four hours but girls kept exchanging looks so it was kind of fun experience. When they finished and were just the two of them, Arizona asked Lauren to stay a little bit longer in the OR. As everybody left, Arizona said
"I am so deeply sorry for Callie, she just isn't herself today. She probably had really long day yesterday and she may be a little bit mad" Arizona explained.
"No problem, really. I just didn't want to lie to you because starting a friendship with a lie isn't the best scenario right?" Lauren smiled and raised her eyebrow.
"So let's go my friend, we need to inform tiny human's makers that we're the most awesome surgeon team in this hospital and that we fixed their son" Arizona responded with a big smile on her face. "Oh, I almost forgot, I need to check on one patient and then there will be a meeting at the enter of hospital. Have you heard what is it about?" she added with sadness.
"Nope, but see you up there around 6?" Lauren asked softly.
Arizona nodded and left the OR.
After peds surgeon checked every patient she needed she glanced at her watch and she realized that she had 15 minutes to the meeting. She decided to look for Lauren and spend some time with her but she bumped into Callie. She smiled but she was disappointed.
"Hey, I need to talk to you." Callie said. She wasn't mad, she was herself. "I thought about it and you're right, I shouldn't be doing it. I am so sorry, I'll apologise to Lauren later okay?"
"No problem" Arizona said but she was still angry with this situation.
"Zona, I have proposition for you" Callie said. "Addie called me yesterday, she invited us to LA for a couple of weeks. I thought that we may go there, it's a good idea. We'll have time to think about us, fall in love with each other again." Callie was convincing her wife, she needed to take a break from Seattle.
"What?" the blonde was surprised. " I don't think that's a good idea, we have so many planned surgery, it's not a good time for travelling"
"Just think about it" Callie said and they left hospital to wait for something to happen.
During meeting, Owen informed doctors about big storm going to Seattle and they needed to prepare for it, also Matthew proposed to April. It was such a beautiful and sweet but something had happened which was weird but in a good way. Matt told that when he saw April standing in the doorway he felt shock and in that exact moment, Arizona and Lauren glanced at each other. It took just about a second but it was definitely magical for both of them.
Arizona and Lauren came to the parents to inform them about surgery. Lauren had to postpone her flight because of the weather but it didn't bother either her or Arizona. After talking with Tyler's parents they left the room.
Arizona told "Well, is that anything else that I can..." but she didn't finish her sentence.
"You can show me to an on-call room." Lauren responded fast.
"Uh... w... why?" she was surprised. She liked Lauren obviously but she barely knew her.
" First night post-op I like to stay close by in case anything happens." Lauren said with tease tone. She thought that it may be the last time when she saw a blonde so she wanted to say goodbye properly. She hoped that something may happened in the one-call room, she just didn't want to leave without knowing that she had done everything to convince Arizona to herself.
"Oh, wow, you poor, poor control freak" Arizona laughed at her.
"Oh, you really get me." Lauren said. She couldn't help but flirt with blonde, she just couldn't stop.
"Yeah, I really do." Arizona smiled, she understood her new friends really well. "This way. " blue eyed doctor showed a way. "Do you know when will you go home?"
"You want to get rid of me but I'm not that easy" she joked, everything around Arizona was so simple.
"No, of course not! I just wonder that we can grab a cap of coffee again tomorrow or whenever" Arizona explained. "Callie wants to go to LA and I don't know how can I cop out of this" she knew that Lauren could give her a piece of advice.
"Tell her what do you think about it, honestly. It's the best way" Lauren said firmly but cold. She didn't want to talk about Callie. As they came to on-call room, Arizona opened the door and let Lauren in. Suddenly light turned off but it soon came back to work again.
"You guys have backup generators, right?" Lauren said, it was weird. For the first time they were alone together, in private place.
"Yeah, of course we do." Arizona didn't care about the lights, she felt bizarre around Lauren. For the first time, she didn't know what to do around a woman.
"This really has been a lot of fun, sort of sorry..." Lauren started.
"Yeah, me too. I'm sorry it's over." Blonde finished.
"All right, well, then you'll just have to have me back at some point." Hot craniofacial specialist said and she took a few steps to be closer to her crush.
"That would be really great." Arizona answered, she just wanted to have Lauren around all the time.
And then silence. Awkwardness was in the air but Arizona knew that every word was important at that moment.
"Well.." Arizona started and gave a hand to say goodbye but all Lauren had done was a laugh. Then peds surgeon took a step and hugged her new friends. All of sudden, the lights went off again, the door closed and Arizona found her lips kissing Lauren's. It was so passionate, she hadn't felt this way in a year. Callie was treating her like she was made from glass whereas Lauren was normal, was perfect. But then she hesitated, she was married she had to put a stop to this. She broke the kiss.
"I can't, it was a pleasure meeting you." Arizona said without looking in the eyes. She knew if she had looked again in those magical green eyes she would have lost herself again. She wanted to leave the room full of passion and tense but then Lauren realized that she had her last chance to convince Arizona to her.
"Arizona" Lauren lost her hope, she doubted if hot blonde would have listened "You are allowed to lose a little bit of control."
