"Was she serious?" Meredith asks her friend.
"Yes, she was. I can't even... Meredith what am I going to do?" Callie asks.
"Well, there's your sign that she's definitely changed." Meredith points out.
"You think?" Callie replies sarcastically. "What's weird is that I'm upset because I don't want her to do it alone. But I also don't want her to do it with anyone else," she admits.
"So is that because you want to do it together?" She asks.
Nodding Callie falls back on the couch in the doctor's lounge. "Yes, damn it. Yes, I'll admit it to you." Callie replies dramatically.
"You need to tell her that. And you need to see her again. Do you have plans?" Meredith asks.
"No, and I guess that it's my turn to ask her out." Callie replies.
"You sound very excited about it." Meredith says sarcastically.
"I-I uh don't know what to do. How do you ask your ex-wife out on a date?" Callie asks putting her head in her hands.
"How did Arizona do it?" She asks.
"She came over one night and just asked." Callie replies.
"Okay, so here's how I'm going to help you. Friday I'm off early and I'll take Sofia home with me. Now you ask her out and figure the rest out." Meredith offers.
"Okay, I'll go up to Peds now and see if I can find her and ask her out. Thanks, Meredith." Callie replies sitting forward on the couch.
"Hey Karev, have you seen Arizona?" Callie asks as she enters the Peds unit and spots him first.
"Yeah, she just got paged to the ER. What's up?" He asks, looking up from his chart.
"Nothing, I- uh- just wanted to ask her something." Callie says, internally debating what to do next.
"So what's up with you two? All the sudden she's talking about having kids and stuff. Are you guys getting back together?
Alex blurts out.
"That's between us Alex and we're figuring it out. Just back off." Callie says harshly.
"I don't understand it. I'd have moved on by now if I was her, but damn, she loves you and she's waiting for you to realize that you love her too. So figure it out already." He says impatiently.
Scowling at him, Callie stalks off down the hall.
Getting in the elevator, Callie notices Bailey and says, "Its none of his damn business, telling me how I feel about her."
"I'm heading into surgery, do not tell me your personal problems Torres." Bailey says watching the elevator change floors.
"Where does Karev get off telling me to get back together with Arizona?" Callie blurts out.
"Maybe because neither of you has moved on and its fairly obvious that you all should just get back together." She says as the doors open and she steps out.
As the doors start to close, Callie sticks her arm out and they re-open. She steps out onto the surgical floor and looks at the board. Arizona is heading to OR 3 for an emergency surgery on a pregnant woman. Callie steps into the gallery and sits down.
"Dr Robbins, here are the latest lab reports." Wilson says entering the OR and glancing up she is surprised to see Callie in the gallery.
Arizona follows Jo's line of sight and she too is surprised to see Callie in the gallery.
"Okay, that's good news. Dr Wilson, let's go ahead and begin. Pick up the scalpel and let's begin." Arizona says to a very shocked Jo Wilson.
Delighted that she gets the first cut, Wilson doesn't hesitate to pick up the scalpel and make the mid-line incision.
Arizona patiently talks Jo through the entire procedure, only stepping a few times to double check the younger surgeon.
"Great job Dr Wilson, now here's where it gets tricky. We need to pull the baby's leg out and snip the band that's wrapped around it, but be very careful not to nick the umbilical cord or anything else. Are you ready?" Arizona asks, glancing up quickly to see if Callie is still watching upstairs.
Holding her breath, Callie leans forward as Jo carefully pulls the tiny leg out of the womb and snips the tissue that has banded around it cutting off the circulation.
"Don't for one second forget the privilege that you had here today Dr Wilson. This baby will be born next month and you were the first person to touch him." Arizona softly points out.
"Unbelievable." Jo says in awe.
"Unbelievable." Callie repeats softly to herself.
"Hey!" Arizona says when she steps in to scrub out of surgery and sees Callie waiting for her.
"I-Uh- I want to ask you something." Callie says as Arizona tears off her gown and turns around to face her.
"Okay, what do you want..." Arizona stops talking when Callie steps forward and kisses her.
Pulling back, Arizona looks into those brown eyes for a second and then pulls her closer and deepens the kiss.
Suddenly Callie pulls back, out of breath and they both stare intensely for a moment.
Finally Callie shakes her head and says, "S-Sorry, I- uh, I just wanted to know if..." She stops talking as Arizona steps forward and brushes her lips against hers again.
"Me too." The blonde replies.
"Um, do you want to come over for dinner Friday night. Sofia is sleeping over at Zola's." Callie says unable to stop looking at those soft pink lips.
"I don't know if that's a good idea, or maybe its a really good idea." Arizona says smiling dangerously.
"Maybe it's about time that we find out..." Callie says flashing a mischievous smile and turning to leave.
"What's wrong with your face?" Jo asks as she pulls off her gown and steps up to the scrub sink.
"Uh, nothing why?" Arizona says turning away from her.
"Was Callie in here? I saw her in the gallery." Jo replies.
"She just asked me to dinner tomorrow night." Arizona says softly, touching her lips, still tingling from the kiss
"Cool, do you need me to help with Sofia?" Jo asks over her shoulder.
"No, she's having a sleepover with Zola," the blonde replies, then switching back into surgeon mode, she asks about the post op follow up and reminds Jo to meet her in 30 minutes.
After reviewing the post surgery labs on her emergent patient and providing detailed instructions for the resident to monitor the patient, Arizona makes her way down to the on call room to take a nap. She's on call tonight and it's just as well since she's still dazed from kissing Callie earlier.
Pulling her phone out of her pocket, she sees a missed call and text from Callie.
"Can we talk soon?"
Hoping that the brunette isn't having a freak out about earlier, Arizona texts back.
"Is now a good time?"
Then suddenly her phone rings and its Callie.
Nervously, Arizona answers, "Calliope?"
"Arizona, I just wanted to explain about earlier." Callie says nervously.
"It's okay. I understand, I've wondered myself what it would be like to kiss you again. Thank you for letting me find out." Arizona says lightly.
"Yeah, that was 'wow'. But then our kisses were always 'wow'!" Callie counters. "But I just uh, don't want you to have any expectations about dinner tomorrow. I mean, I'm not ready to go there with you. We have a lot to work out and falling into bed would probably not be helpful."
Exhaling loudly, Arizona puts her hand over her face. "I know and you're right. We need to go slow and figure things out first, get to know each other again." She adds.
"Right, okay. I just wanted to make sure that we were on the same page. I kind of skipped us ahead a few chapters today." Callie says playfully.
"Got it. Why did you watch my surgery today?" Arizona asks suddenly.
"I wanted to ask you out and then when I saw what procedure you were doing, I couldn't help but watch it. I still can't believe that you can do that and just put the baby back and then he'll be born next month on time." Callie says unable to hide how impressed she is by Arizona's new specialty.
"It really is amazing," she says agreeing with the brunette. "Callie?"
"Yes?" She replies.
"I'm laying down in the Peds on-call room exhausted and now the last thing I want to do in here is sleep." She says as her voice drops seductively.
Callie pauses a moment and bites her lip, "I'm hanging up now. And probably won't be able to sleep now either, thanks, oh and good night," she says sighing deeply into the phone.
Laying back in the bed, Arizona groans in frustration.
