A/N – My medical knowledge is not very good, so please don't kill me if I get something wrong. I love hearing from you guys so please keep it coming!
Chapter 7
Callie is sitting in the very bright white room, her knee is bouncing nonstop and her teeth are going to work on her perfect manicured finger nails. It has been 5 hours since Callie walked in on Aria trying to kiss Arizona and it's been downhill ever since. Thanks to her wonderful sister the blonde's blood alcohol level was through the roof, making her best friends with the porcelain throne. Add on her newly discovered Chickenpox and you have yourself a party. Her fever has been climbing and when it reached 103°F the singer completely lost it and rushed Arizona to the hospital. That's where she is now waiting in the ER with Addison and her two bodyguards.
"Callie relax, she will be fine. It's just the Chickenpox." Addison says as she places her hand on Callie's knee to stop her.
"I know, it's just her temperature was 103 the last time I checked. That can't be good right?" Callie asks nervously.
"That's why you brought her here, don't worry the doctors will take good care of her." Addison is tapping the edge of the forms they have to fill in with her pen, but she can't get Callie to focus long enough to finish them. Callie looks back at the forms hoping it will distract her. Her eyes land on the open spaces covering most of the page with only a few questions answered.
"I don't know her at all." Callie says defeated.
"What? You two are basically attached at the hip."
"I don't even know her middle name! What if she is allergic to something I don't know about and she dies. I will have killed her!" Completely freaking out, the stress of the entire night finally catching up to the singer. Addison realizes she needs to calm her down before it's too late.
"Wow, let's not jump to conclusions here. She is not going to die, besides you have just discovered like a dozen conversation topics for your first date." This seems to lighten the mood a little as Callie just rolls her eyes at her friend.
"Callie Torres?" A tall man in a white lab coat and blue scrubs asks. Callie jumps out of her seat and stands in front of the man.
"Yes, that's me. Is she okay?" She asks almost too fast to understand.
"She is just fine, we gave her something for the fever and here is a prescription of medication she will need. She might still have a fever for a few more days, just keep her hydrated and make sure she gets plenty of rest. But if it goes above 102 you need to bring her back, besides that she will be just fine except for being itchy." The doctor jokes but Callie doesn't even attempt to smile.
"Can I see her?" Callie asks wanting to make sure for herself that the blonde is okay.
"Yes, the nurse will take you to her. O, she kept asking if she can have a red lollipop." The doctor hands Callie the treat.
"Of course she did." Taking the lollipop Callie smiles for the first time in 5 hours, knowing that her assistant is going to be okay.
Jackson and Alex help to get Arizona back to her hotel room. "Thanks you guys. Its late you should go get some sleep." They both leave. Callie goes over to the half asleep blonde to help her get comfortable for bed. She helps her take of her jeans and hoodie leaving her in her pink boyshorts and white tanktop. She can't help but smile seeing Arizona's flawless skin looking more like connect-the-dots. She tugs Arizona into bed thankful that she is okay, Callie doesn't know what she would have done if she wasn't okay.
In the morning Arizona was in full Chickenpox mode, it seems like every hour they multiplied she has spots everywhere even under her feet, making the task of keeping the blonde from scratching nearly impossible.
Arizona is looking much better. Callie stayed at her side the entire time, she suddenly understood why the blonde was freaking out about the falling light. She hardly slept, every time the blonde moved or made a sound she was awake, checking her temperature and keeping her hydrated. Finally deciding that sleep is not going to happen she texts her backup singers.
Callie runs into her room looking for a something to wear, grabbing everything she needs to get ready for what sure is going to be a very long day. She doesn't even notice her sister sitting on the couch.
"Callie I just…" Aria starts trying to explain.
"Aria no, I don't have time for this." Pushing past her sister.
"Please just listen…" She begs
"Mark has agreed to make sure you get home safe. You're not my problem anymore." Callie closes the door in her sister's face. "Why couldn't I have been an only child?" She asks herself leaning against the room door closing her eyes.
"Hey Cal, how's Blondie doing?" Opening her eyes to see her friend.
"Mark, hey she is still running a temperature but she looks better. Thanks again for taking Aria to the airport." She places her hand on his shoulder.
"No, problem. What are fake boyfriends for? You just go take care of your girl."
"Okay I have to go I got Little Grey is sitting with her. And Mark we are going to have a talk about the whole girlfriend thing." She tells him before walking off. Callie rushes back into Arizona's room. "Is April back yet?"
"No, and she is a little warm again."
"Crap, the medicine must be starting to wear off. Where is April with the damn meds?" Callie kneels next to Arizona at the bed.
"Did you know Chickenpox is caused by the varicella zoster virus, and it spreads by direct contact or through the air? Adults are more likely to have a more serious case of Chickenpox with higher rate of complications and death." Lexie starts spitting out facts nervously.
"Okay, thank you Lexipedia! But can we please turn the page to one that's not about her dying from the Chickenpox?" Callie asks covering Arizona's ears, she really doesn't need to hear stuff like that right now.
Lexie starts thinking. "I think I saw some icepacks in the mini fridge." She runs to go get them.
Lexie comes back with the icepacks. She hands them to Callie, who starts rubbing it all over the blonde's exposed skin. Callie feels the shiver running down the blonde's body. Her temperature slowly starts to go down, Callie places a cold pack on the sleeping Arizona's forehead.
April comes busting into the room. "I got it!"
"Shh!" Both Callie and Lexie say at the same time.
"Sorry," She whispers handing over the bag to Lexie.
"What took you so long?"
"Do you know how hard it is to find an open pharmacy at 6 in the morning, on a weekend?"
"Shh, April you voice doesn't whisper." Callie whispers taking the roll of gauze from Lexie. She lifts one of Arizona's hands and starts covering it with the gauze.
"How could she not have noticed?" Lexie asks as she looks at the red dots covering Arizona's hand.
"O, trust me she noticed she just didn't say anything."
"Why?"
"Because she is Arizona." Callie says taking the blonde's other hand. She has to blink her eyes a few times to focus on her task.
"Callie you don't look so good maybe you should…" April stops before making her already very stressed out boss angry.
"I would like to see what you would look like with minimum amount of sleep because your assistant got the Chickenpox." She says annoyed.
"I don't have an assistant." Callie gives her a look that could kill, Lexie sees it and quickly grabs April's arm.
"Let's go get a few more hours of sleep, we are going to need it." They walk to the door.
"Thank you." Callie adds knowing that they are only trying to help. After the singer finishes covering both of the blonde's hands, Callie takes this moment to jump in the shower. When she is done she sits back down on the chair she pulled up to the blonde's bed.
Arizona opens her eyes slowly, her head is pounding. She only remembers bits and pieces of last night, she remembers Aria trying to kiss her, because who can forget something like that? She remembers being in a hospital and a craving for a red lollipop, Callie she remembers Callie. She was with her the entire time, whenever she woke up she found the singer asleep in the very uncomfortable chair next to her bed. She looks and finds Callie in that same chair working away on her laptop. Callie has been taking great care of her she's like her own personal nurse, except without the uniform. I bet Callie would look so hot in a nurse's outfit. Arizona minds drift of but it quickly returns to reality by that ungodly itch, Arizona reaches for it but stops when she realizes there is something on her hands. She brings her hands up to her face looking at them confused.
"Why are my hands marshmallows?" Arizona starts waving her hands like a little kitten playing with a ball of yarn.
"Hey, good morning. They are gauze paws it's to keep you from scratching, if you scratch it will scar." Callie says while closing her laptop.
"But scars are hot." Arizona tries, wiggling her eyebrows.
"I think a hundred little round scars are going to make you look more like a tablecloth." Callie sits down on the bed next to the blonde. "You really scared me back there." Her voice is soft and vulnerable.
"I'm sorry Calliope." She places one of her puffy hands on Callie's seeing the light shimmer of unshed tears in the corner of her eyes.
Callie quickly turns her head as she tries to pull herself together, wanting to change the subject. "How are you feeling?" She asks feeling the blonde's forehead, a little warm but nothing alarming.
"Like I've been hit by a train." The blonde says as she stretches her sore body.
"Come on, I got you some soup it will make you feel better." Arizona shifts up sitting against the pillows. Callie takes the bowl and spoon getting a good helping of the soup before blowing on it.
"You don't have to feed me I'm not an infant."
"And how exactly are you going to feed yourself with your marshmallow hands?" Giving the blonde a raised eyebrow.
"You can always just take them off?" Arizona asks hopefully, lifting her hands to the singer.
"Yeah, not happening." The blonde drops her hands in defeat.
"Then I'll just have to manage with them." She gives Callie a look saying she means business
"Okay." She hands it over to the blonde. Arizona takes the spoon gripping it between both hands. She moves the spoon slowly trying to balance it without spilling. Just before reaching her mouth, her one hand slips spinning the spoon sending hot soup flying everywhere. Callie has a smirk on her face.
"Fine." Arizona mumble's not making eye contact. She holds out the bowl to Callie but she doesn't take it.
"Nah uh, when I wanted to help you where all Miss Independence. Now you're going to have to ask nicely." Arizona's jaw drops in shock. Callie crosses her arms across her chest staring the blonde down. Arizona stays quiet. "Fine, starve." Callie gets up from the bed.
"Please help me Calliope, please." She asks with a smile she knows the singer can't say no to. Callie sits back down, taking a piece of noodle out of the blonde's hair.
"So, will you let me take care of you?" Arizona nods. Callie takes back the bowl and spoon and feeds her a spoonful of soup. Callie points at the bedside table to a pink water bottle and a bunch of smaller pill bottles. "You need to take those, you still have a bit of a fever and the antihistamine tablets will help with that."
"Actually the ibuprofen is for the fever, the antihistamine tablets are to help with the itching." Callie just looks at her surprised.
"Smarty pants."
"I may not be able to feed myself, but at least I know which pill is for what." She says proudly.
"O, I would love to see you try and open one of those tiny medicine bottles with those volleyball hands." Arizona raises her one hand in front of Callie. "Are you giving me the finger?"
"Yes I am."
"Good job." This makes them both laugh.
After finishing her soup and drinking her meds the blonde was soon fast asleep again. The little sleep soon catching up to the singer as well as she falls asleep in the very uncomfortable chair again. Callie opens her eyes but her mind is still fogy from sleep. Her ears tune into the sound of someone groaning and soft curses. She turns her head to what should be a sleeping Arizona but instead she finds the blonde sitting on the foot of the bed, griping on to a pencil between her two gauze paws trying to use it to scratch her back. Her arms are behind her head and she is swaying her body from side to side. She tilts her head to the side exposing her beautiful neck, Callie can feel her mouth go dry. Of course Arizona is the only person that can make scratching look sexy. Wait scratching?
"Hey what are you doing?" Her voice still gravely from sleep.
Arizona freezes, slowly turning to face the singer. "I have an itch." Callie gives her a disapproving look. "It hurts, it's like the pain of a thousand itches. I'm going crazy here! Not funny crazy, bad crazy!" Arizona is waving the pencil in all directions as the talks.
"Okay, calm down Freddy Krueger. Lay down and I'll help you." Arizona lies down. Callie pulls up her shirt exposing her polka dot back. She takes some lotion and warms it in her hands first before starting to gently rub her back, Callie can feel the little bumps gliding under her fingers. Soon Goosebumps are mixed in with the Chickenpox, Callie smiles a smile with pride thinking about the effect she has on the blonde.
"That feels amazing, don't stop."
"How long have you been awake?" Callie asks as she sees the bedside clock show 14:30.
"A while, I didn't want to wake you I know you didn't get a lot of sleep and you have your big concert tonight. I tried to watch some TV but these stupid things…" Lifting her hands. "…couldn't press the little buttons and then the itching started again."After a few moments of silence. Arizona turns her head to see a goofy smile on Callie's lips. "What?"
"Nothing, it's just you look a little like the Matrix." This gets her a hit with one of the pillows.
"Callie don't be mean I'm sick. Besides the Matrix has travelled down a little too south for my liking." Arizona rubs at her behind with one of her hands. "I have pox between my butt cheeks."
Callie quickly cleans her hands. "How about this?" She grabs her guitar that she brought with her earlier. "If I play you something, will that make you feel better?"
"Maybe." Arizona knows of course it will help, everything is better when Callie sings. Arizona snuggles deeper into her pillows trying to use the added pressure to sooth her itching skin.
"Okay any requests?"
Arizona just shakes her head. Callie thinks about it for a moment trying to find a song she knows that will fit with her limited knowledge of the blonde's taste in music. Settling on a song her fingers start to play Matthew Mole's Take Yours, I'll Take Mine. Arizona listens to her idol singing only to her. Before she knows it the rest of the world no longer exists, she is content at just listing to Callie's beautiful voice soothing her. With every lyric Arizona can feel herself falling more and more for the singer. This may have started as a simple celebrity crush but it has turned into something real, very real. It's no longer about Callie Torres the hot singer, but Callie Torres the most amazing person she has ever met. As the song draws closer to the end Callie turns her head to find the blonde fast asleep with a smile on her lips.
"And I'll find mine on the right of Your side. And I'll find mine on the right of Your side. If I throw away my fear and pride to set things right. Then I'll find mine on the right of Your side."
Arizona wakes up to the sound of someone biting down on something crunchy. Opening her eyes she finds the redhead sitting on the bed next to her chowing down on a bowl of popcorn while watching an old romantic movie.
"Addison?"
"Hey, sorry I didn't mean to wake you." Addison quickly turns down the volume on the TV.
"No, its fine. What are you doing here?"
"I practically had to drag Callie away to go to the concert, the only way she would go if I promised to stay here with you." She pokes the blonde's polka dot nose with her finger.
"What? But then you will miss the concert too." Arizona props herself up on her elbow.
"I have been listing to her sing since I was 5, I'm well aware of her musical talents."
"She knows I only have the Chickenpox and I'm not on my death bed here?"
Addison just chuckles "She left these for you." She hands her a box. Arizona reads the note taped to the top of the pink box.
Arizona, I'm sorry I had to leave, but when I saw these it reminded me of you. - Callie
With some trouble the blonde finally opens the box to find donuts covered in red sprinkles inside. Arizona can't help the huge smile that crosses her face. Addison looks over the blonde's shoulder to see what is inside the box.
"Yummy, donuts!" She reaches over and takes one from the box without asking.
"Hey, Callie got them for me!"
"And I'm the one sitting her with your Chickenpox covered ass." She takes a big bite from the donut.
"Did they check the lights?" Arizona asks in a panic suddenly remembering what happened yesterday.
"Yes, Arizona nothing is going to come crashing down on your precious Calliope." Addison sees a blush spread across the blonde's cheeks. "You really like her don't you?" Arizona gives her a duh look.
"She's amazing. I finder her miraculous, breathtakingly stunning. I just can't stop looking at her." Arizona places the box on the bedside table and falls on her back staring up at the ceiling. "I heard her talking to Aria about me, but I don't think she knows I heard her."
"Why don't you tell her?"
"It's not very romantic to declare your feelings for someone while looking like this." She motions to her spotted body. "Fevers and scratching are not sexy."
"Okay look Arizona, you can't keep waiting for this perfect moment because then you will be waiting for ever. There is no such thing as a perfect moment. So, just tell her."
"You sound like my friend Teddy."
"She sounds like a smart woman." They both chuckle.
Callie reluctantly went to the concert, she didn't like not having the blonde there in the crowd and the fact that she knows she is up in her hotel room sick makes it that much worse. She tried her best to stay focus during the concert luckily the thousands of screaming fans made it hard to focus on anything else. But still every time she went off stage for a costume change she would send Addison a quick text to hear if Arizona is still okay. After the concert Callie tip toes back into Arizona's room. Finding the blonde fast asleep while Addison is working on her laptop.
"Hey Addie how did it go?"
"Hey, good. I made sure she ate and drank lots of fluids, she took her meds and fell right a sleep." Addison packs up her things.
"Thank you so much."
"It's no problem, how did the concert go?" They walk over to the door.
"Good, you know same old." They stop at the door. Callie looks over her shoulder at the sleeping blonde making sure she is still okay.
"I had a good chat with her and I have to say I like her. She's something special, she will be good for you Cal."
"She's pretty great isn't she?" Addison sees the sparkle in Callie's eyes just talking about the blonde.
"Boy you've got it bad, don't you? Speaking of which you two need to talk and soon, before someone tries to steal her again. And I think you just might explode if you don't kiss her soon." They laugh
"The whole Aria trying to kiss her and Chickenpox thing kind of threw me but I'll talk to her I promise." Callie hugs her best friend. "Have a safe flight tomorrow, and thanks again for tonight."
"Anytime Cal. Hey, and let me know how it goes." She motions over to Arizona.
"I will. Bye Addie." Addison leaves.
The next morning it's time to get back on the tour bus, next stop New York. Which means they have a very very long drive ahead of them. Climbing on to the bus Arizona's bunk is covered in get well presents. But the thing that catches her eye is a big balloon reading 'It's a girl'.
"Yay, I'm pregnant!" Arizona jokes pointing to the balloon.
"Hey, they were out of 'Get well soon' balloons so it was either that or 'Happy 5th birthday'."
"The balloon is from Cristina and Meredith, the boys got you all the chocolates they could find in the store and Lexie and I got you the teddy." April explains.
"Thank you so much you guys I love it." Arizona says as she takes the teddy into her arms and takes a seat in her bunk.
"What are you doing? You're staying in my bunk, your still under quarantine. We need to keep you as far away as possible from this lot." Arizona looks to the front of the bus and sees George in a surgical mask and gloves. He waves at her.
"Sorry Arizona, I never had the Chickenpox."
Even if Callie has the biggest bunk, space is still limited. Trying to get comfortable Arizona falls asleep with her feet on Callie's lap, Callie is just enjoying having the blonde so close. Arizona has her new teddy that April has named Spot in a death grip. Callie is humming softly, soothing her assistant she knows she is putting on her brave face but she is already doing better, her fever is almost completely gone and she has even been more alert even if she is still completely covered in spots. Callie pulls her notepad closer, and start working on the words to her new song drawing inspiration for her new polka dot muse. It's like everything makes since when Arizona is next to her.
Arizona has been asleep for about an hour, when she starts to stir in her sleep. Callie rubs her arm trying to calm her. She starts mumbling and shaking her head back and forth. "No… no… I'm sorry…no." Callie starts to shake her.
"Arizona sweetie wake up it's just a dream, Arizona!" The blonde jerks awake, her heart is racing and there is tears rolling down her cheeks. Callie wraps her arms around her assistant holding her close. It breaks her heart to see Arizona like this, she can see she is hurting and she wants nothing more than to take that hurt away. "Hey its okay, its okay. I'm here, shh." After a few moments Callie hears the blonde's breath start to level out, Arizona pulls away and quickly tries to hide the evidence of her tears from her face.
"I-I'm good." Arizona lays her head back down. She feels embarrassed that Callie had to see her like this.
"That sounded like a bad one, you want to talk about it?" She shakes her head. Callie doesn't want to push the subject, she will talk when she's ready.
They have been driving all day, Arizona is sitting in Callie's bunk staring out the window at the changing landscape outside. Callie is listing to her iPod, her head bobbing along to the song, Arizona watches her for a while before taking one of the ear buds out of the singers ear. Callie freezes wondering what the blonde is up to. Moving closer so her shoulder is up against Callie's she places it in her own ear. "Seriously and you want to criticize my taste in music?"
"Hey it's a classic." Arizona just rolls her eyes. When the song ends the blonde makes no attempt to move away. She just stays there listing with Callie. After another song Arizona rests her head on the singer's shoulder.
"Thank you Callie." She almost whispers.
"For what?"
"For taking such good care of me." Callie takes one of her gauze hands and brings it to her face placing a kiss on it.
"I will always take care of you Arizona, you are very important to me." Callie doesn't miss the huge smile on Arizona's face. Thinking back to their night in the ER and how scared she was, and then she remembers something else that happened that night. "Arizona, what is your middle name?" Arizona looks at the singer confused. "It's just when we were at the hospital I realized I don't really know a lot of personal things about you. Besides you know all my horrible names." Arizona turns her head and looks out the window again. There is moment of silence and Callie takes it as her way of telling her she doesn't want to talk about it.
Arizona takes a deep breath. "Gabriella." Callie looks at the blonde. "My middle name is Gabriella, after my grandmother."
"Arizona Gabriella Robbins." Callie tests the name on her tongue.
"It means 'good man of God'." Arizona explains.
"Like a good man in a storm." Callie says with a smile. Arizona turns to face the singer in shock she can't believe Callie remembers her saying that at her job interview. "It's perfect."
"Well, Calliope means 'beautiful voice', talk about perfect." They look at each other as she seconds past between them. It takes everything in Arizona not to reach over and kiss Callie. She wonders if the singer thinks the same thing if she is looking at her.
"Hey, Arizona when you are feeling better I think we should have a talk."
Not having to say more than that because the blonde knows exactly what the singer is referring to. "Yeah, I think so to."
"You call me Calliope right?" Arizona nods. "So, maybe I should start calling you Gabby." Callie teases.
"Call me Gabby one time and all you will see is my spotted ass walking away from this tour." Callie lets out a belly laugh. Arizona returns her head to the singers shoulder.
It is their first night on the bus and having a sick assistant only made it worse. After almost force feeding the blonde and only finally complying with the promise of ice-cream. Arizona finally drifts off to sleep. Callie is lying on her side looking at a sleeping Arizona next to her, her features are illuminated by the moon light. She has to wonder if angels look this innocent when they sleep. She carefully reaches over to the blonde starting at her wrist she runs her finger tips softly across her skin until she reaches her face."I think I'm falling for you." She whispers running her thumb across the blonde's cheek.
Arriving in New York everyone is off the bus in a flash. Arizona goes straight up to her room with Callie closely behind her. After settling in and having a quick lunch, they just spend the rest of their time relaxing around the room. Callie says she needs to make some phone calls and quickly leaves the room. After a few minutes Arizona decides to pull out her laptop and see if her friend is online, as soon as she login a chiming sounds tells her she has a video chat. A blonde woman's face pops onto the screen.
"Hey Teddy!"
"Hey Arizona, wow you look terrible." Teddy says scrunching up her face.
"Thank you Teddy you are to kind." Arizona rolls her eyes at her friend.
"Seriously how is it that you have never had the Chickenpox? I mean you…"
"I know, I know!" She says annoyed knowing what her friend is referring to.
"So, how are you doing?" Teddy quickly changes the subject.
"Besides itchy? Bored. I'm sitting alone in a hotel room, a very nice hotel room but still."
"Nobody is keeping you company?"
"Don't get me wrong Callie has been by my side 24/7 which has been amazing! She even had her friend Addison stay with me during her concert. But she said she had some calls to make and that was 30 minutes ago." Arizona whines. "I know it's crazy that I miss her, but I do!" Arizona pouts. Teddy just shakes her head.
"You are driving me crazy, what happened to Arizona the player I use to know? Having a date with a different girl every night. She never swooned over a girl like this."
"Callie is different Teddy, I don't know how to explain it… she just is." Arizona sees the look her friend is giving her like she's crazy. "But enough about me. How are Henry and my godbabies?"
"You know Henry, always smiling and cracking jokes. As for the kids they really miss their aunt Zona."
"I miss them to, so much."
The room door opens "Arizona I'm back!"
"Is that her?" Teddy asks with a big grin on her face. Arizona sees Callie walking into the room. "Show me show me!" Teddy asks excitedly.
Callie walks over to the bed. "Sorry I took so long, how are you feeling?"
"I'm great." Arizona answers with a dimple smile, and it was the truth it's unbelievable what sleeping next to Callie Torres can do to you immune system.
Callie sees the laptop and the blonde on the other side. "O, sorry am I interrupting something? I'll just…" She tries to leave but Arizona stops her.
"No, Calliope this is my best friend Teddy Altman, Teddy this is Callie Torres."
"Hi." Callie greets. Teddy just stares at her with her mouth hanging open trying to mumble hello back.
"Sorry she is not use to seeing famous people." Arizona whispers loud enough for Teddy to hear.
"Kind of like another blonde I know." Callie nudges Arizona on her arm.
"Hey!" Both Callie and Teddy laugh.
"Well, Teddy it's nice to finally meet one of Arizona's friends. Maybe you have some embarrassing stories you can tell me about her?"
"Are you kidding me I have an entire vault full of embarrassing stories!"
"Teddy Altman you say one more word and I will tell Henry about the time you spend in Florida." Teddy's eyes go wide in shock, she locks her lips with an imaginary key.
Callie laughs at the two blondes. "Um, Arizona when you're done here I need to talk to you." Callie ads before leaving them to continue their conversation.
"Arizona you really are working for Callie Torres!"
"Told you." Arizona says proudly.
"Well, you better go she wants to talk to you." Teddy wiggles her eyebrows.
"Calm down Theodora its nothing like that. Goodbye Teddy, talk to you soon." Arizona closes the laptop. She goes to find Callie sitting on the couch. "Hey sorry about that, Teddy is truly one of a kind." Arizona falls onto the couch next to the singer.
"Don't worry about it. So, I have a surprise for you?"
"Oh, me and surprises not a good idea." Arizona scrunch up her face thinking about her birthday disaster from a few years back.
"Trust me your going to like this one."
"But I can't go outside, I'll be the outbreak monkey."
"Don't worry about that, I have it covered."
After some more talking she finally convinced the blonde to go with her. The limo stops in front of a large building. This must be a very special surprise because Callie even took off her gauze paws.
"Um, Callie what are we doing here?" Arizona asks looking at the old looking building.
"It's a surprise remember. You have been working really hard lately with all this tour stuff and I know I can be a real pain in the butt sometimes, but you have never once complained. So, think of this as a 'thank you' present for being such a great assistant and friend. O and an 'I'm sorry my sister got you drunk and tried to kiss you' present. Now here put on this blind fold." Arizona gives her a confused look. "It will be fun I promise."
She puts the blind fold on. Callie takes her hand and leads her through the building. All the blonde can think about is Callie's hand in hers, she could lead her off a cliff and she wouldn't realize it. There is no other sounds of people, so she assumes their alone in here, where ever here is. Then Arizona hears the sound of a sliding door open.
"Is this the part where you kill me?"
"No, that's later." Callie sees the blonde tilting her head back trying to look under the blindfold.
"Hey are you peeking?"
"No!" She quickly drops her head back down. Callie takes Arizona by her shoulders and positions her in the new room.
"Okay, are you ready?" She slips the blindfold of the blonde's head and steps back to see her reaction.
Arizona is slightly blinded by the bright light but when her eyes adjust she has to catch her breath. She is standing in a large glass room surrounded by trees and plants making it look like a forest. She can hear the sound of a nearby stream. It's the most beautiful place she has ever seen, but then she sees the real surprise. All around her, flying, dancing in the sky and landing on the beautiful green leafs.
"Butterflies." Arizona whispers.
"Yes, you said you liked butterflies?"
"I do, I really do. This… this is so amazing Calliope."
Seeing Arizona looking at all the butterflies with a sparkle in her eye and grinning from ear to ear. Callie felt a little tug at her heart. In that moment there was nowhere Callie would rather be. They walk through the butterfly sanctuary looking at all the different coloured butterflies. Arizona stopping at each one, giggling like a little girl when they flew away. They stop on a little bridge over a small stream in the middle of the forest.
"Callie, Callie look!"
Arizona turns around with a butterfly sitting on her nose. Opening his wings to show off his beautiful blue wings, but to Callie it still failed in beauty to Arizona's eyes. Callie steps closer letting the butterfly climb onto her finger. They both watch as the butterfly fly away before turning their gaze to each other. Standing so close, looking into one another's eyes. This is it, the moment, Callie's heart starts racing and her palms starts to sweat. Callie starts leaning closer, she can see the blonde's breath hitch. Her blue eyes darting between brown eyes and pink lips.
Closer, Arizona can feel Callie's warm breath against her skin sending a shiver down her spine. She has to remind herself to breath as she leans in closer. When their lips are only a hair away Arizona closes her eyes in anticipation of what is about to happen. Then she feels it, those soft lips moulding to hers setting every nerve on fire like electricity running through her body. She has be wanting and dreaming about this moment for so long, but reality is so much better then fantasy. Time stops, she holds onto Callie like at any moment she might fly away. All too soon they have to pull apart.
"Wow," Is all Callie can get out as she forces her lungs to take in air.
"I… um… wow." They both look at each other, smiles on their faces that can set the world a blaze. Neither of them has ever felt anything like that before. "I think it's time we have that talk."
