Of all the possible ways to end this fic, this was for me the most unexpected. I just wrote and wrote until it came out and I'm pretty proud of myself lol.
But seriously, I really needed some peace with Calzona history right now. Greys is literally killing my spirit. I really hope that something great happens at the season finale or I will be in total depression during the hiatus.
Anyway, I hope you like this and please have some patience with me with the others fics because my Thesis is killing me already and my head is pretty mess out.
Have a great week you all.
Saying Goodbye
Alex Karev approached his colleague and friend at the nursing station. "When do I get to know her?" He asked before handing the tablet to one of the nurses on the monitors.
Arizona looked at him in confusion before returning to what she was doing in her own tablet without even bothering to respond to the pediatric surgeon. "Come on Robbins, you have to tell me who she is." Alex insisted.
"I have no idea what you're talking about, Karev." Arizona said firmly without looking up from her task.
"About your hot date tonight." Alex said like the most obvious thing ever. "Everyone is talking about it." He added.
"Why is everyone talking about my private life?" She asked angrily.
Alex scoffed. "You forget where we work? Everyone is always talking about everyone." Alex chuckled. "Like when everyone said you and Torres were hooking up together in that on-call room a year ago ..." he continued.
"Alex! Those are just rumors and gossip from nosy people." The blonde blushed, remembering that time a year ago, just before Derek's death, where she and Callie used to actually have ... fun ... in the on-call room.
"Look, I'm not judging anything, okay." Alex reassured. "If you and Torres had a torrid affair after you guys get divorced, is not my problem." He said no importance. "But I am outraged."
Arizona gave him a strange look, frowning. "I beg your pardon?"
"You introduced me to this girl Olivia and then Samantha a few months later, I even thought you were going to settle down with her, but then you broke up and since then you've been in radio silence." Alex said in a rush. "My sources tell me you've been dating someone recently and I was waiting for you to come to me and introduce her to me, but since you haven't done it, I'm asking now. Tell me who she is?" Alex looked at her expectantly.
Arizona just looked in confusion and some fun. "I don't know what dismays me more, the fact that you've been checking on me or that you worry about me enough to come here and ask this kind of thing." Arizona broke down and chuckled mocking.
"What? No! I just ..." Alex stumbled over the words.
"It's kind of cute, Alex. Really, really, really! I feel very flattered by your concern, but it really is not necessary." The blonde bit her lip to keep from laughing again. "You should have more male friends. You are surrounded by too many women these days." She didn't resist more and turned to laughter.
"Shut up!" Alex snorted. "That's what I get for getting into someone else's life." Alex turned to leave but Arizona stopped him.
"Suck it up, Karev! I'm just messing with you." Arizona said with a chuckle. "And I'll introduce you when the time is right, besides today is only our third date." She said nonchalantly but couldn't help the smile that showed off her face.
"It's the third date! I bet that something nice will happen tonight." Alex moved his eyebrows comically.
"I'm not talking about this with you, Karev." The blonde pointed to her friend. "I trust you will take good care of my daughter, right?" She had asked the man to be her babysitter tonight.
"You know it, but I want details about the date." Alex said before leaving. "A name would be great!" He almost shouted in the middle of the aisles, making Arizona laugh widely.
"So you have a hot date tonight." Came the voice behind the blonde. Arizona turn around to meet the brown eyes. "The third date specifically." Callie winked in amusement.
"Umm ... how much of that did you hear?" Arizona stammered facing her ex-wife.
"Just enough." Callie smiled warmly. "So your hot date?" She asked again.
"Callie ..."
"Come on, you can tell me. It's not a big deal." Callie shrugged indifferently.
The blonde squinted and after a heavy sigh she spoke again. "Okay, fine. She's really hot." Callie chuckled. "And really beautiful, I like her a lot." Arizona confirmed.
"More than that girl Samantha?" Callie couldn't help asking.
"Much more than Samantha. Definitely more." Arizona smiled, showing her dimples. "She works in the hospital so we haven't had many dates in the past eight weeks ..."
"She understands the crazy hours." Callie nodded in understanding.
"How have you been?" Arizona changed the subject.
"Good, with a lot of surgeries and a few hours to sleep, but incredibly well in recent weeks." Callie said sincerely.
"Glad to hear that." Arizona smiled broadly.
"Dr. Robbins, they need you in the pit." A nurse interrupted the little conversation.
The blonde nodded to the nurse, then looked at her ex-wife. "See you around ..." She paused at those words. That was their code when they used to hook-up in the on-call room. "I mean, I didn't mean ..."
"I know what you mean, Arizona." Callie chuckled. "See you around." She winked at the nervous blonde before walking down the hall.
"So you have a date." April said quietly, earning hassle sigh from her friend sitting across from her. "Just tell me."
"Why is everybody suddenly so interested in my date?" Arizona said through gritted teeth.
"That's because you are Arizona Robbins and the nurses are going crazy to know who took their favorite blonde." Amelia jumped into the conversation sitting next to Arizona, who only looked as if she had grown two heads. "What? That is the word in the OR."
"What are you guys talking about?" Bailey asked sitting next to April.
"About the mysterious woman that Robbins has been dating the past few weeks." April replied to the short woman.
"Oh yeah Robbins, you need to solve the mystery or the nurses will soon set up a union demanding an answer." Bailey said seriously, earning laughter from the other two women.
Arizona was appalled. "When did this happen? Since when I became Mark Sloan?" She said before biting her red apple. She froze. "Oh God!"
"You're like a Mark Sloan, just without all the careless sex." April laughed at the blonde's expression.
"You have all the nurses and staff of this hospital pining for you since you get divorced." Bailey said.
"That's an exaggeration, Bailey." Arizona shifted uncomfortably in her chair.
"Perhaps." The short woman scoffed.
"You're changing the point here. Now tell us who she is." Amelia bumped shoulders with the blonde next to her.
"No!"
"Why not?" April asked frustrated.
"Because that's none of your business." Arizona answered deadpanned.
"You said that she works here, right? But it's not a nurse, because they're freaking out about it already." Amelia mused facing the emptiness of the room thinking hard.
"Definitely not a nurse." Arizona said with a chuckle.
"Robbins don't play hard and drop the soup." Bailey demanded sternly.
"I don't have to say anything. Get the hell out of my personal life." The blonde stood up to leave the cafeteria.
"Oh come on Robbins, don't be a baby." Bailey said after her.
"She's not mad, is she?" Amelia asked softly to the two women who accompanied her on the table.
Bailey and April looked seriously before answering. "Nahhh." And bursting into a laugh.
"So you don't care at all?" Meredith squinted at the brunette sitting in front of her. "Not at all?" She asked again.
"Why should I?" Callie answered with another question.
"Because she was your wife?" Alex said.
"And you totally went crazy when she was dating that Olivia girl and then that Samantha one, but now you're incredibly quiet." Maggie said too.
"That's because it's been a year and a half since we're not together." Callie snorted. "She can do with her life whatever she wants. We said goodbye to each other and everyone moved on." Callie explained to her friends. "I have no right to be upset or jealous." She said.
Meredith was looking at the brunette amusingly. "Hmmm what a mature." She finally laughed, earning a laugh from the others.
Callie threw a grape to the skinny blonde. "Shut up!" She shared laughter.
"Whoever is, should be someone important, because she haven't even tell me the name of this woman." Alex told the women.
"Maybe she's just waiting for the right time." Callie shrugged.
"That's what she said." Alex remember.
"If its worth, I think you two were great together." Meredith said with indifference.
"Yes, we were." Callie gave a small smile to the surgeons without any sadness.
"When are you going on a date again?" Maggie changed the subject.
"Hey that's true. Since what happened with Dan, you haven't go out in a while." Alex also joined.
"You're checking on me too, Karev? Because that would be too weird for you." Callie gave her a mocking laugh.
"Whatever!"
"What happened anyway?" Meredith asked, earning funnies looks. "What? I've been gone a year, I've lost many things."
Others just laughed.
"Nothing happened, just it didn't work." Callie answered the Mer question. "You know? When it's not working, don't force it. We took separate ways, without rancor, no hard feelings." Callie continued. "He wanted a baby." Callie said quietly surprising her friends who apparently didn't know this part of the story.
"And you said no?" Maggie ask cautiously.
"It was too soon, we weren't there yet. I wasn't there yet." She sighed heavily. "So he said he didn't want to wait to start a family and then I told him that for me it was too early to think about a new baby, so we left for the peace." She ate a grape. "And here I am now, seriously guys I'm fine and that was like months ago."
"I thought you wanted to have another baby Callie." Meredith said quietly.
"And I still want another one, but the point is that I didn't want one with him." Callie chuckled.
"Dude, I'm glad that guy is off the picture. I never liked him." Alex said with a grin on his face.
"He was a nice guy, just wasn't the right guy for me." Callie chuckled before taking a deep breath. "Hey what's the matter with the heavy conversation? This is lunch, not drinks at Joe." She joked making others laugh again.
"Speaking at which, you want to come over tonight and have a drink with us." Maggie suggested the brunette.
"Sorry, can't tonight. I have plans." Callie stood up from the table before her friends bombarded her with new questions.
The dizzying kisses roamed Arizona's pale neck as her fingers tangled in the woman's silky hair. She closed her eyes in pleasure. The lips of this woman felt so good.
They were on the hood of Arizona's car in Seattle viewpoint, a time were watching the stars and the next they were making out as horny teenagers.
"What shall we do?" Arizona managed to say before those perfect lips were on hers.
"Let's go to your apartment or my place, whichever is closer, because I definitely want to see you naked." The other woman said with a mischievous smile pinched the pink lips.
Arizona laughed aloud at the nerve of this woman. "I'm serious. We need a plan." She said with a groan as the tall woman's tongue was now in her pulse.
"About what?"
"About telling people." Arizona insisted fighting herself and making the beautiful woman's face come out of her neck. "We can't keep hiding this. Someone will notice at some point." She explained.
"Why can't we have this just for us for a little while?" She made a cute pot that won a tender kiss in return. "I want you just for me without everybody being in the middle."
"They are always in the middle." Arizona laughed at the cute face of the woman on top her.
"I want you just for me too, but I also want to be able to sit down to lunch with you and walk hand in hand to leave the hospital even if we are living in separate places for now."
The other woman leaned on her elbow before kissing the blonde's shoulder. She sighed thinking that it was exactly what she wanted too but too afraid to ask first.
"So Calliope Torres, do you want officially be with me?" Arizona wrapped her arms around the brunette's neck.
Callie kissed her sweet lips before answering. "It was about time that you asked me that." The brunette chuckled. "And of course I want to be with you, beautiful. I've wanted for that since I asked you that first date, you were the one who said we should wait a while." Callie's smile never faded.
"That's because everyone in this hospital are meddlesome and I know they would begin to ask questions that not even we could respond eight weeks ago." Arizona said.
"You sure that was the only reason?" Callie raised eyebrow challenging the blonde.
"That and the fact that this hiding is pretty hot." Arizona laughed aloud before turning their lips in a passionate kiss.
"God I love you so much and I've missed like crazy." Callie said on the blonde's lips enjoying the closeness.
"I love you too and God and everybody knows how much I've missed you too." Arizona hold the brunette in her chest. "But seriously we have to go now, because I just feel a raindrop on my cheek."
Both women jumped off from the hug quickly and get into the car just in time to when the rain began to fall.
"At least we saw the stars for a while before it started to rain." Callie said as she started the blonde's car.
"I don't know much about the sky stars." Arizona leaned on to the brunette with soft kisses on the cheek while her left hand climbed Callie's clad thigh. "I was on the other hand seeing other kind of stars caused by a talented tongue in my neck." She said quietly, feeling the heavy breathing of the other woman. "Mmm ... I like more those stars." She heard the brunette's groaning.
"You'll make us crash." Callie's voice dropped an octave.
"Well then accelerates, otherwise I'm ready to have my way with you in the back of this car. And this is an Audi so it might not be comfortable at all." Both women burst into laughter.
These were they now, it cost them reach this part of the journey, but they arrived. Together. And with more love for each other.
They were starting again, but not as a clean slate, but as an opportunity to make things right, based on love and the willingness to be happy not only individually, but also being happy together.
And they knew it would be a hell hard way to get not what they used to be, but what could be with a little wisdom.
It's not the past what defined them. It's what they have learn from it and get to use it to move forward.
Saying goodbye to mistakes and open the door to something new.
Something better.
All mistakes are mine.
