"Yes!" Arizona jumped up off the couch, throwing her fists in the air and doing a little victory dance.
"You're a cheat! You said you hadn't played this before" Alex was a really sore loser. The two of them had been playing Wii sports for hours now and Arizona had been destroying him at every game. She hadn't lied when she told him she had not played this game before. In fact she had never played Wii sports, although she had played numerous other games on the Nintendo Wii.
"I'm a PEDS surgeon. Did you really think you could beat me at a child's game?" Arizona was still gloating around the living room when she was hit in the head with a pillow that had been thrown with force from the other side of the living room. She spun around to see Mark Sloan standing in her doorway with a giant grin on his face.
"I see you two have comfortably settled into your love nest" Mark casually made his way over to the couch, taking a beer off the table before taking a seat as far away from Alex as he could get.
"Hilarious Sloan, just hilarious" Arizona's tone was dripping with sarcasm as she made her way toward the kitchen.
"It's not a love nest" she heard Alex crumble to himself. He wasn't enjoying Mark's constant teasing of their new living arrangements.
"Tell that to Torres" Mark replied casually as he picked up the Wii remote. Arizona's interest peaked at the sound of her ex-girlfriend's name.
"What did you just say?" Arizona turned on him and she could tell that he was regretting ever saying anything. His eyes were wide with shock and his brow was furrowed with regret.
"Uh, nothing?" his answer seemed to escape his mouth in the form of a question. He knew he wasn't going to be able to get away with this but he knew he had to try. Arizona simply raised an unimpressed brow at him letting him know that he definitely would not be getting away with avoiding her questions.
"" Mark mumbled, hoping he wouldn't have to say it again. Alex choked on his beer, spraying the liquid in his mouth all over the place. Arizona rolled her eyes and shoved a napkin at the young Resident.
"Doing the what?" Alex's voice was cracking as he spoke due to the fact he was still recovering from choking only seconds before.
"WHY would she think that Mark?" Arizona was giving her fellow Attending the best stare down she could manage and honestly Mark find it to be quite effective.
"Don't look at me!" Mark threw his hands up in the air as if that would be enough to proclaim his innocence.
"Who should I be looking at Mark?" Arizona was standing with her hands on her hips glaring down at him. Mark had absolutely no idea why Arizona was so against becoming a mother, she certainly had the whole reprimanding a naughty child thing down pat.
"How about you try your roomie? He's the one who was using you purse as a condom dispenser" Arizona stared at Mark with confusion etched across her face before turning her questioning gaze toward Alex. The second she laid eyes on him she knew that Mark wasn't joking. His eyes were wide with shock as a look of realisation shot across his face.
"Oh God. I totally didn't even think" Alex trailed off as he thought back to the other night when he had run back inside the bar to get Arizona's purse only to find Callie holding onto one of the numerous condoms he had shoved in Arizona's bag before they had left the house that night.
"You didn't think what?" Arizona was desperate for answers now.
"Well when I took you out to the car after you went all mental patient on Callie and the hot OB you realised you forgot your bag. So I went inside to get it and I think Callie may have been through your bag because it was open when I picked it up off the table and she had it in her hands" Alex was looking extremely guilty by this point. It honestly hadn't even entered his mind that Callie would jump to that conclusion. He had thought that Callie knew Arizona and him for that matter well enough to know that her line of thinking was ridiculous.
"When did you put condoms in my bag?" most of that night was a little hazy for the blonde but she was sure she would remember seeing Alex stock up her purse with condoms.
"When you were road raging on that old lady in the BMW on the way to the club" Alex gave her a side smile hoping that it would give him a free pass. He always felt like a naughty child when Arizona was staring at him like this.
"Sneaky. Very sneaky Karev" she narrowed her eyes at him and shook her head before breaking into a side smile and throwing a pillow at him playfully. Alex breathed a sigh of relief and shrugged his shoulders as he managed to catch the pillow thrown his way.
"So when are you going to tell Torres that she got it wrong?" Mark asked casually while trying to set up a game on the Wii.
"I'm not" Arizona said matter of factly as she sat in between Mark and Alex, picking up the third Wii remote.
"What?"
"Huh?" both men were equally as surprised by the blonde's answer.
"It's not really any of her business. If she thinks I would trade in my Gold star lesbian card for Karev then she obviously doesn't know me the way I thought she did. No offense" her last statement was directed at Alex who simply shrugged his reply, letting her know that he wasn't offended.
"Yeah but she's upset. This really hurt her. She loves you" Mark had been a really good friend to Arizona since her and Callie split up. Arizona was surprised by how much support Mark had given her, she really didn't expect it but she was truly grateful.
"There are things that she wants Mark, things that she deserves, things that I just can't give her. She needs to move on" Arizona was now speaking softly as if she were trying to hold back the tears that were begging to be released.
"And if she thinks you've moved on it'll be easier for her to move on right? That's what all the smiling and extra perkiness has been about isn't it?" Mark was catching on to her plan and she didn't like it. She needed to shut him down before he figured it all out. She had come up with a plan to help Callie move on and she wasn't about to let Mark Sloan talk her out of it. She needed to fix what she had broken.
"Play the game Mark" Arizona was completely ignoring his last statement in the hope that he would drop it.
"This isn't your fault you know? You don't have to take on the roll of the bad guy here" she was doing her best to avoid Mark's gaze. This is why she hadn't shared her plans with anyone, she didn't want her friends trying to make her feel better about this situation because in Arizona's mind this was her fault and she was the bad guy.
"It's easier this way" Arizona finally made eye contact with Mark and in this moment she knew that he was going to support her here. Callie was his best friend and although he cared deeply for the perky blonde and they had become good friends Callie would always be his number one and her would always chose a path that would benefit Callie.
They both knew that this was the only way that Callie would be able to move on and not continue to torture herself over this break up. A break up is always easier when there is someone to blame, Arizona was stepping up to the plate and taking that blame and although Mark wished she wouldn't deep down he was grateful for her courage and selflessness.
