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Chapter 9: Confrontation

After almost an hour spent in Casey's room, Arizona and Sofia left with a promise to visit again soon. They made their way to the Ortho wing of the hospital, more precisely, to Callie's office, where Arizona was told by a nurse that her wife had headed.

"Hey, Blondie!" Mark jogged after them.

"Mark."

"Hey, pumpkin!", he exclaimed as he picked up their daughter.

"Have you seen Callie?"

"Yeah, not two minutes ago. She's in her office. Hey, can I stay with Sofs tonight?"

"Of course. I was going to ask, actually. There's something I need to discuss with Callie."

He frowned. "Is everything ok?"

"Yeah, yeah. I just want her opinion on something." She handed him Sofia's bag and continued. "Do you have the morning off tomorrow?"

"Yeah. I can drop her after lunch."

"I'll be here but Cal will be home."

"Alright then. Have fun. Let's go, chica!"

Arizona couldn't help but smile at herself as Mark took Sofia home. She might not be the best at languages, but Dr. Sloan sure needed to improve his Spanish abilities.

Callie didn't though. Her Spanish was flawless and so incredibly sexy and Arizona missed it being whispered in her ear in the throws of passion. They haven't had any alone time in a while, except for the day that Arizona went down on Callie. With everything that was going on with Karev and Casey, Arizona felt she had been neglecting her wife but hopefully she was going to make it up to Callie soon. Knocking lightly on the door of Callie's office, the blonde was welcomed with a huge smile, even though the Latina was talking on the phone. The Ortho surgeon motioned to Arizona that she would be done in a minute and the blonde gave her wife her signature dimpled smile in return.

"Yo Robbins!"

"Jesus Christ, Karev! Stop 'yoing' me. I'm not your bro."

"The Henderson case, the baby with the two hearts, I want in."

"Good. Wanting things is nice," she said dismissing him. "I'm sure you will have a two hearted baby at Hopkins. Eventually."

"Is that her chart?" he inquired looking at the folder she was holding.

"Don't you have a plane to catch?"

"I'm not going to Hopkins, now give me the freaking chart!" He attempted to catch the file from Arizona's hands, but having grown with an older brother, she learned to be quicker.

"What did you say?"

"You heard me. Can I have the chart now?"

"I don't have it. It's my day off, remember? These are some doodles Sofia made at lunch today. I'm going to show Callie. Besides, Teddy probably has the charts. She's my co-surgeon on the case. We can go over it tomorrow if you want." She was surprised that he had decided to stay but letting him look at the chart didn't mean she was going to let him scrub in.

"Ok", he muttered, a little dumbfounded. "Thanks." He was about to leave when he remembered, "Oh, how did it go with Amelia? Did she take the case?"

"She did, yeah. Thanks for giving me her number."

"Sure thing. She's a great attorney."

"I wouldn't have hired her if I didn't think so."

"Hired who?" asked Callie, crossing the threshold of her office.

"Amelia", answered Karev, as if it was the most obvious answer in the world. "I mean, unless you've hired another lawyer."

"Wait, a lawyer? Why would we need a lawyer? Am I missing something?"

"Dude," he said in disbelief. "You didn't tell her?"

"Karev!" she mounted towards him angrily.

"Tell me what? Arizona, what is going on?"

Karev pretended to check his pager and mumbled something about being needed in the ER and left in a hurry. Callie stood looking at her wife, forearms crossed over her chest and with a raised eyebrow.

"So, are you going to tell me what's going on or do I need to ask Karev to tell me what my wife obviously couldn't?"

"Can we talk about this at home? Please?"

"Yeah. I should be there in an hour" she replied dryly. "And Sofia?"

"She's with Mark."

"Arizona?"

"Yeah?"

"If I hadn't overheard, would you have told me?"

"I'll see you at home." With that, Arizona turned her back and went home because she honestly had no idea how to answer Callie.

Shortly after, Arizona arrived at their apartment. Callie wouldn't be home for another hour so she decided to take a shower. She was starting to get a migraine, not to mention that familiar pain in her stomach that she got whenever she was worried about something. She wasn't worried about telling Callie about Casey, but the fact that she had hid something from her wife. Boy, she was in trouble. Although, it was better that Callie knew everything sooner rather than later. A defensive side of Arizona was already preparing herself for the impending argument with Callie. Had the brunette believed her when she said Casey was Tim's doppelganger, she wouldn't have lied to Callie and they certainly wouldn't be in that situation.

Oh, who was she kidding? She was wrong in having lied to Callie. She just hoped the Latina would forgive her. She showered and quickly dried herself off with a towel and wrapped it around her body before making her way to the master bedroom. There, she found her wife sitting at the armchair they had put in the room so Callie could breastfeed Sofia when the little girl went home from the hospital. Eventually the chair became part of the room and the couple decided to leave it there for good. Now with the look Callie had on her face, Arizona wished they had removed the furniture because now it would have an unhappy memory attached to it.

"Hey. You're early", the blonde murmured to her wife.

"Yeah, I want to get this over with." Arizona was surprised with the tone in her wife's voice and that scared her.

"You know, I kept wondering what I did wrong. I kept thinking and I couldn't come up with an answer. I mean I thought I was a good wife. I thought you loved me. I just can't - "

"Woah!" she interrupted her wife. "Calliope, what the hell are you talking about?"

"The lawyer you hired. Didn't you get them so you can divorce me?"

Arizona couldn't help herself. She snorted and started to laugh. A look of horror came across Callie's feature. Could Arizona be so cruel and laugh at her face about getting a divorce?

"Oh my God Callie. I'm so sorry for laughing." She stopped as another fit of giggles came over her. Callie got up and walked towards the door. Arizona shot up and grabbed Calliope's arm, turning the brunette around in the process. "Calliope, stop!"

"Let go of me, will you?"

"Just listen, honey. I didn't get a lawyer so I could divorce you! You are the love of my life, the mother of my child. I want to grow old with you. Have you forgotten?" She gave Callie the same look she gave her wife when she was just about to kiss her in that dirty bathroom at Joe's .

"So, you still want to be with me?"

"Every day, for the rest of this life and all others to come." Arizona smiled and pulled her wife closer for a kiss but Callie stopped her. "What?"

"You still owe me an explanation. Why do you need a lawyer?"

"Sit down. I'm sure you're not going to like it."

"If you're not divorcing me, it can't be that bad. Right?"

"Will you promise not to interrupt me?"

Callie have her a nod. Arizona then told Callie everything that had been happening during the past few days, about Casey's life, his time in the military and about the crime he had allegedly committed. Callie didn't interrupt as promised but she couldn't help being a little worried about the sudden affection her wife towards the man.

"And you should have seen Sofia! She fell in love with him so quickly - "

"Hold your horses!" That Latina briskly interrupted her wife. You took Sofia with you to see him?"

"I did. Is there a problem?"

"Arizona, he is a criminal! He shot a man!"

"He is innocent."

"And how do you know? You are a surgeon, not a Goddamn criminal law specialist!"

They were both shouting and Arizona hated it. She took a deep breath and let out a sigh. "I just do, okay? Look, I know you don't think he looks like Tim. But you haven't seen him since the swelling subsided and he is a good person, Cal. I can feel it in my gut. I am a good judge of character and you know it."

Grabbing Arizona's hand, Callie whispered: "I know you are, baby. But what if you are wrong? What if he is guilty? It will not only be hard but it will destroy you. And you've suffered enough."

"I thought about it. Really, I have. I am going to let Amelia do her job and investigate his case. If there is any proof that he is guilty, she won't defend him. It's okay, Cal. I thought about it thoroughly. Besides, she's not even going to charge me her full fee. Turns out being Karev's boss has its perks."

"Karev?"

"They dated in high school."

"Ah."

"Can you come with me to visit Casey tomorrow? I know that if you talk to him you will agree with me. Please?"

"How can I say 'no' when you give me those eyes? Of course I will go with, Arizona."

"Thank you. Come here."

The kiss was every thing both Arizona and Callie needed at the time. The surgery in Boise, Karev, Tim's look-alike… The girls needed to reconnect to each other and that was their night.

Next chapter, M Rating! I hope you guys like it. :o)