A/N: this is the chapter you've all been waiting for. I hope you like it.
I have a super busy week coming and I don't know if I'll find time to write the next chapter and I might not update next weekend, I apologize in advance.
This chapter is roughly edited, I spent two days trying to unload it on .
Like always thanks to pounkcakereal20 for her help correcting my stupid mistakes.
Chapter 10:
Callie Torres, September 12th 2015:
Today was the day.
She woke up this morning with the biggest knot in her stomach. She never had been this stressed her whole life! Even when she was in Med School.
She had tried to avoid this moment for as long as she could... but she couldn't avoid her today.
Today was the day she would finally talk to Arizona.
She was almost out of her bedroom when it happened again. She barely had a second thought before she ran to the bathroom throwing up all over the floor.
It had been like that all morning, her trying not to think of Arizona to in the end fail and have to throw up from anxiety.
She had to get herself together because she couldn't spend the whole day like that. Sofia was probably waiting for her and wondering what she was doing.
Rinsing her mouth for the tenth time this morning, Callie took a deep breath and opened her bedroom door, this time coming out for good.
"Finally!" She heard Sofia exclaim. "Do you know how long I waited for you?" She said pointing to the non-existent watch on her wrist.
It took everything Callie had in her not to roll her eyes at her daughter. She was the adult after all and had to set the example. It was quite surprising how Sofia pick up a lot of things from Arizona even though they've never even met.
Her heart dropped remembering how Sofia was excited when she thought she had another parent.
Even though the blonde was back, for how long that might be, she knew she wouldn't want anything to do with them. She made it pretty clear when she left Callie and never answered her numerous phone calls and letters. She knew Callie was pregnant with her child and never tried to reach out to her, not once. They all new and they didn't care. So she didn't care about them either…
"Stop sassing me young girl, you ready to go?" She asked her while shoving a piece of toast in her mouth.
Sofia only responded by nodding and jumping out of the stool she was sitting in, almost knocking her cast against the counter.
"Be careful with your arm sweetie." She put her bag on her shoulder and walked to her daughter bending down to take her in her arms.
"Yes mommy." The little girl said before resting her head on her mother's free shoulder. Even though she acted like she was a big girl, more mature that children her age, Sofia was still a little girl that sometimes acted like the little girl she was.
Callie had missed this, her little girl just being a little girl. Kissing the top of her head before closing their house's door and getting on their way to the hospital. She was excited to spend some time with her baby girl just like old times.
No matter what happened in their lives... it will always be just them against the world.
Arizona Robbins:
She was sleeping when she felt it. It was rubbing against her. it was comfy and soft. She tried to resist the temptation to open her eyes wanting to keep feeling whatever she was feeling a little bit longer.
She's never had this kind of dream, but then how would she know when she couldn't remember a big part of her life.
She opened her eyes when she realized that she wasn't going to fall back asleep and that it was useless to force things. She was pleasantly surprised to realize that this feeling didn't leave when she opened her eyes. However, she was met with obscurity and she could still feel something rubbing against her.
Opening her eyes wide in surprised, she understood that what she was feeling was someone pressing their breast against her. she didn't know why but she couldn't deny that she did like it very much. She like it so much that she felt something tighten between her legs.
Her biggest regret was that she let the body pressed against her stand up. But it quickly went away when she was met with the most beautiful person she has ever seen.
She was a beautiful brunette dressed in a blue navy scrub and her doctors signature lab coat. She had her hair pulled up in a ponytail. Arizona never saw this doctor and wondered who she could be.
The woman still hasn't noticed that Arizona was awake. She was writing things down in what Arizona guessed was her medical chart. She was studying the doctor from head to toe, biting her bottom lip. She saw the doctor studying her chart and then she did something that literally set Arizona off. The brunette doctor seductively arched her eyebrow. She probably was surprised about something she read in her chart, but Arizona couldn't help herself but think that it was extremely sexy. Again, she felt the tightening feeling between her legs. Curious she looked down and her eyes went wide. There between her leg was something that wasn't supposed to be there! Not on her at least!
Horrified she let out a high scream. Yeah... she screamed in front of the sexy doctor and tried to jump away from the thing between her legs. But it was a stupid thing to do since it was attached to her and she ended up hurting herself more than anything.
If she wasn't in a total state of panic and mortification she would've face palmed herself.
"Hey Arizona! Its ok, you're ok!" The sexy doctor immediately ran to her side when she screamed probably making her jump. She tried to reassure her but nothing was ok, everything was wrong.
"What's that? What the hell is wrong with me?" She said pointing to what she had between her legs. Long gone was the tightening feeling in her pants and her penis had visibly deflated.
"Arizona calm down, please. Look at me." The doctor asked again. She didn't talk until Arizona finally looked at her in the eyes. "Ok, you were born intersex," She said being up front with Arizona. She looked at her with a frown and the doctor continued "it means that-"
"I know what it means, it just that I didn't…" She trailed off.
"You don't remember that either..." The doctor said understanding Arizona's look and looking at her sadly.
Arizona felt the tears start gathering in the corner of her eyes. It was so frustrating not remembering anything about her life. She still didn't remember anything. She didn't even know that she had a dick until she felt it for fuck's sake.
She angrily wiped at her eyes before looking at the doctor like nothing happened and plastered a smile on her face.
"Hi, I'm Arizona Robbins, Amnesiac and you are?" She jokingly said sticking her hand out for the sexy doc to shake it.
The brunette laughed and her laugh made Arizona's heart sore before she shook the blonde hands and introduced herself.
"Doctor Torres, Orthopedic, I operated on your arm."
"Well it's very, very nice to meet you doctor Torres." She said seductively before winking at Doctor Torres.
I still prefer sexy doctor as your name...
Callie Torres:
As soon as she closed the door in the attending lounge she collapsed on the couch on her right. She finally did it, she saw Arizona. Ok it wasn't really her Arizona since she didn't remember anything.
When she arrived at the hospital with Sofia, the little girl immediately abandoned her mother to go on rounds with Cristina. After all these years, it was still weird for her to watch her daughter get along with the only woman who didn't want children and could barely tolerate them. However, Sofia was the exception. She didn't know if it was because Cristina was Sofia's godmother or for another reason. But even though Cristina didn't show it, and acted indifferent she loved spending time with Sofia whenever she could.
She took advantage of this moment alone to go check on Arizona and get it over with. She would go in, check her wounds and go out. She would treat her like any other patient and void contact as much as possible.
By luck, she found Arizona asleep and quickly set herself to work. First she checked the most important, her arm, then she gradually went to the least important of her injuries, finishing by checking her ribs. She thanked her lucky star that the blonde didn't wake while she was touching her.
She had more physical contact with her in the last week than she did in the last six years. The first time her skin made contact with Arizona, she felt like she was on fire, bringing so many memories. She thought that it would vanish with time but it only increased much to the brunette chagrin.
She went to pick up the chart discarded at the end of the bed to write some things down when something caught her attention. There on Arizona's chart was written that she had lost her memory.
She felt relieved and disappointed at the same time. She thought that she'll finally be able to pour her heart out at the blonde and finally be able to move on after all these years; but it seemed that wasn't in store for today.
As if the universe had something against her, Arizona decided that it would be a good idea to wake up screaming because she freaked out about her dick. Of course Callie was the one to calm her and explain to her that she was intersex.
She thought that the torture would be over but then the blonde looked at her like she did so many times before and started flirting with her. She actually flirted with her! what the actual fuck? Even though Callie was so mad at her for abandoning her she couldn't find it in her to actually be mad at the blonde. Especially when she was acting like the Arizona Callie once knew without actually being her Arizona. It had been a lifetime ago since she was her Arizona.
In the end, she found herself staying in Arizona's room longer that she had anticipated. She tried not to blush to Arizona's cheesy attempt at flirting and seduction until she found an excuse to finally run away before doing something stupid.
To say this was not how she had imagined their first meeting would go was an understatement. Callie was surprised by it.
Callie had her head thrown back against the couch with her eyes closed when she heard the door open. She was too tired to look at who came in. it probably was some attending taking there stuff after a shift. It wasn't until she felt someone hovering above her that she opened her eyes. There standing above her with a big smile was Kate.
Callie suddenly felt a pang of guilt for not being as happy as the redhead. She had been avoiding her the whole week. She knew it wasn't fair to the redhead who didn't do anything wrong except for being the patient and lovely girlfriend that she was.
"Kate…" Callie breath out when the redhead bent down to kiss her hello. However, Callie not so subtly turned her head to the side, her cheek being the one meeting Kate's lips instead of her own. The redhead quickly looked at her curiously before shrugging it off.
"Hey! I have been looking for you everywhere. You know you're kinda hard to find." Kate said with a teasing smile before plopping down on the couch next to Callie.
"Sorry, it's been kind of a long morning." Callie said not adding anything else.
"Yeah I heard about your amnesic patient. How you doing?" The fact that Kate knew about Arizona without knowing at the same time made Callie's heart beat faster. The mention of the blonde brought Callie back to their encounter a few moments ago and it confused her even more.
She should be mad at the blonde but it seemed that she just needed a little sweet talking from the blonde to make Callie a putty in her hand.
"Like I said, it was a rough morning." She knew she was being unfair to Kate, she shouldn't talk to her like that. She should tell her all about her day and ask her about hers. She should want to catch up with the redhead on what she's been up to for the last week. But knowing it didn't mean she would do it.
Instead she focused on answering Kate question with the least words as possible and not asking questions in return.
"I miss you." Kate said in a whisper. They had stop talking for a few minutes before she said it uncertainty in her voice.
Callie turned her head toward Kate. She could she in her hazel eyes the fears and nervousness hiding the love.
What was she supposed to answer her? Did she missed her? Yeah of course but not like she knew the redhead did. She didn't feel the need to have her close all the time. She just missed talking to her friend.
She got lucky when her pager rang allowing her to avoid Kate's question. She threw her an apologetic look before standing up.
"Duty calls..." Kate said with disappointment in her eyes.
Callie quickly kissed her forehead before rushing out to where she was needed.
Sofia Torres:
She was bored.
She had spent the whole morning with her Aunty Cristina while she was visiting her patients. However, after a few patient she got tired of the repetitiveness of it and wanted to do something else more fun and entertaining.
She loved her Aunty Cristina, she was the funniest of them all. She always cursed and every time she had to give Sofia a dollar so she wouldn't tell her mother what her potty mouth Cristina was.
Suddenly an idea stroke the six years old. She knew what she will do to entertain herself.
She stood from the chair she was sitting in while she was looking at her Aunty say big words to other doctors and a patient.
"Hide and seek Aunty!" She yelled before running out. She knew her Aunty wouldn't have another choice than to run after the little girl or send other doctors after her like she always did.
"Sof come on! I swear this kid was sent to torture me…" She heard Cristina complain before sending a doctor after her.
She ran away and then hide in the closest room she could find before closing the door behind her.
She heard the doctor who had been running after pass the room, cursing and then leaving. She giggled to herself proud of escaping her especially when she had a cast that was weighing half her weight, making it ten times harder to run.
"Making fun of others misery… that's not really nice young lady."
Sofia froze. She wasn't alone in the room. Slowly she turned around. She was afraid of what she would see. However, what she saw was anywhere near she had imagined.
There standing before her was the really pretty lady who looked so much like the woman on the picture she had hidden under her pillow.
"Cat got your tongue?" The woman asked with a smile and an eyebrow raised. Sofia could only shake her head.
She didn't know what to do. She never thought about what would happen if she got caught. She looked at the woman up and down and she looked like she had been in an accident and not just a small one. She had bandages all over herself and a cast like herself on her left arm.
"Are you sick?" Sofia asked and the woman laughed out loud. Sofia looked at her curiously and tilted her head to the side. Why was she laughing?
"I'm sorry, kid. No I'm not sick I just was in a really bad accident. But hey what are you doing in my room?"
"I'm playing hide and seek with my Aunty, she's a doctor here." Sofia said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "I'm sorry miss for bothering you." She looked down apologetically before turning around to leave.
"Hey wait!" The woman called after her. "Look I'm all alone here, you can hide here if you want." The woman looked at her with a kind smile on her face. Sofia knew she shouldn't stay, she didn't know the woman, she was stranger and her mother told her to never trust a stranger. However, she looked so much like the woman on the picture, maybe she was a friend of her mom's and besides, she was in a hospital and it was the safest place on earth.
She reciprocated the woman's smile and shook her head yes before thanking the woman for letting her stay here.
"So do you have a name kid?" The woman asked her. Sofia walked to the chair next to the woman and jumped on it.
"Sofia Robbin Torres" She said sticking her hand out for the woman to shake.
"Well would you look at that! Not only she's cute but she's polite. Your parents must be proud Miss Sofia" The woman said shaking the little girl's hand. Sofia looked down trying to hide her blush. She was never good at taking compliments.
"Does your arm hurt miss?" She said pointing to the casted arm on the blonde.
"Well sometime it does but I have an awesome doctor. You can call me Arizona."
"Arizona? That's a weird name." Sofia frowned and said without any thought making the blonde laugh out loud.
"It is, isn't it?"
They spend a few hours talking and laughing. At the beginning Sofia was a little shy but then she started asking more and more question. Arizona was happily answering all the questions she could. Sofia told her how she broke her arm and how all of her family was working at the hospital. They watched some tv before Cristina came barging in the room, out of breath. She apologized to Arizona for the little girl and whisked Sofia away. However, it wasn't before Sofia promised that she'll come see her tomorrow with donuts. Sofia had come to learn that it was the blonde's favorite thing to eat and what coincidence was it that it was the same favorite food as Sofia.
She was stressed and scared out of her mind. In her eighteen years of existence she's never been as scared as she was right now. What was her father going to say? She knew he wasn't going to react like her mother or Calliope's parents but she hoped that it wouldn't be as bad as her mind was making her believe.
She looked down at her watch, Calliope would be coming in a few minutes and once she's here, they would face her father together. She didn't want her to come, not knowing how her father would react. She wanted to save her girlfriend from his wrath for as long as possible. But her girlfriend managed to convince her that they were in this together and that she wouldn't be going anywhere. Her devilish mouth having a big part in the convincing.
She heard the door bell ring and stood up from where she was sitting on her bed. A few seconds later, the door to her bedroom was thrown open, her beautiful girlfriend coming inside.
"Are you ready for this?" The brunette asked before closing the gap between them and taking Arizona's lips in a slow greeting kiss.
"No," The blonde blurted out as soon as her lips were free from the brunette's hold. "You?"
Calliope smiled before bringing her hand to Arizona's face, and moving a strand of hair that was in the blondes eyes. "Well I'm two seconds away from shitting my pants, otherwise I'm fine."
"You don't have to be here, I already told you this." Arizona said trying to convince for the last time to let her do this on her own. It was her father, her responsibility.
"You were with me when I came out to my parents, it's only fair that I'm here when you come out to your dad. Besides, I'll be still worried even if I had stayed at home."
"Ok- then let's get this over with" Arizona said kissing her girlfriend, trying to draw strength from her lips.
They sat opposite her parents. Her father looked confused not knowing what his daughter had to tell them that was so important. They didn't talk for a while, her mother throwing her encouraging looks every once in a while. Her father sighed sitting straighter on the couch.
"You wanted to talk, so talk." He said impatiently.
Arizona cleared her throat and quickly looked down to her lap when she felt Calliope take her hand.
"Right…so… um I.. what I wanted to tell you is that…I" She didn't how to tell him. It was like she couldn't find the right words to express herself. "I'm gay." She blurted out. It seemed like the only way to get it over with. To throw the truth out without any warning.
"No!"
"Wha… dad did you hear me? I said I'm-" She started before her father harshly cut her off.
"And I said NO!" He said standing up. He looked at their entwined hands and Arizona saw his nostrils flare up. "It's you! Isn't it? You put those ideas in her head! First you don't let her get the surgery and now this!"
Arizona stood up and went to stand between her father and Calliope when she saw that he was too close to her. Barbara tried to calm him down but he immediately shut her up, telling her that it was equally her fault.
Arizona tried to reason with him, telling him that it was who she is and that she's always been like this but he didn't want to hear none of it. Eventually he stormed off saying that he needed some air. When she heard the entrance door close behind her father, Arizona collapse in her girlfriend's arms.
Her father never talked to her since that day and acted like she didn't exist. A few months later she was off to Medical school and she only talked with her mother. It wasn't until she was close to her graduation that her father contacted her again. Changing her life forever.
A/N: there you have it, Arizona and Callie/Sofia first interaction! What did you think? Was it worth the wait?