You know the drill people. I'm just a fan who likes to imagine things. While the storyline is mine (though I can't imagine it hasn't been done in some capacity before) I don't own the characters. Please don't sue me. Besides I'm poor so you wouldn't get far.

I'm sorry its been so long. I have lots of excuses and plenty of reasons but you aren't here for that. I did want to say for the sake of clarity that in this story Callie and Arizona already live together. and Owen are married and moved out. They had the talk about kids. They fought but they didn't have that depressing break up and came to the conclusion that kids were an option. Because they didn't have that break up, they didn't need the shooting to get back together. As the shooting didn't effect them to greatly outside of that I decided that the shooting never happened. As for other details…feel free to take them out of leave them in at will. Unless mentioned its probably largely irrelevant. The beauty of fan fiction.

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Callie and Bailey were just wrapping up their surgery on the motorcycle rider. It had gone well as Callie predicted with only a few minor surprises. The two women worked easily with one another, patching up the daredevil in record time.

"Good job catching those fragments Torres" Bailey said peering over her mask "if you hadn't had the good sense to look out for them I think we would've been here all night."

Callie sat on a low stool on her side of the table, finding it more comfortable to work that way as Bailey's height meant the surface had to be lowered. "Yea…hopefully he stays off of that bike. Seattle is NOT the city for motorcycles." She laughed.

As they prepared to close up the rider a nurse informed them that the surgery they'd had scheduled previously could be sent down as soon as the room OR was cleaned and re set.

"Shouldn't take an hour" the shorter woman said "no point in leaving then huh?"

Callie nodded as they both removed their gloves and walked to the scrub room. She eyed Bailey while they washed their hands.

"What is it Torres?" Bailey sighed when she could no longer ignore the Latina's side long glances.

"Huh?" Callie attempted to feign ignorance "ok…there might be something I wanted to ask you…" she continued after the shorter woman fixed her with a glare.

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Teddy threw her head back and laughed "You tackled Sloan? Thats hilarious. I wish I could've seen it."

"I was just so mad" Arizona said sitting on the couch beside her friend. "But then I felt bad so I didn't really hit him too hard and it was stupid because then Callie got all weird and we ate pancakes and I told her Mark was like a brother to me" she rushed.

"Wait…what?" Teddy said. "Now I'm confused. Start at the beginning."

Arizona recounted the night's events for her friend as they both settled down on the couch in the empty locker room. Teddy listened nodding her head and offering a well placed "uh huh" or "I see" when needed. When she had finished her story Arizona looked up at her friend waiting silently for her response.

"So…what was the big deal? I mean I get that the comments he made were…well Mark. But it doesn't sound any different than what he would say to anyone else. And it doesn't sound like Callie initiated it" Teddy said.

"I know, I just…want things to be different. I love Callie. Like I LOVE her and I want it to be me and her or she and I…whatever the correct phrase is. I don't want Mark to be there all the time. And I know that sometimes I over react but I think I have good reason!"

"Like what?" Teddy asked quietly.

"Huh?"

"Good reasons. Like what?" she repeated raising her eyebrows.

Arizona scrunched her eyebrows as she thought. "They had sex. Mark had sex with MY Calliope and now they're,what? Best friends? That isn't normal" Arizona almost whined.

"Does Sloan bother you because he is inappropriate or because he had sex with Callie AND he's inappropriate?" the taller blonde asked.

"Both I guess" Arizona replied thoughtfully " I know that they're friends and she hasn't had sex with him since before Hahn left. I know she wouldn't cheat on me and I doubt she even thinks of him like that anymore its just that they're so casual about it. About everything! He comes over and sees her in a towel or almost catches us having sex…shes so cool about it"

"Well that's how she is" Teddy reasoned. "Callie's free spirited like that. She always has been That's no surprise. She loves people like crazy and keeps them close. This whole hospital is like one big, crazy, incestral family" she laughed. Arizona titled her head in agreement.

"You want to know what I think?" Teddy asked.

"You'll tell me anyway" Arizona said rolling her eyes comically.

"Damn right I will" Teddy started "Your feelings have changed. You've always loved Callie and she has always loved you but now you're thinking differently. Now you're seeing a future and possibly a family with her. Callie is the type of girl who saw and pursued that from the start but since you are a bit late to pick up on it you're just getting there. But she has been moving forward with that idea in mind the whole time"

"What are you saying?" Arizona questioned.

"Callie continued with her life as normal and brought you into it. She made changes. She came out. She backed away from her friends a bit. Asked you to move in. She even offered to give up her dream of having children"

"But I'd never make her do that!" Arizona interrupted "Yea we had a small fight about it but we agreed…"

"Shut up" Teddy said "Let me finish. She got comfortable with you and the life that you two had and you seemed to agree with it. But now that your mind is really changing you want things to be different but you haven't told her yet. For all she knows you're still perfectly content to go on the way you have been. Anyone can tell that Torres wants to be with you forever. But you have to let her know that your idea of forever has changed. If the way she behaves with Mark, or anyone bother you, you have to tell her and give her a chance to defend herself or correct it. Its not fair for you to ask her to change completely but its even worse to never give her the opportunity."

"Wow" Arizona said thoughtfully "when did you get so deep?"

"I'm not deep just observant. A couple of months ago you guys had like this cute little family. You and Callie, Cristina and Owen, Mark and Lexie. The six of you hung out and had breakfasts and it was sickeningly adorable. You didn't seem to mind too much that Callie had slept with Mark then" Teddy said.

"Yea…but we weren't this serious then. I didn't feel like I had the right to think of her as mine. But I do now. Plus then Mark was with Lexie and it didn't seem like a threat" Arizona attempted to rationalize.

"He isn't a threat now! Are you the only one who can't see how she looks at you? You just need to talk to her. Both of you want to be together. You're perfect together. But I think Callie is new to the whole "real" relationship thing. Give her some time. Talk to her." Just as Teddy finished both of their pagers beeped in unison.

"Duty calls" Arizona said as she sighed and pulled herself up from the couch. Both women headed for the hall. When they reached the point where they would have to split Teddy turned and looked at her friend.

"She was always yours Robbins. Sloan isn't even a factor for her. You know that. She was yours from the moment that you kissed her in that dirty bar bathroom" she smiled.

"Is anyone ever going to let me live that down?" Arizona said throwing her hands in the air.

"Nope." Teddy laughed as she headed down the opposite hall towards the ER.

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I will try to have another chapter up today to make up for being gone so long. I hope I didn't lose a bunch of readers. So let me know if you're still here! Up Next: Callie's talk with Bailey. Always good stuff :D