Chap 10: I own nothing

The Next Morning

Callie woke with a start at the sound of Arizona's alarm. She leaned over her still sleeping girlfriend and shut it off. When she pulled away from the alarm she felt Arizona's hands snake around her midsection.

"I love waking up to you climbing on top of me." Arizona said with a laugh. She pulled Callie down and kissed her. "How about we get up… put on clothes… make breakfast, and then go grocery shopping." Arizona said. "I mean it is our day off. Oh and for lunch we can go by that little Italian place that has those amazing garlic rolls. And then we'll come home and take it easy… read a book or hmmmm other things."

Callie smiled at her girlfriend for rambling on about her plans for their day. She was so hot when she rambled. Callie leaned down and kissed her slowly but passionately rubbing her hands down Arizona's bare side. Arizona moaned into Callie's mouth sliding her hands up Callie's back and tangling them into her dark, curly hair. Callie pulled away with a sly smile.

"I'm saving the rest for later" Callie said pushing herself back to her side and getting out of bed.

"AWE seriously Calliope. You lean over me with your boobs all in my face, not that I mind they are so hot, but then you kiss me and do the hands down my side thing that you know just makes me melt and then you pull away and get out of bed and you are making me wait till later… I don't know if I can hold in what I need to do to you for too long." Arizona said, she too getting out of bed and walking over to her dresser and getting out clothes to put on.

"Oh… it will be worth the wait" Callie said pulling on a pair of jeans. She loved getting Arizona all worked up then leaving her for later. It made the sex 10x hotter. Callie pulled on a tank top and padded out into the kitchen where she found Avery staring at the coffee maker. He heard her walking up and jumped.

"Oh hey Dr. Torres, Kate already left I was just making coffee." Avery said nervously.

"Ok Avery, when we are outside of work you can call me Callie. The Dr. Torres thing while I'm at home is just too weird so… yeah… Callie." Callie said sitting down at the island in the kitchen.

"Sorry. Oh and sorry about last night… with the whole-"

"It's ok Avery, you don't have to explain" Callie said with a laugh.

"Ok… well I didn't see anything by the way… of either of you" Avery said taking the coffee off the maker and pouring him and Callie a cup. "So do ya'll work today?"

"No thank gosh I worked a 24 hour shift yesterday and Arizona's was even longer than that… I think we're going grocery shopping and going out for lunch and having a good day together."

Arizona walked out of their room fully dressed and ready to hit the town.

"Good morning Avery. Sleep well?" Arizona asked with a laugh.

"Ha ha ha very funny." Avery said sarcastically.

"Oh Avery I'm kidding… ya know Avery, I think you are good for Kate… you calm her down and keep her mind straight. I know we haven't been around each other in a long time but… the 17 years she was around the only other person who could keep her this calm was our brother." Arizona said getting herself a cup of coffee. "If she ever got in trouble or something went wrong then she'd throw a fit until Daniel came up and calmed her down… I'm happy she found you."

"Me too Arizona. She makes me so happy. I've never felt this was about any girl I've ever been with. I was kinda hoping I could go with ya'll to meet your family? I mean, I was going to wait for her to ask but… you know with the new job and all I didn't figure she'd think about it… maybe if you were to mention it to her?" Avery had begun thinking out loud.

"Yeah of course Avery. I'm sure she was going to ask you. We really haven't said when we were going so… that could be why too." Arizona explained.

"Well yeah that is true." Avery said. "Ya know, I think she's going to get the apartment down the hall. She really seemed to like it. And she kept talking about how she wanted to be close to you guys."

"YAY! Tha's awesome, I'm not going to lie I was really worried about that little issue. I wanted her to stay near cause she had been gone for forever it felt like." Arizona said. "I just wanted her to stay a little longer however, last night… let's just say I'm ready to have sex on more than just our bed…"

"OK… did not need to hear that! Nope, not at all." Avery said pushing off of the counter and walking over to cut on the TV. He started to sit on the couch but remembered what almost happened on it last night so he moved to the chair and sat down.

"Calliope, go get dressed so we can go." Arizona said going over and smacking Callie on the butt.

"Ouch… that kinda was rough Arizona."

"Well if you hadn't started what you did this morning I wouldn't have all this pent up energy… it probably wouldn't have been that hard." Arizona said with a laugh. Callie leaned over and kissed her and then got up and walked to their room to finish getting ready. "So Avery, are you going to move in with Kate when she moves down the hall?"

"Oh, I don't know… we haven't talked about that and we may not be ready to live together I mean, we've been dating for what now… a month? Yeah maybe not just yet. I mean if she asks me, I'll probably tell her that I think we're not ready, but she's smart I think she'll know. And on top of all that, she's still married. She hasn't gotten the divorce papers back so… I think that for a while I will stay over, but I won't move in just yet." Avery said and Arizona could tell that even though they hadn't talked about it, it didn't mean that Avery hadn't thought about it.

Arizona knew her sister, she was beyond smart. And she always had been. She graduated from high school a year early, and from what Kate had told her about her years in college, she had managed to graduate second in her class and that was with everything that was going on in her life. Arizona was so proud of how determined Kate was in making this go around at life and love so much better.

"Alright, But Smacker, I'm ready." Callie announced walking out of their room in dark blue jeans a deep purple v neck top and her leather jacket.

"Calliope, it's 25 degrees out… you really need your pea coat or something… that leather jacket will not do it.

"I was going to grab the other coat and gloves MOM! Good gosh." Callie said. She kissed Arizona on the lips before walking over and grabbing both of their winter coats out of the closet.

"Let's go." Arizona said as the two put on their coats and walked out the door.

A few hours later after the grocery shopping was done the two went over to their favorite Italian place. It was this hole in the wall restaurant with these amazing garlic rolls. Arizona had brought Callie here for their first date. And ever since then they had come back at any chance they had.

"Ah… it's my two favorite ladies. What will I get for you? The usual?" The waiter, an older man, had come up to take their order.

"Hey Mario, yes the usual would be great. Oh but I think Callie wants a beer instead of wine." Arizona said pointing at Callie who was nodding in agreeance.

"Ok, well anything for my two pretty ladies. I'll have your drinks out shortly." Mario said before turning towards the kitchen.

"Do you remember our first date here?" Callie said taking Arizona's hand from across the table.

"Of course I do Calliope. How could I ever forget. We've come along way you know." Arizona said with a smile.

"Yeah we have." Callie answered. "I could never ask for anything more."

"Hey, Callie I have a serious-"

"Here is one white wine, and one beer." Mario said putting the drinks down in front of them.

"Thank you Mario." Callie answered and Mario walked away leaving the two to their conversation from before. "You were saying?"

"Yeah, I have a serious question Calliope. I've been thinking a lot about the shooting and us and our relationship and our future… and I don't know, where do you see us in… let's say a year?" Arizona asked.

"Well, hopefully married. I know that may be too soon but, we've been dating a year and, ya know actually… I wanted to wait for something more romantic… but we are here at the place we went on our first date so…" Callie stood up and dug into her purse pulling out a small velvet box and then kneeling down in front of Arizona.

"Oh my gosh…" Arizona said covering her mouth, tears beginning to form in her eyes.

"Arizona, I love you so much… more than anything in this world. I've never felt like this about anyone and I'm ready if you are to spend my whole life with you. Maybe we'll have kids… maybe we won't. But I know that as long as I have you… I'll be happy. So happy." Callie said tears now forming in her eyes. "Arizona, will you marry me?"

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