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Chapter 10

Callie nervously paced outside the room, focusing on her breathing as she tried to settle her nerves. She had no one to blame but herself. She had agreed to it; it's not like she couldn't have said no if she had wanted to. However, disappointing Arizona Robbins was something which Callie didn't have in her to do.

Arizona poked her head around the door, smiling at the sight in front of her. She knew Callie was nervous, she had confessed as much when she first arrived. Part of her found it endearing.

"Are you ready?" Her soft voice broke the silence which had settled over the empty hallway.

Callie looked at her and sighed. "What if I say something stupid? I hate public speaking..." She groaned as she continued with her pacing.

Arizona giggled as she stepped out of the room. reaching out to stop Callie. Her hands rested lightly on her arms. "There's nothing to be nervous about. They're tiny humans...nothing scary about them. You were great with Mikey; this won't be any different." She gave Callie her best smile, watching as the other woman's face slowly changed to match her own.

"I guess, but it's a little different having thirty sets of eyes staring back at me."

Arizona gave her arm a comforting squeeze. "You'll be fine, I'll be in there with you. If you feel panicked, just look at me. Ok?"

Callie paused for a minute before smiling. "Ok. Thank you."

Arizona gave her another smile before guiding her into the packed classroom. Callie took a sharp breath as she stared out at the crowd of children. I can do this, I'm a kick ass surgeon...this is no big deal. She tried to convince herself. Arizona's eyes were fixed on her as she glanced in her direction. A wave of relief washed over her.

Thirty minutes later, the bell had rung and the kids all rushed out, chatting animatedly about the amazing doctor. The praise went straight to Callie's heart; the huge smile on her face proof enough.

After the last child disappeared out of the room, Arizona closed the door and turned to face her friend.

"See...I told you. They loved you. I'm going to have a pretty hard time getting them to talk about anything other than you for the next few weeks." Arizona joked, as she began walking up and down the aisles of tables collecting the work sheets.

Callie watched her, smiling to herself. "That's not necessarily a bad thing."

Arizona glanced up and smiled as their eyes locked. "I suppose not. What time do you have to be at the hospital?"

"My shift doesn't start for another hour or so. I've somehow been roped into working the ER again tonight. Fun Friday night, huh!" Callie leant back against Arizona's desk, her hands tucked into her pants pocket.

"The joys of being a rockstar surgeon, right?"

"Yeah something like that. What are you up to tonight?"

The question had been innocent enough, but Callie noticed the quick change on Arizona's face. The smile had gone from sweet to nervous in the space of a few seconds. Her eyes looked away from Callie, falling instead on one of the small desks.

"Um...I actually have a date tonight." She risked a glance back at Callie, noticing immediately the flash of something which appeared on her face. Jealousy? Anger? Hurt? Arizona wasn't sure what it was but she didn't like it. "Well I guess just drinks really..." She backtracked, hoping she could undo the look that had taken hold of Callie's face.

After a moment, Callie plastered a smile on her face. It was forced to say the least. "Oh. Who's the lucky lady?" She felt as though she had been punched. Arizona had a date. A date with someone who wasn't here. Suddenly all of Addison's warnings came back to her. She had waited too long; she had missed her chance. She had been stupid to think that someone like Arizona would stay off the market for long. She only had herself to blame.

Arizona blushed as she cleared her throat. "I actually don't know, it's a blind date. Teddy has set it up with someone she works with."

The punches just kept on coming. "Oh, she's from the hospital? What's her name?" She enquired. She had spent time with Teddy in the hospital over the past week, and not once had Teddy mentioned anything. And if Addison had known about it, she too had kept quiet.

"Her name's Sarah. She's one of the scrub nurses, I think Teddy said." Arizona glanced at her nervously, chewing on the corner of her lip. It was a conversation she had wanted to avoid. To be fair it was a situation she had wanted to avoid. She had tried to get out of it but Teddy had pushed her all week to agree. Eventually she had reluctantly folded. It was just drinks.

Callie sighed, forcing yet another smile on her face. "Oh yeah. She's nice, I'm sure you'll have a great time." Nice was an understatement. This woman was beautiful, of course they'd have a good time. Callie checked her watch, mainly just for effect. "I should get going. I'm going to be late."

"Oh. Ok." It was a lie, they both knew it. The atmosphere had dramatically changed with the conversation. Arizona didn't know what else to say, and Callie certainly wasn't giving her much of an opportunity as she backed out of the room.

"Have fun tonight." She couldn't hide the fallen look on her face as she backed out of the room.

By the time she got to the hospital, most of the doctors were on their lunch break. She quickly scanned the busy cafeteria, eventually spotting Addison and Teddy out near the back. They were both engaged in conversation, Teddy laughing along with whatever Addison was telling her. The walk over to the hospital had done nothing to lift Callie's mood; if anything it had made it worse.

Weaving her way through the tables, she took a seat with them, pleasantries immediately out of the window. "Sarah? Are you kidding me?" She hadn't planned for it to come out as harsh, resulting in Teddy jumping slightly as she turned to face Callie.

"I'm sorry?" She questioned, her face furrowed in confusion. Addison wore a similiar confused as she stared at her best friend.

"That's who you're setting Arizona up with?"

"Oh, yeah!" Teddy smiled.

Addison turned to Teddy. "Sarah, the scrub nurse?" Teddy nodded. "She scrubbed in on one of my surgeries last week. Lovely woman, beautiful!" Addison gushed before realising whose company they were in. "Oh God, this must be killing you!" She turned her attention back to Callie who was looking less than impressed by the way the conversation was going.

"Not helping, Addison." She snapped.

"Wait, what's the big deal? I thought they'd have a great time?" She shrugged as she resumed picking at her salad.

Callie glared at her. "She's so not Arizona's type."

Addison raised her eyebrow at Callie. "I told you that this would happen. You waited and you shouldn't have." She warned her.

"Ok, what are you two talking about?" Teddy stared between the two of them, who were currently staring at each other. Addison wore an 'I told you so' look while Callie just looked pissed.

"What Callie is trying to say is that she is Arizona's type. Or more like Arizona is Callie's type..." Addison gave Teddy a knowing look, while Teddy's face slowly fell.

"Oh. You like Arizona?" Callie blushed her eyes fell to the table. Teddy glanced nervously at Addison who just shrugged. "Callie, I didn't realise it was serious between the two of you. I guess that explains why she was so hesitant to go." Teddy immediately felt bad for the pressure she had put on the blonde over the past couple of days. She had just assumed Arizona's hesitance had been due to nerves or something, not that she was secretly interested in someone else.

Callie perked up a little, the start of a smile appearing on her face. "She was?"

"Yeah. I kinda bullied her into agreeing to it." Teddy grimaced as she avoided the Latina's stare.

Addison put down her coffee cup and cleared her throat. "Ok, enough is enough. You're danced around the issue for the past couple of weeks and if you don't do something tonight then you may as well just give up. Sarah is beautiful, a few hours together and I'm sure Arizona will be thinking the same. But she's not you." Addison leant on the table, her eyes never leaving Callie's. She was never usually a fan of tough love, but sometimes Callie didn't respond to anything else. "So this is what you are going to do. You are going to go and get your girl." Addison smiled confidently at her, while Teddy sat guiltily beside her.

"I'm stuck working the ER until 11 tonight. She'll already be on her date by then." Callie groaned.

"I get off in an hour. I'll cover for you."

Callie gasped. "You'll work in the ER?" Even Teddy raised an eyebrow in the redhead's direction.

"You want to be sarcastic, now?" Addison retorted, knowing she had the upperhand. Callie shook her head, mouthing 'sorry' to her. "I swear to God though Callie, if you don't make a move on her I will put you in the ER myself. Ok?"

Callie smiled brightly as she stood up and walked around the table. Throwing her arms around her friend, she hugged her tightly, planting a soft kiss on the side of her head. "Thank you. I love you."

"You owe me. I'll be down in the ER when I finish and then you can go. Buy her some flowers on your way over." Addison informed her, wrapping her arms around her waist as she hugged her back.

"I've heard her mention that daisies are her favourite." Teddy added, throwing Callie an apologetic smile.

The hour that Callie actually had to spend working in the ER seemed to go at a snail's pace. The nerves had been sidetracked by the rush of adreneline which was starting to take over as the time ticked on. Addison had been right; they had both danced around the topic for long enough. Arizona clearly wasn't going to make the first move so it was down to Callie.

The sight of Addison walking into the ER bought a huge smile on her face. She had plenty of time to get home, get changed and sort out what she was going to say when she eventually got there.

Addison took the charts out of Callie's hands and sighed. Working the ER was Addison's personal idea of hell but Callie was worth it. Or at least she hoped.

"Go, before I change my mind." She gave her a quick kiss on the cheek before walking off to her first patient. This is going to be a long evening.

Arizona took a sip of her wine, as she checked her appearance in the mirror. She had chosen a black dress for the evening with a pair of heels. The top half of her hair was pinned to the back of her head, a few random curls messily falling out. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't get the conversation with Callie out of her head. The disappointed look on her face was proving hard to forget.

A gentle knock on the door made her jump slightly. They had decided on meeting at a bar down the street for their 'date,' so Arizona knew that it wasn't Sarah at the door. She figured that it might have been Teddy, coming to wish her good luck. I'm going to need it. It's not like I want to go.

Draining the rest of her wine, she walked across her apartment and pulled open the front door, freezing at the caller.

"Calliope?" She couldn't help the smile that crept onto her face. It was a surprise to say the least.

Callie blushed. "Hey." Her heart pounded in her chest as her eyes glanced across Arizona's body. "You look really beautiful." Her eyes came back up to Arizona's face, her eyes glistening back at Callie's. A slight blush graced her cheeks.

"Thank you." They stood in the doorway for a moment, staring at each other. "What are you doing here?" It came out a little harsher than she had intended, so she smiled quickly hoping to make up for it. Callie hadn't seemed to notice.

"I came to give you these." It was then that Arizona noticed the flowers in Callie's outstretched hand. A bunch of yellow daisies.

Arizona gasped as she took the flowers off her, bringing them up to her face to smell them. "Calliope, these are gorgeous. Daisies are my favourite, thank you." She held the flowers close to her chest as she smiled back at the Latina. "You came all this way just to give me daisies?" Her head fell to the side as she curiously watched the woman in front of her. There was a flirty tone to her voice. Arizona was touched by the gesture, she couldn't hide that.

Callie blushed once again as she returned Arizona's smile. The nerves had settled in again but one look at Arizona told her she was doing the right thing. "No, I actually needed to talk to you about something."

"Oh ok." Arizona stepped aside and gestured into her apartment. "Come on in." She had almost forgotten about her previous plans for the evening, however glancing down at her outfit she quickly remembered and quietly groaned. Having Callie in her apartment was even more of an excuse not to go.

Arizona placed the flowers down on the table as she closed the front door. She turned back around to find Callie stood a few feet away from her. The nervous look similar to that morning was back on her face.

Leaning back against the door, Arizona smiled at her. "So, what's up?"

Callie took a step towards her, suddenly very conscious of the disappearing space between them.

"Don't go on your date tonight." Callie whispered, taking another step towards her. Her eyes held Arizona's, no longer caring if the blonde saw how vunerable she was right now.

Arizona wasn't sure if she had heard right. "What?" The softness of her voice broke the tension in the room.

Callie gave her a small smile. "I don't want you to go on a date with another woman."

Arizona's heart pounded in her chest as she looked into Callie's eyes. Callie had taken another step towards her, closing the remainder of the distance between them. One of her hands rested on the door beside Arizona's waist, effectively blocking her in, not that Arizona had any intention of moving away.

"Why not?" Arizona asked, her voice catching in her throat, her breathing quickening. Callie's eyes moved down to her lips, a smile appearing on her own.

"I think you know." Her other hand was now on Arizona's waist, Arizona's own hands moving to rest on Callie's arms.

"Cal..." She was cut off by Callie's lips colliding with her own, their bodies colliding as Callie pushed her up against the door.

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