"Callie just come upstairs and sleep with me, you don't have to sleep on the couch." Meredith says, yawning.
Looking over at Amelia, Callie asks, "Are you still up for taking me home?"
"Uh sure, let me grab my purse and I'll run you home." Amelia replies.
"Wait, it's late and Callie has a guest room. Why don't you just stay over, so she's not alone tonight?" Meredith suggests to Amelia.
"Mer, that's not necessary. I"m fine." Callie says protesting.
"Torres, it's not a big deal. Let me grab my stuff." Amelia replies.
"Thanks for doing this." Callie says in the car on the way over.
"No problem, it gets me out of kid duty in the morning. What time do you start tomorrow?" Amelia asks.
"I was planning on eight, you?" Callie asks.
"Eight works for me." Amelia replies.
"You know we haven't really spent much time together outside of work and Meredith. How are you doing?" The brunette asks.
"Its been good, being around the kids helps. But damn I miss him so much." Amelia replies, then adds "Some days more than others, you know."
"I can only imagine." Callie says softly. "You know I need to get the Wounded Warrior project back on track, you should come on board, the neuro from the VA is spread too thin and is never available. Plus you'd get to finish what Derek started." She adds.
Pulling into the brunette's driveway, Amelia turns to look at her and Callie realizes that she's got tears running down her face. "Oh god, Amelia I'm sorry. I shouldn't have..." Callie blurts out, then pulls her in for a hug.
"Torres, it's fine." Amelia says gently extracting herself from the embrace. "Look, I would really like to work on the project for all of those reasons. Thank you for asking."
Still leaning over the center into the other woman's space, Callie nods. "Okay, then we can start tomorrow."
They both sit for a minute, considering the other. Then Callie nervously leans back in her seat.
"Uh, we should go in." Amelia replies opening up her car door.
"Right, inside. Let's go inside." Callie repeats. Holy crap, what was that? Did I just almost make a move on Amelia Shepherd. Oh god, I am sad and lonely trolling my friends for comfort sex, she thinks. Then standing in front of her door, realizes that she doesn't have keys.
Amelia steps up behind her and reaches around and unlocks the door. Callie turns to thank her and their faces are inches apart again. She licks her lips nervously and then remembers that she's not doing this, so she pushes the door open and turns back around.
"Okay, just make yourself at home. Mi casa es su casa." Callie says lightly. "The guest room is down the hall, it has it's own bathroom. I'll set up the coffee now, so if you get up first, just hit the button."
"Sounds good." Amelia says glancing around the room. "Okay, so I'm going to check out the room." She adds awkwardly.
Callie shakes her head and begins setting up the coffee pot. "I need to get it together. Derek's little sister isn't even interested in women," she mumbles to herself.
In the guest room, Amelia decides to strip down and grab a quick shower, the door pops open and Callie says, "There are extra towels in the..." looking up she sees a naked Amelia reaching into the closet for a fresh towel. "Uh, you found them." Callie says turning her head.
Amelia turns around and laughs. Callie is all shades of embarrassed. "I did," she replies.
"Okay, well good night." Callie stammers and closes the door.
"Torres?" Amelia knocks lightly on the door. It's after seven and she's surprised that Callie's not up yet. She's debated for the last 15 minutes whether to knock or not. Getting no response, Amelia opens the door. Callie is sleeping soundly with her mask on. "Callie!" Amelia says again, this time she flinches and takes the mask off. Then looks at the clock and sits up suddenly, pulls out ear plugs and says, "crap, sorry. I didn't realize that I didn't change the volume on the alarm, I slept through it." she explains swinging out of bed in her nightgown.
"Okay, well mystery solved. I'll just go wait in the kitchen." Amelia says a little embarrassed to be thinking what she's thinking about Callie Torres.
In the shower, Callie keeps thinking about last night and now this morning, Amelia totally checked her out. Thank god, I wasn't wearing sweats, Callie thinks, then reminds herself of what she was thinking about when she put that nightgown on last night.
On the drive in to the hospital, Callie and Amelia decide to have a working lunch to review the project and put together a schedule to get Amelia up to speed on each of the patients.
Pulling into the lot, Callie spots Kiaria dropping off Arizona. Amelia follows her eyes and notices her watching them. The two are still talking when Callie and Amelia walk past them.
Arizona notices them and then realizes that Callie doesn't have Sofia with her. "Callie? Where's Sofia?"
"She stayed at Meredith's last night." Callie replies, "She's dropping them off at school."
"Oh," Arizona says disappointed.
"I'm sorry. I guess I should have told you. Is there a problem?" Callie asks.
"No, it's just we have appointments later and I may not get back in time to see her." Arizona explains.
"You can always stop by the house, just call and let me know." Callie replies, then she realizes that Amelia is still there standing beside her. She looks over at her and says, "We need to get going."
"Okay, that was weird. Why would Callie and Amelia be coming to work together?" Arizona asks turning back to Kiaria.
"I have no idea." Kiaria replies, then reaches over and tips the blonde's face up to her and kisses her lightly.
"Hmm," Arizona replies, "The only thing better than ending my day with you, is starting my day with you."
"I would have to agree." Kiaria remarks.
"Jeez, you guys, right in front of the door?" Alex says sticking his face right in the window and laughing at them.
"Okay, I should go to work now, before there is more heckling." Arizona says pulling away. "I'll see you at 1 o'clock."
In her office, Callie is fidgeting. Usually this is something that she would talk with Meredith about, but she can't since it's Amelia. "Damn, I wish Mark were here." She says out loud.
In the locker room, Amelia is changing clothes when Arizona walks in. "Hey," the blonde says. "Is everything alright with Callie?"
"Oh yeah, she's fine. She was at the house last night for dinner and she and Meredith drank wine all night. I drove her home." Amelia explains.
"And you stayed over?" Arizona asks bluntly.
"Uh, yeah. It was late. I stayed in the guest room," she points out to Arizona.
"Oh right, of course. I'm sorry. I just didn't realize that you were friends like that."
"We're going to start working together on the Warrior project, I'm going to take over Derek's project." Amelia explains.
"Wow, that's awesome. I guess that I'll be seeing you two together a lot more then," she remarks.
"Yeah, you will." Amelia agrees. "So how are things with Kiaria going?"
"Super. We're looking at condos today. She wants to buy one downtown with a view of the harbor." Arizona replies.
"Nice, so are you moving in with her?" Amelia asks.
"I want to, but I haven't talked with Callie about it. Yesterday didn't seem like a good time, since she and JJ had just broken up." The blonde explains.
"It's not like she doesn't expect it. Just tell her, she'll be fine." Amelia advises.
"So you're the Callie expert now?" Arizona asks sarcastically.
"Arizona, she's over at our house all the time. She tells Meredith everything, that's all it is." Amelia says sensing her friend is a little jealous.
"Of course, I'm just feeling left out, I guess." She says shaking her head to clear it. But still there was something almost protective about Amelia towards Callie, Arizona sensed it in the parking lot earlier.
"Do you have a minute?" Arizona asks, sticking her head into Callie's lab later that morning.
"Sure, what's up?" Callie replies glancing up at her and then back down to finish her notation.
"I just wanted to let you know that Kiaria is looking at condos, well, we are looking at condos, um, together." Arizona explains a little nervously.
"Okay," Callie replies. Then the meaning of it sinks in and she stops what she's doing and looks up at her. "I'm happy for you, Arizona."
"You are?" Arizona asks, stepping into the lab and leaning against the door.
"Of course, the whole point of us breaking up was that we could move on and be happy. So yes, if you're happy with Kiaria, and you definitely appear to be, then I'm happy for both of you." Callie explains.
"Wow, I just didn't expect this from you. Thank you Calliope, this means a lot to me." Arizona replies, unable to suppress a big smile of appreciation.
They look at each other a long minute, then Arizona breaks the spell, "Um, so Amelia tells me you've asked her to join the Wounded Warrior project?"
"Uh, yeah. I just asked her last night. The neuro from the VA is impossible to work with. I only asked him to take over because I didn't think I could ask her so soon after Derek died, but now seems like a good time. Plus, I have lot's of free time right now to spend getting her up to speed on it. Speaking of which, she'll be here soon and I'm not ready." Callie explains.
"Okay, well I've got to change and meet Kiaria. Let's talk more soon." Arizona says before leaving.