Chapter 11:

"I don't know what you're talking about. This is...this probably isn't even real."

Hannah sat more fully on her bed and played with the bow around her bear's neck. Her blue eyes looked older than they should have and Callie thought the sight reminded her, even more, of Arizona.

"CC-"

"Why are you calling me that? This is ridiculous. I'm standing here arguing with my partner's dead daughter. Or...o-or maybe you're an illusion. I'm not going to discuss anything to do with this baby with you."

Silence hung on the air and reached into the far corners of the room. Callie couldn't believe that she'd actually just yelled at Hannah. The longer she was...where ever she was, the more frustrated she became. The 'awe' factor of her reality was fading away only to be replaced by annoyance, fear, and clear confusion.

Was she really conversing with Hannah Marie? Dims? Even if it was possible for her to be speaking with Arizona's daughter, Callie couldn't fathom the idea of discussing her daughter or her conception with the five year old child.

Biting her lip and shaking her head, she took a step forward and was stopped by Hannah's innocent voice.

"Cal-Caei-your name is hard to say, CC. I tried to say your real name when you were sleeping, but I couldn't. You became CC after that."

Callie swallowed back a smile and regarded the young child in front of her. So, Hannah's two failed attempts at pronouncing her name had resulted in 'CC'. She felt awful for having yelled at the blue eyed girl. The overwhelming confusion of her entire situation was causing her to act rashly.

"I'm sorry, Hannah. What decision are you talking about, sweetie?" she asked as she sat down at the foot of the bed.

Colors swirled around them suddenly and items shifted and morphed. Like before, Callie found herself in an entirely new area. She and Hannah were sitting on a large king sized bed with deep green sheets. A window to her right showed the city sky scape of Philadelphia. In front of the window, a table with a single chair was noticeable.

Callie knew where she was. The Ritz-Carlton hotel. The room she was in was the one she'd shared with Arizona months ago when the two of them had come to go through Hannah's room.

Two side tables to the left and right of the bed were brightly polished with three drawers on their fronts. On top of each, a double shaded lamp offered light against the cold and stormy weather outside.

"You met her here. Remember, CC?"

Callie looked toward the window and noticed Hannah sitting in an olive green recliner beneath it. Her small body sank into the chair's cushions.

The Latina didn't ask who the child was speaking of. It had become clear to her that Hannah already knew everything that was in her head anyway. Looking behind her, her eyes settled on the pillows at the front of the bed.

She wished Arizona was here with her. The other woman's steady resolve and calm demeanor would be as if a boon to her now. Without returning Hannah's gaze, Callie replied, "Yes, I remember."

"She told you about it, didn't she?"

Again, "Yes, she brought the procedure to mind. Hannah how is this important?"

Arizona's daughter looked out the window and grabbed her bear to her chest. Her profile was so much like her mother's. Callie studied her for a long time while the child remained remiss to reply. She noted the shape of Hannah's nose and the line of her jaw. Both of those attribute's were shared with Callie's blonde obsession.

"It's important because only we know about them, CC. You never talked to Mommy about it."

Callie lowered her eyes and sighed. Hannah was right. To this day, Arizona still did not know her reasons regarding their daughter's conception. Several times, she had meant to start a conversation with the other woman, to explain things in more depth, but each time she'd been too afraid of Arizona's possible reaction, and so had backed out.

"I want to see her, Hannah. You said you were keeping me here for her. I want to leave. I want to be with her.

Panic was starting to attack the raven haired woman. Answers were in short supply and her current conversation with Hannah was leading to places Callie wanted to avoid altogether. She needed her partner. Her wife.

"You can't see her yet, CC"

The Latina looked to her right and noticed Hannah sitting next to her. The child's blue eyes were staring up at her with worry. Callie watched as the small girl scooted next to her body and leaned her head against her arm.

"I'll make sure you don't get lonely, CC."

Callie sighed and bit back a sob that threatened to leave her body. She was scared. She was frightened by the unknown. She just wanted Arizona. The closest to her girlfriend that she was going to get was in the blonde's daughter. In Hannah.

She allowed her own head to fall to her side and it gently connected with the crown of Hannah's brown curls.

"Tell me about Addie, CC. Tell me about the proce- the prosid-"

"Procedure." Callie said, helping the child with the word.

Hannah snuggled closer to the dark skinned woman and nodded her head. Callie was unsure how talking about Addison or about hers and Arizona's daughter could possibly prove to be beneficial, but it was becoming, increasingly, clear that she had to control over her current situation.

Whether or not Hannah was actually with her was irrelevant. What did matter was allowing things to run their course so she could get back to where she belonged; to Arizona and their daughter.

If that meant talking about Addison Montgomery and the procedure she'd brought up to Callie months ago upon their chance encounter in Philadelphia, then so be it.

-13 months ago-

"This room is amazing. I can't believe you're paying for all of this."

Callie smiled as she continued to watch Arizona walk around their hotel room. The blonde was smiling and carrying on like a child in a toy store. Her hands were intent on touching everything while her legs couldn't seem to take her around the spacious room fast enough.

"Well, I am a trust fund baby, so it shouldn't be too hard to believe." she joked.

Arizona turned from the view afforded to her by the window and gave her partner a dimpled smile.

"Thank-you for doing this. You didn't have to."

Callie gave the room a once over before her eyes found blue again. "I know I didn't, baby. I wanted to. Things are pretty tense right now and I wanted to do something to make them...less tense." she finished with a shrug.

The blonde headed woman nodded her understanding and turned back to the window. Outside, several tall buildings, matching the hotel's outside decor, fought for her attention. The sun was low in the sky and its orange glow was beginning to set behind the grayish clouds on the horizon.

Arizona could feel the chill from the outside colliding against the glass of the window. She was in Philadelphia again. When she'd turned away from her life here and left everything behind, she'd promised herself that she would never look back. At the time, she'd had nothing to look back upon. Nothing but misery and the worst pain of her life.

Yet, here she was, standing in the Ritz-Carlton in the one city she'd run away from. Things were too complicated. She could feel her stomach tying itself in knots at the thought of seeing Terri again. Knowing she'd be walking in Hannah's room in the near future caused her to feel light-headed.

Hands on her hips and a soft, familiar body behind her grounded her and assuaged some of her fears.

"I can see you getting yourself worked up, mariposa. Try to relax." Callie whispered against the back of her left ear.

She could feel the Latina's breasts against her back and the steady rise and fall of the other woman's breathing. Despite her internal turmoil, the body behind her stirred an alarming arousal in her own.

"You're telling me to relax when you're pressed against me like that?" she breathed out heavily. Her breath caused the window in front of her to fog.

Callie laughed and pressed herself flush against the blonde's back. She heard Arizona gasp and lean a hand against the window for support.

"I thought you wanted me to calm your nerves." she said into her partner's neck.

Moving her right hand from Arizona's hip, she trailed it up a flat stomach and splayed her fingers open. When she felt the blonde's quick intake of air, she moved her fingers to the buttons of the other woman's shirt and started to slowly undo them.

"Calliope...I didn't exactly want you calming my nerves in front of a window."

The taller woman smiled against her neck and backed away from her. Arizona opened her eyes, only just realizing that she'd closed them, and turned herself around to face her lover.

Callie smirked at her and Arizona's heart caught in her chest at the sheer beauty of the other woman. She watched Callie lean toward her again but was disappointed when she only pulled the curtains closed.

Darkness descended upon the room; the only illumination coming from a set of lights running along the ceiling.

Callie could just barely make out the figure of the woman in front of her. Arizona's blouse was open and the lapels of the top only accentuated the contours of her body in the soft light. The raven haired woman lowered her eyes and traced them down a taut stomach. The outline of the blonde's jeans danced across her eyes and seared itself in her mind.

"Come here." Callie said softly.

Arizona closed the distance between them and came to stand directly in front of her partner. Even in the darkness of the room, she could tell that Callie's eyes were dark with arousal.

She placed her hands on the other woman's hips and leaned in to kiss her. Callie turned her head away.

"No, this is about me calming your nerves. Just relax, okay?"

The blonde looked hesitant for a moment before nodding her head. She leaned back slightly, but kept her hands on Callie's body.

The taller woman brought her own hands up and settled them on Arizona's shoulders. Slowly, she ran them down her arms and then back up again.

The hands on her hips grasped her more tightly and she smiled.

Her fingers ran along the collar of the blonde's shirt and she could feel Arizona starting to breathe more heavily against her.

Without warning, she dipped her fingers inside the collar of the dark material and let her hands graze the soft flesh of her partner's neck. Leaning forward, she dropped her head to the crook of Arizona's shoulder and placed a soft kiss against her throat.

Pushing gently with her fingers, she slowly allowed the button up shirt to slide from the blonde's body and land on the floor.

Arizona gasped and moaned softly when she felt the coolness of the room connect with her naked flesh. Callie's warm mouth against her neck caused a beautiful difference of sensations. She moved her hands from Callie's hips and started to move them under her shirt when another pair of hands stopped her.

"Relax, Ari." the Latina whispered. She pulled Arizona's hands away from her body and held them at her sides.

"I can't relax when you touch me."

Callie smiled and leaned her head against the smaller woman's. Arizona, immediately, tried to kiss her, but she backed away again.

"Yes, you can. Behave and let me make you feel good."

The words were almost enough to make her come on the spot. When Callie was of a mind to do something, she normally triumphed. Knowing that she was going to be at the receiving end of that want, that desire, was completely breathtaking to Arizona.

She let her hands in Callie's go slack to signal her compliance. Her breathing was heavy and her knees felt weak. Callie smiled fully at her and released her hands.

Leaning forward again, she kissed the corner of Arizona's mouth before trailing tender kisses to her ear. The blonde inhaled at the electricity the other woman's lips left in their wake. She felt Callie's hands on her sides and she sighed.

"You're perfect to me." the taller woman whispered in her ear.

Moaning her approval of the statement, the smaller woman turned her head to the side to allow Callie's lips more access to her skin. The hands at her sides raked nails up and down her body before stopping suddenly at the waist of her pants.

Callie kissed the tip of the blonde's ear and pulled her head back.

Arizona met her eyes and placed her hands on her partner's chest. She could feel Callie's fingers moving to the front of her pants and she hissed at the pleasure the gesture evoked.

"It's getting harder to relax, Calliope." she panted.

The other woman remained silent and continued to watch her face. Her fingers undid the button on the blonde's blue jeans and slowly brought the zipper down.

"Callie..."

Callie watched as her lover's eyes closed and her brow scrunched slightly. She could hear, as well as feel, the erratic change in the blonde's breathing.

Not giving Arizona time to gain the upper hand, Callie dropped to her knees before her and brought her hands back to the other woman's hips.

Slowly, she pulled the material over the blonde's slender hips and over her legs. Arizona's hands were on her shoulders helping her to remain upright and keep her balance as she freed herself from her pants.

Callie leaned her head forward and kissed the blonde's throbbing center through her underwear. She could already smell the other woman's wetness and it increased her own.

Breathing deeply, the Latina trailed her kisses to Arizona's hip bone and across her lower stomach. Hands in her hair let her know that the blonde was having difficulty in fighting off the sensations.

The raven haired woman stood quickly and kissed her partner fully on the lips. Arizona moaned into her mouth and swept her tongue across her lips. She held the back of Callie's head as if her life depended on it.

The taller woman ran her hands down the blonde's body and over the swell of her buttocks. Squeezing the flesh beneath her fingertips firmly, she wasted little time in lifting her lover off the floor.

Arizona's long legs locked behind Callie's back and the feel of the blonde's half-naked, warm body rocking into her was utter perfection.

She held Arizona to her with one hand and allowed her other to run along the smooth skin of the other woman's left leg. The curves beneath her fingertips were beyond comprehension.

Walking forward, she felt her legs collide with the bed and she leaned forward to place the blonde on the comforter.

Arizona kept her legs around Callie's body as the taller woman joined her on the bed.

"Are you trying to top me, Calliope Torres?" the blonde asked in a playful whisper.

Callie's right hand was still running along the outside of the smaller woman's left thigh and she laughed when she heard the question.

"I top you all the time." she replied.

Arizona shook her head. "No, I let you."

"Are you letting me right now?"

The blonde kissed her wetly and nodded her head, "Yes."

Callie moved the hand she had on Arizona's thigh and brought it around to the front of her panties. Rubbing her fingers slowly along her girlfriend's crease, she was rewarded when she felt an increase in heat.

"You're really wet, Arizona."

The woman beneath her moaned and bucked her hips.

"It's all for you, Calliope."

Callie pushed past her lover's underwear and allowed her fingers to explore the warm, inviting heat of the blonde's folds. Wetness surrounded her fingers and the longer she explored, the wetter her girlfriend became.

Arizona breathed heavily through her mouth and pushed herself against Callie's hand. She no longer felt like joking with the other woman or being teased for that matter. The only thing she desired now was Callie's body becoming one with her own.

Callie removed her hand and the blonde groaned in protest.

"Callie, don't tease."

The taller woman didn't respond verbally. She undid the front clasp of the blue eyed woman's bra and brought her head down to kiss the flesh revealed.

Arizona pushed her hands into her hair and moaned appreciatively. Callie sucked and nipped and kissed the blonde's breasts and nipples for several minutes. With each passing second, the smaller woman would feel the fire between her thighs spreading into her abdomen.

Callie wasn't just making love to her. She was worshiping her body.

When the blonde didn't think she could take anymore, her partner removed her lips from her left nipple and crushed her mouth to her own. She felt Callie's fingers move back under her panties and push easily inside her.

Two digits massaged her inner muscles and filled her completely. She tried to pick up the pace by moving her hips more insistently, but her partner was intent on a slower pace.

"Relax, baby." Callie said against her mouth before kissing her just as slowly.

Arizona wanted to scream. How was she supposed to relax when Callie's fingers were deep inside of her and her lips were pressed into her own. How was she supposed to relax when her own body was demanding a quick release?

Callie ran her tongue softly, gently inside her mouth and pushed her fingers harder inside her sex.

The slow pace with the hard thrusts were leaving the blonde unable to think at all. She slowed the buck of her hips and attempted to meet Callie's slower pace.

"Do you feel me?" the taller woman asked harshly against her ear.

Arizona's hands were still wrapped around Callie head and back while her legs were still grasping the other woman's hips. The tall Latina was everywhere. She was in every one of the blonde's senses. Every inch of her body was insanely aware of the raven haired woman.

Of course she could feel her.

Choking back a pleasurable moan, the blonde responded, "Yes and you feel amazing."

"Remember that when your nerves try to get the better of you."

Before Arizona could come up with a response, she felt the fingers inside of her move faster than before. Faster and harder. Being articulate was no longer on her mind. Her basest human desires overtook her and all she could do, wanted to do, was feel the tremors she knew were coming.

As if on cue, Callie flicked her thumb across her clit and pushed into her one last time. Her orgasm screamed through her body and released itself fully from her throat. Though her body stilled and tightened around her partners, Callie's fingers continued to move inside of her and draw forth every last pulsation she had to offer.

She could feel her wetness, the painfully obvious evidence of her pleasure, sliding down her opening and around Callie's fingers. Her earlier fears and trepidation were washed away by the force of the feelings coursing through her. Feelings Callie had brought about.

A moment later, her lover removed herself from inside her and soft, tender lips kissed her eye lids.

"Was that you letting me top you?"

All the blonde could do was laugh and wrap her arms around the body above her.