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Arizona's POV

Crap, she needs to ask me something. My mind immediately runs towards worst case scenario...good lord, what does she want to know or want me to do? I suddenly get snapped back to reality by Callie taking my hand 'Don't look so worried, it's not bad, well, it's not that bad. I kinda was wondering if you would come with me for dinner tonight?' Dinner, phew, I can handle that, but something tells me that there is more to it than that. 'Of course Calliope, I'd love to join you for dinner' I reply. She smiles, but is still looking a bit nervous. 'Spit it out' I say, there is obviously something else going on here. 'Thing is, it won't just be the two of us...' Great a double date with Mark and some skank no doubt, nope, even worse. 'My parents are in town, and I kinda mentioned I was seeing someone and they want to meet you'. Oh crap, this I do not want or need this, especially since we have only just started dating. 'Arizona, you need to say something, I need you to form actual words here' she sounds concerned by my lack of response. 'I know I sprung this on you, but I didn't mean to tell them about us yet, but they said I sounded happy, and I told them about you and before I knew it I had agreed to bring you tonight...but I totally understand if you don't want to go. Please don't be mad at me, I know it's a big deal and you look like you are about to stroke out'. She gives my hand a gentle squeeze and I decide I better respond. 'Ah, er, I don't know...I suppose I could go...if you really want me to? Is all I can muster as a response. Her eyes light up 'Really, because I was terrified you would say no'. Crap, I totally could have gotten away with saying no, but she seems happy that I have agreed to go. 'Well, I must get back to work, dinner is at 8 so 'I'll pick you up 10 minutes before, god, you are the best girlfriend ever' she says as she gets up. She leans over the table and kisses me on my stunned face and whispers in my ear 'And as a reward, I'm totally going to rock your world after dinner tonight' and with that she is off. I sit there stunned, for I don't know how long, this is moving a little too fast here.

Callie's POV

I am a little surprised that she agreed to go and I purposely ran off before she could fully process or change her mind. I'm terrified that she is going to cancel, and every time my phone goes off I'm convinced that it is her and she has decided to bail. So as I know on her door to pick her up I'm still terrified that she has run off, but she hasn't, she opens the door and steps out. She is wearing a black dress, with her hair down and she looks super adorable. 'Is this ok?, I wasn't sure what to wear for a meet the parents kinda dinner' she is so nervous, so I step towards her and wrap her in my arms and I can feel how tense she is, but after a few seconds she relaxes into my arms. 'Sweetie, you look beautiful as always' I tell her 'Please don't be nervous or scared, my parents don't bite, and if they try ill protect you' I say as I kiss her. She half smiles and I take her hand and lead her away 'Ok, any topics I should avoid? Do they know you date women now? Oh God, did you tell them that you are dating a woman now? What...' I have to stop her 'Arizona, most topics are fine, just let you know that my parents are Catholic so don't get stuck in any of that stuff, yes they know I date women, sure they aren't thrilled about it, but I'm sure once they meet you they will change their minds, and yes I told them you are a woman...anything else?. Crap, she has stopped walking and is frozen to the spot. 'Seriously Callie, seriously...' she yells at me, ok I need to fix this fast. 'Don't worry it will be fine, please, please don't back out now' I give her my best puppy dog eyes and she just rolls her eyes and starts to walk again.

Arizona's POV

If I make it through dinner I'm gonna kill Callie. This has all the signs of being a complete disaster, and as we approach the table I contemplate bolting except for the vice-grip Callie has on my hand. Callie introduces me to her parents and I try my best to act relatively calm although I am sweating profusely. Small talk flows fairly smoothly but there are lots of patches of deafening silence. It's kinda uncomfortable and there is obviously serious tension between Callie and her parents. Her dad to doing most of the talking and I can feel the mother giving me lots of evil eyes. She probably thinks I have corrupted her daughter or something. Good thing there is wine, lots of wine and after two glasses I have relaxed a bit. We have just been served our main course when Callie's phone goes off, she apologises and goes to take the call, leaving me alone with the parents...great. Mr Torres asks me about my job and I tell him the basic aspects of it. Callie returns and I can see by the look on her face it wasn't good news. 'I'm really sorry but there has been a huge pile up on the freeway and I have to rush back to the hospital' FML, seriously, she has to leave, leave me with her parents, you couldn't write this shit. 'What a shame' Mr Torres says, fuck, there is no way I can leave too, is there? She leans over to kiss me on the cheek 'I really am so sorry, but I have to go' I just nod, trying not to look too pissed but she can see it in my face. The next 30 minutes are extremely uncomfortable but I try my best to keep talking. Callie's mother doesn't say a word and ever so often she rolls her eyes or sighs. She clearly doesn't approve of me or my relationship with her daughter. Finally dinner ends and I'm so relieved. I say my goodbyes and as I'm leaving Mr Torres calls me back 'Arizona, I appreciate what you did for Callie tonight, and I know that wasn't the most comfortable dinner, but we are still adjusting to Callie's new life style, but I can see you are a wonderful person and you must care for Callie deeply to agree to come have dinner with us. You make her happy and that the most important thing. Her mother will come around, she just needs more time to adjust'.

Callie's POV

It's nearly 5am when I get to leave the hospital and it has been a terrible night. The pile up caused complete carnage in the hospital. There were injured people everywhere. It was just surgery after surgery. Broken bones everywhere I looked. 7 people died, 2 on my operating table and I'm physically and emotionally exhausted. All I want to do is crawl into bed with my girl but I have no idea how dinner went or if she is pissed with me or if she even is my girl anymore. I want to see her even if she is just gonna shout and be mad at me. I knock on the door loudly and repeatedly until I can hear her coming to answer it. 'Callie, what the hell, do you know what fuckin time it is...' I can't contain my emotions and I burst into tears. 'Oh shit Callie, I'm sorry I didn't mean to yell, are you ok?' All I can do is stand there and cry hysterically and she takes me by the hand and brings me inside and into the bedroom. She helps me get changed and puts me into bed. She craws in behind me and wraps her arms around me. 'Callie, tell me what happened' she says softly and presses a kiss against my shoulder. 'It was awful, people were so badly hurt and we lost 7, 7 Arizona. And, then I was terrified that you would be mad at me for abandoning you with my parents, especially since things were pretty tense before I left. I thought you wouldn't ever want to see me again' I choke out in-between sobs. 'Callie, don't ever think that, you are important to me, I care about you and it wasn't your fault you had to leave, I understand that the hospital needed you. I'm sorry you lost patients but I know you saved some too and you can't always save everyone'. I honestly don't know how blessed I am to have such an amazing woman, she knows exactly what to say to make me feel better. I turn to face her and she wipes away my still falling tears 'I'm so sorry, and I know I promised to rock your world tonight but I'm just so exhausted and I...' she interrupts me 'Kiss me' she simple says. I lean in and kiss her with everything I have left in me. 'There' she smiles, 'You just totally rocked my world with that kiss, now stop worrying and go to sleep'. I lay my head on her chest and drift off thinking about how lucky I am to have her.