Hey everyone.
I don't feel very satisfied with this chapter, but I hope you like it. And don't worry, the finals answers will come.
Happy Grey's Day :)
Everything About You
Arizona sat on the bench outside the hospital, it was a cold night but calm so she could take a breath and ... think. Bad thing.
There was a reason why she was so busy all the time and swamped at work until the wee hours of the morning. If she stopped her pace, her mind began to work. And she did not want to think or remember or grinding her head trying to figure out what exactly had happened two years ago.
Arizona went to the graduation and white coat ceremony and take the Hippocratic Oath. She became a Doctor. After hard work and effort, she managed to pay her final year of Medicine, now she is a soon to be resident at St. Mary Hospital in New York. She couldn't leave this city. This is where she fell in love and lost love.
Two years ago, the blonde last saw the brunette who stole her heart, sitting amid a cellar and gagged with fear. She would never forget the horror that unfolded in beautiful brown eyes. She felt guilty for what happened that day and felt guilty about that she couldn't do anything to save Callie.
Arizona unconsciously brought her hand to her cheek to dry the tears that surely were rolling down her face, but she was surprised when she didn't found moisture. Perhaps her tears had dried, maybe it was the cold night or even the solemnity of her thoughts of helplessness and anger at not being able to do anything. She didn't know, she just knew there was a void in her heart, an irreplaceable one.
She was so lost in thought that she didn't realize the person sitting next to her.
"Again you're hammering your head thinking about her?" Teddy's voice broke the silence. Teddy had her arms around herself is to relieve cold night. Teddy waited until her friend realized she was sitting beside her and spoke aloud.
"I never stop thinking about her. I get distracted and focus on other things, but her face is always there ... smiling at me." The blonde finally answered after a few minutes of silence.
"I know it's hard, but ..."
"No, you don't." Arizona interrupted. "It's the worst feeling of hopelessness that a person can experience." Teddy just listened. She learned to be silent when Arizona had the courage to open up. "It's like if they ripped a piece of you and leave behind this huge hole inside you. It's horrible. And the memories haunt you wherever you go, I remember the first time I saw her, the first kiss I gave her, the first time we made love, I remember the laughter, silly jokes, her smell ... I remember everything about her, every word, every painting in her apartment, each mole on her body... Everything."
Now Teddy's eyes filled with tears as she ran her hand down Arizona's back softly. She wanted to be supportive, but not sure how to do it, so she just remained silent.
"I can't do anything to change what happened, she's just not here. She's gone and I can't bring her back anymore." Arizona said. "I know it's pathetic, that two years have passed, but I can't even think about moving on, at least not in that aspect of my life. I can't just forget about her, Teddy."
"It's not pathetic at all, is what you feel and no matter how much time has passed, you're still grieving. You lost to the person you love, that's not easy to beat." Teddy said softly while hugging her friend.
"Thanks Teddy, for being here with me. I know I'm not the best company." Arizona laughed bitterly.
"You're my friend and I love you very much. I'll always be there for you." Teddy said. "Even if you're a shit company." She joked making the blonde laugh in her arms.
"Okay I got it."
Teddy took a deep breath kissed Arizona's forehead. "By the time you have to study for our intern exam or you'll repeat the internship year. You need to study, not everything is natural talent my friend." She joked.
"Yes I know. First we get out of this bench, I'm dying of cold." Arizona said standing up and walking side by side with her friend.
At least she could do something about her career.
Two Years Ago.
Arizona had its hands tied in the back as he walked to the cellar near the waterfront of the city. All was quiet, there was a calm in the atmosphere that only served to ruffle the neck blonde hair. She felt she was going to the orca or to the doomsday, where she definitely had no chance of getting out alive.
The green gate of the cellar opened in a thud revealing the lone figure in the middle of the room with low light. Arizona didn't have to be guessed to know who was in solitary chair. Her heart clenched in performing. Callie.
The guys pushed her into the cellar up to her gagged brunette, her former assistant Alex was in a corner of the cellar, he looked nervous but he did nothing but wait for the next orders. Arizona looked at the brunette again, Callie was tied to a chair with tape and gagged with tape, her eyes were red from what Arizona supposed for mourn, she looked tired and scared, what broke the blonde's heart a little bit more.
Callie looked at the blonde and a flash of relief went through her eyes when she saw the blue eyes. Callie was definitely scared, but also frightened her that the blonde was nowhere near. Maybe aren't the most appropriate circumstances, but the brunette feared the evil woman who had them now, somehow retaliate against the blue-eyed blonde. So she was relieved to see her alive and nearby.
"Beautiful right?" The arrogant voice of the tall blonde echoed in place. She saw the way Arizona looked at Callie. "Sit Arizona, everything is about to begin." Lauren said, pointing the chair next to Callie.
"Boss?" One of the men approached the slender blonde. "We have the package." The man said.
"Bring it to me." She ordered. Lauren turned and looked at the two women before her. "You know what they say, if you want things to go well you have to do the work yourself." She directed her gaze to Callie. "You're just as beautiful as your mother." Lauren said before rip off the tape from the brunette's lips.
"Ahhh!" Callie moaned in pain and tried to catch his breath.
"Oh get over it, it's no big deal. You're a weakling." Lauren sneered before turning and receive the precious package that one of his men brought to her. "Finally in my hands." She grinned.
"Why do you mention my mother?" Callie asked in a firm voice. Arizona could only watch, her mouth was also covered with tape.
"You recover already, I thought I wouldn't see the day." Lauren laughed aloud.
"Answer the damn question." Callie screamed out.
"Who are you to tell me what to do? The way I see it, you are very close to receiving a shot if you don't shut up." Lauren replied angrily.
"If you wanted to kill me you had already done it, but dog that barks doesn't bite." Callie said it quite steady. She was tired of being afraid.
"You just call me a coward?" Lauren asked in mock disbelief. "The only reason you are not dead yet, is because I want you to be very alert when I start to tell my story."
"If this is the part where you start counting your stupid, sad and pathetic story of how you go from being a good girl to be a fucking bitch in the underworld, then please kill me now. I have not interest in hearing your stupid stories about girls with no future ..." Lauren slapped her with the back of her hand so hard that she made her lip bleeding a bit.
"You seriously miss your parents at home, am I wrong?" Lauren said taking Callie's chin to look into her eyes.
"You are wrong, my parents were excellent parents. Better than yours I bet." Callie said preparing herself for the blow, but Lauren just laughed at her in her face.
"Oh God! This is gonna be so much fun." Lauren laughed smugly. "Arizona tell me which is worse than physical pain?" Lauren look at the gagged blonde. "Oh sorry darling, let me remove that from your mouth." Lauren sat astride Arizona's lap placing their bodies flush and slowly took off the tape that made mourn the blonde. "Shh ... shh easy, easy." Lauren said with mock concern.
Once finished torturing the blonde, Lauren took the sides of Arizona's face and crushed her lips together while Callie looked askance. "Mmm ... I understand why you like my girl, Callie. Her mouth does wonders, right?" Lauren asked with a leer. "Answer my question, dear." She asked the blonde.
"Emotional Pain." Arizona said hoarsely for the persistent pain on her lips.
"That's it! I teaches you well." Lauren said proudly. Lauren stayed in the lap of Arizona only watching the bright blue eyes of unshed tears. "If you had done what I asked you to do at this point we would be celebrating in my bed." She stroked Arizona's hair while kissing her cheek and then her neck.
Arizona could feel the hot breath on her ear and made her shiver but terror, her body began to shake like a sheet of paper. She looked at Callie who never took her eyes off the scene and she felt dirty and repulsive. That was what she felt whenever she had to sleep with Lauren. Sure at first it was because she was in love with the tall blonde, but that changed over the years and with the humiliating things Lauren made her to do. And now that Callie was watching made her feel even worse.
But Callie instead of feeling anger, she felt disgusted to see how this crazy woman took advantage of a defenseless person. Arizona was completely scared and Callie could see it in her blue eyes. Only nurtured her murderer instinct.
"Leave her, NOW!" The brunette shouted echoing in the cellar.
"Will you stop screaming, I'm in the middle of something." Lauren was kissing the blonde and touching her body.
"Don't you realize that she just feels disgust for you?" Callie screamed again trying to stop the blonde to open Arizona's pants button. "If you want someone to be with you make sure is because she wants to, not because you're forcing her." Lauren stopped yet looked into the blue eyes. "You let down, well below the women name, you know? Someone who has to muzzle and hurt someone in order to be with you, just shows how pathetic you are."
Arizona was afraid that Lauren will hurt Callie by her words, so she kept her eyes on the green hazelnut ones. And for the first time she felt no shame in looking at Lauren's eyes. If Callie could be brave, she could too. There was nothing to lose.
"Who told you that I forced her to be with me?" Lauren asked the brunette with apparent calm. "She stayed with me because she wanted as well. She didn't tell you that part? "
"She told me it wasn't exactly for love that she continued working for you, if that's what you mean." Callie replied.
"Oh sure it wasn't for love, dear. It was for money, you think I don't know. This beauty is like a leech, just squeeze you until there is nothing left." The tall blonde laughed.
"That's not true." Arizona said firmly.
"Oh so now you're talking, I need to remind you how much of my money you've taken from me since you were 17?"
"If I remember correctly, that money I've earned it working ... I'm not proud of that work ... but I won it." Arizona said. "It's not like I was sitting on my ass asking you for money all the time."
"Watch your tone with me, Arizona." Lauren tightened Arizona's jaw.
"The past doesn't define who you are." Callie said sternly caters more to Arizona.
"But well that defines who you become." Lauren said. "Well enough of this nonsense and profound words. The truth is that I'm boring, so why not start?" She stood up and walked over to the table where Callie's paintings were. That was her precious package.
"How the hell did you get that?" Callie screamed out when she saw the paintings in the tall blonde's hands.
"Quiet little sister, I'll explain everything from the beginning and then you two can go together." Lauren smiled. "At the bottom of the ocean." She scoffed at her last statement.
"How did you just called me?" Callie was shocked, she didn't believe listen well.
"As you hear it, Calliope. You have another sister. Older sister actually." Lauren said. Arizona looked at Callie in astonishment.
"You're crazy, I don't have a third sister." Callie said tightly. "You're seeing too many Mexican movies."
Lauren laughed still behind to the two dismayed women. "That was funny, but just so you know I don't understand Spanish, so ..." She was still laughing. She took a knife ready to tear the paint, but she stopped.
"Callie, do you know who made these paintings?" She asked.
"I have no idea." Callie said sincerely.
"Your mother did." Lauren said with a smile, she turned to face the moored women. "Yes dear, apparently the artistry is in your veins." The blonde said vehemently.
"How did you get them?" Callie asked.
"You took me to them." Callie looked confused. "When you lit the phone gave me your location and the cabin in where you been the past week, that's how I found you and recovered the paintings. Anything else? "
"Why did you say you are my sister?"
"Because that's the truth. Your mother, Lucia Torres was my mother too." She replied in all seriousness.
"That's not true, my mother didn't had another child besides Aria and me."
"I'm your older sister, Calliope."
"That's not true!" Callie screamed.
"Oh but it is. My name is Lauren Boswell, I take the name of my father, Benjamin Boswell." She said.
"I thought your name was Amanda." Callie looked confused.
"That's how Arizona met me, but my real name is Lauren Boswell." Lauren confirmed. "But we stray from the point. And the point here is that your mother was mine too. She was a complete bitch who caught my father to take away everything he had."
"Shut up! That's a lie." Callie was looking red now. No one speaks ill about her mother and goes smoothly.
"Just telling the truth, sweetness." Lauren looked at the first painting before ripping with the knife. In any of these four paintings was what she needed.
"What are you doing, you're destroying them." Callie watched in horror as the blonde completely ruined the painting of her father's portrait.
"Calm down, is just another stupid painting."
"That may be the last thing I have of my dead mother. It's not something stupid, your bitch." Callie couldn't hold her tears of anger overwhelm her face.
"Callie, Callie ... you need to calm down." Arizona whispered. She just tried to protect Callie from Lauren's wrath.
"How can you ask me to do that?"
"You should pay attention to the leech." Lauren said as she looked at Aria's painting. "She's cute, but a terrible pain in the ass."
"You know my sister?" Callie didn't know what else to expect from this damn crazy night.
"We studied together in college. We actually went some kind friends." Lauren recalled her relationship with Aria Torres.
"This is crazy, all this."
"Not to say that is a lie, though." Lauren said. "Your mother took off from me the opportunity to grow up in a real family ..."
"You're delusional, Lauren, Amanda or whatever your name is. My mother had not done anything." Callie defended.
"SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
Arizona and Callie both shuddered to hear the loud scream from the woman. Lauren stabbed Aria's painting. "All fucking women Torres never make silent and always believe to be right at all ... I hate all of you." Lauren keep stabbing Aria's painting as she spoke.
"Your holy mother!" Lauren took the painting with Lucia Torres's portrait. "Your holy mother embezzled my dad's company and then she let him with a newborn in his arms." She looked at the two women with wide eyes. "Then she married your father, became billionaires and had two perfect daughters." Lauren laughed audibly. "At the cost of my father's goods."
Callie shook her head to her, all that came from the mouth of this woman was a vile lie or a hallucination in her mess up head. She couldn't believe the words of this woman, she just couldn't. Arizona on the other hand was getting impatient with the whole situation, she looked at Alex in the corner again and with her eyes convey a message.
"Don't harm her portrait." Callie cried. "Please don't harm her portrait." She pleaded.
"You loved her?" Lauren teased. "I loved my father, but he was so stupidly in love with Lucia despite the years that he lost himself in alcohol and suddenly he was no longer my father anymore."
"Why do you blame her for your crappy childhood?" Arizona asked suddenly surprising both women.
"They will pay for what they did to my father." Lauren cleared her throat. "Lucia had already paid."
"What do you mean?" Arizona asked in confuse.
"I killed her." A gasp came from the brunette who was sick by now. Lauren however was calm, as if what she just said was the most normal thing in the world.
The silence was unbearable, Callie's sobbing was the only sound in the cellar. The despair, the horror, the pain was what Callie was felling trying to process Lauren's words.
"No! No, No. She died in a plane crash when I was thirteen ..."
"That's what your father told you. I was 22 when I saw how life went out her beautiful brown eyes. It was the happiest moment of my life." Lauren rejoiced while Callie was mourning her mother's death for the second time. Arizona was just in the loss of words to see the evil reflected on the green eyes, she couldn't believe she ever came to fall in love with a monster like that.
"What are you going to do to me?" Callie asked quietly. She could feel her body just gave up.
"I don't know yet. There are many ways to get rid of people. "Lauren ripping with the knife the painting of Lucia's portrait, but there was nothing there either. She took the last of the paintings in her hands. It was Callie's portrait. "She had talent, that can't be denied." She mused to inspect the portrait.
"It's you." Callie said. Lauren looked at her with genuine confusion and Arizona just waiting to Callie explained more. "In the back of this painting is a portrait of a young woman in black and white. It's you. You have changed over the years, but it's you." Callie said sipping nose.
Lauren looked puffy eyes not wanting to believe what she heard, but she turn it over the painting and a image of herself at 17 years old came before her eyes. It was her. And then her eyes dropped to the initial 'L.B'
"What do the initials means?" Callie asked remembering the initials that were in painting the first time she saw them in her apartment.
"Lauren and Benjamin." The blonde replied without taking her eyes off the painting. "My father always wrote our names together." Lauren cried as she remembered her father. "She knew me, she knew who I was and she never said anything." She spoke to herself.
"Maybe she already knew how crazy you were." Callie said bitterly looking elsewhere other than the two women in the cellar.
Lauren laughed. "Yeah, maybe." Lauren this time not ripped the painting. She did her best to keep it intact while she detached it from the frame. And there was what she was looking for.
"Why your portrait is in the same painting Callie's portrait?" Arizona asked shyly.
"My guess, because she is the spoiled youngest daughter and I am the older abandoned one." Lauren said as she read through the papers she found in there. "It is morbid if you ask me, but it makes sense." She turned to look at the brunette and approached to her. "You know what this is?" She pointed to the papers in her hand. Callie shook her head in response. "This is proof that your parents destroyed my father. It's his will and financial reports of the company. It's only a matter of time to put your father in jail and leave you and your sister in ruin, princess." She grinned, but the shots made her freeze.
"What was that?" Lauren asked some of the men standing in the door of the cellar.
"I don't know, boss." The man replied panicked. Before Lauren could say more, bullets echoed in the cellar.
Arizona stood and pushed Callie down to avoid the bullets. The shots didn't cease, it hear the struggle of people fighting outside the cellar and now Lauren was shooting right and left to anyone. The noise was unbearable, men who were guarding Lauren were some decommissioned and other posts in custody, except Alex who stay stoic in the corner of the cellar. Lauren hid under the table that was in the cellar and made sure to keep her father's papers inside the pants, the papers that Lucia hide in the paintings and proved that Callie's parents were guilty.
The silence suddenly came and waits for the next movement.
"You okay?" Callie whispered Arizona. The brunette just nodded.
The sound of megaphones and blue and red lights came into cellar.
"NYPD, Lauren Boswell go out with your hands up." The thick officer's voice was heard.
"It's over, Calliope. It's over." Arizona said with a small smile that wasn't reflected in the brunette's face.
Lauren tried to resist arrest, but was quickly contained by the officers. She had run out of bullets. "Lauren Boswell, you're arrested for shooting at police officers, for theft and fraud against the government, for armed kidnapping and for Lucia Torres's murder. You have the right to counsel and to remain silent, anything you say can be used against to you." The officer recited the rights to women who was trying to wrestle against wives.
Arizona felt like someone approached her to untie her hands still tied behind her back, while an officer released Callie's arms and legs too.
"I can't believe this damn crazy plan worked out." Alex told the blonde when she was released.
"I told you it would work." Arizona replied solemnly, but her eyes never left the peaceful Callie's face. The brunette hadn't said a word.
"Guys you need to come with me to the police station to make a statement." The commanding officer said.
Callie nodded and started walking toward the police car as fast as she could, leaving behind an Arizona appalled by her attitude.
Now they were at the station and taken straight to the prosecutor's office. Arizona began to explain. "Few days ago, I spoke with Alex and asked him for help ago. We weren't in good terms but Alex said he doesn't wanted to be part of a double murder, so he helped me with this."
"We agreed to call the police and hand over to Lauren, it turns out that this woman was wanted for theft and fraud as well." Alex complemented.
"Alex took a microphone in his chest where we everything what Ms. Boswell said, he made the call from the location of the cellar and then just was waiting for Mrs. Boswell confessed what she had done, but we never expected to hear that she had committed a murder years ago." The official said to the prosecutor.
The prosecutor nodded aware of the whole situation and then went to Callie. "Miss Torres, I know this is a difficult time but we need your statement of facts."
Callie was staring off Arizona, Alex and the three other officers in the room. She sighed heavily, then looked into the prosecutor's eyes. "That woman murdered my mother eleven years ago for revenge." She said with her voice firm and free of emotions. "There's nothing more to say." Callie breathe out. "Oh! And I want to present charge against Carlos Torres, for embezzlement and illicit enrichment, that's the reason why Lauren Boswell is looking destroy away my family. Check in her pants, she has the evidence." Callie stood up and left the prosecutor's office.
"Miss Torres?"
"Callie ..." Arizona sighed.
Present.
That was the last thing Arizona heard from Callie two years ago. After that, the brunette disappeared from the face of the earth or at least New York without a word, without speaking to anyone, she just left and never looked back. Callie dropped out of college and her apartment, Arizona didn't know how to find her. But the blonde deep down hopes that one day she decides to return.
She was in the hospital lockers changing in her street clothes, she had to leave the hospital or she'll fall asleep on a patient. She closed the locker and put her sports shoes when the door opened noisily.
"Where the hell have you been? I've been looking for you around the hospital. "
"You found me, Teddy." The blonde said condescendingly.
Teddy rolled her eyes before speaking. "Someone is looking for you, he says it's important." Arizona looked confused and followed her friend to the reception.
"Alex?" Arizona looked confused at careless man. She hadn't seen the man for months.
"She's back, Robbins."
All mistakes are mine.
