Chapter 14:
"You smell good" Callie whispered as she nuzzled the soft skin of Arizona's neck. She was leaning against the arm rest of the blonde's couch with the smaller woman resting against her. Arizona's back was to her front and Callie's arms were holding her in a tight embrace. The blonde ran her fingers down the latina's arms and reveled in the feel of her skin.
"I probably smell like the inside of an operating room" she joked. She felt Callie laugh against her ear and it sent electricity down the length of her body.
"Well, the O.R does get me hot so I think it works." The dark skinned woman nipped at the blonde's ear and lightly kissed a path down her neck. Arizona tensed as the sensations slowly started to accost her body. Her hands on Callie's arm tightened and she inhaled sharply. Turning her neck to the side, she allowed the sensations to wash over her as the taller woman's lips lazily continued to explore her neck.
The blonde ran her left hand down Callie's left arm and laced their fingers together. She turned her head towards the other woman and captured her lips with her own. The kiss was passionate and wet. Callie's lips and tongue danced with the blonde's with practiced ease. Arizona felt her bottom lip being taken forcefully between her lovers before she felt the dark haired woman pull away. She opened her eyes to question the change when she saw Callie leaning towards her again. Before she had time to register what was happening, Callie's tongue was running along her chin, over her bottom lip and forcing its way into her mouth once again.
She felt as if she could barely breathe. She inhaled through her nose as she tried to keep pace with the other woman. Callie never ceased to amaze her with the things she could do with her lips. The ortho surgeon's tongue was roughly gliding across her teeth and dueling fiercely with her own tongue. Just as she matched her girlfriend's pace, the other woman pulled away...again.
"You know, you're right. You do smell like the O.R. Let's fix that, shall we?"
Arizona felt the warm body behind her moving and, as a result, felt her own body being repositioned. She looked up and saw Callie reaching a hand down to her. The latina was smirking at her, her full lips red and swollen.
"You don't play fair, Calliope Torres" the blonde said as she reached up to take the hand that had been offered to her. Callie pulled her to her feet and quickly wrapped her arms around her.
"You'll like what I have planned, Arizona Robbins. Besides, a change of scenery is in order."
Arizona glanced away from the dark eyes before her and realized that Callie was right. The pictures from the previous night were still scattered about her living room. When she and Callie had entered her apartment, they'd both made a bee line for the couch; both of them wanting to just sit and relax and let their worldly worries dissipate.
"Come on, dimples. Follow me." Callie's words brought the blonde out of her reverie and she felt herself being lead down her hallway.
"So, what do you have planned exactly?" she asked as the two of them entered her bedroom. Callie released her hand and walked towards the bathroom set to the right of them.
"Well, I was thinking I'd show you, but if you really want to me spell everything out..." Callie let the words hang between them. Flipping on the light switch in the bathroom, she leaned over the large garden bathtub and turned the hot water faucet on. Arizona leaned against the door frame and smiled at her girlfriend.
"I love you" she said softly. Callie turned slightly to face her and smiled herself. Arizona was watching her wistfully. Her eyes were alight with nothing but adoration.
"I love you, too Ari. Now, where are your bubbles? We can't have a bubble bath without bubbles" she asked as she stood up and proceeded to rummage through the blonde's cabinets. Arizona watched her with a curious expression. Callie was doing all of this for her. She was being supportive and attentive and loving. Even after finding out the blonde's secret, Callie was still choosing to stand by her. She was still willing to work things out. She still loved her.
"Oh! This one sounds promising! 'Midnight Pomegranate'." Callie turned back to the bathtub and lavishly poured the dark red liquid under the running water. Turning the cold water on, she adjusted the temperature and moved away from the tub. Arizona was still leaning against the doorway, her eyes tracking Callie's every move.
"Like what you see?" she asked playfully.
Arizona smirked and crossed her arms over her chest. "Maybe." she replied.
Callie raised an eyebrow and pursed her lips. She lowered her hands languidly down the front of her body until they came to rest at the hem of her shirt. The blonde was still watching her, but her eyes were darker than they had been a moment before. Noticing that she had the smaller woman's full attention, Callie slowly removed her top. She tossed it, carelessly across the floor and looked back to her girlfriend.
"What about now?" she asked "Like what you see?" She smiled when she saw Arizona's tongue wet her lips. The blonde's eyes trailed down her exposed skin at a leisurely pace. She felt herself blush at the scrutiny.
"Hmm, I might."
Callie turned to check the water level in the bathtub and, upon seeing it still had a ways to go, took a step towards the blonde. Arizona sucked in a sharp breath at the Latina's proximity, but she kept her eyes focused on Callie. She watched as Callie's hands trailed down her own body and came to a stop at the waistband of her pants. Bringing her gaze back to that of her girlfriends, Arizona saw that Callie was watching her just as intently.
The ortho surgeon's fingers unbuttoned her pants and Arizona watched as the other woman slid them down long, toned, bronzed legs. Callie stepped out of her pants and kicked them to the side where they landed in the same corner as her, earlier discarded, shirt. Standing before Arizona in only her bra and panties, the dark skinned woman smirked and let the blonde take her in.
"Like what you see?" she whispered. Her skin was on fire as she watched Arizona's eyes rake up and down her half nude body.
"I do." the peds surgeon answered simply. "You're perfect, Calliope."
Arizona pushed herself off the door jam and came to stand in front her girlfriend. She brought her right hand to Callie's chest and gently let her fingers glide across the smooth skin. Her fingers trailed over the other woman's sternum before changing direction and sliding down between the valley of her breasts. She heard the raven haired woman gasp as her fingers played across her skin.
"You're perfect" she said again, reverently.
Callie blushed at the words as a small smile spread across her face. She let her hands work their way under the blonde's shirt and was rewarded when she felt an exhalation of breath against her face.
"Once we get these clothes off of you, you'll be perfect too."
Arizona laughed and stepped back to allow the other woman to remove the rest of the barriers separating them. Her eyes never left Callie's. Every once and a while, the dark skinned woman's gaze would falter as she went about the task of removing the articles of clothing, but every time she swept her eyes back up to the blonde's, she found that Arizona was still watching her just as mesmerizingly as before.
When the two of them were both finally nude, Callie smiled wickedly at the smaller woman before leading them both back to the bath tub. She checked the water's temperature one final time and then shut the water off. The scent of the bath beads she'd used had quickly filled the room with its fresh, invigorating scent. The bubbles the beads had caused were thick like clouds as they floated on the surface of the water.
Callie looked over her shoulder at Arizona before stepping into the garden sized tub. She submerged herself in the heat of the water and rejoiced as she felt the tension from the last few days leave her body. She let her back come to rest against the back of the tub and opened her eyes. Arizona was still standing at the edge watching her with a small smile plastered to her face. She allowed the smile to widen and, as she did so, Callie was rewarded with a brief flash of dimples. The blonde moaned as she felt the initial contact of the water glide over her body.
She moved around the large basin until she came face to face with her girlfriend. Smiling, she leaned towards the woman as if to kiss her, but at the last moment she turned her head so that it was against Callie's right ear.
"Have I ever told you how much I love it when you're wet?" she breathed across the Latina's ear. Callie's response was a deep moan. She grabbed Arizona and positioned her so that the other woman's back was, once again, to her front. Callie let her hands slide along Arizona's arms and chest. The blonde woman's skin was wet and slippery from the bath beads. Leaning forward slightly, the ortho surgeon let her head drop to the blonde's shoulder. She placed a gentle kiss on the soft skin of Arizona's shoulder blade before starting a path up her neck.
Her right hand had moved from the blonde's arm to her stomach and she sighed heavily against Arizona's neck when she felt her muscles tighten in response. She let her hand move farther south and quickly dip between the smaller woman's legs. The blonde jerked back against her at the sudden contact. She felt Callie smile against her neck.
"I love it when you're wet, too." she heard before Callie's fingers moved back up her body to resume their earlier ministrations.
"God, Callie, I needed this. You're amazing" she said. She let her head fall back onto the other woman's shoulder as she sighed her contentment.
"We both needed this, Ari. When things get crazy, all I want to do is get lost in you." Callie's hands moved to the blonde's breasts and she moaned against Arizona's skin as she allowed her fingers to glide over taut nipples. She heard an excited hitch of breath from the smaller woman and continued to kiss her neck. When she found the peds surgeon's pulse point, she roughly dragged her tongue across before letting her teeth gently nip it.
Arizona turned her head suddenly and nudged Callie's face with her nose. When the other woman looked up in silent question, Arizona let her mouth do the talking. She kissed Callie as if she were her air, her sustenance. Her lips were gentle, soft, against the ortho surgeons, but her tongue was almost harsh in its assault inside Callie's mouth. It massaged along the latina's own tongue with a wet heat that left Callie feeling as though she were having a bout of vertigo.
The taller woman squeezed the blonde's right nipple as her left hand ran circles across her other breast. She felt Arizona pushing back against her as she allowed her body to get lost in the sensations. Callie wrapped her legs around the blonde's in an effort to calm her jerking body. Pulling away from the searing kiss, she let her forehead rest against Arizona's. Both woman were breathing deeply.
"You're giving me a whole new appreciation for bubble baths, Calliope."
"I want to give you a new appreciation for everything, Arizona."
Her words were laced with a double meaning. Callie knew that they had agreed to just be them tonight, but a part of her was feeling uneasy about not talking things though...again. She wanted to discuss everything, especially the latest revelation about Terri. She felt as if the blonde was trying to hide herself and run from her problems a little while longer. Callie felt torn between wanting to work through Arizona's past with her and respecting her wishes for tonight. She let her hands move back to the blonde's arms. Her fingers slowly slid down Arizona's skin before she let her hands grasp the smaller woman's.
She gently squeezed the fingers entwined with her own. The blonde was silent for a few minutes.
"You do give me a new appreciation, Calliope. You give me a new today, a better tomorrow."
The two women remained in the bath tub for several long moments afterward. The simple joy of being able to relish in the others' skin was something that they both cherished. With their work schedules, neither woman found much time for such decadent pursuits. When they were both clean(and no longer smelling like the O.R), the two surgeons quickly dried themselves and retired to Arizona's bedroom.
"I'm not really tired, Dr. Robbins." Callie said as she laid her nude form on Arizona's bed. "Any advice?"
The blonde stood at the foot of her bed and openly stared at the gorgeous body laid out before her. Callie's hair was wet and clung to her face, neck and shoulders in waves of dark tendrils. Her bottom lip was sucked between her teeth as she stared at the blonde with an impish expression.
Arizona let her eyes trail down her girlfriend's body. She could feel the wetness pooling between her thighs at the sight of the Latina's full breasts. Noticing movement, Arizona watched as Callie spread her legs wider and bent her knees so that her feet were flat on the bed. The wetness between the blonde's legs increased as she watched her girlfriend open herself up to her.
"Any suggestions, Dr. Robbins?" The blonde noticed that Callie's voice was lower. It was heavy with barely restrained desire. Arizona crawled onto the bed and in between her girlfriend's bent knees. Keeping her eyes on Callie's, Arizona dropped head to the dark haired woman's sex and dipped her tongue into liquid heat. She pulled back slightly before attaching her lips to Callie's throbbing clit. She let the tip of her tongue swirl wet circles over the sensitive nub. The other woman's not-so-silent moans wafted to her ears and the bucking of hips spread wet heat across her face.
Removing her tongue from Callie's clit, she crawled up her body. Hovering over the ortho surgeon, Arizona bent down to dip her tongue into her mouth. She allowed just the tip to part and enter Callie's lips before she pulled her head back.
"I think we'll be able to think of something." she whispered before moving back down her girlfriends full body.