It's been a bit longer since I've last updated, so I made this chapter a little bit longer than normal.

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Chapter 14: Car Ride Games

"So, Matt stayed pretty late last night." Arizona commented with a sly smirk on her face as she entered to kitchen to find Addison sitting on the counter in her robe, reading her newspaper and a coffee mug in hand.

Addison returned the smirk as she looked up from her paper. "Yeah, I guess he did. There's coffee in the pot."

Arizona nodded as she poured herself a cup. "Yeah... He seems like a great guy..." Arizona hinted subtly.

Addison rolled her eyes. "We're going out before he leaves back to Sacramento, and because he didn't want to pull James away from L.A., he's just moving down here, so I think I might be seeing a little more of him. Is that what you wanted to hear?"

Arizona giggled into her mug. "Actually, that's exactly what I wanted to hear." Addison joined in on her giggled as she swatted Arizona with the newspaper.

"So that means you'll kind of be filling in as a second mom for James." Arizona casually said as she grabbed a piece of bacon off a plate that was on the island.

Addison froze as she looked up from her paper. "shit." She muttered. "I'm so not mom material."

Arizona scoffed. "Is anybody? Seriously, Addison, don't worry. You were great with him yesterday, and Addison was telling me that, that was one of the reasons you came down here; to have a baby. I know it didn't work out but isn't this kind of a blessing from the sky? You get to skip all the icky stuff."

Addison sighed. "I just... I have a really bad track record with guys, and I don't want to have this amazing kid get emotionally attached for it to just all fall apart."

Arizona shrugged. "To tell you the truth, I don't think this is going to be another man on that record.. There were real sparks between the two of you."

"You think?" Addison asked uncertainly.

"I know." Arizona smiled comfortingly.

"What are you two talking about?" Callie yawned as she entered the room in some pajama shorts and a tank top.

"My adorable girlfriend." Arizona giggled as she walked up to Callie and wrapper her arms around her and kissed her softly on the lips. "Morning, sleeping beauty."

"Good morning to you too." Callie kissed her back.

"Enough of that you two! You're disgustingly cute, and it's going to make me puke." Addison joked.

"She's going out with Matt!" Arizona giggled as she grabbed Callie's hand and spun her around. Callie laughed as she almost fell and turned toward Addison.

"Really? That's great!"

"Yeah, I is!" Addison giggled. "So, when are you two leaving?"

"Acutally, we should be leaving pretty soon. Go get ready Calliope!" Arizona rushed her.

"I don't want to leave." Callie pouted.

"I know, but we have to. Our shifts starts the day after tomorrow and we have to rest up before that. It's a long ride home."

Callie frowned as she grabbed a piece of bacon and went off to the guest room to get ready to leave.

"You know, Calliope just wishes you'd come back to Seattle." Arizona subtly hinted.

Addison laughed. "Oh, no. Not going back there."

"Didn't think you would." Arizona sighed. "It was really great getting to know you these past couple days."

"Yeah! Same here, you're really great for Callie." Addison smiled as she leaned over and gave Arizona a quick hug. "I'm thrilled for the two of you."


"I'm gonna miss you." Callie pouted as her and Addison said goodbye right outside the passenger door. Arizona was already in the car. She figured Callie would want to say goodbye on her own.

"I'll miss you too." Addison said pulling her into a hug. "You have no idea, how much Calliope." Addison grinned teasingly as she pulled back.

Callie rolled her eyes. "You are awful."

"You love me, and you know it!" Addison laughed. Callie

"I except a full review on the date with Matt!" Callie said as she reached for the door.

"Of course." Addison smiled as she closed the door as Callie got into the car. Callie rolled down the window.

"Are you sure you won't come back with us?" Callie begged.

"And miss my date with Matt? Not in a million years. Bye." Addison waved as she stepped back and watched Callie sadly roll the window up as Arizona pulled out of her driveway.

Addison sighed sadly as she walked back into her empty house.


"Are you sure you want to go back to Seattle Grace?" Callie joked.

Arizona shook her head. "To tell you the truth, no, but it's our job, and we love it, so we just have to suck it up." Arizona shrugged as she turned down the volume of the song.

"Let's play a game!" Arizona suggested. Callie giggled silently

"Alright, what game?"

Arizona bit her lip in embarrassment, "Well it's kind of lame, but Annie and I always played it when we went on road trips. It kept us going, and kept me from falling asleep at the wheel."

Callie smiled, "You two went on road trips often?"

"Not really, only when something big happened. When we needed to escape from reality." Arizona sighed.

"Like when?" Callie asked softly.

"The first time was when Annie was eight and her father walked out of her life for good, and she was so heart broken, and I knew that sitting in that house all day crying for her Daddy was not helping so I packed up my old Jeep and we hit the road." Arizona smiled at the memory of their first road trip.

"I'm sorry." Callie frowned. "It must've been really hard."

"It was, but it was completely worth it."

"What was another one?"

"Well, there was one when I believe Annie was 12, and her best friend had just died of Lukemia."

"That's rough." Callie whispered.

"Yeah, but she was strong. I think that's when she began maturing a little more quickly than most kids her age."

"Yeah..." Callie sighed.

Arizona smiled a bit, "Actually, we just took a road trip about a year and a half ago?" Arizona questioned herself as she thought back. "It's how I ended up in Seattle, or one of he reasons."

"Oh yeah? I want to hear this story."

"You do actually." Arizona blushed. "So, Annie and I were going on a road trip before she graduated, and it was supposed to be a quick one week road trip over spring break. So we're in Seattle and it's raining like crazy, and some idiot runs a red light and hits me head on, and I go spiraling out of control and hit a pole..."

"What!" Callie exclaims whipping her head in the direction of Arizona.

"...Shh... Don't interrupt." Arizona smiled softly. "Annie and I are both fine, but they insist they take us to the hospital for an exam. So, Annie and I are taken into Seattle Grace hospital. As Annie is getting check out, the chief walks into the exam room and introduces himself formally. He had already heard of me, and he had actually called me one or two times offering me a position, but I always declined, because I had Annie. So he's there wooing me with all these offers that would normally make my head spin, but I can't help but stare at this beautiful brunette behind him sitting at the nurses station. She looked so sad, and I couldn't help but wonder how such a beautiful woman could look so depressed. Then, this man... no boy... comes walking around the corner and her eyes perk up, just a bit, but the boy just looks at her and walks away with not one word. It broke my heart seeing this woman crumble there at the nurses station, but she was strong. She contained it and held her head high and got up and walked away before I could go introduce myself. That beautiful woman was you, Calliope. I knew at that moment I had to meet that woman, so after Annie graduated, I called the Chief and accepted his offer. I was always afraid to tell you that."

Callie smiled softly as tears filled her eyes. "I glad you told me." Callie giggled as she wiped away the tears. "That must've been before George slept with Izzie."

Arizona smiled. "So how about this game?"

"How do you play?"

"Well, you pick out a car and look at the people inside and based on what they look like and how they are acting in the car you make up a story about them." Arizona explained.

Callie bursted out laughing. "Where did you two come up with this."

"You know, I have no idea!"

"Let's start." Callie said pointing to a big truck where this balding man sat.

"Okay, well that man's name is Hank, and he has 3 children, and is in the middle of a divorce, because his wife cheated on him with the pool boy." Arizona started.

"His idea of a good time is sitting down in front of the T.V after a long day and watching celebrity poker." Callie continued with a small laugh.

"His children blame him for the affair because he was never around much, and they'd rather have the pool boy as a dad because he let's them do whatever they want." Both Callie and Arizona bursted in a fit of giggles as they turned and pointed out the next car which was a small Altima. Inside were an old couple.

"Aw." Arizona smiled. "They were old high school sweethearts that got married right after their graduation."

"He went off to war and she stayed home and awaited for his return."

"When he came back they had 5 children and each of them went on to become doctors and lawyers."

"They have 14 grandchildren and they all get together on Christmas and Thanksgiving and sit around a huge dining table and eat turkey."

"That's a great life." Arizona smiled.

"Sure is." Callie agreed. "Do you think we'll have that one day?" Callie asked.

"I know." Arizona said surely as she reached her hand over and grabbed Callie's hand.

"This really was a great trip." Callie admitted truthfully.

"I agree, I'm glad you agreed to come with me." Arizona smiled softly as she turned to look at Callie in the eyes for a second.

"I can't wait for Annie, Chloe, and Cody to come!" Callie smiled impatiently.

"Me either. I was thinking, maybe we can get half a week off for that, and the rest of the week that they're there, just have really short 10 hour shifts or something." Arizona suggested.

"Do you think that Chief would go for that?" Callie asked.

"I don't know." Arizona shrugged. "You know him better than I do. You've known him longer."

"Well..." Callie sighed. "I think if we told him our reasoning behind it, we can get off with it. It might be harder for you than me, since you're an attending. Then again, that might just work for you."

"I don't know, but I don't think he will mind too much."

"Are we driving straight through?" Callie asked as she looked out the window and noticed it was already getting late, but she knew they were pretty close to home.

"Yeah, I am just ready to get home." Arizona smiled.

"Me too!" Callie agreed.


"Look!" Callie exclaimed as they walked into their apartment in the middle of the night. "Yang finally got all her stuff out of our apartment."

"Our Apartment." Arizona smiled as she wrapped her arms around Callie. "Calliope and Arizona's apartment, not Torres and Yang's."

"Thank god." Callie joked. "I am just happy that her and Owen finally managed to work through their problems."

"Me too." Arizona agreed as they walked into their bedroom and through off all their clothes and jumped into oversized T-shirts.

Callie jumped onto the bed and crawled under the covers. "I missed our bed." Callie sighed as she climbed under the covers.

"Me too." Arizona agreed as she got in bed and snuggled up close to Callie. "We can sleep in all day tomorrow." Arizona kissed her lips.

"Mmm. Love you." Callie smiled as she closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

"Love you too." Arizona whispered as she did the same.

TBC...

F/B Please.