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Hey guys! My exams start tomorrow and I figured the best way to relax was to update this story…and watch two hours of Grey's and Scandal tonight. But anyways, here's the next chapter for you…Enjoy!
For Skeik Sheik and all the awesome readers.
Callie's POV
"Good morning, Dr. Torres," Callie smiled as she rubbed the sleep from her eyes before responding to the caller.
"Good morning, Captain Robbins," Callie responded as she sat up against the headboard of her bed.
"I hope you slept well," Arizona's sheets ruffled as she left her bed.
"I did. I was pretty spent after dinner last night," Callie responded.
Arizona chuckled, "I can imagine. So what do you have planned for your extra special day off?"
Callie groaned, "Sleep."
Arizona laughed, "Aren't we feeling lazy today."
"Hey, it's not being lazy when you work over sixty hours in six days."
"Sure it isn't, Calliope."
"Your sarcasm is so not welcomed," Callie rolled her eyes as Arizona laughed. "So is there any chance that you could spare half-an-hour and spend lunch with your girlfriend?"
"Uh, I thought you'd be trying to spend all the time you could with your family," Arizona said slowly. Callie heard the faint sound for the intro of Coldplay's Distance through the phone.
"I love them and all but I spent all of last night with them," Callie whined.
Arizona chuckled, "Uh babe, you spent all of last night with me too."
"Not all of it," she smiled when her girlfriend laughed. "Please."
Arizona sighed dramatically, "Fine." Callie smiled in triumph.
"So I'll be in town and I'll swing by the precinct some time during lunch, okay?"
"Yeah, sure babe." Arizona turned on the shower, "I'm gonna get ready now…big meetings today."
"Okay," Callie answered pulling the sheet up to her chest. "I'll see you later then."
"Yeah, see you later," Arizona whimpered before ending the call.
Callie closed her eyes and sighed; today was going to be a long day. She had to go out to search for the perfect gift for Arizona, she had to help her sister to finish packing for her flight, she had to carry her family to the airport and now she was having lunch with Arizona. It was going to be a long day, but at least she got to spend the entire day with the people she loved the most.
Dinner last night went as well as Callie could have hoped. While her mother was yet to fully accept Arizona she could see that she had given in even a little. When Callie, Aria and Arizona left the restaurant last night Lucia's goodnight was a lot less frigid than the one she had given Sunday night; Carlos was still as friendly as he was when it came to her girlfriend. And while she knew her mother wished that the woman next to her daughter was Erica Hahn, Callie knew that Erica would never be that person again. She had Arizona; she loved Arizona, possibly more than how she loved Erica.
"Cal, wake up!" Aria shouted before bursting the door open, "Oh." She stood with her hands akimbo, "Get up and get ready or we'll be out there all day!"
Callie smirked, "Do you really want to spend the entire morning with me walking up and down looking for something for Arizona when you could be packing or resting up for your flight?"
Aria thought for a few seconds, "Only because it's Arizona…or else I wouldn't be spending the day with the most boring person that God created." Callie's pillow hit the younger Torres on her shoulder and fell to the ground.
"Whatever, Aria." Callie slid out of bed and walked past her sister into the bathroom.
Two hours later Callie pulled Aria into a jewelry store on the third floor of the mall. "Seriously Cal! That was the fifth store that we visited and you still can't find anything."
"No, that's why we're still looking." She walked up to the first glass counter that she saw, "It has to be perfect, "It has to be perfect," she half said to herself and half to Aria.
Aria sighed and looked at her watch, "It's nine seventeen, Cal and you need to go do the key thing."
Callie shook her head while looking at a particular necklace, "No I don't." She moved on to another necklace that caught her eye. "When Arizona and I are having lunch, you're gonna do it."
"What?" Aria shouted, earning her a stern glance from two customers and the man behind the counter. "You're just lucky I love you and Arizona," she mumbled turning her back to Callie.
"Mhmmm," Callie responded not really caring what Aria was talking about.
Aria turned back to her sister, her arms folded across her chest, "Can I just go do it now?"
"Sure…," she stood up and saw Aria's hand extended towards her, "Use your own!" Aria rolled her eyes and walked off.
Callie watched her walk off before walking towards another counter to continue her search, "The perfect girlfriend does need the perfect gift…if only I could find it." After scanning through the items displayed in the counter she was looking at Callie closed her eyes and placed her forehead gently on the glass.
After almost a minute a lady walked up to her on the other side of the counter, "Excuse me ma'am, but you are not allowed to lean on the glass."
Callie's eyes opened as the woman began speaking, "Excuse me ma'am…" and then she heard nothing else. Her eyes landed on the most exquisite necklace she had seen in all the stores she had passed through. Was beautiful; simple yet exquisite, Arizona would love it. Callie looked up at the woman and smiled, pointing at the necklace.
"What's the price for this one?" Callie asked leaning over the counter to get a closer look at the necklace.
The woman opened the display case and took up the white gold necklace and swiped the small tag that was attached to the silver colored chain, "Nine hundred and thirty five dollars, ma'am."
Callie raised an eyebrow, "She must be joking." This woman moved to place the necklace back into the case, "I'll take it!" She looked at Callie skeptically, "Arizona Robbins better be worth it." Callie smiled at the woman, "I'll take it." The woman behind the counter nodded and walked towards the cash register.
Three minutes later Callie was out of the store and on her cell phone, "Yeah I got it. Where are you?"
"Behind you," Aria answered before ending the call. "Okay now that you've got that and I've got the key can we leave now?"
Callie smirked, "Why? I thought you loved malls."
"I do, but not when I'm shopping with you," Aria replied rolling her eyes and walking a few steps away from her sister.
"Ignoring you, Aria." She walked towards her sister, grabbed her hand and started to pull her towards the closest exit, "Come on; I gotta stop by the hospital for a quick consult."
"What? I thought today was your day off."
"It kinda is. I'm not at the hospital but I'm still on call and I got a call so yeah, I gotta stop by the hospital."
The two found the car, their parents' rental vehicle, with relative ease and headed towards the hospital. As soon as they stepped into the hospital building Callie was whisked away by Chief Hunt and Aria was left standing alone.
"Find Mark," Callie shouted as the elevator doors closed.
Two hours, one consult and one surgery later Callie met up with Aria. She was walking with Mark towards the Emergency Room.
"I thought you had forgotten about your lunch date with Arizona," Aria said when Callie came and stood beside Mark.
"I didn't. I got pulled into an emergency surgery." Aria nodded. "What were you up to all this time?"
"I let her sit in and watch me be the god that I am," Mark answered smugly.
Aria laughed, "I watched him replace a guy's face; it was completely burned Cal," she looked at Callie with a mixture of awe and horror.
"Yeah and I fixed it like a god," Mark stated before his pager went off. His eyebrows furrowed in confusion, "Lexie wants me in an on-call ro – oh!" He smiled at his two friends, "Later, girls." The two smirked and chorused their goodbyes.
A few minutes later, Callie was standing at the precinct's front desk after having left Aria at the hotel. After a quick but thorough check of her person and her bag she was admitted into the main building and directed to Arizona's office. Callie could not help but smile when she saw 'Capt. Arizona Robbins' embossed on the nameplate on the door. She knocked lightly but there was no response from the other side, she turned the knob and found the door locked. Callie stepped out of the hall in which the office was located and peeked around the corner and saw several empty desks. "Seriously? The whole Drugs and Narcs division is MIA!"
She was pulled out of her stupor at the lack of police officers in the building by a booming voice coming from another hall. She followed the voice and found herself at a the door of a large conference room and saw a tall, dark skinned man standing at the podium addressing a room full of law enforcement officers, Arizona included. It was quite easy for Callie to pick up Arizona and it was not because she was sitting at some sort of head table; it was because she was naturally drawn to the other woman, she was the first person Callie saw when she looked into the room and a smile crept across her face.
"…and now Captain Robbins will come and give a brief rundown of what will take place next week and if any of you have any questions regarding what she is about to say you can meet with your respective heads after this meeting," the man, who Callie had assumed to be the great Chief Webber who Arizona spoke so fondly of, nodded once and took his seat beside a standing Arizona who quickly saluted and took her position behind the podium. A small section of the gathered officers started clapping, Callie recognized a few of Arizona's officers, namely Karev, Avery and Kepner among this group. Arizona smiled at them before looking up and noticing her girlfriend's eyes at the door looking at her. The blonde's smile grew wider but then confusion took over her features only to be replaced with realization. All of this happened in two seconds. Callie smiled and nodded at Arizona and the officer began addressing her fellow officers.
Five minutes later and Arizona was finished, ten minutes and the meeting was over. The scene that unfolded after reminded Callie of the ending of a meeting at Seattle Grace Mercy West; two seas rushed through the door, one in light blue uniform the other in navy blue, both Callie and Arizona were in the groups that wore navy blue. In all the rush to leave the room, a hand grabbed on to Callie's and pulled her away from the seas and towards Arizona's office.
When they were out of earshot of anyone Arizona spoke up, "I'm sorry; that meeting should have been this evening but Webber wanted it moved up last minute."
"Hey, it's fine," Callie said as Arizona opened the door to her office and ushered Callie in. When they were both inside and the door was closed again, Callie pressed her lips to Arizona's. "We can go now…if you still want to."
Arizona smiled and kissed Callie again, "Of course I still want to go, Calliope."
"Good, let's go; we still have a long day ahead of us," Callie said grabbing on to Arizona's hands and leading her out of the office.
When they had rounded the corner Arizona stopped and led them over to Alex, "Karev, you're in charge until I get back."
He nodded at her, "Yes ma'am." He looked at Callie, "Hey, Dr. Torres," Arizona rolled her eyes and Callie nudged her in the side.
Callie smiled warmly, she could see the fear in this guy, "Hi, Alex."
"Yeah, so we'll be leaving now. See you in an hour," Arizona turned towards the exit and led them out of the building and to their date.
Arizona's POV
Arizona sat in the car as Alex drove them towards their destination, Gemini Wreckage. This was two hours after she had returned from her lunch date with Callie, it was a fun lunch date even though she was not allowed much PDA with her girlfriend because she was in uniform. Much to Arizona's pleasure Callie mentioned that she really hated not having her T-Bird; Arizona had promised to go looking for another car with her over the weekend. Now here she stood with Shane and Alex as Shaun handed them each a spray gun loaded with paint.
Alex inspected the gun and mumbled, "I prefer my gun."
The other three laughed, "You're gun is of no use to us Lieutenant Karev," Shaun said through his laughter. When his laughter had calmed down he addressed them again, "Okay, so what we're gonna be doing today is painting this baby. Now, I went to hell and back to find the right color so don't spoil it. So we're gonna be applying two coats, the two top coats; I've already sprayed on the base coat." He pointed to a pile sitting on the car's hood, "Your overalls, gloves, glasses and masks are over here." Shaun looked at Arizona, "Captain Robbins you're gonna want to put your hair up so you don't get paint in it." She nodded and did as she was told.
Shaun allowed them the cops to change and five minutes later the four were spraying a coat of paint between sky blue and blue on the car. Ten minutes later, Shaun deemed that they were finished with the first coat and allowed them to take a break while the paint dried.
"Whoever said they'd rather watch paint dry was an idiot," Arizona stated after what felt like hours. The ringing of her phone cut through the relative silence and Arizona jumped up to answer, hoping it was not Chief Webber calling; it was Aria. "Hey, what's up?"
"Hey 'Zona. Cal's asking you to pick up two boxes of pizza on your way from work 'cause we won't be able to cook anything," Aria said, Callie could be heard in the background ranting in Spanish.
"Yeah, no problem. What do your parents want?"
"They'll eat anything so just get the usual."
"Alright then. See you guys later."
"Yeah, thanks."
Arizona hung up and spent the next half hour still waiting for the paint to dry. After they had applied the second coat of paint it was four thirty and Alex and Arizona were changed and on their way to the precinct again. At the precinct Arizona met with two of her junior officers who were not fully aware of the raid that was to go down the upcoming Monday she briefed them and answered the truck-load of questions they had. At five-fifteen she was out of the office and on her way home to shower, change and order the pizzas. In forty five minutes Arizona was standing at Callie's door with two boxes of pizza in her hand. She knocked Carlos opened the door and smiled at his daughter's girlfriend.
He took the boxes from her and kissed her cheek, "Arizona, so nice to see you."
"It's good to see you too, Carlos." They walked towards the living room, Arizona looked around the man and saw five suitcases standing beside each other; she looked at Carlos, "Please tell me that some of those are yours."
The older man laughed, "Yes. Lucia and I used the largest that you see there. The rest are Aria's and I think she's just finished packing another."
Arizona groaned, "How can Aria have so many things? She's only been here a little over a month!"
Carlos laughed again, "She's a Torres woman, dear. You'll learn soon."
Arizona gave the man a bewildered smile before he excused himself and went to the kitchen. Arizona made her way to Aria's bedroom, figuring she would find the sisters there. When she opened the door she could not help but laugh; Aria was sitting on her suitcase while Callie tried to zip it closed.
The two looked up at her. Callie spoke up, "Are you just going to stand there and laugh or are you going to help us?" Arizona thought for a moment and then burst out laughing again. "Some girlfriend you are."
Arizona smiled and sauntered over to the duo and sat on the suitcase beside Aria, "Hey, I brought you pizza." Callie rolled her eyes and zipped up the side that Arizona was sitting on. When Callie was in front of her Arizona reached out and pulled Callie into a kiss, "If the pizza didn't make up for it I'm sure that did."
Callie shook her head, "Not working, Robbins."
Arizona shrugged and turned to Aria, "I think some alien has replaced my girlfriend," Aria laughed and Callie slapped them both.
Callie finished zipping the suitcase and hauled it into the living room where her parents were seated, each with a slice of pizza. "Okay I think Aria's completely packed now." Callie sat beside her father and placed her head on his shoulder, "I don't know why she has so much clothes; it's not like she can wear them all at once."
At that moment Aria and Arizona walked out of the room, Arizona received the briefest and iciest of looks from Lucia, "Have you seen your closet lately?"
"I've lived here for over two years; you've been here a month!"
Aria shrugged, "I like clothes." She turned to Arizona, "Come on, we got pizza."
"Bring a slice for me, please Aria!" Callie shouted.
"Get your own pizza!" Aria responded.
"Arizona…!"
"Yes, Calliope; I'll bring a slice for you," Arizona replied, reentering the living room with a plate with three slices of pizza and a bottle of water.
"Thank you, baby," Arizona saw Lucia cringe at Callie's use of 'baby'.
Aria reappeared a few seconds later with two cans of soda, "One can of Sprite for the lady," she placed it on the table in front of Carlos, Callie and Arizona, "And one for you, Cal." Arizona snickered as Aria sat on her father's other side. They ate while Aria, Callie and Carlos spoke animatedly on a range of topics and for the second time that day Callie brought up the topic of her car.
Callie had just finished complaining that she loved her T-Bird and really wanted to get another like it when Carlos shouted, "That thing was a death trap, Calliope!"
"I'm not dead, Daddy!"
"Thanks to Arizona," he smiled at her. His face returned to its serious expression, "When you bought that car you said that you would not drive it and that was why we bought you the Mercedes but you didn't want it."
"Papi, I was the only doctor driving a Mercedes R171 and what made it worse was that I was a third year resident and the R171 was unveiled two weeks before that!"
"I do what's best for my girls, Calliope."
"I know Daddy and I appreciate that so much." She paused for a few seconds, "I promise I'll think about getting another car before I start looking for a T-Bird again."
"Prometéme, mi'ja," Carlos said looking in his daughter's eyes.
She blinked, "I promise, Daddy. Arizona and I are going car hunting this weekend."
"Arizona, keep her away from the Thunderbird, okay?"
"I'll try my best, sir."
"Alright, enough of this car talk, let's get going; I'm dying to get back in my own bed," Aria stood up and took the plate, empty cans and bottle into the kitchen. Lucia stood up after her and made her way to the bathroom. Carlos, Callie and Arizona were left to carry the bags to Arizona's vehicle. The three spent almost twenty minutes getting all six bags downstairs and packing them in a way that allowed them all to fit while still allowing Arizona to see behind the vehicle unobstructed. By this time Lucia and Aria were downstairs and ready to go; Lucia had carried Callie's bag while Aria had Arizona's. The blonde did not think this was coincidental in any way.
The drive to the airport was filled with talking from the backseat, specifically Aria and Carlos. Aria might be shy in general but she was definitely more than talkative when she was around people she was comfortable with. Arizona took her eyes off the road for a few seconds to look in her rearview mirror and smiled at how animatedly Aria spoke of a guest she had to deal with at work the day before and how engrossed Carlos was in her description of the woman. She felt Callie's eyes on her and looked in front of her before quickly glancing over to her girlfriend, "What?"
Callie shook her head, "Nothing, just thanks…for putting up with them so early into our relationship."
Arizona reached for Callie's hand, brought it to her lips and kissed it, "Anything for you, baby."
They sat in silence for the rest of the ride and listened while Aria recounted her meeting with her boss after the guest had reported her. In ten minutes they were unloading the bags from Arizona's BMW. She left the four Torres' and went to park and jogged back to the main section of the airport. She did a cursory look of the crowd that had gathered and spotted the family in the check-in line, Callie was standing on the outside. Arizona made her way to them, she noticed that Aria was not as exuberant as she was on the way; instead she was standing behind her parents looking at the crowd.
"Hey, everything alright?" Arizona stood beside Callie.
"Hey. Yeah," Callie snaked her arm around Arizona's waist and pulled her in, the blonde rested her head on Callie's shoulder and sighed. "What's wrong?"
Arizona shook her head, "Just had a really long day."
Callie wrapped her other arm around Arizona's waist and pulled her in for a quick, chaste kiss, "When we get home I'll make it all better okay?"
Arizona smiled and nodded before she smirked, "Home?"
Callie rolled her eyes, "Fine, my place…soon to be our place."
Arizona pulled back just a little bit, "Who said I was ever planning on moving in with you."
"The same little birdie that told me you'd say yes to being my girlfriend," Callie responded kissing the top of Arizona's head.
"Su –" Arizona was cut off by the Torres' reappearance.
"Okay, break it up you two," Aria said standing beside the couple.
The two separated but each still had an arm around the others waist, "So you guys are ready to go now, right?"
"Yup, time to get back to beautiful and warm Miami," Aria almost shouted.
The two older Torres' stood behind her smiling, "Come on Aria, tell your sister and Arizona bye and let's get going."
"Coming, Papi!" Callie let go of Arizona and wrapped her little sister in a tight hug, "Bye, Cal."
"I'll talk to you when you get home, okay? And Aria please don't get yourself into anymore trouble."
Aria smiled sheepishly, "I won't, Cal. I promise."
"Good," Callie kissed Aria's forehead and let her go and stepped towards her parents.
The younger Latina took a step over to Arizona and pulled her into a fierce hug, "I'm gonna miss you, 'Zona!" Arizona hugged her just as tightly.
"I'm gonna miss you too 2.0," the two laughed and pulled back.
"I swear you are the best sister-in-law that I've ever had…definitely my favourite."
"Callie and I have been together for a month, Aria isn't it a bit too early to be using sister-in-law?" Arizona laughed.
Aria scoffed, "They way you two act it's like you've been married for years so no it isn't too early for the sister-in-law title."
Arizona shook her head, "Okay, Aria." She pulled her in for another hug, "Stay on the right track this time okay, Aria?"
The Latina nodded fervently, "I will, Arizona."
Aria stepped away from Arizona and Carlos immediately took her place in front of the blonde, "Arizona darling, I can't begin to tell you how happy I am that we met again and under much better circumstances." He pulled her in for a hug, "And how happy I am that Callie found you, I don't think I could have chosen a better suitor for her."
Arizona smiled, "Thank you, sir and it was indeed a pleasure meeting you again."
"Take care of yourself and my daughter, Arizona."
"I will, sir." Carlos nodded and stepped back allowing Lucia to walk up to Arizona.
If she did not know any better she could have sworn the crowd gathered in airport stopped and turned to watch the encounter between the two women but definitely the rest of the Torres family was watching them, "Arizona."
"Mrs. Torres."
"Well it was nice to meet you."
Arizona smiled and nodded, "There's no way I'm gonna lie to Callie's mom."
Lucia dipped her head for a second and then looked up again, "I'm sorry, Arizona. I know that I haven't been the best person since we met again and I found out that you and my daughter are together and I'm sorry for that."
"I understand, Mrs. Torres but I just want you to know that I would never do anything to hurt your daughter and I will protect her with everything I have, even though she doesn't need protecting 'cause she's strong and honorable; she's everything you and Mr. Torres raised her to be."
Lucia wiped away a tear and nodded, "I know. I just thought and hoped that Erica was right…perfect for her but it seems I was wrong."
Arizona smiled softly, "I can't blame you. From what I've been told you knew Erica for years but I was the cop who ticketed your daughter for speeding. You were bound to like her more than you liked me."
Lucia cracked a small smile, "Take care of yourself…Arizona."
"You too, Mrs. Torres," Arizona responded before Lucia pulled her in for a quick awkward hug. When the older woman released Arizona she moved beside her husband and younger daughter and Callie gave her another hug. Another round of goodbyes were given and the three walked away from the couple.
"She likes you," Callie whispered kissing the side of Arizona's head.
"Well it's about time," she looked up at her girlfriend and smiled, "Let's go home."
The two walked out of the airport hand in hand and made the journey home.
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