A/N – After 2 years we have reached the end of Solo Act. You guys have been so amazing and supportive throughout this time and kept me motivated. Your Fallows, Favourites, Reviews and PM's meant the world to me! I just want to thank everyone for joining me on this crazy ride and coming back chapter after chapter, even with my crazy long waits between chapters. I have a bunch of ideas for new stories, so hopefully I will see you all again at the next one. I also wrote an epilogue that will be up soon! Thank you!
Chapter 25
Beep-Beep-Beep
Arizona slams her hand down on the annoying device without even opening an eye. She pulls the covers over her head hoping it will keep the impending day from coming. The alarm starts to blare again, with a huff she emerges from her warm cocoon, opening her eyes she looks around the dark room blinking, waiting for it to come into focus.
Rolling over onto her side she finds Spot staring at her from his place on Callie's vacant pillow. She runs her hand across the cold sheet missing the warm body who's suppose to be laying there. With one last look at the empty side of the bed she gets up, her body begging for some extra strong coffee and Callie's famous chocolate chip pancakes but unfortunately cereal will have to do this morning.
Her fluffy socks shuffle across the kitchen floor stopping in front of the fridge. She pulls out everything she needs for her less that appetizing breakfast. She pours herself a generous cup of coffee before sitting down at the kitchen island. The only sound that can be heard through the house is the crunch with each bite of cereal.
Looking at the stove she can clearly picture Callie flipping her pancakes high in the air before catching it again, after having dropped at least one already, while Arizona cheers her on from the sidelines. Callie would comment that with the amount of syrup the blonde pours over her pancakes it would be easier to just stick a straw directly into the syrup and drink it straight from the bottle. To which Arizona would give her a speech about how she needs the extra sugary energy if she wants to keep up with all the kids at hospital throughout day. Callie would just shake her head before planting a kiss on her sticky cheek.
Arizona lets out a sigh coming out of her little daydream. Dropping her spoon with a clank, she just gives up on chasing the last few soggy pieces of cereal around the bowl. She places her dirty dishes into the dishwasher before turning it on, turning around she leans against the sink. Her eyes lands on the vase of flowers sitting on the counter making a smile start to pull at her lips.
For two weeks Arizona has been alone in this large house while Callie made her way through Europe, her days filled with public appearances and nights performing. Sure, they talked when they both where able to get a few minutes free but it doesn't stop her from missing her girlfriend like crazy. Arizona knew from the beginning that Callie's job requires a lot of travelling but it hadn't been really until she had to watch Callie board the plane without her this time.
But today she is coming home!
Arizona even went out to get Callie a few special things for her to indulge in when she is back, including some of her favourite chocolates, those scented candles she loves and a sexy new set of lingerie she intends to break in later tonight.
30 minutes later she is leaving ready to face another day helping her tiny humans.
Walking down the halls of the Peds floor Callie can't help the little skip in her step. Their private jet landed a few hours ago and no matter how tired she is she just couldn't wait in the empty house any longer and wanted to come see her girlfriend.
This is the first time since they started dating more than a year ago that they have been apart for so long. And if these two weeks have been any indication of what it would be like to tour without her favourite blonde she has a feeling her jet fuel bill is going to go through the roof.
Searching the Peds floor she sees her girlfriend standing with her back to her talking on her phone.
"Steph you said it would be done this week. Yeah I know, I understand. How long do you think it will take before its ready? Okay. Thank you Steph I know it's going to be amazing, bye."
Arizona rubs her forehead frustrated, she know she can't blame Steph, 3D printing takes a long time. She is just starting to get impatient waiting for something that is going to change her life forever. Of course she could have just gone to a store and bought one, but she wants something more. Something specially made just for Callie.
Ugh and now she can feel the beginning of a headache starting to form. She walls over to the nurses station picking up her cup of coffee Reed bought for her earlier hoping the caffeine will work its magic.
Sneaking up behind her Callie quickly puts her hands over the blonde's eyes whispering 'guess who'. The sudden contact makes Arizona jump and drop her half full cup of coffee on the floor spilling the brown liquid over the previous sparkling white floor. Swirling around, she finds a very amused singer smiling at her. Seeing the murderous look in her girlfriend's eyes Callie steps forward hoping a hug will smooth things over.
"Not funny Calliope!" She emphasized it by slapping Callie's outstretched arms away. A sharp hiss leaves Callie's lips at the contact. All of Arizona's anger leaving her immediately when she sees the pained look on her girlfriend's face. "What's wrong did I hurt you?"
"No, no I am fine." Callie quickly places her left arm behind her back but she has to bit her lip when she brushes her wrist across her jean covered hip.
"Clearly you're not." Arizona deadpans.
"I'm okay, it's really my own fault I know you don't like surprises." Callie tries to play it off but Arizona is having none of it. Looking around the doctor sees they have already attracted a few stares from the people around them.
"Come on, we can talk more privately in my office. Nicole can you please call someone to clean this mess?" She asks the nurse who is doing a really bad job at disguising her eavesdropping on their conversation.
"Of course Dr Robbins." The startled nurse replies.
Callie is sitting on the couch in Arizona's office drinking a glass of water the blonde gave her. Arizona sits down next to her and watches as she carefully places her wrist onto her lap.
"What's wrong with your arm Callie?" Callie quickly takes another drink of water trying to delay the inevitable. She knew it wouldn't take Arizona long to figure out, it isn't like she could hide it forever. She places the water down on the table, sitting back against the couch she starts to nervously picking at her finger nails. She mumbles something that makes Arizona raise an eyebrow leaning closer. "I'm sorry what was that?" Taking a deep breath Callie looks at her girlfriend giving her, her best innocent smile.
"I got a new tattoo."
Arizona just keeps looking at her not giving anything away making Callie squirm even more. Arizona reaches over to take a hold of the singer's hand.
"Let me take a look." Callie pushes her hand away.
"Arizona you really don't have to, it doesn't even hurt anymore."
"Then you wouldn't mind me taking a look."
Not waiting for an answer she lifts Callie's arm moving away her sleeve to reveal the white bandage on the singer's left wrist. Carefully uncovering the ink, blue eyes examine the red skin and black lines. She can clearly see where her hand made contact with the bruised skin, but beyond that it looks to be healing nicely. Running her fingertips over the area Callie lets out a hiss and Arizona pulls away quickly happy that it doesn't seem warm. She closes it back up before moving away.
"I am so sorry I hurt you." She says not looking at those brown eyes.
"Hey," Callie says softly scooting closer so she can lift the blonde's face to look at her. "It was an accident. Besides this will teach me not to sneak up on you." That gets her a small smile. "You don't seem surprised about the tattoo?" Arizona lets out a chuckle shaking her head.
"Lexie send me a photo of you getting it. Your face was all scrunched up and totally adorable." She says remembering the photo she received yesterday from the backup singer with the caption 'Your idiot is at it again.'
Callie falls back against the couch defeated.
"So now my band is snitching on me to you?"
"What can I say, they love me more." Arizona gives her a big dimple smile and Callie can't help but smile as well.
"I'll need to have a word with them later, but that will have to wait because I haven't seen you in two weeks and I would really like a hello kiss." Arizona nods quickly before leaning forward to connect their lips. She lets out a content sigh, happy to finally be with her love again. When they pull apart they both stay close just looking at each other and enjoying the closeness the craved for the last two weeks.
"Welcome back." Arizona says, her breath washing over the singer's face.
"It's good to be back." Callie says with a bright smile before going in for another kiss. "Thank you for the beautiful flowers I love them."
"I am glad you like them, I have a few other 'welcome home goodies' for you as well." Callie raises an eyebrow at her before smiling and pulling her against her, Arizona drops her head on the Callie's shoulder. "What are your plans for the rest of the day or can I keep you hostage?"
"Bailey wants to see me, we apparently have some business we need to talk about. But I have an hour before I need to leave. So any idea what we can do until then?" She asks suggestively. Arizona pretends to think.
"Well, we got new blankets in the NICU I can show you?" She says with fake excitement.
"Babe I am sure they are the best blankets ever created but right now I couldn't care less."
"Then what do you recommend we do?"
"I have a few ideas." Arizona lets out a squeal as Callie attacks her neck with her lips making her fall back onto the couch.
They spend the rest of their time together making out like a couple of horny teenagers on the couch until Arizona got paged to the ER. Which officially ended their little reunion, but with a promises of continuing back home tonight they reluctantly said good bye.
Callie has just finished unpacking when there is a knock on the front door, she quickly makes her way down stairs and opens the door and smiles at her manager.
"Hey Bailey."
"Torres, I am glad to see you survived the time away from your blonde." Bailey says strolling into the house making her way to the living room leaving the singer to follow behind her.
"It was torture Bailey, absolute torture!" She says falling dramatically onto the chair.
Bailey just rolls her eyes sitting down as well. Even if she acts as if the two love birds are driving her up the wall she secretly couldn't be happier for both of them.
They talk about the last two weeks and how everything went and also everything that's coming up in the next few weeks.
"So what is this very important business we needed to talk about?" Callie asks her curiosity getting the better of her.
The manager drops 5 neatly bind together stacks of paper on the table in front of the singer. Callie just looks at them confused before looking up at the other woman who is just looking back at her.
"What are these?"
"Scripts."
"Scripts?" Now Callie is even more confused, scooting to the edge of the chair she examines the mountain of papers like it might spontaneously combust at any second.
"Yes."
"Bailey can you please give more than one word answers?"
Bailey takes mercy on her she picks up the top one and hands it to Callie.
"These are all the scripts that have been sent to me from people who saw you in Derek's movie."
"All of these people want me?" Callie asks astonish.
"Congratulations Callie." Bailey finally lets a small smile pull at her lips.
"Wow."
When Arizona arrives home later that night she is met with music blaring throughout the house. A smile immediately making its way onto her face, it's one of the things she came to love about the singer is that there is always music in some form playing in the house.
Making her way through the house she finds Callie in the kitchen singing along with the music as she's busy making dinner. When the next verse starts Arizona starts to sing along making Callie spin around with the spoon still in her hand. She smiles at the blonde before dancing her way over to her, wrapping her arms around her she starts dancing them through the kitchen.
They are both laughing when the song ends and Callie dips Arizona. Pulling her back up she crashes their lips together. When they finally come up for air again Callie tells her all about the scripts Bailey had dropped off earlier in the day. Arizona pulls her into a bone crushing hug telling her how proud she is of her. After that they spend the rest of the night celebrating, dinner long forgotten.
The next morning Arizona is sitting on the couch with files and medical books scattered everywhere around her. She has the day off and decided on spending it researching a surgery the parents of one of her patients are pushing for hoping it is going to work the miracle they have been praying for. She really wishes Teddy was here to get her input. Thankfully Charlotte has offered to help her if she ever needed another doctor's perspective on a case.
Callie is sitting in the arm chair across from her script in hand. Some of the scripts she has read looks promising but nothing has jumped out at her yet. Who would have thought a year ago that she would have scripts covering her living room floor of people wanting her?
Callie takes a break from reading when her eyes start to blur all the words together, she gets up and goes into the kitchen pulling out the bottle of her favourite wine Arizona bought for her. She pours herself a glass and takes a drink breathing out a happy sigh.
Callie places a glass of wine in front of her on the coffee table and one for Arizona who only seems to be getting more hopeless as she reads.
"Thanks you." Arizona says taking the glass for a much needed drink. Callie drops a kiss on her head before walking around the couch.
"I can't read anymore my eyes are starting to hurt. Do you mind if I play for a little bit?" She points to her guitar and Arizona smiles and nods at her, Callie's playing always relaxes her.
Callie sits back down on the chair and runs her fingers over the design on the back like she does every time before she starts to play. She closes her eyes dropping her head against the back of the chair as she completely relaxes, her fingers dancing across the strings on their own, flowing from one set of chords to the next not playing anything specific just letting the music flow freely. Callie can feel the blonde's eyes on her.
"You're staring." She says without opening her eyes.
"You're just so pretty to look at." Arizona says not missing a beat.
"Hey, you need to work you can't be all flirty right now." She says lifting her head to look at Arizona who is just smiling at her. "What's with that smile?" Callie asks not being able to stop her own smile, Arizona shrugs.
"I just love seeing you like this."
"Like what?"
"You are just as happy to play alone in your living room as you are to play in front of a crowd of thousands. You look just so… happy."
Callie's hands stop and just look into blue eyes looking back at her. Arizona gives her a small smile before she goes back to her work as Callie starts to play again. She freezes when she realizes what song Callie is playing. Looking over at her girlfriend who is smiling brightly at her as she continues to play Frankie Valli's Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You.
"You're just too good to be true. Can't take my eyes off of you. You'd be like heaven to touch. I wanna hold you so much. At long last love has arrived. And I thank God I'm alive. You're just too good to be true. Can't take my eyes off of you.
"Pardon the way that I stare. There's nothing else to compare. The sight of you leaves me weak. There are no words left to speak. But if you feel like I feel. Please let me know that it's real. You're just too good to be true. Can't take my eyes off of you.
"I love you baby, if it's quite all right. I need you baby to warm my lonely nights. I love you baby. Trust in me when I say. Oh pretty baby, don't let me down I pray. Oh pretty baby, now that I found you, stay. And let me love you baby, let me love you."
The papers scattered around her are long forgotten as she watched her girlfriend who is having way too much fun as her fingers fly over the guitar.
"You're ridiculous you know that right?" Arizona says lovingly. Callie just shrugs but doesn't stop her goofy smile.
"Hey you started it."
After her little serenade Callie goes back to finish the last of the scripts. A few hours later Callie leaves to go talk to Bailey about possibly guest staring in one of the TV shows she received a script from.
Arizona is still busy doing research when she hears he laptop chime indicating she has a video call. She quickly pulls her laptop onto her lap and clicks accept, there is only one person it can be. She smiles when her brother's face pops up on screen.
"Tim!" She says excited, she hasn't had a video call with her brother in what feels like ages. He calls her from time to time but it's not the same as being able to actually see him.
"A-Arizona, hi sis." He says with a hesitant smile.
"How are you?"
"Good as can be, how about you?"
"Really good, work is great Callie is great."
"Speaking of, where is Callie?" She watches as he scratches the back of his neck a nervous habit he has. Tilting her head she studies him.
"She had to go see her manager." She frowns at him. "Why?"
"Oh, no reason just wondering." He says giving her a big smile. She just hums.
They spend the next 15 minutes talk about everything and nothing just catching up. They are interrupted by a knock on the front door. She quickly excuses herself before going to see who is at the door.
"Aria hi."
"Hey sorry for just dropping by, I hope you're not busy."
"No not at all come on in. Hello to you to Mr Parker." She says to the 3 month old baby looking up at her from his stroller. "I'm just talking to my brother in the living room."
"Okay, I'm just going to put down Parker's stuff." She says motioning to the guest room that at some point became Parker's room. There is a crib, toys and even a few changes of clothes, because babies seem to need a new outfit every few hours. Arizona nods before going back to the living room.
"Sorry about that." She says sitting back down in front of her laptop. "It is Callie's sister, it looks like she might be in need of some adult conversation."
"Babies are not known for their conversational skills." He says and Arizona shakes her head with a smile. "Hey did you hear dad bought a boat?"
"Yes mom told me, what is he going to do with a boat?" Tim just shrugs.
"I guess it's a Marine thing, I think mom is just happy he stopped 'repairing' everything around the house."
Before Arizona can reply Aria walks into the living room with Parker in her arms.
"Sorry I didn't mean to interrupt." She apologises seeing the two blondes in the middle of a private conversation.
"Aria come here I want you to meet someone." Aria walks over to stand behind the blonde. "Aria I'd like you to meet my brother Timothy, Tim this is Callie's sister Aria." She takes Parker placing him on her lap in front of the screen. "And this little guy is Parker." She says taking his little hand to wave at the camera.
"Nice to meet you Tim." Aria says giving the soldier a smile.
"You too, and you are one handsome little guy aren't you." He says smiling at the adorable baby dressed in a green and white onesie with a picture of a red cartoon dinosaur on it. Tim turns around when he hears someone talking from behind him somewhere. He gives a quick 'yes sir' before looking back at the screen. "Sorry, looks like time is up. It was good to finally meet you Aria and little Parker. I love you sis."
"I love you too and please be safe." A hint of fear in her voice, like every time she has to say good bye to her brother.
"Always, bye Zona." He says with a wink and a smile making those Robbins dimples pop.
"Bye Tim."
The screen goes black. Arizona just keeps looking at the black screen hoping her brother is not going to go out and do something reckless.
"Your brother is really hot." Aria says breaking the silence and effectively breaking Arizona out of her thoughts.
"Hey!" Arizona says standing up. "You have a boyfriend. Goes by the name Mark Sloan, maybe you have seen him around your house?"
"Doesn't mean I can't appreciate a good looking man when I see one, and your brother… yum." Aria all but purrs.
"Aria! Baby in the room." She chides the younger Torres while covering Parker's ears.
"It's not like he knows what I'm saying."
"Still." Arizona says kissing him on his soft brown hair before handing him back to Aria who places him in his baby bouncer seat and he immediately starts grabbing for the little lion hanging above him. "I was just about to make something to eat can I get you something?"
"Um, no I think I am good." Arizona looks at Aria curiously who is refusing to make eye contact with her.
"Callie said something didn't she?"
"She may have mentioned that you're not the best cook."
"Unbelievable." She says under her breath. "Well I wasn't planning on cooking anything if it makes you feel better."
The front door opens and they can hear the singer talking and laughing with someone, they look over to see Callie walk into the living room followed by Jo.
"Hey guys." Arizona greats them.
"Hey gorgeous." Callie says leaning over the couch to kiss her girlfriend. "Pain in the ass." She says flicking her sister's ear, who quickly turns around slapping her arm. Arizona just shakes her head, just because they are both adults doesn't mean they act like it all of the time.
"We brought pizza!" Jo says and places the pizza box on the empty corner of the coffee table.
"Awesome I'm starving." Aria says that makes Arizona glare at her.
Arizona quickly clears up all of her work that has somehow taken up half of the living room while Aria moves Parker to his crib in his room after he fell asleep.
"So what is Mark up to lately?" Arizona asks taking a big bite from her pizza very thankful for her girlfriend bringing home such greasy deliciousness.
"He actually just received an offer to play the lead role in a new action TV series."
"That's awesome!"
"Do you know what it's going to be about?" Jo asks.
"It's some army themed show. Hey maybe Tim can give him some tips?" Aria says wiggling her eyebrows at the blonde who just scowls at her.
"I never should have introduced you two."
"When did that happen?" Callie asks not remembering the two meeting.
"Oh I had a video call with him earlier and he got to meet both Aria and Parker."
"You talked to Tim?" Callie starts to nervously pick at her pizza. "Did he um say anything that I um should know?"
"Not that I can recall. Why was he suppose to?"
"No, no just wondering." Callie shrugs trying to play it off as nothing.
"I'm going to get some water can I get anyone something?" Arizona asks getting up.
"I'll come help you." Jo says following the blonde to the kitchen.
Callie looks up and finds her sister narrowing her eyes at her. "What?" She asks around a mouth full of pizza.
"What exactly is your tattoo suppose to be?" Aria asks motioning to the black vertical lines on Callie's wrist. Swallowing Callie wipes her mouth with the napkin before talking.
"You're just going to think it's stupid."
"Oh come on Cal please, I promise I am not going to laugh."
"Okay umm." Callie nervously rubs her palms together. "I recorded Arizona."
"Like a sex tape?" Aria asks with a frown.
"What?! No!" She looks over her shoulder in the kitchen's direction to make sure she didn't draw any attention to them. "Geez Aria!"
"What did you expect me to think when you say you recorded her?" She asks throwing her hands up.
"I recorded her voice when we were talking." Callie quickly clarifies. Looking down at her tattoo she lets her finger trace over the lines. "This is the sound waves of Arizona saying 'I love you'."
"That's the sound wave image of her saying she loves you?" Aria asks making sure she understand and Callie nods. "Cal that's so sweet."
"Shut up."
"I'm serious!"
"It's just a lot of people can say they love you but the way she says it makes me feel... like she is speaking right to my heart." Callie ducks her head trying to hide her blush. Aria just smiles at her sister.
"Does she know what it is?"
"No, but with music being such a big part of my life she doesn't question it."
"Well I for one think it's very romantic."
A loud cry through the baby monitor interrupts their conversation. Aria is about to get up when Callie stops her.
"It's okay I'll go get him."
"You don't have to." But Callie is already up and on her way to his room.
"It's fine, besides I would like to get to bond with my nephew before Mark's genes take over."
Arizona and Jo walks into the living room with the drinks they went to fetch. She places her glass of water along with one for Callie onto the table.
"Did I hear Parker?" Arizona asks taking her seat again.
"Yeah, Cal went to get him."
10 minutes later Callie walks back into the living room softly talking to Parker who is now sporting a clean diaper.
"So little man when are we getting you your first guitar?" Callie asks sitting back down with him on her lap.
"Callie I am pretty sure a ukulele is just as big as he is at this stage." Arizona says with a chuckle.
"It's never too early to learn." Callie coos at him, he starts to fuss but she starts to rub his little tummy and softly humming to him. He quickly starts to settle down and he just stares up at her with his blue eyes.
"So, I heard that Erica finally pissed of the wrong people." Aria says with an amused smile watching as her sister continues to talk to her son.
"Why?" Arizona asks wiping her greasy hands clean on her napkin feeling completely stuffed.
"Oh yeah that right!" Jo says excited, sure she wasn't there when Callie and Erica's feud was in full swing but she heard enough to make her instantly dislike the blonde singer. She even found Cristina busy making a poster out of all the news articles about the lawsuit. "Apparently she is being sued for copyright infringement." Callie really fights not to smile but in the end she can't help it.
Arizona quickly grabs her glass and lifts it up motioning the other women in the room to lift theirs as well so she can make a toast.
"Here's to karma giving Erica Hahn a well deserved bitch slap."
"To karma!" They all agree.
Arizona is stuck in another busy day, spending most of it in the OR going from one surgery to the other. When she isn't operating she is in her office working on her paper work that never seems to end. By the time her shift ends she is more than ready to go home and do absolutely nothing productive. When Arizona gets home Callie is busy putting on her shoes.
"Hey, babe. How was your day?" Callie asks seeing her girlfriend walk into the living room dropping a quick kiss on her lips before sitting down next to her.
"It was pretty busy lot of paper work that needed to be done and a bunch of emergency surgeries that came in."
"I'm sorry you had a rough day, maybe we can draw you a nice bath to help you relax?"
"That sounds like heaven. Are you going somewhere?" She asks watching as Callie ties the laces of her chucks.
"My dad just called me, apparently some of the builders messed up with the renovations at the hotel and he asked if I could go see how bad the damage is."
"Wow your dad must be pissed."
"You have no idea, I hope it's nothing to bad. Because if it is it means he is going to come here and if he is coming my mother is also coming and we just got her to leave."
"Just let me go put my stuff away and I will come with you."
"It's okay you don't have to I know you must be really tired."
"I want to go with you. But I want my relaxing bath when we get back." Callie nods and Arizona gives her a quick kiss before running up stairs.
They arrive at the hotel and make their way through the lobby greeting the staff before ducking behind the thick plastic separating the still operational hotel from the ongoing renovations. Arizona is happy to see they are nearly finished and doesn't have to worry about something coming crashing down on them.
"So where is the alleged crime scene?" Arizona asks holding onto the singer's hand navigating around debris on the floor.
"Outside, apparently a wall was the innocent victim of a sledge hammer." Callie pulls back another plastic curtain that leads to the outside. "Careful." Callie says placing her hands on the blonde's waist to help her out onto the grass. When Arizona's feet are safely on the ground she smiles at Callie who is always so chivalrous.
"Now where is this wa…" She stops mid sentence taking in her surroundings. She is pretty sure she just stepped into some kind of fairytale.
"Well come on." Callie says following the stone path leading them deeper into the garden.
They walk hand in hand through the beautiful garden, it is absolutely breathtaking but seriously what else would you expect of a 5 star hotel. Arizona is trying to take in everything, looking from side to side when something catches her attention.
"Callie look!" Callie is pulled in the opposite direction when Arizona pulls the singer with her. "It's a wishing well." She says excited stopping on front of the old well.
As a little girl one of her most beloved movies was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and since then she has always had a fascination with wishing wells, which Tim of course use to tease her about to no end. But Emma like her big sister shared a love for fairytales and the possibility of magic.
"Have you ever heard the legend of the wishing well?" Callie shakes her head watching as Arizona runs her fingers across the stone surface of the well. "Ledged says that a wishing well is house to guardians or deities that would grant people wishes. Many believed that in order to have a wish grant you needed to pay a price as a sign of appreciation. So after making their wish they would drop a coin into the well, then depending on how it lands the guardian would either grand them their wish or not. If it landed heads up the wish would be granted but if it landed tails up the wish would be ignored." Arizona jams her hand into her front pocket of her jeans before pulling out a penny and holding it out to the singer. "Here make a wish." She says excited placing the coin in the singer's hand.
"I'm good." Callie says holding the penny for the blonde to take back.
"Oh come on Callie, its fun. Please." Arizona brings out the all powerful pout. Callie looks between the well and the blonde who she knows she can never say no to.
"Fine. But if my wish doesn't come true I will hold you personally responsible for my emotional scarring."
"Yes ma'am." Arizona says with a salute making Callie roll her eyes.
Callie closes her eyes making a wish before flicking the coin into the well hearing it clink at the bottom. She slowly opens her eyes to see Arizona smiling brightly at her. Callie places her hands on the edge of the well looking inside, but its pitch black inside.
"I don't know if its heads up."
"That's what makes it fun, the mystery." Callie looks at her for a second before walking to the other side of the well and starts to turn the handle bringing the bucket inside up to the surface. "What are you doing?"
"Seeing if my wish is going to come true."
"Callie you can't do that!"
"Yes I can, I have waited long enough. I want to know if my wish is coming true."
"You have been waiting like 5 seconds." Arizona says with a laugh at the ridiculousness that is her girlfriend. "Besides what are the odds that it actually landed inside the bucket?" She asks placing her hands on her hips looking at Callie.
"I guess we are just going to have to wait and see." Arizona just rolls her eyes as Callie finally gets the bucket to the surface. She looks confused when she sees Spot the teddy bear sitting inside the bucket with the cutest little tuxedo on. "I think its heads up." Callie says with a small smile.
"You wished for Spot?" Arizona asks with an amused smile looking at her patched up teddy bear in his black tux, red bow tie and he has a top hat on.
"No." Callie says walking to stand next to the blonde. "But maybe Spot here can help me with it."Callie says before stepping closer to the well.
Reaching over into his little tuxedo's pocket she pulls out a gorgeous, delicate platinum ring. Arizona's breathe hitch and she can feel her heart starts to beat faster trying to burst right out of her chest. Callie looks at her smiling before taking a shaky hand in her own.
"For this past year I have experienced love and happiness like I have never before. You're the best part of my every day and I love every single thing about you. I love your coffee and your skinny jeans." Callie winks at her, yes she really loves Arizona in skinny jeans. Arizona smiles at her brightly, her free hand reaching up to wipe away a tear that has slipped down her cheek. "I love our movie dates that we never seem to finish watching. I love our tickle fights in the mornings. I love taking your hand when we are walking down the street. I love your name lighting up my phone. I love your unbelievably big heart, and all your love I can feel in each kiss that we share. And I can't imagine my life without you in it. I am not asking you to just be my wife. I am asking you to be my best friend, my home, my safe haven, my happy ending." Dropping down on to one knee she holds up the ring. "Arizona Gabriella Robbins, will you marry me?"
Arizona looks at the ring as the diamonds sparkles, her eyes moving up to meet brown ones looking at her with so much love.
"Yes." She whispers, before saying much louder. "Yes!"
A breathtaking smile breaks out on Callie's face as she slips the ring onto her finger. Arizona grabs her arms pulling her back up to her feet before her lips are on hers in a flash kissing her with everything she has. When they pull apart they stay wrapped up in each other. Callie leans forward kissing the tears still falling down pale cheeks away making Arizona giggle, with a soft kiss to her lips she pulls back smiling at the blonde.
Arizona moves her left hand that's behind Callie's neck so she can examine her beautiful ring shining in the dim light, looking at it now she can see that it shares some characteristics with the one she had designed for Callie, they were clearly made to complement one another.
A sudden chuckle leaves Arizona's lips. Callie looks at her confused but Arizona just smiles at her. Of course Steph knew about Callie planning to propose and that's why she was stalling with finishing the ring. She looks back into Callie's eyes her heart melting at the love that is looking back at her.
"So what did you really wish for?" Arizona asks twirling a strand of the singer's hair around her finger.
"That I don't drop the ring down the well." Arizona lets out a giggle shaking her head. Callie smiles at her fiancé. Her cheeks are starting to hurt from the insane smile on her face.
After a few more kisses they finally detangle from each other. Arizona walks closer to the well and pulls out Spot from the bucket, she runs a finger over the soft material of his tux before she adjusts his little bow tie.
"I didn't know Spot was a guardian." Arizona says walking back to where Callie is waiting for her.
"Well, he did promise to take good care of you." She says with a wink, she reaches down taking Arizona's hand and brings it up to her lips where she places a loving kiss right next to the ring. "But now it's my turn."
