Chapter 36

A/N: Hey guys! Hope you enjoyed the last chapter with the happy sexy times because this chapter may not be as happy! :( SORRY! I know... I sure do love the drama, don't I? Hope I don't run any of you away! I appreciate all the reviews and support for this story, you guys have been AMAZING! And thanks for reading Rendezvous. Not sure what I will do with that but I will keep you guys posted! And to my PARTNER IN CRIME- Moonbebe- you are more than AMAZING, thanks for everything! Here we go...

Arizona was so comfortable she hated to move. Her bladder was telling her otherwise. She and Callie had spent the night wrapped in each other's arms. They had awakened during the night to make love again and she felt it in her body. She was not used to that but it was something she could definitely get used to. She'd had no idea that you could still do things like they did when you were almost nine months pregnant or even want to. Callie made her want to do a lot of things she wasn't used to. Thinking about Callie, she smiled. She had finally told her that she loved her and it wasn't blurting it out in the middle of sex or anything like that. She had just said it and felt such relief afterwards. Finishing in the bathroom, she heard a sharp knock on the front door. Grabbing her robe, she walked into the living room. She looked out the peephole and saw her father standing there. Oh God, this would not be good. Callie was in the bedroom, naked. She wondered what to do and another louder knock helped make her mind up. She pulled the sash on her robe as tight as it would go and opened the door. Callie, please, stay in the bed.

"Good morning, Daddy."

"Well, I would ask if I interrupted anything but the car in the driveway tells me that answer."

"Is that what you came here for? To insult me even more?"

"No, actually, I came to apologize for my behavior. Your mother talked with me and we came to the agreement that I was very harsh to you and should not have said those things, but now here you are shacked up with 'your' lesbian."

"What is wrong with you, Daddy? I have never seen you act this way. I understand that things are different with me and you don't understand but this is ridiculous."

"Ridiculous?"

Arizona flinched at the angry word. She had never heard her father raise his voice at her and she was in shock.

"How can you call it ridiculous when you have changed everything about your life? You were a married woman for ten years; do you not have any respect for that? You have disappointed me so. I just don't know what to say anymore."

"Disappointed you? How am I a disappointment? Do you remember what that word caused us the last time you used it? It got my brother killed. You told Danny how disappointed you were in him for not joining the Marine Corp and then he went to Iraq and came home in a box. Is that what you want again?"

The slap rang out through the room.

"What the hell is going on in here?"

Arizona had covered her cheek with her hand and turned around to look at Callie.

"Arizona?"

Arizona looked at her father and felt so angry. He had never raised a hand to her and here she was a grown woman and he had slapped her.

"I truly hope this is not what it looks like. Sir, I am a police officer and I just saw you assault your own daughter. I think you need to leave before I do something that I will end up regretting."

"Calliope, I should not have said what I did to him. It was too much."

"Arizona, I heard what you said and it did not warrant him slapping his pregnant daughter."

Callie directed her glare back at the man that she had come to loathe in four days. He was Arizona's dad but that did not mean she had to like him. And now to see him lay his hand on her made Callie livid. She would not stand by and let someone hurt Arizona, no matter who they were.

"Is this really any of your business?"

Callie swung her head around and stared at the man. Was he out of his fucking mind? Not her business?

"Sir, we are both adults and I think you know as well as I do that this is my business."

"Just because you're sleeping with my daughter does not make it your business."

"I wasn't really referring to that. I meant because I am a police officer."

"Are you taking a promise to your partner to the next step? I know what partners promise each other. Did you promise Pete you would take care of her?"

"Yes, I did but I never pushed Arizona for anything. She needed someone. I sure as hell haven't seen you anywhere around."

"Callie..."

Callie caught the look in Arizona's eyes and mouthed an apology. She never wanted to do anything to hurt her but she could not let this go. He slapped his thirty-four year old daughter, who happened to be almost nine months pregnant. What the fuck was going on with this man?

"Do you love my daughter or is she just another conquest for you?"

"You don't know anything about me. How can you stand there and ask me such a question? Would I be standing here if she were just a conquest?"

"How am I supposed to know what you would do? I know you persuaded a grieving woman into changing everything about her life. Her husband of ten years has only been gone for five months and here you are already moved into her house and named her baby. I don't know what to think about you. I just know I don't like you. And I saw you both at the airport. Kissing in public. What a disgusting sight."

"I did not persuade your daughter to do anything. She is a grown woman. And as for Pete, well he's been gone a lot longer than five months. You have no idea what you're even talking about.."

"Calliope..."

Callie turned and saw anger on Arizona's face. Seriously? She was going to be angry with her for saying something about the sorry mother fucker she had been married to? This situation just kept getting better.

"How can you stand there and disgrace that man's name? He died in the line of duty. He was a hero."

"A hero?"

Arizona looked between Callie and her father. This had gotten so out of hand. She could see Callie trembling with anger and her father wasn't much better. She didn't want things to come out like this but how could she stop them now?

"You really have no clue what kind of man your son-in-law was, do you? The last word that would ever come to my mind is hero."

"He is more of a hero than you will ever be. He gave my daughter a good life for over ten years. What are you going to give her? People staring and talking about her? What will my granddaughter have to endure? Two mothers? What will everyone say about her? Her life will be hell if you do that to her? Both of them will be in hell if you choose to be together. That was not something she had to worry about with Peter. That was the way God intended things. A man and a woman. Not the way you choose to live. Being with women."

"Choose? I don't choose anything. Except for going after the person I fell in love with. My heart has a mind of its own. Everything is not a choice."

"Oh, I'm sorry, were you born this way? I forgot that most of you have that way of thinking. So what about Arizona? She wasn't born that way. You turned her that way. And I do not accept it."

"I really don't think it's up to you to accept."

"Dammit, shut up!"

Callie turned and saw how angry Arizona was.

"I feel like I'm a kindergartner who's watching her friends fight over a doll. I never would have thought that this visit would turn into this. I wanted everyone to get along and possibly spend some time together but instead I get this. And I don't need this."

"Arizona, I'm sorry."

"Calliope, I really don't want to hear that right now. I know you care about me but I don't need someone fighting my battles. I am a grown woman and what I said to my father was unacceptable. His actions were not the best way to handle it but I can surely understand why he did it. And I can also understand why you were so upset about it. You know more about my life than anyone on this earth and I appreciate that. But I cannot feel like a damsel in distress and let you take care of me. Believe it or not, I can take care of myself. I have grown in these last five months and I need to know that I won't be held back again. If that's your intentions then I have no idea what to say. We need to spend some time apart so we both can decide what to do."

Callie was in shock. How the hell had they gone from not being able to keep their hands off each other to this? Well, the answer to that was standing right in front of her and she couldn't stand to look at him. How could Arizona fall right into this trap? She didn't even see that he manipulated her without even trying. Fuck this was a mess.

"Arizona, please don't do this."

"Did you not hear my daughter? She wants you to spend time apart. Now get your ass out of my sight."

Callie turned on the older man and got in his face. "Fuck you!"

"Callie, you need to leave."

Callie turned to look at Arizona. She had come to love just looking at her. Everything about her was just so beautiful. Even staring at her angry face, she was still the most beautiful thing Callie had ever seen.

"Callie, did you hear me? I want you to leave."

Callie turned and headed for the bedroom. She decided that there was nothing else to say. Grabbing her clothes and shoes, she hurriedly got dressed. She felt like she was going to cry but did not want that to happen yet. She snatched her badge and gun off the nightstand and headed back towards the door. Not even looking at Arizona, she opened the door.

"Calliope..."

At the sound of Arizona's voice, Callie wanted to stop and turn around but her pride kept her from doing so. She closed the door quietly behind her and walked towards her car. She got as far as the driver door before she broke down. Her knees threatened to give out but she knew she had to keep going.

"Arizona, I know that was hard for you."

"Daddy, you have no idea what that felt like. Calliope has been here for me when everyone else ran away and I turn around and treat her like that."

Arizona felt regret over the way she had acted towards Callie. More like ashamed, if she was completely honest with herself. She knew she had to let her tears go. She had been holding them in since her angry words to her father. Crossing the room, she sat down on the couch and cried. This was too much for her emotional state. She had gone from saying she loved Callie to this. And it hadn't even been twelve hours.

"Arizona, I apologize for what I did. I have never raised my hand to anyone unless I had to. But especially a female. I'm so sorry. I don't talk about Danny and I think you know that and when you said that it took me off guard. I apologize and it will never happen again."

Arizona cried harder at her father's words. She had heard those same words from Pete the first time he had hit her. She knew she would never have to worry about anything like that with Callie. She had never felt anything but love from her. She hated herself more right now than any other time in her life.

"Arizona, I realize your mother and I were only going to stay a week but we will stay for as long as you need us. This is a very emotional time for you."

"Daddy are you sorry for the way you treated Calliope?"

"No."

Arizona felt sick. She had wanted his answer to be something else but he had not even had to think about it. This was not a good sign at all.

"Right now, Daddy, I just need for you to go."

Callie drove around aimlessly. Her heart was breaking. She never wanted to hear Arizona's tone again. She had been so happy to finally hear those three words from her and now this. She needed to talk to Teddy. Pulling her phone out, she hit the speed dial for her best friend. After several rings, she finally heard someone on the other end.

" Hello?"

"Teddy, I need you."

"Cal, what's wrong? Is it Arizona? Amelia?"

"I just need to talk. Can I come over?"

"Yeah. Just drive slow."

Callie ended the call and wondered about her friend's words. She was at least twenty minutes away from Teddy's but she would drive slow anyway.

Teddy had no idea what was going on with Callie but she would think about that after she got here. She was too busy studying the beautiful woman lying beside her. She had to give in and lean towards her, smelling her neck. She smelled so good; Teddy wanted to eat her up. Running her tongue down the side of her neck, she felt the tremble.

"Wake up, beautiful."

Teddy watched as her dark brown eyes opened and locked on hers. She was so beautiful; Teddy had a hard time controlling herself.

"Callie is coming over. Sounds like something happened."

Teddy watched her sit up and start to gather her clothes.

"Hey, where are you going?"

"You said Callie was coming over so I need to go."

"No, you really don't have to do that. She knows we were going out yesterday it will not be a surprise for you to be here. Besides, I want a kiss before you go."

Teddy leaned into the beautiful woman and ran her tongue over her bottom lip. She had known their second time together would be as passionate as the first. The only difference was she called the shots this time and the usually poised doctor had loved it. Her hands ran all over the darker skin and she could tell she wasn't the only one that wanted more.

"Okay, I need to go."

Teddy watched her climb out of the bed and start putting her clothes on. She knew this would have to keep going. She already wanted her again.

"Grab those shorts on the chair. You can't leave here like that. Wait, your car is at The Planet."

Teddy could see the look on her face but she couldn't quite place what it was.

"Let me call you a cab."

Teddy grabbed her phone and dialed for assistance. She found the nearest cab company and requested for them to pick up Jennifer. Smiling, her eyes traveled over the ensemble the other woman was wearing. Her gym shorts went nicely with the red high heels and sleeveless sweater. She wanted to rip everything off again.

"When can we see each other again?"

"I'm not sure."

Teddy saw the confusion written all over her features and wanted to fix it. She jumped out of the bed and had the other woman pinned against the door before she could even react. Their lips slammed against each other's and Teddy pushed her tongue inside her warm mouth. Her hands were running all over her beautiful body. One cupping her breast the other stroking between her legs.

"We deserve a chance to find out where this can go. Don't take that away."

Teddy cupped her crotch and pressed her palm flat against her warmth. She pulled her lips away and ran her tongue along her neck and stopped at her ear. "Your mouth might be telling me one thing but your pussy tells me what I need to know."

Teddy watched her try to pull away and grabbed her face for one more kiss. It only lasted a few seconds but it was enough.

Jennifer finished getting dressed. She didn't look back at her but whispered, "I'll call you tomorrow."

The door closed behind her and Teddy grabbed her robe. She needed to get her mind off the woman that just left and get it fixed on her best friend. She couldn't help the smile that broke out across her face. Things sure could change and quick. She had a feeling that was what Callie was coming for too. This was going to be a very long day.

I know... I'm in trouble.