A/N – You guys are so kind to me, I can't say how much it means to me to know that you guys enjoy my story. I had some pretty bad writers block with this chapter so I hope it doesn't disappoint.

Chapter 13

Callie wakes up with the biggest smile on her face. Yes, it's five am, she hates mornings and she is very jetlagged but last night the most beautiful, amazing woman who stole her heart told her she loves her. Arizona Robbins loves her! After the number Erica did on her, she never expects she could feel this way about someone, not that she has ever felt so strongly about anyone before. She is happy, no she is euphoric. Like they are floating in their own perfect little pink bubble.

For years Callie's favorite moment was being on stage, but now her favorite moment is those few minutes in the morning before she has to get up, just her and her love alone in the world. Just laying there looking at each other, she can spend all day looking into those blue dream covered eyes. She puts a smile on her face every morning.

Thinking about her blonde she feels the urgent need to feel that soft skin against hers. Without opening her eyes she stretches out her arm for her girlfriend, only to be met with an ice-cold sheet. Slowly opening her eyes she sees the empty space her blonde previously occupied. Maybe she is in the bathroom.

"Arizona?"

No answer. Climbing out of her warm, comfy bed she searches her drawers for her favorite black t-shirt but it seems to have disappeared into thin air, so she quickly pulls on a pair of underwear and a tank top. She sets off to find her missing girlfriend. She can smell fresh coffee brewing in the kitchen. She walks into the kitchen, but no Arizona. Her laptop is open on the breakfast bar facing away from Callie, which means she was here at some point. Deciding to just go ahead and start breakfast she moves around to the fridge.

"Wow, my sister sure knows how to pick 'em."

Callie spins around surprised at the sudden male voice in her kitchen. There is a very handsome young man on Arizona's laptop screen, he has very familiar blue eyes and a buzz cut.

"I… um…" Callie not really sure how to react to the stranger, and suddenly feels like she is very exposed in her tiny outfit. Thankfully a flash of blonde hair appears out of nowhere.

"Tim! Stop looking at girlfriend!" Arizona blocks her brother's view of Callie.

"Zona move I can't see the hot singer." He tries to see around the blonde.

"Timothy Daniel Robbins if you would like to keep those pretty blue eyes of yours I suggest you take them off Callie!"

She places her hand over the webcam while Callie quickly slips out of the kitchen, luckily her bags are still at the door. She pulls on some more video appropriate clothes before returning to the kitchen. That's when she realizes Arizona is wearing her missing t-shirt, her favorite t-shirt. But seeing the blonde wear it makes her love it even more.

"Geez chill sis, can you blame me? I'm on the other side of the world surrounded by ugly sweaty men all day." Tim turns his head to someone next to him. "No, not you sir." He mouths 'oops' into the camera. Arizona laughs at her brother before turning her attention to her girlfriend who moved next to her, kissing her.

"Morning. Oh, while you are here I would like you to meet someone. Callie this is my brother Tim the perv, Tim this is my super awesome girlfriend Callie." Tim rolls his eyes.

"Nice to meet you, Tim." One thing is for sure, good genes run in the Robbins family.

"You to Callie."

"I wanted to make you a 'good luck' breakfast for your first day of filming but you banned me from your kitchen, so I just made you some coffee." She says handing over the cup.

"Yeah, when it comes to cooking Arizona is only good for moral support." Arizona crosses her arms and pouts, getting a laugh from her brother.

"It's okay, coffee is perfect. I have to go get ready. Thanks for the coffee." Callie says kissing the blonde on her cheek. "By the way you look really hot in my clothes." She whispers in her ear, smiling when she hears the blonde's breath hitch. Satisfied with the reaction she received she leaves the kitchen.

Arizona is pretty sure her cheeks are the darkest shade of red, she turns and watches her girlfriend disappear. Arizona looks back at the screen seeing her brother with a shit-eating grin on his face. "Shut up Tim."

"I didn't say anything." In all honesty, he hasn't seen his sister this happy in a long time. Sure to the outside world she was still the same perky Arizona, but he could see right through the fake smile. But seeing her around Callie that is 100% the real Arizona Robbins.

"But I know what you're thinking."

"Actually, I'm trying to figure out why my sister is still keeping secrets from the woman she is clearly head over heels in love with."

"Tim…" Arizona drops her head in her hands annoyed at the sudden change of subject.

"Arizona what happened sucks, trust me I know. But at some point you have to talk to someone, you can't just bury it under a rock and hope it disappears. It happened. And if there is even the slightest chance of Callie being in your life permanently she needs to know."

"Tim, I love her more than… anything." After saying those three words Arizona realized that she loves her more than any of her other girlfriends combined and she has only known her for such a short period, but going forward in this relationship means she has to face her past.

"Okay, then there is your answer."

"But what if she is mad?"

"I'm not going to lie to you she probably will be, but if she really loves you she will be okay eventually. You know you can't be a personal assistant forever?"

"Yes, I can."

"Arizona…" He takes a deep breath, he and his sister has been dancing around this argument for almost a year. He loves his sister but sometimes she can be as stubborn as a popcorn kernel in your teeth. "Don't make me fly all the way over there just to slap some sense into you."

She gives him a challenging look, but it quickly softness when she sees the exhaustion on his face. "How are you holding up?"

"I'm in a warzone there is not a lot of time to think about anything else." He gives her a sad smile.

"Well, I have to go I'm going to be on a movie set today."

"Have fun sis, and talk to your girl okay?"

-x-x-

They arrive at the studio at seven am Arizona couldn't help the crazy smile on her face, she is going to be on an actual film set with all the bells and whistles and real actors. After checking in at the security office they are greeted by the third assistant director Heather Brooks.

"Hi, welcome. Sorry Derek couldn't meet you personally he got pulled into a production meeting but you will see him later onset."

"It's okay, I'm just really excited to be here." Callie can hear a voice coming from Heather's walkie-talkie.

"Sounds like they are ready for you in hair and make-up." Heather shows Callie to the hair and make-up trailer. An hour later her face is painted, hair fluffed, and dressed to impress.

"Well, you can wait in your trailer until they are ready for you on set." She guides them to where there are rows of white trailers lined up.

"Here we go." She says pointing to one of them. "You can just relax in here and then I'll come to get you later."

Callie looks at the big white trailer, her character's name written on the door in big black letters. That's when it really hit her she is actually going to be in a movie. She is finally going to get a chance to live her dream, it feels kind of surreal.

They enter the trailer and they both look around dumbfounded. This is defiantly not your low budget movie. The table is covered in welcome baskets, and all the high tech gadgets an actress might need.

"They lied," Callie says as she examines the make-up artist work in the mirror.

"What why?" Arizona asks concerned.

"Beauty isn't skin deep, apparently you apply it to your skin."

"Trust me, you're beautiful." She says wrapping her arms around her girlfriend from behind looking into her soulful brown eyes in the mirror.

"You are supposed to say that, but seriously did you see all that powder stuff they were putting on that woman's face."

"It's for the camera or else a person's skin is too shiny, then it would be like doing a scene with a glow stick." This gets a belly laugh out of the singer. "So, Cristina asked me to get one of Mark Sloan's socks for her." The blonde says confused grabbing an apple from one of the baskets.

"She wants to sell it on eBay. She did the same thing to me once, now I have a drawer full of unmatched socks."

"People really buy dirty celebrity socks?" Arizona asks scrunching up her face in disgust.

"Well, dirty sock money paid for her new drum set."

Knock-Knock

"We are ready on set," Heather says through the trailer door.

Arizona sees the sudden change in Callie's face, sensing her nerves she takes both her hands kissing each one.

"It's time to go be awesome. You got two Grammys now go get your Oscar."

Walking to set Callie is nervously holding onto her girlfriend's hand. Her first scene is just her and two other actresses who play her 'friends' one of them being Amelia Shepherd. Callie has met Little Shepherd before, she is nice and a really good actor but a little too much of a diva for her liking. She and Mark have been good friends, maybe hanging out with Derek as kids they had no choice but to like each other. Heather opens the stage doors for them to enter. The stage is huge with people and equipment everywhere.

"Callie!" She turns around seeing her new boss walking to her.

"Derek hi." He hugs her.

"I'm so glad you're here." He looks over to the unknown blonde next to her.

"Oh sorry, Derek this is Arizona Robbins, Arizona this is Derek Shepherd."

"It's very nice to meet you Arizona. Between you and me, even if I just met you I already like you more than Mark." He says giving her a wink making Arizona blush. "Well, let me go see how the crew is doing so we can get this thing going." He turns and leaves them.

"I get it now," Arizona says watching the director leave.

"Get what?"

"The whole McDreamy thing."

-x-x-

Arizona is sitting at the back working, more like pretending to work. She can't help but watch Callie working her magic on set, she really is amazing. She senses someone standing next to her she doesn't even have to look to know who it is.

"Hi, Bailey." She says sheepishly. Bailey just glares at her. She starts chewing nervously at her bottom lip. "Just say it." Not being able to take the silent treatment anymore, caught off guard by a rolled-up paper hitting the back of her head she lets out a yelp.

"When I say don't tell Callie something it's usually for a good reason," She says taking a seat next to the blonde.

Arizona breaks the silence after a few moments of watching the scene in front of them.

"She really is good isn't she?" Arizona says proudly unable to contain the big smile that always accompanied anything Callie related. Bailey just rolls her eyes.

"Ugh, your two are like lovesick teenagers."

"We are not that bad! We are just happy."

"Right, she is so happy she's Marry freakin' Poppins."

-x-x-

During a rather long break waiting for the crew to set up the next scene, Callie and Arizona head back to Callie's trailer. Callie is relaxing on the couch looking at pictures on her iPad when Arizona sits down next to the singer.

"Wow, that's beautiful." Arizona comments as Callie is browsing through different pictures of very beautiful, luxurious hotel rooms.

"My dad just send these to me. They finished their newest hotel in Paris, we are sort of obligated to stay there when we go there for the tour."

"If all the rooms look like that count me in." Arizona sees a little wooden box between all the gift baskets scattered around her trailer. "What's that?"

"Oh, I don't know. Maybe that's where they want me to put my soul, the contract wasn't very specific." Arizona slaps her shoulder.

"I'm pretty sure Derek isn't the devil." She gets up and grabs the box.

"How else do you explain that perfect hair?"

"Hmm, good point." Opening the note that is attached to it she reads it.

Everybody has to start somewhere. Next time I will need a bigger box.

That's weird. She opens the box and drops it back on the table.

"Arizona?" Instantly alarmed, her girlfriend is as pale as a ghost and her hands are shaking. She rushes over to her side. "Hey, what is it?" She points to the open box on the table. Callie's eyes go wide at the sight of the dead, maggot covered rat in the box. "What the hell!" She takes a step forward, Arizona grabs her arm. "Is this some kind of sick joke?"

-x-x-

Arizona is biting her fingernails a giveaway of her nerves. Bailey and Derek are yelling at the head of security.

"I can't believe someone sends you a dead rat. That's just sick." She liked it a lot better when they were on a different continent than the stalker.

Callie is tired of playing this game of cat and mouse, well cat and rat apparently. She is not going to let some psycho bitch play head games with her, this is clearly just someone bored with their lives and now looking for entertainment in her life.

"It was found in her trailer, which means the person who is trying to kill my singer was and maybe still is on the grounds!" Bailey yells.

"Ma'am I understand what you are saying, but this is a very large studio and we only have so many guards." The large security man in his fancy suit says.

"I'm not asking for a SWAT team to be camped outside her door, just for you to do your job!"

"Someone had to see something," Derek says pulling the man away from the angry manager.

"I guess when they advertised his job it just said, 'Needs breathing human being - intelligence optional', "Bailey says watching them leave. Alex comes running in.

"What the hell happened, I figured she would be safe in this secure studio?"

"You would think." She says eyeing the security man. "Eyes on her at all times, don't make me handcuff you two together," Bailey commands Alex.

-x-x-

After everything that happened today, Arizona needed some time to clear her head. Stepping back into her apartment for the first time in months she is greeted by a layer of dust covering everything and the thin ray of light from the streetlamp coming in through the blinds makes everything look extra spooky. Not in the mood to roll up her sleeves and start cleaning, she closes the door. Because it's too late to go for a run she decides to go for a drive instead.

Last night she told Callie she loved her and was pretty sure it was the happiest moment of her life hearing Callie loved her back. But this morning her brother had to go and bring up the whole keeping secrets from Callie's thing. She knows he is right, but it turns out it's true – the longer you wait the harder it is to come clean.

After driving from what must have been forever she decides to head back home. Only when the large house comes into view does she realize that she is in front of Callie's house. She wanted to go home and automatically drove to Callie without thinking about it. That's when it hit her. Callie is home, the place she feels save, where she goes when she doesn't know where else to go. And just like that her mind was made up she is going to tell her, but she is going to have to do it the right way.

-x-x-

It's been a long week, Callie working fifteen hours a day just to get all the scenes done in time. Alex and Jackson taking turns to babysit her, after the rat incident security have been amped up and everyone was on high alert around the studio. No one messes with the Nazis. Arizona also has been working double-time, so Callie friendly forced her to take the day off and relax before she burns herself out. For the sake of her professional and personal life.

Off-screen, Callie and Mark are sitting running lines before they are called for their next scene. After the fifth run through Mark's attention span is hitting a borderline low. Callie decides to get some information on something she has been wondering about for some time.

"So how are things going with your new lady friend?" Callie asks wiggling her eyebrows.

"Good, really good." He says with a smug smile.

"I'm glad to hear that, she must be something special if you haven't wondered astray yet." He gives her a look. She puts up her hands in surrender. "I'm just kidding! So, when do I get to meet her?"

"Well, today is Friday so…" He pretends to think about it. "…never." Before Callie can say anything Amelia walks up to them.

"Hey, guys I'm done for the day I'll see you tomorrow. Oh and Mark try to actually remember your lines this time." Amelia says smiling at him.

"Hey, at least I didn't almost run down a cameraman today." Mark retorts.

"I don't know what you're talking about." She says before walking off. Callie waits until she is gone before turning back to her friend.

"Is it Amelia?" She asks excitedly.

"What?" Almost spit out the sip of water he just took.

"Come on Mark. I'm your friend, please I really want to meet this woman who got Mark Sloan to settle down." Callie whines pulling out the puppy dog eyes.

"Okay fine." Realizing Callie isn't going to back down. "I have courtside tickets to the game tonight, how about you and Arizona join us?" Figuring if the blonde is also there maybe she can help tame the overly excited singer.

"Sounds awesome!"

"What you're not a little nervous?"

"No, why would I be?"

"This would be your first very public outing as a couple."

Callie's eyes go wide, she never even thought of that. The paparazzi will hound both of them, is Arizona ready for that? Ready to have strangers know things about her personal life? The pressure of having your relationship under the public microscope can break a relationship she has seen it happen many times. But they are not like other couples, she likes to believe they can face anything together. She can't even imagine not having the blonde in her life, it scares her how important Arizona has become to her, but it's a good kind of scared.

"You're not freaking out on me are you?" Mark asks when he sees his friend is no longer with him.

"Hey, just go call your girl and tell her about our double date." Hoping to turn the conversation back to his relationship. He just gives her a look to tell her he knows what she is doing before pulling out his cell phone and dialing the number.

"Hey babe, yeah no everything is good I'm still on set. How did the appointment go? That's good. So, I just wanted to call and say I have tickets to tonight's game and I was wondering maybe we could ask Callie and Arizona to join us? Yeah, they are really excited to meet you. I know that." His voice changes to a more serious tone. "Well, it's going to happen sooner or later." He gives Callie a smile over his shoulder before leaving to talk in private. A minute later he comes back in.

"She's not coming is she?" She asks already knowing the answer.

"No, she not in LA right now and she can't get here in time."

"Right," She says not believing him. "She doesn't want to meet me. Did you tell her we were not really dating I'm not going to go all My Super Ex-girlfriend on her if that's what she is scared of?"

"No, it's nothing like that. Its… it's just complicated that's all." Callie nods. "Hey, maybe I can ask Addison to join us. It's been a long time since the three of us did something fun together."

"Sure." Disappointed to not be meeting Mark's new girl, but she still likes spending time with two of her best friends.

-x-x-

Arriving at Arizona's apartment with a few goodies in hand as well as her trusty new guitar that mysteriously received new drawings on the back. Luckily Callie had woken up this morning to the teddy bear Spot sitting on Arizona's pillow with a key tied around its neck. The note that accompanied it said:

Calliope, I will be at my apartment all day, feel free to use your key. Love Arizona.

There is no way Arizona would have heard her knock with the loud music Callie can hear all the way from the elevator. She opens the door to find her girlfriend dancing in the kitchen will singing into the broom. Callie watches as her girlfriend wiggles her perfect behind to the music in a pair of cut off jean shorts, a light yellow shirt, and red polka dot socks. Her hair is pulled up in a ponytail with a few strands hanging loses around her face.

Completely unaware of the pair of brown eyes watching her. Callie can't help but think it should be illegal to be this cute. She doesn't know how long she has been 'cleaning' but when dancing turns into what suppose to be karate moves Callie couldn't hold her laughter anymore.

Knowing that angelic laugh anywhere Arizona freezes, turning around she finds a laughing Callie looking at her.

"Nice moves Jackie Chan." She says walking closer to the blonde.

Not fazed at her girlfriend's sarcasm she just takes a bow. When Callie stops in front of her Arizona wraps her arms around her neck as she pulls her down into a kiss, an approving moan leaving Callie's lips.

"Hey, beautiful," Callie says nuzzling her head in the blonde's neck, feeling the vibrations on her skin Arizona breaks out into goosebumps. It's amazing how her body reacts to the singer. "I missed you today."

"I missed you too. But I'm glad you're here now, I was thinking about ordering some food, is Chinese okay?"

"Sure, or we can eat the pizza I brought?" Point over her shoulder to the box on the table.

"You brought pizza?"

"Yes, and beer."

"Best girlfriend ever." She says pulling Callie into a sensual kiss. After pulling apart Callie rests her forehead against the blonde.

"I got a surprise for you."

"Is it a puppy?" Arizona asks hopefully.

"It's better than a puppy."

"Two puppies!" Callie didn't think Arizona's smile could get any bigger.

"Where exactly do you want to put a puppy in your tiny apartment?"

"There is a room next to the washing machine."

She holds a little pink gift bag in front of the blonde. Who grabs it right away.

"That's too small for a puppy," Arizona says pouting.

"Just open it."

Arizona pulls a little blue, diamond-like shaped perfume bottle from the bag.

"You got me perfume?"

"Actually…" Turning the bottle so she can read the name.

"It's your perfume?" Callie nods.

"I tried to get that whole sunny day at the beach thing, but then I realized instead of trying to force myself into that little bottle I should rather just pick the one I liked the most." Arizona sprays some on her wrist smelling the amazing sent. It is a soft flower-like scent, with a sweet after tone. "It reminded me of you," Callie says tugging a piece of blonde hair behind Arizona's ear. Those blue eyes sparkling at her, making her heart race against her chest. She would give the world to keep that smile on her face.

"You got the whole speech worked out haven't you?" She teases her.

"There is a reason my songs win all those awards," Callie says proudly.

"Butterfly Kisses." Arizona reads the name of the perfume.

"Our first kiss." Arizona can't believe how much thought Callie has put into this. No one has ever done something close to this for her.

"This is so cheesy isn't it?" Callie groans covering her face with her hands. How pathetic is she, picking a perfume that reminds her of Arizona, making the bottle a blue that matches her eyes, and naming it after their first kiss.

"Super cheesy." Callie opens her fingers to glare at the blonde. "But it's the most beautiful thing anyone has ever done for me. I love you so much Callie, even if you're a cheese ball. But you're my cheese ball."

"I love you too." It's still crazy how those three words make her stomach do cartwheels.

After kissing each other senseless on the couch, Callie remembers the conversation she had earlier with Mark.

"Hey, so Mark invited us to go to the game with him and Addison tonight. It was actually supposed to be Mark's new girlfriend but she had some lame excuse so now Addison is joining us."

"Tonight?" Arizona asks biting her nails.

"Yeah."

"I thought maybe we could stay in tonight, you know just me and you and we could maybe talk?" Callie freezes.

"Talk?"

"Yes." She sees the panic in Callie's eyes. "Oh no no not like that. It's nothing bad."

"Thank goodness," Callie says relieved. "We can still talk when we get back."

-x-x-

They decide to meet up at Callie's house. Addison is the first to arrive, she is grumpy because she is the substitute. Callie is busy fixing her hair in the hall mirror, Addison is pacing up and down with her arms crossed.

"I don't want to go and watch you all happy giggly with your girlfriend."

"Addison really?" Giving her friend a raised eyebrow.

"I'm single, single people don't like to be surrounded by all the happy together people." She finds Callie's perfume bottle and smells it. "Wow, why does that smell like a unicorn fart?" She asks scrunching up her nose. Before Callie can answer there is a knock at the door.

"Hey, can you please get that?"

Addison walks over to the door and finds a very exciting blonde on the other side.

"Addison hi!"

"Arizona, so nice to see you again and pox free." Pulling the blonde into a hug.

"Yeah, you have no idea how happy I am about that." She walks into the living room putting down a box she brought with her.

Arizona walks over to where Callie is, she turns around to see her blonde in all her basketball glory. She is wearing the team jersey that is either a few sizes too big or she is just too short because it's more like a basketball cocktail dress, with a pair of skinny jeans and her hair is hanging loose over her shoulders.

"Hey, I see you're ready."

"Just showing some team spirit."

"Everyone ready to go?" Mark calls out walking into the house without even attempting to knock first, he smiles when he catching a glimpse of the blonde. "Damn, Blondie are you going to watch or play?"

"Don't listen to him I think you look hot," Callie says placing a kiss on her cheek.

"So, does that mean you are going to buy me a foam finger?" They all turn at Mark when he snorts. "What?"

"Nothing, if you want Callie to give you a finger..."

"Mark!" Callie yells. "Get your mind out of the gutter." She chides him while grabbing her purse and leaving.

-x-x-

Everyone is enjoying the game. Arizona is getting to experience the VIP treatment, she can almost reach out and touch the players. During a break, the four of them are talking when the Kiss Cam comes on. Mark and Addison pop on screen, Addison shakes her head no she is not kissing Mark.

"Come on pucker up Red," Mark says smirking at her.

"No Mark don't you dare!" Before she can keep on protesting he grabs her face pulling her into a loud kiss. Arizona and Callie are laughing at Addison as she smacks him against his head cleaning her mouth with the back of her hand. "Now I'm going to need a tetanus shot."

"Come on Addie it's all in good fun," Callie says patting her friend on her back.

"Oh really?" Addison gives her a raised eyebrow as she points to the screen. Callie turns to see her and Arizona on screen. Arizona is frozen not sure what to do.

"Arizona." She slowly turns to face Callie. The crowd is chanting Kiss! Kiss! Callie knows this is a cheap shot to find out if the dating rumors about them are true. The photographs across the court are going crazy snapping pictures of them. Every eye is on them to see if will they or won't they.

"Callie you don't have…" Her words are cut off by Callie's lips on hers. The crowd goes wild. Arizona knows she will never get tired of kissing the singer. When they pull apart Callie smiles at her.

"I meant it when I said that I'm not going to hide you, I love you and I want everyone to know how unbelievably lucky I am to call you my girlfriend," Callie whispers before placing one more kiss on her lips.

"Welcome to the front page Blondie."

"What?" Arizona asks confused.

"Mark's right this story is going to be huge. You two just become Hollywood's new 'it' couple." Callie takes Arizona's hand giving it a reaffirming squeeze.

The rest of the game was uneventful, their kiss still being the highlight for most people. Mark is right that kiss is going to be on every magazine cover and talk show. When they get back to Callie's place, she is feeling a little nervous Arizona has been rather quiet since the kiss.

"I'm sorry I just kissed you I probably should have asked you first if you were ready to have everyone know about us, I just…" She starts to explain.

"Callie it's okay. When you asked me to go on this date I knew something like that could happen. Someone would have eventually taken a blurry picture of us kissing. If you're ready to have everyone know I'm more than happy to have the world know I'm dating the one and only Callie Torres."

-x-x-

Arizona is running her finger across the black ink letters on Callie's ribs. Loving the feeling of the singer playing with her blonde locks.

"Hey, you said you wanted to talk to me about something," Callie says out of the blue.

Arizona closes her eyes, she knew this moment was coming. She has been mentally preparing herself for this all night but now that it's here, she can feel her heart start to speed up. Callie just outed herself in front of the world to show her how much she loves her, she is not going to run. She turns her head to face her girlfriend.

"Yes, how about I go make us some tea then we can talk."

"Sounds great." She gives her a quick kiss before hopping out of bed.

Sitting in the kitchen waiting for the kettle to boil, Callie can see the nerves on her girlfriends face. She is tugging at her shirt and biting her nails, shifting nervously from one foot to the other. Reaching over she takes her hand between hers.

"Sweetie it's okay, you can tell me anything you know that right?"

"I do." Giving her hand a squeeze hearing the kettle boil she pours them each a cup before heading to the couch in the living room.

Sitting on the couch looking at each other, Arizona feels ready to tell Callie, she was able to break through her walls one brick at a time.

"I'm not like you, Callie, I keep things bottled up. I think and contemplate and drive myself crazy before I even think about talking to someone about it." She takes a deep breath. "There is a part of my life, a dark part that I've been keeping from you. I'm trying to let it go, just turn my back to it. But I realized that no matter how far I run it will always be with me."

Callie takes a deep breath she knows there is a piece of the blonde's past she has been keeping under lock and key and if she is finally ready to share it with her she promised she would be ready to listen. She often wondered and speculated about the blonde's past and why she is so secretive about it. Maybe she is hiding from someone the mob, ex-lover, jury duty?

Arizona is feeling more nervous than she ever has. This is the first time she told anyone this. She hasn't even started and she can already feel the tears starting to form. Arizona plays nervously with the silver music note around her neck, she is scared because Callie holds the power to break her. Looking into those beautiful brown eyes she sees nothing but love and support. Just like ripping off a band-aid.

"I had the normal little girl dreams of what I wanted to be when I grow up, ballerina, princess, GI Joe." Callie looks at her confused, she is sure Tim must have had something to do with that one. "I even wanted to be a rock star at some point. But that all changed when I was six." She picks up a box placing it on the couch between them. "This box holds everything you want to know about my past."

Callie is very hesitant. Arizona pushes it closer to her giving her the best reassuring smile she can manage at this moment. Callie slowly moves her hand to the top opening it. She gives one last conforming look at Arizona to make sure it is okay who just gives her a nod. Callie pulls out the item on top, it's a white lab coat. Callie reads the name.

Arizona Robbins M.D.

Her jaw drops and her eyes go wide. Out of all the possibilities, this one never crossed her mind. Pulling her eyes away from the white fabric in her hands she looks at the blue eyes sitting across from her.

"I think it's time I told you why I left Seattle."

Callie is silent, just looking at Arizona with a blank expression. The pretty pink bubble popped.