A/N: If it wasn't completely obvious, I was just messing with you guys by giving you weird and absurd choices to pick from at the end of the chapters. I think I got reviews asking me why I was being such a pain in the behind. Need to say that was just me being… well me.
But now there are some little snippets of information that I leave in all the absurdity.
Chapter 27: Calliope
Five years ago
"Hey babe, have you seen my hoodie?" I asked as I rummaged through my drawer. I had a charity event to go to and it has already started and I can believe I'm already late.
The reason I want the hoodie is because it has the charity's logo on it and everyone is expected to wear something similar, like a hoodie or a shirt or whatever that was sold for the charity.
Anyway, I was literally elbow deep in my closet when I heard Arizona coming into the room.
"Which one?"
I looked up at her to watch her hair all over the place as if she just woke up from a nap with her feet in mismatched socks but both of them were still pink.
Of course.
"The one you are wearing right now!" I replied and sighed. There goes half an hour of my time and now a huge pile of clothes that are just on the floor. Had I taken the effort to just peep on the couch to see her, maybe then I wouldn't have spent much time.
But yup, she had my hoodie on and with the exception of socks it didn't look like she was wearing anything else.
"Why are you wearing my clothes again? You have an entire freaking drawer to yourself!"
"I needed something comfy."
"So you should have worn something comfy that you owned."
"But your clothes are so.. nice and warm and they smell like you."
I took a couple of steps closer to her. I'm already late and with her standing like that in front of me.
"Babe, you know I'm not going to be able to leave now."
"I can find something else to wear it's no big-"
But before she could finish her statement I cut her off, "because now I'm going to busy fucking you hard."
I saw the way her eyes changed shades as I pulled her towards me.
"But you'll be late." She said in between kisses.
I gently pushed her on the bed as I attacked her neck. "I don't care." There is just something in me that lights up whenever I see her in my clothing. She doesn't do it often but whenever she does, I just get so insanely turned on.
Suddenly, another idea popped up in my head. As I let my hands trail upward touching her skin underneath the hoodie, I lifted it up and remove it from her but not completely. I made sure that her hands are still tangled in the sleeves of my hoodie and then I tug on them and tie them into a knot around the bedpost.
"Callie?" She looks up at me as she tries to wiggle her hands.
"Yeah?"
"What are you doing?" She asks as she tries to free herself, but I put my hand on her fists and trail my lips towards to her ears.
"I'm having a bit of fun, now don't move your hands or, I'll punish you," I whispered before leaning in and giving her lips a full kiss.
Looking at her all tied up, she is the sexiest thing I have ever seen. She had chosen not to wear a bra underneath the hoodie which did wonders to me. Rose pink buds were already begging for my attention along with the cute pair of panties she had on. I loved it! I loved them.
She was mine… forever.
Present day
I smiled. Now was not the time to think about the last time I had tied someone up especially when my shoulder was hurting like crazy but I couldn't help it. The only way to keep myself sane was to think about Arizona. She was the one who was giving me courage right now to go on, to fight and to face these demons.
Erica had kept me tied up, gagged and blind folded. After what seemed like hours I heard a few people entering the room. I was ready to kick, scream, anything to escape. I felt rough hands taking my face in their hands before the voice said.
"I can't believe it! She was here all along."
It was the sound of a woman. Okay, this was going to be easy. if I get a chance I could easily free myself if it was just a woman, but then I knew that there were multiple people because I heard multiple steps. Maybe they were her bodyguards or something. This made things difficult. Even with my wounded shoulder, I couldn't kick her ass, Erica's ass and all the other asses in the room even though they deserved it.
I needed a new plan and quickly, I knew that much.
"She looks like she's in a really bad shape. What did you do to her?" The woman asked.
Now why was she concerned about my wellbeing? I knew for a fact that they were going to kill me, so why did it matter that Erica had taken a swing at me before? This just made things way more confusing.
"She wasn't cooperating, what was I supposed to do?" That was Erica's voice. God, I hated that voice. I swear if I had the chance there was no way I would let her breathe for even a second.
That woman deserved to die the most painful death in the history of the world and I swear to god, I would gladly make that happen given that I make it out alive.
"I can not have that! I told you that I didn't want you to lay a finger on her,'' the woman said "And why is she tied up and blindfolded, at least remove that cloth from her mouth! What kind of a person are you?"
This was really strange, it was as if this person really cared for me, but I couldn't really figure out who she was from her voice.
Suddenly, I felt a heavy jacket being put on me. Why was someone dressing me up?
"Ms. Torres? Can you hear me? Nod if you can hear me?" This woman I asked.
I slowly nodded as I felt someone losing the ties around my feet. I had a chance. Yes, I was going to do this. I was going to get out of here.
"Okay, I'm going to remove your blindfold Ms. Torres, but I ask you not to make any sudden movements. Can you nod if you understand me?"
Why was she telling me not to make any sudden movements? What was going on?
"Let's try this again." I felt a cold barrel against my forehead. Yup, that was a gun. This woman was armed. Her men were probably armed too. "No sudden movements?" she asked again.
This time I nodded.
"Good girl. Now was that so hard to understand?"
The woman took off my blindfold completely before she caressed my face. "Does that feel better sweetie?" She asked.
There was something really familiar about the woman. She looked about sixty years old and had a few greys mixed in with her blonde hair, bluish-green eyes. Something about her felt like I knew her but I couldn't really tell where I knew her from.
I looked down and that's when I realized. This woman wasn't being kind or considerate or anything. She had strapped me with an explosive jacket. So now even though my restraints were a bit loose, I couldn't move. Suddenly, I felt like I couldn't breathe.
"Breath sweetie, I can't have you fainting on me and setting the bomb off accidently."
This woman was truly evil. What had I done to her for her to be like this to me? This was truly the cruelest thing you could do to anybody.
"I'm going to take this cloth out of your mouth now, okay? Would you like some water? It must feel awful being tied up like this." Once again I nodded.
She leaned forward and took out the gag Erica had on me before grabbing a glass of water and putting the straw to my lips.
"Easy there Ms. Torres, we wouldn't want you setting off the bomb now would we?"
I slowly drank the water as the woman cleaned the sweat off my face with a damp cloth.
"Why are you doing this to me?" I asked.
"You'll find out soon enough." She said before she turned towards Erica, "Let's take this outside? This room is kind of stuffy."
"What about Ariz-"
Before she could finish her sentence this woman cut her off. Erica was about to say Arizona wasn't she? It was one thing kidnapping me but it was not okay to involve Arizona. If I see so much as a scratch on her, I will strangle Erica with my bare hands.
"Let Ms. Torres rest, we can discuss business outside." She said before she left.
I closed my eyes. The weight of this bomb jacket was killing me from inside out. I don't even know what would cause it to set off so I remained really still.
Five years ago
Since Arizona and I exchanged keys about a week ago, things have been going pretty smoothly between the two of us. With two working jobs, rather two illegal jobs and the discrepancy that comes along with them, we have managed to make sufficient time for each other.
Sometimes I would just randomly drive to her house and work from there or she would surprise me and drive to my place with pizza and some beer. I was happy to see her but I was even more excited about the chocolate cake she brought over last night.
I had taken the day off to regroup and concentrate on some work and stay ahead of schedule, while Arizona couldn't get a holiday today so she was busy working… somewhere, and I was on my couch slogging away with my laptop and jotting down notes everywhere.
I had just had lunch and cut myself a piece of cake that I occasionally took a few nibbles off. It was too good and I couldn't get enough of it.
I looked at my wrist watch. What! It was six already? That's weird, Arizona usually came home around this time, did I not text her that I'm at my place and not at hers instead?
Just then I heard my front door opening, so I looked up from the couch and there she was.
"Hey" I greeted her. But she didn't reply.
Arizona took a couple of steps and walked towards me by the couch before squatting down on the floor beside me and kissed me hard on the lips. I almost felt my laptop slipping from my fingers, but I managed to catch in time and put it on the side table.
"Rough day?" I asked her.
But again, she didn't say anything. She just went in for another kiss as she pushed me back on the couch and laid on top of me. I loved it when Arizona was a little aggressive. But I was not expecting her to come to my place and just jump my bones.
"Why is it that you get to take a holiday and I have to go and work all day?" she asked.
"Because I'm good at what I do, so people let me get away with a couple of holidays here and there," I said and patted her on her cheeks. "Just give me a couple of minutes, I'll finish this before we get into doing… well this."
Arizona got on her knees as she got off of me, my body already missing her weight on top of mine. But she didn't go too far away, instead she leaned forward, towards the side table and grabbed my plate of chocolate cake and took a bite, rather a very large bite.
"Hey! That's mine, go get yourself another slice! It's in the fridge," I said but Arizona just looked at me blankly before she took another huge bite of my slice.
"Arizona!"
"Your slice is tastier!" She said and did something even worse. She took the last bite and ate it.
"You're impossible!" I said and sat back down. I took my laptop back on my lap angrily. I heard Arizona rummaging in the background, but I was feeling a little mad. It wasn't like Arizona had committed a grave mistake but I still felt mad.
"Here, the perfect slice for the perfect woman," Arizona said as she set the plate down.
This woman, I could already feel myself melting. So, I ignored her and put my attention on the screen in front of me. I was not going to be that easy. nope! I thought that this would be the end of it, but Arizona put the piece of cake down and laid on top of me while she placed her hands on my stomach and rested her head on it.
"Honey, I told you I have to work."
"Yeah, so you do that and I'll just lie on top of you," she said as she snuggled closer to me.
"Arizona I-" I started.
"Just put your laptop on my back and you won't even know that I'm here," she said as she nuzzled deeper into me.
Honestly, it was a little uncomfortable, but I could feel her smiling so I didn't mind. I put my mind back to my work and put my laptop on her and continued working.
After what seemed like a couple of minutes, I closed my laptop and put it away. I looked down at my lap. Arizona was already asleep there. I nudged her but she snuggled even closer to me. So, I shifted back so I was completely lying on the couch. I felt Arizona move a bit before she got comfortable.
I could get used to this.
Us, snuggling with each other on the couch. Maybe someday when we run away together, that is if we last that long.
I put that thought away as I leaned down and placed a kiss on her head before I closed my eyes.
Present day
After what felt like an hour, I waited for anyone to come. I needed to know that Arizona was okay, that she wasn't strapped in another room with a bomb jacket like this hanging from her chest. I needed to get out. I needed to find Arizona as soon as possible.
Suddenly, a rock flew through one of the windows. That was strange. Why would someone throw rocks at what I'm assuming was an abandoned building? A hand unlocked the window before I saw someone jumping in.
"Oh my god Calliope, what did they do to you?" The voice of an angel spoke as she ran to my aid and started undoing my restraints completely.
"You can thank Erica for all of this."
"I swear to god, I will strangle her with my bare hands."
She and I still manage to think alike. I almost smiled at that. "Not if I beat you to it," I replied as I moved my legs a bit.
Arizona went towards undoing the restraints on my hands when I yelped out in pain.
"Babe, what's wrong?"
"I think my arm is dislocated," I replied as Arizona went back to the knot but was much more careful this time.
"I think I can pop it back in. You just need to tell me how to do it so it hurts less," she said.
"We need to get the bomb vest off of me before we try to pop my shoulder back in."
"Are you sure? You must be in terrible pain right now."
This woman. Yes, I am in pain but I don't want to kill her but setting this thing off.
"I'm fine," I replied but Arizona continued looking at me as if she didn't believe me. "Do you know how to defuse this?"
She inspected the wires a bit. "This looks like a standard Robbins' bomb vest, so they must have probably stolen it from your family, I think."
"What do you mean?"
"The Robbins' without a leader did pretty much what the Torres did. So, just think of it as if it's one of your devices."
I was not a bomb expert. I was a strategist. But I did know a bit about the kind of bombs we used and how to work with them. It was one of the things my dad made me do because he wanted to make sure I was safe.
Some parents take their kids to the zoo. My father gave me bomb diffusion lessons.
Since I couldn't really look at the wire clearly, I was going to have to depend on Arizona to be my eyes. "What color wires do you see?"
"I see a red one, a blue one, a yellow and white one."
"Okay, okay that's a standard bomb."
"So you know how to defuse it.?"
"I used to" I closed my eyes and tried to think of anything that would help me defuse this bomb. "I think we need to cut off two wires.''
"So that gives us a fifty-fifty shot? Not bad."
"You think those are good odds?" I scoffed.
"We never really did have good odds. So yeah, those are pretty good I would say." Why did Arizona have to go and bring up our past? Like I wasn't hurting physically, but she was trying to hurt me emotionally too. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean for it to sound the way it did."
I nodded. "Do you have something we can use to cut the wires?" I saw Arizona patting her pockets checking around the room for anything sharp before she shot up and her hands flew to the back of her neck. She undid her necklace that she had on and showed me the dogtag.
"Will this do?" She asked.
It wasn't sharp, but it was sharp enough to cut through the wire. I didn't mean to look at it for so long but my eyes did catch a glimpse of her name on it. It was the same tag that I had left at her place.
"That's how I knew something was wrong, that I had to find you. It was almost like I couldn't breathe."
I smiled at her. But somehow it felt like we were taking one step forward and two steps back.
"Arizona, I need you to leave the way you came," I whispered.
"What? Why?!"
"Because if I am wrong about this-"
"I don't care Calliope, we are doing this together."
"Please Arizona, please just go-"
"Do you know how hard it was for me to wake up in that hospital room after I was shot? The only thing on my mind was to prove to you that I did not kill your father, that I was innocent, but then knowing that if I got close to you or if I tried finding you, my family would get to you and kill you? So I stayed away, hoping, no wishing, that one day we would meet. That one day, the universe would be kind enough to me and let our paths cross. It took five years Calliope! Five fucking years. So, if we are going to die today, we die together. Because that's the only way I'm leaving this room without you."
Sometimes I hate her so much. Sometimes because of gestures and speeches like this, I hate her so fucking much. Now replace the word hate with love.
"Take a pick," I said as I gestured to the wires.
"I don't know red? But then red is the danger wire, but then it could be to trick us-"
"I was going to say red too, I was hoping you would have said some other color, that way we could have had the two colors figured out and the only thing remaining to do would have been to cut."
"So, red is the safe wire?"
"It usually is," I shrugged. I remembered that it was always like a safety wire to pull, in case you couldn't find a remote and wanted to deactivate the bomb.
Arizona took the tag from my hand and started cutting the wire. Her hands were firm and steady as if she was back in the OR operating on one of her patients.
Soon she was able to cut the wire I almost held my breath in case I was wrong and the whole room was going to go kaboom but no such thing happend and we were both safe.
"Now what?" she asked.
"Pick another one."
"So, now it's between yellow, white and blue?"
"Yeah, unless you see any other color there?" I asked.
I liked that we were trying to keep the situation as light as possible otherwise I don't even want to imagine us being terrified as death waited by the door.
"You pick," she said as she straightened out her shoulders. This was affecting her a lot more than she was letting on.
"How about blue?" I asked.
"Why blue?"
"I don't know, I like blue." I shrugged.
"The only blue you like are my eyes," she said as she winked at me, but then her face suddenly fell. "Unless that changed in the five years."
"No, it hasn't. Not much has changed."
She looked at me like she didn't believe what I was saying. "So, blue it is."
She took a deep breath before she grabbed the wire and started cutting it. I could tell that she was nervous as hell. "I believe in you babe, you got this."
Wait, did I just call her babe? Have I been calling her babe without noticing? I saw Arizona noticeably relaxing, maybe she didn't catch that I called her babe.
We have done more dangerous things both together and part, yet somehow, right now, at this moment I was still holding my breath waiting for everything to go wrong. against all odds we fell in love, we got engaged and then our luck ran out. the real question now was that did we still have some luck to spear between us and this situation?
She managed to cut the wire and the lights from the bomb vest went off. "I love you Calliope! You were right, it was red and blue." Arizona said before she grabbed my face and kissed me.
Had my arm not been dislocated I would have enjoyed this lot more than I was enjoying it right now.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to… I'm sorry."
"It's okay," I said as I removed the bomb from my chest and was grateful that it didn't go off. Arizona picked up and placed it on the far corner of the room before coming back to me.
Without her noticing I was able to take her dog tag from her and hold it in my hand. It was difficult for me to leave it behind at her place. But it had to be done. It belonged to me. It will always belong to me.
I saw her looking at my shoulder. I could tell that she was thinking about a million ways she could to make it hurt less.
"I don't have anything to secure it once I pop it back in." She said as she took my arm in hers and inspected my shoulder.
"That's fine I'll hold it."
"Alright, I'm going to pop back in now."
I saw her standing before I mentally counted up to three in my head.
Sharp pain went through me as she popped my shoulder back in. It shook me to my very core.
"Motherfucker!" I yelled.
"It's okay, the worst is over! Let's get you back at the hospital and we can get some scans to make sure that you are completely fine."
I looked around the room. For sure she didn't think that we would leave out the door would we?
"We can leave out the window, if that is what you were thinking?" She said as she pointed at it.
That would be difficult. Had I not been injured it would have been a simple climb, but with my arm and not having a brace, I wasn't too sure.
"I don't think I'll be able to climb."
"I can boost you up?"
"Even then, I need to hold on to something. I have gained a lot of weight, you know. I wasn't as athletic as I used to be."
"Calliope, you are nothing short of beautiful, remember that."
I smiled at her. I'm glad we were having this moment, even though it was in a dingy room wunder the pretenses of me being kidnapped.
Suddenly the door flew open.
"Arizona, sweetie look at you!" The older woman said.
That is when it all connected. This was Arizona's mother. Both of them had a family resemblance. They had the same blonde hair, same nose, but Arizona's eyes were more like her father's.
"Mother! You did this! You kidnapped Calliope!" Arizona screamed. I saw she had her fist clenched. I tried to hold her back but I was too late, she took a few steps forward and was about to march to her mother.
That's when everything started happening in slow motion. I guess, call it Mafia instinct or whatever. But it was as if I had no control over my body. All I knew was that Arizona was in danger.
I saw Erica pulling out her gun and immediately knew that she was not going to just point it. That she was not going to wave it around and warn Arizona to take a step back. I just knew that what was about to happen was not right.
The love of my life was in danger and I did the only thing I could, I stepped in between the bullet and her.
A little less than five years ago.
I woke up disoriented with the TV still on as the credits started rolling. I looked behind me on the couch and saw the most gorgeous blues looking back at me.
"I told you, you wouldn't survive it."
"I really tried babe, but it's just something about hearing Hakuna Matata for the millionth time that did it for me."
Arizona had suggested that we spend the afternoon just wasting our time away watching movies on the couch. At first, I was really excited and looking forward to it, but then knowing my fiancé, I realized what she meant by movies. But if it made her happy I was happy. I just couldn't seem to keep my eyes open for long.
"You nearly rolled off the couch thrice."
I looked at our position. I was lying near the edge of it while she was lying between me and the back of the couch with her arm over me holding me, making sure I didn't roll off.
I was a very um... restless sleeper. I needed to be cuddled so that I don't keep tossing and turning around, something that Ariona had figured out quite early in our relationship. But we never really tried to fit ourselves on this tiny little conch in my apartment.
"I'm sorry babe I couldn't stay awake."
I spread out on my back as Arizona laid on top of me.
"We were watching The Lion King for the millionth time, it's okay. Besides, I did get to cope a feel or two.
"Ms. Robbins! Did you feel me up while I was sleeping?" I asked as I pretended to be angry.
"I knew you wouldn't be able to take it, so I might have-" she put her hand through my sweat pants and onto the lips of my sex as her index finger slightly played with my clit "-touched you like once or twice." She finished as she leaned over me to kiss me hard.
"Once or twice?"
"Okay, multiple times."
I groaned.
"Exactly, you made that sound and then I let you sleep. Now I feel like shouldn't have let you sleep." Arizona replied before she sat up and got rid of her top as she straddled me.
This is what I wanted for the rest of my life. To wake up to her, to fall asleep to her. To be with her.
"I love you so much, I said as I helped her remove my shirt.
"Is that so?" She teased, "Or is it because I'm lying on top of you topless?"
I pretended to think. "A little bit of both."
"You are about to be a really lucky woman," she said as she pushed me back on the couch.
And indeed I was lucky.
Present day
If my arm dislocates for a billion times all together, combined with the pain popping it back, I would take that pain over this. What I was experiencing now was way worse than anything I could imagine. It was like having my entire body being set on fire as someone tried to drown me.
"Callie! Oh my god! I didn't-"
"You stay away from her you bitch! You fucking shot her Erica!" Arizona screamed. I felt her coming to me as she bent down and took in my injury.
"Stay with me Calliope," she whispered.
I saw her pulling out her phone, when her mother spoke. "Are you crazy sweetie! Don't call the cops, they will capture us and then our entire family will be doomed. You too!"
Arizona turned to face her mother "And leave her dying here mother?"
"We can call the-"
"We are not calling anyone but the fucking ambulance to take her in!"
I suddenly started feeling a lot more cold.
It's funny how we are taught all of these things in med school, that if you are treating a gunshot victim. You need to stop the bleeding or their temperature starts dropping as blood pours out of their body. They go into a hypothermic shock and don't make it.
I was experiencing everything I had read about. I knew what to do but I couldn't move. I saw Arizona applying pressure on my chest. I don't think Erica shot me in the heart, it would be ironic though, but I think she missed and the bullet went a bit to the side and hit my lung instead, because breathing was very difficult.
"I need you to hold on okay Calliope? I called the ambulance and they said that they are forty-five seconds out. I texted Mark and everybody is ready at the hospital. I just need you to stay awake okay?"
"You should wear more of my clothes, I really like them on you." What was I saying? Where was I? What was happening?
"Calliope, I need you to be awake? Just do that for me babe, please?"
"You remember when you wouldn't leave Disneyland until I got you those fuzzy Minnie Mouse ears?"
"I do." Why was she crying?
"You should go to Disneyland after this, I have never seen you so happy like you were back then."
"Calliope we will go together okay? You just need to hold on for a few more seconds, the ambulance is almost here."
I felt so tired and sluggish. I really just wanted it all to stop.
"Can I just nap for a bit?"
"No please, you need to keep your eyes open."
I could feel Arizona's hands in my hair. Is she crying because of me? I said I was just going to take a nap. That was it. Why was that making her cry?
"Just a little rest," I said as I struggled to maintain my grip on her tag and closed my eyes before everything went blank.
A/N: And… Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who celebrates. I thought, Id leave you guys with a longer update before the holidays are upon us. I feel like you guys are going to hate me so much!
But this was actually kind of my first idea, when I had started writing this story initially.
Do not worry, the funeral is in the next chapter…
I'm kidding... or well am I?
This is not the last chapter though, I think I have another two chapters planned out but I'm not sure when I'll get the time to write!
Please review, it makes me know if you like it or not and what I have to work you for reading and have a lovely week!