Pulling the door open, Meredith greeted Arizona with a hug and helped her with her luggage. "Jesus Arizona, how much did you pack? I thought that you're only staying for three days," Meredith said teasing the blonde.
"You know I like to be prepared for my trips, you never know when you'll need an extra shirt." Arizona said defending herself. "And thanks for letting me stay here, you didn't have to do that."
"Hey, I'm glad that you're staying here, I haven't seen you in a while, I missed you." Meredith said as she set the blonde's luggage in the guest room. "Besides I have an ulterior motive, I miss your delicious cooking. Maggie has been working night shifts and both Amelia and I can't cook, so we've practically been living off Chinese food for the whole week, and I hate Chinese food."
"How about I make us dinner tonight, do you like Pasta Puttanesca?" Arizona asked as they walked towards the living room.
"Arizona, I love your pasta dishes, but I don't think we have anything in the fridge that you can actually use to cook with. So, let's just order a pizza and chill tonight, you can cook for me tomorrow. Besides, it's quite late and I bet you're exhausted from your flight." Meredith replied as she pulled the blonde onto the couch with her.
After they've settled down, Meredith pulled out her laptop and shuffled through Netflix.
"So, what are we watching?" Arizona asked, snuggling into Meredith's side.
"I don't know, how about you pick something out and I'll order our pizza." Meredith said, handing the laptop over.
Taking the laptop, Arizona went directly to the thriller section which surprised the general surgeon.
"Seriously, the Arizona Robbins, who wears a pink scrub cap with animal patches on her doctor's coat is picking a scary movie to watch?" Meredith said in an amused tone as she places her pizza order.
"Listen, I've been busy and whenever I get to just sit down and watch TV, Sofia's there and we'll end up watching Frozen again." Arizona said as she selected 'The Silence of the Lambs'.
Meredith nodding in agreement said, "hmm, you're right, I've watched Frozen so many times, I've actually develop the habit of mouthing the lines."
At the climax of the movie, just as Buffalo Bill cocks his gun to shoot Clarice, Amelia slammed the front door open, frightening the both of them.
"Hey, the pizza man was here, I paid the guy for you, you're welcome." Amelia shouted as she walked into the living room.
Noticing the intense glare from Meredith, Amelia set down the pizza on the coffee table and asked, "what's wrong, what did I do?"
"You scared us to death Amelia, who the hell slams the door open?" Meredith groaned and paused the movie.
"How am I supposed to know that you were watching something scary? And 'thank you Amelia for helping us pay for our pizza', you're welcome." Amelia replied, plopping herself down onto the couch adjacent to the two women.
Arizona giggling at their interaction went ahead and grabbed a slice of pizza for herself only to be pleasantly surprised by the lack of olives on half of the pie. "How did you know that I didn't like olives?" she asked.
"Well, I remember seeing you pick the olives out of your salad so I just assumed that you don't like them." Meredith answered grabbing a slice for herself and handing one off to Amelia, telling her to 'eat'.
"Thanks, but I had a really long day so I should probably go to sleep before I pass out. And it's good to see you again Robbins." Amelia said, getting up from her seat.
"It's good to see you too, Shepherd." Arizona said, falling back into Meredith's arms and resuming their movie.
"I don't think I'll be able to sleep tonight." Meredith said as she closes her laptop.
Arizona nodding in agreement said, "me too, maybe watching scary movies before bed is a bad idea after all."
Noticing the silence between them, Meredith asked as she walked towards to wine cabinet, "how about wine and talking?"
"Wine and talking sounds great." Arizona replied. "What do you have?"
"I'm not sure, I have some bottles of white and a few reds, which do you prefer?" Meredith said as she looked through her cabinet.
Standing closely behind Meredith, Arizona instinctively leaned her head against her shoulder and admired the collection, "let's see, you have a bottle of Pinot Grigio, Sauvignon Blanc. Wow, that's a beautiful bottle of Chardonnay, how did you get a bottle from the Domaine LeFlaive winery?"
By this point, Meredith was already flustered from how close the blonde was to her face. "I… I don't even know what that is. I think one of my patient gave it to me a while back? Do you want to open it?"
"Meredith I can't, this bottle itself costs over six thousand dollars, save it for a special occasion with a special someone." Arizona replied.
"No, I insist. Arizona, you are special to me, and we're celebrating the success of your Health Centre." Meredith said, grabbing the bottle of Batard-Montrachet.
Settling down in the living room again, they each filled their wine glasses and wrapped themselves up under a shared blanket.
"How's Sofia doing? I heard she made it into the school football team?" Meredith asked as she snuggled in closer to the blonde.
Taking a sip of wine, Arizona cheerfully replied, "Sofia is doing great and yes she did make it as a midfielder. You should see her on the field last week, she's amazing. Callie was right about her destiny as a football star. Gosh, she was such an active kicker in the womb. How about Zola, Sofia misses her a lot."
"Zola is growing into her teenager phase. God, she's growing up so fast. One second she's begging to climb into bed with me and the next she's asking to stay over at a friend's place. Yesterday, she even told me about a boy in her class, I didn't even know what to say" said Meredith.
Nodding in agreement, Arizona replied, "oh god, Sofia too. I still think that she's my baby."
"Oh, by the way. Sofia is having a lot of fun with the string yarns Callie bought her from the flea market. Look at the Chevron bracelets she made." Pulling up her sleeve, Arizona took one of the bracelets off and wrapped it around Meredith's wrists, "I think it looks pretty on you."
Flushing red again, Meredith thanked the blonde for the bracelet and cuddled the foetal surgeon. They continued their conversation as they finished their wine.
Walking to the kitchen for a glass of water, Amelia couldn't help but to smile at the two women snuggled up together in the couch.
