I'm not sure I like how this chapter turned out, but here it is anyway. Oh and I forgot to mention in the last chapter, Arizona's dream on the plane was from the song The Fool by Lee Ann Womack... Happy reading...
Chapter 13
Callie
Letting out a groan, I toss down the pen I had in my hand, in frustration. It had been two weeks since we got the call from Meredith that Miranda Bailey had up and quit. We are sat in yet another tedious board meeting where everyone is speaking over each other "guys" I say no one was paying attention to me, not even my wife who was the one who was speaking the loudest "guys" I say louder still nothing. I stand and bang my fist on the table "guys" I say again. Finally getting the attention of everyone. "we need a chief"
"you do it" Catherine says, crossing her arms and sitting back in her chair.
"um" I look around the table, I really didn't want to. Meeting Arizona's eyes I see her give a little shake of her head, as if telling me no. "I don't want it"
"well then who is going to do it?" Richard asked looking around the table. The options here were pretty slim pickens it was either myself, my wife or "I'll just do it, not like I don't have anything else going on" Meredith groans, there was a knock at the door, and Cristina pokes her head in "um can I join?"
"might as well" Catherine says shaking her head "after all the spot you left vacant to go to Switzerland is vacant once again. You might as well take it back" she points to an empty chair.
"so" Cristina says smiling looking around the table "have we decided on a new chief yet"
"the best we came up with is Meredith" someone says, I wasn't sure who it was nor did I really care.
"no" Cristina shakes her head
"why not?" Meredith asks looking at her best friend
"because you already have enough going on in your life, with your research" Meredith nods in agreement. "then who?" I ask letting out a groan
"I'll do it" Cristina says "I ran the place in Zurich, I can do it here"
"then why aren't you in Zurich?" I wasn't sure who said that all I knew is it had already been two weeks and we don't have anyone to take the job.
"we need someone, and none of us want to do it so" I shrug "so I say if Cristina is willing to at least fill in until we find someone let's do it"
"what about Alex?" Arizona says looking at me
"Alex Karev?" Catherine asks, I could hear that she was holding back a laugh.
"yes Alex Karev, I think he'd be perfect" my wife smiles
"just let me do it, we don't need to be taking orders from evil spawn"
"Cristina" Meredith says "he's changed"
"so it's settled I'm the new chief of surgery at Grey Sloan" Cristina smiles putting her hands behind her head and kicking her feet up on the table.
"interim" Catherine says, Cristina just waves her off and stands up "if anyone needs me, I'll be in my office, I think we're done here" the room erupts in talking again. Taking a deep breath, I just sat back in my chair. Letting my mind wonder back to when we got the call.
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"so who is chief now?" I ask looking at Arizona,
"well I guess that would be me" Meredith's voice came through the phone "unless one of you two want it"
"um" I look at my wife, seeing her shake her head and say "not it"
"when do you guys come back?" Meredith asks
"next week" I let out in a sigh, running my hands through my hair, who would have thought running a hospital would be this hard. "I think we've had it lucky up until now" Arizona says, I look at her confused as Meredith was quiet on the phone "I mean, what have we really had to do since we bought the hospital? Make some renovations because of the storms or earthquakes?"
"she's got a point" Meredith says "we need a board meeting"
"isn't that pretty much what we are doing?" I say looking at Arizona who let out a chuckle "well?"
"Jackson, Catherine and Richard are missing" Meredith sighs "I'll see if I can round them up and we'll call you back" she says as the line goes dead. Looking at Arizona we both let out a groan of frustration "so much for our sexy time" she breathes out.
"it'll happen" I lean over kissing her "I love you"
"love you" she lets out in a groan, rolling her eyes.
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Shaking my head, I notice that everyone has left the room, everyone but Arizona "Callie" she says.
"hmm"
"maybe we should let Cristina do it"
"honestly, as much as I hate to say it, I don't care who does it as long as it's not me or you"
"well I'm retired so" she smiles
"semi-retired" I laugh
"hmm" she hums and stands walking over to me, I push my chair back and she sits on my lap, brushing some hair back behind her ear "I'm sorry we never celebrated your birthday"
"it's ok" she places a kiss on my lips "what do you say we get out of here, and go home?"
"ok" I kiss her again; I feel her run her tongue over my bottom lip and hear a soft moan fall from her when our tongues met. We managed to get our sexy time in at the hotel, but nothing since then. We hardly even had time for a quick kiss. The kids decided to stay in Miami, but Arizona and I got tired of the constant phone calls from Meredith and Jackson, we headed home the following day. And since then, we've been either sat here in this conference room, in an OR, or sleeping. I feel Arizona's hand venture up the inside of my scrub top. Her fingernails lightly scratching my skin, moaning into the kiss "we should head home"
"too far" my wife says, as she kisses my neck
"on call room" I can barely get it out, closing my eyes when she hits that spot that she knows always makes me weak. "still too far" she pulled back, and I feel her weight leave me, hearing the door shut, and the lock click, I open my eyes to see my wife walking back towards me taking off her scrub top, and tossing it at me. My mouth has gone dry, and I just stare as she removes her bra and those glorious mounds come out to play. "Calliope, my eyes are up here" she says in her sultry voice. Clearing my throat, I look up and meet her eyes. Those normally vibrant blue eyes are dark with want, and love. She climbs back on my lap, and instantly my hands are on her boobs, and her lips on mine. Deepening the kiss, she lets out a moan, and reaches down for the hem of my scrub top. Pulling it over my head she tosses it behind her, along with my bra, I wasn't even sure when she undid it. Letting out a moan when she nips on a sensitive nipple, I close my eyes again, enjoying the sensation. "beep, beep, beep" came from my pocket "fucking hell" I curse, knowing it's my pager. Arizona doesn't have one since she's only part time, if they need her for anything they just call her. I hear her let out a groan, as she kisses me again and stands. "I guess we'll finish this at home" she says not hiding the disappointment in her voice. I let out a sigh as I clasp my bra and reach for my top. Sliding it over my head, I realize it's not mine when it got stuck halfway down my arms. I hear Arizona laugh, pretty sure that's the wrong one. "you think?" I growl, hearing her laugh again "are you going to help me?"
"I kind of like this view"
"Arizona" I say in a tone that lets her know I'm not in the mood, as my pager goes off again. She laughs and I feel her hands on the top pulling it the rest of the way off, she's still standing there without her bra, I let out a deep sigh, and roll my eyes as she hands me my scrub top. I kiss her once more and run out of the room.
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Arizona
A week later, I was sitting at the café waiting on Clara, we were going over stuff for her wedding. Taking a sip of my coffee, I'm scrolling through Facebook, smiling when I see I had a new friend request. I loved getting new friends on Facebook. That smile quickly turned to a frown when I saw who the sender was. "why" I say out loud.
"why what?" a voice asks behind me
"I just got a" I start to say but shake my head "nothing" I set my phone down and look at my friend and smile as she said "sorry I'm late"
"you're not that late" I shake my head, my mind still on that name. It was irritating me, why after all this time did SHE have to find some way to contact me? I was so lost in my own thoughts I didn't realize Clara was talking. "Arizona" I hear and she touches my hand. Shaking my head, to get my mind back on the present, I sigh "I'm sorry"
"what's going on?" she looked at me concerned
"nothing" I smile "I'm sorry, I'm here" I meet her eyes, and smile wider "what you got for me" I watch as she reaches for her bag and pulls out a three-ring binder, causing me to laugh. Clara reminded me a lot of a younger April Kepner, which in turn reminded me of a super younger Arizona Robbins. She lays the book out and starts talking. And we spend the next hour, going over everything she and Jenn had talked about. "well everything seems doable. Callie and I will"
"no I don't want you or Callie to do anything, it's already enough you're letting us use your backyard"
"it is an amazing yard" I smile, she laughs and closes the binder, shoving it back into her bag. "alright enough wedding talk"
"you got something else you want to talk about?"
"gossip" she smiles, and reaches for her cup taking a sip "so I heard there's a visiting surgeon coming"
"oh?" I say not paying too much attention
"apparently Dr. Avery has a patient, that is a baby and has some sort of growth on his face" this has my attention. "she'll be here next week, do you know her?"
"know who?"
"a Dr. Lauren Boswell" Clara shrugged "I guess she's older, around your age" my heart starts to beat rapidly, I close my eyes tight, hoping Clara didn't notice "you ok?" opening my eyes I see her looking at me with her head cocked to the side. "hmm" I smile and nod.
"what I can't figure out is how that name sounds familiar?" I meet her eyes again "oh come on" I scoff out. She scrunches up her face in confusion "what?"
"you've heard the stories"
"what stories"
"you work at Grey Sloan, everyone there loves gossip as much as they love coffee" I let out a sigh and shake my head, looks like I'll be taking that week off. There's no way I can be around her. How could Cristina let this happen? "I'm not following"
"Clara" I say looking at her "about 25 years ago, when I was still in PEDS, we had a case come in where the baby had his brain on the outside of her face, I think Hunt was the chief back then" I pause to take a breath "Dr. Boswell was the surgeon who assisted me on the case"
"ok" she still didn't understand. I took another deep breath "you know I cheated on Callie, right?" her eyes went wide, and I nod "it wasn't my best move, and it was only the one time, and I regretted it the moment it happened"
"with Dr. Boswell?" I didn't know what to say so I just nodded, she was quiet a second "oh my god that's why her name sounded familiar"
"probably" I sigh "also explains the friend request I just got on Facebook"
"she added you on Facebook? Does she have a death wish?" Clara laughs "Callie will rip her apart"
"when is she coming?"
"I'm not sure"
"hmm, I'll have to talk to Cristina"
"who's idea was it for her to become chief?"
"hers" I laugh "no one else wanted it" I hear her laugh
"yeah can't blame them"
"I wasn't about to do it, Callie and I already have too much going on"
"what about Karev? He seems like he'd be good at it" she takes a sip of her coffee
"I brought that up, but no one liked the idea" I sigh and shrug.
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Callie
Standing at the nurse's station, just finishing up on the chart I had in my hand, not really paying too much attention to the chattering of the two nurses that were sitting there. "who is it?" the blonde nurse asked, I wasn't entirely sure what either of their names were. After all I was in the PEDS department, and once Arizona retired, I stopped learning their names. "some Dr. Boswell"
"Boswell" not the blonde said, at hearing that name, I look up and am met with a pair of green eyes, I could see her cringe. "why are you talking about her?" I ask setting my iPad down on the counter. I see, not the blonde, cringe again and clear her throat "she's, ah, she's coming to do a" I didn't hear the rest of what she said. My mind instantly went to when I found Arizona's ring on HER scrub top. "Dr. Robbins, are you ok?" I hear one of them say, I nod my head, and turn to leave. Hitting the button on the elevator willing it to open quickly. I could feel the nurses staring at me, I let out a sigh when the doors open and I step in. Hitting the button for my desired floor I stand back, not realizing anyone else was in there. "are you ok?" just nodding my answer I couldn't say anything to anyone right now. "momma" I look up into those eyes that are a duplicate of my own. I take a deep breath and shake my head, turning my attention to the floor I say "no Sofia, I'm not ok" looking up I see Sofia scrunch up her face, tilt her head like Arizona does and says "why?"
"Lauren Fucking Boswell"
"who is that?" she asks "is she the surgeon that's coming to help uncle Jackson?"
"yeah, we'll go with that" I say through gritted teeth. The door opens and I step out, and make my way to the chief's office "where you going?" Sofia asks following me
"Dr. Yang and I need to have a chat"
"Dr. Yang" Sofia repeats "she must have done something wrong"
"damn right she did" I stop to look at my daughter, taking a deep breath, trying to calm myself, after all it's been over 20 years and Arizona and I have been happy for the past 20 years. I know I forgave Arizona but how can a woman purposely wreck a marriage. I start walking again, I could hear Sofia's footsteps in sync with mine. Finally making it to the office the door was open, not bothering to knock I barge right in. Cristina was on the phone but I didn't care "what the fuck is wrong with you"
"I'll have to call you back" Cristina says into the phone, then hangs it up "what the fuck is wrong with you Callie, you can't just come barging in here like you own the place"
"um" Sofia says behind me "she does"
"well so do I" Cristina stands, I hear the door shut behind me, hearing Sofia's foot steps she is now standing next to me. "so what is your problem now?"
"Lauren Boswell"
"what happen to the fucking?" Sofia says, I knew she was just trying to lighten the mood "not now Sof"
"right" she whispers
"what about Boswell?" Cristina asks I could tell she was confused
"you don't remember?"
"remember what?" Sofia asks
"Sof, not now" I say looking at my daughter, I'm not even sure why she was here "remember what?" Cristina asks
"the storm? My wife in an on-call room"
"the storm" Cristina asked "the night Mer had Bailey?" I nod "honestly Callie the only thing I remember about that night was Meredith in so much pain"
"Boswell was here, and"
"oh my god, she's the chick mom cheated on you with" Sofia blurts out I look at her and she covers her mouth "oh shit Cal, I'm sorry, I didn't even" Cristina says "does Arizona know?"
"I have no idea" I shake my head "but I'm not worried about her"
"I'd be more worried about momma seeing her again" Sofia says, I look over at her "why are you here?"
"I don't know" she shrugs "you were in a mood, and I wanted to make sure you were ok"
"you really are your mothers daughter" I breathe out, then look back at Cristina "you really didn't remember"
"no, I'm sorry, Jackson probably doesn't either, or he wouldn't have agreed to it"
"right" I nod "when is she coming?"
"um" Cristina sits back down and picks up her iPad "next week, on Monday"
"Arizona and I will be out of town that week"
"momma don't you think that's a little ridiculous?"
"no Sof, I don't think it is. I know it's been over 20 years, but if I see her, I'm not going to be responsible for what I might do"
"fair enough" Sofia nodded
"alright" Cristina says "now if we're done I have to call back that drug rep" she reaches for the phone and I turn to leave "where you going to go?" Sofia asks following me again.
"I don't know maybe back to Miami, we didn't get to do anything the last time"
"maybe you should go somewhere fun, like Spain or England, you know somewhere you haven't been in awhile"
"hmm" I turn to look at my daughter "you're a genius" I smile and make my way back to my office. I had to call my wife and make the arrangements.
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Arizona
Walking into the house it was oddly quiet. No one was home, Callie had called me about an hour ago, freaking out about the whole Boswell thing and wants to go away for the week she'll be here. I'm honestly not worried about seeing her. I'm in a better place now than I was those 20 some years ago. But I honestly don't want to see her, so I agreed to Callie wanting to leave, it'll give us sometime just the two of us anyway. I smile thinking about that as I make my way into the kitchen, setting the bags I was carrying on the counter. I had swung by the store and picked up some basics like bread, milk and coffee. Yes coffee is a basic necessity, at least in this house. Deciding to put some music on, the house was too quiet, I set about making a pot of coffee, as I said it's a necessity. I'm dancing around the kitchen singing to the music, not paying attention to anything when I feel a pair of arms wrap around me, startling me, until I felt that spark that is always there when my Calliope touches me. Turning my head I am met with the brown eyes I love so much. She leans in, not saying anything as our lips meet, I feel her shudder, and I smile into the kiss. "I love you Arizona" she whispers.
"I love you too Calliope" I know we're being all sappy and shit, but I don't care, after all the shit we've been through we have that right. Right? She swipes her tongue over my bottom lip and I open my mouth, she wastes no time as our tongues meet, she begins kissing me slowly and passionately. I know this has everything to do with the news we found out today. The song changes to one of Sammi's favorites and we pull apart laughing "why do you have that on there?"
"Sammi loves it, and always stops what she's doing to dance whenever I play it"
"that's awesome" she smiles placing another kiss on my lips and moves away.
"did you decide where we are going?" I ask my wife while I busy myself pouring coffee.
"um" I look up at her and I can see she's thinking "how about Spain?"
"sounds amazing"
"you and me on the beach, bikinis and sangria's" we both laugh remembering the conversation from so many years ago.
"sounds amazing, when do we leave?"
"Friday" she smiles "I didn't give Cristina an option, I told her we both would be gone while" she stops, I nod, completely understanding what she was trying to say. It was already Wednesday, I look around the house "I should probably get our laundry started, I don't remember the last time I wore my suit" I pick up my cup and leave the room.
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Sofia
I some how talked myself onto the surgery uncle Jackson was doing. I'm not sure how I did it but here I am standing in a room, with my uncle and this woman. I can't help but be bitter, and I can feel my temper rise each time she talks. Uncle Jackson can tell something is up "Dr. Sloan can I see you in the hall a minute" I nod and follow him out. "look I don't know why or how you talked Yang into letting you be on this case but you need to" I cut him off "I'm sorry, I just" I take a deep breath "she's the reason my family fell apart and"
"Sofia listen to me" he says in his stern voice "if you're going to be on this case, you need to be professional. Now I'm not sure why she is the one Yang chose, knowing the situation, but we're here for the patient"
"right the patient" I nod
"now go back in there and be the professional I know you are"
"you know I'm going into ortho right?"
"I know, but I was hoping maybe you'd change your mind" he smiles "and maybe become part of the plastics posse"
"the what?" I laugh
"something your dad came up with" he laughs "I didn't think it was cool at the time either, but it grew on me, especially after" he stopped
"I get it" I reach up touching his arm "maybe you can talk Mark into it, he still hasn't decided what he wants to do"
"I'm on it" he winks at me, and we head back into the room. It wasn't long and his pager was going off someone needed him in the ER, leaving me and Dr. homewrecker alone. It's quiet for a few minutes before she says "so Dr. Sloan, is that any relation to Mark?" I look up at her "he was my dad" our eyes meeting, she looks confused. "your dad was Mark Sloan?"
"yup" I nod
"so that makes you"
"Sofia Sloan Torres Robbins" damn that was a mouthful.
"Arizona's daughter"
"and Callie's" I add bitterly
"wow" she smiles "I haven't' seen either of your mom's since I've been here, where are they hiding"
"Spain" I spat out "when they found out you were coming they took off, you see I don't understand why Dr. Yang" I went with her professional name to sound more professional. "chose you, knowing the situation, but I swear on my daughter's life if you try and get in between my mom's again, you will have to deal with me" I could see her eyes change.
"I'm just here to do the surgery and I'll be gone, a week tops"
"good" I nod and leave the room, pulling out my phone, I was shaking, hitting the number to my best friend, I put the phone to my ear and start walking.
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Arizona
"this was an amazing idea" I smile as I take a sip of my drink, the feel of the warm sun hitting me, looking over at my wife. She had decided to forgo the bikini in favor of some shorts and a tank top. Which was fine with me, that body was for my eyes only anyway. That and whatever made her comfortable. We were on our own part of the beach, secluded by rocks and trees. The little cottage thing Callie had rented was perfect, not far from the town, but far enough to where we weren't bothered by people. We even went as far as to turn our phones off, giving the kids instructions that if they absolutely needed us to call the number for the resort. So far so good, we'd been here 3 days so far, and it was heaven. Don't get me wrong I love my girls and my grandchildren, but this was nice. Hearing a soft snore, I look over and Callie is passed out. No wonder she didn't reply to me, I laugh. Deciding to let her nap, I stand and make my way into the cottage. Seeing the laptop sitting on the counter I decide to at least check my email, wanting to see if Clara had sent me anything about the wedding. I was happy to get away, but the wedding was fast approaching and I was sure Clara needed me. Clicking around I open my email seeing I had 50 unread messages, reading the senders names there were at least 20 from Clara, as I expected, clicking on the one that was sent the day we left I'm met with a book, she was rambling about everything and nothing at the same time. Finishing it I went to the next "oh god no" I say out loud she had sent me a picture of a dress she was wanting me to wear "I'm so not wearing that"
"I don't know I think it'd be kind of sexy" Callie says behind me.
"when did you wake up?"
"not long after you came in" she says wrapping her arms around me, she was warm from the sun and I almost melted into her. Looking over my shoulder "ok maybe not" she laughs, as I click out of the email and click another one. "that's more like it she says"
"hmm" I hum, then click the next message, not bothering to read who it was from assuming it was Clara. When I opened it all it said was "she's gone you can come back" Callie and I both look at each other confused, then look at the senders name Cristina Yang. We both laugh, turning my head our eyes lock "I'm not ready to go back" Callie says
"me either" I say pushing the laptop back, I throw my arms around my wife and kiss her.
As I said I'm not entirely thrilled how this turned out, but it got us to move forward a bit, and gave our girls some much needed alone time. Hope everyone is well, and thanks for reading.