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Chapter 6: I'll be there

A few hours later, Arizona found herself in the living room flicking through real estate classifieds, while Callie tries to put Sofia to sleep

by reading her, the traditional story of the evening. She listens to her ex-wife play the characters in changing her voice, and her

daughter bursting out laughing. She never understood how she managed to put her to sleep by exciting her in the same way. It was

certainly the Calliope Torres's magic that operated. Arizona always loved that moment in Seattle. The day and its dramas were over,

she found herself in the warm cocoon from her home, with the two people in her life having fun. Then her daughter fell asleep and she

could curl up in her wife's secure arms, who was erasing, all the difficult situations that had to be assumed when you were a surgeon,

and in particular surgeon to small memory brought tears to her eyes. She now knows that her happiness could have just

been made, of all these little simple things. She got it, she ruined it, she lost it.

Callie comes out of the room looking victorious and joins her in the living room sighing

- That's it. She's asleep. So your meeting with the chief?

Arizona shuns the sadness of her last thoughts and in a tone a little too playful to ring true, she tells her interview with the chief of surgery

- Great! Everything is settled. I start in two weeks at the same time as Sofia's new school year. I thought it would be easier, I'll be absolutely free to take care of her , in the next few days especially if you have a lot of work.

Callie, somewhat disconcerted both by the intonation and by this last affirmation, tries to understand where her daughter's mother wants to come from.

- Yes if you want to, but in fact I do not have a lot of work, I took days off, I had a lot of hours ahead and...

Arizona interrupts her hiding a smile that reads on her lips.

- yes, I heard it say, it looks like you've really, , worked a lot in the last few months

- Uh how? Where? What did you hear?

- I believe that the nurses' offices in every hospitals in the world, are the worst places of gossip ... I had to wait for the chief a few minutes and ... I've learned some exciting things

Arizona's mischievous look, worries Callie, she knows that this smug little air on Arizona's face testifies to the clever pleasure she will take to needle her.

- Arizona stop messing with me, what are you talking about?

- Oh but a lot of things, for example all the work you would have done to come up with a revolutionary prosthesis!

- Oh, that's what I'm going to do. Answers Callie jaded

- Oh yes just that! and it would also appear that a presentation to the scientific committee is planned...

- Yes, but...

- But that Dr. Torres, an eminent orthopedic surgeon, who has been involved for years in this project and who, in addition, would have succeeded in achieving her goal, categorically refuses to give this lecture, at the risk of letting her brilliant idea die out in a closet!

Arizona pursues more seriously, staring at Callie's eyes to find answers to his misunderstanding

- But Callie, you are kidding I hope? You can't, not make this presentation! That's why I'm telling you, that you're going to have work and that I'll take care of everything!

- No, no drop I won't do it ...

- Why? Callie why! After you go through all this trouble, you're gonna refuse to have your research recognized?

Callie grumpy is trying to dodge the question

- I had nothing else to do anyway. It distracted me!

- Callie! Please tell me why, I'm afraid it is my fault because my leg

- No Arizona, no, it has nothing to do with you and your leg

- So, you know that if it is not validated by the scientific committee, your research can never be exploited

Adopting the look of a child who has just been caught with her hand in the candy pot, the Latina woman timidly confesses

- But you know what I mean! Don't you remember? I hate talking in public, it literally makes me sick.

Arizona tries to cheer her on with tenderness, fondling her ex-wife's forearm remembering how many times she had to support a Totally Paralyzed Callie at the thought of speaking in public.

- Of course, I remember, but I also remember that you have already done it, and brilliantly in addition. The TED conference was great! You had a huge success.

- Yes, but...

- But what?" There's no but

- Yes, there is one. I... I couldn't accept it!

- Why?" Arizona slowly articulates the word by insisting excessively, hoping to finally have an answer

Callie's sloping air, but pushed into her last entrenchments, finally concedes in a sigh

- Sure I was going to throw up. Just before I went to the conference I was going to vomit, and there was no one to hold my hair.

Arizona can laugh, seeing very well what she was referring to, and at that moment she recognizes in her inner for, if ever it was still necessary, that she is passionately in love with this woman. Instinctively reproducing this reassuring gesture as she has so often done, she shakes the latina hands in hers own, dives into the child's black eyes and tenderly declares

-Hey, you're not alone, do you hear me? I'm your man for that. I'll hold your hair while you're throwing up, then I'll be there, sitting in the front row, and when you'll stress, you could look at me and it'll pass. I promise. We've always done it!

- Yeah, so okay Callie looks childish with a happy smile illuminating her face.

She remembers all the crisis situations where Arizona was unconditionally there for her. She was the only one who could calm her down in those moments, she realized too late, that she was also the only one she needed. While Callie let herself be absorbed in the memories, Arizona immediately took matters into her own hands, she had not felt as energetic, helpful and confident for years.

- Well! then that's settled. When exactly is it? Do you still have time to register? Go get your computer, we'll fill out the card immediately so they can schedule you

Slightly distraught confused by Arizona's frantic hectic pace, Callie stops her with one move

- What ?

- It's not possible!

- What's going on? Why? Did you agree a moment ago what changed?

- You can't be sitting in the front row

- What ? What are you saying? And why not?

- Because if you're in the front row, I'm going to see you

- Euh yes, that was the goal actually, but if you do prefer ...

- And in this case I won't be able to put into practice your advice

- What advice? Callie I don't understand anything

Callie tries to hide her mischievous smile

- Euh ... You know your thing when you're stressed in front of an assembly, imagining the people in the room, completely naked, you say it helps. But I'm sure that if I start imagining you completely naked it's not going to help me at all. Maybe it's going to confuse me too much and even make me lose my means!

- You're impossible," exclaims falsely angry Arizona, unable to hold back a giggle at the evocation of this memory

- I'll be in the front row, with our daughter by my side, it should calm you down!

- Wow! Of course, if you use the great means. Would you dare take a child hostage, Dr. Robbins? I don't congratulate you!

- It's educational! You'll be an example to her! Seriously, Callie, she's going to be very proud of you, she adds lower,and so am I.

- Sold Dr. Robbins responds Callie by clapping the hand of the one who was her best friend, who had been her greatest love, and the woman of her life. Even if it had never been easy, at that moment she had no doubt about it.


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