Arizona's P.O.V.
If I had to ever describe a dream job, it'd be my own. I mean think about it, I get to save babies, I am the head of my department, so I make my own hours, oh yeah and I work with the woman I love. Most people would think that it gets tiring working with someone that you're dating but it doesn't. Part of the reason being that we work in two different departments. I'm PEDS and Calliope is mainly working in Ortho which I've come to learn is what she loves, and everyone says that she's damn good at it. Of course, I've seen first-hand how good she is, but I like that other people notice it as well.
In the past three months that I've been here, a lot has taken place. I reconnected with Calliope after a very long time which happened on pure accident… the seeing her again part not reconnecting with her. That was always on my list of things that would happen when I saw her again.
Now, you know how we lost contact and I'll bet one of the questions running through your head is, "Why didn't you just... I don't know, call the school or something. Write Callie a letter maybe send it to the school address or whatever." The only answer to that is that I honestly didn't think about that. I mean, I was 17 years old, I didn't think that far ahead. All I knew was that I had a broken phone and no way to get in contact with Calliope.
Anyways, it seems that somebody out there wanted us to be together because I now work in the same hospital as her and after I finish up with my patient, I am going to go meet her for lunch.
"Alright Micah, everything looks great! I'll have a nurse bring in the discharge papers for your parents to sign and you'll be good to go kiddo!" I smile at the little boy whose been under my care for the past two weeks.
Exiting the patient room, I walk toward the nurse's station to ask one of them to get the discharge papers ready. Walking past the slightly open door of the supply closest, I hear something interesting.
"-hasn't even been here six months and Torres already has her eating out of the palm of her hand. I mean what's that about? For the first two weeks of her being here, I tried to get her to go out with me and she turns me down then out of nowhere she's standing in the cafe kissing her little girlfriend."
"Well I heard that they were like a thing in high school, but Robbins left without letting Torres know anything and now after all of this time they realized that they are both still in love with each other."
"Well I don't care what the story is. I mean, it can't be that serious between them because Jenny up in Cardio told me that Dr. Hahn has been trying to stick it hard to Torres for a while now and it seems that she may be starting to ware her down because she agreed to go on a date with her earlier today."
Frowning at the conversation that I hear between the two women; I bite my tongue as I decide that I am done listening to that crap and walk on down the hallway to the nurse's station. Just as I grab one of the tablets to update the patient's info, I hear the storage door open, looking up I see Collene and Ashley walk out with supplies in their hands giggling like little schoolgirls.
Looking back down at the tablet it takes everything in me not to walk up to them and confront them about their little conversation that I overheard.
Finishing up, I place the tablet back on its charging station before moving to head to office before going to meet Calliope and our friends for lunch, but I am stopped by a voice that I really don't want to hear.
"Hey Dr. Robbins" Collene says in a sickeningly sweet voice.
Giving her a tight smile, I greet her back, before turning to continue on but once again I am stopped by her voice.
"Do you have a few minutes? I wanted to ask something about one of my patients" she says
Sighing, I slowly turn around, "Will the patient die in the next 1 hour if I do not answer this question right now?" I ask, by now she can tell that something is not right with me because I am not being the usual nice person that I am but she is quickly about to realize that when you do things such as disrespecting my relationship, you don't get to see the nice side of me.
"Well, no, but-" she starts but I cut her off
"Ok then. I can answer the question later on but right now, I am going to have lunch with my girlfriend. She hates it when I'm late and I don't want to disappoint her because after all I am wrapped around her finger, aren't I?" I say, watching as realization crosses her face and she eyes go wide.
"If you'll excuse me" I say politely, leaving her standing there not knowing what just happened.
Making it to my office, I grab my phone and place down some charts that need to be signed off on later before making my way down to the cafeteria where I immediately spot Callie sitting at the table with Mark, Cristina, and Addison.
They haven't spotted me just yet, so I decide to go ahead and grab my food. Once I pay for it, I look up ready to head in the direction of the person of my affections but what I see stops me immediately in my tracks.
Looking ahead, I see Erica Hahn, sitting down in the empty seat beside Calliope while placing her hand on her knee. Watching, I see Calliope slightly move her leg enough to cause the hand to fall which make me smile slightly but I can't help my mind going back to the conversation I overheard earlier.
'Does Calliope have feelings for Erica? I mean she did just shrug her hand off of her but maybe she did that because they are in a room full of people. Is Calliope seeing other people? We haven't had that talk but I just assumed that we both felt the same way because I am definitely not seeing anyone else BUT we haven't had sex yet and as whorish as it may sound, I usually sleep with the person I'm with no later than the 3rd date and Calliope and I have been on several dates, I mean we've been seeing each other for almost four months now. I will admit that I've had to take my fair share of cold showers, but I just thought that Calliope wasn't ready yet but what if she isn't ready because she's sleeping with Erica or because she wants to be with her. Is she just biding her time with me? I mean she did say that she didn't think that she'd ever see me again and-'
"Hey Robbins, you okay? You've been standing in the same spot for the past 5 minutes." I hear Derek Shepperd say from beside me snapping me out of my trans.
Looking over to him, I give him a fake smile, "Yeah, I'm fine. I just got caught up in my head. It happens sometimes." I tell him.
"Well come on, let's go sit with everyone. You know you have to eat when you can." He jokes and I chuckle.
Walking behind him toward the table, I see that there are only two empty chairs on the other side of the table so I sit in the one and would you look at that it's right across from Erica Hahn.
Callie's P.O.V.
Looking at the time, I realize that Arizona should've been down here by now. She surgery ended almost thirty minutes ago. I hope nothing went wrong. Sitting with Mark, Addie, and Cristina we chat about the things we've been doing today and currently Cristina is going on and on about she played God in the OR early this morning to save a man's life. As she's talking, I kind of zone out as my mind goes to the next two days that I have of which Arizona conveniently has off as well. I was thinking of asking her if she wanted to get out of the city even if just for a little while. We could have a small vacation, if you could call it that seeing as to how our travel options are limited because it is only two measly days, but we can think of it as a trial run for the real thing to see how things go. Who knows, maybe we'll finally get to seal the deal… if you know what I mean.
Feeling something lightly hit my leg, I look up catching Addie's gaze as her eyes shift to the right of me and it is then that I realize someone is standing beside me. "Hey Cal" the voice of Erica Hahn rings throughout my ears.
Putting a polite smile on my face, I greet her back. "May I sit?" she asks
"Actually-" I start, trying to let her know that the seat was empty because Arizona had not arrived yet, but I am cut off by her quickly pulling the chair away from the table and placing her butt in it.
Sighing to myself, I mumble, "Go right ahead."
"So, are we still on for tonight?" she asks, piquing the interest of the other three people at the table.
"Um, yeah, as long as no emergencies come up." I tell her, a less than enthusiastic smile on my face.
"Great!" she smiles.
"What you two up to tonight? I thought you would've spending the start of your two-day vacation with-"
Addison says but is cut off by Erica, 'man, she really doesn't like to hear herself talk' I think to myself.
"Calliope and I-"
"Callie" I quickly correct her
"Oh, right, sorry. Callie and I are going to this new club over on tenth to get a few drinks" she tells them, and I quickly jump in.
"Yeah, I've heard that it's a great place. You guys should come!" I say to them, with a pleading look on my face not noticing the slightly frown that appears on Erica's face.
Smirking, Mark says, "Oh no, we couldn't impose"
"Please, I insist" I say a little too desperately causing Addison to look away as a giggle makes its way out of her mouth.
Quickly gathering myself, I say, "I mean, it can be a group thing. You guys can get to know Erica a bit more. Yang I hear that after 8 pm the have unlimited Tequila for $25." I finish, seeing that her interest has been peeked.
"What time? Mer and I will be there" she says but before I can answer, I feel a hand on my knee. Turning to a set of blue eyes that are not nearly as beautiful as my girlfriends, I move my leg over feeling the hand slip out its reach.
"Callie, I thought that it was just going to us hanging out" Erica says, and I can see that she's slightly annoyed.
"Well, yeah, we are. There's just a few extra people tagging along." I tell her. 'There is no way I am going to be alone with this woman who won't take no for an answer' I think to myself just say I see two people walking up to the table and one of them happens to be my sexy blonde.
Watching as she sits in a chair across from me that just so happens to be right in front of Erica, I try to silently will her eyes to meet mine. Finally, she glances at me, smiling but I notice that it isn't her usually full smile that is reserved just for me. It doesn't quite reach her eyes.
As time we go on to eat lunch and conversing with each other. I notice that no one really brings Erica into the conversation, so I do my best to try and include her. Meredith, Teddy, and Alex eventually showed up and Cristina took that time to bring up out group outing tonight and I see everyone agree thankfully even Arizona.
Just as I decide that I need to try and talk to her soon, pagers sound around the table. I watch as Addison, Teddy, and Mark pull out their pagers seeing that there's a 911 in the pit causing them to quickly get up and throw out their trash before promising to see us all tonight and heading towards the next case that awaits them.
Seeing that we've been lucky enough to sit through a nice lunch for about 45 minutes, we all decide that it's about time to get back to work so slowly everyone starts to get up and throw out their trash before heading back to their departments.
"Hey Cal, I actually have some time. I don't have to be in surgery for another 30 minutes. Can I walk you back up to Ortho?" I hear Erica ask.
Without taking my eyes off of the beautiful creature that's about to walk out of the cafeteria laughing about something that Alex said, I say, "I'm actually not going straight back up there. Catch you later?" I ask, as I walk away not waiting for a response.
Jogging to catch the elevator door before it closes, I slip through it, noticing that Arizona is standing there alone. 'Alex must've gone to find something or someone to do' I think to myself.
"Hey there" I smile.
"Hi Calliope" she responses with a small smile.
Just as I open my mouth to ask if she's okay, the doors to her floor open and she steps off. "I'll see you later?"
Frowning, I step off the elevator as well "Do you have a patient?" I ask, and she shakes her head prompting me to grab her hand and lead into the closest on-call room glad to see that it is empty.
"Ok, I can tell you you're pissed with me. What'd I do?" I ask even though I am pretty sure I know the reason.
"I'm not pissed" she says.
"Then what are you because we just had lunch with our friends, and you didn't say one word to me. All you did was smile and I can tell that even that was forced" I tell her.
"Are we seeing other people?" she asks after a few quiet seconds between us.
"What? I- No. Are you interested in some else?" I ask, feeling my heartbeat pound in my chest and not in a good way.
"No but you are" she says
"Huh? Arizona I'm not seeing anyone other than you babe. What are you talking about?"
"Erica" she says, and realization hits me causing a smile to make its way onto my face.
"See? You get a stupid grin on your face just from hearing her name. Just tell me, are you guys getting serious?" she asks and instead of answering the only thing I can stand there and do is smile.
"Is she the reason that we haven't had sex because I thought it was just because you weren't ready. Why didn't you tell me that you were-" her rambling finally comes to a stop once my lips make contact with hers. She resists at first trying to pull back, but I wrap my arm around her waist pulling her body flush against mine. I run my tongue across her bottom lip and she immediately grants me access. We stand there for what feels like forever enjoying the feel of our tongues wrestling with each other but in actuality it's only a few minutes.
Pulling back I see a goofy smile playing at her lips as I place one more kiss on them before leading her over to the bed and we sit down.
"Baby, first of all, you're mine and I am yours. Hopefully the kiss we just shared helped to reassure you of that. We are exclusive. I tell anybody who asks that you, Arizona Robbins, are my girlfriend and I don't plan on changing that anytime soon. I am not dating, nor have I ever dated Erica. That's what I wanted to talk to you about. I didn't tell you before because it wasn't important, but Erica has been trying to get me to go out with her since before you started here. You know that before you, I have never dated someone from this hospital which now that I look back on it is probably the biggest reason that none of those relationships worked out." We both chuckles, "I am nothing more than a conquest to Erica Hahn. When she first arrived here, she became friends with Dr. Almery Khan who was the head of peds before you got here. No one liked either of them, so it was like they bonded over them being everyone's enemy. Well, you know how the gossip mill works around here and before long, it was said that they were together. After months of speculation, they finally went public with their relationship and all was well but then Dr. Kahn apparently was sleeping with some guy from Dermatology claiming that she wanted to make sure she was a lesbian." Seeing a confused look cross Arizona's face, I chuckle and shrug, "Hey, I don't know. I just know what was told to me. Anyways, they were at odds for a while and one night one of the interns who's no longer here cut a patients L-VAD wire." Arizona's eyes widen.
"Yeah, crazy right? Erica and Almery had a difference of opinion on how everything was handled when it came to how to situation was handled and that just added fuel to the fire. One thing led to another and the next thing we know, we're all receiving emails saying that Dr. Khan turned in her letter of resignation. Apparently, she and Erica got into this big fight and Almery told Erica that she wasn't lesbian enough for her and took off in the middle of the night. Last I heard, she was working at Hopkins I think" I shrug.
"After Almery said that, Erica really took it to heart because apparently she ''saw leaves" with Almery and was head over hills for her so she took it upon herself to get as much experience under her belt as possible."
"So, she…" Arizona trials off, raising an eyebrow.
"Yep, she slept with her fair share of nurses throughout this hospital. Everyone likes to joke and say that the only nurses that are safe are the ones in Cardio cause apparently those are 'off limits. In simple terms, she doesn't want to piss where she eats."
Laughing Arizona says, "Okay, where do you come into all of this?" she asks.
"Well, a few months ago, I was at Joe's one night after a long shift to unwind a little. I saw Erica sitting in a corner alone, so I decided to do something that no one else bothered to do… I gave her a chance. I grabbed another drink and went to talk to her. We talked all night about everything and nothing. It was then that I realized that she wasn't as bad as people made her out to be. They just didn't know her. So, we slowly became friends. Every once in a while, I'd see her while the gang and I were at Joes and I'd invite her to join us. Of course, it was always a bit awkward, but it wasn't too bad. Mark would always joke with us and play at the idea of a relationship, but I knew that I didn't feel that way about her. I guess somewhere along the way Erica started developing feelings for me because one night we were out she tried to kiss me and when I stopped her, she went on and on about how she and I could be good together and what not. I quickly shut her down and told Mark to stop joking around about us because she was apparently taking it seriously so everything went back to normal for a while and we went back to occasionally hanging out here and there, Erica went back to sleeping with anything that walked and then you came back into my life." I smile.
"And my guess is that, that is what triggered her attempts to get me to go out with her. She's been asking me out just about every week since we started dating. I've shut her down time and time again, but she won't take no for an answer, so I finally gave in and suggested that we go to a place with a lot of people and that's when she suggested Onix. So, I thought, why not? I could turn it into a group thing that way I wouldn't be alone with her and hopefully if she sees us together and how happy we are, she'll let this dream of her and I being together go because at this point I think she just wants me because she now knows that she can't have me."
"I see what you're saying babe, but do you honestly think that'll work? She doesn't even acknowledge me or our relationship Calliope."
"I know Ari and if tonight doesn't work then I'll cut ties once and for all. I just hate to lose her as a friend because before this she was a great person to hang out with."
"I'm sorry for jumping to conclusions... it's just that I overheard the nurses talking earlier and they were saying how she asked you out and you said yes."
"It's okay baby. The good thing is that you let me explain and didn't completely jump off of the deep end. Thank you for listening" I tell her, connecting our lips in a sweet kiss.
What started out as innocent quickly turns into something more when I feel Arizona gently pushing me to lay back on the bed.
Groaning as she breaks the kiss, her lips move to my neck which feels amazing. Taking the opportunity while my mouth is not preoccupied, I stutter out, "B-Babe"
"Hmm" she groans, sucking on m pulse point causing me to moan.
"You- Jesus Ari that feels good - You know that we both have the next couple of days off" I finally get out.
Pulling back she looks at me, "Yeah, what's up?" she asks
"Well, I was thinking that maybe tonight I could look for a little place where we can get away for those two days and be alone" I suggest seeing a smile work its way onto her face.
"Calliope Torres are you trying to get me alone so that you can have your way with me?" she asks
Chuckling, I nod, "Yes" I tell her, and she laughs into my neck
As our laughter dials down, my hands rub up and down her thighs, "What do you say?"
"I say, let's go already." she jokes, leaning down to kiss my lips, "I can't wait to spend two uninterrupted days with you baby" she smiles.