Disclaimer: I don't own Grey's Anatomy, I just borrowed the name of the characters for entertaining, no intention to violate any copyrights.
A/N : I am sorry that I've put this story off for so long. You know the reason - the painful S11, the terrible S12 and the absence of Callie in S13 just kill the inspiration. I've put my full attention on my other long ass story trying to end that last month but that bitch has a life of its own... Long story short, I picked up this one today and wrote and wrote... I found that I was smiling. The plan for this story was to have one subject in a chapter but it's 4am in the morning and I'm just half way thought this chapter. I have to stop now because I have to work tomorrow. I know that if I put it down now, I'm not sure when I will finish it. So, here's the first half of the "Early fathers day". Hope you'll like it.
All mistake are mine, sorry. But again, it's 4 in the morning.
Chapter 6
With her eyes still closed, Arizona stretched her sore body and rolled over, hoping to cuddle up to her girlfriend. But all she found was a cold sheet. The blonde couldn't hold back her disappointed pout. It was Sunday, both her and Callie didn't have to work and they were supposed to stay in bed for a lazy morning.
Walking out of the room after put on a tank top and shorts, she found her girlfriend was sitting on the couch with the mobile phone next to her ear. Oh right, Sunday morning call with papa Torres.
Didn't want to intrude the private call, Arizona walked toward the kitchen after threw a knowing smile to her girlfriend. It was not a big apartment after all, she didn't mean to but still, she could hear the one-sided conversation while fixing herself a cup of Joe.
"No daddy, I can't... Yes, I'm an attending, that's why I can't. I have been an attending for just a few months. I can't just..." Callie rolled her eyes. She loved her father, but sometimes the request from the man was just unreasonable.
"I know it's Valentine's weekend... Daddy, it's not a legit holiday, I can't tell the chief that I need the weekend off to go back to Miami, because my father wants to have a Valentine's day dinner with me." The brunette made a grimace while she locked eyes with the woman who was sipping coffee in her kitchen. From the amused look on the fair face, Callie knew the blonde must have known what this conversation was about.
"No I won't be alone, I have..." Too busy making face to her girlfriend, Callie almost let the little secret slipping out of her lips. She quickly adjusted. "I have works. I'll be in a hospital full of people, I won't be alone."
Callie knew she must be in trouble because the perky smiley face clouded in a split second, and the hum on the other end of the phone telling her that her smart father must have picked up something from her hesitation.
"Yes daddy, I am seeing someone." Of course. Callie rolled her eyes again, but she didn't dare to look into the direction of the kitchen yet. "Umm... this someone is working in the hospital. A surgeon."
"Gentleman suitor? Dad, it's not the 50's..." The brunette laughed out awkwardly. She needed to stop this conversation before it went out of hand. "I will tell you more about this person that I'm dating, but I really have to go now. Say hi to mom for me, okay? I love you dad, bye."
Callie gave a sheepish smile to her girlfriend after threw the phone on the couch. Seeing that as a signal, the blonde walked into living room with her cup of coffee in hand. Instead of sitting next to the brunette, she straddled her girlfriend's laps with a loving smile.
"Someone asked you out for a Valentine's dinner, huh?"
"Yeah, he is clingy." Callie played along. She took the offered coffee and sipped at the cup, saying airily. "It was hard to turn him down through. You know, I love him."
"I figured." Arizona nodded. She put her hands around the brunette's neck asking with a smirk on her face. "Why did you turn him down then? I know you don't have to work this weekend."
"I don't have to work, but I'm hoping to spend this lovely weekend with someone hotter, and sexier..." Tan hand was stroking up and down the silklike pale thigh seductively, but the movement stopped to a halt when the blonde raised another question.
"Does this someone have a pronoun?"
"What?" Callie forced a chuckle awkwardly. She thought the blonde would let it slide, but apparently, nope.
"This someone, this person that you're seeing. The surgeon that you couldn't tell your father about, has a pronoun?" Arizona asked again, the playful smile replaced by a serious stare.
"Honey..." The brunette sighed, putting the coffee cup on the table next to the couch, buying herself time to come up with a good response.
"Yeah?" The blonde didn't let up a bit. She just kept her eyes on the brown ones waiting for an answer.
"Of course I want to tell my dad about you, Arizona." Callie pulled up an adorable pout and resting her hands on the slender hips. "It might not seem like a big deal to you, but in my Catholic family, where we come from being gay isn't something people just come to accept. My dad hasn't spoken to his cousin for decades because he decided to bring his flatmate to the family gathering."
"So you're going to keep me as your dirty little secret in order to please your father? Good to know." The sparkle lost in the blue eyes. Arizona was just want to tease her girlfriend for the vague conversation with her father. She wasn't prepared for the truth behind that action. She was about to get off of Callie's laps, but the hands on her quickly looped around her waist keeping her from getting away.
"I will never hide you from anyone, Arizona." Callie said hurriedly, wholeheartedly. "You're my girlfriend. It just... I can't just blurt it out on the phone to my dad, okay? I promise you, I'll tell him next time when I see him face to face."
"What about he hasn't spoken to your uncle for a decade? Don't you worry that he doesn't accept it and stop talking to you?" The blonde dropped her head, murmuring under her breath. Callie put her fingers under Arizona's chin bringing the uncertain blue eyes to meet with hers.
"I am his daughter. He's supposed to love me no matter what. If he couldn't accept the fact that you, my girlfriend, are making me happier than ever? I'll stop talking to him." The brunette said with nothing but sincere in her voice. She knew it would be a shocker for her father to know that she was dating a woman. But she truly believed that once he met with Arizona, getting to know this amazing, caring woman, he would be happy for her.
"Really? You'd do that for me?" A dimpled smile found the way to Arizona's face again.
"Anything to bring that smile back on your face." Callie said in a whisper while pressing her lips against the pink one. They locked in a tender, loving kiss. The brunette couldn't hold back a moan feeling fingers running through her hair. Nibbling at the bottom lip, the brunette was about to slip her tongue between the parted lips. To her disappointment, Arizona pulled back breaking the kiss.
"So you were saying you want to spend the Valentine weekend with someone hot and sexy?" The blonde recalled the conversation before the unpleasant turn.
"Oh yes, that." Callie licked her lips, savoring the sweet taste of her girlfriend that still lingering on them. "I want to take you out dinner, but I'm covering the pit. You know there has no guarantee that when I can leave."
"We can stay in. I'll order pizza and wait for you at my apartment." Arizona offered with a little purse of lips. It didn't sound romantic but she knew it was the price to pay as a surgeon who saved lives.
"And then, the real celebration of our first Valentine's day together starts on Saturday. I've made a reservation in that little B&B 2 hours away. My shift on Monday doesn't start until the afternoon. If you can move around your surgeries, we can drive back in the morning. We'll have 2 whole days, just you and me, no pagers, beautiful view outside the window." Callie went on with her plan, and her hands sneaked under her girlfriend's tank top, kneading their way up from the waist. "Even more beautiful view in the room with you lying in front of the fireplace, naked..."
"Sounds wonderful." Arizona threw her head back, smiling at the idea of their romantic getaway, and the maneuver on her flesh.
"Yeah?" Callie pulled the blonde's body closer to her, kissing the exposed neck as one of her hand caressing the plump mound gently. "How about a little preview of what I'm going to do to you in this wonderful weekend?"
"I hate you." Mark walked up to Callie as the Ortho surgeon was waiting for her coffee in front of the coffee cart. He turned to the barista. "Bone dry cappuccino, put it in her tap."
"What have I done?" The brunette made a grimace. She couldn't recall doing anything that made her friend mad at her.
"You should have told me about that stupid B&B sooner. I tried to make a reservation this morning, it is already fully booked." The man huffed with annoyance. He wasn't good at doing romantic thing and he thought he would just copy Callie's idea, but he was too late.
"It's Valentine weekend, of course it's fully booked. I made my reservation 2 weeks days ago, Mark." Callie rolled her eyes. "Besides, I don't want you in the same place with Arizona and I. We are supposed to have the weekend with just us."
"Anyway, you owe me." Mark said with a pout, it made the brunette rolled her eyes again.
"I owe you nothing. You are a grown man. You should be able to find something to do with your girlfriend." Callie cast the tall man a sidelong glance while picking up her coffee.
"Hey, without me, you don't even get a girlfriend on this Valentine's day." Mark put a hand on his hip and looking around. "Where is blondie? I bet she'd agree with me."
"No, she wouldn't." The brunette laughed out. Knowing Arizona, she'd say Mark's problem wasn't their problem. "Arizona got call in early this morning. I think she has a consult or something."
"Seriously, Callie. You need to help me. I know Lexie doesn't expect anything from me, but you and blondie are planning a getaway, Derek and Hunt are going to take their wives for a double date." The man got in the elevator with his friend after getting his coffee. "I have to do something for Lexie."
"I am going to meet with a patient now but then I'll be free for the most of the morning. I'll come find you and let's brainstorm together." Callie sighed dramatically. Of course she'd help the man, with or without the emotional blackmail.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you." Mark planted 3 big kisses on the caramel cheek loudly, made everyone in the elevator turned and stare at them.
"Eww... get away from me." Callie pushed the man away playfully. She wiped her face with a hand, calling over her shoulder as walking out of the metal carrier. "Arizona and Lexie are going to kill you if you ever put your lips on me again."
Callie stopped at the nurse station, one of the nurses handing her a chart of the patient that she was about to meet. She frowned slightly when the nurse looking at her with a weird expression. She wiped her face again thinking maybe Mark's drool was still on her cheek. Her frown turned to a broad smile when a familiar scent invaded her nostril.
"Hey, what are you doing here?" The brunette turned away to her girlfriend, but the blonde took a significant step back before Callie got closer to her personal space.
"Callie, I..." Arizona wetted her lips nervously. She looked back at the room behind her. "We need to talk."
"Oh my god, you're breaking up with me." Callie gasped with her brown eyes widened. This was the typical phrase when someone was about to dump someone. "2 days before Valentine's day? This is just..."
"Ssshhh... can you keep it down? I'm not breaking up with you, Callie." Once again, the blonde looked back at the room before she pulled her girlfriend round the corner by the elbow.
"What is it then? Why are you acting so weird?" Callie asked impatiently. The blonde was fine last night, and this morning before she rushed out of the apartment. But now, she was all nervous and restless that just made the brunette kinda uneasy.
"Well, my mom called me this morning." Arizona twisted her lips. "After my father admitted to the hospital."
"Is he alright? Which hospital? Do you have to go there now?" A series of questions fired out from the plump lips in a spit second. Callie knew Arizona's parents were living in Boston, she was already running her mind thinking if she could cancel her surgeries and go to Boston with her girlfriend.
"This hospital, Calle! My father is in there!" Arizona pointed toward the room that she kept looking at. "They have arranged to have a surgery in here without even giving me a heads up."
"He's..." The brunette looked at the chart still in her hand, a realization creeping up onto her face. "Daniel Robbins, he is your father?"
"You knew and didn't tell me?" The blonde exclaimed. Callie quickly put a hand on her arm trying to claim her down.
"How should I know? You're not the only Robbins."
"It's just... ugh." Arizona groaned into her hands.
"Don't worry. It's a simple hip replacement. He's gonna be fine." The brunette said with a smile. She understood that Arizona was worried about her father, but as a surgeon, the blonde should know the successful rate of hip replacement was high, especially in her hands.
"I know, it's just... it's going to be so complicated." Arizona ran her long blonde hair with both hands and sighed heavily.
"You don't want me to operate on your father?" Looking at the distressed face, Callie asked. "I can pass it to Carlson if you want."
"They come here because their doctors mentioned you by name. They want your new, minimally invasive hip replacement." Arizona asked hopefully. "Does Carlson know your technique?"
"No, he doesn't." Callie made a grimace. "I'm the only surgeon who does that in the northwest."
"Damn your genius." The blonde groaned under her breath, hands on her hips looking frustrated.
"It's no big deal, okay? I know it's gonna be weird to have your girlfriend operating on your father..." The Ortho surgeon stepped closer, taking the soft hands in hers. "That's nothing to worry about."
"Here's the thing, Callie." Arizona took a deep breath, looking down at their joint hands. "They... um... my parents don't know I'm dating someone."
"They don't know? I thought you talk to your mother on the phone couple times a week." Callie's voice was an octave higher.
"Yeah, but apparently we don't really tell each other everything." Arizona rolled her eyes, referring to her parents' surprise visit.
"And are you going to tell them now?" Callie asked. But according to the odd behavior coming from Arizona, she had a feeling that she was not going to like the answer.
"Well..." The blonde trailed off, still avoiding the intense brown eyes.
"Oh my god!" The brunette's jaw dropped to the floor. "The other day you were mad that I haven't told my father about you. You actually are going to hide me from your parents?"
"I'm not hiding you, just..." The poor woman stole a glance to her girlfriend before dropping her head. "You don't understand."
"No, I don't. You told me that they were supportive when you came out to them, why can't you tell them that you have a girlfriend, me?" This time it was Callie who put her hands on her hips.
"Remember I told you about Scalpel? The nurse who cut my palm in the middle of a surgery?" Arizona rubbed her no longer visible scar nervously.
"Yeah?" The brunette nodded.
"I made a mistake. After that, I took a week off and I went home to my parents. Of course I told them what had happened when they saw my hand." The blonde twisted her lips, remembering that not so pleasant week at her parents' home. "My father was furious at me for... well... getting messy in my workplace and got myself into trouble."
"You deserved it." Still feeling hurt and angry, Callie gave her girlfriend a contemptuous little laugh.
"Callie, please don't." Arizona pled with a pout. "Anyway, I have promised him that I'd keep my personal life and my professional life apart. If he knows that I get involve with a colleague just a few months after started working it here..."
"Half of the people in the hospital know that you and I are involved, Arizona." Callie cut her off. "How are you going to hide it from them?"
"It's not like they're going to wander around in the hospital asking people about me. But with you in the room with them..." The restless blonde started pacing back and forth, and Callie just stared at her with arms cross against her chest.
"I can not believe it. A proud and confident woman that you are, are afraid to tell your father that you're dating a colleague."
"You don't know my dad. He can be really scary." Arizona rubbed her temples with a hand. "And I hate to disappoint him."
"Dating me is going to disappoint him?" Brown eyes almost bulged out of their eye sockets.
"No no, Callie. He is going to love you. My mom too." Arizona answered quickly. "Just I don't think it'll go well under this circumstance."
"Then what do you purpose?" Callie threw her arms in the air. Her patient was running thin. "I can't stand here watching you pacing around all day. I need to go in there examining your father at some point."
"How about..." Arizona swallowed hard looking at her girlfriend. "I'm not saying that we're gonna keep this from them forever, just... don't mention it when you're with them?"
"So, you want me to get into that room, pretending that I don't know you?" The Ortho surgeon said mockingly.
"Of course we know each other. We work in the same place." The blonde wasn't pleased with the passive aggressive tone coming from her girlfriend but she didn't have teh leverage to complain about that now. "Just keep our relationship from them while my dad is on the hospital bed have you as his doctor. Please Callie, can you do this for me?"
"Fine." The brunette said through gritted teeth while turning toward the room. "But I'm not gonna lie if they ask me."
Despite her angry toward the blonde, Callie was nervous when she stepped foot into the room meeting her girlfriend's parents the first time. Taking a deep breath, she entered the room with an overly broad smile on her face.
"Mr. Robbins," She looked down at her chart before addressing the patient, pretending that she didn't remember the name of the man on the bed. "I am Dr. Torres."
"Colonel," The man sat up on the bed with his back straightened. In a patient gown or not, he was a military man. He'd show no vulnerability to a stranger, even though this stranger was going to cut him open. "Colonel Robbins."
"Daniel." The lady sat by the bed grunting under her breath, reaching up to rearrange the pillows behind The Colonel's back. She turned to the doctor with a dimpled smile that just liked Arizona's. "Don't mind him. He's just being grumpy and nervous about the surgery. I'm his wife by the way."
"I'm not grumpy or nervous." The Colonel glared at his wife. And his wife, who knew him so well, just chuckled and waved him off.
"Mr... Uh... Colonel, and Mrs. Robbins, there's nothing to worry about." Callie cleared her throat. "Every surgery has its risk, but the procedure that I'm gonna use could avoid damaging the hip muscle. With the computer guidance, the time of the surgery is just half of the regular hip replacement surgery."
"Call me Barbara, honey." The wife of the patient shifted closer to the doctor and took a hand in hers. "We've heard about the surgery from our doctors. I know you'd take good care of my husband."
Arizona was about to get in the room and she gasped audibly seeing her mother was holding her girlfriend's hand with a warm smile. Everyone in the room turned to look at her.
"Dr. Robbins," Callie took her hand back and fixed the stunned woman a stern stare. She spoke up before the blonde blew the cover. "What do I owe this pleasure for you to my Ortho floor?"
"I..." The PEDS surgeon stammered. She had prepared herself outside the room. She was going to enter the room as nonchalant as she could, but seeing her mother all smiling and holding her girlfriend's hand, she had no idea what just happened between them.
"Arizona didn't tell you? We're her parents." Barbara pulled her daughter to her side, pressing their faces together. "Couldn't you tell? People say we have the same smile."
"I don't see Dr. Robbins smiling that much." Callie patted her own back mentally for being able to lie through her teeth. Arizona's smile was what mesmerized her in the first place. "We're not that close."
"Yeah, we... we're not... I mean, we don't really..." Even though it was her idea, hearing Callie said they're not close brought a pang of hurt in her chest. A glance to her father on the bed, Arizona remembered why they were standing there. "I just started to work in here, mom."
"It has been what... 4 or 5 months?" The mother brought a hand to brush a strand of blonde hair behind her daughter's ear, cooing softly. "Didn't you make some friends already?"
"This is not a kindergarten." The blonde rolled her eyes. No matter how old she got, her mother always treated her like a baby girl. A dry cough from the bed caught her attention, Arizona could see the look of disapproval from her father. Yeah, she was busted for the eye rolling. "Sorry, mom."
Callie had to bite the inside of her month to suppress the smile.
"I know this is not a kindergarten but you're here alone in Seattle. You need to make some friends, Arizona." Barbara went on as if she didn't see the interaction just happened between the father and daughter. She was so used to it. Squinting at the Ortho surgeon's lab coat, the older Robbins woman read the name on it. "I'm sure Calliope would be an awesome friend. You two should get together sometime. Go for a drink or something."
"Mom." It took all the will power within the blonde not to stamp her feet. From the corner of her eyes, she could see her girlfriend was trying very hard to hide her smile of amusement. "Don't call her Calliope... It's Dr. Torres."
"Callie is fine." The brunette took a deep breath to collect herself. It was fun to see her girlfriend being embarrassed by her mother, but she couldn't stay there forever. "I'll send an intern to take you for an updated scan, Colonel. And very nice to see you, Mrs. Robbins."
Picking up the chart, the Ortho surgeon put on a professional smile as she walked passed her colleague toward the door. "See you around, Dr. Robbins."
"What was that about, mom?" Arizona asked as soon as Callie walked around the corner. She knew her mother was friendly but that was... kinda over the top.
"Callie is going to operate on your father. It wouldn't hurt to be nice to her." Barbara sat back on the chair next to her husband, smiling lovingly to her daughter. "Don't you think she'd put extra attention in the surgery knowing that's the father of her friend on the table?"
"Cal... Dr. Torres is professional. You don't have to push us together to get her doing her job in the OR." The blonde pulled a chair to sit next to her mother.
"I just think you need some friends, Arizona." The mother shifted in the seat to face her daughter. She asked with a hint of worry in her voice. "When was the last time you go on a date?"
"I..." Last night, Arizona said in her head. But she couldn't tell her parents. "I'm busy."
"Yeah, I am aware of that. Every time we talked on the phone, you just talked about your work." The mother nodded her head matter-of-factly. "Callie seems like a nice girl."
"Barbara." The Colonel shook his head, and his wife returned with an innocent gaze.
"What? Don't you think Callie is nice?" She turned back to her daughter. "I think she is beautiful."
"You're acting like you're trying to sell our daughter to the first woman you've seen around her." The man picked up the newspaper and his glasses. He had no interest of the conversation between the women. "You don't even know if she's into women."
"Do you know?" Ignoring her husband, Barbara continued asking her daughter. "I mean, you have radar or something, right?"
"I don't have radar, or something, mom." The blonde couldn't hold back her chuckle. She didn't need one. She knew very well that Callie was into women, or into one woman particularly. "Can we talk about something else? Like tell me again why don't you tell me that dad needs surgery?"
"It's just a hip replacement, not a major surgery like an open heart operation." The Colonel answered without taking his eyes off the newspaper.
"Hip replacement is a major surgery, dad. You will be under the table and being cut open." Arizona stared at her father incredulously. A surgery is still a surgery. How could the man think it's not important enough to inform his daughter?
"I know. And I've done my research. That's why I'm here now." The Colonel gazed at her daughter with a sharp, penetrating look over the newspaper. "I'm not an old fogey that can't arrange my own surgery."
Arizona dropped her head and took a long deep breath. The tension in the room was so thick that could almost cut it with a knife, Barbara looked between the two most important people in her life and didn't know what to say.
"I should get back to work." Finally, the blonde arose from the chair. Trying hard to keep her tear at bay, she gave her mother a force smile. "I'll come back later. Maybe I'll take you to the cafeteria for lunch, okay?"
Before her mother was able to answer, Arizona turned her heels leaving the room.
As promised, Arizona picked up her mother a few hours later. The Colonel couldn't eat anything because his surgery was scheduled in the afternoon, it didn't mean his wife should starve with him.
"Honey, you know your dad didn't mean it." Seeing her daughter lapsed into a sullen silence, Barbara couldn't hold her tongue any longer.
"Mom..." Arizona closed her eyes and breathed out. She really didn't want to talk about that.
"He loves you, Arizona. He's just..." The mother wetted her lips. She couldn't find the word.
"He's just stubborn." The blonde poked at the salad before her with a pout on her face. "I've apologized and apologized to him. What else I can do?"
"You called him and his friends old fogeys, at his son's wake, Arizona." Barbara looked at her daughter with sadness in her eyes. It was a dark day of their family, and the outburst of the blonde just made it even worse.
"I hadn't eaten in 2 days, mom. I drank my weight in single malt scotch with them. And I had to sit there hearing them saying what a great honor it was to sacrifice for our country." The fair face screwed up in disgust. She could still remember the Colonel and his old army buddies in their formal uniforms, rising their glasses as if it was a supreme glory to die in a war that shouldn't be started in the first place.
"They said that to make the pain... bearable." The older woman sighed.
"I know. I know that dad was in pain. I know that you were in pain. I was in pain too. I've lost my brother, my best friend. For a country that women are still paying less than men. For a country that marriage equality is still a battle." Arizona inhaled and exhaled slowly trying to calm her rage. She was still mad, but she knew that she shouldn't take this out on her mother. "I just think... the price is too high to pay."
"He knows that, he just doesn't want to admit it." Barbara put her hand over her daughter's. "He's a Marine for most of his life. Something wouldn't be changed so easily."
"Yeah." The blonde smiled bitterly. Of course she knew her father. "I just... I won't let my children joining the army, I'm telling you. It's not worth it."
"Your children?" Aged blue eyes widened. Mom ears picked up the most sensitive word. "Arizona?"
"I..." Wow, where did that come from? Arizona didn't even realize what just came out of her mouth. "I... mean, if I ever have children."
"You've never talked about children, ever." Sadness quickly replaced by a warm smile. Barbara asked eagerly. "Why...? Are you seeing someone? Are you thinking of having kids someday?"
"Mom, I'm just saying." It was nice to pivot the conversation to another direction, but Arizona wasn't sure this was the direction that she wanted to go. It was just a slip of tongue. She had never wanted to have children. And she didn't know the woman that she was dating want children or not. Unconsciously, she looked over to the other side of the cafeteria.
"Isn't that Callie?" The mother craned her neck to get a better view of what her daughter was looking. She was happy to see a familiar face. "And who's the man sitting next to her? Is that her boyfriend? They seem cozy together."
"No, that is Mark... Dr. Sloan. They're not together. Dr. Sloan has a girlfriend." The blonde corrected her mother quickly. Even... yeah, the two friends seemed quite cozy together.
"That's blondie's mother?" Mark jerked his head to where Arizona and her mother were sitting.
"Yeah." Callie followed the man's line of sight, and she locked eyes with her girlfriend. The pair shared a smile across the cafeteria.
"And blondie told you to keep this a secret? About you two?" Mark laughed out after got a nod from his friend. "I thought she's out and proud."
"She is. She just doesn't want her parents to know that she's dating a co-worker." The brunette sighed into her soda. "A long and stupid story."
"But you have met her parents, right?" The Plastic surgeon looked back to the Robbins' table, and he smiled to the old lady that was staring at him.
"Of course I have. I'm going to operate on her father this afternoon." The brunette said while putting a forkful of salad into her mouth. She had no appetite but she couldn't operate on her girlfriend's father with an empty stomach.
"Isn't it weird?" Mark snickered before taking a bite of his apple. "I mean, you're going to touch her father's hip."
"Eww... gross, Mark!" Callie slapped the man's shoulder made the man yelped in pain. "I was going to let you have my reservation. Now you can forget about it."
"Wait wait wait." Mark said with a mouthful of apple. He swallowed quickly and asked his friend. "You're giving me your reservation in that B&B? Why?"
"Arizona's father is gonna stay for another 3 days after the surgery. I don't think she'd want to leave them here alone." The brunette's gaze drifted back to the other side of the cafeteria. The mother and daughter were in a deep conversation and she was wondering what they were talking about?
She was startled when Mark pulled her closer by the shoulder and planted a loud kiss on her cheek.
"Thank you, Callie." The beaming smile on the man's face would make you think he just won a lottery. "I love you!"
Callie just glared at her friend and wiped her cheek with the back of her hand. She was about to scold the man for kissing her again, someone stood there in front of their table.
"Calliope."
"Daddy?" Brown eyes widened as big as they could go. Why was her father in here? She stood up from the chair when the old man opened his arms expecting a welcome hug. Wrapping her arms around her father's neck, Callie asked. "Where are you here?"
"There's a meeting in The Archfield Hotel this afternoon. It was not on my schedule but hey, I could take the chance to visit my daughter. So I told the staffers that I want to sit it." Carlos pulled away and looked at his daughter with a wide smile. "And I've set up a meeting with your chief tomorrow."
"Why?" Callie stared at her father in confusion. Why did her father want to meet with Derek?
"I'll tell you later. But first, let me say hi to your friend." The father let go of his daughter and turned his attention to the man sitting at the table. "You are Mark, right?"
"Yes sir, we've met the last time you came visit." Mark stood up from the chair and shook the offered hand. He was a little shock by the intensity coming from papa Torres's blue eyes and the firmer that usual hand grip.
"It was six months ago, I recalled." Carlos nodded his head, still holding the Plastic surgeon's million dollars hand. "Were you dating my daughter at that time already?"
"Oh god! No, dad!" Quickly put a hand over the joint hands, Callie forced her father to let go. "Mark is just a friend."
"So you're not dating him? But he just said he loves you." The old man frowned.
"As a friend. I did him a favor and he was just thanking me, daddy." The brunette rolled her eyes to the ceiling. "A favor for him and his girlfriend."
"Yeah? Then where is the man that you're dating now?" Carlos looked around the cafeteria, hoping to get a glimpse of the one who captured his daughter's heart.
"The man that you're dating, huh!" Mark sneered out loud. This would be fun.
"Don't you have to leave, Mark?" Callie threw a stern stare to the snickering man. She loved Mark, but if he was going to out her in the middle of the cafeteria, she'd have no problem of killing him right there.
"Yeah right, I have to go." Still smiling from ear to ear, the Plastic surgeon nodded to the father of his best friend. "Very, very nice to see you again, Mr. Torres."
The father and daughter sat down on the table as Mark strode away. But the man made a stop before he left the cafeteria.
"Hi, you must be Mrs. Robbins." Walking toward to the Robbins' table, Mark reached out his hand to the older Robbins. "Mark Sloan. I'm Arizona's colleague."
"Nice to see you, Mark. Call me Barbara." Mama Robbins shook the man's hand with a smile. It was always nice to meet with her daughter's friend, even if just the work friend.
"I didn't know it is bring-your-parents-to-work day." The man pulled up the most mischievous smile looking between the women at the table. "If I've known, I'd bring my father."
"What are you talking about?" Arizona squinted at the man questionably. "And who is that man with Callie?"
"Oh, you didn't know? That is Callie's father." Mark turned to the Torres' table. "Apparently, he's expecting to meet with the lucky one that is dating his daughter."
"Callie's dating someone?" Barbara asked.
"Oh yeah. Quite seriously." The tall man's smile went wider seeing the color drained from his colleague's face. This truly was gonna be fun. He said to mama Robbins before he turned to leave. "This is very, very nice to meet you today, Barbara."