'Hey! what are you doing tonight?' the message buzzed through to Arizona's phone as she sat at her desk working through a pile of paperwork. She glanced at the sender only to find a number she didn't know.
'Sorry I don't have your number saved in my phone, who is this again?' she typed back before dumping her phone back on the desk and continuing on with her paperwork until her phone vibrated again.
'Seriously? You didn't save my number, way to break a girls heart Dr Robbins' Arizona frowned as she read and reread the message, wondering who the hell it could be. Clearly they knew it was her as they called her by her name, but she hadn't handed her number out to anyone in years.
'Funny… really, but really who is this?' Arizona hit send but before she could put the phone down it vibrated again.
'I know you like to play games and win… so how about we play a little game?' Arizona frowned at the message, this had to be someone winding her up. She was certain that she had heard a similar line in one of those stupid horror movies that Sofia had made her watch when she was a teenager.
'Sorry too busy. Maybe another day' Arizona put her phone down and ignored the next four buzzes before giving in and picking it up.
'Your never too busy to have a bit of fun' 'Come on Dr Robbins I know you want to play' 'Are you too chicken to lose?' 'It must be really killing you not knowing who this is' Arizona couldn't help but smirk, whoever this was knew her well enough to know how she would be thinking.
'Fine lets play. But I really am busy' Arizona hit send and waited a reply.
'Ok lets play hide and seek. I am sat somewhere in the hospital and will stay here till you find me…' Arizona laughed at the suggestion but shrugged and replied.
'How will I know if I've found you'
'Oh you will know!' Arizona's eyebrow raised on it's own at the flirtatious reply.
'Hmm… how will I know if I'm hot or cold?'
'You don't need to worry about being hot or not Dr Robbins' Arizona couldn't contain her laughter at the cheesy line.
"Hey Riz, you want a coffee?" Karev asked as he popped his head around her office door and looked at her suspiciously when he saw her smirking at her phone.
"Sure I'll come with you" Arizona grinned. "look at this, I have no idea who is messaging me but it's someone from the hospital I think" Arizona laughed as Alex read the messages.
"Lets see who it is" Karev commented while inputting the number into his own phone and hitting dial, smirking when Callie Torres came up as his contact, he flashed it to Arizona who raised her eyebrows in surprise.
"Hey Karev, whats up?" Callie answered her phone cheerily.
"Hey Torres, I think I called you by accident I meant to ring Christina… Hey I'm just going to the coffee cart, want me to grab you anything?" Karev asked as he winked at Arizona.
"Nah I'm actually there at the moment. I think Yang's in the OR though" she offered.
"Cool, see you soon then" Alex smiled and hung up.
"She's by the coffee cart… how are you going to play this? Alex asked mischievously.
"Oh I know just how to play it" Arizona grinned as she began typing.
'hide n seek on phone is too hard… how about 20 questions… if I get it right you tell me where u are' Arizona showed Alex who nodded his approval.
'sure thing. Go'
'1. Are u female 2. Do u work in this hospital 3. Are u hot 4. Do I know u 5. R u single' Arizona hit send as Alex suggested a few questions to ask that made Arizona blush and punch his shoulder in embarrassment.
'Yes to all'
'ok I think I know who u are… just a few more q's to confirm it. 6. Do you have beautiful eyes? 7. Are you a good kisser? 8. Have we ever had sex? 9. Do you have a nice ass? 10. Do you have a nice rack?' Alex snorted his approval as they stepped into the lift and hit the 3rd floor button.
'6. I have been told so 7. Very Good, you never complained anyway 8. Yes we have 9. Yes I have a nice ass, or so I am told 10. They're great boobs!. Does that help?'
'Hmm not quite… almost there. 11. Have we ever had sex in a car? 12. Ever has sex in this hospital? 13. Have we ever had surgery together? 14. Have u ever been married? 15. Do u have any kids?'
'Yes to all'
"Dude you have to do it" Alex begged with eyes full of laughter.
'Mer when did you get a new phone and whats with the flirting at work, I thought we agreed to keep our sexy time out of work' Arizona hit send then quickly glanced at Callie who was sitting at a table smirking at her phone. Smirking until the latest text came through that is, when her lips pouted and a frown spread across her face.
'Umm… wrong guess its not Dr Grey…' Arizona burst out laughing as she showed Alex the reply and he couldn't contain his own laughter.
'Calliope u should know not to play with me, I always win… look up loser' Callie glanced up and instantly saw Arizona and Alex stood a few meters away waving and laughing. She stood up shaking her head.
"As soon as you called me I should have known" Callie glared at Alex.
"Dude, your face when you thought she was hooking up with Mer… priceless" Alex grinned as he dodged a punch from the latina.
"You suck Karev" Callie pouted.
"So whats with the flirty texts?" Arizona asked nervously when Karev left them to order coffees for them all.
"Just having a bit of fun seen as you didn't realize I had a new number… was that not ok?" Callie asked shyly.
"Yeah its fine… and I have no plans for tonight, why do you ask, or was that all part of the fun?" Arizona smiled sweetly at having the playful and flirty side of Callie Torres back in her life.
"No the fun started when I realized you didn't have my number stored. I wanted to see if you wanted to come over tonight and have takeout and watch a movie and discuss some things... that by the way is our cover story because Sofia is going on her first date tonight and is getting picked up at the apartment and I thought you would want to be there" Callie smiled hopefully.
"Sure… what time do you want me? I'll being the pizza and ice cream" Arizona grinned.
"Maybe just before six then apologize for arriving early" Callie winked.
"Ok… I assume you haven't changed your pizza or ice cream choices?" Arizona asked as Callie shook her head with a smirk. Both of their pagers going off interrupted their conversation, with a roll of the eyes Callie offered a small wave in farewell before dashing off with her coffee.
"Dude you've got a date tonight" Karev grinned as he handed Arizona her coffee and they made their way towards the trauma room.
"It's not a date… it's a family thing" Arizona glared at him.
"Whatever Riz… all I'm saying is, it's just you and Callie…. Pizza… ice cream… movies… in the dark…. I'd be wearing something hot and shaving my legs before I get there" Karev grinned.
"Do you always shave your legs before a date then?" Arizona smirked as she pushed through the trauma doors and into the madness.
-oOo-
"What is it Riz? I was on my way home" Alex glared as he let himself in to Arizona's house and stormed up the stairs to where he knew she would be, letting himself into her bedroom and not even blinking as she stood in her lingerie with her hands on her hips.
"You're an ASS Karev… you had to make it sound like a date… now I'm nervous as hell and I cant decide what to wear" Arizona stressed.
"I thought you weren't interested" Alex smirked as a dress flew at him and hit him square in the face.
"Shut up… you're an ass! Why the hell do I listen to you, why am I even still friends with you!" Arizona spat before she softened and remembered she asked him here for help. "Dress or jeans?" Arizona asked.
"Go with jeans but wear those skinny black ones that make your ass look incredibly hot" Alex suggested, scoffing when Arizona raised an eyebrow questioningly at him. She grabbed the jeans in question and put them on before turning around to show Alex her ass.
"Yes those are the ones…. Now you want a top that's gonna show a bit of cleavage, but not too much… you know something that's going to remind her of what's hiding underneath the top… and something without sleeves, that way you can fake being cold to snuggle into her" Alex offered as he flicked through her wardrobe and picked a red top. "perfect, Torres always loved you in red" Karev winked as he tossed the shirt to the blonde before grabbing her black fitted leather jacket with rib knitted collar and cuffs and handing it to her.
"Put that on you look smoking hot in it, but its very important that after you arrive and she's seen you in it, you take it off.. like I said coldness equals snuggles" Alex coached.
"I'm impressed by everything apart from you using the word snuggles" Arizona smirked.
"Shut up" Alex smirked as he tossed Arizona a pair of sandals that would work with her prosthetic.
"Thanks Alex, I really appreciate it… I'm so nervous" Arizona confessed.
"Don't be nervous… its just Cal, just relax and have fun and if something happens, then it happens, and if it doesn't, you've reminded Callie on what she walked out on… win win! And I want to know how it goes.. so message me tomorrow" Alex made her promise before leaving.
Arizona took a couple of deep breaths in as she admired her reflection in the mirror, she couldn't deny that she looked and felt incredible in the outfit Karev had chosen for her. Forcing herself to move, she jumped in her SUV and took a few stops to grab a couple of bottles of Callie's favorite wine, ice cream and snacks before stopping for their pizza and making her way to her daughters apartment.
Ringing the bell she stood nervously shuffling her feet and taking deep breaths before scoffing at herself for how she was behaving. This was Sofia's first ever date not her own, the door swung open and Sofia stood looking at her disappointedly.
"What are you doing here?" Sofia asked pointedly.
"Good to see you too Sof, your mom and I have some things to sort out so we decided to do it over dinner and a movie while we don't have to work tomorrow" Arizona offered.
"Yeah right… do you two think I'm stupid and don't know what's going on?" Sofia accused.
"Hey Arizona, your early. As you can see Sofia hasn't gone yet" Callie came to the rescue, hearing her stressed out daughter at the door.
"Mom did you invite her so you could both spy on me?" Sophia accused.
"What? Sofia, she wasn't even meant to be here till 6.30… by which point you would have been gone. No one is spying on you" Callie offered guiltily as she held the door for Arizona to enter, her jaw dropping as she took in the tight black jeans, the red blouse, the fitted leather jacket.
"Callie?" Arizona smirked as she looked over her shoulder to see Callie staring at her ass with her jaw on the floor. "Calliope" Arizona clicked her fingers pointedly to get the brunettes attention.
"Huh?" Callie offered.
"Eyes up here Torres! I said are you ready to eat now or shall I put this in the oven" Arizona smirked as she made a mental note to buy Alex a gift.
"Shit sorry… I just… umm…. Never mind, I'll be back in two I just need the toilet" Callie rushed away to gather herself together.
"What are you doing?" Sofia smirked at her mama.
"What? I told you, we had some stuff to sort out and decided to do it over dinner" Arizona shrugged guiltily.
"Right so you just decided to dress like this for no reason at all" Sofia laughed when Arizona blushed. "You so dressed to impress" Sofia whispered with a grin.
"I just wanted to feel good about myself" Arizona replied weakly.
"Sure you did. Make sure you don't have sex in my bed" Sofia warned playfully.
"Yuck! Never… and no-one is going to be having sex tonight, I told you, I just wanted to feel good about myself" Arizona replied.
"Ok… I call bullshit, but whatever" Sofia grinned as she moved off to finish getting ready.
Just as Callie returned from the bathroom and sat at the breakfast bar there was a knock on the door, Sofia rushing to answer it much to the amusement of her mothers who were now eating their pizza and watching slyly.
"Hey" Sofia smiled softly.
"Hey, you look gorgeous" Stacy grinned as she held out a bunch of red roses for the latina, blushing as she heard Sofia's parents gushing and cooing from the kitchen. Sofia threw them a glare over her shoulder for embarrassing her.
"Hey Callie, Hey Arizona… Woah Arizona you look nice tonight" Stacy noted, glancing to Sofia who smirked and winked. "We should probably go" Stacy smiled at a nervous Sofia.
"Have fun girls" Arizona called.
"Make sure shes home by midnight" Callie grinned as Sofia glared at her.
"Mom I'm an adult, I'll be home whenever I want" Callie bit back her laugh and raised her hands defensively.
"Remember Sofia… if you cant be good be careful" Arizona called as the door began to close, snorting in amusement at herself as she caught a flash of Sofia's middle finger being thrown at her.
"Was that too mean of us?" Arizona asked as she glanced at Callie.
"Hell no, shes lucky I didn't get my shotgun out and threaten Stacy with the whole 'you hurt my daughter I will hunt you down' speech" Callie grinned.
"Oh god… you should have done that, why didn't you do that! lets do that for the second date" Arizona giggled and wiggled her eye brows playfully.
"Deal" Callie smiled. Just as she was about to say something her mobile began to ring, she glanced at the screen and saw it was her father, she flashed the screen to Arizona and asked if she would mind and answered it when Arizona shook her head.
"Papi, is everything ok?" Callie asked, hoping to get her father off the phone as quickly as possible.
"I tried calling Sofia but shes not answering, I wanted to find out how she's going. Do you have her landline number?" he asked, Callie threw an apologetic smile at Arizona before getting up and moving to the balcony in the cold to get a bit of privacy.
"She isn't at her apartment shes out on a date… but there's something I should tell you" Callie started nervously. "After Sofia left, it was too hard being apart from her, so I moved back to Seattle so I could be close to her" Callie stated.
"Ok… and did Penny go with you, or is she still in New York, because long distance relationships are hard Mija" Carlos asked hopefully.
"No she came with me... but we have since broken up" Callie admitted and awaited the thunderstorm of anger from her father.
"I'm sorry to hear that Mija, but I am not surprised… It was obvious that she wasn't the love of your life" Carlos offered amicably as hit bit back his urge to cheer.
"Thanks Papi, I appreciate it... and no you're right, she was never the love of my life, and I should have left her years ago" Callie confessed.
"Why didn't you Mija, why stay if you weren't happy?"
"Because… Sofia deserved better than to be from two broken homes.. and I didn't want to disappoint her, or you, or Mami. Shes only just started talking to me again and this could break her heart and stop her having anything to do with me again" Callie admitted.
"Well what changed?" Carlos asked hopefully.
"She attacked Arizona in the middle of work, told her that she wasn't Sofia's real mother… I just lost it with her and when I told her that she couldn't speak to the mother of my child like that she forced me to choose… so I did"
"So Arizona is back in the picture? You know your Mami would really love to meet Sofia's other mother" Carlos prodded carefully.
"Arizona is back in my life in the sense that we are co-parenting and getting along for the sake of Sofia… that's it. And next time you and Mami are in town I will make sure Arizona is around to say a quick hello" Callie offered.
"We will be in town for Christmas… we were going to swing by Seattle and pick Sofia up then come to you in New York, but we will just come to Seattle… do you have a room for us to use or do I need to book a hotel?"
"At the moment I'm staying with Sof but I will be sorting things out very soon so hopefully I will have a place you can stay. When do you need an answer by?"
"I will just book a hotel and cancel it if needed" Carlos offered warmly.
"Ok well I will see you soon, and I'll get Sofia to call you tomorrow. I better go, Arizona is here to talk over some stuff" Callie mentioned nervously.
"Hmm! say hello to my daughter-in-law and tell her I look forward to seeing her again" before Callie could correct him, the line went dead. With a sigh she returned to the house.
"Sorry about that, my dad was looking for Sof and I hadn't had chance to tell him about the move and everything yet. He says hello by the way" Callie offered with a playful smile.
"Seventeen years it took for him to not want to strangle me for hurting his little girl" Arizona smiled sadly.
"Hey… none of that! Rule number 2!" Callie smirked as she walked to the couch and dumped herself on it.
"But hey… they are coming to stay for Christmas… which means I now have no excuse to put off sorting shit out with Penny. Oh and my mom wants to meet you" Callie frowned.
"Wait your speaking with your mom again? And she wants to meet me? Why? Do I need a bodyguard?" Arizona asked nervously as she fetched the wine and two glasses to the couch.
"Because you're the mother of her grandchild and she has never laid eyes on you. We made up a few years ago… its been a long and windy road… there's been a lot of awkward moments, but she is trying and that's the least I can ask for" Callie admitted.
"Calliope that's incredible, I am so happy for you. It's amazing that after all these years she finally found the strength to try and be a good mother to you, I really am so happy for you" Arizona beamed and Callie couldn't help but compare Arizona's reaction to Penny's. When Penny had met her mother she had been polite and pleasant to her face and then bitched and complained behind the woman's back, calling her every name under the sun for only just making the effort and trying to come into her daughters life.. yet here Arizona was, just happy for Callie to have made amends with her mother. "And of course when she's here I will meet her! as long as your dad doesn't bring his shotgun, we could maybe have a big family dinner at the house or something, Sof would like that… or would that be too weird?" Arizona asked.
"You know… for an ex-wife, your pretty awesome you know… offering to make a family meal for my parents…" Callie trailed off thoughtfully.
"Yeah well… for an ex-wife, your pretty great too… you know my parents ask about you all the time, they still refer to you as their daughter-in-law" Arizona smirked.
"Funny… my dad just asked me to say hello to his daughter-in-law" Callie laughed at the shock on Arizona's face.
"I truly thought he hated me" Arizona admitted.
"I truly think he did… but we haven't been together for seventeen years… its hard to hold onto a grudge for that long" Callie offered with a smirk.
"So whats this shit you have to work out with Penny?" Arizona asked, not wanting to talk about her infidelity.
"I just need to get her to agree to either buy off my half of the house or move out so we can sell it and split the proceeds" Callie sighed, not looking forward to that conversation.
"And what about this place? Sof said that you and Penny bought it for her" Arizona asked softly hoping that she wasn't overstepping the boundaries of their budding friendship.
"No, that's just what we told her… I've been saving for an apartment for her for years. It's in her name too so there is nothing Penny can do about it" Callie smirked.
"Ok so you need to go house hunting?" Arizona asked.
"Yup… know any decent houses up for sale" Callie laughed.
"You know… the house is plenty big enough for both of us, you could move in there, or I could buy you out if you need the cash" Arizona offered nervously.
"I appreciate the offer but I don't think us living together is a good idea… and no I don't want you to buy me out, that house is an inheritance for our daughter from her parents… so unless you actually want to pay me off to get me off the deeds, then it can stay as it is" Callie smiled as Arizona nodded her acceptance.
"Well in that case, I happen to know my neighbor is planning on putting his house up for sale. Its not as big as our house but it has more garage space, a pool and a far bigger garden. I could find out how much he's asking for it and arrange for you to have a look at it" Arizona offered.
"And we will live next door to each other" Callie smirked playfully.
"Why not? It could be fun… plus I can put a gate in the fence and use your pool whenever I wanted" Arizona grinned.
"Alright, find out the details and let me know. No promises but I will take a look at it" Callie laughed when Arizona air pumped.
"So how are your parents anyway" Callie asked as she relaxed into the couch with her wine.
It was just after eleven when Sofia walked through her front door, surprised to find her mothers curled up on opposite sides of the couch sharing a blanket and watching a nightmare on elm street.
"How did it go baby" Arizona asked not taking her eyes off the TV.
"Really good… we're going out for lunch tomorrow" Sofia grinned.
"Aww I'm so happy for you baby" Callie cooed as Sofia kicked her shoes off, changed into her pajamas and leaped over the back of the couch landing with her head in Arizona's lap and her feet in Callie's lap.
"So how was YOUR date?" Sofia asked mischievously as her mama began stroking her hair.
"Oh you know, we had sex on every surface in your apartment" Arizona smirked playfully.
"Twice… we only stopped because we heard you sucking face outside the door and knew you would be coming in any second" Callie added when she saw the horrified look on her daughters face.
"You didn't…. Did you… are you two.."
"Sofia we are messing with your head" Arizona scoffed as she rolled her eyes.
"Oh thank god… I mean thank god I don't need to bleach this whole apartment down and burn everything inside it… not thank god that you two haven't come to your senses and gotten back together" Sofia grinned as both mothers glanced nervously at her.
"Sof…" Callie started before Sofia jumped up to go get a drink.
"I know, I know… you're not getting back together… just, considering you have both told me in the last three weeks that your still in love with each other, I'm just confused as to why your both fighting it so much" Sofia smirked as she heard both women gasp as she walked away.
"Cal… did you.." Arizona pointed nervously at their daughter, her heart pounding at the prospect that Callie could still be in love with her.
"I told her I loved you as the mother of my daughter… perhaps she misunderstood that" Callie offered, trying to ignore her daughter who was silently doing a chicken walk out of Arizona's eye line tauntingly when Callie shook her head and thought up a lie.
"Yeah that's what I said to her too… maybe we should talk to her and make it clear" Arizona frowned as she tried to ignore the feeling of her heart breaking once again at the hands of Calliope Torres.
"I'll handle it tomorrow, don't stress… sorry if our idiot daughter made you uncomfortable" Callie offered a sad smile.