"Where the hell were you two? Having a festive bonk?" Yang grinned as she sat around the huge table laughing with everyone.
"Yang my parents are right there!" Callie glared at her friend as she pointed at her parents who were looking like they had partaken in a few too many festive sherry's. "and Arizona's parents are right there too!" Callie blushed as she glanced at the couple and noticed the glazed look in their eyes too. "Christina! did you get our parents drunk!?"
"Oh my god Yang, you got my mom drunk!" Arizona scoffed as she watched her mother grin sweetly at her and wink.
"You're a terrible person Yang and next time your mom is in town it is game on! You're going to rue this day" Callie warned with a finger as she made her way towards Sofia and pecked her forehead and Arizona joined her.
"We forgive you for going through our stuff. But don't do it again!" Arizona warned playfully.
"Trust me, I have seen things no child should ever see… I will be avoiding both of your bedrooms for the rest of my life!" Sofia whispered so their friends and family didn't overhear which caused the mothers to laugh. "was it an ok present?" Sofia asked bashfully.
"It was the perfect present… but it should have come with several boxes of tissues. We were a mess out there!" Callie admitted. "Where did you get some of that stuff from Sof, and that letter from your dad… I've never even seen it before"
"Oh umm, well I had a little help. Jackson had a box he had packed dads office into and the letter was in there. He stored it all of these years hoping to give it to me one day, I guess dad figured one of you would pack his office up and would have found it" Sofia smiled shyly. "and well the photos that I didn't get from your flash drives and albums..." Sofia blushed as she remembered the photos under her mom's bed "I got from everyone else… Aunty Miranda, Mer, Alex, Yang, Apes… even Abuelo and Gran. Aunty Teddy had loads, she emailed me them from Iraq last month after having her folks ship them out to her in the desert. She said to say hello and to tell mama she hasn't called in over three months and she's getting all the gossip from her niece not her best friend" Sofia scoffed.
"And the news clippings of our achievements?" Arizona scoffed at Teddy's message, they had messaged just yesterday to catch up. Now all the sly comments about Callie made sense.
"Umm, they were from the scrapbook I kept as a kid. I used to search every week for any sign of either of you in the media and then use my pocket money to buy the paper so I could have a copy of it. I have mom's ted talks on DVD too if you want to watch them mama" Sofia shrugged at the confession as her parents watched her with damp eyes.
"I've already seen them baby, several times. I probably know them word for word better than your mom" Arizona grinned as she threw a cheeky wink at her girlfriend. "What? Did you think I would miss out on the pee pee dance?"
"I did not do the pee pee dance!" Callie glared.
"Oh you did, in every single talk… all five of them you did the pee pee dance within the first three minutes. Want me to go and get my copies and I can prove it?" Arizona smirked triumphantly when she saw Callie blush.
"You have a copy of them Mama?" Sofia grinned.
"Of course I do. I guess you didn't think to look in the box at the back of my wardrobe did you" Arizona grinned with a wink.
"I did see it. But I found it not long after the box I found under moms bed and I just couldn't risk opening another suspicious box that was deliberately hidden" Sofia confessed.
"Unlike your mother I'm not a pervert that has a box full of nudies!" Arizona glared at Callie.
"Wait, Torres has a box of nudies… WHERE?" Yang grinned and ignored the glares she received from several people in the room. Arizona noticed Callie blushing deeply and turned back to her daughter to move the conversation along.
"That box in my wardrobe is full of things you would love. Our wedding video and photos, my wedding dress, the ticket stubs from every date your mom ever took me on. Photos that we took that I had printed just in case the digital copies ever got erased… and there is a smaller box inside that is full of newspapers of every achievement your mom has ever had since 2008, and disks of her talks, and some conferences and even her biggest surgeries to date" Arizona confessed.
"Where did you get all that stuff from?" Callie asked in surprise, its not like Arizona had contacts in high places that she could use. How the hell had she gotten footage of her surgery's when she didn't know anyone in New York Presbyterian Hospital.
"I have my ways Calliope!" Arizona winked playfully.
"No seriously, how did you get footage of my surgeries?" Callie quizzed.
"You know Chief Tanner? She went to med school with me and Amelia. We may have had a bit of a thing back in the day" Arizona smirked at the shock on Callie's face.
"Wait…. Chief Joanne Tanner…. that's Jo… Jo your first serious ex! No way! Why didn't you tell me?" Callie grimaced at the thought of her stunningly beautiful ex boss and her hands all over Arizona.
"Oh yeah and what was I meant to say on this random call 'hey ex-wife, I know you hate me and we have nothing to do with each other unless we are yelling at each other but I banged your new boss for two years and she owes me big because she cheated on me, have a good day working with a woman you know has seen me naked Honey' yeah right Cal" Arizona asked nervously.
"Yuck mom, please don't refer to you banging someone, especially not people I know!" Sofia whined.
"I agree with Sof… yuck! So basically what your saying is you stalked me through your ex who just happened to be my boss?" Callie asked after glaring at Arizona pointedly for being so blasé about a sexual encounter with anybody but her in front of their daughter.
"Well when you put it like that, yes that's actually exactly what I did and have only this second realized how psycho ex that was of me… oh god, I'm sorry" Arizona pouted.
"Its fine psycho… good job I don't plan on going back to work for Tanner though, I think I would have to punch her knowing some of the things I know about her… actually I'm glad I didn't know, I legitimately don't think I could look her in the eye if I had known" Callie admitted, grinning when her daughter grimaced.
"Do I really need to be here for this conversation… and what the hell happened to Aunt Addie!" Sofia frowned as the redhead entered the room and made her way directly to the fridge and grabbed a beer. As Callie and Arizona turned to look they spotted Jo walking into the room and to the opposite side as Addison, the two women smiling 'stealthily' at each other.
"Oh. My….GOD!" Arizona whispered in shock.
"Go, I'll take Addie and we will swap gossip in half an hour" Callie jumped and dashed to her best friends side.
"God you two are adorable. Look at you all matchmaking your friends and loved up" Sofia grinned at Arizona who offered her a playful wink before moving to Jo's side and guiding her away from the eager ears at the table.
-oOo-
"Well, how do you think our first real family Christmas went?" Callie asked as she tightened her arms around Arizona's waist and kissed the nape of her neck. They were spooning in Callie's bed having decided they didn't want to part for the night.
"I think it was the best Christmas since Sof's first Christmas" Arizona smiled dreamily as Clo whimpered in her sleep from her big dog basket to the side of Callie's king sized four poster bed.
"I couldn't agree more" Callie grinned as she snuggled in closer, determined to extinguish any air between them despite how small it was.
"You know, there's still one more present for you to open" Arizona smiled softly as she threaded her fingers through Callie's and squeezed them tightly.
"Oh really… are we about to have Christmas night sex?" Callie asked hopefully as she began planting kisses on Arizona's exposed shoulder.
"No you dirty big perve… god all you think about is sex!" Arizona giggled.
"It's been a long time, I'm frustrated… so sue me" Callie shrugged as she detangled her fingers from Arizona's and toyed with the hem of her singlet.
"Its been shorter than it has for me and you don't see me acting like a horny dog" Arizona scoffed, giggling when Callie began to tickle her. "Stop Calliope, we will wake everyone else up, and they will assume that we are doing something we aren't" Arizona squealed.
"Well if we are going to do the time, we may as well do the crime" Callie smirked as she pulled Arizona onto her back so she could lay a tender kiss on her lips.
"Do you want your last present or not" Arizona smirked.
"Baby you bought me a bottle of Joy, we both know how much that stuff costs, you've spent way too much!" Callie complained.
"It's already bought and wrapped… too late now" Arizona shrugged mischievously before digging under the bed and producing a parcel.
"That's what you were doing… I thought you were looking for the black box, which I relocated to somewhere safer earlier by the way" Callie laughed.
"No you dope! I was hiding this" Arizona smirked as she passed the parcel over to Callie and motioned for her to unwrap it.
"You didn't!" Callie groaned when she saw its contents.
"You promised, if we were still together when we were old and grey, we would wear tacky Christmas Pj's to breakfast on boxing day every year to embarrass our kids… I don't know about you but this hair is full of dye to cover the grey's!" Arizona smirked.
"But did you have to go personalized… and you knew all our friends and family will be there, I will never live this down" Callie whined as she pointed at the photo of a far younger Callie and Arizona wearing flashing reindeer antlers and big round red noses. It was taken their first Christmas together when Arizona had 'begged' Callie to come to her ward and help hand out Christmas gifts to the kids that would be stuck in hospital over Christmas.
"Oh come on its cute. No one will laugh, they will be jealous" Arizona pouted "You promised Calliope" she smirked.
"Ok ok fine. Do you want me to put them on now or can they wait till I wake up?" Callie grumbled.
"No they can wait… but I think there is something else in the parcel that you've missed" Arizona grinned at the fear in Callie's eyes until she located a sprig of mistletoe.
"Merry Christmas baby" Arizona grinned as she pounced on Callie and peppered her face in kisses causing Callie to erupt into the infectious laughter that made Arizona's heart swoon.
-oOo-
"Morning" Callie grinned as she walked into her kitchen with Arizona's hand in hers and the blondes body pressed into her back. Getting Callie into her festive pj's this morning had taken another round of pleading and a rather heated make out session to convince her, but now here she was in the wonderful matching pajamas that Arizona had gotten made for them and she was happy to be wearing them, seeing the beaming smile on Arizona's face when she had twirled and posed for her would make any ounce of humiliation worth it.
"What umm… what exactly are you wearing Cal?" Addie asked as she tried her hardest to refrain from laughing the second her best friend had walked through the door.
"Apparently Miss Remembers-Everything over here remembers a stupid promise I made her on Sofia's first Christmas about wearing tacky festive boxing day pj's for breakfast every year when we are old and grey… aren't they lovely" Callie glared at Addie and challenged her to laugh.
"Oh fuck it, I don't even care what you do in revenge! This shit is gold!" Addie laughed as she grabbed her phone from the counter and began snapping pictures of a very grumpy Callie, guffawing when Arizona beamed behind the brunette and snuggled into her posingly.
"I swear to god Addison Forbes Montgomery if you don't put that cell phone down right this second you will be answering calls from within your colon for the next month…. Capeesh!" Callie snarled.
"Someone's grumpy this morning" Yang smirked as she took a photo after turning her phone volume up and turning the flash on, knowing the sound effects and lighting would annoy Callie more than the actual photo.
"Right, if anyone that isn't my wife or daughter takes another photo of me in this outfit, I will personally choose twenty five bones in their body to break, how's that for festive for you honey" Callie glared at the giggling blonde over her shoulder.
"Umm… Cal… where's this wife so I can give her my phone to take some more photos?" Addison smirked as she saw the realization dawn on Callie's face before she threw a death glare at the redhead for pointing it out to everybody else before the glanced nervously at Arizona who shook her head in amusement before pecking her cheek sweetly and moving off to grab them both a coffee.
"I swear… one day I am going to get you back for this… but not today, because that's too soon and I want you to feel the fear of knowing what's coming but not knowing when or how to stop it from happening, you better apologize to Jo now and start working out how you're going to get back in her good books" Callie whispered before winking at Jo to show she had nothing to worry about and moving off to spoon her girl as she made them both coffee.
"She wouldn't" Addison whispered to Jo worriedly in reassurance but it came out sounding more like a mixture of a question and a plead.
"I think you poked the wrong bear Ad's, you better make it up to her" Jo shrugged as she tried to keep the smirk off her face.
"Nah, she wouldn't!" Addison scoffed as she eyed the latina worriedly who glanced over her shoulder and grinned before whispering something into Arizona's ear who laughed and told her that she was evil. "she wouldn't out us before we are ready... right?" Addison asked worriedly.
"I don't know Ad's, you're her best friend… but you were pretty mean to her just now. she's just trying to be a good girlfriend and keep Arizona happy by doing something she is clearly embarrassed about… and instead of being supportive you teased and mocked her and made her even more embarrassed" Jo frowned at Addie and pinched her own leg to make sure her face didn't slip into a smile as the redhead studied her curiously.
"God your right I'm a terrible person, I should have been more supportive, damn it!" Addie whined as she dropped her head into her hands.
"Your looking worried there Forbes" Callie mocked as she watched the exchange and Addie's reaction.
"I'll be back soon" Addie whisper yelled, pecking Jo on the lips and dashing away without even realizing what she had just done and left to brunette to deal with.
"I umm..." Jo gulped as she glanced at Meredith, Alex and Yang who were watching her with a smirk. "You all know anyway don't you?" Jo's shoulders slumped at the realization when three faces nodded and grinned.
"You two weren't exactly quiet last night when you were getting your freak on, especially as we were all deadly silent and TRYING to eavesdrop on what was going on between those two idiots when they were opening Sof's present… didn't you wonder why none of the 'adults' could look either of you in the eye all night" Yang scoffed.
"Oh God… this is mortifying!" Jo whined and looked at Arizona pleadingly.
"What do you want me to do" Arizona laughed softly. "You're the one that couldn't keep your hands to yourself and just wait until Christmas was over to jump her bones" she winked teasingly.
"Oh god, you all heard… how much?!" Jo whined as she glanced back to the three faces watching her full of amusement.
"About half an hour before we realized you two weren't going to actually stop anytime soon so Mer put some music on to cover the noises and voices before poor Barbara had a heart attack" Alex offered.
"Noises AND voices… I'm impressed Wilson!" Callie smiled as she sat down next to her best friends…. Girl, or girlfriend, or lover or whatever the hell they were, and wrapped a supportive arm around her shoulder comfortingly.
"I don't think I have ever been so embarrassed" Jo groaned pathetically causing the rest of the group to giggle.
"If it helps… I got caught sneaking out of my girlfriends bedroom window by my daughter, my entire family, and all of the people I consider family despite us not sharing genetics… at six in the morning with my fat ass hanging out of the window and then if that doesn't get any more embarrassing… mine and my girlfriends sexual conquests were exposed to my extremely Catholic mother, who is only just started to accept me despite everything… only to find out that my daughter went snooping through my room and found things no parent wants their kid to see… surely its not more embarrassing than that?" Callie grinned as Jo giggled. "It will be fine, just don't stress. It is what it is and Ad's grew up in one of the snootiest school's in America, trust me when I say that private school girls are bitches"
"Aren't you a private school girl?" Mer pointed out with a teasing smile.
"Yes but she was the adorable dork in the back of the class sucking her hair and asking for extra credit on top of her extra credit" Arizona pointed out and grinned when her girlfriend glared at her.
"Do you literally remember every single thing I say or do you have a diary hidden somewhere to write it all down in?" Callie scoffed.
"Honey, I remember everything you say to me, everything… like how you went solo to your prom because you didn't want to wait for a boy to ask you out…. Yeah, your lesbianity should not have been that big a surprise by the way… and turned up only for every girls, and some guys, dates to be hitting on you the entire night because you looked hot… oh and you really looked hot, I've seen the photos, Aria sent me some on facebook the other night and they are already saved" Arizona grinned with a flirty wink.
"Number one… Aria is a bitch and she is so dead, number two… I love you for remembering all of these things, it's very cute" Callie gushed as she leaned over and pecked Arizona's waiting lips with a smile.
"God… am I just going to see you two sucking face all day every day now?" Sofia grinned as she walked into the kitchen only to burst into laughter when she saw her mom wearing the Christmas pajamas her mama had bought for her. "Damn it mom!" Sofia pouted as she moved to grab her purse from the sideboard and removed a fifty dollar note before handing it to her mama.
"Why thank you darling daughter, perhaps in future you shouldn't doubt my abilities to make your mom do whatever I want her to" Arizona beamed before noticing Callie's pointed glare and raised eyebrow. "Oh and while we are on the subject… you may want to start knocking before you walk in… we have a lot of furniture to christen, you really don't want to see that" Arizona winked at Callie who flushed slightly.
"Oh god… I'm never coming round here ever again!" Sofia pouted as she dropped into a seat at the table and stole her mama's coffee much to Arizona's amusement.
"Oh well, we wont need to be careful then" Callie teased.
"Too early for hearing this" Sofia sang to cover her mom's teasing.
"Careful what you wish for kiddo" Mer grinned at the exchange between the three, poor Jo sitting in the middle glancing at her watch every few minutes and wondering what was taking Addie so long. She really hoped the redhead wouldn't be upset or angry that apparently everyone knew what was going on between them, and what had happened last night, even though it just happened and took both women by surprise.
"Hey, sorry Callie I went in your room, this one was whimpering at the door and I think she peed on your carpet" Stacy grimaced as she handed Clo to Arizona who was holding her hands out expectantly for her little fur baby.
"Clo did you wee wee on mommy's carpet. Good girl, thank you for not doing it on any of mine" Arizona cooed to the puppy.
"For that you can go and clean the wee wee's up and make sure she didn't leave any gifts either" Callie glared at her girlfriend who thought for a second about arguing before relenting with a sigh and handing the tiny border collie to Callie and grabbing some chemicals and cloths from under the sink. "Good girl Arizona" Callie called in a sweet voice that she would only ever use towards a puppy. Arizona spun around and stared at her, squinting her eyes before marching away with determination.
"I'm going to go help mama, can you please take her outside for a few minutes to do her business" Callie ordered to her daughter, handing off the puppy and dashing after her girlfriend.
"Dude, your mom is so whipped" Alex scoffed after watching the scene.
"I know… who would have thought anyone could whip Callie Torres" Sofia scoffed.
"Alex, be a doll and get me more coffee" Meredith smiled sweetly at Alex who got up without question, grabbed Mer's cup and made to top it up before hearing giggling from everyone at the table.
"Mer… what did you just do?" Alex glared at his girlfriend who shrugged and threw him a flirty smile.
"Torres isn't the only one whipped" Yang heckled, dodging the tea towel that Karev threw at her with vigor.
-oOo-
"I didn't upset you with my teasing did I?" Callie asked cautiously as she entered her bedroom to find Arizona on her hands and knees, scrubbing at a damp spot.
"What, of course not… I was just playing with you" Arizona grinned as she leaned in and kissed plump red lips sweetly. "Don't worry so much about things Calliope"
"How can I not?" Callie scoffed.
"Tell me what's bothering you" Arizona offered knowingly as she tossed the rag she was using to clean the pee stain to the floor and dashed into the bathroom to wash her hands before pulling Callie onto the bed and into her arms.
"How do you know somethings bothering me?" Callie mused as she felt Arizona's lips press against her temple and her fingers begin to massage her scalp on the opposite side and stroke through the long silky strands of hair in a way that she knew always calmed both brunettes in her life.
"I know everything about you Calliope. I know when your sad you clench your beautiful jaw so the world cant see you hurting and you put your hands in your pockets so no-one can see your fingers fidgeting. I know when your nervous you do your pee pee dance, but what no-one else realizes is that you gnaw on the corner of your bottom lip and then later you will complain that you have an ulcer there and then most times pout because you have ran out of ulcer ointment. That you wont look anyone in the eye unless they force you too because when you get nervous you also get really self conscious and forget how stunningly beautiful you are inside and out. And I know that when your angry you have three stages. The first is that your pouty and grumpy and act like a spoiled toddler throwing a tantrum and its written all over the way you stomp your feet and cross your arms over your chest and pout"
"Hey I do not!" Callie whined.
"You so do, its adorable! The second stage of the Torres Temper is when shes mad and is justified to be mad and she's all kinds of hot because you do this thing where you hold your head up high and walk around all indignant because your right, and you know your right… and you want everyone else to know your right… especially the idiot who said you were wrong… and then we have the third stage of the Torres Temper… the one I'm pretty sure I have gotten to know really really intimately… when your really mad at something else but cant do anything about it or don't have the energy to or the ability to control it, so you direct that anger onto something or someone else and your like a dog with a bone that just doesn't give it up" Arizona laughed as Callie pinched her stomach playfully.
"Hey that's not fair!" Callie whined. "Quit psycho-analysing me Arizona!"
"So now we have established that you cant hide anything from me… care to share?" Arizona snuggled into her girlfriend once again and waited her out silenty.
"I just get scared sometimes when I say something that I may have accidentally upset you or indirectly offended you… and then I get scared that a tiny argument about something silly will spiral and before we know it we will be on the phone yelling at each other like we have for every other argument in the last decade" Callie sighed dejectedly.
"Calliope look at me" Arizona whispered and smiled sweetly when Callie instantly complied and she could see the uncertainty and doubt filling chocolate eyes. "We are going to argue. We are both going to say things that upset the other or offend the other and we are both going to do things that upset and offend the other. Regardless of what we may say now, there will be times when we lose our shit with each other and find ourselves in an on-call room screaming at each other like we hate each other… but even then, even in the middle of the worst arguments we could have… I'm not running away again. Things will calm down, we will both cool down, and we will move on… it will be ok baby"
"You really think so?" Callie asked in a voice full of vulnerability.
"I know so. You know how I know? Because even though it feels kinda like you never left at all… you did. And I spent seventeen very long years not having you in my life every single day and the feeling of walking into work and not seeing you there, and not seeing your name written on the surgical board, and not having your beautiful smiling face pop through the door when I paged for ortho… its devastatingly horrible Cal, I hated every single moment of it from day one and that will never leave me, so when you piss me off I will hold on to the memories of how that felt and use it to find strength to forgive you for anything. And coming home every night and not having you near by, it kinda sucked. No dance parties, no chicken picatta, no fajita's, no angry spanish rants, no infectious laughter… honstly Calliope, without making myself sound like a loser, my world is a really crap place without you. So no baby, I wont be letting any silly arguments or misunderstandings come between us, because I have loved and lost you, and had to spend many, many years without you because of arguments… I wont let it happen again, I love you and I don't plan on going anywhere without you. We just need to work on trusting that, and trusting each other again… we will get there, but until then please try and believe that I'm not going anywhere"
"You know it's you that Sof gets the sentimental wordsmith skills from right?" Callie scoffed.
"Shut up. She gets her sense of humor and her awesomeness from me, and the brains… she got the good looks from you" Arizona teased and shrieked when Callie pounced on her and began tickling her.
-oOo-
"Ok, I'm here best friend, look! I am wearing the WORST Christmas pajamas I could find in the state of Washington this morning and I'm wearing them because I love you and I support you and because I'm really sorry that this morning I didn't show that. Please forgive me Cal" Addison rambled as she marched into the room in a bright red onesie covered in a tinsel pattern with flashing LED's wrapped around the tinsel.
"I don't know Addie… they don't seem like the worst pajama's I've ever seen" Arizona scoffed when Addison glared at her before lifting her arm up and searching in the ribbed hem of the sleeve until she found what she was looking for, pressed it and 'jingle bells' began to play in a very tinny sounding way making everyone around the table burst into laughter.
"I love you Addie" Callie beamed as she hugged her best friend.
"Forgive me?" Addie asked sadly.
"There is nothing to forgive for, I was just yanking your chain…. But seriously, where the hell did you find this thing, its hideous!" Callie scoffed.
"Wait, you were joking… but Jo said..." Addie glanced at Jo who was smiling at her sheepishly. "You two tag teamed me! God I went out and bought this stupid thing just so you would forgive me… and don't think for a second that I cant see you Christina Elizabeth Yang, taking photos of me!" Addie glared at the Korean who shrugged and snapped another pointedly.
"Wait, we need a photo of this!" Sofia giggled.
"Not happening!" Addie denied point blank as she glared at the younger latina.
"But I want a photo of it to put in the book with all our other memories, come on Aunt Addie… when are you EVER going to be wearing a sparkling, singing Christmas onesie ever again?" Sofia pouted and batted her eyelashes smirking when she saw the resolve in her aunts eyes.
"Fine… but so you know I knew you would do that so you have to get in the photo with us" Addie smirked.
"Done" Sofia handed her phone to Stacy to take the photo and jumped between the two women.
"What are you doing Sofia… you don't have your Christmas jammies on!" Addie grinned as she moved to the hall and returned with a bag and threw it at Sofia with a smirk. "Come on Sof, if you want to be in the picture you need your tacky jammies" Addie laughed as Sofia peeked into the bag with horror.
"No… no way!" Sofia grimaced.
"Jammies on Sof!" Addie laughed as Callie and Arizona peeked in the bag and burst into laughter.
"I hate you all! You all suck" Sofia claimed stomping out of the room.
"You wanted family memories babe" Addie called behind her, winking at Jo when she caught her attention. "I don't know what the rest of you are laughing at… you all have Christmas jammies in the hall, its the new Grey-Sloan Christmas tradition. Boxing day party in our Christmas jammies!" Addie scoffed as she moved into the hall and grabbed several dozen bags all labelled and handed them out.
"Hey I should warn you about something" Callie pulled Addie to sit down once everyone had dispersed to get changed. "When you left earlier, you kind of kissed Jo in front of pretty much everyone" Callie watched as Addie's face paled as she thought back and remembered doing it in the rush to leave and fix upsetting her friend.
"Shit!" Addie gasped.
"Yeah… so then Alex and Yang were teasing her a little bit about it and it turns out last night when you two… you know… everyone heard" Callie offered a yikes face to Arizona as Addie began to hyperventilate. "Breath Montgomery, its all fine, nobody cares they are just happy for you"
"I don't care about those idiots… how did Jo react, was she ok? I should go find her!" Addie motioned to get up but Callie pulled her back down.
"Addie she's fine! she's worried about how you will feel. But you need to calm down and pull yourself together because if you go find her looking like that, she will go running" Callie scoffed as Addie glared at her pointedly. "Seriously, I love you but go in the bathroom and sort your face out, you look like I just told you that your pregnant" Callie guffawed as Addie slapped her across the head before moving to get changed.
"Hey where's Ad's?" Jo asked nervously when she entered the room to find the two love birds whispering and giggling about who knows what whilst they played with Clo on the floor.
"She's right here… so I hear I missed some drama" Addie asked as she reentered the room, glanced at her friends and realized they had already gone back into their little world of being sickeningly cute.
"Yeah… apparently everyone knows and has since last night" Jo grimaced.
"Are you ok?" Addie asked softly as she took Jo's hand and led her to a love seat that was backing onto the glass alfresco door.
"Well I know we haven't really even discussed telling anyone yet but… it's done now, it's not like we can change the fact that everyone heard us" Jo paled again.
"Hey, if anyone says anything to you, just let me know and I will unleash my wrath on them. Its no-one's business but ours ok, and every else can butt out" Addison whispered as she tangled her fingers in Jo's and smiled as the younger woman glanced at her in relief that she wasn't freaking out.
"You look really cute in your pajamas" Addie whispered as she leaned in and kissed Jo's lips sweetly, both women grinning into the act.
"You look incredibly hot in yours… I really think you could wear a bin bag and still look hot" Jo sighed dreamily.
"How about we test that theory one day and see if your right" Addie winked playfully.
"What are you two whispering about" Callie teased as she, Arizona and Clo joined them and awaited the rest of their group to return. They knew it wouldn't be long by the laughter that was coming from the many different locations around the two houses and gardens as the smaller groups showed off their new threads to each other.
"Meh, mind your business!" Addie offered as she leaned forward and ruffled Callie's hair playfully.
"Addison Forbes Montgomery, is there a specific reason you didn't buy me pj's but instead bought me a slutty elf costume!?" Aria shrieked as she bounded into the room in a pair of short elf like pj's much to the amusement of the four women.
"Hey, if the elf costume fits Aria" Addison laughed as she fist bumped Callie who was crying at the sight of her sister.
"You suck… but thank you for picking me something hot!" Aria winked teasingly. "Wait till Papi see's it… he's going to love you!" Aria grinned as she turned around to show the other just how short the shorts were.
"It's a good job you haven't let yourself go yet diarhea" Addison laughed at the glare Callie's little sister threw her. "Hey I'm her best friend, it is my role in life to pick on and annoy my best friends annoying little sister"
"Ho ho ho" Carlos called as he entered the room in a santa onesie, complete with a shaped hood and a detachable beard.
"Oh my god!" Aria and Callie shrieked together before bursting into laughter at the sight of their father.
"Doesnt he look handsome, I wouldnt mind him sneaking down my chimney!" Lucia cooed as she pecked her husband on the cheek who was blushing at his wifes compliment. Lucia had on a similar onesie but her's was Mrs. Clause, complete with an apron that read 'want to taste my christmas cookies?'
Callie glared at Addison who erupted into laughter at her best friends face. "mom you should lose the apron… no one needs to know about your christmas cookies!" Callie blushed.
"Or about you wanting Papi anywhere near your chimney!" Aria grimaced causing the smaller group to laugh.
"I love you Montgomery, your incredible" Yang announced entering the room looking like one of santa's elves, followed by Meredith in a matching set, followed by Karev who was wearing Merediths robe and blushing.
"Lose the robe Karev, let us see" Addison smirked.
"Your a bitch and I hate you" Karev whisper yelled so to not be offensive infront of Callie's parents who were watching him in amusement.
"Come on Alex, drop the robe, everyone has seen it anyway apparantly!" Mer scoffed at her boyfriend.
"Drop it Alex… come on!" Yang begged and clapped her hands as Alex rolled his eyes, rolled his shoulders and removed his robe to show off his Santa style mankini.
"Oh god! Where the hell did you find that?" Callie guffawed as Alex blushed.
"A girl can never reveal her secrets Callie!" Addison grinned, winking at Jo to show she had embarrassed him deliberatly for several snarky comments he had made to her last night which at the time didnt make much sense, but knowing what she knew now… well, lets just say any regret she had about embarrassing him was gone.
"Maybe you and Alex should swap dear" Lucia winked at Alex causing him to blush even deeper as everyone in the group guffawed but Callie and Aria who looked horrified.
"YUCK!" Mami whats gotten into you!" Callie screeched in mortification.
"Wouldnt you like to know" Arizona giggled, shrieking when Aria punched her in the arm. "Callie your brat of a sister just hit me!"
"Your lucky she did it first, it would have hurt a lot more if I had done it!" Callie glared at her girlfriend.
"SCUT! scut for a whole month Addison Montgomery!" Bailey snarled as she entered the room in a grinch onesie and everyone erupted into more laughter. "The next person who laughs will find themselves on scut with her" Bailey warned as everyone silenced, apart from Carlos.
"What I dont even work there, I cant be put on scut!" Carlos smirked and offered Bailey an appologetic smile.
"With all due respect sir, if I tell you your doing scut, I dont care who you are, your doing scut" Bailey warned and Carlos erupted into laughter.
"Miranda I dont suppose your looking for a job, I could do with you to kick my employees into shape!" Carlos winked at her playfully.
"Dont poke the bear daddy… wait! Dont poke the grinch daddy!" Callie laughed as Bailey rounded on her. "Oh do it, a month of scut was worth it" Callie teased.
"Wait… why is everyone else dressed up as something and I just get red and white stripes?" Jackson pouted as he and a christmas angel, also known as April, entered.
"Oh your dressed up Avery, your a candy cane… with those eyes and that smile, everyone wants a lick" Addie announced much to everyones amusement. Jackson blushed at the comment before he laid eyes on Karev, looked him up and down and shook his head in embarrassment for the guy. "I take it back, I'll stick with the candy cane dude!"
"Merry Christmas" Barbara grinned as she entered from the other house wearing a Mrs Clause onesie matching Lucia's only her apron read 'who's ready for some stuffing'.
"Oh god Addie, what's wrong with you" Arizona laughed as her mother winked cheekily at her.
"What do you think bug, do I scrub up well?" Daniel asked as he entered in a evergreen fitted suit made of cotton, on it was a pattern of baubles and string lights which wrapped around the entire suit.
"Oh god Dad, you look amazing" Arizona laughed at the pride in her normally straight laced and stoic fathers face.
As more and more people arrived, the laughter got louder and louder until finally Sofia and Stacy arrived, the last of the group in matching reindeer onesies.
"Oh god you look so cute, remember she had a matching costume her first chrismas Calliope" Arizona gushed.
"Awesome… I get cute and a costume I wore when I was one, thanks Aunty Addie" Sofia rolled her eyes before scanning the room and everyone elses pj's before spotting Alex and erupting into laughter, as tears fell from her eyes she clutched at her stomach. "Ok I take it back, all is forgiven because that is hilarious. Looking good Uncle Alex!" Sofia guffawed and erupted even louder at the giggle when Stacy spotted him too.
"Ok everyone is back, lets get this group photo taken and then the games will begin" Addie clapped her hands taking charge as she grabbed Callie's camera and set it up for the timer. "Oh wait… wheres Clo?" Addie asked, stealing the puppy and disappearing into the hall before returning with the puppy in the most adorable 'ugly christmas' dog onesie and handing her to Sofia with a wink. Everyone gushed over the puppy who yawned tiredly and promtly fell asleep after the excitement of being squeezed into the costume. Addie clicked the button and jumped into the picture, deliberatly cuddling into Jo as everyone smiled and awaited the flash.
After several more group shots, and several obligatory 'funny faces' shots, the groups separated into smaller groups as everyone took selfies on their phones with various people and Barbara stole the camera from Addie and proceeded to take smaller group shots.
"First game, cards against humanity" Yang smirked as Arizona, Callie and Aria grimaced at the thought of enduring the game with their parents.