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 : all mistakes are mine, sorry.
Callie's POV
I slept like a baby. Slowly waking up from a deep and peaceful slumber, there is Arizona's soft body pressing firmly to my front. I have a smile on my face before opening my eyes - waking up with the love of your life in your arms would do that to you. My hands caress her stomach tenderly, pulling her deeper into the warm cocoon that we have created. A short moment later, I feel the goddess in my arms stirring awake.
"You slept okay?" I rub my cheek against her neck, she groans with a deep and raspy voice has me weak on my knees.
"More than okay. My body is a bit sore though." She says and I can hear the smile in her voice. "Not that I'm really complaining. It's the good kind of sore that I wouldn't mind to wake up to every morning."
"You want me to give you a massage?" I kiss across her shoulders, and one of my hands slides down, kneading her tense thigh muscle making her moans.
"God, I hate to say no..." Her hand finds the way to my hair, pulling my face forward so she could kiss me on the lips. "It's almost 10."
"Yeah?" I glace at the alarm clock on the nightstand, indeed we have slept in. "I wonder why your mom hasn't come to wake us up yet."
"She and dad have something to do this morning. Those two were all secretive, didn't even told me what it is." Arizona rolls over in my arms, snuggling up against me as I lie down on my back, keeping an arm around her shoulders.
We really should get up, but it's just too comfortable in our bubble.
"We should go take a shower." I suggest, but making not attempt to move.
"Oh, we should. You smell like sex." She nuzzles my neck, peppering my skin with little kisses.
"Don't start something we can't finish..." I sigh while her lips kissing down to my chest.
"You're right..." Her nibbles are everywhere. I hold my breath with anticipation when her lips getting close to my rock hard nipple... but then they are gone. Arizona gets up from the bed, bringing both arms over her head stretching out her tired body, knowing very well that my eyes are drinking in her naked glory. She throws me a smirk over her shoulder seeing that I'm gaping at her. She says as she walking toward the bathroom. "After taking my parents to the airport, I'm gonna take you out on a real date. And afterward, you can give me the massage that you promised me."
Two can play this game, Robbins.
"Sounds good, but I have the dinner thing with Blake..." I throw the blanket away about to follow her. Like I expected, she halts to a stop swirling around, staring at me. I feign innocent, sitting up on the edge of the bed looking back at her. "What?"
"You're still going out with Blake?" She takes a deep breath to calm her shaky voice.
"Yeah, it's a work dinner." I shrug my shoulders nonchalantly, trying hard to hide my smirk. She was acting all strange last night when I told her that Penny Blake asked me out, I should have known that was a sign of her jealousy. "And when I ask you last night, you didn't seem to mind. You were all yeah, diner with Blake."
"I didn't know that I was allowed to mind." Arizona takes a few tentative steps toward me. "I didn't know that you love me. And then you told me that you love me..."
Not telling each other our true feelings had us wasted the precious times that we can be lovers. I'm glad that she has learnt the lesson, not going to make the same mistake again.
I extend a hand, pulling her to straddle my laps. She hooks her arms around my neck as she sits down with a pout.
"I do love you." I hold her with my hands around the small of her back, giving her my brightest smile that melts her pout away.
"Good." She nods her head. There is a big grin of triumph on her face. "You're not going out with that woman who has a crush on you."
"I'm not?" I tilt my head to the side, looking all clueless blinking up at her. I know that I should be offended of Arizona telling me who I couldn't see, somehow knowing that she's jealous, like irrationally, obviously jealous, showing me that she cares... It feels nice.
"I don't share, Calliope Torres." She holds my face in her hands, keeping her gaze on mine making sure that I've heard every word that she's saying. "You don't want to mess with me."
"Bossy..." I chuckle before giving her a quick peck on her lips playfully. When our eyes meet again, I wink at her. "In case you haven't noticed, I didn't have the time to text Blake about meeting her at dinner."
She stares at me with her mouth agape.
"I love you so much that I couldn't bring myself to go out with anyone else." I lean forward to kiss her softly, she responds in kind and her hands start to creep down my front until they are resting on my breasts.
After a little action on the bed, and a long, satisfying shower, Arizona and I walk downstairs hand in hand to find that we're indeed alone in the house. While I fix us some coffee, Arizona goes to check and finds that the luggage of her parents is still in their room, so we snuggle up on the couch watching TV waiting for the Robbins to return.
Innocent touches and stolen kisses every now and then slowly heats up to Arizona sitting across my laps to a full-blown make out session. I just can't get enough of her, and it seems that she's sharing the same passion. We don't even realize her parents have returned until sound of closing front door and a chatter coming down the hallway.
I push Arizona off of my laps instantly making her giggle uncontrollably. I cast her a glare while fixing my mess up hair, hoping to look decent in front of her parents. But I don't think it's gonna help. Just take a look of Arizona redden nose and bruised lips, it doesn't take a genius to know what we were doing a minute ago. The knowing smile on Barbara's face while she entering the living room telling me that I was right.
"Where's dad?" Arizona asks, seeing the colonel isn't coming with his wife.
"He needs to use the bathroom." Barbara waves her hand toward the hall, and passes me a box of goody by her other hand. "I bought you girls some pastries."
"Yeah, donuts." My girlfriend exclaims delightfully as I open the box. She jumps up thanking her mother for her favorite treat with a kiss on the cheek, and then picks up the most colorful sprinkles donut from the box after flopping back down next to me.
"You're such a child." I chuckle at Arizona's antic, and she gives me a wry face with her head tilting to the side while taking a big bit of the sugary pastry.
I wipe the white chocolate off of her lips with my thumb as we smile to each other, haven't really paid attention to the amused smile on the mother's face until she speaks up.
"Honey, you might want to do something to hide the..." Barbara waves her fingers around her own neck looking at her daughter. My eyes glance down at Arizona's neck and I can feel the blood draining from my face.
The little kiss bites that I have left on Arizona's chest from last night started to form to a darker shade of purple red and it makes a contrast with her pale skin. I was careful to keep it under her collarbone but she's wearing a loose collar top right now, as she moves around and tilts her head, the neckline sliding down a lot. The most angry one next to her birth mark in the middle of her chest is still hidden under the shirt, but the lighter ones around it are showing for her mother to see.
Arizona follows my gaze looking down... She gasps, and the flush is in her face.
"I... I bumped into a... a..." The poor girl adjusts the neckline of her shirt, struggling to find an excuse to explain the bruises on her body. And her dear old mother's helping her out, sort of.
"You bumped into Callie's mouth?" Barbara grins broadly at her own daughter's embarrassment. And her smile spreads even wider seeing that I'm fidgeting on my seat. "It's okay, I am not a prude. My daughter's a grown woman and I know that she has sex with her girlfriend. Not that I like to see the hickeys on her neck or hear it though."
"You heard..." Arizona draws in a sharp breath, staring at her mother. I don't even dare to look across the coffee table.
"I heard some sounds, but I fell back to sleep right away, don't worry." Barbara says easily, but from the corner of my eye, I could see that Arizona's face has turned to bright red. I'm pretty sure mine too.
"Oh god..." Arizona buries her face in both hands, calling out the big guy for a whole other reason than last night.
"Hey, like I said, I am not a prude. I know how it's like when people are in love." Barbara's on a roll, oblivious to the clear display of discomfort from Arizona and me... Or she's just having fun teasing us. "When your father and I were young, we would..."
"Mom! Can we talk about something else, please?" Arizona groans between her fingers cutting her mother off, but Barbara doesn't seem like finish yet.
"I'm just saying, it's healthy to-"
"I'll go get you some coffee, Barbara." I jump up from the couch rushing toward the kitchen before she gives me any response. I had this kind of awkward sex talk with my mom, and unfortunately with my father too after he found me in the backseat of my high school boyfriend's car, I don't need... I don't want to have it again, with the mother of my girlfriend.
I take my time in the kitchen, giving it time for my blood pressure to return to normal, and hoping that the subject of the conversation has changed. And when I return, I see that Arizona has her jaw on the floor.
"Are we still talking about..." I ask hesitantly as I hand Barbara a cup of coffee and another cup on the coffee table for the colonel. If the answer is yes, I'm prepared to run out of the house.
"They went to see a house this morning." Arizona turns to me with the look of shock still on her face.
"Your father talked to a realtor last week asking about houses in the neighborhood. And the man called him yesterday saying that there's an open house, so we come back to have a look, since we're on this side of the coast anyway." Barbara says casually between sipping her coffee.
"You want to buy a house in here? You and dad want to move to Seattle?" Arizona asks in amazement. And as soon as she sees the colonel appears, she asks the question again. "You want to move to Seattle, dad?"
"We're thinking about it." The man kisses Arizona and me on the cheek before sitting down next to his wife.
"We haven't talked about it. Is it why you two come to visit?" Arizona keeps asking, looking like she's still a little bit confused about all this.
"No, but I see how happy your mother is in these three weeks around you." The colonel turns to Barbara with a soft smile on his face. "She misses you. And I think it'd be nice for us to live closer to our child."
"But... you two like Boston, you've made a home in there." Arizona looks between her parents. The twinkles in her eyes telling me that she's thrilled with this idea, but there's still an uncertainty lingering on her face.
"Home is where family is, Arizona." The colonel gives his daughter a reassuring smile. "Don't forget, we moved to Boston in the first place because you went to Med school in Johns Hopkins and had your residency in there. Yes, we like Boston and we have made a few friends, but we can always make a home in else where. We've done that our whole lives."
That's right. Arizona has told me that they used to move from city to city due to the colonel's job. They never really have a place that could be called their home town.
"That would be wonderful, us being in the same place again." There's a grin spreading across my girl's face and she's practically bouncing on the couch. I share her joy with a big smile. "So, you're gonna buy the house that you've seen this morning? Where is it?"
"Sadly, no." The parents exchange a look. Apparently they have already talked about it. "That house looks good from the outside, but it's a fixer-upper. I don't think it worth the trouble."
"Oh..." The smile on Arizona's face drops instantly.
"As much as I want it to happen, I don't expect to find the right house in the first try. We'd look again next time when we visit." The colonel picks up the cup of coffee for a sip, feigning indifference, but I can hear the disappointment in his voice, and on Barbara's face.
"It'd take years..." My girlfriend has a pout on her face like a child who was promised a trip to Disneyland but then was told that it was not gonna happen right away. "You know what, dad? You don't really need to buy a house. You and mom can come live with me."
"No Arizona, we don't want to be intruded. You need your space." The colonel shakes his head with a frown, disagreeing with this idea.
"There is plenty of space in here. We had no problem in these three weeks, right?" Arizona waves her hands around the living room before turning to her mother. "Mom, you like living with me, don't you?"
"Honey, you don't want to live with your parents." Barbara smiles sweetly, reaching her hand across the coffee table to adjust the neckline of her daughter's top subtly. Arizona blushes slightly but that doesn't stop her from trying to convince her parents.
"Or at least you can live here until you find a house in the neighborhood? Calliope has an apartment, I can stay in her place if we need space."
I take Arizona's hand in mine. We haven't really talked about it, but yeah, I wouldn't mind.
"We don't want to chase you away from your house, Arizona." Once again, the father shakes his head. "And we have a house full of stuff. It's not practical to move everything to here, and then do it again once we brought our house. As much as we want to come here living in the same city with you, we shouldn't make a decision hastily."
The colonel is right, and his daugher is not able to argue with that.
"How about..." After a pregnant silence, I open my mouth the first time since the Robbins family started this conversation. It's not my business but I hate to see the disappointment on Arizona's face. "How about we do the house hunting for you? Derek Shepherd, our colleague knows some guys. We can ask them to find us some choices first."
"Yeah, we can go take some photos, checking them out for you." My girlfriend's eyes light up to my idea. "So we can keep this moving and don't have to wait until the next time you visit."
"It would be great. But are you sure you have time for that?" The colonel asks before looking at his wife, who has her eyes lighted up just like their daughters'. "I know how busy you two are."
"I'm not too busy for my parents, dad. And the sooner we find the house that you and mom would like, the sooner you two are here." Arizona chimes in immediately. And she clasps her hands with mine, asking me with a smile. "You don't mind go house hunting with me?"
"Why would I mind spending time with you?" I smile back to her, answering her question with a question. And I look back at the old couple sitting across of us, they're all wearing a big smile on their faces.
"We still have some times before going to the airport, how about we drive around in the neighborhood before going for lunch? You can tell us what kind of house that you're looking for?" Arizona makes a suggestion, and her parents agree wholeheartedly. "Come on, I go help you pack the luggage."
I couldn't hold back my chuckle while my child like girlfriend almost skips out of the room going upstairs with her parents.
As I'm waiting for the Robbins to finish their packing, I clean up the coffee table and bring the cups to the kitchen. Standing by the sink rinsing them, I feel the hands of my girlfriend clasp loosely around my waist from behind.
"They're all done?" I ask her quietly.
"Almost. My mom brought back too many stuff from San Diego. I have to give her an extra bag." Arizona rests her chin on my shoulder. We're in the same position, in the same place as last night, the only difference is that the uncertainty has been replaced by the clear affection. My best friend, my girlfriend, the love of my life has her hands slipped under my shirt, caressing my stomach gently. "And she took that photo in my room."
"She does?" I heave a deep breath when Arizona nuzzles against my neck. I snigger to myself, wondering how we are going to keep our hands to ourselves while we're at work. It's going to be very hard.
"Yeah. And she told me that you're one of the reasons why she wants to move to Seattle." Soft lips brushes along my neck, and her roaming hands are moving dangerously closer to my breasts. "She really likes you, and she really likes seeing how happy you have made me. She wants to be able to spend more time with us."
I swirl around in her arms, purposely stopping the movement of her hands on me. Not that I don't enjoy it, I just know that we'd get carry away, potential getting another awkward conversation with her mother again.
"I really like her too, and your father." I loop my arms around her neck, giving her my sweetest smile. "And you."
"Nah, you love me." Arizona corrects me with a dimpled smile, and a kiss. She rolls her eyes upward with a grimace after releasing my lips. "Can you imagine if we were still faking our relationship and then my parents moving to here? It'd be way more difficult to break up with you."
"Hey, we just got together, and you're already thinking about breaking up with me?" I pull my head back staring at her with bulging eyes. I know what she means, but I just love teasing her.
"No, I'm just saying if we were..." She stammers out, and then catching the smile in the corner of my mouth. Rolling her eyes again, she cups my face between her hands. "Well, now that I have you, I'd never let you go."
"You better." I press my lips against her, and I can feel her smile in the kiss.
I can't help but grin too as I revel in the feel of her in my arms, cursing myself for not just giving in and letting myself fall completely in love with her two years ago.
Well, we have a life time to make it up, positively.
A/N : There it is, the last chapter - for now, maybe. Sorry that this is not the happy, happy ending that you have expected. I kinda leave it open because there's a chance that I may add a few more chapters later, but first I'm gonna walk away from this story for a while so that I can have a clearer picture of the next plot.
Thank you all once again for liking this story. And I deeply appreciate your support, kindness, patience and understanding.
Last but not least, no matter where they are, Calzona forever.
