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'm glad you guys like my story, the start of everything is always the best, I just hope I could keep up with your standard, after all, this is my first and English is not really my language. I have totally 10 chapters around 30K finished, will put them up gradually. Again, thanks for reading my fic.

Chapter 2

Arizona didn't have to get to the hospital until noon, she was lying in bed and thinking, something Mark had said from last night hit her – everyone needs someone, the right one. Had she met hers yet?

She went through her mental little black book, she loved and was loved before, but was there anyone serious enough to make her think about 'forever'? Blank. Then she thought about Colleen, the woman that she'd been unwittingly sleeping with for over 4 months exclusively, did they have something more than just sex in the on-call room?

Of course they had good time together, the sex was good and Colleen... fairly speaking, she had curve in the right place that may drive the blonde crazy sometime. But was that enough? Something was missing and that just kept Arizona away from getting more seriously with Colleen.

Maybe it was time to put a stop on it.

Then the Latina from last night crossed her mind, the pair of soulful black eyes, the plump lips, the long raven hair, the alluring cleavage… She felt butterflies in her stomach when they locked eyes over the chat, she felt her heart skipped a beat from hearing those carefree laughter…

Not to mention the imposing personality, confidence oozed out in every move she made. Being someone with big authority issue, seeing a woman liked that? A major turn on.

Women used to say the good guys were either taken or gay, do they know the good chicks were mostly straight? Arizona huffed. Even though it wasn't new for Arizona to flip someone, it was going to be a real challenge with someone had certain life experience, a surgeon liked her didn't have that kind of time anymore.

Her phone buzzed before she drowned to the dead-end street, an income message from… Colleen.

Hey when are you getting to the hospital? Wanna meet up in our room?

Stared at the phone for a while, she decided that she had to talk to Colleen about the situation between them, so she replied that she would be there within an hour and yes, let's meet in the on-call room.

Little over an hour later, Arizona found herself panting on the on-call room bed with an equally naked Colleen laid next to her, the brunette was lazily stroking her toned stomach, casually sweeping the base of her breasts. Her mind was still dizzied from the intense quick and dirty orgasm that Colleen just gave her. As soon as she stepped in the on-call room, the door was closed and locked, she was pushed against the door and then lips were attached to hers immediately, a tongue was forced into her mouth… well forced was an understatement, Arizona was willingly sucking that warm muscle while Colleen was kneading her boobs.

After breath returned to even, Arizona was mentally kicking herself. She was planning to have a serious talk with this woman, explained to her that this should be a simple-nothing-attached-sexual-relationship, no pet name no late night sweet dream text should be made, and now it seemed the whole thing was out of their hands, her hands precisely, she was going to end it. How could she say that to a woman who just buried the head between her legs?

"You are quiet."

"Huh?" Arizona's mind returned to the woman in her arm, looked into those lovingly brown eyes.

"You are quiet and thoughtful, like you are trying to solve the world most difficult equation in your head." Colleen giggled and stroked Arizona's brow to try to ease the frown.

Arizona sat up and turned to put on her clothes, "just thinking about a patient, that's all."

"Hey… do you have any plan tonight?" Colleen remained in bed, popped herself up by the elbows, the sheet slipped to her abdomen and left her breasts openly stared at Arizona.

"I… My shift finish at 9, I probably would be tired and…"

Colleen spoke as soon as she heard 'finish at 9', "Tomorrow is my birthday, I'm wondering if you would like to join me to have dinner tonight? My friends said we passed the age of celebrating the b-day so we just had a simple dinner days ago, but still it's a birthday, I want to spend it with… um… um…. maybe we can share a cake after midnight?"

"Oh….." Sigh, only a heartless bitch could deny a birthday girl's wish, no? "That would be ok if you don't mind to wait till that late."

"No problem, it gives me time to go home make myself pretty for you. Do you want to go over my place to pick me up?"

Oh no, no no no, don't want to look like going over to pick up the date. "Maybe we should meet in the neighborhood, so you don't have to wait for me for too long."

"You really are thoughtful." *wink*.

She smiled sheepishly, putting on the lab coat she said "You know the new pub across the street, Horizon? We meet each other there 9-ish?"

"Yes, it's a date." Colleen looked at Arizona beamed with happiness.

"It's a birthday celebration." Arizona faked a smile before opened the door and exited.

To run a pub meant you don't have a regular resting hours like most of the people, while the others enjoying the broad daylight, most of the bartenders were lying in bed catching the missing sleeping hours from the previous night.

Callie was different. She and sleep didn't get alone for years, normal tossed and turned for 2 hours, then if she was lucky, she may got like a 4 hours non-peaceful sleep.

That was why now early in the morning, she was nesting in the couch with a cup of joe in hand, enjoying couple of quiet hours. She slowly went through the event from last night, the first opening night of her new pub.

This was her third pub in a decade, but still it was an exciting moment, having a new pub was like having a new relationship, building a new history. So far, the new page started well. Mark was right, the location was perfect, people seemed nice around here, especially the staffs from the hospital across the street. She just had to remind herself to order more hard stuffs because it seemed exhausted to work in the hospital, they like their liquors strange.

She smiled to herself, at this moment, she believed the decision of moving to here were right, not to mention that she had her big brother Mark nearby again.

Last night after Arizona left, Mark started to fill in the details of his life in Seattle, his fell out with Derek over little Grey, his embarrassing broken penis incident that he didn't plan to tell Callie in the first place, praise to tequila.

She always knew Mark had a big heart but knowing he was in love, she was beyond thrilled to see this guy had grown into a cheesy man like this. Maybe the age difference between the two had something to do with it, to keep up with the young and artless, the old dog had to be cheesy… Callie couldn't help to chuckle.

Beside, Mark talked about his new best friend in Seattle. If said Callie was his baby little sister that he loved and cared, Arizona was the annoying one who could bicker over every little thing with him, that made him wanted to strangle her to death but still couldn't help to love in the same time.

Callie was gratified that the little episode she pulled in the pub didn't scared the blond beauty away, and they got the chance to know each other a little bit. The blue-eyed blonde was funny and cute, and very hot, she found herself had drawn into those sky blue eyes ... And she remembered the last time she saw such a beautiful eyes ...

Pulled herself from the memory lane, she picked up the phone, started to dial to the lawyer in New York, there was some unfinished business in there and she needed the expensive lawyer to settle them asap, especially she had no intention of going back to New York to deal with it herself.

She needed a clean start, but as long as the past was still dragging her leg, she couldn't move on.

"Hello Mr. Meyer, this is Calliope Torres..."

Arizona walked in the pub twenty minutes after 9, she took her time to finish the charts, to talk to the nurses and to change into her street clothes, because she wasn't looking forward to this, not at all.

When she stepped in the pub, the first view she had was that fascinating Latina bartender, who was pouring a glass of beer, head snapped up while she saw Arizona entered the pub, the smile grew in her face slowly. Arizona couldn't help but approached the bar to sit on the stool, to be near to that smile.

"Hi welcomed again, wanna have something to drink?"

"I…." Before Arizona could say anything, a hand slid across her back stopped on her hip. She was surprised by the sudden touch, turned her head slightly to face the handsy person, a peck was landed on her lips in an instant.

"Hey babe, you didn't see me on the table over there?" Colleen gestured a table in the conspicuous position over the seating area, but to be honest, Arizona didn't look for her.

"Sorry, I didn't see you…" A blush came up on Arizona's cheeks, she was uncomfortable with Colleen's pet name calling and touching… in front of the Latina. She glanced to Callie and just in time to catch her smile fell and turned the attention to the next customer on the opposite side of the bar.

"You are forgiven." Colleen placed another light kiss on Arizona's lips. "So, you wanna stay here, or we wanna go to a fancier place for dinner?"

Considering not really in the mood of going on 'a date', and it could be rude for entering a pub without ordering any drink, "It's getting late, maybe stay here would be nice."

"Hey bartender! Come here! We are going to order!" Colleen waved to Callie and Joe, Arizona frowned to the impolite comportment.

"Ya sure, what can I get you?" Joe turned to them with a smile.

"Tomorrow is my birthday," she said to Joe, then gazed to Arizona with a smile "to start our date tonight, how about some champagne?" hand still lingering on the hip.

"I'm not really a champagne drinking person, maybe a glass of white wine?" Arizona was fidgeting, glanced around the place hoping no one heard this conversation, or even no one saw she was in there.

Colleen pursed her lips but didn't object to the choice of drink, and then she pulled Arizona by the hip as to lead her to the table that she was occupied before. Arizona left the stool reluctantly, one last look to Callie, but the busy barkeep's attention was captured by a fair looking guy who was talking to her vigorously, the smile on her face indicated that this must be an interesting story.

Arizona and Colleen sat on the table making small talks, there wasn't much to talk about actually because it turned out they didn't have much in common, being an outdoorsy herself, Arizona couldn't understand why someone would say the best way to spend a rare sunny day in Seattle was to stay in for a movie marathon at home.

Even though Colleen was desperate to share her story, she didn't get much of the response from the other because… to be honest, it took a great story teller to make a boring story sounded interesting, let alone Colleen wasn't one. Hence, there were some moments of awkward silence between them.

From time to time Arizona found herself couldn't help to gaze over the bar, that guy was still there and Callie spent a great deal of time to chat with him between served other customers. She felt the knot in her stomach was getting bigger and bigger every second from sitting on this table in this uncomfortable situation, instead of being a couple meters away from the obviously more enchanting companion. She just wished she could switch place with that chatty guy who made Callie beamed like the sun.

Decided enough was enough, "I am sorry Colleen, it was a long day, two back to back surgeries really ate up my energy." Arizona exaggerated her exhaustion with a yawn. "Maybe I should better go home to get some sleep."

Colleen couldn't hid her disappointment, she was really looking forward to this date, candle light dinner, drinks and dance, a passionate night in her bed… totally different than their usual on-call room hook up.

"OK then, let's go to my place to have some rest." Colleen tried again desperately.

"Oh no that's not necessary, I don't have anything to change in your place anyway, I better go back to mine, that would be easier. Do you need a taxi to go home? Do you want me to call you one?" This was a low blow, but Arizona really didn't want to give Colleen a false hope of having the chance to spend the night together.

Colleen bit her bottom lip slightly, finally nodded that agreed to get a taxi outside to go home alone. They walked out of the pub together, Arizona turned to wave goodbye to Callie.

In the Latina's eyes, she saw Arizona and her date walked into the night together.

Callie shrugged off the image of Arizona left with her date out of the door, after passed a glass of beer to her waitress, she looked around her pub and smiled to herself, another successful night, the place was getting quiet in this hour but it was packed most of the night, the people enjoyed the atmosphere, and the friends of Mark were gathering on a table binged drinking again.

She genuinely liked that gang, each of them had their unique character, annoying in a way but generally speaking, they were fun to hang out with. Last night when it wasn't so busy yet, Mark begged her to give him a chance to bartend for a while, as soon as Mark finished his request, Cristina Yang jumped up and down to beg for the same, so she sat back with the rest of the group, watched Mark put extra cherries in any drinks ordered by women, and tears welled up in her eyes due to the full belly laugh when Cristina poured all kind of strange liquor together and served to a young man who just ordered a beer, had Joe grabbed her arm and nearly flung her over the counter.

Dropped the towel, indicated Joe to take over the bar, she stepped away and headed to her new friends for a break, more accurate statement – she had to flee before that guy, Archer or Alfred, made his move. This guy hovered around there the whole night boasted about his fancy car, private jet ride and flashing that luxurious watch on his wrist, if he knew Callie Torres better, he would know this kind of pretentious attitude was the last she wanted from a guy, she met this kind of people enough in this life time.

Arrived on the table, it was a lady's night, Meredith, Cristina, Lexie and Teddy were sitting there drinking quietly, but it had a sad vibes among them. Even though Cristina had her normal sourpuss expression, it was so easy to sense that she was the reason that the rest were so silent.

Callie leaned toward Teddy and asked "Jeez, who died?"

"My marriage." Cristina answered without missing a beat.

"Cristina…" Meredith landed a hand on her shoulder but didn't know what else to say.

"Well, even in the very beginning when we started dating, I declared that I don't want kids, he knew it. Now he regretted to marry a woman who doesn't want to have his children, claimed that he was unhappy so went out to fuck another woman? I am not gonna stick around to take that assault."

"But you still love him, maybe you two should go to marriage counseling first…" Lexie suggests.

"I don't know." Cristina rubbed her temples "I have things to take care of, I need to find a place to live. Owen and I bought that stupid old fire station because he loves that place, I am not going to stay there."

"Cristina, you can always stay with me." Meredith exclaimed against the idea.

"No, Owen and Derek are friends, I don't want to put him in a difficult position, and when I was there, he had to share your attention with me, it wasn't fair for him. You married to him, not me."

"You are my person, you are my priority, if my husband has a problem with it, so be it. I have to help you to save your stupid marriage."

"I don't need you to save my marriage, I can take care of myself…" Cristina was about to say something she may regret later, Callie interrupted "You can stay with me, I have a 3 bed room apartment."

"Deal!" Cristina didn't even concern when the apartment was, she just want to stay away from her cheating husband.