Disclaimaer: I don't own Grey's Anatomy, I just borrowed the name of the characters for entertaining, no intention to violate any copyrights.
Chapter 17
Ivory fingertip blushed up and down the tanned cheek so lightly, pink lips breathed out against the ear buried in raven hair. "Wakey wakey..."
"Mmm..." Callie let out an unconscious response.
"Wakey wakey..." Arizona tried again, this time she bit down on the earlobe gently.
"Mmmmmm... go away..." The usual badass bartender whined.
"Do you really want me to go away?" Arizona released the earlobe, kissed along the neckline to the pulse point, she loved to feel it throbbed against her lips.
"Mmmmmmmmmmmm..." Despite how much the brunette wanted to stay sleeping, her body pulled her away from the sleeping land by their own occur.
"Come on, we have a busy day ahead of us, time to wake up sleepy head." Mouth still sucking and licking the neck, by the sound of the breathing, she knew her girlfriend had awoken.
"You wore me out, I can't move, leave me alone." Callie blindly picked up the annoying hand that kept poking her face, pulled it to wrap around her own midsection from behind, pulled the blonde closer to herself.
"Don't say it if you don't mean it, do you really want me to leave you alone?" Arizona said in a teasing tone, chuckled when the girl in her arm pouted.
"Can we stay in bed today? We are on holiday, we shouldn't leave the bed." Callie murmured under her breath, it felt so good to have her girlfriend wrapped around her.
"It's sunny out there, I do remember you promised me sunshine and the beach in this vacation." Fingertips tantalized the bellybutton under her touch, they didn't even bother to put on any clothes to sleep in.
"Bikini?" Brown eyes snapped open and turned to look at the woman behind her.
"Bikini." Arizona grinned, "so, are you going to wake up now?"
"I am awake, but I don't want to leave the bed, it's too comfortable." Callie breathed out heavily, "how about you put on the bikini and come back to bed with me?"
"Callie... we have a busy day, you know that. We have to join Addison and her friends for dinner. We won't have a lot of time in the beach if we don't hurry up." Arizona leaned forward to capture the plump lips for a chaste morning kiss. "Good morning gorgeous."
But it wasn't enough for the brunette, she swirled in Arizona's embrace, then pushed her on the back, settled herself on top of the blonde and gave her a much more passionate morning kiss.
"Why do we have to go dinner with her? We already spent a day together, I rather have you naked in our bed instead." Callie said after they broke the kiss, still pouting face hovered above her girlfriend.
"I don't think she has much adult time since adopted Henry, just be a good friend, take her out for a girls night, ok? And I want to see you dance, see how you move these sexy hips." Arizona licked her lips as hands slowly stroking Callie's sides, gasped when the body above her started to thrust against her own body. She hooked her legs around the tanned thighs so their centers could get closer to the other.
"You know very well how these hips move." Plump lips nipped at Arizona's ear as their lower bodies started to move in sync.
"I thought you were worn out?" Arizona giggled.
"Unbelievable, right?" Callie moved her lips to the flesh in the back of Arizona's ear, knew it well that there had a hidden button of the blonde's sexy moan, "you are my drugs, Dr. Robbins."
Arizona groaned, she brought a hand to stroke the long black hair, the other to the tanned lower back to drag the body getting closer to hers.
"So, are we staying here today?" Callie said between sucking the fair neck, "or do you still want to go out? We can stop now."
Arizona moaned out, "Don't you want to see me in a blue bikini? It doesn't have a lot of fabric… oh Callie…" She threw her head to the back when the hungry mouth started to nibble her neck.
"You in a bikini is just the second best outfit I want to see on you," lips went back up to capture her girlfriend's, wasted no time Callie thrust her tongue into the waiting mouth, hand slowly kneading the soft flesh, occasionally blushing the tip with her thumb. Arizona had to break the kiss for air, the Latina turned her attention to the jaw line and continued, "the best outfit is what you are now."
"But I can't go to the beach in the nude…" The blonde bucked her hips upward to try to gain more friction, the leisured pace that Callie set up couldn't satisfy her anymore, she needed more.
"No you can't, so what do you say, we put on some clothes to get out of here now, or…" Callie said as she shifted a leg between Arizona's, brought their drenching centers together. In an instant, cream leg held up to wrap around her lover's waist to gain more support to grind against the downward thrusts.
"The beach can wait." Blue eyes rolled to the back of her head when Callie pinched her sensitive nipple, she started to believe this goddess above her already knew all the weakness on her body.
"Are you sure? I don't want you to resent me when you returned home without a tanned body." Looked down at her panting girlfriend, moans continuously came out from the pink lips, Callie knew she was having as much pleasure as herself, but she just couldn't help to tease the blonde.
"Oh god… Callie… just shut up and kiss me!" Arizona screamed and grabbed the back of Callie's neck to pull her down for a fierce kiss. After couple more intense thrusts, they tumbled over edge together. Callie laid on top of her blonde girlfriend for a while, her head rested between the swelling flesh, listened to the rapid heartbeat from the chest underneath her, matching with her own.
After a minute or so, Callie was about to lift herself off the delicate body, but the blonde tightened her hold to keep her girlfriend in place, Callie looked up to find sparkling blue eyes gazing at her with a smile.
"Let me get off of you, I'm heavy." Callie said softly.
"No you are not," Arizona bended her neck as far as she could to kiss the brunette's forehead. "I like it when you lay on top of me, make me feel safe, knowing that you are here with me. I love you, so much. It is scary sometimes."
Callie propped herself up by the elbows, she looked deep into the blue eyes then leaned forward for a lingering kiss, a kiss that wasn't erotic, wasn't possessive but purely love devotion, they both moaned in the sensation.
"I love you, so much, too. It's scary, I know. But I believe in love, and second chance. You are my second chance of happiness. I believe in you, in us, I know we can do anything together because you are amazing, I love you." Without breaking the eye contact, Callie could see the blue eyes that she fell in love to slowly had glazed with tears, she reached out to brush the few blonde strands aside, and caressed the cheek lovingly. "Shhh…. Don't cry, I don't want to see you cry ever again, I will never let you cry again."
She leaned forward again to kiss both eyes accordingly, then the top of Arizona's nose, the cheeks on both sides, pecked on the lips, the chin, the jaw on left and right… The blonde giggled at her girlfriend's antics, but soon it turned to soft groans when the lips went lower and lower.
"Callie…" Arizona moaned out.
"I am going to show you how much I love you." Callie said before kissing the throbbing bundle of nerves.
"Can you stop pouting already?" Callie got out of the taxi, stopped in the front to wait for her girlfriend. "It's not pretty. Cute, but not pretty." She smirked when the blonde walked up to her and she clasped their hands together before walked toward the front door of Addison's house.
"We've been in LA for 3 days, the nearest I got to go to the beach is the back of Addison's house, fully dressed. Teddy and Mark are going to tease me when I returned without a little bit of tan." Arizona said while pursed her lips, Callie couldn't help to lean forward to peck it away.
"No, they won't." Callie smiled in the kiss when she felt the blonde tried to deepen it, but she pulled away to ring the doorbell.
"They totally would, surely they would know you locked me in the room the whole time to have your way with me." Dimpled smile went wider when the brunette turned to stare at her with wide eyes.
"Excuse me? I locked you in the room? You didn't even let me get out of the bed." The brunette winked to her girlfriend.
"Hey that was last night, I woke you up this morning for some outdoor activities, but you ground your…" Arizona bit her tongue in time as she heard the door cracked open, arose an excited looking beautiful baby boy, tried to jump out of his mother's arm when he saw his new favorite aunties on the doorstep.
"Hi Addison, hi Henry, come here to me." Arizona greeted the redhead and then happily picked up the boy, pecked on the chubby face on the way walked deeper to the house, Callie followed her girlfriend and walked side by side with Addison.
"What were you two bickering about?" Addison asked after they settled in the living room.
"Arizona was complaining that we didn't get to go the beach, she wants to build a sand castle." Callie stuck out her tongue toward the blonde sat next to her, who slapped her arm slightly and tried to deny it, but Addison cut them off.
"There's a beach right there behind my house, why don't you just come over tomorrow, we can have a beach party, and you can take Henry to build the castle together, I'm sure he'll love it." Addison said with excitement, but the other two exchanged a glance, looked at each other with their mouths agape.
"Addie, don't get me wrong, I really love you and Henry, but um… we are here for vacation, our vacation, so… we would like to have some alone time for just the two of us together tomorrow, hope you won't mind." Finally Callie spoke up. There had no way she was going to spend 3 days in a row with Addison, not that she didn't want to see Addison, but it could be more fun if it was only her blonde girlfriend and her, less clothes and a lot of touching preferably.
"So you are saying my best friend and her girlfriend are here for just a couple of days, they will be leaving after tomorrow and god knows when will be the next time we got to see each other again, but I am not allow to see them during the rest of their stay?" The redhead stared at her friend in disbelief.
"Addie… please." Callie swallowed hard, glanced at the blonde who ducked her head to pretend that she was engaging in an interesting finger courting game with Henry.
"That's fine, Callie, I'm just teasing you." Addison smiled and winked to the panicky Latina, "we better make tonight courts then, right?"
"Thank you Addie. So, what's the plan?" Callie asked as she moved closer to Arizona to tickle the fatty little angel on her laps, made a toothless grin displayed. "How about going to La Botte? I want to show Arizona my favorite restaurant, I'm sure you are going to love their mushroom risotto." She directed the last sentence to the blonde, who smiled back to her.
"Sorry, not tonight. Amelia suggests to go to her friend's restaurant for dinner. Afterward, if we are still up for it, they can take us to the club that they used to go." A phone on the table buzzed, Addison went over to pick it up, totally annoyed the pout on Callie's face. "Charlotte may run a little late."
"So Amelia and Charlotte are joining us tonight too? Great, I miss them." Callie turned her attention to Arizona, "Amelia is Derek Shepherd's youngest sister, and I like Charlotte." She quickly added when she met her girlfriend's question glance, "No, not the same way I like you, Charlotte is really cool, you'll like her too, she's kind of like Cristina."
"That's something I don't understand, you really don't find Charlotte harsh and mean?" Addison said casually while putting her keys and phone in her tiny purse.
"Nope, I found it endearing, I don't know, I am really fond of people who doesn't give a shit about other people." Callie shrugged.
"Callie, language!" Arizona slapped the brunette playfully, and giggled when she got a nudge in return.
"He doesn't know a damn thing of what the fuck we are talking about." They nudged back and forth, Callie exclaimed when she started to tickle the blonde and the baby on her laps, Arizona had to squirm to evade the attack and protect the little boy, Henry was laughing along with the two women.
"Hey hey hey break it off, you two! Don't hurt my son, I worked very hard to get him." Addison walked over to the couch quickly snatched Henry from Arizona's arms, and as soon as Henry was out of the way, Callie pinned the blonde on the couch and tickled her with full force, squeal came out from the pink lips begged for mercy.
"You were crazy about my dirty mouth this morning." Callie whispered into the ear of the woman underneath her before kissed the cute dimple, pulled away and smiled smugly when Arizona blushed scarlet at the words.
"Ok, it's enough, there's a baby in here. We should get out of here before you two ruined my couch." Addison rolled her eyes to the happy couple, "come on, let's drop Henry off at Sam's and pick up Naomi."
Addison pulled up in front of a fancy little restaurant like every other restaurants in LA. She handed the key to the valet, then they marched in the restaurant. The 4 gorgeous women together caught everyone's attention, and apparently Addison enjoy it very much – Callie whispered into Arizona's ear, that earned her a playful slap on the arm from the blonde. She grabbed the hand, clasped it tightly with hers.
The hostess led them to a table, where Amelia Shepherd and Charlotte King had already been seated. They stood up to greet the new comers. Addison was the first to give them a kiss on the cheek.
"Charlotte I thought you said you'll come later."
"Well, I was tired of the morons, so I called it the day earlier." She kissed Naomi and Callie respectively. Callie was about to introduce Arizona to her, but she stopped when Charlotte narrowed her eyes to the blonde.
"What a small world. They said Callie's coming with her girlfriend, I didn't expect to see you, Robbins."
"Hello, King. It's been a long time." Arizona mimicked Charlotte, tilted her head to stare at the other.
The rest of the women looked between Arizona and Charlotte with curiosity.
"Come on, give me a hug you little bitch." A grin spread on Charlotte's face after a brief seconds of staring, Arizona went over to wrap around her with a bone crash hug. They smiled to their friends after untangled themselves. "Charlotte was my resident in Hopkins."
"Wow, it is a small world indeed. You and Charlotte were in Hopkins together. And you are working with my brother Derek in Seattle." Amelia smiled to Arizona, exchanged a hand shake with her. "I'm the youngest Shepherd, Amelia."
"Nice to meet you. I knew Derek has several sisters, but I never met anyone."
"Oh well, he doesn't like us, that's why." She shrugged. And then everyone took their seat. Charlotte dragged Arizona to sit next to her, because apparently they have a lot of catching up to do.
"You are working in Seattle now? Seattle Grace?"
"Yes, I'm the head of PEDS." Arizona said proudly. "You?"
"St. Ambrose. Chief of staff." A cocky smile appeared on her face.
"Wow. Chief of staff?" Arizona looked at her former resident wide-eyed.
"She's the youngest physician in this position, because everyone in the hospital scared of her." Amelia winked at Charlotte and then picked up her glass of wine.
"Hey, you got to do what you got to do." Charlotte stated matter-of-factly.
After the waiters came to serve the drinks and took the orders, the conversation continued.
"It was true." Arizona let out a belly laugh, placed her hand on Callie's forearm which was rested on the table, turned to the rest of the group. "She was so jealous of my talent."
"No, I was not." Charlotte exclaimed.
"You were." Arizona looked at the rest of her new friends around the table. "She was just a year ahead of me. The attendings were so fond of me and always wanted me to be in their services."
"Because you always flashed your stupid dimples." Charlotte waved a hand in front of Arizona's face. "That should be banned in a work place, you know."
"I'm with you Charlotte. She still uses this trick a lot. It should be banned entirely." Callie nodded eagerly, everyone laugh with the comment.
"Hey, you love it." Arizona turned to face her girlfriend with an extra widen grin, made sure the dimples popped up.
Callie didn't answer but leaned in to peck on the pink lips.
"See, a nice friendly face can get you anywhere." Arizona turned to look at her old colleague with a sly smile.
"Right. Like the pants of half of the nurses in the hospital." Charlotte snorted.
"What?" Callie frowned, looked at her girlfriend.
"Hey! What happens in Hopkins, stays in Hopkins. Not like you didn't screw anyone in there." Arizona gave her a hard glare, hoped to stop the woman of speaking more than she already did.
"Not as many as you." Charlotte laughed, but knowing very well that they better avoid this subject when Callie was sitting right there looking at them with intense brown eyes. "We used to compete with each other, luckily she was a year after me. Otherwise, surely we would fight like hell for chief of resident."
"That is so true. You were lucky, because certainly I'll kick your butt." Arizona picked up her glass of wine, took a sip before nodded to herself.
"In your dream, Robbins. I kicked yours every time. I am a chief of staff, and you're just a head of a department." Charlotte said with proud in her voice.
"Chief of staff in St. Ambrose! I am the head of PEDS in Seattle Grace, the ranking is way higher than St. Ambrose." The PEDS surgeon sneered playfully.
"I was the director of a practice while I am the chief of staff."
"And got fire after several months." Naomi put in her 2 cents, apologized after Charlotte rolled her eyes and chewed her lips.
"Well, I just got 25 million of donation for the hospital, and another 8 million to start a free clinic." Arizona said with a grin. That earned her some praises and compliments around the table.
"Ok, I'll need more information about the donations." Charlotte raised a finger to point to the blonde. "I'm dating a fantastic guy, a pediatrician."
"I am in love with this amazing woman. And she loved me too." Arizona clasped her hand with Callie on the table, they smiled to each other. "I win."
The night went on. Slowly the conversations divided to 2 groups. Addison and Naomi were engaging in a heat discussion about a case. Arizona, Charlotte and Amelia were talking about their time in Hopkins. Callie sat next to Arizona, smiled and laughed and gasped along with the stories, but she was a little quiet and withdrawn than normal.
It wasn't unnoticed by her girlfriend.
"Hey, are you alright?" Arizona leaned closer to Callie, placed a hand on her lap. "You are quiet."
"I'm fine. Just getting tired." She picked up the hand, stroke the back of it with her thumb.
"Is it because our conversation bored you? I know, those were old boring stories." Arizona made a grimace, in order to make her girlfriend smile.
"No no, I like to hear your crazy days as an intern or a resident. I am just tired, you know, we didn't get much of sleep." A wry smile ghosted in the corner of the plump lips. Arizona didn't buy it.
"Hey, are we still going dancing?" Amelia asked the group after checked her mobile. That was the danger of a good girl's night out. They were talking, laughing, drinking. Without realized it, they had finished 4 bottles of wine in the restaurant. Except the designated driver Naomi, the rest of the women were kinda tipsy. "My friend said the club is getting crowded, we should head there now if we're still going."
They looked at each other. Charlotte was the first to speak. "Well, I've drunk enough. And I had a long day. Not really interested in going in a crowded club to be with a bunch of drunken, smelly guys. I have a guy waiting at home."
"I think we are going to pass too." Arizona said, still holding Callie's hand. "We are kinda tired, better go to get some rest."
"Oh..." Addison looked at them with a pout.
"I thought you want to dance." Callie raised her eyebrow to look at her girlfriend.
"I want to see you dance. But you are tired." Arizona said softly. "And Addison is a glass away from hammered, Naomi you should take her home."
"No Arizona, I'm fine." Callie whined, but was stopped when Arizona ran a hand through her raven hair.
"Shh… I'll take you back to the hotel."
The trip returned to the hotel was quiet. They just leaned against each other on the backseat of the taxi. Callie rested her head on Arizona's shoulder, but her mind was else where. Arizona was worried, but she didn't push it. She just sat there, quietly, holding her girlfriend's hand tightly.
After arrived in the hotel, Callie put her purse on the desk and sat on the bed to remove her shoes. Arizona went to the bathroom directly.
2 minutes later when she returned from the bathroom, she was wearing a bathrobe. Walked toward her girlfriend who was stupefied looking out of the window, she placed a soft hand on the tan cheek.
"Hey, I drew a bath. Care to join with me?"
Looking up to the beautiful blue eyes, Callie took a deep breath, leaned against the hand that caressing her face. "Arizona, I am sorry I ruined the night. I..."
"Shh... you didn't ruin anything." Arizona ducked her head, place a peck on her lover's lips. "Are you coming?" She retreated to the bathroom after received a nod from the brunette.
A minute later, a very naked Latina entered the bathroom, couldn't hold the smile when she found her girlfriend soaked in her favorite lavender bath salt.
"So you packed the bath salt too? No wonder your suitcase is heavy."
"Surprise! Come here." Arizona reached out a hand, Callie took it and then carefully stepped in the tub, settled in front of the blonde.
They remained silent for a while. Callie relaxed herself on the soft body behind her, leaned back to rest her head on the crook of Arizona's neck, while the other gently rubbed her shoulders and front with a towel.
"So," Arizona placed a series of featherlike kisses along the long neck of her girlfriend's. "Are you going to tell me what is bothering you?"
The brunette didn't say anything but sighed.
Arizona wrapped her arms around the torso in front of her, rested her chin on Callie's shoulder. "Is it because Charlotte talked about my... past in Hopkins? That I involved with the nurses? Hmmm? I am sorry you have to hear that. Believe me, I am not proud of it." She said softly.
Callie leaned her head toward the blonde head, entwined her fingers with Arizona's and then rested them on her stomach. "I wasn't happy to hear that of course, but I understand that those were your past."
"Then what is it? Why are so you so upset?"
"Nothing."
"Nothing?" Arizona pulled away to look Callie in the eyes. She squinted at the brunette who was avoiding eye contact. "We had a great time, everything was fine. All in a sudden you got quiet and abstracted. Don't tell me it was nothing." But she got no answer except seeing her girlfriend biting the corner of her bottom lip. She kissed the tanned cheek before putting her chin back to the previous position. She continued.
"I am not a good mind reader. All I could think of is, you are not happy to know that I... um... had umm... interactions with nurses in Hopkins and Seattle Grace..."
"I didn't know about Seattle Grace, I thought you just had 1 in there." Callie kissed the corner of the pink lips, then rose a hand to cup the fair cheek when the blonde didn't turn to meet her lips. Arizona locked their lips, but pulled away quickly before Callie got a chance to deepen it.
"Do not distract me when I try to make a confession in here." The big spoon tightened the hold on the midsection after Callie put her hand back on top of the entwined fingers.
"I told you, I understand. You don't have to..."
"But I have a whole speech in my head. I am going to promise you, I won't look at any other woman anymore. I won't flirt with anyone else. Your pants is the only one that I want to get into." Dimpled smile displayed when she saw a smile on her girlfriend's face. "It goes both ways, you know."
"That is sweet. But really, it doesn't bother me that much. I know it was your past and who am I to talk? I had my baggage too."
"Then what was it? Just tell me. I don't want us to have any secret. And I don't want this to ruin the rest of our stay. Just tell me, ok?"
"I..." Callie sighed. Thumbs nervously stroking the long fingers in her hands. "You are a promising surgeon. You are talented. You are in the management of a world class hospital. You deserve to be with someone... more professional. I don't know, another doctor, or at least a nurse. I'm just a bartender."
"What are you talking about? You are not just a bartender. And there is nothing wrong of being a bartender." Arizona frowned, pulled away to look at the woman in her arms like she was insane.
"Think about this. You are attending a conference or a reception with your fellow physicians, I tag along as your plus one. Everyone is introducing their other half as doctors, lawyers, bank managers. And you go 'Oh, my girlfriend is just a bartender.'"
"You are not just a bartender. If you say that again, I am going to pinch you." Still staring at the brunette with wide eyes, Arizona said in a more serious tone.
"But I am JUST a bartender! OOCH!" As promised, Arizona pinched one of the Callie's nipple without warning.
"I told you. Stop saying that. My girlfriend is not just a bartender. She is an awesome bartender. She is an excellent bartender. She is an incredible woman who owned 3 different pubs in 3 different cities. I have no problem to introduce the woman I love to my fellows."
"I'm just thinking..."
"Don't. I love you, not your profession. You were the one saying that you believe in us, this morning. If you keep thinking of stupid thing like this, I have to make an appointment with Derek to check your brain. Just a bartender. You say that again, I'll twist both of your nipples." To amplify the threat, Arizona moved both of hands to cup the swelling flesh.
"Actually, I am thinking, maybe I should go back to finish med school."