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 about that ;-)
Chapter 71
Arizona stood in the middle of her office, facing one of the walls with her hands on her hips. A self-satisfied smile showed on her face as she looked between the two licenses that were hanging there side by side. Her ability is beyond any doubt, everyone said that. But no matter how confident she was, she couldn't believe that she had actually done it until the proof had arrived in the morning.
A soft knock on the door made her smile went wilder.
"Come in." She answered without turning around because she knew who it was outside the door. She got a text message minutes ago.
"Hey, admiring your achievements?" Callie entered the room, wrapping her arms around the slender body and rested her chin on the shorter woman's shoulder. She whispered into the blonde's ear teasingly. "Double board certified. Impressive, Dr. Robbins."
"Yeah?" Arizona swiveled around, looping her arms around the neck of the woman who was holding her tight. "Does it turn you on?"
"Nope." The brunette smirked. She leaned forward until her lips were inches away from the pink ones. "Your lips do."
Arizona smiled and closed the distance between their mouths. Nibbling at the full lips that she'd never tired of kissing, she backed toward the little couch in the corner. Slowly sank into it, bringing her girlfriend with her. Callie took the hint and straddled the blonde's laps. Their kiss never broke.
"What are you doing, Dr. Robbins?" The brunette mumbled into the lips attached to her while she felt hands roaming under her scrub top.
"Finishing what we weren't able to finish this morning." Arizona kissed down the strong jaw. She tugged the lapel of Callie's white coat about to take it off.
Things went back to normal between the two love birds. After they opened up to each other, Callie finally moved back to the apartment. And the two couldn't be happier after they took Sofia home a week after Arizona's board exam. The baby girl settled in with her mommies nicely, and the new parents were still learning to adopt their lives with an infant in their home. It wasn't easy but every time when the little angelic face lit up seeing either one of the mommies approached, when the little face spread to a toothless grin... They knew it was worth it. Well, except for the time when the little devil woke up in the worst possible moment.
"I can't." Callie wrapped her white coat around her body, pulling back with an apologetic smile. "I have to scrub in Shepherd's intraventricular resection in half an hour. He'd kick me out of his service if I enter the OR with shaky legs."
"I thought you're here to celebrate my new specialty." Arizona threw her head back against the back of the couch heaving a sigh, hands running up and down the light blue scrub hugging thighs on either side of her body. The brunette giggled as she leaned forward kissing away the pout on the blonde's face.
"We had plenty of celebrations since you took the board exam." Callie sat up straight before Arizona was able to deepen the kiss. "I'm here to see your new certificate, and telling you that Doreen has set us up to see two houses this afternoon."
"I'm off at 5." Fair hands moved higher up until resting on the curvy hips under the lab coat. "Are we taking Sofia with us?"
"No. Mark is taking her to the park." Callie smiled softly, but the one on the porcelain face fell.
"Again? You've got to stop letting him use our daughter as a babe magnet."
"He's not using Sofia to pick up women. He's in love with Lexie." The brunette chuckled in Arizona's remark. She reached out a hand brushing a strand of blonde hair off of the irritated face. "He just wants some alone time with our baby girl."
"By 'our' you mean you and me, right?" Arizona softened in the tender touch. "I've told him very clearly that he's not going to be Sofia's father."
"Of course it's you and me. But I don't think it's a bad idea for Sofia to have a male figure in her life. You know Mark would make a good dad."
The conversation was interjected when the door burst open abruptly. Alex shout into the room before fully entered.
"Robbins, we got the heart and lungs coming in for the Jensen kid. Altman doesn't want Stark so..." The young man choked in his voice seeing the two women sitting on the couch in an intimate position. He turned around quickly and stuttered out. "Oh crap! I'm sorry. I... I... I... didn't know..."
"You should have knocked first, Karev." Arizona rolled her eyes. Her resident really needed to learn some manners.
"I'm sorry." Alex waved his hand blindly, still having his back to his boss. "Just... come quick... I mean, the organs are almost here. I'll see you in the OR."
The two women burst into a belly laugh after the poor man closed the door behind.
"He just came off his hinges when he saw us." Callie climbed off the couch, still amused by Alex's reaction.
"Well, watching your boss have a woman on her laps would do that to you." The blonde wriggled her eyebrows while her girlfriend pulled her up on her feet. She wrapped her arms around Callie's hips demanding some more contact before they had to go to work.
"I thought he would be happy to see that. Most of the guys fantasize about girl on girl action." Callie tilted her head and a mischievous look crosses her face, making the blonde's face screwed up in disgust.
"Eww... Don't put that idea in my head." Arizona shoved her girlfriend away playful before walking toward the door. A sudden blaring phone reminded her that she had left the device on the desk. Callie took a step back getting it for the owner. She frowned slightly after glanced at the screen and found who was calling.
"Why is Joe calling you?" She asked as she passing the phone to the blonde.
"Oh," Arizona took it and put it in her pocket before declining the call. "Maddy is coming down to something, he just wants some advance. I'll call him back later."
The two shared a quick peck outside the office before heading to their respective directions. Shortly after the blonde went to check on the patient, the medic flight arrived with the organs and she was standing next to the OR table with Teddy on the other side.
"Look at the lungs. They are gorgeous." Arizona exclaimed as she put the organs in place. Teddy gave her a curious glance.
"You're overly cheerful. What's wrong with you?" Teddy asked.
"I'm a cheerful person." Arizona answered nonchalantly, but the snort coming from the resident next to her said otherwise.
"She's getting laid." Alex rolled his eyes heavenward answering the questioning gaze from the Cardio surgeon. "She's unnaturally cheerful."
"Ah, the Torres method." Teddy nodded her head, snickering behind the surgical mask. And the room full of nurses giggled with her.
"I am in a committed adult relationship. Of course we're having sex." Arizona looked between her colleagues. And her hard glare landed on the resident. "For the record, Karev. We weren't doing anything in my office."
"Whatever." The man shrugged a shoulder. He would care less if his boss was screwing her woman in there. Hell, he'd bring his hookups to his office if he had one.
"Not whatever. I-" Of course Arizona had had sex with Callie in her office. But as a private person she was, she found the need of clearing the air when she didn't do it this time. But her best friend stopped her.
"Relax. We're just happy that you and Callie are getting back together." Teddy said without stopping her hands. "Is the wedding back on the table?"
"We haven't talked about that yet." Arizona answered honestly. With the new baby in their lives and all the house hunting that Callie had arranged, getting married seemed like the last on the list for the moment. "Maybe wait after we got everything settled."
"How is it going?" The Cardio surgeon shared a knowing gaze with her friend before taking an instrument from the nurse.
"Pretty good." The blonde looked up to the gallery, making sure the certain someone was not there overheard this conversation. "It should be done in a week."
"Callie still has no idea what you're doing behind her back?" Teddy followed the blonde's line of sight, knowing very well why her friend was checking the place.
"Nope." Arizona put her attention back to the body on the table. "So please try to keep it to yourself, don't spill it."
"I thought you two have talked about not hiding anything from the others." Without looking at her assisting surgeon, the Cardio attending shook her head dramatically.
"I'm not hiding it from her. It's different. It's..." Arizona frowned, racking her brain tried to find the right word to explain her secretive action. "It's a surprise. We're allowed to surprise each other."
"Yeah, right." Teddy said with a sneer. "Say what you want, just don't come crying on my shoulder when Callie is mad at you, again."
"She's not gonna get mad when she found it out." The blonde smiled with her eyes. "I just need to come up with a couple of excuses why I don't like the houses we're gonna see. She has arranged 2 visits today."
"No, Callie! We have to leave!" Arizona rushed down the stairs, running out of the door and found Callie and the realtor were out at the front porch.
"What? What's going on?" The brunette asked when the flash of blonde hair jumped into her arms.
"There is a man-sized blood stain in the bedroom." The blonde buried her face Callie's shoulder as if she was frightened by what she had seen upstairs. Big brown eyes stared at the realtor with shock.
"It's rust." Doreen said hurriedly. "The owner would replace the carpet and that should be alright."
"No, it's not alright." Arizona turned to the sheepish realtor. "This is a murder house!"
"I guarantee you that just is rush, Dr. Robbins. This is not a murder house. No one has died in here." Doreen assured the doctors, but the blonde was not convinced, and Callie was looking between the women and the house with uncertainty.
"Callie, we're going to live here with a baby girl. I'm the one waking up in the middle of the night when she cries. I don't want to run into something horrifying." Arizona looked deep into the brown eyes. "Or do you want to see our daughter laughing and talking to the air?"
The brunette made a grimace. She liked this house but Arizona was right. They couldn't take the chance to live in a haunted house. Even if it wasn't, she wasn't going to force the blonde to live in a place that she didn't feel comfortable with.
"Doreen, I'm sorry. I don't think this one is gonna work for us." Callie gave the realtor an apologetic smile, and Doreen returned with a force one.
"I understand." She nodded. "But the ones I have shown you today are the last two on my list in this neighborhood. We'll have to look to the other districts then."
"Take your time. Let us know when you have something for us." They shared hand shakes then headed to their separated ways.
"Seriously, Arizona?" Callie asked as soon as they got into their car.
"You want to live in a house where a man has died in there?" The blonde glanced at her girlfriend incredulously.
"She said it wasn't." The brunette pursed her lips.
"She wants to make a sale." The blonde chuckled out as casual as she could.
"Then how about the last one?" Callie wasn't letting up. "The lighting was good. A big back yard."
"It has a huge master bedroom on the second floor and another room on the ground floor, Callie. You're gonna leave Sofia on the ground floor all by herself?" Blue eyes squinted at the brown ones.
"They broke down the wall to make the giant bedroom. We can put the wall back up-" The brunette tried to reason with the stubborn woman, but a pair of soft lips on hers stopped her.
"We are going to find a place that we both love and without any trouble, Calliope." Arizona winked before sat back and put on the seatbelt. "Just be patient."
"Doreen doesn't have anymore listing in this neighborhood." Callie murmured under her breath, following the blonde putting on her seatbelt. "We may have to live far away from the hospital then."
"She's not the only realtor. We can look for another one if we have to. I'm going to ask around, okay?" The blonde looked at the pouting woman lovingly. She knew Callie was frustrated of not finding their dream house yet. But she was certain that at the end, the brunette would be thrilled with what she had planned.
"Fine." Sighing reluctantly, Callie glanced at the haunted house one last time.
"Let's go home." Arizona said cheerfully before starting the car. "How about pizza for dinner?"
"Hey, I agree with her. You don't want to rush into anything, you know." Mark left his eyes from the patient on the OR table to his assisting resident.
"I'm not rushing, just... We've talked about this. And all in a sudden, it's like she has changed her mind." Callie sighed into her mask.
"Has she told you why?" The plastic surgeon asked, moving on to the patient's other boob. The two surgeons were more interested in their chat than the patient on the table. Not that they were being unprofessional but who were they kidding? It was a breast implant. Mark could do it with his eyes closed.
"No, but I guess since I have agreed to move back into the apartment, she doesn't think it's necessary to look for a new place anymore. We've seen 6 houses, Mark. And she could always find a reason to trash about the place." The resident held an instrument keeping the incision opened while the attending carefully separating the fat tissue.
"But do you still hate the apartment?" Mark asked again, with a little disappointment in his tone.
"Not that I hate it there." Callie shrugged a shoulder. "Arizona suggested getting a new home to start our family. If she has changed her mind, she should just make it clear, instead of telling me to be patient and keep looking."
"Okay, I need more room. Pull the incision a little wider now." The Plastic instructed his assisting resident. "I think it's a good idea to just stay in the apartment, you know. I just live across the hall-"
"You really should stop showing up unannounced." Remembering what had happened earlier, Callie couldn't help to scold his boss/friend. "You almost gave Arizona a heart attack when she woke up seeing you holding Sofia in our kitchen this morning."
"Hey, I just wanted to help." Mark chuckled while stirring around the inside of the patient's boob. "She was awoke and none of you noticed that."
"And you really shouldn't put another set of baby monitor in her room."
Callie's phone started to buzz in the back of the OR interjected their banter. A nurse leaned over to the tray checking for the doctors.
"Dr. Torres, it's your phone. You have a call from someone named Doreen."
"Oh, can you bring it to my ear?" Callie asked and the nurse brought her the phone. "Hello, Doreen. Yeah? Ah-huh... Ah-huh... Okay, text me the address and I'll see you... is 4 in the afternoon work for you? Great, I'll see you then."
The brunette thanked the nurse after the call ended. And she was met with Mark's questioning eyes.
"Doreen said there's a new house just came out of the market. Slightly over our budget but it's exactly what we are looking for." The brunette said absent-mindedly, waiting for the lead surgeon's next move but the man just stopped his hands and looking at her.
"Can I go with you?" Mark bobbed his eyebrows with glee in his blue eyes. "I want to see how blondie craps all over the place."
"I don't know. I have to ask her first. She has a day off and taking Sofia to see her folks today." The resident gestured the body on the table, indicating the attending to continue. "Can we go back to work so that I can call her after we're done in here?"
"Call her now." It didn't need to take the mask off of the man's face to know he was grinning from ear to ear.
"No Mark, you're in the middle of a surgery." Callie quickly looked around the OR. For the first time in the last 45 minutes, she had realized that she had had shared too much information to the room full of nameless people. She didn't want to drag her girlfriend into this too.
"It's just a boob job." Mark nodded to the assisting nurse asking for the silicone gel, and turned to the one who was standing next to the phones. "Melanie, can you call Dr. Robbins for me please?"
"Melanie, no!" Callie turned to the nurse, but attending trumped resident. Another order from the Plastic surgeon, Melanie pressed the button.
"Hello?" The chirpy voice rang through the speaker of Callie's phone. The brunette glared at her friend before answering.
"Arizona, you're on speaker. I'm in the OR with Mark."
"Yes...?" Arizona answered uncertainly. "Is everything okay?"
"Doreen just called. She has an open house about 30 minutes away from the hospital. And I told her that we'll go check it out this afternoon at 4." The brunette said as she helped the attending shoving the silicone gel inside the patient's chest.
"I... I can't." There was a long pause on the other side of the phone. "I have an appointment."
"What appointment?" Mark raised the question before the brunette.
"I... I have a dental appointment this afternoon." The blonde stuttered out her reason, and added quickly. "Besides, 30 minutes is quite far away, don't you think?"
"Yes, but-" Callie and Mark exchanged a look.
"I've told you, we don't have to hurry." Arizona cut in before Callie could get out the 'but'. "We can find some other places nearby."
"Shouldn't we at least go to check that out?" Raven haired head turned to the phone slightly. She couldn't believe the blonde would turn this house down even before they got a chance to visit it.
"Um... maybe we re-schedule that?" Even between the phone, Arizona could hear the irritation in Callie's voice. "I really can't go today."
"Fine." Callie huffed. She really wanted to get to the bottom of this but now was not the place or time. "I'll call you later."
"There seems to be something fishy going on." Mark said looking at the patient, but everyone knew he wasn't talking about the one on the table.
"No, there is not." The resident sighed. It wasn't convincing even to herself.
"Has she told you about the dental appointment?" Mark took the silent as a no. "She doesn't want to move."
"She doesn't want to move." It didn't take much for Callie to agree with her friend. "She should have just told me that."
"That was the condition for you to come back to her, wasn't it? I think she is stalling." Seeing the little family settled in the apartment cozily, especially with him living across the hall coming to help out from time to time. Mark was pretty sure that the blonde didn't see the point of moving else where.
"What should I do?" Pondering the man's words, Callie asked helplessly. "Not that I object to stay put, but I hate the idea of not knowing where we are going."
"You and I are going to see that house this afternoon." The man looked right into his friend's confused eyes. "If you don't like it, you can get it out of your system and stop looking."
"What if I like it and Arizona still say no?" Callie asked.
"Then confront her. One way or another, you need to get it out of your system." The Plastic surgeon cast a glance at the brunette before reached his hand out to the nurse. "Give me the other silicone gel, please."
"Oh my gosh! This is beautiful!" Arizona exclaimed as soon as she walked into the room. She turned to the man standing in the middle of it. "I love it, Lenny! You're an artist!"
"Ouch!" Lenny placed a hand on his chest gasping dramatically. "It hurts my feeling if you have doubt about that."
"I am sorry. I know you're a true artist, that's why I asked you to do that." The blonde walked toward her friend with arms stretching out. But the laughing man stepped backward before he was pulled into a hug.
"No no no, don't touch me when you're looking like this..." Lenny waved a hand up and down the slender body.
"Give me a break. I'm a surgeon-" Arizona looked down the T-shirt she was wearing. It really was a mess. She wiped her dirty hand on the shirt before pulling out the ringing phone from her back pocket. She sucked in a breath seeing who was calling and the time. She had lost track of time that she had spent in here. Quickly put the phone next to her ear, she could hear her girlfriend's excitement from the other end.
"Arizona, you really need to see this house! It's everything we're looking for." Callie burst out in one breath before a proper greeting.
"Wait, what house?" The blonde frowned. A realization slowly crept up to her brain. "You went to see the house? I've told you-"
"I know, I know. And I'm sorry. But really, Arizona. It's a 2 stories house, not too big, not too small. 3 bedrooms on the second floor, a big kitchen and a big, big backyard with a small swimming pool." Arizona could hear that the brunette was walking around. "There's a big oak tree in the front, with a swing!"
"Callie, slow down..." The blonde swallowed hard.
"It's 5% over our budget but I think we can manage." Callie lowered her voice, but it did nothing to cover up her excitement.
"Callie, it's 30 minutes away..." Arizona tried again with the only excuse she could come up with.
"30 minutes of our sleep-" The brunette laughed out.
"I'm working with pregnant women who could die in a minute. And you're a resident, every minute counts." The blonde stuck with her reason. It felt like a bucket of cold water pouring all over the excited woman.
"Just tell me, Arizona." Callie took a deep breath. She wasn't angry. She just needed Arizona to tell her the truth. "Do you want us to stay in the apartment?"
"No, we've talked about moving out there starting our new family. And we will." The blonde reassured her girlfriend, but a loud snort coming from the other side of the phone made her flinched.
"Yeah, you'd have fooled me."
"I'm not fooling anyone, okay? I just don't... I..." Think, Arizona, Think. But she came up with nothing.
"You know what? This is a great house. This is a foreclosure that's why the price is lower than its actual value." Callie looked around the house. She knew she shouldn't but this would be the only way to force the blonde to come clean to her. "I'm going to put down the deposit rather you like it or not."
"Calliope..." Arizona chewed her lips. It could be a threat but knowing the brunette, the risk was too high to take. "I'll be there in 30 minutes. Text me the address and... just don't make any decision before I arrived."
As soon as the call ended, long tanned fingers fired away a text with the address to the blonde. Mark sneaked up to the brunette asking in amazement.
"You're really going to take this place even if blondie doesn't like it?"
"No." Callie threw her friend a mischievous glance. "I wouldn't do this to her. But I need her to tell me what is in her mind."
Within 30 minutes, a car pulled into the driveway and Callie stepped out of the house with arms folding across her chest.
"See, no traffic..." The smirk turned into a deep frown when she took in the woman coming out of the car. "What's going on? Why is there paint all over your shirt? And you face?"
Arizona looked down at her shirt again. Yeah, she didn't have time to change it. Without answering the question, she strode toward the stunned woman grasping her hand and pulled her toward the car.
"Arizona, no!" Callie flung off the hand, set her feet on the ground. "I'm not leaving here before you tell me what is going on!"
"Calliope..." The blonde grunted under her breath. "Can you just come with me?"
"You haven't even seen this house." The brunette stared at the paint covering woman before her. At this point, it was not about the house but she was bothered by what her girlfriend was hiding from her.
"I don't have to." Arizona knew she wouldn't be able to keep it from Callie any longer. She pleaded with her blue eyes. "I will tell you why. I'll show you, okay? Can you just get in the car?"
Callie kept her squint at the blonde as she walked pass the woman and got into the car. Arizona let out the breath that she didn't know she was holding. Seeing Mark and Doreen were standing by the door watching them, she called out from afar.
"Sorry Doreen, we're not taking this house. Mark can you take Callie's car back home?"
Not waiting for any respond from anyone, the blonde jumped onto the driver seat and started the car.
"I understand that you're mad-" After minutes of silence, Arizona finally got enough courage to open her mouth.
"I'm not mad... Well, a little bit, yes." Callie glanced to the side. "I'm mad that you wouldn't just tell me that you want us to stay in the apartment."
"I've told you, we are gonna move into a new home." The blonde said firmly, made the passenger rolled her eyes.
"Where? You wouldn't even check out the one I like."
"Because I've found a place that you love." A proud smile showed on the fair face.
"You've found... How would you know that I'd love it?" Callie stared at the blonde in shock. How could Arizona make a decision like this without asking her first?
"Because you've told me." The blonde turned her head, flashing her girlfriend a sincere smile before focusing on the road again.
"When...?" The brunette looked straight ahead, searching in her brain for any possible place that she had told the blonde that she loved. "Wait a minute, are you telling me that we're gonna move in with your parents?"
"No, Calliope." Arizona laughed out, amused by Callie's imagination. "Of course not."
"Then where are we going?" The brunette asked again.
"Just believe me, okay?" Arizona answered with a question. A question that she knew could shut the brunette up for a little while. "Do you trust me?"
Mumbling under her breath, Callie crossed her arms under her chest and slumped back onto the seat.
Finally, the car pulled up outside the Horizon. Callie looked at the blonde in confused. Arizona just smiled and unfastened her seat belt.
"Come on." She said before getting out of the car.
Callie followed with hesitation. She had no idea why they were in here. And the blonde just took her hand and led them up the stairs beside the pub to the loft.
Opening the door, they were greeted by a strong sense of paint, and total emptiness.
"Where is Joe's furniture?" The brunette exclaimed with her mouth wide opened.
As in cue, Joe and a guy that she had met a couple times, knowing that he was a friend of Arizona came out from one of the room.
"In my new home." Joe answered the question with a sheepish smile.
"Your new home?" Callie stared at her friend with wide eyes. "Why didn't I know that?"
"Well..." The tall man looked at the blonde for rescue.
"Remember a while ago, I called Joe about some guys were coming over to pick up the furniture?" Arizona wetted her lips. This wasn't how she had planned to tell the brunette, but she didn't have another choice now. "One thing led to another, he told me that Walter found a job near to Maddy's school and they were thinking to move the family closer to there, for Walter and Maddy."
"I really wanted to tell you but you were so generous offering me this place. I didn't know how to tell you that I'm leaving." Joe sent a thankful smile to the blonde. "Arizona's call came in the right time."
"So not just that you're hiding something from me. You made my friend hiding things from me too." Still trying to take everything in, Callie stared at the blonde incredulous.
"Calliope..." Arizona sighed. Yeah, it went much better in her head. She turned to the two men, hugging them respectively. "Thanks for helping out today, Joe. And Lenny, thank you."
The guys took the hints and left the loft after another round of hugs with the brunette. Walking their friends out of the door and closed it behind, Arizona was not surprised to find the brown eyes were still staring at her.
"I can not believe that you made me visiting 7 houses. 7, Arizona!" Callie put her hands on her hips. "I thought we've talked about not keeping secret from each other."
"I wanted this to be a surprise." Walking toward the still stunned woman, Arizona had her head hung low like a puppy dog in trouble.
"You hate surprise." The brunette tried very hard to suppress her smile.
"Yes, I do. But that doesn't mean I don't like to surprise you." Arizona took Callie's hands in hers. "The good kind of surprise."
"Yeah." Finally, Callie let her lips spread to a grateful smile. "But what make you think I want us to move back to here?"
"You told me that you love this place." Blue eyes looked deep into brown with nothing but love. "I remember everything you told me. You spent extra time renovating this place because you wanted this to be perfect. You made a big bathroom because you like to have a tub deep enough to soak your whole body in it. And I love it too because it is big enough for you and me both in there."
The smile on Callie's face went wider and wider as the blonde continued.
"This was the place that you told me your story. You took me back to here after you found me crying in an on-call room the day my special patient, Wallace died. And here was where we had our first time, Calliope." The blonde stood on her toes placing a tender kiss on the plump lips before her. "You moved out of here to my apartment because you think I love that apartment. The truth is, as I told you, I love you more than anything. I don't mind to live in anywhere but I think, there's no place to start our family better than the place where you and I started."
"God, I love you so much." Callie took the fair face in her hands, bringing the lips together for a real, lingering and tender kiss. As their lips parted, she looked down and finally realized why the blonde was wearing a paint covered T-shirt.
"Hmm... is it why you're covering in paint?" The brunette looked behind her, two of the walls had changed color from concrete grey to bright yellow. "You painted the walls?"
"I came to here after Joe officially moved out. When I looked around the living room and told Joe that maybe I'd hire someone to add a little color on the grey walls. He suggested that we could do it ourselves." Arizona tugged her shirt with a blush on her face. "Turns out, I'm better with a scalpel than a brush."
"You look adorable." Callie ran a finger across the dried paint on the blonde's face playfully. "And you asked Lenny to help? I know he's a painter but..."
"Oh, you have to see this." Arizona pulled her girlfriend toward one of the room, excitement showing on her every bounce. "I had Lenny made a painting on Sofia's bedroom wall."
"What is that?" Callie's jaw dropped seeing what they did on the wall. In the middle of it, there was a painting of nine women in ancient fashion dancing around.
"The nine muses." Seeing the confused look on the caramel face, the blonde explained. "From the Greek mythology."
"What?" The brunette wasn't able to pick her jaw back up yet.
"Lenny imitated the one by Giulio Romano." Arizona stepped closer the wall, admiring her friend's brilliant work up close. "I wanted to put Calliope in here. You know, like you're looking after Sofia in her sleep. We tried to find a good painting of her from Google, but none of them felt right. So, we got to the next best thing, the nine muses."
"It looks like a lesbian dance party to me." Callie stared at the wall with an amused smile.
"It doesn't..." The blonde took a step back, standing next to Callie with her eyes squinted at the group of dancing goddesses for a long minute. Finally, she whispered to herself. "Does it?"
"Well, Sofia has a pair of lesbian mommies, it fits." The brunette wrapped her arm around the love of her life, laughing out softly.