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 in advance.

Chapter 75

"Remember, do not call the patients by their nicknames in front of them. Not even to the interns. You know they'd slip and..." Arizona said as her hand was busy signing the charts. She had already changed into her street clothes and about to leave the hospital, but her new fellow just stopped her for some last minute paperwork. And she couldn't help to take the chance lecturing the man one more time.

"I know. You don't have to remind me in every 10 minutes." Alex rolled his eyes.

"I wish I don't have to." The blonde glared at the fellow playfully. The interim head of PEDS Robert Stark's contract didn't get renew. The department fell back to Arizona's laps as it should be. "I'm just afraid that you'd ruin my reputation when I'm gone."

"I won't. Just relax, okay?" The new PEDS fellow sighed with his shoulders slumped. The head of PEDS and Fatel surgery had spent the last week going through every details with him, he had confidence that the PEDS department would be running smoothly under his watch in the coming 3 weeks. He just needed his boss to have the same confidence in him and get out already. Thankfully, he found his savior was striding toward them. "You need to go now. Your woman is here to pick you up."

Turning her head with a dimpled smile, Arizona was met with a brilliant smile that stirred the butterflies in her stomach. No matter how long they were together, this smile could still make her heart skipping a beat. And in 3 days, the owner of this smile is going to be her wife.

"Ready to go?" Callie leaned in for a peck and put her arm around the waist of the shorter woman. They had an understanding that when they were in their scrubs, physical contact should be avoided. But hey, they were already in their street clothes ready to have their 3 weeks marital leave, the brunette was not going to keep her hands to herself.

"Yes, I'm ready." Smiled sweetly to her soon-to-be wife, Arizona passed the finished charts to the fellow. "Okay, you are in charge now. Don't forget to track down the delivery of the baby blanket, we're running low. And call me if you have any question."

"No, don't you dare to call her." Nudging her fiancée to leave, Callie said to the man over her shoulder. "I'll kick your ass if you make her leave the bed."

"You're having holiday with a baby. I don't think you can keep her in bed for too long." Alex walked the couple down the hall, bantering back that made the blonde chuckled.

"Well, our parents are going to bring Sofia to Miami after the wedding, so..." Stopping before the elevator, the happy couple shared a knowing smile.

"Okay, I don't need the picture of how my boss and her wife are going to spend their honeymoon." The man held up his hands and backed away. He was happy for his boss but their sweetness had reached to a new level that could actually make him sick. He had to leave the couple before he vomited in the hallway. "Congratulations, ladies. Best of luck."

"Thank you, Karev." The two said in unison before walking hand in hand into the elevator.

"Oh, have you seen the picture that your mom sent to us?" Reaching into her purse with the free hand, Callie pulled up a picture that she received earlier. "The one where your dad fell asleep on the couch and Sofia put the pacifier in his mouth?"

"I have. Our girl wore the poor old grandpapa down." Arizona leaned closer to her fiancée and giggled. She had never seen her father like this.

"Are you sure it's okay to leave her with your parents tonight?" The brunette glanced at the picture one last time then turned her loving gaze to her wife-to-be. "We have an early flight tomorrow morning, maybe your folks would like to have a goodnight sleep before that? I don't want them to be too tired to enjoy the time in LA."

"They will be fine. Besides, my dad said that he needs some alone time with Sofia before he has to share his granddaughter with your dad." The door of the elevator opened, Arizona walked backward pulling the brunette out of it with a dimpled smile. "We all know Carlos is not going to let go of her once we arrived."

"That's true. Sofia has two of the toughest men on earth wraps around her little finger." Callie laughed aloud with her head throwing back. "My god, our daughter is so gonna be a spoiled brat."

"Well, she's the only child right now. Wait till we have..." Arizona pulled her brunette closer and titled her head looking at the brown eyes longingly. A board smile showed on the caramel face as Callie knowing well that what was about to roll out of the pink lips in front of her. But their moment was interrupted when a pair of intruders approached them.

"Hey ladies." Mark and Teddy walked toward them smiling like a pair of Cheshire cats. "Get a room."

"We're getting married in a few days. We're allowed to show a little affection in public." Callie tipped her head back squint at her friend, and the blonde wrapped her arms around her fiancée with a matching smirk.

"Oh my god, go to LA already." Teddy rolled her eyes upward exaggeratedly made the happy couple chuckled.

"We will. You know we're leaving tomorrow morning." Arizona stuck her tongue out to a grimace. "You're still welcomed to go with us. You know there has enough space in Callie's dad's private jet."

"I wish I could. You know I have a budget meeting tomorrow afternoon." The Cardio attending heaved a sigh. She glanced at the man standing next to her. "Mark and I are going to take the flight the next morning."

The four of them shifted aside when a group of younglings passed by them all exhilarated and cheerful. They recognized those were the interns of their hospital.

"Guess they have passed their exam, huh?" Callie smiled at the future residents walking out of the front door of the hospital. No doubt that they were heading for a celebration. She still remembered her own celebration with Arizona that evening.

"Oh, I almost forget." Teddy leaned closer to her friends with a sly smile. "Bailey told me-"

"Hey, heads up." Mark cut in, indicating the ladies to look behind them with a jerk of his head. Callie and Arizona were surprised to see Leah leaving the hospital with a box in her hands and head hanging low.

"What...?" The brunette raised her eyebrows, asking no one.

"Yeah, that's what I'm going to tell you. Bailey said Murphy has failed the intern exam, again." The Cardio attending turned back to the couple with a matter-of-factly smile. "The chief finally asked her to leave."

"She failed the second time? How did that happen?" Arizona watched the former intern disappeared behind the front door. The intern exam was hard, but failing it two times was unheard of.

"You know that ever since the HR dismissed her false accusation, she walked around the hospital like she was the victim. Uncooperative and refused to learn from anyone. She had that coming." Mark winked at his friend. "Now your rival is out of the door, we should celebrate it."

"She is not my rival." Callie rolled her eyes. Leah had caused some trouble but the brunette wouldn't care less about her. With the busy work schedule, a baby at home and a wedding to plan, her own life was nothing but hectic in the last 3 months. "I don't make a habit of celebrating someone else failure, but we're going to grab some dinner now. Want to join us?"

"No no, we're taking you to your bachelorette parties." The man had his arms folded against his chest. And Teddy was nodding her head eagerly.

"What? We've told you that we don't want-" A deep furrow formed between the brunette's brown eyes. She had shut it down the first time when Mark suggested it.

"You two are having a destination wedding. You do know most of your friends are not able to attend, right?" The taller blonde cut in quickly. "The least you can do is to have this pre-wedding party with them tonight."

"Well... that..." Callie's tongue was tied. Teddy did have a point. She turned to the blonde for help.

"Fine. A drink at the Horizon then we'll go home." Arizona wetted her lips. "We still have to make our luggage."

"Nice try, Robbins." Teddy shared a smile with Mark. "We know you, type A. I beg your luggage was made... I'd say yesterday."

"At least 2 days ago." The man smirked. And Callie's chuckle had proven him right.

"They do know you, honey." Playfully bumped her hip against the blonde, Callie leaned down to place a kiss on the blushed cheek.

"Yeah." The blonde twisted her lips with a roll of eyes. Finally, she turned to Teddy. "Okay, fine. We'll go. The Horizon?"

"Yes, the Horizon. But by we, it's you and me." The Cardio surgeon wriggled her finger between Arizona and her. "We'll go there waiting for the rest to join us. Bailey and big Grey are still in surgery. Yang is finishing up my post-op. We'll go some place fun once they all showed up."

"What about me?" Callie looked between the friends in confusion. She got the answer from a smirking Mark.

"I, am taking you to the strip club."

"What?" The engaged couple exclaimed in the same time.

"I don't throw a half ass bachelorette party." The man gave Teddy a wink that made the woman snorted. He knew what Teddy had planned and he did laugh about it in front of her face. "If I'm gonna do it, I'll do it right."

"But why... why are you taking Callie..." The blonde stuttered out. Not that she didn't trust her fiancée, but the idea of a room full of nearly naked women walking around her brunette just made her stomach flipped.

"I'd take you if it's up to me, blondie. We had so much fun the last time we went together." Mark shrugged a shoulder. "We flipped the coin and you are going with Altman, sorry."

"You went to a strip club with Mark?" Callie pulled back slightly staring at the blonde with wide eyes. She knew her fiancée had a wild life before they were together but...

"It was a long time ago and he was very upset..." Arizona stumbled over her words with wavered voice. Quickly, she diverted the subject to her friends. "You flipped a coin?"

"We've decided that it has to be 2 separated parties. Both of you are the brides doesn't mean you have just one bachelorette party." The taller blonde linked her arm with the other blonde, trying to pull her away. "Let's go. Little Grey and Kepner are waiting."

"Callie..." Arizona grabbed hold of her fiancée's hand. She didn't know where Teddy was going to take her, but she was pretty sure that she didn't want her soon-to-be wife anywhere near any stripper.

"I don't think we can get out of this. You go have fun with your maid of honor." Callie patted the hand on her, and then leaned forward whispering in the blonde's ear. "And I am going to learn some tricks from the professionals. Maybe I'd show you later tonight?"

Shivering with the imaginations in her head, Arizona followed her friend out of the hospital, with a goofy smile hanging on her face.

"I still can't believe Arizona went with you to a strip club." After placed their drink order, Callie sat back and looked around the place. They went against Mark's will to sit next to the stage platform, instead the two were settling in the corner with the wall of neon lights behind them. It was awkward enough for the brunette to be in a strip club, she didn't want to be the attention of the rest of the patrons.

But to her surprise, there was a table of ladies not too far away from them that was enjoying a show before them.

"Don't be a prude." Mark turned his head to where Callie was staring at. He returned with a grin on his face. "You wouldn't believe how many women enjoy going to strip clubs nowadays."

"I'm not a prude and I have no problem of women enjoying... that." The brunette waved her hand forward, even behind a curtain of Mardi Gras beads, they would see that a topless dancer was straddling one of the lady patrons, and her friends around them were cheering and slipping dollar bills around the barely there G-string. "I just can't believe Arizona'd come here with you."

"It was a long time ago. I was... I was having a hard time fighting my feeling for Lexie and I couldn't tell Derek about it. You know, he didn't want me anywhere near his girlfriend's half sister." The man spread his arms along the back of the couch, giving his friend a crafty smile. "So I kinda guilt trapped blondie to help taking my mind off."

"In a strip club?" Callie sneered contemptuously. She could never understand men's logic.

"Where else would be better to take my mind off of a woman than being in a place full of women?" Mark snorted seeing the displeasure on the caramel face. "Relax. We were here less than 5 minutes. Blondie was as uncomfortable as you are now."

"So I'm allowed to leave in 5 minutes?" The brunette asked hopefully.

"No way, this is your bachelorette party. And Derek and Owen are on their way to here. They just texted, scrubbing out of their surgeries." Mark nodded to the waitress who came with their drinks. He asked. "When is the show start?"

"Any minute now." The waitress replied with a cold smile. After putting the drinks on the table, she shrugged a shoulder before took off. "You can get a girl to dance for you if you can't wait."

"Wow, good service." The brunette said watching the woman walked away. If anyone in her pub had an attitude like this, surly would be gone before the night was finished.

"Don't mind her." Mark raised his glass with a smile. "Here's to you and blondie. I'm happy for you, Callie. I really am."

The friends clinked their glasses together and took a sip from it. Even under the multicolored neon lights, Callie could see the hint of sullen in the man's eyes.

"So, you and Lexie... is it really over?" Putting her drink down, the brunette gave her friend an earnest look.

"Yeah. She... We are not on the same page, Cal. I have to let her go." Mark took another gulp of his beer before heaved a heavy sigh. Quickly shook off his dismal, he looked around the place with a force smile. "Enough of me. Let's get you a lap dance. You prefer blonde? Or a redhead for a change?"

"This is your idea of doing something fun?" Arizona asked her friend standing next to her. They were outside the entrance of a baseball field.

"You're going on your holiday but some of us are still on-call. We can't stay in the pub all night." Teddy wrapped her arm around the shorter woman, pushing her to move forward. "It's gonna be fun."

"Yeah, fun." Cristina mocked behind her boss. She wouldn't want to be in there, but as a surgical junkie, she wouldn't say no to the head of Cardio surgery when she was promised of all the Cardio cases in the coming week.

"Stop whining. You'd go anywhere with alcohol. We have a whole colder of beer for you." Bailey gestured behind them, where Lexie and April were carrying a seemingly heavy colder on either side following them.

"I'm on-call tonight. A bottle of beer is all I'm allowed to have. Tonight is gonna suck." The sulky Cardio fellow murmured under her breath. She looked toward her best friend hoping for some agreement, but the General surgery fellow just shrugged her shoulders.

"I think it's not so bad. We've been stuck in the hospital for too long. It's nice to go out once in a while. You know, we ladies doctors hanging out together." Meredith picked up a bat and swinging it from side to side. Sport was not her thing, but she was glad to get to do something with her sister. Lexie was moping around since she moved back to her house last month.

"If it's a night of doctors hanging out, why do we have a waitress with us?" Cristina glanced at April, who was standing by the colder awkwardly.

"You know April is going to start her internship in a week." Lexie gave the shy redhead a pat on the back with sympathy. "Welcome to the family by the way."

"She's not a doctor yet." The Cardio fellow rolled her eyes. She went to pick up a bottle of beer while casting a side glance at the new comer of the hospital. "Besides, who takes 6 years to finish med school?"

"I..." April blushed. "I spread the years because I had to work 2 jobs to put myself into med school."

"Don't mind her, April." Arizona took her eyes off her phone for a brief second giving the former The Horizon waitress a sweet smile. They all used to Cristina's bitter mouth, and they all knew if no one put a stop on her, the hostile attitude would go on forever. "We knew how hard you work for it. We're happy for you."

"Hey, put the phone away." Teddy walked up to the blonde and snatched the phone from her hand. "No calling Callie. No texting Callie tonight."

"I... I just want to tell her that we're in here." Arizona lunged in trying to get back the device, but the taller woman held it behind her back.

"She doesn't have to know where you are at all times. The reason of 2 separated parties, you have your fun and she has hers." Teddy raised her eyebrows when she saw the hint of uneasy flashing in the blue eyes. "You're afraid that she has too much fun in the strip club with Mark."

"No, I am not!" The blonde exclaimed aloud, made everyone smirked except one.

"You're afraid that if you don't check on her, she's going to bring a stripper home. Admit it!" The Cardio attending put her hands on her hips, squinting at her friend with a smirk.

"She wouldn't bring a stripper to our home." Arizona laughed out. This was ridiculous and she knew Teddy said that just to tease her. "Or following a stripper to her place. Callie wouldn't-"

"They can go together to Marks. That's something he would do." The antic stopped to a halt when Lexie chimed in coldly.

"Lexie..." Meredith shifted to her sister's side wanting to land a comforting hand, but the younger Grey stepped back and held up her hands.

"No, it's fine. I mean, that's what he does, doesn't he? We've broken up for... what, a month? And he's already in a strip club." The voice of the upsetting brunette was getting louder and louder. "I wouldn't surprise that he'd bring a stripper home. Hell, he might as well bring 2! He's single, again. He can do whatever he wants."

"For a bachelorette party. For Callie..." Teddy said in a small voice. The breakup between Lexie and Mark was not a secret, but most of them didn't know how hurt it was for the young woman. Now they did.

"They'd go to have a drink in a pub. They'd go... bowling, or baseball, like us." Lexie threw her arms around as she spoke. "But no, it has to be a strip club. Yeah, don't get what you want from your girlfriend? No worry! Just go get yourself a stripper!"

"It was Derek's idea, Lexie." Meredith cut in and everyone was stunned. Not in a million years that anyone would think Derek Shepherd suggesting that. The wife of that Neuro god made a mental note that she'd have to apologize to her husband for revealing it. "He said he hasn't seen Mark like that, ever. The man couldn't eat or drink for days. He was so down that even a successfully done surgery couldn't bring a smile on his face. Derek think a night in a strip club might cheer him up."

"He is... he is heartbroken?" Knowing her ex-boyfriend was as miserable as her, a small smile found a way to Lexie's face.

"Like you'd never believe." The big Grey wrapped her arm around the little Grey and handed her the bat. "Have a swing. You'll feel better."

They all stood aside watching Lexie stepped in the batter's box. Bailey said to the new intern under her breath.

"You're going to work with a bunch of crazy people. Are you scared yet?"

"Don't worry." Cristina interjected before April could respond. "The craziest one has left the building."

"Who?" Arizona asked. "Don't say it's me. You know Callie and I will return after our honeymoon."

"It's Murphy." The Asian shrugged a shoulder before taking a swig of her beer. "Do you know what she said to hairball while she was cleaning up her locker? She said the hospital has done her wrong and we have ruined her. She hates everyone in there. And she guaranteed that she'd shoot us all if she has a gun."

A/N 2 : I normally don't give out spoiler but I don't want you to have any wrong idea and start scolding Mark (or me ;-p) Nothing is going to happen between Callie and Mark, but something is going to happen...