AN: Crazy past couple of weeks hope you enjoy this update!
Chapter 14 – Sisters
Callie sat on the bottom bunk of the same on call room Dr. Robbins just left her in. She thought to herself for a moment.
Did that really just happen? Did she, GI Blondie Barbie Dr. Arizona Robbins kiss me on the lips? Knowing I just slept with her best friend? What the hell is this?
Her pager reminded her she was still on the clock and was needed in Ortho.
"Dr. Torres!" A fellow surgeon called Callie before she made way to the nurse's station. "I know you're about to go off time but could you please finish these three charts for me? You're the only resident I trust with my patients. I'm swamped!" The older surgeon truly was swamped. Coming to the end of his fellowship, finishing off two publications and a presentation for the board, Dr. Clark could use a hand.
Besides, Callie took it as a complement, Dr. Clark was a great orthopedic surgeon.
"Clark, relax. I've got you covered." She took the charts and the Ortho surgeon was gone.
Callie made way to the nurse's station to complete Clark's charts, when she couldn't help but over hear the nurse's conversation beside her. Mainly the names being mentioned in the conversation.
"So, can you believe that Dr. Robbins was actually cheated on? Like who would cheat on her?" Said the shortest of the three nurses.
"Her idiotic fiancé. She's gorgeous. And just an amazing surgeon and person. She's exceedingly talented in Peds too, from what I've heard, but went with General. It's honorable she is going to Iraq next year. Those soldiers will be so blessed to have her operating on them."
"She is so dreamy. And just gorgeous." Moaned the third nurse.
"Jeez Collen, way to go all bedroom eyes on us. Ha-speaking of Iraq, have you heard who's back in town?"
"Yeah, Gia, I ran into her at Arizona's apartment." Colleen stated.
"Ou, you, Arizona and Gia? Must be a lucky lady."
"Calm down Sarah, it was nothing like that at all. She was there to see Arizona. Besides, their reputation. Well, mainly Gia's reputation."
Callie's heart sank. What did these nurses know that she didn't?
"Colleen, please save it. Tess and I have known the pair longer than you. My, what I'd do to be young and naïve again. Besides, I'd take Gia over Arizona any day. Granted I'm not on the market anymore." Sarah waved her wedding band at Colleen. "But those muscles and tattoos, and I've heard she's an excellent lay. Something like a German sex machine from what a friend of mine said" She laughed lightly.
"Mmm, love a good set of muscles and tattoos." Tess smiled to herself, "But Arizona has that perky, brighten your day up type of smile that would make anyone swoon."
"Tell me about it." Colleen was gushing.
"Ut-oh, looks like someone already had a dose of the McPerky Robbins. Be careful, you might catch the Syphilis." Sarah started laughing.
Callie couldn't hold it in any longer she had to butt in.
"Syphilis? What are you talking about Nurse?"
Sarah and the group were clearly embarrassed that they were caught by a doctor gossiping. But Callie needed to know what they were talking about.
"Well Nurse Sarah?"
Tess spoke up for the pair, clearly seeing the intimidation in Sarah's eyes. "So, once upon a time, Gia and Ariz- Dr. Robbins where considered the Syphilis Sisters. Gia frequents the hospital for her family's business, she's not a doctor."
Callie's face became deranged and disgusted, "The Syphilis Sisters?"
"Well, yeah. They sort of ran the whole lesbian circuit in Boston for a long time. Rumor has it that they actually kept a secret web of all the women that they slept with, just to see who bedded who first. It is supposed to be like the one on the L Word, except it was before the L Word. They're pretty legendary."
Callie didn't know what to make of it or even say after that story.
"I heard there's like hundreds of women on there. I mean Gia has apparently slept with a women from every continent and Arizona has slept with a person from every medical school in the country. I've even heard that they would trade women with each other. Hence the name Syphilis Sisters." Tess added on.
"Those are quite the rumors, aren't they?" Callie flatly stated. She wasn't sure if she wanted to be mad at Gia for sleeping with the world or feel grossed out or even used. She didn't want to give up she had already slept with the woman and kissed the other just an hour before.
"Ha, yeah. No one knows. Neither kiss and tell. Their lovers always seemed to be smitten and silent." Sarah stated.
"Interesting." Callie finished up the final chart and placed it on the racks, "Thank you for the, uh story. I-I am heading out nurses. Have a good night." And with that, Callie departed the trio for some much needed time off.
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Walking into her apartment Callie saw Meredith laying on the floor of their living room, next to her was a pile of wood pieces and a half drunk bottle of wine.
"Hi Meredith, uh, are you okay?"
She didn't stir or move, just held gaze with the ceiling fan with a crazy looking smile, "I am great, thank you Callie. And do you know why Callie? Because I am a great surgeon, I am a great friend, hell I'm even a great lay. But this," She pointed at the pieces of wood beside her, "This is something I am not great at."
"I am not following you Meredith." Callie walked into the room a bit further.
The dirty blonde rolled onto her belly to meet Callie's confused stare, "I cannot build a bookshelf for the life of me. I mean I can surgically repair a grade two pulmonary hemorrhage in minutes, but I cannot build a damn bookshelf." She started laughing at herself and Callie joined.
"Uh, well, for starters, you probably shouldn't be buzzed using tools and building shelves." Callie plopped down on the sofa across from Meredith. "Don't they rent sexy shirtless men to come assemble these things for you? Because they should."
Meredith let out another belly laugh, "HA, yeah right. I'd be broke because I'd be buying furniture every week." She sat up and handed Callie the bottle of wine. "You look exhausted, long day?"
Callie really wished it wasn't Meredith she was about to vent to but she needed an outlet before her own head caved in. "Yeah, it was very long. Uh, so you know how I called you about Arizona?" Meredith nodded and Callie to a big gulp from the bottle. "Well, she works at MassGen, and is apparently best friends with G."
Meredith scrunched up her brows and began to process everything Callie had said. Finally piecing it all together. "Wait, why was G at the hospital and where did you see Arizona? And she's a doctor?"
"G frequents the hospital for removals. I saw her and Arizona together in the café. And yes, she's actually a highly respected fifth year general surgeon. The crane collapse in downtown brought in several vic's to MassGen and we just so happened to get paired together for an open femur fracture surgery."
Meredith relaxed her face after absorbing the information. "So, hm. I mean, lesbians all know each other right? Like it's just a thing – plus they are both in the Navy."
"That not the problem here Mer, Arizona kissed me after our surgery in an on call room."
Meredith cocked her head to the side, "Wait – What?"
"She sprinted out of the room and I wanted to talk to her so I followed her into the room. She came onto me and kissed me. She is best friends with G, who does that?"
"Um, she does I guess? Wait, isn't she engaged? And aren't you and G dating?"
"We're not dating. She leaves at the end of October for training and then is off to tour number four or five, I can't remember." Callie began to massage her temples.
"Ah, the 'we're not dating just sleeping with each other because I might die' relationship?"
"Don't say it like that Meredith." Callie pinched the bridge of her nose, "Wait, you know we've slept together?"
"The neighborhood knows Callie, between the screaming in Spanish and what sounded like German pseudo English cursing the other night. I thought someone was going to call the cops." Meredith laughed at the clearly embarrassed Latina. "Listen, I am very jealous. If someone can make you scream in a different language, they must be talented."
"Great to know Mer. Anyways, I was paged back to Ortho and I overheard three nurses gossiping about none other than Arizona and G."
Meredith made an O face and her eyebrows shot up, "Nurses are always full of secrets."
"Well, these ones in particular knew quite a bit. Apparently Arizona was engaged, but broke it off with her fiancée after she cheated on her." Meredith went to jump in, but Callie stopped her by shoving the wine bottle in her face. "Wait, Meredith this gets even more bizarre. They both have a reputation that precedes them. They are apparently known as the 'Syphilis Sisters' because they've slept with so many of the same women. Rumor has it, there's even a giant sex web with those two in the middle of it."
Meredith broke down to a laughing fit again, "Wait, like Syphilis, like the STD? And Sisters? Oh god. HA, that is hilarious. Looks like you're in the middle of the Syphilis Sisters."
"I don't know what to do Meredith! And speak for yourself! You have just as much of the Syphilis Sisters as I do."
"I wouldn't mind being between a perky blonde super surgeon and an overly energetic combat medic covered in tattoos." Meredith mused.
"NO, no. I-I, what do I do?"
"Well, sitting from the outside, I think you like Arizona. And she clearly likes you or else she wouldn't have kissed you. So, go for it."
"NO, I do NOT like Arizona. Maybe, but NO." Callie was lying like a rug, Meredith knew it but she didn't press the Latina any further. "Besides, sex with G is amazing. Mind blowing amazing. And I only have another month of it before she leaves. I need sex with G. Moreover, what if she's just trying to sleep with me because they are the Syphilis Sisters and they're just trying to add to their sick web of names?"
"So does that mean my name on there too?"
"Jez Meredith this isn't about you! I don't know what to do here. I think I like Arizona, but I like sleeping with G and she leaves so soon to go to a friggin war."
"Hmm, I don't know about all of that Callie. Just seems wrong to continue to sleep with G if you like Arizona."
"Wrong? Meredith Arizona kissed me knowing I am sleeping with her best friend. That's wrong."
"Yes, but is it really? Knowing you might be part of some weird lesbian STD fling between the two of them. Or using one that is going to a war to get back at her best friend because you don't want to like her. But you do. You really like her."
"I do, but I'm not ready for that. Not yet at least. I need to find out more and I need to have sex with G again to make sure I actually like Arizona."
"Oh, so now it's having sex with a third party to confirm you do or don't like the second party?"
"I like that better. Yes. Also, Syphilis Sisters? I need to know more about that too, but first I need to shower and go to bed." Callie stood up from the couch and headed upstairs, "Good luck with your bookshelf Meredith."
"I'm throwing in the towel, maybe I'll try to find a shirtless stud to build this. OH! And let me know if I'm on that web, I wonder if I'm connected to any other lesbians."
Callie laughed and rolled her eyes at Meredith.
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Callie spent quite a bit of time thinking in depth about everything that occurred in the last 24 hours. She couldn't wrap her head around the fact that the same GI blondie she saw in the bathroom at Richmond airport was the same GI Barbie that Meredith slept with that night. She was also the same perky blonde bombshell surgeon everyone at MGH swooned over and was the same blonde that kissed her only hours earlier.
The most believable thing out of the entire GI Blondie-Barbie Dr. Perky Robbins was the fact she was considered to be a Syphilis Sister with none other than Gaetana. The same woman that Callie had slept with merely 24 hours before.
Well, if everything is going to go to hell, it might as well be, EVERYTHING.
She heard Addison coming up the stairs and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Sitting up in her bed she called for her roommate.
"Addison? Is that you?"
Addison busted open her roommates door without hesitation – apparently she wasn't the only one who had a long day.
"Do you know, KNOW Calliope, who I had the pleasure of working with today?"
Callie felt the burn of Addy's words singe her skin – she was pissed.
"Uh, um? I-I."
"YOU! Well, you wouldn't believe it, but that friggin' Blondie GI that Meredith slept with that you have been drooling over, well it's her ex-fiancee, Dr. Joanne McCarthy. She works as a fellow at Brigham's."
"UH-What?"
"Don't 'UH-WHAT' me Calliope. That woman is a psychopath. She went as far as to listening to our conversation, following me into an on call room and confronting me about Arizona and G!"
"Um-I, I-I don't know what to say. I…"
"That's not the worst of it, I have to work beside her for the next two months. And she is insane-like Nazi terrorist big bully insane. Of all the people and all the lesbian doctors in Boston, she has to be paired with me. FUCK!" Addison plopped herself beside Callie with both of her hands covering her face, fingertips massaging her forehead. "She's slept with nearly a dozen interns and she doesn't get why her fiancée left her, like hello?"
Callie removed the redhead's hands from her face and looked into those azure eyes, "Well, her ex fiancée kissed me today. And I found out that Arizona is in fact best friends with G, and that they are both known as the 'Syphilis Sisters'."
Callie couldn't help but grin as she watched Addison's face sour right before her, then let out a belly laugh.
"Wait- what the fucking world are you talking about? So all that crazy sex I woke up to last night was just a dream? And GI Barbie? Kissing you? With Syphilis? HA, wow. Have you told Mer? She'll get a kick out of this."
"Yes, and I don't know what to do Addison. I had amazing sex with G, like the best I've ever had, but now what do I do? I actually think I like Arizona, but she's best friends with G, and G is leaving to go to war in a month."
"Are you actually complaining about this? Do I need to remind you of my hiatus from sex? You should be more concerned you potentially could have syphilis." Addison starting laughing out loud again, "So, wait, people still get that?"
"ADDY! You're not helping me! This is serious, what do I do?"
Trying to keep a straight face, "Go get tested for syphilis obviously."
Callie rolled her eyes at Addison.
"Okay, well first things first. Next time you sleep with G, warn a sista here, I thought the wall between our rooms was going to come down. And keep the profanities to a dull roar. One of our neighbors gave me the eye today."
"Really? Was it that loud? I didn't think it was that loud. No, it wasn't." Callie couldn't help but blush at the thought of the crazy tryst with G.
"Next, figure out what the hell this Syphilis Sister story is all about. Like is it just a story or should you be on antibiotics? But you have to question both of them at the same time. That way they can't lie about it."
Callie was diligently listening like a grammar school student to her friend's advice, nodding at every one of Addison's points.
"Third, you like Arizona. But you like sex with G." Callie lightly nodded than eagerly nodded with a slight smirk. "Hm, quite the predicament Ms. Torres, but the perfect one. Seeing as Arizona and G have a thing for sharing STD's and apparently women, maybe it won't be as difficult to Segway your way to Arizona."
Callie tilted her head, "Yeah, but what if Arizona only wants sex?"
"Now see, this is where you have the upper hand. The scalpel is in your hand doctor. If G and Arizona are as close as you make it seem, G has already told her about the rock-your-neighborhood sex she had with this gorgeous Latina." Addison pointed at Callie. "You'll make it worth her while, and if she wants more than sex, she'll stick it out."
"Can I still sleep with G in the meantime? She technically is going to war and I potentially may be the last woman she'll sleep with."
Addison shot Callie a skeptical look, "Little morbid don't you think? And yes, but not more than three times. You don't want to get attached to good sex."
"And who came up with that rule Addison?"
"It's just human nature, it happens in threes, believe me."
The Latina let out another belly laugh at Addison, "Sure they do, Addy."
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A few more days past before Callie had a chance to execute her well-manicured plan. She spent the time between going over her speech with Meredith and Addison, since they were just as interested in who the 'Syphilis Sisters' were, and if they needed an STD test.
Callie's phone buzzed, a text from G asking her to meet her in the café for coffee – perfect.
Skipping a step and praying her pager wouldn't go off, she spotted the concrete frame of G, flanked by Dr. Altman and none other Dr. Robbins. The trio sat down at their usual table to enjoy what was probably their 4th fix of caffeine that day.
Callie ordered her usual latte and mentally prepped herself for the words that were about to be expelled from her mouth.
First being waved down by Teddy, she internally thought to herself, here goes nothing.
Sitting across from Arizona, Teddy to her right and G to the left, Callie had a cheeky grin that covered her face.
"We'll somebody is happy this morning," G mirrored the smile from Callie and raised her eyebrows, thinking the smile was a result of their previous evenings activities. "Callie, I know you've met Teddy – Dr. Altman, have you met Arizona, Dr. Robbins?"
Arizona flashed her trademark dimply smile towards Callie, "Yes, we actually had a trauma case together a few days ago G."
"Yes, we did, we met over a patient." Callie chuckled to herself and took a deep breathe, and looked at all three women, well, here goes nothing…
"So, Arizona, G, you won't believe this crazy story I heard the other day..."
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