Callie's POV
I woke up and started to get ready for the day. Since I was in prison many years I need to make a fresh image of me. The new Callie Torres, according my new hair cut, clothes, etc. So, I decided to wear a white blouse, with a formal skinny pants and a black leather jacket and high heels. "Looking good, Torres". I said to myself in the mirror.
Today I'm going to the place that used to be my home. The house that Arizona and I bought for us where we wanted to grow old together and see our grandchildren playing in the pool and the backyard. We fell in love with the house since we saw it. With four large bedroom and for bathroom in the upstairs. You must be thinking why we needed that house but since we planned to have maybe three or two children and the guest room never are a waste, so... In the downstairs we had a large kitchen. And I loved it. Arizona and I loved to cook together and talk in the breakfast bar. With a livingroom with a fireplace where we kept the plasma TV and the home theater and video games. We had a studio that Arizona and I used to work and where we had a little personal library. A dinning room with a table for six and the formal livingroom for reunions with our friends and a double glass-door that head to the backyard with a pool, hot tub and a grill area.
It was the perfect house. And maybe too expensive but since used part of my trust fund when Arizona and I were dating we used it for the house even when Arizona was refusing to take the money. I made an smart move with that. So here I am, in front of my house. It's almost the same except Arizona's brand new Mercedes and a Range Rover that's my favorite tipe of vehicle, she always had a thing for Mercedes. And maybe some other things in the front yard but nothing more.
I am stending in front of my house and I see that Arizona replace the initials of "RT family" for "Robbins family". I also noticed that they are a few cars but I don't care I want to see Max. And when I'm about to hit the bottom of the door I heard a familiar voice: "Miss, can I help you?"
Mark.
"Mark? " I said with my voice cracking
"Callie! ?" I think that he is shock. "oh my God, what are you doing here? How!? When!?" He hugged me tight.
"Yes, Mark! I'm Callie" I said with tears.
"Wow, you look hot!" I chuckled and rolled my eyes. Mark is Mark. My best friend, he and Addison were the only ones that cared for me this eight years.
"Thank you. But what are you doing here?" I asked.
"Firs you. I mean, you know... After all this years"
"Well, long story short, I kept appealing and they set me free for good behavior. And to answer your question I'm here to see my son. " I said with a cold voice.
"I'm glad. But you can't go in there." Mark said and I saw in his eyes compassion.
"What? Why? This is my house and there is my son and nothing is stopping me". I'm about to touch the bottom when Mark grab me and said:
"Please, let's go to my house, Lexie's with the kids inside, Arizona asked us to come to dinner but since I am on call so it's not a problem, but please just hear me. I'm protecting you too, I promise." he said.
"Okay, I'll go but you are going to explain and answer my questions." He nodded and we head to his car.
Minutes later we entered his penthouse. "Your house is beautiful. And so is your family" I said looking at picture in the fireplace.
"Thank you, take a seat." he said heading to the kitchen. "Something to drink? Wine? Beer? Whisky?" he asked.
"Wine, please" I answered. Mark then cane back and handed me the glass of wine. "Thank you."
"I'm glad to see you, again." He said and I smiled. "and you look really good. Like pretty hot, I mean, that's not what you expect to see when someone is eight years in prison." he smirked and I chuckled.
"Well, I wasn't like this in prison. And you look good too."
Then a silence came in the room. Seemed like years and I broke it. "Can you tell me already why I couldn't see my son? " Mark changed his expression. So I started to freak out. "Is Max okay? somthi.." he cut me off.
"No, no he's okay." he said and I relaxed. "But there are some things that you should know first. And I'm going to need you to listen. Okay?" I nodded and he continued. "When we came back Arizona was a mess. She was devastated..." I was going to say something but he said: "please, just listen. Arizona didn't know what to do and a few months laters, three I think, she did a meeting with all the ones that went in the trip to Spain." He made a pause and closed his eyes for a moment, then he continued. "And she made us promise that we would never tell Max about you. Even she said that if she had to buy that silence she'd paid. So we promised to keep silence. Arizona said that she was going to do anything to protect Max." And I didn't expect less, she could be a bad wife but as a mother Arizona was and I bet that still is the best.
"So what Max thinks or know about me? that I left them? that I'm in another country? What did she say!?" I kind of scream. I am desesperate to know what is behind all this.
"She.. Arizona said to him that you died" Mark said.
I am in shock. My mouth opened and closed a few times and I felt the tears down. "Tell me that it's not true " I whispered.
"I'm sorry, Callie." I think that he thought before he talked again. "She erased your memory. Photos and videos."
"So who Max calls mami?" I asked Screaming.
He grabbed my hand. "Arizona put the picture of a women we don't know. She said that she don't want for Max to recognize you as his mother because you are a murder. And she didn't want people judging him because of that." He paused again and I'm still crying uncontrollably. "I know that is hard for you to know all this suddenly but you have to really think what to do. And maybe I wasn't sure of her decisions but she wanted to protect Max. And since then, she lives only for him."
I started to calm. "she's still working on the hospital?"
"No, she opened a clinic with some if the others. She's the principal of the partnership. The Seattle health center is a prestigious private practice in the country and internationally." and I'm not surprised. She's a great surgeon.
"I can't believe she said that to our son." I said.
"The accounts you had with her passed immediately to Arizona's name. Except for the things you bought together and Max bird certificate. She asked the divorce and they gave it immediately because of your status in the country, so she couldn't change anything legally except for the accounts that were also hers because to change something she needed your firm"
"But she didn't have the courage of see me" I said with anger. "It was more easy to lie and erase me.. But anyways, tell me about Max." I smiled sadly
"he's handsome! He has your eyes and some things of your personality. He has Arizona's hair, dimples. He's a good kid." I imagine him. God, I want to see my baby. "So, what are you going to to do? "
"Still don't know. But I have to reunite all the people who went to the trip with us. Between all of them is the real murder." I stopped to think. "I didn't kill Lauren, Mark."
"I believe you, Cal". He said with a sad smile and hugged me. "So you have doubts about all of us? "
I pulled out of his embrace. "Yes, with the exception of you, Addison, Henry, Meredith, Cristina, Teddy and Owen because you were in Ibiza in that party. But that's all." I said with my cold voice.
"Even you are doubting about Arizona? " he asked surprised.
"Even Arizona.. I have Lauren's journal and in it she wrote secrets of most of the people that went with us to Spain. But I only have a part, so I don't know if the truth is in the other part." I took a deep breath. "now I know that she wasn't friends with any of us, she always played with us.
"You know that I never liked her and I always told you to be careful and to not trust in her. I don't find it hard to believe it... Did she say something of me?" Mark asked.
"in this part, she only wrote that you are just a pretty face but that she had to be careful because you didn't trust her." And he was right. "I should have listened to you. Nobody knows about it.." I paused and took a deep breath. "She made me doubt of Arizona's fidelity to me." Mark eyes went wide. "Yeah, she said that Arizona was flirting with her and that one night at the bar while I was getting ready Arizona proposed to have an affair with her."
"And you believed her?" Mark's still in shock.
"I didn't say it directly to Arizona but I started to get paranoid and went straight to jealousy mode and we had fights about it. Arizona always denied it and she said that she only had eyes for me and that she only loved me. And know I know that she always said the truth. She loved me." I remember that after that fight when Arizona declared her love, we made love to exhaustion and we ended sleep wrapped around each other but Lauren made me doubt of Arizona again, so we kept fighting again. A tear went down. "In Lauren's journal she wrote that Arizona went to talk to her to ask her to talk to me to erase those ideas of my head and then Lauren confirmed to Arizona what she said that to me, so she tried to seduce her and Arizona said that she'd never do anything to jeopardize our family."
"Do you still love her?" Mark asked. His mouth is still open.
I stand up "Arizona killed the love I had for her when she didn't trust me and left me in another country. She killed the women inside me and that women can not love. I came back to get back my son and to build a new life."
"Callie ..." he started but I cut him of.
"No, Mark. I'm going to do justice and discover who is the murder. Can I count with you? "
Mark is looking at me differently, like with proud. "Yes, Cal"
I smiled. "Then you are going to help me to make a reunion with all of them. This is the plan..."
A/N: Should I go on? Let me know that you think! Review!
