Cristina unlocked the door to her apartment as quietly as she could, only to find Callie sitting at the kitchen counter with a newspaper and a quart of Starbucks ice cream. She was heading in for a night shift and clearly seemed to think dessert was in order, though from the looks of it, this had been dinner too. As Cristina walked in, Callie looked up nonchalantly. "Ok, spill it, girlfriend," she patted the bar stool beside her.
"Uh, what? Spill what?" Cristina was flustered. Though she had not expected Callie to be out, she hadn't really thought about what she was going to tell her if she was in.
"If I'm not mistaken, and I'm pretty sure I'm not, there was some hot foreplay going on out there a few minutes ago. So… spill. And don't try to hide who you were with, either, because I'm willing to bet I know already."
"If you know so much about it," Cristina shot back, "why don't you tell me?"
"Because I've been sitting here all by myself all evening, there's nothing interesting on TV or in the paper, a patient broke my nose, I'm drowning my sorrows in ice cream, and I'm badly in need of a fix of something more interesting than my own pathetic life right now. Come on, have some mercy, Yang. If you didn't want to talk about stuff like this, you should have roomed with a hamster, not a fellow female."
Cristina grabbed a spoon from the drawer, pointed it at the ice cream, and sat down. "Ok, but only if you share, too."
"Deal."
As Cristina began to tell Callie about her evening, it became clear that the sparks flying between her and Hunt were not likely to stay hidden long. Callie had suspected from the first day that there was something between them. "When I walked in to ask him about the freezing procedure…" Callie began, and then started laughing so hard she had trouble finishing her sentence, "I swear to God… I felt like … I had walked in… walked in on you… giving him a blow job or something!" Cristina put her hand to her full mouth and tried desperately to keep from snorting her ice cream up her nose as the laughter overtook her too. When she finally managed to swallow, she shook her spoon at Callie, "Don't DO that when my mouth is full! Christ! I nearly ended up with ice cream in my sinuses!"
"I'm sure Doctor Feelgood would be happy to see you in his ER for that…" Callie needled her.
"Shut UP! You are SO BAD!"
"Yes," Callie nodded sadly, "I am. Now if I could just find someone to be bad with …"
"Doesn't that creepy new intern have the hots for you?" Cristina prodded. "I see her smile at you all the time. That chic weirds me out. Not to mention that she and Mer were apparently separated at birth or something…"
"I don't KNOW!" Callie wailed. "I'm too new at this lesbian thing to read all the road signs. And besides, I think I actually have a thing for Mark, which is sad, because I think he has a thing for Lexie, and he was my FWB, and now I'm afraid he won't be anymore…"
"FWB?"
"Come on, Yang, don't tell me you don't know this. FWB – Friend With Benefits."
"Right. So what are you going to do?"
"Right now? Go to work. I'm on in 15 minutes. Before I go, though, you have to tell me why Hunt didn't come in and fuck your brains out tonight. It sure sounded like you two were headed there from this side of the door."
"Because he's a stupid ASSHOLE, that's why! God! I'm so FRUSTRATED I think I'll have to finish off the rest of this ice cream. And where do we keep the chocolate bars, anyhow?"
Callie gave her a look that said she knew that was not Cristina's final answer, but that she was going to leave it at that for now in the interest of getting to work on time. "You owe me a better explanation than that one, Yang. I'll collect later," she said as she put her coat on and headed toward the door. "Try to get some sleep."
Cristina pointed at Callie with her spoon and let out a disgusted moan. "DON'T - TELL - ME - THAT! That's what he said! Christ! I think I'm going crazy here."
"See you later," Callie waved and shut the door behind her. At least it's going to be a lot of fun to watch these two at work from now on, she smiled to herself as she headed down the stairs.