I Guess I have a Thing for Blondes
Chapter 3
The next day seemed to crawl by. Every time Callie looked at the clock thinking it had been at least a half hour, it had only been 10 minutes. All she'd had all day was a broken arm and a broken wrist. Both were fairly simple, clean breaks and only took her about 45 minutes to set and cast each one. She even scoured the whole hospital to see if anyone needed help. No one did. What, did all of Seattle collectively decide that today, the one day I really need a distraction, no one was going to get sick or hurt or fall off a motorcycle? She thought to herself, annoyed. She even thought about going up to the PEDS wing and visiting Arizona, but given the constant butterflies floating around in her stomach she decided she would just wait until tonight to make an ass of herself. She hated being nervous. She felt like a little kid starting school for the first time, wanting so badly to be liked, but then ending up looking foolish due to nerves. She hoped she didn't do that tonight, but then again if she didn't, she just wouldn't be Calliope Torres.
Arizona paced around the nursery cradling in her arms a newborn baby girl swaddled in a little pink blanket. "You know, tonight's my first date with Dr. Calliope Torres." She said to the infant. "And I'm so nervous I could throw up, but I won't because that wouldn't exactly be very sexy. Speaking of sexy, Calliope is sexy. Very sexy. Intimidatingly so. You don't understand any of this because you're barely two days old but that's ok because then you won't go and tell her how ridiculous I'm being right now. No you won't." She said the last part in a sing song voice and nuzzled her nose against the newborn's forehead. She always talked to the babies when she had a problem or needed to get things off her chest. She didn't have any friends here yet and she definitely didn't want to go to any of the gossipy nurses about anything. Callie would hear it in a matter of seconds, considering she'd only been here a week and already found out that Callie was gay, her ex-girlfriend Erica Hahn was a world renowned heart surgeon and had one day up and left Seattle and never came back. She had also heard some of the male nurses discussing her "million dollar ass and perfect rack" as they put it. All of this had just made Arizona even more intrigued to meet the woman who seemed to be such a topic of interest among the staff.
"What's up with you?" Meredith Grey said as she approached an extremely nervous looking Callie Torres, pacing back and forth in front of the nurses' station.
"Nothing. Nothing's wrong. Why?" She said this more to herself than actually to Meredith.
"Yeah." She drew out the word and rolled her eyes. "That's why you're wearing a hole in the floor and look like you're about to freak out. What's going on Callie?"
"Ok, fine. I…have a date with Dr. Robbins tonight." She said quietly.
"Dr. Robbins?" Realization dawned on Meredith's face. "Dr. Arizona Robbins? The one that skates around here in Heely's?" She was trying hard not to laugh and Callie could tell.
"You know what? Shut up!"
"Oh, come on Torres! You can't get mad at me for laughing at that. She's just so…"
"Perky?" Callie finished for her.
"And you're so…"
"Not?"
"Precisely." Meredith laughed. "Well, maybe she'll lighten you up a bit so I guess it's a good thing. In all seriousness though, I'm glad you're finally dating." Just as Meredith finished speaking she noticed Arizona rolling towards them. "And that's my cue, see ya Callie. Good luck!" She winked and gave her the classic Meredith Grey smirk.
"Later, Mer."
"Hey!" Arizona said as she skidded to a stop in front of Callie.
"Hey, what brings you down here?" She smiled.
"I came to see you, silly!"
"Oh, well I was going to come up and visit you earlier too but then this kid with a broken wrist came in from falling off a skateboard and I had to deal with him." It was true that a kid with a skateboarding injury came in, it was true she had to deal with his wrist, she just wasn't telling the truth about the timing. She just didn't want to tell Arizona that she didn't go see her because she was too nervous.
"Well, now I'm here!" She grinned. "I did come down for a reason though. I wanted to make sure we were still on for tonight, seeing as it's getting close to end of shift."
"Yeah, definitely. I've been looking forward to it all day."
"Ok, I was just wondering because I hadn't seen you at all today and I still need to get your address."
"Oh! Right!" She clapped her hand to her forehead. "Kinda hard to pick someone up when you don't have a clue where they live huh?" She grabbed a pen and a piece of paper from the nurses' station and wrote her address on it. "Do you need directions?" She asked as she handed the piece of paper over to Arizona.
"Nope, I think I know where this is. Besides, I have GPS if I don't" She smiled, and there were those dimples again. Callie could feel the blush creeping into her cheeks. "Okay, well now I have it! I really should get back up to PEDS though. I'll see ya at 8pm sharp!" She turned on her heel and rolled back down the hallway. Callie stared after her until she disappeared. Man she's cute. She thought to herself.
As soon as 6pm came around, Callie signed out as quickly as possible and practically ran out the hospital doors to her car. She was trying to get as much time as possible to get ready. She wanted the first time Arizona saw her outside of work, other than the night at Joe's, to be perfect. She wanted to look flawless, to quote Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City "Not trying too hard, just, Effortlessly Striking." Once she got home she quickly opened the door tossed her keys and purse on the kitchen counter and ran into her room, completely ignoring her roommate, Christina Yang, who was sitting on the couch reading a medical journal.
"Well hello to you too!" Christina called after her.
"Sorry! I have to get ready!" Callie yelled back. Christina got up and followed her into her bedroom.
"What's got you so excited? Hot date?" Callie blushed but didn't say anything. "It is a date!" Christina said with shock in her voice. "With who?"
"Why is everyone so surprised that I have a date? I am a human being you know! And for your information it's with Dr. Robbins." She waited for Christina to have the same reaction as Meredith did earlier.
"Roller Girl?! You have a date with Roller Girl?! How did that happen?"
"Since when did you start calling her Roller Girl? And for your information she asked me out last night when I was at Joe's having a beer after work."
"Dude, she's like…McPerky or whatever…and she wears heely's."
"So? I like her and if you're just gonna be in here distracting me then go back to your journal. If you want to help me, you can stay."
"Do I really look like the helping you pick out a date outfit, giggling while doing hair and makeup kind of girl? Sorry Torres, I'm definitely not going to be much help to you with that." Christina said as she walked back out into the living room.
"Thanks a lot Yang!" Callie called after her before slamming her door shut. She threw open her closet doors and scanned the contents. She tried 4 different dresses before she happened to see something hanging in the very back of the closet, still in a dress bag, still wearing the original tags. "Ooh! I forgot I bought this!" She said excitedly aloud. She had bought this dress ages ago, but never got the chance to wear it and ended up forgetting about it. It was blue satin; a little lighter than royal blue, low cut with thick straps that fell slightly off the shoulder, and was cut just a bit above the knee. There was even decorative emerald shaped royal blue jewels on either strap that had little Swarovski crystals around them. She slowly removed it from the dress bag and carefully cut off the tags. She unzipped the zipper, stepped into it and then attempted, rather unsuccessfully to zip it up herself. "Yang!" She called. Christina opened the door and almost fell over laughing at the sight in front of her. Callie was wrestling with the zipper, swinging around trying to find a way to get it up on her own. "Yang, stop laughing and just help me would you!"
"Help you I can do, stop laughing I don't think so." She said still snickering as she walked behind Callie and grabbed hold of the zipper. She tugged gently and it slid up Callie's back effortlessly. "This is quite the dress Callie." She said now that she was composed.
"Yeah, I forgot I had it. It was hiding in the back of the closet."
"Looks good." She gave Callie the thumbs up and then wandered back out to the living room. Callie examined herself in her full length mirror and decided that if Arizona's jaw didn't drop when she saw her then she would have to be blind. Next she put a few hot rollers in her hair to give it that sexy loose curl look and started her makeup.
"Okay, final step. Shoes." She said to herself after everything else was done and she was rooting through her millions of shoes to find the ones that would go perfect with the dress. She finally found them, once again hiding at the back of her closet. They were the same colour as the dress and had a very similar jewel on the front. They were the Monolo Blahnik's. The same pair worn by Carrie Bradshaw. She took one last look in the mirror before heading into the living room to wait for Arizona.
Arizona almost fell through her front door she was trying so hard to get through it. First she made a wrong turn leaving the hospital, then she spent 20 minutes trying to get her bearings again to find her way home, finally she made it home and her key decided to get stuck. After another 10 minutes of fighting with the lock, it finally gave way and she just about took a header into her hallway. "Shit!" she yelled to no-one when she realized it was already 7pm. She took the stairs two at a time to get to her bedroom to start getting ready. "Okay, what to wear, what to wear…" She asked herself out loud as she flung things from the closet onto her bed behind her. "Oh! This will work!" It was a pink one shoulder dress that started off a deep magenta at the top and faded to a pale rose as it flared out at her feet. She swept her hair up into a simple up-do, did her makeup before finally topping the look off with a pair of Christian Louboutin strappy high heels in magenta and gold. She appraised the completed look quickly before running out the door. She punched Callie's address into her GPS and got on the road with 15 minutes to spare.
A/N Couldn't let you all experience their first date just yet! Come on now! Haha! I know I'm evil! Muahahaha!
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