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A/N: All mistakes are my own!
After Boo and Hales left and Zach was called off from security detail there life had gone back to normal pretty fast. Alex trying to get as many surgeries as he could and Arizona throwing herself into rare cases she could find that other doctors had said no to, she also started research into short gut syndrome.
Alex did renovations on his bathroom so it's now fully decked out with a massive shower and a deep bathtub. He even added his and her sinks, all sleek and modern with a touch of homey feel to it. Many Friday nights at Joes playing darts, Mario Kart marathons with Jackson and Lexie or they would invite a big group to mini golf. As summer came along Alex started hosting BBQ's claiming he never had them growing up, considering her grew up in a bar.
Callie and Mark had become an item to no one's surprise, Arizona still won't talk to Mark but she and Callie have been starting to hang out in the same group again at lunch without snapping at each other.
"Zona we discussed this, I didn't want anything for my birthday." Alex huffs as she guides him onto the back deck. "You wouldn't let me plan anything for your birthday so you can't plan anything for mine. What's that noise?"
"I know, but this present is more for the both of us and we have discussed this on numerous accounts so I found one the other day and got it for a steal. I mean I should have just stolen it." Arizona says going to untie the blind fold. "Okay, one, two, three! Ta dah."
"Are you serious?" Alex asks shocked. "You bought that for my birthday present?"
"Yeah… why?" Arizona asks not knowing if it's good or not.
"This is freaking awesome!" Alex exclaims picking Arizona up and spinning her around before putting her back on her feet and kissing her hard on the lips. "I can't believe it, it's the one I wanted as well." Alex says walking over to the wooden hot tub bubbling away, steam coming off the water.
"Ahh what are you doing?" Arizona asks as Alex starts to shed his clothes.
"Hopping in. you coming?" He asks as he undoes his pants.
"Yeah, I'm just going to grab some water." Arizona says running inside grabbing a water and beer for Alex and turning the outside speakers on.
"Thanks." Alex says sculling half his beer straight away and watching Arizona pull off her clothes revealing her blue bikini.
Hooking one leg over the edge, Arizona stops. "You do have underwear on don't you?"
Alex shrugs before moving forward and pulling Arizona in at the waist as she shrieks. "Of course I have my boxers on, unless you don't want me to?" Alex asks wiggling his eyebrows.
"You're an idiot." Arizona shakes her head sipping her water.
"Seriously though, this is awesome. Thanks."
"I was dying to tell you but I waited, I knew this was the one you wanted and it fits perfectly. Boo and Quinn were so cut they just missed out by a week to use it." Arizona laughs remembering when she told them what she got for his birthday.
Alex smiles and moves in front of Arizona hands on either side of her thighs. Arizona swallows as Alex stops close to her lips, feeling his warm breathe wash over them, she can't help but smile and lean in the rest of the way closing the gap between them.
This is how it's been since Arizona's sisters visited, making out like teenagers. It never goes further than that. Surprisingly it's Alex who always puts the breaks on and Arizona gets it.
Alex not wanting to push too hard because deep down he knows Arizona likes him and he's willing to wait. To him Arizona is everything, he felt like the biggest idiot falling for his boss but now he can tell she's falling for him too. It's the little things she does that he loves and she doesn't even notice she does them. Like when she makes coffee she always sets his travel mug with milk in it in front of the coffee pot so he can just pour and leave. Or how she buys the new pediatric journal and sets it on his bedside table so he can read it and she puts post-it tabs on the things she knows will interest him. So little things like that let him know she feels the same way he does, she just hasn't fully registered that thought out loud yet.
As Alex's hand skim behind her knees, ready to pull her forward towards him they're interrupted by the shrill sound of Arizona's pager. Groaning Arizona pulls back and blindly reaches for the object and pulls it in front of her to check.
"I have to go in, Kelsie's back so it can't be good. I don't think she will be leaving this time." Arizona says sadly going to stand up.
"You want me to come in with you?" Alex asks concerned at the sadness in her eyes.
"No, invite Jackson over, have some fun it's your birthday. I'll see you when I get home." Arizona says leaning in for a peck goodbye, the kiss feeling like they've been doing it forever.
"Well ring me if you need anything."
"I will." Arizona says walking towards the door but stopping when something wet hits her back, looking down she sees boxers.
"Now I'm naked." Alex says making her laugh as she walks inside
"Hey Sally." Arizona says softly to the brunette standing outside of a patient's room.
"It's happening, what we've been fighting for two years."
"Nothings for sure yet, I've got nurses running all the tests and we will check her platelets. I'm not giving up." Arizona tries to reassure the woman.
"She seemed a bit sluggish yesterday and then she wouldn't wake up after her nap so we called the ambulance." Sally says as she and Arizona watch as Kelsie's dad rocks her back and forth in the room.
"I'll go and check the results and then come see you." Arizona says and heads to the nurse's station.
"Didn't expect to see you here this late." Callie says walking out of another patient's room.
"I got called in, Kelsie's back and it doesn't look good. Why are you here late?"
"Kid fell out of a tree, a lot of broken bones, I'm exhausted so I'm going home. I'm sorry about Kelsie." Callie says putting a file away.
"Thanks, goodnight Calliope." Arizona calls watching the pregnant woman walk away. Blowing out a puff of air out, she turns to her tablet checking the results her shoulders instantly falling.
Walking towards her office she quickly closes the door behind her and leaning back against the door and takes a deep breathe. Since the age of 2 Arizona has been treating Kelsie and they've been winning the battle against leukaemia and now they're not winning. The results she got back are the worst she's ever seen, Kelsie's little body is shutting down after two years of fighting. Taking a deep breath and wiping her tears away she grabs her lab coat and heads out of her office.
Clearing her throat as she steps into the room, Sally and Tom look towards her with pained eyes but they have a hint of acceptance in them. "Just say it." Tom whispers, keeping his eyes on Kelsie.
"Her white cell count isn't good at all, there… there's nothing more we can do except keep her comfortable. I'm so sorry." Arizona says as they silently cry, Arizona feels like the size of an ant.
Sally gets up and walks over and stops in front of Arizona before leaning in to hug her. "You gave us two extra years with her, we know you've done everything." Sally says before pulling back and walking to Kelsie's side.
Taking her exit Arizona plonks herself down on the chair behind the nurse's desk just outside Kelsie's room. It's going to be a long night.
Alex enters the ped's wing, two fresh coffees in hand, he stops when he sees Sally and Tom crying next to a Kelsie. As he takes in the room h0e can see the heart monitor is turned off and there were no wires attached to the little body. Walking quicker to Arizona's office he opens the door but finds it empty, so was the ped's lounge finally he spots blonde hair just behind the nurses desk and looks over finding Arizona slumped over in a chair clearly asleep. Relieved that its 5 in the morning so there's not a lot of hustle and bustle, he rounds the counter as Julie, one of the night nurses comes up.
"She finally crashed 20 minutes ago, she was awake all night with sally and tom. Kelsie crashed at 3:30 but I didn't have the heart to wake her." Julie whispers, she's one of the nurses that doesn't gossip which is actually weird but appreciated.
"Thanks Julie, I'm just going to move her to her office." Alex says and watches as Julie open Arizona's office door and walks away to check on patients.
Looking down at the sleeping woman Alex smiles at how adorable she looks with her lips slightly parted and even though she denies it, a little snore coming from her every so often. Hooking arms under her knees and bringing her upper body to lean into him her lifts her with, feeling her face nestle into his neck and her lips whisper softly over his skin, he quickly walks to her office and places her on the couch and covers her with a blanket kissing her forehead softly. He grabs his lab coat off her hanging rack and closing the door behind him softly.
Walking back to the desk he hands Julie Arizona's coffee. "She won't be drinking that anytime soon. I'm going to check on Kelsies parent's and take care of everything."
Arizona leans against the door frame of the hospital library with her arms crossed as she watches Alex fawn over 3 books in front of him, checking a different one every 10 seconds. His brow is pinched and his eyes squinting as her bites the side of his mouth in concentration and focus. Smirking she walks over to him, reaching into his lab pocket and pulls out his glasses and places them on him as she sits on the edge of the table. "I don't know why you won't just wear them when you're reading, they look fine. Great in fact." She comments making him smile, his brown eyes softening as her dimples pop.
"Just not use to wearing them out of the house, how'd you sleep?" he asks stretching back and placing his hands behind his head.
"My backs a little sore from falling asleep on the desk chair, I suppose I have you to thank for the muffin and banana placed on the coffee table when I woke up on my office couch?" Arizona asks raising an eyebrow.
"Maybe." Alex says smiling and holding Arizona's gaze and leaning forward to rest his arms on the table in front of him.
Arizona smiles and quickly flashes a look over her shoulder and checking no one is around before quickly leaning forward and kissing Alex's soft lips before sitting up straight again. "Thank you, for moving me and everything with Kelsie. I caught up with Tom and Sally just before they left." Arizona says shoulders sinking, making her look like she has the weight of the world on her shoulders. Alex inconspicuously places a hand on Arizona's knee comfortingly.
"No need to thank me." He says softly. "How about some lunch? I'm starving." He asks checking his watch to see it's just after 1 in the afternoon.
"Sounds good, I hope they have tots today."
Picking up there trays and scanning the cafeteria for a table they spot Meredith, Teddy, Mark and Callie in the corner and head over.
"I thought you were on maternity leave Meredith?" Arizona says sitting next to Teddy and eyeing Meredith's protruding belly.
"I met Derek for lunch but he was paged and then I couldn't be bothered leaving yet." Meredith says making everyone laugh.
"Don't you mean waddle?" Alex says making Arizona and Meredith lunch him in his arms. "Hey!"
"Don't be mean." Arizona says holding in a laugh.
"Heard you got a hot tub Karev, we'll have to come scope it out." Teddy says popping a tot in her mouth.
"When did you get that?" Meredith asks.
"Yesterday, it was a birthday present from Arizona."
"Damn Robbins, sweet present." Mark says biting into his apple. "I'd love a hot tub." Marks eyes glaze over as he picture himself getting a hot tub. All Callie can do is roll her eyes making Arizona roll her eyes.
"I heard about Kelsie, I'm sorry, I know you were close to her." Callie says to Arizona as everyone starts talking about hot tubs.
"Thanks, it helps knowing she's not in pain anymore." Arizona says before shaking away her thoughts. "So how's your little squirt going?" She asks nodding her head towards Callie's stomach.
"Awesome, we just had our 7 month check-up and we got a 3D picture." Callie excitedly pulls the picture out of her pocket showing Arizona.
Arizona studies the picture of a baby face, boy or girl they're going to be beautiful no matter what. "Wow, it's got marks nose and similar jaw line but I can tell it's got your lips and no doubt your eyes. Gonna be a looker."
"Thanks." Callie smiles. Alex slips his arm along the back of Arizona's chair and looks over her shoulder at the picture.
"Cute." He says and Callie nods as she watches Arizona unconsciously move into the side of Alex slightly, exactly what she did when Callie sat like that next to Arizona. Teddy snatches the photo from Arizona but Callie's eyes are trained on the hand that is placed on Arizona's shoulder as they have a conversation between the two of them.
Thoughts race through Callie's mind as she watches Alex and Arizona, Arizona doing the same things she did when she was with Callie. Callie's eyes sweep over the table and see no one else is taking notice of Alex and Arizona sitting like that, her mind not accepting the thoughts she's thinking. Callie jumps when Mark and Alex's pagers go off.
"That's the pit, I'll see you later babe." Mark says kissing Callie's cheek and him and Alex racing over to the ER.
"You alright, Calliope?" Arizona asks looking concerned.
"Uhh… yeah, just tired. I'm going to lie down, I'll see you all later." Callie gets up grabbing the picture and heading out of the cafeteria.
"That was weird." Arizona mumbles turning back to Teddy and Meredith.
"She was watching you and Alex then she turned kind of pale." Meredith says making Arizona freeze and teddy's fork stop mid-way to her mouth as her eyes flicked from Arizona to Meredith.
"W-what?" Arizona asks.
"It's not obvious to everyone but I noticed how close you two have become and I think she just realized it too." Meredith says watching Arizona's cheeks go red as she slowly stands herself up. "Now I'm off to find Christina."
Arizona's eyes find Teddy's and finds her trying not to smile. "We've become really good friends, best friends in fact." Arizona says sounding lame to herself.
"That's great, I'm glad." Teddy says before shovelling the food in her mouth. Teddy wants to ask so many questions but knows at the moment she will only get denial. "Hot tub tonight?" Teddy asks.
"Oh yeah, girls night?"
"Hell yeah I'm in." Teddy says as they go back to their food.
"I bought wine." Teddy calls as she enters the house.
"I got cheese and crackers." Arizona calls back. "I'm in the kitchen."
Teddy walks in dumping her bag on the table and unscrewing the wine bottle. "This wine has been earned after today."
"Agreed, im just going to change you can head out to the tub." Arizona says racing upstairs.
"Why were there drenched boxers at the backdoor?" Teddy asks as Arizona slips in the hot tub.
"Alex chucked them at me yesterday when I got paged." Arizona laughs and Teddy raises an eyebrow.
"You can only call it best friends for so long." Teddy comments making Arizona go quiet.
"What?"
"I've seen the way he looks at you and you him. Its changed slowly and not everyone can notice but I did, the way you two act around each other. And Zona?" Teddy says making Arizona look at her. "It's okay." She says seriously.
Arizona nods and drains her wine glass before filling it again. "I didn't mean for it to happen." Arizona whispers. "I tried to fight it but nothing worked… works."
Teddy's shocked in to silence at the fact that she got it right. "A month ago I went out with some old friends to this gay bar. Picked up this really hot woman and we ended up going back to her place. She had me pinned against the door trying while opening it, her lips were everywhere. And when the door opened I couldn't bring myself to go in, he was stuck in my mind and I couldn't do it so I left and came home." Arizona says and it stays silent. "I like him, a lot. Like REALLY like him."
"Holy… crap. I didn't think it was this much." Teddy says pouring more wine in there glasses.
Arizona nods. "I haven't had sex in…" Arizona counts in her head. "6 months." She exclaims. "And there's only so much my hands can do!"
"Have you told Alex how much you like him?"
"Not… no. Not how much I like him anyways… He makes me feel safe and I can goof off with him or have serious discussions. He wears glasses like Clark Kent when he reads in bed. Every time he smiles at me his eyes turn soft and I can see how much he cares about me. That smile, he only smiles at me like that. And when I kiss him it's like we are the only people in the room." Teddy listens and watches the smile on Arizona's face light up but lightly falls a bit. "I'm terrified, I've only ever been with women. And I'm scared I will get hurt because what if I… we…I don't want to get hurt again."
"Sweetie, I've seen the way he looks at you and now that I know the details, I can see that he adores you in the sweetest way. I honestly think he would do anything in his power not to hurt you." Teddy reassures wrapping an arm around Arizona to rub her back."If you ask me, I think you love him." Teddy says.
Arizona just stares at Teddy shocked, not because of what she said but because she realizes it's true.
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