A/N Be sure you've read chapter 4 before this, I uploaded these two quite close together.


"Derek was driving, so he seems like a safe bet for the next piece of your puzzle," Addison offered.

Callie turned around and braced herself for what was yet to come.

"Guess I'll go see Derek then."


Arizona sat clutching a hot cup of coffee at her and Teddy's breakfast bar like her life depended on it, having just managed to drag herself out of bed. The self-imposed caffeine-therapy didn't seem to be working as her stomach still swirled with nausea. She was trying to piece together last night as various random images and memories kept assaulting her senses. Whilst she was trying to discern fact from fiction as she nursed her hangover, she heard a quiet buzzing noise coming from somewhere in the house. Something in the back of her mind registered that it must be her phone vibrating but she couldn't muster up the energy to go and search for it. However, the little noise continued to irritate her for the next five minutes so when the seventh set of buzzes started, she got up from her seat to find the damn thing and turn it off. She finally found it lodged between two seat cushions just as it started to ring again and, inadvertently wondering how it got there, Arizona went to press the end call button. Scrolling through her phone, she became a little worried when she saw her call history; she had twenty-three missed calls between the hours of 2am and now. The phone began to ring again, seeing that it was Teddy and having learnt that twelve of the twenty-three missed calls were from her, she reluctantly pressed the green button and brought the phone to her ear.

She was greeted by an incoherent Teddy, "Arizona where the fuck have you been it's 5pm, I thought you were dead. I was… we were… me and Callie… we were… oh god never mind, just tell me where you are."

"I'm at our apartment, you know, the place where we live, the place that you didn't come home to last night," she replied and Teddy could almost hear her eyebrows rising with innuendo.

"Oh." Teddy faltered. "I didn't even think to check there."

"Mm hmm."

"I'll be home in five minutes Arizona. Fuck I have some shit to tell you."

"Well hurry back then Teddy bear," Arizona said playfully, intrigued.

"You know I hate it when you call me that." Teddy whined, but Arizona had already hung up.

The blonde flung herself onto the couch, waiting for Teddy to arrive and then groaned when she realised that the violent action had done nothing good to her upset stomach. She took the time to think back to last night. She remembered greeting Callie at the door with a hug. God, she had smelt amazing, like honey and oranges. It had taken all of her self-control not to take her right there in the hallway. She then recalled Teddy calling her away and, in doing so, releasing her from the internal emotional battle she was having with herself. She didn't understand how her (what she termed) 'innocent little crush' had completely spiralled out of control in the space of less than four days. Arizona wasn't normally so impulsive, but when she was in the tattoo parlour, the adrenaline from getting the piercing had clearly kicked in and made her reckless. Or so Arizona rationalised as her sub-consciousness decided to suppress all her deep-seated feelings for Callie and justify the kiss as a moment of senseless insanity. Whilst Arizona was deep in thought, Teddy burst through the door and promptly collapsed onto her knees, wheezing and out of breath.

"Are you being pursued by an axe-murderer?" Arizona asked, only half-joking whilst getting up to shut the door behind her exhausted flatmate, whose abrupt entrance had chased all thoughts of Callie from her mind.

Teddy shook her head and stumbled to her feet as she tried to find her words. She bent over and rested her hands on her knees, trying to support her upper-body weight and regain her breath.

"Ran… stairs… tell you… me… Callie… naked… woke up… bed," she managed to wheeze out between gasps.

"Are you trying to ask me if I had sex with Callie last night?" Arizona asked, slightly taken aback.

"No," Teddy said and pointed to herself. "Me." She clutched her left side in agony "fuck!" She cried out as she realised that she had developed a stitch.

"You fucked Callie last night and woke up naked in her bed?!" Arizona yelled, misinterpreting, and her eyes darkened as jealously started to bubble within her.

"What?! NO!" Teddy yelled back. "Well, maybe. Wait, no! I'm straight! I just woke up in Callie's bed… with no clothes on," she said, having finally got her breath back. "Also why would you be judging if we did have sex?" Teddy asked and immediately recognised the look on Arizona's face and realised the reason for her discomfort; a light bulb may as well have appeared over her head, "you're jealous!" she declared, doing a little happy dance. "Arizona, open quotation marks 'The Player' close quotation marks Robbins is jealous," she said, laughing gleefully.

"Am not!" Arizona countered, immediately regretting how childish and not at all believable she sounded as she slapped Teddy on the arm. "And what is wrong with you, most people use air quotes not 'open quotation marks,'" she mocked, imitating Teddy.

"Awww, and now you're lashing out at me because you are so jealous!"

"Stop skipping around my flat and sit down and tell me the whole story," Arizona ordered disgruntledly, too tired to try to argue with Teddy any more as she sat down herself. Teddy practically bounced over to the couch.

"Theodora Altman, you are acting like a five year old," Arizona admonished.

"Am not," she replied, teasing Arizona by using her earlier retort.

"Teddy start talking!" Arizona was beginning to lose her patience.

"Fine I'll give you the short version. Woke up naked in Callie's bed, horrified, went to Addison's with her to see if she remembered anything. Addie said to go ask Derek because he was the only sober one last night, Callie left and I stayed and threw up for like," Teddy stopped rattling off the events of her morning and looked at her watch, "an hour and ten minutes. And then I rang you ABOUT TWENTY TIMES." She glared at Arizona who looked away guiltily, "and here we are."

"Is that it?"

"What do you mean is that it?! Is that not enough?!"

"No I just mean…"

Teddy interrupted her, "oh wait, you were grinding on Callie right there," she said, pointing to the spot that Arizona was currently sitting in.

Arizona jumped up in shock. "Uh, Z, you do realise that I said you were sitting on top of Callie there, not some STD-riddled stranger," Teddy said, confused.

Arizona paused for a second, at a loss for words and said the first thing that popped into her head. "Well that explains why I found my phone there." Teddy looked at Arizona, a little worried if that was the only thing she had to say on the situation.

Arizona opened her mouth again, "Does Callie remember?" she asked the other blonde.

"No."

"Oh thank god."

Teddy debated in her head for a second whether or not to tell Arizona the 'but' to that statement, then decided that honesty was the best policy. "She knows now though, Addie told her," she admitted.

"Oh fuck." Arizona closed her eyes. "What did she say?"

Teddy looked at Arizona with pity. "She was…"

"Embarrassed and wants to pretend it never happened," Arizona finished for her.

Teddy replied meekly, "Yeah. I felt that vibe coming off her."

"Teddy stop looking at me like my puppy died, I'm fine," Arizona said without opening her eyes.

"How did y…"

"I can hear it in your voice," Arizona explained.

She opened her eyes and Teddy could see the new-found determination in them as she stalked off to her room and slammed the door. Teddy heard multiple things crashing to the floor (or possibly off the walls; she couldn't be sure) and walked up to the door and tentatively knocked.

"Arizona?" she said quietly.

The door immediately flew open and Teddy almost fell back on her ass in shock. Arizona was standing there looking hot as hell in a low-cut red dress matched with killer black heels. Her hair was hastily pulled up and she had applied a generous amount of eye-liner, framing her eyes and making them look even more striking.

"I'm going out." She announced.

"Where?" Teddy asked, bemused.

"Joe's."

Joe's was a cute little bar on campus that turned into a club on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. Since it was a Friday, it would be completely dead until about 10pm. Considering it was 5:30, Teddy was utterly perplexed as to why Arizona would want to go now, dressed like that and she voiced these thoughts.

Arizona frowned at her phone after Teddy spoke, using it to confirm that it was, in fact, half past five.

"Well, I will find somewhere to drink," she said, still stubbornly wanting to go out.

Teddy sighed and grabbed her jacket from the hook as Arizona flounced out the door.

"Wait up Z!" She yelled.

Best friend duty was so not conducive to her hangover.


Callie paused just before she knocked on the door to Derek and Meredith's house, wondering whether this was a good idea, or if she even wanted to know what happened last night.

The happy couple had lived there for about six months now. They got engaged the year before and decided to move in together a few months after Derek proposed. The engagement was quite controversial; all of their friends argued about whether it was too soon or not and whether they were too young to make a marriage work. But a general consensus was reached that if Meredith and Derek were happy, then their friends were happy for them. Callie was one of the ones who had been pro-engagement from the outset, maybe it was the romantic in her. She stood on the doorstep, remembering the big argument her and Arizona had over it which ended in the two girls not talking to each other for a week before Derek finally sat them down together and made them apologise, like the pseudo-father he was.

Callie vaguely recalled Derek saying his sister and niece were coming to stay for the weekend, but she wasn't entirely sure whether he meant this weekend or the next. She knocked anyway and Meredith almost immediately answered the door.

"Callie, come in!" she greeted as she led Callie into the living room. "Derek's sister Liz is in town and we were all about to head out to Joe's for a few drinks, wanna come?"

"Yeah actually!" Callie said, surprising herself.

"Callie!" a voice greeted her from inside the room and Callie looked up and saw the last person she expected to see in Meredith's living room.

"You two know each other?" Derek asked, mildly shocked.

"Yeah we used to…" she paused, "I think date is the word."

The voice laughed and its owner came over and hugged Callie. She reciprocated.

"How's your girl?" it asked.

"My girl?" Callie asked, confused.

"Yeah the blonde from Tuesday!"

"Oh, you mean Arizona. She's not my girl," she said, whilst Meredith and Derek shared a look behind her back. "She's just a friend."

"Mm hmm sure. How's her nose?"

"I think it's healing well," Callie said, "I haven't really seen her since." This time Meredith and Derek couldn't hold back a snicker. Callie turned to them, looking for enlightenment about what was so funny but Derek spoke to the other figure before she could ask.

"I'm sorry, but how do you pronounce your name again?"

Callie snorted, "it's the name of his store," she turned to the guy, grinning, "full of yourself much?"

He rolled his eyes at her and turned to address Derek. "My name's Maciej," he said, "but if you can't pronounce it, just call me Magic."


A/N Trying to set everything up, more Callie/Arizona interaction will come soon.