AN: I am really sorry about the lateness in getting this chapter to you, between my lack of brain function and complete silliness I have wondered if i would ever get this finished. Plus the fact that I have a really short attention span so when other stories get updated i disappear into the land of words!
As always, can I thank everyone for taking what spare time you have (cause time is hard to get back) to read, review or even to who adds an alert for my strange story, it's very much appreciated.
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As usual I do not own any of the greys characters I use in this story. I am only playing around, most people who know me, quickly do realise that I don't take things seriously (i want to be a Jester when I grow up) and i don't mean to offend anyone. I am sorry if there are any mistakes in this chapter I do read through and use spellcheck but sometimes the little buggars will escape!
Hope you enjoy and if you don't I'm sorry but it's not my fault it was the voices in my head x
Thank you, You know who you are, you helped inspire me big time by breaking me out of my funk and getting my writing juice's flowing again...It was good talking with you while it lasted.
Chapter 6 – My first date went a little like this.
"Nope not gonna happen, no more restraints…no more drugs!"
Teddy heard the words. She watched the words come rambling from the mouth…it just wasn't the mouth she thought it would have been. She had expected Tim to put up a fight first. Hell she'd known Tim was overly protective of his little sister and stubborn to boot. It made her smile and she could see it in the woman's face just how much she cared for Arizona. It hadn't surprised her really... she knew that Arizona had this sort of pull about her. You couldn't help but care for the child...now woman.
Teddy always did like a fight and found it endearing that this stranger had beaten Tim to the verbal attack she had expected from her lifelong friend. Teddy watched as he just stood there observing as she battled it out with the obviously fiery Latina.
"No…see, you don't understand what Arizona is. What they've done to her. The drug cocktails, they're just the underbelly of the beast; she is basically a walking weapon. I'm sorry but she is extremely dangerous and can't be left unrestrained. The files say that the CPU device can be activated by their main frame system. It can take direction from internal commands that are stored in the CPU as well as external commands that come from the operating system and other programs. They could activate the chip from anywhere at anytime!" Teddy was quickly cut off by a very aggravated Latina.
"No…see, you have just had your nose buried too deep in files. You don't know…you said yourself there's no way of knowing. You said could. She has only had the one incident and ok...twice she attacked us…" Callie's ramble was cut off by Arizona.
"Callie, I've attacked you already and I don't want to hurt any of you AGAIN! Teddy's right, I need to be locked up again, it's the only way." Arizona moved attentively towards the Latina and placed a hand on the brunette's forearm which snapped Callie from the intense staring match she had established with the computer genius.
As Callie's attention had been seized, Teddy seemed to snap back into reality. "Wait what do you mean the one incident?" Teddy had to admit she loved that Callie had balls. No one dared question her like this, not even Mark and Tim had the guts to. She looked towards Tim for answers as she quickly realised that she wouldn't get anywhere with Callie.
"Yes well, we would have got to it earlier but you kinda dropped that bombshell on us. We are running a day behind?" Tim looked to Callie for confirmation which he received in the form of a nod from the brunette, though she never let her gaze lift from Arizona. "We had a little confrontation with some Death Walkers, but we're alright!"
"Obviously!" Teddy couldn't help the little smirk play on her lips as she received a look from Tim. She couldn't help it, she liked toying with him.
"Smart ass! Anyway, we got snared in a trap and well, what I saw from the screen…actually I really don't know how to… explain." Tim blew some air out as he tried to think of how to explain what he'd seen.
"Wait…" Tim watched as Teddy looked down. The sound of keys quickly being pressed filled the silence. Teddy looked back up with a smug look on her face, "You mean this?" All three looked on as Teddy's image was replaced by the video feed of the fight from earlier, though it wasn't the heat signature feed, it was the real time one that had been too dark before to see anything. Teddy had been able to lighten everything up enough that everyone could be made out. The screen split and the other image was the heat sensitive image. "That is scary and awesome all rolled into one!" Teddy's voice could be heard as the final stages played out. When the pictures finished the screen switched back to Teddy's face.
"I don't know all the ins and outs yet, but the reason Zona's heat signal was so low is to do with the tests. They were trying to create a super soldier…for what reason is unknown but as you can see she's pretty effective. That is why Hahn has been released. The bitch has been let off her leash so she can get Zona back or no doubt destroy the only living proof that Burke was involved in any of this." Tim didn't think it possible for Teddy to look any more serious but she managed it as she continued.
"You know how much I love 'Zona but Tim, she's a walking weapon. Zona you know yourself, you had no control of your actions there when the chip switched, did you? I could see it in your eyes, it looks to me that the chip has a glitch. I take it that it was probably the fighting that activated it or the fact that you felt threatened." Teddy watched Callie's eyes flicker with what she thought was sympathy, sadness that the blonde indeed had no control over her actions.
"I am excellent at what I do. I can work computers with my eyes closed and unfortunately, Arizona has a computer in her head. I'm going to do all I can to control it but I can't do anything until I'm there. So...I need you to get her here. I can't help her if you're all DEAD!" Teddy tried to push her point home.
"We will get to you, but Arizona's not being restrained again!" Callie watched as Teddy was about to open her mouth in protest. "No! Be quiet, I'm talking now! I understand that you are good at what you do but this is my transport, my rules. You continue getting the information you need to sort Arizona and I will deal with Arizona in my own way. Is there anything else important that you can tell us?"
"Nothing that will help at the minute. I have bits and pieces, but I don't think this is the time to discuss it with Arizona, so I will wait till I'm on transport and can access things better!" Teddy was sure that she would be able to scramble the signal of the chip. It would effectively stop the chance of it being activated, but the new information that the chip looked as though it had a malfunction, that worried her and she didn't want to build any hopes until she could see the damage for herself.
"Thank you Teddy. We should be with you in three days…stay safe" Callie's tone of voice confirmed that she had finished with the conversation on Arizona.
"I hope to see you soon then. Stay safe and watch out for Hahn, she's a snake. The bitch can strike when you're least expecting it" Teddy smiled at Tim before she turned her monitor off. Spinning around in her seat she giggled as she looked to one of the assistants behind her "Guess who thinks she wears the trousers in the relationship!" Teddy's assistant sniggered at the older woman as he continued going about his business. "Ok, are the scramblers still working? Alrighty then, let's see what other truths we can discover from the belly of the beast" Teddy faced her computer again, cracked her knuckles and then the sound of typing filled the air.
Callie walked over to the screen and punched a few buttons. Stepping back as the screen flicked to the control room, the four bodies quickly scurried to different areas of the cramped room as they tried to make out that they weren't listening or watching any of the conversation.
"Private moments indeed eh! Subtle guys, you're very subtle." Callie giggled at Bailey's flustered appearance and Hunt shaking his head mumbling something about him driving and minding his own business. She could see the older woman trying to think how she was going to get out of this one. Bailey always said she didn't want to know anyone's business, yet she always knew.
"Oh my god I thought my brain was going to explode. So many dirty images. All I need are a wrestling ring and a vat of mud. In the red corner Captain Badass Torres and in the blue corner Fast Fingered Altman. Even that sounds dirty! Just a pity Altman is more into Tim than you Torres. I'm sure she'd be a lesbians dream!" Sloan couldn't help the smirk as he watched Callie scrunch her eyes in disapproval. He laughed knowing that he was out of reach of the punch he knew she would have given him. He was extremely shocked however when he felt a sharp pain to the back of his head. He turned and was faced with the annoyed face of Miranda Bailey. Lowering and rubbing his head, Sloan moved to the back of the room like a scolded child.
"Sloan if you're not going to say anything useful, we'll put you down in the hold with the rest of the tools!" Bailey shot the man a 'retaliate if you dare look' which he backed down from but kept the smug look on his face.
"Ok, this is what's happening...Tim and Mark, you're bunking up. When Teddy boards the Transport she'll get the room next to you. My room is at the end of the corridor, it only has Addison's room across which is not needed yet. I take responsibility for Arizona. She will stay with me and the airlock between the room and you all will stay closed at all times. Christina I need you to rig it up so that it can only be opened from your end. When I want out I will video contact you and one of you will come down and let me out. Bailey you're in charge when I'm in that room but you run everything past me first, right? Continue on route, we have two nights and we need to get through before we get to Teddy on the third day. Any questions?" Callie gave out her orders to the crew, keeping her voice steady and calm even though the thought of being locked in a room with a potentially dangerous weapon had made her very nervous. She knew Arizona had to be kept away from everyone else just in case, but with all the woman had been through, Callie didn't want to make her feel like a prisoner anymore. Bailey broke Callie from her internal conversation.
"Callie, do you really think that's a good idea?" she questioned the brunette.
"I don't know…maybe…yes, but this way it means that she's not by herself and if something does happen you will all be out of the way. I'll have my Taser, but I'm not locking her away by herself again." Callie watched as Bailey held her hands up in surrender. Callie turned to the two Robbins' "Tim, relocate your stuff to Marks room. Arizona, gather your stuff and come with me." With a nod towards Tim, Callie looked back to the monitor "Karev, this bed frame needs straightened, can you fix it before Teddy comes? Christina come and meet us at my room so you can sort the air lock. Thanks people, you know what you're all to do." Callie switched off the monitor and turned, extending her hand towards the very quiet Blonde. Arizona looked into the caring dark eyes of the woman in front of her and accepted the hand with a slight smile.
Time looked at his sister. "Zona, I love you…you'll be fine, and we can keep in contact through the monitors. Callie, I would like to take turns with you. I think you're right, there should only be one of us in there at any time…its safer that way. But she should be my responsibility. Maybe you should let me stay with her?" Arizona watched the conversation between her brother and Callie play out. The whole time when Callie was laying out her plan to the rest of her crew, it was so hot and she couldn't help get a little bit excited by it. The thought of being locked in a room with the woman...my god! So when she knew what her brother was going to suggest, she just had to pray that Callie would chase that idea away. Not that she didn't want to spend time with her brother it's just the beautiful woman intrigued her.
"My transport, my rules Robbins. I'm doing this but thank you. If I need to leave then it's good that someone else would stay with Arizona. Ok let's go!" Arizona couldn't help but smile when she felt Callie's hand grip hers tighter, not letting her go anywhere. Looking at Tim, Arizona giggled and replied to Tim when she heard what he had thought "I'm a big girl now Tim, don't worry about me!" Tim just looked on amused as he watched the two women leave...he had thought that maybe restraints would be a good idea.
Slowly she made her way through the open entrance of Callie's room. Arizona had left the tall brunette arguing with Yang in the corridor about the fact that Christina had decided Callie was a jackass for even thinking about going through with her insane plan. Christina had quite quickly and not so subtly told Callie that she thought Arizona would cut her up into tiny little manageable pieces. When Callie had shouted at the smaller woman, she just shrugged and said that there was no use in not saying anything since Arizona would have read exactly what she had said anyway. Arizona left the two going at each other and made her way into the room.
Looking around the room, Arizona took in everything she could. The room smelled like Callie...some sort of spicy fragrance. It filled her senses, spurring something to life at the pit of her stomach. She had felt it before, every time she had been in the brunette's presence. The feeling was intense, it almost burned…it was unnerving but electrifying. She'd never felt anything like it before. She followed the line of the wall trying to take in every little jigsaw piece of the woman that captivated her. Stopping she smiled as she traced the outline of the dirty, scruffy little children's stuffed animal.
"My dad gave me that because I had trouble sleeping. When they took my mum, we had to flee so we left everything behind. My dad went back to the house and made sure he got me that." Arizona didn't flinch when Callie started to speak, she just continued to take in every little detail of the stuffed toy. Finally turning to see the smirking Latina, Arizona could do nothing but return the face consuming smile mirror imaged on the person in front of her.
She looked deep into Callie's eyes, trying to read what she had been thinking. As usual she could not make anything out but she knew funnily enough exactly what the brunette was thinking and it made her very quickly nervous. Callie's eye's showed sympathy, desire…love!
That was the thing that scared her. Could someone really love another person so quickly? It had only been days since they had met and to be honest, Arizona didn't really have anything to compare it to. Her parent's loved her, her brother, Mark and Teddy loved her...she knew what that felt like. She could remember that, but this…whatever she had with Callie, it was so hard to describe.
Her stomach ached, but in a good way. It was a weird feeling. Backing up to lean against the wall trying to keep as much distance as possible between herself and the object of her internal debate, Arizona tried to relax. She watched as Callie continued to unabashedly look her body up and down, Arizona smirked slightly as she remembered watching cartoons as a child with Tim where there would be this bear, which would look at the person and imagine said person was lines and lines of deliciousness. Callie had that hungry bear look and it made Arizona feel…alive. For the first time in twelve years, she wasn't afraid of the person in the room with her. She didn't know exactly what these feeling were but she was so sick of being a prisoner. Arizona, in that moment...looking into the deep dark, soulful eyes of the woman across from her, knew that she was done. Done with being scared of the monsters in her nightmares. Finished with being afraid of who she'd become and she was certainly not going to be anyone's puppet again. She knew she could do it. She had Callie now…the woman held the scissors that would cut those darn strings.
These feelings that Arizona had towards Callie...she wasn't going to let them go without a fight. She was taking back her life and Callie wouldn't know what hit her. The two women silently made their way to the bunk and sat at opposite ends, still staring at each other. No words were needed right now and both welcomed the steadiness the both could give each other.
"Come on hurry up, shift aside and let me at my baby…mama's gonna take good care of you." Christina bounced excitedly next to Owen as he sat, still driving Bambi.
Bailey had decided that it would be a good idea to let Hunt get a few hours' sleep before it got too dark again and with Callie dealing with Arizona, Christina was starting to get on her nerves. After she got back from rigging up the air lock and locking Callie and Arizona in their room, Bailey had promised to let Christina take over driving duties while Owen rested. It meant that she could sort food as Karev was useless and she actually wanted to keep her food in her gut this time. The wound to his leg was stopping him from being able to maintain the pressure needed to work the pedals. All she knew was that Mark and Tim were still fighting over who got top bunk like a couple of children.
"Christina, I swear…do exactly what I would do. Don't mess around. We can't have any more setbacks, ok?" Hunt got up slowly, still holding the steering wheel. His foot remained on the accelerator as he slid from the seat so Christina could replace him. They managed the changeover without having to slow down, though Christina had managed to tug on the wheel a bit which made the vehicle veer to the left. Owen stepped back and watched as Christina got comfortable.
"Christina, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
"What? I'm driving as you would. Notice how I have one hand resting carelessly on the wheel" Christina replied snidely towards the ginger haired man "Why don't you show me how to hold the wheel?" Christina smirked as she heard the noise the nervous man made behind her. The smile grew as Owen's arms snaked around her and took hold of her hands on the wheel. Christina looked up into Hunts eyes as the man looked down towards her lips. Slowly moving down, he decided to go for it. Christina had been playing with him for weeks and he had been nervous of how intense she could be. Finally, making contact with her lips he felt both of them relax but before they could get lost in the moment he remembered the task at hand and pulled back.
"I think you should keep your eyes in front of you, I need to go and get some rest…I'll see you later?" Hunt nervously backed towards the exit.
"Thanks for the pointer's. I'll definitely keep that in mind for future reference" Christina tried to keep the smile away as she watched Hunt's reflection in the monitor retreat from the room. As he disappeared from sight, she spun around in the chair throwing her arms in the air in celebration. As she replaced her foot on the accelerator Bambi surged forward a bit as she misjudged the force of her foot.
"Christina!" Hunt's smiling voice came from the corridor and Christina just smiled back into her seat as she settled into the task at hand.
"Soooooooo…Teddy, coming on board, in the room next to us. As in Teddy…love of your life Teddy. Have you lost your gonads, is that why you won't do anything about it? And then you get all whiney when I let my natural charm out." Mark was enjoying watching his pal squirm on the seat he'd taken. Tim and Teddy had been dancing about each other for years. He knew how both of them felt for each other and was the friend stuck in the middle as the two wouldn't speak to each other because they didn't want to disrupt a great friendship. Mark knew how deeply Teddy cared for Tim. Years ago, during one very drunken night Mark had tried his luck with his friend and after one kiss she had burst into tears and started bubbling about how much she was in love with Tim and that she had wished it was Tim that was kissing her. He had tried to push them in the right direction but they were just so doubtful about the others feelings that it made any conversation a no go area. Mark just thought that this would be perfect. Small space...with nowhere to hide.
"Yeah I've missed her. It will be good to get the trio back together" Tim smiled and totally ignored that his idiot friend had tried to whine him up.
Tim watched as his friend changed his expression to a more serious one. With Mark stopping mid whine, Tim knew something was definitely on the man's mind.
"What's up with your mug?"
"You know something's bugging me about the Death Walkers…it's just…ah never mind, it's stupid!"
"Yes well most things that come out your mouth are mate but, your gut reaction has always been right so…" Tim circled his hand in the air trying to egg the man to continue.
"I, it's just...I had look at the bodies. Fuck Tim they really are psycho!"
"Umm you think? I have the bite mark on my shoulder to prove that they're not all there in the head department!" Tim laughed nervously as he remembered the panic he had felt when that thing had him pinned.
"At least 3 of them had the regiments tattoo. When you mentioned the older style Alliance uniform it bugged me. They were Alliance Tim! They were part of that prat Percy's squad. Well anyway…top bunks mine. You'll be getting all hot and nasty in her room anyway!" Mark quickly jumped on to the first step of the ladder completely stumping Tim with his quick change of subject. Mark looked back smugly at his friend. When he went to move to the next step, Tim couldn't stop his laughter when Mark ended up falling backwards onto his butt as the Transport veered to the side. Tim got up to give Mark a hand, who was giggling himself now. Before Tim turned around and went back to his seat the vehicle moved forward quickly knocking Tim forwards in its momentum.
Opening the eyes that he had tightly closed awaiting the thud of the ground, Tim found himself staring down into the greyish blue ones of Mark. "Oh really…am I gonna have to break it to Teddy that I was the reason all along. I'm truly touched…truly!" Mark batted his eyelashes and watched as Tim's face recoiled in horror at the suggestion. He laughed as Tim scrambled himself up and turned to face him. Mark saw the childish look on Tim's face but was too slow to react as Tim's boot made contact between the taller mans' legs. Bent over in burning pain, he clutched himself as Tim let out a roar of laughter. Mark rolled on to his side and tried to catch his breath as he heard Tim's sing song voice.
"Who's lost their gonads now, Bitch?"
The loud ringing startled the women who still sat just examining each other from their comfortable distance. Callie got up and went over to the monitor hitting the answer button. "Hey Torres, I've taken care of everything you asked…I shall be billing you later and let me tell you paybacks a bitch!" Bailey smiled as she saw both women were fine. Taking a breath she gathered her thoughts and wasn't too happy that Arizona could hear her thoughts. It freaked her out. She didn't like anyone to know her stuff unless she offered up the information. "I'm coming through…ohh and I called Addie like you asked to let her know that we should be with her soon. That woman's smile could have lit her building for a week!" The small woman said, shaking her head as she disappeared from view.
The noise from the airlock opening made a kind of swoosh noise and Baileys footsteps could be heard getting closer. When she appeared at the door, Arizona couldn't help but look confused. The older woman was stood at the entrance of the room with what could only be describe as the pout of all pouts. Two trays in her hands she looked to Callie"well I haven't got all day!"
Callie hopped quickly over to the cupboard and grabbed a fold away table and chair placing them in an already cramped space. Bailey placed the trays down on the table, as Arizona giggled obviously finding something funny. Looking at the Blonde she scrunched her eyes and pulled out a bottle and two glasses from the shoulder bag. As she placed the items on the table she gave the two women one last glance before expelling the air she'd sighed in "Enjoy!" was all they got as the woman left the room. Callie watched as Arizona tried to keep her laughter in by biting her lip. Callie was sure her heart just skipped a beat as she watched how adorable the blonde looked.
"What's all this anyway?" Arizona asked stifling her giggles.
"I told you no more restraints, and since we can't leave this room…I'm bringing the date to you!" Callie smiled as the Arizona realised what the brunette had said.
"Date?"
"Yes date we are having two Dates and then, when we get to Addie's I'm taking you out for your third date, because I have faith in Teddy. I have faith that she will have sorted your problem!" Callie watched Arizona's smile grow. She didn't think it possible that the woman could make that mouth anymore wonderful, but she did it. "I'm going to woo you; this is me in all my wooing charm." Callie moved around the small space and pulled out the chair waiting for Arizona to take a seat.
"Ma'am, may I interest you in the finest wine we have to offer?" Callie filled Arizona's glass when the blonde nodded her head dumb struck. The knots in her stomach were turning into boulders, and she loved the feeling.
As Callie took a seat, she looked at Arizona seriously "So why were you laughing at Bailey?"
Arizona started giggling more before she managed to compose herself, "All that was going through her head the whole time was Lalalalalalalalala damn horny assed children lalalalalala, ah hell no lalalalalal"Callie sucked in her lips and shook her head as she could guess what the'lalala's' were for.
The Latina looked over to the Blonde as she uncovered their food. Both woman smiled at each other and thought to themselves how amazing the other one was.
"Cheers!" with a clink of their glasses the room fell into silence as the two enjoyed a quiet meal together. Arizona smiled to herself and thought 'I could get used to being locked in a room with this woman. Not bad for your first ever date. Wooed indeed, bring on the rest of the night. I'm ready!'
