A.N. Par two of my new mini-fics story. Thanks for reading. Enjoy!
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"Zee is that you?" Callie called from the kitchen when she heard her girlfriend's front door open.
Arizona sighed heavily and dropped her keys and her bag by the door and shrugged out of her coat, allowing it to simply fall to the floor as well. "Yeah, it's me."
"Hey." The brunette appeared in the doorway with a beer in each hand and approached the Peds surgeon and kissed her gently before handing her a beer. "How long have you been up?"
"Thank you." Arizona took a sip of her beer and checked her watch wearily. "It's been thirty four hours. I got a few hours of sleep here and there, but was one disaster after another."
"Poor baby," Callie mumbled gently and ran a hand down the blonde's arm. "I made dinner. Wanna tell me about it?"
Arizona shook her head as a pout began to form on her lips. "I'm starving but I really want to just take a bath and go to bed."
Callie smiled and kissed her again. "Go eat something and I'll draw you a hot bath, okay?"
"You're so good to me," the blonde mumbled quietly as she reached a hand out and placed it on her girlfriend's cheek.
Callie winked and turned her head to kiss Arizona's palm. "Yeah well, I kinda love you."
Arizona smiled wearily and kissed her. "I love you too."
"Go," the brunette ordered quietly.
Arizona nodded and headed for the kitchen as Callie made her way to the master bathroom, picking up Arizona's discarded coat and hanging it up along the way. She turned the water on in the tub nearly as hot as it would go and added lavender bath oil and a tiny drop of bubbles to the water the way Arizona liked it.
Callie pulled herself up onto the counter and sipped her beer until her girlfriend was ready, and when the blonde entered the bathroom she simply stood in the middle of the room looking exhausted and kind of lost.
Callie slid down off the counter and smiled at how pathetic Arizona looked. She grasped the hem of the blonde's shirt. "Arms up." She busied herself undressing her girlfriend and moments later, Arizona slid into the hot bathtub and sighed in relief.
"Thank you so much," she breathed out as she settled in and closed her eyes.
Callie smiled lovingly. "Want a glass of wine?"
"Please?" Arizona opened her eyes long enough to look hopeful.
Callie grinned and leaned down to kiss her. She ran a gentle hand over her girlfriend's curly blonde locks and moved to the kitchen. She poured two glasses of wine and was sure to turn off the lights as she moved back to the bathroom. She handed a glass to Arizona, who was looking more relaxed by the moment and she set her own down before moving to the bedroom to gather some candles.
Once she returned to the bathroom she lit the candles and turned off the lights, draping both women in soft candlelight.
"This is so nice," Arizona breathed happily. She opened her eyes. "This is so sweet of you."
Callie dropped a heavy folded towel to the floor and kneeled on it next to the tub. She grasped Arizona's free hand and began to massage it between both of her hands. "Tell me about your day."
As Arizona told her the details of the string of surgeries and emergencies that she'd had over the past two days, Callie made sure to keep herself in constant contact with the blonde in the tub. She rubbed her hands and her wrists, her arms and then shifted so she could rub her shoulders.
"Mmm, I think you should join me," Arizona told her quietly.
"The water's getting cold," Callie noted. "You've been in there for 30 minutes."
"Has it been that long?" Arizona asked.
"Well you had two days of insanity to tell me about," the brunette noted.
Arizona sighed. "And that's just the medical fun I've been having."
"Ooh, is there drama?" Callie asked looking hopeful.
Arizona shrugged a shoulder and pulled the plug on the tub allowing most of the water to drain out slowly. "Well, Mark might be sleeping on my couch tonight."
"Fighting with Lexie?" Callie asked.
"Some Mercy West slut nurse was hitting on him all day and Lex got a bit crazy about it and there was a lot of yelling," the blonde told her as she plugged the tub again and ran more hot water.
"He wouldn't cheat," Callie mumbled.
Arizona nodded. "I know." She looked up at the woman behind her hopefully. "Join me now? It's nice and hot again."
Callie smiled and nodded. "One second." She stood up and moved to the kitchen to grab the bottle of wine and poured them each one more glass before she undressed and slid into the tub behind her girlfriend.
"So much better," Arizona sighed happily.
Callie smiled and grasped one of Arizona's hands in both of hers and busied herself playing with Arizona's perfect fingers. She leaned forward and placed several gentle kisses on the blonde's neck. "Every day should end like this."
"Just not after 34 hours at the hospital with no sleep," Arizona amended.
"Agreed," Callie mumbled as she ran her hands through the blonde's hair. "Sorry you had such a rough couple of days."
Arizona leaned back so her head was resting against Callie's chest. "I can get through two days like this as long as I have you at the end of them."
"Always," Callie promised with a kiss to Arizona's temple.
"Really?" Arizona asked hopefully.
"Always," Callie repeated.
And in that moment they both knew that there would be many more nights like these in the future for them and they both settled in for a long hot bath.
A.N. Hope you enjoyed. Please let me know what you thought. More to come soon!