Chapter 7
The two exes had been rekindling their relationship with flirty texts and lunch dates in the cafeteria. Neither had addressed the big elephant in the room which was Erica. It was not Arizona's place to tell Callie to dump the evil woman so she just kept quiet and enjoyed what they were doing.
Callie had been sitting in the cafeteria for some time waiting on Erica because she had told the brunette they needed to talk. She hadn't even realized the person making their way behind her.
"I don't think I ever told you how hot you look in those dark blue scrubs," came the sultry voice she only knew belonged to one Arizona Robbins.
"Well I think you'd more enjoy what's underneath them Dr. Robbins," the blonde almost missed her chair as her knees about gave out at the idea of a half-naked Callie Torres.
"That's just mean Calliope. Now I'm going to be having really dirty thoughts in my head all day," she said as she took a drink through the straw of her cup.
Laughing, "Well you started it. How's your day been anyways?" The two were starting to feel like they were back in Baltimore again with how easy it was to communicate.
The blonde was about to reply when the vein of her existence came up to the table, "Cal I need to talk to you."
"Okay, well I'm kind of busy talking to Dr. Robbins. Can it wait until our date tonight?" it was Valentine's Day and Erica wanted to take her girlfriend out to a nice dinner and hopefully they could have sex for the first time in a month.
"Well that's the thing I need to talk to you about…"
"Are you serious Erica? We have done nothing because you keep passing me up for surgeries. Last time I checked we were in a relationship," her voice was beginning to rise with anger.
Arizona was feeling out of place with the two fighting in front of her, "I think I should leave now," she said as she stood to collect her food.
"Yes, you should," "No, stay," came the responses, "Seriously sit, Erica was done here anyway," Callie responded as she looked away from her girlfriend.
"Callie I…I'm sorry…"
"Sorry isn't going to cut it anymore Erica. Now you're free to spend Valentine's Day wrist deep in someone else's chest." Callie wasn't even paying attention to the cardio surgeon anymore.
With one final huff Erica left the cafeteria about to make someone else's life a living hell.
Arizona finally broke the silence, "Valentine's Day sucks anyway so I wouldn't worry about it."
"Oh yeah what were you're big plans for tonight," Callie looked into clear blue eyes.
"I uh got a date actually with Meg Jensen from dermatology," she hadn't wanted to say yes, but it was time the PEDs surgeon start getting back out there. Flirting with Callie was fun and it reminded her why she fell in love with the brunette in the first place.
"Well good for you. I don't ever remember you talking about her though," Callie had no right to feel jealous of whom Arizona dated. For crying out loud she was in a relationship.
"It just never felt right to bring her up and its just a date nothing serious," Arizona knew the brunette was jealous that was why she never mentioned it.
"I hope you have a good date Arizona but its time I get back to work."
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Mikey was going to be with his Uncle Mark tonight and Callie didn't plan on staying by herself so she decided she would crash boy's night.
"Mami you said that me and Uncle Mark got to spend the night together no women."
She sighed and she knew it was true but the brunette wanted to be with her son and best friend, "Yeah well Mami got stood up."
"What's that mean?"
"Means I'm probably going to lose my girlfriend," she shouldn't be throwing her problems on Mikey but she couldn't keep quiet.
"I think that's okay," he was lying on her bed with his head in his hands watching as she was looking for an outfit.
"Is that so mijo? You know maybe your right. Would you like it if it was just the two of us?"
He shook his head so hard the ortho surgeon thought it would fall off, "Yes, I don't mind having just you around. We deserve someone who wants to have dance parties and who won't stand you up on Valentine's."
"Mikey when did you get so smart?"
"When you said I was the man of the house," he shrugged his shoulders.
"Well you'll always be the man of the house so I wouldn't worry too much mijo."
"Torres you left your door open and I'm here collect Mikey for a night of fun," Mark was notorious for barging into her house unannounced.
"Well boy's night got cancelled because I'm joining you," she said with a smile as his fell in disappointment. "Come on Marky I'm not that bad. I'll be quiet and just observe. If I stay here by myself I'll just get drunk and do something stupid."
"Okay are you going to tell me where your girlfriend is?"
Shaking her head, "I'll explain it all later."
Much later after Callie observed the two play a few rounds of Wii boxing and devour two boxes of pizza's she had realized why they called it boy's night. Not much went on and if she tried to talk with the two they would just grunt their responses.
Finally Mikey had passed out with a piece of the pizza in his hand that they had just been eating while they were watching old super hero cartoons. Mark had bought almost all the old series of Spiderman, Batman and Superman claiming they were for Mikey, but whenever he had a free time he enjoyed watching them too.
"Hey Cal I can put Mikey down in the guest bedroom if it's still okay with you that he stays the night?" Mark spoke in a hushed voice to keep from waking the sleeping boy.
"Yeah of course he'd be disappointed if he woke up in his own bed," she ran her hand through hair as she got up to go back to her own place.
"Nuh uh Cal you said you'd talk so we're going to talk," he gestured for her to sit back down as he went to get some beers, "So where's Erica?"
"The hospital where else?" she threw her feet up onto the table and relaxed for the talk she knew Mark wanted to have with her.
"Why didn't you lay down the law with her and tell her she needed to stay or your relationship is over," he took a swig of his drink and looked to her for a response.
"I don't want to stop her. I've messed up with Mikey by staying in a relationship because I didn't want to be by myself when my own son was feeling alone. What mother does that to their own child?"
Looking to Mark for an answer she waited until the silence became too much, "See I'm an awful parent…"
"No you're not Cal that kid adores you. Yeah you messed up, but what parent doesn't. I don't think Mikey expects you to be a single mom forever he just wants what's best for you."
She looked to her friend trying to see if he meant what he said, but chose to just shrug her shoulders at him instead.
"So you going to spill about Robbins because I'm dying here. I need some good lady drama in my life," he lightly joked with the brunette to take the tension from the room but it was obvious Callie was hiding something from him. She had her lip between pearly white teeth with guilt written all over face.
"Call what did you do?" his tone was light worried for his friend.
Her voice was thick and the lump wasn't going away, "I uh…um," she tried shaking her head to clear her thought's but this was bad and the brunette knew it.
"Does it have to do with Robbins?" he knew he was going to have squeeze the information out of Callie if they were going to get anywhere tonight.
All the brunette could do was nod to his question.
"Okay well I'm sure it's not that bad right?"
"God Mark I took her kid away from her," she put her head into her hands and sobbed.
The plastics surgeon stood up from the couch at the confession, "You what!? Does she even know Callie? Well obviously she should right I mean you have to plan these types of things right?"
Shaking her head, "She doesn't know," now with the blonde around her could finally feel the reality of keeping Mikey from his Mama.
"How about you start from the beginning Cal and we can from there," he patted her leg as he sat back on the couch.
She sighed as she prepared herself to talk about a time in her life that was supposed to be amazing, "It was our second year of residency when we started trying to have a baby. Arizona's brother offered us to use his sperm so our kid would be both of us ours biologically. It was a good idea because Tim, her brother, wasn't in any relationship and he wasn't even sure if he would ever have children since he never found anyone he wanted that with. And now I guess it was for the best since that fucking war took him away," she let out a shuttering breath before she continued. "Anyway it took us forever to actually get pregnant and four months in I had a miscarriage."
Even with it being a long time ago that loss would always be a part of her life. The tears were coming down hard and each made dark stains as they fell onto light jeans.
"Cal I'm so…"
"No just let me finish," he nodded hiss understanding that he was still listening. "Well Arizona didn't take it well. She was always worried that our child would get hurt when they were older and low and behold it happened during the pregnancy and almost cost my life. It was understandably hard for us, but my doctor gave me the clear to start again and at the time it was what I needed to cope. Of course Arizona was against the idea for us to have a baby at all. There was no reasoning with her. I would come home after work and the house would be empty. At work she would just walk away from me whenever I tried to speak to her. It was three months after the miscarriage I decided if I could get pregnant again and show her everything would be fine she would come around."
Callie sat there trying to finish but she felt like her airway was being cut off, "I'm guessing it didn't work?" Mark questioned on.
"No it worked I just didn't know because I was so worried fighting to get my wife to pay attention to me. One day when I came to work she was in the locker room with another resident. God I had tried so hard to get her to notice me and she was with this woman flirting with her like she had no wife. I don't think she ever had an affair with her or anyone else but she might as well have had one it felt like it most days with how distant she was. When I finally told Arizona it was time she started acting like my wife or I would leave she just said it was grieving. Well so was I and she would know if she was ever there. Was I not worth being around honestly? I failed at providing her a child and she just left," Callie knew the loss of their child wasn't her fault but the way Arizona looked at her during their marriage she felt like it was.
"Hey don't say that you're worth it Cal I don't think Blondie knew how to grieve with you and that's not your fault at all," he pulled the brunette into a tight embrace to comfort the hurt woman.
"Yeah well she never came home after that so a week later I packed my stuff, left divorce papers for her and came here. When I started feeling sick I had completely forgot about the pregnancy so I went and got my blood tested and sure enough I was pregnant but by then Arizona had already signed the divorce papers. I was hurt and I kept it all from her because I believed she truly hated me. Now she's here with no clue what I did and I don't even know how to go about telling her. I mean she's on a fucking date she doesn't care about me."
Mark spoke up to stop his friend from tearing herself down, "I know Robbins still loves you, but look at it you've been dating Erica this whole time she's been here and I think your girl is just trying to give you some space."
"Ah I don't know," all she could do now was sit and stare at the ceiling like it had all the answers to her problems.
"Do you know when you're going to tell her she has a kid? Probably want to do it over a home cooked meal where she won't freak out in public. I thought I'd be the one who had little Sloan's wandering around, but looks like Robbins beat me."
Callie appreciated his carefree personality as the weight of her pain eased, "I'm sure she'll flip don't even know what she's going to do. Maybe you should keep Mikey for another night in case she doesn't take it so well."
"That sounds fine to me especially since you ruined our plans tonight."
Standing up from the couch Callie gathered her stuff, "Alright well I'm going to head out now, big day and all tomorrow," she said as she pulled the door open.
Mark following said, "Maybe it's best that you start with Erica and deal with that before you drag another person into this mess," it wasn't his place to judge yet he knew someone had to push Callie in the right direction.
"I will as soon as she will sit down with me," making her way to her apartment Callie knew this was going to be a long night.
She had made a lot of mistakes in her life and now it was time the brunette fixes them before the damage is irreversible.
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After back to back surgeries Callie was exhausted and she had yet to see her girlfriend around. As she was scrubbing out of her last surgery for the day the blonde in question was making her way out of the other OR.
"Hey Erica we need to talk," it was obvious the cardio surgeon was in no mood to be around the brunette.
"Okay let's talk than," crossing her arms to give full attention to other woman.
"No, I meant like tonight. Not here," Callie said pointing around to the people who were already watching them.
Shrugging Erica responded, "Well I'm busy tonight so it'll have to wait."
"Arg, Erica it can't wait. I cannot wait on you anymore so if you want to do this here than fine," she marched her way to the closest on call room hoping the other woman would follow.
When they entered the small dimly lit room Callie sat at the small bed patting the space beside her for Erica to join, "Erica I think…."
"No, I know what you're going to say and I need to know have you fucked Dr. Robbins?" her crude words caused Callie to flinch. "Well are you? Because it seems everywhere you are she's there too. And the nurses have a lot to say how close the two of you are."
"Not recently," the shock on the blondes face made Callie realize her mistake, "that's not what I meant. I haven't seen her in almost five years, but I did kiss her Erica and for that I'm sorry."
"And I'm guessing she neglected her duties as your partner too, so what you pick up your life and move on the next person who looks your way? Gesh Cal you're a real piece of work," this hurt the blonde more than she was letting on, but it wasn't in her to show weakness so she resorted to belittling her girlfriend.
"That's not what happened…well I don't know, but you have no right to judge me for what I did."
"Fine, but you have a kid Cal maybe it's time you start acting like a parent," she could see how hurtful her words were to the ortho surgeon.
"You're right and that's exactly why I am breaking up with you. Not because of Arizona or being neglected, but because it's my job to protect my son and you're right I didn't do that doesn't mean I won't now."
"No one is going to love you like I did or put up with Mikey. If this is what you want fine but don't come crawling back," it was becoming real for both of them that this toxic relationship was coming to an end and while one was willing to give it up the other was fearful of being left behind for a kid.
Callie laughed at the other woman, "I don't need someone to put up with my son I need them to love him as much as I do."
"Well I hope Dr. Robbins can do a good job at that right because this is why we're over? She's better at the whole parenting thing."
"I'd hope she would love him since she is his Mama," Callie was getting mad at the accusations of running to another woman when it had nothing to do with her relationship with the PEDs surgeon.
"What!? How could she be his mother if she just came here?" Now she was confused this situation was far too much for the blonde to understand.
"I had a baby with the stuff we set aside for us. She still has a legal right's over Mikey, but she doesn't know," sitting back down on the bed Callie slumped her shoulders in defeat.
"Cal you have to tell her. This, this isn't right," even though she thoroughly hated the blonde doctor even Erica could see how wrong this all was.
"How do I tell her though? She's going to hate me."
"Well I'm leaving and not because of this but I can see we were over well before all of this. And what I said earlier I didn't mean it I was angry. Someone is going to love you guys like you should be and I'm sorry I couldn't do it, but I'll always care for you Cal."
Before Erica could leave Callie quickly stood, "Erica you're not a bad person this is my fault and I'm sorry for dragging you into this," she gave a small smile to the other woman as she left the room and left her life for good.
Now it was time for Callie to buck up and spill everything to the blonde who she had been keeping the biggest secret from for the past five years.
AN: I know a lot of drama, but I didn't want Arizona to be the woman who just steps in and takes over as Mikey's other mother because she felt it was her duty. Plus I feel like this is something Callie would have done to save her marriage because she did the same to George in the show. Anyway review with your likes and dislikes. Happy Grey's Day!