Title: People Talk, Alot 5/?
Author: Lauren Michelle
Pairing: Callie/Arizona
Rating: PG, for this one at least
Summary: This is a story between the lines and between the characters Arizona and Callie. I hope you enjoy it!
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, the show, or anything related to the show. I don't make any money, from this or otherwise, and simply am writing for my enjoyment. Author's Note: I know that I just found a beta but, I couldn't wait. I'm really excited about this post and what all I'll be writing next. I hope it's to your satisfaction. Thank you all for your comments and support!
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Arizona looked intently upon the door knob that lay in front of her, hands slightly trembling from the anticipation of the multitude of scenarios that ran through her mind. She struggled not to visit any of them, for Callie could open the door at any moment, probably resulting in a meeting that the blonde didn't favor. Gulping, she mustered up whatever courage she could and let her fingers meet metal.
Lexie sighed, and looked down to her drink, stirring it softly. She felt the atmosphere shift as someone occupied the seat beside her. Turning to speak to Callie she stopped to find a red-headed woman.
"You're friend going to be okay?"
It took the brunette a minute to process and then reply, "I think so, maybe, she'll be back soon." The comment was meant to insinuate that the seat was still taken, but her company didn't seem to pick up on it.
"I think my friend went to check on her."
Lexie had noticed when she came in that the blonde surgeon was present, and the situation finally clicked in her head. "Oh! That's great!"
"I take it that the "secret" isn't a very well kept one then" the red-head laughed.
"Sorry?" Lexie replied, confused.
"Oh, how rude of me, I'm Lisa." the new comer grinned as she held out her hand. "And, I wouldn't worry about it too much. What should perhaps concern us is that woman over there, heading towards our friend's rendezvous.
The brunette was quick on the uptake and left her seat.
"This is already better than a hospital." Lisa grinned as she followed the hurried brunette.
Arizona entered and instantly found herself taking in the image of Calliope Torres. Whatever situations she may have imagined, they were out the window as she took in the scene and adorned a soft smile. The brunette was looking into the mirror, with a quiet sadness that emanated from her expression.
"Hey."
Lexie swerved quickly in front of Joe's women's room. "You can't go in there!"
The woman who had come to a halt in front of her seemed to have been caught completely off guard. "W-why?"
"It's- out of order." it wasn't perfect, but it could work, she thought.
"Out of order?" the women looked confused and a little drunk.
"Yes, I've been waiting for the owner to fix it all night."
Lexie looked up to find that the red-head she had just met was the source of the helpful statement.
"Oh, bushes it is then!" with that the woman raised her arm and turned towards the exit.
Maybe more than a little drunk, Lexie thought while an amused expression crossed her face. "Thanks-"
"Lisa." she smiled and extended her hand.
"I'm Lexie."
Callie wiped her eyes once she heard an unfamiliar voice greeting her. Between motions she saw a blonde woman reflected in the mirror. "Hey."
"Ortho, right?" Arizona found herself on autopilot, that luckily seemed to know exactly what it was doing.
"Yeah, right- Hi." it was a rushed response, but far better than the "Crap, crap, someone who knows who I am." that was running through her mind.
"I'm Arizona Robbins, Peds surgery." Well, almost knew where it was going. she tried to mask her uncertainty with a quick smile. "I've seen you at the hospital." that didn't sound weird at all. Her composure threatened to falter, but she suddenly felt like she could stay on track.
Callie could only respond with a quick sound, trying to figure out why someone thought this moment was the best time for an introduction.
Arizona studied the brunette in the mirror, she had been crying.. "Are you okay?"
"You know I'm fine- I'm fine."
The blonde watched as the she turned toward her and knew that if she didn't hurry and say whatever needed to be said, she might end up just looking at the woman across from her.
"People talk, where we work. They talk- alot" she couldn't help but stress the last word, thinking of all the crazy things that she heard without even asking for them. "So for the sake of being honest I think I-I should tell you that I know things about you." other than the obvious of you being attractive and gay. Running through what she had just said in her head, Arizona was thankful she kept the last bit to herself. "Because people talk."
The Ortho surgeon utilized what was being said and immediately summed it up to random sympathy/pity. "Oh. You mean-"
Arizona nervously nodded assuming it had something to do with Hahn and a parking lot.
"Terrific" she looked down, defeated. Another person who knew about the mess that had become her life, and for it to be a pretty stranger just made it worse.
"It is actually, " the blonde moved to try and catch her gaze. "the talk." she heard a sound of disbelief, but continued on. "People really like you over there, they respect you, and they're concerned-" once of them happening to be me, "and interested." me again. "They really like you." She was speaking with her and she could feel her confidence rising with every word. "Some of them, really like you."
On any other night Callie would have been intrigued by all of this, but tonight all she could muster was to drink it in and see where- Arizona was it? was going with all this.
"It's just, you look upset."
The brunette's eyes rose.
"And I thought that you should know that, the talk is good. And when you're not upset, when you're over being upset." she heard the sigh, but she knew she couldn't stop yet. "There will be people lining up for you." she caught her eyes traveling down Calliope and quickly brought them back to meet deep, brown eyes. She nodded, keeping the contact, trying to infer that it was herself that she meant, trying to be in front of what she was sure to be an already long line.
Callie simply laughed at the inference that a line even existed. "Wanna give me some names?"
The Peds surgeon kept her gaze and before she knew it, felt a rope being lifted, letting her into the VIP spot, at least for the moment. All she could think to do was search the beautiful brunette's expression as she made her real message known the only way she knew she could.
The recipient of the message barely knew what she was about when she saw blue eyes near hers. Before she could assess their intent, she felt a hand brush her cheek and soft lips meeting hers.
Arizona reveled in the contact, brief as she new it should be, and pulled away slowly. They both took a moment to really see each other and know for sure what had just happened had actually occurred. Seeing that the woman she had been trying to meet was looking at her with an expression of awe, she spoke.
"I think you'll know." she drank in another moment of Calliope and smiled, not thinking of her victory but of the woman that stood before her and how her grin was being reflected back by her. With that, her happiness broadened and she felt an exit was appropriate, and so she left Calliope to her thoughts and stepped back behind the metaphorical rope, as she shut the door, and returned to the front of the line.
"So," said Lisa as she studied the door they were guarding. "What do you think they're doing in there?"
It had been several minutes and still no one was exiting, so Lexie assumed that the two surgeons had at least met at this point. "Talking I hope." The two women outside the doors had repelled several women who seemed desperate to pee, so she was hoping that they were suffering for a good cause.
The brunette surgeon stayed and watched Arizona Robbins exit, while taking in what had just happened. After a few moments of silence and several mental reruns of the kiss, "I am so back." She proclaimed to the air triumphantly
Arizona softly closed the door, still grinning like an idiot.
"So, how'd it go?"
The blonde snapped half-way back to reality to see a playful looking Lisa and a curious Lexie.
Getting only an "I've been to heaven and back" kind of air as a response, the red-head laughed. "Really? That fast? Wow, and here I only suggested buying her a drink. You don't waste any time do you?"
The brunette next to her blushed and looked at Arizona.
"No! No. I just, we just- nothing like that" the blonde waved her arms in negation towards the two of them. "Can we, can we please move away from the door?"
The three women looked at each other and edged away, scattering for the night. Lisa and Lexie returned to their respective seats at the bar and the Peds surgeon made a get-away to call a cab.
Callie dreamily left the restroom to find several woman forming a line.
"The two girls said that the restroom was working, is it?'
"Huh? Yeh- sure." the brunette brushed them off, too busy thinking about the slender blonde and the tingling still left on her lips.
Looking around the bar, she was disappointed to find that the Peds surgeon was nowhere in sight. Continuing to scan the room, she returned to her seat next to Lexie.
"You okay?" Lexie felt a little redundant for asking, but she really wanted to know what had gone on in the bathroom.
"Perfect." she grinned. "You wouldn't happen to have seen a blonde who works at the hospital, would you?"
Arizona sat in the roomy backseat of a cab with her fingertips touching her lower lip. It seemed unreal that she had just done that, kissed Calliope Torres. If she had ordered more to drink she'd think she was imagining things. Kissing her had been better than she imagined, the fact that she had imagined it made her blush slightly, but "Wow."
"A blonde?" Lexie questioned. "Nope, I don't think so." She felt badly for lying, but she assumed she had talked enough for one day.