It's 2 am and Arizona makes her way down to the kitchen, grabbing a glass of milk and a cookie. Slowly making her way up to her room she walks past the hallway mirror and sees her hair is splayed out every which way and that she forgot to put on some shorts so she's only in panties and a singlet. Walking back into her room she flops down on the bed pulling the covers over her and closing her eyes. Just as she feels like she's about to slip in to sleep once again she is brought back by someone talking. Sitting up she listens, not hearing anything she goes to lie back down, only to hear a 'NO' come from the area of her bathroom door. She makes her way there and slowly opens it to find the bathroom empty. 'No please, stop, I'm sorry.' Scrunching her face up in confusion she walks to the other door and opens it to check on Callie.
Callie's breathing heavy, her sheets are thrown haphazardly over her body and a quiet whimper comes every so often. Walking past the crib, checking that Indie is fast asleep, she walks to the edge of the bed. "Callie." Arizona whispers, nothing happens. "Callie wake up." she gets a whimper. "Callie you nee-."
"I'm sorry Antonio, please don't." Arizona's heart breaks at hearing those words being uttered from the Latina's mouth.
Sitting down and reaching out to put a hand on her arm she feels the Latina stiffen at the contact. Arizona rubs her thumb across her arm and feels Callie relax a little. "Shhh, you're ok Callie." She can tell that Callie's still asleep, so she waits for her breathing to slow down. Arizona goes to stand but something is pulling on her shirt, looking down the brunette has taken hold of a fist full of her shirt and pulling every time she tries to move away. 'Now what the hell am I going to do?' she thinks. Hearing Callie take a shuddering breath she decides to stay. She manoeuvres herself around, the Latina still holding strong, and slips under the covers lying back on the pillows. Instantly Callie puts her arm around her waist and pulls her in closer burying her face in Arizona's arm, so she lifts it and wraps it around Callie feeling her try to get closer.
She lays there holding her and trying to figure out what she could possibly be dreaming about. This Antonio, she guesses, is the husband that died, had to have done something for her to be talking like that in her sleep. Resigned to the fact that she can't do anything except hold her she falls back asleep with a smile thinking of the Latina in her arms.
Waking to something heavy on her torso, Arizona looks down and sees a mountain of black tresses. Remembering how she ended up that position, she tries get out of bed without being noticed but Callie is wrapped around her torso tightly. Just as she was about to get up she hears a sucking noise coming from the crib, looking over she sees India sucking on the mitten covering her hand. Indie's face scrunches up right before she lets out a cry. Arizona feels Callie being to stir as she rubs her face into Arizona's side.
Cracking an eye open, Callie sees a breast covered in a thin singlet material. Eyes opening wide, she jumps back releasing the figure in her bed and falling off the other side of the bed.
"Oh my god! Are you ok?" she hears in that sweet voice that has become music to her ears ever since meeting the woman it comes from. And then she hears a giggle and two big blue eyes peek over the edge. "You ok?"
"Umm, yeah nothing's broken." Callie sits up pushing her hair out of her face. "I… I'm… wh-what are you doing in my bed?" she asks confused, wondering if this was the room she fell asleep in or did she sleep walk.
"Oh! well I was getting a drink this morning and it sounded like a cry or something so I came to check it out and you were throwing yourself around a little bit and sa-… umm mumbling something and when I calmed you down you wouldn't let go of my shirt so I just laid down." Arizona shrugs not making eye contact. She feels weird for sleeping next to a woman she barely knows. "I'm sorry if I intruded or anything it's just, you looked a little freaked out."
"Did I say anything?" Callie asks, sounding a bit panicked, while looking at Arizona, highly embarrassed that Arizona had seen her like that.
Arizona takes in the panicked look on her face. "Umm no just some mumbling and something like an 'I'm sorry'."
"Oh ok." Feeling very embarrassed, she covers her face in her hands and tries to get her thoughts together. Indie lets out a cry making Callie jump a little. Arizona stands up and gets her out before sitting back on the bed. Callie's eyes nearly bug out of her head realising Arizona doesn't have shorts on. Looking closer she sees rainbows on her panties and smirks. "Nice rainbow panties."
Arizona freezes, Indie making gurgling noises looking at her expectantly, completely forgetting that she didn't have shorts on. She looks out the corner of her eyes and sees Callie get up and back onto the bed. "Good morning mija." Callie smiles at Indie making her excited. "Do you like Arizona's panties too?" she gets out through laughs making Arizona giggle and she kicks her legs wildly again from getting so much attention.
"I think she does, I might have to get her some." Arizona states.
"You are trying to corrupt her with unicorns and rainbows aren't you?"
"I can only try. Here you go, she's been sucking on her mittens so she must be hungry." Indie instantly buries her face into Callie chest smelling the milk, so Callie just pulls her singlet up and Arizona snaps her head in the other direction. "I'm going to make some coffee for us." She gets up abruptly heading to her room for some pants.
"Arizona." Callie calls making her stop at the doorway and turn. "Thanks, for last night or well this morning I guess." She smiles and gets one in return. "And could you please maybe not tell anyone."
"Of course. Secrets safe with me." She makes the motion of locking her lips and throwing the key away.
"Thanks. And one more thing." Arizona looks at her expectantly. "Nice legs." Callie winks and lets out a chuckle.
Arizona smiles turning bright red and turns walking into the bathroom and back into her room. Throwing some boxers on she makes her way down to the kitchen to start the coffee machine and find something to eat while grabbing the milk.
Callie grabs her phone as it rings from the bedside table and sees it's Aria sliding her finger across and putting it to her ear. "Hey Aria."
"Well good morning, how was your flight? You make it to your hotel ok?"
"My flight was good. And we ended up staying at Tim, Teddy's and Arizona's, Tim even got a crib out for Indie."
"That was generous of them, well I'm glad you made it safe. I just called to say hello, and now I have to run I've got a meeting. Talk to you soon, love you both."
"Love you to Aria. Bye." Callie hangs up and chucks her phone on the bed. After feeding, burping and a nappy change, Callie makes her way down to the kitchen and finds Arizona with a coffee and a doughnut that's about to go in her mouth. "Please tell me you are not having doughnuts for breakfast."
"Uugghhhh I'm not having doughnuts for breakfast." She smiles.
"I'll make you breakfast while you hold Indie." She starts looking through the fridge and finds all the ingredients for pancakes and even a little bit of bacon.
"You really don't have to make anything doughnuts are fine." Callie raises her eyebrow. "What? They are!" she exclaims making Callie laugh.
"Well since you're going to be driving us around to buy furniture and let me and Indie stay here, it's the least I could do. I love cooking."
"Ok then. Breakfast sounds good." Arizona smiles, making her dimples show.
As Callie makes breakfast, they chat about anything and everything, ranging from their childhoods, to holidays, and to surgeries. Easy banter goes back and forth as they eat and get ready to go out, Indie being passed from one woman to the other while they got ready. Once Indie is dressed and the nappy bag is packed, they pile into the car and head to the furniture stores.
"Can I carry Indie?" Arizona asks as they get out of the car, coming around to the passenger side.
"Of course." Callie smiles holding up the baby harness. "Turn around and I'll clip it on and tighten it for you." Arizona slips it on and turns, Callie clips and adjusts it. "You're about the same size as Aria, she ended up making lines on the chords for when I wasn't around to tighten it." Callie laughs.
"Aria's your sister right?"
"Yeah, she's actually moving here in a month or two, her law firm had an opening in Seattle. So that will be great." Callie says slipping a fast asleep Indie into the front of Arizona. Locking the car they head into the store fronts.
"Wow a doctor and a lawyer for kids your parents must be proud."
"Yeah." Is all Callie can say. Looking up and down the shop fronts, she spots a baby warehouse. "I was thinking we could start with Indies room because baby shopping is always fun."
"Agreed, I love baby shops." Arizona takes in Callie's change of conversation. "Let's roll." Arizona grabs Callie's sleeve and pulls her along making her chuckle.
"This one feels way too hard to even be a couch." Arizona yells across to the next set of couches where Callie is laying back in a different one. It's been a couple of hours since they started. They finished Indies room, maybe went a little crazy with that, then bits and pieces for the kitchen and now the lounge room.
"You should come and sit on this one. It's amazingly comfy." Callie yells back pushing herself further into the couch. Arizona jumps up making Indie squeal and spring her legs up and down. Slowly plopping herself next to Callie she relaxes into the couch as well.
"Wow I would sleep on this thing. Oh and it will go with your other furniture in the lounge room as well."
"Yeah I think I'll get it in navy." Indie lets out a cry making Callie check her watch. "Its time for her lunch and I'm kind of hungry, we could find a café with booths and I'll just feed her there while we eat." Callie goes about lifting Indie out of her harness and laying her on her chest.
"May I help you ladies?" a shop assistant asks.
"Yeah, can I get this couch, an extra two seater and two… no four arm chairs please. All in navy blue thanks." Arizona's eyes nearly bug out of her head as she sees the price of just this three seater couch and the shop assistant has a shocked look but quickly plasters a smile on her face.
"Of course, I'll just ring it up for you ladies. Just follow me and we can get started." Following they started the order process.
Holding a fussy Indie Callie asks. "Could you just grab my wallet from the bag for please and grab my gold credit card." Nodding, Arizona grabs the wallet and pulls the gold card out. She looks at the name and does a double take. 'Calliope Torres' is written on the card.
"Is your first name Calliope?" Arizona asks making Callie's head whip around to her.
"Umm yeah but only my father calls me that."
"And what happens if someone calls you by it."
"I break their face and refuse to fix it." Callie says seriously and then breaks into laughter at Arizona's shocked face. Eventually Arizona laughs as well. "But seriously no one calls me that."
"Calliope." Arizona murmurs liking the feel of it on her tongue. "It's a beautiful name, it suits you a lot. Calliope." Arizona smiles and it makes Callie's heart rate pick up, liking how her name sounded coming from Arizona's mouth. And all she could do is smile a mega watt smile back.
After ordering their food and hiding away in a booth, Callie gets Indie settled and starts feeding while Arizona looks everywhere except Callie. Callie notices and smirks. "You can look at my face you know." She chuckles as Arizona's face goes red.
"I know I'm just looking around at the café. It's cute." She says setting her eyes on Callie's struggling not to look down. Callie just smiles at her.
"I've still got a bit of furniture I need to get but I was thinking that I can just order my mattress after lunch because I know which one I want. Then we can stop at the grocery store to get some dinner things and maybe some wine and I can cook dinner for everyone. Does that sound alright to you?" Callie asks changing Indie to the other side to feed.
"Yup sounds good, but you don't have to cook, we can order in." The waiter drops the food and drinks off.
"I really don't mind and besides I try to stay away from take away because of breast feeding her." Callie dips her head towards Indie.
"Ok if you insist." Arizona smiles. "And if your dinners are as good as those pancakes I'm sure Tim and Teddy will be very grateful. Tim might even not let you leave." She giggles. "What are you going to make?"
"Chicken picatta." Callie says as she digs in to her meal. They finish their meals in a comfortable silence, secretly stealing glances at each other.
"Holy crap, I would want to die on this mattress it's that comfy." Callie and Arizona are lying back on a bed in the mattress store, Indie snuggled and fast asleep, after a nappy change, in the harness on Arizona.
"I told you I knew what one I wanted straight away."
"Well don't freak out if you find me on the other side when you wake up every morning." Arizona says closing her eyes.
"Like this morning, you mean?" Callie laughs her face red and once again Arizona's face going red.
Making it home after buying groceries and doughnuts for afternoon coffee, per Arizona's request, Callie slips Indie into the crib and sets the new baby monitor up while Arizona packs away the groceries and starts the coffee.
"I cannot believe I forgot to pack the baby monitor in my suit case. These things are genius." Callie says coming into the kitchen. "Oh thanks." She says as Arizona hands her a cup of coffee.
"Doughnut?" Arizona holds up a pink iced with sprinkles.
"No I'm good thanks. Where do you want to sit?"
"The back porch has a swing if you want, I'll meet you out there in a sec." Arizona says turning around to grab a jar from the top shelf making her shirt ride up exposing the small of her back. Callie sees to two dimples on her smooth lower back and instantly licks her lips. "You ok?" Arizona's voice breaks through her haze and her eyes snap up to Arizona's.
"Y-yeah, I'll meet you a-at the porch swing." And she all but runs out the back door. Callie makes her way to the porch and settles in comfortably sipping on her coffee. She listens as the rain hits the tin roof on the porch and closes her eyes. Living in Miami with the heat she never got to just sit and listen to the rain, it was always too hot or muggy to sit outside. Opening her eyes and looking at the old swing set and slide in the middle of the yard. There's a sand pit in the corner and way at the back there's a tree house that's been painted blue and yellow but has faded over the years.
Arizona stands at the back door watching Callie's chest rise as she takes a deep breath and she can't help but think that she looks at piece right in this moment. Quietly making her way over, Callie looking up as she sits down and smiles at her. "I can't believe how much I love it here and I've been living in Seattle for less than a day. We never really got a lot of rain in Miami and when we did it was just hot and muggy." Callie scrunches up her face making Arizona chuckle.
"When my parents inherited this house we lived in it for about three years before we had to move again. Tim and I would have been about 9 I think, we used to come home from school everyday and just spend hours in this backyard, especially in that tree house. It was my most favourite place to live." Arizona smiles softly as she thinks back. Coming back to reality as she hears a sigh come from the baby monitor, she looks over at Callie and can't think of one reason someone would want to hurt her. Or better yet why would she have married that guy. "Can I ask you a personal question?"
Callie looks over and locks eyes with deep blue ocean eyes, eyes that she can see so much emotion swimming in them that she cant tell what is what. There's a kindness about Arizona's eyes, ever since she met the blonde she gets the urge to tell her everything because she feels safe around her, but she's scared to open up that much. "Yes." She whispers, afraid of what the question is going to be but finding she is willing to answer what she wants to know.
Arizona contemplates whether or not to ask, she knows the father's dead, well her husband. "Well it's not so much a question, as a statement of some sorts. Umm well when you came to visit, after you left I googled you." Arizona stares out at the backyard not wanting to make eye contact, going a slight tinge of red at the admission. She hears an audible 'oh' come from Callie so she continues. "And this article came up, about your husband dying in an accident. And I ju-."
"Drink driving. That's how he died, drink driving and then wrapping his car around a pole." Callie says looking straight at Arizona. "He died on the scene. He was an idiot." Arizona turns to look at her. "He was…" Callie looks away shaking her head, not wanting to say it out loud. He was a bastard. It was simple to think it but she's still afraid to say it out loud. She feels a warm hand connect with her palm and looks down to see Arizona links their fingers.
"Whenever you want to talk, I'll be there. Just let me know and I'll listen, no judging just plain old listening." Arizona says squeezing Callie's hand to make her point.
"Thanks." Callie smiles sadly as a sheen of tears come to her eyes. And without having to think Arizona drops her hand and wraps her arms around Callie pulling her in for a tight embrace. Gently rocking as Callie takes calming breaths. "I will talk, eventually. And I have this unbelievable urge to tell you everything, and that frightens me because I haven't told anyone. I'm pretty sure Aria knows but I haven't told her. I can't take being hurt again. I can't." She whispers the last part and taking a deep breath that's purely Arizona, she feels herself calming instantly.
"Ok Calliope." Arizona whispers making Callie smile at her name coming from the blonde's mouth. They sit back on the seat, Arizona's arm still wound around Callie's shoulders and Callie leaning in to the side of Arizona, resting her head on Arizona's shoulder. Ten minutes pass in silence, the rain continues to poor down and they just listen. They both jump as the thunder cracks, breaking them out of their silence. "It's going to be a big one tonight. Thank goodness I'm not on call. I really don't feel like working today."
"I wonder if Tim and Teddy will get to come home." Callie chuckles. "I should start dinner I think." Callie says turning her head to look at Arizona. As Arizona looks down their eyes lock and both are acutely aware that there is only two inches between their lips, making their heart rates beat furiously, Arizona's eyes shoot down to Callie's lips which doesn't go unnoticed by Callie. Arizona wants nothing more than to taste those red plump lips that have taunted her ever since they met. She leans in a little, not wanting to go all the way straight away, Callie tilts her head up more moving forward and her eyes slowly close. Arizona takes that as invitation enough and slowly moves forward…
hehe hope you all like it and i just want to say thank you to my beta you know who u r and u rock!