CHAPTER 38

I'm blinded by your presence

In this moment that we're in

If God was to describe you

Where would he begin?

Your colors blend together

And you become the light

If only you could see the way you shine

Darling, when you tell the world you're mine

Arizona found herself being in a very good mood after her 'lunchtime' when she headed to meet up with Derek to begin the examination with the extended MRD of the nine-year-old. In a very good mood. Although this was going to be a very long day and that both her and Callie would be on-call for the entire weekend her heart felt a little lighter after spending some up close time with the sexy Latina.

"Ahh, there you are!" Derek greeted her when she arrived. "This is Dr Arizona Robbins, Head of our Pediatric department. Dr Robbins, this is Mr. and Mrs. Scott and this is their daughter Anna."

Arizona fired off her best-dimpled smile.

"Hi there Anna" she started and shook hands with the parents. "So, I'm hearing you don't feel well?"

The little girl in front of her smiled cautiously.

"Do you want to know a secret?" Arizona continued trying to sound as lighthearted as possible for the sake of the little girl that surely was feeling very left out at the moment.

Anna nodded immediately.

"Me and Dr Shepherd are going to help you and we're the best doctors in the whole world!"

Anna's parents did seem to appreciate Arizona's way to handle their daughter.

"Dr Robbins is telling the truth" Derek said and smiled widely. "So, what do you say Anna? Shall we get this party started?"

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Two hours later Derek and Arizona had the answer. And it was not good news. Leukemia.

"Damn it" Derek said. "How bad does it look in your eyes?"

Arizona looked troubled.

"Well, it does seem that we caught it in an early stage. That's something at least."

Suddenly Arizona's pager went off.

"Hmm" she said. "Chief Webber is paging me. I wonder what he could possibly want with me a Friday afternoon?"

"He's been in interviews with general practitioner's for all departments most of the day," Derek pointed out. "I'll bet it has something do to with that. Can you come back after you have been at his office? I'm going to make some calls and then we can finish this day off with a nice talk with Anna's parents and maybe talk about treatment's options?"

"Sure. I'll be on call for the entire weekend anyway, starting tonight, so I'm not going anywhere. I'll see you later."

She headed out and took the elevator up to Chief Webber's office on the fifth floor and was greeted immediately when she knocked on the door.

"There you are!" Chief Webber said and quickly got up from his chair.

Arizona noticed that they weren't alone in the room. She got flashbacks from last time she had been paged to Chief Webber's office. He hadn't been alone at that time either and that hadn't exactly ended well. Somehow her gut told her that this wasn't either but she tried to shake that feeling off.

"This is Nathalie Porter" Webber announced. "She is our new general practitioner in Ped's department. That means she's your new colleague and you are her new boss. Dr Porter, this is Dr Arizona Robbins. She is Head of our Pediatric Department."

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Callie was tired. Really tired. It was way past dinnertime and she had gone trough every single one of her charts. Mark had been there to keep her company before he had gone home to his weekend off. When Callie and Arizona's relationship had reached solid ground in the beginning of their dating they had made sure of the fact that they could have the same weekends off so they were free from work at the same time. She was already looking forward to the next weekend. She noticed the time and realized that she had to get to evening rounds before she checked the activity in the ER. If she was lucky she could get some sleep after that. One and half hour later she was done and her iPhone buzzed in her pocket.

Arizona. Who else? Callie smiled.

'I'm stuck for the entire weekend with Ped's new general practitioner. Chief Webber thought it would be perfect for me and her to start with a lovely weekend on call. So. Not. Perfect. I miss you already. I almost hope that something will happen in the ER so that I can see you ;)'

Callie frowned half way in to the message. Her? Callie's experience with Ped's doctors was that they were good-looking blondes with blue eyes who made you drown in them.

"Hey?" she thought to herself. "Where did this feeling come from?"

She usually wasn't the jealous type and certainly not with someone she did not even have met. Maybe it was just the fact that someone else was going to have the opportunity to spend a whole weekend in Arizona's company and that it was not her. She tried to shake the feeling off and started to text Arizona.

'Unfortunately the ER is slow right now ;) I'm about to get some sleep. Thought I would be lucky enough to get you to join me but I guess you can't be that rude with your new colleague. Breakfast tomorrow morning after rounds?'

It didn't take Arizona long to answer that question.

'Maybe even a little breakfast-kiss? I'll see you tomorrow…'

Callie's smile was back. She was only being silly. She had nothing to worry about. Now, sleep. She locked herself in one of the on call rooms.

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The night had been slower than usual. But Callie didn't complain. She have had some well-deserved hours of sleep and felt quite well rested. Morning rounds were over with and everything was under control. Cristina Yang and Meredith Grey were on her service from now on and till Sunday night when she got off so she could at least for the moment relax. Reaching the cafeteria with excitement to finally see Arizona she started to look around for her blonde fiancé.

"Callie!"

She turned around and saw Arizona coming towards her. With company. It didn't take Callie long to realize that this was Arizona's new colleague. New BLONDE colleague. New BLONDE and BLUE-EYED colleague.

"Stop it!" she mentally kicked herself. "You're being ridiculous. Be nice."

She relaxed a bit when she saw the apologetic look in Arizona's eyes.

"Nathalie Porter, this is Callie Torres, attending orthopedic surgeon and my fiancé"

"You're the famous bone-cracker?" Nathalie asked looking really impressed. "I've heard about you before."

Callie couldn't help but laugh.

"Yes, I guess I am. Glad to meet you and welcome to Seattle Grace Mercy West."

Nathalie's smile couldn't be more wide. If she smiled just a tad more her mouth would break. She did seem nice. Callie couldn't deny that. Still she wasn't completely sure. Women weren't exactly open books to just read and understand. Callie had learned much since she had let Arizona Robbins in to her life.

"Thank you" Nathalie Porter replied. "It feels really good to be here. It seems like I've won the lottery regarding already having the best boss in the world."

Callie stiffened a bit when Nathalie in the same sentence fired off a million dollar smile towards Arizona and put her hand on the pediatric surgeons shoulder.

"Was she gay?" Callie let herself think. "God, you need to stop Torres. Get a grip!"

Callie soon realized that the breakfast-kissing thing was off and that Nathalie Porter was here to stay. She had to force herself in to being nice the whole breakfast through. Arizona was her usual perky self and her spirit only dipped when she told Callie about the little nine-year-old girl with Leukemia. The breakfast was interrupted, to Callie's delight, when her pager went off. 911' in the ER.

"Duty calls" she announced. "Yang and Grey are alone in the ER."

She stood up and stopped herself in the last second to even touch Arizona goodbye. She was not used to feel like this in front of other people. But this Nathalie Porter was trouble. She felt it. Her highest wish was in fact to kiss Arizona hard. Making sure that Nathalie Porter knew that Arizona Robbins was taken. But somehow she couldn't. It didn't seem right. Instead she just smiled and said "I'll see you around" before she ran away.

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Arizona had felt the tension during breakfast. Even tough Callie really had nothing to worry about she herself had felt some strange vibes from her new colleague. It wasn't like she was going to have to work real close with Nathalie in the future. She was a surgeon and performed surgeries. Nathalie Porter was a general practitioner and was going to take care of children with simple disorders. The worst-case scenario, she would have to get through some morning rounds with her from time to time. Nathalie was nice. A little bit too much nice. But Arizona, who usually could read people's sexual orientations, was not at all sure about his one.

Sunday around lunchtime she was paged to the ER by Callie and then she left Nathalie Porter in Ped's with Alex Karev who had started his shift the same morning. If someone was to find out about Nathalie's interest in men or women, it was Alex Karev. Callie and Arizona worked side by side in the ER the rest of the day and handled everything well. To Arizona's joy Callie didn't seem different at all. Before she left the ER to make it to evening rounds in Ped's so that she could go home afterwards, they decided that they were going to meet at home in a couple of hours.

It wasn't until Arizona Robbins opened to door to their apartment that evening she felt it. Callie was jealous. The Latina was situated on the couch, reading a magazine and just answered Arizona shortly for every question or comment the blonde did. With her back to Callie Arizona couldn't help but smile at her fiancés obvious jealousy. So she decided to have some fun with it. Leaning forward and down in to the fridge, she was making sure that Callie had all her attention to her own firm behind. She reached for a beer, opened it and slowly put it to her mouth and still made sure that Callie's attention was focused on her actions.

"Mmmmm", she moaned when she let the cold drink ran down her throat.

"Hmmppf!" she heard Callie huff from the couch.

Trying to bit back a laugh Arizona approached Callie who suddenly seemed very interested in what the magazine had to offer. The blonde didn't care and when she stood in front of Callie she simply just grabbed the magazine and threw it away across the room.

"Hey!" Callie called out. "I was reading that."

Arizona raised her eyebrows and gave Callie a look full of doubt. Instead of saying anything she just straddled the Latina in the couch and continued to stare Callie down.

"What?" the orthopedic surgeon said quite harshly.

Arizona just smiled.

"You tell me" the blonde replied softly and leaned in to let her own longing lips meld with Callie's.

"I'm tired", the Latina tried.

"Then stop kissing me", Arizona murmured and continued to kiss the brunette.

"You stop", Callie mumbled back and parted her lips so that the blonde could have more access to perform what she was doing.

Soon their kissing increased but not one of them had made one move with their hands so they didn't touch. Yet. Accept with their lips.

"I want you", Arizona breathed out and leaned her forehead against the Latinas. "I want you to want me. I never want anyone else. Do you want someone else?"

"God no!" Callie exclaimed a little out of breath.

Arizona leaned back and grabbed the hem of her blue t-shirt and pulled it over her head leaving her in her black lacy bra still straddled around Callie's waist who had fixated her look somewhere in height with Arizona's chest.

"Do you want to touch me?"

Callie simply nodded and swallowed when the blonde leaned in closer making sure that her chest was in close contact with the Latinas. Then she nibbled Callie's earlobe and whispered:

"Then do. Take what's yours."