CHAPTER 39

Feel this

Can you feel this?

My heart beating out of my chest

Feel this

Can you feel this?

Salvation under my breath

"Then do. Take what's yours."

The tension in the living room was obvious. Arizona found herself thinking about what she saw in Callie's eyes in this very moment. Possession. Never ever had she experienced anything like this. Not from Callie. Not with Callie. She couldn't say that Callie only was being silly because she herself wasn't sure about her new blonde little colleague. With that being said, or in Arizona's own mind, it wasn't like she was going to cheat on Callie. She would never do that. No, this was about the fact that Callie obviously didn't like that there was a big risk that someone else pictured Arizona in ways that only was meant for her. In the beginning of their relationship they never had been jealous of each other's admirers. Often they just made some lame joke about them or just simply talked about it. But there was a big difference here. For once, back then it had been more to talk about since it had been actual encounters to bring up for discussion. Cause back then someone else had been coming on to one of them. Twice, back then Callie hadn't been sleeping with someone else. Mark. A shot of fury crashed through Arizona when she mentally relived their old issues.

Callie on the other hand wasn't even sure of what she was feeling in this particular moment. Jealousy? Love? Passion? Or was it a mix? It was bugging the hell out of her. Nathalie Porter was bugging the hell out of her. And also she did not even know the woman. But something was up. There was something very wrong with Nathalie Porter. She meant trouble. But for now, they were safe. Having a half-naked Arizona Robbins sitting in your lap craved something special. Especially right now. For a brief couple of seconds they had just sat there staring into each other's eyes. Like as if they wanted to try and read each other's minds.

"You're mine" Callie said softly and reached out with her hand to cup Arizona's face.

Arizona felt herself relax completely when she finally could feel Callie's hand on her. Her shoulders sunk down and her body became heavy. She sighed.

"Yes I am."

Instead of keep talking they leaned forward to lock lips in the exact same moment and the soft and loving session of kisses continued. Once again they were in their own little cocoon of 'Callie and Arizona love'.

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"Can we just agree on that this new colleague of mine named Nathalie Porter not's going to be an issue for us?"

Arizona sat in their bed watching Callie get dressed and ready for work. She herself didn't need to be at the hospital until after lunch. She only had one surgery scheduled and she was very grateful for that.

Callie grunted.

"Callie!" Arizona warned and raised her eyebrows.

"Fine" Callie huffed. "But that doesn't mean that I have to like her, does it?"

Arizona laughed and took the bed's cover off her and crawled to the end of the bed.

"Come here" she ordered.

Callie sighed but obeyed and walked up to where Arizona was kneeling on the bed clad in only panties and a tank top. She was looking awfully cute according to Callie, the blonde hair all tousled after their nightly activities with the following hours of sleep. The blonde took a hold of her shoulders and stared bluntly in to Latinas big brown eyes.

"No" Arizona said softly. "But it does mean that you have to love and trust me. Do you think you can do that?"

"Hmm" Callie pretended to think which caused the blonde to giggle.

"Maybe this will help?"

Arizona started to pop small hot and open-mouthed kisses all over Callie's face.

"Hey! Stop that. You're going to ruin my make up!"

"Oh shut up!" the blonde said with a twinkle in her eyes and took a hold of the Latinas shirt and dragged Callie down in bed with her.

"I'm going to be late for work" Callie stated but couldn't help but smile at the same time.

Arizona didn't reply verbally. Instead she demanded a quick entrance with her warm and wet tongue in between Callie's lips. Soft moans escaped from the blonde's mouth when Callie did as she was being "told". How could the Latina have such affection on her? Not that she did complain though. Loosing herself in the kiss and Callie's scent she tried to ignore the fact that Callie was going to be late for work if they didn't stop right now.

"I really, really have to go" Callie whispered and let out a chuckle when a loud whimper immediately came from Arizona when the kissing had to stop.

"But you haven't answer my question yet" Arizona pouted. "And I don't want you to go…"

"Well" Callie started before she kissed the blonde softly on the cheek one last time before she got up from bed. "The love and trust you part I can agree with. That's for sure."

Arizona exhaled.

"Good" she said and pushed herself up so that her weight rested on her elbows. "Now give me a proper kiss goodbye. Then you can leave."

Callie winked at the blonde and walked up to the head of the bed and leaned down to give her the kiss she was asking for. Before it deepened she released Arizona's lips with a pop, grabbed her purse and blew her fiancé a kiss through the air and left. Arizona plopped herself back down in bed with a sigh. Why couldn't this strange and weird feeling she had in her stomach just disappear?

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"So, have you and Blondie set a date yet?" Mark asked.

He and Callie were on their way to grab this day's first cup of coffee. Morning rounds were over and Callie had already performed her first surgery for the day and it was almost time for lunch.

"A date?" she said a little dumbfounded.

"For you wedding of course!" Mark said and gave her a strange look. "Or is the wedding thing off already? What have you two fought about now?"

"Shut up Mark!" Callie hissed. "It's still on. We haven't started that discussion yet. Time hasn't been on our side since we got back from our little vacation. We both have had to work to catch up."

"Are you okay or am I completely wrong if I sense that something is up with you?" Mark looked questioningly at her.

Callie sighed.

"I'm just tired" she tried.

"Spill it Torres" Mark pushed. "You don't fool me. Not for a second."

"It's silly actually", she said vaguely.

"Try me."

Callie let her eyes meet Marks. She suddenly realized how much she missed talking to Mark. These past weeks they haven't really talked at all. For the sake of Arizona and after everything they had been through. But standing here Callie realized one important thing. She missed her best friend. Sure, Mark Sloan could be a complete ass who didn't know when to shut up sometimes but he was always there for her when she needed it. He always had been. If it was someone she was going to say this particular thing to it would be him.

"I have this feeling" she started. "About Arizona's new colleague. Ped's have been swamped and to ease the pressure of Arizona Chief Webber has hired a general practitioner so that Arizona can focus more on surgeries."

"Well, that's good, right? That must be good for you as well I mean."

Another heavy sigh came from Callie.

"I guess" she said and shrugged her shoulders.

Mark was confused.

"I'm a guy! You have to tell me straight here"

Callie let a small laugh escape.

"Sorry, I forgot" she teased. "You're probably going to think that I'm really, really silly here. BUT I think I can bet you one hundred dollars that Arizona has become a love interest for someone."

"By who?" Mark asked and was still looking really confused.

"By her new colleague of course! Haven't you heard one single thing I've told you the last few minutes?"

"Again, I'm a guy" Mark defended himself. "But okay, I'm with you. And now you're going to listen to me, okay?"

Callie nodded in silence.

"First of all, Blondie loves you and second, haven't she just started working here? Is she gay?"

"I know she loves me Mark. It's not that."

"It's just bugging the crap out of you that someone else might be ogling and drooling over your girlfriend. I get that."

"Fiancé" Callie corrected. "Not girlfriend. Fiancé."

"Sorry" Mark winked. "Fiancé. But this poor girl, who just started working here by the way, might not even be interested in Robbins that way. Maybe she is just being nice and is trying to land on Robbins good side. And by the way, when did you meet this new woman?"

"This weekend" Callie told him. "It was our weekend on call and Chief Webber seemed to think this last weekend would be perfect for this Nathalie Porter to get to know her new boss."

Mark chuckled and that caused him a devilish look from the fiery Latina in front of him.

"Again, sorry" he said and tried to get serious again. "It seems kind of funny to me though. "

"What exactly is funny?" Callie exclaimed.

"You two have really gone through hell ever since Blondie left for Africa and then came back only to hear that you and me had….you know, slept together. She has been the jealous one all along and now…well, let's just say that it seems that IF you're right about this Nathalie girl, the roles are reversed. But don't you worry, it will do wonder for your sex life."

Callie couldn't hold back the laughter any longer.

"You're hopeless. You know that don't you?"

Mark looked proud of his achievement.

"Yes, I know. But you love me anyway."

"You know who else who use to say that?" Callie said and thought of Arizona Robbins baby blue eyes and her cute dimples that appeared every time she smiled.

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Arizona entered Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital right after lunch. Her face immediately lit up when she saw Callie in the main lobby. Her smile faded when she saw Callie's company. Mark. Why was this bothering her again all off a sudden? They had talked about this. They had solved this. Mark and Callie were just friends. Also Mark, had been pretty great with her since she and Callie had got back together again. She shook her head back and forth a few times in an attempt to get her mind straight again. The realization of the fact that she was standing here and wasted valuable time made her move. She wasn't suppose to scrub in for her one and only surgery this afternoon until fifty minutes later and the reason why she was so early stood only a few feet away. Callie.

"Robbins!" Mark greeted her. "We were just talking about you. In fact you're the only thing Callie ever want to talk about these days. But I don't blame her."

Arizona smiled. Mark maybe really had changed. No teasing, no nasty comment or remark. He was just being….nice.

"Oh really?" the blonde pediatric surgeon said and raised her eyebrows towards Callie. "What are you saying about me then?"

"And with that, I leave you to it" Mark announced and started to walk away. "Can I maybe have the honor to buy you guys dinner one night this week? I'll talk to you about it later. Have a nice day! Both of you!"

"Wow!" Arizona exhaled sounding very surprised still looking at Mark who disappeared behind a corner. "Is he sick or something?"

"What?" Callie said.

"He is actually being quite normal. And nice. But never mind. I think it's good."

She turned around to meet Callie's gaze and then Arizona remembered why she had come to work early. Goose bumps appeared on her skin the same moment their eyes locked. And there it was again. The affection.

"Hi" the blonde whispered and leaned in to place a soft kiss on the Latina's cheek.

"Hi" Callie whispered back.

Standing dangerously close to one another in the main lobby they both knew that this wasn't the place to start act on the thoughts that crossed both of their minds in the moment.

"So, are you going to tell me what you two were talking about" Arizona smiled.

Callie squirmed a bit where she stood.

"Uum, we were just talking about dates" she tried. "Wedding dates."

"Liar!" Arizona exclaimed. "Or maybe you talked about it but that wasn't the only thing you guys talked about and it certainly wasn't the main thing you talked about. Now, spit it out Torres."

Callie was speechless. She could obviously not hide anything from Arizona Robbins.

"You're good", she admitted.

Arizona looked pleased.

"I know", she said still smiling. "We talked about it this morning honey. Are you still upset about Dr Porter?"

Callie started to lose count of about many times she had sighed this last hour.

"I'm sorry", she mumbled and looked down at her feet sounding and looking like a three-year-old who had been caught with her hand in the cookie jar.

"Come" Arizona said and took one of Callie's hands and started to walk over to the elevators. "We can talk when I change in to my scrubs."

"Really?" Callie answered. Her voice was dripping with doubt. "You're thinking about talking with me about this and being half naked? I'm sorry baby, but that is like asking for trouble."

Arizona giggled.

"Now whose the hopeless one in this relationship? Come on now you goof."

And with that Callie let Arizona take the lead. Unfortunately they weren't alone in the elevator on the ride up but as soon as they entered the attending's locker room and had made sure that they were alone they were drawn to each other like magnets.

"You taste so good", Callie murmured between kisses.

"Don't stop then", Arizona breathed back.

The door suddenly opened and they flew apart. Teddy Altman walked in and apparently she hadn't noticed their little make out session. Teddy was usually the one with the most bad luck enough and had to see Callie and Arizona's small encounters in the locker room.

"Hi!" Teddy said happily. "I haven't seen you guys in days. I wish I had the time to stay here and chat but I was just here to get my stethoscope."

"Hi to you to Teddy" Arizona said just as happy to see Teddy. "Can't we get together by the end of the week for a coffee or something? Just the two of us."

Giving Callie an apologetic look and wink so that Callie would understand and then she turned to Teddy again.

"Sounds great!" the cardio surgeon answered and took what she was looking for from her locker. "I'll see you around lovebirds."

And with that she was out the door again leaving Callie and Arizona alone again.

"Okay, you go get changed while I go wash my hands" Callie said. "And then we might have the time to grab a quick lunch before you have to scrub in."

Arizona nodded and turned to her locker while Callie disappeared in to the bathroom. A soon as Callie had reached the bathroom and disappeared from Arizona's vision she heard the door opened again and a familiar voice flew through the room.

"Dr Robbins! You're here. This must be my lucky day. Or in fact, I was looking for you…"

Callie froze in a movement. Nathalie Porter.

"Well, let's see if she just want to be my fiancés friend" she thought and stood completely still so she could hear the rest of the conversation that took place outside the bathroom door…