CHAPTER 40

When I look into your Spanish eyes

I know the reason why I am alive

And the world is so beautiful tonight

Callie didn't move and a couple of seconds later she realized she didn't even breathe. She swallowed hard and closed her eyes for a brief second.

"So what can I help you with Dr Porter?"

Arizona sounded very neutral. But even so Callie could hear a slight insecurity in the blonde pediatric surgeons voice. Maybe she just had to step out of the bathroom? But then again, no, she wanted to hear for herself what this Nathalie Porter was up to. So she stayed. Hidden in the bathroom. Like a little schoolgirl that eavesdropped on two people behind their backs.

"Chief Webber said that I should ask you to show me how you guys do it here when you fill out your trauma charts on those who have to go to emergency surgeries. It isn't at all in ways that I'm used to."

Arizona relaxed. It was only work things. Strictly business. For a moment there she had gotten worried that her mixed emotions about this Nathalie girl was actually turning out to be true. Now she realized she was just being as silly about this as Callie was. The girl was new and insecure and just wanted help.

"Oh" she therefore answered and wondered at the same time what took Callie so long in there. "Of course. Can you just give me a couple of minutes to get changed and then I can meet you at the Ped's desk?"

"Or I can wait for you here." Nathalie smiled. "And then we can accompany each other."

It was then Callie decided to take a step out of the bathroom and reveal her presence by clearing her throat. There wasn't a chance in hell that she was going to let this girl look when at Arizona when she got changed.

"Dr Torres!" Nathalie said sounding somewhat unsure for a sort moment.

"Dr Porter" Callie said politely. "I have to talk to MY fiancé about something private before she starts her shift so could you give us a minute here?"

Nathalie let her eyes wander from Arizona to Callie and then back to Arizona again.

"Uummm yeah, sure. I'll see you in a while Dr Robbins."

And then she left, leaving the two attendings alone in the locker room.

"See?" Arizona started. "It's nothing. She just wants help to get in to work."

Callie rolled her eyes and grunted.

"Yeah, right."

"Callie!" Arizona sighed. "Again, what did we talk about this morning? And she is not interested in me. I can tell you that."

"We'll see about that." Callie shot back.

"You're being irrational here" Arizona said and sighed while she changed in to her scrubs.

"Hello?" the Latina said doubtfully. "Have you seen you? You're hot and sexy and beautiful and smart and gorgeous."

The blonde giggled softly while she put her hair up in a ponytail letting a few of her blonde locks falling down at the side of her face.

"You're crazy. Do you know that? Luckily for you I happen to love you anyway."

Callie wasn't falling for Arizona's sweet talk. Not yet. She crossed her arms over her chest to show the blonde that she wasn't willing to let this go. Arizona looked amused by the whole situation.

"You're not taking me seriously" Callie commented.

"Sweetie, I always take you seriously" Arizona replied. "But you're not acting reasonably here. "

"I do to" Callie pouted.

"You do not."

"Do to."

Arizona couldn't hold back the laughter any longer. She burst in to a loud laughter. Callie was looking like a stubborn child.

"It's not funny", the Latina complained.

"I'm sorry" Arizona said and tried to get herself together. "Come here."

The blonde offered one of her hands to Callie and the Latina took it reluctantly. Arizona leaned her forehead against Callie's.

"I love YOU. That's all you need to know. All you need to focus on. Can you do that? For me?"

Callie relaxed a little when she heard Arizona's statement and even more when the blonde closed the space between them with a warm hug. Inhaling the blonde's sweet scent she decided to let this go. For now.

"Fine" she whispered and took the opportunity to smell her fiancé's hair.

She could let this go. For now.

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Half an hour later Arizona was even more sure of the fact that Nathalie Porter had no love interest in her what so ever. The young blonde had been really attentive and had seem to show real interest in the work things Arizona had showed her before she had to scrub in on her surgery. The surgery only took a couple of hours. One simple inguinal hernia. She decided to dictate some charts while she waited for Callie to get off so they could go home together. She loved days like this. No stress at all. She could just enjoy her work the way it was suppose to be enjoyed.

"Thank you for your help earlier!"

Arizona lifted her eyes only to meet Nathalie Porter's smiling face behind the desk.

"Oh it was nothing" she said and returned the young blonde's smile.

"Sure it was", Nathalie said. "Did your surgery go well?"

"Inguinal hernia" Arizona informed. "Piece of cake. I can to them in my sleep."

"I never understood you surgeons" Nathalie said and laughed at the pediatric surgeon's assurance of her work abilities. "Cutting people open like that. Me, I just satisfy with the simple investigations. Prescribing recipes and stuff like that. Short and simple."

Arizona smiled friendly at Dr Porter's comment.

"So…" the young blonde started to sound a little nervous. "Are you off already? I was thinking maybe I could buy you a cup of coffee. As a thank you for your help my first weekend and today I mean."

"Oh" Arizona said. "I don't think I…"

And then her iPhone buzzed in her pocket. Text message.

'Crazy things in the ER. I'm gonna be here all night I'm afraid…'

Arizona took a couple of seconds to wrestle with her own inside. Callie wouldn't be happy at all if she went to have coffee with Nathalie. BUT, on the other hand, Arizona was completely sure of the fact that the young blonde was just being friendly and nice. And she felt the need to be nice back and get to know her new colleague a little bit better. For the sake of work. Some things just came along with the responsibility about being Head of Ped's.

"Okay, sure" Arizona finally answered. "Let me just answer this text."

She started to push the buttons on the iPhone screen. While she was busy with her phone she didn't noticed the happy face of Nathalie Porter. If she had noticed she might have seen that the younger blonde showed a little too much happiness just over this 'let's-go-get-a-cup-of-coffee-thing'…

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"You what?"

"Calm down baby" Arizona tried. "We just took a cup of coffee at Joe's before I headed home last night.

Callie gave the blonde a hostile stare.

"Why?"

Arizona sighed inside. She should have known that this reaction would have showed from the fiery Latina. Still, she wanted to be completely honest about what she had done last night. Clearly this really was a problem for Callie. Although, Arizona was surer than ever that Callie really did not have anything to worry about regarding Nathalie Porter. The young blonde hadn't done anything suspicious. They had just talked in a friendly manner for an hour or so before Arizona had gone home.

"Because I was trying to be friendly and nice" she replied. "Cause Nathalie Porter is nothing but friendly and nice to me and since I had nothing to do last night I thought it would be a good idea to show my new colleague that her new boss isn't a bitch that doesn't care the slightest about getting to know her new colleagues."

They stood in the lab facing each other and it was the following afternoon. They hadn't been able to see each other until now cause since morning it had been full activity for both of them. Callie had scheduled some lab time for a couple of hours and Arizona had headed over to see her before she had to scrub in with Derek on a bone marrow transplantation that involved Anna Scott, the little girl with the leukemia.

"I KNOW she is interested in you Arizona" Callie said somewhat harshly.

"Okay, you have to stop this! Now."

"No!" Callie shot back. "I don't want you to see her outside of work again. Can you promise me that?"

Arizona's temper started to rise.

"You're being completely ridiculous about this! Can't you see that?"

Callie's face expression remained showing Arizona that Callie wouldn't back down from this one.

"So, what you're saying is that you don't trust me?"

"I don't say that…"

"Ah! But a little bit you are!" the blonde interrupted. "Say it. You. Don't. Trust. Me."

"Oh, come on!" Callie exploded.

"I can't talk to you right now that's obvious" Arizona threw back sounding very annoyed. "You can get back to me when you're done being this childish!"

And with that the blonde turned and walked out leaving Callie very upset and angry. Her inside was boiling and in pure rage she threw the test-tube she was holding on to right down in the floor. It broke immediately.

"Damn it!" she muttered to herself. "Damn it. Damn it. Damn it!"

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Arizona cursed herself for being so vulnerable when fighting with Callie. Trying to hold back the tears she walked fast through the corridor.

"Dr Robbins!" she heard a familiar voice call.

Of course. The object of their fighting.

"Are you okay, you seem upset?" Nathalie asked with obvious concern in her voice.

"Oh, it's nothing" Arizona tried to cover. "Bad day at work that's all. You know how it is sometimes."

Nathalie took a step closer and put her hand on the blonde pediatric surgeon's shoulder and squeezed it in comfort. It was just in that moment Callie choose to show up. She had decided to try and find Arizona right away to just get to the whole apologize thing over with. Arizona saw the look in Callie's eyes in the same second the Latina noticed the interaction between Nathalie and herself. She just opened her mouth to try and say something when Callie just turned around and walked way.

"Oh" Nathalie said. "It's one of those days."

"Look, I'm sorry" Arizona said. "I have to go."

"Are you sure you're okay then?" the younger blonde asked doubtfully.

"Y-yes, I'm fine." Arizona replied and gave Nathalie a small smile. "It's nothing actually. I'll see you around."

Still standing in the hallway, Nathalie Porter let her eyes follow the older blonde surgeon when she turned and walked away. A small smile was playing in the corner of her mouth…

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The rest of the day was a complete mess for Arizona. She tried to focus on her doings when she assisted Derek in the surgery and to not let her thoughts wander off to Callie and their earlier fight. No one was more relieved than herself when the surgery was over and she could scrub out. She hated fighting with Callie and when she came to think of it they hadn't fight like this since when she just had come back from Africa. Trying to shake the whole thing off she rushed through evening rounds and left everything else to Alex Karev to take care of. She needed to work this whole mess out with Callie.

Holding her breath she entered the lab again since she figured that Callie still was going to be down there. Callie didn't seem to pay any attention to her even though the blonde was completely sure that the Latina had noticed her presence.

"Hi" Arizona said in a small voice. "Can I come in?"

Callie just grunted and shrugged her shoulders.

"I guess."

Not sure of what to do Arizona shifted her weight on her feet standing in front of Callie who seemed really interested in the test-tube she was holding on to.

"Can we just talk and make up?" the blonde asked quietly.

Callie lifted her face and met the teary gaze from Arizona. Her heart melted instantly when she saw the devastated look the blonde was wearing all over her lovely face.

The Latina sighed.

"Please?" Arizona tried. "I-I just hate it when we fight like this. It reminds me of bad things…"

She decided to take this a step further and started to get closer to Callie who still didn't move or say one word. In reaching distance from one another Arizona stopped and looked down at her feet. Suddenly she felt the presence of the Latina real close and she looked up. Still not saying one word Callie just cupped one side of the blonde's face and stared right in to her eyes at the same time. Arizona was unsure of what this meant. Either way her tension seemed to cease a bit when she felt Callie's touch. She leaned in and pressed her body at the Latina and before she knew it she was seated up on one of the benches that Callie worked on. With a surprised look in her baby blue eyes she found herself being at a higher level, staring down in a pair of big brown eyes that still seemed unwilling to reveal any feelings at all. Still taken aback from Callie's actions she complied when Callie pushed the lab coat off from her shoulder. The Latina worked systematically and pushed herself in between Arizona's legs so she had to spread them apart.

The expression in Callie's face was totally unreadable to Arizona and for a short second the blonde felt confusion. Still, she didn't protest when the Latina grabbed the hem of her navy blue scrub top and pushed it over hear head leaving her upper body with the lacy black bra in a perfect view to Callie's vision.

"Callie I…"

"Ssshh" Callie interrupted and put one of her fingers over Arizona's lips to get her to stop talking.

Arizona swallowed and closed her eyes when Callie's finger started to trail down her body until it reached the waistband of her scrub pants. She helped the Latina and wriggled herself out of them. The blonde felt as if she didn't dare to open her eyes and when she felt Callie shift between her legs she sighed and leaned back and took a hold of the edge of the bench she was sitting on.

"Oh God!" she breathed out when she felt Callie's warm breath on the inside of her thighs.

The Latina popped small kisses from her knee and back up to where her real desire burned. Just before Callie reached her destination she stopped and when Arizona realized what was about to happen she opened her eyes and looked down and was met by the still unreadable expression written all over the Latinas face. A second later the blonde let out a low whimper when Callie started to suck on a spot on her inner thigh. Releasing the blonde's flesh with a loud popping sound Callie took a moment to admire the mark she had accomplished on Arizona's skin.

Arizona was in a complete bliss. She had soon realized what Callie was up to. And to be marked like that was one of the most erotic things Arizona Robbins ever had experienced. Without words Callie had made perfectly clear what was hers. The blonde inhaled and exhaled loudly when Callie's fingers gently stroked her core that still was covered by her panties. Soon she felt herself get covered in goose bumps when Callie started to kiss her just above the waistband of her panties and continued up to her bra covered chest.

"Callie!" she moaned loudly and threw her head back in ecstasy when the Latina started the same procedure of sucking on the top of her left mound.

Arizona couldn't believe how the actions from Callie affected her in this very moment. They hadn't even kissed. When Callie seemed to be satisfied with her doing on the blonde's breast she decided that enough was enough. Kissing her way back down she soon reached the obvious object for Arizona Robbins real desire. She blew out and was rewarded with a loud moon when the warm air from her breath hit its destination.

"Kiss me" the blonde panted. "I need you to kiss me. Please?"

"Where?" Callie asked. "Where do you want me kiss you?"

"Everywhere" Arizona said with a shaky voice still leaning back on the bench.

Before any more words were exchanged Callie had pushed the blonde's panties down, leaving them hanging on her ankles, and dove in to taste the desire that now was dripping from Arizona. When Callie spread her legs further apart to get greater access the blonde almost lose control completely.

"Oooh!" Arizona almost screamed out. She obviously didn't care the slightest about that the place they were in could cause them both trouble if someone cached them. Was the door even locked?

Just as Arizona was about to let herself go completely in an explosive orgasm Callie stopped.

"W-what?" the blonde panted out in confusion. "Don't stop!"

"Look at me" Callie demanded. "I want to see you."

Arizona gathered her strength just enough to get up from the bench so she could lock eyes with the Latina.

"I do trust you" Callie said and stared bluntly in to the baby blue eyes that were focused on her.

Arizona was just about to answer but was interrupted when Callie let two of her fingers slip in to her. Working quickly Callie also added her thumb to Arizona's sensitive nub, which she felt was near a release. The blonde's body stretched like a bow when the orgasm finally hit her. Arizona screamed, moaned, whimpered, panted and breathed out her release and before the first wave of pleasure had subsided she felt another one came crashing through her body. Callie felt the blonde clenching around her fingers and was determined to torture Arizona's body to the very end. Adding more pressure that caused even more friction between them Callie watched Arizona with fascination when the blonde tried to handle the feelings that was crashing around in her body. Several minutes later the Latina felt Arizona relaxing and did an attempt to take her hand away.

"Don't" Arizona begged with a whisper. "I just want to feel you a little longer."

Callie nodded and stood completely still. For a moment they just enjoyed of being this close to one another and when the feelings started to reel in both of them they leaned in towards each other and let their lips meld together. Softly and carefully they let their kiss be a symbol of what they felt for each other. Taking their time to enjoy the after glow they just continued to kiss and Arizona felt all the earlier tensions go away. Still, she knew they had to talk…