CHAPTER 41
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
When life gets hard, when things change,
True love remains the same
"I DO trust you" Callie said and Arizona could hear the determination in the Latinas voice.
Callie handed her the scrub top and searched for eye contact with the blonde while Arizona got herself dressed again after their hot and much steamy encounter in the lab. The Ped surgeon pulled her panties up from her ankles and jumped down from the bench and grabbed her scrub pants from the floor. She worked quickly and soon she was fully dressed.
"I know you do" Arizona sighed. "I shouldn't have said that. I'm sorry."
"I'm sorry too."
Arizona raised one of her perfect eyebrows with an expression of doubt written all over her face.
"No, you're not", she said playfully. "Because you still think that Nathalie is interested in me."
Callie grunted and looked away.
"I don't think. I know she is."
"Oh honey", the blonde said softly and took two large steps to be close to the grumpy Latina. "I love you. Only you. In fact, I haven't loved anyone like I love you. Never."
Arizona waited for Callie's reply but when she didn't get it she took a hold of Callie's chin with one of her hands and forced their eyes together.
"Do you hear what I'm saying?"
"I do hear what you're saying" Callie finally replied. "It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that…"
"What then?" Arizona interrupted. "This is what I'm hearing. You say you trust me and that you love me. But yet you can't seem to let this go. To me it sounds like you don't trust me. But since you say you do I'm choosing to believe you."
Callie was still being firmly held by the blonde so she couldn't avoid the despondent look Arizona was giving her.
"You don't get it", the Latina mumbled.
"No, you're right" Arizona said. "I don't get it. But I am awfully curious to hear you explain it to me. So I in fact can get it."
Without even notice it the blonde had squeezed Callie's mouth altogether while she talked so when the Latina tried to speak it just came out as "hmmffss" and something else that Arizona couldn't register.
"What did you just say?"
Callie took Arizona's hand away carefully from her chin and smiled cautiously.
"I said: Can you please stop squeezing my mouth together, because I can't speak properly otherwise."
"Oh, sorry" the blonde said sheepishly and removed her hand completely from Callie's face.
"Again" Callie started over. "I do love you and I do trust you. I just don't trust this Nathalie. I can feel she's up to something. She likes you. Not just like you, like you. She likes you. And I don't like the fact that someone you are going to work with that close is looking at you and thinking inappropriate things about you."
"She has done nothing to reveal such things", Arizona protested. "She is just being nice and friendly and totally professional with me. So I think you're wrong."
"Ha!" Callie exclaimed sounding extremely sarcastic. "I can bet you one hundred dollars that the girl was thinking dirty things about you from the minute she laid eyes on you!"
"But you're the only one that gets to do dirty things to me" Arizona said and did her best to look adorable enough so that Callie was going to let this go. "In fact, you just did some really dirty things to me. Here in your lab, on that bench. And you know something else? I loved it. Like, really loved it. If you didn't noticed that."
Callie was determined to not fall for this. She crossed her arms over her chest while her expression still remained somewhat grumpy.
"Help me out here baby" Arizona said and sounded like she was giving up. "What do you want me do to? She is going to work with me and I can't be unpleasant with her cause you think she has a crush on me."
"Correction" Callie stated firmly. "I know it. I don't think. And what bothers me the most right now is that you don't believe me. In fact, you're mocking me."
Arizona leaned in and placed a soft kiss in the corner of the Latinas mouth and then stared bluntly in to the gaze of her big, brown eyes.
"Tell me what to do to make it better" the blonde whispered and fixated her self close enough so Callie could feel her warm breath when she spoke. "Maybe if I do this?"
Arizona finished the sentence with leaning in to nibble Callie's earlobe.
"Still not fixing it", the Latina said trying to sound as neutral as possible so that the blonde wouldn't notice the effect her doings had.
"How about if I do this then?" Arizona breathed and started to lick a slow path from behind Callie's ear and down to her neck.
"No" Callie stubbornly let out but felt herself giving in on behalf of Arizona Robbins skills.
"I love you so much" Arizona whispered right in to Callie's ear before she cached the Latinas lips in a scorching hot kiss and immediately forced their tongues together.
Callie couldn't hold back any longer and let a low moan escape that made Arizona shiver all over. The blonde framed Callie's face with both her hands while pushing away a few locks from her hair so she could have free access to the Latinas lips. The kiss grew hot in an instant and soon the lack of air couldn't be ignored from neither of them. They reluctantly drew apart from each other trying to catch their breaths.
"Seriously" Arizona said a few seconds later when her breathing had gone back to normal. "I don't want to us to fight about something so simple as Nathalie Porter. Like I said, I hate it when we fight. It brings back really bad memories and I think we have made to much progress for that in this relationship by now."
It was Callie's turn to sigh.
"I know. I hate it when we fight to" she admitted. "But I also hate when I see someone else is drooling over you."
"You know what?" the blonde said and lowered her voice. "I think it's kind of sexy that you think that. I love being yours. And this possessive side of yours is turning me on beyond anything you can ever imagine."
"Really?" Callie said and raised her eyebrows.
Arizona nodded.
"It does. It really, really does."
"But?" Callie questioned.
The blonde couldn't hold back the laughter and giggled softly.
"But, we can't screw like rabbits when we're at work so you have to control your possessiveness. And I promise you darling, you are going to tire yourself out if you don't cause then you'll have to satisfy me around the clock."
"I don't mind." Callie said quickly and grinned widely.
"You're hopeless!" Arizona said still wearing a dimpled smile. "But just to make clear, have we made up now? Cause I really, really have to go and make evening rounds now before I can go home."
"We're fine", Callie replied. "More then fine" she added.
Arizona's baby blue eyes sparkled with joy when she heard the words coming from Callie and leaned in once again to steal one last kiss.
"Good. I'll come and say goodbye before I leave later. I know you have a long night ahead of you."
"Umm yeah" the Latina confirmed. "I promised Owen that I would stay and help him with this months schedule for the ER. I have to many nights on call ahead of me and I don't want chaos during those. It might get late."
"I understand" the blonde said. "But just so you know, I will be home. Alone. In our bed. So when you get home, make sure to kiss me goodnight. Even if I'm asleep."
"Agreed" Callie smiled. "Now, get out of here and do your thing Dr Robbins."
With one last peck on the Latinas lips Arizona left the lab. She couldn't believe how much better she felt leaving than when she came. Calliope Torres sure knew how to do.
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Making it through evening rounds had never been easier for Arizona. By her side she had Alex Karev and Meredith Grey who was taking the night shift in the Pediatric department and after making sure that they knew everything there was to know she left. Wanting to see Callie before she left made her navigate through the hospital's corridors so she finally ended up at the desk in the ER where Owen and Callie were heavily engaged in their paperwork. Otherwise the ER seemed slow.
"Are you going home now?" Callie said looking happy to see her but tired at the same time.
"Yes" Arizona nodded. "But I remembered something really important. Can I just talk to you alone for a few minutes?"
"Go ahead" Owen said and gave Callie an encouraging look. "I'll be here."
Callie got up from her chair behind the desk and followed Arizona around the corner so they had enough privacy to talk.
"Should I be worried?" Callie asked suspiciously.
"No you fool" Arizona said and looked around to make sure that no one heard them. "I just remembered something you said earlier. Something about wedding dates…"
"Ooooh" Callie said and lit up. Suddenly she didn't seem so tired anymore. "That."
"Yes, that" the blonde half whispered half said and took one step closer. "I want us to talk about that. When we have the chance to do so properly. I just wanted you to know that."
"Well" Callie whispered back. "I'm glad you told me."
"And I'm glad that you're glad that I told you that. That means that I can go home with a wide, foolish grin on my face and fantasize and dream about our wedding."
Callie couldn't help but melt a little when she heard the words coming from the petite little blonde standing in front of her. Suddenly she longed for the weekend. They both were free from work and from the looks of how things were at the moment it was well needed.
"You do that", the Latina said happily. "I'm going to get back to work so that I can catch a few hours of sleep next to you. In our bed. Before mornings rounds. So, I'll see you later. In bed."
Arizona smiled again.
"We definitely do."
Watching the blonde turn and go away Callie was left, standing there with an unbelievable warm feeling inside of her. She really was lucky. For a minute she forgot all about Nathalie Porter.
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Reaching the locker room Arizona felt relieved that it seemed empty. She was too tired to chat with anyone right now. All she wanted was to change out of her scrubs and go home and take a long, warm and steamy shower. Her luck didn't remain cause the door opened just a minute after she had gotten there.
"Hi there" a certain young blonde said. "Are you feeling better?"
Arizona felt a little uneasy when she realized that she didn't had the time to get her t-shirt on. That left her in her bra and standing half naked in front of Nathalie Porter didn't seem optimal for the time being. For a split second she thought she saw something in her younger colleagues eyes that confirmed that Callie might have been right.
"Yeah, much better" she said trying to sound as neutral as possible while she turned away and got dressed. "Like I said, just a bad day."
"We all have them" Nathalie said and smiled. "Look I didn't mean to interrupt you. I can see you're on your way home. But can I just ask you a question?"
Feeling much more relaxed with all her clothes on Arizona turned around to face her younger colleague again.
"Shoot" she said and smiled.
"I had a patient just now, Sam Lindley, a five-year-old with severe stomach pain, that I decided to keep over night. I really just want to keep an eye on him so when you do your morning rounds, can I go with you? I know you usually like to proceed them yourself or at least that's what I've heard from Alex Karev but I was just thinking…"
"Of course" Arizona cut in. "That's totally okay.
Nathalie's face lit up and even though Arizona beginning to question if the young blonde only was trying to be professional or if she really was up to something she decided to let this go through. She cursed herself for being so suspicious. Nathalie still hadn't done or said anything that proved Callie right. Arizona decided that she was just on the edge because of what Callie had said earlier.
"Thanks!" Nathalie said with excitement in her voice.
"It's nothing" Arizona replied. "I'll see you tomorrow morning then."
"We do. And I was right by the way."
"Right about what?" Arizona asked in confusion.
"You do look good without your scrub top on."
And before Arizona really had the time to react Nathalie was out the door. She blinked a couple of times and tried to take control over her thoughts again. Had she really heard that right? For the thousand time that day Arizona Robbins sighed. This was not good. Not at all. And to her dismay she had to admit that Callie had been right all along. How could it be that she hadn't seen this one coming? Was she really that blind?
"Just calm down Arizona" she whispered to herself. "You can handle this. If something like this ever happens again you just have to tell the girl straight that she has to stop."
When she left the locker room she suddenly didn't look forward to morning rounds at all.
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