Okay, this is a really boring chapter I know! But I did have to write it so that we can move pass all this…boring stuff. My intentions are to write this with a happy ending. Like with a wedding perhaps? And then we can finish this story. Don't you agree?

And by the way, in order to make it up to you guys, the next chapter is going to be…HOT! Extremely hot! Coming home-sex…*hint hint*

CHAPTER 45

Love it has so many beautiful faces

Sharing lives and sharing days

My love it had so many empty spaces

I'm sharing a memory now I hope that's how it stays

Now I'm deep inside love and still breathing

She is holding my heart in her hand

I'm the closest I've been to believing

This could be love forever

"Hey Torres, are you okay?" Mark Sloan asked with concern written all over his face well aware of the fact that Arizona had left for Washington yesterday.

Callie blinked both once and twice before she realized that she must have zoned out pretty bad. Again.

"Hmm..yes, yes I'm fine" she reassured and tried to show a small smile.

"You're lying" Mark claimed. "And you know what? When your shift is over you and me are going over to Joe's to get a couple of drinks. You need it. I need it. We need it. And I don't take no for an answer cause guess what? It's been ages since you and me hung out."

Callie looked at Mark with gratitude. The brunette was already worried to go home to the apartment. To sleep alone for the first time since her and Arizona had got back together. It was safe to say that it wasn't something she looked forward to. She took a quick glance at her watch and realized that it was late afternoon and that she only had her charts left to finish before she could get off.

"You're on Mark", she therefore said. "And you're absolutely right. I need it. I will do everything to keep myself from thinking about a certain blonde."

"At least you're aware of it yourself" Mark smirked before he changed expression in to a somewhat more serious one. "Have you talked to her yet?"

"She called me when she landed last night" Callie told him. "And she called me this morning. I'm just lucky that there's just three hours time difference from here."

"Is she okay?" Mark asked.

Callie sighed and shrugged her shoulders.

"I guess", she said despondently. "This is taking its toll on her. And me. I have to stop myself from just finding that little tramp Nathalie Porter here on the hospital and keep myself from kicking the crap out of her."

"I can understand where you're coming from" Mark admitted. "This whole thing even makes me want to puke. But you know what? Tonight we try and just forget everything bad in the world and just have some fun, okay?"

Callie smiled widely back at him.

"Totally fine with me. I've missed you Mark."

"I've missed you too kiddo" the plastic surgeon replied.

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Arizona sighed heavily and plopped her self down at the bed in her old room in her parent's house back home in Washington DC. Yesterday she had just called them to let them know she was coming to see them but it wasn't until today she had told them the real reason she had come here. Of course they had been concerned about the situation she was in but the truth was that they had been more worried that it was something that had happened between her and Callie. After she had explained the whole thing and reassured them that this had nothing to do with her and Callie they seemed to have relax a bit. And although the blonde was glad to be home with her parents she missed Callie like crazy already. She took out her iPhone to call Callie. Looking at her watch made her realize that Callie's shift would've ended. It didn't take the brunette long to answer her call and immediately there were a wide smile that made her perfect dimples show of perfectly.

"Hey sexy", Arizona said in a low but flirtatious voice when her girlfriend answered. "Do you miss me yet?"

Hearing Callie laugh was like music to her ears. Always.

"You've already asked me that", the brunette pointed out. "Twice actually. And the answer is the same as before. I miss you terribly."

"Good!" Arizona said firmly. "Cause I miss you too."

"So, have you talked to your parents yet?" Callie asked.

"Yes, I've just finished that talk with them" the blonde responded. "They were more worried about the fact that something was wrong between you and me. When they heard the reason I came they seemed like they didn't thought it was such a big deal."

"Should I take that as a compliment and that your parents have approved with me?" Callie teased.

"Oh shut up!" the blonde laughed and joked back. "They love you and you know it. Almost as much as I do."

"Well, that's always nice to hear" the brunette stated.

"Glad you think so" Arizona smiled. "So, are you going home now? I know your shift has come to an end. Me myself am going to get some sleep. I know it's just ten o'clock but I feel really exhausted after this heart-to-heart-talk with my parents."

"You need it baby" Callie said softly. "I'm waiting for Mark. We're going to Joe's and get a drink. Or drinks. That depends."

A slight silence settled in and Callie suddenly felt unsure.

"I mean" she started sounding somewhat nervous. "If that's okay with you?"

"Baby" the blonde said nicely. "You need it. Say hello to Mark from me and tell him to take really good care of you tonight."

Callie relaxed instantly. It warmed her inside that Arizona seemed to have let this thing with Mark go completely.

"I love you" the brunette said simply. "And I never going to be tired of saying that to you."

"I love you to honey" Arizona smiled. "I have a telephone meeting with my lawyer tomorrow morning. I will call you right after, okay?"

"Okay" Callie echoed. "Sweet dreams."

"Same to you beautiful" the blonde said before they finished their call.

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After talking with her lawyer the next day Arizona felt somewhat more confident that everything was going to be all right. Nicholas Johnston was a good lawyer and Arizona had been doing business with him before so she trusted him whole-heartedly. He had promised her that with the lack of evidence from this accusation he would have her back at Seattle Grace Mercy West in no time at all. And he had a plan to make it happen. That and a phone call to Callie had already made her day. Although she missed the brunette terribly by now she really felt that this decision, going to see her parents, had been the right one. Her flight back to Seattle was booked and cleared for Friday night. She knew that Callie had the weekend off and she planned to make every single minute of that free weekend count after being apart.

"Hi sweetie", her mother said when she returned back downstairs. "Did the talk with the lawyer turned out good?"

"He seems positive", Arizona answered and sat down by the kitchen table.

Memories from when she was a child came back to her immediately. She used to love sitting by this table when her mother cooked. It made her feel so safe. She and her brother could have been out playing all day long and when they had entered the house again she had rushed to the kitchen to spend time with her mother.

"That's great", Barbara Robbins said and smiled at her daughter. "And Callie, is she all right?"

"Mother" Arizona warned but couldn't help but smile at the same time. "You have already asked me that to many times. Callie is fine and we're good."

"You can't blame me for being worried dear", her mother laughed. "Your father and I love you and in case you didn't notice we also love Callie very much. She is a lovely person and since it seems that she makes you very happy she is as important to us as she is to you."

"I can't even begin to explain how much I love her mother" Arizona sighed out. "She is the one I'd never thought I would meet."

Barbara Robbins gave her daughter a loving gaze. Her and Daniel had discussed it the night before when they had been heading to bed. They were equally agreeing on that they'd never had seen their daughter so happy in her whole life.

"You deserve it Arizona. Your father and I are so happy for you."

"Thanks mom", Arizona smiled back. "It means so much to me."

"So, what are you going to do for the rest of the day?" her mother asked and changed the subject.

"I'm actually going to meet Timothy and Anne" Arizona responded. "I haven't seen or talked with them in ages. Things have been so hectic lately and since I didn't had the time to meet them the last time I was here I thought now would be a good time."

Anne Gordon had been her best friend in high school. They used to be together all the time and apart from Danny, Anne had been one of the first she had been telling about her being gay. Timothy was her husband and Arizona liked him very much. Since her move to Seattle their contact had been reductive. A few phone calls and emails had been exchanged but that was it. Still, there were no hard feelings at all between them and every time they actually met things were just as they had never been apart.

"That seems like great idea", her mother said nicely. "Can we expect you home for dinner?"

"Yes you can", the blonde said. "I would never miss the opportunity to eat my mother's food when I'm here."

Her mother chuckled.

"Well, that's always good to know."

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Callie had never been so happy in her entire life of the fact that she had scheduled her first conciliation with a patient after lunch this particular day. Her and Mark had been home late last night. Very late. It had been exactly what she had needed though. She hadn't even realized how much she had missed hanging out with him. Just as friends.

"Dr Torres", someone suddenly said behind her back. "Can I talk with you for a moment?"

She turned around and saw that Chief Webber was standing behind her.

"Yeah, sure. What is it about?"

"I realize that what I'm about to ask you to, or order you to, isn't exactly a dream scenario here but I trust you enough to be professional through this."

Callie frowned.

"Don't say it" she gritted. "You want me to consult with Nathalie Porter regarding a patient. Right?"

Chief Webber sighed heavily.

"She suspects that one of her patients has been coughing so hard that his rib has broken. On top of that this patient already has problems with his wrist from being in a snowboard accident."

Callie grunted and did nothing to hide her irritation.

"Look, I know that you can't do or say something about this but you do realize how much I actually don't like her, right?"

"I know that Torres" Chief Webber said in a low voice. "And believe me, between you and me, I just want this whole thing with Dr Robbins to be solved. Off the record, we have a meeting with Dr Porter and her lawyer later this afternoon. But now, I need you to be the best doctor and surgeon that I know you are. For this patient's sake. Can you do this for me?"

"Fine" Callie said and sighed. "I can always try to be civil to a person that lie to people and still can keep a straight face."

Chief Webber just squeezed one of her shoulders as a response before he left letting her know that he knew what he asked her for.

Callie tried to get her inside calm when she headed up to the Ped's wing. Usually this walk made her smile all the way cause it often meant that she was going to meet Arizona but now her smile was far away from showing up in her face expression. Being without Arizona was harder than she ever could've imagined. It scared the living hell out of her when she came to think about it. If Arizona left her, for real, she was sure of the fact that she was going to literally die. Trying to shake that feeling off she started to scan the desk when she reached Ped's. Nathalie Porter and Arizona's scrub nurse Amanda Perkins were deeply involved in a conversation at the Ped's desk. Or so it seemed at least. Just the sight of Nathalie Porter made Callie's inside reel with rage. The woman was the reason that her fiancé couldn't be here for God's sake.

"You needed ortho", Callie said coldly when she was close enough. "Where is the patient and who is it?"

Nathalie Porter suddenly became very nervous. Even the scrub nurse Amanda noticed it and took it as a hint to disappear. Even though Chief Webber and his attendings hadn't said one word about Arizona's situation they knew that everyone knew about it. This hospital was a boiling pot when it came to gossip. Another thing revealing that something was wrong was Arizona's absence.

"Tom Wellman, fourteen years old, room five" Nathalie Porter responded after getting her self together.

Something in Nathalie's eyes had revealed that Callie scared her but she had gotten her self back together quickly again.

"Chart?" Callie almost snorted.

"Here", Nathalie said and handed it to the brunette who instantly took it and started to walk away without even saying thank you.

"Hey! You don't have to be rude with me!" Nathalie called out after the orthopedic surgeon and ran after. "It's not my fault your fiancé isn't Cinderella."

"That's it!" Callie thought.

To hell with being professional. She turned around and in one second she had grabbed a hold of Nathalie's lab coat and pressed her up against the wall.

"What did I say to you last week?" Callie hissed angrily. "Stay away from me and leave me the hell alone! You're lying and you know it! When the truth comes out, and believe me, it will come out, you're going to be very sorry you messed with us in the first place. Now if you excuse me, I have work to do."

Nathalie blinked surprisingly and didn't say a word. Calliope Torres was obviously no one you messed with if it had something to do with Dr Arizona Robbins.