"Your strongest whiskey please," Tim mumbles to the bartender and slaps down a hundred dollar bill.
"Make that two," a female voice says.
"Look lady, I'm not looking for a lady. Go get someone else to buy you a beer," Tim spits.
The woman punches him in the shoulder, "I am highly offended Timothy Robbins!"
Tim finally looks to the woman. A smile spreads across his face.
"Teds! How you been?" he asks, pulling her into a hug.
"Better than you it seems. What the hell happened to you?" she asks, forcefully moving his head so she can look at his nose.
Tim chuckles, turning back to the bar, "please make that two whiskeys."
Teddy rolls her eyes, "okay jackass, what's up your ass today?"
Tim laughs, "Nothing Teds, I just remembered that you dumped me on Christmas day."
Teddy sighs, "well if it means anything to you I just got dumped too."
"Two whiskeys."
"If you just got dumped why are you here and not crying your eyes out?" Tim questions, taking a sip of his whiskey.
"Why are you here and not hanging out with your sister?" Teddy shoots right back, taking a gulp of her whiskey.
"Touche," he mumbles, raising his glass.
"To getting drunk," Teddy says, clinking her glass with his.
"And then after you guys got back, she said I was too worried about you. She was way to jealous for me anyways. I didn't even talk to you!" Teddy slurs.
"She dumped you because of me? We haven't even talked in like, a year or something!" Tim slurs back.
"Guess what though?" Teddy almost whispers as she leans towards the man.
"What?" he questions.
Teddy closes the distance and connects their lips. The kiss is sloppy and drunk, but neither try to stop it.
"You wanna come to my place?" Teddy giggles.
"I sure do." he hiccups, stumbling after her.
"Fuck," Tim groans, shielding his eyes from the sun.
"Shh," Teddy mumbles, her head aching.
Tim opens his eyes, blinking away the sleep.
"Shit Teddy! Did we?" he asks.
"No. You stopped me. Now shut up and go back to sleep." Teddy orders, turning over.
Tim raised his hand, blocking out the sun and takes in his surrounding. He's in Teddy's bed and his shirt is gone but his pants are still on. He looks over at Teddy and sees a pale back.
"Well I at least made it to second base," he chuckles, getting out of bed.
"Tim, come back here!" Teddy whines.
"Teds, I don't know what happened last night but I can't just lay here."
"Take off your leg then lie here with me."
Tim chuckles but leaves the room anyways. He quickly finds the kitchen and pours them each a glass of juice before finding some pain pills and taking them back to the bedroom.
"Teds, time to wake up." he orders.
"I hate you," she mumbles, sitting up with a blanket covering her breasts.
"Not what you said last night, here drink this." he orders, handing her a pill and a cup.
"Yeah, about last night," Teddy takes the pill easily, "do I really remember that or was it just a sick joke?"
"What? About Callie?" he asks.
"I guess it wasn't a joke."
He sighs, "I wish it was."
"Do they know? Have you told them?"
"I have no idea. Phoenix didn't say anything about it. Callie didn't say a word, but she beat my ass, so I don't know." he shrugs.
"Well you have to go tell them your side of it! Callie won't know your side of it. Once they find out they will have to understand."
"Teds..." Tim sighs.
"No, don't 'Teds' me. You can't let this ruin your relationship with them! You love them both Tim. I know it and so do they, so you can't keep this from them any longer."
"Teddy what the fuck am I supposed to do? I can't really just walk in and tell them. Callie will kill me. So will Arizona when she finds out."
"I know; I got it! I'll call Ash and she'll set them up and you can talk with her and me there, just in case anything happens. I can take Callie."
"Ash? Who's Ash?"
"Doctor Rockhill, she's my friend. We go way back, I'm the one who got Callie and Arizona in to see her," Teddy explains.
"I guess. If I say no you'll just nag me until I say yes anyways."
"True. Yay!"
"Don't 'yay', this isn't a good thing Teds."
"I know," she sighs, "I'm sorry Tim."
"Yeah, me too. I kinda wish I would've just let them kill me."
"Tim!" Teddy slaps him on the chest.
Tim sighs as he crawls back into bed, "I just don't want to hurt them again."
"I know, but this way you can at the very least give them a reason."
*Three days later*
"I want to hear his side of the story."
Arizona looks up to Callie, eyebrow raised.
"Why? It doesn't change the fact he," she gags at the thought.
"I know. I just want to know why."
Arizona nods, "okay baby, we can go do it tomorrow with Rockhill and stuff."
"Teddy is going to be there in case I try to hurt him right?"
"Yeah, she won't let him go unless she's there too."
"Okay, call and set it up."
"Hi guys," Teddy shyly smiles as she walks in.
"Hi Teds," Callie smile back.
"Teddy," Arizona offers coolly.
"Callie, I'm warning you now that if you go after him I'm going to stop you. I'll try not to hurt you, but you are really powerful so I might have to, okay?" Teddy says.
"Just don't hurt my hands, I need those to work," Callie jokes.
"Okay Tim, you can come in now," Rockhill says.
Tim walks in. He looks to Callie first. Her eyes show her every emotion, they show fear. She takes a deep breath and they become unreadable. His eyes next connect with Arizona's, but hers are set in stone with fire in them.
"Thank you for coming to hear my side of it," he says, taking a seat next to Teddy at the small table.
"I really want to hit you," Arizona growls.
"Arizona," Callie hushes.
Tim bites his bottom lip.
"Tim, you can start whenever you want to," Rockhill says.
"Okay. Well, I'm not quite sure how to start. I guess I'll start from the get go. After we got caught I was tortured like Callie was. As you all know, I broke first."
"You were the only one to break," Callie states.
"Yeah. I was the only one to break. Anyways, after I told them some stuff they told me they had no use for me anymore. They said at least Callie could make them some money, but I wasn't worth anything. You guys gotta understand, they were going to kill me. So I begged and begged to live. I told them I'd do anything they wanted me to as long as I got to live. So they told me to go into the room where they kept Callie and rape her. I said no way, I would never do such a thing-"
"Yet you did," Arizona growls.
"So they laughed at me. Said I wasn't a real man. One of them got an old saw; the others held me down while he cut off my leg. They were just going to let me bleed out. I said I'd do it. I've never seen it down before but they burned my leg closed and stopped the bleeding. They made it easy for me to get in there, moving Callie to the floor and holding her down. They all watched me. Then right after I got done one of them got onto of me and started using me. I only had one leg, so I just laid there and took it. One after another after another. After they were all done they picked me up and got me a thing to walk with. They kept me around because they 'liked a hole that didn't scream so much'. I'm so sorry Callie. It was that or my life. I wasn't ready to die Callie. You have to understand," Tim pleads.
Callie takes a deep breath.
"I understand Tim."
"How could you do that? To your sisters girlfriend? I don't care if it was your life Tim, Dad raised us better than that! Don't you have some moral code or something when you join the army? I can't understand-"
"Arizona," Callie whispers, cutting her off.
"Callie I've gotta say what I need to say. I'm sorry if it hurt you," Arizona says.
"No, I wasn't finished."
"Oh, I'm sorry."
"Tim," brown eyes connect with blue, "I completely understand. I understand that you are not strong like you should've been. I understand that you value your live over your morals. I completely understand that you are not the man I thought you were. In fact you aren't a real man."
Callie stands up and Teddy jumps up.
"I'm just leaving," Callie growls, walking past both of them and to the door.
Arizona quickly follows. They make it all the way outside before Callie breaks down in tears.
"It's okay baby, he can't hurt you now," Arizona whispers, wrapping her arms around Callie and guiding her home.
NOTE Okay guys, I need help. I don't know what should happen next.
As a writer I usually plan out my stories and there are minor changes that happen here and there as I write, but this time a lot happened differently than I planned.
I had planned for Callie to be mute for months and Tim just confess his story to Teddy and they keep it to themselves for months. Then Arizona finally finds out and tells Callie about it. Then Callie confesses she was afraid and now feels safe because the past it the past and it can't hurt her anymore.
But as you can see, that is not the reaction Callie had when I wrote this. Callie didn't go mute for months and doesn't feel like the past is just the past.
So this is where I need help.
Do you want to follow Arizona and Callie, learning how to live with these new found facts and trying to be happy despite knowing they can't forgive Tim, like I feel they would do in the real world.
Or do you want to have the fake crap about how 'family is family' and 'love is greater than pain' and have them somehow be one big happy family again.
You have until the fifth of August to leave a review on what you think.
Thank you all for the love and support.