A/N: I have been getting so many messages/reviews for quicker updates. I apologize that at this point of time, it is impossible for me to offer a quicker update. The weekly updates are also coming due to my hot-headed girlfriend who makes cute requests for another chapter. But, this time, it's quicker... isn't it?

BUNNY90: This chapter is only for you… nothing matters in this whole world except you… nothing means nothing… the day I don't get to talk to you, I don't want that day to exist in my life… I don't think that there anything left in me except you!

Chapter 8

"I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you.

No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed."

"Are you okay?" Eliza asks softly holding Arizona's hand. Arizona looks at their joined hands. Why isn't she feeling good anymore? Why doesn't it feel right anymore? "Hey!" Eliza calls her again. Since the time, Eliza has picked her up, she is totally lost. She seems to be not in herself.

"I'm not feeling good." Arizona replies pulling her hand quietly.

"Is Callie giving you too much of trouble?"

"NO! Why would she?" Arizona doesn't like the tone which Eliza has about Callie.

"The way she is…"

"The way she is, she is okay…" Arizona replies annoyed. "I should go home." then calling the waiter, she asks to pack Chicken curry and hand made bread. When Eliza gives a questioning look, Arizona awkwardly defends, "for Callie. She likes them."

"Okay... But it's little strange that you are doing this for her." Eliza scoffs a little. "Is there something that I need to know?"

"Eliza, you are my friend and I'm spending my birthday evening with you and not with my wife. Isn't it enough?" Arizona snaps.

"So, now she is your wife?" Eliza raises one of her eye brows.

"What do you want to say?"

"We had two dates by the time you got married and I remember you telling me how this was to be a marriage of convenience..." Eliza stops not completing.

"But, that does not mean that I have any obligations with you. We just went out twice."

"But you have obligations with Callie, right?"

"It's not about Callie... I'm not ready for all these… it doesn't feel right." Arizona says tiredly. She is tired of fighting her developing feelings for Callie. More than anything, she feels strange that she has developed a kind of tickling feelings for the woman who is only interested in having little fun with her and that's it. Moreover, she is feeling so guilty after today's slap. This is the second time that she has done this. Callie has always maintained her boundaries with Arizona even though she has left no stone unturned to annoy her the more.

Arizona quietly opens the door and peeks into the room to see if Callie is there. She is little relieved seeing that Callie is lying on the bed putting the headphone on. Arizona keeps the parcel on the central table and goes near to Callie.

"Callie?" When Callie does not reply she sits beside her and touches Callie's knuckles softly, "Calliope?"

Now Callie opens her eyes and surprisingly doesn't react at all seeing Arizona like this. She rather sits straight leaning a little on the headrest.

"Did you eat?" Arizona asks still looking down Callie's hands, specially Callie's left hand- she still is wearing the wedding band, whereas Arizona in fact put that off right on the wedding night. She brushes Callie's fingers gently and stops on the top of the wedding band. "You are wearing this!" This is more of a surprising statement. Then she finally looks up to face Callie. Callie big eyes are little red and full of pain, today. "I'm sorry Calliope! I should not have slapped you like that."

"Why have you come so early? Your doctor girlfriend couldn't pay the bill?"

"I had to apologize to you."

Suddenly out of nowhere Callie's big eyes start filling with water. Callie even doesn't know why she is behaving like this. After Arizona left, all she felt like good for nothing. She couldn't believe that she did let it happen in her own house, in her own bedroom. But, more than that, she was so jealous thinking that Arizona has gone out with Eliza. Arizona stares at Callie's big eyes observing how beautiful she is looking when she has tears in them. Callie's eyeliners are smudged, her cheeks are little red and her nose is little swollen. Arizona smiles with all her heart watching over the little child peeking through in this headstrong woman.

"Why are you smiling?" Callie asks embarrassingly.

"Are you crying because I slapped you?" Arizona asks and starts wiping Callie's big drops of tears.

"Of course not…. I'm not crying…"

"You totally are." Arizona takes one more tissue and dabs on her cheeks.

"I'm just upset that I couldn't slap you back." Callie makes a little pouty face. "Do you know that nobody has ever done that to me? And you did that for twice."

"I'm sorry!" Arizona says and leans a little on Callie.

"Say it for two times more. The great Arizona is saying sorry to Callie!" Callie gets back to her usual self giving Arizona a big smile.

Arizona leans a little and looks directly at Callie's eyes making Callie stop smiling. Callie inhales Arizona's perfume. What kind of perfume does she wear? Callie has never felt this intoxicated with any other woman. Her feels are blurred with Arizona's closeness. Arizona leans a little and goes near to Callie's left ear, "I'm sorry Calliope… I'm sorry…I'm sorry…. I'm sorry…" She says breathless in one single breath. Then she plants a soft kiss on Callie's left cheek, where she has slapped few hours back. "Feeling better?" She again asks in a hoarse voice. Arizona doesn't care what she is doing right now- she just is unable to control her pounding feelings for Callie. The enticing sensation she has right now, she knows that everything has changed in her, maybe in between them too. Still now she has disliking and hatred for Callie, but all those evaporate in this moment of fire. The connection she feels for Callie, she can never explain them to anyone. When she went of Eliza, she realized that how much she wanted Callie to be the first person to wish her on her birthday and not anyone else.

When Arizona finally leans up, Callie senses the strange change in Arizona. Callie's blood cells are as if in rush to catch the rawness what Arizona just has initiated. The organic feeling is so palpable that she fears to make any movement in terror of breaking the passing electricity between them. The consuming feelings Callie has, she is ready to jump into this fire knowing that it would take away everything she has! But, she would happily burn into Arizona, million of times!

"Wifie?" Callie asks in all warmth.

"Hmm?"

"Happy Birthday!"

"Thank you."

True love takes a moment to be realized and takes a lifetime to live with. True love is never perfect- it's fierce, maddening, frustrating, vehement and burning. The imperfectness in it makes two crazy people to dare to fall in love even though they live in two different corners of the world. And of course, it's all consuming.

A/N: This is a little short chapter, but I hope, it is worth it. Tell me in the reviews how did you like the burning fire between them…? Would you like them to be burnt in it?