A/N: As I promised to upload the chapter before you wake up….and the night was awesome, I guess!
"I need you because I love you"
Chapter 16
"Okay… Colonel seems to be in a bad mood", Callie mutters to herself quietly peeking at Arizona. They are on the way to the meeting.
"What?" Arizona turns to Callie, evidently upset.
"Nothing," Callie replies quickly and then adds, quietly, "Torres, you are in a danger zone…"
"What did you say?" Arizona snaps.
"Nothing."
"What nothing… you say something and whenever I ask, you reply as nothing."
"Because I have nothing to say."
"Yes, of course, you have nothing to say," Arizona stresses out the last part of the sentence before looking out of the window of the car.
"If you have anything to say, why don't you say it?" Callie blurts out.
"What?" Arizona turns towards Callie irately.
"You heard me!" Callie replies in a stone-cold voice. This is so much of Callie that she knows how to annoy people and especially with Arizona, she knows exactly what annoys Arizona the most.
Arizona stares at Callie silently for a while but decides not to say anything. As time is passing by, Arizona is feeling so tempered that she is feeling like throwing out Callie out of the car. But, at the moment, the meeting is so important that she decides to let it go for a while.
"Callie, we need to concentrate on the meeting."
In the conference room, once Adi is done with presenting the proposal, Mr. Rogers, the president of the company, seems to be really pleased. He turns towards Callie and Arizona, "I'm almost impressed. I just need to know, what is the guarantee that we are going to make enough profit from this."
"Mr. Rogers, do you have a better proposal than this now?" Callie asks a reverse question.
"You need to prove that your plan is the best." Mr. Rogers smiles.
"For that, you need to work with us. In Business, we cannot guarantee anything." Callie again replies.
"So, Ms. Robbins… are you going to lead this project?" Mr. Rogers asks.
"Yes, Of course! This is her brain child." Callie answers proudly. She has never felt this proud about anybody ever.
Arizona looks at Callie for a while, then replies, "Nah! Callie Torres is going to take over the project eventually. I'll not be there after few months."
Callie is surprised with the answer but keeps quite for the time being.
"If you have some time, I would like you to meet the heads of different departments. Since we are going to work together, I would like you to meet the people, you need to work with."
"So, we are getting the project?" Arizona asks smiling.
"I guess so… "
As soon as the meet and greet start, Arizona seems to be very relaxed, but she has restrained herself looking at Callie. Since last 15 minutes, she has been trying to make eye contact with Arizona, but Arizona successfully has dodged her. Then, Callie moves her chair little bit closer to Arizona and suddenly puts her right hand on Arizona's left thigh. Feeling Callie's hand on her thigh, Arizona almost jumps out of her chair and then quickly turns towards Callie furiously.
"What is this Callie?" Arizona says inaudibly.
"Nothing." Callie smiles big flashing all her teeth but now puts her hand inside the skirt, on the bare skin of Arizona.
Arizona cannot believe that Callie actually is doing this amidst of so many people.
"Callie, move your hand… RIGHT NOW."
"Of course!" Saying this Callie moves her hand little upper of the thigh.
Arizona already has started seeing stars. Nobody has ever turned on her, the way Callie is doing right now. Knowing that they are in a meeting room, they could be caught any moment embarrassingly, Arizona realizes that she herself doesn't want Callie to remove the hand.
Somehow, she says, "please…."
"What?" Callie moves her hand little up. Her fingers are almost at the touching distance with Arizona's bikini line.
"Please…"
Callie looks at Arizona and slows moves out her hand. Anything for you Arizona…anything.. you don't have to beg.
But, rest of the day goes Arizona completely ignoring Callie's presence. The more Callie tries to go near to her, the more distant she becomes. All these have made Callie frustrated. She has never been this patient with any other woman.
Once both returns to the room, Arizona goes to the washroom to freshen up and Callie sits on the couch. She can listen to the sound of water in the sink in the washroom. She feels how her head is pounding. Suddenly she gets up and goes to the washroom.
"Arizona, open the door." She starts banging the door. She needs to talk.
"What is this?" Arizona opens the door.
"I'm asking what is this?" Callie pushes Arizona inside the washroom.
"Callie, I have no time to talk about all these rubbishes." Arizona steps back.
"Why are you ignoring me?" Callie almost steps on Arizona.
"I'm not…" Arizona takes one step back and her hip hits the edge of the sink line.
"You are… as if, I'm not there… you are talking to everybody but not to me." Callie stands on nose to the nose with Arizona.
"Callie…" Arizona tries to go away.
"NO." Callie stops her putting her hands on Arizona's waist. "And Why did you say that you wouldn't be there after few months?" Callie asks almost sounding like a demanding kid.
Arizona takes a long breath. "Calliope Torres, I signed a contract letter with Lucia that I would be heading the company for a year. And I wouldn't be there after few months. I guess you don't know about this." Arizona's blue eyes are steamed, but she needs to get it out- if not today, then she wouldn't be able to say it ever. Since Callie doesn't love her, she has nothing to lose now.
"I knew about this," Callie replies simply. "So?" Callie looks deeply into those blue steamed eyes.
"So, I'll leave once the contract period is over." Arizona finds it harder to continue eye contact with Callie. "You got your answer?"
"Leaving me?" This is the first time that Callie seems to be surprised. "Are you going to leave me?"
"You are sleeping on the couch," Arizona replies pushing Callie away.
On the bed, Arizona feels so restless. She cannot forget how Callie asked her like a child if she was going to leave her. Arizona just needs to know that Callie too needs her as much she does. When she is entangled in her own thoughts, unexpectedly she feels Callie climbing up the bed. Nothing happens for next few minutes, but then Callie just lies behind of her snaking one of her hands around her stomach and nudging her face into the crook of Arizona's back.
"Callie?" Arizona just whispers. Feeling Callie so near to her body, she knows that she has lost it.
"Don't leave me," Callie whispers back and tightens her grip around Arizona. Callie gives a soft peck on Arizona's cheek. Arizona feels the moisture on her cheek. "I need you Arizona…"
"You do?" Arizona mutters under her breath and closes her eyes to stop the forming tears. She just needs to know this that Callie needs her too.
"Yes, I do." Callie utters these phrases like a marriage vow, like standing on the alter, promising the bride that she will be needing her for the rest of her life.
Callie starts putting open mouthed kisses on Arizona's bare neck, while she starts grinding her center on Arizona's back thigh, making Arizona moan loudly. "I do," Callie purrs again on Arizona's ear and starts sliding her hand inside Arizona's panties. "I do." She mumbles again once her fingers reach the destination.
"I do too," Arizona replies while breathing high, moaning deeper, letting a drop of a tear coming out of her eyes.
The kind of love which makes you needy is probably the best kind of love. This needy love reminds us how much we need the other person to be there, not leaving us ever, making it sure that they have come to our lives to stay!
A/N: So, Callie knows it! Umm… well, now? That Dumbo still hasn't said those three magical words!
And many of you have complained how they do lots of back and forth and not telling what they need to say. I can tell you one thing that if you have this intense true feeling for someone else, there would always be loads of back and forth. Your insecurities, your ego, and your attitude will speak out before you do! But, as I always have said, love finds out their own way to meet… so let them find it out too …