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Chapter 62

Walking into the dark quiet house, Arizona sat her bags near the front door and thanked Aria for letting her in before walking through the house in search for her distraught wife.

Earlier in Seattle, Teddy had dropped her off at the airport just in the nick of time to make her Miami flight. Arizona hadn't planned on talking to her wife on FaceTime as long as she did when the brunette first called, but after seeing Callie so upset, she would have missed her flight if that would have meant that her wife would calm down. During her long nerve wracking flight, Arizona had managed to grab a couple of hours of sleep before landing. Calling Aria after arriving on the east cost, she asked her to pick her up from the Miami International Airport to take her to her wife.

At some point during The night after talking to her wife, Callie had woken up and called the blonde again but she only kept getting her voicemail. After settling on the fact that Arizona must had fallen asleep, the brunette decided to call her sister to pick her up for a spin around the city to clear her mind. While Aria drove her around, she tried to explain to her sister that Maria was improving. Eventually, Callie eventually told her sister drop her back off at their parents estate just as Arizona unbeknownst to the older brunette was giving Aria a call for a ride.

Walking down the long hallway, Arizona checked the first bedroom she came to and found it void of her wife. Seeing the white double doors of the master room at the end of the hall, she walked up to it and slowly opened the door. Peeking her head in the door she softly smiled when she saw her wife lying sound asleep in her grandmas big bed clutching the elders pillow to her chest. Quietly as she could, she entered the room and closed the door behind her.

The door closing shut caused Callie to stir from her slumber. Rubbing her eyes, she lifted up. "Aria?" She mumbled, seeing a shadow by the door shed their pants. "You're not getting in the bed with me without pants on, I do not want to feel your prickly legs." She yawned. "Arizona's hairy legs are the only ones I'll deal with. What are you doing here anyway thought you had to go pick up a friend?" She asked, laying back down on the bed.

"I take offense to that. My legs are never prickly." Arizona said, taking her socks off. "Okay they are, especially today, but you can deal can't you?"

"Babe?" Callie darted up in the bed at the sound of her wife's voice, beginning to thing she was hearing things. She knew there was no way her wife was in the same room as her right now even though she wanted it to be her so badly. Arizona was the only one who could take her pain away. Turning on the lamp on the night stand next to the bed praying that this wasn't a dream, Callie saw her wife standing at the foot of the bed. "Oh my god." She yelped, throwing the covers off her body before jumping from the bed to embrace her wife. "What are you doing here?" She asked, her voice a little shaking.

Hugging the brunette that she's been dying to see all evening. "That's a stupid question. I'm here because of you, I came here to be with my wife. I couldn't handle seeing you so upset. Plus you know I can't sleep without you so what's the use even trying?" Arizona said, feeling the brunette relax in her arms.

"How did you know where I was?" She mumbled into her wife's neck, taking a deep breath inhaling her wife's scent.

"Aria told me she dropped you off here instead of the main house." She said, rubbing the brunettes back.

"God I missed you." Callie said, tears forming in her eyes as she kissed her wife briefly.

"I missed you too, baby." The blonde said, stepping out of the embrace. "Come on, let's get you back to bed. You need to sleep."

Getting back in the bed, Callie felt her wife scoot in behind her. "You're really here." She said when she felt her wife's comforting arms around her.

"I'm really here." She said, kissing the back of her wife's head.

"I'm so glad you're here, Arizona."

"I'm glad too. But to be honest I was a little afraid you'd tell me to get back to Seattle." Arizona admitted.

"Why would you think that?" Callie asked, lacing her hand with Arizona's that laid on her stomach.

"Well you were pretty mad at me and adamant that I stay and work, but I couldn't leave things like they were until you got back. That's just not us, we always talk Callie."

"I know.." Callie said, rolling over to face her wife. "I'm so sorry, Arizona. I really am. I didn't ever mean to hurt you."

"Shhh... It's okay."

"It's not though. I hurt you.. I can see it in your eyes. I'm so sorry.." Callie cried into the blondes chest.

"Don't cry... please Calliope. I can't stand to see you upset baby..." Arizona soothed. She couldn't bare to see her wife so upset again. "I'm sorry too, but let's not talk about that right no, we'll talk tomorrow okay, right now I'm worried about you. You were pretty upset when you called me earlier." She said, snuggling with her wife. "How are you?"

"I honest don't know. I don't want to think about it right now." Callie said, pulling out of the embrace slightly. "Can you just hold me. I forget about everything when I'm in your arms."

"Come here." Arizona said, rolling on her back and pulling her wife on top of her. Laying flush on her wife's warm body, Callie sighed into her wife's neck as she felt the blonde slip her hands beneath her T-shirt and lightly scratch her back. Arizona knew this was one of the few things that always seemed to relax her wife.

"You always know what I need. How do you do it?" Callie mumbled, feeling sleep start to take back over her tired body.

"I know because I love you... and I'm enamored by you and I know just about everything there is to know about you. You're likes, you're dislikes. What helps you relax and what makes you anxious." She said, caressing her wife's bare back. "Get some rest sweetie."

"I love... you..." Callie said, barely loud enough for Arizona to hear before her breath evened out, signaling that the brunette was drifting back off to sleep.

With the early morning sun beaming through the window, Callie pulled the covers up over her face to stem the light from outside. Her body felt drained from the day before with all the traveling and crying she had done. Scooting back to wiggle into her wife's embrace, she only met cold sheets. Rolling over she realized she must have dreamed that Arizona had shown up because when she raised up to look for any sign of her wife, the room was void of the blonde and her belongings. Lying back down, she stretched out all the kinks in her body before swinging her legs over the edge of the bed.

Yawning, Callie glanced at her phone seeing she didn't have any new messages or calls. Getting out of bed she slowly made her way into her Nana's kitchen. Putting on a pot of coffee m, she leaned against the counted and rubbed her face. Her eyes felt swollen from crying herself to sleep while Arizona talked to her last night over FaceTime. Unlocking her phone as she waited for her coffee, Callie dialed her wife's number while replaying her dream in her mind. She couldn't get over how realistic it was, but after not finding her wife in the room she thought it was all just an illusion.

Hearing her wife pick up, Callie smiled. "Hi." Arizona whispered when she answered her wife's call.

"Hey you. I didn't wake you did I?" Callie asked hopping up on the counter as she waited for her coffee to finish.

"Umm.. Nope." The blonde snickered. "You alright?"

"Yeah, I just needed to hear your voice. I had the weirdest dream last night though. I swear I thought you came here in the middle of the night."

Laughing, "Callie?"

"Yeah?" She asked confused as to why her wife was laughing at her. "Why are you laughing, is Teddy there? You better not have her sleeping on my side of the bed." The brunette teased. She figured that her wife would have Teddy come over to stay with her when she left.

"Look out your grandmas kitchen window babe." Arizona said as the cool breeze off the ocean whipped through her blonde hair.

"Wait how did you know I'm at my grandmas?" She questioned. Leaving back over the kitchen sink, Callie peeked out the window and saw her wife down by the ocean. "I knew it." She laughed. "You are really here."

"Yes baby, I'm really here." Arizona waved when she saw her wife's face pop up in the window. "How did you slee... Callie? Babe?" She said, glancing at her phone and seeing she had lost the call. Looking up towards the house she saw her wife jogging down to the beach to join her.

"I swear. I thought you were here, but when I woke up and you weren't in the bed." Callie said, when she got in ear shot of her wife. "So I figured it was just a dream."

"No dream, my sweet." Arizona smile. "How'd you sleep?"

"I slept good after you got here." Callie said, swooping her wife up in her arms. "You followed me." She said, holding her close.

"I did." Arizona laughed as the brunette lifted her off the ground. "Calliope.." She exclaimed, when her wife swung her around. "What are you doing?" She laughed.

"I'm just happy you're here. You came after me. Even when we were still at odds somewhat over our fight, you came for me." She said hugging her wife. Arizona being here didn't surprise her at all but there was still a thought in the back of her mind that had doubts that her wife would come for her even though she really wanted her too.

"Honey." Arizona said as her wife sat her down. "Of course I did. We're in this life together now, you hurt I hurt remember?"

"I remember. I'm just... surprised is all." The brunette said, looking up to her wife. "I feel ashamed Arizona." She said, brushing her wife's stay hair behind her ear.

"Let's walk." Arizona said, walking down the shore with her wife hand in hand. "Why are you feeling ashamed honey?" Arizona asked, as the cool ocean water crashed over their bare feet.

"I'm ashamed for the way I treated you Monday, and I just couldn't look you in the eyes after I saw the hurt I caused." She said, sadly. She knew as soon as the words came out of her mouth in her office that she had cause her wife pain and she'd do anything to take it back.

Taking several deep breathes, the blonde looked past her wife at the early morning ocean rolling in offshore. "You did." Arizona admitted, stopping in her tracks. "What hurt was that you said you let yourself get excited about having a baby with me and then you said I was backing out. And you didn't even let me talk." She said as the brunette stepped in front of her.

"I'm sorry." Callie breathed, cupping the blondes jaw. "I. Am. Sorry." She stressed. "I yelled at you and you were only trying to look out for me."

"It wasn't the fact that you were mad at me for buying plane tickets Callie, I didn't care how mad at me you got." Arizona said, placing her hand on top of the brunettes that was on her face. "I knew that somewhere down the line, you would be grateful one day that I did that. Do you know what I'd give to be able to tell my brother goodbye? To be able to tell him how much he meant to me? To see him just one more time?" She asked, taking Callie's hands in hers and bringing them up for a soft kiss on her knuckles. "Im not trying to make you feel bad about what happened in you're office because that's not how our marriage works, Calliope. We admit when we're wrong and you just did and I accept your apology. But I want you to know, I'd give up almost anything just to able to go back and tell my brother goodbye or just tell him one more time that I love him. I didn't get that chance, and I wanted you too because if something happened to Maria.. you would have to live with that regret for the rest of your life. And so would I for not pushing you to go."

Sighing. "I know.. well I don't because I've never been through this before." Callie slumped her shoulders. "I get upset talking about it because I just didn't know how to handle the situation and it's frustrating... But I understand where you're coming from, I really do. And you're right, I would absolutely hate myself for not coming out here if something had happened. But nothing did, right?" Callie said, more of a statement than a question. "I just need to man up and deal with it because I realize at the end of the day.. no matter how hard I try to fight it or ignore it, I can't control what happens with my nana or anyone else I love. And avoiding it only makes things all around worse." She said, turning to face the ocean.

Wrapping her arms around the brunette, Arizona just held her tight for a few quiet minutes before saying anything in return. "It's not easy, Calliope. And it's only natural to be upset and not want to talk about it. I told you when Tim died, I pushed my parents and Teddy away. I did it because I didn't know how to deal with my feelings. And when I was around them they wanted to talk about it. I couldn't talk about it because every time I heard his name, I saw myself on the ground hovering over him trying to stop the bleeding. And for the longest time that's all I saw when I closed my eyes.. his blood seeping through my fingers." The blonde admitted. She had never told her wife that before. "I relived it in my dreams every night for months and I didn't want to keep reliving it in my reality too. Hearing them talk about it all the time, I just couldn't get away from it you know." Arizona said, lacing her fingers over Callie's stomach. "I know that's how they dealt with their grief.. talking about it, unlike me. For me, it was kind of like out site out of mind in a sense and I decided to move on with my schooling at Addison's practice when all I really wanted to do was stay at home in my bed and drown in my own sorrows." She said as Callie leaned back into her embrace. "Every time I'd call them they'd mention something and it would make me mad, ya know?" The blonde said as her wife nodded, letting her know she was listening to her. "So I'd call less and less. And when I finally decided to come home over my break, I saw that they were moving on and had dealt with their grief unlike me. It was weighing heavy on me and that's when I realized I was just bottling everything up inside of me while Teddy, my mom and dad were all living their lives again. Not that they forgot about him, but they had come to a place of acceptance when I was still in denial. It was holding me back in everything I did until Teddy finally convinced me to talk to someone about it. I went to a few therapy sessions and that's when my journal writing started."

"I'm sorry, baby." Callie said. She had never heard her wife talk of this before and was kind of in shock of how the blonde handled things because that doesn't sound anything like the perky blonde that she knows and loves with her whole heart. "I wish I could have been there for you back then." She said, turning around in her wife's arms and placing her hands on the blondes hips.

"Yeah, but you're here now and you've helped me in ways that I can't even begin to describe. You, Calliope Robbins have made me whole again." She said, leaning in for a slow languid kiss. "What I'm getting at babe, is that you shouldn't avoid the situation. You need to get how you're feeling out, if it's writing in a journal like I did or talking to me, Teddy or Addison. Even if it's just the dogs. I'd prefer you to talk to me, but if you can't I understand." She said, leaning her forehead against the brunettes. "Sometimes just saying things out loud for yourself to hear helps you process."

Nodding, "You're right. It's just that my thoughts were so jumbled then that I didn't even understand how or what I was feeling." Callie said.

"That's why you say them out load baby." Arizona said, brushing her fingers through thick brown hair.

The brunette gave her a small smile. "I'll talk to you next time." She said gently pecking pink lips. "Will you.. come with me to see Nana?" She asked.

"I'll hold your hand the whole time if you want." The blonde said, kissing her wife's forehead. "Aria told me last night that Maria was getting better everyday. And that she may be off the breathing machine in a few days."

"She did?" Callie looked up and asked.

"Yeah. She said she told you last night, but she didn't think you were really listening to her." Arizona laughed. "She said you just kept muttering under your breath."

"I wasn't listening." Callie admitted. "I was thinking about Nana and us and didn't really listen to her." She shrugged.

"I'm surprised your parents didn't tell you when you arrived." She said, taking her wife's hand and leading her back to the guest house where they were staying.

"They were both were at work when I got in. They still hadn't came home when I was FaceTiming you. I think my dad took my mom out to dinner or something. He had mentioned it when I talked to him earlier in the day." Callie said.

After walking back into the house, Callie piqued two cups of coffee. "Arizona?"

"Yeah, babe?"

"I didn't mean what I said about having a baby. I.."

"Don't.." The blonde said, shaking her head. "Let's just get ready to go see Nana right now. We'll talk about it later today, okay?"

"Okay." Callie whispered to her wife, sipped her coffee.

"I do want to talk about something else you said though." Arizona said, raising her eyebrow at her wife after sitting on the countertop.

"What's that?" Callie asked, clueless.

"You dealing with my hairy legs.."

"Oh.. you remember that huh?" Callie gave a small nervous laugh before slowly stepping back from her wife. Sitting her coffee cup down on the table, she saw the playfulness in her wife's eyes as the blonde squinted at her curiously. She knew if she didn't escape from her blonde now, it would be a tickle fest and she had to use the bathroom before that happened or she would pee herself.

"Mmhmm.." Arizona hummed.

"I uh... woo wee... look at the time.." Callie said looking up at the clock on the way before quickly running through the kitchen and down the hallway to the bedroom. Just as she turned the knob to the room she heard her wife's footsteps catching behind her. Quickly getting in the room, Callie tried to close the door.

"Calliopeeee..." She laughed as she tried to push her way into the room.

"Arizona I have to pee..." Callie said, trying to push her wife out of the doorframe to lock her out.

"Since when can't you pee with me in the bedroom. It's not like I'll follow you into the bathroom and watch." She said, fighting back to get in the room. "Unless that's what you want." She purred.

"Arizona..." Callie growled at her wife. "Ahhh..." She said as Arizona quickly jumped on her, causing both bodies to fall to the floor. "No..don't." Callie demanded when she grabbed her wife's writs to stop her from the tickling. "Don't. I'll pee on myself." She said, pushing back against her wife's arms as the blonde tried to over power her. "Damn you're freakishly strong, woman."

"Give it up baby..." She said, straddling her wife's hips.

"No..."

"Okay.. Okay.. Truce?" Arizona said, sitting up on her knees.

"Truce."

"But.. You have to say I don't have hairy legs." The blonde smarted.

"But you do." Callie laughed, smacking her hips.

"I do not." Arizona said, grabbing her wife's writs and pinning them above the brunettes head. "Say it." She said, hovering above her lover. "Say it..." Pinning both the brunettes wrists with one of her hands, she glided the other down her wife's torso. "Say it or I'll do it.." She said, grabbing her wife's side.

"Okay. Okay. Please don't..." She laughed, crossing her legs. "You don't have hairy legs. Now let me go pee.." Callie folded.

"Say it again."

"You don't have hairy legs.. Please babe I have to pee.."

"Nope, not good enough." Arizona said, hovering over her lover as Callie wiggled under her. "You know.." She seductively said, leaning down and pecking red lips. "Orgasms are the best when you have a full bladder."

Hearing her wife talk cause Callie's eyes to roll back in her head subconsciously. "Babe..." She said, bucking her hips. "Please..."

"Good thing for you, I have a full one also. So it's a win win.." She laughed into Callie's lips. "I'll give you two choices. It will be your pick." The blonde said, hovering over her wife, her blonde hair curtained around them.

"What?" Callie asked, feeling her pleasure spark.

"Option one, I'll let you go pee and we'll get ready for the day. Or.. option two. And if I were you, if go with number two." The blonde winked.

"But I don't have any clothes. Lost luggage remember. I'm going to have to go shopping."

"Hello? Amazing wife to the rescue! I packed you some things."

"Oh, well then wh... what's number two entail?" Callie asked, her breath catching as she felt her lovers hot breath on her neck.

"Option two will leave us both breathless. It's your call baby." Arizona whispered, leaning down to peck red lips.

"Option two, always option two." Callie breathed, breaking free from her wife's hold and cupping the back of the her head crashing their lips together.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Sorry they're not as long as they usually are but life happens. I'm hoping to pick up little by little again.. but hey all that really matters is you're still getting your two weekly updates right?! You guys are amazing. Thanks for the feedback.

ONLY 3 more weeks to go guys! That's 21 more days until Grey's returns. Its taking forever, but it doesn't feel as long as last years Hiatus.