A/N: Oh my gosh, so much love for this story! You folks are awesome!
"So what's new with you?" Callie asks when they sit down in the lunch room.
Arizona pausing a moment, a little surprised that Callie would ask. "Nothing", she replies, then asks, "What happened with your dad?"
"I told him that I was dating someone and then when I told him her name he had his assistant look into her background," she says frowning. "Needless to say, he's less than happy that I'm dating a resident, especially one with a sorted history. His words." She says grimacing.
"He has a point." Arizona replies taking a bite of her salad.
"I know he does," Callie replies sighing heavily.
"So what are you going to do about it?" Arizona asks.
"Stop seeing her, which should be easy since she's not talking to me right now," Callie remarks.
"She's not talking to you?" Arizona questions. "Do you realize that is the third time in three months you've said that to me? Calliope, why do you let her have all the power in this relationship?"
"Uh, I don't. It's just that, okay, maybe I do. Look, I don't know what I'm doing any more," Callie admits setting her fork down on her plate. "I don't even know what I want, right now."
"Okay, so stop and figure out what you want and quit settling for whatever," Arizona remarks.
"I noticed that you had lunch with Callie today," April says bounding up to the blonde. "What's going on?"
Punching the up button on the elevator, Arizona turns to her friend. "She just needed to talk." Arizona replies, "How was your Thanksgiving?".
"It was good. Dad talked Jackson into milking the cows with him," April says with a big smile on her face.
"Ha, is there video?" Arizona asks laughing at the thought of Jackson Avery miking a cow.
"Yes, but he erased it before I could upload it." April admits.
The elevator doors open and Arizona steps in, then turns around and grabs the door, "Hey, are we still on for dinner tomorrow?"
"Yes, come over at 7," April says as her pager goes off.
"Hey, Owen and Amelia offered to watch the kids tomorrow night. Do you want to have dinner with me?" Meredith asks Arizona later that afternoon in the attendings lounge.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I have dinner plans already," Arizona replies turning around to face her. "But you should ask Callie, she and Penny broke up again."
"Yeah, that won't happen. We've already argued twice today," Meredith admits.
Arizona looks up surprised, but doesn't respond, instead she waits.
Meredith sits down beside her on the couch, "I can't tell you, it will probably piss you off and you two seemed to be getting along today at lunch," Meredith remarks.
"You know, you're the second person to bring that up," Arizona says shaking her head. "I guess I didn't realize how little she and I interact at work."
"I can't remember the last time I saw you two having lunch together without Sofia," Meredith points out.
"I know she felt bad about taking Sofia out of town on the holiday and leaving me here alone, so she probably thanked you for having me over or something," Arizona guesses.
"Bing, bing. It just pissed me off for some reason. Then she questioned why Blake was on Hunt's service this week. As if resident rotations are any of her business!" Meredith grumbles.
The door to the lounge opens and Jackson enters. Arizona can't resist teasing him about his visit to the farm.
"Hey I heard that you milked some cows," Arizona quips.
"Seriously! Jackson I need to see some video or it didn't happen," Meredith teases.
"No video, so I guess that it didn't happen," Jackson quips, flashing Arizona a mischievous grin, before grabbing a bottle of water from the refrigerator. Taking a sip, he then asks "Arizona are you still coming for dinner tomorrow?"
"Yes, is there anything I can bring?" She asks.
"Definitely not, April is cooking this huge roast that we brought back from Ohio. Did you know that you can transport meat in a cooler on a domestic flight with dry ice? I had no idea. Oh and you should probably bring a date or a friend or something, seriously, it's going to be a lot of food," he says.
Laughing, she looks over at Meredith, who shrugs, "Okay, I'll bring a date," Arizona replies.
"Good I'll tell April," he says putting the cap back on the water bottle. "See you tomorrow night at 7."
Turning to Meredith, Arizona asks, "so you want to be my date tomorrow night?"
"Only if you promise that we will get to see pictures of Jackson on the farm," Meredith replies jokingly.
"I'm sure April's sisters will have sent her one by then," Arizona replies laughing.
The next morning Meredith and Arizona are discussing their evening plans near the surgery board.
"No, I'll pick you up, it's on the way," Meredith points out. "And it's downtown so there's no reason for both of us to drive.
"I don't mind driving," Arizona replies, a little annoyed that Alex seems to have told everyone that she doesn't like to drive.
"Arizona, stop, you're on the way, I'll pick you up around 6:30." Meredith says and then leaves for her surgery.
"What was that about?" Callie asks, overhearing the last part of the conversation.
"Ah, we're going to dinner tonight," Arizona replies.
"Oh, so you guys are like really friends now?" Callie questions.
"Don't sound so surprised Callie, it's not like we just met. We've known each other for years." Arizona points out a little bit annoyed.
"I know, but have you ever gone out together just the two of you?" Callie asks.
"Not without children or you or Alex, okay, I see your point," Arizona admits. "I think she's a little lonely, Maggie's dating someone and Amelia moved in with Owen, you're dating or were dating someone, so now we're friends. It makes sense if you look at it, we're both single moms who don't date, why wouldn't we hang out."
"You both should be dating though," Callie replies. Then hearing how it sounded in her head, she adds, "other people, of course."
Glaring at the brunette, Arizona quips "And how's that working out for you?"
"Nice," Callie replies, returning the glare and walking away.
The rest of the day goes by quickly for Arizona, she stops by the daycare to see Sofia before she leaves and runs into Callie. "Are you leaving already?" she asks the brunette.
"Sofia's running a slight fever, so I pushed off my last procedure," Callie replies. "I didn't want to interrupt your dinner plans."
"Oh, well thank you. But I could have pushed it back," she counters.
"It's fine. I was running behind anyway," she admits.
"Okay, but if she's still sick tomorrow morning just bring her by my place, I'm off tomorrow." Arizona reminds her.
"Alright, I'll let you know." Callie replies.
Arizona bends down to hug Sofia and tell her goodbye and then they walk out together.
"Have a good night," Callie says stopping to pick Sofia up.
"You too. I hope it's not the flu," Arizona says as she opens her car door. "She was a little congested last night, but I thought it was the weather."
"And that may be all it is, I'll let you know." Callie says heading to her car.
"Are you ready?" Meredith asks when Arizona opens the door.
"Almost, I just need to get my coat," she says going back down the hall.
"I haven't really seen your place yet, I'm kind of jealous, because it's so quiet," Meredith jokes.
"With three kids, you won't have quiet for a long time," Arizona remarks.
"I know," Meredith laughs.
"Okay, I'm ready." Arizona says pulling on her gloves.
"Meredith?" April says surprised.
"Jackson told me to bring someone, so I brought Meredith," Arizona explains.
"Okay, I just was confused, he said you were bringing a date, so I didn't expect... nevermind, come in," April says opening the door wider to let them in.
"Hey, good to see you both. Welcome and let me take your coats," Jackson says greeting them.
"Your home is beautiful," Meredith says as they follow Jackson into the living room.
"We have a great view of the lighthouse on the point," he says gesturing at the windows.
"Can you see the ferry cross the Sound?" Meredith asks.
"Uh, yeah in the winter, but not in the summer," Jackson replies, remembering having a similar conversation with Derek when he first bought the place.
"Dinner smells fantastic," Arizona says following April into the kitchen.
"It's almost ready, hope that you're hungry!" She says taking a pot off the stove.
"Can I help?" Arizona asks.
"No, just pour yourself some wine, you're not driving right?" She pauses before handing over the wine glass.
"No, Meredith drove." Arizona replies, reaching over and taking the glass from her.
"You guys aren't dating, I mean, are you?" April whispers.
"No April, we're just friends," Arizona says shaking her head at her.
"Well, you are both single," April points out.
"Uh, yeah, but I'm a lesbian and she's not," Arizona counters.
"She could be like Callie though, I mean, I always wondered about her and Christina and Izzy, they were really close, like they slept in the same bed a lot," April says softly.
"That doesn't make any of them lesbians, because they didn't have sex," Arizona points out.
"How do you know? They used to have sex a lot, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't, you know," she says.
"April, we're not having this conversation." Arizona says taking a sip of wine. "Now please tell me your sisters have sent you photos of Jackson milking the cows?"
April nods and points at her phone, "Ssh, he doesn't know and if he finds out he'll delete them."
Arizona picks up April's phone and punches in the unlock code, finds the photo and quickly sends it to her phone.
"What did you just do?" April asks.
"I sent it to my phone, so he can delete it on yours then I'll send it back to you." Arizona says laughing.
"Oh, perfect!" April says taking a sip of wine.
"What are you guys laughing about in here?" Meredith asks, then noticing Arizona's wine glass, she picks it up and takes a sip.
"Oh Mer, you shouldn't have done that Sofia has a fever," Arizona says taking the glass from her.
"Well, Sofia was with Zola all day yesterday, so if she's sick, I'll get it either way," she points out.
Arizona shrugs and then shows her the picture of Jackson in coveralls and boots milking cows.
"He looks like a natural," Meredith teases.
"He was really good at it, Dad was impressed." April admits.
"Wait, what are you looking at?" Jackson asks entering the kitchen.
Arizona flashes him the photo on April's phone.
"April! Where did you get that?" He asks.
"Kimmie sent it to me," she says laughing.
"I knew that she had more photos!" He exclaims.
"Looking good there Farmer Avery," Arizona teases.
"So what all did you get to do on the farm last week?" Meredith asks.
"Farm things, it was quite educational," he replies carefully. Then takes a long sip of his bourbon.
"Oh my gosh, that was fun. It's great to see them back together," Meredith says as she pulls up to Arizona's house.
"It is. And thanks for going with me and driving," Arizona says unbuckling her seatbelt.
"Okay, well enjoy your day off tomorrow," Meredith replies unbuckling her own seatbelt and turning in her seat towards the blonde.
"Thanks," Arizona says, then realizing that Meredith is turned toward her, she pauses a moment confused about what's happening.
Finally Meredith leans in and hugs her goodbye and Arizona gets out of the car.
Inside her house, Arizona takes a deep breath, for a minute there she wasn't sure what was going to happen and she kind of froze up. Hopefully Meredith didn't think to much about it. Thank god I didn't drink very much or that could have been really weird she thinks.