A/N: glad everyone's enjoying this one! Don't forget to check out the song "Yours" by Ella Henderson, actually, you should listen to all of her songs, she's fantastic!
"Maggie says she's feeling better, so I'm going to head home and clean my house before I pick up the kids from daycare," she says standing in front of the couch where Arizona is sitting.
Looking up, Arizona smiles. "Okay, thanks for everything," she says standing up to walk her to the door.
Meredith pauses at the door, then turns around to face the blonde. She wants to hug her, but after their conversation earlier, she feels too shy to do it.
Finally, Arizona leans in with one arm and hugs her lightly.
But as they pull away, Meredith pauses and then impulsively presses her lips against the blonde's and kisses her. Surprised, Arizona pulls back, but then Meredith wraps both arms around her and pulls her in tighter and kisses her again. "Oh, sorry," she gasps. "I didn't mean to do that, I wanted to but I didn't mean to," Meredith says flushing, "Um, I should just go."
Arizona closes the door stunned. She touches her lips, wow, that was not the awkward goodbye she imagined.
Walking over to the kitchen to get a drink of water, the blonde hears a light knock at the door. She opens it, half expecting it to be Meredith again, but instead it's April. "Hey, I texted you but didn't hear back, so I thought I'd just stop by. Was that Meredith leaving?"
"Yeah," Arizona says closing the door as April enters. A little distracted, Arizona doesn't hear anything April says until she realizes that the redhead is staring at her. "Sorry, what?"
"Your fever broke, right. I'm not going to get sick?" she asks.
"Yes, you should be good," Arizona replies sitting down on the bar stool.
"Are you hungry? I brought some leftovers," she says pulling them out of her bag.
"Oh, I am actually. Are you going to join me?" Arizona asks.
"Yes, just have a seat and I'll warm this up for us. You know, you look flushed, are you sure you aren't running a temp again?" April asks.
"Uh, I'll go check," Arizona says heading into her bedroom and going to the bathroom. She takes a moment to wash her face and then looking in the mirror she asks herself, "Did that really just happen?"
Leaving the bathroom, she hears her phone buzz, so she checks it.
It's a text from Meredith - "Sorry, but not sorry :-)"
Unsure how to respond to that, Arizona sighs, then types, erases, types again, erases again.
"Hey, it's ready," April says from the doorway. Then noticing the blonde laying on her bed, she asks," Arizona, is everything okay?"
"Yeah, yeah, it's fine," she says getting up and slipping the phone into the pocket of her robe.
Callie stops by after April leaves.
"Hey, I just dropped the kids off at Meredith's, did Alex bring Sofia yet?" she asks entering the house.
"No, he's on his way though. He called a few minutes ago," Arizona replies. "You should just go home and enjoy your day off tomorrow. I'll keep Sofia tonight."
"Are you sure that you're up for that?" Callie asks plopping down on the bar stool.
"Yes, and you've got to be exhausted," Arizona says sitting down beside her.
"I'm okay, but a night by myself with no one puking, sounds great," Callie admits, yawning.
"Uh, how was Meredith?" Arizona asks.
"She looks good, god that was a mess huh?" Callie replies. "Alex said you looked like hell when he picked up Sofia last night."
"That was horrible, my stomach muscles still hurt from puking for two hours. Thank you for sending Meredith over, poor Sofia, she didn't quite know what to do with me." Arizona exclaims.
"She was really calm when she called me back yesterday, she must of said Momma sick three times." Callie says laughing.
"That was crazy. Hopefully, it's gone now and no one else gets it." Arizona replies.
The door opens and Sofia and Alex enter the house.
"You look better," Alex says giving Arizona a light hug.
"Mija, is it okay if you stay here with Momma tonight?" Callie asks her daughter.
"Are you sick now Mama?" Sofia asks.
"Nope, just tired baby. I'll come get you for lunch tomorrow though, okay?" Callie says kissing her head.
"Okay, I'm going to head out. Alex, thanks for your help." Callie says clapping him on the shoulder.
"Sure, but I think I got it easy, just one kid and she slept through the night," he replies.
"Yeah, you did. Maggie had it as bad as Arizona, but she wouldn't let me give her anything for it, so she puked off and on all night, each time waking up a different kid." Callie exclaims.
"You should have just gave it to her anyway," Alex replies.
"If there's a next time, believe me, I will." Callie says yawning again. "Okay, I'm going home," she says shutting the door behind her.
"How are you really?" Alex asks Arizona when Callie leaves.
"I'm fine, why do you ask?" Arizona questions.
"It's just Meredith is intense sometimes and when she's sick, she gets kind of emotional," he explains.
"Yeah, I found that out," Arizona replies bending down to talk to Sofia for a minute. "Little miss, why don't you go into your room and change into your pajamas, we're going to have a pajama party tonight, okay?"
"Okay Momma," Sofia says and runs to her room.
"I'm glad that you guys are friends, she's been really lonely lately and so have you," Alex points out.
Arizona nods. "We have more in common now," she says, then looking over at him she asks, "How are you and Jo?"
"Better, I think. She still hasn't responded to my proposal and it's been over a month, do you think I should ask again?" He asks.
"No, give it time and don't force it. You'll know when to ask again," she advises.
"Okay", he says, then looking around, he asks, "You need anything?"
"No, April brought a few things over earlier, so I think I'll be fine. And I'll be at work tomorrow, so if you want to sleep in, I'll do rounds," she offers.
"Cool, I'll let you. Jo has tomorrow off," he says winking at her.
"Go home Alex, and thank you," she says putting her hands on his back and pushing him towards the door.
"Hey stranger," Meredith says plopping down on the couch in the lounge beside Arizona.
Arizona looks up from her charting and takes out one of her earbuds, "Hi," she says.
Meredith looks at her and takes the earbud and puts it in her own ear. "Who is this?" she asks.
"Ella Henderson," Arizona replies, watching her carefully.
Meredith sits there amused at the blonde's nervousness. "Relax, I'm not going to jump your bones," she whispers into her ear.
Callie enters the lounge and looks at them oddly, "What are you listening to?" she asks.
Meredith takes out the earbud and hands it back to the blonde and winks, "A TedMed podcast, can you believe her?"
"Yeah, that sounds about right. Hey, do you want to go Christmas shopping tomorrow after work?" Callie asks Meredith.
"No, I did mine on the internet this year. It's all delivered and wrapped, I'm done," she says pleased with herself.
"That's crazy, but I'd be lying if I didn't say how jealous I am of you right now. You have three kids and it's two weeks before Christmas and you're done shopping?" Callie says shaking her head. Then looking over at Arizona she asks, "How about you, Christmas shopping tomorrow night?"
"I don't have much left, but I guess I could finish it up tomorrow, sure." Arizona replies.
Dropping her hand casually onto the blonde's leg, Meredith says, "Well, then you should drop Sofia off at my house if you're both going shopping."
"Okay, thanks." Arizona replies, trying not to stare at the hand that's resting on her leg. Turning then to Callie she says, "I'll drop Sofia off and then come by and pick you up."
Amused again by Arizona's discomfort, Meredith removes her hand, which earns her another shy glance from the blonde.
"Uh, no way are you driving us to the mall," Callie teases.
"I don't mind driving, what is that about all of the sudden?" Arizona asks looking from Meredith to Callie.
"Alex told us about your panic attack a few weeks ago, he's worried about you," Callie confesses.
"Did he explain that I almost rear-ended a truck that suddenly cut me off? I think that is a valid reason for an anxiety attack," Arizona replies.
Callie and Meredith look at each other a moment and silently agree.
"Okay so you can drive tomorrow," Callie offers.
"Nah, you can drive, I hate driving to the mall," Arizona says standing up to leave.
"Show me the view out your window?" Meredith asks and Cristina picks up the webcam and turns it to the window.
"It's ridiculous, it looks like a freaking Christmas card out there," Cristina says sarcastically.
"It's really pretty, want to see out my window?" Meredith asks.
"You don't have a window in your office," Cristina points out. "So what's new in Seattle? Is Owen still shacked up with your junkie sister-in-law?"
"Yes, they seem happy and they love babysitting, so I'm all for it," Meredith exclaims.
"Is Torres still boning the resident who killed Derek?" Cristina snarks.
"No, they broke up before Thanksgiving and it seems to have stuck this time. She's sort of dating a cop or something," Meredith replies.
"Male cop or female cop?" Cristina asks.
"Male this time, last time it was a female," Meredith responds.
"Okay, so is Alex engaged yet to what's her name?"
"No, he even bought a ring last time he asked her, but as far I know she hasn't said yes or no," Meredith replies. "How are you? Have you met anyone or are you still sleeping with Ross?"
"I haven't slept with Ross in long time, he's met a little Swiss Miss and he's settling down," Cristina remarks.
"But you're not seeing anyone?" Meredith asks.
"No one's worthy," she replies sarcastically. "What about you?"
Meredith doesn't reply right away, as she's thinking of how to respond, but she takes too long and Cristina notices.
"What was that? You're trying to think of a lie to tell me," Cristina says facing the camera. "Talk to me Mer, I have nothing going on, tell me who you're having sex with?"
"I'm not having sex with anyone," Meredith replies, "but I kind of kissed someone a few weeks ago."
"Who did you kiss? Someone at the hospital? It can't be the new guy, we hate the new guy... Oh is it a resident? Oh god, Mer, please tell me you're not pulling a Derek and going after a resident!" Cristina exclaims.
"No and you wouldn't believe me if I told you," Meredith replies.
"You kissed Callie?" Cristina screams. "I mean she's hot and all, but Mer, Torres?"
Meredith begins laughing, "No, I did not kiss Torres, you're close though."
"Wait a minute, are saying that you kissed Robbins?" Cristina asks. "You seriously kissed the lesbian?"
Flushed, Meredith looks up at her friend, "It just sort of happened, I think maybe I have a sort of crush on her."
"Use your words Mer, I don't understand how you sort of get a crush on Robbins and kiss her. How did she respond? Are you guys dating, talk to me Meredith."
"I don't know, I just suddenly feel kind of drawn to her, so I invited her over for Thanksgiving and the weather was bad, so she and Alex stayed, everyone else got called in to the hospital. She slept in my bed and you know how I am, I just sort of spooned her. Cristina, I haven't slept with anyone in the bed besides the kids in a long time." Meredith explains.
"Okay, okay, so you kissed her thinking she was Derek or something like that?" Cristina asks.
"Uh, no. Actually it was a week later after we spent two days at her house with the flu," Meredith explains.
"Wait, how did you both get the flu and why were you at her house?"
"Sofia was sick, Arizona got sick, Callie was in surgery, so I went over to check on them and I got sick. But I probably got it from Arizona the night before when I drank out of her wine glass." Meredith explains.
"Wait, you guys are dating?" Cristina asks confused.
"No, we both had a night off, so we went over to April and Jackson's house for dinner," Meredith replies.
"Still sounds like you're dating, go on," Cristina points out.
Meredith laughs, "You're making a bigger deal over it than Arizona did and she's the one I kissed."
"Wait, how is she acting?" Cristina asks.
"Uh, I don't know, she's a little shy around me, but it's not like she's avoiding me or anything," Meredith replies.
"Hmm, but have you spent any time alone together since?" Cristina asks.
"Uh no, not really. But I'm watching Sofia tonight, so she and Callie can finish their Christmas shopping," Meredith says.
"She's avoiding you," Cristina decides.
"No, she isn't," Meredith disagrees.
"She's avoiding being alone with you, same thing. Is she a little nervous whenever you're around?" Cristina asks.
"Yeah, but I kind of ambushed her with the kiss, so she's probably just nervous that I'll do it again." Meredith admits.
"And are you going to do it again?" Cristina asks.
"I hope so, you have no idea how hot it is to kiss her," Meredith replies.
"Okay, you got me there, I do not. But really? That hot?" Cristina asks.
"You seriously have no idea," Meredith says flushing again.
"Okay, so Callie and I were friends when she was going through her 'am I a lesbian phase with Hahn', and she watched a bunch of movies, but there was one that I remember and you should watch it. Research Mer, you need to do research, maybe you're bi-sexual like Torres but an even later bloomer. I mean I always wondered, you hate to sleep alone and you're always wanting to spoon or be spooned and you've never been picky about who you spoon with," Cristina points out. "You are the most indiscriminate spooner I've ever met."
"Cristina, that's ridiculous, you don't just meet a woman and suddenly turn bi-sexual, at least I don't think that's how it works," Meredith replies.
"That's my point, you've always been, you just never met the right woman until now. Oh here's the movie, 'Kissing Jessica Stein', watch it tonight. Look, I've got to go, it's like midnight here now. Good luck with McPerky," Cristina says wrapping up the call.
Disconnecting the call, Meredith looks at the clock, she has a procedure in 30 minutes, she should get going, but first she writes down the movie title, it couldn't hurt to watch a movie, she thinks.