Easter
Arizona couldn't stop bouncing on the balls of her feet as she walked up to the door of Meredith and Derek's house with Callie at her side. Today the couple and all of their friends had been invited over for an Easter celebration at the home. This Easter party was special, though. It was an 'adult' party, which meant plenty of booze and good food. There was even word that Meredith had planned an egg hunt.
The blonde was ecstatic because Easter was among her top five favorite holidays. First came Christmas, then Valentine's Day, followed by Halloween, next was Thanksgiving, and then at number five was Easter. Arizona loved that it gave her an excuse to consume large amounts of candy, and nobody said anything about it. Well, that was until she started to date Callie.
Callie had recently been trying to keep Arizona's sugar consumption on the lower side. This was due to the fact that the blonde was already super energized and bubbly at all hours of the day. Add a sugar rush to that, and the brunette would be up until 3:00 A.M. trying to get Arizona to fall asleep. The shorter woman hoped that Callie would let it slide for the day and let her consume whatever she wanted. Still, from the moment the couple woke up this morning, the Latina had already given Arizona three reminders about it before 10:00 A.M.
As the couple arrived at the door, Callie rang the doorbell, and they waited for someone to greet them at the door. After a few moments, Derek came to the door and opened it, greeting both of the women with a big hug.
"Hey, guys! Thanks for coming!" Derek said as he let them in. "Meredith and I are so excited to have everybody over today!" This was the first time the two had hosted one of the holiday parties at their house, and it had caused Meredith some stress. She had spent the past week cleaning the house obsessively, convinced it wasn't clean enough for their guests. Derek, of course, thought the place looked 'fine.'
"I am so excited as well!" Arizona exclaimed as she entered the home and headed towards the kitchen where Meredith was waiting. The two exchanged a hug, and Callie followed suit after she placed a dessert on the island counter. Meredith had told everybody they didn't need to bring anything, but the Latina insisted. It was how she had been raised; Never show up to someone's house as a guest without food or wine as an offering.
"Everybody is out back," Meredith said as she pointed to the door that led to the backyard. Arizona thanked her and grabbed her girlfriend's hand, leading her out the door to where their friends had gathered. The couple looked around to see who was attending. Arizona saw Mark, Owen Hunt, Yang, Karev, Bailey, Chief Webber, Meredith's sister Lexie, and others whose names she couldn't remember.
Callie walked over to where Mark was standing and hugged him. After the St. Patrick's Day fiasco, the brunette talked with the man, and he told her about Arizona being upset the whole night. Mark had mentioned that he tried to watch out for the blonde but figured that a few shots wouldn't hurt. After realizing that Arizona was a sad drunk and couldn't stop blubbering about Callie, he apologized to the Latina and helped them home. Callie wasn't upset with him. She was actually happy because that night had been the beginning of a blossoming friendship between Mark and Arizona.
"Hey, kid!" Mark said as the two hugged. "Where's blondie?" he asked, knowing that Arizona probably wasn't too far behind the brunette. The couple had been practically inseparable as of late.
"She stopped to talk to Karev about a patient for a minute. Leave it to my girlfriend to bring work to a party." Callie joked with an eye roll. Arizona's workload had increased lately, which meant some longer work nights, which was okay with the brunette, but there were some nights when she fell asleep alone, making her miss the blonde.
Mark chuckled at the joke and pointed to something behind Callie. The Latina turned around and saw that Arizona was approaching the pair with a giant grin plastered on her face.
"Callie, oh my god, you will not believe this!" The blonde said as she approached her girlfriend. Callie put her hands on Arizona's shoulders to stop the woman from shaking from the sudden excitement.
"Arizona, breathe," Callie said, trying to calm her down. "What is it?" the brunette questioned.
"EGG HUNT!" Arizona screamed so loudly that almost everyone in the yard turned to look at her. "Egg hunt," the blonde said again, this time in a whisper. Callie groaned internally. She had been hoping that the egg hunt rumors were false because trying to keep a candy addict like Arizona from eating every piece she collected would be impossible.
"Yay!" Callie replied with fake enthusiasm. She loved and adored her girlfriend, but sometimes the bubbly energy could be a lot for the Latina.
"They are getting ready to start Cal. Can we PLEASE participate?" the blonde practically begged as she gave Callie her biggest puppy dog eyes and pouty lip. Knowing that the brunette could never resist that face, Arizona knew she would say yes.
"Fine," Callie said, hoping she wouldn't regret agreeing later.
"Okay!" Arizona replied as she grabbed her girlfriend's hand and pulled her over to where the egg hunt was set up.
"Bye, I guess," Mark called after the couple, but they paid no attention to him as they selected their baskets for egg collecting.
One of Arizona's favorite Easter activities was an egg hunt. She loved the competition that came with it. Growing up in her household, her parents constantly had Arizona and her twin brother Tim competing. The pair could turn anything into a competition. Chores? They would compete to see who could do it faster and more efficiently. They would even race home from school every day, and the loser had to load the dishwasher after dinner that night.
Arizona's dad being in the military only increased her competitive nature. That man wanted his kids to be the BEST at everything they did because it reflected well on him and the family. That's what drove Arizona to be the top of her school class, internship, residency, and fellowship. Tim used that competitiveness to join the military and follow in their father's footsteps.
The day that Arizona found out, she had a meltdown. Not because their father saw him as the superior twin now but because Tim was her whole world. Through thick and thin. That's what they had been telling each other since they were old enough to talk. Arizona had been absolutely terrified that she would wake up one morning and her brother would be gone, so she did what she had to do and distanced herself from him. The twins had not spoken in a few months, probably since New Year's. Of course, Arizona missed him like crazy, but Tim took the distance hard and closed himself off from her.
The blonde shook her head and cleared it from her mind. She was not going to let it ruin her day today. Callie could sense that her girlfriend's mood had shifted a bit and watched as the blonde clenched her fists so hard that her knuckles turned white. The Latina had no idea what had caused the sudden shift, but she grabbed one of Arizona's hands and gently massaged it until her hand released itself and relaxed. Callie intertwined their fingers and reached with her other hand to tuck a piece of loose hair behind the blonde's ear. The brunette leaned in and kissed Arizona's temple softly and gave her girlfriend's hand a gentle squeeze, which seemed to pull her from her thoughts.
Arizona turned her head to look at Callie, and the taller woman could see tears forming in the bright blue eyes.
"I love you," Callie whispered to where only the blonde could hear her. She still had no idea what was happening, but she knew Arizona was hurting. Her girlfriend nodded and gave her a small smile. "Come on. We have an egg hunt to win." Callie said as she rubbed soothing circles onto the back of Arizona's hand with the pad of her thumb. At least the egg hunt could cheer up the blonde.
About twenty minutes later, most people at the party gathered around to participate in the egg hunt. Meredith and Derek had already given the rules and were about to start the timer. Even though the competition would be judged individually, Callie felt uncomfortable leaving Arizona alone. The blonde's mood had improved, but Callie could tell she was still mulling something over in her mind. The Latina had decided that they would collect the eggs together so that she had an excuse to check in on Arizona.
Derek started the countdown, and the rest of the group joined him. As they all screamed out 'zero,' everyone took off in different directions. Callie felt her arm jerk as Arizona took off in a sprint to look for eggs. The brunette had figured they would take it slow and walk around, maybe talk, but clearly, her girlfriend had other plans.
"Come on, Cal!" Arizona called back to the Latina as she pulled her along. This caused Callie to match Arizona's speed, and they started to search for eggs. The blonde, who would giggle whenever she found an egg, was doing significantly better than Callie. It was almost like she had been born for this exact moment in time.
"Arizona, please, I can't find any." Callie pouted as the blonde snatched up another one. The Latina had found only six eggs, while her girlfriend had already found at least fifteen. Seeing the shorter woman happy made her feel better, but Callie was still competitive, and this was hurting her ego.
"Wait, Callie, what is Owen doing over there," Arizona asked as she pointed to the man. Callie turned to look at him, and as soon as she had her back to the blonde, Arizona pulled two eggs from their hiding spot. It had been like this for the past ten minutes. The shorter woman would say something to distract her girlfriend, and Callie would look away, giving Arizona the perfect opportunity to retrieve more eggs. She couldn't help it. The blonde had been conditioned this way.
Before she could put the eggs in her basket, Callie turned around and caught her in the act.
"Arizona-" Callie said, feeling betrayed. "Have you been cheating this whole time?"
"I'm not cheating, Callie. It's called a competitive edge," the blonde replied nonchalantly. Callie was not going to go down without a fight.
"Okay then, I think we should split up and make this a real competition," the brunette said with a twinge of cockiness. If Arizona wanted to play dirty, they were going to play dirty.
"Fine," Arizona replied. She suddenly took off in the other direction in a sprint and started to look for eggs so she could win. This caught Callie off guard, so by the time she began to sprint the other way, Arizona had already collected two more eggs.
After about an hour, Derek yelled for everyone to gather in the backyard again. Callie and Arizona had spent the past hour running around the yard looking for eggs and were exhausted. As they met up with the rest of the group, Meredith called for everyone to count the amount of eggs they had.
Arizona and Callie dumped the contents of their baskets on the ground and kneeled to total up the number. Once everyone had counted their eggs, Derek went around and had everyone write down their total.
"It looks like we have a tie!" Derek said as he handed the list to Meredith. She nodded in response and handed it back to him.
"Callie and Arizona have tied with forty eggs each," Derek said with a devious smile. He had planned an extra part of the egg hunt in case of a tie, and he was excited that he got to implement it.
Arizona looked over to her girlfriend and smirked. She saw that Callie had started to sweat from all of the running the two had been doing and noticed how her collarbone glistened. The blonde also couldn't get enough of the little A tattoo that marked Callie as hers.
Callie couldn't hear anything Derek said besides that she and Arizona were tied. Her competitive nature came out to play about twenty eggs ago, and she would not settle for a tie, even if it were with her girlfriend.
"To settle this, I have a solution," Derek said, gaining Callie and Arizona's attention again. "I have ONE golden egg that will be hidden somewhere on this property. You both will be blindfolded until I finish hiding it, and then you will be released. Whoever finds it first and brings it back to me wins. Got it?" Derek said as everyone in the group turned to face the couple. Callie figured she could do this with her eyes closed, and Arizona was confident she would find the egg first.
"Got it," they replied in unison. Ten minutes later, they were having their blindfolds removed. Derek had already hidden the golden egg, so all that remained was for one of them to find it.
"Shake hands," Derek said. The two women turned to where they were face to face and shook hands like they were about to have a friendly game of basketball, which wasn't the case. Everyone knew how competitive the couple could be, and they knew that this would be a bloodbath. "Good, now, ready, set, GO!" Derek yelled.
Callie whipped around and took off toward the house while Arizona ran toward the backyard. She would not let Callie win, even if she had to pry the egg from her girlfriend's hand.
After thirty minutes of searching, the brunette decided to give up because she was exhausted. As she headed towards the backyard to surrender, her eye caught a glimpse of something shiny in a bush in the landscaping.
"Could it be?" Callie muttered to herself as she approached the bush and realized the shine was coming from the sun reflecting off of something golden in color. The Latina felt a surge of energy and reached out to grab the egg when suddenly she was on the ground gasping for air with a heavy weight on top of her. "What the hell?" the brunette barely got out in a wheeze. Something had knocked the wind out of her.
"Oh shit, guys! Robbins just tackled Torres!" Karev called out as he watched from further back. The rest of the group came over to watch what they had been waiting in anticipation for. Apparently, they had all placed bets on who would win, and they wanted to witness it.
Callie groaned as Arizona crawled off of her and picked up the golden egg.
"I'm so sorry, Calliope, but I need to win." the blonde said with a twinge of guilt. She didn't enjoy having to tackle her girlfriend for the egg, but she wanted the bragging rights of winning.
"You tackled me!" Callie said as she tried to stand up, still struggling to catch her breath.
"I know, and I'm sorry, but I can't let you win," Arizona replied as she started to walk towards Derek, golden egg in hand. Suddenly she was ripped backward by a tug on her shirt and landed on her ass with a big thud.
"I don't think so," Callie said, towering over Arizona. She took the egg from Arizona, who was still on the ground in shock. The Latina made her way over to Derek and reached out to hand him the egg when she heard a noise from behind her and felt a rush of wind sweep by her as she caught a glimpse of blonde hair. Callie felt her girlfriend snatch the egg from her open palm and watched as Arizona shoved the egg into Derek's hand before Callie could process everything that had happened.
"The winner is ARIZONA!" Derek said as everyone cheered. Callie stood there with her palm still open in front of her. Did her girlfriend really just do that?
"Good game," Arizona said, wrapping her arm around the brunette's waist. Callie, still pretty pissed off, pulled away from the blonde.
"No, you played dirty Arizona." She replied, and it was true.
"You would have done the same, Calliope," Arizona said with a laugh. Callie thought about it for a second and realized her girlfriend was right. She WOULD have done the same thing.
"That doesn't change anything," Callie said as she stormed off and left Arizona standing there.
"Oh shit, someone's sleeping on the couch tonight!" Mark said as he made his way over to the blonde, having witnessed the whole conversation.
"Shut up, Mark," Arizona said, not in the mood to joke, and left to follow after Callie.
Later that night, the couple arrived back at their apartment. The rest of the party was tense because Callie was still super pissed about losing. The tension that Arizona had been feeling was something of a different nature. All of the events leading up to her win and Callie being pissed at her had kind of turned her on. The way that the brunette had been so competitive, the way her exposed collarbone tattoo glistened with sweat, and the way that Callie even went as far as to yank her to the ground, it made her feel things.
The blonde headed towards the bedroom to get some pajamas to take a cold shower because, if Callie's mood was any indication, she was not getting laid tonight. Arizona opened the middle dresser drawer and grabbed a pair of shorts and a tank top when she felt a pair of warm hands snake around her waist and raise the hem of her shirt before they settled on the pale skin of her stomach. The shorter woman didn't move as she felt a pair of soft lips graze the skin of her neck, and a moan escaped from her lips.
"You like that?" came the husky voice of her girlfriend. Apparently, she was turned on too. All that Arizona could do was hum in response, her voice caught in her throat. The Latina's hands made their way to the waistband of the blonde's shorts and dipped below it as her fingertips lightly danced across the blonde's inner thigh.
"Callie…" Arizona managed to get out. If she was turned on before, it had been turned up ten notches now. The brunette took her nails and lightly scraped the pale skin of her girlfriend's inner thigh, and it practically made the shorter woman's knees buckle. Callie moved her hand up, little by little until it rested right by Arizona's center. "Calliope," the blonde begged, hoping Callie would go just a bit higher.
Callie lightly pushed her fingertips into Arizona's folds to feel just how wet the blonde was. This made the shorter woman squirm and she wished that the brunette would make contact with her clit. As if Callie read her mind, the Latina's thumb found Arizona's clit and circled the edge once, twice, and again a third time, just lightly enough to make the blonde beg for more.
As suddenly as she had started, Callie pulled her hands back and left Arizona standing there, wanting more.
"Callie, please," the blonde pleaded as she turned around and looked at her girlfriend.
"I'm sorry Arizona. I'm just exhausted and sore. Must be from being tackled earlier." Callie replied with a smirk and a mischievous glint in her eye that told the shorter woman she was not getting any more action tonight.
With a groan, Arizona grabbed her pajamas and headed to the bathroom for a cold shower. Callie chuckled to herself and gave herself a pat on the back.
"Happy Easter, babe!" the brunette called out to Arizona as the blonde shut the bathroom door. In the end, it was really Callie who had won that day.