A Sky Full of Stars by Coldplay totally inspired this chapter, feel free to listen the music when Callie's POV begin. Thanks MindlessStranger, my betta fish.
Arizona nor Callie was sure what to do after they kissed. Neither knew if the other really meant it or if they were carried away by moment's joy. What matters is the two confessed they enjoyed how the kiss felt.
"I'm sorry." Arizona said moving away from Callie and running out of the laboratory. She knew she had to be there again tomorrow, it'd be her last day of tests. Her other visits would be just Callie checking if the prosthesis was working well.
Callie spent at least 10 minutes staring at the door, paralyzed, still seeing a figure of the blonde running away from her.
"I kissed my patient," Callie mumbled to herself. Reality hit her like a brick, she realized what she'd done, but it was too late. "How on earth will I face her tomorrow? Should we talk about it or forget?" Callie's mind shoot her with rhetorical questions. "But will she be back tomorrow?"
The following day
Callie ate her lunch alone in the lab already thinking that Arizona was delayed and therefore not coming anymore. "Really, Callie, you get attached to people very easily." The brunette kept thinking to herself.
When suddenly she hears a knock on the door and the blonde came to view.
"Dr. Torres?" Arizona asked with a trembling voice.
"It's Callie." Callie could no longer stand all that formality.
The doctor stood up and was walking in Arizona's direction "We need to talk, Arizona ..."
Arizona soon interrupted her with all the confidence that she didn't always have "I'd like to take you on a date, Callie."
The brunette's chin fell to the floor "I... uh... on one condition, Arizona."
The blonde was invested in it and demanded "Anything."
Even with a trembling voice and surprised at the sudden confidence of Arizona, Callie asked what was worrying her since the day she first laid her eyes on Arizona Robbins in ER.
"Honestly, what was the biggest reason why you come here?" Callie announced, not in a rude way but getting her point across.
"Okay." The blonde's tranquility made her sat in the chair that she was always used to sit for testing and gestured for Callie to sat next to her.
Arizona told the same way she had told Teddy, if she had any intention of having something with the brunette, she should start with being honest, whether she liked it or not.
"So this arm was an excuse for me to come there, Tim, my dead brother, told me that he had donated to their sperm bank, we needed money, our situation was not always as good as it is now and only the farm wasn't providing us enough money, we had to help in every possible way."
Callie really did not understand first where Arizona was going with this story.
"You know, the day of the accident, I was trying clear out a blockage from the mechanical picker and my arm got stuck, Tim saved my life. In the coldness that was necessary at the time, he cut my arm with a penknife, he saved me. And instead of being here with me, no, he tried to recuperate my arm, but the fire was already taking over of everything because when the mechanical picker got blocked, the engine overheated and exploded. When the paramedics found my arm it was too damaged to be put back."
Callie saw the pain in the blonde's eyes. A tear trickled from the corners of Callie's eyes, that was when Arizona rose and put her chair closer to Callie and embraced her in a hug gently taking from Callie's face tears with her thumb.
"I came here only to get the Tim's payment, when I barely made it through a crowd of reporters and all the lights facing towards you in the center, I totally forgot the reason I had gone to the hospital."
A laugh out of Callie's throat and they broke the hug which was way too comfortable by the way. Arizona was staring at Callie.
"You exhibited with all pride robotic arms and robotic legs, I had to have that, my focus changed completely. After nine years knowing that my arm had no chance to be rebuilt, compatible transplants are impossible and prostheses hurt more than anything, you could be my solution."
Callie nodded, it's logical that the Torres' method is always the best.
"I knew you had Mathew and was probably married, that's why I didn't encourage myself to flirt with you. The worst is I did know Tim's life backwards and front to back, I would've known if Mathew was Tim's son too. But then you told me he was the result of a sperm donation and I started to suspect again. The boy just look like him, the dimples, blue eyes, the tip of the nose moving when he laughs... the list is endless."
Callie had already studied the similarities between Arizona and Mathew, but was sure that this was the invention of her head. Arizona was just feeding all your Callie's thoughts of the blonde being somehow related to the boy.
"But after spending so many days with you, my concern was no longer that, my biggest reason was no longer Tim. I woke up for you, Callie. Seeing you gave me hope, it was like I always knew you would discover something to fix me. You said that you were divorced and I confess, then I saw a chance to get closer to you. I cannot be more honest."
Still gaping, Callie remained silent and out of all that Arizona had told her she only heard a thing and opened her mouth "You think Mathew can be..."
Arizona continued, "My nephew? I don't know, Callie. But would you be willing to know?"
"Would you be willing to know?" Callie mimics the blonde.
"I have a little blood here, we're in a hospital... Is Mathew here too? Let's do a DNA test. And to be clear, Callie, regardless of the results I still want to take you on a date" Arizona reaffirmed.
Callie protested "Arizona... uh... I do not know, his mother's disappeared from the map, we never use the word father near him, now he would discover that not only he has a father, but my favorite patient is also his aunt?" The brunette didn't know what to do and surrendered to tears and Arizona hugged her quickly.
"Callie, look at me." Arizona raised Callie's face that until then rested on the blonde's shoulder and said "Never, never, never say his mother disappeared, you are his only mother, you are present here and taking care of him every second, you hear me?"
"How could this woman who barely know me and is able to speak the right words and comfort me in such a way?" Callie questioned herself.
"Ok." Callie nodded her head.
"But then..." Arizona in an attempt to resume previous question about the date. "Don't consider this as a date, let's just get out of this hospital and have a decent conversation in another place. I'm your friend, you're my friend, we're going to my place tonight. I'll cook and we'll enjoy a nice meal together after months and months of work, sounds good?"
"Deal." Callie needed a moment to enjoy life, which was pretty much just being the hospital.
"I'll wait for your shift to end, I'll be at Teddy's. She's my friend and lives right across the hospital's street. I will pick you up here at 8pm then?" Arizona quickly tried to schedule everything with Callie before the brunette rethought and gave up.
"I'll be waiting." Callie added with a smile.
Arizona remembered the most important thing in Callie's life "But Mathew, where is he?"
"Cristina, his godmother, is a week off from here, he wanted to spend a few days with her, I saw no problem, it's alright for us tonight."
Arizona winked at Callie and walked out the door like the luckiest person in this world.
Callie's POV
Only after we got to the Arizona's farm I could see how the blonde was well dressed and I felt like shit with these clothes on from when I had arrived at the hospital.
After leaving the city, we took a long and curvy dirt road. An hour later, we arrived at the farmhouse.
Despite it being night, the house was brightly lit, all outside area covered with varnished solid wood, it was beautiful. Darkness limited my vision field and it didn't allow me to know what else was there this farm could have.
Arizona got out of her truck and went to my side just to open the door for me. In the midst of a laughter crisis I spoke "If that's how you treat your friends, I think this house is always full of people."
The blonde laughed along showing her dimples "Let's say I have a few privileged friends."
I was being leading into the house when Arizona seemed to have forgotten something and got back to the truck.
The blonde came back with a pizza box in hand and a six-pack beer case. "I thought it was too good to be true, you really don't look like someone who cooks, Ms. Robbins." I said with a silly smile on my face, that blonde would be death of me.
She gave me a light slap on my shoulder and protested "Hey, I cook, okay? I just thought we'd get here too late and you'd be too tired and hungry to wait for me to prepare my specialties."
We sat at the table and the pizza was waiting to be eaten. Between one piece and another, the conversation flowed between us.
When we finished Arizona caught my attention by calling me "Come here, Callie, I want to show you something."
She pulled me by the hand, just that simple gesture already awakened dormant butterflies in my stomach.
We came to the porch of the house and the flick of a switch Arizona turned all farmhouse's lights off and only the clear sky of that night illuminated us with all those stars.
Arizona began to speak calmly "I like to think my brother is in a better place watching over me, I feel calm looking at it, sometimes I even feel his presence."
Arizona's words warmed my heart, I didn't see this sensitive side of the blonde as often.
She still didn't look at me, she was just staring at the sky and talking "Isn't it the most beautiful thing, Callie? We don't see it in the city."
My gaze wasn't fixed in the sky for a second, I looked at Arizona's profile on my side and in a state of enchantment my mouth would speak whatever I was thinking, I was surrounded by that image in front of me "I can think of a more beautiful thing than the sky."
Arizona was still scattered and enchanted looking up and not realized what I had said, I couldn't stand it. If it was a date? Fine, but I just needed Arizona to look at me and my body was screaming with my mind. Would I feel the lips of the blonde against mine ever again?
A few seconds later Arizona realizes what I had said but didn't turn her gaze to meet mine, she just protests "I don't think so, Callie, I really have to disagree."
"I'm looking at this thing right now, such a heavenly view." I grinned at her and her face looked shocked.
Your reviews are my heavenly view, come on, tell me what you're thinking. And btw, I'm in love with this romantic Callie.