Destination
Title: Destination
Author: almicah
Pairing: Callie/Arizona (mentions of Callie/Mark
Rating: PG13 (Maybe a curseword somewhere)
Summary: Callie and Arizona meet halfway...
Disclaimer: All television shows, books, movies, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work and the characters, events, and settings thereof are the properties of their respective owners. As this work is an interpretation of the original material and not for profit, it constitutes fair use. Reference to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context and are not intended to be libelous, defamatory, or in any way factual.
A/N: I haven't updated my fic "Unexpected Love" in ages and I really didn't have time for this, but I couldn't help myself. All mistakes are mine and it's late so there might be many. I'll look over the chapter in the morning
It had been 4 months since Arizona left Callie at the airport of no return. She had left her just like Erica. The difference was that Callie was prepared to spend the rest of her life with Arizona. She never loved Erica; she was a friend that she developed confusing feelings for. Erica left her before she started to love her. Then Arizona swooped in at Joe’s and gave Callie hope.
They had their problems with the whole baby thing and trust issues, but they worked it out. Or Callie at least thought they did. When Arizona left her in the airport Callie wanted to hate her. She really wanted to hate her guts, but she couldn’t. She knew that if the communication in their relationship had worked it wouldn’t have ended this way. Instead they stayed in Arizona’s damn pink bubble and pretended like everything was super.
Callie knew that the break up was her fault too. However Arizona knew how Erica abandoned Callie and still she broke it off in the harshest way possible. The words “We’re already over” played over and over again every night in Callie’s sleep. When were they over? Callie felt like she had missed something. Sometimes Callie wondered if Arizona really loved her, because if they love each other, why would they break up? Sure love isn’t always enough, but in their case it should have been.
Every time she was walking down the halls of SGMW she was reminded of the blue eyed blonde. The on-call rooms, the supply closets, the cafeteria. She didn’t even go to the Peds ving, because absolutely everything there reminded her of her Arizona. All the decorations were basically the curly blonde’s makings. She gave her heart to those kids in Peds.
Finally after 4 months Callie started to feel at least a little better. Having sex with Mark 3 months ago made her realize that she didn’t want to have sex with him. Sure it felt good feeling the closeness, but she knew that Mark was pining over Lexie and she was pining over Arizona. She hadn’t had sex since that night with anyone. She had been on first dates with various women and men, but there never was a second date. She couldn’t feel the chemistry with anyone else.
Now she was packing for her trip. Mark had convinced her that she needed to get out of town for a while. She was thinking of going to Miami, but she didn’t want to deal with her family. So she decided that Spain would be a good destination. Sure it would remind her of the plans she and Arizona were making before their first break up, but in Spain she could have a break.
“Cal, are you home?” She could hear Mark ask as he walked in to the apartment. He was going to go with her and be her wingman. She said that she could be his, but he said that he didn’t need a wingman. That guy’s confidence is really strong.
“Yeah I’m in here Mark” she yelled from the bedroom.
Mark walked in and saw Callie’s suitcases.
“You do know that we are going just for two weeks right?” Mark asked her sarcastically
“Yeah I know, but I need to change clothes Mark”
“How many times a day are you going to change clothes?” He asked laughing at her. Callie turned around and gave him a death stare
“Suck it Mark and help me close the suitcases” Callie said. Mark came over to her and sat on the suitcase while Callie closed it.
“I’m not going to pay for the extra luggage Torres”
“Mark, you’re not even paying for the trip. You’re the renowned plastic surgeon and I’m paying for a trip that was your idea in the first place.” She laughed.
“Yeah well, sorry that I have to break it to you Cal but trust fund beats being a renowned plastic surgeon. Besides you’re not even paying rent so..” He trailed off
Callie laughed at his comment
“Yeah I should maybe give you some money for the rent, or not since this trip is on me” They exchanged smiles and Callie walked over to Mark and gave him a hug. “You’re a great friend Mark”
He pulled away and rested his forehead against hers
“Who knew I was going to be good for something else but sex?” He said
“I knew it all along Mark, now let’s go!” She said and took the hand luggage and started to head out the door.
“Wait Torres! Am I supposed to take the rest of the luggage?” He yelled after Callie
“Yeah well you’re good for something else than sex my little bellhop and no I’ll take your hand luggage” Callie laughed while walking out of the apartment.
“These are going to be 2 long weeks” Mark murmured at himself while picking up the luggage and heading out.
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Their flight went to New York and the stop over there was only one hour. The next one was in Madrid and they would have to wait for six hours there before their flight to the Tenerife would leave.
When they came to the Madrid Barajas airport the two BFF’s were exhausted. All Callie wanted to do was to sleep, her dad offered her to use one of the VIP lounges at the airport, but she had said no. Now she almost regretted it because the seats were not comfortable. She could call her dad and he would get her in to the VIP lounge, but she doesn’t want to be that girl. She was in the Peace Corps for God sakes, if those mattresses were good enough to sleep on then these chairs were too. Her rant in her head ended abruptly by Mark’s presence.
“Torres, I’m going to go find the gift shops now so don’t move or else I won’t be able to find you. Unlike you I don’t speak Spanish. An old lady just ranted at me just like you do just because I asked her where the gift shops were. And I’m like a hundred percent sure that gift shop isn’t something rude in Spanish.” Mark said confused
Callie started to laugh at him
“Oh Mark, I promise you I will not leave this seat for the next five hours okay. So go do your thing, go find yourself a really nice Spanish girl.”
She said before she yawned.
“Aaw Cal that yawn was really sexy” He teased
“Just go Mark” She almost yelled
“Fine fine I’m gone” With that he left and Callie tried to block out the noise, but she couldn’t. So she grabbed her iPod and plugged it in. She had deleted all the songs that reminded her of Arizona, it was too painful when one of the songs that reminded her of Arizona came on. So the easiest way was to just erase them all.
She started to drift asleep, but woke up with a jerk. Like those dreams when you think that you’re falling, but she didn’t have that feeling there was something else.
It was like…
No Callie thought, it couldn’t be.
Arizona is in Malawi
Callie started to think that she could be crazy.
As she sat up she looked through the crowd and saw blonde curls bouncing of a woman’s shoulders. At first Callie thought to herself that there are millions of curly blondes whose curls bounce of their shoulders. Although she couldn’t afford not to check it out, she has five more hours at the airport and after this she wouldn’t be able to go to sleep anyways.
She had to hurry though otherwise she would lose her in the crowd. What would she do with the hand luggage they have? She saw a woman a few meters from her and recognized her from the plane. She had talked to her and had found out that she was going to Tenerife too. Callie asked the woman if she could keep an eye on their things and she wrote a quick note to Mark.
After that she hurried trying to catch the blonde, she could see her still even if she was a good 30 meters from her by now. She quickened her pace and was only a few footsteps behind the blonde and grabbed her by the arm. The curly blonde quickly turned and pushed away Callie.
It wasn’t Arizona. The eyes were green and there weren’t any dimples. The woman looked at her completely frightened.
“Let me go!” Just then Callie noticed that she was holding her arm. She let go of the woman’s arm.
“Umm I’m sorry I thought you were someone else” Callie said sadly
“Jävla idiot!” The woman said before turning around. Callie was stunned, she didn’t know what the first word was, but idiot probably has the same meaning in every language.
The woman must have thought that Callie was going to rob her. When the woman started to walk away Callie saw that she had a Swedish flag on her shirt. Aren’t Swedish people supposed to be really nice? She thought to herself.
Callie couldn’t believe that she thought Arizona was at the same airport as her. Arizona is in Malawi.
This was simply Callie’s mind playing tricks on her.
When she started to walk back to her seat she saw another curly blonde with her back to Callie. She didn’t even want to check if it’s Arizona. Because it isn’t, every blonde girl with curls just reminds her of Arizona. The incident with the Swedish girl was really embarrassing and proved that she shouldn’t grab people by their arm.
However when she takes a better look she can see the handbag. Callie could recognize that bag from anywhere. Arizona had a bag just like that when she asked Callie out in the elevator. How many curly blondes could have bags like that? Callie thought to herself. She also was starting to think that counting in her head the chances of a curly blonde being Arizona is starting to get obsessive.
She wouldn’t talk to this one; she would just come closer to check. She thought that she may look like a maniac as she’s stalking blonde women at an airport. While she looks like shit because of all the sleep deprivation.
As Callie comes closer she can see that it isn’t a curly blonde. It’s THE curly blonde. She’s sitting on the floor since there aren’t any empty seats. Callie can see that she has her iPod plugged in so she doesn’t hear Callie approaching. And Callie doesn’t want to scare her; she doesn’t even know what to say to her. She looks at Arizona and she can feel the tears building up inside of her.
She feels so many things right now; sadness, hurt, anger but mostly love and happiness for some reason. Even after everything all she wants to do is to hold Arizona, kiss her and make her way with her in the VIP lounge.
No
She tries to shake away those thoughts; they have a long way to go before something like that happens.
Callie kneels down behind Arizona, now she’s less than one meter behind her. She can smell Arizona’s scent. It’s like she’s alone with Arizona. All the noise and all the people has blurred out.
Callie reaches out to touch Arizona’s shoulder; she can see that her pale ex-girlfriend has a reddish tan. Did she even use sun screen? Callie thinks to herself. So she puts her hand on Arizona’s shoulder carefully.
They blonde takes out her headphones and takes a deep breath before turning around.
Arizona’s blue eyes meet Callie’s brown ones. Callie can see that Arizona has tears in her eyes.
Arizona reaches out and touches Callie’s face and wipes away Callie’s tears.
“Callio- Callie is it really you?” She asks confused.
When she sat down on the cold floor listening to music she could feel some sort of presence. She didn’t have the guts to turn around and be disappointed. So she sat there pretending that Callie was sitting behind her, what she didn’t know until now was that Callie really was sitting behind her.
For 4 months Arizona has lied sleepless at nights, regretting that she left Callie. She knew that the right thing to do was to break up with Callie. However the right thing doesn’t always feel good. The bad dreams about tiny coffins were haunting her every night. The only thing that helped at night was Callie’s embrace, but she didn’t have that. No Callie and seeing kids die every day made the nights unbearable. In the end she couldn’t take it anymore. She had to get back before she went crazy. So she found another surgeon from France that could take over the work and Arizona would monitor from the US.
Callie smiled at her
“It’s me Arizona” Callie said before pulling Arizona in an embrace. She held on to her like she would never let go of her.
They sat like that for a few minutes before Arizona pulled away.
“Were you coming to Africa?” She asked Callie with a bit of hopefulness. Even if she said to the brunette that she didn’t want her to come with her to Africa, she wished for it every morning.
“Um..actually” Callie didn’t get to finish her sentence before Mark walked up to her.
“Cal, there you are!” He looked worried. He didn’t notice Arizona at first as he was standing with five bags from the gift shops full of souvenirs. Then he caught Arizona’s eye and was surprised to say the least. “Robbins?! What? When? How?” He looked dumbfolded.
Arizona on the other hand looked pissed. She looked between the pair and all Callie did was that she buried her head in her palms. She knew that this wasn’t going to end well. Arizona got up and started to laugh and Callie looked up at her before she stood up too.
“Of course” Arizona cursed under her breath. “I’m such an idiot”
Callie grabbed her hand
“Look Arizona it isn’t what you think okay? We’re going as friends” Somehow Callie knew that whatever she would have said it wouldn’t help.
“Yeah Robbins, we’re going to Tenerife you know. I thought that I could cheer Callie up. Lots of alcohol, party and girls that would take her mind off-“ He stopped and cursed himself for having a huge mouth
“Me?” Arizona asked and nodded “Yeah well I guess I should have seen it coming. We are broken up and I’m at least glad you’re not sleeping with Mark.” When those words came out of Arizona’s mouth Callie swallowed hard hoping that Mark wouldn’t say anything.
No such luck
“No Robbins that only happened once” He said before putting his hand over his mouth and looking like he was going to run away.
“Stay Mark! I'll leave in a minute” Arizona then turned to Callie pursing her lips and giving her a fake smile. Arizona was never one to show her true feelings “So let me get this straight…that is how you like it. I left you and you slept with Mark? And then you decided to go to Spain? Which we by the way never did…oh let me guess, you’re pregnant too? Because in that case you would have your whole dream” Arizona said coldly. Callie had never seen her like this.
“Arizona” It was almost like a whisper
“I don’t want to hear it” Arizona says angrily
“NO! Okay? NO! You don’t get to come here and judge me. Yes I slept with Mark” Arizona winced at Callie’s words “Once! And it wasn’t even good”
“Hey” Mark interrupted
“Shut it Mark” Callie yelled
“Fine I’ll leave you too it” He started to walk away, but knew that he had to say something, he turned around and looked at Arizona that looked like she was going to puke “Look Arizona, Callie was hurt and I was missing Lexie. It meant nothing” He didn’t wait for a response since he wasn’t expecting one. He just walked away.
Callie couldn’t believe what just happened
“Where was I? Oh yeah, the sex sucked. All I wanted was you, but where were you? You were in Malawi. You left me Arizona! Like a sick dog you just left me. And now you come here telling me that I’m living my dream. My dream was….is with you. Not Mark so you don’t get to judge me, you abandoned me!” Tears were streaming down Callie’s cheeks. She had yelled, but it seemed like no one even noticed it.
“The biggest fear I had in our relationship was that you would go and sleep with Mark, and look what happened. I was right all along” She simply said, it was like she was having trouble believing it, even though she on so many levels expected it.
“What about me Arizona? My biggest fear was that you would leave me, and you left me, I was right too! But my fears were never worth shit!” Callie yelled.
They stood looking at each other, neither was able to speak.
“Look Callie my plane is leaving so…you have a nice vacation, life or..whatever” Arizona said before starting to pick up her things.
“Where are you going? You didn’t even explain what happened with Malawi” Callie asked
“I gave the grant to someone else, after pulling a stunt like that I’ll probably never get another grant ever. I wanted to be with you” She paused “And now I’m the idiot that wrecked her career ” She stared at her feet not wanting Callie to see her cry.
Callie came closer and hugged Arizona, at first the blonde struggled, but she gave in and let Callie hold her.
“You’re not an idiot” Callie said and pulled away looking into Arizona’s eyes
“I’m a moron and so are you Arizona” Callie smiled and Arizona frowned at her “You’re not any moron, you are my moron” Callie smiled and Arizona’s frown turned into a smile. Callie could see her dimple and bent forward and kissed it. Before she knew it Arizona turned so that she could kiss Callie. Their lips haven’t met for 4 months. They would have taken it a step further, but they knew that they were in a catholic country and an airport.
“That felt good but what happens now?” Arizona asks “I don’t know where we can go from here”.
“Arizona” Callie sighed. “I don’t know, look we both need a vacation and we need to talk this over. Why don’t you come with me to Spain?”
Callie asked and Arizona had disbelief written all over her face.
“What about Mark? And my stuff?” She asked scared of having Mark with her.
“Teddy can get your stuff in Seattle. I have a lot of clothes with me plus I have my trust fund now so I can buy you a teeny bikini and Mark needs to be somewhere where a lot of girls are, so he can go to Barcelona or whatever and you can take his ticket, we can change the name and that. Although we’ll have to change the reservations at the hotel to one room instead of two” Callie said. Arizona sighed of relief that Callie and Mark weren’t planning on sharing a bed.
Callie however thought that the sigh was some sort of sign of rejection
“Or not, we can have separate rooms” She said pleading for Arizona not to leave her again.
“Callie shut up!” Arizona yelled and Callie stiffened “I don’t care okay? We can sleep in a car for all I know. We have both messed up big time and we both have some redeeming to do. But this” She pointed between them “is something I never want to lose again. So I’ll go with you and we’ll work this out because life’s too short. I don’t want to be apart from you.” She paused “Wait a second” Arizona said before looking through her bag.
“Stretch out your arm” Arizona said and Callie followed the instruction.
Arizona put on a handmade bracelet.
“It fits perfectly, Callie. A girl in a village made me one and she gave me one more and said that I should give this to the man I want to spend the rest of my life with. Clearly you’re not a man, but being gay is illegal down there so I went with it and clearly we have a lot to work through. But I don’t think that there is anyone else out there for me, you are my only love Callie”
“I love you too my dork” Callie said with her eyes full of tears and kissed Arizona
They would be ok.
The biggest problem would be telling Mark that he's not going
A/N 2: WOW this was long lol. Please comment I want to know what you thought. And I chose a Swedish girl since I'm from Sweden and didn't have time to look up insults in other languages.
Author: almicah
Pairing: Callie/Arizona (mentions of Callie/Mark
Rating: PG13 (Maybe a curseword somewhere)
Summary: Callie and Arizona meet halfway...
Disclaimer: All television shows, books, movies, and other copyrighted material referred to in this work and the characters, events, and settings thereof are the properties of their respective owners. As this work is an interpretation of the original material and not for profit, it constitutes fair use. Reference to real persons, places, or events are made in a fictional context and are not intended to be libelous, defamatory, or in any way factual.
A/N: I haven't updated my fic "Unexpected Love" in ages and I really didn't have time for this, but I couldn't help myself. All mistakes are mine and it's late so there might be many. I'll look over the chapter in the morning
It had been 4 months since Arizona left Callie at the airport of no return. She had left her just like Erica. The difference was that Callie was prepared to spend the rest of her life with Arizona. She never loved Erica; she was a friend that she developed confusing feelings for. Erica left her before she started to love her. Then Arizona swooped in at Joe’s and gave Callie hope.
They had their problems with the whole baby thing and trust issues, but they worked it out. Or Callie at least thought they did. When Arizona left her in the airport Callie wanted to hate her. She really wanted to hate her guts, but she couldn’t. She knew that if the communication in their relationship had worked it wouldn’t have ended this way. Instead they stayed in Arizona’s damn pink bubble and pretended like everything was super.
Callie knew that the break up was her fault too. However Arizona knew how Erica abandoned Callie and still she broke it off in the harshest way possible. The words “We’re already over” played over and over again every night in Callie’s sleep. When were they over? Callie felt like she had missed something. Sometimes Callie wondered if Arizona really loved her, because if they love each other, why would they break up? Sure love isn’t always enough, but in their case it should have been.
Every time she was walking down the halls of SGMW she was reminded of the blue eyed blonde. The on-call rooms, the supply closets, the cafeteria. She didn’t even go to the Peds ving, because absolutely everything there reminded her of her Arizona. All the decorations were basically the curly blonde’s makings. She gave her heart to those kids in Peds.
Finally after 4 months Callie started to feel at least a little better. Having sex with Mark 3 months ago made her realize that she didn’t want to have sex with him. Sure it felt good feeling the closeness, but she knew that Mark was pining over Lexie and she was pining over Arizona. She hadn’t had sex since that night with anyone. She had been on first dates with various women and men, but there never was a second date. She couldn’t feel the chemistry with anyone else.
Now she was packing for her trip. Mark had convinced her that she needed to get out of town for a while. She was thinking of going to Miami, but she didn’t want to deal with her family. So she decided that Spain would be a good destination. Sure it would remind her of the plans she and Arizona were making before their first break up, but in Spain she could have a break.
“Cal, are you home?” She could hear Mark ask as he walked in to the apartment. He was going to go with her and be her wingman. She said that she could be his, but he said that he didn’t need a wingman. That guy’s confidence is really strong.
“Yeah I’m in here Mark” she yelled from the bedroom.
Mark walked in and saw Callie’s suitcases.
“You do know that we are going just for two weeks right?” Mark asked her sarcastically
“Yeah I know, but I need to change clothes Mark”
“How many times a day are you going to change clothes?” He asked laughing at her. Callie turned around and gave him a death stare
“Suck it Mark and help me close the suitcases” Callie said. Mark came over to her and sat on the suitcase while Callie closed it.
“I’m not going to pay for the extra luggage Torres”
“Mark, you’re not even paying for the trip. You’re the renowned plastic surgeon and I’m paying for a trip that was your idea in the first place.” She laughed.
“Yeah well, sorry that I have to break it to you Cal but trust fund beats being a renowned plastic surgeon. Besides you’re not even paying rent so..” He trailed off
Callie laughed at his comment
“Yeah I should maybe give you some money for the rent, or not since this trip is on me” They exchanged smiles and Callie walked over to Mark and gave him a hug. “You’re a great friend Mark”
He pulled away and rested his forehead against hers
“Who knew I was going to be good for something else but sex?” He said
“I knew it all along Mark, now let’s go!” She said and took the hand luggage and started to head out the door.
“Wait Torres! Am I supposed to take the rest of the luggage?” He yelled after Callie
“Yeah well you’re good for something else than sex my little bellhop and no I’ll take your hand luggage” Callie laughed while walking out of the apartment.
“These are going to be 2 long weeks” Mark murmured at himself while picking up the luggage and heading out.
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Their flight went to New York and the stop over there was only one hour. The next one was in Madrid and they would have to wait for six hours there before their flight to the Tenerife would leave.
When they came to the Madrid Barajas airport the two BFF’s were exhausted. All Callie wanted to do was to sleep, her dad offered her to use one of the VIP lounges at the airport, but she had said no. Now she almost regretted it because the seats were not comfortable. She could call her dad and he would get her in to the VIP lounge, but she doesn’t want to be that girl. She was in the Peace Corps for God sakes, if those mattresses were good enough to sleep on then these chairs were too. Her rant in her head ended abruptly by Mark’s presence.
“Torres, I’m going to go find the gift shops now so don’t move or else I won’t be able to find you. Unlike you I don’t speak Spanish. An old lady just ranted at me just like you do just because I asked her where the gift shops were. And I’m like a hundred percent sure that gift shop isn’t something rude in Spanish.” Mark said confused
Callie started to laugh at him
“Oh Mark, I promise you I will not leave this seat for the next five hours okay. So go do your thing, go find yourself a really nice Spanish girl.”
She said before she yawned.
“Aaw Cal that yawn was really sexy” He teased
“Just go Mark” She almost yelled
“Fine fine I’m gone” With that he left and Callie tried to block out the noise, but she couldn’t. So she grabbed her iPod and plugged it in. She had deleted all the songs that reminded her of Arizona, it was too painful when one of the songs that reminded her of Arizona came on. So the easiest way was to just erase them all.
She started to drift asleep, but woke up with a jerk. Like those dreams when you think that you’re falling, but she didn’t have that feeling there was something else.
It was like…
No Callie thought, it couldn’t be.
Arizona is in Malawi
Callie started to think that she could be crazy.
As she sat up she looked through the crowd and saw blonde curls bouncing of a woman’s shoulders. At first Callie thought to herself that there are millions of curly blondes whose curls bounce of their shoulders. Although she couldn’t afford not to check it out, she has five more hours at the airport and after this she wouldn’t be able to go to sleep anyways.
She had to hurry though otherwise she would lose her in the crowd. What would she do with the hand luggage they have? She saw a woman a few meters from her and recognized her from the plane. She had talked to her and had found out that she was going to Tenerife too. Callie asked the woman if she could keep an eye on their things and she wrote a quick note to Mark.
After that she hurried trying to catch the blonde, she could see her still even if she was a good 30 meters from her by now. She quickened her pace and was only a few footsteps behind the blonde and grabbed her by the arm. The curly blonde quickly turned and pushed away Callie.
It wasn’t Arizona. The eyes were green and there weren’t any dimples. The woman looked at her completely frightened.
“Let me go!” Just then Callie noticed that she was holding her arm. She let go of the woman’s arm.
“Umm I’m sorry I thought you were someone else” Callie said sadly
“Jävla idiot!” The woman said before turning around. Callie was stunned, she didn’t know what the first word was, but idiot probably has the same meaning in every language.
The woman must have thought that Callie was going to rob her. When the woman started to walk away Callie saw that she had a Swedish flag on her shirt. Aren’t Swedish people supposed to be really nice? She thought to herself.
Callie couldn’t believe that she thought Arizona was at the same airport as her. Arizona is in Malawi.
This was simply Callie’s mind playing tricks on her.
When she started to walk back to her seat she saw another curly blonde with her back to Callie. She didn’t even want to check if it’s Arizona. Because it isn’t, every blonde girl with curls just reminds her of Arizona. The incident with the Swedish girl was really embarrassing and proved that she shouldn’t grab people by their arm.
However when she takes a better look she can see the handbag. Callie could recognize that bag from anywhere. Arizona had a bag just like that when she asked Callie out in the elevator. How many curly blondes could have bags like that? Callie thought to herself. She also was starting to think that counting in her head the chances of a curly blonde being Arizona is starting to get obsessive.
She wouldn’t talk to this one; she would just come closer to check. She thought that she may look like a maniac as she’s stalking blonde women at an airport. While she looks like shit because of all the sleep deprivation.
As Callie comes closer she can see that it isn’t a curly blonde. It’s THE curly blonde. She’s sitting on the floor since there aren’t any empty seats. Callie can see that she has her iPod plugged in so she doesn’t hear Callie approaching. And Callie doesn’t want to scare her; she doesn’t even know what to say to her. She looks at Arizona and she can feel the tears building up inside of her.
She feels so many things right now; sadness, hurt, anger but mostly love and happiness for some reason. Even after everything all she wants to do is to hold Arizona, kiss her and make her way with her in the VIP lounge.
No
She tries to shake away those thoughts; they have a long way to go before something like that happens.
Callie kneels down behind Arizona, now she’s less than one meter behind her. She can smell Arizona’s scent. It’s like she’s alone with Arizona. All the noise and all the people has blurred out.
Callie reaches out to touch Arizona’s shoulder; she can see that her pale ex-girlfriend has a reddish tan. Did she even use sun screen? Callie thinks to herself. So she puts her hand on Arizona’s shoulder carefully.
They blonde takes out her headphones and takes a deep breath before turning around.
Arizona’s blue eyes meet Callie’s brown ones. Callie can see that Arizona has tears in her eyes.
Arizona reaches out and touches Callie’s face and wipes away Callie’s tears.
“Callio- Callie is it really you?” She asks confused.
When she sat down on the cold floor listening to music she could feel some sort of presence. She didn’t have the guts to turn around and be disappointed. So she sat there pretending that Callie was sitting behind her, what she didn’t know until now was that Callie really was sitting behind her.
For 4 months Arizona has lied sleepless at nights, regretting that she left Callie. She knew that the right thing to do was to break up with Callie. However the right thing doesn’t always feel good. The bad dreams about tiny coffins were haunting her every night. The only thing that helped at night was Callie’s embrace, but she didn’t have that. No Callie and seeing kids die every day made the nights unbearable. In the end she couldn’t take it anymore. She had to get back before she went crazy. So she found another surgeon from France that could take over the work and Arizona would monitor from the US.
Callie smiled at her
“It’s me Arizona” Callie said before pulling Arizona in an embrace. She held on to her like she would never let go of her.
They sat like that for a few minutes before Arizona pulled away.
“Were you coming to Africa?” She asked Callie with a bit of hopefulness. Even if she said to the brunette that she didn’t want her to come with her to Africa, she wished for it every morning.
“Um..actually” Callie didn’t get to finish her sentence before Mark walked up to her.
“Cal, there you are!” He looked worried. He didn’t notice Arizona at first as he was standing with five bags from the gift shops full of souvenirs. Then he caught Arizona’s eye and was surprised to say the least. “Robbins?! What? When? How?” He looked dumbfolded.
Arizona on the other hand looked pissed. She looked between the pair and all Callie did was that she buried her head in her palms. She knew that this wasn’t going to end well. Arizona got up and started to laugh and Callie looked up at her before she stood up too.
“Of course” Arizona cursed under her breath. “I’m such an idiot”
Callie grabbed her hand
“Look Arizona it isn’t what you think okay? We’re going as friends” Somehow Callie knew that whatever she would have said it wouldn’t help.
“Yeah Robbins, we’re going to Tenerife you know. I thought that I could cheer Callie up. Lots of alcohol, party and girls that would take her mind off-“ He stopped and cursed himself for having a huge mouth
“Me?” Arizona asked and nodded “Yeah well I guess I should have seen it coming. We are broken up and I’m at least glad you’re not sleeping with Mark.” When those words came out of Arizona’s mouth Callie swallowed hard hoping that Mark wouldn’t say anything.
No such luck
“No Robbins that only happened once” He said before putting his hand over his mouth and looking like he was going to run away.
“Stay Mark! I'll leave in a minute” Arizona then turned to Callie pursing her lips and giving her a fake smile. Arizona was never one to show her true feelings “So let me get this straight…that is how you like it. I left you and you slept with Mark? And then you decided to go to Spain? Which we by the way never did…oh let me guess, you’re pregnant too? Because in that case you would have your whole dream” Arizona said coldly. Callie had never seen her like this.
“Arizona” It was almost like a whisper
“I don’t want to hear it” Arizona says angrily
“NO! Okay? NO! You don’t get to come here and judge me. Yes I slept with Mark” Arizona winced at Callie’s words “Once! And it wasn’t even good”
“Hey” Mark interrupted
“Shut it Mark” Callie yelled
“Fine I’ll leave you too it” He started to walk away, but knew that he had to say something, he turned around and looked at Arizona that looked like she was going to puke “Look Arizona, Callie was hurt and I was missing Lexie. It meant nothing” He didn’t wait for a response since he wasn’t expecting one. He just walked away.
Callie couldn’t believe what just happened
“Where was I? Oh yeah, the sex sucked. All I wanted was you, but where were you? You were in Malawi. You left me Arizona! Like a sick dog you just left me. And now you come here telling me that I’m living my dream. My dream was….is with you. Not Mark so you don’t get to judge me, you abandoned me!” Tears were streaming down Callie’s cheeks. She had yelled, but it seemed like no one even noticed it.
“The biggest fear I had in our relationship was that you would go and sleep with Mark, and look what happened. I was right all along” She simply said, it was like she was having trouble believing it, even though she on so many levels expected it.
“What about me Arizona? My biggest fear was that you would leave me, and you left me, I was right too! But my fears were never worth shit!” Callie yelled.
They stood looking at each other, neither was able to speak.
“Look Callie my plane is leaving so…you have a nice vacation, life or..whatever” Arizona said before starting to pick up her things.
“Where are you going? You didn’t even explain what happened with Malawi” Callie asked
“I gave the grant to someone else, after pulling a stunt like that I’ll probably never get another grant ever. I wanted to be with you” She paused “And now I’m the idiot that wrecked her career ” She stared at her feet not wanting Callie to see her cry.
Callie came closer and hugged Arizona, at first the blonde struggled, but she gave in and let Callie hold her.
“You’re not an idiot” Callie said and pulled away looking into Arizona’s eyes
“I’m a moron and so are you Arizona” Callie smiled and Arizona frowned at her “You’re not any moron, you are my moron” Callie smiled and Arizona’s frown turned into a smile. Callie could see her dimple and bent forward and kissed it. Before she knew it Arizona turned so that she could kiss Callie. Their lips haven’t met for 4 months. They would have taken it a step further, but they knew that they were in a catholic country and an airport.
“That felt good but what happens now?” Arizona asks “I don’t know where we can go from here”.
“Arizona” Callie sighed. “I don’t know, look we both need a vacation and we need to talk this over. Why don’t you come with me to Spain?”
Callie asked and Arizona had disbelief written all over her face.
“What about Mark? And my stuff?” She asked scared of having Mark with her.
“Teddy can get your stuff in Seattle. I have a lot of clothes with me plus I have my trust fund now so I can buy you a teeny bikini and Mark needs to be somewhere where a lot of girls are, so he can go to Barcelona or whatever and you can take his ticket, we can change the name and that. Although we’ll have to change the reservations at the hotel to one room instead of two” Callie said. Arizona sighed of relief that Callie and Mark weren’t planning on sharing a bed.
Callie however thought that the sigh was some sort of sign of rejection
“Or not, we can have separate rooms” She said pleading for Arizona not to leave her again.
“Callie shut up!” Arizona yelled and Callie stiffened “I don’t care okay? We can sleep in a car for all I know. We have both messed up big time and we both have some redeeming to do. But this” She pointed between them “is something I never want to lose again. So I’ll go with you and we’ll work this out because life’s too short. I don’t want to be apart from you.” She paused “Wait a second” Arizona said before looking through her bag.
“Stretch out your arm” Arizona said and Callie followed the instruction.
Arizona put on a handmade bracelet.
“It fits perfectly, Callie. A girl in a village made me one and she gave me one more and said that I should give this to the man I want to spend the rest of my life with. Clearly you’re not a man, but being gay is illegal down there so I went with it and clearly we have a lot to work through. But I don’t think that there is anyone else out there for me, you are my only love Callie”
“I love you too my dork” Callie said with her eyes full of tears and kissed Arizona
They would be ok.
The biggest problem would be telling Mark that he's not going
A/N 2: WOW this was long lol. Please comment I want to know what you thought. And I chose a Swedish girl since I'm from Sweden and didn't have time to look up insults in other languages.