Destination 5/?
Title: Destination 5/?
Author: almicah
Pairing: Callie/Arizona (mentions of Callie/Mark and Arizona/Skank)
Rating: PG13
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: Thank you all for the reviews, they really make my day. I did not think this would go on for this long, but here we are. I had trouble writing this chapter, I really hope you’ll like it. Enjoy!
The women sat and ate their pizza quietly, it was awkward and neither knew what to say. Callie was contemplating for a while before deciding to speak.
“So how was Malawi?” She asked, maybe it wasn’t the best question, but what was she supposed to say? She thought to herself.
Arizona slowly looked up and was surprised at the question, she had so much to say, but didn’t know how to say it.
“Um..it was different. The kids mortality rate was a lot higher than in the US” She said sadly “But we did make things better you know, we set up two more OR’s and we made a better waiting system in the ER. It was disastrous when you came to the ER before, nobody waited for their turn and kids that needed fast treatment died. The staff was really nice and welcoming. They immediately cooperated with us and wanted to listen to what we had to say.” She said smiling, but the smile faded and she sighed “However it was lonely being there” She said sadly looking down on her plate.
“And whose fault was that?” Callie snapped, but regretted it when she saw Arizona’s face.
“I guess it was either mine or yours, or both” She paused “Look Callie we can talk about this forever, whose fault it was or whatever. That discussion would never end, it’s like the freaking war between Palestine and Israel, and you can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. What we can do is try to work past this, but I’m starting to feel like you don’t want to do that.” Her voice was shaking at the end. Arizona was starting to get pissed off, she was really trying here, but Callie didn’t even try.
“Okay I’m sorry, I am trying” She said “Maybe it was my own fault too” She murmured, but Arizona heard her, that was better than nothing right? Arizona thought to herself “I just can get the picture of you and some skank having sex in an airplane toilet hours after we broke up out of my head Arizona! And then you had sex with me last night, a bit selfish huh?” She said frustrated over the whole situation.
“And I can’t get the image of you and Mark having sex out of my head. You were going back to him, to men after we broke up, which was my biggest fear. Then I can see you two the morning after, him holding you like I held you.” By now she was crying, no matter how hard she tried not to. “I can’t get it out of my head, I’m trying but I can’t. Last night…it was all about me feeling you again” She said
As Callie saw Arizona breaking down she somehow started to see things from Arizona’s point of view. Sure it was low that she had sex hours after they broke up with a random whore. However Callie had sex with Mark, no matter when it was. Arizona had been scared the whole time that she was going to go back to Mark and then Callie did that. Callie got up from her chair and kneeled down beside Arizona.
“Arizona” She said trying to get the blondes attention, but she was facing away trying to hide her sobs. Callie laid her hand on Arizona’s cheek and started to turn her face so that she looked at her. “Look at me” Callie said and Arizona looked at her. The blue eyes were red from the crying. “Okay…we have a lot to overcome and we both made mistakes. But we were broken up and I don’t know the rules, but even if all this isn’t okay it somehow is. If that makes sense?” She chuckled and Arizona smiled “Hey there the dimples are, so what are we going to do now, you had a plan right?” Callie got up and stretched out her hand to Arizona.
“Yeah, it’s not that good, I don’t know the city so I didn’t really have a lot of options. So it’s going to be very simple” She smiled getting up.
“Follow me” Arizona said starting to walk towards the door.
“Okay” Callie smiled trying to figure out what Arizona was up to.
While they were taking the elevator Callie couldn’t help but think at the time when Arizona asked her out. Or when they were broken up and had a make out session in the elevator. People were getting of the elevator at every floor and Callie was starting to get freaked out. She doesn’t freak, but now they were going to the very top. When they reached the highest floor Arizona grabbed her hand and pulled her out of the elevator.
They walked down the hall and took the stairs. Going up the stairs Callie thought back at the day Arizona caught her in the stairway at the hospital. They hadn’t been dating for a long time, but Callie knew that there was something there, something big.
Arizona could feel the sweat; she really wanted this to work. Sure she wasn’t the only one that made mistakes, but she still wanted to show Callie that she loves her.
When they came up on the rooftop Callie was a bit shocked. There was only a blanket there. She turned to face Arizona and saw that the blonde’s smile faded.
“Oh no..” Arizona said looking upset
“What happened? Did someone steal your arrangements?” Callie said a little pissed over the fact that someone would do that.
“Um no…this was the arrangement” Arizona said quietly.
Callie was surprised and a bit shocked.
“Wha-“She didn’t get to finish before Arizona cut her off.
“There aren’t any arrangements Callie okay?” She yelled “I did the whole wine and pizza thing and then I wanted us to go up here and watch the starlit sky and talk until the sunrise. I’m such an idiot” She said the last sentence quietly.
Callie was surprised and smiled at Arizona. The blonde saw that and was surprised.
“What?” She asked bluntly
“Nothing I just…I just didn’t think you were a romantic” Callie said and Arizona gave her a look of disbelief “Arizona this is perfect, it’s all we need tonight” She smiled at the blonde before going over to the blanket and sitting down. Arizona still stood at the same place as before.
“Are you coming or what?” Callie asked
Arizona couldn’t believe what had happened, she was almost positive that the night was messed up.
“Yeah” She said before sitting down. Once again it was awkward between them. Arizona was sitting looking up at the sky and was thinking of all those nights when she was in Malawi. She had wondered if Callie was ever standing and looking up at the same sky. Even though there was an incredible time difference, it wouldn’t be impossible.
“Mark never held me” Arizona suddenly heard Callie say. “I don’t…I don’t know, I just don’t want you to think that he did. No one could ever hold me like you could” Callie could feel that she was tearing up “I just wanted you to know that”. She said before looking up at the sky. She was thinking of the nights when she had looked up at the sky wondering if Arizona was doing the same thing.
“Thank you” Arizona said, she wasn’t doing a victory dance inside of her, okay maybe a small one. She was glad that Callie told her that, because that somehow meant they were going forward.
“So” Arizona started, she was trying to lighten the mood “Up there you can see Orion, some might say it’s a cliché that I’m showing you this. The Orion is very main stream, but I’ve googled a lot and I haven’t found a cooler constellation.” She stopped talking when she saw the look on Callie’s face. “What? Do I have something in my face?” She started to get nervous.
“Nothing…I was just thinking what a dork you are” She smiled and Arizona got even more nervous, she doesn’t get nervous she thought to herself, but now she was. “I like it” Callie said winking and looked up to the sky “And you don’t have anything in your face, you look beautiful as always” She said not looking at Arizona.
Arizona blushed at the comment and Callie couldn’t see it, but she could feel it. A smug grin started to form. How come they are like this?
One minute its shouting and the other one it feels like it’s their first date again.
They both sat a while in the silence and were interrupted abruptly by a shooting star.
“Arizona! Did you see that?” Callie exclaimed
“Yeah I did! Did you make a wish Calliope?” Arizona asked smiling
“Yes I did, and you?” Callie asked
“Yup” She answered shortly.
They were sitting looking at each other intently, trying to read each other’s faces. Somehow they were closer than before and suddenly they were just mere inches apart. Arizona leaned forward holding her face close to Callie’s, waiting for Callie to make the decision.
Callie closed the last gap and lost herself in the kiss. They both repositioned themselves and Callie was on top of Arizona kissing her fiercely. There was a lot of built up feelings that were shown now, love, anger, lust were the main ones. They broke away from the kiss and looked at each other.
“I never believed in it” Arizona said laughing
Callie was suddenly surprised
“This whole shooting star thing, the wish thing” Arizona said
“Yeah? What did you wish for?” Callie asked
“You, and that you would kiss me. That’s two wishes and they came true” Arizona said happily
Callie then leaned down and gave her one more kiss.
“One came true, I kissed you, but we aren’t…us yet” She said, Callie didn’t want to hurt Arizona’s feelings, but she had to be honest.
Arizona was a bit sad over what Callie just said, but she knew that she was right.
“I know, this feels like a TV drama series. This whole thing” Arizona said frowning
“Really? No, this isn’t like a TV drama series, they would never let a lesbian couple kiss like this” Callie said before she leaned down kissing Arizona’s neck. She moved up until she reached the blonde’s lips. She could feel Arizona biting her lip before she felt Callie’s tongue against her lips. She let her in and soon their tongues battled.
Arizona pulled away.
“Touché, as much as I enjoy this we need to stop” She said “I mean, I really really want to do this, but it’s wrong” Arizona said
Callie moved and sat up and so did Arizona.
“So Orion?” Callie asked, she knew that they needed to talk about their issues, but they had time to do that the rest of the night. They needed to lighten the mood from time to time. How hard she might try she couldn’t stay away from kissing Arizona. Maybe it was wrong, no 1st base can never be wrong she thought to herself.
Arizona couldn’t believe that they had just kissed. She had not seen that coming. She had a feeling that the night would end well.
“Right…so did you know that Orion is a constellation that represents the hunter Orion from the Greek mythology? According to the mythology nobody could kill him, because he was so strong.” She said
“No I did not know that” Callie was fairly impressed by the blondes astrology skills
“And you see those three stars?” Arizona asked
“Yeah” Callie said
“That’s Orion’s belt, it’s really easy to find the constellation just by finding the belt. Sometimes the belt is called the three wise men” Arizona said proudly, she was proud over her skills.
“Okay, so how come you know a lot about Greek mythology?” Callie asked curiously
“Let’s just say that I spent a lot of time in the library searching for information about the name Calliope, names are my thing, I had even picked ou-” She stopped before she even finished the sentence. Arizona had looked at names even though they really didn’t talk about the whole ten kids’ thing after the shooting
“How did you find out my name was Calliope?” Callie asked not wanting to show attention to the blondes slip, but she was happy that Arizona had thought about them starting a family. Arizona was very thankful for it.
“I snooped through your personal file” She said bluntly
“You did what?! Do you know how many kinds of wrong that is?!” Callie yelled even though she wasn’t really mad.
“Aaaw shut up my little muse” Arizona teased and in response Callie nudged her in the side.
“Shut up you state” Callie teased
“Hey!” Arizona reacted “It’s the battleship” She pouted.
“Yeah right potatoe potato” She winked and Arizona smiled at her. “Goof” Callie said before giving Arizona a peck on the cheek. “So when is the sunrise?” She asked
“In 8 hours” Arizona said bluntly before leaning in on Callie’s shoulder. Long night indeed Callie thought.
Here they were, the stars and them, who knows what tomorrow will bring, but they are here now and in the end that's all that matters.
A/N 2: So? Should I end it here or should I write another chapter. The problem is that I have no idea what I should write in the next one. This leaves them in a kind of happy place, they are moving forward.
Author: almicah
Pairing: Callie/Arizona (mentions of Callie/Mark and Arizona/Skank)
Rating: PG13
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: Thank you all for the reviews, they really make my day. I did not think this would go on for this long, but here we are. I had trouble writing this chapter, I really hope you’ll like it. Enjoy!
The women sat and ate their pizza quietly, it was awkward and neither knew what to say. Callie was contemplating for a while before deciding to speak.
“So how was Malawi?” She asked, maybe it wasn’t the best question, but what was she supposed to say? She thought to herself.
Arizona slowly looked up and was surprised at the question, she had so much to say, but didn’t know how to say it.
“Um..it was different. The kids mortality rate was a lot higher than in the US” She said sadly “But we did make things better you know, we set up two more OR’s and we made a better waiting system in the ER. It was disastrous when you came to the ER before, nobody waited for their turn and kids that needed fast treatment died. The staff was really nice and welcoming. They immediately cooperated with us and wanted to listen to what we had to say.” She said smiling, but the smile faded and she sighed “However it was lonely being there” She said sadly looking down on her plate.
“And whose fault was that?” Callie snapped, but regretted it when she saw Arizona’s face.
“I guess it was either mine or yours, or both” She paused “Look Callie we can talk about this forever, whose fault it was or whatever. That discussion would never end, it’s like the freaking war between Palestine and Israel, and you can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. What we can do is try to work past this, but I’m starting to feel like you don’t want to do that.” Her voice was shaking at the end. Arizona was starting to get pissed off, she was really trying here, but Callie didn’t even try.
“Okay I’m sorry, I am trying” She said “Maybe it was my own fault too” She murmured, but Arizona heard her, that was better than nothing right? Arizona thought to herself “I just can get the picture of you and some skank having sex in an airplane toilet hours after we broke up out of my head Arizona! And then you had sex with me last night, a bit selfish huh?” She said frustrated over the whole situation.
“And I can’t get the image of you and Mark having sex out of my head. You were going back to him, to men after we broke up, which was my biggest fear. Then I can see you two the morning after, him holding you like I held you.” By now she was crying, no matter how hard she tried not to. “I can’t get it out of my head, I’m trying but I can’t. Last night…it was all about me feeling you again” She said
As Callie saw Arizona breaking down she somehow started to see things from Arizona’s point of view. Sure it was low that she had sex hours after they broke up with a random whore. However Callie had sex with Mark, no matter when it was. Arizona had been scared the whole time that she was going to go back to Mark and then Callie did that. Callie got up from her chair and kneeled down beside Arizona.
“Arizona” She said trying to get the blondes attention, but she was facing away trying to hide her sobs. Callie laid her hand on Arizona’s cheek and started to turn her face so that she looked at her. “Look at me” Callie said and Arizona looked at her. The blue eyes were red from the crying. “Okay…we have a lot to overcome and we both made mistakes. But we were broken up and I don’t know the rules, but even if all this isn’t okay it somehow is. If that makes sense?” She chuckled and Arizona smiled “Hey there the dimples are, so what are we going to do now, you had a plan right?” Callie got up and stretched out her hand to Arizona.
“Yeah, it’s not that good, I don’t know the city so I didn’t really have a lot of options. So it’s going to be very simple” She smiled getting up.
“Follow me” Arizona said starting to walk towards the door.
“Okay” Callie smiled trying to figure out what Arizona was up to.
While they were taking the elevator Callie couldn’t help but think at the time when Arizona asked her out. Or when they were broken up and had a make out session in the elevator. People were getting of the elevator at every floor and Callie was starting to get freaked out. She doesn’t freak, but now they were going to the very top. When they reached the highest floor Arizona grabbed her hand and pulled her out of the elevator.
They walked down the hall and took the stairs. Going up the stairs Callie thought back at the day Arizona caught her in the stairway at the hospital. They hadn’t been dating for a long time, but Callie knew that there was something there, something big.
Arizona could feel the sweat; she really wanted this to work. Sure she wasn’t the only one that made mistakes, but she still wanted to show Callie that she loves her.
When they came up on the rooftop Callie was a bit shocked. There was only a blanket there. She turned to face Arizona and saw that the blonde’s smile faded.
“Oh no..” Arizona said looking upset
“What happened? Did someone steal your arrangements?” Callie said a little pissed over the fact that someone would do that.
“Um no…this was the arrangement” Arizona said quietly.
Callie was surprised and a bit shocked.
“Wha-“She didn’t get to finish before Arizona cut her off.
“There aren’t any arrangements Callie okay?” She yelled “I did the whole wine and pizza thing and then I wanted us to go up here and watch the starlit sky and talk until the sunrise. I’m such an idiot” She said the last sentence quietly.
Callie was surprised and smiled at Arizona. The blonde saw that and was surprised.
“What?” She asked bluntly
“Nothing I just…I just didn’t think you were a romantic” Callie said and Arizona gave her a look of disbelief “Arizona this is perfect, it’s all we need tonight” She smiled at the blonde before going over to the blanket and sitting down. Arizona still stood at the same place as before.
“Are you coming or what?” Callie asked
Arizona couldn’t believe what had happened, she was almost positive that the night was messed up.
“Yeah” She said before sitting down. Once again it was awkward between them. Arizona was sitting looking up at the sky and was thinking of all those nights when she was in Malawi. She had wondered if Callie was ever standing and looking up at the same sky. Even though there was an incredible time difference, it wouldn’t be impossible.
“Mark never held me” Arizona suddenly heard Callie say. “I don’t…I don’t know, I just don’t want you to think that he did. No one could ever hold me like you could” Callie could feel that she was tearing up “I just wanted you to know that”. She said before looking up at the sky. She was thinking of the nights when she had looked up at the sky wondering if Arizona was doing the same thing.
“Thank you” Arizona said, she wasn’t doing a victory dance inside of her, okay maybe a small one. She was glad that Callie told her that, because that somehow meant they were going forward.
“So” Arizona started, she was trying to lighten the mood “Up there you can see Orion, some might say it’s a cliché that I’m showing you this. The Orion is very main stream, but I’ve googled a lot and I haven’t found a cooler constellation.” She stopped talking when she saw the look on Callie’s face. “What? Do I have something in my face?” She started to get nervous.
“Nothing…I was just thinking what a dork you are” She smiled and Arizona got even more nervous, she doesn’t get nervous she thought to herself, but now she was. “I like it” Callie said winking and looked up to the sky “And you don’t have anything in your face, you look beautiful as always” She said not looking at Arizona.
Arizona blushed at the comment and Callie couldn’t see it, but she could feel it. A smug grin started to form. How come they are like this?
One minute its shouting and the other one it feels like it’s their first date again.
They both sat a while in the silence and were interrupted abruptly by a shooting star.
“Arizona! Did you see that?” Callie exclaimed
“Yeah I did! Did you make a wish Calliope?” Arizona asked smiling
“Yes I did, and you?” Callie asked
“Yup” She answered shortly.
They were sitting looking at each other intently, trying to read each other’s faces. Somehow they were closer than before and suddenly they were just mere inches apart. Arizona leaned forward holding her face close to Callie’s, waiting for Callie to make the decision.
Callie closed the last gap and lost herself in the kiss. They both repositioned themselves and Callie was on top of Arizona kissing her fiercely. There was a lot of built up feelings that were shown now, love, anger, lust were the main ones. They broke away from the kiss and looked at each other.
“I never believed in it” Arizona said laughing
Callie was suddenly surprised
“This whole shooting star thing, the wish thing” Arizona said
“Yeah? What did you wish for?” Callie asked
“You, and that you would kiss me. That’s two wishes and they came true” Arizona said happily
Callie then leaned down and gave her one more kiss.
“One came true, I kissed you, but we aren’t…us yet” She said, Callie didn’t want to hurt Arizona’s feelings, but she had to be honest.
Arizona was a bit sad over what Callie just said, but she knew that she was right.
“I know, this feels like a TV drama series. This whole thing” Arizona said frowning
“Really? No, this isn’t like a TV drama series, they would never let a lesbian couple kiss like this” Callie said before she leaned down kissing Arizona’s neck. She moved up until she reached the blonde’s lips. She could feel Arizona biting her lip before she felt Callie’s tongue against her lips. She let her in and soon their tongues battled.
Arizona pulled away.
“Touché, as much as I enjoy this we need to stop” She said “I mean, I really really want to do this, but it’s wrong” Arizona said
Callie moved and sat up and so did Arizona.
“So Orion?” Callie asked, she knew that they needed to talk about their issues, but they had time to do that the rest of the night. They needed to lighten the mood from time to time. How hard she might try she couldn’t stay away from kissing Arizona. Maybe it was wrong, no 1st base can never be wrong she thought to herself.
Arizona couldn’t believe that they had just kissed. She had not seen that coming. She had a feeling that the night would end well.
“Right…so did you know that Orion is a constellation that represents the hunter Orion from the Greek mythology? According to the mythology nobody could kill him, because he was so strong.” She said
“No I did not know that” Callie was fairly impressed by the blondes astrology skills
“And you see those three stars?” Arizona asked
“Yeah” Callie said
“That’s Orion’s belt, it’s really easy to find the constellation just by finding the belt. Sometimes the belt is called the three wise men” Arizona said proudly, she was proud over her skills.
“Okay, so how come you know a lot about Greek mythology?” Callie asked curiously
“Let’s just say that I spent a lot of time in the library searching for information about the name Calliope, names are my thing, I had even picked ou-” She stopped before she even finished the sentence. Arizona had looked at names even though they really didn’t talk about the whole ten kids’ thing after the shooting
“How did you find out my name was Calliope?” Callie asked not wanting to show attention to the blondes slip, but she was happy that Arizona had thought about them starting a family. Arizona was very thankful for it.
“I snooped through your personal file” She said bluntly
“You did what?! Do you know how many kinds of wrong that is?!” Callie yelled even though she wasn’t really mad.
“Aaaw shut up my little muse” Arizona teased and in response Callie nudged her in the side.
“Shut up you state” Callie teased
“Hey!” Arizona reacted “It’s the battleship” She pouted.
“Yeah right potatoe potato” She winked and Arizona smiled at her. “Goof” Callie said before giving Arizona a peck on the cheek. “So when is the sunrise?” She asked
“In 8 hours” Arizona said bluntly before leaning in on Callie’s shoulder. Long night indeed Callie thought.
Here they were, the stars and them, who knows what tomorrow will bring, but they are here now and in the end that's all that matters.
A/N 2: So? Should I end it here or should I write another chapter. The problem is that I have no idea what I should write in the next one. This leaves them in a kind of happy place, they are moving forward.