Two valentines, a few years apart.
Title: 1. Five 2. Elephants and Daisys
Author: Neolithicdream
Pairing/Character: Calzona
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Just some Valentines days in the future (Written for the Valentines challenge 2013)
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1. Five
A rare Sofia free night (she was on a sleepover with the Grey girls) led to their current position. Legs wrapped around each other’s waists as they bathed together in post - coital bliss.
Sweet kisses interspersed quiet conversation as they relaxed in the large roll top bath in the large En Suite of their master bathroom.
Arizona toyed with the silver necklace around her wife's neck and sighed. "Five years."
In reply to Callie's confused expression she said “You’ve been wearing it for five years, on and off."
"Hey, mostly on..." Callie chided gently "... aand I intend to still be wearing it in 50 years." After an almost chaste kiss she added lowly "wow, five years, five Valentines, well six including today."
Arms wrapped loosely around each other now Arizona smiled and with a tilt of her head said. "Five years ago, we had necklaces, a collapsed Restaurant and...."
"... A quickie in an on call room." Callie filled in the blanks.
Then sighing loudly "Four years ago..." Callie did not look back on her pregnancy as a joyous time; she remembered the bickering as well as her contradictory emotions of joy and guilt, love and fear. This time it was left to Arizona to fill in the blanks "... I had some wine, you kissed me; I joked that you just wanted to taste the wine. We made love."
"We did? I don’t remember ....you have a good memory."
Arizona just smiled in reply; it was one of a handful of times Callie let her touch her intimately in that whole time. It was as rare as it was unforgettable to her.
"Three years ago..." Callie smiled broadly, they in unison added "Derek's trailer in the woods!" and they both giggled and blushed. “I have never heard you scream that loud..." Arizona blushed again. There hadn't been another living soul for miles and they had lost themselves all night in uncensored passion.
They both stayed quiet for a while, the next Valentine’s Day was the most confusing of them all. Together but apart, in love but with so much as yet unsaid.
It was Arizona that said the words “Two years ago..." then stopped, sighed loudly. Callie pulled her closer, whispering "... we were a horror show."
Arizona smiled and nodded as she remembered one of the worst times of her life, “I really thought that Valentines night would be our night, the night I'd finally get it together, get my mojo back, be with you, that's what I wanted so badly and..."
Callie smirked as she kissed her "... Honey, you got your mojo back pretty soon after as I recall?" When they finally did make love again, it had been....well tentative, scary and then explosive, for both of them, multiple times and that passion, two years on, had not yet dimmed.
"I know!" Arizona blushed, yet again "...but that Valentine’s I ..." she had fought with Callie so hard after they'd gotten home from the Shepherds, after she'd called Derek an egomaniac. Questioned if Callie still wanted to be with her, if she was still there only out of obligation not love; if she still saw her as a wife or just a roommate and potential business partner. Questioned too if, for all the fine words, Callie truly saw her as an equal parent to their daughter.
"In a way that night laid the foundations for what we have now, honey, so it’s not entirely a bad memory." Callie truly believed that. That night was hard; home truths were never easy to hear. Horrified and disbelieving as she was that Arizona could doubt her love, her feelings for her, both as a wife and mother; it was nonetheless that night that they laid all their baggage on the table. Laid bare. Their marriage, their souls.
It was a fight, an epic fight but it was how it ended that was important. No one stormed out, no one slept on the couch. Barely speaking, with anger still seeping from their pores, they shared a bed, fell asleep entwined. A silent and mutual decision to stay, to slug it out, to love one another, faults and all.
"One year ago..." and their moods immediately lightened. The long postponed trip to Fiji, Sofia and Arizona's parents with them. Two weeks break from the stress of being working parents, executive Board members, busy surgeons. Not to mention being mothers to a toddler still stuck in the terrible twos at age three, nor the ultimate stress of house hunting. Buying the Hospital had been only marginally less stressful.
"Yeah, who'd have thought those years ago we'd be lying here in our super awesome bath, proud owners of a Hospital, a House, a Dog and Princess Sofia."
"Not me!"Arizona shook her head before yet again kissing her wife.
"Next year will be..."
"...interesting." Arizona sighed.
"Well, yeah.” Callie beamed, as always excited at the prospect "....but by then..." And she moved her two hands to rest on Arizona's rounded belly.”... This little guy will hopefully have begun to sleep the night and you'll probably not still be breast feeding so...." and she raised her eyebrows suggestively.
"Can we just finish this Valentines sexfest first, before you start planning next years?" Arizona smirked.
"Oh so this year’s isn't over yet?"
"Nope..." her glowingly pregnant wife replied "... If you can haul me out of this tub, not by a long shot.
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(in my head these two are part part of the same 'verse, as maybe is my story The Plan)
2. Elephants and Daisys
It was Africa but not Malawi. The African Plains. It was warm unlike Seattle in February. And there were shrieking monkeys and elephants.
Stampeding.
Straight towards her.
And thats when she bolted upright, still in a half sleep as the door of their master bedroom flung open and the shrieking stampeding horde desceneded.
"Wake up Mommy!" Three and a half year old Christopher yelled as he flung his arms around her. Seven year old Sofia was only a fraction quieter with her "Mommy,Happy Valentines Day." She laid the plate of pancakes drizzled with maple syrup carefully on the night stand before she too flung herself around her blonde Mommy.
Second later their chocolate brown labradoodle arrived, barking excitedly at the mayhem followed by a frazzled looking Callie clutching two mugs and a pot of what the now almost awake Arizona feverishly hoped was coffee.
"Sorry,honey, I know you only got in a couple of hours ago,but they couldnt wait a minute longer.." Callie smiled apologetically just as Christoper remembering the wild flowers they had picked from their garden thrust a bunch of daisys into his mothers face.
Arizona smiled and just laughed "You can wake me up any morning just like this, Pretty Lady."