Memories (2/?)
Title: Memories
Rating: PG-13
Author: sgafirenity
Pairing: Callie/Arizona, mentions Lexie/Mark and Owen/Cristina very briefly.
Summary: FUTURE FIC. Callie and Arizona and their two daughters go on a vacation and with it comes questions of their past. Callie and Arizona share there memories of when they were dating to their daughters while enjoying a nice vacation.
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CHAPTER 2 - THE WALK
"I think we'll go with Choice C, because I think it's highly unlikely that we'll do our homework on the plane." Nadia looks between their moms to see their reaction.
Callie nods her head, "Alright then. I guess you four better get to it, while your mom and I finish cutting more vegetables for your vegetable tray."
"Okay," Sydney looks at them excited as she picks up her school bag and follows her sister and friends up the stairs.
Finally alone, Arizona turns to Callie and looks at her somewhat sternly, "What was that?" She motions to where their children were just standing moments ago.
"What? It's a win-win situation for us." Callie puts down the knife as she hears something from the stairwell before turning her attention to Arizona.
Arizona looks at her confused, "We could have just told them what happened next, with me-"
Callie instantly cuts her off by placing her finger on Arizona's lips. She motions to the stairwell with her head before whispering very quietly, "They're listening."
Arizona looks slightly at the stairs and listens until she hears some whispering. She looks back at Callie and nods slightly making it known that she hears them, "We could have just told them what happened next, Calliope. I mean they clearly wanted to hear more, couldn't you tell by the way they were hanging onto every single word we spoke," she says trying to sound like she doesn't know their kids are listening.
"So close," Nadia whispers. "Mom almost gave it away." She looks at her friends and sister who are sitting behind her.
Then she hears her parents begin to speak again, "Shh, they're saying something." They all fall silent and listen intently.
Unfortunately both Callie and Arizona heard Nadia shush them up and so now they know for sure their kids are listening in. Callie moves closer to Arizona, locking her hands behind her wife, "This vacation is going to be exactly what we need."
"Oh ya," Arizona follows her wife's lead and places her hands on Callie's arms running them up to her shoulders. "Why do you say that?"
Callie looks into her ocean blue eyes with lust and grins slightly, "Well you know, with all the things to do in Orlando, we might actually have some time alone." She raises an eyebrow trying to make her point across to Arizona.
A smile wide enough to show her dimples appears on her face, "Oh, I see what you're saying. However I see a dilemma in your plan Calliope."
Callie smiles at the use of her full name. Still to this day, she still gets a tingly sensation throughout her body when her wife uses her full name. "What is that?"
She motions to the stairs, "Well, if our children and their friends don't do some of their homework today, we'll have to enforce a work day, taking away from not only their fun but ours." They then hear a laugh, quickly turned into a muffled laugh as though they didn't believe them.
Callie ignores the laugh and continues on, "I see what you're saying Arizona. How could we be alone if we have to supervise them?"
Up in the stairwell, Sam whispers, "Do you really think they would do that? Make us have a work day?"
Nadia turns back to her friend, "They really would. You know what my parents are like when it comes to homework."
Sam nods her head, "True."
Then Allison chimes in, "Then why don't we go do our homework now? Maybe we can finish a ton of it before we leave tomorrow."
"Ally has a point there guys," Sydney finally speaks. "We always get a lot of homework done when we're working together. We should just go do that."
Unbeknownst to them, Callie and Arizona are listening to their entire conversation from the point Nadia began talking. "Maybe you four should do that." All four of them freeze in one place. "Yes, we can hear you, and yes we know you've been listening in on our conversation." Callie yells looking towards the stairs as Arizona watches her with a smile on her face.
Nadia cringes as she looks back at her sister and friends. "Oh no," She whispers. "Okay, we'll go do that mom," she yells down to them. "She then turns back to them, "Let's go. Now! Let's go."
Both Callie and Arizona chuckle, "When do you think they will learn?" Callie looks back at Arizona with a grin.
"They always think they can fool us but time and again their plans fail. I don't think they will ever stop trying. It's in their blood to try and find out more information," she says referring back to her story of how she found out things about Callie.
"You do have a point there," Callie pulls her wife closer to her, flush with her body.
A small gasp escapes Arizona's mouth at the feeling of the closer proximity to her wife. Even after being married for coming to 19 years, it still amazes her with what her wife can do to her with such simple things. A simple glance can still to this day take her breath away; a touch to the shoulder gives her shivers, a tiny peck to the cheek leaves her feeling warm inside, and so many more little things make her go wild.
Arizona feels her wife's hands on the small of her back holding her in so close, her hands on her shoulders, as she feels her wife's eyes on her, looking deep into her blue eyes.
Callie moves her lips closer to hers, not wanting to pull away this time. "I don't know...." She looks up into her eyes before returning her gaze to her luscious lips, ".....I don't know....if I can...stop myself this time." She whispers huskily as she nears her lips.
Arizona looks into her brown eyes seeing the same love and adoration that she is currently feeling in this moment, the lust, the want to be closer. "I don't.....I don't want you to." With that she closes the distance between them.
Something that started out soft and gentle turns to something hungrier as Arizona lifts her hands up into Callie's raven curls and tries to deepen the kiss further.
Callie turns them slightly, pinning Arizona between her and the island. Pushing her into her even more, which causes a moan from Arizona as she pulls from the kiss slightly to place kisses along her jaw line.
This time its Callie's turn to moan as Arizona reaches her collarbone. Gently she bites before running her tongue along the same area. Callie feels weak in the knees before she finds herself pushing to the side whatever is behind Arizona on the island and lifting her up onto it.
"Oh Calliope," she sits down on the edge of the island, now only a few centimetres or so above Callie in height, and wraps her legs around her wife pulling her closer to her.
"You're so beautiful," Callie whispers before Arizona captures her lips with a smile.
Arizona then gains access to Callie's mouth with her tongue, brushing it along her teeth.
Callie moans in her mouth before pulling back to kiss her jaw line, down to her collarbone, just as she had done to her.
"Oh, that....feels so good Calliope.....but..." she gets lost in the moment as her wife finally kisses the part just above her collarbone, her sweet spot that makes her weak at the knees. It was a good thing she was sitting or else she would have been having some serious difficulties standing right about now.
"But," Callie whispers between kissing her back up her neck.
"But....we...really.....should...."
Callie sucks her earlobe into her mouth, "Should what?"
Her breaths become heavy as she brings her lips back to hers, ".....stop." she says between kisses. "The kids.....are just....upstairs."
Thoughts run through Callie's mind, continuing and potentially going too far and thus most likely scarring their children if they came down or stopping. She takes the best choice, even though she may not like it, "You're right.....you're right." She steps back from Arizona, still feeling the heat from the moment.
"Ya....right..."she barely gets out between breaths still looking at Callie with the same amount of love and lust. Once she was sure she had feeling back in her legs she slowly slips off the island and brushes up against Callie, "Sorry."
Callie just shakes her head slightly, "It's alright." She stares into her blue eyes again getting lost in them. "Right, so um.....the vegetable tray," She turns her attention back to her cutting she was doing earlier trying really hard not to think about her deep blue eyes or her sweet lips that taste of strawberries.
"Ya, the vegetable tray," she to turns her attention back as she pulls back her cutting board from where Callie had pushed it. "Well then, now I cannot wait until we are alone on our vacation?" Arizona looks over with a smile.
"No kidding," she laughs slightly and Arizona laughs too as they finish putting the tray together.
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About ten minutes later, they are placing the chopped up vegetables on a tray. "So, do you want to watch a little TV while our kids do some homework after we take the tray up to them?" Callie asks placing the carrots on the tray.
"That's probably not a good idea especially with what just happened a few minutes ago here in the kitchen." She looks over and sees Callie sigh in defeat. "Besides, we're going to be watching a movie with the girls later anyways."
"Oh ya, that's right. Well, we could go for a walk then. We never have time to do that with work and everything." Callie suggests as she puts the finishing touches on the tray.
"I like it. A walk would be nice." Arizona smiles showing her dimples, "I'll just go up and take the vegetable tray to the girls before we go alright?"
Callie nods, "Okay. I'll clean up."
Arizona makes her way up the stairs towards Nadia's bedroom which is the first door on the right at the top of the stairs. Opening the door, she is met with four girls hard at work on the floor. "Hey girls, I brought you the vegetable tray, your mom and I were making."
"Thanx mom," Nadia turns as Arizona hands her the tray and she then places it in the centre of their study group.
She smiles, "You're very welcome. How's the homework coming along?"
"Surprisingly well Mrs. Robbins," Sam says as she munches on a carrot.
"Well, that's good." She smiles as she thinks about how talented and smart her girls are. "Anyways, your mom and I are going to go for a walk, we should be back in no later than an hour, okay?" She asks in her perky little tone.
Sydney chuckles at the excitement in her mom's voice, "Okay."
With that Arizona closes the door again with a smile.
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Back down in the kitchen, Callie is just wiping the counter with a cloth as Arizona makes her way down the stairs in front of her. "How's the kid's homework going?" Callie asks curiously as she places the dish cloth back beside the sink.
"Sounds like they're getting lots done," she makes her way to the island and sits on one of the chairs. "I think we will be able to have a lot of alone time while we are on vacation." Arizona raises an eyebrow as she smirks trying to suggest what they could do if they were alone.
Callie raises her eyebrows in understanding of what her wife is suggesting, "I see. Well maybe we should go up there and help them finish. That way we'll have tons of alone time." She suggests looking quite serious.
She shakes her head, "We can't do that Calliope. Besides I thought we were going on a walk?"
"Yes, of course the walk that we seriously need after what happened earlier." She puts emphasis on the word 'seriously' by widening her eyes to make a point. "Come on, let's go," she walks around the island to Arizona and puts out her hand.
Arizona gladly takes it as they head for the closet to grab their jackets and shoes. Callie grabs an umbrella as well, just in case it rains as they are walking because on the rare occasion when they have gone on walks, it's rained.
Callie opens the front door and let's Arizona out first. She then follows her outside onto their driveway walking towards the road. Looking up at the sky she sees a few clouds that could easily turn into rain if it wanted to but for now, it wasn't rainy.
The beginning of their walk was met with silence. For most people, like say Cristina Yang, they would think this was odd for the couple of Callie and Arizona, but for them it was rare to have peace and quiet. When it finally did happen, when they were met with silence, they basked in it, enjoying every single moment.
Being the doctors that they are, they don`t experience a lot of quiet especially for Arizona having to deal with kids ranging from babies to teenagers. For her when she could sit in a quiet room, whether it is the attendings locker room, or an on-call room or even a closet, she would take a moment and relish the silence. Take it all in and then get back to her work.
Even for Callie, silence was rare, being the doctor that breaks bones for a living, she rarely, if ever gets peace and quiet because let`s face it re-setting bones isn`t a quiet thing to do. Every little crack, or yelp from a patient as she re-sets the bones, not such a quiet thing.
However being here, in this moment together walking along the street they have come to know so well. Walking along their neighbours houses, some of them they made friends with and others look upon them with disgust because of their same-sex marriage. But it never bothers them, if they don`t want to accept their marriage, then it`s their loss.
As they turn a corner, Callie looks to her left past Arizona at the park filled with kids playing on the playground. A smile plays across her lips as she sees some of them on the swings, and others playing on the grass, throwing footballs or Frisbees to each other.
Arizona notices the smile and can`t help but wonder, "What's the smile?"
Callie just points to the playground, "I'm just going down memory lane remembering when our kids were that small. How they would force us to come here every single day to play at the park. Whether, they wanted us to throw around a ball or push them on the swings."
"We had a lot of good times here," Arizona looks over at the park with a smile as she too remembers those memories. "Hey, why don't we take a detour and walk through into the park? Maybe find a bench that isn't being occupied."
Callie walks closer and wraps her left arm around Arizona's shoulders, "That sounds like a great idea. Then we can remember some of those memories we had with the kids." She places a kiss just above her right temple.
Arizona wraps her arm instinctively around Callie's waist, "Exactly. Just like that one time you crashed your bike into the curb."
"I did not crash my bike!" She exclaims as she stops them right at the curb.
"Yes, you did," Arizona says in a calm tone sounding quite convincing. "I wasn't that far away from you when it happened. I saw the whole thing." She waves her hands around to put emphasis.
Callie turns and glares at her, "Fine, so the whole 'it's like riding a bike' thing isn't true for me but at least I know how to catch a Frisbee," a smile appears as she says her comeback.
Arizona's mouth drops open, "Are you kidding me? You're the one who threw the Frisbee that hit me. Maybe if you-"
"If I what, was paying attention? I was, at least when I threw the Frisbee so were you, and then you looked away. That's your fault, not mine." Callie turns and continues walking, leaving Arizona slightly stunned.
A few seconds later she snaps out of it and runs after Callie. Running ahead of her she jumps in front of Callie abruptly, almost to the point of Callie knocking her over.
Callie grabs onto Arizona's arms as she almost tackled her over, "What are you doing? Are you trying to injure yourself?"
Arizona looks at her like she's insane, "You wouldn't have injured me and you know it."
"True," she shrugs. "But you never know. I am bigger than you."
A chuckle escapes Arizona's lips, "Ha ha, anyways, we should get back to your bike mishap. What really happened Calliope?" She asks pretending to be curious because she knows the story she just wants confirmation that she was right about the whole thing.
"You're not going to drop this are you?" They continue walking again towards a park bench.
She shakes her head all cheery, "No, no I'm not."
Callie sighs in defeat, "Okay. Let's see from what I can remember from the 'crash' as you called it," she puts emphasis around the word crash by making quote signs with her fingers. "The kids had just gone up the ramp from the road that leads to the sidewalk and then the park."
She nods in confirmation, "Right, and then you were heading for the ramp to go up but then, from what I could tell you weren't over enough and hit the curb diagonally." She says trying really hard not to laugh. "What were you doing? Why didn't you go straight up it like the kids did?"
"I thought it would be faster," she says as they sit down on the park bench.
"What do you mean faster?" She brings up her legs on the bench and looks over at Callie as she hangs her right elbow over the back of the bench.
Callie does the same just opposite, and places her left hand on Arizona's right hand that is resting on the top of the back of the bench. "You know, you keep all of your momentum that way, instead of going at it straight away and having to turn in the grass and get back on the sidewalk. My way, stops the slowing down on the grass part."
"Well, I don't like your way. Too painful," she cringes as she remembers watching her wife fall off of her bike. Luckily where she landed was grass but it still looked painful.
"I was a little sore from the fall, but for the most part I was fine, you know that." She looks at her wife as she turns her gaze slightly away trying to hide her emotion. That look, is one Callie knew too well, the look that said she was somewhat worried for her safety. "Hey, though, I have to say there was a lot of good that came out of that fall."
Arizona meets Callie's gaze again looking slightly confused, "What do you mean?"
She raises her eyebrows in shock that her wife can't remember what happened many times after that fall. "Don't you remember all of the massages you gave me to help me get all the kinks out?"
As realization hits, she slowly nods her head, "Oh yes, how could I forget."
"You have magic hands I have to say," she brushes her fingers gently over Arizona's right hand.
She looks over at their entwined hands, "Well, when we're in Orlando, I'll make it a point to be the one to put sun tan lotion on you for when we're in the sun."
Callie looks away from their hands and raises an eyebrow, "Oh really?"
She smirks at her wife, "Of course."
Getting lost in her bright deep blue eyes Callie almost forgets to continue with their questioning of each other's mishaps. "Well then, our vacation should definitely be an interesting one. However before we leave tomorrow it's your turn to tell me what happened with the Frisbee."
"Darn, it," she snaps her fingers in defeat. "So close. I thought I had distracted you away from that. Come on, don't you want to go home, snuggle on the couch and watch a movie with our girls." She winks at her while running her hand down Callie's right arm seductively.
"It's not going to work on me Arizona. I know all of your tricks." She shakes her head showing no resistance to crumble her defences. "Now come on, I'll admit I crashed my bike, if you admit you looked away when I threw the Frisbee? Then and only then will we go back home."
Arizona lets a deep breath out, "Okay, fine. I'll have it your way but--"She lifts up her left index finger, "Only because you said you'll admit you crashed."
"Alright then, please," she motions with her hand, "begin your story."
Arizona adjusts in her seat slightly as she runs her hand through her blonde curls trying to figure out exactly how to word her story. Once she was satisfied she began, "Well, we throwing around a Frisbee with the girls when Sydney had asked if we could play a different game with the Frisbee instead of just throwing it around."
Callie nods to that in agreement, "Go on."
"From what I can remember," She looks out to the field where it happened like she was trying to remember exactly what happened. Then she abruptly turns back to Callie, "that is when you threw the Frisbee at me."
Callie put up her hand in defence, "I did not throw the Frisbee....okay I did throw the Frisbee but when I threw it, you were looking at me. It's not my fault you looked away as it was coming towards you."
"I looked away because we hadn't figured out what we were going to do yet and since you didn't add anything as I looked at you. I looked back at the girls." She says putting emphasis on the word 'looked'.
"No, from what I remember we did figure out what we were going to do. The kids wanted to play that game....um...what is it called?" She brings her finger up to her mouth as she tries to remember. "Oh ya, Jackpot, that game where one person, you, throws the Frisbee saying some number and whichever one of us caught it gained that amount. Once someone hits a thousand, it's their turn to throw the Frisbee."
"That is not what happ--" She trails off as it begins to come back to her. "Oh, you're right."
Callie smiles at the fact that she was right this entire time, "Told ya and besides, you should know by now that I would never intentionally hurt you." She then remembers this one time, "Except for that one time."
"What time?" She looks at Callie confused.
Callie looks at her wide-eyed and relieved, "Great, you don't remember that's good." She says excited as she gets up from the bench not wanting to talk about it, "Now weren't we leaving."
Arizona gets up quickly from the bench, "What time did you intentionally hurt me? I don't remember a time."
"It doesn't matter, what matters is that you were right I crashed my bike and I was right that you weren't paying attention when I threw the Frisbee. Now, come on let's go, it's been about an hour and the kids are probably wondering what happened to us." She rambles on trying to get Arizona to forget what she said.
"No way, we aren't leaving until you tell me," she puts her foot down in front of Callie and crosses her arms in front of her firmly and glares at her.
Callie looks at her firm stance in front of her, "There's nothing to tell." No movement. "It was a long time ago," she defends and still nothing is said or done by Arizona. "Are you just going to stand there without saying anything?" Still she says nothing and just continues glaring at Callie. "Okay, well I'm going to go home then." She tries to walk around Arizona but she moves in the way. "Okay, fine! I'll tell you."
Finally Arizona relaxes, "Good."
"Do you remember that time about ten or twelve years ago in the attendings lounge when the bucket of syrup fell on you?" She asks cautiously.
She cringes, "Ah, it took me forever to get all of that syrup out of my hair." She runs her hand through her hair as she remembers not being able to do that because of the stickiness. Then something occurs to her, "That wasn't your fault though."
"Well it was my fault that the syrup was up there but it wasn't intended for you, it was intended for Mark." Callie looks at her wife wondering what is going through her head at this very moment.
Arizona looks at her slightly shocked, "Right, so you didn't intentionally hurt me, it was an accident because you and Mark were having one of your prank days. I just got caught in the middle and ever since then I've joined in on your pranks because of it."
A laugh escapes Callie's lips as she remembers some pranks, "Oh right, you were a very good partner in crime. Mark didn't know what hit him sometimes. However he did get us back good, a few times."
"You're right except for that one time. Remember when he tye-dyed all of our scrubs?" She chuckles at the thought of her and Callie walking around in those multi-coloured scrubs. "I wonder if we still have those somewhere." She ponders to herself seriously considering on wearing them again if she can find them in their house.
"I'm sure Mark did something to them once he saw that his prank failed," Callie suggests.
She nods, "You're probably right. Those were pretty awesome scrubs though. Too bad they don't make our scrubs like that, because I would totally wear them." She looks over at Callie as they begin walking back the way they came.
Callie looks over at her, "I know you would."
They then continue on their way back to their house hand in hand, continuing to remember other little pieces of their marriage together.
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