Unexpected Love 11/?
Title: Unexpected Love 11/?
Author: almicah
Pairing: Callie/Arizona
Rating: PG-13 for now (language)
Pairing: AU - Arizona and Callie meet at boarding school.
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. This is for entertainment purposes only, no profit is being made.
A/N 1: This is my first time posting anything so if anyone has tips or anything, please give me them :). I wanna give a thanks to my beta brennaaimee
A/N 2: Previous chapters can be found at my journal almicah
A/N 3: Okay so this one gets a bit dark...
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Well Arizona forgave me, kind of, at least. I’m not quite sure how sincere the apology was, but I messed up and now I’ll have to try to gain her trust back. I’ve been thinking a lot about what could have happened last night.
If his ex wouldn’t have called, the chance of me having sex with him would have been big. I was drunk and I was sad, I wouldn’t have slept with some random person any other time. James, however, was so sweet and I’m not saying that because I was drunk. Thank God his girlfriend or ex-girlfriend called him, because if I would have slept with him I wouldn’t be able to be with Arizona knowing I had hurt her in that way, being on a break or not.
I still don’t know why she came back crying and forgave me, but I won’t bring it up until later today, maybe. Now we have to focus on Mrs. Bailey, she is going to help us with choosing our classes.
As we are walking through the hallway, I can see that Arizona is tense so I give her a little nudge on the arm.
“Hey, what was that for?” She snaps.
“Uh nothing sorry I didn’t mean to upset you”. Clearly she isn’t okay.
“No it’s fine; I just have a lot on my mind at the moment”. With that she gives me a smile.
“Okay, well I’m here if you want to talk about it or not talk about it”. I squeeze her arm
“Thanks but maybe we should focus on Mrs. Bailey for now. She doesn’t really like me very much.”
“How could anybody not like you?” I wink at her but her face doesn’t have any expression really.
“Yeah, yay for me”. There is no perk in the voice though. I can feel that she doesn’t want me here.
When we get to Mrs. Bailey’s office Arizona goes before me.
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She’s being nice to me, like really nice and I can’t stand it. I don’t want her to be, I mean I want her to be nice, but it’s making it harder for me to be angry at her. I did forgive her, kind of, but I’m still angry.
Meeting the man that told me my brother was brave but dead didn’t make it easier for me. Coming to this boarding school meant that I was going to move on, from a lot of things, but mostly losing my brother. Then out of nowhere this guy pops up.
When we reach Mrs. Bailey’s office I want to run away at first. She scares me, she’s very tiny, but very bitter and angry.
I open the door and gesture that Calliope should go in first, she knocks on the door and we hear Mrs. Bailey saying that we should come in.
“Hi, we had an appointment” Calliope says
“Well I don’t know if you two are slow or just plainly stuck together. This is a personal meeting, so you should be alone with me” She’s annoyed, clearly.
However, I don’t think I can be alone with her without like breaking down. My authority issues have decreased, but I have a long way to go.
“I don’t mind having her here!” I almost yell.
I hear Calliope giving out a chuckle, but one stare from Mrs. Bailey and she stops.
“Fine, whatever, Miss Robbins I can see that you have written in your application that you have planned on being a pediatric surgeon, is that correct?” She asks me.
“Yes that is correct. I love tiny humans and I want to heal them. I don’t think there is anything more rewarding than giving a child their whole life back.” I say proudly and in the corner of my eye I can see Calliope smiling.
“Okay that was a nice speech, if that doesn’t work out for you then you could always be a priest or something”. Is she being sarcastic?
“And Miss Torres I can see that you have written that you want to be an orthopedic surgeon, is that right?” She wants to be a surgeon too?
And one that breaks bones, this was a big surprise.
“Yes that is true”. Calliope says.
“You don’t have a speech?” Bailey laughs.
“No sorry, maybe tomorrow” She says with sarcasm.
“So ladies I am going to make it easy for you and make you identical schedules. There will be a lot of biology, which you probably will enjoy.”
“Can I ask who the biology teacher is?” I know that Mr. Hunt is suppose to be our class teacher, but maybe I’ll get lucky and won’t have to have him.
“It’s Owen Hunt” Bailey says.
Crap.
“Is there any chance that I could change the teacher?” I say and I can see that Calliope looks at me with a confused expression.
Mrs. Bailey looks like she wants to throw me out.
“Miss Robbins, is there any reason you don’t want Mr. Hunt as a teacher?” Now she’s angry again.
“No it’s fine.” I say
“Well off you go then” She gestures to the door. I start walking out the door with Calliope behind me, but then I hear Bailey.
“Hey, wait a second” We both turn around “Miss Torres I can see here that you missed class this morning” She says a bit angry.
“Yeah I wasn’t feeling very well.” Calliope says, the question is will Bailey buy it.
“Really? You look fine to me. Skipping the first class of school usually results in a detention and that wouldn’t look good on your record” Oh come on why is she being a bitch about it. I have to say something since Calliope clearly has nothing to say.
“Mrs. Bailey, I can assure you she was sick this morning, I was even the one that combed the vomit out of her hair” Now she just looks disgusted.
“Okay well I’ll write that you were sick for real. I wonder how you managed to comb vomit out of her hair, but that’s nasty so please spare me the details.” Good she bought it.
Calliope doesn’t really deserve me helping her out like this. However, I don’t know what I would do without her here at school. I don’t even know how I could lie to Bailey. I mean she is kind of an authority figure. I can’t help laughing at myself because of the whole “combing vomit” thing.
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I must say I was a bit shocked that Arizona lied to Bailey about me being sick this morning. When she said that she combed the vomit out of my hair I was thinking that we were screwed. Luckily, Bailey bought it.
As we are walking down the hall to our dorm I don’t know how to start a conversation with her. Somehow everything that felt so easy feels so strange now. Feeling like a complete idiot in this school uniform isn’t helping either.
“So you want to be a pediatric surgeon?” I ask her
“Yes I do” With that a moment of silence follows before Arizona somehow feels guilty or something for being so short with me. “And you want to be an orthopedic surgeon?” She asks giving me a small smile, but enough for me to able to see her dimples.
“Yeah” Why am I failing at this?
“The perfect couple” She chuckles and I feel all warm and fussy inside. “Minus the getting drunk and kissing a random guy at a bar part” She says with sarcasm dripping in her voice. She said she was willing to get past it, but bringing it up randomly doesn’t mean that you get past it.
“Ariz-“ I don’t have the chance to defend myself before she cuts me off.
“No Callie, I’m sorry I shouldn’t bring that up everyti-“ She stops freezes in the middle of the sentence and her eyes are fixated at something. I try to see what she is looking at when a red-headed man comes up to us and then I realize that he was what made her freeze.
“Hello Arizona” But Arizona doesn’t say anything and there’s a awkward moment. What has he done to her? Maybe that is the teacher who she was asking Bailey to replace. He looks at me.
“And I am guessing that you are Miss Torres?” He says miss Torres to me, but he calls Arizona by her first name. Now I’m starting to get angry, the way Arizona is acting is everything but normal.
“Yes I’m Callie and you are?” Maybe I am sounding a bit bitchy.
“Oh sorry I haven’t introduced myself I’m Owen Hunt…your biology teacher and your class teacher” He smiles and I don’t get any weird vibes from him.
He looks at Arizona with genuine concern. She is still ignoring him, it’s like he isn’t there. Damn she is ignoring me too for that matter.
“Arizona are you okay?” He reaches out to put his hand on her shoulder, but before he touches her she goes back one foot. She looks at him with a pair of darker blue eyes and with venom in her voice she says.
“Don’t you dare touch me, not after what you did.” Okay now I am really starting to believe that he did something to her. Before I even get a chance to react, she turns the corner and with that I turn to our teacher.
“Mr Hunt, Owen, what the hell have you done to her?” I’m not yelling, since I don’t want to make a scene, but it’s loud enough to draw attention from bystanders.
“Miss Torres this isn’t the place-“ I cut him off before he finishes.
“See you call her Arizona, but me you call Miss Torres. I know yelling at you is pretty severe, this being a strict school and all, but if you don’t tell me what you have done to my gi..um roommate, I am going to hurt you so bad. I don’t care that you are bigger than me, I will find a way!” Okay so I almost told him that she is my girlfriend, thank God he didn’t notice.
“Look Miss Torres, Callie” He emphasizes my name. “I know Arizona and for the record I have never done anything to her…not directly at least, and not any of those things you are probably assuming right now.” He looks pretty sad himself.
“If you haven’t done anything to her then why is she acting like this? You don’t act like that if everything is okay. And what did you mean by not directly?”
“It’s not my place to tell you that, you should really speak to Arizona about that” He moves past me and goes to the separate direction of where Arizona went.
Great
Just great
Now what? I can’t go to Arizona and ask her what he did. I am trying to figure out what it could be; he said that he didn’t do anything directly to her. That means that he hasn’t hurt her in a way, physically, thank God.
The only thing I can do is ask her, but she seems pretty angry at me so that could be a problem.
As I walk back to the dorm I try to figure out a way to talk to her about this, but it feels like it’s leading nowhere.
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“Don’t you dare touch me, not after what you did.” I don’t know when I was this angry the last time. Not even after the whole cheating thing with Calliope was I this mad.
This man almost destroyed my family after that day when he came home to us to tell us my brother died. A part of not only the family, but a part of my dad, mom, me and my sister died. I will never forget the look on my mom’s face when Owen told us that Ted was gone.
[[Flashback - one year ago]]
I hear a knock on the door and I run down the stairs. I think its Joanne coming over for dinner with the family, we have been seeing each other for a few months now and she makes me truly happy.
However when I open the door I see two men in military uniforms. I’ve been around the military long enough to know that when you have a loved one in a war and they knock on the door it’s a bad sign. Both are tall and look good, in spite of being men. One of them is redheaded and the other one has brown hair. Major Hunt looks shaken up, with stitches clearly on his face. The other one looks like he’s never seen a war.
I can feel myself getting sick just by looking at them. It feels like an eternity but it’s only been a few seconds before I manage to say something.
“Yes, can I help you?” I ask them.
“Yes is this the Robbins residence?” He asks me.
“Yes it is, what can I do for you?”
“My name is Major Owen Hunt and this is Lieutenant Aaron Smith, are your parents home?”
“Yeah they’re in the TV-room, come in”. They start walking in to the house and I try not to say anything, but it’s hard. “Is this about my brother Ted?” They both look at me and the Lieutenant answers me.
“Maybe we should wait for your parents” At this moment I realized what had happened.
My baby sister is at a friend’s house, my parents come in to the room and I can see my mom being on the verge of breaking down completely, but she was holding it in. It was like she was in denial, until Lieutenant Smith said the words.
“We are here to tell you that Sergeant Ted Daniel Robbins died under combat one week ago. Your son and your brother was an incredibly brave young man and you should be proud of him. He served his country and died as a noble man”. The lieutenant doesn’t look sad; I mean he looks like he is feeling sorry for us. Major Hunt however looks incredibly sad and I can see that his eyes are full of tears.
My mom was a mess after they said it, I think she knew. My dad was comforting my mom, and was trying to stay strong, but he lost his only son. I on the other hand feel complete emptiness. I’m completely numb.
My dad turns to the men and asks.
“When did Ted become a sergeant, he didn’t even tell us about it?” I can see that my father wipes away his tears.
“He got the rank after his death” The lieutenant simply says.
“How did he die?” I ask. Everybody looks at me; my mom looks up from having had her head buried in my dads’ chest.
“Honey-“ My mom starts, but I cut her off.
“How…did my brother die?” I ask again looking straight into the blue eyes of Major Hunt.
“Maybe we shouldn’t do this now” The lieutenant says.
I keep my eyes at Major Hunt
“I believe I asked Major Hunt a question. How did my brother die?” I turn to look at the lieutenant “Or is he your little bitch that isn’t allowed to speak without your permission?” I say with hate in my voice, I feel like taking a baseball bat and just hit someone like they are a pinata.
“Arizona! That is enough” I hear my dad say, but for the first time in my life I ignore him. The authority issues are gone at this moment. Now it’s just me and Major Hunt. Because I have a feeling, no scratch that I know, that he for some reason doesn’t want me to know how my brother died. Ted died during combat, yes but I want to know how. I want to know if he died immediately or if he suffered.
“I am going to ask you one more time. How...did…my…brother…die?" Major Hunt looks me right in the eye and says.
“I am so sorry.” He looks defeated.
“HOW!!!” I yell and now I can feel the tears starting to stream down my face. I am so angry right now, so I started to cry.
“He died on my watch! Okay? He..he..” Major Hunt stops for a second and clenches his jaws he is trying to find the words to say, the lieutenant looks like he is about to say something but the major lifts his hand up to stop him. “Ted wasn’t supposed to be there..we were called to a location and Ted was suppose to stay back at the camp but he said he had a feeling that something was up. So he came along and I knew that it wasn’t a safe road. It had a history of tragic incidents, when we came to the location there was a bomb on the side of the road. It blew up and…and they were all gone in a matter of seconds, but Ted..Ted was a fighter.” He stops to regain his composure.
“Being a doctor I knew it was bad…really bad. I knew he had internal injuries and I couldn’t do much in the desert. I was injured too so that made it harder to do something, a lot of the medical gear we had in the car was destroyed. I would lie if I said that he wasn’t in pain, but there have been worse cases. Another friendly vehicle came and I had to go. There was no room left, I tried to get them to bring him along but there was no room and hostiles approached us. They saw that Ted was still alive hanging on by a thread and….they killed him”. The last words were said so silently. He looks up at me with tears in his eyes.
“You’re Arizona right?” He asks me and I simply nod. “He wanted you to have his dog-tags. Here’s a picture too” He pulls up a photo of me, my brother and my sister when we were really small. It has bloodstains over parts of it. He smiles at me. “He always talked about his smart sister Arizona, every time he mentioned you his face lit up. When mail came, he was always the first one to see if he had any new mail”.
I still can’t move my face. My brother is gone. For what? For a short-cut? He had a doctor with him when he died, but the doctor left him. He left a man behind. That is all I need to know.
My parents are being silent, there isn’t really that much to say.
The lieutenant could feel the tension in the room. He looks over to my dad and says.
“Tomorrow the airplane with your sons’ coffin will be arriving at 1 pm at the base. After that the funeral will be at 3 pm” With that he gets up and hugs my mother. “Again ma’am I am terribly sorry for your loss” He shakes hands with my father and they start to walk out.
My mom walks over to the major and hugs him. I don’t know what she says, but I can’t believe she hugged him. He gives me a nod, but I don’t react, they start to walk out the door.
“I don’t want major Hunt at the funeral.” I say and I can see the major turn to look at me.
“Arizona!” My dad yells and he looks angry.
“I don’t want the man that is responsible for my brother’s death at the funeral”. I say looking at my dad.
My dad is on his way to say something, but the major stops him.
“She is right…I don’t belong there.” With that he walks away.
Two minutes after they left my sister Karen comes home. She was nothing like the rest of us. She was always a spoiled little brat, until that day. She could see the sadness in our eyes.
“Geez guys, who died?” That was the last time I saw my perky 13 year-old sister being perky.
[[End of Flashback]]
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I walk into the room and I see Arizona is lying on the bed crying like never before. Not even after the nightmares did she cry like this. I’m not sure what to do, she was angry at me before and I just stand there. She turns and looks at me, her face is swollen from the crying, but still she is the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen. Seeing her like this makes me get tears in my eyes.
“Arizona what happened? Please let me in.” I sit down by her bedside
She wipes away a few tears.
“I will I promise, but can you hold me for a while?” She says.
“Of course” I lay down in the bed with her. I’ve never been this close to her. There is nothing sexy about this right now.
It’s pure love.
So tell me what you thought? And I have no military knowledge so I don't know if I got it all right or not. However in Almaland I decide what's right and wrong :)
Author: almicah
Pairing: Callie/Arizona
Rating: PG-13 for now (language)
Pairing: AU - Arizona and Callie meet at boarding school.
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. This is for entertainment purposes only, no profit is being made.
A/N 1: This is my first time posting anything so if anyone has tips or anything, please give me them :). I wanna give a thanks to my beta brennaaimee
A/N 2: Previous chapters can be found at my journal almicah
A/N 3: Okay so this one gets a bit dark...
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Well Arizona forgave me, kind of, at least. I’m not quite sure how sincere the apology was, but I messed up and now I’ll have to try to gain her trust back. I’ve been thinking a lot about what could have happened last night.
If his ex wouldn’t have called, the chance of me having sex with him would have been big. I was drunk and I was sad, I wouldn’t have slept with some random person any other time. James, however, was so sweet and I’m not saying that because I was drunk. Thank God his girlfriend or ex-girlfriend called him, because if I would have slept with him I wouldn’t be able to be with Arizona knowing I had hurt her in that way, being on a break or not.
I still don’t know why she came back crying and forgave me, but I won’t bring it up until later today, maybe. Now we have to focus on Mrs. Bailey, she is going to help us with choosing our classes.
As we are walking through the hallway, I can see that Arizona is tense so I give her a little nudge on the arm.
“Hey, what was that for?” She snaps.
“Uh nothing sorry I didn’t mean to upset you”. Clearly she isn’t okay.
“No it’s fine; I just have a lot on my mind at the moment”. With that she gives me a smile.
“Okay, well I’m here if you want to talk about it or not talk about it”. I squeeze her arm
“Thanks but maybe we should focus on Mrs. Bailey for now. She doesn’t really like me very much.”
“How could anybody not like you?” I wink at her but her face doesn’t have any expression really.
“Yeah, yay for me”. There is no perk in the voice though. I can feel that she doesn’t want me here.
When we get to Mrs. Bailey’s office Arizona goes before me.
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She’s being nice to me, like really nice and I can’t stand it. I don’t want her to be, I mean I want her to be nice, but it’s making it harder for me to be angry at her. I did forgive her, kind of, but I’m still angry.
Meeting the man that told me my brother was brave but dead didn’t make it easier for me. Coming to this boarding school meant that I was going to move on, from a lot of things, but mostly losing my brother. Then out of nowhere this guy pops up.
When we reach Mrs. Bailey’s office I want to run away at first. She scares me, she’s very tiny, but very bitter and angry.
I open the door and gesture that Calliope should go in first, she knocks on the door and we hear Mrs. Bailey saying that we should come in.
“Hi, we had an appointment” Calliope says
“Well I don’t know if you two are slow or just plainly stuck together. This is a personal meeting, so you should be alone with me” She’s annoyed, clearly.
However, I don’t think I can be alone with her without like breaking down. My authority issues have decreased, but I have a long way to go.
“I don’t mind having her here!” I almost yell.
I hear Calliope giving out a chuckle, but one stare from Mrs. Bailey and she stops.
“Fine, whatever, Miss Robbins I can see that you have written in your application that you have planned on being a pediatric surgeon, is that correct?” She asks me.
“Yes that is correct. I love tiny humans and I want to heal them. I don’t think there is anything more rewarding than giving a child their whole life back.” I say proudly and in the corner of my eye I can see Calliope smiling.
“Okay that was a nice speech, if that doesn’t work out for you then you could always be a priest or something”. Is she being sarcastic?
“And Miss Torres I can see that you have written that you want to be an orthopedic surgeon, is that right?” She wants to be a surgeon too?
And one that breaks bones, this was a big surprise.
“Yes that is true”. Calliope says.
“You don’t have a speech?” Bailey laughs.
“No sorry, maybe tomorrow” She says with sarcasm.
“So ladies I am going to make it easy for you and make you identical schedules. There will be a lot of biology, which you probably will enjoy.”
“Can I ask who the biology teacher is?” I know that Mr. Hunt is suppose to be our class teacher, but maybe I’ll get lucky and won’t have to have him.
“It’s Owen Hunt” Bailey says.
Crap.
“Is there any chance that I could change the teacher?” I say and I can see that Calliope looks at me with a confused expression.
Mrs. Bailey looks like she wants to throw me out.
“Miss Robbins, is there any reason you don’t want Mr. Hunt as a teacher?” Now she’s angry again.
“No it’s fine.” I say
“Well off you go then” She gestures to the door. I start walking out the door with Calliope behind me, but then I hear Bailey.
“Hey, wait a second” We both turn around “Miss Torres I can see here that you missed class this morning” She says a bit angry.
“Yeah I wasn’t feeling very well.” Calliope says, the question is will Bailey buy it.
“Really? You look fine to me. Skipping the first class of school usually results in a detention and that wouldn’t look good on your record” Oh come on why is she being a bitch about it. I have to say something since Calliope clearly has nothing to say.
“Mrs. Bailey, I can assure you she was sick this morning, I was even the one that combed the vomit out of her hair” Now she just looks disgusted.
“Okay well I’ll write that you were sick for real. I wonder how you managed to comb vomit out of her hair, but that’s nasty so please spare me the details.” Good she bought it.
Calliope doesn’t really deserve me helping her out like this. However, I don’t know what I would do without her here at school. I don’t even know how I could lie to Bailey. I mean she is kind of an authority figure. I can’t help laughing at myself because of the whole “combing vomit” thing.
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I must say I was a bit shocked that Arizona lied to Bailey about me being sick this morning. When she said that she combed the vomit out of my hair I was thinking that we were screwed. Luckily, Bailey bought it.
As we are walking down the hall to our dorm I don’t know how to start a conversation with her. Somehow everything that felt so easy feels so strange now. Feeling like a complete idiot in this school uniform isn’t helping either.
“So you want to be a pediatric surgeon?” I ask her
“Yes I do” With that a moment of silence follows before Arizona somehow feels guilty or something for being so short with me. “And you want to be an orthopedic surgeon?” She asks giving me a small smile, but enough for me to able to see her dimples.
“Yeah” Why am I failing at this?
“The perfect couple” She chuckles and I feel all warm and fussy inside. “Minus the getting drunk and kissing a random guy at a bar part” She says with sarcasm dripping in her voice. She said she was willing to get past it, but bringing it up randomly doesn’t mean that you get past it.
“Ariz-“ I don’t have the chance to defend myself before she cuts me off.
“No Callie, I’m sorry I shouldn’t bring that up everyti-“ She stops freezes in the middle of the sentence and her eyes are fixated at something. I try to see what she is looking at when a red-headed man comes up to us and then I realize that he was what made her freeze.
“Hello Arizona” But Arizona doesn’t say anything and there’s a awkward moment. What has he done to her? Maybe that is the teacher who she was asking Bailey to replace. He looks at me.
“And I am guessing that you are Miss Torres?” He says miss Torres to me, but he calls Arizona by her first name. Now I’m starting to get angry, the way Arizona is acting is everything but normal.
“Yes I’m Callie and you are?” Maybe I am sounding a bit bitchy.
“Oh sorry I haven’t introduced myself I’m Owen Hunt…your biology teacher and your class teacher” He smiles and I don’t get any weird vibes from him.
He looks at Arizona with genuine concern. She is still ignoring him, it’s like he isn’t there. Damn she is ignoring me too for that matter.
“Arizona are you okay?” He reaches out to put his hand on her shoulder, but before he touches her she goes back one foot. She looks at him with a pair of darker blue eyes and with venom in her voice she says.
“Don’t you dare touch me, not after what you did.” Okay now I am really starting to believe that he did something to her. Before I even get a chance to react, she turns the corner and with that I turn to our teacher.
“Mr Hunt, Owen, what the hell have you done to her?” I’m not yelling, since I don’t want to make a scene, but it’s loud enough to draw attention from bystanders.
“Miss Torres this isn’t the place-“ I cut him off before he finishes.
“See you call her Arizona, but me you call Miss Torres. I know yelling at you is pretty severe, this being a strict school and all, but if you don’t tell me what you have done to my gi..um roommate, I am going to hurt you so bad. I don’t care that you are bigger than me, I will find a way!” Okay so I almost told him that she is my girlfriend, thank God he didn’t notice.
“Look Miss Torres, Callie” He emphasizes my name. “I know Arizona and for the record I have never done anything to her…not directly at least, and not any of those things you are probably assuming right now.” He looks pretty sad himself.
“If you haven’t done anything to her then why is she acting like this? You don’t act like that if everything is okay. And what did you mean by not directly?”
“It’s not my place to tell you that, you should really speak to Arizona about that” He moves past me and goes to the separate direction of where Arizona went.
Great
Just great
Now what? I can’t go to Arizona and ask her what he did. I am trying to figure out what it could be; he said that he didn’t do anything directly to her. That means that he hasn’t hurt her in a way, physically, thank God.
The only thing I can do is ask her, but she seems pretty angry at me so that could be a problem.
As I walk back to the dorm I try to figure out a way to talk to her about this, but it feels like it’s leading nowhere.
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“Don’t you dare touch me, not after what you did.” I don’t know when I was this angry the last time. Not even after the whole cheating thing with Calliope was I this mad.
This man almost destroyed my family after that day when he came home to us to tell us my brother died. A part of not only the family, but a part of my dad, mom, me and my sister died. I will never forget the look on my mom’s face when Owen told us that Ted was gone.
[[Flashback - one year ago]]
I hear a knock on the door and I run down the stairs. I think its Joanne coming over for dinner with the family, we have been seeing each other for a few months now and she makes me truly happy.
However when I open the door I see two men in military uniforms. I’ve been around the military long enough to know that when you have a loved one in a war and they knock on the door it’s a bad sign. Both are tall and look good, in spite of being men. One of them is redheaded and the other one has brown hair. Major Hunt looks shaken up, with stitches clearly on his face. The other one looks like he’s never seen a war.
I can feel myself getting sick just by looking at them. It feels like an eternity but it’s only been a few seconds before I manage to say something.
“Yes, can I help you?” I ask them.
“Yes is this the Robbins residence?” He asks me.
“Yes it is, what can I do for you?”
“My name is Major Owen Hunt and this is Lieutenant Aaron Smith, are your parents home?”
“Yeah they’re in the TV-room, come in”. They start walking in to the house and I try not to say anything, but it’s hard. “Is this about my brother Ted?” They both look at me and the Lieutenant answers me.
“Maybe we should wait for your parents” At this moment I realized what had happened.
My baby sister is at a friend’s house, my parents come in to the room and I can see my mom being on the verge of breaking down completely, but she was holding it in. It was like she was in denial, until Lieutenant Smith said the words.
“We are here to tell you that Sergeant Ted Daniel Robbins died under combat one week ago. Your son and your brother was an incredibly brave young man and you should be proud of him. He served his country and died as a noble man”. The lieutenant doesn’t look sad; I mean he looks like he is feeling sorry for us. Major Hunt however looks incredibly sad and I can see that his eyes are full of tears.
My mom was a mess after they said it, I think she knew. My dad was comforting my mom, and was trying to stay strong, but he lost his only son. I on the other hand feel complete emptiness. I’m completely numb.
My dad turns to the men and asks.
“When did Ted become a sergeant, he didn’t even tell us about it?” I can see that my father wipes away his tears.
“He got the rank after his death” The lieutenant simply says.
“How did he die?” I ask. Everybody looks at me; my mom looks up from having had her head buried in my dads’ chest.
“Honey-“ My mom starts, but I cut her off.
“How…did my brother die?” I ask again looking straight into the blue eyes of Major Hunt.
“Maybe we shouldn’t do this now” The lieutenant says.
I keep my eyes at Major Hunt
“I believe I asked Major Hunt a question. How did my brother die?” I turn to look at the lieutenant “Or is he your little bitch that isn’t allowed to speak without your permission?” I say with hate in my voice, I feel like taking a baseball bat and just hit someone like they are a pinata.
“Arizona! That is enough” I hear my dad say, but for the first time in my life I ignore him. The authority issues are gone at this moment. Now it’s just me and Major Hunt. Because I have a feeling, no scratch that I know, that he for some reason doesn’t want me to know how my brother died. Ted died during combat, yes but I want to know how. I want to know if he died immediately or if he suffered.
“I am going to ask you one more time. How...did…my…brother…die?" Major Hunt looks me right in the eye and says.
“I am so sorry.” He looks defeated.
“HOW!!!” I yell and now I can feel the tears starting to stream down my face. I am so angry right now, so I started to cry.
“He died on my watch! Okay? He..he..” Major Hunt stops for a second and clenches his jaws he is trying to find the words to say, the lieutenant looks like he is about to say something but the major lifts his hand up to stop him. “Ted wasn’t supposed to be there..we were called to a location and Ted was suppose to stay back at the camp but he said he had a feeling that something was up. So he came along and I knew that it wasn’t a safe road. It had a history of tragic incidents, when we came to the location there was a bomb on the side of the road. It blew up and…and they were all gone in a matter of seconds, but Ted..Ted was a fighter.” He stops to regain his composure.
“Being a doctor I knew it was bad…really bad. I knew he had internal injuries and I couldn’t do much in the desert. I was injured too so that made it harder to do something, a lot of the medical gear we had in the car was destroyed. I would lie if I said that he wasn’t in pain, but there have been worse cases. Another friendly vehicle came and I had to go. There was no room left, I tried to get them to bring him along but there was no room and hostiles approached us. They saw that Ted was still alive hanging on by a thread and….they killed him”. The last words were said so silently. He looks up at me with tears in his eyes.
“You’re Arizona right?” He asks me and I simply nod. “He wanted you to have his dog-tags. Here’s a picture too” He pulls up a photo of me, my brother and my sister when we were really small. It has bloodstains over parts of it. He smiles at me. “He always talked about his smart sister Arizona, every time he mentioned you his face lit up. When mail came, he was always the first one to see if he had any new mail”.
I still can’t move my face. My brother is gone. For what? For a short-cut? He had a doctor with him when he died, but the doctor left him. He left a man behind. That is all I need to know.
My parents are being silent, there isn’t really that much to say.
The lieutenant could feel the tension in the room. He looks over to my dad and says.
“Tomorrow the airplane with your sons’ coffin will be arriving at 1 pm at the base. After that the funeral will be at 3 pm” With that he gets up and hugs my mother. “Again ma’am I am terribly sorry for your loss” He shakes hands with my father and they start to walk out.
My mom walks over to the major and hugs him. I don’t know what she says, but I can’t believe she hugged him. He gives me a nod, but I don’t react, they start to walk out the door.
“I don’t want major Hunt at the funeral.” I say and I can see the major turn to look at me.
“Arizona!” My dad yells and he looks angry.
“I don’t want the man that is responsible for my brother’s death at the funeral”. I say looking at my dad.
My dad is on his way to say something, but the major stops him.
“She is right…I don’t belong there.” With that he walks away.
Two minutes after they left my sister Karen comes home. She was nothing like the rest of us. She was always a spoiled little brat, until that day. She could see the sadness in our eyes.
“Geez guys, who died?” That was the last time I saw my perky 13 year-old sister being perky.
[[End of Flashback]]
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I walk into the room and I see Arizona is lying on the bed crying like never before. Not even after the nightmares did she cry like this. I’m not sure what to do, she was angry at me before and I just stand there. She turns and looks at me, her face is swollen from the crying, but still she is the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen. Seeing her like this makes me get tears in my eyes.
“Arizona what happened? Please let me in.” I sit down by her bedside
She wipes away a few tears.
“I will I promise, but can you hold me for a while?” She says.
“Of course” I lay down in the bed with her. I’ve never been this close to her. There is nothing sexy about this right now.
It’s pure love.
So tell me what you thought? And I have no military knowledge so I don't know if I got it all right or not. However in Almaland I decide what's right and wrong :)