Along you came (4/?)

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Title: Along you came
Couple: Callie/Arizona
Rating: PG-13 (NC17 for later)
Summary: AU Callie and Arizona meet at Law School.
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“What do you mean you aren’t talking, I mean you seemed pretty cosy on Friday night, and that good night kiss, that was steamy” Addison asked, raising her eyebrows at the end as she remembered watching the kiss.
“I mean that I haven’t heard from her since Friday night, and I don’t intend to cause I am a newborn or something,” Callie explained to Addison as they entered the lecture theatre for contract law on a fine Monday morning.
“What? Newborn?” Addison questioned, becoming more confused the further the conversation progressed.
“Newborn, as in never dated a woman before, not experienced enough, rady ra,” Callie continued as she selected a pair of seats for them toward the middle of the theatre.
“Inexperienced, what did she expect, you are 21, I mean it’s not like you married a man, had half a dozen kids then ‘decided’ you were gay,” Addison replied, shocked at what Arizona had said.
“Look, whatever, I really don’t want to talk about it anymore, I am over it and I have decided that it is no easier to date girls than guys, they all have problems so we are doomed,” Callie finished, pulling her laptop out readying herself for the lecturer to start.
“Fine,” Addison replied, also pulling her notes out.
OOOO
“Why aren’t you sitting with your new girl,” Teddy, Arizona’s best friend, asked her.
“New girl?” Arizona questioned.
“Yeah, Callie I think, the one you were with on Friday,” Teddy explained.
“Calliope is her name, and she is not my new girl or my girl in anyway,” Arizona explained.
“She looked like your girl the other night, I mean I don’t normally kiss someone good night like you did her if they are not mine in some way, shape or form,” Teddy replied.
“Look Teddy, it didn’t work out, ok, and I really don’t want to talk about it,” Arizona replied, fussing with her notes in an attempt to look busy in the hope that Teddy would give up.
“Oh, ok, so what went wrong between spending the entire night at the bar last week talking as if you were the only two people in the room, you taking her back to your room, staying the night together, then going to breakfast the next day, then meeting out on Friday and dancing like I have never seen you dance before and then practically making out and trying to call it a good night kiss. Cause really it all sounds pretty perfect,” Teddy continued, determined not to drop it until she got an answer.
“She’s a newborn, ok, NEWBORN!” Arizona replied, frustrated by the conversation.
“And?”
“Do you not remember the last time I dated a newborn, when I caught her with her ex I spent the best of a week refusing to leave the kitchen floor and then I spent most of six months moping around, I am not going there again,” Arizona explained shaking her head furiously.
“From what you have told me, I doubt very much that Callie is anything like Ellie was,” Teddy replied sympathetically, finally realising the reason for Arizona’s distance.
“Probably not, but I like her, and I mean really like her, but what if she decides that it was fun but girls just aren’t for her? Then what?” Arizona replied with a softened tone.
“Well maybe you should just take it slow, get to know her and see where it goes,” Teddy suggested as the lecturer entered the theatre, Arizona’s eyes trained on the Latina who sat a few rows ahead of her with the red head from the other night.
“Yeah, maybe, I will have a think about it,” Arizona said as the lecturer begun.
“Ok people, let’s move along to implied terms today alright,” the lecturer spoke, making the theatre fall quiet.

Once the lecturer dismissed the group Callie packed her things up and headed for the aisle, reaching it at the same time as a certain blonde descended the stairs among the crowd, their eyes locking.
“Hey,” Arizona said meekly.
“Hey,” Callie replied before stepping in front of Arizona as she motioned her to do so.
“So, you got class?” Arizona asked, trying to break the awkwardness of the situation.
“Um, yeah, you know we don’t have to be friends, I mean we can really just forget about last week, I will survive,” Callie replied, not at all in a rude fashion, but rather as if she was offering an escape for Arizona.
“Look,” Arizona said, pulling Callie to the side as they exited the building to allow the masses of students to pass and to give them a little privacy, “I would really like to be friends, I mean I know that is not quite what you want, but I have been hurt by a newborn before and I am not ready to put myself out like that again, but I really want to get to know you, so just think about it.”
“Whatever,” Callie replied before scurrying off in the direction of her next class.
“What was that about?” Addison asked as she ran to catch up with Callie.
“Something about wanting to be friends, I mean really, the nerve. First she hits on me, then kisses me, then tells me I am a newborn and she doesn’t date those, and now friends, yeah I don’t think so,” Callie rambled, more to herself than Addison.
“Alrighty, so are we drinking tonight?”
“Hell yeah we’re drinking,” Callie replied before she parted ways with Addison in the direction of the languages building.

xxx

After what felt like no time it was Wednesday morning. Callie had spent most of Tuesday in bed very hung over, swearing to never consume alcohol again in her life. Arizona had thrown herself into her study, and honestly that wasn’t hard to do when studying law; there seemed to be a never ending list of things that could be done. And now, Callie was laying in bed waiting for her alarm to go off, signalling that it was time to get out of bed and prepare for eight o’clock tutorial, with none other than the blonde that she had been desperately avoiding after the incidence on Monday.

Across town, Arizona was laying in bed staring at the ceiling, contemplating whether or not to actually get out of bed and go to Ethics or to roll back over and fake sleep. It was a tough choice, two hours filled with awkwardness, or two more hours of sleep, even though deep down she knew that she would never actually get to sleep. “Argh!” Arizona exclaimed as she dragged her pretty arse out of bed and headed for her closet, chucking on the closest thing she found, which just happened to be her Yale sweater and a pale blue pair of jeans. She turned to approach the mirror to see whether she was presentable.
“Seriously!” she yelled at the mirror, then turning her face upward to look at the sky, “Is this some sick joke you are playing on me, cause really, it’s not funny.”
Callie had taken the Yale sweater with her after the night she stayed over, but after Arizona approached her with the ‘just friends’ spiel on Monday, Arizona found the jumper laying on the mat out the front of her room, no note, just the jumper. It almost didn’t need a note, the gesture screamed ‘Friends just doesn’t cut it.’
Arizona sighed as she approached her cupboard and changed to a dark green sweater and headed out the door, not bothering with breakfast. Arizona dawdled to her class, not at all excited for the mornings events, something Teddy picked up on as soon as she met her on the ground floor of their college.
“Morning,” Teddy chimed.
“Yeah, it is,” Arizona replied.
“Wow, we’re perky today, what happened, someone kill your cat?” Teddy replied.
“I don’t have a cat, and I am just perky enough,” Arizona replied grumpily.
“You are sooo not perky. Not. At. All.”
“Yeah well I have to sit through two hours with Calliope this morning, and I tried your whole, let’s be friends but she didn’t want a bar of it so I am sorry if I am not my normal dose of perky,” Arizona finished as she pushed the door to the class open, realising now that Callie was the last person sitting in the row and she would have to sit next to her if she didn’t want to look completely and utterly rude.
“Morning,” Arizona said as she sat down, fighting as hard as she might but simply not being able to deny the simply rules of ettiquetacy that her parent’s had taught her.
“Morning,” Callie replied with a small smile before turning to the person on her other side and continuing their conversation.
“See not so bad,” Teddy said quietly as Arizona turned to her.
The first hour of the tutorial was not so bad, Callie and Arizona both played nice, but it was the break that was making Arizona super nervous.
“Arizona, do you wanna come get some coffee with me?” Callie asked Arizona politely.
“Um, yeah, sure,” Arizona replied nervously rising out of her chair and heading to the door behind Callie, turning and shrugging her shoulders in response to Teddy’s questioning look.
“Um, so I kinda wanted to apologize about the other day,” Callie started once they were clear of the room, “I was pretty angry about everything, and to be honest I want more than friendship, I mean I really like you Arizona and I don’t put myself out there the way I have with you, but I can settle for friendship now. I just think that it the better out of the two options.”
Arizona’s eyes were wide with shock; this was something she had never expected to come out of the Latina’s mouth. And by never, she meant never never. She was totally expecting today to be a bitch fight, but here Callie was, prepared to make peace.
“Um... Ah... Thank you?” Arizona stammered.
“Alright, so as a sorry I am buying you coffee. So what will it be?” Callie said, now smiling at the blonde, all the nervousness of the moment before had fleeted away.
“Ah, cappuccino please,” Arizona replied, still a little in shock.
“Alright, two cappuccinos please,” Callie asked the waiter.
“So, um, how has everything been going?” Arizona asked, trying to break the silence that had overcome the pair.
“Yeah good, busy. Aria went home on Monday, and then I spent most of Tuesday, well all of Tuesday severely hung over and now I am here. How bout you?”
“Yeah I have been getting through a lot of school work, kinda getting busy these days, so yeah,” Arizona explained.
“What you doing on the weekend?” Callie asked, fully intent on going all in on this friends thing.
“Um, working Saturday morning, but otherwise nothing, you?” Arizona explained.
“Well I was thinking maybe you might want to come over for a movie night, I have a heap to catch up on, and I need to catch up on a whole heap of school work, so I don’t want to go out Saturday, so what do you think?” Callie explained, rambling a little.
“Um, yeah, movie night sounds good,” Arizona replied, “At yours?”
“Yeah,” Callie agreed, taking both of the coffees placed on the counter, passing one to Arizona, “What if we say my place at 7, I’ll bring the movies, you bring the snacks.”
“Sounds like a plan, Stan,” Arizona finished smiling broadly before taking a huge sip of her coffee.
“You are such a goof,” Callie laughed as they headed back to class laughing at each other.

Xxx

“So how do I prove that I am not a newborn and actually worth dating?” Callie asked Addison.
“You need to convince her that you have experience, show her that you aren’t a newborn,” Addison explained.
“Yeah, examples?”
“I don’t know,” Addison replied as she sat on Callie’s couch while Callie cleaned around her, “What have you done with your life?”
“Not much, I took a year off, which is about it,” Callie said, picking up the cushions and putting them back on the couch, “Are you really just going to sit there and watch me clean.”
“Um, yeah this is not my apartment, and whatever Callie, you are a young law student, you volunteered for a year overseas teaching African kids to speak English. You have experience,” Addison said, rising off the couch, “Anyway, I am going, enjoy your night with Blondie.”
“Thanks for all your help,” Callie replied sarcastically, the nerves for the evening beginning to emerge.
“Love ya,” Addison yelled as she disappeared behind the door.
“Whatever,” Callie said to herself as she retreated to her bedroom to take a shower.

Xxx

Callie was just putting the first DVD she intended to watch into the player when she heard a light knock at the door. She stood from her position in the lounge room and took a deep breath before heading to the door. She slowly unlatched the lock and pulled the door open to reveal Arizona, clad in dark jeans and a deep blue sweater standing nervously on her door step.
“Hey,” Callie started, opening the door wide so that Arizona could squeeze in past her.
“Hey yourself,” Arizona replied with a nervous smile before realising that she was holding things in her hands, “I bought snacks,” she explained as she thrust the plastic bags in Callie’s direction.
“Ah, thanks, so the DVD is in the player, just make yourself at home on the lounge while I grab some bowls for these, and what do you want to drink?” Callie asked suddenly feeling more comfortable.
“Um, do you any creaming soda?”
“Really, that won’t put you on a sugar high and make you all kinds of super perky?” Callie asked with a giggle.
“Well, no guarantees, but it is my favourite,” Arizona replied with a sly grin.
“Alright, if you say so, but I will tie you down if I have to,” Callie replied, trailing off at the end because of what she could have insinuated.
Arizona flushed red before turning around and plonking down on the couch, taking the remote in her hand, “So what are we watching first?”
“I was thinking Bridesmaids, everyone said that it was hilarious but I never got a chance to see it at the movies, unless you have seen it or have any objections?”
“No I didn’t see it either so I am super keen,” Arizona replied as she took the drink Callie was offering her, taking a big gulp before placing it on the coffee table in front of her.
“Alright, hit play,” Callie said as she too fell into the couch. Callie truly had a plan for the evening, start with a funny movie, break the tension and awkwardness, then go for the romantic so as to make all the sappy feelings surface, and then go for the kill with a horror so that she can be there to cuddle Arizona when the movie got scary. Mostly this was banking on the assumption that Arizona wasn’t a fan of horrors, something Callie was pretty sure of cause it just didn’t fit with her personality at all.
The pair made all the right moves, both laughed through the funny bits, oh’ed through the sad bits and ah’ed through the romantic bits.
“So what did you think?” Callie asked as she got up from the couch to change the movie.
“Loved it, absolutely hilarious and a happy ending, what more could you ask for,” Arizona replied as her stomach grumbled loudly, “Oh, um sorry bout that.”
“No don’t be silly, you hungry?” Callie asked, laughing a little at the huge noise that came from such a tiny person.
“Yeah a bit,” Arizona answered looking down at the grumbling culprit.
“You like pizza?” Callie asked, figuring that eating in would be best.
“Definitely, but with only pepperoni and cheese, none of the fancy stuff,” Arizona replied.
Callie laughed in response, “What?” Arizona asked.
“Nothing,” Callie replied, “It’s just that that is my favourite topping, pepperoni and cheese,” Callie continued to giggle as she head to the kitchen and order the pizza.

“So, fifteen minutes, do you want to start the next movie or wait til the pizza gets here?” Callie asked when she returned from the kitchen.
“Hmm,” Arizona contemplated, “I really hate stopping movies once they have started.”
“Yeah me too,” Callie agreed, looking around her apartment for something else to do.
“So, I hate to be nosy, but this is a really nice place Calliope, how do you afford it?” Arizona asked.
“Oh, um well my Dad pays for it, I mean I work, but he owns it, used the excuse about it being a good idea to own real estate near New York, so I pay rent to him every week. All be it, it is much cheaper than the going rate, but yeah,” Callie explained. “How bout you, you like living on campus?”
“Um yeah, sometimes, I mean it is nice but it can be really noisy and people want to go out every night so that got pretty old pretty quickly. I am actually glad you invited me her tonight otherwise I am sure that Teddy would have dragged me out on the town and I am so not in the mood,” Arizona explained.
“Yeah I totally get that, sometimes I like to just sit back and relax on the weekend, so where did you say home was for you?”
“Well I was born in Portland, but it’s not really home, my parent’s own a couple of houses here and there, but mainly home was where we were posted at any one time. Where ever my family was, that was home,” Arizona replied with a small smile on her face.
“Sounds like you and your family are close,” Callie replied sadly, slightly jealous of Arizona’s close family.
“Yeah, it’s just me, my parent’s, my younger sister and older brother. I guess all the new places meant we got really close, how bout you?”
“Not so close, my Dad is a business man so he was always travelling so I didn’t get to see much of him, Mum was a lawyer so long hours there, and my sister is a fair bit younger, so mostly I was at home alone, or when I was real young with the nanny,” Callie explained.
“Oh, that kinda sucks,” Arizona replied, at a loss of words.
“Yeah, oh well,” Callie said sadly, turning to face away from Arizona as to not portray her emotions just before there was a knock at the door, “That’ll be the pizza, I’ll get it,” she finished raising from the lounge and practically running for the door.
“Alright, here we go, pepperoni and cheese pizza, just let me grab some plates,” Callie said as she returned from the door, dropping the pizza on the coffee table before heading back to the kitchen for some plates.
“This smells amazing,” said Arizona as she leant forward to open the box. She looked up when Callie returned to the couch, her blue eyes meeting Callie’s sad brown ones. “I’m sorry if me asking about your family made you upset, I didn’t mean to do that, really,” she said in hope that she could brighten Callie’s mood.
“Its fine,” Callie replied emotionlessly, “How bout I put on the next movie?”
“Yeah, that sounds great,” Arizona replied before pulling out a piece of pizza and starting to eat.

The entire movie was watched in silence, Callie staring straight at the television but not really watching the movie that was playing, Arizona also looking forward but worrying about Callie and trying to catch a glance every so often without blatantly staring. As the credits started rolling Callie stifled a yawn.
“Are you tired?” Arizona asked, hoping that the night would not end.
“No I’m fine,” Callie lied.
“I can get going if you like,” Arizona suggested.
“Nope, I promised you a movie marathon, and two movies simply does not qualify, so how bout you put on the next one while I get a blanket, I am getting a little chilled,” Callie replied, set on continuing the night.
“Alright,” Arizona agreed, both of them jumping off the couch to carry out their task.
It took all of ten minutes into the next movie for Callie to be snuggled down under the blanket on the verge of sleep. Arizona watched as her eyes slowly drifter closed and her head became heavy swaying from side to side before she snapped them open again in an attempt to remain awake.
“If you like you can lean you head on my shoulder,” Arizona suggested whilst tapping on the top of her shoulder.
“Um, really?” Callie asked, receiving a nod from Arizona in response, “Thanks, that would be great,” Callie finished before lowering her head onto the proffered shoulder.
Within two minutes Callie had allowed sleep to overcome her body and she was slumbering on Arizona’s shoulder. Arizona simply watched Callie’s slow and deep breathing, smiling at how sweet she looked. Before she knew it the credits for the third movie were rolling and Callie was still fast asleep. Knowing that she should probably get going Arizona turned off the television and DVD player with the remote before attempting to get up, but Callie clung to her shirt.
“Callie, honey, it’s late, I gotta get going,” Arizona explained before trying to get up again.
“No, stay,” Callie demanded through her sleep haze.
“Calliope, I shouldn’t,” Arizona replied, sure that if she stayed something bad would result.
“It’s late, and dark, and late, stay. It’s too dangerous to leave,” Callie reasoned, her eyes still closed.
“Calliope...”
“Stay,” Callie groaned out, effectively cutting Arizona off.
“Ok...fine...but we need to get you to bed,” Arizona gave in pulling Callie up off the lounge to take her to bed, Callie followed, her eyes only half open until she fell into her bed. “Ok, good night Calliope, I will see you in the morning,” Arizona whispered before placing a light kiss on Callie’s temple, “Sweet dreams.”
As she turned for the door she heard Callie speak again, “Where are you going?”
“To the couch,” Arizona explained as if it was the most logical of things.
“Um, no, when I stayed with you I got a bed, I can’t let you sleep on the couch, and there is plenty of room in here,” Callie explained, rolling around on the bed as if that displayed the abundance of space.
“You slept with me because I didn’t have a couch, you have a couch,” Arizona explained.
“Get in,” Callie said as she pulled the blanket of the opposite side over so Arizona could slide in.
“Fine, fine, whatever,” Arizona replied submissively as she headed to the other side of the bed and slid under the covers.
“Thank you Arizona,” Callie finished as she rolled over and pulled Arizona in her arms, snuggling into her from behind, “Now goodnight to you, sweet dreams.”
Arizona lay wide awake, enjoying the feeling of being wrapped up inside Callie’s arms. Callie had one hand under Arizona’s head and the other was thrown over her side, her hand splayed across her sweater clad stomach. Callie was clearly asleep but still placed a light kiss on Arizona’s shoulder before she lowered her hand under Arizona’s shirt and begun rubbing slow circles with her thumb over her stomach. Arizona held her breath at the sensations this was creating, feeling the coil of pleasure in the pit of her stomach.
‘Man,’ she thought, ‘This is definitely going to be an excruciatingly long night.’