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Fandom: Grey’s Anatomy
Title: Brand New Pair of Roller Skates
Pairing: Callie/Arizona
Rating: PGish
Summary: "You know, um. This might not happen if you wore shoes and not roller skates."
Spoilers: 5.14 - Beat Your Heart Out
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to Shondaland and ABC. "Brand New Key" belongs to Melanie Safka.
Arizona Robbins hadn’t always thought she’d work in pediatrics. When she’d originally dreamt about being a doctor, she’d pictured herself fixing all sorts of people, but usually big ones. But then she spent seven years as a camp counselor, and everything changed, and now she was removing and fixing the internal organs of five year olds instead of helping people who’d lived long lives; instead of performing surgeries on people who, if they died, had at least had some life experiences under their belt like some kind of silver lining.
When children die on her table, it is much, much harder to find that same silver lining. But the children who pull through, against all odds? That, right there, that is what makes her job worth it. Because she, Arizona Robbins, is the one giving Sarah Davis a chance to go to ballet class and be in the marching band and major in history at Harvard. She is the reason Taylor Alden made it past the fourth grade after all, and played shortstop for his Little League team for three years.
And it’s probably the former camp counselor part of her that keeps her smile genuine and her face bright, even around the most depressing of cases. It’s the camp counselor part of her that acts out the stories as she tells them while children wait to go into the OR, her pretend boy voice always making them laugh. That always keeps her imagination going, because when you’re around kids that much, you have to keep up, and as a surgeon, you have to keep up too.
So when she sees the Heelys in the shoe store, she absolutely cannot resist. They’re kind of perfect, actually. And they get her around the hospital quicker, and make kids go “Mom! Look what Dr. Robbins has! Just like mine!” and that makes her days just a little easier.
Sometimes, though, they make her days a little harder. Because Arizona? While an intelligent, competent doctor, has never in her life exactly been known for her gracefulness. So two days after she pretty much uses up her confidence quota for the week and kisses Callie Torres in the bathroom, she crashes into the very same orthopedic surgeon near the OR board, like some scene out of a cheesy romantic comedy, and she kind of wants to close her eyes and hope it didn’t happen.
But instead she reaches for Callie and helps her up, then brushes her own pants off like nothing happened or like this happens all the time. Like she always zooms into colleagues she kisses in bathrooms. For her part, Callie’s mostly bemused, and for that, Arizona is grateful. Because this whole thing could be totally awkward (and actually, the way Callie fidgets and takes her hands in and out of her pockets while Arizona tries three times to apologize because she can’t decide whether to call her Callie or Dr. Torres is a little bit awkward after all).
“You know, um. This might not happen if you wore shoes and not roller skates,” Callie offers with a chuckle.
“Heelys,” Arizona corrects, her smile reaching her dimples. “And anyway, the kids like it when I fall,” she laughs.
Callie’s grin gets wide, and Arizona’s suddenly glad she’s a little bit of a klutz, because up until this moment she’s kind of been thinking that maybe she made a mistake with the bathroom thing and the speech. But now she’s here and she kind of crashed into her crush, and now they’ve got this silly moment, the kind of thing she wishes maybe Callie might tease her for one morning when they’re lazing around in bed, and she can already feel her cheeks reddening a little bit.
And she’d be completely embarrassed about the whole thing, except Callie’s smile is actually really big now, and Arizona suddenly realizes that as long as she’s been at Seattle Grace, she’s been wanting to see that smile, so in the end, she considers this a mission accomplished. An unexpected, roundabout sort of mission, but an accomplished one nonetheless.
And now Arizona knows, without a doubt, that she can never trade her Heelys for normal shoes.
Title: Brand New Pair of Roller Skates
Pairing: Callie/Arizona
Rating: PGish
Summary: "You know, um. This might not happen if you wore shoes and not roller skates."
Spoilers: 5.14 - Beat Your Heart Out
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to Shondaland and ABC. "Brand New Key" belongs to Melanie Safka.
Arizona Robbins hadn’t always thought she’d work in pediatrics. When she’d originally dreamt about being a doctor, she’d pictured herself fixing all sorts of people, but usually big ones. But then she spent seven years as a camp counselor, and everything changed, and now she was removing and fixing the internal organs of five year olds instead of helping people who’d lived long lives; instead of performing surgeries on people who, if they died, had at least had some life experiences under their belt like some kind of silver lining.
When children die on her table, it is much, much harder to find that same silver lining. But the children who pull through, against all odds? That, right there, that is what makes her job worth it. Because she, Arizona Robbins, is the one giving Sarah Davis a chance to go to ballet class and be in the marching band and major in history at Harvard. She is the reason Taylor Alden made it past the fourth grade after all, and played shortstop for his Little League team for three years.
And it’s probably the former camp counselor part of her that keeps her smile genuine and her face bright, even around the most depressing of cases. It’s the camp counselor part of her that acts out the stories as she tells them while children wait to go into the OR, her pretend boy voice always making them laugh. That always keeps her imagination going, because when you’re around kids that much, you have to keep up, and as a surgeon, you have to keep up too.
So when she sees the Heelys in the shoe store, she absolutely cannot resist. They’re kind of perfect, actually. And they get her around the hospital quicker, and make kids go “Mom! Look what Dr. Robbins has! Just like mine!” and that makes her days just a little easier.
Sometimes, though, they make her days a little harder. Because Arizona? While an intelligent, competent doctor, has never in her life exactly been known for her gracefulness. So two days after she pretty much uses up her confidence quota for the week and kisses Callie Torres in the bathroom, she crashes into the very same orthopedic surgeon near the OR board, like some scene out of a cheesy romantic comedy, and she kind of wants to close her eyes and hope it didn’t happen.
But instead she reaches for Callie and helps her up, then brushes her own pants off like nothing happened or like this happens all the time. Like she always zooms into colleagues she kisses in bathrooms. For her part, Callie’s mostly bemused, and for that, Arizona is grateful. Because this whole thing could be totally awkward (and actually, the way Callie fidgets and takes her hands in and out of her pockets while Arizona tries three times to apologize because she can’t decide whether to call her Callie or Dr. Torres is a little bit awkward after all).
“You know, um. This might not happen if you wore shoes and not roller skates,” Callie offers with a chuckle.
“Heelys,” Arizona corrects, her smile reaching her dimples. “And anyway, the kids like it when I fall,” she laughs.
Callie’s grin gets wide, and Arizona’s suddenly glad she’s a little bit of a klutz, because up until this moment she’s kind of been thinking that maybe she made a mistake with the bathroom thing and the speech. But now she’s here and she kind of crashed into her crush, and now they’ve got this silly moment, the kind of thing she wishes maybe Callie might tease her for one morning when they’re lazing around in bed, and she can already feel her cheeks reddening a little bit.
And she’d be completely embarrassed about the whole thing, except Callie’s smile is actually really big now, and Arizona suddenly realizes that as long as she’s been at Seattle Grace, she’s been wanting to see that smile, so in the end, she considers this a mission accomplished. An unexpected, roundabout sort of mission, but an accomplished one nonetheless.
And now Arizona knows, without a doubt, that she can never trade her Heelys for normal shoes.