THE OTHER WAY AROUND
Pairing: Callie/Arizona
Summary: Callie's out, Arizona's a newborn, but slowly progressing to becoming a toddler.
Rating: T
Disclaimer: All characters referred to in this work, including the settings are the properties of ABC and Shonda Rhimes. This material was written for pure fun and pleasure and no profit is earned from it.
Chapter 25
Arizona blew through the flight of stairs. She was panting and breathlessly running upstairs, the elevator had simply been too slow. Finally, she reached her intended destination. She tried all her might not to jump around like a jubilant teenager. She slipped the key and slowly opened the door, to the future that awaited her.
She expected flowers and candles, and probably Callie in some sexy dress. But what awaited her was Callie, wearing… her scrubs? Arizona frowned. She looked up and she was about to say something when Callie held up her palm.
"Let me talk first, okay. I prepared a speech and if you interrupt, I might lose my focus." Arizona nodded and walked up to her.
Callie breathed deeply and started. "You know you infuriated me the first time I met you. You spilled my coffee and you had the audacity to challenge me. So at that point, I decided I didn't like you. Then the chief introduced us. We shook hands and I felt flutters in my stomach. I thought I was just hungry," Callie laughed, "I mean you did spill my coffee and all." Arizona rolled her eyes, "Well you did! But that is beside the point." Arizona could not help but smile, Callie looked cute rambling.
"When I was a kid, I loved Wizard of Oz. I must have watched it a thousand of times."
Arizona offered a puzzled look in response, bewildered by Callie's peculiar thought processes but she smiled and nodded her head. Callie noted the blonde's incomprehension, "Hold on," she said. "I really do have a point here." She assured.
"Well, that's good to know," Arizona joked, rolling her eyes.
"Arizona…" Callie whined and stomped her foot.
"Oh I'm sorry… continue."
Callie continued, "I loved Dorothy and growing up I tried living by her character, pure at heart with an unbreakable passion for loving people. And I was that way. Then things happened and before I realized, I change. I became more like the Tinman." Callie paused and held Arizona's eyes, "I was hollow inside, Arizona. I didn't have a heart but I thought it made me strong and brave. If I didn't feel, then I won't get hurt." She whispered the next sentence, surrender evident in her voice. "But then you walked into my life and that strength walked out of the door. You filled me with so much love and affection that I felt as if you jump-started my heart and my existence all over again. For the first time in a long time, I felt alive. You turned my life upside down, Arizona. In such a short time, you managed to reside in my heart and control it. The well built walls around it crumbled down easily at your presence and it made me feel so vulnerable. You made me second guess myself and doubt my strength. You literally had me running circles in my own heart," she explained of the whirlwind that had become her life ever since meeting the other woman.
Callie looked at Arizona who was listening intently at her confession. "I never wanted to hurt you. But you scared me because you hold so much power over me. You controlled the only part of myself that I never could and I hated that. I never wanted to be controlled by anyone. So, I pushed you away; I pushed away the love you were offering. Finally, I found the love of a lifetime everyone had been talking about; only to have it mercilessly ripped from me by my own arms.
Arizona tried to maintain her composure, despite that every nerve inside her was screaming and pushing her to run to Callie, to hold her, but she knew that Callie needed to do this. They were standing at the threshold of their future together and they needed to do this. This was their opportunity, their chance.
"That night, when you left me at the club, I felt as if something inside me died. I felt hollow. Then I remembered your voice before you left. It was lifeless and it made me realize that even though your love is unconditional and relentless, your patience is not. That same night, something in me relented and I realized that I didn't need to fight this anymore. I knew that I have to swallow my pride and let you have me, any way you want to have me, because I need you with me… always."
She walked up to Arizona and touched her face, "I've been with others, Arizona, but you were the only one who was able to touch my heart and my soul. Once, I thought I found the love that I was looking for but I was wrong. You're the only one who showed me how love is meant to be and how it is meant to be shared – unconditional, patient, and selfless," Callie quietly shared; tears forming in her eyes. "Love has finally found its home within my heart, now that I've found myself in you. I'm not scared and I'm not running away anymore, Arizona. From now on, all the running I'll be doing will be towards you. "
"Calliope…."
Callie took Arizona's hands and placed them over her chest. "Arizona, I will still be hollow if I didn't have you in my life. I will still have no heart… not without you because you carry it with you, wherever you go. You are my heart and your presence assures that my heart continues beating. I love you, Arizona, for who you are and for who I am, when I am with you."
Arizona I nearly fainted from the tone and emotion in Callie's voice. She felt Callie kiss her fingers, then her palm.
"I'm yours, Arizona. My heart is yours. You've had it ever since we met that day when you spilled my coffee." Callie smiled and Arizona laughed.
"Calliope, stop saying I spilled your coffee. I did not!" the blonde smiled through her tears. She slipped her arms around Callie.
"Yes you did." Callie countered, pulling Arizona close.
"Did not."
"Okay, it was me."
"No, you're right it was me." They just laughed at their silliness.
Arizona looked at her and realized that Callie was even more beautiful when she's vulnerable. "So, you're mine?"
"Yeah, I'm yours."
The blonde laughed, "You should have just said that in the beginning, and you would have convinced me already."
"I did. Well sort of." Arizona frowned in confusion. "The donuts."
Arizona frowned, trying to understand what Callie was saying. Then all of the sudden she perked up. "They were from you?"
"Yeah."
"That was the message in the donuts?" Callie nodded. "Oops… I ate three donuts before I realized there was a message." She said sheepishly.
"You ate my profession of love?"
"Well yeah, I was hungry. Besides, they were piled on top of each other when I got them. How was I supposed to know there was a message on it?"
Callie just rolled her eyes and realized what happened, "Mark must have shook them. Leave it to him to mess such a simple task."
The blonde poked her, "Leave it to you to trust him with it."
"His heart is in the right place… it's just that his brain is somewhere else."
"By the time I realized there was a message, there were only four left with letters r, o, u, s. For a second I was convinced the message was sour."
Callie's smile quickly tumbled into a fit of laughter, "Oh, how I do love you" She hugged her close, amused by her sense of humor. "Why did I ever think I could resist your adorableness?"
"I am not adorable… I am sexy and hot and smart and awesome…. and… fine yes I am adorable." She looked at Callie and battled her eyelashes. "So will you please kiss this adorable girlfriend of yours, now?"
"Girlfriend, I like that."
Arizona whined, "Callie, kisses now!"
"I already gave you those as well."
"No, you haven't."
"I did…..," letting her comment hang.
Arizona was quicker to realize what Callie was referring to this time around, "Oh the Hershey's Kisses were from you as well. Wow…. Was there a meaning behind them?"
"Yes…" Callie pulled her closer and dropped kisses on her nose, cheeks, neck, then her cleavage, then back to her lips where she hovered. "They stand for the kisses I'm going to bestow on you tonight."
"Your just gonna give me twenty kisses!?"
Callie laughed, "No."
"But I only received twenty Kisses."
"Baby, the numbers didn't have a meaning in them."
"Really… so your gonna give me more than twenty kisses."
"A thousand even, if you like." Arizona nodded her head furiously. "But you know, I could kiss you in twenty places."
Arizona's eyes widened then she smiled. "How about you start now?" She pulled Callie close then kissed her hard and deep.
"Is there a reason, as well, why you're wearing scrubs," Arizona asked in between kisses.
"Well I thought I should present myself to you in the most honest and truthful way and face you without any pretense. I am a doctor and this is what I wear most of the time. This is me, unglamorous but real." Callie laughed, "Of course Mark thought it was better if I stood stark naked in front of you since it would be more natural that way."
"Well, I like Mark's idea better," Arizona smiled teasingly. "Maybe we should follow his advice," she reached to untie Callie's scrub pants but before she could go further, Callie's phone rang. They both groaned at the interruption.
"What!?" Callie barked on the phone.
"I'm staying!"
"Addison, your timing is impeccable as ever," she responded acerbically.
"Richard offered me my job back. So, basically I will be closely working with Arizona. I think, she will be my boss of some sort. It's great right….."
"Addison…" The redhead just kept on rambling. "Addison!"
"What! Why are you shouting? I was expecting you'd be happy about this news."
"I am. I really am. You just called in a bad time."
"Oohh you and the peds doing the nasty already. Nice Cal."
"No, we were about to but then you called, so thanks to you, I am horny and frustrated."
"Ew! I so did not need to hear that. My apologies for interrupting your night of intense fornication. I expect a full report tomorrow. Bye! Toodles…."
"Tell me again why I am friends with them?"
"Because they love you unconditionally and willing to do anything for you."
"You're right."
"So, they didn't have anything to do with your speech right?, Arizona teasingly asked.
"The three stooges? No… that was all me." Callie proudly declared. "I did ask for their help and we brainstormed but it was a disaster. Addison was all for quoting Shakespeare, Lexie suggested I just say you complete me, and Mark, well he suggested I tell you that it's not you, it's me."
Arizona frowned, "That's a break up line."
"I know," she laughed.
"You have great friends, Calliope."
"I know. They were all for us getting together. At one point, I had to rein them in with their suggestions. I think they were times they were more excited than me." Callie just shook her head, remembering their antics.
"Well I am very grateful for their help, otherwise I wouldn't be able to do this." Arizona kissed Callie once again. As their kisses deepened, they heard explosions from outside and the windows filled with different colors. They heard people all over the building shouting.
"Happy New Year, Calliope."
"Happy New Year, Arizona…. Oh before I forget, I have a surprise." Callie pulled her towards the bedroom and slowly opened the door. Soft glows filled the room with candles scattered all over. There were rose petals everywhere, on the floor and on the bed.
"Calliope…" Arizona was speechless, "wow… um… this… is… beautiful."
"Not feeling your usual articulate self, huh," Callie teased her.
"That's because you just took all the words out of me." She faced Callie, "It's beautiful… you are beautiful… this is wonderful." Arizona's smile turned seductive. "You know what would make this even wonderful?"
"What?" Callie pulled her close then allowed her greedy hands to roam Arizona's body.
The blonde hovered her mouth over Callie's ear, "Sexy lingerie…." She licked the ear, "please tell me you're wearing sexy lingerie underneath this oh so inviting scrubs." She allowed her hands free reign over Callie's body.
Callie moaned at the blonde's ministrations, she slipped her hands underneath Arizona's blouse and went straight to her breasts. She groaned when she felt their suppleness in her hands. This time, she hovered her mouth over Arizona's ears, "I'm sorry, but I am not wearing sexy lingerie." She heard Arizona's frustrated groan, "In fact, I am not wearing anything underneath."
Arizona pushed her back gently and gave her a once over, "Really now?" Callie nodded, "nothing at all?" Callie nodded again, "not even a teeny weeny tiny thing?" Callie just smiled. "Hmm I think I like that even better."
Callie was about to push her to the bed when Arizona suddenly said, "We need to thank your friends, especially Addison."
"What do you have in mind?"
Arizona just smiled wickedly…
*******
Addison opened the door, which was conveniently unlocked for her. She entered the darkened apartment. About half an hour ago, she received a call from Callie, telling her in no nonsense tone to come to the apartment. So, she did.
"Callie." She called.
She heard a faint in the bedroom. She didn't think twice and entered the room but she didn't find Callie inside, instead she found Arizona lying on the center of the bed, wearing nothing but the sheets. Her eyes widened when the blonde smiled and winked at her.
"Arizo… Arizona? What is going on?" her voice shook.
"Do you like it?"
"Like what?" Addison screeched.
"The scene, the candles, the roses."
"Why would I like it?" she asked fearfully.
"Because this is your present, I am your present." Arizona sat up, holding the sheet up that barely covered her.
"My… my … present?" the redhead stammered.
"Yeah… as an appreciation for what you have done for me and Callie."
Addison started to feel rather faint from the images that played through her mind from the insinuation. "Um that's okay…. You Callie happy… all matters… no need…. thank me… really." The gravity of the situation prevented Addison from speaking coherently. "Besides… I don't think…. Callie would like… this."
"Oh, I won't mind."
Callie's voice from behind startled Addison, she lost her footing and ended up sitting on the bed. She swallowed when she saw Callie leaning on the doorframe of the bathroom, wearing a sexy teddy.
"Initially, I was against it. I mean, who likes their girl getting it on with someone besides them but then I thought you deserve this." She slowly sauntered towards the bed and Addison instinctively moved back. Bad move, she ended up moving closer to Arizona, who trailed her fingers up the redhead's arm. Addison screamed and moved away but Callie blocked her, effectively trapping her.
"There is really no need for this you know…. A simple thank you will suffice," Addison's tone was pleading.
"I disagree," Arizona said behind her, a little too close to her ear. "I think you deserve this."
"Deserve what exactly?" she asked, almost fearful of the answer.
"Well you did say you want a full report so what's better than letting you experience it firsthand."
"Firsthand?" she squeaked.
"Yeah, I will let you experience the extent of Arizona's talent in bed. It is only right. After all, you were a big part why I get to experience it for the rest of my life." Callie informed her seriously. "So be a good friend and accept our gift." Behind Addison, Arizona was having a hard time keeping her act, laughter was threatening to burst out from her.
"Hmm, how do you want me to start, Addison? Do you want me to kiss you while Callie gives you a lap dance?" Arizona breathed, mere inches from her mouth. She was seriously about to lose control of the charade and burst out laughing. Addison's face had turned white as the sheets.
"Um … heh … … maybe we should … reconsider this present. I really… don't need this…. besides you guys know that I like men… you know penis..."
"Oh we can fix that," Callie bend down, showing her cleavage and Addison forcefully shut her eyes. When she opened her eyes, Callie gave her an elongated box. "Open it." Callie commanded.
With shaking hands, she did and saw a double-headed dildo inside. "Um…"
"You like it? One side for me, the other for you." Arizona teased further. "So you wanna start?" She felt Arizona come close behind her while Callie stepped closer to her. She saw their hands moved and suddenly she screamed, loudly.
Not a second after she screamed, Cristina burst into the room, "What? What is wrong?" She asked, still wearing her jacket and sling bag. When her eyes adjusted to the light of the candles in the room, her eyes widened at the sight. "Is this one of your kinky sexual fantasy, Callie?" She smirked and stepped inside the room. Addison breathed a sigh of relief. She tried to speak but Callie beat her to it.
"It certainly is. Care to join us?"
"Yeah, Cristina, wanna take a walk into the wild side?"
Cristina just laughed, not bothered by any of it. "No thanks. My sex life is wild enough, courtesy of my G.I. Joe manfriend. But thanks for offering."
"You never know, you might like it."
"Maybe some other time," Cristina responded nonchalantly, "besides I have a more pressing matter to attend to." Callie raised her brow in question. "Killing Derek and Lexie for fooling me about a supposed surgery," the cardio doctor responded. She looked at the scene then to Addison, "Well, enjoy Dr. Montgomery. Please keep it down, some people need to sleep." Cristina just laughed and turned on her heels, Addison scrambled and stood up, trying in vain to stop Cristina from leaving but the cardio doctor slammed door before she could reach her. She turned around and looked fearfully to the barely clothed women sitting on the bed.
"You guys are not serious, right?"
"Of course we are and as our friend we expect you to accept this present. We would feel bad if you don't accept." Callie told her seriously.
Again, Addison gulped hard.
That did it. Arizona could not hold it in any longer. She fell back on the bed, rolling and laughing, holding her stomach. Callie followed. They cackled for a good minute before Callie spoke.
"Addison," she took a few deep breaths to regulate her breathing. "We were kidding."
"Addison, we really don't want to sleep with you. Don't get us wrong , you're beautiful and hot and everything but, I just don't like you, that way. No offense."
At hearing this, "What!!??" she narrowed her eyes at the women. "You two were playing?" The two nodded, bodies still convulsing from laughter. "That was just cruel guys. I can't believe you did that!" The two just kept on laughing and this pissed the redhead further. She scooped some petals on the foot of the bed and threw them at two women.
"Were… very…sorry," Callie apologized in between fits of laughter. "We just…wanted to thank you… in our own…. special way."
"And you couldn't do it like a normal person!? You guys really had me going there for a minute."
"Did you really think we would go through with it?"
"Ah yeah, you guys looked so serious."
This brought another round of laughter from Callie and Arizona.
"This is great guys, really great. Now, I'm going to be having nightmares about this my entire life. You might just have sent me to therapy over this. If that happens, I'm definitely sending the bill over to both of you." She glared at the still laughing women. "And for god sake, will you two cover yourselves."
"Why? It will only delay the inevitable. We are planning on getting busy after this."
"What!?" Addison screeched, "Did I actually walk into your love fest?" She narrowed her eyes at Arizona, "are you really naked underneath the sheet?"
"You wanna find out?" the blonde made a move to pull down the sheet.
"NO! Do not do that!" Addison shouted frantically.
"But you asked," Arizona pouted.
"Well ignore it." She bend down to pick her bag up, "I'm leaving. I need a stiff drink after this." She made a move towards the door but suddenly stopped, "I hope you showed this same courtesy to Mark."
"Are you kidding!? The moment he enters the room and find me and Arizona like this, he won't even wait for an invitation. He would strip down and jump on the bed and ask can we start?" Callie responded incredulously.
"This is like his fantasy. He would be jumping around like a kid in a candy shop." Arizona added.
"So you only did this to me?"
"Of course, you are very special."
"Bitches." She spewed before leaving and slamming the door.
Arizona and Callie once again fell on the bed and laughed. "Did you see her face?"
"She actually thought we were serious."
"You are one wicked woman for thinking this, Arizona."
"Well, you've been rubbing off on me," she faced Callie.
"Oh really," Callie pulled herself up and positioned her body on top of Arizona's
"Yeah, you certainly did," she huskily responded when she felt Callie slowly rocked on top of her.
"That's good to know….," Callie replied, slowly grinding into Arizona. "But I'd rather be rubbing on you," she whispered seductively, pulling the sheets off Arizona's body and began to give her kisses down her chest.
"Mmm . . ." Arizona moaned, responding to the sensation of Callie's mouth and tongue on her. "I'd rather you be doing that as well," she breathed, pulling the other woman to a deep kiss. And within minutes, they found themselves in a tangle on the bed, Arizona getting her wish - Callie in a sexy lingerie - while Callie expertly rubbing every inch of her willing body.
Few hours after….
"Tell me…." Arizona asked.
"Yes, I have a harness. It's under the bed."
"Not what I was after, but thank you for that information.."
"What then?"
"The three words…"
"You're very beautiful," Callie teased while going to town with Arizona's breasts.
"Smarty pants. But no. Try again."
"Arizona, as you can see I am not wearing any pants."
"And just the way I like it…. So let's hear it, Calliope."
Calliope leaned up and looked down intently at Arizona.
"What are you doing?" the blonde giggled.
"I thought I could convey it with just a look."
"Calliope…" Arizona whined, "…I wanna hear it."
Callie kissed her sweetly then looked at her lovingly, "I love you."
Arizona giggled, "Not that silly…."
"No?"
"No… I wanted you tell me that I'm your boo." Arizona was giggling.
Callie laughed out loud.
My Girlfriend. Pediatric Surgeon. Wannabe Rapper.
The End.
That's it guys... thanks for reading... hope you enjoyed it as much as i enjoyed writing it... feedback/reviews will be greatly appreciated... it will help me decide about the sequel... kisses!