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Assistant: Title: Everything Can Harm You (so I’ll hold you while you cry)
        Author: FreakingPlane FreakingPlane 
        Chapter: 1/28 
        Summary: “I’m not going to cheat on you. I’m not George.”“I know that, I do, I just… George did and it was horrible and Erica left me and now you’re being flirted with and you find it funny and so do I, kinda, but I just don’t quite know what to think!”“I’m not going to cheat on you!”“I KNOW THAT!” Callie shouted before she rubbed a hand over her face, digging her fingers into her eyes and breathing out sharply. “I know that.” She repeated quieter, leaning back against the fridge.**What if the series nine finale had gone differently? What if Callie and Arizona had talked about Lauren Boswell’s flirting and everything had gone in a different direction?(This is the second part to ‘Nothing Can Harm You (if I’m there to Protect You)’, but it’s not the law to read the first one if you dont want to, it would just add a little context)
        Contents: Chapter 1: Flirtatious Glances?
    

    


      
        
          
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    Arizona was watching in awe as Lauren Boswell showed her the process for Tyler Simms’ facial reconstruction surgery on a large interactive screen. Lauren used her hand to move around the image as she explained with a small smile, “So, the good news is, the ultrasound revealed that the encephalocele itself contains only fluid, no actual brain matter, so I will resect it and hopefully this little guy is looking at no developmental defects.”Arizona couldn’t help but exclaim, “amazing!” She idolised the woman in front of her, having read all of her papers. As she watched Lauren explain the steps of the surgery, she was focusing exclusively on what to do with her face, not wanting to just grin at the woman like an idiot and reveal that she was as big of a fan girl as you could get.Lauren seemed almost bashful as she averted her eyes and smiled softly, “it’s just luck.”The door opened behind them and Callie poked her head through, smiling widely as she looked at Arizona, who returned the grin sent her way. She stepped through the door and said, “hi, sorry, Arizona, when you have a second, I need help with Bailey, um-”Unable to hold it in any longer, Arizona allowed a small bit of her awe to shine through as she grabbed Callie by the arm, pulled her into the room and said, “wait, oh, hey, hold on, this is Dr Boswell! She’s consulting on the Simms baby!”Callie’s face lit up as she looked at Lauren, “ah!” She offered her hand for Lauren, who shook it. “Hi, Dr Callie Torres, ortho, do you mind if I sit in? You see these, like, never.” Callie locked excited eyes with Arizona, who nodded eagerly in return.“No yeah, please, come in! The more the merrier, right?” Lauren smiled at Arizona with a hint of something in her gaze that Arizona couldn’t quite decipher.Callie crossed her arms and grinned, “yay!”Lauren turned back to the screen and pressed something that made the animation move. “So, then I will take a calverial bone graft from the perietal skull and then use it to form the base of the skull.” She turned back around and smiled softly, “you could use synthetics, but where I can use his own bone, farm local, right Dr Torres?”Callie nodded, excitement and pride plastered across her face as she replied, “yeah!”“After that, its really just a standard cleft lip repair, which I’m sure you and dr Avery can do in your sleep.”Arizona couldn’t help but try and leap at the chance to have Lauren around for a little bit longer. “Yeah, but since you’re here, we could… watch and learn?” She finished in a hopeful tone and Lauren thought for a moment until she shrugged, “I don’t see why not. Alright then, in that case, I’ll try to show off a little.” She shot Arizona another strange look that made a weird feeling prickle in her stomach, but Callie’s hand on the small of her back grounded her as she said, “thankyou, Dr Boswell.”“No problem.”Callie leaned forward and whispered into Arizona’s ear, “I really like her!” Once Lauren had gone, Callie and Arizona were sitting together in the conference room and sipping coffee before Arizona went to help Callie with Bailey. Arizona was sat in a chair because she needed to take her weight off her leg and Callie was perched on the table, with her hand on Arizona’s shoulder.“She bought me a coffee this morning.” Arizona mentioned casually, “I didn’t know who she was then, but she’s nice.”“Coffee?” Callie asked playfully, “do I have a rival on my hands?”Arizona rolled her eyes, “of course not. You’re my one and only, Torres.” She leaned up and pressed a kiss to Callie’s cheek.“I’m glad to hear it, Robbins.” Callie leaned down and kissed Arizona’s temple.“Normally, good surgeons are kinda @ssh@l@s in real life, but she’s pretty cool.” Arizona thought out loud and Callie hummed in agreement before she chuckled and said, “if you start putting posters of her up on our bedroom walls I might leave you.”“I’m not twelve!” Arizona complained, “I’m not going to put up sh@tty posters!”“Thank God for that.” Callie sighed dramatically, “that would have been awful. Is your leg feeling better?”Arizona shrugged, “a little, I guess. Just one of those days, you know?”“A self-hatred day?” Callie asked gently and Arizona nodded, leaning into Callie’s touch. “Yeah.”“I’m sorry. Well, I love you, and I’ll hold you tonight while we watch a movie?”Arizona smiled; Callie always knew the right thing to say. “I love you too. And that sounds perfect, but I’m getting in late. And the day after.” Callie thought for a second, “d@mn, so am I.” She groaned, “the day after that?”“The day after that.” Arizona confirmed with a smile, “alright, lets go get Bailey.” After struggling to get Bailey out of her genome lab, Arizona’s day went by pretty slowly. There was the kid, Ethan, who got into his grandmothers sleeping pills, but he got his flumazenil in time and was going to be okay.Her walking got slower and shakier as her leg became more painful, only making her more self conscious and awkward as she made her way around the hospital, finishing up some charts and dropping off some labs on her way to the elevator. She tried to keep her head up and act like the confident attending everyone knew her as, but she couldn’t help feeling like a newborn giraffe, staggering her way around the halls.After stopping to chat to some parents in the hallway, and getting an update from the nurses desk on a kid she saw in the ER earlier, by the time she reached the elevator she was nearly ready to sit down. That was why she decided to get the elevator to the lobby and sit in a chair to wait for Callie, where they could walk home together.Leaning heavily on the wall as she waited, Arizona took some deep breaths and focused on the thought of going home and being held by Callie. The doors pinged open, and she stepped awkwardly on, coming face to face with Lauren Boswell, whom she really didn’t want to see at that particular moment.Ignoring the pain and obvious swelling in her leg, she plastered a polite smile on her face and tried to surreptitiously lean on the wall. Lauren smiled politely back, once again looking at Arizona in that way that made her want to either run away or throw up. Arizona was pulled from her thoughts as Lauren spoke. “Hey, I was hoping I'd run into you again today.”Arizona didn’t quite know what to say, so she stuck with their only common topic, work. “Um... has there been a change in Tyler's surgery?”“No.”Okay, now Arizona was confused. She turned away from Lauren so that she was staring at the metal of the elevator doors. Her mind was hazy with exhaustion and all she wanted to do was not be trapped in a tiny metal box that moved at the speed of a penguin trying to slide up a hill. “Oh. Ok.” Was all she managed to say, eyebrows furrowing slightly as she leaned a little bit more of her weight on the wall and begged the elevator to move faster.“People tell you all the time you have really pretty eyes? What are they, hazel? Blue?”What? Okay, now Arizona was lost for words and that didn’t happen. Ever. Arizona Robbins was never speechless.“They're b-blue.” She stuttered out her words, mind unravelling like a ball of wool as she struggled to take in Lauren’s words. Robbins’ eyes were always blue. Tim’s were, her father’s were, and her grandfather before that. It seemed to be the most dominant trait in their family, going back many generations. One day, Arizona hoped to pass them along to a child, as Tim never got to.“I'm married. So, we could be friends, yeah, uh-” Arizona didn’t know why she felt the need to make sure that her relationship status was known, but she just loved talking about Callie, and she was nervous so needed to talk about something. “Um, you met her, uh, earlier today. Dr. Torres. Ortho. Hot. Brunette. And, uh, wow, talk about eyes. Pretty eyes. Hers are just... magical. Brown… like, melted chocolate. All warm and… and gooey.”Words kept spilling from her mouth as she struggled to get her throat and mouth to work together and make sounds. “And, um, th... it... I'm... and I'm married.” She turned around, keeping one arm on the wall for stability as she looked directly into Lauren’s eyes. “I love her. A lot. Also, I have one leg.” Why the hell had she mentioned that? When she was stressed, her filter went out the d@mn window and this just seemed to be a particularly embarrassing instance. There went her chance of being cool with world renowned Craniofacial Surgeon, Lauren Boswell.There was no familiar flash of pity in Lauren’s eyes, she just smiled in a weirdly sultry way and said, “I know.”Arizona stayed silent as the doors opened behind her and Lauren propelled herself forward by pushing off the back wall. She stepped forward and leaned a little too close into Arizona’s personal space, “do you know how many Arizona Robbins there are on the internet?”Keeping silent, Arizona didn’t move, avoiding eye contact at all costs.“One. See you tomorrow.” With that, Lauren left Arizona alone in the elevator, confused. The confusion followed her like a dark cloud as she slowly walked to the lobby, just about ready to collapse into a chair and never stand up again. The look on Lauren’s face was there every time she shut her eyes, her voice in Arizona’s ears every time her mind began to wander.She was halfway to the lobby when the realisation struck her like she had been slapped.Lauren Boswell was flirting with her.This realisation was so unexpected that Arizona let out a bark of laughter and collapsed sideways onto a gurney that was laid against the wall. Uncontrollable laughter began to spill from her like someone had turned on a tap, hysterics fuelled by exhaustion, confusion and alarm, her laughter petering out until it was an occasional giggle. “What. The. F@ck?!” She whispered to herself, as she realised what the weird looks were.The looks that made her want to turn herself inside out were flirtatious glances.Unable to stop giggling, Arizona laid back until she was lying on her back along the gurney, staring up at the white, tiled ceiling. Her exhaustion from the long day, paired with that startling realisation, make Arizona start to nod off, eyes drifting until they were shut, mind drifting until it was blank.**Callie yawned as she exited the lift, rubbing her eyes as she wandered down the hallway, just about ready to curl up with Arizona and sleep for a year straight. Her bag was heavy over her shoulder, making her feel more tired than she was already, which she didn’t think was possible. Her phone buzzed in her pocket, so she pulled it out and checked it in case it was Arizona, surprised to see a message from Richard Webber instead. It read:
  
    Torres, I’ve found your wife asleep on a gurney on the way to the lobby. Come collect her and take her home before she gets taken to the OR and accidentally has her appendix removed. RiWeb
  
Raising her weary gaze, Callie spotted Richard at the other end of the hallway, standing by a gurney, glasses on his nose and poking at his phone with his right pointer finger.“What?” She mumbled, too tired to make any proper noise, let alone sentences, and much too tired to even consider thinking about Richard’s very strange way of ending texts. She shifted her bag to her other shoulder and quickly texted back:
  
    I’m here. Look up and don’t take her to the OR, please :)
  
She also sent a quick text to Alex, asking him to pick up Sofia because of ‘leg troubles’ which she didn’t know was true, but she could garner a pretty good guess. He sent back:
  
    Sure. I can get her in an hour once my shift ends? I’ll have an intern check that she’s still sleeping, if she’s not I’ll take off early.
  
Callie smiled and sent back:
  
    Thanks Karev, we owe you a plate of the good lasagne from the cafeteria
  
After a moment, she heard Richard’s phone make an alarmingly loud noise and then spotted him look up and peer around the hall, waving her hand to grab his attention. Callie trotted down the hall toward her wife, meeting Richard halfway. He spoke quietly, “she looks exhausted. And so do you.” He remarked, making Callie roll her eyes, “thankyou, Richard. I’ll take her home.” Richard took that as his cue to leave, so he walked off toward the elevators.Callie’s phone buzzed and she checked it, laughing softly at Alex’s reply.
  
    Stick in a brownie and we have a deal.
  
She quickly replied:
  
    Done
  
Callie walked over to the gurney that Richard had been standing by, smiling softly as she looked at her favourite person. Arizona was fast asleep, the back of her right hand pressed up against her face, making a squeaking noise whenever she breathed out. She was laying on her right side with her left arm through the handle of her blue purse and she was wearing a black lacy top and black leggings. Her hair was down, a few strands falling across her face and fluttering as she pulled in air.Callie gently sat down on the edge of the bed and stroked Arizona’s face, heart growing full as Arizona’s eyelids twitched at the touch and a small smile pulled at the corners of her mouth, making her dimple pop.“Hey, mi amor, whatcha doing?” Callie cooed in a low voice, making one blue eye open and peer at her before Arizona’s face broke into a wide smile, “Calliope!” Arizona lowered her hand and yawned widely, making Callie yawn as well.“How’d you end up here?” Callie asked as Arizona pulled herself into a sitting position and yawned again. Arizona had to think for a moment, but the second she remembered what had happened she couldn’t help but giggle. Callie was confused, her tired, hazy mind struggling to work out what was so funny. “What’s funny?” She asked, pretty sure her voice was starting to slur with sleep.Arizona finally took a deep breath between giggles and grabbed Callie’s hand, holding it tightly as she grinned and said, “you know Lauren Boswell?” Callie nodded, “yeah, craniofacial surgeon, come in to do surgery on…” she thought for a second and rubbed her other hand over her face, “Tyler Simms.”Arizona squeezed Callie’s hand, “yeah, well, turns out that… she’s been…” she snorted inelegantly and shut her eyes, making Callie concerned. “Arizona?” Opening big blue eyes and staring up at her wife with a gaze full of mirth, Arizona whispered, “she’s been.  flirting with me. All day.”Callie’s jaw dropped as Arizona bit her lip to keep her laughter in, her face turning red from the effort. “And this is funny… why?” Callie asked tentatively, a smile beginning to pull at the corners of her mouth just from Arizona’s face. “Because…” Arizona finally laughed, a light, happy sound that made Callie’s heart soar. “Because I didn’t even realise that it was happening because I was thinking about you!”A chuckle finally rose up Callie’s throat as she leaned forward and wrapped Arizona in a hug, “you oblivious idiot.” She murmured lovingly into her wife’s ear, who just beamed and giggled at the compliment. “I, I didn’t even realise! She was openly flirting to my face, and I didn’t notice because I wanted to do was go home and be with you.” Arizona mumbled into Callie’s neck, “I love you.”“I love you too,” Callie smiled softly, “so what are we gonna do about the flirting situation?”“I’m so tired I think I might fall over.”“That’s… not an answer to the question I just asked.” Callie bit her lip to keep her laughter in as Arizona very slowly pulled from her embrace and looked into her eyes, face marred with confusion. “What?”“You know what? Let’s just go home.” Her vision was swimming slightly as she stood up and offered a hand to Arizona, who took it and yanked herself to her feet. “Oof.” She mumbled, obviously favouring her right leg, trying not to put any weight on the left, her gait wonky and lopsided as she took a step forward. “Did you nap in your leg?” Callie asked in concern and Arizona looked away from her sheepishly. “Arizona!”“What?” Arizona whined, “I couldn’t help it, I just kinda fell over and shut my eyes.”Callie looked at her in a very motherly way that made Arizona want to squirm, but she resisted. “You know what happens…” Callie began, but Arizona interrupted quietly, “I know… but we’re going home so it should be fine… right?”“You’ll put ice on it when we get home?”“Yeah. It might take a hot minute to get home though.” Arizona put her left arm around Callie’s shoulders and leant quite a bit of her weight on her, wincing. “How long have you been wearing it?” Callie asked and it didn’t even cross Arizona’s mind to snap at her about it, like she would have done some months ago, instead answering truthfully, “twenty-two hours with an hour break in the middle.”Taking a deep breath to avoid chastising her darling wife, Callie just shot Arizona another motherly glare. “That’s too long, Arizona, and you know it.”“I knowwww.” Arizona whined, sounding slightly like Sofia when denied candy. The similarity made Callie smile before she supported her wife down the hallway. It took them about five minutes to reach the end of the hall, so Callie sat Arizona down on another gurney and settled next to her. “You may not like what I’m about to say.” She started, looking into Arizona’s face with a sincere expression on her face.“Not a wheelchair.” Arizona rushed out, whispering “I hate wheelchairs.” She started picking at the cuticle of her right thumb, so Callie placed her hand on top of Arizona’s and squeezed softly. “Not a wheelchair. Let me get you a pair of crutches, and let me take off your leg.”Arizona sighed and flopped back against the wall, eyes shut as she muttered, “this sucks.” A pang of long forced down guilt rose in Callie’s chest, “I know.”“You’re right.”“I know.”“I’m so tired.”“I know.”“I love you.”“I know. Huh?” Callie looked up from where she was picking at a thread on her pants, spotting tired blue eyes observing her. Arizona smiled softly, “it’s not your fault.”Callie sighed, “I know. I just hate seeing you like this.”“It’s okay, Calliope. It’s just life, now.”“Yeah.” Callie shook her head to rid it of feelings she thought had gone. “You want me to go and get some crutches?” Arizona yawned and nodded, “yes, please.”Callie stood up and left her bag with Arizona while she took a trip to the store cupboard a few hallways away. Arizona played Tetris on her phone to pass the time, her eyelids drooping but then opening in surprise when she misplaced a long piece that cost her the game. “Screw this.” Arizona muttered, turning her phone off and shoving it back into her bag.A clatter pulled her gaze to the end of the hallway, where Callie had dropped one of the crutches. Arizona smiled as Callie hurriedly picked it up and ran over to her, head down.“Hello, dear.” Arizona said good-naturedly as Callie approached, her face flushed with embarrassment.“Don’t worry, no one saw.” Arizona grinned, but Callie just groaned, “at least eight people saw. Ugh, I hate doing embarrassing things in front of people. Leg off, please!”Arizona looked around, “here?”“Where else?” Callie looked at her expectantly, face softening at Arizona’s discomfort. “Hey, no one’ll even care. If they’re watching, I’ll do a silly dance and then they’ll all be looking at me.”“How did I ever land you?” Arizona asked soppily as she pulled her pant leg up and removed her leg, cringing as the pressure was removed and the pain set in a little harder. She handed the leg to Callie, who held it in her left hand by the ‘ankle’ joint. She removed the gel insert and put it into her bag, sighing as her leg was exposed to the air for the first time in hours.“Whoomph.” She murmured, running the flat of her hand over the scar from the skin graft, grimacing as the skin tingled at the touch. Callie noticed the look cross her face and empathised, “I’ll massage it for you when we get home, if you like.” Arizona moaned even at the thought, “yes please.”Callie nodded once, “alright then. You wanna get out of here?”Arizona grouched as she pulled her pant leg back down and tied it into a knot just under where her leg ended. “Isn’t that meant to be code for s@x?”Callie shrugged, “it could be, but I don’t want to fall asleep between your legs.”“Calliope!” Arizona smacked Callie lightly on the hip, “don’t be vulgar, especially not at work!”Callie chuckled, “come on, lets go home, weirdo.”After grabbing the crutches and settling them under her arms, Arizona shakily stood up with the help of Callie’s strong arm around her back. “Crutches suck.”“Yup.” Callie agreed as she picked up Arizona’s purse and hung it on her shoulder next to her own.“Let’s go home.” Arizona said in a definite tone, as she avoided looking down to where her pant leg may as well have been fluttering in the breeze and instead focused on taking stable, even steps. It didn’t take them too long to get home, even though they received a few weird looks as Callie swung the prosthetic back and forth at her side, laughing along to something Arizona said.The elevator was thankfully working, so within no time they were back at the apartment. Alex had agreed to pick up Sofia and drop her off, so they just both collapsed onto the couch, not even bothering to remove their shoes or jackets. The crutches were abandoned by the front door before Arizona hopped to the couch, where Callie joined her.“I’m so tired that I’m afraid I’m going to forget how to breathe. Or blink. Or swallow.” Callie murmured, laying on her back as Arizona curled into her side.“Those are… normal bodily functions. You will not forget.” Arizona mumbled, resting her head against the curve of Callie’s chest.“M’kay. Good.”**Rudely awakened by a loud noise she couldn’t remember, Arizona’s head shot up, colliding with Callie’s chin with a crack.“Sh@t!” Callie opened her eyes and sat up, accidentally tipping Arizona off her and sending her toppling to the floor with a thud. “What the-” Arizona swore as she looked around the dark apartment, disorientated. She tried to stand up but ended up falling again, due to her forgotten lack of leg. “I’ll… I guess… um, I’ll just stay here.” She mumbled, running her hands over her face and through her hair, which was still in a braid, fingers catching on knots she couldn't be bothered to think about.“Are you okay?” Callie was on her feet now, looking down at Arizona in concern. “Did you bang your head?”“Y-yeah, I’m fine, no I didn’t. Only on your chin, anyway.” She yawned, “what woke us up?” Arizona’s voice was scratchy and dry with sleep as she blinked owlishly around, eyes half shut and a slight headache blooming in her temple.Now it was Callie’s turn to look around in confusion. “I don’t, I don’t know.” She opened and shut her mouth; an audible click being heard as she moved her jaw. “You have a really bony head.” Callie grumbled as she rubbed her jaw with her left hand, using the right to stabilise herself againt the couch.“I could argue that you have a bony jaw.” Arizona challenged, rubbing the top of her head and looking at Callie through half closed eyes. “Well, uh, being an orthopedic surgeon, my professional opinion is that bones are hard.” Callie stretched her back and neck, her spine cracking in multiple places. “It’s the, um, collagen.”“Doesn’t the collagen make them bendy?” Arizona looked up at Callie, who sighed, “oh, yeah. It’s the proteins or the… osteocytes. Or the osteoblasts. Or the osteoclasts. Whatever.” She shook her head dismissively, “bones are hard. Calcium.” As Callie stood up, both of her knees and one of her ankles popped.“You’re getting old, Dr Torres.” Arizona grinned when Callie gave her the middle finger.The doorbell rang again and realisation set in, “oh, yeah that makes sense.” Callie pressed a kiss to the top of Arizona’s head, “you okay to stay there a moment?”Arizona nodded and yawned widely as Callie ran a hand through her hair and walked to the door, opening it and smiling widely at the man on the other side. “Hey Torres, did I wake you up?” Alex asked quietly, motioning to the asleep little girl in his arms.Callie’s yawned but shook her head, “nah, of course not. Thankyou for picking her up, Karev.”“It’s no problem. Is Robbins in?”“I’m here, Alex!” Arizona called from the floor, waving her arm.Alex peered into the dark room, “why are you on the floor? Oh God, were you having-”“If you finish that sentence in the vicinity of my daughter I won't let you in the OR for a week, Karev.” Callie spoke darkly and Alex put his arms up in surrender. “Whoa, Torres, fine. I just wanted to ask her about a case.”Arizona pulled herself onto the couch, “is it really urgent? Because I’ve just come off a twenty-four-hour shift and I want to sleep for a year straight before a…” she yawned, “a once in a lifetime surgical opportunity.”“With a doctor who’s been flirting with her all day.” Callie interjected with a cheeky grin, leaning forward and carefully taking Sofia from Alex. Sofia shifted in her sleep but quickly settled into her Mama’s arms, fast asleep.“What?” Alex asked, “who?”“Lauren Boswell.” Callie nodded, “yeah, that big shot craniofacial surgeon that Arizona is going to be in the OR with for like eight hours in a few days.”“Wow, Robbins.” Alex smirked, “look at you go. And no, its not urgent, I’ll ask you tomorrow when you don’t look like you’re about to pass out.”Callie looked back into the apartment, badly stifling a snort when she saw Arizona draped across the couch, eyes shut and limbs splayed across the cushions.“I ‘preciate that, Alex.” Arizona slurred, shooting her fellow a wonky thumbs up. At the sight, Alex leaned closer to Callie, “are you sure she’s not on drugs?”Callie rolled her eyes, “goodbye, Karev.”“What?! It’s a genuine concern!” Alex exclaimed quietly, “you’re sure she’s not drunk?” One look from Callie shut him up. “Night, Torres. Take care of her.”“I always do, Alex.”“I know.” Alex shot her a crooked smile, “and yourself. And this little lady.” Alex reached forward and stroked a lock of hair back from Sofia’s face before he turned around and walked off down the corridor.Callie carefully shut the door with her elbow as she turned around, careful not to jostle Sofia, who was still fast asleep. “I’ll just pop her back into bed, do you want me to grab an ice pack from the freezer?”There was no reply from Arizona, but Callie just smiled as she walked across the apartment and carefully set Sofia down in her bed. She pressed a kiss to her forehead and whispered, “I love you, mija.” The she pulled the door to and walked back over to her wife, who was laying on her stomach on the couch, fast asleep and snoring softly.“I guess I’ll carry you to bed as well.” Callie spoke under her breath with a loving smile, and eased her arm under Arizona’s chest, flipping her towards her and picking her up bridal style. “I really do love you.”**
  The next day
After breakfast, a simple one of cereal, toast and fruit, Sofia settled in front of the TV with some paper and pencils while her moms cleaned up the kitchen. Callie washed up the bowls as Arizona dried them and placed them on the counter for Callie to put away, as she was in her wheelchair without her leg on and couldn’t reach the high cupboards.Callie set the sink to drain and turned to Arizona, leaning against the sink and crossing her arms as she tried to phrase a question. She settled on, “so… what are we going to do about Lauren?”Arizona looked up from the spoon she was drying and sighed, “I don’t know. What do you want to do?”Callie shrugged and started putting things away, just for something to do with her hands. “I want to hit her for flirting with my wife, but I won’t because I’m a good person.”Smiling softly, Arizona replied, “you know I find possessive Callie hot.”“Oh, I’m well aware.” Callie raised a perfectly groomed eyebrow at Arizona, who flushed and had to avert her eyes. “Stop it.”“Sorry.” After checking that Sofia was still fully engaged with the TV, Callie grabbed a stool from under the counter and sat down next to Arizona, who was still mindlessly drying an already dry spoon. “What do you want to do? I mean, shes only here for what, a week?”“Less than that, four days maybe?” Arizona sighed again and rolled her neck back and forth, ignoring the multiple clicks she could hear at the motion. “She’s cool, you know? And I think we can both agree that she’s… kinda hot?”Callie let out a small huff of laughter, “well, I wouldn’t have said it quite like that.”“Forget I said anything.” Arizona shook her head and looked up at Callie with big, blue eyes, “you’re my person, and you always will be. Badass ortho God.”“Thankyou, Arizona.” Callie smiled back, then rubbed a hand over her face, “do we just wait it out? Do we ask her to stop? I don’t know the protocol here!” Arizona could tell that Callie was beginning to stress, so put down the dry spoon and tea towel, leaned across and grabbed her hand.“Slow down, it’s fine. I’ll ask her to stop, and just… be nice to her. I guess.”Callie nodded and squeezed Arizona’s hand, groaning as she turned to lean her forehead on the cool marble of the counter. She opened and shut her mouth a few times, old insecurities floating to the surface from her time with George and Erica, but unable to voice them, throat locked with anxiety. She pressed her head into the stone, pressing her fingernails into her thigh as a distraction.Arizona knew Callie very well, maybe even better than she knew herself, so knew when Callie wanted to say something but didn’t know how. “Calliope? What is it, love?”Shaking her head, Callie avoided Arizona’s eyes as she stood up from the stool and mumbled, “s’nothing. Don’t worry.” Callie checked that Sofia was still drawing in front of the TV before going to the fridge and grabbing a pack of ham and the bottle of mayonnaise to make Sofia her lunch.Arizona sighed, “I know you, Callie. What are you not saying?”Callie didn’t reply, instead fetching two slices of bread and spreading the mayo on one side with a butter knife, opening the pack of ham and placing a few slices onto the bread as she stared down at it, focusing on the dimples in the bread so she wouldnt look up and see the look of pure concern in her wife’s eyes.Wheeling herself forward, Arizona blocked Callie’s path to the trash can, using the counter to her left to pull herself up into a standing position so she was looking directly into Callie’s eyes, which were downcast and worried.“I am now going to hold myself up with your shoulders.” Arizona announced, “so, um, be ready for that.”“Huh?” Surprised, Callie looked up just as Arizona let go of the counter and planted her hands onto her shoulders. Dropping the empty ham packet and arms immediately rising to support Arizona, Callie locked eyes with her wife, only seeing love in the returning gaze. “Arizona, what-” Callie exclaimed, trying to move and place Arizona back into her chair.Arizona just wrapped an arm around Callie’s neck, so that their faces were nearly touching, “don’t you dare put me back in that d@mn wheelchair. I’m going to stay here until you tell me what’s going on inside your head.”Callie sighed and rested her forehead on Arizona’s, teeth worrying her bottom lip as she shut her eyes and took a deep breath. Arizona could see her throat working as she tried to speak, so stayed silent and just focused on staying upright.Finally, Callie managed to force the words out, even thought they were all jammed together into one. “Areyougonnaflirtback?”“Huh?” Arizona asked, Callie had spoken so fast that she couldn’t distinguish the separate words.“Are… are you going to flirt back? Because she’s leaving soon, so if you did it wouldn’t matter but George cheated on me and Erica left me and I don’t want it to happen again because it ruined me last time but then I met you and its great but I just don’t want it to happen again.” Callie said it all in one breath, eyes closed as if expecting a slap.“You think I would cheat on you? After all we’ve been through? Cheat on you with Lauren Boswell?” Arizona felt slightly offended but wanted to listen to Callie’s side before jumping to conclusions.“I don’t know!” Callie stressed, “George did!” She pulled her face back from Arizona’s and removed Arizona’s arm from around her neck, grabbing her waist and lifting her onto the counter as Arizona let out a surprised squeak. “I thought me and George were great, and then he cheated on me!”“I’m not George!” Callie began pacing around the kitchen island as Arizona rubbed her hand over her face, “why did you put me here?” Arizona tried to keep her voice level, their daughter still wasn’t too far away, but a small amount of anger peeked through.“Because I felt cornered and I needed to move!” Callie fretted as she grabbed a banana from the bowl and placed it into Sofia’s unicorn lunch bag with the ham sandwich, needing something to do with her hands so she didn’t start pulling on the loose skin around her fingernails, which would then inevitably start to bleed.“I’m sorry I made you feel like that, I just needed to look you in the eye.” Arizona shifted awkwardly on the counter, “you really think I would cheat on you?”“No…?” Callie’s answer ended in a questioning tone and Arizona sighed, “I’m not going to cheat on you. I’m not George.”“I know that, I do, I just… George did and it was horrible and now you’re being flirted with and you find it funny and so do I but I just don’t quite know what to think!” Callie grabbed a granola bar from the box in a cupboard and put it in the bag with the rest of Sofia’s lunch.“I’m not going to cheat on you!”“I KNOW THAT!” Callie shouted before she rubbed a hand over her face, digging her fingers into her eyes and breathing out sharply. “I know that.” She repeated quieter, leaning back against the fridge. “I do.”“Ok, then what’s going on here?” Arizona was still sitting on the counter, trying to give Callie her space, although all she wanted to do was wrap her wife up in her arms and never let go. She knew it was important for Callie to feel her feelings, and she was also aware that Callie wouldn’t lift her up and put her on the counter for no reason.Callie knew that she had always been insecure, they had started in her teens and never really disappeared. The self esteem issues had popped back up when Arizona wouldn't even look her in the eye, but her then they had disappeared for a few months after she and Arizona had gotten back on the right track after the plane crash. She hated that her default state seemed to be insecurity, but there it was, rearing its ugly head. She turned away from Arizona so that she wouldn’t see the tears beginning to pool in her eyes.“You said she was hot.”“Oh, Calliope.”Callie hated the pity she could hear in Arizona’s voice.“I was joking.”“You sounded pretty serious to me.” Callie spoke flatly, picking at her thumbnail just for something to do with her hands. “George said that Izzie was a supermodel. He said, ‘Izzie's stacked, she’s a supermodel.’ I said to him, ‘what does that make me.’”Arizona was shocked, she didn't know that and hated George just a little bit more for putting down the gorgeous woman in front of her. She needed Callie to get her confidence back. “Well, Lauren and Izzie are like the typical ‘hot woman’, but you know what my type is? Come on, Callie, you know what my type is.”Callie didn’t speak, she wanted to hear Arizona say it.“You are my type. You know I’m an ass girl and you have the finest ass I have ever seen. My type is brunette, busty, hot, orthopedic surgeons, who never let a man tell them what to do and can build arms and legs from scratch, like God. A woman who can pick me up like I weigh nothing. I love you, Callie. I will never cheat on you.” Arizona tried to keep her voice even and her tone calm, filtering as much love and care into her words as possible. She knew where Callie was coming from, and she was going to do everything she could to make Callie feel comfortable. “Never.”Slowly turning back around, Callie raised her blurry gaze and brown locked with piercing blue. Arizona was watching her carefully, eyes filled with concern and love, leg swinging through the air as she leaned back against the counter, propping her weight up with her hands, while Callie’s eyes were filled with insecurity and embarrassment, her posture awkward and unsure. “Never?”Arizona’s voice was firm and sure as she looked into Callie’s eyes and said, “never.”“M’sorry.” Callie mumbled, leaning back against the fridge as a tear finally fell down her cheek. “I don’t wanna lose you.”“You’re not going to lose me.” Arizona replied seriously, “you have me forever, Torres. I’m not renewing my vows with you for no reason.”That made the sides of Callie’s mouth perk up a little, before her face fell again and she shook her head, saying again, “I’m sorry.”“You don’t need to be sorry.” Arizona seemed to be considering something, saying quietly but with a small smile, “um, sorry to ask this of you right now, but please can you get my leg for me so I can stand and give you a hug without hanging from you like a sloth?”Callie laughed softly, a small breath out of her nose at the childish way Arizona described things, something she had picked up from the peds ward. “Sure.” She walked to the bedroom, taking the time to gather herself and wipe her nose and eyes with a tissue she picked up from the box on Arizona’s bedside table, where her leg was leaned up. Putting the tissue in the trash, Callie grabbed the gel insert from the drawer and walked back to the kitchen, taking a small moment to admire Arizona’s profile, she was still sitting on the counter, humming under her breath as she swung her leg back and forth.“Hey, I’ve got the limb.” She shot Arizona a tender smile as she walked forward and handed over the prosthetic with the insert.“Thankyou.” Arizona took the gel insert and slipped it onto her residual limb, which was surprisingly not swollen and red, like they had both expected it to be when she woke up that morning. After putting her leg on, Arizona stood up and rocked back and forth to make sure it was properly secured before she looked up at Callie, who nodded. Wrapping her arms around Callie’s neck, Arizona made sure not to squeeze too tightly but hold tightly enough that Callie could feel the love she was trying to pour through the embrace.“I’m sorry.”“M’sorry.”They both spoke at the same time, holding each other a little tighter after they apologised.**“So, when do we need to go?” Arizona asked as she put a blueberry pancake in a ziplock bag for Sofia’s lunch and Callie cut up an apple.“Uh, we’ve both got paperwork and charts to do this afternoon, I’ve got a hip replacement at half eight this evening, and your surgery with Dr Boswell starts at six tomorrow morning, so I’m guessing you want to stay overnight and scrub in early because you’re a people pleaser?” Callie grinned as Arizona rolled her eyes, “shut up. Me and Dr Boswell are going to be talking to Tyler’s parents this afternoon too, so that’s great.”They had agreed to only refer to Lauren as Dr Boswell, to keep the relationship purely professional and to keep Lauren’s name out of both of their mouths, as if even her name left a bitter taste.Nodding, Callie replied, “yep. Anyway, that means leaving at about twelve to get all the boring cr@p done, with some time for sleeping.”“Alright.” Arizona nodded, “its only half ten, we’ve got time to watch a movie!”Callie grimaced, “we need to change the bedsheets, we’ve both been too busy and tired to do it.” Groaning, Arizona looked to the ceiling and complained, “that’s so boring!”“Well, do you want to be sleeping in two weeks worth of sweat?” Callie looked expectantly at Arizona, who crinkled her nose in disgust.“I didn’t think so.” Callie quirked an eyebrow as Arizona crossed her arms like a petulant child. “Ugh, can we at least watch a movie tomorrow night?”Callie smiled, “sure. What do you want to watch?”“Hmm, I don’t know. I’ll have a think today. Wait, is Sofia staying overnight in daycare?”“Yup, Mer is on a twenty four hour shift and both Alex and Derek refuse to be left alone with her, because she has your attitude.” Callie inclined her head toward Arizona with a smirk, and Arizona laughed, “she’s lucky that she got my attitude because she got your looks. She’ll be a perfect lady.”Callie grinned and then seemed to think for a second, “wait, is it day-care if its at night? Or is it night-care?”“Asking the important questions there, Calliope.” Arizona rolled her eyes.“It is important!”Arizona threw her hands up into the air, “well, I don’t know, google it!” “Maybe I will!” Callie dug out her phone, pulled up google and shouted into the microphone, “IS IT STILL DAYCARE IF ITS AT NIGHT?” She scrolled for a moment while Arizona struggled to keep in her laughter.Callie’s eyebrows furrowed as she pressed the screen multiple times, rolling her eyes as she looked up at Arizona and grumbled, “inconclusive.”
  
  

    
      
        
        
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