931Disclaimer: I don't own Grey's Anatomy, I just borrowed the name of the characters for entertaining, no intention to violate any copyrights.
Chapter 1
"Dr. Robbins!"
"Dr. Sloan, nice job in there, even though I still don't agree to apply plastic surgery on a child…" Arizona talked without lifting her head from the sink.
"Ha ha, really have to say you are one of the most stubborn women I know. The kid is about to start high school…" Mark couldn't take away the smirk on his face.
"I know I know, he took enough school yard craps, he should have a chance to lose those man boobs, that's why I agreed to assist. I am stubborn but not unreasonable, you know." Arizona replied with a playful sigh, both of them knew this surgery gave the poor boy a better life after all.
They decided to head to the cafeteria for lunch, all in a sudden Mark looked at Arizona with a serious face. "Can I ask you something?"
"Yes?"
"Would guys with boobs be the kind of guys that you might go out with, even have sex with? I mean, there are boobs! You like them as much as I do." Mark ended the question with a naughty laugh, made Arizona laugh along.
"Ewww… what kind of question was that? I like WOMEN, not just the boobs! You love boobs, would you kiss those man boobs then?"
"Oh come on, I came up with this joke days ago, couldn't dare to bring it up otherwise you would turn down the surgery again, I had to get it out of me."
"Grow up, Mark." They stepped in the elevator together.
"Fine. Hey, you're up for a drink tonight? Celebrate the successful surgery?"
"Sounds good, but please tell me it won't be just you & me," Arizona glanced at Mark and continued "I can't stand to be your hot-chick-gay-or-not detector all night, or compete with each other see which of us could pick up more women."
"I've changed!" Mark blurted out.
"Ya ya ya, once a man whore…"
"I love Lexie, I love my girlfriend. God I love the sound of it, my girlfriend. How about you and yours?"
"I don't have a girlfriend." Arizona asserted firmly.
"Arizona, everyone knew about you and that ortho …"
"Nothing serious," Arizona cut in before Mark even finished. "Really, we just hang out, yes we have sex, but we really haven't talk about being exclusive or else. For all people, you should be no stranger to this condition."
"You hooked up with her 4 months ago, since then you stopped sleeping around, that sounds being exclusive to me." Mark stated matter of fact, leading both of them to the cafeteria.
"I stopped sleeping around because I am getting busy at work, and the Bailey Almighty had a talk with me in the gallery once, plastic guys fooling around won't hurt their reputations, contrarily, women have more faith in them because those guy's hands touched hundreds or even thousands of boobs and asses, those are sick kind of experienced hands. But as for a pediatric surgery, I have a reputation to maintain, don't want any patients to have doubt in me." Arizona explained heedlessly, looked around to search for their friends in the meantime.
"Ouch, should I feel being insult by Bailey?" Mark pretended being hurt and followed Arizona to join Teddy and Owen's table.
"Nope, she said that while we were watching you giving a boob job, she was kind of admired your experienced hands."
"That woman really have a way to give compliment, never know should feel insulted or flattered." Then Mark shifted the subject for the whole group of the people on the table. "Anyway, back to the plan for today, my friend's pub across the street is going to be opened tonight, I have to be in there, anyone wants to join? I was promised with free drinks tonight."
"A pub across the street?" "Where?" Both Teddy & Arizona asked the same time.
"Women are really self-centered, aren't they?" Mark looked over to Owen but didn't find agreement from the guy, so he continued "The shop right around the corner, being covered for weeks under construction, there is the pub, called HORIZON."
"Right… Good location for a pub. But why did it take such a long time to renovate the place? It took like 2 months I think, I thought they made it for something else." Teddy asked.
"Well, you can ask my friend tonight."
"OK, I'm in."
Mark turned to Arizona again, "Come with your girlfriend?"
"I will be there but I don't have a girlfriend to join us, and no, I am not coming with that person you assume that is my girlfriend." Arizona answered with an annoyed tone.
Mark and Teddy looked at her with snickers, and Owen just concentrated in the sandwich in front of him.
xxxxx
Every surgeon hated it when a lame surgery ran long, Arizona was no exception. She was 2 hours late for the gathering with her workmates in that new pub, before changing into her street clothes, she pulled out the phone from her lab coat which was hanging in the locker, found that she had 2 missed messages from the same person, she thought about it for a moment and then replied the sender with Sorry I have plan tonight, rain check?
She wasn't looking for a relationship right now, maybe she should do something or stop doing something so people won't assume she was having one. Or maybe not stop stop, just had to try not to be so attached.
She groaned to herself – dating was hard, having a relationship was hard, even having a causal relationship was not easy. Ummm… no, that wasn't any relationship, that was just… sex, 2 grown women having good time together, no attachment… While she was talking to herself, the phone buzzed that signaled an income text OK babe, call me when you can. "Holy shit, she gave me pet name…" She walked out of the hospital with a horrible feeling in her stomach, maybe some drinks could help to ease that.
She walked into the pub and found it was packed, well, seemed Mark did a good job to promote the place, almost half of the hospital staffs were here. The place looked kinda rough, concrete walls, dark tables, dark chairs, dim lights, it had a strange kind of vibes, felt like a bat cave, totally a place for a burnouts to spend a night to get wasted.
On the left was the bar, bunch of guys were crowding in there waiting for their drinks, wouldn't even see the bartenders or the décor of the bar. The opposite side was a small stage for band performance, but it was empty, seemed they couldn't get any band for the grand opening then.
She looked over to the tables, found her friends occupied the biggest table in the room, then she walked toward them through the small dance floor.
"Hey you made it!" Mark shouted out, obviously a little drunk already. "Welcome to the HORIZON."
"Hey where's your girl? Where's Col…" Alex shouted out as well, without a doubt he was a bit drunk too, tried to take the advantage of free drinks. Arizona stopped him before he said more "You finished that sentence then you'll be out of my service, period!"
"Dude, you are no fun, you need a drink. What do you want? I'll get it for you, and everyone!" Alex mumbled while stood up heading to the bar.
"I'll have a Manhattan with extra cherry." Arizona settled herself next to Bailey, who was drinking something in weird blue color. Arizona looked at her with concern eyes, "What are you drinking Miranda?" "I have no idea, Yang brought it for me, it tasted real~ly great." She answered inarticulately.
Arizona looked over to Cristina and found she was binge drinking tequila with Meredith, then she asked Mark who was on the other side on the table "What is Miranda drinking? That doesn't look right…" "Oh, my friend let Cristina fooled around behind the bar for a while, she mixed something up and only Bailey liked it, so we gave them all to her." Mark said with a huge grin in his face, apparently they had a great time before Arizona arrived. In the meantime, Alex came back with a tray full of hard stuffs.
"OK, where is your friend who owns this place? I have to warn him about you drunken fools, he would be out of business within a month, no, a week if he kept letting you guys having free drinks."
That got the attention from Cristina "Oh come on roller girl, don't be such a mood buster, let me fix you a rainbow drink…" She tried to get up but Meredith stopped her by grabbing her shoulder "You were banned to go behind the bar, remember? You kept mixing Irish bombs that may get you arrested."
"Yeah right…" Cristina thought about it for a while, with a smile of satisfaction in her face, "I had a great time, Mer. Ah by the way, roller girl, the friend of Mark is a woman, not a 'he'."
"Aha, a woman friend Mark, an old hook up?" Arizona was happy that she may got back to Mark about the 'girlfriend' comment earlier.
"No!" He turned to Lexie with a panic face, "No babe, really, she is just a dear friend back in New York, nothing more." It amused both Arizona & Lexie with his reaction, seemed Mark really care about Lexie, Arizona made a mental note that she would use this to make some fun herself.
"Come blondie, let me introduce you to my best friend, after Derek of course, but she surely is my number 1 female best friend, and with her moving to here now, maybe she could climb up to real number 1 since Derek is married and getting boring …" Mark was rumbling all the way toward the bar, jeez he really had drank too much.
The bar was still packed, guys seemed didn't want to go where else but staying there, there must be a hot chick bartending, Arizona thought to herself, "wise business move, your friend is clever."
Mark didn't get what she was talking about, just led her walked around the bar, instead of trying to push away the guys to approach the bar, they were behind it now.
"Here she is! My number one female best friend Miss Calliope Torres!" Drunken Mark threw himself into Callie, made her dropped a bottle of beer in the sink before trying to catch the man, and made the rest of the men gave him jealous glares.
And all Arizona could think about was – I am right, it's a hot chick, a very hot Latina.
"Mark, are you ok? I told you I'll clock you with a beer bottle if you called me Calliope, you're drunk already? Hey the night is still young old man." Callie joked to the man in her embrace.
"Of course not, I just love to show those hungry animals that I could hug you like this." Mark glanced to the guys surrounded the bar, Callie quickly slapped the back of his head "Hey, they are my customers."
Arizona stood behind Mark, couldn't help to check out this stunning woman, especially after Mark spun her around and now that perfect curvy body in a tight jeans was right in front of her.
Escaped from Mark's grasp, she found Arizona stood behind her and stared at her ass, a smirk on her face and then reach out a hand "Hi, you must be one of the friend of this guy, he always makes friend with the hot ones, I'm Callie."
"Arizona, Robbins." Arizona returned to earth, gave a shy smile and looked into Callie's eyes while shaking hands "I like your place, special."
"You mean raw and cold?" Mark interrupted before put his arm around Callie's shoulder.
"No…"
"You can say that, actually that is what I go for. Let's head to the table, I can use a break." Callie turned around to talk to the other bartender "Joe, can you handle this alone for a while? I'll be back." Then three of them walked to the table together, Arizona in the front, Mark followed with Callie still wrapped under his arm. Just after few steps away from the bar, Mark stopped and whispered something in Callie's ear, she looked at Mark squarely, eyes widened and growled "WHAT? WHY?"
Arizona heard the sudden conversation, stopped and turned to them.
"Callie, I just… I don't want… I… I… I… just…." Clearly, poor Mark didn't except this reaction from his friend, now he was trying to find a good reason in his intoxicant brain to calm her, but nothing came up.
"So, you think slept with me was that shameful that you don't want me to mention it in front of your precious friends? For your information, I didn't even put that in mind, what kind of person you think I am?" Callie was so wrathful, a finger pointed to Mark's face while she barked out the words, luckily they were still far away from the table.
Arizona couldn't help herself to whisper an "Oh..." Well, it wasn't unnoticed by the furious Latina.
"Not you too! What is wrong with you people in here? Seriously, why are people so judgmental in here?" She wheeled around after giving a dead glare to Arizona.
"Callie, wait!" Mark tried to grab Callie's wrist to stop her "I didn't mean that."
"No you are! You know what? My 'best friend', your privilege is over, no more free drinks for you and your judgmental friends." With that, she strode out to the back of the bar.
Arizona looked at the defeated man, still shocked with what just happened in less than a minute.
"Well, she doesn't handle stress well, and very insecure, she could easily snapped someone's head off like that…" Mark forced a smile, then shook his head slight, headed back to the table with Arizona. "She'll be fine later, now I just have to explain to the guys that our party is over, shit."
"Sorry Mark, I think I blew it because I joked about you and her hooked up before…" This conversation stopped when they reached to the table.
Once they realized the fun was over, and actually they had quite enough of drinks already, people started to dismiss. Lexie helped Derek to get Meredith and Cristina home, Teddy carried Miranda back to the hospital for a banana bag, and Alex… well he left with a blonde long ago. Arizona and a sober up Mark stayed in their table chatting.
"So you and Callie, huh?" Arizona asked nonchalantly, but deep down she felt kinda disappointed, she always had a thing for brunette, let alone that curvy body…
"We hooked up in her bar in New York years ago, remained friends afterward and every time when she needed me, physically or mentally, I was there. Especially before and after the time her marriage came to an end, she was a mess, Addie and I literally had to go over to pick her up from the floor, figuratively." Mark talked to Arizona, sipping his beer but glanced over the now less busy bar, gazed at Callie who resumed to her position a while ago, was laughing with some guy in front of her. Arizona followed his glance and couldn't help to stare at that mesmeric smiling face.
Sigh, she is batting for Mark's team… Arizona said to herself.
After another while of chit chat, Arizona was about to drag Mark to leave, out of the corner of her eye she saw Callie approached the table with a bottle of Tequila in her hand.
"Hmmm… peace?" Callie said to both of them sheepishly.
Mark had a huge grin in his face, pulled Callie's face with both hands for an audible mouth to mouth kiss. "Listen, if you keep snap at me like this, I won't be there for you anymore."
"I know and I am sorry, Mark. And you," she turned to Arizona, "I didn't mean to shout at you, I wasn't myself earlier…"
Mark mumbled "yeah right…." That earned himself another slap on the back of his head. "Shut it Mark." Callie beamed mischievously.
"That is fine, I just need to remember not to piss you off, not to hide you from anyone, and have a good protection for my head from your slaps." Sensed the tension was gone, Arizona started to relax and joked with this beautiful woman in front of her.
"Hey you're hot and funny, I like you!" Callie winked at Arizona, that made the blonde blushed out of the unexpected compliment, thanks to the dim lights it wasn't so noticeable.
"Stop flirting with my friend for a moment, seriously, I am begging you Callie, I know it may hurt your feeling, but please don't take it the wrong way, it will be grateful if you do not mention we had sex to anyone… this eavesdropper," he signaled Arizona "overheard then I couldn't undo it, Lexie won't be happy that I keep hanging out with you if she knew, I love that girl and I don't want to lose her." Mark tried to pull out his best poppy dog eyes, Callie raised her eyebrow and stared at him for a while, then looked at Arizona, and looked back at Mark.
"First of all, I don't intend to brag about our sex to anyone, there wasn't anything to brag about anyway. I don't need you, didn't you see I got people lining up for me around the bar? But how about you two? Lexie doesn't know you two or she accepted that you keep one fuck buddy around?"
"What do you mean by nothing to brag about? I am a golden boy!" "What are you talking about? I am not his fuck buddy!" Mark and Arizona blurted out in the same time.
Chose to ignore Mark, Callie faced Arizona with an amused look. "Mark never passes on any hot woman, or make friend with any woman who he hasn't slept with yet. How could you keep your innocence?"
Arizona felt herself turned into a stupid teenager in front of this beautiful Latina, she wasn't shy naturally, but she just couldn't form any word to answer the question, and simpered like a fool with her face red to the tip of her ears.
"She doesn't want me, she speaks vagina monologues." Mark pretended to be hurt before shot the tequila into his mouth.
"Really?" Callie's eyebrow raised up even higher than before.
"Ya, gold star!" Mark stated it with a broad grin on his face, but Arizona remained silent. She was not ashamed of her sexuality, just felt not so comfortable of being discussed in front of 2 straight persons, especially with this glamorous woman that she was kind of… interested with. Well, Callie was straight but a girl could hope, right?
Observed Arizona's hesitation, Callie saved her new friend by turning the attention back to Mark again. "So, you are planning on settle down with that little girl? Isn't she about the age as your daughter?"
"Cal, maybe it's time you know, everyone needs someone, and when you found the right person, you knew it and you just want to stay, not running away, not to reach for an exit, all you could think about was to spend every single moment together…"
Both women silently listened to Mark, realized the man whore had been changed and seemingly deeply in love with his girlfriend.
"Just last time when little Sloan came over, it scared her. She knew I had history but when it hit her in the face, that was something else, she couldn't handle it. From time to time she received glares from the nurse because of me, or freak out when a slutty drug rep winked at me, knowing my ex-sex friend is here and stay close? I am afraid I may have to choose between you two." Mark finished with a long sigh.
"Tell me you would choose me, Mark!" Callie gave him a playful scowl, Arizona just shook her head with a soft chuckle.
Arizona watched the two friends joked and teased each other for a while, then decided to call it the night. Before she left, Callie made her promised to come back again, of course she would.
On the way home, she pulled out the phone and found that there had 2 other messages from Colleen about an hour ago, asked about her night and wished her sleep tight…
