do you have any cute hcs? miss them so much!
Oh my goodness how was this ask 11 days ago, I’ve been putting it off until I actually had time to sit down and think about it! Which, luckily, now I do, so here goes! (These are all vaguely canon compliant bits of fluff bc I’ve missed them but obviously pls prompt me for anything more specific if you want!)
- The first time Arizona stayed over at Callie’s place, she woke up first and so got up to make them coffee. As far as Callie was aware, she’d picked the mugs at random - a dark brown stoneware mug with copper tones running throughout it for Callie, and a white mug with red swirled patterns on it for herself. Both mugs had been gifted and though they were nice, Callie rarely used them as she had a tendency to just grab whatever was in the front of the cupboard without looking, and they had resided in the back. But the next time Arizona stayed over, she used the same two mugs again, and then it sort of just became a subconscious thing - the brown one was Callie’s and the red one was Arizona’s. It wasn’t until they’d been together for well over a year that Callie actually thought to ask whether there was any reason to Arizona’s mug choices, and to her delight she watched her gf get all flushed and awkward. After a bit of prodding, she admitted that she’d chosen the brown one for Callie bc the colours reminded her of her eyes and the way that they sparkled when she smiled, and she’d chosen the red one for herself bc it reminded her of the pattern on Callie’s scrub cap.
- Arizona finds watching Callie re-locate someone’s dislocated joint incredibly hot. And she knows she really shouldn’t bc like, that’s a person yelping in pain. But she’s not watching the person, she’s watching her gf(/wife) braced on a table aggressively yet also skilfully yanking someone’s leg/arm/hip about, with that look of concentration on her face, and she can literally see her strength as she does it, and damn Arizona always finds herself exiting the room with an incredibly inappropriate flush on her cheeks.
- Arizona loves the beach - she’d talked about this many times, but it wasn’t until the first summer of their relationship came around that they actually managed to go. And then Callie also learnt that Arizona, being pale, burns really easily. Like, they made it home and though she’d sworn she’d topped up her suncream (Callie wasn’t so sure as she only recalled watching her do it once and knew she’d remember if she’d seen her gf rubbing lotion on herself a second time), she came home looking like a tomato. And though Arizona’s pouty face and bright pink nose was very cute, the whole ‘risk of skin cancer’ thing was not. And so, for the rest of the summer (and all of the summers after that), Callie carried around an emergency bottle of factor 50, for ‘just in case’. (Arizona complained that she wasn’t a child and didn’t need someone else to carry suncream around for her, but by the end of the first summer, she was halfway through the second ‘emergency bottle’)
- Arizona thinks that Callie’s thing for rock music whilst she is operating is both adorable and hilarious. Like, she finds it so amusing to sit in the gallery and watch Callie’s head bopping to the music whilst she is literally cranking a clamp into someone’s leg. But at the same time she thinks it is absolutely ridiculous. Like, on more than one occasion Callie has got a nurse to put it on when they’re operating together on a child, and every time Arizona lasts maximum five minutes before feeling like she’s going to snap, and no amount of watching Callie look all focused and happy is enough to prevent it. Once, she yelled at someone to switch it off, and the weird mix of angry confusion and kicked puppy-style expression on Callie’s face was enough to make her feel extremely guilty. It wasn’t great. Eventually they had talked about it, and they had agreed on a light quiet background music when the surgery was straightforward, and silence if it was more complicated. Arizona preferred silence all of the time, but she knew it made Callie happy, so she’d make do. As long as there weren’t too many heavy guitar solos.
