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Present: What is the significance of switching wine preferences?

A/N at the end…

-Finding Hope in a Glass-

There was a moment during the second night of staying in Mark's apartment that Callie wandered through the kitchen and randomly opened the refrigerator. The food had been cleaned out months before, but on one of the empty shelves sat a bottle of white wine.

Intrigued, she wrapped her hand around the neck and pulled it out. When she looked down at the label and realized that it was Arizona's favorite brand of white wine she felt herself collapse against the cabinets behind her. She couldn't stop the sobs that broke from her lips or the tears that streaked down her cheeks as she sunk to the cold floor below.

She sat there on the floor for hours that night, holding onto the bottle for dear life.

The next night she found a bottle opener in one of the drawers and poured a glass for herself. It wasn't her choice of wine. Red had always been her preferred choice because she couldn't stand how sweet white wine felt on her tongue. But it was Arizona's and knowing that somehow eased the ache in her heart as she sipped it slowly, sitting on the floor of Mark's kitchen.

And so it became a ritual for Callie, to sit on the floor of her dead best friend's kitchen and sip a glass of her wife's favorite white wine.

It was her way of mourning both of the people she loved.

One that was gone forever and the other she wasn't sure she'd ever get back.

So it didn't surprise her that when she sat down at the bar next to Owen weeks later after Arizona's outburst in the prosthetics suite that she asked the bartender for white wine without thinking.

It had become her drink of choice after all.

But it did surprise her when she found herself staring at the glass of red wine on the coffee table after she was invited to stay and watch American Bake-Off with her wife the next night.

Arizona had asked her for a glass of red wine before she had left to go sleep at Mark's almost two weeks ago. After a few nights, it had become a habit to pour a glass for Arizona and place it on the coffee table in front of her before she left to walk across the hall. She did it without thinking anymore.

As she sat there and stared at it, that glass of red wine just didn't make sense.

It had always been white for Arizona and red for herself.

And slowly, Callie realized just how important wine could be.

She was drinking white because she missed Arizona.

And she was going to hold onto the hope that Arizona had started drinking red because through all the hate and anger and blame, she missed her just as much.

So, I know others of you noticed the same thing I did during last night's episode- the wine preferences have switched. This little one-shot just popped into my head because let's face it; Shonda always has a reason for all the little details we see on Grey's.

I figured since I have oh, close to seven stories sitting on my computer right now that are one-shots of Arizona and Callie that I'd start a collection. They're going to be canon (because I cannot write believable AU lol) and I'll try to post at least once a week.

As always, thanks for reading and enjoy!

Fannye