"We Are Just The Same"

A/N – This is my first fanfic, I'm not really sure how far I will take this, but as long as the ideas keep coming to me, I will keep writing. I am inspired by the fellow writer "Bowlingstar11". She has written my favorite story on here "Country Girl At Heart", so if you haven't read that, I recommend you do. She is beyond talented and I check daily for updates on that story! Well, Hope you enjoy…. Here goes…

This story is my version of Callie and Arizona from meeting at the bar to starting their family.. No baby daddy, Mark Sloan. He is nothing more than Callie's best friend.

Also, I own nothing. These characters belong strictly to Shondaland…

Chapter I – They Meet

Callie's POV:

It has been one of the longest weeks of my life. Erica leaving has put me into this funk that I have no clue how to pull myself out of. Sure I wasn't "In love" with her, but I don't know if I could have fallen in love with her eventually. She was a great friend of mine, and I tried to feel a connection with her. I just couldn't feel the Sparks for the life of me. I hurt her. I know that I did. When I slept with Mark to try to answer questions about my sexuality I knew it was wrong. But even saying that to myself doesn't make me feel too bad. I was doing what I thought I had to do at that point. Women have never been the sex that I was attracted to. Only recently have I realized that I am more drawn to the female sex then I am to the opposite. Erica just wasn't THE one for me. But as I sit here at this bar listening to little Grey ramble on and on about her and Mark's relationship it makes me feel even more sorry for myself as I am alone… yet again. Humpff.. Story of my life. First George, now Erica. I am bound to be destined to spend my life alone, or as a random hook up kind of girl. During all of this self loathing, I didn't hear Little Grey ask me "Are you sure your ok?". I couldn't even give her a straight answer before I got up and hauled my butt to the womens restroom. I wanted to atleast spare myself the breakdown in front of everyone at the bar.

I was trying my best to clean up my running mascara when the door opened. "Please let them go straight to the restroom and not notice me here crying my eyes out", I said to myself. But.. no such luck. "Hey!" the blonde said. I couldn't turn around and I simply responded with a "hi" in hopes that it was just someone being polite in passing. She started talking to me and I had to torn around, because regardless I am not a rude person. I try to be polite to anyone that I come in contact with, until they give me a reason not to of course. She starts telling me how she works at the hospital, how she knows "things" about me. I only assume she is referring to the fact that "Dr. Torres is a lesbian" has been circulating around that hospital like next week's hot press. After she tells me all about how people "REALLY like me at work" I can't help but kind of laugh. Then it happened. I tried to make a joke after her comment about when I'm over being upset that there will be people lining up for me, and said to the blonde "You wanna give me some names?". Her response wasn't a list of names, nor was it a laugh. Her face turned serious and she stepped forward, placed her hand on my cheek, and kissed me. It wasn't a passionate kiss. Not a kiss full of fury or romance. A simple kiss before she pulled away and said "I think you'll know". I could not avoid the huge smile that spread across my face as her blue eyes lit up and her beautiful smile with dimples spread across hers as well. She just smiled and walked out of the restroom.

I sat there for about another 15 minutes like a stunned idiot. I couldn't move. I tried to process how this just happened. There I was in the restroom thinking to myself how pathetic I was. How I would probably end up a 50 year old single woman with a house full of cats. Then she came in. Arizona Robbins. Pediatric Surgeon. And I had no idea that this one night… this one kiss.. would change my life forever. Arizona would take everything I have ever known in my life to be true, and turn it upside down. Arizona would bring me out of my slump, and show me what life is really about.