Distanced Love

This is my first Grey's Anatomy fic. I have recently been obsessing with not just the actual show but the coupling of George and Callie. So I go to find some good fics centered around my favorite new pairing. And I find almost nothing. Out of 43 pages of romance stories of all kinds, I found 1 GxC fics centered around just the two of them. It made me so angry. So I decided I was going to start writing a bunch of them for those people who like the couple but are unable to find the fics that they desire. So here goes my first attempt at a GA fic!

Chapter 1: News of Angst

It was tuesday night at Seattle Grace Hospital. All the doctors and interns were on their many cases of the day. Dr. Bailey along with Izzie, and George were working with a patient who was bleeding internally. Addison and Mark were fighting as normal, everyone else around them let them continue because they were so used to the bickering. And Meredith and Callie were finishing a case together working with Cristina.

"Well, that was fun" Cristina remarked after finishing the last of the stitches.

"He did bleed a lot didn't he?" Meredith said in reply.

"Sure did" She said putting down the bloody utensils.

"I'm gonna get these sterilized" Callie said holding the utensils. "Thanks for helping me" She said taking off her head cap, mask, and surgical cover before leaving the room. Meredith picked them up and placed them in a trash can sitting across the room.

"We'll have to tell Bailey the surgery was a sucsess after she gets out of the one's she preforming" Cristina said taking off her surgery equipment. Meredith nodded.

"And then get assigned to another case" She groaned.

"Well you are a surgical intern, your going to have to do surgeries often" She remarked.

"Yes but, I want a little break. Just today" She said throwing away her things.

Cristina rolled her eyes.

"Don't tell me it has something to do with Derek"

Meredith only sighed.

"I'll take that as a yes" Cristina mumbled. "You've been doing well with all of the cases lately, maybe Bailey will let you have a little time off"

"I hope so" She said walking out of the room followed by Cristina. They walked down the long hallway of the hospital where the board of all the cases were.

"Well Bailey started 45 minutes ago, if it's not a serious surgery then they should be done pretty soon" She said looking around the hospital.

"She's on floor three" She said pointing to the board.

"I was on floor three" The voice said.

"Dr. Bailey" Meredith said caught by surprise when the women appeared behind her.

"Is their something you two need?" She questioned.

"Nothing for me" Cristina said. "I'll catch up with you later Mer" She said walking away.

"What do you want Grey?"

"Some time off today" She said.

Bailey raised an eyebrow.

"All of today?"

Meredith gave a side glance and nodded.

Bailey let out a sigh.

"Tell me your story" She groaned.

"I've been having a problem with Derek lately, I just wanted to fix it. He's off today"

"It's always about Derek isn't it?" She sighed again. "Alright, go ahead. You;ve been doing well for the past few days anyways. Plus, I need to see one of our residents" She said

"Who do you need to see?" She asked with curiosity

"Dr. Torres" She stated.

"Callie? What did she do? Is she in trouble?"

"No, Grey no. I've actually got a surprise for her" She said with a smile.

"Well whatever it is, I hope she likes it" Meredith said with a smile.

"I believe she will" She said waving goodbye and turned on her heel walking in the opposite direction but stopped.

"Grey?"

"Yes?"

"Do you know where she is?"

"We just came out of a surgery with her. She went to the sterilization room.

"Thank you Grey" She said turning around and hopping into an elevator.

George gave a small wave as Izzie turned in the opposite corner to go off to give the evaluation of the surgery to Dr. Webber, who was closely watching that particular sugery which was for now, a sucsess.

He tightened his grip on the tools which needed to be sterilized as he went through the busiest part of the hospital, the emegency hallways. He managed to get through without anything dropping or anything poking or hitting someone going by.

"I hate that hallway" He muttered to himself opening the door to the dark room. Callie who was already their had just finished sterilizing the equipment didn't notice that the doctor had come in.

"Callie" He stated. She jumped and dropped on of the just cleaned scaples.

"Don't scare me like that" She said picking it up and set it on the counter. "Now I gotta clean it again"

"Sorry, I didn't mean to. I wasn't expecting anyone in here" He muttered walking in and closing the door.

She smiled.

"It's no big deal George. I do it all the time without someone scaring me"

He slowly made his way to the counter and began to run the hot scalding water. She watched as the steam started to rise and without paying attention she slipped her own hand under the almost boiling water that she was running. She jerked back her hand dropping the rest of the already cleaned utensils and hissed.

He immediatly yanked the knob to cold and wet a cloth rushing over to her and putting it on her hand.

"I'm alright George" She said taking it off. "Just being a moron" She grumbled sticking her burnt hand in her white jacket pocket.

"No big deal, I've done it before"

"Are you sure?"

"I'm positive, I can take care of myself George" She said walking back to the sink and groaning as she picked up the tools.

"I just have to get them all sterilized"

He remained silent keeping his vision on the hand which seemed to be struggling with. She followed his eyes to her hand.

"George, it's fine" She remarked. She did a number of motions with the hand without flinching. "See?"

"Just worried about you" He muttered. She smiled.

"Thanks" She said walking over to him and hugging him. He sighed and hugged her back.

"I'm going to have to break this up" Bailey said walking in and closing the door behind her. They seperated immediatly.

"Sorry" George apologized.

"It's alright O'Malley" She said forgiving him. She looked to Callie.

"Torres, I need to talk to you" She stated.

"Is she in trouble?" George asked quickly. She glanced over to him.

"No O'Malley, but leave the room and you will be" He nodded and basically ran out of the room. He pressed his face against the window waiting for Callie to come out with whatever Bailey was telling her. He saw as Bailey was talking frequently smiling. Callie listened intently and spoke once or twice. Then Dr. Bailey lowered her head and muttered something quietly. Callie expression changed quickly to a look of sadness and she retorted. It looked as though she was about to cry and bailey only went on. Callie shook her head and threw a pointing finger at the doctor but bailey only shouted something back at the doctor, like she was yelling a command. She then placed a hand on the tearing intern and walked out of the room. She didn't make contact with George and walked the other way. He waited until she was out of sight to rush into the room.

"Callie?" He said closing the door walking over to her. She threw her arms around his neck and placed her head against his shoulder.

"Callie? What's wrong? What did she do?" He questioned frantically searching for an answer.

"You didn't fired did you?"

"No" She said. Her voiced was quieted by his shoulder

"What's going on?" He worried placing a hand on her back.

"Bailey is, having me transfered to another hospital" She stuttered. "'I'm leaving Seattle Grace" She cried.

"Leaving? Why?"

"She says that they need someone like me over at this hospital. She's getting someone from the same hospital and were going to switch"

"But it can't be too bad can it? It's not like we wont see each other" He said trying to comfort her.

She stayed silent for minute.

"We wont" She whispered sadly.

He pushed her out of his grasp and held her shoulders. He gazed upon her face. Her eyes were wet, puffy and red from crying and their were tear stains down her cheeks.

"Why wont we?" He asked

"This hospital, the one she's transfering me to. It's far" She said sadly. "Their's no way we could"

"Where? How far?"

"It's a hospital in Maine George, all away across the country"

"Why! Why is she..." He trailed off lowering his head. "How could she do this? Don't you have a choice about this?"

"She thought I would be happy with it and already arranged everything"

He sighed painfully. "When are you leaving? How much time do I have with you?"

"I have a flight to Maine early Thursday morning"

"Thats not even two days left" He said placing his hand against the side of her face.

"How long will you be gone? How long is this...trade going to last?" He asked scared of her answer. None of them were good.

She closed her eyes letting out another sob.

"I'm not coming back" She cried.

"What? Why not!" He shouted. She only gave another sob.

"I don't want to go George. I don't want to, but I have to" She started. "I need a job, and apperantly their isn't anything for me here"

"Callie, I can't just let you leave. We were just beginning together again. We were finally going to go on with each other, everything was fine. I can't just let it all go away. I can come with you" He said spoke.

She shook her head.

"I tried to convince Dr. Bailey that, but she said she needs you here in Seattle"

He sighed.

"We'll spend the entire day together tomarrow, and tonight" He whispered. "You can stay with me tonight. Please" He pleaded.

"Of course George. I think it's a great idea" She siad once again hugging him. He slid his hands around her waist.

"I'll visit you somehow, even if your on the other side of this country. That wont stop me" he whispered into her ear.

"Distance wont stop my love"

She smiled.

"Thanks George"

"I promise, even with you gone across the country. I'll remain true to you. I won't go with any other women"

"You can't make that promise" She said. "That would be mean to make you promise me that. I don't know often I'll see you George, I don't want you to do that. it's alright if you find someone else"

"I wont Callie, I'm only in love with you, and noone else"

She gave another sob and smiled sightly.

"Then I'll do the same" She whispered. "I promise"

He nodded and continued to hold her for minutes after they stopped speaking. Meanwhile Meredith, and Izzie were all outside the room wondering what was going on between the two doctors that had the normally strong, and pushy Callie reduced to tears.

"It must have been for her if she's crying" Izzie stated. Watching them

"I hope George is alright" She added. "And Callie too" Meredeith added. They both nodded and waited for them to come out of the room