"Get out! Get out! "Arizona screamed from the floor of the OR.
"You heard her, everybody out!"
"Karev you to, get out. Everybody needs to leave!" She tried to bury her head in the ground as she heard the door open and close again.
"Does that include me?" The question was concerned but direct. If Arizona didn't want her here she would leave but she had to ask. Arizona wasn't sure when Callie had entered the room but she was glad she had. "Do I leave or..."
"No!" she interrupted before turning so she was lying on her side, still on the floor. Callie took a breath and slowly lay down to mirror her wife. Her heart still broke when ever fresh tears appeared on the pale skin.
"I'd say it's okay but it's not is it?" Watching her wife shake her head, she continued "It sucks. You were awesome though, that surgery was incredible. I know I promised not to watch but..." Blue eyes shot up at the word "promise" and Callie began to panic. She was about to backtrack when her wife reached for her hand.
"Thank you." It came as a whisper but full of emotion.
"But then you fall. You save a kids life but then you still fall over." She squeezes the hand that is still in hers as Arizona now sobs. "Sorry"
"No, you're right." She manages to say between sobs. "I just hate falling! I'm sick of always falling! I hate it!" she exclaims, albeit with shaky breath. What happened next, Callie did not expect. Arizona rolled into her wife's side, grabbed at the blue scrub top and buried her head in Callie's shoulder.
"You know, in a way, it is good you keep falling." She cursed herself even as she spoke and quickly tried to explain. "You fell and then you fell again but that meant you had to get up in between. You got up. You get up. Even if you smash vases or hurt yourself you get up again. You don't deserve to fall but you don't stay down and that..." Callie gently lifted her wife's chin so she could look Arizona in the eye "that makes me so proud to call you my wife, even prouder than doing that surgery."
Arizona just stared for a while until a smile slowly appeared on her face, it didn't quite reach her eyes but Callie would take it.
"I have you to help me right?"
"Always."
"Then can you give me a hand because the OR floor is not comfortable"