AN: This is my first Calzona fic. I have always loved this couple but never wrote anything about them. Please review and let me know if I should continue this or keep it as a one shot.
I brace myself for what I know was awaiting for me on the other side of the door. I am tired of all the stares, whispers and pity. What I need more then anything is my wife... Arizona.
For 31 straight days the person that lives is not my Arizona. My wife was amazing, a smile that could light up any dark day. A woman who was a good man in the storm. But what is left from a crash besides my dead best friend and his soul mate is a shell of the woman I married. Yesterday was the day my best friend died. Today I've started helping Derek plan a burial that will place Mark alongside Lexie.
Lexie... She was a woman who I saw as a girl. But in reality she was more woman than Addison, Teddy, any nurse or intern and most importantly than myself. For lexie did something that no one has ever done. She loved Mark wholeheartedly. Seeing something special in that man, that many dismissed.
As I open the door to the bedroom I am faced with a sight that is all too common. Arizona facing away from the door.
"Arizona I need you to get the hell out of bed this instance."
She doesn't even waiver to move an inch to acknowledge my presence. I look to my right and there in the corner still lies a wedding band and a broken heart necklace. Tragically thrown across in a heated argument.
" You might have given up on this marriage but I haven't. You have a wife and a daughter that need you to live," says Callie.
" What I need is for you to get the fuck out of here," says Arizona.
The force of her words rattle me to my very core.
"Now" says Arizona as she chucks a glass cup at the side hitting the door and shattering on contact.
" Are you out of your mind. I love you but I will be damned if you continue to treat me like this. Yes I gave the doctors at Boise the go ahead to cut off your leg. I admit that the hate in your eyes and words that day and everyone after that is embedded in my mind. One promise that I have kept is that I have stayed. You on the other hand have checked out and it is not fair to me or Sofia. I am your wife dammit not your punching bag."
" You are not my wife. I don't need you what I need is for you to get the hell out" says Arizona
Not my wife those three words hit me like a ton of bricks.
" Do you want me to leave"
My voice is but a whisper as I try to control the pain in my chest.
" What we have is no more. I am a crippled thanks to you. I can never forgive you" yells Arizona,
" Since I met you it has been nothing but endless battles. But this you dismembering me is the last straw."
" So yes more than anything I want you to leave"
I stand stun afraid to move or even breathe. My whole purpose since marrying Arizona has been to make her happy. With tears in my eyes I walk over to the right corner and pick up the ring and necklace. I kneel down and turn towards her.
" Arizona I love you. Sofia and you are my whole reason for existence. You once cornered me in an elevator and told me that you bail. In front of family and friends I became your wife. I won't bail that is what you do best. So I will leave you to your thoughts. I have spoken to your parents who are on a flight here. You bail not me. Remember that."
I stand and walk right out closing the door behind me. Falling to the floor I hear Arizona's sobbing and I look at the ring and a heart necklace. Broken like our love.