'Yea, yessss.'
'Oh my God, oh my God, Callie, Callie.'
'Yes'
'What, what?'
'I'll marry you, yes'
Arizona sat there next to Callie's hospital bed watching Callie sleep not really believing that Callie had truly woken up. But it was true, and not only had she woke up but she said yes to her proposal. After the last three days and all of the things that had happened starting with the baby shower, her proposal to Callie, the accident, all of Callie's life threatening injuries, the surgeries, Callie coding twice, arguing with Mark, Addison delivering the baby, having to run the resuscitation on her own daughter, and Callie waking up. They say when it rains it pours and it was definitely pouring.
Hours later Arizona was once again lying with her head on Callie's bed when she felt a hand on her head. She woke with a start and looked up to be greeted by Callie's gaze.
"Hi"
Arizona was overwhelmed that Callie was awake and talking to her that she started to cry.
"Ar, Ari, Ariz, Arizona don't cry."
"Calliope I'm just so glad that you are awake"
"What happened?"
"Do you remember anything Calliope?"
"I remember you asking me to marry you and then a truck."
"We were in an accident, we ran into the back of the truck, you didn't have your seatbelt on and were thrown through the windshield. You were horribly injured and we came to the hospital. You had two surgeries and coded twice. Our friends saved you Callie. They saved you."
"Are you okay? Your face."
"Callie, I'm fine, my airbag deployed and I have a bruised face, bruised arms and this cut on my forehead. I'm fine."
"I have bandages on me, what happened?"
"Callie, when you went through the windshield you had so much damage to your body. You had a brain bleed that Derek fixed, a hole in your heart that Teddy and Cristina fixed, internal bleeding that Owen and Bailey worked on and Addison,"
"Addison was here?"
"Calliope, I need you to stay calm for this."
"Calm, Arizona why do I need to stay calm?"
"Callie your heart stopped and Addison had to deliver the baby. They got your heart back beating and the baby is touch and go but she is doing okay. Mark hasn't left her side."
"But it's too soon, the baby wasn't ready to be born. It is too soon. She?" Callie looked at Arizona with a questioning look on her face.
"Yeah, she."
"We have a daughter?" Callie questioned again.
"We have a daughter." Arizona answered with a slight smile.
"What is she like?"
"Well, she is really strong, one pound one ounce of strong and she has the most beautiful black hair Calliope, she has beautiful hair. She's really tiny so she is connected to so many machines and tubes and it looks pretty scary but she is holding her own so far. She is intubated, has an umbilical line giving her fluids, and her eyes are taped because she can't open them yet."
"But she's okay?" Callie questioned.
"So far she is okay, she's in for a fight but she's your daughter Calliope so she is a fighter just like you are."
Mark comes walking into Callie's room and is greeted with the sight of Callie still talking to Arizona. "Callie?" he said shocked to see her awake and alert.
"Hey Mark."
"Oh my God Callie, you're awake. How do you feel? Are you in pain? Do you need anything?"
"I guess I feel as good as expected, I am apparently on the good drugs because I am not feeling any pain which is surprising because I seem to have four incisions. All I need right now is more information on my baby. Arizona, can you go check on her for me? I need you to go see her; she needs her mother there with her." Callie implored.
"Okay baby, I'll go see her and then I'll come back and tell you anything that I find out. Okay?"
"Yeah, but spend some time with her please."
"But I need to be with you."
"I'm sure Mark can stay with me for a while, right Mark?"
"Absolutely I'll stay with her until you get back Arizona."
Arizona went over to the NICU and went over to the isolette that held her tiny daughter. She looked down on it amazed that the baby was here and still alive. Even though she is a Peds surgeon and has seen preemie babies before, has done surgeries on them before this was a totally different experience. This was her baby; her tiny human was in that isolette fighting for her life. She knows the statistics and understands that twenty three and a half weeks is far too early for a baby to be born and be healthy but her daughter is strong and still alive.
Meanwhile in Callie's room Mark and Callie are discussing the last few days and what happened in his perspective, "You should have seen it Callie, everyone was working like a well oiled machine, everyone together making sure that you and the baby would survive. The surgeries were so complicated because your injuries were so extensive but Hunt led everyone and they all pulled through."
"You were in my surgeries Mark?"
"No Webber would let me in but Robbins and I were in the gallery."
"Arizona watched me be cut open?"
"Yeah we did."
"No wonder she started crying when I woke up, that must have been really hard on her. She mentioned that I coded twice, where you there?"
"Yeah Robbins and I were both there. The first time was in the trauma room right after you came in. You went into V-Fib and then they rushed you up to surgery and found you had a brain bleed which Derek and Meredith fixed and that you had severe abdominal injuries,"
"And the second time?"
"That was during your second surgery. You flat lined, that's when Addison took the baby. She brought her over to Lucy but the baby wasn't breathing or had a heart beat. Robbins and I ran in the OR and found Lucy and Karev working on the baby. I nodded to Robbins and she jumped in and took over."
"Wait, Arizona coded our baby? Herself?"
"Yeah and you should have seen her. She was amazing, she got to the baby and there was nothing, the baby's APGAR was zero but Robbins called out for the meds and then got her heart to start."
"Thanks Mark."
Mark was there for around an hour before Callie fell asleep; then stayed until Arizona got back. Arizona walked in two hours after she had left Callie and Mark talking together and found Mark sitting in the chair next to Callie's bed with his head down to his chest asleep.
"Mark, Mark wake up." Arizona spoke quietly so not to wake Callie.
"Huh, what?" Mark said sleepily.
"You fell asleep."
"Oh, okay. How's the baby?" Mark questioned.
"She's the same. I held her hand for a long while and just sat next to her watching her breathe. I know the machine is breathing for her but I just couldn't stop looking at her chest as it rose and fell."
"Robbins, I just want to say sorry again. You're not nothing. You saved the baby, our baby. I think that if you hadn't have stepped in our baby would have died."