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A quick one-shot because I couldn't get it out of my head… Alex makes a major appearance.

A/N at the end…

-Broken-

He's not sure why, but seeing Callie's face the morning after deciding to stay in Seattle breaks him. It's more than the dark circles under her eyes and the gauntness that has become a permanent feature along her cheeks.

It's the word that leave Sofia's mouth as she locks her eyes on him in passing and Callie's strangled and heartbreaking reply as she tried to keep the tears he could clearly see in her eyes from running down her cheeks.

He'd heard the whispers, the rumors that Arizona hasn't even left her bed since Callie brought her home. And somehow deep down, he knows that she's broken Callie with her hate and her blame.

Worse, she's turned her back on her own child.

And suddenly, he can't help but want to climb down into whatever God forsaken hole that Arizona has dug for herself and pull her out. She's his mentor, his teacher… the one person who believed in him when no one else did.

But more importantly, she lost her leg because she got on that plane instead of him.

Because he turned his back on her and the future she was offering him.

It didn't take him long to find Callie or to convince her to give him her keys. The walk across the street and up the stairs to apartment 502 took even less.

When he opened the door he could feel it. The hatred and guilt and hopelessness hung in the air like a fog and it made him see red. So, without thinking of what he was going to say or how he would react when he finally came face to face with her, he marched across the living room and flung the door to the bedroom open.

Arizona didn't even flinch as it crashed into the wall.

"You're pathetic, you know that?" He heard her intake of breath, knew she was awake. But she refused to turn over and look at him. "Are you really going to waste the second chance you were given by lying in that bed and pushing everyone away?!"

She rolled over then and met his eyes. He could feel the anger shoot at him across the room as she glared at him. "Get out of my house Karev."

"No!"

She scoffed. "You have no right to come in here and invade my privacy. There's nothing you can say that I'm going to listen to so get out." She stressed the last two words, practically spitting them in his direction.

"I'm not leaving until you listen to me." He took a few steps into the room and continued around the bed as she tried to turn her back on him. "You don't think that I feel horrible? That I'm not haunted by the fact that it should be me without a leg or dead out there in those woods?"

"Fuck you." She mutters as she lies back down and focused her eyes on a spot on the wall.

"No, fuck you Arizona. Do you have any idea what you're doing to your wife? She lost her best friend yesterday. She had to make the worst decision of her life to save you."

"IT'S HER FAULT I DON'T HAVE A LEG!" She roared as she surged upward.

"No, it's not! God dammit, she saved your fucking life! She had no other CHOICE!" He leaned down and got in her face, caged her in with his hands on either side of her body before he continued. "When she went through that windshield you blamed yourself. You kept saying it was your fault over and over again while I was cleaning you up after the accident. What if Callie never recovered from the trauma to her head? What if she was never able to straighten out her left hand, would she have blamed you? Or worse, if you hadn't been able to start Sofia's heart after she was born?"

He watched her face drain, the color of her eyes lighten as he felt the fight go out of her.

"That didn't happen." Her words were barely a whisper as they left her lips.

"No, it didn't. Callie had nothing to do with that plane falling out of the sky. She had no other choice then to amputate your leg. Just like you had no choice but to watch her and Sofia fight for their lives after the car accident."

A sob broke her lips before she squeezed her eyes shut and shook her head.

"You have a chance to live, Arizona. Callie made a vow to love you in sickness and in health; she hasn't left even though you've treated her like shit. Your daughter still loves you. Do you know what Sofia did this morning when she saw me? She said Mama and looked around for you."

"What?" It left her lips as a strangled whisper as her eyes flew open and searched for his.

"You've been ignoring your own child Arizona." He watches as her face literally crumples and the sobs wrench tremors from her chest.

"I… I ca-can't let h-h-her see me li-like this" She sobs out.

He backs away as Arizona rolls to her side, drawing her body into a ball as she continues to sob. He lowers to his haunches and brushes a strand of hair from her face before continuing softly. "Do you really think that she'll love you less because you don't have a leg? She misses her mama, Arizona."

At the word "mama" Arizona sobs even harder and he reaches to cover the hand that's clenching the comforter to her chest.

"With or without a leg you're still you. Callie and I can find the best people in the world to build you a new leg and you'll learn to walk again. Hell, you'll probably figure out how to ride on those damn Heelys again and run me over on a daily basis."

He watches as she chokes out a strangled laugh before taking a deep breath and finding his eyes.

"I'm staying to make sure the douche bag they have filling in for you at the hospital doesn't screw everything up… God only knows that we don't need another Stark." She smiles and lets go of the comforter to grab his hand.

And even though it's not the "super magic smile" that he knows, it's a start.

"But more importantly, I'm staying because I expect to be taught by the best Peds attending I know during my fellowship. So, promise me you'll get out of this bed." He pauses as he sees the uncertainty in her eyes. "But if you don't feel like you can do that for me, then do it for Sofia. She lost her dad Arizona, but she doesn't have to lose her mama too."

As Arizona nods her head they both hear the door to the apartment open and a frantic cry of "Karev" accompanied by the sound of soft giggles.

He smiles as he stands up and turns as Callie stops in the doorway. He gives Arizona's hand one more squeeze before letting go.

"What are you-?" Callie freezes as Arizona rolls over and makes eye contact with her. "I'm sorry," she whispers, "I wasn't thinking when I gave him the keys and I-"

"Stop." Arizona whispers back.

At the sound of her voice, Sofia whips her head around and finds Arizona sitting up in the bed.

"Mama!" She giggles as she turns her body fully in Callie's arms and reaches a chubby arm out towards her.

A few tears fall as Arizona meets her daughter's eyes for the first time in weeks. "Hi, baby girl." Her words might be strangled with emotion but he knows that the smile on her face is full of happiness. She locks eyes with Callie again and clears her throat. "Can you… can you bring her in here? Please?"

Callie nods and she doesn't try to hide the tears streaming down her face. As he tries to move past her silently through the doorway she reaches out and grabs his arm.

"Thank you."

He smiles before running his hand down Sofia's back as she continues to giggle and reach for Arizona. "Take her to her Mama; I think she's finally ready to see her again."

As he slips out the front door and closes it softly behind him he can't help but feel like he's knit himself back together. But more importantly, he's passed the suture kit to Arizona to close her brokenness as well.

So, yay! It's my first Callie/Arizona fic… although it was through Alex's perspective lol.

I think there may be more to this if anyone wants it… sort of a second chapter or accompanying one-shot about what happens after Alex leaves. Maybe even a look at what Callie or Arizona may have been thinking during this one-shot as well. Dunno, let me know what you think and I'll see if my muse decides to bite. At the moment, she seems to be chewing on the idea... along with a bunch of other one-shots and stories after watching a Grey's marathon the other day.

Thanks for Reading!

Fannye