All characters belong to Shonda! So jealous of that lady's magnificent mind and creation!
This is my first time at fan fiction, let me know what you think.
ARIZONA POV
I sat there staring at the wall, sitting in the on-call room trying to get my thoughts together. I knew something had been off with me lately, but I couldn't quite pick it. I knew Callie had realised it too, the way she would look at me with concern in her eyes and how she would hold me just that little bit tighter. But I'm a surgeon, a PEDS surgeon, we have to push everything in our head aside and focus on the tiny humans, no matter what might be wrong.
As I was sitting there pondering, I watched the door slowly creep open and Callie's face pop through the crack. She was looking at me with panic in her eyes. I inwardly cursed at the intern that would have alerted her I had been sitting in here for the past 3 hours, sobbing on and off. As she closed the door I decided to speak up, to try and make her believe all was well.
"How's my favourite Ortho-goddess" I smiled and tried to pull her into a hug.
Yet she didn't return the hug, she pulled away and went to sit on the bed opposite.
"What's wrong? Callie?" I questioned.
"That's what I was just about to ask you Arizona" Callie says to me, with a frightening glare upon her face.
"What do you mean?" I said as I avoided her gaze.
"Don't do that with me now babe, you know I know you better than that, and I also know you have been sitting in here for the past 3 hours"
"Yeah I just thought I would sneak in a little nap" I giggled.
But I knew the lie went straight over her head as she looked at me begging for answers.
I sighed and sat back on the bed and put my head in my hands.
I felt Callie come over and pull me into her lap, laying a kiss on my forehead. I tried to side-track her by kissing that one spot on her neck she loves. She moaned and then pulled back, looking into my eyes.
"Arizona, please don't keep anything away from me" she pleaded as I looked away. "You know I will love you no matter what" she tried.
"You wouldn't believe what I had for lunch! Spaghetti Bolognese! And for cafeteria food it didn't even taste that bad"
"Arizona…"
"I mean it wasn't better than yours Calliope but"
"ARIZONA"
"WHAT? WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME CALLIOPE? YOU WANT ME TO TALK SO I'M TALKING"
"Arizona, talking about what you had for lunch can hardly be considered as talking"
I looked at Callie and sighed. "I know"
And then I stood up and left the room, headed for the PEDS ward.
CALLIE POV
I sat there and watched Arizona walk away, I was just so confused by how she was acting lately I didn't know what to say. I sighed and tried to bring my mind back to the present; after all I had surgery in half an hour. I stood up and left the on-call room, debating whether or not to check up on Arizona, I decided not too as I don't think I could look at her right now knowing she can't talk to me. So instead I made my way to the OR. I remembered who I was operating on, Matti Clark, a 12 year old girl who had been in a car accident and suffered a broken leg and 4 broken ribs, and considering her age, she was a PEDS case, that meant I would be spending the next 6 hours with Arizona. Oh joy.
I scrubbed in and looking through the window I saw Arizona talking to the anaesthetist and too Matti, obviously trying to reassure her that all would be fine. As I walked in I avoided her eyes, as I knew that she would be avoiding mine also, and I couldn't think about that, I had to focus on Matti.
"Hey Calliope" Arizona said tentatively, sorting my eyes.
"Dr Robbins" I replied with a curt nod and picked up the scalpel.
I noticed the scrub nurses look at each other with bewilderment, it's not like our relationship is a secret.
Matti's case was quite extravagant; her leg was practically shattered so I was fitting her in with a titanium replacement. This meant that I had to focus, make sure that I got all the screws right and that her leg was adjusting to it. Even though I had done it many times on other patients, I found this hard. I could fell Arizona's eyes glaring towards me, waiting for me to react, but I couldn't I remained focused.
ARIZONA'S POV
Matti's operation was quite successful, her heart remained beating steadily, and she had no excessive bleeding. But I couldn't understand that when it ended, Callie didn't seem even the slightest bit excited. She put her medical equipment down, and practically stormed out of the OR, ripping her scrub cap off in the process.
"Callie, where are you going?" I tried.
"To get some sleep"
"Can I join-"I thought this may have made her the slightest bit happy as we have had quite some fun in on-call rooms in the past.
"By myself Arizona"
Now I was even more confused, I didn't know why she was behaving like this, so instead I decided to let the parents know how well the operation went.
