"Karev!" Callie calls out to him in the parking lot.
Dropping his head, he knows she's going to blast him for telling Arizona the truth.
"What the hell were you thinking? Why did you tell her?" Callie asks as soon as she's face to face with him.
"Honestly? I couldn't take her not knowing the truth. Callie you know that I hate lying and while I understood why you asked me to do it, I just couldn't continue to lie to her. She deserved to know the truth." He counters.
"Honestly? Do you honestly know what you've done?" Callie says angrily. "I don't even know what to do. Is she okay? Did you see her?"
"We talked last night. She's okay. I mean, as far as we go, she and I are okay." He says visibly relieved. "Look, I have surgery, I have to go. Good luck though, I mean it."
"Thanks." Callie says grimacing.
"Hey Callie, what's up. Meredith says as Callie enters the daycare to check on Sofia. "We just got here. Did something happen with Arizona?"
"Yes, well no." Callie pauses, unsure whether to tell Meredith what happened. "I'm not sure what's going on with Arizona. I just thought maybe she would want to talk last night, but she didn't. At least not to me. I'm sorry for having you take Sofia, I know this week was hard for you too." Callie says apologizing.
"It's okay. Amelia did all the work actually. And you know the girls are great together. It wasn't a big deal." Meredith admits.
"Hey, how are you?" Amelia asks as she enters the locker room and sees Arizona staring off.
"Oh, hey Amelia. I'm good." The blonde responds, taking a moment to look at her friend.
"Do you want to talk about it?" Amelia asks sitting down beside her. "I mean, Sofia was at our house last night, so I'm assuming that this has to do with Callie?"
"What? She was? Oh, I didn't know that." Arizona says slightly concerned. "Thank you for asking, but if I talk to you about it, then my therapist will be disappointed." She adds smiling.
"Just know that I'm here if you need me." Amelia reminds her.
"I know that, Amelia. And thank you for taking care of Sofia last night." Arizona says standing up and squeezing her arm as she moves around her.
"What do I do?" Callie asks Owen after she tells him the whole story. Somehow she knew that he would understand.
"Callie, there's nothing you can do. It's obvious what you did and why, you just need to wait and see what she does with it." He says leaning up against the desk in his office. "Now Karev says that he talked to her and she's fine. Is she still in therapy?"
"Oh, I don't know actually if she is. Therapy wasn't really her thing, then there was the whole breakup that happened in therapy." Callie reminds him.
"Right, well look. I'd just act normal and see how she reacts to you. But you don't need to apologize. You did what you thought was best for her at the time, she almost died. She lived and it's because you made the right call. Just remember that." He says clapping her on the shoulder.
Later in the cafeteria, Callie sits with Meredith and Bailey, but she keeps an eye on the door for Arizona.
The two doctors are discussing a case, but they can't help glancing at the door to see who Callie is waiting for.
Suddenly Callie stands up. "I'll see you later. Meredith are we still on for that drink after work?" Callie asks.
"Yes, Amelia and Maggie are taking the kids tonight. I'm not sure what that's about, but they offered. And I'm not about to turn down free babysitting." Meredith explains.
"Okay, sounds good. I'll meet you there." Callie says, obviously not listening as she walks away.
At the door, Meredith and Bailey watch as Callie manages to run right into Arizona, practically knocking her over in the process.
"Oh shit, Arizona. I'm so sorry. I-I uh, wasn't paying attention." Callie stammers.
"It's fine. I'm fine, really." Arizona says impatiently.
"Are you though, fine?" Callie can't help but ask.
Looking around, Arizona sees everyone staring at them, so she grabs Callie's arm and pulls her down the hall out of the view of the cafeteria. "We need to have a conversation, but it's not going to happen here or anywhere in this hospital." Arizona replies.
"Okay, so where and when would you like to meet for this conversation?" Callie asks carefully.
"How about after work in the park, on the bench?" Arizona suggests.
Caught off guard a moment, considering she know exactly which bench the blonde is referring to. "Okay, let me know when you're free and I'll meet you there." Callie replies.
The rest of the day, Callie spends in the lab, barely able to focus. She keeps replaying the conversation from the other day and she keeps seeing Arizona's face as she says 'thanks' and walks away. I should have gone after her, Callie thinks second-guessing herself. But she probably needed time to think it through. She always needs time to do that, so it's good that I didn't go after her. I gave her space. But what if she didn't want space? Callie considers again. She forgave Karev, maybe she wants to forgive me too? But wait, I shouldn't get my hopes up about that, she's probably mad. I should be prepared for her to be mad. I can deal with mad, hell that's the one Arizona that I seem to see most often, she reminds herself. Well, but the last six months its been sad Arizona, which is harder to see. Damn it Callie, get it together and get some work done, she says reminding herself that she needs to just let it go and wait and see what happens.
After an hour of actually working, Callie is interrupted by her phone buzzing. Glancing over at it, she sees a message from Arizona -
"I finished early, can you get away now?"
Looking at the table in front of her, she sighs. Knowing the interruption has just ruined her focus, she may as well go meet her now, grabbing the phone she replies, "sure. I'm leaving now."
Approaching the park, Callie is surprised to see that Arizona is already there.
"Hey," she says sitting down beside the blonde.
Smiling tightly, Arizona looks at the brunette and takes a breath and holds it a minute.
"Thank you for meeting me Calliope." Arizona says finally.
Callie can't help but search her face for signs of how this is going to play out. She doesn't see anger, she sees sadness.
"I need to say somethings to you and I know that it probably won't make a difference to you, but it will make a difference to me and I need that now more than anything else." She begins. "I want to apologize for all of the horrible things I said to you when I thought that you had performed the amputation. I couldn't reconcile your behavior with your actions and so in my pain, I thought the worst of you and for that I am so so sorry." Arizona says tearfully. Looking up, she tries to catch her breath so she can keep it together and say everything that she wants to say.
"Arizona, it's..." Callie begins.
"Wait, don't say it's fine or okay or anything like that. Because it's just not okay. We are not okay." She says sharply. Then softening a little she adds, "Callie you were in an impossible position and you did everything you could to save my leg. I know that. I really know that. And I'm sorry that I made you promise not to amputate it, but I was so scared, you have no idea how dark it was where I was after the plane crash."
Now Callie is crying. They both sit there a minute, trying to center themselves. This is a conversation that is long overdue and they both have so much to say to each other.
"Can I just say, one thing?" Callie asks tentatively.
Nodding, Arizona takes a deep breath and waits.
"It does make a difference to me, Arizona." Callie admits to her. "I'm so sorry that I was too scared to tell you the truth."
Taking a deep breathe again, the blonde looks at her. She can't help but feel relief. They are finally listening to each other.
"Callie, don't apologize for being scared. I can only imagine what you were going through. You had Mark dying and I wasn't doing much better. You never should have been in that position." She adds sadly. "I can't tell you that knowing the truth would have made a difference, would it have kept us together? I don't know. Would I still have cheated on you? I would like to say no, but honestly I don't know. What I do know is that I've spent a lot of time stuck on the fact that you promised not to amputate and then went ahead and did it. That is time that I wish that I could have back, because it was spent making me miserable over something that wasn't even true." Arizona says angrily.
The brunette can't help but cry at this admission. This is her fault and if she had understood what was going on, she would have admitted the truth, if only she had known.
"I don't understand how you didn't just explode with the truth after one of the many times that I threw it in your face." The blonde says tearfully, "Why did you just take it? You didn't deserve it Callie. Why, why would you let me say those things and hurt you like that?"
"Because they were true in a sense. I did promise you that I wouldn't amputate your leg and then your leg was amputated by my order. So I did fail you, Arizona. I failed. I deserved everything that you said and more." Callie says breaking down.
"No, no you didn't. You didn't deserve any of it, Callie." Arizona says pulling her into her arms. Softly she whispers into her ear, "You lost so much in that plane crash and you shouldn't have lost anything, none of us should have."
"I'm sorry. You shouldn't have to do this for me." Callie says pulling away embarrassed that she broke down.
"Callie, that's not true. I owe you everything. You saved my life in so, so many ways."
"I-I always thought that I ruined your life. First I took away your dream of Africa, then I took your leg." Callie says softly.
"You didn't take away Africa, it was bad timing. And the leg was lost due to a plane crash, not you." Arizona says firmly.
"Callie, you've made my life worth living. Stranded in the woods after that plane crash, all I wanted was to get home to you and Sofia. I never once wanted to die out there, I just prayed and prayed that I would make it home to you. And I never even thought of praying before I knew you." She confesses. "Even on my darkest days after the amputation, I never wanted to die. I was just angry that I lost my leg and I couldn't understand why that happened to me."
Still holding each other, the two women pause and look into each other's eyes. Arizona smiles shyly first. Then Callie.
"It's been too long since we've talked like this." Callie says softly.
"We've spent way too much time not talking about this." Arizona agrees, looking steadily into Callie's eyes. "Would it be weird if I kissed you right now?"
"I think it would be weird if we didn't kiss right now." Callie replies dipping her head and moving to place her lips gently on Arizona's.
Tenderly, the blonde kisses her back. "I've missed you so much," she whispers.
"I feel like I finally have you back, really have you back." Callie says pulling the blonde in tighter and deepening the kiss.
Pulling back, Arizona looks carefully at Callie and then says, "I love you Calliope, I never stopped and I really want us to try again."
"I think we should try again too." Callie says, then adds, "Breaking up with you was the hardest thing I've ever done especially since I love you so much."