Disclaimer: not mine just stealing the characters. Also no beta so all mistakes are mine.
Two Years Ago
The first day Arizona Robbins arrived at Seattle Grace Mercy West is was a normal busy day but that did little to help with her nerves. Finally after all her hard work it had paid off with a new tenure as the new Chief of Paediatric Surgery replacing the old Doctor Jordan Kenley who had recently passed on.
But this wasn't how she expected to her first trip to the emergency department to be. After all she was here to be a surgeon not a patient. As she hobbled into the ER the first thing she noticed was a tall stunning woman who was attending to a grey haired man. The reason she was in the ER department in the first place had been a result of a minor car park accident that involved an older woman, her car and some bad eyesight.
The lady hadn't paid enough attention when she reversed out of the car park. Luckily she had fast reflexes from her childhood and Arizona had a chance to jump out of the way, landing awkwardly on the bitumen. It was only day one and people were already trying to kill her. So here she was in the E.R. department in pain, her ego bruised and utterly transfixed by the surgeon in front of her.
As the doctor finished on the other patient she approached the blonde. A grin appeared on Arizona's lips when she made eye contact with Callie closed the curtains around them.
"Can you hop on to the bed and tell me what happened?" The doctor inquired pointing the swollen ankle.
"Um, I was in a car accident." Arizona replied. The brunette raised an eyebrow. "No nothing major some older lady didn't see me as she reversed out of her car park and I happened to be in the way of the vehicle."
"So you got ran over?" Callie asked giving her patient a once over. Arizona's breathing hitched when Callie gently touched her foot feeling slightly dizzy. She didn't know if it came from the woman touching her or the minor pain from her ankle.
"No but I would have if I didn't jump out of the way. As my kids say I have super spidey senses. Not that I have kids my patients you see. Not there something wrong with having kids just not for me. Oh god I'm babbling aren't I? I always ramble when I'm near a beautiful woman. Not that I was checking you out, that's really unprofessional." The blonde couldn't stop her word vomit.
Callie smiled to herself only half listening to the blonde was on about while she focused. It was nice to know that she still had it especially after the year she had. "Looks like you have grade one ankle sprain with some swelling with some bruising below your knee. But just to be on the safe side I send you to get some scans okay. You should lay off the ankle for a few days though and rest."
Taking off her gloves Callie prepared to leave the room when the injured woman called out. "I know this is random but would you like to get a drink sometime? It's just that you smiled before and you look really pretty when you smile." Arizona asked.
Turning around to face the blonde she replied "Sorry I don't think that's a good idea. It's inappropriate, you're a patient and I'm treating you its highly unethical." Trying to turn down the woman as lightly as possible Callie didn't want to give her the wrong idea. She was trying to regain her work image again after all the troubles she had endured lately and the last thing she needed was the nurses finding out about her accepting a date from a patient.
"Oh okay but…" In her rejection the blonde didn't see the newcomer.
"Doctor Robbins there you are I thought you had disappeared on us. I've been searching all over the hospital looking for you. So want to tell me why you are in the ER because we have some final paperwork you need to fill out before you start your shift." Chief Webber said harshly interrupting the awkward moment that was growing between the other two doctors.
"I was treating her sir, doctor Robbins came in with an injury but she is free to go now. I suggest that she take it easy for a few days." Feeling sorry for the blonde Callie she knew how Webber was when he turned into chief mode.
Arizona's face was getting red with embarrassment. The woman already rejected her she didn't need to stand up for her as well on top of it. She was perfectly capable of fighting her own battles. Putting on a brave face, she looked the chief in the eye and silently hoping that her authority issues didn't appear Arizona finally spoke up.
"Chief Webber as Doctor Torres stated I had a little bit of trouble this morning but I'm fine now. Why don't we go and sign those forms so I can start working. Then afterwards you can take me on a tour of the place.'
As she and the chief left the room the smaller woman returned forgetting her bag and upon seeing Callie, Arizona who had recovered her composure told the other surgeon. "Doctor Torres thank you for treating my ankle but I didn't need you to interfere with the Chief. I do know how to defend myself." With a huff she turned on her heel and sharply left the room following the chief to his office.
Leaving Callie dumbstruck wondering what the hell just happened.
After the disaster of the morning the rest of the day did improve for the new Head of Peds. After finishing the required paperwork with Webber she only had a few consults. One of her consults was in the NCIU with a baby showing some abnormal symptoms. "What is the patient showing?" Arizona asked to her residents.
"The patient shows signs of asthma" A resident guessed.
"Anyone else want to have a guess and probably with more details?"
"The child is showing discoloration of the skin, a lowered heart rate and laboured breathing. Also being born premature the baby could be suffering from meconium aspiration." A gruff looking man replied.
"That's correct, Dr?" "Karev"
"How to do you suggest proceed with treatment, Dr Karev?" Arizona requested.
"Current recommendations say that if an infant has inhaled meconium but looks active, appears well, and has a strong heartbeat we should watch the baby for MAS symptoms which typically appear within the first 24 hours. But because the patient is showing signs of poor activity level, has a lower heart rate is limp, and has poor muscle tone, the goal is to clear the airway as much as possible to decrease the amount of meconium that's aspirated."
"Impressive Karev continue on." "This is done by putting in an endotracheal and gently applying suction as the tube is slowly removed. This allows the infant to receive suctioning of both the upper and lower airways. The doctor will continue trying to clear the airway until there's no meconium in the suctioned fluids." Karev finished.
Turning to the other residents the Arizona in the room appraising each of them. Karev was for Peds, Yang probably was heading to cardio and Jackson was a pretty boy so plastics it was.
"You all could learn a thing from Dr Karev. He showed great knowledge in his diagnosis and treatment of the patient." "What how to be a jackass." Yang snickered under her breath.
As Yang and Jackson left the room Arizona pulled aside Karev. "I know it's your only fourth year but have you thought about your prospects in Peds Karev?"
"No I haven't I yet. Look lady but I don't think Peds isn't my thing." Karev said. "What you don't think it's hardcore enough doing big surgeries on little people?" Arizona replied.
"Well kinda…"
"Okay then you're on my rotation for the next week."
"You can't do that"
"I just did Karev deal with it. Look if you don't like after a few days I'll let you go and let you chose your own rotation for a week. Might even let you do a few surgeries." Arizona said turning her charm on.
"Ok fine." Karev relented thinking what's a few days with the blonde if he got a chance to operate.
Later after her consult she went down to the cafeteria to meet her best friend from college Head of Cardio Teddy Altman. She and Teddy met a party when Teddy spilt a drink down Arizona's brand new blue tank top. It was a start of a friendship that remain steady throughout the years even when Teddy left for her deployment and Arizona remained in the States.
"So how was your first day, did anything interesting happen to you?" The honey blonde woman asked sitting down with her salad.
"Don't even start Theodora" Arizona growled at her friend.
"Oh come on, apparently you made quite an impression on the chief this morning. Getting lost on your first day. How's you ankle?" Teddy continued to tease the other woman.
"It's a little tender but I'm fine. I think I might have overreacted a little though."
"Who Chief Webber, don't tell me you started to cry?"
"No nothing like that. It was doctor who treated me tall with dark hair, Dr. Callie Torres? I kind of snapped at her after she defended me to Webber."
"Why?" Teddy asked taking forkful of her chicken salad.
"Well I might have hit on her and she said no then the thing with the chief plus after my accident this morning. I was a little stressed you know." Arizona mumbling to her friend.
"Jeez girl you moved on fast. I know the thing with Amanda wasn't serious but your only here a few minutes and you are already trying out the local cuisine." Teddy retorted.
"It wasn't like that Teddy I don't even know why I did it. She just had something like a spark or something I don't know." Arizona replied. Amanda was her ex-girlfriend she had before she moved to Seattle. A lawyer who liked to drink a little too much it only lasted a few months before Arizona decided it wasn't right for her. Last she heard Amanda was onto her next conquest with Arizona's former room mate.
"Why don't we go out this Friday? You and I both need a night out." Teddy suggested seeing that her best friend needed to unwind and relax.
Arizona's pager went off. "911 I got to go. Ok fine we'll go out. Sort the details out later ok?"
Sorry for the late update I got sick for a bit. As usual review and feed back is highly appreciated.