Hello, I just want to make it clear this fiction will follow some of the actual show, but most of it will be my interpretation and how I'd like to see it go. Also, apologies for spelling Derek's name incorrectly in the first chapter, it has been corrected. Tigersforever.
"I want a divorce."
Arizona reeled back from Callie's statement, the shock evident on her face.
"No, please don't say that. I know you're pissed and you have every right to be, but please, don't leave me. I'm begging you Callie, don't walk away from us. We can work things out. Just...talk to me. Yell at me. Call me whatever you want, but don't leave me. I love you."
Callie sighed and leaned against the wall, her hands folded across her chest in a gesture becoming all to familiar to her today.
"Arizona, I don't think you do love me anymore."
Arizona shook her head. "I do love you Callie. I made a mistake, the worst of my life, but we can work it out. Please, just give me a chance. I'll go to therapy, we can do couples therapy. We cannot be over."
"Arizona, you've put on an act for so long now, even you're believing it. You haven't been happy for a long time and you can't hate me and love me at the same time. I'm finally admitting it to myself and I know I've been selfish in wanting you to be better, but I have to face it. The woman I married - the beautiful, smart and faithful wife I said my vows to - died in that plane crash. She never made it off the mountain."
"No, I'm right here."
Callie sighed. "But you haven't been and you won't be until you get help. And you won't while I'm here for you to lean on or blame. I can't be your crutch anymore Arizona and we can't be together while you feel like you obviously do. Your little speech opened my eyes and now I know how you really feel, I can't be in a relationship with someone who feels like that towards me."
"I'll go to therapy, I'll get help. But I can't lose you." The tears flowed down Arizona's face like a waterfall.
"I need time and space and I can't be around you right now. You fucked another woman and now you're trying to make everything better like you have been for a long time, pretending everything is just fine. Covering up what's really wrong so you don't have to face it. Get help Arizona, face the fact that you screwed that whore while I was out in the wind and rain saving lives and our daughter was probably terrified and wanting her mommies. I mean, did you even once think about Sofia while you did what you did?"
Callie couldn't help her voice rising and her headache was becoming worst the longer she stood there and the look on Arizona's face answered her last question for her. "Yeah, I didn't think so. I have patients, I have to go."
Arizona moved to block Callie from leaving. "No, please don't walk out that door."
"Arizona, move. I can't be around you anymore."
Callie pushed past Arizona and flung the door open and back in the ER. Arizona turned and watched her wife leave, her tears still falling. She wiped at her eyes and followed Callie after a minute to find chaos, utter chaos. Bailey and Yang were working desperately to bring Richard back and Heather wasn't any better. Arizona looked at her wife, the pain clear on her face and she hung her head in despair. In the past she would've held her wife or at least stood next to her offering support, but now, all she could do was watch.
Arizona's attention was diverted from Richard and Heather when Leah approached Callie handing her the CT results from their hip dislocation patient.
"He has a liver lac and it's getting worse. I've booked the OR."
Callie examined the CT and turned back to her intern. "Good work. Go find me a general surgeon and meet me at the OR."
"Who do you want Dr Torres?"
"Anyone, just find me one."
Arizona saw an opportunity and approached her wife. "I can do it."
Callie ignored Arizona and headed to the elevators to the OR level. She'd said what she needed to Arizona in that store-room. She couldn't deal with any more right now. Callie arrived in the scrub room and started to move the soap over her hands when Leah arrived and started to scrub too.
"Please don't kill me Dr Torres. She was the only general surgeon I could get. Everyone else is busy with Richard or in the OR already."
"What are you talking about Mur..."
Callie knew what she was talking about when Arizona hesitantly walked through the door. Callie scoffed but continued to scrub, ignoring all attempts to communicate with the woman who'd ripped her heart out.
"Cal..."
Callie dried her hands on a towel and opened the door with her back, pure venom directed to her wife. The operation passed quickly, Arizona being the excellent surgeon that she was and Callie was able to repair the man's hip dislocation at the same time. Callie, Arizona and Leah stood scrubbing out together, the tension still clouding the air. Callie finished and walked away, her mind made up on what she was going to do now.
She needed time and space and she wasn't going to get it living in the same place as her cheating spouse. Callie signed and started the move. She put Sofia in front of the television and propped open the doors of apartments 501 and 502. She pulled her clothes from the closet still on their hangers and moved them into Mark's, pushing aside some of his clothing she'd never gotten around to doing anything about. She opened draws and took them in handfuls across the hall and dumped them on the bed until she could sort them. Callie did the same with Sofia's clothes and toys until she stopped and looked around at what she couldn't think of as her home anymore, making sure she didn't forget anything.
"Come on little miss, time for bed."
Callie hoisted her mini me onto her hip and walked across the hall for the last time that night but not before leaving her key on the table by the door. She closed the door to apartment 502 and opened 501, her new home for the time being.
Arizona returned to find the mess left behind by Callie's hasty exit. The wide open wardrobe and the draws haphazardly emptied. She couldn't fathom what was happening at first but then it all clicked into place when she saw Callie's key on the table. Not only was her wife asking for a divorce, she'd taken their daughter and left her. She really had lost it all. Arizona broke down and curled up in a little ball on the couch, her tears staining her cheeks.
She woke the next morning still on the couch, her eyes puffy and her clothes wrinkles. She picked up her phone and checked it for messages, found none and she got angry, real angry. Yeah she fucked up, bad, but Callie had no right to take her daughter from her. She dialed Callie's number and it went straight to voice mail. She waited for the message to end and the beep.
"Callie, where are you? I know you're mad but you had no right to take our daughter. Where is she? Don't do this."
Arizona hung up her phone and sighed. She took a quick shower to wash away the grime and headed to the hospital. Callie would show up there eventually or she could have her paged and she could find out where Sofia was. She ran around asking everyone she could find if they'd seen Callie and the answer was always no. She went to Meredith's room and finally found her wife. She was holding the baby and rocking him gently.
"Callie, where is Sofia? You had no right to..."
The baby started to stir as Callie spoke. "Be quiet Arizona, I just got him to sleep." Callie sighed. "Just go to the lounge down the hall and I'll be there in a minute."
Arizona waited impatiently in the lounge, trying desperately to calm down so she could talk to Callie like an adult. Callie finally entered the room and closed the door.
"Sofia is at the day care. I had her last night and I'll keep her tonight. You can have her for the next two days after that and we'll switch off until we can come to a permanent arrangement."
Arizona stood and put her hands in her pockets. "How long is this going to last?"
Callie shrugged. "I don't know."
Callie went to walk out when Arizona stopped her. "Please Callie, I'm begging you. Where are you staying? I need to know where my wife and child are or I'm gonna go crazy. I know I don't deserve it, but I need to know. I want to fix this, I want us to work. Will you please consider coming to couples therapy with me. We can work this out."
Callie sighed and leaned against the door frame. "I'm staying at Mark's. Just give me time Arizona. Give me space and I'll think about it."
Callie walked away leaving Arizona with only the smallest amount of hope, but hope none the less.