Callie was glad they made it home safely, though she couldn't say how she had been able to drive all the way home with tears blurring her sight and her thoughts everywhere but on the traffic.
They still hadn't exchanged a word when they both slipped into bed.
Arizona turned to the right, facing the window while Callie turned to the left, facing the wall so as to leave the biggest gap possible between them.
Both of them silently cried themselves to sleep.
A shattering sound echoed through the house, waking Callie instantly. She checked the time – 3.30 a.m.- before she got up.
She glanced at the right side of the bed, finding it empty. "Arizona?" Callie asked carefully into the dark living room where the sound had originated.
There was no response.
"Arizona?" she asked again, this time a little bit louder, a bad feeling growing in the pit of her stomach.
But there was still no response.
Callie cocked her head to the side as she finally heard a noise. It was a strange sound, like if someone was knocking on a door very slowly.
What is that? Callie thought and made her way towards the kitchen which seemed to be where the noise was coming from.
"Oh my God! What are you doing?" Callie screamed in shock when she saw Arizona sitting on the floor, hitting the back of her head against the kitchen wall, all the while maintaining the same vacant expression. Next to her were the broken pieces of a beautiful vase that had fallen, causing the shattering sound from earlier.
Arizona didn't even look at Callie. She stared into space, her blue eyes empty with dark shadows surrounding them as she continued hitting her head against the wall in a constant haunting rhythm, the moonlight casting her shadow across the tiled floor.
"Arizona, stop it!" Callie cried in horror. She had never seen Arizona like this. Hell, she had never seen anyone like this before. It was like in a horror flick where persons had been possessed by a demon or ghost and were no longer themselves...
When the blonde still wouldn't stop, Callie took her head in both of her hands and pulled her towards her chest to stop her from continuing to hurt herself.
It was then that Arizona began to freak out. She began to lose it, her fists hitting the floor with loud thuds, the shattered pieces of the vase digging into her hands as she began to scream and cry.
"Leave me alone! Leave me alone! Leave me alone! Leave me alone!" she cried in a shrill voice Callie had never heard from her mouth before. It froze the blood in her veins and made her feel sick.
Callie began to feel desperate and helpless as she didn't know what to do to bring her Arizona back to reality, and so she simply embraced Arizona with all the strength she had.
They sat like this for about five more minutes until Arizona's screams turned into breathy moans and she soon fell into a deep sleep, falling limp against her wife.
Callie looked down at the broken woman in her arms with a worried frown and wiped away the tears that had streamed down her face once more.
She then realized that Arizona had little pieces of glass in her hand and was bleeding all over the floor.
She tried to get all the fragments of glass from Arizona's hand before she grabbed the towel fortunately hanging next to her, and wrapped it around her hand.
Callie took several deep breaths before she stood up, lifted Arizona into her arms and carried her carefully to the bedroom where she softly laid her down on the bed.
She ran her hand over Arizona's sweaty face and pushed away the wet strands of hair.
"Arizona, what's wrong with you?" Callie desperately whispered as she lay down next to her wife. She wrapped her arms around Arizona's cold body.
"I love you Arizona!" she quietly mumbled while a single tear rolled down the side of her face.
Callie closed her eyes tightly, but couldn't forget the picture of her wife sitting on the kitchen floor and hitting her head against the wall.
Thankfully, after some time, the sound of the now peaceful breathing of her wife made Callie also fall into a deep sleep.
But Callie shouldn't sleep for long, until she realizes which substantial mistake she just had made...
TBC...
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