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As she regained the consciousness that she had lost, she could feel the blood draining from head and knew she needed to get to the hospital as soon as possible. Her first idea was to call an ambulance but she decided that she needed someone to watch Sofia more than anything.
Her fingers dialed the number that she had dialed so many times before, she heard the person speak and she struggled for the words. "I need you to come over and take Sofia, something happened."
"What happened?" The woman on the other side of the line asked, there was something about how Calliope only called when she needed something that irritated her but it didn't stop her from grabbing her keys and purse. Her leg was already on because she had barely gotten off of her shift.
"Arizona, I'll explain later, just get over here now." Callie's voice repeated the irritation that the blonde had expressed at her.
"Fine." The blonde huffed as she spoke, "I'll be there in five." She hung up the phone and drove to their old house, which was now just Callie's.
Her concern had overcome her irritation because she knew that Callie would be the last person she would call unless it was something serious. She just wanted her to need her, without a reason behind it.
Knocking on the door, she waited for a couple of seconds and there was no answer. She knocked again, and at first she thought Callie had gotten someone else to watch Sofia but then worry overtook her so she opened the front door and had a terrified expression on her face the second she spotted her ex-wife.
Ex-wife. She hated that's what she thought of Callie now, it was what they were to each other now.
It didn't cloud her judgment as she practically ran over to the floor to gently touch the Latina's face, there was a look of terror in her eyes as she saw how much blood there was.
"What happened?" There was no trace of irritation in her voice in that moment, only concern as a tear slipped down her cheek
"Don't cry." Her eyes were slowly slipping shut as she felt her head grow so much lighter. "I called an ambulance, take care of Sofia. I'll be okay." She promised the blonde, she always tried her best to keep those promises.
Blue eyes watched as the brown eyes that she loved so much slump and the woman's features relax. Her hand reached for the soft brown one as she shook her head, "You aren't leaving this earth, you can't leave."
A few seconds later, she heard sirens pulling up to the ambulance and the paramedics took her. She wanted to go with her but she knew that Sofia was the one who would need her, that she needed to be watched.
Sofia needed both of her moms, that thought was plagued the blonde's mind because she could not raise Sofia by herself.
The injury didn't look life threatening to her, Derek could save her if the injury was too severe. She hadn't really examined it because she was aware of how dangerous it could be to move her with any sort of head injury so she didn't.
Whatever was going on in Callie's life now, she needed to be let into it again, even though it was none of her business. She cared still and she knew it would never stop.
Her eyes closed as she locked the front door of what used to be her home, and went to go check on Sofia, who was still sound asleep.
She had a shift in the afternoon tomorrow so she didn't need to go to sleep in that moment. She wandered to the guest bedroom but it felt so alone and cold, so she wandered over to the room she used to share with Calliope.
The bed was perfectly made, the brunette hadn't even made the attempt of going to sleep before something had happened. It worried her, she looked around the room to see if there was anything out of the ordinary that she didn't recognize.
Her eyes fell to the three of them in the picture that they took when they thought they could solve all of their problems. She had to tear her eyes off of it because she knew that if she didn't she would allow herself to hope that things could go back to how they were.
She was exhausted from the shift that she had come off, so she laid on the bed and closed her eyes. The scent that was distinctly Callie laced her nostrils and she couldn't help the smile that crossed her features. Seeing Callie today was the closest she'd been to her in months and the circumstances that they were under weren't the ones she would have preferred.
She slipped into a deep sleep until her phone ringing pierced the silence around five in the morning.
"She's okay." The voice on the other side of the line spoke, and Arizona couldn't help the relief that had washed over her features. "You can see her, I think she would want Sofia here when she wakes up and she'd probably like to see you too."
"Meredith, I don't think I should be in that room with her." Arizona knew what these disastrous situations had done to them in the past, they had even brought them back together. Her feelings would spill out of her, and she couldn't ask her to get back together because something had happened and she realized that she didn't want to live her life without Callie next to her.
"The sedatives should wear off in under an hour so you may want to get Sofia ready now. Whatever you decide, she would want you there."
When the brunette woke up in the hospital bed, she felt a slight pain as her eyes started to focus on the bright room before her. "Mama!" The little girl came up to her and hugged her as soon as she noticed that her eyes were open. Callie gave her a weak hug back as she smiled at her before the little girl pulled away. "Mama is okay, sweetie."
Brown eyes finally absorbed the fact that there was another person in the room and her attention was brought to her. "Did she give you any trouble last night?"
Arizona only shook her head with a small smile, "No she slept through the night fine." 'I didn't.' was something that she wanted to add, but didn't. She held back the urge to hug the woman because she knew that if she did, everything would spill from her. "I'm glad you're okay."
"I'm going to need you to take Sofia for a couple of nights until everything is figured out." Callie said, starting to remember the nights of last night. She couldn't allow her daughter to be dragged into this mess.
"I thought they were going to let you go tonight?" Arizona asked, she heard that it was just a concussion from what Meredith had described.
"It's not that, it's just not safe there and I don't want anything to happen to Sofia." There was a hint of worry in her eyes but she tried to shield it from the woman before her.
"Calliope…" Her eyes met the woman's before her as she heard Sofia playing with the doll a little bit away from them. "Will you tell me what happened?"
A sigh escaped her lips, she knew the blonde wouldn't let it go, and she deserved to know since she had been there when she needed her. "Someone broke into the house last night, that's it." There was more to the story, but she wouldn't tell the woman before her what it was, she didn't want to admit that she made a mistake.
"Did you see who did it?" The blonde asked with concern traced in her voice, she wasn't sure what she could do to help.
"No." It was partially true, she had spelled the cheap cologne on him and had only made him out for less than a second. She could not identify him within that amount of time.
"If you don't feel safe there, you can come stay with me, I mean the couch isn't that comfortable but…" She stopped herself as she saw a terrified look in the brunette's eyes.
Looking behind her, Arizona saw the police chief that was there a few weeks ago and had assumed that she just wasn't ready to talk about what had happened.
"No, Arizona. I need you to take Sofia and keep her with you." She made herself as clear as she could, trying to allow the fear to surpass her.
"Okay." The blonde waited for a moment before she spoke, "Do you need me to tell him that you're not ready to talk yet?" She offered, she knew that she wouldn't be comfortable talking with that officer from the look on her face.
"No I just need you and Sofia to go home." There was terror in the brown eyes before she nodded her head, she needed Arizona to do this for her, and she needed them to be safe.
Arizona could see in her eyes that Callie was in no mood to argue, "If you need anything, just call." She nodded her head.
As the blonde left, she could see Dan coming into her hospital room, her fear was only increasing as he shut the door. He had seen the two people that she cared most about, if anything happened to her, it didn't bother but if anything happened to them, it would break her.
"Hello Dr. Torres, do you know who attacked you?" A smirk played on his lips, "You should lock your doors more often, so nothing happens to your daughter."
Her expression fell, he was threatening more than just her now and that wasn't something that she took lightly. "If you touch a hair on her –"
He took a step closer and shook her head, "It's too bad you don't have a man there to assure that nothing happens to her. You can always give me a second chance." He gave her a smile as disgust crossed her face, he was definitely not what she wanted. "Or I could always ask that pretty blonde out that was in here."
Her eyes widened and she shook her head, "I'll give you another chance." The words burned coming out of her mouth, but she knew she wouldn't let him do this to Arizona, she would do what she needed to protect them.
