"Arizona: Not the plane from Boise. The plane from Malawi back to Seattle."

The storm continues to roll into the night sky and the darkness sets into the eyes of Callie as she can't believe the words that just came out of her wife's mouth.

Arizona: Callie I don't mean… It's just a part of me that…and I'm trying to be honest with you and with myself… and I've been focusing on the leg, the damn leg for so long that I forgot about the other parts of me that are missing, that are gone and..

Callie: and what? What about the part of you that asked me to marry you, the part of you that wanted to be a mother to our daughter? Those parts are what? Just gone?

Arizona: No, I love you. So much.

Callie: Stop! Stop saying that! You basically just told me you wished you never came back for me! And that you want to be kissing another woman right now!

Arizona: I didn't kiss her. I did come back for you. I do love you. I just.. I don't know…I don't know anymore, Callie.

Callie: I know. I know that you don't just have a part of me, Arizona. You have all of me and you don't even want it!

Callie hears Sofia crying now.. the voices raised have finally startled her along with the storm outside still raging on… Callie rips open the curtain and picks up a cranky Sofia and takes her into her arms.

Arizona: Callie, what are you doing? She was sleeping. She needs -

Callie: She needs me! And I need to get the hell away from you right now!

Arizona: Callie, wait. Sofia…

Callie burst out of the room as Arizona tries to hurry up to her. With her daughter in her arms Callie is trying to hold it together as she heads into the crowded hallways of the Hospital. Dr. Ross (intern) spots her.

Dr. Ross: Dr. Torres! We need you…16 and 13 year old boys just brought in with severe break and fractures from car crash…We need you too Dr. Robbins. Dr. Hunt has stabilized in the ER and wants you both in OR 3. Now!

OR 3

Callie and Arizona along with Dr. Ross have been working on the 13 year old boy. The surgery has gone smooth with the occasional interruptions of the lights dimming in the OR from the generators going in and out… and the silence between the two women has not gone unnoticed by anyone in the room.

Callie: Dr. Ross? Tell Dr. Hunt we're just to about done working on the arm and to keep Dr. Yang ready just in case the heart can't take any more blood loss.

Dr. Ross: Got it, Dr. Torres.

Dr. Ross leaves leaving only Arizona and Callie now in the OR.

Arizona: Callie…

Callie: (with venom in her voice) There is patient on the table Dr. Robbins. Unless the next words to come out of your mouth are something about the patient on the table, you can save it.

Callie continues to focus on the breaks and the bones of the arm in front of her. But her eyes are working against her, for they are welling up with tears as she tries to stifling back sobs… A few tears make there way out and she tries to blink them out and raise her head, unable to wipe them away.

Arizona notices this and puts down her instruments and takes off her glove and wipes the tears away.

Callie lets her touch melt her for a moment and then quickly rips her head away and focuses back on the patient.

Arizona is about to speak again until….. Dr. Boswell, Lauren walks into the OR.

Lauren: How's he doing?

Arizona: Um…

Callie: (a strong defensive tone comes out of her) Cleaning out the wound and re-setting the bone now, we should be finished up soon. Are you taking on the lacerations?

Lauren: Dr. Hunt asked for all hands on deck, so I'm here to help. Let me know when's he's ready.

Callie: Lauren. I can call you Lauren, right?

Lauren: Of course, Callie.

Callie: It's Dr. Torres. And please Lauren, stay. Observe. We'll be done soon and besides it will give us some time to get to know one another.

Arizona: Callie… please.

Callie: Arizona told me how well you did your research on her.

Lauren: Um, I just wanted to know who I'd be working with. I have to say the findings were pretty impressive.

Callie: Hmm. She is something, isn't she? You see there is a few things the internet may have been lacking about my wife here.

Arizona: The patient on the table, Dr. Torres.

Callie: Is stable. (she barks out quickly)Unlike something else in this room. You see she acts like everything is fine and things are all rainbows and sunshine's and butterflies and crap…but you see, there is a dark side to her.

Lauren: What's going on? Arizona?

Callie: What's going on Lauren, is that one elevator ride with you has made Arizona reconsider her entire life with me. Now that's impressive.

Arizona: Callie, not here. Don't. Be mad at me, don't take it out on..

Callie: And look! She's already rising to you to defend your honor. A good man in the storm she really is, huh? You see, I tired to do that for her. I spent four days not sleeping and just praying that she came back alive….

Callie takes an instrument to the bone and begins to cut, focusing on the patient yet still talking with just as much focus and force.

Callie: …I remember thinking about nothing else but her and I actually forgot that my best friend and the father of my daughter was on that plane too, because all I could think about was you.

She briefly looks at her wife and then she takes another instrument and hammers at the bone.

Callie: …and when I first got word they found you, I told myself that I would never ever let you out my sight again, that I was going to do whatever it took to protect you from ever being scared or hurt again.

Again, another hammer to the bone.

Callie: You were a force, you were a storm all your own when you woke up from surgery. You hated me, you looked me as if you wished it was me that was cut out of your life instead of the leg…. Maybe I should have realized it then?

Callie now puts down the hammer and tools and looks up as if to ponder these sudden realizations.

Callie: Was that the real part of you, the part that wanted me out? I didn't want to believe it? I didn't think it was true? Hmm. I guess I know now.

Now Callie has her hands on the bone of the arm of the patient - she studies her work to make sure it's set in place.

Confident the bone setting is to her liking, she finally locks eyes with Arizona as she continues speaking, softer now.

Callie: But I stayed and I took the hits and the pain and I stayed and loved you. Because even if you hated me, I vowed to love and protect you. Even if it was from yourself and your own demons. I was good man in a storm.

Arizona finally speaks, her voice cracking with every word.

Arizona: You were, you were the best. You're everything…

Just then Dr. Ross comes back in…

Dr. Ross: Dr. Yang is on stand by for you. How's it going?

Callie shakes herself into professional mode and replies flatly back to her intern.

Callie: I'm finished, the arm is stabilized, you can close for me Dr. Ross. I'm done here.

Callie heads out into the scrub room. Lauren follows.

Lauren: Calli..Dr. Torres. Look, I don't know what you think happened, but we didn't.. I didn't…

Callie rips off her mask, gown and gloves with a raging force and starts to release the sobs and the tears and the sheer pain and anger she has been holding back for the sake of the patient.

Callie: She's my wife! She is the love of my life! And you! What? You're what? A reminder of what else there is? A one way ticket out of the life she made with me?

Callie isn't asking or screaming for Lauren to answer the questions, they are for herself or to the universe, anyone who can actually help her understand what is happening right now…She literally at this moment thinks nothing about Lauren.

Lauren: I..I..

Callie: Don't! You don't know! You don't know anything! You don't know her! …And ..

Arizona now burst into the room and locks eyes with Callie. They stare for a moment and Callie sees it, she looks back at Lauren and then again and Arizona. Those blue eyes, they aren't the same once knew. She once loved.

Callie: Neither do I.