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Rest of Callie's day passed in a blur. She scrubbed in on a surgery with Arizona and she was a rock star in the OR. An hour before the end of her shift, Callie stood near the nurse's station doing her charting. A tall, slender woman with dark hair approached the nurse's desk.
"Hello, may I know where I can find Dr. Robbins?" The woman asked, politely. Callie looked up from her chart and looked at the woman.
"Uh, who are you?"
"I'm Joanne. Her girlfriend."
"Oh. Why don't you wait here? I'll go get her for you." Callie gave her a dazzling smile and left to find Arizona. She found her in one of her patient's room, talking to a kid.
"Um, Dr. Robbins?" Callie called tentatively. "What?" Arizona asked. "There is a woman, Joanne, here to see you."
"Oh, thank you. Tell her that I'll be with her in five minutes." For the first time, Arizona smiled at Callie. Callie returned the smile, grudgingly.
Arizona quickly followed Callie and when she saw her girlfriend, Arizona walked faster and kissed her. Not bad, Robbins, Callie thought as Arizona placed her arm around her girlfriend's waist. Callie smiled at their interaction and returned back to her charting.
"I'll go change. Wait for me." Arizona gave her girlfriend another kiss and left for the locker room. "Hi, I'm Callie Torres." Callie introduced herself. "Nice to meet you." Joanne smiled and minutes later they were joined by Arizona.
"Shall we?" Arizona asked chivalrously causing Joanne to laugh. "'I'll see you soon, Callie" Joanne waved goodbye to Callie and Arizona mumbled a "bye" to her and they left.
Callie watched them leave as she felt something stir inside her. She stared at Arizona for a second and shook her head. She collected her thoughts and went on to do her work.
"She is evil, Mark."
"Everyone at the hospital really like her. Altman has finally found her best friend. She and Robbins seem really close." "Oh and she is hot too." Mark added, after a thought.
Callie chuckled and nodded. "And mean too." She added. "You know how it is, Cal. All the hot ones are mean." Mark said as he took a swig of his beer. Callie was at Mark's apartment, their usual routine of hanging out after work.
"That's true." Callie laughed. "One more week with his evil hottie and then I'm never talking to her again."
"You know, you could try and be friends with her." Mark shrugged. "Friends? This morning you told me to do the silent treatment and now you are asking me to be friends with her?"
"Hey, do whatever you want." Mark threw up his hands in surrender.
"Well, good night Mark. I'm going to bed." Callie sighed and walked back to her apartment. She pulled her covers up close and thought about what Mark said. Maybe we could be friends, Callie thought as she drifted into sleep.
Callie was walking from the parking lot to the hospital when she saw a familiar blonde woman walking a few paces ahead of her. Callie thought about what Mark said last night and she decided to try it. "Dr. Robbins!" Callie called as she walked faster to reach the blonde. Arizona turned when she heard her name and stopped when she saw Callie.
"Hey, listen." Callie started. "I know we didn't start of very well but I was wondering maybe we could be friends?" Callie smiled and Arizona's eyes widened. "Yes. Actually, I wanted to apologize for being a little mean to you." "Little?" Arizona glared at Callie's interruption but continued. "I over-reacted. I'm sorry" Arizona smiled. "Hey it's no big deal." Callie laughed.
Arizona gave a shaky laughter and resumed walking and Callie followed her. "Great, now that we are friends, can I ask you something?" "Sure" came Arizona's reply.
"How long have you and Joanne been together?" Callie asked as they entered the hospital. "Three years." Arizona smiled, flashing her dimples. "That's really great. But in my opinion, you could do better." Callie smiled back.
"Excuse me?" "Well, you are hot. Joanne is hot too but you know she is not hot hot, if you know what I mean."Callie rambled and Arizona stared at her with a horrified look.
"You're unbelievable." Arizona whispered as she walked into the locker room. "Why can't you behave?" Arizona groaned and Callie looked at her with a reproachful look. "I'll during work and now we are friends!" Callie called after her and Arizona walked into the attending's lounge.
Arizona emerged out of the lounge, in her scrubs. She gave Callie a long hard glare and started. "Look, we can try and be friends but there will be no more comments about my girl friend. Do you hear me?"
Callie rolled her eyes and nodded. "Good." Arizona turned and walked to her patient's room. "Are you really this straight forward?" Arizona asked and all she got was a shrug in response. "I'm sorry. I know I was a little out of line." Callie mumbled. Arizona smiled at her before handing her the patient's chart. They prepped him for surgery and it was a success.
A five-year old kid was brought in and later after diagnosis it was found that that kid had cancer. Arizona stared at the scans with a sad look on her face. "I really hate hopeless cases like this." Arizona muttered as she flipped the scans for a better view.
"Hey, I have seen you in the OR. You are a rock star. You can pull this off." Callie gave her an encouraging smile.
Arizona smiled back and this time Callie actually liked it. "You are nice." Arizona commented earning a laugh from the Latina. "Most of the time." Callie shrugged and Arizona laughed in response. "Come on, let's get this over with." Arizona muttered as they took the kid into the OR.
"Shit" Arizona muttered as she bent down at the sink her hands covering her face. "Hey, you did everything you could." Callie patted her shoulder and Callie felt her hand tingling when it made contact with Arizona's skin.
"I know, I just, I can't look at the parents' face and tell them that their five-year old kid is…" Arizona couldn't complete her sentence and a tear rolled down her cheek. She quickly wiped them away. "Hey, I'll handle the parents, okay? I'll deal with them. You go." Callie assured her and Arizona mumbled thanks and left the scrub room.
Half an hour later, Callie found Arizona sitting at the end of the stairs staring at her phone. "Are you okay?" Callie asked quietly as she went to sit beside her. "Yeah, I'm okay. Thanks… you know for…" Arizona dragged and Callie gave her one of her mega-watt smile.
"It's not a big deal." Callie assured her. "I just couldn't handle it. I was having a bad day. This morning I had a fight with my girlfriend, then I yelled at you and then I lost a tiny human today." Arizona covered her face with her hands.
"We all lose patients and the part where you yelled at me? That's not a problem either." Callie consoled her. "The girlfriend part? Tell her not to call you or text you when you are at work. She'll understand."
"How did you know..?" Arizona asked, bewildered. "It's not hard to guess." Callie flashed her another smile.
"You are really nice." Arizona said for the second time that day and Callie chuckled. "So, tell me, what does your girl friend do?"
"She is a lawyer. We were in Boston but she got a transfer here, so I moved with her." "Wow, so you guys are that much in love huh?" Callie laughed quietly and Arizona joined her.
"What about you?" Arizona asked her finger pointing at Callie. "Single. I don't believe in love and all that crap." Callie said making a face.
"How can you not?" Arizona argued and Callie just shrugged. "I have never seen a happy couple who are in love."
"We are happy."
"We?"
"Joanne and I. We are in love and we are happy."
"Maybe. But love-it doesn't work for me." Callie said waving her hand.
Arizona's phone beeped and she smiled. "Well, I gotta go. I'll see you tomorrow." Arizona placed her hand on Callie's knee and she left. Callie's skin tingled at the contact. "Bye" Callie said, smiling a mega-watt smile at her as she watched her go. Callie couldn't help but feel the loss of Arizona's presence next to her. Strange.
Callie went back to her home and flopped onto her bed. Callie slept peacefully as a familiar blonde kept wavering in her dreams.
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