Hours later, Callie found the woman in the waiting room surrounded by several other people and moved to the group.
"Is he dead?" the woman asked quietly, tears streaming down her face.
"No. Definitely not," Callie replied as she looked around the anxious group of people. "I had to put pins in the bones of his hip to stabilize the area and it'll be a long recovery, but I have every confidence he'll do well. He has some other injuries but the hip was the main problem, the rest will heal with time."
Letting out a huge sigh of relief, the woman dropped her head.
"Did you want to see him for a minute?" Callie asked.
With the encouragement of the other people there, the woman stood and nodded her agreement. "I'm sorry, I'm Julie. Julie Hubbard. These are our friends, they came right away." She smiled gratefully at the group. "Jack is - is my idiot boyfriend."
"Why don't you come with me and spend a minute with him, but he's pretty out of it - so I need you to be calm. Okay?"
As Callie directed Julie to Jack's room, she got the full story.
"We were having an argument about this guy who's been coming onto me at work. Jack wanted me to quit, for god's sake. I can't quit! I need this job and he's a temp. It's not like he'll be around long."
"Mmhm," Callie murmured, only paying half attention as they entered the room.
Tears began to fall again on Julie's face as she closed the distance to her boyfriend. "We have things to finish up, Jack. I better get that chance. Why did you not just trust me to handle it?"
Obviously not sure where to place her hands because of the damage to her boyfriend, Julie placed one lightly on his hand. "I love you, you idiot."
Callie watched as Jack fluttered his eyes and tried to focus on his girlfriend.
"Jules?"
Relief evident, Julie's face softened perceptibly as she ran a fingertip along an undamaged portion of Jack's chin. "Don't ever do this to me again. You got it? Any of it. I love you. I wouldn't cheat, I'll never cheat. Got it?"
"Sorry," he whispered. "Just... sorry. Jealous."
"I know. I know. But he'll be gone in a couple of days and you'll be here forever. Forever." Julie brought Jack's hand up to her heart. "Don't forget that, okay?"
As Jack drifted off, Julie leaned down and placed the softest of kisses on Jack's uninjured lips. "Never forget, you dummy. Never forget."
Turning to Callie, Julie asked, "He really is going to be okay, right?"
"Like I said, he's young and strong and I have every hope that the recovery will be complete. It's going to be quite a while before he jumps out of a car on a busy street again, though."
"I told him I was handling it and it was nothing, but he wouldn't listen to me. It's not like it's the first time someone's come onto me, for god's sake. You deal with it, right?" Julie looked to Callie for confirmation.
"Yeah, you do," Callie replied, even as she realized that she couldn't think of the last time that someone from work, besides Mark, flirted with her. She was wondering if that was because she was so solid with Arizona and everyone knew it or she had lost a step somewhere when she realized Julie was talking again.
"... hasn't been anyone else for me since Jack and I don't think there ever will be, but the jealousy stuff has to stop. He gets so mad." Julie turned her attention back to Jack. "Idiot," she whispered. "I don't need anybody else, just you."
Callie watched as the other woman stepped back to the bed and once more placed her hand over Jack's.
"Mark, you know I beat you every time," Derek Shepherd bragged to Mark Sloan as he threw his last dart.
"Don't even go there, Shepherd. I beat you every game the last time you were here!" Mark argued.
"Would you please just try not to hit each other with the darts this time," Meredith pleaded as she watched the men play darts.
Cristina aimed a sad face at Meredith. "But it was so entertaining to see which of them was going to get thrown out first."
Callie cringed. "I don't want to be thrown out before I even get started, so knock it off you two!"
"They really were aiming at each other?" Teddy asked, surprise evident in her tone.
"Not really," Meredith answered. "They just got close a couple of times."
At Teddy's incredulous look, Meredith just shook her head and shrugged her shoulders at something she simply didn't understand.
"Close to what?" Karev asked as he stepped to the tall table.
"You don't wanna know." Arizona rolled her eyes and took a sip of her beer.
Callie leaned over to Arizona, clinked their bottles together and said, "Good choice on a beer night."
"Yes, just feels like a beer night to me," the peds surgeon replied with a grin.
Karev nodded in agreement as he walked up to the table. "That does sound good." He stopped on his way past Arizona to get his drink. "Hey, I checked on the hernia before I came over. All good."
Pleased that Karev took the step to check on the patient, even though she had done the same, Arizona smiled. "Thanks. He's a strong little boy, he'll be fine."
"Am I assisting in the PDA tomorrow?" Cristina suddenly asked Teddy.
Teddy was unwilling to invite Yang to assist without speaking with Arizona and so she turned to face Cristina and answered, "Just be there and we'll figure it all out tomorrow."
Nodding, Cristina took the words at their face value and picked up her glass to take a drink.
Moving slightly to the side to get a better view, Teddy said, "Hey, Arizona, isn't that Doctor Snyder?"
Arizona looked over as she finished her beer. "Hey - Yeah, it is. I'm gonna go say hi."
"That's the visiting peds surgeon, isn't it?" Karev said as he sat back at the table.
"Yep," Callie answered as she watched Arizona head over to the other table.
Cristina chimed in, "We all get to hope that she's not as perky as roller-skate girl."
Meredith spluttered, "Cristina!"
"You gotta admit," Mark added, "That IS way too much perk."
Making a face at Mark, Callie said, "Right, and you two are so much better with your drama and nonsense. The perk's just fine."
"The... perk?" Teddy asked somewhat surprised, still unused to this group of people and the odd family they'd created.
"She works in peds, I'm pretty sure perk is a lifesaver," Meredith commented.
"Perk or not, she's a great asset to the hospital," Derek added.
"Yeah, she is." Pleased, Callie nodded in proud agreement and then glared at Mark to ensure he had no comments to add.
"They know each other from before?" Karev asked Callie of Arizona and Doctor Snyder.
"Nope, Arizona did some research on her last night," Callie answered. When Karev didn't continue, Callie asked, "Why?"
"What ... Nothing," Karev answered in the tone that told you he was more interested in nursing his beer than dealing with further conversation.
Doctor Snyder looked up as Arizona approached. "Doctor Robbins!"
"Doctor Snyder, I'm sorry to interrupt - I just wanted to say hi and I hope we'll see you tomorrow!"
"Oh, interrupt anytime. These are my friends, Andy and Gigi. They were kind enough to keep me busy tonight. Guys - this is Doctor Arizona Robbins, a wonderful peds surgeon from the hospital I'm visiting."
After a few introductory sentences and the shaking their hands, Arizona started to move away. "Well, I'll let you get back to your night out and we'll hopefully see you again tomorrow, Doctor Snyder."
Doctor Snyder clasped Arizona's hand with both of her own. "Audra, please. And you will, don't worry. I may stay a few more days, actually, if you think it might be a good idea."
After bringing her other hand to pat Doctor Snyder's hands, Arizona gracefully extricated her held hand by stepping a little further away. "It's a great facility and we'd be happy to see you take a closer look. I better get back to my friends, I'll see you tomorrow!"
Callie looked over at her girlfriend just in time to see Arizona remove her hand from Doctor Snyder's grasp and step away from the table.
"Torres!" Mark's tone demanded an answer.
"What?" Callie exclaimed and pulled her attention away from Arizona and back to Mark.
"Stop watching Robbins already and answer my question. Is Lexie coming, I didn't see her before I came over."
"I am not little Grey's keeper," Callie responded with a sigh.
"She caught a surgery with Doctor Perkins," Meredith supplied.
"Is Doctor Snyder coming back tomorrow?" Teddy asked of Arizona when the peds surgeon returned to the table and immediately took a seat.
"Yep! I think she's impressed," Arizona answered as Callie pushed another beer in her direction. Leaning over, she gave Callie a kiss on the cheek with a wide grin. "Thanks!"
"See," Cristina groaned as she rolled her eyes in disgust, "Perk!"
