A/N: Thanks to everyone who is reading and enjoying this story. This chapter has some insights to Mark's feelings but tunes in on Callie and how she's dealing with her portion of Arizona's surgeries.

I just want everyone to know that I adore Callie and Arizona's relationship and nothing horrendous will happen to either one but you can't expect the rode to recovery to be an easy one.

Callie

Callie ran to the church area inside the hospital. She sat down in one of the pews and began to pray. "God, thank you for bringing her back to me. I am so sorry I was not there to receive your gift but please do not take her away from me again. I love her so much. I know I did something really stupid yesterday, something I can't take back but need the chance to make this right. I need your guidance right now on how to make this right. Please don't take her away before I have the chance to fix this mess that I have made of both of our lives. Help her get through this. Not just for me, but because she doesn't deserve this, not when it's me who did the wrong. Bring her back to me please. Amen." Callie crossed herself and laid down in the pew for a second to collect herself. After a few minutes she got back up and rushed back to the gallery. Cristina was closing up for Bailey and Derek was finishing up the catheter that would drain the excess fluid from Arizona's brain.

Callie stayed in the gallery until they began to wheel Arizona to her room. Teddy had been giving her glares ever since she strode up besides the bed.

"Teddy, look…"

"Save it Callie. I get that you were hurting. I do but this is my best friend, okay. You can understand a little malice accompanying the fact that she wrecked herself in a Thunderbird because of you."

"She was in a Thunderbird? Wait, that's beside the point, I never meant to hurt her. Had I known she was coming - "

"You would have refused to talk to her. That's what you would have done. But that isn't the issue Callie – the issue is that you slept with Mark. The one person you know she never wanted to see you with, you slept with. Do you know that she didn't even tell me she was here until she got away from seeing you to? IT was a surprise Callie."

Callie was a little pissed off at Teddy for speaking to her in that tone of voice and got defensive. "She had to come back and surprise me because she left me. SHE left ME Teddy, not the other way around. She had to come back because she left me for somewhere on the other side of the freaking world." Cristina and Bailey ignored the two arguing surgeons and continued to wheel Arizona into her room.

"Yeah, she left you, we all get that. But really did you give her a choice. She didn't leave to be mean to you, she left because she knew how much YOU being HERE meant to you. She didn't want to rip you from the only world you knew just to have you hate her for it. The entire time she was there she kept comparing herself to Erica and George. She didn't want to leave but she did. She traded the slight chance of you being happy here for you being miserable there."

Callie felt Teddy words begin to sink in. Had she really given Arizona a choice? Sure she knew she would not have accepted the award if the roles had been reversed but Arizona had. She had wanted to win the Carter Madison so bad. When she did she had just wanted to share it with her girlfriend but instead she had to put up with a passive aggressive girlfriend.

"Teddy…I'm so sorry. I never wanted this to happen. I can make excuses but I never stopped loving her. I need her. I need her to live, because without her my soul dies." Callie was sobbing hard. Trying to make sense of the shambles that she now knew as her life.

"Callie, I'm not upset with you. I want her to live too. I'm sure you too can work past this. It may take some time but she'll get there." Teddy moved aside as she let Callie go into Arizona's room.

"Uh…Cristina let's go get prepped for another surgery." Bailey said as she tried to usher Cristina out of the room.

"But we haven't finished her chart."

"Dr. Torres is capable of finishing it. Besides it's a liver transplant, I may let you take the reins on once I open and assess."

At that scalpel hungry Cristina dropped Arizona's chart and followed Bailey outside and towards the OR.

Watching them leave, Callie walked over to Arizona's charts and checked all her vitals. Everything looked to be in order. Stepping out of doctor mode, she fell into girlfriend mode. She sat down next to Arizona's bed and grabbed her hands.

"Hey, babe. Your surgery went well today. Derek is monitoring to make sure your brain swelling doesn't go back up but so far your good. Derek was shocked that from the accident you didn't suffer any spinal damage. Bailey was able to repair your spleen and fixed a superficial kidney laceration. Owen was able to stitch up your face. Teddy and Cristina had to remove an embolism on your lung to remove the blood. M-Mark is making skin grafts for your arms and legs. He won't be able to apply those till I fix your leg and shoulder. You're lucky babe. It could have been worse. You'll be okay. I need you to be okay." Callie clutched at the ivory hand in her own olive hands. She was on the verge of tears but she knew she had to stay strong for Arizona.

"I'm here for you okay. I know if you were up you wouldn't want me to be but I am. I hurt you and I'm so sorry. I hope when you wake up you can find it in your heart to forgive me." Callie had finally lost it and let the tears flow down her cheek freely. "I'm so sorry."

Mark

Mark sat in the lab and set to work on the skin graft for Arizona. He was pissed at himself and he couldn't help thinking it was all his fault. Had he not suggest a sexual sorbet, Callie wouldn't have been tempted.

Callie didn't seem mad at him and for that he was a grateful, because he couldn't stand to lose his best friend. Arizona, on the other hand, would be furious. Whenever she got up she would be pissed at him, he hoped she wouldn't make Callie chose between the two because he knew he would lose. He saw it in Callie's eyes the moment she told him Arizona knew about what had happened.

Mark wanted to make sure that the skin graft was perfect so that Arizona would have no traces of scars. It was the least he could do. Mark looked up just in time to see Teddy stalking into the room and shutting the door.

"Hey Ted–" Mark started only to be interrupted by Teddy.

"Don't 'hey Teddy' me Mark. How could you do that to Callie and Arizona, huh?" Teddy seemed like she was ready to use her military training on him.

"Look Teddy, I wasn't thinking. Me and Callie were in a bad position with both our ex-girlfriends, her more than me, and we needed comfort. I get it was stupid but how was I to know Blondie would show up. If I could take it back I would."

"I know you would Mark. I know it's not all your fault but dammit. I had been trying to convince her to come home and for her to return to this. I feel like if I hadn't pushed maybe she wouldn't have known and none of this would be happening." Teddy dropped her head into her hands.

"I know what you mean. If I hadn't planted the seed for a sexual palate cleanser, Callie wouldn't have thought of going through with it. I feel like such an asshole right now."

"You are but right now it's about Callie and Arizona. I don't know what Arizona's mood is going to be when she wakes up. This could possibly break Callie."

Mark nodded. He would fix this. He vowed to make sure those two had their happy ending. Mark would start with this skin graft.

Callie

Callie had stayed by Arizona's bedside the entire night. She had nightmares of the crash and hadn't really slept. She just watched Arizona. She looked so peaceful. If she wasn't scarred like she was no one could tell her the blonde wasn't just sleeping.

Callie turned to the sound of Bailey and Derek entering the room. "Hello Dr. Torres, how'd our patient do last night?"

"Good. Everything looked stable." Callie croaked out, her voice a bit huskier than normal. She was about to clear it when she saw Bailey hand her a cup of water. "Thank you."

"Fantastic. Well her fluid output looks about normal. Her heartbeat is stronger. She made it through the night with no problems. I think the swelling may have gone down some but I'll need scans to confirm. But if all looks well you and Bailey can operate."

At that the General Surgeon stepped forward. "As you know I'll be going in to check my previous repairs and to monitor any abdominal bleeding that may occur. As well help Karev set the broken ribs."

Callie nodded her head. "Yes I'm aware of that. While you're doing that I'll go in and put an intramedullary rod into her femur to repair that. If that goes smoothly, I'll move on to the shoulder."

Bailey nodded this time. "Sounds good to me. Who else is in the room today?"

"Dr. Sloan, Dr. Altman, Dr. Karev, and us three."

"What are they doing?"

Looking at Arizona, Callie answered, "Dr. Sloan is placing skin grafts. Dr. Altman wants to monitor her heart and lungs. Karev is going to assist with the femur and shoulder repair."

With that Bailey began to get ready to move Arizona to take another brain scan to check on the brain swelling. With this minute of alone time, Callie sunk back into the chair and began to drift off. She knew she had to do a flawless job today and she needed at least a few minutes of sleep.

She awoke at the sound of her pager going off. It was time, she had to go to OR-3.

Walking into the scrub room. She was side-by-side with the rest of the surgeons scrubbing in. Mark pulled her to the side.

"I'm so sorry Cal. I never meant for this to happen."

"It's okay Mark. We made a mistake. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it, right now I need to focus on helping Arizona make a full recovery."

The enter the OR and Derek began with his common opening to a surgery, "It's a beautiful night to save lives."

The surgery was going by without a hitch. Callie had managed to fix femur, with little assistance from anyone. Callie didn't want their help. This was her Arizona, if anyone was gonna operate on her bones, it would be Callie. She did everything with a goal of perfection. She took her time to make sure everything was done properly. She didn't want to risk the chance of there being any complications in the future. She didn't even let the scrub nurses close for her.

Bailey stood behind her as she worked on the shoulder. "You're doing well Dr. Torres. It's looking good." No sooner had the words left her lips did the monitor go haywire.

"What the hell?" Callie looked up and saw Teddy moving toward her. She didn't know how to react. Everything went in slow motion.

She watched Teddy as she said there was a bleeder. Callie looked down and witness Arizona's blood squirting out of her open wound where Karev was setting one of her ribs.

"Callie, Callie. Pull yourself together."

She shook herself. "What the hell did you do Karev?"

"Nothing. One of her stitches reopened."

Teddy grabbed her shoulders as she saw Callie about to tear into Karev. "It's okay her BP only went up because she's been under anesthesia to long. You'll need to close up soon."

Callie mentally cooled herself down and picked up her sutures and begin a meticulous job of closing Arizona up. Mark stepped forward with the skin grafts. As she turned away. "You did good Cal."

Callie couldn't speak she had never know fear like that inside the OR. She was shaken to her core, she couldn't stop the tears. She sat in the scrub room until she saw the nurses taking Arizona back to her room.