Okay another chapter! Yay! It's another short one, I know. I'm just trying to get a feel for where this story is headed. Let me know what you guys think, please leave a review if you have any thoughts. Would you prefer longer chapters or do you like the short ones? Also, because I had some drama in the very first few chapters I'm aiming for light and fluffy for the next few. : )

Exhausted after not sleeping the past few nights Callie was walking around the hospital looking more like a zombie than a surgeon. Up on the Pediatric floor Arizona wasn't looking all that great herself. She was exhausted too, and she couldn't stop beating herself up for walking away from Callie like that. "God. I'm an idiot" she said, apparently louder that she meant to.

"I wouldn't go around saying that in front of the patients, Dr. Robbins" Remarked her resident, Dr. Alex Karev.

She liked Alex, he was a good doctor and great with the kids, and he even saved a baby's life with a ping-pong ball once. Alex had a tough outer shell but it was something about the kids that made him a better doctor, even though he insists he doesn't do it for the kids, but for the medicine.

"Right." She smiled up at him, great advice Dr. Karev.

Taking a deep breath she looked back down at the charts she was holding and continued her work.

"You alright Robbins?" The resident questioned. He liked the Peds doctor, even though she was a little too perky for him most of the time, she was a great surgeon and he was learning a lot from her. And seeing the usually happy, smiley blonde doctor beat herself up for the past few days had him a little worried. "Robbins?"

"What...yes, Alex I'm fine" She said without even looking up at him.

Feeling his eyes still on her, she finally looked up. "Did you need something Dr. Karev?"

Obviously he wasn't going to get a real answer from her, "No. Dr. Robbins, I'll just go check on these patients" he said, waving the few charts he held in his hands.

"Good idea Karev." She said, handing the nurse her charts, and walking away.

Man I don't get chicks at all. Way too complicated. Alex thought to himself as he turned and walked in the opposite direction of his mentor.

Well that was terrible. Callie thought as she ripped off her surgical gown and headed for the scrub room. Why today? Can't I just have one good day?!

"Whoa, Cal, are you alright?"

Crap. I do not want to do this now. As she looked over at mark who was standing at the scrub room door, looking a little concerned.

"I`m fine. I`m Great" Callie said, rather coldly, crossing hear arms and leaning on the sink behind her.

"Ah the traditional passive aggressive ""I'm fine"' you women always use" Mark teased.

"Seriously Mark? Do I look like I'm in the mood for your crap today?" Callie said as she turned to leave.

"Alright, alright Sorry. What's got you so upset anyway?" Mark asked, reaching for her arm, doing his best to be sincere.

Callie moved away from him "Never mind it's not important. I have to go prep for another surgery anyway. See you later" sighing in frustration she swung the door open and walked out.

"Cal" was all he got out, before his friend was out of the room and down the hall. Head hung low, both hands resting on the scrub sink, he was lost. Callie was his best friend, one of the only ones he had, besides Derek, and even that wasn't so good right now. But Callie, she was always there for him, and now he had to return the favor. Mark, now sort of worried, let out a breath he didn't know he was holding in he decided to follow Callie. He`d never seen her so upset all at once and he wanted to make sure she really was okay.

It had been two days since Arizona had run off on their way to the bar, and Callie hadn't seen her. Not that she was avoiding her, they were both really busy and didn't have any cases together for a few days. Though Callie didn't mind the distance, she was still confused about the whole thing, she did want to talk to Arizona about it, and she just hadn't had the time.

From her spot at the nurses station Arizona had a pretty good view of the surgical floor. She loved standing here doing her charts, watching the hospital buzz about, gossiping, and making jokes to one another. As she looked around the room, she finally spotted the one person she really wanted to see, Callie; she was looking rather upset. The speed at which she was walking would most likely cause her to knock over anyone who got in her path. Arizona continued to watch, seemingly unnoticed by the dark-haired woman. As she reach an empty on call room she looked up and spotted Arizona, whom she figured was the one staring at her, ignoring the look of concern the blonde was displaying, Callie went in and slammed the door shut.

Arizona stood there trying to decide whether to follow Callie, and make sure she was alright. It didn't take long for her to make up her mind. "Here" she said as she handed the charts to a nurse behind the desk. "Please put theses away for me."

"Sure thing Dr. Robbins" The nurse answered back.

She was just about to walk over when blocking her path was a tall, strong-looking man with salt and pepper hair, and dark blue scrubs.

"Anyone seen Torres?" he asked, his voice filled with frustration.

"Uh, yes Dr. Sloan, she went in to that on call room over there" The nurse answer from behind the desk.

"Great" he mumbled as he turned to face the door of the room his best friend was in. Taking a step toward it he felt a small tug on his arm. Turning around to see who, or what had stopped him he saw a small, hot blonde woman pulling on his arm.

"Let me." She said, removing her hand from the man's bicep.

"Who the hell are you?"

"I'm Arizona, a friend of Callie`s, and it's probably my fault she's so upset, so I'd really like to make sure she okay"

"Well, I'm her best friend and she's never mentioned you"

"Dr. Sloan, is it?"

"Mark, Blondie you can call me Mark."

Trying, and failing to not roll her eyes, she took a deep breath and again placed her hand on the man's arm.

"Please, Mark. Let me do it" she pleaded, looking up at him with her sad blue eyes.

"Ugh. You know what, go for it Blondie" he said, not knowing what else to do.

"Thank you, and stop calling me that. My name is..."

"Yeah, yeah whatever Blondie, are you going to go in there or not?" he interrupted.

She smiled and shook her head, "I'm going." Turning from this strange "friend" of Callie`s she began to walk to the door. Once there she hesitated before going in, but only for a second. She really did want to make sure Callie was alright. Opening the door she peered into the dark room, it was hard to tell where she was but once she spotted Callie she stepped in, and locked the door behind her.

"Callie" she said, her voice just above a whisper.

Looking up from her spot on the bottom bunk, Callie saw the woman who was partly to blame for how crazy she's has been acting lately.

"What?" Callie responded, in between sniffling and whipping tears from her eyes.

"Oh Callie, what's wrong?" Moving to sit next to her on the bed Arizona put her arm around the taller brunette, rubbing her back and doing her best to comfort her.

"Oh so you suddenly care? Are you sure you don't want to run off again?"

Those words stung Arizona, because she knew she had hurt Callie and she hated herself for it. Because even though they had not known each other for very long, there was something between them that Arizona could not ignore and now she was afraid she had ruined whatever it could have been. "No I'm not running away this time Callie. I'm here. What's wrong?" Arizona said with a sigh.

"Everything. My life is a mess right now and I just can't… I" she couldn't hold back her tears anymore and began to cry. "Hahn thinks it's her job to make me miserable, then you suddenly don't want to be around me anymore, and my patients keep dying…and I'm so tired of it. Of everything."

Arizona felt a knot in her stomach and her heart got heavy. Knowing she was one of the reasons this beautiful woman was so upset, made her sick. "Callie I…" she trailed off. Trying to think of what to say to make her feel better was not easy. She felt horrible for bailing on her friend the other night, but it wasn't because she didn't want to be there, because she did, she really did.

Arizona tried again, "Callie, I'm sorry, really sorry for bailing on you the other night…"

"Don't. Don't do that Arizona, if you didn't want to hang out I understand, don't lie to me"

"I`m not lying Callie, I'm just an idiot."

With another sniffle, Callie finally looked up at the woman sitting next to her. "What?"

"I… I'm an idiot okay? I run when I get scared."

"So you left because I scared you Arizona?"

"No. Because I was. Scared that if we became friends, something bad would happen and I would lose you…I… I'm sorry Callie. We were having such a great time and I know we are practically strangers but I just couldn't bare that thought of having a friend like you disappearing on me one day. So I thought it would be better to not get attached."

"Arizona…" Callie interrupted, wanting to reassure her.

"No, please let me finish Callie." She said, her voice now a bit shaky. "I've lost a lot in my life, and I was just worried about losing more. I figured if I didn't make friends here, then I couldn't get hurt. But I was wrong, and I can't not be friends with you. You`re remarkable Callie and I'm so sorry if I made you think otherwise." Arizona said, now crying herself, she couldn't even look Callie in the eye.

Wiping the tears from her face, Callie reached up and cupped Arizona's now tear-stained cheek. "Hey" she said in a whisper, tilting Arizona's chin up so that she could look into those baby blue eyes. "It's okay. I'm sorry I got so mad. I thought you didn't want to be around me, you know I don't have many friends here. Really it's just Mark, and you. I've just had a really long day and Mark…well he is an ass." Callie said with a smile.

"Hah" Arizona let out a small laugh. "Mark… uh. right? I met him today. He is… something else." Arizona reached up and took the hand Callie still held to her face. She knew she wanted to be more than just friends with Callie, but it was probably too soon and she didn't even know if Callie was interested, so for now friends would have to do.

Still holding Callie hand, she looked up at those beautiful chocolate eyes and smiled, they were no longer filled with hurt, but instead, love and accepting. "Thank you for understanding, Callie."

Unable to resist that dimpled smile, Callie reached up and tucked a fallen piece of hair behind the blonde's ear. "Arizona, that's what I'm here for" she said as she leaned in placing a light kiss on her forehead.

Arizona's breath hitched as she felt the warmth of Callie`s soft lips on her skin, and her smile grew wide. At that moment, they both knew this could be more than just friendship. It had to be.