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Teddy's POV
God what a day. Watching Callie say goodbye to her lifeless baby and now here I was just scrubbing out of a five hour surgery on my best friend. She was alive, thank God. Her brain bleed had been leaking and had formed a clot in her brain, Derek had managed to work his magic just in time and now she was upstairs back in recovery. I'd only been in the OR as a precaution; we all knew that all these operations were putting an immense amount of stress on Arizona's heart and we'd expected it to give out in this surgery. Thankfully, it hadn't, my best friend was a right little fighter.
I headed up to her room straight away wanting to say goodbye to her and to Callie before I left for the evening. 'Hey Callie.' I announced as I entered the room. She was sat in the chair, her hand firmly gripping Arizona's as she talked to her, about what, I couldn't quite hear.
'Hey Teddy...are you ok?'
'Yeah I'm fine, you?' I asked the pointless question, it was quite obvious that Callie was far from ok.
'Just glad she's still here Teddy.' Came the reply. I looked at Callie more intently and saw how exhausted she was, I couldn't begin to imagine what she was going through, first her baby and now the love of her life wasn't looking good. I shook my head, shaking the thoughts away.
'She did good in the surgery, her heart is a lot stronger than we gave her credit for...'
'That's cause it's mine Teddy. She's not on her own fighting for her heart, I'm firmly by her side on that particular battle.' I felt a lone tear trickle down my cheek at Callie's words; what her and Arizona had was untouchable and somehow I just knew that Arizona would come through it, not for herself, not for me or anyone else in this hospital, but solely for the person whom had turned her world upside down. She'd come through this for Callie.
Three weeks later.
Callie's POV
Three long weeks had passed since Arizona had come out of her unexpected surgery and still she wasn't awake. Again she had fought to breathe for herself and so had come of the ventilator but still she wouldn't open those amazing eyes of hers. I'd been powering through physio and now could walk and pretty much look after myself on my own. I'd made a deal with myself to get fully fit as soon as possible so I could look after Zona to the best of my abilities. I'd found a new found strength from somewhere deep within me so I stopped the snivelling and the crying and replaced it with undoubted love and determination. Arizona was going to wake up. She'd moved her finger, she had known I was there and she was going to wake up.
My thoughts were disrupted as Little Grey came into the room. 'Callie, Arizona's parents are here.' I nodded. I'd finally got round to ringing Barbara and Daniel Robbins a couple of days after Arizona's last emergency surgery. As Lexie went to show them in I swallowed hard as I realised that this was the first time I was going to meet them. I stood up and moved to the door as they came in. Arizona's Mom was just like her; she had the dimples, the blonde hair and Zona's piercing blue eyes; immediately she engulfed me in a huge hug like we were family.
'Mrs Robbins...'
'Please, call me Barbara Callie!' She interrupted before turning to Arizona's bed; I could see the tears in her eyes as she went and kissed her daughter's head.
'Callie, I'm Daniel Robbins.' I turned and saw a very imposing man. Arizona's father was everything she had described him to be; a man that demanded respect even if you didn't know him or his past. He extended his hand which I shook. He smiled at me and I felt a little bit more at ease as it was a warm smile. 'Tell me the truth Callie, how is my daughter?' he asked.
'Um...well Sir...'
'Callie, it's Daniel to you.'
'Oh... sorry sir, I mean Daniel,' I stumbled over my words at the unexpected offer from him; Arizona had told me that he always told people to call him Colonel or Sir at the very least. 'She's ok...I'm afraid there's been no change since I first rang you...Derek...I mean Dr Shepherd does a test every day to check her brain activity and he's really pleased with her levels...' I finished rather weakly.
'Right, thank you Callie. Also...I'm sorry...for the loss of your child.' I was shocked to hear these words, I hadn't told them about the baby when I had spoke to them, figuring that would be something to discuss at a later date. 'Sorry...that doctor who showed us in here...she let slip about it...I'm sorry, I truly am. I know what it's like to lose a child...' I felt a tear fall down my face and cursed myself; I'd promised myself that I wouldn't cry again but hearing these words come from Daniel's mouth was just...unexplainable.
'Thank you Sir. It's been hard...but when Zona wakes up it'll make it a lot easier.' I smiled slightly at him and sat down watching the way that the two of them interacted with their daughter. You could see how much they loved her and I realised how hard it must've been for them to hear that their only remaining child was in such a bad state, especially after Tim.
Barbara and Daniel stayed for about an hour before they said that they would go and check into their hotel, refusing the offer I gave them of our apartment. They said they would come back tomorrow and gave me their numbers so that I could call them if I needed anything at all and also ring them if there was any change. I smiled; it was harsh that we had to meet in this way, but they were lovely people and I was glad that they were here. It was nice to have different people around too, I mean don't get me wrong; everyone in the hospital was being so brilliant through this whole nightmare. Every single one of our friends would make time in their hectic schedules to come and see the both of us daily, even Christina would come and sit with me for an hour or two after she had finished her shift. Mark had stayed away from me since our argument and I was glad; I was still so mad at him and although I missed my best friend I would never forget what he said about Arizona, even when she woke up I wouldn't forget. I was removed from my thoughts as Bailey entered the room.
'Hey Bailey,' I greeted her.
'Right Callie, I'm here cause I'm going to discharge you. You've pretty much got all your function and movement back in your arm and your incision site has completely healed and seeing as you're always going to be here anyway I think you'll be just fine. So now go home, get yourself a proper shower and a change of clothes and relax.'
'I can't leave Miranda, you know that.'
'Yes Torres you can. You think Arizona wants to wake up to you looking like you've not had a wash for a month? Just go and have a breather from these four walls...you've been here for five weeks; you need a change of scenery. Go, do as I said, and bring back some things to put in this room; liven it up a bit, bring in some of Arizona's favourite music or favourite smells, see if we can spur her into waking up.'
I smiled at Bailey's words; I knew she was right but I didn't want to go, I couldn't leave Arizona alone. What if she woke up and no one was here for her?
'It's ok Callie, you go, I'll stay with her.' I looked up and to my surprise saw that those words had come from Christina Yang. 'Yes I know, I'm going soft or something but seriously Callie, go get a wash; you stink.'
I laughed; only Christina! Begrudgingly I left, giving Zona a kiss on the forehead before telling Christina to page me straight away if there was even the slightest of change. Walking away was hard but as I walked outside of the hospital and felt the cold air hit my face I knew that it had been a good decision. I was just about to set off for the short walk to our apartment when I felt someone come up behind me. I turned to see Mark looking sheepish as hell.
'What do you want Mark?' I spat out.
'Callie, please. I just wanted to say sorry...I shouldn't have said what I did...'
'Let me stop you there Mark, I still can't look at you without my blood pressure flying through the roof. Right now all I want to do is go home, have a shower and get back to my girlfriend.'
'I know Cal...but all I want to do is make sure you stay safe, so because I live opposite you I'm just gonna be here...walking behind you.'
I turned on my heel sharply and walked off. I felt Mark behind me all the way and even though I was so mad at him still, having him there was a reassuring presence, not that I'd let him know that just yet. When I reached the door of my apartment I didn't turn round or say anything to Mark, I just went in and closed the door behind me.
Being in the apartment was strange; it was eerily quiet so I rushed myself around so that I could get back to the hospital as quick as possible. The shower was heavenly to say the least and I felt so much better when I had changed and was in a comfortable pair of sweats and a hoody. I packed a bag for Arizona too; some clothes, photo frames and as Bailey had suggested, some music of hers and my perfume bottle, I knew that was her favourite smell.
When I got back to the hospital and entered Arizona's room I smiled as I saw Christina had fallen asleep with her hand in Zona's. I toyed with taking a picture and passing it around the hospital, no one would believe this...then I thought better of it and busied myself around the room, putting up the pictures and spraying my perfume in the air.
'Eurrrrghhh, what is this Callie?' Christina woke up spluttering as I accidently sprayed some perfume in her face. I laughed at her face...man it felt good to laugh.
'Eurgh...' I stood in shock, my face frozen as I realised that latest 'eurgh' had come from Arizona. I looked at Christina who was as wide eyed as me which confirmed that it hadn't been a figment of my imagination.
'I'll go get Derek.' Christina said as she ran out the room.
'Baby? Zona? Can you hear me? Please, please...'
The tears began to fall thick and fast once more as Arizona managed one word: 'Calliope...'.
