Arizona was so frustrated. Austin had only left the hospital two hours ago and already she had been victim of double the amount of glares than before. It seemed the new theory, if she were to believe what she had heard from one of her scrub nurses, was that she was cheating on Callie with the piece of man candy that had come to visit her at lunch to propose because she was pregnant with his bastard child. Somehow, knowing the way gossip worked around Seattle Grace hospital Arizona didn't find it that hard to imagine people saying that. She had her suspicions however about where the man candy story originated from. She had only heard two people say man candy before, and seeing as Callie was one of them it didn't take her long to find the plastic surgeon looking at her a little guiltily. She was angry with him, while her and Callie had been going out they had been quite friendly, she looked at the plastics surgeon as a close friend, not someone who would be spreading these horrible rumours about her around.
"I'm pregnant?!" In her haste and clouded judgement she had just accidently, and wrongly, announced to ever doctor and nurse in the doctors lounge that she was in fact with child. Arizona rolled her eyes and crossed her arms at the collective wave of murmurs that instantly emerged. She glared at Mark Sloane as all he did was raise his eyebrows in a sort of apologetic way. The look Callie was sending her from her seat next to him on the sofa was one of shock and betrayal. Did everyone seriously think she was a cheating bitch? "I'm NOT pregnant, although that seems to be the latest theory thanks to you. How can you tell people I'm pregnant, and that I was sleeping around?" The look on Mark's face as he stood and quickly shuffled so that the sofa was between the two of him made her realise that she had been edging closer to him in whilst yelling. Mark help up his hands in a surrender, it wasn't doing much to help her mood. She had had enough of the high school drama in the recent weeks, enough of the constant rumours about her personal life. She came here to work primarily, if she made friends great, if she didn't she had her private life outside of the hospital for that.
"I did not tell anyone you were pregnant, that one seems to have just made itself. I wouldn't take it as an insult, no one is saying your fat, or that your gaining weight..." He looks at Arizona and can immediately tell he's saying all the wrong things, he glances at Callie who looks slightly uncomfortable that Arizona is in such close vicinity of her after a week of no contact. "Not that it would be a problem if you were gaining weight, I mean, you really can't tell one way or the other. And anyway don't they say pregnant women are glowy like...someone thinks your glowing so really it's a compliment. Help me please." He looked into the eyes of the blond surgeon who was still making her way around the sofa, he quickly adjusted his position so there were at least two meters of space between them at all times. "Your obviously not pregnant, and I may have mentioned seeing you with a piece of meat, a male piece of meat at the party. It was the nurses fault...they...they're like rapid dogs, they drove it out of me." Seeing her opportunity Arizona leaps the rest of the distance between them and grabs his ear twisting it until he's squealing. "Ow! Ow! Ow! Please save me someone, she's flipped." Arizona looks around and notices the crowd they've gained and gives Sloane's ear one last tug before letting it go.
"I am not pregnant and I did not cheat. Our private lives are exactly that - private." She sighed and headed back to her ward. She sighed when she turned the corner and was alone, she had seen Callie's face when she had come in accidently making it seem like she was announcing her with child status, she had thought it was true. She really did have no trust in her. She really did think she would cheat on her.
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Callie had found the whole scene in the doctors' lounge to be highly amusing. It wasn't often someone had a go at Mark Sloane, all the nurses around the hospital and many of the doctors thought he was some kind of god. Many of the male members of staff were too afraid to speak up against him because of his reputation with the ladies. So it had been very satisfying to see Arizona turn him into a stuttering mumbling wreck. He hadn't been able to dig himself out of that hole, and she was in no position to help him. She knew that by not acknowledging the gossip about Arizona that she was adding to it, many had assumed after seeing her crying at the party that it had been due to the blonds fault. She realized she had over reacted, and she would do anything to take it back but she knew she couldn't because the blond had confirmed her suspicions just hours later. Arizona had brought the first person she could find and shared her bed with them, she hadn't given Callie a second thought. It hurt knowing she was so much more invested in their relationship than Arizona, she still couldn't imagine being with anyone else other than the PEDs surgeon.
"You paged me?" She asked Arizona as she caught sight of her at the nurses station in the PEDs ward. She glanced up from her paperwork but otherwise looked unaffected by her presence.
"Yeah, I need a consult, room 5 both legs are broken. If you go in I'll be right there in a moment Dr Torres."
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"How dare you move my patient and send him for surgery without telling me, damn it Callie, just because we have personal problems doesn't mean you can throw away the protocols. They're there for a reason!" Arizona was furious, how could she do this. She had taken her patient out of her ward without her say so, Callie had performed a surgery on him without knowing his full history. Anything could have happened he could have died on the table, before he even made it onto the table, anything. Not wanting to be the centre of the gossip mill once again Arizona grabbed the Ortho surgeon and pulled her into an empty room.
"How dare I? I'm a surgeon at this hospital as well, I gave him a consult and then checked with the resident on his case to see if there was anything I needed to know. It all worked out, he's fine and his legs are mended. I don't see the problem, Dr Robbins." Callie shoved her hands into her pockets, not knowing what to do with them. She was angry, the blond woman in front of her obviously thinking she was risk her patients care just because of what was happening between them. Arizona sighed, when she had seen the surgery up on the board and the empty room she had panicked, in her last hospital due to miscommunication between attendings' she had lost two patients, all because the other doctor had a god complex.
"Next time, could you please just let me know what's going on with my patient?" Arizona sighed and made her way to leave but found Callie stood in her way.
"Seriously and I'm the one with the trust issues in this relationship. Arizona you don't even trust me to do my job properly let alone act properly in our relationship. I never lied to you about anything, I told you up front I was hurt in the past, I told you up front my relationships are always a disaster and you still wanted to date me so how could you lie about it to me?" Callie was shaking with anger, she couldn't believe how much she had trusted the blond surgeon, how much their relationship had meant to her until it was gone. Yes she knew she had also been at fault, she had been pulling away for the past few weeks but she was scared, and she just needed time. Arizona on the other hand was past making excuses for their mistakes, past reliving every moment in their relationship to see where it went wrong. She knew she wasn't perfect, but she wasn't pushing her issues onto Callie.
"Lie to you? Lie to you about what Callie? About Austin. I never said I hadn't dated a man before, in fact the only time I remember talking about past relationships is when we were talking about coming out to our parents. I never brought a guy home, I dated Austin all of three weeks before I broke it off. I broke his heart because I just wasn't into men. I was in a bad place, I had just been dumped by my girlfriend and I knew he loved me."
"So it's a pattern is it? Rushing into bed with someone after a break up. I knew you liked to date but I didn't realise I was dating a whore. Is that what you do? Lure people into bed with you, fuck them and then keep them around for a while if they're a good lay? God you're more of a whore than Mark, at least he's honest about what he wants from you. You-"
"Shut up." Arizona's whisper cuts through what she was saying. Arizona can't make eye contact with Callie at the moment; instead she stares at the floor. The tears stinging her eyes being held back with just the small amount of will power left in her. "I thought..." She has to pause to keep her voice from breaking. Thankfully Callie is keeping quiet. Callie realises she said terrible things, she can see the hurt on the blonds face she just got so angry. A month ago they were so happy, a month ago they were perfect. "I thought, even though we had broken up, even though you had broken us that we could be ok, that...that maybe we could get passed it. But you...you just ruined that. I don't know where you got the idea from that I rushed into bed with someone after you, but I didn't." This time when she leaves Callie doesn't stop her.