Grey's Anatomy.
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Chapter Eight(!): The Story. (Sara Ramirez of course... listen... are you listening?)
Callie was standing in the field, looking into the deep blue eyes filled with tears of her wife.
"Tell me how to save you, Arizona."
"I can't tell you. You already know."
"Arizona, stop screwing around - I need to know how I'm supposed to save you!" Callie yelled at her wife, her voice weaker than usual due to the fact that she was crying more than she had ever cried before.
"Calliope, I love you."
"I love you too." Callie cried. Arizona turned around and Callie reached for her hand, it passed straight through, like she was a ghost.
Callie was in Arizona's room, right beside the top of the bed. She turned her head and saw herself leant against the window, her eyes scrunched close. Callie stroked Arizona's cheek lightly and walked to the end of her bed. She leant in a little bit and looked at her wife.
"Oh but these stories don't mean anything, when you've got no one to tell them to, it's true, I was made for you. Oh yeah, and it's true that I was made for you!" Callie slammed her hands on Arizona's legs and she stabilized.
Callie was leant against the window with a smirk on her face. Lucy and Izzie looked pretty baffled and started moving her to surgery for a bleeder to be fixed.
'Works everytime.' Callie thought, laughing. "Go to the playroom, I'll come get you when she's awake." Callie said to her kids, pulling them up and ushering them off upstairs.
"Mom?" Sofia asked, her face red from the tears.
"Just go!" She said, tearing up as she watched her wife being wheeled off to surgery.
Arizona had been taking into surgery and was about to finish. Callie sat against the wall in the gallery, facing the other wall, the glass beside her head. Mark came in and sat in the chair in front of her.
"Cal. Why are you here if you don't wanna see?" Mark said.
"I don't wanna see my wife cut open, I wanna be here for support and if she dies, I need to see her anyway, shape or form." Callie didn't look up from her knees.
"Okay, Grey, close up." Owen said to Meredith, leaving the OR.
Meredith moved to closing up and Mark watched closely.
"Mer's closing her up now." Mark told Callie.
"Okay." Callie said, not listening.
Lucy and Izzie were both standing beside her, checking on the baby, Izzie moved quickly and looked at the monitor.
"Okay, I'll get ready to speak to Callie, wake her up - soon. Mer, keep working - get her closed up, ASAP."
Izzie left and Lucy turned to speak to April, she nodded and ran out.
"Where's Karev?" Mark said, leaning over to Callie.
Callie shrugged a little bit and turned her head to the OR.
"Why aren't they moving her?"
"I dunno, maybe-" Mark started before April came in.
"Uh, Dr. Torres?" Callie looked up and nodded for April to continue. "Dr. Stevens says we have to get her into another surgery, but she needs to talk to you before they do anything." April left again.
Callie went to Izzie's office and sat in the chair beside Mark, all she could think about was when Arizona was sitting there, when they found out about the twins. She put her head down and started humming 'The Story' - their song.
"Callie, the babies need to be delivered - if we don't, this could cause serious complications to Arizona's health, of course, being that the twins are underdeveloped they have a much higher risk of dying. If we wait, Arizona will be completely hospitalized and would need a C-Section. Also, if we deliver the babies now, Arizona will more likely than not loose her uterus." Izzie said, taking the hand Callie had resting on the desk.
"What?" Mark said, taking Callie's other hand to try and comfort her.
"All of these lines across my face, tell you story of who I am." Callie sang quietly.
Callie was beside Arizona in surgery, Meredith and Lucy started wheeling her out. Callie climbed on the gurney and sat cross legged looking at her wife.
"What do you want?" Callie asked.
"You know what I want." Arizona said, now pushing the gurney along behind her head. "So stop calling me here, and make the choice for yourself. You want me to tell you, Izzie wants you to tell her, not me. Answer her."
"Alex would usually answer, but in his own words he said he was just "the sperm doner with vistaion rights"." Izzie said, smiling as Callie lifted her head.
"We want the babies out now. They'll be fine. Arizona will be fine." Callie said, her regular confidence with a hint of cockiness coming back to her.
"I'll go tell Lucy." Izzie left her office and walked quickly to the delivery room Arizona was waiting in.
Callie and Mark strolled behind, talking about everything as if nothing had changed - Arizona wasn't ready to pop 2 kids out and they hadn't even had a car-crash.
Alex was sitting beside Arizona in the delivery room, they hadn't given her the medication to stall the contractions and was 8 centimetres dilated. She was close to waking up soon too.
"So, Arizona, Callie isn't here yet, she's probably still freaking out with Sloan that the babies will be born with 2 heads each or somethin'." Alex said in an effort to wake her up.
Arizona opened her eyes a little bit, then realised where she was and opened them fully.
"Calliope?" She said, searching for her wife with her eyes.
"Arizona!" Callie said, running into the room, Mark hot on her tail.
"Calliope!" Arizona said, shuffling up a little to give her a hug.
"I thought I had killed you!" Callie said, eyes filled with tears.
"The ultimate payback." Arizona smirked then grinned, her dimples made Callie's heart melt.
"We'll deliver the babies soon enough. You've just hit 9 centimetres. Not long at all." Lucy said, going back to charting.
Izzie came back into the room having gone to check on a different paitient.
"Hey, so how far are we?" She grinned, pulling up a chair beside Alex.
"9 centimetres!" Arizona squealed.
"Great!" Izzie smiled.
"When do I get to see my little angels?" Arizona asked.
"Once these angels get out." Callie said, poking the top of belly lightly.
Mark was beside Callie, bored because it had been 30 minutes and Arizona still hadn't reached 10 centimetres.
"Can't we hurry this up?" He said.
"Mark, just go. Please. I really don't want you here for this." Arizona said, smiling at the man she used to dislike greatly, but could now call a friend.
"Fine. I didn't want to see this anyway. Call me when their out." Mark grabbed Arizona's shoulder in support and left.
"Bye!" They all called.
"Woah.." Arizona said clutching her stomach.
"Is it time?" Callie asked.
"You bet your ass it is." Lucy said, taking her seat at the foot of the bed, and put Arizona in the stirrups.
Callie grabbed Arizona's hand and Alex grabbed the other one, Izzie took Alex's hand in hers for a second before she went to assist Lucy.
"Did you guys choose to take one each?" Arizona said between breaths.
"Yeah, I got Baby 1 on the right and she got Baby 2 on the left." Lucy said.
"You deliver Emily and Izzie delivers Victoria." Arizona smiled through the pain.
"Okay, tell me which you think is coming out." Lucy said.
"I think it's Victoria." Arizona breathed. "I always thought it would be Emily."
Izzie sat on the stool as Lucy pulled the cot ready for her.
"Okay, Arizona, it's time, I'm gonna count to three and I need you to push, okay?" Izzie said and Arizona nodded. "1, 2, 3!" Arizona leant forward and screamed, Callie was lucky to break bones for a living - she had tough hands - Alex on the other hand looked to be in the same amount of pain Arizona was. "1, 2, 3!" Izzie said again and Arizona pushed as hard as she could.
"Arizona, she's beautiful." Callie grinned and started to tear up.
"Woah." Alex said, looking down for a second.
"1, 2, 3! C'mon Arizona! Just one more!" Izzie said and pulled the baby out, Arizona lay her head back and took deep breaths.
Izzie put Victoria in the crib and pulled it to the side and she and Lucy cleaned her.
"Better rest up, Emily will be out soon." Izzie smiled and Arizona sighed deeply.
"I want it to be over." Arizona said, turning her head to Callie.
"It'll be worth it when those 2 little angel's are in your arms and-" Callie was cut off by the fact that Arizona had closed her eyes and loosened her grip. "Arizona?"
"What the hell!" Alex said, seeing blood fall from Arizona.
"It's her uterus! I thought it was gonna be okay, it's really bad, we need to get her to an OR now!" Lucy told them as she began to get her ready to move. The nurses got them a gurney and they all moved her and rolled her to surgery.
"Arizona!" Callie yelled.
Arizona was being worked on while Alex and Callie sat in the gallery, Callie had an angry look on her face and tear stains on her cheeks. Alex looked confused.
"How the hell can this be happening?" He said.
"It's all my fault." Callie said in an angry tone.
"It's not. It's noones fault. Crap happens - we have no control."
Callie started crying again and Alex moved closer on the seats.
"Calm the hell down, they'll be fine, besides, we need to stay strong for Vicky." Alex said, putting a brotherly arm around her.
"Never call her that, it sounds like icky. Our daughter is not icky."
"Well right now she is - she's still covered in womb gunk."
Callie laughed and put her head on Alex's shoulder.
Izzie and Lucy began closing up. They had taken the baby out and Dr. Stark had entered the OR. He was at the side working on Emily.
"Why did Stark come in?" Callie asked.
"Standard procedure. Peads need to check on C-Section babies." Alex said and Callie relaxed a little bit.
Izzie turned and looked up to the gallery and waved her arm to signal them to come out of there. They nodded and left as Lucy rolled Arizona out of the OR and into recovery with the help of interns and nurses.
Izzie was now standing in her office, Callie and Alex happily sitting on the seats.
"How is she?" Callie said quickly after sitting down.
"Arizona is fine, but we had to do a hysterectomy." Izzie said, sighing and sitting in her chair. Callie nodded, knowing that this would be okay.
"And Emily?" Alex said, grinning at the fact he now was a father.
"Um, Emily's umbilical cord was wrapped tightly around her neck, Dr. Stark managed to revive her, but she lost a lot of oxygen and she coded." Izzie said, her head falling. She never felt this emotional having to deliver bad news, of course her heart always broke a little bit whenever this happened, but this was so much worse.
"Our baby's dead, isn't she." Alex said, furrowing her brow.
"I'm sorry." Izzie said, her eyes filling with tears.
"Oh my god!" Callie yelled standing up from her chair.
Arizona was awake in recovery, holding her 6 pounds, 8 ounce little girl when Alex got their with Izzie and Lucy.
"Arizona, we need to talk to you." Alex said, sitting in the chair beside her bed.
"What?" Arizona said, not looking up from her baby. "Where's Emily? Where's Calliope?"
"Ariz- I'm sorry I can't." Izzie stood, putting her hand over her mouth and walking out of the room.
"Arizona, there were some complications." Lucy started, sitting beside Arizona. "Emily lost a lot of oxygen and we did the-"
"Best we could but I'm sorry your baby is dead." Arizona finished the speech she always knew how to give, tears rolling down her face. Alex took Victoria from her and put her in bed.
Since her hands were free, Arizona put them to her face and started crying - more than she ever thought possible. Callie entered the room in Mark's arms. She pulled away from him and sat next to Arizona in the bed, she put her arms around Arizona who snuggled in and they cried together.
A scene that would even bring tears to Cristina's eyes.
Alex hovered over Victoria's cot and picked her up again - he was crying to - and walked over to everyone else.
"We may have lost a daughter today but we also gained one. Don't let Emily's death ruin Victoria's life." Alex said, his voice cracky from the tears.
Arizona took Victoria and held her.
"Victoria Emily Calliope Karev-Robbins." Arizona said, smiling at her baby.
"Will we get to see Emily?" Callie asked.
"If you want to." Lucy said, getting the wheelchair at the edge of the room for Arizona.
"I'll stay with Victoria, take a photo." Mark said on the verge of tears. Callie hugged him and Arizona nodded, climbing in.
"She looks like you." Callie said to Alex who smiled and cried with Arizona.
"C'mon, I gotta get a pic." Callie said, Arizona was holding her loved one and nodded, indicating it was okay. Lucy took Callie's phone and she and Alex kneeled either side. She took photos of them holding her and one of her face.
"Goodbye tiny human." Arizona said, putting her back in cot and was wheeled off, everyone in tears.
I climbed across the mountaintops, swam all across the ocean blue. I cross all the lines and I broke all the rules, but baby I broke them all for you.
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