A/N: sorry for the late update, life is still crazy.
Please don't freak out when you read this chapter.
Thanks to pounkcakereal20 for her help.
Chapter 9:
Arizona Robbins, September 11th 2015:
She could hear people talking, her head was pounding and she couldn't open her eyes.
Where was she? What happened? The louder the voices were getting, the harder she was trying to open her eyes.
After some time of struggling to open her eyes, the voices quieted down. She opened her eyes but she immediately closed again. The bright artificial light blinding her eyes.
She tried again and this time she took her time opening her eyes. at first everything was blurry, her eyes taking some time to adjust.
She barely had the time to look around her and get her bearings when a body collided with her. Some old woman taking her in her arms and hugging her tight. She let the woman hug her... she didn't know what to do. She looked around the room and could see a young man in scrubs and a white lab coat.
Was she in a hospital? What happened to her. everything was foggy. It was a complete mess in her head.
She saw the man, who looked like he was going to piss himself, leave the room in a hurry. She then focused on the woman who had been holding her and was now looking at her, babbling and with tears streaming down her face.
What the hell was going on? It was like she was in a twilight zone. She had figured by now that she was in a hospital, but how and why she ended up here was a complete mystery. She looked down at herself and saw that she was in a hospital gown and her left arm was casted which explained the pain she felt when she regained consciousness.
She could hear the woman talking but she didn't know who she was talking to; she kept talking about Arizona and that confused her more than she already was.
"Arizona sweetie?" She looked up at the woman confusion written all over her face. Was this person even allowed to be in her room. The thought of calling for a nurse came to her mind but she didn't do it. The woman seemed to know her and happy to see her.
"Excuse me Madame, who are you?" She asked, her voice hoarse and her throat burning. She saw how the woman face decomposed. It went from euphoric to horrified in the space of a few seconds. Did she say something she wasn't supposed to? "I'm sorry I didn't mean to upset you, I'm just really confused... I don't know what happened or where I am." She saw the woman cry harder than she was before and if her arms didn't hurt like hell she would've face palmed herself.
She didn't have time to think about what happening to her when two people came running in her room.
The first person was an older man, he had a hard look but at the same time looked relieved like a weight have been lifted from his shoulder. He stopped dead in his tracks as soon as he looked at her. He was looking at her like she was something out of this world, afraid that the simplest of movement would break her.
The second person was a handsome man with perfect hair. It looked like his hair was out of a magazine. He had been running and it seemed like not one hair had moved from its place. He was wearing scrubs and a lab coat and she assumed that he was a doctor here. He probably was the person the other young doctor ran to get.
Her assumptions were proved right when he introduced himself. "Hello Miss Robbins." He started and she threw him a confused look but didn't say anything. Who was this Miss Robbins and why was he calling her that? "I'm Doctor Shepherd, how are you feeling?"
She was about to answer him when the older woman who was still crying, silently this time, beat her to eat.
"She doesn't remember!"
Callie Torres, same day:
She ran away. Yes, that's what she did as soon as she saw Arizona start to wake up; she fled. She wasn't ready to face her, she didn't want to. She was scared shitless and she had more important things to worry about like her daughter. Her daughter who was in the emergency room of the hospital. Her daughter whom she didn't know in which state she was about to find her.
She was running toward the ER, thinking of all the horrible things that could've happened to her daughter. She was frantically opening all the curtains trying to find her daughter when someone called her name.
"Hey Torres!" Turning around she saw Mark walking toward her with her daughter in a wheelchair. She had her arm casted and was smiling brightly at her mom. She ran toward her little girl and took her face in her hands checking for any injuries.
"Oh my poor Baby! What happened to you? Who did this to you?" She was starting to get worked up. She would give a painful and slow death to anyone who had dared hurt her little girl!
"No one hurt me mom, I fell at school and broke my arm and Uncle Marky casted my arm! Look it's blue!" Sofia said excitedly to her mother.
Callie quickly threw a thankful look at him. "Thank you! Why didn't anyone page me?" She asked Mark. She was the orthopedic surgeon and it was her daughter, she should have been the first to know! Not the last!
Mark started pushing the wheel chair walking out of the ER. "They said they tried paging you and when you didn't answer, they tried your phone but you also didn't answer. So they sent an intern to go look for you and called me since I was the second person to call after you." He said looking at her. "You know, it's weird that I'm the second person to call in case of emergency for Sofia and not your girlfriend." He asked with a smirk on his face.
She knew exactly what he was trying to say and she wasn't in the mood for his teasing even though it changed from his depressing mode. "Where are we going?"She asked trying to change the subject. If Mark noticed it, he didn't say anything.
"To the cafeteria, I promised your daughter a treat since she didn't cry and was a brave girl. Right princesa?" He said ruffling Sofia's hair.
The little girl groaned and pushed her Uncle's hand before looking at her mom with a big smile and shaking her head up and down. Callie looked at her daughter returning her smile before bending down to kiss the top of her head.
All three of them walked to the cafeteria, Mark was chatting with Sofia while Callie was lost in her thoughts.
Arizona was awake. She couldn't believe it. She was awake and in the same building as her and her daughter. An instant knot formed in her belly at the last thought. She had tried to reach her before and she never got an answer, why would this time be any different? She knew that it was the occasion for her to say the things she had dreamt to tell her these last 6 years. However, she didn't need to bring heartbreak to her little baby. She didn't care if it was her that was hurt but she wouldn't allow her daughter being hurt too. She would do anything in her power to avoid it. Arizona knew about her and didn't care. So why would she care about her now?
Her daughter was healthy and normal little kid living her childhood, she didn't need someone coming in her life to complicate it bringing pain.
She sat down next to her daughter while Mark went to bring them something to eat. Even though Callie hated hospital food, Sofia loved it.
"How are you feeling baby?" She asked her daughter once they were seated.
"Good mommy, my arm doesn't even hurt. I'm excited to show my awesome cast to my friends so they can write on it!" Sofia said excitedly. Callie cringed at her daughter last word. She didn't want her to go to school after her injury. She wanted to keep her as close as possible.
"How about you stay with me this week and come with me to the hospital?" She saw that Sofia was about to protest so she added. "You'll show them next week and you can do rounds with me." When the sparkle appeared in Sofia's eyes, Callie knew that she had won.
"YAY!" Sofia yelled jumping up and down on her seat.
Soon after, Mark came back with all sorts of food all for the pleasure of Sofia and displeasure of Callie.
Arizona Robbins, same day:
"Look right…. Ok, now left." She was being examined by the handsome doctor. He had pointed a light in her eyes and asked her to do all sorts of weird thing, like he was now, asking her to follow his finger with only her eyes. "Ok everything looks good." He said. Finally, he finished his weird thing. He took a step back and put back his light pen in the front pocket of his lab coat. "Can you tell me your name?"
She looked at him like he had lost his mind, he was done with asking her to do weird things, now he was asking her weird questions? Where did he get his medical degree? Of course she knew her name!
She opened her mouth, ready to tell him her name but nothing came out. She stayed a few moments, her mouth hanging open before she closed it. She frowned, why couldn't she remember her name?She tried to think but everything was blank, she couldn't remember anything about herself.
Suddenly she had trouble breathing and her chest was getting tight. "What is happening to me?" She asked no one in particular. She brought her hand to her heaving chest trying to catch her breath.
She saw the handsome doctor getting close to her and instructing her to take deep breath, he then asked her to follow him and breath with him.
She looked around the room and saw the older woman crying in the old man arms. She then noticed someone who wasn't there before. It was a woman with dirty blonde. She too was wearing scrubs and lab coat. She looked at her with teary eyes and nodded at her when the handsome doctor asked her to imitate him. It was the first person that seemed familiar to him and it reassured her a little bit helping her calm her breathing.
Why couldn't she remember anything about herself?
"Ok that's good..." The doctor said, smiling at her once her breathing calmed down.
"What is happening to me?" She asked him again. This time she was much calmer then when she asked that question the first time. She looked at him with so much despair and fear. She didn't remember who she was for fuck sakes.
She saw the doctor very gently sitting next to her on the bed and only focusing on her making her forget about all the other people in the room. He looked at her calmly like she wasn't some crazed woman who forgot who she was and explained to her everything she needed to know.
He told her name, who she was and what happened to her. He explained to her the extent of her injuries, and how it was normal that she didn't remember and that it will hopefully come back with time. He told her it was defense mechanism of her brain, that her brain shut down every painful memory to help her heal properly.
So for now she knew that her name was Arizona Robbins, that she was a surgeon in the Marines and had an accident in Afghanistan. She almost lost her hand but by some miracle it is still there attached to her arm.
He told her that the elderly couple were her parents and that the other doctor was her best friend Teddy. The one who brought her here and that thanks to her she still had her arm.
He then told her that he had to go but that he'll come by later to check on her but that she had nothing to worry about. It was easier said than done.
The rest of her afternoon had been interesting to say the least. At first she was only with the two people that were supposed to be her parents but were strangers to her. she didn't know what she was supposed to say to them, she didn't know them.
The man, which she later learned was named Daniel, intimidated her, he seemed like a guy you shouldn't mess with. It was weird thinking that he was he father. The other woman, her mother Barbara, looked like the complete opposite of the man. She was kind and warm, everything you can imagine in a mother even though sometimes she seemed over bearing asking her what she wanted and if she was ok every five seconds.
At the end of the afternoon, her best friend Teddy, came by and even if at first she seemed distant, not wanting to look Arizona in the eyes. After a while she seemed to loosen up and asked Arizona if she could hug her. She obviously accepted even thought it was hard trying not to hurt her arms or ribs.
The visiting hours came to an end and her parents had to leave. However, they didn't leave before promising to come back tomorrow. Teddy then had to leave too, to take care of some paper work which left Arizona alone with her thoughts.
She had trouble processing everything she had learn today. She couldn't believe what was happening. She tried focusing and remember anything from her past but it just proceeded to exhaust her and eventually she fell in a restless sleep.
Callie Torres, same day:
After their impromptu lunch in the hospital cafeteria, Sofia left with Mark. He said he wanted to spend some time with his favorite niece since his shift was over.
Callie on the other hand still had a few hours to go and she couldn't wait to go home to her little girl.
Sometime during the day she crossed path with Kate. The redhead wanted to know if Sofia was ok, having heard about her accident from the other nurses. The few minutes they spend together were awkward, with Callie wanting to go as soon as possible. She didn't know why she was acting that way with Kate. She didn't know if it was because of what her 6 years old daughter told her or if it was because of Arizona's presence in the hospital.
She was walking until she found herself in front of a door. However, it wasn't just a simple door, behind this door was none other than Arizona Robbins, the woman who broke her heart and ruined her for anybody else.
She loved Kate of course, but she knew that she couldn't love anyone as much as she had loved Arizona. You couldn't find this kind of love twice in your life.
Without thinking, she opened the door and slipped inside the room, being careful to quietly close the door behind her. She could see the sleeping form of the blonde and she released a sigh of relieve. She didn't know why she came inside the blonde's room. She wasn't ready to talk to her so why did she came in her room?
She froze when the voice of the blonde reached her ears. She never wanted to run away more than at this moment but it was too late now. She carefully turned around, bracing herself to meet the blonde's blue orbs. Eyes that she hasn't seen for a while now.
However, when she turned around the blonde was still asleep and Callie sighed knowing she still had some time to mentally prepare herself for her meeting with Arizona.
She was about to leave the room when she heard it again.
"Calliope…"
She was walking home with her best friend. She couldn't see her face but she knew it was were laughing after she had done something silly. It was always like that whenever they were walking home. Always filled with laugher and goofiness.
They went to her best friend's home to spend the weekend there. They were in her room when she heard someone call another person she didn't seem to know.
"Calliope!" She heard from down stairs. She turned toward her best friend who looked embarrassed.
"Is that your mother?" Arizona asked her. The other girl looked at her with a blush covering her face.
"Calliope come down with Arizona, dinner is ready!" Realization fell upon Arizona's face and she knew who the woman was calling Calliope.
"Calliope?" She asked her best friend.
"Yeah that's my full name... but I don't like it. People make fun of me... so please don't call me that at school." The brunette said standing up from where she was laying on her bed.
Arizona followed her and grabbed her best friend's arm before she could walk away.
"Hey! You shouldn't be ashamed!Calliope is a beautiful name, you should be proud of it. When it comes to weird name you're not the only one. I mean look at me!" She said pointing at herself. "My name is Arizona for Christ sake!" She was glad to see that she succeeded in making her best friend laugh, she never wanted her to be embarrassed or ashamed when she was with her. She was the best person she ever knew and she honestly thought that she had a beautiful name.
"Calliope…" She said out loud testing the name. She had a smile on her face looking at her best friend who blushed once again. She tested it once more loving the way it rolled down her tongue and the reaction it brought to the brunette.
"Calliope…"
A/N: ok don't be mad about Arizona. I have a plan so don't worry. Now that Arizona is awake there will be a lot more interactions between her and Callie.
