Chapter 10

Hey there, Sorry for the long delay with updating, but thank you all for the great feedback! Also, this story not near the ending, we have a lot of things left to uncover with Callie's background and history with her parents. Keep the feedback coming, I will post the next chapter tomorrow if you guys are still interested!

Arizona's POV

I wasn't really sure what to expect when I volunteered to stay with Callie. But this would be so much easier if we weren't chaperoned everywhere we go. We have only been back to her place for a couple of hours and I'm exhausted, so I can only imagine how Callie is feeling right now. It started on the ride to her place. No, we couldn't just take my car, we had to take supersized extra strength sports SUV, packed with six. SIX guards who were all armed and looking like they needed to miss a day at the gym.

Her building might as well be a certified police precinct. Two guys manning the once empty concierge desk. It was a struggle to get Callie up and out of the car and into her apartment, but she is being constantly bombarded with questions about her father, and what happened that day at the hospital. She won't get any rest if they keep this up. I was gone for a half hour and I hope they let her stay asleep while I was gone picking up some extra meds for her.

I get back to her door and see one of Jacob's men. I really am not in the mood for 20 questions, so I hope he does not give me a hard time about going back in.

"What's in the bag Dr. Robbins"

Rolling my eyes "seriously, you were here when I left, and you know exactly where I was going and how long it would take me until I got back here"

"I still need to see what is in the bag ma'am"

"ma'am…" he can't be fucking serious right now "are you serious right now" I toss him the bag.

"can't take any chances ma'"

"if you call me ma'am one more time. I swear we are going to have a lot more problems tonight. Just let me in already."

He moves out of my way. As I walk into the apartment. I see Callie still being questioned by Jacob's.

"you know she is supposed to be resting right now right" walking over to the side of the couch she is sitting on.

"I know you can appreciate us not having a repeat attack on her life Ms. Robbins," says Jacobs

"yea, but look at her right now. If she knew anything more you would already know by now." I look down at her and I can tell that she is in some pain. "now I'm going to take her in her room to get some rest and you guys need to clear out of here. When I come out to make her dinner I don't want to see any of you"

He stands up and stands directly in front of me "just so you are aware Ms. Robbins, I'm in charge here and if you start to interfere in any way. I will have you removed"

I laugh a little at the man "it's Dr. Robbins and seriously you don't want to mess with me. Now like I said she's going to bed" as I point down to Calliope, she is looking at us both a little annoyed. "and when I come back out I would appreciate it if you guys are on the other side of the door. I will come find you if anything happens"

"there will be two agents posted outside of this door and we will be doing a perimeter check every two hours" I eye him as he and his partner walk out of the apartment. I sit down and look over at Calliope. She still hasn't said anything.

"Are you ok?" I ask her

She takes a moment "yes" I can barely hear her

"Hey shhh… I'm sorry I wasn't quicker. I didn't know they would be questioning you the entire time I've been gone."

"It's o…o.k. thank you…for kicking them out"

"you really need to rest. Are you hungry yet? I got your favorite soup while I was out from Maria's" I watch as her eyes light up, she gives me a big smile. I made the right call going by grabbing this for her. And it will be easy on her throat. I reach behind me and grab my bag, pulling the soup and spoon out of it. She reaches for it and I stop her. "let me, it would be really hard to do this by yourself"

Taking the top off of the sweet potato soup, I blow on it gently to make sure that it's not too hot. "open up" I start to feed her a little at a time "I know it's been awhile since you had some real food and not that cafeteria crap that we have at a daily basis at the hospital" she takes the first bit and I can't help but smile at her. I'm so happy she's going to be ok.

After a few spoonful's She grabs my hand and hold it still.

"you have this look on your face," she says to me

I can feel myself blush a little "sorry…I was just thinking; how happy I am that you are going to be ok" sighing "it could have been a lot worse Calliope"

"I know," she says

"Hey, let's finish this up so I can get you into bed" we sit in comfortable silence as I continue to feed her until every drop of it is gone. I take a few bites of a bagel that I had gotten for myself. We get up slowly, while she is getting some strength back I don't want her to have another dizzy spell and take the chance of her hurting herself more. We make our way to her bedroom.

"are you ok to sleep in this or do you want to change into something else."

"normally I would want to change but, seeing how I won't really get any peace with the armed forces coming in to check on me every few hours"

"I will make sure that you get some rest. Now lay down" I say sternly but she can tell that there is playfulness behind it.

"will you stay with me?" she grabs a hold of my hand

"how can I refuse such a sweet offer?"

I lay down next to her and a few minutes pass before she rolls into my side. I am careful of her injured arm, that she currently does not have in a sling and put my arm around her.

As long as the past few days have been, in this moment. I feel completely at peace.

"Hey, Arizona" she whispers

"yea"

"I…I know that we still have to have a very important conversation"

I wait as she takes a few moments to soothe her aching throat

"and we will but I just…just wanted to say thanks for being here with me…for taking care of me." She lifts her head up and looks at me. She is so beautiful.

"you don't have to thank me Calliope. I want to be here with you" I brush some hair that is falling into her face.

"but just thank you. I know what you are giving up to be here with me right now. It means a lot that I don't have to go through this alone." I brush a few tears that that are spilling out of her eyes. "I was so… so scared,"

"Shh..don't talk I know it's painful for you"

She shakes her head ignoring me. "you would think that with my background I would be a little used to this by now, but I'm not and I just want to know when…when will my life finally be my own"

My heart breaks for her always in constant fear. Even though she hides it well. I can tell that you never ever get over things this traumatic happening to you.

"shh…shh…Calliope, it's going to be ok. We will get through this. I know I don't know the whole story but what I can promise you is that you will never have to be alone again."

"thank you" I see her pulling her emotions back together "but Arizona this is serious, my parents won't stop until I'm dead. I wouldn't be able to survive if something happened to you. My father won't care about casualties"

I see the concern in her eyes, and I really do know where she is coming from and I would probably say the same things to her if the roles were reversed, but I won't allow her to push me away either.

"Calliope listen, I'm here and I'm not scared, I'm not running. I can take care of myself. Nothing is going to happen to me." I can see her about to protest but I stop her. "let's finish this conversation later, you need to rest, and I promise when you wake up. I'm still going to be here" she nods and lay's back down. It is only a few minutes before I feel the steady rhythm of her chest and hear her breathing even out. I know that she's asleep.

I wait an hour before I sneak out of the bed and make my way into the kitchen. I really want to stop any unnecessary sounds that could wake her up before she needs to. I reach into my jacket and pull out my cell phone. Hitting the contact, I pull it up to my ear and wait for the voice on the other line.

"Hey, this is Sara. Leave a message at the beep"

I look down at my watch "Sara, it's me it's almost 12 am, where are you?" I ask shaking my head. "anyway, that doesn't matter. Look do you know when you will be back in town yet? We need to talk, it's important" At that, I end the call.

I've known for awhile that I needed to end things with Sara but have been too scared to let go of something that wasn't working. But my feelings for Calliope are something that I can no longer pretend I'm not having. And honestly, I know that I should be scared of how she may or may not feel. But I'm not. It doesn't feel scary.

I shake out of my thoughts as there is a knock at the door. I open it and see Jacobs standing there.

"I didn't expect you to actually knock on the door. I thought you would just ram it down"

"I have some tact Dr. Robbins." He looks around "how is she doing?"

"she's ok. Sleeping now. So, I would appreciate it if you guys would take it easy on the barging in and out. She is going to have concussion symptoms for a few days and probably some lingering headaches after that. A couple days of rest will really do her body some good."

"Well Dr. Robbins, that I can definitely give you" raising an eyebrow you guys are on lockdown for at least 48hours."

"what do you mean on lockdown?"

"no one besides agents will be allowed in our out of the apartment. We just had a credible threat on her life. We won't be letting her out of sight."

"from who, how do you know that it's legitimate?" He hands me a folder from under his arm and hands it to me. I open it and it's a picture of Callie being escorted into her building with a note saying, "I'm a lot closer than what you think"

I can't even understand how they know where she lives. Did they follow us from the hospital? "what are you guys doing? How do you plan to keep her safe?"

"I assure you we have it under control Robbins, I have agents right now going door to door asking everyone if they have seen anyone or anything suspicious." He puts a hand on my arm "I won't let them hurt her again" with that he exits the room.

I move to sit on the couch and try to adjust to the new information that I was just given.

Hey guy's so this was just a quick chapter to see if you guys are still into it. I will post the next chapter tomorrow if you like.