INTERTWINED
CHAPTER-10
A/N: So sorry for the long delay, it's just life got in the way and most importantly, the show took away all the inspiration that was needed. So now, I don't beg, for more screen timed for our ladies, or a capmirez selfie or Calzona, I know they are MFEO and that's enough, cause I can stoop down to the level of Greys writing team to keep the show alive , I mean we will make peace, if Greys end..., I mean we did it with Harry Potter and it had only seven parts. Anyways let me know, if your are still interested in this story, cause if you are, then I will make sure you get a weekly update.
"I didn't believe in fate that throws away the planning, that you had in mind,
I didn't know how much I care, until your temporary space left me unsigned,
I didn't believe in the need, that I wanted, until you showed me with your kind,
I didn't know,if i ever want to untangle myself from your love that has me intertwined."
Callie wanted to get into the hospital as early as possible, so that she could avoid un-comfortableness, that was sort of doomed to happen, after the incidents that took place on Saturday, moreover, she wanted to avoid Arizona, cause.. well she had no clue. But as the fate may have it, she woke up late and now was about to make a dramatic entrance to the intern's locker room, and by the sound of cluttering coming out from it, she was sure everyone was already there. So with a deep breath she entered the locker room.
"Hey Cal!, what took you so long?", Cristina inquired while sitting on the bench placed, fully prepared and ready to go.
"Just me and my issues with the alarm clock", Callie replied while taking in the surroundings, she found Arizona in the far right corner talking with Owen,Izzie and Alex were on the left side with their backs turned away from them, to say things were awkward would be the understatement of the year, but Callie was more disappointed over the fact that Arizona didn't even notice her come in.
"Oh God!, Callie, those are some bruises", Teddy said as she took Callie's hand in her own for further inspection.
"Well it's nothing that hot water therapy can't solve", Callie shrugged off the question,and as fate would have it, Teddy had her locker next to her, so of course she would notice. Yep it was fate:1 and Callie:0
But before Callie could further contemplate of her run -in with the fate today, the booming voice of Dr. Miranda Bailey cut through the room.
"Now, if you'll have powdered and pampered yourself, its time for the rounds!, and you will make sure that I don't repeat the sentence again."
Thus, in the rush of all, Callie accidentally closed the locker on her hand,injured hand, which made her yelp in pain, which indeed had some audible volume attached to it, thereby effectively stopping everyone in there tracks, but before Callie could curse her fate more, what followed, made the situation even worse.
"God!, Calliope, Are you...", Arizona almost screeched, but stopped in between cause , now all the eyes were on her, including that of Dr. Bailey. It was official, she had created a scene.
Callie wished she had called in sick today, or missed work and suffered the repercussions,cause anything would have been better than the stare she was currently receiving from Dr. Bailey.
Dr. Bailey stared from Callie to Arizona, then to Alex, who had similar bruises, just on his face and it didn't take much time, for a person like Bailey, to get an idea to exactly what had happened.
"Now, I don't really like to interfere in other people's lives, cause not only it's a complete waste of my time, it is also other ...people's life, but since I am stuck with bunch of you morons, and my reputation is at stake, I will say this.. ONCE"
And then she looked at Karev and said," Use your Head", and then directed her stare to Callie "And protect your hands, cause that's your livelihood, so Torres, you will only observe today, no touching the scalpel!", with that Dr. Bailey turned and was about to walk away , when Callie interrupted her, or at least she tried.
"But , Dr. Bailey, It ..",Callie tried to put some words in, but she stopped as soon as Bailey turned around.
"Oh, I didn't know, you knew better than me, Dr. Torres?", Bailey said with her stare down.
"Of course not, Dr. Bailey", Callie did not wanted to aggravate the situation further, so she complied.
"Good!, Cause that's what I thought, now a minute, for all of you to sort things out, and meet me for rounds, a second late,...and you will be joining Torres, on the bench!", with that Bailey left the intern's room, that was enough drama for today.
"Guess, whose the Dud now?", Alex snickered his comment towards Callie.
"You want some more..", Callie said and was about to pounce, when Teddy pulled her arm and Mark came in between the two.
"Bailey said, not a second late, so let's go", Mark replied in complete anger while keeping his eyes glued to Alex. Everyone sensed the scene and started darting out from the room, Callie stayed behind everyone and released a sigh and when she looked up, she saw the piercing blue eyes of Arizona, both stared at each other for a second, wanting to say something but all Callie could manage was "Let's go" cause after all, it was fate:2 and Callie:0.
The only thing that kept Callie going was the next patient, they were about to visit,cause for the earlier patients, all she could do was answer and nod in response and that's not how you want your internship to plan out. So with a little more excitement that she could manage, she entered the patient's room in the Ped's ward.
When the group of interns entered the patient's roon, Dr. Herman head of the Pediatric department and Dr. Caesar head of the Orthopedic department, with a 3 year old lying on the patients bed and worried parents were already there. The doctors exchanged pleasantries and then Dr. Cesar asked Arizona to present.
"A 3 year old boy, diagnosed to have a skeletal dysplasia of an indeterminate nature. After an extensive workup by pediatrician, pediatric endocrinologists, and pediatric radiologists he was diagnosed with Short Limb Dwarfism. His presenting problem was a limp." with that Arizona finished.
"Thank you, Dr. Robbins, now Mr and Mrs Edwards, there is only two options, we can either go for a surgery,or we leave things the way they are", Dr. Herman said to the parents.
"What is the surgical option?", a terrified Mr. Edwards asked.
Dr. Caesar looked at the group of interns and spotted Callie with a raised hand, "Dr. Torres"
" The plain films show bilateral acetabular dysplasia, significant subluxation Left Right, on weight bearing views. There is bilateral coxa vara, with increased femoral neck anteversion. leaving us with the only option of an concentric open hip problem is that the long term prognosis in this disease is not known since the cause of the skeletal dysplasia is yet to be determined." Callie replied and looked at the patients in affection.
"Excellent, Dr. Torres, now Mr and Mrs. Edwards, all is left, for you is to decide, if you give us the consent, we can take Jamie, to the surgery right away", Dr. Cesar explained the parents.
"We wan to take the surgical option, he has his whole life ahead, do your very best doctors", Mr. Edwards replied.
"Always, now I will get the consent forms for you to sign, and we will have the surgery at noon", Dr. Caesar replied and lead the group outside the patient's room.
"So, Torres, scrub in for the surgery, good job there", Dr. Caesar said as soon as they all stepped outside the patient's room. And Callie was ecstatic, cause now it was her opportunity to get back on the fate, finally things were gonna turn for good.
"Oh,I'm sorry Dr. Caesar, but Dr. Torres is with me, on a special assignment, so you need to chose some other intern", Dr. Bailey interrupted.
Now, Dr. Caesar wanted to ask exactly what the 'assignment' was, but with that stare from the women. he knew his safe bet was to pick other intern, so he did exactly that.
"Alright, so Karev scrub in and Robbins go prep the patient ".
Callie muttered "of course" under her breath, fate was pulling out all his guns, and she was getting drowned under, and now it was Fate:3 and Callie:0.
The surgery started at sharp noon, and once the patient got stable and there wasn't much left, except closing and taking him to the post -ops, Callie decided it was time to leave the viewing gallery, to watch the surgery she was suppose to perform and she was tired of siting for past five hours, today was the day from hell, so she wanted to unwind before giving the day a close, so she headed off to a place, where she knew she will find peace.
Arizona was on high, after being part of an amazing surgery, but she also knew, it was Callie surgery as well, so after finishing up with the patient, she went in search of Callie and after some looking around in common areas, when she couldn't find her anywhere, she immediately knew where Callie had gone.
Callie was sitting on the bench inside the hospital chapel, it was quite in here and the ambiance relaxed her, she felt the doors to the chapel opening but she didn't pay attention to it, thinking it would be someone from the maintenance department, but it was only when she felt a body sitting beside her, that she turned to look at that someone.
Arizona very gingerly sat down beside Callie, and took her injured hand in her own and carefully started wrapping the crape bandage around it.
"It will reduce the inflammation and will also keep it compressed", Arizona explained, after all she needed a conversation with Callie.
Callie observed her carefully, and realized it was the perfect time to lay everything on the table, her day was already at its worse, so what could possibly happen now.
"I was eighteen, when I came out to my parents, well I knew I was gay before that, but I finally gathered strength"
Arizona was listening to Callie like a hawk, she also noticed the glaze expression on her face, so she knew, it was something big, something with not a happy ending, so she waited for Callie to say her piece.
"You know, when you make yourself ready to tell your parents, the truth about yourself, how you pray about everything, so that your worst fears don't come true, you feel you can take anything, but not your worst fears, in my case...my worst fears came true...my parents disowned me and ever since I am on my own", Callie felt the age old ting to her heart and she had to take time to compose herself. Also the fact, as soon as the word "disowned" had come out of her mouth, she had felt Arizona's hand in her own, and God that felt good, really good. So she took a deep breath and looked into the comforting blue eyes and told everything, that was about to her till date.
Arizona was bleeding with sympathy for the other women whose hand she was currently holding, she couldn't even fathom the thoughts of her own parents disowning her, she was in complete awe of the strength possessed by the other women.
Callie had gone quiet as soon as she had finished telling the tales of her life, so after a long pause, she looked at Arizona, who had an expression , to which Callie couldn't put a name to, but it was comforting, very comforting and then suddenly she realized, the whole matter hadn't cleared yet, so she cleared her throat and said
"The..um..article that you read, speaks about Aria, my little sister, her adventures.., I haven't..I'm not..", but whatever Callie was about to say died in her throat as she felt Arizona shift impossibly closer to her, now their bodies were in perfect alignment with each other, not an inch space.
Arizona thought for a moment in her head, how the next few steps would define her relationship with Callie, but now she wasn't going to let the fear reel her in, so she started stroking Callie's hand that never left hers during the entire conversation and said
"I'm sorry Calliope.. for everything", that seemed like a best response in Arizona's head.
Callie looked at her in gratitude and acknowledged the same with "Me too", thinking that the conversation was over and that weight which was pushing her down was finally lifted, Callie was about to get up and leave, but a warm , soft hand on her left cheek halted her movements.
Arizona very carefully and slowly placed a light kiss on Callie's forehead. "This is for being brave enough to come out", then she move and placed a kiss on Callie's left cheek "This is for standing up in front of your parents", then she moved to the right cheek and placed a kiss there "This is for surviving on your own and choosing medicine" and then she placed a loving kiss on her nose "This is for punching Karev and standing up for me" and now the two women were face to face with an inch separating them, Callie's eyes were closed and Arizona paused cause now she was debating with herself as to go all in or not, but then Callie's eyes flew open and she gazed her lips, that was all it took for Arizona to place a soft and tentative kiss on Callie's lips, it was short and innocent, but it ignited two bodies on fire.
Arizona hadn't said a word and now they were resting their foreheads together, so Callie after gathering her bearings asked "What was that for?"
Arizona pushed back slightly and looked directly into Callie's eyes and said
"I think you'll know"
and with that she got up and left the chapel, leaving a beaming Callie on the bench who smiling a full blown grin, cause at the end of the day, Callie had won, giving a point each to every kiss she had received from Arizona, It was fate:3 and Callie:5.
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