Hey guys, I'm so very glad that you all liked the last chapter it took me forever to get it right. This chapter takes place from both Arizona's point of view, also the second time it is in Arizona's point of view it is a flashback, and Callie's point of view. The medical information in this chapter probably isn't completely accurate; I'm just going on the information given to me. So on that note, I hope you enjoy this chapter!

Nine. Leave Out All The Rest

"All the hurt inside you've learned to hide so well,
pretending, someone else can come and save me from myself."
- Leave Out All The Rest, Linkin Park

"Who the hell are you and why the hell are you at my house?" I can hear Calliope's raised voice echoing through the house.

"You have no idea who I am, do you?" A voice that I really wish would go away answered.

"No, I do not. Now, tell me who you are and why my wife ran away from you before I kick your ass to the curb." Without being in the same room I could feel Calliope's anger grow by the second.

"Well that's no way to treat your sister in-law, is it? Ellie Robbins, reporting for duty." I didn't need to be physically standing in the room to see the slightly smug grin that was probably plastered across my sister's face.

I take in what the stranger in front of me has just said. I focus on her features; her eyes cerulean blue and her hair straw blonde. That smug grin on her face is accompanied by a familiar set of dimples. "Your, your." I can't even compose a complete sentence.

"Yes, I am." Her tone is almost cold. Her presence has confused me.

"W-Why are you here?" Before she is able to give me an answer I can hear Rory begin to cry upstairs. "Y-you need to leave." I leave Ellie behind as I climb the stairs to Rory's room, hoping that when I returned downstairs to see if Arizona was alright Ellie would be gone.

"What are you doing here, considering my wife just asked you to leave, Ellie?" Arizona stern voice catches my attention as I exit Rory's room, shutting the door behind me. As I make my way into the living room I notice that Ellie is sitting on the couch whilst Arizona is staring down at her with a paramount look of rage on her face; this side of her didn't come out very often and it scared me to see it come about due to her sister's presence.

"You know why I'm here. I came to see my sister and her happy ending." A smile crawls across Ellie's face.

"Get out of my house, Ellie. I'm not going through this again." I can see the tears starting to form in Arizona's eyes as her voice cracks at the end of her words.

"Fine. But I'll be back again tomorrow morning. You know I will." She gets up off the couch and wraps her arms around Arizona who's as stiff as a board; standing straight up trying not to cry. "I love you, Zona." She gives her a quick kiss on the cheek before quietly leaving the house.

I knew Ellie was Arizona's younger sister but that was all I knew about her. She never spoke of her unless she was brought up expect for when she was naming out her siblings to my family when they were getting to know her. This renders me speechless; I have nothing I can say to her to make this go away.

I simply take her into my arms. As soon as my hold on her is strong enough to keep her from falling Arizona completely lets go. Her once stiff body has now become limb. The tears that were forming in her eyes roll down her cheeks. "I'm tired." Her voice is so quiet it is almost raspy

"I know, honey, I know." I say before kissing the top of her head to try and comfort her.

"I want to sleep." Her voice is a slightly louder now but it's still minuscule.

"Let's go to bed." I slowly unwrap my arms but I take hold of her hand. I try and lead her to our bedroom but she doesn't budge. "Arizona." She looks me in the eye and I know what I have to do. I turn around and lean over slightly, she slowly lifts herself onto my back; we haven't done this in years. I can feel her arms wrap my neck while her legs follow suit around my waist. "It's okay, honey, everything's going to be okay."

I roll over wrapping my arms around empty air, discovering Arizona's side of the bed empty. I look at the clock. 3:54 am. I listen closely; I can hear the slight creak of the rocking chair in Rory's room faintly on the baby monitor next to the bed. I slowly get out of bed and head straight for Rory's room.

Standing in the doorway I find Arizona sitting in the rocking chair, as I expected. Her face is almost completely apathetic. Her eyes are focused on a picture of her family, next to a picture of my own on the wall across from Rory's crib. "Arizona." I'm hoping my voice will break her gaze but it doesn't.

I enter Rory's room and kneel down in front of Arizona, trying to get her attention. "Arizona, I know that you probably don't want to talk about this but I need you to talk to me, okay. But I need you to talk to me." I place my hand on her knee and only then does she look at me.

"I-I" she swallows hard. I can now see tears in her eyes. "I'll talk just don't interrupt me, please?" I can see the pleading in her eyes. "Because if you stop me I don't think I'd be able to start again."

I pull over a stool and sit in front of her. "I won't, its okay, Arizona." I take her hands in my hoping that my reassurance is enough to help her to this."

"Ellie, you need to do this." My voice is stern, I hated speaking like this but right now it was necessary. "You know what's going to happen if you don't."

"No, Zona. I'm not having surgery! I don't want it!" Ellie yells back at me with enough force to make her face redden slightly.

"I'm not about to lost another sibling. Especially one who chooses to leave! Don't do this to me, Ellie. Don't do this." I begging her, my voice has changed. My stern voice is gone, replaced by concern.

"I'm to die anyways, Zona. It's going to happen. Even with surgery. It may not be tomorrow but it'll surely come after." Her frustration with me is clear. But I wasn't about to let my baby sister die due to her natural stubbornness.

"We're all going to die, Ellie. But if you have this surgery you'll live a longer life than you think. You can live another thirty years if you took care yourself, El." My voice is urgent; I need to stress this point. I need her to understand that her life isn't over.

"I don't care, Zona. My life is over. I need you to face that." Tears are beginning to for in her eyes.

"Damn it Ellie! I need you to fight, fight for me. I fought for you all those years so I need you to fight for me. I never asked anything of you Ellie. Just let this be what you give back to me." My own eyes are now being filled with tears.

She turns around and begins to walk away from me. I grab her hand. "Don't do this, Ellie." The tears are flowing down my face.

My sister turns around, but only for a moment. "I'm sorry." She gives me the saddest possible smile. Before pulling her hand out of my grasp and leaving me behind in pieces.

Arizona's eyes are glassed over with tears; she is living in a memory before speaking to me again. "Ellie, my sister, she's a type one diabetic. Six years ago she diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, they caught it at stage four. She had the signs and symptoms but she thought nothing of them. You don't know enough about Ellie to know that she doesn't take care of herself the way she should, you wouldn't say it by looking at her but it's the truth." She chokes on a chuckle, shaking her head. "I always told her she needed to take better care of herself. I always looked out for her. She has been on dialysis ever since, but a year before I met you it advanced to stage five. She was a perfect candidate for a kidney transplant and I was more than willing to give up one of my own. But, but." Arizona doesn't finish her sentence.

Her eyes that were once fixed with mind are now staring at our intertwined hands. I give her a moment, knowing all to well this was something she needed to do at her own pace. She lets out a long sigh and takes a deep breath before continuing. "But she refused. She didn't want me to give up my kidney to give to her. She didn't want surgery. She didn't want any of it." Her voice is quieter now. "My sister, my baby sister was determined that she'd die within a few years rather than getting a kidney transplant and living almost her entire expected lifetime. She'd rather make me watch her die in front of my eyes than having surgery." I can see the tear flowing freely down her cheeks. She's letting everything out, letting it all go. "I told her that I wasn't about to watch her died and I begged her, I begged her to do this for me, if not for her, for me." She let go of my hands and wipes her tears out of her eyes. "I've seen her once since then, before now. She left me behind."

I pull Arizona into my lap. "I'm sorry, honey. I'm so sorry that you had to go through that." I whisper in her ear as I wrap my arms around her.

"That's not even the worst part, Calliope. She died, she died in my arms. It was the day after her birthday two years. I had decided to go visit my parents and I didn't know she'd be there, I should have known. You remember that weekend don't you?" I could remember it as if it was yesterday. Arizona had come home distant but was acting as if nothing had happened, putting on a smile for everyone to see. "You saw right through that mask, the mask I wore hiding everything because I lied to myself and thought that someone else was going to be able to save her even when I couldn't." She sniffles. "She died right in my arms and she still continued to act as if nothing was wrong. I found out from my parents that she had sold her apartment and decided to hitch hike around Ireland, and would be arranging dialysis appoints along the way. All those years she acted like I didn't exist because I wanted something better for her, because I wanted to live an entire lifetime. And now here she is on our doorstep the day we move in, she didn't even come to our wedding."

"But she's here now, isn't that what matters?" I ask tentatively.

"No, it's not. She missed the two most important moments of my life, Calliope. Now, she's back here to make me watch her die. She's going to want to meet Rory and I can't do that to her." Her voice is slightly raised now, but thankfully it's not loud enough to rouse Rory who is asleep less than six feet away.

"Shh, love. I know she missed our wedding and the day that Rory was born but maybe she's changed." My voice is tentative again due to Arizona's last reaction. "We'll figure it all out."

"You promise?" Her voice turns to a whisper. She looks me at me and I can see the fear in her breathtaking blue eyes.

"I promise." I reassure her before giving her a kiss on the forehead to comfort her. "We'll figure it out, I promise." Arizona buries her head into crook of my neck, wrapping her arms me. I can't help but tight my hold on her. I can feel her tears beginning to wet the collar of my t-shirt. I know I can't stop the tears. I know that now all I can do is pray that when morning comes we'll know what to do next.