A.N: Hullo! Yes, I was reminded that Callie and Arizona seem to be declaring love far too quickly, considering they've barely had any interaction. And I have to say, that in my excitement, I may have forgotten to really explain it. It made sense to me, but I'd totally forgotten to actually write about it, so it's explained a little in this chapter. Hopefully it makes more sense. Thanks for the support once again!

Chapter 11: Jealousy

Arizona p.o.v

Last night was one of the best nights I've had in a long time. I had spent the entire night wrapped around Calliope, and I finally felt whole again.

Was it too soon? Usually I would be the first person to agree, but with her, it felt right. I haven't told anyone yet, but when I first saw her in the meeting, something happened inside me. I think they were memories, I can't be sure, but what else could it be? I mean it was like I could physically feel what her hand felt like, how it felt to hold her, how it felt to kiss her. I could recall emotions that were stirred up when she was in the same vicinity as me, when she smiled at me, when she said my name, and the more time I spent with her, the stronger these feelings became. Whenever she was nearby, I would always feel this pull towards her, and my heart ached, I knew Terri and Tim wouldn't understand; they would say that I was falling too fast, or that it was just lust, but no one else had ever caused these kinds of reactions. I knew straight away that she was special, and I wanted her.

I was nearing the end of my 8-hour shift, leaning by the nurses' station filling in some charts, when a tingling sensation from within me broke me out of my thoughts. I could feel appearance of Terri's aura nearby and it was tinted with anger and sorrow. I saw her storming towards me, features tensed, turning the heads of nurses and patients who were watching the bizarre behaviour of the normally well-composed surgeon with interest.

"Dr Robbins, could I borrow you for a consult?" she forced out loud enough for the nurses to hear. I tilted my head curiously before nodding, and let myself be guided towards the stairs. I smiled at the nurses as we passed them, trying to hide my own confusion. She let go of my arm and stopped once we reached the stairs, and straightened her lab coat, clearing her throat. Brushing a hand down my front and smoothing away imaginary wrinkles from my own lab coat, I tried to get a read on Terri, but all I got was a solid wall of stoicism, all earlier tension expertly hidden away through years of practice.

"What's the matter T?"

"We're going to the basement."

"Why?" There was only one reason to go to the basement, but if Terri was this concerned then …

I closed my eyes and focused on the tingling sensation from before that was still lingering in my chest, following it to the source and …

My eyes flew open. "Teddy"

The silence from her answered my question. "Where?"

"I've sent Thalia and Clio to get them, we need to go, Bailey's meeting us downstairs." Sensing no one on the stairwell, we both flashed towards the basement, my heart pounding all the way, not knowing what the fate of my best friend was.

She had just been brought in when we arrived. She was unconscious and there was blood everywhere, bleeding freely from her wounds. Mark and Lexie were holding back an absolutely hysterical Addison; I could hear her as we were approaching the room.

"Save her, you've got to save her! She can't die; you have to do something. Oh god, it's my fault!"

I studied Teddy's prone body she as steadily turned paler and paler. Why isn't she healing? I glanced at Terri who was deep in thought, eyes blazing red, roaming over her body, studying her wounds, eyebrows furrowing; she obviously didn't like what she was seeing.

A noise from behind caught my attention, and I watch the short, African woman known as Miranda Bailey enter with a tray full of equipment.

"Bailey, why isn't she healing," I asked the experienced Seer.

"I don't know yet, give me some time to have a look." She fixated a glare at me and I ducked my head like a scolded child. I looked up from my lashes to see the woman attaching Teddy to different machines to monitor her status. She attached Teddy to a blood pack before her hands started glowing a light orange as she ran them over Teddy's wounds.

"What was used to cause the wounds?" Terri questioned the distraught redhead, eyes returning to normal.

"It-uh-it was a blade." She stuttered in response.

"What did it look like?"

"Uh, it was long, n-not as long as a n-normal sword, b-but shorter, like a-uh-a short blade." Terri narrowed her eyes at her.

"Was there anything on the blade? Anything that you can remember at all, like color, carvings, symbols?" she shook her head, "Anything?" she buried her face into her hands and began sobbing again. Terri sighed and glanced towards Clio, who nodded and disappeared from the room.

"God, I'm s-so sorry. I-it all happened too fast. She j-just jumped in front of me before I had time to react." She cried out from between her hands.

"How many were there?"

"5 in total, but 3 of them were really weak and I took them out easily. There were two who were armed," Addison had calmed down significantly by now, "I went to help Teddy and had knocked one of them away, but the other guy suddenly flared up and went crazy. Teddy-uh-she did something similar and had taken him out really quick, but we didn't notice that the guy I'd knocked away wasn't dead. He-uh-he came at us, and I didn't sense him until it was too late, we were both already exhausted. I'd turned around, but Teddy had suddenly appeared in front of me and-and…." She trailed off as tears started falling again, "it went straight through her!"

The room fell into a tense silence that was quickly broken by a quiet "Shit", from Bailey as the machines went wild and Teddy started convulsing.

"What's happening Bailey?"

…

"Talk to me Bailey!" I demanded after she ignored me the first time around. We were all panicking slightly as we'd never encountered anything like this before. She ended up having to sedate Teddy, using the specialised injections created specifically for us.

"Princess" her tone was ice cold and it made me wince, "the patient is my priority right now, so if you aren't going to be useful, then get out!" Did I ever mention that she was a scary lady?

"Her body is rejecting the blood we're giving her," she finally stated as she changed the blood pack, "I'm going to try giving her a different type." It didn't help as she started convulsing again; looking even paler than before, and blood started leaking from her mouth.

"Teddy!" I rushed to her side.

"It's not working, she just keeps rejecting the blood. I've never seen this before. She needs to feed, or she's going to die." Even Bailey sounded puzzled, and this woman was one of the best Seers and strongest Healers we'd ever met, having been trained by Theia, and then Richard.

"Dammit, hold on Teddy!" No, she couldn't die, there had to be something I could do. I looked around the room at Addison who had tears streaming down her face, mouth and eyes wide open; to Mark, who had his jaw clenched tightly; to Lexie, who had her mouth pursed into a straight line, eyes watering; to Thalia, who stood by the doorway, leaning against the frame staring indifferently at the situation. My gaze finally landed on Terri, who had approached and sat on the bed.

"We'll make her then." She stated resolutely. Before I could even ask, her eyes turned bright red, "Teddy", he voice seemed to echo around the room; Teddy remained unresponsive, but the symbol on her chest from where she had received my mark started glowing. I noticed something different about it; there was something else there. It wasn't very big, but in the centre of the reverse moon of the Artemis mark, was a small owl, as if it was just sitting on the lower curve of the moon. Then it hit me, the mark of the sire. I was the one to mark Teddy, but Terri was the one to sire her, so she received both of our marks. At least it explained why Terri was the one using her power of command over 'my pet'.

"Theodora Altman," Teddy's eyes shot open, eyes red. It was clouded and dull, like Teddy wasn't even aware of her actions. "Get up,"she sat up on command, coming face to face with Terri, who then made a cut on her neck using her claws, letting the blood run. "Feed." Teddy latched onto her neck, and I looked away as her fangs dug in, gasps coming from around me as Teddy slowly fed from the Crown Princess.

I felt another presence and turned to see Tim standing in the doorway with Alex, both with anger radiating off of them in waves.

"Take Addison out of here," I commanded Alex, "Mark, call Calliope, Addison's going to need her." I looked towards my brother, "Tim, can you watch over them outside?" He nodded, and one by one, they all filed out to the waiting room.

Turning back, I caught the look of sadness on Bailey's face as she watched Teddy feed, and I knew she felt guilty for needing the Crown Princess to give her blood, but more so than that, I knew she felt guilty for not being able to do anything else for her. The only thing that we could do now was hope and pray that Terri's blood would be enough to keep Teddy alive. We just had to wait.

When I entered the waiting room, I immediately sensed Calliope's presence; she was sitting with Addison's head in her lap, sound asleep. Mark was next to her, with Lexie's head on his shoulder, one arm slung around her, and the other holding her hand tightly; they were both asleep. I arched my brow at this; interesting, when did that happen? Tim and Thalia had disappeared, and Alex was slouched down in his chair sleeping. Calliope was the first to notice me, I shot her a reassuring smile and she gently woke Addison. She shot up from her seat when she saw me, waking the others in the process.

"Oh god, Arizona, how is she?"

"She's stable." She let out a sigh of relief and relaxed.

"What happened? Why did was her body rejecting the blood? Why wasn't she healing?" she shot question after question at me, and in my tired state, it was giving me a headache. Callie must have noticed, because she pulled Addison to sit back down.

"Calm down Addie, give her some space to breathe." I shot her a grateful smile and tried to answer Addison's questions.

"We don't know what happened, we've never seen something like this before. I'd really like to get a look at the weapon, it would probably give us some more answers." Addison opened her mouth, but I cut her off, knowing what she was going to say. "Terri already sent Clio to the church, but she said there wasn't a single trace of blood or dust left. The blades had been taken away. It as like someone had cleaned up after you left."

"But that doesn't make sense. They were still there when Thalia and Clio came to get us."

"I know, that's what Clio said too, but when she went back, there was nothing left. The only thing she could sense was …" I trailed off, not wanting to alarm them more than I already had.

"Ari," Callie's soft voice came through, "What's the matter? What did she find?" She looked at me in concern. I inhaled deeply, before looking her dead in the eye.

"Hades."

The all tensed up at the name and I'm not surprised. I had the same reaction when Clio told me earlier on. We knew Hades was in the city, but there hadn't been any activity directly from him yet. It was always strays and his lackeys, but it seemed that he had finally made an appearance.

"Where's Tim?" I asked Alex.

"Clio came in and he ran off with her and Thalia, said something about following a lead, I'm guessing it's because of … him."

I nodded, "Right, well you should probably go get some rest." There were protests all around. "No, I'm going to stay here with Terri to look after Teddy, we need to be available in case she needs us. She's unconscious now, and it doesn't look like she'll be awake any time soon. So just, go. We'll call if anything happens."

As they left, Callie cautiously approached me.

"Ari, you look so tired." She brushed a strand of hair behind my ear and trailed her fingers across my eyebrows and down my cheek. I fell into her arms and she held onto me tightly.

"I am, God, Teddy scared me in there. I thought she was going to die." She stroked the back of my head and we started to sway gently.

"Sh, it's okay now, she's okay now. Is there anything I can do for you?"

I looked up into wide brown eyes full of love and kissed her gently, returning my head to her chest quickly, breathing in her smell.

"This is helping a lot," I felt her chest vibrate as she chuckled slightly. Taking one last breath, I straightened back up, "you should go home, take care of Addie maybe."

"Are you coming with me?" I really wanted to. There was nothing more I wanted than to lose myself in her, but I couldn't, so I shook my head.

"I can't, I have to stay here, I can't leave Teddy."

"It's okay, I understand. Call me if you need me okay? Any time, for anything. Just call me."

I nodded and with one last kiss to my forehead, she left the room. I took a moment to straighten out my thoughts and feelings before heading back to Teddy.

Callie p.o.v

It had been 3 days, and Teddy had yet to wake up. Arizona and Terri were taking shifts just sitting by her bedside waiting. I tried to visit as much as I could, but the hospital had been really busy and even Aria and Alex were working over time to try and cover for them. It broke my heart every time I walked into the room to see the strong woman so unresponsive and my energetic girlfriend practically withering away in the chair. Cristina Yang had been doing an amazing job holding up cardio whilst their leader was down, but I could tell it was wearing her down and even though the surly woman would never admit it, she missed Teddy. Addison had buried herself into her work and was pretty much ignoring the world; she'd spent all her lunches in the waiting room downstairs, but never actually entering Teddy's room. I knew she still felt guilty and I hated that I couldn't do anything for her.

I was just leaving the hospital when my phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Hey there pretty girl." A smooth voice drifted through the phone and I smiled.

"Erica, how are you?"

"I'm alright, but I do find myself in a predicament."

"Oh, and what's that?" I asked concerned

"My date cancelled on me, so now I'm at home, with way too much food. Could I possibly interest a certain ortho surgeon to come join me for dinner?" she asked with an exaggerated sweetness in her voice, I'm sure if I could see her, she would be batting her eyelashes at me. I laughed at the image in my head.

I thought about it for a second, Arizona was staying with Teddy tonight and Aria was working, so I was on my own anyway. I readily agreed and after she messaged me her address, I set off for her house.

"So your date cancelled huh?" I asked after swallowing a mouthful of chicken. I'd turned up to the apartment to Erica and a lot of Chinese, "were you expecting more than one person to turn up? Because you've got enough to feed an army here."

"I just like to be prepared." She laughed, "So, how does a gorgeous, successful surgeon like yourself find herself alone and readily available for dinner?"

"My girlfriend had to stay to look after a patient and my sister's on call tonight, so your offer of free food reeled me in." I watched as her smile dropped slightly.

"Girlfriend?"

"Yes, girlfriend. Problem?" she sat back against the couch nonchalantly and took a sip from her glass.

"She's a doctor then?"

"Yeah, Head of Peds, Arizona Robbins," I saw something swirling in her eyes, but it was gone as quick as it had appeared. "D-uh-do you know her?"

"Heard of her. Blonde hair, blue eyes, a bit like me," she smiled at me suggestively, but seeing that I wasn't rising to the bait, continued "heard she's good with her kids, great hands, great surgeon."

"She's amazing" I gushed dreamily; I caught myself before I could embarrass myself anymore and stood to leave. "It's getting pretty late, I should head home; early shift tomorrow and all. Thanks for the food Erica."

She moved in front of me as I was heading to the door. "The pleasure's all mine pretty girl." Then before I knew it, she'd kissed me!

I pushed her back immediately, shocked, and ran out the door behind her.

Erica p.o.v

I smirked as the door slammed behind me. Well that was fun.

I heard my phone ring and went to pick it up without looking at the screen.

"Hanh."

"Ah Erica, my darling, I have a job for you." A playful voice came from the other side.

"Can't I choose this time? The ones you pick are always so disgusting. It makes me want to vomit." I snarled.

"Oh I'm sure you'll like this one. She's young, athletic and very cute."

"Oh, a woman this time?"

"Of course, only the best for you my darling. Now, be a good girl will you?"

"Of course, my lord" I drawled sarcastically.

I noticed a black leather jacket on the couch that didn't belong to me, picking it up to my nose, and I inhaled deeply, breathing in the scent, before dropping it back down and leaving for my 'mission'.

Callie p.o.v

After I left Erica's last night, I headed straight for the hospital looking for Arizona. When I walked into Teddy's room I noticed that it was empty, I'd turned around and almost walked into Bailey, who told me that she'd sent Arizona to get some sleep in the room down the hall. I'd hurried in the direction I was given and walked in to find her curled up on the bed; blonde curls spread across the pillow, face slack with a childlike innocence I hadn't seen since Teddy was hospitalized and crawled in behind her.

She froze immediately, "Calliope?" voice heavy with sleep.

"Yeah its me baby, go back to sleep" I wrapped my hands around her waist and she turned towards me.

"Mmkay" she snuggled in and was back asleep in seconds.

I smiled and pressed a kiss to the top of her head. I can't believe Erica kissed me. Looking down at the blonde angel that fit perfectly in my arms, it felt like high school all over again. She feels exactly the same as she did back then. I decided that I wasn't going to tell her about what happened with Erica. I'd finally found her after 20 years and I wasn't going to let her go, not for anyone or anything, nothing was worth it. Nothing is worth ruining this over

I woke up feeling eyes watching me and tensed before remembering where I was. I felt soft lips on my cheek before a soft voice whispered, "Morning Calliope."

"Mmm, morning. I've missed waking up with you." It had only been 3 days, but I still missed her.

My stomach rumbled and I heard a soft laugh before she moved out of my arms.

"Hey, where are you going?" I protested and opened my eyes to see her stretching at the end of the bed. Her shirt lifted up, revealing soft silky skin that captured my attention.

"Calliope." I snapped my head up to meet her eyes, seeing amusement reflected in the deep blue.

"Huh? What?"

"I said you need food, so get up, let's go eat."

I groaned and reluctantly got up from the warm cocoon of the bed and grabbed onto her offered hand, bumping into Alex and inviting him to grab some fresh air with us on the way. We ended up sitting out on top of the little hill that overlooked Seattle near the hospital, armed with food and coffee from a nearby little deli. I was contently settled next to Arizona, snuggling in for warmth whilst she talked to him about cases she'd missed whilst taking care of Teddy, when a voice disturbed our serenity.

"Hey stranger," I turned to see Erica standing a few feet away with a jacket in her arms. Arizona shot up straight away, body tensed, and growled at her. I quickly scrambled to my feet and grabbed her arm.

"Ari-" her eyes were burning purple and I recoiled at the unexpected sight, I felt Alex come up next to us body just as tense as Arizona's and eyes equally purple.

"Hades" he hissed out and I stared at Erica in shock.

She chuckled and held up her arms in an act of submission. "Easy now," I kept my arm on Arizona, not trusting her to not lunge at Erica. "I'm not here for you, Princess." She looked at me and held the jacket out. "Just wanted to return something to you pretty girl, you left it at my house last night."

I paled at her sentence, glancing at Arizona to see her jaw clenched, and at Alex who was watching me questioningly. Shit. I held out a shaking hand to take the jacket back.

"T-thanks, Erica." I stuttered out, the tension between the two blondes was alarming.

"Don't worry about it. Any excuse to see a pretty girl. I had a lot of fun last night." She threw me a wink and walked away.

"Why were you at her house last night Callie?" the tone of Arizona's voice took me by surprise. She never calls me 'Callie'.

"It's not what you think!" I hurried to explain, stealing a glance at Alex who was standing behind Arizona defensively, "We're just friends!" She arched her eyebrow. Shit, like that was any better. Come on Torres. "We had dinner last night, you were busy and Aria wasn't home. She called me as I was heading out and said her date had cancelled on her so she had some extra food. She's a surgeon at Seattle Pres, and we've had coffee a few times." She relaxed slightly.

"And the jacket?"

"I must have forgotten about it. I'd rushed out of the house after she kissed me …" shit!

"She kissed you?" the anger in her voice shook me; her eyes were still burning brightly.

"No, no! It's not like that. I didn't know she was going to do it. I was headed to the door and then she was in front of me, the next thing I know she's kissing me. But I pushed her off straight away and ran out of the house. Baby, you have to believe me. I didn't want it. I don't want her. I love you Ari!" I was pleading by now; I couldn't believe what was happening. I could feel tears gathering in my eyes, but I refused to let them fall.

She sighed and her eyes returned to her gentle blue, Alex relaxed his defensive posture behind her and walked off to give us some privacy.

"Callie, Calliope, calm down. I believe you." I looked at her in disbelief, she was so angry just seconds ago, there was no way I believed her. She held a hand up and placed it against my chest. "I can feel it, hear it. I believe you and more so than that, I trust you okay?" The tears poured down my face in relief and she pulled me in for a hug. When she pulled back, she still had a serious look on her face.

"I don't want you near her anymore okay? You can have friends, just, not her. If she calls you, texts you, anything, you just ignore it okay? More importantly, don't ever go see her alone, do you understand?" I nodded, Arizona would never take my safety lightly, and I trusted her with my life.

She looked around for Alex, and as he came back to us, I could see he still had a aura of resentment at me for causing Arizona's distress.

"Did you know she was a vampire?" he asked gruffly.

"What? No! I knew her only as the cardio surgeon from Seattle Pres." I defended; I really had no idea, not until today at least. I glanced curiously at Arizona who was silent, deep in thought; her reaction really shocked me, she was usually more composed, but just now, that was frantic. It was like she'd lost control around Erica. I waved it off, thinking it was because the appearance of another vampire mixed with protectiveness with a little jealousy thrown in.

"What was that about anyway? You said she was a vampire? What was the 'Hades' part about?"

He contemplated this for a while, stealing a quick glance at Arizona, who was still silent, and simply stated: "She smells like Hades."

"Erica…works for H-Hades?" Holy mother...

"Let's go" Arizona's sudden intrusion made me jump, her voice left no room for argument, her eyes softened when she looked at me. "Your mother is coming in 2 days, we don't have time for this."

Shit, my mother…