The next chapter in the Protectors 2. This chapter was pretty much just a filler but next chapter you will find out more about everything and also there will be some Calzona loving in the next chapter so be aware. I'm also writing the next chapter to Not What You Think and should be posted sometime this week so keep you're eyes posted if you read that. Well anyways read reread and then review because lets face it I love them and I love all of you for sticking around and reading this thing you call a decently interesting story haha. Enjoy.


The Protectors 2

Chapter 12

ARIZONAS POV

When I wake up I wake up in a hospital room hooked up to the machines. I feel someones hand in mine and I'm hoping that it's Calliopes. Maybe they found me in that building and they have my girls safe and sound and all that other stuff was purely just one of my nightmares. When my eyes fully adjust I make out who's standing over me. Unfortunatly its not Callie but Teddy instead.

"Arizona you're awake"

"What happened" I manage to get out.

"You don't remember" She says and I can sense the pain in her voice.

"Where's Calliope...where are my girls" I say wincing as I try to sit up and all the pain comes rushing back to me Teddy lending me a hand.

"Be careful Arizona you broke a few things while we were in Amsterdam"

"What happened" I repeat again.

"Well you broke you're nose...you're right hand is fractured and you had some massive internal bleeding and a concussion" She says nonchalantely. I don't care about any of that the pain I can deal with I just need to know if what I saw in that hotel room was just a figment of my imagination.

"No Teddy where is my family" I say louder then I intended and I see her face drop and so does my stomach.

"Arizona" She starts slowly. "Sami...uh...Lucy...they"

"NO! That was just a dream Teddy...I had a horrible horrible dream and now I'm awake and everything is better now" I say almost in tears and even as I'm saying the words I know they aren't true. I know that that day was no dream all the fights, pain and death were all real and only one person comes to my mind, Callie. I need to get out of this hospital and I need to get out now. I get down off the hospital bed quicker then I can think and my mind gets alittle dizzy but I work through it I need to be with Callie right now. She needs me.

"Woah,woah slow down Arizona...slow down" Teddy says grabbing my arm and steadying me.

"I need to get to Callie she needs me"

"I know she does...but Arizona you need to listen to me"

"I don't have time for that Teddy I need Ca-"

"Just listen to me dammit Arizona...look you've been in this hospital for three days and you're not just going back to Callie...you're going back to Sami and Lucy's funeral"

I can't handle the words Sami, Lucy and funeral in the same sentence and I sit back down on the hospital bed. Teddy watches me then continues.

"I'm really sorry Arizona you know they were like my children too...but we need to get you changed and out of here so you can be there for Callie because she is really gonna need you today...you're going to need each other. So for once just take a breathe and slow down"


CALLIES POV

I didn't want to believe this was real and I haven't not until now while I'm standing in front of my daughters caskets looking down at them. I haven't stopped crying since that day I woke up to them dead beside me. All I remember is drifting off to sleep and then the next I'm waking up to their cold lifeless bodies and Arizona was no where to be found. I don't know how long I've been standing over them staring and crying until I feel a gentle hand being placed on my shoulder and it's Bailey.

"Come on dear let's go sit down" She says directing us to the sits in front. I look around the room and see that alot of people came out to say goodbye to Sami and Lucy and as much as I hate this whole situation I am grateful everyone showed up for them because they are great well they were great. The only person missing right now is Arizona. We rushed her to the hospital after she collapsed in Amsterdam. I need to know if she's gonna be here as angry that I am I know deep down it isn't her fault and I really really need my wife right now but I don't know if the anger will go away ever.

"Bai...Bailey did you hear from Teddy yet" I make out through sobs.

"Yes Arizona is awake and they are on their way they should be here right about now" She says looking behind her and my eyes follow and I spot Teddy, Arizona closly behind her. She's been in the hospital for three days but she still looks a mess I'm not sure what happened but she got royally beat up. They spot us and head over its the first time Arizona has been awake and now she finally has to except this as reality, our reality. She stands over our daughters and I see the pain all over her face. She blames herself and I know I've been no help in consoling her. I finally get enough strength up to stand up and I walk over to her. I grab her hand taking it into mine.

"Look at me" I say softly. Her eyes are glued to our daughters. I put my hand underneath her chin and lift slowly making her look at me like she has done so many times. "Come on" I say leading her to our seats.


ARIZONAS POV

The funeral was the most depressing thing that I have ever experienced in my life.

I mean I'm a protector I've been to tons of funerals and they never really effected me but seeing my daughters just laying there and all I could think was they're just sleeping and they will wake up after a while but then they never did and then I watched the caskets go into the ground and that's when I realized that they weren't just sleeping and that they wouldn't be waking up ever again.

So many 'I'm sorry's and sorry for you're lose' that everyone just started to morph together. So now here I am sitting outside on the swing that occupies our front porch smoking this god awful cigarette and thinking about my daughters while everyone else inside talks about them and feels sorry for us. I'm going to find Stark and I'm going to kill him but not just kill him I'm going to torture him like he has tortured me and my wife.

I'm brought out of my thoughts when Lexie takes a seat down next to me.

"You know those things will kill you" She says and I know she's just trying to lighten the mood but my thrill for laughter isn't around today. "Sorry really didn't think that one through"

We sit in silence for a moment until I finally speak up.

"I need you to do something for me Lexie but I need you to not tell anyone not the Protectors not anyone" I say incomplete seriousness.

"Sure anything...whatever you need"

"I need you to get the autopsy on Sami and Lucy"

"Arizona I don-"

But before she can finish I cut her off.

"Look Lexie...I saw my daughters alive less then 24 hours before they were found dead and something doesn't feel right...as you're boss I'm demanding you to do this for me" I stand up take one last drag of my cigarette and say "Also find me Stark"

Before she can say anything else I throw my cigarette butt in the yard and go inside the house. I want to find Callie I need to see her and talk to her.

I walk into the living room where everyone seems to be occupying talking amongst themselves but I don't see Callie anywhere. I slowly back out of the living room and head upstairs looking through all the rooms stopping and staring into Sami and Lucy's rooms for longer then I intend before heading to me and Calliopes bedroom and that is where I find her sitting on the edge of the bed staring at her hands. I'm about to say something but she beats me to it.

"Where were you?"

"I was on the porch"

"NO...Where were you when the girls died I couldn't find you anywhere...where were you" She says looking up at me. I slowly close our bedroom door and lean against the dresser. She doesn't know that I was in a fight with Oliver and she doesn't know that I saw our girls right before they died.

"I was...I was...let's not talk about that now Calliope"

"If not now then when Arizona...because you haven't been telling me anything...it's like I'm married to a stranger right now...and I don't want to be married to a stranger...I want my wife back...you're the only thing I have left so if not now...when...Arizona...when?" She says tears forming in her eyes "Why won't you talk to me"

"Because you're not going to like what I have to say"

"Try me" She says looking up at me her eyes almost pleading. I take a breathe and then start. Please don't be mad at me Calliope.

"I found them"

"What do you mean...you found them"

"I mean I found Sami and Lucy...I followed one of Starks men and he led me to this...this house and I managed to get in...and I found them...I touched their faces...and I tried...i tried so hard to save them...but stark's men where too strong...they really kicked my ass...but I got away and I went back for them and the next thing I remember is...is...feeling this sharp pain in the back of my head and then...when I woke up they were gone...I failed them and I failed you...and nothing about this feels right...and I'm so sorry...I'm so sorry..." I finally breakdown into tears I put my hands over my face and I just cry. Callie takes my hands down away from my face and I think she's gonna do what she did before and yell at me. "I'm so sorry baby...I never wanted this to happen...I'm so sorry...so sorry..."

"Shh baby" She says soothingly pulling me into a hug. She takes me over to the bed and then takes a seat next to me. "Hey look at me" I look at her and she's just so beautiful how could I have let this happen to her to them.

"It's all my fault Calliope"

"No it's not you're fault"

"Yes...Yes it is...you guys are great and I let you down...how can you forgive me for this...how can you ever lo-"

Callie cuts me short and the next thing I know is that her lips are on mine and its been awhile since I've tasted her it's such a simple gesture but I melt into her. I pull back wanting to make sure she really wants to do this, that she doesn't hate me.

"What are you doing?" I ask quietly

"I love you"

Is all she says and that's all I need to hear in this moment and I attack her lips. We kiss each other frantically but with the same amount of passion that we always have. I need to be with my wife I need to make her forget about all of the horrible stuff that's going on and about the girls even if it is just for a little while.