In the middle of that night, Arizona got paged due to a car crash involving a pregnant woman and her 2 small children. Arizona woke up a little confused but managed to dress up quickly without waking Meredith and headed to the hospital. She left a cute note on the nightstand beside Meredith.
Good morning, beautiful. Got paged, massive car crash. It's really hard to leave you sleeping by yourself like that. See you soon, my love. – A.
Luckily the mom survived and her baby too, but it took more than 4 hours inside of the OR for Arizona to control the bleeding and prevent an early birth which would seriously compromise the survival chances of that baby.
Her other children, 4-years-old twins, had massive injuries all over their tiny bodies. The boy was operated by Riggs and Webber and survived, but was still in critical conditions at ICU while the girl was in the OR with Karev and Murphy for longer than 6 hours and they were running out of hope with her.
After making sure that both mom and baby were out of danger, Arizona scrubbed again to help Alex with the little girl.
"Ok, Alex, update me" – Arizona asked.
"Massive intern injuries, every time we stop a bleeding something else starts bleeding again, it's pretty bad" – Alex answered, clearly exhausted.
"Her heart and lungs? Any injuries?" – Arizona asked while was getting her gloves on
" A broken rib perforate her lung but it's controlled now" – Murphy answered that.
With an extra set of hands, the team was able to maintain the girl alive, at least for that moment, but she would need more surgeries once she was a little more stable, since her spleen and liver were heavily compromised.
After the three of them left the OR, they looked like battered warriors from all the exhaustion and tension.
It didn't last more than 10 minutes resting on the attending's lounge for them to receive a page from Bailey, who was calling every surgeon to a meeting at the conference room.
Meredith was already inside the room when Arizona entered, and she quickly greeted her girlfriend.
"I heard you rocked the ORs, babe. How are you?" – Meredith asked, giving a light kiss on Arizona's lips.
"I'm exhausted, but happy everyone survived, at least for now" – Arizona answered and right after that, the Chief started to speak.
"All right, as everyone should remember, today we start a new set of surgical interns. I hope that both you attendings and senior residents would commit to teach them and improve our program. Dr. Webber will be responsible for setting the groups to each resident and how the rotation is going to work. Any doubts?" – Bailey asked the team.
"How many will be starting today?" – Dr. Wilson asked.
"There will be seven of them" – Richard Webber answered the resident.
"Ok, I also have a new topic to discuss, better, to inform you, about a temporary contract starting today of one new specialist that will be spending a few months here in Grey Sloan…" – Bailey got interrupted by everyone's pages that were off with 911 due to a fire in a shopping mall.
Quickly every doctor left the room and ran straight to the pit, being organized by Owen and April. Little they know which doctor was about to arrive in town later that day.
Exiting the elevator typing on her cell phone, after the pit was cleared up, Arizona almost bumped into someone and at the moment she lifted her head up, she got mortified with the surprise.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I-I …" – Arizona couldn't finish her sentence.
"Well, it must be my lucky day! First day at new job and Arizona Robbins is the first person I see"
"Lauren, what are you doing here?"- Arizona asked Lauren Boswell, the woman who caused her a lot of trouble in the past.
"Haven't Dr. Bailey told you? I'll be working here at Grey Sloan for a few months! Isn't that great? How are you? It's been a long time since we last spoke" – Lauren exclaimed.
"Why? Why are you working here now?" – Arizona asked, still disbelieving the information.
"Well, I thought you were on board, weren't you? I'll be accepting your surprised look as if you are surprised in a good way, I hope" – Lauren quipped.
"Ok, Lauren, I have to go now." – Arizona said and just left, confused and surprised, but surely not in a good way.
Damn it! I need to find Meredith. Arizona thought and made her way to the attending's lounge to find her girlfriend and tell her before she heard the news.
Meredith was in surgery, however, and Arizona needed to wait for her to finish.
After a long and difficult surgery, Meredith left the OR and headed towards the elevator, standing behind two new interns who seemed to be friends with Leah Murphy already, or maybe knew her from somewhere else. They were so focused on what seemed like a gossip that didn't notice Meredith behind them.
"Are you serious? But do you think she accepted the job here because of her?" – One of the new interns asked Murphy.
"Well, it wouldn't surprise me. Rumor has it that she isn't over Robbins since that day they slept together. She tried to call her several times, but after her, there was me and then Callie again" – Murphy was explaining the situation, now making Meredith's sure that they were gossiping about her girlfriend.
"But Boswell is also hot, I'm sure she must have tons of women after her, doesn't she?" – The other intern asked.
"It's hard to see the line when you're stuck at Arizona Robbins" – Murphy said laughing until she noticed Meredith and quickly became serious, making the other interns looked at her confused.
"Dr. Grey, hi" – Murphy said, embarrassed.
"Are these two new interns, Murphy?" – Meredith asked and when Murphy nodded yes, she smiled and continued. – "Good to know." – Meredith just entered the elevator, leaving Murphy and the two interns froze without reaction.
"Was that a good thing?" – One of them asked.
"She is Arizona Robbins' girlfriend, now. I mean, for over a year. So I'm guessing that wasn't good at all" – Murphy said and left the two alone.
When Arizona and Meredith finally crossed paths, Arizona could tell her girlfriend didn't have a friendly look on her face.
"I guess you heard the news already, haven't you?" – Arizona said trying to show a little smile and break the ice.
"Oh, I heard it. And I heard in from the best way possible" – Meredith answered, angrily.
"Did you talk to Boswell?" – Arizona asked, trying to figure it out.
"I didn't have to, apparently Murphy knows well enough about her life and yours, also the new interns are aware of that too. I guess it's only me, who happens to be your girlfriend, that didn't know much of your connection with Dr. Boswell." – Meredith said and started to walk away leaving Arizona looking confused, but walking after her.
"What do you mean 'my connection'? You did know the story, Mer. I get that you're upset she's working here, and so am I, but I didn't know she was coming! I was as surprised as you." – Arizona tried to explain the situation.
"I thought she was just the woman you slept with while you were married to Callie" – Meredith said, typing on a tablet about a patient, avoiding Arizona's eyes.
"Yes, she is. Am I missing something here?" – Arizona was truly lost.
"Missing something? Don't you know that she can't forget you? And apparently, neither can Murphy. How pleasant was hearing it all from her" – Meredith sounded really upset.
"Babe, would you please look at me? I have no idea what you're talking about. I haven't spoken to Boswell since that day. She called me a few times after that but I never answered, we had absolutely no contact since. I would've told you if we did, of course. I don't even know how Murphy could possibly know this." – Arizona explained herself, squeezing Meredith's hand, who was still looking upset.
"Do I need to worry about this woman working here? Or about Murphy, for god's sake?" – Meredith asked.
"Absolutely not, honey." – Arizona hugged Meredith, kissing her neck and her cheek in sequence.
They were heading to opposite sides, so they said their goodbyes, exchanging smiles, which made Arizona relieved. The last thing she needed was getting into a fight with Meredith because of Lauren. She didn't want to go backwards to years ago when Lauren messed up her life.
A little annoyed, Arizona knocked on Bailey's office door and opened up, waiting for the Chief to look up to her.
"Robbins, can I help you?" – Bailey said, while was signing some papers.
"You know, a little heads up would've been nice, Bailey" – Arizona pointed out.
"Are we talking about Dr. Boswell?" – Bailey asked, now looking to the blonde.
"Is there anyone else I should worry about too?" – Arizona asked sarcastically and shrugged when Bailey remained in silence. – "Miranda, I know that look".
"We're receiving a master case from Germany and Boswell was already the doctor dealing with the case in long-distance. She made a proposal to use our resources and it sounded good to everyone. I was trying to tell everybody at the meeting this morning before the fire." – Bailey explained.
"Well, but I'm sure you knew that before this morning, it would've been nice if you'd just let me know beforehand" – Arizona stated.
"I don't do personal, Robbins, and you know that. It was a long time ago, I didn't think it would still be a problem" – Bailey affirmed.
"The only problem is that I was caught blindsided and she's working here for half day and the interns are already gossiping about what happened years ago." – Arizona stated.
"I try not to worry myself about interns gossiping around because I have a lot of work to do and you should do the same, Robbins. But, there is something else, indeed. And for that I will need to discuss with you" – Bailey informed, causing Arizona to shrug.
"What is it?"- Arizona asked.
"Torres called me yesterday. She asked for her job back." – Bailey pointed.
"This day keeps getting better… What did you say?"- Arizona asked, with mixed feelings. She didn't want to see Callie every day at work, especially after her latest revelations, but on the other hand, that would mean having Sofia back in town.
"I said that I can't give her Chief of Ortho, we have someone now. And I also asked her to think about if she was coming back for the job or to cool her head off. This hospital is not a love rehab. She'll have a few days to think about, but I thought you should know and tell me if it's going to be a problem if she's back in here" – Bailey asked with her serious tone but Arizona could tell she was being friendly.
"No, of course not. I just hope she feels the same, we're past all of this, I just want to live my life and if my ex-wife will work at the same place I do, I want it to be a good thing and not a burden" – Arizona vented receiving a compassionate smile from Bailey.