Chapter 25

It had been another long day for Callie as after her surgery with Kepner she had been thrown straight into an OR with Hunt, Avery and Sloan for another five hours of trauma surgery. By the time they had got out of surgery the hospital was on night time skeleton staff and most of their friends had escaped hours before. Avery stayed behind a little longer to monitor the patient but Hunt, her and Mark were all heading back in the same direction so they walked across the parking lot together to their apartment block. Callie felt a bit too drained for conversation and was quite happy just to listen to Owen talking about his shoulder. It had been his first surgery since he'd been shot and he probably shouldn't have done it but he seemed determined to get on with everyday life. It was unfortunate the board hadn't chose to give him the temporary position as Chief as he was very good at organising and directing procedures. Instead she was landed with Erica Hahn who seemed determined to land the job on a permanent basis.

As the lift opened on their floor the sound of female laughter could be heard from down the hall. It sounded suspiciously like it came from Callie's apartment but there seemed to be too much noise for the three people she expected to find there. Owen and Mark looked equally confused at the girly giggling.

"Is that your place?" Mark asked, raising a quizzical eye at her.

"It sure sounds like it" Callie muttered before starting to march down the corridor. God knows what was going on in there but they were being so loud they would surely get complaints.

The noise got even louder as they grew nearer. It was so loud in fact that no one inside heard Callie unlock the door with her key and swing it open. The Ortho surgeon stood in the doorway, rooted with shock at the sight in front of her. The two guys peered over her shoulder nervously at the gaggle of women strewn out around the room in front of them.

Callie's apartment was literally full of female surgeons. Arizona, Teddy and Bailey where on one of the sofa's passing a bottle of Brandy between them whilst Christina sat on the floor by Arizona's legs swigging from a rather large bottle of Tequila. She had half a lemon in the other hand and was taking a swig from the bottle before licking the lemon; something Callie's girlfriend was in the middle of describing as gross. On the opposite sofa sat Meredith and April with beer in hand and with all sorts of hair grooming equipment surrounding them. Lexie sat on the floor between her half-sister's legs and seemed to be half way through a bottle of vodka. The younger Grey had somehow reverted back to being a brunette during the evening and Callie dreaded what state her bathroom was in. Hopefully they had played with the hair dye before they got drunk. They had definitely destroyed one of her nice fluffy towels whilst doing it though as the now brown and white patchy towel lay on the floor by the hairdryer and an assortment of combs.

Callie was expected them to have Lexie as a guest that night but she certainly did not expect to see so many other people crowding her space. It was almost surreal to see Teddy and Christina laughing and joking after what occurred with Owen and she had never expected to see April Kepner in her home. Not that she had anything against April, in fact after today she felt rather fond of the stress head resident.

"Calliope!" Arizona suddenly squealed, nearly tipping the brandy bottle over. Bailey just about managed to catch it on time before it went everywhere but Arizona didn't even seem to notice. Instead the inebriated blonde leapt to her feet and came bounding across the room and wrapped her arms around Callie.

"Hi Sloan! Hi Owen!" the blonde greeted the two remarkably silent guys over Callie's shoulder.

When the blonde finally pulled out of the hug Callie glanced around the room, silently asking her girlfriend what an earth was going on.

"We decided everyone was really down today" Arizona explained cheerfully, "so we thought a girls night would cheer everyone up!"

Callie looked around the room at the collection of women in front of her. They certainly did look like they were having fun and with the memorial service fast approaching a distraction was welcome. She wasn't convinced them all getting ridiculously drunk was the answer but she was outnumbered on this one.

"I have Tequila" Christina yelled across the room at Callie before stumbling to her feet and weaving towards them. "You can even share my lemon!"

Callie wrinkled her nose at the suggestion which made both Arizona and Christina chuckle. Once Christina reached them she handed Callie the Tequila and patted her shoulder.

"Drink" she ordered, "you have a lot of catching up to do!"

Considering how light the bottle of Tequila was Callie knew that was no lie. The Cardio resident had drank at least two thirds of it so it was no wonder she looked so hammered. Christina then stepped round Callie and kissed Owen's chin, although Callie was sure it was meant to be his lips, and then started pushing him and Mark into the hallway.

"Girls night" Christina declared, "you two go watch sport or something and have male bonding time!"

Arizona repeated Christina's words like a parrot as Mark and Owen willingly sloped away towards Mark's apartment door. It was funny to see them both look so intimidated by a room full of women although Sloan would never admit to being intimidated. Once they were gone Christina closed the door and drunkenly wandered over to the sofa by Meredith and sat down. Callie followed Arizona into the room and sat on the sofa with Teddy and Bailey, leaving the blonde to sit on the floor by her legs.

"Give me your beer Kepner" Christina demanded.

"Get your own" a drunken April replied surprisingly confidently, causing laughter to ripple round the room.

"Heh okay" Christina chuckled, "I'll even get you another one for growing some balls!"

Callie took a couple of big swigs of the Tequila, trying not to pull any odd faces as the liquid burned her throat. She was a Tequila drinker but she usually warmed up her palette with a couple of beers first. She took another swig ad then took a quick glance around the room again. Arizona was cuddling her leg contentedly which was awfully cute and wasn't going unnoticed by Teddy and Bailey who seemed to be 'awwwwing' at them. It was weird being the sober person in a room full of drunken people.

"You dyed your hair back" she stated the obvious to Lexie who looked far better brunette anyway in Callie's opinion.

"They say blondes have more fun. They lie! Being blonde sucks….sorry Arizona" Lexie slurred drunkenly. Arizona just giggled drunkenly in response and waved the insult away before the younger Grey continued her rant.

"Since I have been blonde I have had a crap time! I got shot at, friends got hurt or killed…..and I dated Alex Karev!"

"She has a point" Meredith smirked at Callie. The Ortho surgeon couldn't argue with any of that either so for once her and Meredith Grey seemed to be seeing eye to eye. In fact now Callie was starting to understand the situation. Christina only drank like that when she was down, Lexie was obviously at a low point and Meredith had to be feeling really low even though she was hiding it well. Callie couldn't imagine watching her loved one get shot and having a miscarriage on one day. On their own either was horrific enough. Bailey had watched Charles die and April had been there when her hero Derek was shot. This was a room of seriously shaken people and tomorrow was going to drag it all up again. This was a good idea and what they needed was a couple of silly games to amuse themselves with.

"Lets play 'I Never'" Callie suddenly blurted out. It caused immediate uproar with Christina, Teddy, Lexie and Arizona instantly shouting their approval. Meredith looked sceptical and Bailey looked horrified and April…April just looked damn confused.

"I never?" she asked nervously, looking from person to person for some sort of idea what it was.

"Let's say I am going first" Christina explained "and I say…I never gave a guy a blow job on the first date. Well anyone who has done that has to drink and if they are the only one who drinks they have to tell the story. Get it?"

April nodded nervously and Callie had to hold in her laughter as the resident looked like a rabbit caught in the headlights. She couldn't imagine that April was going to drink much during this game.

"This is a baaaaaaaad idea" Bailey said seriously, "so I am going first!"

Teddy wolf whistled and Arizona and Christina cheered drunkenly at the normally stern general attending. Callie knew the tone of the game usually lowered as it went on so Bailey was probably playing it safe going first.

"I have never broke any male appendix during hospital hours" Bailey stated, quirking her eyebrows at Lexie as she said it.

The younger Grey was the only one who drank and everyone chuckled except April. The brunette just looked at Lexie in shock so obviously that story had never reached her ears.

"It was before your time" Lexie patted April's knee, "and I didn't realise everyone knew!"

"Oh we knew" Meredith informed her, "Derek couldn't keep his mouth shut I'm afraid."

Lexie shrugged like she didn't mind but there was a faint blush on her cheeks which showed she was slightly embarrassed. Callie looked to her side at Teddy to signal her to go next.

"I never cheated on anyone I was dating" Teddy declared proudly. Callie wished she didn't have to drink for this but that would be lying. She wasn't the only one who drank though because Lexie and Christina drank too which meant she didn't have to explain at least. Arizona's eyes flicked up at her from her seat on the floor but the blonde didn't comment.

"I never had on call room sex before I got to Seattle Grace" Arizona carried on the game before anyone could discuss cheating.

Callie couldn't help but smile at the fact that in that respect she had been Arizona's first. Only Teddy drank on this go and the Cardiac Surgeon slapped Arizona's shoulder playfully because apart from April she was the only one who had worked in another hospital. The question was always going to trip her up. Everyone looked at Teddy expectantly and she shook her head and giggled.

"During my residency, Dr Benedict Rothwell, a prominent British Surgeon who was the research partner of my attending…several times during his two week visit!"

Everyone, even April, 'oooed' childishly at her and laughter rippled around the room at Teddy's blushes. Except Christina who waved her bottle to get Teddy's attention.

"I've read his papers and books!" she shouted, "Is he as much of a legend in bed?"

"I did say I went back for more several times" Teddy nodded her head in a positive way. This comment caused more uproar and Callie wondered what Mark and Owen in the opposite apartment were making of all this joviality.

"Callie?" Bailey prompted her to take her go. The Ortho Surgeon wracked her brains for something to say.

"I never fantasized about Chief Webber" Callie offered.

She'd often wondered if Bailey thought more of Webber than she let on but apart from raising her eyebrows Bailey's reaction didn't give anything away. In fact the only person who drank was Teddy and everyone stared at her aghast.

"What?" she asked defensively, "he's a good looking guy!"

Arizona giggled drunkenly and cuddled into Callie's legs, kissing her jean clad knee. Callie saw April 'awwwww' at them out of the corner of her eye. She was certainly learning a lot about the resident and her character today.

"Well" Christina spoke loudly, "I never kissed a woman."

Callie and Arizona drank which was obviously going to happen but Lexie also drank which caused some raised eyebrows.

"Drunken dare" Lexie slurred in explanation. The younger Grey sounded absolutely hammered.

April looked rather apprehensive now it was her go and Callie wondered if there was anything April had done that the others hadn't. She didn't really seem like the adventurous type.

"Erm well….well I never….I never had sex" the resident stuttered nervously. Everyone sat quietly and Callie wasn't sure what to say. Christina took a swig of her drink but then spat it out and looked at April like she had grown two heads. Obviously it had only just dawned on Christina what she had said.

"You're a virgin?" Christina blurted out. "Jesus no wonder you are so uptight Kepner!"

Callie cringed at Christina's lack of subtlety and Arizona gestured with her hand for Christina to shush as April looked mortified.

"It's not all it's cracked up to be" Teddy informed April, "better just to buy a good vibrator."

Bailey raised the bottle of Brandy up to that and Lexie and Christina raised their bottles in agreement. Callie was rather relived Arizona didn't join in or she'd have kicked her. They had always had great sex as far as she was concerned and she was glad to see Arizona didn't disagree with that. Obviously McDreamy was all that in bed too because Meredith just smirked and kept her beer bottle down.

"My go" Lexie squealed, "I never had sex in a hospital store room."

Callie, Arizona and Meredith instantly took a big gulp of their drinks and Bailey raised her hands up in defeat.

"That is just wrong and dirty" Bailey chastised them. "Can't you just stick to your own homes? On call room sex is bad enough."

"I never had sex with Mark Sloan no matter how many times he tried it on with me" Meredith continued the game. Teddy, Callie and Lexie all drank and Bailey shuck her head again. It's a good job none of the nurses were here or many more would have drunk.

"There is a door you can always knock on if you want to lose your virginity any time soon" Christina prodded April with the mouth of her bottle.

"Ewwww no" April responded instantly "I know people call him McSteamy but McSlimey seems more appropriate to me."

The only person who didn't laugh was Lexie who Callie knew was still in love with Mark. Even Callie had to agree that her best friend suited April's nickname for him at times. She'd been disappointed with him when he had slept with Reed and offered Teddy a threesome when she walked in on it. He had been telling her for weeks that he wanted to settle down and he was really serious about making things work with Teddy so that was just pathetic.

"This has been an informative evening" Bailey said flatly "and I have decided that Kepner is the only one of you with any sense."

"Excuse me!" Christina waved her hand round in the air with her engagement ring on. "I have never slept with Mark Sloan either and I never will!"