Callie pushed through the double doors the the ER and looked around for someone she knew, "chief, where am I looking?'' she called. "Broken bones? Fractured wrist? Multiple ribs?" Callie fired and chief Webber walked over to her with a sorry look on his face. "What is it chief" she questioned in a lower tone,
"Callie, I need you to prepare yourself, a professional head right now and just let go of the past for a moment" his words were beginning to frighten her, what did he mean by all that. "Follow me" he said walking over to one of the resus rooms. "She's stable for now, but the car hit her straight on" he opened the doors. "Callie its-" she cut him off.
"Arizona" she exclaimed. Tears pricked her eyes and began to fall.
"Torres, you're still down as her next of kin, we had to call you, you can allow us to call her parents if you don't want to stay" chief spoke but the words didn't absorb. Callie had been with Arizona all but an hour ago, she was drinking, smiling, she was fine and now, she had been hit by a car.
"No chief, I'll stay," she said, wiping the tears from her face. "What happened to her?" She asked in a demanding tone.
"She came in with Kepner. They had gotten out of the taxi across the street from her house. April had dropped her purse, one second she was picking up her lip gloss, the next she looked up and Arizona was in the middle of the road and a car came-"
"Stop, I don't want to hear anymore. What's the diagnosis at present" another tear fell. Hold it together Torres she thought to herself.
"She was extremely intoxicated as you're probably aware, April said she had been nervous so was drinking excessive amounts, but her liver will survive. She's had a nasty head laceration which we have stitched, ran a head ct and it has come back clear at the moment, just a slight swelling which we will monitor. Her prosthetic is damaged but we can fit her a new one when the time comes but I want you to take a look at her hip and pelvic scans, it seems to be a chip but I want your opinion"
Callie placed the scan up on the light box, there was a chip in her pelvis but it could have been so much worse. Arizona looked so lifeless. They'd intubated her at the scene and there were all kinds of tubes coming out of her. She had scrapes all over her body but from what the chief had said she would be okay. Callie knew how much Arizona hated hospitals, ironically as that's where she worked. They'd been split for just under a year but seeing her laid out helpless made Callie's heart ache. She'd missed Arizona so much and often thought her decision for them to split had not been as good of an idea as she thought. She was mad at Arizona for the things she had done but now seeing her like this realised that without her, if she was to die on the table tonight. She was empty.
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Callie had spent almost an hour filling out Arizona's paperwork and updating her chart. They had moved her out of resus which was a good sign and now they needed to wait for the sedation to wear off. Callie sat by her bed confused on what would be too far. She wanted to hold her hand, and after a few minutes took Arizona's small delicate hand into her own. The nurse was checking on her every 15 minutes to see if she was nearing waking up, but each time there was no change. Callie felt sick as anxiety rose from within, she was scared to know how Arizona would react to her being there next to her when she woke up.
Two hours passed before Arizona began to show signs of consciousness, Callie first felt a twitch in her hand, but that could have been a muscle spasm. She looked to Arizona's face and her eyes were fluttering, " she's trying to wake up" she called out and the nurse and the chief came in immediately, Callie let go of her hand and took a few steps back from the bed, Arizona was awake. Her pupils were reacting and she was breathing over the ventilator and after a few standard checks the nurse took out the intubation tube and advised Arizona to sleep, she needed all the strength she had and needed her brain swelling to go down slightly. Arizona complied, not seeing Callie in the corner of the room.
Once sure that the blonde was asleep Callie sat back down in the chair next to the bed staring at the petite frame still just laying there, she knew how much of an awful patient Arizona could be, but she had her reasons. Callie also knew how much Arizona hated being alone. She took her hand again, rubbed her thumb over every of the other woman's fingers before laying her head back in the chair, looking up to the ceiling and thinking a prayer for Arizona. She had already been through so much hurt in the last few years, they both had but this was the first time Callie had thought about how Arizona would have felt about meeting Penny. Maybe that was a bad idea, even though she seemed like she really wanted to meet her, she could tell when Arizona was just being polite. Maybe Penny was just a mistake, the whole relationship. She wanted to get over Arizona but now sitting next to her all she wanted was to rewind and go back to the happy times. Maybe they could get that back. She needed Arizona to be okay, Sofia couldn't lose another parent. Callie didn't let go of Arizona's hand, even when sleep took over.