Angst, early Season 9.


"Arizona, I can't take this," Callie said to the near corpse of the woman her wife used to be. "I can't take this."

Arizona refused to look at her.

"You can't spend the rest of your life in this bed."

"Wanna bet?" Arizona sneered, finally turning to face her wife with eyes of poison.

"No," Callie shook her head defiantly. "You do not get to destroy yourself after you lived. You don't get to waste away. Get up. Get the hell out of that bed."

"'Get up,' Callie? Really? And how do you expect me to do that, when you cut off my leg?"

Callie felt her blood run cold at her wife's words. Then boil. "I SAVED YOUR LIFE!"

"YOU INCAPACITATED ME!"

Callie exhaled loudly, attempting to remain patient and strong. "Arizona," she began evenly. "I will never apologize for saving your life, even if it costs me my own. Even if it costs us our marriage. Even if it means you stop loving me."

Icy blue eyes snapped up to meet warm hot chocolate, and for a second, Callie swore that she almost could see the ice melting. Just for a second.

"But Sofia needs you alive. Especially now. And, Arizona, I really, really need you alive," she pleaded. "The world does. So you need to get out of this bed soon, and you need to remember how to live."

Arizona looked away, shaking her head, but Callie pushed forward, "Because trying to push me away, trying to make me hate you isn't going to work. I love you, so I am not going to let you destroy yourself. Not after all this. You need to get up and live."