A/N: I don't know where this motivation is coming from, but I really feel like writing these days, and I'm loving it so much! Please leave a review to let me know how you are liking it so far. It really helps me crunch these chapters out faster!

Chapter 25: Calliope

Present day

All I could feel was… nothing. It was like I had a terrible nap and I didn't want to wake up, but at the same time I did because I wasn't sure what had gotten into me. When did my arms and legs feel like heavy led? What was going on?

I tried to move, but I realized soon enough that there was something holding me back. I tried to open my eyes but it literally felt like it took every ounce of energy I had to do such a menial task.

I finally gathered enough strength to open my eyes and took a look at my surroundings. I was in a darkroom with a bulb hanging over my head. The room had no windows, no doors or maybe the door was behind me. I looked down and saw that my arms and legs were tied to the chair.

Wait, how did I get here?

I remembered spending the night at Arizona's place and then blank… Wait no, I remember feeling frightened that something was not right. I looked down at the object that would usually give me courage. Ever since I saw Arizona around the hospital, I stopped wearing her dog tag around my wrist and started wearing it on a chain around my neck instead.

I didn't want her to know the impact she had in my life so I chose to hide it in case she ever accidently got a glimpse of it. But no, her dog tag was not there anymore.

Another memory pooped into my head. I think I yanked out the dog tag and discretely dropped it on the floor. Maybe that would let Arizona know that I was in danger. But I couldn't figure out why I was in danger and who I was running away from.

What was going on?

I stretched out a bit in my chair. Everything hurt really badly! My neck hurt but it was either because I tore my skin trying to remove the chain or I was drugged. Yes! I was definitely drugged. I was feeling groggy and there was no way they could have tied me up if I wasn't unconscious.

Suddenly, I heard the door opening. I was right, there was a door behind me, so I closed my eyes and pretended to be knocked out cold. Maybe I could make out the voice, maybe I could understand who was behind all of this. I know it's been a while since I have been out of the Mafia game, but I trusted my instincts and they will keep me going.

A splash of water jolted my eyes open. God! The water was so cold. I shook the water out of my face to see this person clearly.

"I taught you that trick, so you can stop it," I heard a familiar voice say.

"Where am I?" I croaked.

She laughed before she roughly grabbed my face and forced me to look at her.

"Do you really think that I would let you get away with this?"

Erica! I could not believe it! Was it her who kidnapped me? But why would she do that? I thought that she was still working for my father's men, wouldn't they want to protect me? Instead, here she is drugging me and pouring water over my head.

"What do you want!" I yelled.

"Just when I thought all of it was over, that you learnt your lesson but when you go around being friends with her?"

What was her problem with Arizona? Everything was done, she was not an active member of the Robbin's crime family, even though I knew that they still operated and had managed to grow their empire. Why was Erica being this way? If the Torres' got wind of what she was doing they would have it out for her.

"Are you jealous of Arizona?" I said so that I could get a reaction out of her. Knowing her, I needed to rile her up if she were to ever tell me the whole truth, but what she did next was something that I had not anticipated.

She leaned forward and kicked me flat on my shoulder. The momentum caused the chair to roll back taking me along with it.

"Son of a bitch! Why are you hitting me?" I am in pain now. I think she dislocated my shoulder because it doesn't feel broken.

"Because Callie, you need to learn your lesson," she said as she lifted the chair back up. She took a moment to check if any of my restraints had gotten loose before standing in front of me. I could see her smiling as she saw how sore and red my wrists and ankles looked.

"And what is that?"

"That nothing good comes from hooking up with anyone in that family."

"Arizona and I are just friends. We are colleagues who work in the same hospital and nothing more!"

"Is that so?"

"Yes!" I was really trying to keep my voice in control despite all the pain coursing through my body.

"Then please tell me why you drove her home? Why did you stay over at her place? Fuh? If you are just colleagues?"

"Because-"

Before I could finish Erica cut me off "Because you still have feelings for her."

"That is crazy, I don't have feelings for her." Do I? No, I don't.

"Are you dumb Callie?" Erica leaned forward and punched me on my dislocated shoulder. I cried out in pain as it traveled through my body. I was openly crying now. I knew that much for sure. "Your father, my mentor, died because of your relationship with her and yet you still keep her around. What is wrong with you? Did Carlos mean so little to you that now that Arizona is back you don't give a shit about him anymore?"

What the fuck? She doesn't get to say that to me! "I love my father and you know that!"

"Well apparently not as much as you love your blonde barbie doll."

"If anyone from the Torres family finds out they will-"

"Do nothing about it. I am in charge now, they do what I tell them to do, when I tell them to do it."

I did not know this? Fuck! When did this happen? I thought that it was my cousin Rico was the one who handled the day to day of the family business, but if it isn't Rico then that means that she probably killed him!

This bitch!

"What do you want from me?" I cried out.

Erica simply shrugged her shoulders as she smoothened the hair out of my eyes. I didn't want her fingers on me, I didn't want her to touch me. But more than that, I didn't want to feel another punch coming my way so I let her.

"Nothing," she replied.

"Then?"

"But the Robbins want a whole lot from you."

I was shocked what was going on inside that tiny little head of hers? "What do you mean?"

"They think that you are the reason Daniel Robbins died that you shot Arizona that day and killed her too. They have been wanting revenge forever. The Torres' barely manage to keep them at bay, well not anymore."

"What are you going to do to me?" I am scared now.

Erica leaned in close and kissed my cheek in a very sinister way, "Sweetie, I am going to let them know that I have you here. Then it's up to them what they want to do to you."

"How can you do that to me!"

"You stepped out of the family business but the empire is mine now and I will not let it crumble. The Torres' will be the most powerful crime family and that's a promise I take very seriously."

I thought for a while. There was no way I could get out of this. Even if I hadn't dislocated my shoulder, we could literally be in Canada by now. "Then then then, I'll tell them that Arizona is alive and that she works at Seattle Grace and then they will let me go!"

"Poor Callie, do you really think that they would take your word for it? They want blood and they will get blood." Erica took a big step back and removed a phone out of her pocket. "Now smile wide! They need to know that I have you alive so that a deal can finally be made and a pact of peace will be in place and they will stop infiltrating our territory."

The flash seemed brighter in the dimly lit room. I needed to get out of here somehow. If the Robbins find me, they will not only kill me, but they will torture me, rape me, god nows what they would do to me. I know it must have taken Arizona a lot to stay dead in the eyes of her family and I wasn't going to rat her out. I cannot do that to her.

I saw Erica typing something on her phone, she was probably sending the photo to whoever was in her contact. I saw her wickedly smiling at her phone. I promise to God that if I get out of this alive, I will kill her with my bare hands. "Alright! Now you sit tight and relax and wait for the Robbin's men to come get you."

I know what I had to do. I had to do something big and drastic to convince her not to send me to the Robbins family. If that happened, it was game over. "Erica, I was at Arizona's apartment to kill her," I whispered softly.

Yes, I could see the gears turning in her head, she was buying this! "What do you mean?"

"I was scooping out her place so that I could make it look like she committed suicide."

Things were looking good, they were looking really good. My plan was working! "I wanted to finish what I started five years ago, but I couldn't just -just shoot her. She was the reason dad died. I was going to kill her in the most painful way possible."

"Really?"

"Yeah, I promise! It has always been you, Erica! I have always loved you." I literally felt like throwing up and it was not because of the pain. Yuck, I do not love you, I will never love you, but right now I need to get out of here as soon as possible and I need to get out of here alive.

"You love me?" She asked.

"With all my heart Erica, I just wanted to make sure that there would be no obstacles in our way"

"How would you have done it"

Eww, I couldn't believe what I was saying, but I had to do it. "Done what?"

"Tell me how you would have killed Arizona?"

I could never kill Arizona, all those years ago when I shot her, I couldn't believe what I had done.

Literally the next second I had whipped out my phone to call 9-1-1, I took her head in my lap and put pressure on the wound. That was true fear, fear like I hadn't ever experienced. I could see her struggling to concentrate on my face, struggling to hold on to my hand as I frantically tried to stop all the blood that was pouring out of her body. I think I must have told her that I was sorry a million times.

I remember hearing the ambulance and someone pulling Arizona out of my arms telling me that we needed to go. But I refused to let my Arizona go, almost scared that if I wasn't there she would die.

"That's what I thought," Erica said before she pressed up on my shoulder.

"Fuck" I cried out in pain.

"You feel that Callie, that's how I feel when you say you love me but don't feel anything for me. That is how you make me feel!" Erica screamed at me.

"Please stop!" I begged her, but that just made her want to apply more pressure to my wound. "AH!" I screamed.

"She's not coming to save you. She will never come to save you."

I cried and cried hoping that the pain would stop, but it wasn't going to. At least, if I could pass out from the pain, it would stop hurting. That would be great right now. But no, I had to get out.

"I guess I'll leave you alone to think about all of your past mistakes until they come to take you. Take care of yourself Callie, for what's worth, I'll miss you." Erica said as she started walking towards the door.

"Erica please! Don't do this," but then I heard the door closing behind her as she walked away.

Arizona, I need you to give me strength right now. I need you to tell me that I will get out of this alive and unharmed. That I will see your face again. I need to make things right with her. We need to stop being awkward around each other.

If I ever get out, I will tell Arizona the truth, I will tell her that I love her, that I have always loved her and if she would let me, I want to do that for the rest of my life.

I looked down hoping to find her dog tag that has always been there for five years, my source of courage, determination, the force that kept me going.

It wasn't there…

Oh right, I had dropped it in hopes that Arizona would know something is wrong. But then again, I don't think she would risk resurfacing and throw away everything she has done to protect herself, would she?

I need a plan and I need to do this on my own, for Arizona's sake!

A/N: How was that? I knew it was a bit rough, but I really like this direction. Here's, a million dollar question for you guys:

1) What should happen in the next chapter:

2) Arizona gets word that the Robbins have Callie from her informant.

3) Callie struggles to make it out alive but dies in Arizona's arms.

4) Kill em both! (That's a joke! Please don't come after me!)

5) Arizona tried figuring out what happened to Callie.

6) Or something completely different?