Chapter 2

Arizona remembers hearing one more shot and seeing Gary Clark hit the floor.

"What's that?"

"It's this cute girl's number….and I can't get it off. I'm not gonna use it. I don't wanna use it. But I can't stop wondering if she wants to have a baby one day. I love you, everything about you. But there is this one thing that I need and I can't change it and I can't ask you to change. I don't want you to change.

"I can't be the one that keeps you from having a baby. I love you too. We could keep going."

"I don't know where we are going. God, what are we gonna do?"

"Well I'm gonna get my stuff together."

"And what?"

"We'll see each other at work."

"I am so sorry. I love you."

"Me too. Me too."

Somehow Arizona replayed that conversation in her mind as she tried to hold the child in her arms, which was now screaming and clung to her. As Arizona held her, she tried to hold Callie as she fell. Their eyes never leaving each others.

"Calliope!"

"Run, Arizona." Callie said through obvious pain.

"Calliope. They got him."

One of the team members walked to Arizona. "Doctor, I need you to come with me."

"I am not leaving her."

"Ma'am. We have no way of knowing yet if he was acting alone. We need to clear you and this child from the building."

Arizona looked at the little girl still clung to her. She knew that with an OR available the little girl would be fine. Arizona knew better, but Callie needed a Doctor. She needed one now! Arizona handed the little the girl to the SWAT team member.

"Take her out. Tell the EMT that she needs an emergency appendectomy."

"You need to leave this building, Ma'am."

Arizona looked at Callie. "She….she is my person. She needs me. Take the child out."

When Arizona realized the man had the girl, she fell to the floor by Callie.

"Callie? Callie!" Callie opened her eyes slowly. Arizona let out a short laugh of relief that Callie was still alive. "Calliope Torres, you listen to me. We are going to get you out of here. Do you hear me?"

Callie looked at Arizona without response. Two more SWAT team members were around her now. They placed the back board beside Callie. As they all turned her on her side, Arizona held her hand and kept pressure applied to the wound. They gently placed her back down on her back. Arizona held her hand and walked beside them down the five flights of stairs.

They were almost to the first floor exit door when Callie lost conciseness. "Callie? Damn it Callie you hold on. I am not losing you for good. This was never supposed to be for good."

As they loaded Callie into the ambulance, her eyes opened for a short time. "Arizona."

Arizona jumped to her side. "I'm here."

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."

"This isn't your fault. He lost control. He was hurting."

"No." Callie interrupted. "No, I am sorry about us. I don't want kids if it means I can't be with you."

"No. No we will have kids. We'll have all kinds of kids. I thought I wasn't cut out to be a mom, but you will be a great mom; an amazing mom. I love you and I can't live without you and our ten kids." With that Callie smiled and closed her eyes. "Callie?"

The EMT spoke, "Her vital signs are still ok. She is just unconscious again. Critical but stable."

Arizona wasn't use to being the patient's family. She was use to being in charge. For now she just wanted to be what Callie needed her to be. Today, right now, Callie needed her to be her girlfriend and not her Doctor. Arizona wasn't use to that, but she would do anything for Callie.

As they brought Callie into the Emergency Room at Seattle Presbyterian, Arizona was still by her side. Mark Sloan elbowed Teddy and pointed to the door causing Lexi to look too. "Is that Robbins? She has blood all over her. Who…..who is that on the gurney?"

Lexi was closer to the hallway causing her to have a straight view of the gurney. "Oh my God, it's Callie."

They all three ran to Arizona. Mark went to the other side of Callie. "Torres."

A young man walked up them. "I am Doctor Davis. We are taking her into surgery."

Mark spoke. "Well Doctor Davis, I am Doctor Sloan and this is my best friend and I am going with you."

"Doctor Sloan with all due respect, I just don't think it is a good idea."

"Didn't figure you would and that is why it wasn't a question." With that Mark walked around to Arizona. "I'll take care of her. Someone told me once that when she was sick she liked her Mom to rub her hair." Mark looked at Lexi. "It made her feel better. When I was hurt, it made me feel better too. I will whisper in her ear how much you love her. I will be there for her."

Arizona agreed. She leaned down and kissed Callie's lips. "You fight, Callie."

Arizona, Teddy and Lexi watched as the wheeled Callie down the hall way.

This can't be how this ends. This can't be where we end. Arizona sat down heavily in the chair. Now she must wait.

The next two hours seemed like an eternity. Mark had already come out twice to tell

Arizona what was happing. It was always, they are doing everything they can or she is stable. All Arizona wanted to hear was that Callie was out and doing well in recovery.

Teddy and Lexi had been taking turns sitting with her. One would sit with Alex or check on Sheppard, the other would sit with Arizona. Arizona was now sitting alone for the first time, when she saw Mark walking her way. Mark motioned for Arizona to stay seated.

Mark sat down beside Arizona. "They are taking her to recovery now. He got all the bleeding to stop. She lost a lot of blood. The bullet hit her lower back just above her right hip. When the bullet hit, it just exploded. They had to repair a lot. He is hopeful she will make a full recovery, but she is going to live."

A tear ran down Arizona's cheek. "Thank you, Mark."

Mark hugged her, "Your welcome. I would do anything for the two of you. You know that, right?"

Arizona nodded. "I know. She really loves you in a guy sorta way." Arizona chuckled.

"Well I love her in a girl sorta way I guess." Mark laughed. "What does that even mean?"

Arizona continued to laugh. It was laughter of relief for both of them. "I don't know."

"Me either."

Half an hour later Callie was taken to a room where Arizona was waiting. Arizona kissed Callie on the cheek and sat in a chair in the corner of the room and waited.

It had been thirty-six hours since they had all arrived. Callie was still unconscious. Arizona was sitting in the corner of her room in a chair that made out to a bed. Arizona wouldn't have known it; she hadn't slept. She was reading the latest Medical Journal to be released. Lexi had brought it in and thought it might help pass the time. Something about an article she remembered reading about peds that she thought Arizona may enjoy. Anything to take her mind off the last two days. She had started with that article, then the first, then the second, until now. She was almost through the entire journal now. One of the last articles was on an otho patient in New York City.

"Hey Callie. Here is one you may enjoy." Arizona pulled a chair against the bed. She placed her elbows on the bed and with one hand she held Callie's and with the other she held the journal. Arizona read the article as if Callie was awake looking at her. She stopped every now and then to make a comment to Callie. She read until she laid her head down against Callie's waist. It was then that Arizona fell asleep.

Arizona was exhausted from the events of the past 2 days. Callie had to be taken back into surgery twelve hours after the first. She began to lose blood and they found the source. Teddy scrubbed in for the second surgery. She wanted to make sure all that could be done was done. It was Teddy that came out and talk to Arizona the second time. It was Teddy that broke the news of Callie new condition.

Arizona wanted so badly for Callie to wake up. To see those beautiful brown eyes, but she also knew that with that would come a dreaded conversation. Arizona wasn't sure how she would ever tell Callie what happened. How the bullet ripped through everything in her lower back and stomach. Teddy tried. There was nothing anyone could do. How was she going to tell Callie that? How could she?