Disclaimaer: I don't own Grey's Anatomy, I just borrowed the name of the characters for entertaining, no intention to violate any copyrights.
A/N: All mistake is on me, sorry about this.
If anyone who follows this story from the beginning and willing to help beta it, please PM me.
"What was that noise? Shut it off!" The blonde murmured into her pillow.
"That is your cell phone. I told you to change the ringtone to a softer one." Callie murmured against the naked back under her.
"Who is that?" Still sleeping on her stomach, Arizona didn't want to move a bit. Maybe her girlfriend who was lying half on top on her would love her enough to answer the phone for her.
"Probably your mother..." Apparently, Callie loved her sleep too.
"No... she knows not to call me in this hour, not my mother." Buried deeper into the pillow, hoped that could block the annoying ringing out of her ears. She really should change to a softer ringtone, she thought to herself.
"Can you answer it already? It's loud." Callie fumbled around blindly, grasped the blonde's arm then swung it toward the nightstand where their cell phones were.
Groaned loudly, Arizona picked up the phone, her eyes opened for a spit second just to click on the phone. "Hello?"
"Hi Arizona... you're still in bed?" The caller asked in surprise.
"Who is it?" Arizona asked after a big yawn.
"This is Charlotte King."
"Hi Charlotte. Why are you calling me so early?" Knowing it shouldn't be anything urgent from family or work, Arizona was getting ready to end the call.
"Arizona Robbins, it's 9am. Most of the people already had a lot of work done." Charlotte snorted on the other side.
"Charlotte, I am on a holiday, with my hot, hot girlfriend." Arizona snickered when the brunette gave her back a smack kiss in agree. "We don't do much in the morning. By morning, I mean before noon. What do you want?"
"I have an incoming, 6 years old boy. Admitted an hour ago with abdominal pain. The morons in here did all kind of tests but couldn't find out what is wrong with the poor boy. I'm wondering if you want to come to take a look of it."
"How was the scan?" She stretched and then sank deeper in the bed, but her mind was totally awake now.
"Normal."
"And the EKG?"
"A bit irregular, but the cardio said it isn't a big deal for a little boy with this level of pain."
"I'm on holiday Charlotte. Besides, I don't have privilege in your hospital." Arizona turned to her back when she felt her girlfriend shifted to get off of her back. Found that Callie got up walking toward the bathroom.
"I am the chief of staff, when I say you have privilege, you have privilege. Come on, the poor boy is crying in pain. His parents are pointing fingers to each other that made him scared even more. The useless morons are useless... Right, I'm talking about you. I was waiting for those lab results for hours. I thought I had to do the lab work myself. Go, do something productive. Sorry about that Arizona. So, come over and meet me in the 3rd floor. Hurry. Oh, say hi to Callie for me. Bye."
Still lying on the bed, Arizona looked at her phone didn't know what just happened. A click from the bathroom, the door opened that revealed Callie coming out with a tooth brush in her hand.
"What are you doing?"
"Preparing to brush my teeth." The brunette held up the tooth brush, smirking.
"Oh well, I can see that."
"Charlotte wants you to go to St. Ambrose, right?" Callie raised her eyebrow, leaned against the bathroom door frame looking at the blonde who was sitting up from the bed slowly.
"How do you know?" Arizona arched her back and stretched herself. Still a bit sore from the activity after they had the heartfelt talked last night.
"Well, it happened more than once that Charlotte paged Addison back to the hospital in the middle of the night just because she wanted to have the best doctor for her patients. I am not surprise that she called you when she knows you are in town."
"Yes. But... I'm on our holiday..." The blonde murmured under her breath, flopped back on her back.
"Can you really ignore a child in need? Charlotte called you, apparently her staffs couldn't find out what's wrong with the patient. She called you because you, Arizona Robbins is awesome." Callie gave her a wink before returned to the bathroom. "Come on, get your butt out of the bed and get ready. I'll drive you to there."
"But I... How about you? I don't know how long it's gonna take, I don't want to leave you alone." Arizona entered the bathroom with a pout. She liked to save life, but it sucked if that meant she had to leave her girlfriend on the last day of their holiday.
"Don't worry. I can spend sometime with Addison, I think she's in the hospital today." Callie smiled to the pouting blonde in the mirror after rinsed the toothpaste, who came close to wrap the arms around her waist from behind, placed a gently kiss on the tanned shoulder.
"I love you. How can you be so perfect?" Arizona loosened the grip when the brunette whirled in her arms. Their lips found each other in an instant.
"Because you make me perfect." Callie smiled in the kiss and then pulled away, too quick for Arizona's liking. "Hurry up, the sooner we got in there, the sooner you finished the consult. Maybe we could still catch a couple hours in the beach." A slap on the blonde's bare hip, she wriggled out of the hold of her girlfriend.
"And hey, Arizona," Callie called out before stepping out of the bathroom, the blonde looked up from the sink, found the reflection of the brunette from the mirror. "I love you too."
Looking back at herself in the mirror, she found herself grinned like a fool. But she didn't mind.
"I still can't believe those morons, how could they miss a ruptured cyst?" Charlotte shook her head behind Arizona, who was wrist deep in an open body.
"You have to give them some credit, Dr. King." Arizona said, without stopping her hands. "They already did everything they could. To be honestly, it was not that easy to diagnose. I wouldn't notice it if I haven't treated this before. So, next time when another patient came in with the similar symptom, your doctors would know how to handle it." Arizona smile to the surgeon standing on the opposite of the table. Even though most of her face was masked, she made sure the smile reached to her eyes so the defeated young doctor could feel the console from her.
"Look at you, all confident now. Remember the time you freaked out when you couldn't draw a central line?" Charlotte snorted lightly.
"It was in the first week of my intern year, give me a break. Not like you didn't screw up a…" A warning cough coming from behind. Arizona bit her lips after caught a glimpse of the eager eyes from the masked faces around her, she repressed the urge to fire back. "Fine, you are the boss in here. But this is not over."
"How about I make you the boss of PEDS in here?" Charlotte leaned over to get a better look of Arizona's handy work. "It will be great to have you in my hospital."
"I am already the boss of PEDS in Seattle Grace, remember?" Finishing the last stitch on the stomach, Arizona handed the instruments to the scrub nurse. "Dr. Wade, would you mind closing it? I have to go. Thank you everyone, it was a great pleasure to work with every one of you."
Arizona walked out of the OR, took off her gloves and gown on the way. Charlotte followed.
"Seriously Arizona, come to St. Ambrose, we can work together like old times. I can get you benefits that other hospital couldn't offer. Think about..." Charlotte leaned against the sink, watching Arizona scrubbed out.
"Thanks for asking, Charlotte. I'm flattered. Super flattered. But I have a job in Seattle, I'm already a chief of PEDS, and I just got a new project. I told you about the clinic, right? I really have no intention to leave Seattle for the moment." Cut off the water, Arizona took the offered towel from her former resident.
"Well, I know. Can't blame me for trying." Charlotte sighed. "Maybe I just missed our time together. We were a great team, weren't we?"
"Yea, except in my intern year. Remember you made me did angioplasty for a whole week? I couldn't eat cheese burger for a month." The blonde scrunched her face while the two of them walked out of the scrub room side by side.
"My resident gave me the same treatment in my intern year. She said that was the best way to learn to respect a patient. Didn't you learn from it?" She nudged Arizona on the shoulder slightly. Both giggled with the memory.
"So, what do you say? Come to LA so we can work together again?" Charlotte tried again. It made Arizona shook her head with a soft chuckle.
"Charlotte, I really can't. And you have to stop tricking me to the memory lane. I agreed to come in for a consult but you dragged me into the OR for... almost 3 hours." She pulled out her mobile from the borrowed lab coat to check the time, and the missed messages. "I had to send Callie away so she won't get bored waiting for me. Now if you excuse me, I have to go find my girlfriend so we can spend the rest of the day together."
"Since when does Arizona Freaking Robbins being so whipped?" Charlotte raised her brow, a smirk in the corner of her lips.
"Oh shut up." Arizona slapped the shoulder of the chief of staff of St. Ambrose hospital after they stepped in the elevator. Luckily there was no one around. "I'm not whipped."
"Yea yea. You are so whipped." Charlotte nudged her friend again. "None of those nurses in Hopkins could rope you. Now, look at you. Can't even leave Callie for 2 hours."
"3 hours!" She protested. "I don't know, maybe because I'm getting old, I think it's time to settle down. I want to settle down."
"Is she the one?" A proud smile on Charlotte face.
Couldn't hide a heartful smile, she nodded. "I mean, for me she is. I hope she felt the same."
Looking at the forgotten mobile in hand, Arizona quickly checked the messages sent by her girlfriend. "Ok, thanks to you Charlotte, I missed my lunch date with my girlfriend. And now she is lying by the swimming pool without me."
"Great! Then you don't have to hurry back there, right? I am sure I have another PEDS case that you can scrub in in the afternoon, if you want..." Exiting the elevator, Charlotte linked her arm with Arizona's, about to drag her toward the OR floor again, but Arizona loosened the lock and stepped backward, laughing.
"No, Charlotte. Stopped trying to make me stay." Gestured her thumb to the locker room. "I really have to go."
Sighed dramatically, Charlotte held out her hand to her former intern. "Well, Arizona Robbins, it's nice to see you again and it's great to see you work today."
Knowing Charlotte long enough, who was never a hugger, Arizona shook the hand and gave it a firm squeeze. "Keep in touch, ok? Come visit me in Seattle?"
"Sure. And if you ever want to change location..." The chief of staff in St. Ambrose narrowed her eyes to Arizona.
"You'll be the first one I call." Arizona gave her a dimpled smile, then turned to the locker room.
After changed back to her own clothes, got in a taxi back to the hotel, she pulled out the phone about to call Callie telling her that she was on the way back. But, she changed her mind, she called someone else instead.
"This is Chief Webber." The man answered the phone after a ring.
"Hi Chief. This is Robbins."
"Oh hi Dr. Robbins. How are you? How is LA? Don't tell me you're calling to extend your holiday. You know your clinic is about to open. And the PEDS ward is chaotic without you. I don't think Dr. Karev couldn't handle it." Webber spoke with the usual seriousness in him. Arizona's authority issues kicked in, she explained stammeringly.
"No, no Chief. I'll arrive tomorrow late afternoon as scheduled, don't worry." She took a deep breath to collect herself, then continued. "I'm calling just... have a personal favor to ask you. If I may, Chief."
"I'm listening."
"You know, Miss Callie Torres, the woman who was with me that evening..."
"Yes?"
"She was supposed to graduate in Millier about 5 or 6 years ago, but for some reasons she had to leave Miami early. She didn't even know if she had passed the examination." The PEDS surgeon was racking her brain, trying to find a way to ask the favor she wanted from the chief…
"You want me to check about it?"
"Yes sir." Arizona chuckled on the phone. Webber was a smart man, and straight forward. "We were talking about the possibility of her finishing Med school and everything else. Is it possible, sir, can you get some information for her too?"
"I'll have Patricia to look into that for you. But no promise." Webber answered.
"I understand that, Chief. Thank you."
"Good. So, I'll see you after tomorrow. Don't be late, I don't think they can't handle another day without their boss." With that, Webber ended the phone.
Arizona held the mobile in hand and gazed out from the window of the taxi. Seeing Charlotte again brought back the good memories in the beginning of being a doctor, the joy, the thrill, the excitement.
It was a shamed that Callie didn't get to experience all this. She went through Med school, she was just a step away from being a doctor, something she wanted to be at that time. It was never too late. Never. Webber could help, especially after she got such a big amount of donation for the hospital, Webber had no reason to deny her... right?
Maybe she was a little bit ahead of it, but the idea of Callie going back to Med school, eventually started her internship and residency to go through all this, brought a smile on her face.
Callie was wearing an oversize T-shirt under her red bikini, lying on the lounge chair by the hotel swimming pool for over an hour, by herself. She didn't complain because she knew saving lives was Arizona's calling. Therefore, after received a quick kiss from the blonde telling her that Charlotte 'bullied' her to help with the surgery, Callie said goodbye to Addison. She decided to have some alone time under the sun, with a fruity drink, and a good book.
She was about to drift off to sleep. Put down the book on the small table next to the chair, she stretched her arms and let out a yawn. Suddenly, a voice she hadn't heard for years came to her ear.
"Calliope?"
Her eyes snapped opened. Turned her head slightly, she stared at the man who was standing few feet away from her. She sat up slowly, really slowly because she needed the time to think. What was she supposed to react to the father she haven't seen for 6, or 7 years?
A/N 2: I didn't plan to leave this cliffhanger, I am so sorry. But this chapter was getting too long, double of my usual length and not even finish yet, so I had to cut it in half. The next chapter will be posted within few days, promise.