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Chapter 26

"So what time will your father get here?" Arizona asked when she sat on the stool at the breakfast bar, just freshly showered. Her girlfriend greeted her with a smile before handing her a cup of coffee.

"I honestly have no idea. I know he has a meeting first thing in morning and after that he should be on his plane coming here. So he could arrive anytime." Callie turned around to the stove, flipping the pancakes on the plate. "Sunny side up or scrambled?"

"Just pancakes are fine." Arizona sipped her coffee. "Your father has his own private plane?"

"Time share, I guess." Callie shrugged. "I know it was a time share the last time I used it."

"How rich is he?" The blonde took the offered plate, and grinned when she found the pancakes were in the shape of bunny. "Oh, they're bunnies!"

Callie walked around the breakfast bar with her plate in hand, and placed a kiss on the blonde's head before sitting down on the other stool.

"I know you like bunny shaped pancakes. Are you sure you don't want any eggs? I can make you something else?" The brunette asked before moving to get up again, but a fair hand landed on her lap to stop her.

"The pancakes are fine. I'm not feeling that great, my stomach may not be able to handle the eggs." Arizona gave the thigh a squeeze, and then took the hand back to hold the cutlery for her breakfast.

"Are you ok? Do you have a cold?" Callie asked with concern, reaching a hand to feel her blonde girlfriend's forehead. "I should have shut the window before we fell asleep, I'm sorry babe."

"No I don't have a cold, don't worry about it." Arizona chuckled slightly. "My stomach's just feeling funny. I think it's because of the stress."

It's been 5 days since the clinic opened, and the peds surgeon has been swamped since then. Not that she was busy working there. No, she hasn't spent a single second in the clinic yet. She's been having surgery after surgery and she had meetings with the short gut syndrome research team. After all, the Andersons didn't just fund them the money for the clinic, they also funded them the money to research the cure for this syndrome. Arizona wasn't a part of the team, but as an excellent peds surgeon with rich experience of dealing with it, she couldn't say no when the team asked her to attend their meetings.

To top it all of with the regular head of peds department duty, Dr. Robbins had absolutely no time to go over to the clinic, or spend time with her very hot girlfriend. The two had finally got a night to spend together last night.

"Oh babe, I should've let you go to sleep early last night." Callie held out a hand to stroke her girlfriend's back, trying to offer some sort of comfort. "How did the meetings with the research team go?"

"Good, good on my part. They'll be flying to Hopkins next week to talk to another peds surgeon for more information." Arizona said before shoving a fork full of pancakes in her mouth. "No more meetings and slide shows about bowels for me."

The brunette grimaced with the mention of bowels, which made the blonde chuckle.

"I'm sorry. I think as a doctor, we're so used to talking about organs, even when we're eating."

"It's fine." Callie said waving her fork. "Just don't get mad at me again when you find booze in my house, I'm a bartender after all."

"I got mad because I found the bottle in your bed, Callie." The doctor slapped the woman's shoulder playfully, and she dramatically yelped in pain.

They laughed together, and then continued their breakfast in a comfortable silence.

"Hey, speaking of… being a doctor," Arizona said after she finished the pancake, took a sip of coffee and continued. "Have you thought about Webber's offer? I mean, taking the test again?"

Pursing her full lips in response, Callie concentrated on scooping the remaining scrambled eggs on her fork and took her sweet time putting it in her mouth. The peds surgeon raised an eyebrow, but knew better not to push it yet. She stood up from her seat, rounded the breakfast bar and put the dirty plate in the sink.

"What do you think?" Callie asked after finally finished her breakfast, uncertainty lingering in her voice.

"Well, you already know what I think." Arizona stretched out a hand to the brunette, who handing over the used plate and silverware. "I told you, it's a waste not to finish what you started. Your grades have proved that you are excellent. You will be an awesome doctor."

"Of course you would say that." Callie twisted the corner of her lips, gave her girl a mischievous smile before sipping her coffee. "You just want to have a doctor girlfriend."

"Well, if that's the reason, I would have dated a fellow attending, not a med school dropout." Arizona stuck out her tongue toward the smirking woman to give her a grimace, and then went back to her cleaning duties.

"I talked to Mark, asking for his opinion." Callie said, still clutching her cup of coffee in hand.

"And?" Without stopping her hand in cleaning the frying pan, the blonde asked casually. She knew the answer. Mark stormed in her surgery 2 days ago all excited, and couldn't stop talking about how much fun it is going to be when Callie started her internship in the hospital. That he could order Callie to get him coffee and dry cleaning and run for labs and... She couldn't help to smirk with the pictures in her head.

"You can imagine. He voted taking the test again." Callie sighed. "Addie did too."

"Oh, you asked Addison too." The blonde lifted her head briefly to glance at her girlfriend liked she was in surprise. But the truth was Addison ringed her with enthusiasm after received the call from her best friend, who asked the opinion about starting over again. Addison made it clear to Arizona that she has to do everything in her power to make sure Callie is going to take the test, pass it, and start to work in the hospital.

"Yea, I did." The brunette shrugged, picked up her coffee mug and walked toward the machine to get a refill. "But I am not surprised you all think it's a good idea. You're all doctors; of course you want me to be a doctor too."

"That's not the reason. I mean, we know how hard it is to be a doctor, and we all have faith in you." Arizona put the pan away, wiping her hands with a towel. "Do you know Bailey flipped because her boyfriend wanted to be a surgeon? He was an anesthetist."

"I don't know. I'm still not convinced." The Latina sighed. Leaned forward to prop herself up by the elbow against the breakfast bar, and smiled when Arizona stepped closer to place a gentle kiss on her lips.

"Don't worry. I love you whether you're a bartender or a doctor. Take all the time you need to think it through." After one more kiss, the doctor strode to the living room to pick up her handbag, getting ready to work. "I'll have an easy day today. A surgery in the morning, and then I'm going to spend the afternoon in the clinic. You call me when you have an approximate time for your father?"

"Sure." Callie followed her lover to the living room and asked. "You'll be in the clinic today? Is it the first time since the opening?"

"Yeah, it is." After putting her cell and laptop in her bag, Arizona stood up and faced her girlfriend fully. "Don't worry, Bailey told me George is good at his job, he seems professional. So, I don't think he'll murder me in there."

Arizona was talking in her teasing voice in order to soften the furrow between her girlfriend's brows, but Callie wasn't impressed.

"Seriously, we'll be in the hospital. If, IF anything happens, they can carry me to the ER in no time. I can even skate across…" The blonde wasn't able to finish her joke because she was muted by a tan hand covered her mouth so roughly. Stepping back to evade from the hand, Arizona grasped it and placed a soft kiss on the knuckle. "I'll be careful, ok?"

"You better." Callie pouted. "Otherwise, I'll skin George's skinny ass and have Mark stitch it up with his eyes closed."

The surgery in the morning went very well. It even finished earlier than she expected. After finishing some paper work, it was time to meet her colleagues in the cafeteria for lunch.

Before she approached her friends with a tray in hands, she could feel the eager eyes from Mark already.

"So? Has she decided yet?" Mark asked as soon as the blonde got closer. She just rolled her eyes and put her tray down next to Teddy.

"No Mark, not yet."

"What are you two talking about?" Teddy asked.

"Callie." The plastic surgeon and the peds surgeon said in unison.

"Oh yeah? What? She hasn't decided yet? If I were her, I would throw myself in the books right now." The tall blonde raised her eyebrows and looked between the other two doctors. Mark nodded in agreement.

"Well, she has concerns. I can't intervene too much, you know." Arizona said as she put a baby carrot in her mouth.

"I don't know what she's thinking, she has Webber's word, and our blessing…" Mark kept talking even though his mouth was filled with apples. Both women scrunched their faces to him.

"Keep your mouth shut, Sloan. She has to make this decision herself." Arizona said coldly. "We still have time. The test is in three months. If she really going to do it, with the help from all of us? It'll be a piece of cake."

"That's true." The man nodded again.

"Wow!" Teddy exclaimed suddenly. "Callie is friends with all of us, I mean… Me in cardio, Arizona in peds, Mark in plastic, Bailey in general, Owen in trauma, Shepherd in neuro… We are like…extraordinarily good in our field. If we all mentor her, we are going to create a super surgeon."

Mark and Arizona stopped short in the middle of their chewing, wide eyed staring at each other, and then to Teddy. When their gaze met again, both blurted out in a roar of laughter.

"Come on, Teddy. You have to stop reading those superhero comic books." Arizona tried very hard to catch her breath. Then brought a hand to wipe the tears away from the corner of her eyes. "Oh god. I can't wait to see you make Callie a wonder woman scrub."

"Hey, there has nothing wrong with enjoying comic books, and don't even tell me you don't want to see your girlfriend in a wonder woman costume." The cardio surgeon slapped her friend on the arm, and then turned to slap the other companion on the head, "I can see your dirty mind, Mark Sloan."

The loud laugh produced by the three good friends brought the attention from everyone in the cafeteria; they all smiled to their antic, but couldn't stop the grins from forming.

"What are you all talking about?" A deep voice came close to the table. It was Owen with his tray of lunch in hand.

"Callie." "Wonder woman." "Slutty costumes." The trio answered with different answers. The poor man never looked more confusion than now. "Okay…"

"We were just saying if Callie decided to take the test again, she's going to need all the help we can offer. I mean, we have to help her study." The peds surgeon said after she took a sip of her soda. Her voice was hoarse from laughing so hard.

"Sure, that's no problem. Count me in." Owen shrugged.

"This isn't mandatory. You don't have to do it if you don't have time, or you don't want to." Mark looked at his fellow surgeon with a lopsided smile. "You don't have to do it because she saw your junk."

"Mark!" Arizona slapped the dirty man's head. Teddy ducked her head to hide a smirk, and the army surgeon's face turned beat red.

"I… I… am happy to help, not because of… what… that…" The man was so embarrassing that couldn't even form a coherent sentence. Arizona patted his back to sooth him.

"Don't worry, I know. Thanks Owen."

"It's no problem, really." The trauma surgeon smiled after the warmth on his face subsided. "Callie gave Cristina a hand when she needed a place to stay. Of course I won't turn my back on her when she needs me."

"Yeah, speaking of Cristina, what's the matter with her?" Teddy asked before she took a bite of her sandwich.

"What do you mean?" Owen asked.

"She was cheerful this morning. It kind of scared me." The tall blonde made a wry face, and then turned around to gaze over to the other side of the cafeteria. Making the shorter blonde turn and follow her gaze, she found that the person they were talking about was on a table with her friends, actually laughing over some conversations over there.

"Wow, she's really cheerful." Arizona laughed. She redirected attention to Owen. "She wasn't at Callie's last night. She was at yours?"

He nodded and smiled sheepishly, earning another pat of the back from the peds surgeon.

"So, you and Yang are getting back together?" Mark asked, looking at his colleague with amazement.

"I think we are heading in that direction." Owen Hunt smiled, stared at his separated wife with sparkle in his eyes.

2 hours after the lunch with her close colleagues, Arizona found herself humming into the clinic because she was so happy. The clinic was not busy considering it opened for just less than a week, and many people weren't aware of it yet. But being able to help those few tiny humans whose families weren't worthy enough, or cared enough to offer their children proper heath care, brought the full force dimpled smile on her face.

They haven't hired the in-house physician yet. Much to hers and Bailey's surprise, the chief suggested them to use the residents and interns from the hospital for now. After all, SGMW was a teaching hospital, working in a clinic could be a good chance for those young doctors to learn to deal with patients, and improve their bedside manner.

Since Alex was still on her service, Alex and his team of interns were doing the clinic work with her in there. The interns weren't too pleased about taking temperatures or teaching little girls about their bodies. But hey, what else they could say when their attending and resident were there too?

"Dr. Robbins," George walked up to the peds attending, who was currently standing next to the registration desk writing a prescription. "There's a kid, Kyle Baker, waiting in bed 2. His father brought him in because of a lump on his neck."

"Oh, I thought Dr. Karev had already checked on him." Arizona looked over her shoulder and found Alex chatting with the parents of a baby girl in bed 5, examining her leg in the meantime.

"Yes, Dr. Karev did check on Kyle, he thinks it's a benign cyst and is not going to do further test." George turned a little to make sure his back was on Alex. "I saw a similar symptom on a patient before, it could be something more serious than a cyst."

"Ok, I'll be right there in a sec." The blonde frowned, quickly finishing what she was writing, tore the prescription from her pad and handed it to the nurse. "Can you give this to bed 4, Candice's parents? And give them a box of vitamin B supplement too."

"Right away, Dr. Robbins." George answered with a smile, and then walked toward bed 4 for his duty. And the doctor strode to bed 2 to meet the Bakers.

"Hi Mr. Baker, I'm Dr. Robbins." Arizona flashed her dimpled smile to the man standing next to the bed, and the timid boy who was sitting on the edge of the bed, grasping his father's trouser leg tightly. "And you must be Kyle."

The boy didn't answer, just ducked his head lower. His father answered for him.

"Dr. Robbins, we were here in the hospital for my wife. She's a patient of Dr. Shepherd. Dr. Grey saw the lump on Kyle's neck, and told us that you have a clinic for children, she suggested us to come here to check on that lump."

"That's right, we just opened." Arizona pulled a rolling chair from the end of the bed, sat next to Kyle. She wore her smile all the way.

"There was another doctor; Dr. Karev that already checked on Kyle, he said we have nothing to worry about." Even though he was told not to worry, another doctor came over, especially the doctor in navy blue scrubs, and it stirred his nerve.

"Oh, there's nothing to worry about. But since you're here, we could do some more tests to ensure everything's ok, alright?" Arizona looked up to talk to the man, pulling her smile wider to try and sooth the nervousness from the man. As a kids doctor, she knew very well that nervous parents may affect their child. Kyle's grasp was getting tighter, so tight that it turned his knuckles white.

"But… is it really free?" Mr. Baker asked in a small voice. "Our insurance has maxed out because of my wife's issue, I can't afford…"

"This is a free clinic, Mr. Baker, no need to worry about that." Arizona gave the man a nod. She could see a relief from his face. Then, she turned to the boy. "Ok Kyle, can I have a look at the little lump?"

Kyle looked at his father, who caressed his head for encouragement. He raised his head to reveal a lump the size of a cherry on the side of his neck. The blonde surgeon frowned slightly, but quickly replaced it by a small smile in order not to scare the father and son. She touched it gently and asked some questions. Finally she stood up and ensured Mr. Baker there has nothing to worry about, but she was going to send someone to take Kyle for a scan – just to make sure everything was alright.

As soon as she approached the registration, Alex strode toward her.

"Why were you on bed 2? I had checked on that neck lump kid, it's just a cyst." The resident stood next to his mentor with hands on his hips. He wasn't angry, it just was his attitude.

"How many times have I told you not to nickname the patients? Remember their names." Arizona frowned and shook her head to her student while writing the chart. "Send an intern to take Kyle for a scan."

"Who?" Alex raised his eyebrows in confused.

"Kyle, the neck lump kid." She closed the chart, turned to face the man and mimicked his post, with a hand on her hip.

"Why?"

"Because I said so." The attending tilted her head to the side, looked at her student with narrow eyes. "Since when did you question my authority?"

"Did that O'Malley dude say something to you? He was nagging about an old case he had in NYU, like he knows better…" Alex murmured, cast a glare behind Arizona, where the nurse was standing, preparing a flu shot on a patient.

"Yes, he told me something about that." Arizona answered. She reached a hand in her lab coat pocket after a beep from her cell phone, seeing she had an incoming message. "He has a point. And it won't hurt to do some more checking, to rule out the possibility."

"Right… but that makes it looks like we listen to that dude, do what he says. We should give him hell, not follow his order." Still murmuring, but Alex lowered his voice to whisper to his mentor.

"Who told you to do that?" Arizona was about to read the text, her head shot up to glance at the resident in wide-eyes.

"Sloan." Alex shrugged. "We have to make the creep leave. Yang and Avery failed when they were here, it's my turn today."

"Don't." Arizona held up a finger in front of the man. "You're putting personal issues over the benefit of the patients. That's unethical. And it's not your personal issue, so don't."

"But…"

"Send an intern to take Kyle to have a scan. Say more, and you're gonna be the one to do it." The blonde gave Alex a hard glare, then turned her attention on the cellphone in hand, indicated that the talk was over. He rolled his eyes and dropped his shoulders. He wanted to keep on protesting but he knew his attending well enough and he had better do what she ordered.

"Mostow! Take the kid in bed 2 for a scan." He yelled at a sheepish looking intern, who was running around with a stack of medical supplies in his arms.

A smile came on Arizona's face because she made Alex walk away in defeat, and there was a message came from Callie. She rounded the desk and settled herself in before hitting the speed dial for her girlfriend.

"Hey baby, miss me?" She asked as soon as the call connected. A belly laugh came from the other end of the phone.

"Of course I miss you, it's not a question." Callie answered. "You're not busy? You answered pretty quickly."

"Nah, working in the clinic with Alex and a whole bunch of interns, they're doing the heavy lifting." The doctor said casually. An unknown intern stopped short when he came close to the registration desk and heard the comment from their beloved perky attending. Arizona gave him an apologetic smile, and then leaned back to continue her call. "So, when is your father gonna be here?"

"Sometime around 6, he has a driver waiting at the airport, so I don't have to go and pick him up." Callie said nonchalantly. But the truth was, she was planning to pick up her old man and spend the ride showing him around.

"Why? I thought he wanted to spend more time with you." And, of course Arizona knew it.

"That's just him. He prefers services from service providers, not friends or family." The brunette said while pouring beer for her customers. "He's going to stay at the Archfield."

"Even though you have a spare bedroom?" The blonde frowned. In the meantime she picked up some charts that were lying on the desk top waiting to be signed.

"I don't know why I even bothered to clean up the apartment." Still balancing the phone between her ear and shoulder, Callie placed the beer in front of a customer, and then retreated to the side of the bar to wipe some glasses off. "Anyway, he'll be here around 6, and then we'll have a drink. I made the reservation at 7. When are you coming over?"

"My shift is over at 5; just give me some time to make myself presentable. I'll definitely be there before your father gets there." Still reading the chart on the desk, Arizona didn't realize someone just approached her until she heard a knock on the desk top.

"Dr. Robbins I'm sorry to interrupt, but Kyle is having trouble breathing." George said with concern in his eyes.

"Cal, I have to go. Talk to you later." Arizona shot up from the chair when she looked over to the bed and found Kyle sitting up on the bed, obviously short of breath, with face as white as a paper.

"OK, love you…" Callie heard the click before she could finish her sentence.