Disclaimer: 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 : Hi again. My lovely beta calzonaforever35 is on fire! She'd finished the new chapter even before I started the next one. You're the best, girlie!

I haven't decided to make Erica a regular bitch or a super bitch yet, but having Arizona punch her in the face would be fun, I'll see what I can do ;-)

Chapter 44

"I need someone to monitor the patient tonight." Erica said after closing up the patient.

Dr. Hahn's first surgery in this hospital didn't go smoothly. The guy coded 3 times on the table and barely survived the surgery. By the time they got the patient stabilized it was already passed 9pm. None of the surgical team dared to make a peep under the lead surgeon's frozen cold eyes. Without another word, Erica left the OR to scrub out.

"Do you think he's gonna make it?" Callie asked in a small voice, following Cristina to scrub out.

"The next 6 hours is crucial, that's why we need someone to monitor him." The Asian picked up two bars of soap, handing one to her intern. "I am going to stay here tonight."

"Dr. Yang." Erica said, without lifting her head to look at the other two doctors standing next to her. "This is a teaching hospital. Don't you think you should let your intern monitor the patient, to get some experience?"

"Um... Dr. Hahn, I just think... um... the patient is pretty unstable, maybe it's better to have someone that has more experience to..." Cristina stuttered out. Night watching wasn't fun, she volunteered just trying to get to the good side of the new attending, but the glare from the woman told her it was not working, and better not to go against her. "Right, Dr. Torres, you stay to keep an eye on the patient tonight."

Without a second glance, Erica walked out of the room with her nose pointing to the ceiling.

"Jeez, what is it about her?" Cristina murmured under her breath, and went on to rinse her hands. "So, is it ok for you to stay the night? I know you have plans with Arizona."

"Oh that's fine, we were just going to stay in. And Arizona is a surgeon, she'd understand." Callie shrugged her shoulder. "Dr. Hahn is right, I do need the experience."

"I just hope Teddy is coming back soon." The resident puffed as she took a towel to dry her hands. "It going to be a long 4 months."

"Yes, it is." Callie sighed deeply, and ran her hair with both hands after throwing the towel in the hamper.

After settling the patient in the room, Callie sat in the corner and pulled out her phone to call Arizona. The angelic voice came from the other side.

"Hey, I heard the surgery went long. Are you coming home now? The pizza is getting cold." Arizona said with a soft voice, but she got a heavy sigh in return.

"The patient is unstable. I need to stay to monitor him over night."

"Oh."

"Yeah, he coded 3 times in the OR." Callie rubbed her eye with the pad of her palm. She needed to tell Arizona about Erica, but she didn't know if this should be revealed over the phone.

"How is the new cardio attending? She seemed arrogant." The blonde just met the new colleague briefly in the scrub room, already finding herself not a fan with that rude attitude.

"Well..." The brunette took a deep breath, and gazed up at the ceiling not knowing what to say. "She's ok."

"Did she run a tough OR? Heart surgeons are know-it-all. The most ambitious, most driven. They think they're working in the most hardcore specialty." Arizona balanced the phone between her neck and her cheek, putting the leftover pizza in the fridge since Callie wasn't coming home for dinner. "Teddy is the most easy going cardio surgeon I've ever met. Maybe it has something to do with working in the army."

"Have you talked to Teddy today? She got there ok?" Callie asked immediately, happy to divert the conversation to somewhere else.

"She called me in the airport few hours ago. She was in the base most of today finishing some paper work first." Arizona poured herself a glass of wine before sitting down on the couch. "Callie, there's something I have to tell you. I was hoping to talk you face to face after you came home."

"What's that?" Callie frowned. She shifted in the uncomfortable plastic chair, she didn't like the tone of it.

"George O'Malley went to Baghdad with Teddy." Arizona said after took a sip of her wine. She needed to calm herself down before telling the woman that her ex-husband had left to the war.

"What?" Callie shot up from the chair and exclaimed. She couldn't believe her ears.

"He overheard the conversation between Owen and Teddy, and decided to join the army to help the guys over there. Teddy just knew it when she saw O'Malley reporting to the base this morning." The blonde said slowly. She didn't know how Callie was going to take it, but she needed to clear the air that her best friend didn't drag the male nurse with her.

"He's gonna get himself killed over there!" Callie had to lower her voice when someone poked the head into the room from the shouting. She gave the nurse an apologetic smile before walking out of the patient's room. "George is a nurse, not a surgeon, and he has never worked in a stressful environment like... a war."

"Have some faith. Owen said O'Malley is capable. He shows tremendous potential in trauma surgery when they worked together. I think he's gonna surprise us all." Even through Arizona wasn't happy that Teddy had to go back, the army brat nature inside told her that this was an incredibly honorable act, and she had a new found respect for the man who took advantage of a distressed woman years ago.

"George... sweet, kind George who can't even kill a fly is joining the army to go to Baghdad, in the middle of a war!" Callie huffed against the nurse station. Already disturbed by having her ex-girlfriend showing up in the hospital, knowing her ex-husband might get himself killed was the icing on the cake.

"Callie, he's gone already." Arizona leaned forward to rest her elbows on her knees. The phone was in one hand and the other rubbing her face trying to find words to console her girlfriend. "He's gonna be working in a hospital, not the battlefield. He's gonna be safe."

"You don't know that." The Latina snapped, making the few night nurses stare at her with wide eyes but she just ignored them. "You got upset with Teddy for going because you know it's not safe over there! Don't tell me he will be safe!"

"Callie, I just..." Arizona sighed frustratingly. She knew she shouldn't have broken the news over the phone, but it wasn't her fault that Callie couldn't come home to hear that in person tonight.

Before she could say more, she heard commotion on the other side of the phone.

"I have to go, Arizona." The machine in Mr. Lennon's room was beeping like crazy, Callie ended the call on the way running into the patient's room, not even bothering to say goodbye to her girlfriend.

Arizona threw the phone on the couch with a groan. She knew Callie was upset about George going to war not because she had feelings for the man, and she knew Callie had to hang up on her because a patient was in need. It still left an ill feeling in her stomach and that lead to a restless night of sleep, alone in bed.

That's why she had barely made it on time to arrive in the hospital the next morning. She didn't have time to check on her girlfriend before running to the attending's meeting.

Arriving in the conference room, she found most of her peers were already there. Mark nodded his head to the empty chair next to him, signaling that a seat had been saved for her.

"Extra large cup of coffee," the plastic surgeon poked the coffee cup that Arizona placed on the table before she sat down. "Couldn't sleep after the fight with Callie last night?"

"How did you know about that?" Arizona stared at Mark with wide eyes.

"I bumped into her in the pit. She looked at terrible as you." Mark snorted. "She felt bad about snapping at you, and she said you ignored her calls this morning."

"I overslept, I didn't hear the phone ring in the living room." Arizona couldn't hide her smile. She left the apartment in a hurry and didn't even notice she had missed calls before shoving the phone in her purse. "So she's not mad at me?"

"Over O'Malley? Nah." The man shrugged, taking a gulp of his own coffee. "But she said there's something important she needs to talk to you though."

"Okay, I'll go find her after the meeting." Arizona picked up her cup as well. The two good friends were chatting in their own bubble, not realizing that someone across the table was staring at them intensely.

The meeting started as soon as the chief arrived. After a round of regular matters, Webber turned the attention to the new additional in the room.

"You all know Dr. Altman took a few months off from the hospital to join the army. While she's away in Baghdad, we're pleased to have Dr. Hahn filling the position." The boss nodded to Erica, who scanned the room with a tight smile. "Some of you might have run into her yesterday already."

"Welcome, Dr. Hahn." Derek said for the rest of the doctors in the room. "I saw that you had your first surgery already."

"Right. I'm impressed by the equipment here." The new cardio answered coldly. Mentioning her almost failed first surgery in this hospital didn't do any good to her ego.

"Well, I'm sure we're more equipped than Seattle Presbyterian." Mark laughed out with a wink to the tall blonde. It meant to be his usual flirtation, but he didn't know the new comer just found it irritating. "And you have met Cristina Yang? The most promising resident in the hospital?"

"Yeah, I have worked with her." Erica pursed her lips. "She's ok."

"She's ok?" Bailey couldn't help to raise her eyebrows and her voice. Cristina was her pride student, the way the arrogant cardio surgeon talked about her resident kinda provoked her nerve. "She's more than just ok."

"I'm sure based on your standard, Cristina Yang is excellent. And I'm sure most of the residents and interns in here could become an amazing surgeon, if they put their focus in the right place." Erica folded her arms against her chest, and leaded back on the chair staring back at the general surgeon.

"What do you mean?" Webber asked.

"I'm here for just one day, and I've already learnt that the attendings are involved with the residents and interns, most of them. I don't think this is a healthy working environment." Erica shrugged her shoulder with a sneer.

"What?" The comment startled the doctors in the room, mainly the ones who had their other half working around them.

"I'm just saying, the students should be concentrated on learning, and the teachers should focus on teaching, and saving lives." The new cardio surgeon looked between Bailey and Owen, finally her killing gaze stayed on Arizona and Mark. "The first thing I heard about Cristina Yang after I arrived, was she is the wife of Dr. Hunt the head of trauma department, not how a solid surgeon she is. I observed Dr. Bailey's surgery in the gallery, all she was concerned with was talking to the anesthesiologist about their dinner plan. Not to mention the dirty laundry about the doctors sleeping around with the nurses on a daily basis."

"Hey, what I talked about with my boyfriend is none of your business! And it was an easy procedure. I'll put my 100% concentration on the patient if there had been any complication." The infuriated Dr. Bailey glared at the new colleague with her stone cold face. She had been in this hospital for years, and everyone knew she always put the patient care first. Not even the chief dared to call it out on her like this.

"By the time you realize a patient is bleeding out while you were nagging about different restaurants, it will be too late."

Ice cold blue eyes stared back at burning brown. The rest of the doctors just glanced between the two without a sound. The chief stepped up before the situation got overheated.

"What are you saying, Dr. Hahn?"

"I think the relationships between seniors and subordinates should be restricted. There should be no romantic relationships between co-workers within the four walls of the hospital."

"This is crazy. My wife works here." Derek threw his hand in the air, and looked at the chief with a stunned face.

"So? I should break up with my girlfriend because she's a resident?" Mark chipped in, echoing his friend.

"What you do with your women is your personal issue, and that shouldn't be brought into the work place." Erica squinted at the doctors with her head tilted up high. "Don't you think the other residents feel bummed out after you picked your wife or girlfriend to scrub in a surgery, not because of their capability but the favoritism? I wonder why there hasn't been a sexual harassment complaint filed yet."

"This is absurd!" "I don't favorite anyone because of that!" The men exclaimed in the same time. Everyone in the room was about to throw in their opinion, but the chief stopped them.

"People, people!" Webber stood up from the chair with his chiefy stare. "Dr. Hahn is right."

"Chief!" Derek protested again, but Webber held up his hand to stop the neuro surgeon from continuing.

"Personal relationships and personal favorites should not be a factor in the training program. I'll think about it. Until I make a discussion, keep the interaction with your residents professional."

The meeting finished unpleasantly. Erica was the first to stand up to leave the room since she had no intention of socializing with the rest of the people in this hospital. Before she passed through the door, she looked back and found Arizona leaning forward deep in a conversation with the plastic surgeon. In her eyes, the distance between the two was a little closer than a pair of innocent co-workers should be.

"That woman is crazy. She's here one day and she's already questioning the hospital? Wanting to make some changes around here? Who does she think she is?" Mark was still rumbling about Erica all the way down the hall with Arizona by his side. The blonde listened quietly.

"She has a point though. You did favor Lexie since you two got together. You picked her to do the facial transplant on blow hole."

"Like you didn't do the same for Callie." Mark glanced at his friend before the two stepped in the elevator.

"Actually, no. We keep our relationship professional in the hospital. She hasn't been in any of my surgeries yet." Arizona pressed the button to her floor, and looked back at the man guiltlessly.

"Not even once?" Mark narrowed his eyes, trying to recall the time his two best friends were in a surgery together.

"We were in the OR together once, but she wasn't on my service. I was working on the abdomen and she was working with Chang on the arm."

"Well, I'm telling you. If the chief is really going to come up with a stupid non- fraternization policy, we are all gonna be affected." Mark rolled his eyes dramatically, the blonde just smirked.

"Don't be ridiculous. The chief is a reasonable man. He knows how absurd it is."

"Easy for you to say, Callie is tough and you're the board's golden child who brought donations to the hospital." The man leaned against the back of the elevator, scrunching his nose with displeasure. "Lexie is gonna freak out. She dumped me once and will dump me again for that."

"Everything's gonna be alright." Arizona patted the plastic surgeon's shoulder before got out of the elevator. "The hospital is our dating pool. There's no way the place is gonna turn upside down for just one woman."

Arizona settled in her office. She planned to finish some paper work in the morning before her busy surgical schedule started. That's why she paged her girlfriend to meet her here. 20 minutes after she sent out the page, a knock on the door and a brunette poked her head in timidly.

"Hey." Callie called out softly. She wasn't sure if her girlfriend was mad at her or not. As she said to Mark, Arizona didn't answer her calls this morning.

But her doubt was gone as soon as the dimpled smile displayed in front of her. Arizona rose up from her chair and strode toward the intern for a kiss, a kiss that showed nothing but affection.

"I missed you last night." Arizona stroked the olive cheek with her hand fondly. "And I missed you this morning. I overslept and that's why I missed your calls."

"Oh." Callie returned the sweet words with a toothy smile. "You weren't angry with me for hanging up on you?"

"A little hurt, but I knew you had to work." The blonde clasped her hand with Callie's and leaded the woman to sit on the couch with her. "How was your night? Did you get any sleep?"

"A couple hours in an on-call room. The patient was in and out a few times, I ran the codes all by myself." Callie smiled, but it didn't really reach to her eyes.

"Are you ok? You look tired." Arizona reached out to brush off the few strands of hair on Callie's face, and looked into the brown eyes with a frown. "What did you get today? Maybe you should try to get some rest."

"No, I'm fine. I'm on cardio again, valve replacement. I have to go prep the patient in half an hour." Callie took the fair hand in hers, stroking it gently thinking what she had to say the next.

"Do you want to get some coffee?" The Peds surgeon tugged their linked hands, about to pull her girlfriend on her feet to go for the coffee, but she was stopped by a hand on her knee.

"Arizona, I need to tell you something." The brunette wetted her lips. "Remember I told you the girlfriend I had back in Miami?"

"The one who outed you in front of your parents, made you leave town overnight?" Arizona nodded lightly, staring at the face in front of her curiously.

"Erica Hahn." Callie rolled her eyes with a bitter smile. "Teddy's replacement, Erica Hahn was that girl I left without a note."

"Excuse me?" Blue eyes widened so big that almost popped out of its sockets.

Callie bit her lips and looked down at the floor, avoiding the gaze until she heard a chuckle coming from the woman sitting next to her. She looked up, finding her current girlfriend wearing a smile.

"You do have a type, don't you?" A smile of amused showing on the blonde's face. Seeing the confused look on her girlfriends face, she continued. "Blonde hair, blue eyes?"

Taken aback by the comment from Arizona, Callie's face froze for a second before broke into a roar of laughter.

"No, I do not have a type. Malena was a brunette. She did have blue eyes though." Callie wiped away the tears in the corner of her eyes from laughing too hard. She was grateful that Arizona always had a way to make her laugh.

"Well, I have to say it really is a small world. So many hospitals in the country, and she has to run into you in here, 3000 miles away from Miami." Arizona picked up Callie's hands in hers, asked softly. "Did she say anything to you yesterday?"

"Not much. She was being very professional. The only question she asked was why I'm still an intern." Callie sat closer to her blonde girlfriend, resting her head on the attending's shoulder seeking for comfort. "Are we cool?"

Arizona pulled away slightly, trying to look into the brown eyes.

"Why wouldn't we be?"

"The woman I abandoned years ago showed up here, it doesn't bother you?" Callie lifted her head from Arizona's shoulder to meet with blue eyes nervously, but relaxed when a hand came to her face lingeringly.

"Unless she's the evil queen coming into town to crush our party, I don't worry." Arizona chuckled lightly,and titled her head to the side against the brunette's. "I've dealt with your ex-husband. I came face to face with your father. I think I can handle your ex-girlfrend. You don't still have feelings for her, do you?"

"You know the answer." Callie chuckled along. The two sat side by side with their heads touching and hands laced together, soaking in the comfortable silence around them, until the blonde pulled away again.

"I wonder if that has something to do with her accusations in the meeting this morning." The Peds surgeon bit the corner of her mouth looking afar. "She proposed to the chief that any romantic relationship between colleagues, especially superiors and subordinates should be prohibited."

"She what?" Callie blinked her eyes a several times, trying to grasp the meaning of this.

"She said it's an unhealthy working environment if the attendings are dating the residents or interns. It's unfair to the rest of the residents who aren't involved with the bosses." Arizona said with a teasing smile on her lips. "Mark was furious. He's afraid Lexie is going to break up with him again."

"Well, good thing you have never favor me. I've been here for months and I've never been in on any of your surgeries." The brunette sat up straight, and pursed her lips playfully. "I think that's the unfair situation we need to talk about."

Arizona pulled up her best smile, leaning forward to kiss the purse away. But the lips lock cut short when Callie's pager went off.

"I have to go prep the patient." The intern twisted the corner of her mouth after checked the annoying device.

"Go, be a rock star, show Erica that you're capable of your job." Arizona gave her girlfriend one more kiss before the woman stood up from the couch.

"Hey," Callie turned around before stepping out of the office. "I love you."

"I love you too." A wide smile was displayed on the blonde's face. "I'll see you at lunch?"