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 : Thank you all for your patience, my friends. I'm grateful that you still came back to this story even though the last update took forever. To make it up for lost time, here's another new chapter ;-)

Thanks to my beloved beta calzonaforever35, you are amazing as always.

Chapter 50

Arizona jerked awake when the door of the on-call room opened. She cursed the stupid new policy in the hospital that removed the locks from the doors. Squinting her eyes to gaze at the intruder, she signed and sat up from the bed slowly when she found out the visitor wasn't the brunette who was in her dream a second ago.

A short nap helped to ease the headache slightly, but dizziness took over when she sat up. She had to close her eyes and took a several deep breaths to calm the nausea.

"You must be thirsty, I brought you a coffee." Leah walked deeper in the room, closed the door behind and handed the cup of hot coffee to the attending. Arizona accepted it with a smile, but she was stopped by the intern when she was about to bring it to her lips. "Be careful, it's very hot."

"Yes, it is." Arizona chuckled hoarsely when she felt it on her lips. Leah sat down next to her, helping to open the lid and placed the coffee on the cabinet next to the bed. "Thank you Dr. Murphy."

"You're welcome. I just thought you needed a cup of pick me up." The intern smiled at the attending nervously, as she took in the sick look on the blonde. "You don't look very good, are you all right?"

"I think I've caught the flu." Arizona rubbed her forehead lightly, trying to smooth the dizziness in her head. "I'll feel better later, the nap helped."

"That's good." Leah nodded, pondering what she was going to say next. "Dr. Robbins, I just wanted to thank you for this morning. I know I was being childish for not wanting to work with Dr. Karev. I just... after everything happened in the last few days, I know what everyone thinks about me. If they see me working with Karev, I'm afraid they would laugh at me even harder..."

"There is no way you can avoid working with Karev for the rest of your residency, Murphy." Arizona lowered her hand to her lap, and sighed deeply.

"I know. I just need a little time, wait until they don't stare at me anymore. They stare at me like I don't belong here. I just can't stand the way people look at me." Leah rolled her eyes, saying annoyingly. "You have no idea what it feels like."

"I grew up gay. I know what it feels like when people are staring." Arizona threw a quick sidelong glance to the intern sitting next to her. "You made a mistake, people stare. They talk, and they judge, and they stare. But that shouldn't stop you from doing your job. You want them to see you differently, do better."

"It's easier said than done. Do better? How can I do better when Torres is here?" Leah complained bitterly. "She has all the opportunities she wants. She got to be the heart in the elevator intern while I was standing next to her holding a light!"

"Stop comparing yourself to the others. Your biggest competitor is yourself. You have to believe in you." The attending softened her voice. "You're an intern. You're supposed to make mistakes and that's how you learn not to make that same mistakes again."

"But if I make a mistake on a patient, they may die." Leah twisted her lips, pushing down the urge to break into tears when she thought about yesterday. "I'm just an intern and I wasn't ready to operate on a heart. Dr. Hahn should've known that."

Arizona looked at the distressed intern quietly. She knew that feeling. She was an intern once, and hell she even still had that scary feeling whenever a patient came to her, depending on her to save their lives. And there had been no room for mistake. To overcome that fear, all you needed was the confidence to believe that you could do it, despite how scared you were.

"In my second year of residency at Johns Hopkins, one of the nights I was working in the pit. I had this patient come in with a migraine. It looked easy so I didn't page the attending." Arizona cleared her dry throat before telling her story. "I gave him a simple check up and then made fun of his irritating girlfriend with the rest of the residents the whole night. He got discharged after the migraine stopped. Before I knew it, he collapsed in the parking lot because he was having a stroke."

The blonde gave Leah a small smile while she looked up with self-pity tears in her eyes. She continued.

"I made a mistake. I should've given him a full check up, a CT scan but I didn't. When I finally paged an attending in, the patient was barely alive." Arizona took a deep breath, and turned her gaze to the ceiling as she recalled that evening. "I was being careless, but I didn't hide in the back feeling sorry for myself, or the patient. I helped the attending bring him back. And I did everything I could to fix the mistake I made."

Leah stared at the silhouette of the attending in awe. In her mind, she had forgotten that the great all-round attending was once an inexperienced intern like her.

"And since then, I know I shouldn't skip any steps and make sure I won't get distracted when I'm on the job." Arizona titled her head to the side, smiling sincerely to Leah who was listening to her attentively. "It's frightening, I get it. But you shouldn't let fear take over you and avoid doing your job so you won't make any mistakes. That's not how it should be."

The two held their gazes with each other. The intern took in the words from the attending and finally, she nodded and pulled her lips to a small smile.

"Thank you Dr. Robbins, for talking to me." Leah sniffed and brought her palm to wipe away the tears in her eyes. "I feel better now."

"I'm glad I could help, Murphy." Arizona returned a smile, and she turned toward the cabinet by the bed reaching for the abandoned coffee wanting to wet her dry throat. "We should get to work now."

Holding the coffee in her hand, she didn't realize it was still quite hot and she also didn't realize Leah was still sitting very close to her. As she swiveled around, her coffee holding hand bumped on Leah's shoulder, and the hot beverage splattered on both of their bodies, and the intern's light blue scrubs took most of it.

"Hey Andrea, do you know where Dr. Robbins is? She's not in her office." Callie leaned against the nurse station on the PEDS floor, hoping to see her girlfriend but she was nowhere in sight.

"I think she's still in the on-call room sleeping. She didn't look very good this morning." The nurse answered. Callie thanked her and walked down the hall. Before she could reach the handle on the door, a loud shouting of oh my god coming from inside. She quickly pushed the door open, the scene inside took her breath away.

All she could see was Leah was standing by the bed, shedding off her top in front of someone sitting on the bed. She couldn't see the face of that person from where she was standing, but the blonde head was unmistakable.

Arizona has her head down, trying to cool off the burning sensation on her lap. Snapping up, she was surprised to see Callie standing by the door staring at her with wide eyes. And that was when she realized Leah was standing in the room without her scrub top on.

"Callie, this is not what..." Arizona shot up trying to explain, but Callie was already on her heels running away from the room.

Fumbling out of the room, Arizona had to brace herself against the wall to stop from falling on the ground. She needed to sit down but she had no time for that now. Pushing through the vertigo and about to chase down her girlfriend, a shadow stood in front of her that blocked her way. As soon as Arizona's unfocused gaze fixated on the smirking face, she held the wall and stood straight instinctively.

"Isn't that pathetic, Dr. Robbins?" Erica's voice had nothing but sarcasm. Her eyes shifted over Arizona's head to see Leah walking out of the room, hair slightly tousled from taking off her scrub top. "You couldn't stop yourself, could you?"

"What are you talking about?" Arizona said through her gritted teeth. Why was this woman in here and how did she know what had happened?

"Put someone in the room with you, and you just couldn't help but screw her." The cardio surgeon pulled her lips to a lopsided sneer. "You truly are a slut through and through."

"You set me up?" Arizona looked between the smirking woman and the intern over her shoulder with wide eyes. Leah's face couldn't get any paler when she caught the glare from the shorter blonde. She did the only thing she could do at this moment - back away from the scene before the fuming blue eyes could burn a hole in her head.

"Hey, I heard you're sick and sent an intern to see if you're ok. No one told you to screw her in there. You did it to yourself." Erica's voice brought Arizona's attention back at her. The PEDS surgeon's breath started to quicken due to her physical condition, and the raising rage inside.

"I didn't screw anyone."

"Oh, you did." Erica stepped closer, looking down to the shorter woman with disdain. "You screwed that intern in an on-call room. And you screwed up Callie's life while she trusted you would change it. But old habits die hard, don't they?"

"Nothing happened in that on-call room, Dr. Hahn." Arizona spat out every word with force. Her head spun faster and faster but she was not going to back down from the staring contest. She also took a step forward standing closer to the hateful woman. "And I haven't screwed up Callie's life. What's your problem?"

"My problem? My problem?" Erica raised a finger to poke the smaller woman in the shoulder. "My problem is people like you think you can have everything. My problem is people like you shouldn't even be a doctor."

"Hey! Don't touch me!" Arizona flung off the offended hand. Their fight had grabbed some attention from the people on the floor, but both women were so heated at the moment to be concerned about that.

"Or what? You'll go tell Callie? Huh? Or the chief? Tell him to fire me? Go ahead, I have nothing to lose anyway." The taller, stronger woman pushed Arizona on the shoulders with both hands, making the feeble blonde back up a few steps. But Erica didn't stop. She lunged forward and gave a couple more hefty shoves.

Next thing she knew, there was a sharp plain on her face before she fell on the floor, with a metallic taste in her mouth.

Callie was running. She didn't know where she wanted to go but all she could think of was to escape from the place where Arizona was with a half naked woman in a room. But she stopped dead in her tracks in the middle of the stairway when Arizona's voice rang in her head.

"You promised me you wouldn't run again, remember? You're stuck with me."

The brunette shut her eyes tight and leaned against the wall. Did she want to run again? Did she want to break this promise, even though Arizona was breaking hers?

She couldn't make herself take another step down the stairs. But the scene in the on-call room kept flashing in her head, she just felt her heart clench tighter and tighter when she remembered the woman sitting on the bed lifting her blonde head to gaze right back at her...

But something seemed odd...

Arizona was surprised to see her, but she also seemed surprised to see Leah standing there topless. And the room smelled... very coffee-y.

And why didn't Arizona chase after her?

It took a few more minutes for Callie to calm down, and decide to go back to the PEDS floor to see if her probably soon-to-be ex-girlfriend had any excuse about her act.

She was shock to what she found in the PEDS floor.

People circled around in the middle of the hallway but no one made a sound. Their attention was on the blonde haired woman leaning against the wall holding her elbow, and the other blonde haired woman lying on the floor wriggling in pain, with 2 nurses kneeling by her side tending her bleeding nose.

"What happened?" Callie pushed away the crowd to get to Arizona, her complexion was colorless and she was apparently in shock.

"She... pushed me and I..." Arizona's face went from shock to relieve to panic in seconds when her unfocused eyes found the brown.

"You punched her? How is your hand?" Callie took the hand that the blonde was holding. Arizona flinched but not from the pain in her hand.

"I elbowed her, in the nose." The PEDS surgeon rubbed her elbow with her free hand, trying to ease the discomfort. Both women shifted their gazes to the one on the floor. And Callie made a wry face and a silent OUCH when she thought about the pain Erica must've been feeling.

Before they could say anything, someone already came with a gurney and started to transfer Erica to the ER. Callie wrapped around Arizona and led her to the same direction. She needed to have Arizona's arm checked. The blonde followed without a fight.

As soon as Arizona settled in the exam room, Bailey rushed in with Chang behind her.

"You got in a fight with that woman? Are you out of your mind?" The general surgeon burst out the second she made eye contact with the sheepish blonde sitting on the bed. "Hahn is much bigger than you. You're lucky she couldn't fight back after that punch."

"It's not luck, Bailey." Arizona breathed out while Chang examined her hand and arm. "My father was a marine. Ever since I was a child, I was taught to hit fast and hit hard so you only have to hit once."

"Quick thinking of using your elbow instead your fist, Dr. Robbins." The othro attending nodded his head for approval. "You might've broken your fingers if you threw a punch. Now I think you just pulled a muscle. Good job."

"No, it's not a good job!" Callie exclaimed from the corner of the exam room where she was standing. "What were you thinking, Arizona? You hit someone!"

"Your friend was messing with my life, Callie! She started it! What do you want from me? Bend over and kiss her hand?" The blonde took her hand back from Chang forcefully. Never the one good with dealing with women trouble, the older man made a grimace and stepped back away from the heated glare. "I'm fine in here. Shouldn't you go check on your dear friend?"

"Arizona..." Callie's face softened when she took in the devastated look of the woman on the bed. And her eyes landed on the coffee stain on the navy blue scrub pants. "Tell me what happened?"

"What happened? What happened? What happened was that your ex-girlfriend still has feelings for you and so do you. And she took every chance she had to ruin my life and my reputation." Arizona spat out fire from her mouth. And she knocked off Bailey's hand when the shorter woman was trying to take her temperature. "She sent Leah Murphy to the room and she took her friggin' shirt off!"

"So you didn't..." Callie swallowed hard, trying to hide the ghost of smile on her lips. But her face fell when Arizona shouted at her again.

"No I didn't! If you stayed and let me explain it to you, you'd know that I spilled coffee on my lap and all over Murphy! But no, you ran! You ran away like last night! You ran away like every other time!"

Callie gasped. It took her a moment to turn her gaze to the other two doctors in the room standing there uneasily.

"Dr. Chang, Dr. Bailey, would you mind to give us some privacy?"

The attendings took off as fast as they could and pulled the door shut. The brunette pulled a rolling chair to sit in front of Arizona.

"I'm not running away, Arizona." Callie put a hand on the navy blue pants covered knee, looking up at the pale face willing to have the blue eyes locking with hers. But Arizona turned her face to stare at the floor in the far end. "I am so sorry that I took off last night. But you have to understand that I was shocked that Erica said all those horrible things to you, I didn't know. All I know was if I stayed in the apartment last night, we'd have said things that we won't be able to take back."

Arizona didn't respond. She clenched her jaw and kept staring afar.

"Arizona, please look at me." Callie coaxed with her soft voice, hand kneading the knee under her palm. Finally, blue eyes shifted to stare at the pool of brown in front of her. "I love you so much, Arizona. I promised you I'd never run away from you. That's why I went back to the PEDS floor because I was going to hear your explanation about what had happened in the on-call room. You have to believe me."

The blonde didn't answer but bit her lips tight. And Callie went on.

"I am sorry I misjudged the situation with Erica. I'd do it differently if I've known it bothered you that much. I talked to her this morning and told her that I would not have anyone in my life talk to you that way."

"You knew it bothered me!" Arizona said through her gritted teeth, and the fire came back in the blue eyes.

"But you didn't really tell me, Arizona." Callie coaxed again. She had never seen her girlfriend this angry. She knew the blonde must be exhausted, feeling sick and panic from punching a co-worker at work. And knowing she was the biggest factor to bring the blonde to this state of emotion made her heart tightened. "I'm not a mind reader. You should have let me know Erica insulted you. You should have let me know she had false hope that I'll get back with her."

"So it was my fault that you spent most of your time with her?" Arizona snorted. So many things happened in this day and she couldn't really process it yet. "I didn't know if you'd believe me. I didn't know that I was allowed to mind because she was your ex-girlfriend for crying out loud. And you were so happy to be with her again."

"Listen to me, Arizona. You are my love." Callie leaned forward, and tried her best to say it as soft as her voice can be to smooth the blonde. "There is no one in this world more important to me than you. I've told you, I was happy to be friends with Erica only because I got the chance to make amends with her. That's all. Not because I wanted her, Arizona. All I want is you."

"You really mean it? Even if I say I don't want you to hang out with Hahn?" Arizona frowned at Callie, who gazed back with nothing but sincerity.

"I promised you I wouldn't run, I came back to you. I realized Erica was being a bitch to you and I cut her off this morning. I already told her that we couldn't be friends anymore because she disrespected you, and I won't tolerate that." The brunette smiled softly, and she was pleased to see a smile slowly showing on the face before her. "I hate that I'm the one that made you so upset lately. I love you and I would love to see the smile on your face again. I want you to be happy. Whatever will make you happy, you name it and I'll do it."

Arizona stared at the brunette blankly, her piercing blue eyes gazing deep into the brown eyes as an idea flashing in her head. After a moment, she breathed out.

"Marry me."

"What?" Callie chuckled and stared at the blonde with wide eyes. She wasn't sure she heard it right.

"I mean it. I love you more than anything, but I want more." Arizona placed her hand on the caramel color hand on her knee, eyes still gazed into the brown ones. "I want everyone to know that we love each other. And I want to spend the rest of our lives together as wife and wife. I want commitments and rings. So, marry me."

Callie blinked her eyes a couple times. Before she could give an answer, there was a knock on the door and it burst open the next second.

"How is everything?" Chief Webber entered the room, with Bailey right behind him.

Both women turned to look at the new comers. Arizona shrank back with an involuntary gasp because she knew why the chief was here. Her authority issues made an appearance and she dropped the head, avoiding the glare from her boss. With one look at the blonde, Callie knew she would have to answer the question for her girlfriend... Nope, her fiancee.

"We're engaged."

"We are?" Arizona was as dumbfounded as the rest of the people in the room.

"Don't tell me you're taking it back." The brunette rose up from the chair to plant a light kiss on her new fiancee's lips. But as soon as her hands made contact with Arizona's soft cheeks, she pulled back and whispered. "You're hot."

"Callie..." Arizona blushed and shifted her gaze to the chief. Callie shook her head and raised her hand to the blonde's forehead.

"No, you are hot. You're burning up."

"Well, her temperature is 102, of course she's hot." Bailey bypassed the chief and placed the chart next to the couple. "If you hadn't kicked me out of the room, I would have told you that Dr. Robbins is running a fever."

"Why didn't you say anything?" Callie asked with concern. "You were drenched last night. I heard that you weren't looking good. How are you feeling?"

"I'm feeling better, must be the adrenaline." The blonde said sheepishly. And she turned to Webber. "How is Hahn? Is she going to be ok?"

"Dr. Hahn has a broken nose. Dr. Sloan did a check up and Dr. Chang popped it back in next door." The chief turned his lips to a frown. "Lucky for you, she is not going to press charges because everyone on the floor is willing to testify that Dr. Hahn was the one who raised her hand first. And the security footage has proved that."

Arizona breathed out a sigh of relief, but the chief cleared his throat and folded his arms against his chest, staring at his second favorite attending with a hard glare.

"But what were you thinking? Punching someone in the hospital? Have you thought about the damage you're going to put in your hand?"

"Ah... Chief, Arizona didn't punch Erica, per se. She just elbowed her." Callie spoke up for her woman again. "Dr. Chang said the hand is fine and she just pulled a muscle."

"JUST elbowed her? So you think it makes the whole fight legit, Dr. Torres?" Webber raised his voice, making the PEDS attending duck her head lower and the intern bit her lips tight. "As for punishment, Dr. Robbins, Dr. Torres and Dr. Murphy are going to have a suspension for 3 days. And Dr. Robbins, you are banned from doing any surgery for another 2 days."

"Me too? Why? I wasn't even in the fight!" Callie complained, but the glare from the chief shut her up again.

"You brought your personal issues into the hospital. You violated the non-fraternization policy and that is the punishment you're going to get." The chief cocked his head, staring at the intern with narrowed eyes, daring her to question his decision. Of course it shut the brunette up successfully.

"Then what about Hahn? She doesn't have to be suspended because she's injured?" Arizona asked in a small voice, she still couldn't bring her eyes to look at her boss.

"As we are speaking, Dr. Hahn is no longer an employee in this hospital." Chief Webber delivered the news expressionless, liked he was telling a date-to-date event but that couldn't stop the three women in the room from screaming at the same time.

"What? You fired her because of the fight?" Bailey was the one to ask the question. She was smiling inside because there was no secret that the general surgeon didn't get along with the unpopular cardio surgeon... Hell, no one in the whole hospital got along with that arrogant cardio surgeon.

"Don't gloat, Bailey." The chief glared at the shorter woman. "Hahn performed a non-authorized procedure on a patient back in Seattle Pres. She hooked up a patient with an artificial lung without the FDA approval and failed to acknowledge the hospital before hand. The incident has been reported this morning and her license is going to be revoked."

"No wonder she was being so aggressive..." Arizona trailed off. "But why now? I mean, it happened in Seattle Pres so that must be like... what? Months ago? Why did it just get reported this morning?"

"Seattle Pres was trying to cover it but the patient passed away, the parents decided to sue the hospital and Dr. Hahn." The chief squared his shoulders and rested his hands on his hips. He was still pissed that Seattle Pres was trying to pass their trouble to his hospital. "Anyway, Dr. Hahn is no longer our problem. You, Dr. Robbins, you are my problem. Now go home, get some rest and get the flu under control during this suspension. The committee of Carter Madison Grant has scheduled a meeting with you on Friday. I don't want you meeting them with a running nose or a broken arm."

"The committee of the Carter Madison Grant?" The PEDS surgeon looked back at her boss with mouth agape. "What do they want?"

"I have no idea, but you'll find out soon enough." Webber turned to leave the room. Before he stepped out, he said to the blonde doctor with a hint of naughtiness in his black eyes. "Whatever you do, just try not to elbow them."

"Oh, that's gonna last." Bailey snickered and then pulled herself and tried to look particularly solemn. "You have a high fever and are slightly dehydrated, Dr. Robbins. I'm going to prescribe you something for your flu. Or would you prefer to stay in the hospital? I can get you a room."

Before Arizona could answer, Callie already wrapped her arm around the slim shoulder. "It's ok, I'm taking her home."

The blonde tilted her head to look at her protector with a pair of raised brows.

"You don't want to... check on Hahn, see if she's all right?"

"She's not my problem, Arizona, you are." Callie mimicked the chief's earlier statement with a smirk. "Let's go home and I'll take care of you."