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A/N : This chapter is unbeta'd. All mistakes are mine, sorry.

Chapter 60

Arizona slipped inside the on-call room where she knew someone was waiting for her. As soon as she closed the door behind, hungry lips attached to hers and she was being pushed against the door.

"Aw... I miss that." Blonde head pulled back slightly and whispered into the full lips.

"Yeah?" Callie leaned forward and captured the sweet lips once again. "I bet I know what else you miss."

Lips and tongues still glued together, Callie sneaked her hands under Arizona's scrub top and the tank top underneath, caressing the silky skin as she backed to the bunk bed in the corner. Sitting down on the bed with the blonde standing between her legs, Callie wasted no time to pull Arizona's shirts up and over the blonde head, threw it somewhere in the room carelessly.

Arizona straddled the brunette and found the lips again liked her life depended on them. She moaned into the kiss as confident hands kneading their way up from her hips to her chest, and reached behind about to unclasp her bra...

Beep beep beep beep beep...

Both women froze from the unwelcome sound coming from the blonde's scrub pants.

"Ugh!" Arizona dropped her head on the brunette's shoulder and groaned after checked the pager. "I swear to god, that woman has a sixth sense. She caught me every time when I'm about to take my pants off."

"Do you really have to go?" Callie asked whilst the pouting blonde got off of her laps. She didn't need a mirror to know she was wearing a matching pout. "I thought you have 20 minutes before you have to report to Herman."

"I thought so." Arizona sighed, putting on her clothes one by one. "She probably saw that I had finished the surgery early, thinks that I have time to review more journals, or doing skill labs. Ugh!"

"It has been a month. She still treats you like a resident?" Callie sighed heavily. Half because of seeing the frustration from the blonde, half because... well, her own sexual frustration.

"I know! Right? I am an attending with an entire service of my own for god sakes." Arizona put a hand on her hip, the other flinging around as she kept ranting and ranting about her new mentor. "I pulled an allnighter for the case report, which by the way, not as urgent as she said. You thought she'd appreciate that when I handed it to her this morning? No! She just tossed it aside and said that she'll check about it later."

"Did you get any sleep at all?" Callie asked once the blonde stopped for a breath.

"A couple hours in an on-call room." Arizona shrugged with another sigh.

"You should call me. Then I'd have came back to keep you company."

"No Callie. I was half death when I laid on the bed, I can hardly do anything..." The blonde smiled bitterly, but Callie shook her head.

"No, I didn't mean that. I just think, maybe then we'll have a couple hours cuddling in bed, you know." Callie reached out her hand, beckoning the blonde to come to her. She said with a twist of her lips when Arizona took her hand and standing in front of her. "I couldn't even remember the last time we woke up next to each other."

"I am sorry." Arizona stroked the caramel face tenderly. Of course she missed to have Callie sleeping next to her too.

"Stop apologizing. I understand that you're doing this for Ruthie." The brunette forced a smile. She knew it was hard for Arizona and right now, her poor blonde didn't need anymore guilt trip. "Oh, I went over to check on her and made her breakfast this morning. She said she felt better today. Not feeling nauseous anymore."

"Yeah, Nick said it seems the side effect is not as strong as the last treatment." Arizona checked the pager when it beeped again. Throwing an apologetic smile to her fiancée, she backed to the door and reached for the door knob. "Hey, you're on Cardio today?"

"No, I'll work with Dr. Chang again." Callie shook her head.

"Why?" The blonde already had a foot out of the door. She turned around looking at the woman still sitting on the bed with a frown. "Is Cristina hogging the Cardio cases again? Do you want me to talk to Teddy?"

"Well, you don't even have time to talk to your fiancée, how do you find time to talk to Teddy?" Callie walked toward the blonde and gave her a quick peck on the lips. "I want to work with Chang. He doesn't have any resident on his service, and I don't mind. Go, go save the mothers."

The two shared another quick kiss and then the blonde took off to the OB floor. She wasn't allowed to wear her wheelies anymore because according to Herman, it was insane to wear those gears near anyone, especially the pregnant women. So yeah, Arizona had to run.

On the other hand, Callie wasn't in a hurry. She was supposed to meet with Dr. Chang in an hour and the nice old man didn't need her to be on the floor any minute earlier, so she went to the ER and checking if she would be any help in there.

And she found Cristina and Meredith was sitting behind the nurse station sharing a bag of potato chips.

"I thought you said you were going to find Robbins? What are you doing here?" Cristina asked her former intern whilst handing her the bag of chips. Callie took a piece from the bag and sighed.

"She got paged by Herman." The brunette looked between the two residents. "I didn't know a fellow would be even busier than a resident. Shouldn't we be more... I don't know, busier?"

"Hey, we have our moment. We're just taking a break." The Asian protested. And her best friend interjected.

"I just don't understand why Herman's riding Robbins likes this if she doesn't plan to stay."

"What do you mean?" Callie asked, and Cristina looked at her friend curiously.

"Derek said Herman has a very short contract with the hospital. Maybe only 6 months." Meredith leaned closer to the other two whispering out the words.

"What?" Callie's eye went wide. "How come?"

"He didn't get into too many details. He and the chief are still not talking much. They were arguing and the chief slipped it from his tongue." Meredith shrugged, reached for the bag of chip to get herself a piece.

"This is interesting." Cristina smirked. Always the one liked to see drama around her.

"No, it's not." Callie gave the woman a glare. "Arizona would be devastating when she found out Herman's not gonna stay to finish her fellowship."

"Maybe then she won't be that busy and you can finally go home." Cristina sneered out. Meredith gave her a nudge on the side not so subtly.

"I... It's not because of the fellowship and you know that." Callie glared at the smirking woman one more time before turned to the blonde resident. "Hey Mer, how is the result of Ruthie's new scan?"

"The tumor doesn't shrink, but it's not growing either. So it's a good sign." Meredith answered.

"Has Derek found a way to remove it yet?" Callie asked again, but she knew the answer before the woman shook her head.

"Why doesn't he just open her up and see from there?" Cristina interrupted. "If my aunt had a tumor in her heart, I'd give her an operation in a heartbeat. We are surgeons. We cut people open, not waiting around."

"First off, you don't like your aunt." Meredith said matter-of-factly, and the Cardio resident couldn't hold back her smirk of agree. "And that's a really tricky tumor. Derek said the success rate is less than 20% if we operate now."

"And I don't think Arizona can handle that. She really loves her aunt Ruthie." Callie leaned her elbows on the desk, playing with the stationery on the desk absentmindedly. "I know it sounds crazy, but I think she loves her aunt more than she loves me."

"Look at you." Cristina stared at the brunette with a rare sympathy in her eyes. The next thing came out of her mouth made her best friend's eyebrows raised up. "You need a good surgery. I'm supposed to assist on Teddy's valve replacement this afternoon. You take it."

"No, I can't. I'm on Ortho today and Dr. Chang has a surgery in half an hour." The brunette shook her head, missed the significant meaning of this offer.

"Ortho again? You take Ortho over Cardio? What's your problem?" Cristina sat up on the chair as she exclaimed, and Meredith chipped in.

"And you said no when she handed you a Cardio surgery? Do you know she didn't talk to me for 2 days the last time Altman chose me to assist on a heart transplant instead of her?"

"Believe me, I shouldn't be near any heart right now or I'd squeeze it so hard that it'll break." Callie pushed herself off the desk giving the residents a bitter smile. "Bone would be a safer choice. They are already broken on the table, how bad can they get?"

"Suit yourself. Just be careful not to turn into a carpenter." The Asian leaned back on the chair and reached for the chips again. And Meredith turned to her hopefully.

"Can I have the valve replacement? I haven't locked enough Cardio time this month."

"Ask me again when Derek kicked you out of the house for another woman, and made you sleeping on someone's couch for over a month," Cristina jerked her head toward the stunned brunette who was staring at her with mouth agape. "Look as pathetic as her, then we'll talk."

"I am not pathetic." Callie snapped at the Asian. "And Arizona didn't kick me out, she... we... I can't believe you, Cristina. I was so much nicer to you when I took you in."

"I am sorry...?" Cristina tried to apologize, but the brunette already stormed out of the ER mumbling under her breath angrily. Cristina turned to Meredith sitting next to her. "Was I wrong? Robbins did kick her out and made her sleeping on Sloan's couch..."

"You can't talk to people like this, Cristina." Meredith shook her head with a sigh. "It's like um, if you tell someone their baby is ugly. You know, they know it, you know it, everyone knows it, but you just don't talk about it."

Ran the few flights of stairs to the surgical floor, Callie still felt the weight on her chest. Of course she knew Cristina was right. She was pathetic. She should have asked Arizona to change the living situation, she should have let the blonde know that she had trouble sleeping at night in Mark's living room, and she should have told her that she missed her like crazy but...

Arizona had a lot on her plate right now.

And she made a promised. She promised her fiancée that she'd do anything for her. If that meant she had to put her own needs aside...

"Ugh!" Callie groaned loudly as she entered the scrub room, made the navy scrubs wearing man in there jumped a lot.

"Are you okay, Dr. Torres?" Chang asked with concern.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Dr. Chang." The resident answered sheepishly. She ran her hands over her hair and tied them into a loose ponytail before putting on the scrub cap. "I just... I just have a lot in my mind and... ugh!"

"Do you want to talk about it?" The old man ran his hands under the water, cast a cursory glance at the brunette, watching her doing the routine with her lips bit together tightly. "Clearing your mind before the surgery?"

"I... Can I sit this surgery out, Dr. Chang?" Callie sighed heavily. "I just... I don't think I should be anywhere near a patient right now."

"No no," The man said hurriedly. He waved his hand in front of the brows knitted face. "This kind of rage is exactly what we're gonna need."

"I don't have rage..." Callie stuttered out.

"Rage, dissatisfied, passion... whatever it is in you," Chang wrapped his hands in the blue towel and moved toward the operation room. "We're gonna need that in the surgery. And you need to give vent to this feeling that you're having inside you. Scrub! Come on. Hustle."

It was a simple surgery. The patient's had an old fracture in his arm that never healed properly, left the bone weaker than it should have been. Result to a broken radius after a fall on the ground. In order to realign the new break, they had to re-break the old fracture first.

"You're not really concentrated today, Dr. Torres." Chang talked to his resident without lifting his eyes from the open arm. "You used to have a lot of questions during surgeries. And you're quiet today."

"I am sorry, Dr. Chang." Callie cleared her throat, trying to focus on the work that the attending was doing.

"You know, people talk. In this hospital, people talk, a lot." The man took another instrument that was handed by a nurse while glanced at the woman standing on the other side of the table. "I'm not trying to pry into your privacy."

"I know, sir." Callie answered in a small voice. Her eyes fixated on the arm of the patient.

"Weight for weight, bone is five times stronger than steel." After opened the incision exposing the mal-aligned bone completely, Chang picked up a mallet and a chisel. "Maybe we're not as delicate as Neuro, or Cardio. To fix bones, it takes strength and power."

The brunette's eyes went wide when the attending passed the instruments to her.

"Dr. Chang, I can't..."

"I can be fairly turbulent myself. Yeah, I had my share of things to get angry, frustrate about. For instance, the nurses called me dinosaur, fossil, the worst Ortho surgeon in history." Chang stared into Callie's brown eyes determinedly. "Transfer those into strength, that's my advice."

The resident took the instruments with uncertainty. She looked at the attending one more times before placing them in position.

"I don't want to make it worse."

"You won't. I told you, the bone is misaligned. We have to complete the break before we put it back together." Chang took Callie's hands adjusting the position, helped her to find a better angle. "Now, hit it. Hit it hard."

The first hit was too gentle, didn't even make a scratch on the bone.

"As I said, transfer your feeling into strength." Chang nodded to the resident.

Callie took a deep breath and grasped the tools tightly. She hit the chisel mightily on the top with the mallet and the bone broke as it went.

"Whoa!" She exclaimed. An adrenaline rush made her eyes sparkled. "I think it really helps."

Dr. Chang smiled under his mask. He went on teaching the resident through the rest of the surgery, and he let Callie did most of the procedures.

"You have beautiful hands, Dr. Torres." The attending let out a contented sigh after they stabilized the fractures. "You'll be good in any specialty but you will be excellent in Ortho. You have that passion in you. You'll be excellent in Ortho."

"Thank you, Dr. Chang." Callie said to the man. The mask covered half of her face but the smile could be seen from her eyes. She called after the attending as he was walking out of the OR, leaving her to close up the patient. "Dr. Chang?"

"Yes?" Chang turned around to answer.

"You're not a terrible doctor. And you're a good teacher." Callie said to the old man with nothing but sincerity.

"Hey, I brought you some dinner." Callie poked her head into Herman's office after a knock. She had texted Arizona earlier, knowing that the blonde was in there alone working on something that was instructed by the Fetal surgery attending.

"You're a life saver. I'm starving." Arizona tilted her head when the brunette leaned down to give her a quick peck on the lips. She pushed the mountains of folders aside so Callie could put the take-out containers in front of her. "What do we get?"

"Chinese." Callie handed over one of the little boxes. "What are you doing?"

"Those are the most incredible Fetal surgery cases that has sent to Herman all over the US. She wants me to read them all and make these three categories - possible, impossible and maybe." Arizona said absentmindedly as she was busy opening her dinner. "Oh, you get me the noodle that I love."

"And then, what?" Callie pulled a chair to sit down next to blonde.

"She said those are gonna be my crash course. For me to learn, and for us to save." Arizona gulped the noodle hurriedly. She had been reading those files all day so absorbed that she'd forgotten about lunch. "You have no idea how awful these cases are. One of the mothers had three stillborns, and Herman said this one will be too."

"That's horrible." The brunette looked around the table. "There're a lot. Do you have to pull another allnighter?"

"No, I'm almost finished." Arizona shook her head, took a sip of the soda washing down the food. "I'm gonna go home tonight. And I'm going to pick up my parents tomorrow morning at 11."

"11... My shift will be finished at 4 and my father's flight gonna touch down at 5. So I guess I will meet them at the restaurant then." Callie reached out her hand, wiped off the food in the corner of the pink lips with her thumb. "I hope it's gonna be a quiet night in here. I don't want to look exhausted when they meet me the first time."

"Don't worry. They love you already." The blonde smiled to her fiancée lovingly. "You look happier than this morning. The surgery with Chang went well?"

"It was awesome. I broke the radius." Callie grinned seeing the reaction from the blonde.

"You broke the radius during surgery?"

"I broke it in the surgery. It was a part of the procedure, in order to realign..." The brunette was about to explain the surgery she was in earlier, the door opened abruptly that interrupted her.

"Robbins, how is... Oh, I didn't know you have company in here." Herman raised her eyebrows after finding the light blue scrubs resident in the room. "And I didn't know I have requested a resident in my service."

"Dr. Herman, Dr. Torres's just bringing me some foods." Arizona threw an apologetic smile to the brunette for the rudeness from her boss, who patted her knee gently and rose up from the chair.

"I should get back to work, doctors." Callie smiled to the two women as she left the room. She mouthed 'call me' to the blonde before closed the door behind.

"Sorry to break up your little dinner date with your girlfriend, Robbins." Herman said coldly, flipping through the files that had been separated in a few piles on the table.

"Torres is my fiancée." Arizona corrected her mentor while throwing the half empty food containers into the trash. She rolled her eyes lightly because, well, she had introduced Callie to her new boss the last time. "We're getting married in December."

"I have no interest in your personal life, Robbins." The Fetal surgeon sat down on the chair opposite to her fellow. She waited until the blonde reclaimed her seat. "I need to talk to you about this fellowship."

"What about it?" Arizona looked at the woman curiously.

"I just had a meeting with Chief Webber." Herman said slowly. "I took this job because I made a promise with Webber years ago. I'm here to fulfill my promise to him before I stepped into the next stage of my life. And we had an agreement that I'd only sign up for 6 months."

"What? 6 months?" The blonde jerked forward in her seat. "What next stage of your life?"

"I have no interest in your personal life, and my personal life is none of your business." Herman crossed her arms staring at the woman in front of her emotionlessly. "The deal I had with Webber was, I'd come here passing on some knowledge to the doctors that interested in Fetal surgery. I didn't know he'd set up a fellowship program until I was here. He through he'd change my mind once I've met you. According to him, you're a talented surgeon that has a great potential in Fetal surgery."

Arizona held her breath waiting for Herman to continue.

"And he is right." Finally, a rare smile appeared on the Fetal surgeon's face. "You have something. You are special. However, I made another promise to another place and I can not postpone that by too far."

"What does that mean? So the last month... and now," Arizona gestured the folders spreading on the table in front of her. "Is for nothing?"

"I've talked with the Medical board earlier. With my seal of approval, you're allowed to take the board exam in the beginning of next year if you can complete the year long fellowship within 6 months." Herman put her hand on one of the piles. "Hence, the crash course I'm planning for you."

"You mean I'd have to work twice as hard as now? I can't. I have a department of my own." The Peds surgeon swallowed visibly.

"That's why I had that meeting with the chief. He's going to hire an interim chief for the Peds department. And I'll extend my contract until you took the exam." Herman shrugged casually. "Of course, if you think it's too hard for you, we can stop the fellowship and you can still learn something by assisting my surgeries in the coming few months."

"Do I have to decide now?" Arizona stared at the redhead surgeon with a deep frown. She really couldn't make the decision right now.

"You have a day off tomorrow. Think it through and give me an answer after you returned." Herman stood up from the chair. "We have to act fast if you decided to continue with this fellowship. We don't have much time to waste."