"Calliope?" She stood at the door of the trauma room for a second to compose herself before storming past everyone to get to her girlfriend's bed side. "Calliope, baby come on." Arizona took her hand and pleaded with Callie to wake up and open her eyes. Neither happened. She was unconscious. Arizona started searching the room for answers.

"What happened?" When nobody replied she shouted a little louder. "What happened?" But everybody was too busy stabilising the brunette. Suddenly there was a hand on her shoulder. When she turned, the blonde found Jonathon with an equally worried expression on his face. He pulled her in for a hug and whispered.

"Let them do what they need to."

"I'm not leaving." She insisted. "What the hell happened?"

"I found her at The Avenue when I opened up this morning at about 10 o'clock. She must have gone in early. She was at the bottom of the stairs; I think she must have fallen."

"Excuse me Dr Robbins." The peds surgeon turned around towards Derek's voice.

"Calliope is..."

"My girlfriend and this is her best friend, Jonathon." She explained, pointing behind her.

"Oh yes, her emergency contact. Well we're taking her to get some scans. We need to figure out if anything substantial is causing the loss of consciousness or if it's just her existing brain injury."

"This happened before right?" Arizona asked Jonathon.

"Yeah, she was out for two days. But she had been drinking then."

"Well, we've done a tox screen anyway."

"No Calliope doesn't drink anymore." The blonde interjected.

"Well just to be sure. I have to get up to radiology with Calliope now."

"Um, you might wanna call her Callie." Jonathon suggested. "She hates her full name."

Arizona was back by her partner's side. "Hey, sweetheart, they're gonna take you for some tests now. I'll be right here Calliope. Please wake up soon."

She stood routed to the spot as they wheeled her girlfriend out of the room.

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Two hours later and Jonathon entered the room his friend was unconscious in. Next to the bed, Arizona was still holding Callie's hand. Her head CT was clear but she had some bruised ribs and a lot of swelling on her face from where she had hit the floor. He sat down in the seat next to the blonde.

"Are you still opening the club tonight?" She asked without looking away from her girlfriend.

"I don't have much choice really, not after all the promotional work. I don't want to leave her but at least she's stable."

"For now." The surgeon couldn't help being less than glass half full. She was still relatively new to all this.

"She'll be okay."

"I didn't know you were her emergency contact."

"Yeah, I guess she hadn't got around to changing it to you."

"No, I thought it would be her parents or sister."

"She wouldn't want her family to stress unnecessarily."

"This isn't enough of a reason to contact them?"

"Cal's kept a lot worse from them. If she isn't awake by tomorrow, we'll call them."He knew his friend wouldn't want them to come all the way from Miami but if things got worse he wouldn't have a choice.

"Was it you? Who found her after she over dosed?" She was yet to turn away from the sleeping form. Callie always found it a bit creepy when Arizona watched her sleep but she looked so peaceful. The blonde always felt better knowing that her partner was sleeping soundly.

"No, that was before college. It's scary to think..." Jonathon trailed off.

"That you came so close to never meeting her." She knew the feeling. A single tear streaked down her face.

"I should have made her stop and slow down. How come you didn't?" The anger creeping into his tone hit Arizona.

"I..." Things had gotten so messed up.

"Sorry, I know this isn't easy for you." He reached his hand out and placed it on the small of her back.

"I... Do you remember when you were younger and you thought love solved everything?"

"Doesn't it?"

"Well, I love her but all this crap still happened." The surgeon took a deep breath and finally turned to the man sat next to her. "We haven't really talked since she got back from LA. I've not really seen her, which is shit I know."

"Wait, you two haven't made up for that yet?"

"She said we were okay and that she forgave me but that might just be because..."

"Because?"

"I never realised that she was so worried about my exes."

"Well that's natural isn't it? The only thing that matters is if you're worried about them."

Arizona shook her head furiously. "She kicks their ass! Hands down!"

Jonathon nodded and stood up. "I have to go now. I want constant updates and if anything changes, you call me okay?"

"Yeah." She had already focused her attention back on to Callie.

"She'll be okay." He sounded more sure than he really was.

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Left alone with her girlfriend, Arizona began talking to her, hoping she could hear her somewhere.

"Come on Calliope, you're starting to scare me now. I need you to wake up. We've got some things to go through. I've got a lot to make up for. You've gotta be here so I can apologise. You need to get angry with me. You'll never push me away if you do. You need to wake up and see me in my new dress. I bought it especially for the opening tonight. It's red Calliope, I know you love me in blue but I look pretty good in it, if I do say so myself." Arizona brought the tanned hand clutched in hers to her mouth and kissed each knuckle. "I love you. Please be okay." She pleaded.

"She will be." A voice she recognised to be Teddy's insisted.

"I can't lose her."

The cardio surgeon took the seat opposite. "Her scans are clear; it's just a matter of waiting. I don't need to tell you that though right? Bet you're an expert now."

"Ha," It was a humourless laugh. "That's just it. I'm a doctor but I don't know about this."

"Can't be easy, being with someone with a brain injury."

"Honestly? It sucks. She's great. Calliope is kind and thoughtful and generous. She's perfect. So perfect that I forget and go home to find that she isn't there. Not really. She's tired and distant. However hard it is for me though, watching it happen is worse. Imagine that being your life. Losing your mind all the time. It's worse for her and if me loving her can help in anyway, if I can make her as happy as she makes me? That's all I want."

"Wow, I've never seen you like this before. So sure about how you feel. It's good, even under these circumstances."

"She has to wake up."

"Then she will. I reckon Callie is that kind of person. You should get some rest yourself, you look shattered."

"I'm not leaving."