As Callie walked to the attending's lounge, charts in hand, she could not stop thinking about the bubbly blond she had bumped into earlier. How does one get the name Arizona? Callie thought to herself and laughed a little. Not that she should be laughing, really her own full name was something in itself. Calliope. Really, mother, Calliope? She thought and smiled a little at the thought of her mother. Ah well it could have been worse. She smiled again as thoughts of the blond reappeared in her head. She could not remember the last time she smiled so much, it was a nice change. As she opened the door to the lounge she held her breath in hopes that it would be unoccupied. It was much easier for her to work with noone around, and probably better if no one saw how completely distracted she still was.

Yes. She thought. Empty. But just as she closed the door, she heard a familiar voice bellow her name.

"Torres!"

Ugh, of course. She turned to see her best friend and his cheesy big mouth grin headed straight for her.

"Hey Mark, what's up?"

"Just getting ready for surgery, lots of skin grafts today" Mark said.

"Oh that's fun" Callie said sarcastically.

"Geese Torres you are especially pleasant this morning"

"Sorry, long night. Hahn is a psycho, I need to go home" Callie said apologetically, trying to hide the grin at the last thought that popped into her head.

"Bad day huh? So what's that smirk about? Did you get lucky or something?! Come on Torres I'm your best friend, you got to tell me!"

"Ha, no mark. I did not get lucky. It's none of your business. I'm going to finish these charts later I have to get some sleep. See you later Mark." She turned with a smile and walked out of the room.

"Callie! Oh come on! Don't leave me hanging!" Mark shouted as the door slowly closed behind her.

As she stepped outside the hospital Callie took in a deep breath of the cool, damp Seattle air. She loved it here, it was so much different from her childhood home in Miami, which would always hold a special place in her heart, but Seattle it was magical it had a hold on her soul. Tonight Callie was especially thankful that she lived right across the street from the hospital, and before she knew it she was home in her bed drifting off to sleep.

Across town Arizona Robbins was pretty exhausted herself, and glad to finally be home and out of her scrubs. Her first few days at Seattle Grace had been pretty hectic, with new patients and having to take over an entire department on her own. She was dead tired but she wouldn't have it any other way, she loved her job and the tiny humans she got to help every day. Snuggling into her warm covers Arizona closed her eyes and smiled, as she drifted off to sleep as she replayed one of her favorite moments of that day. Callie, she was… stunning.

"Dr. Torres, how are you this morning?" Chief Webber asked.

"Oh hi Chief! I'm good, just about to check on some patients. How are you?"

"Good to hear, I'm great Torres thanks for asking"

"Great? Wow I don't think I`ve heard you say that, well, ever!"

"Well I just hired a new Peds attending to take over the department. She's only been here a few days and already she's got things up and running seamlessly!"

"That's great Chief, seems like you made the right call, she sounds great"

"I'm surprised you haven't met her yet Torres, Dr. Robbins has been running around here like a mad woman"

"Oh I actually bumped into her last night on my way out. She seems very nice Chief" Callie laughed at the thought of how she literally knocked the new doctor and herself to the ground.

"Chief are you free? I've got a liver resection coming up if you want to scrub in" Bailey shouted on her way up to the OR.

"On my way!" The chief shouted back, "See you later Torres"

Callie laughed at the excitement the chief had when he got the chance to scrub in on a surgery, especially one with Dr. Bailey. They shared a close bond that Callie found very sweet.

The board was quiet today, she had checked up on all of her patients, and she still had about three hours left on her shift so she decided to go to the cafeteria and grab some lunch. On her way she passed by the new Peds attending sitting on gurney, in a deserted hall, just staring into space. For some reason Callie couldn't just keep walking, she wanted to make sure Arizona was alright, she had to.

"Hey, Arizona right? Are you okay?"

Nothing. Silence and more spaced out staring. Callie sat down next to her and tried again.

"Arizona?" Callie waved her hand in front of the doctor's face.

"What? Sorry." She finally responded

"Are you okay?" Callie asked with a concerned look.

"Yeah. I`m fine. I just…lost a patient today"

"Oh, I'm sorry" was all she could think to say.

"I don't know why it's bothering me so much. I've lost kids before, and it's sad, but you move on to help the next one. But this kid, she was just four and came in for a simple appendectomy, got an infection and died." She said while holding back tears.

Callie didn't know what to say. She knew sudden loss and she knew it truly hurt, but she didn't know this woman well enough to share that with her. So she just sat there next to her and listened to her talk. She reached out and placed her hand on Arizona's shoulder, trying to comfort her in some way.

"We save more than we lose" Callie said

"Yeah…I know… I know…uh. Wow I'm so sorry for dumping this on you. I don't even know you and here I am practically crying on your shoulder"

Callie smiled "It's okay, don't worry about it. I practically ran you over last night. I hardly think that makes us strangers. Acquaintances at least, wouldn't you say?"

"Ha." Arizona laughed at their clumsy meeting last night. "Acquaintances, yes, of course. Thank you Callie"

"You don't have to thank me Arizona, I like listening to you, and … I think we could be friends I'm here anytime you want to talk okay?"

Flashing her signature dimpled smile now, Arizona happily replied "Okay, and you know what, yeah I think we could be great friends!"

With a small laugh Callie hopped off the gurney and turned to face Arizona. "I was on my way to grab some lunch, would you like to join me, friend?"

"Oh lunch! Yay!" was the response she got from the smaller blond woman as she followed suit and hopped off the gurney next to Callie.

They walked side by side all the way to the cafeteria, they were both silent and lost in their own thoughts. As they sat down to eat, Callie decided to break the quiet, not because it was an awkward silence, it wasn't, not with Arizona. She just wanted to get to know her, she felt the need to know as much as she could about this lively, adorable, blond woman who suddenly appeared at her hospital. "So how do you like Seattle so far?"

"I like it! I mean it rains a LOT here, but after the rain, it's so beautiful"

Callie smiled at the way the blond described the city she loved so much.

"The smell of a fresh rain and the birds singing. Oh! And the ferry's! I love the Ferry boats!" Arizona said excitedly.

Callie laughed at Arizona's childlike excitement "ha-ha, yeah I like them too, it's a nice way to see the city"

Callie and Arizona were equally surprised at how well their conversation flowed, neither one wanted to stop their conversation, but they didn't have much of a choice when both their pagers started beeping like crazy.

"The pit" They both said at once, and giving a small laugh at the coincidence, the both got up and rushed to the ER.

Two hours later the mass amount of patients in the ER have been taken care of, and either sent home or up to surgery. Happily neither Callie nor Arizona had to be in the OR and Callie decided to take the opportunity to invite her new friend out for a drink.

Looking around the ER Callie spotted an exhausted looking Arizona leaning up against the nurses' station. She began walking toward her, planning to ask her for a drink, when suddenly she got exceedingly nervous. What on earth is this about? Callie thought to herself. It's just a drink, with a friend, at a bar I go to all the time. It is not a date. She is way out of my league anyway, Callie told herself. Shaking her head and taking a deep breath she made her way over to Arizona.

"Hey!" Callie said

"Oh!" Arizona jumped a little "Hi Callie" she said with a smile.

"Uh sorry didn't mean to scare you"

"No, no its okay I'm just a little tired I guess"

"Well my shift is up, and I was wondering if you wanted to catch a drink after you`re done?"

"A drink sounds great, Callie. Let me just finish up these charts and then I'll be all ready"

They walked across the street and headed for The Emerald City Bar, or Joes, which is what everyone calls it because Joe is the owner a good friends with most of the patrons. As they walked Callie noticed a look on Arizona's face. She couldn't quite put her finger on what it was, but the blond just seemed to be off in her own mind. Then before she could ask her what she was thinking about, Arizona suddenly stopped walking.

"Arizona?" Callie questioned, as she turned to face the blond.

"Uh you know what, I don't think this was such a good idea. I'm just going to go home. I'm Sorry Callie."

"What? Wait Arizona!"

But before she could even understand what just happened Arizona was back across the street and on her way to her car.

What the hell was that? Callie thought. Confused and a little hurt Callie decided she would just go home too. After all she was really only going to the bar to talk to and get to know Arizona better, but now that she had run off without explanation, all Callie wanted to do was go home and sleep.

Did I say something wrong? Was it just me she didn't want to be around? Callie couldn't stop these thoughts from running through her mind. "Ugh. It's going to be a long night" Callie said to herself as she tossed and turned, unable to sleep.


Note: So this chapter is a little longer that the previous two, and I hope you like it! I did my best to edit it, but let me know if you have some suggestions. Or if you have any thoughts and ideas about where you think the story should go! Thank you all so much for reading!