Title: Barnburner 2/?
Author: Tweyelite
Rating: PG
Pairing: Callie/Arizona
Disclaimer: Nothings mine.
A/N: Unbeta-ed
A barnburner is a very good fight, one that is very intense and exciting, a real nail-biter. A fight that is so close it's hard to predict who will come out the winner until seconds before it ends.

The door to her office closed and Arizona sat there stunned. She'd allowed her past relationship with Amy to colour her judgment about Callie. It had been wrong and she hadn't even realized it until Callie had pointed out how callous her words had actually been. Arizona felt pretty shitty about it. She resolved to treat Callie better, with the respect she deserved. She was a doctor and she'd been in the Peace Corps for god sakes. Plus she was a lovely woman and absolutely gorgeous, but that was beside the point.

Callie and been mature enough to come to her even after she'd been rude. She'd even had the balls to confront her in the bar to prove her point. The two of them had botched things nicely but obviously they had a bit of miscommunication happening until today. Everything Callie had said made Arizona wonder if she'd been wrong to turn the beautiful Latina down. She wasn't Amy after all. Amy..

**Flashback**

"I want to be with you Ari." The beautiful brunette said her eyes beseeching belief.

"But what about David?" Arizona asked skeptically. God knows she loved Amy, she couldn't help how hard she had fallen, but she couldn't stop the nagging feeling that this was all going to end badly.

"David isn't you." She said and leaned forward stroking the blonds' cheek softly.

**End of Flashback**

Arizona shook her head trying to dispel the unpleasant memories from resurfacing. She refocused on her work putting everything else aside, at least for a few hours.

Arizona Robbins was exhausted. She felt completely shattered. It had been a long day all around. She'd lost one of her patients, a six year old boy named Simon. That plus her memories of Amy and her thoughts of Callie, it was just too much. After days like this Arizona did the only thing she could do. She went home, stripped naked, crawled into her bed and wept like a broken child until she eventually she fell asleep.

Callie was dancing it up at Swank and having a wonderful time. She'd had a long day of breaking and setting bones but she was still experiencing the good mood she'd been feeling all day.

Strands of her lustrous black hair were sticking to her face as she worked up a light sheen of sweat on the dance floor. She swayed her hips and closed her eyes feeling the beat of the bass vibrate through her. She smiled and this time she really felt it. Lately she'd been giving out plenty of fake smile to all the people around her but this smile, this was real and it was for her. She bit her bottom lip, still smiling and dancing as the throngs of women pulsed around her.

She exited the bar to get some air. She was hot from dancing and being surrounded by the other bodies on the dance floor. Callie leaned up against the outside wall enjoying the feeling of the crisp night air against her heated skin. She let her head fall back and her eyes close as she allowed herself to enjoy the purity of the moment. All she could hear was the faint beat of the music within and the sound of traffic as it whizzed by.

Suddenly Arizona's smiling face popped into Callie's mind. She wondered what the blond wad doing right then, sleeping Callie imagined. She tried to picture what the blond ped's surgeon would look like peacefully asleep in her bed but she couldn't quite picture it for some reason. A shiver raced down Callie's spine and she decided it would be a good idea to go home and get some rest herself. She did have to work the next day.

Callie entered the locker room her eyes immediately focusing on the blond ped's surgeon. Christina was in there as well and they made the cursory nod to one another as the fierce little woman swept out the door.

Something was off about the blond today, Callie could tell. Her eyes lacked their usual sparkle. Most people probably wouldn't have noticed anything was off but Callie wasn't most people.

"Hey Arizona, have a rough night?" Callie asked softening her voice as she touched the blonds shoulder.

Arizona finally looked up into Callie's concerned eyes and felt all the sadness of last night overwhelm her. She burst into tears and felt herself being wrapped in Callie's warm embrace.

Callie began rubbing Arizona's back soothingly as she whispered, "Shh, it's going to be alright."

Arizona nuzzled her face into the crook of Callie's neck and held onto her for dear life. Eventually she quieted down only sniffling sporadically. Callie was still rubbing her back when she asked, "Better?" Arizona nodded into her neck and then pulled away to wipe her tears on the sleeve of her scrubs.

"Thank you Calliope." Arizona said her voice gravelly from crying.

"Anytime." Callie smiled as she squeezed Arizona's hand reassuringly trying to ignore how sexy Arizona's voice sounded.

"If you want to talk about whatever is bothering you, or just hang out, well you know where to find me." Callie offered with a small smile.

Arizona nodded. "Do I look okay?" she asked motioning to her tearstained face.

"You look beautiful even when you're sad." Callie answered honestly, blushing and shrugging.

Arizona blushed as well smiling shyly as she moved towards the door. She still had a job to do and she needed to get out of the room. She could still feel the skin of Callie's neck on her face. She could still smell the faint aroma of Callie's shampoo. And she could still feel the safety and comfort of being wrapped in Callie's arms.