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Thursday, November 12th 2009. 1:43am.

"How's he doing Cristina?" Arizona asked.

"Minimal loss of blood... Heart rate normal... BP Normal... Kidney's holding up."Cristina responds looking at the monitors.

Arizona looks up from her position on James' side, retractors in one hand and specula in the other. "Thank you..." She sighed heavily. "Ok... let's go over this again..."

She looks at Callie who is on the other side. Callie looks up to meet Arizona's gaze. Her eyes, her hooded ocean eyes, looking up at her. So painfully beautiful. The effect was both endearing and seductive. Callie's chest constricts, and she has to force herself to breathe and focus. "I... I can't see how I can extract the fractured bone without damaging the heart. I don't want to cause irreparable damages..." Callie says a little shaking. "The angle of the incision... It's..."

"Look..." Arizona exclaimed.

Both Callie and Cristina turn to look at Arizona, surprised an perplexed.

"Just look..." Arizona says again without looking away from James' heart.

Both look down.... Waiting. "What are we looking at?" Cristina finally asks, looking from Callie to Arizona and back down to the fractures in the heart... "What... What are we..."

"Shhh" Arizona whispered... "The whole heart... the heartbeat..." Arizona looked back up at Callie. She watched as her brows slowly retreated from their tense position... Watched as realization dawned on her... Watched her as she slowly lifted up her head to face Arizona; the shock visible on her face.

"Oh my god..." Callie said looking back at Arizona's now smiling eyes. She had been so fixated on the heart tissue that she failed to see the heart as a whole.

"What? What is it?!?!" Cristina exclaimed.

"Lub Dub" Arizona says.

"Lub, what?" Cristina asks, now becoming agitated with not knowing.

"What's the very first thing little boys like James learn about the heart, Yang?" Arizona asks turning her attention to Cristina.

"I don't know... Uh... Uh..." Cristina stumbles out.

"Think like a kid..." Arizona continues.

"Uh... The uh the sound it makes.." Yang says looking up at Arizona for confirmation.

"Exactly," Arizona says, the joy in her voice.

Callie looks over at Cristina who still looks very much confused, "The angle of the wound is... Awkward at best... Until the 'dub' of the heart."

Cristina looks down, and sure enough, at the 'lub' of the heart, the bone pressed up against the inferior vena cava violently as the heart expanded with the intake of blood. But at the 'dub', the heart deflated enough so that the bone made no contact and both the exit and entrance wound line up. This would be the safest time to attempt to extract the bone.

"Brilliant..." Cristina involuntarily let's out.

"With kids, the answer to the toughest questions is sometimes the easiest," Arizona says to Yang.

"So... So what?" Cristina asks.

"We remove the bone, but we have to time it..." Arizona answers.

Callie sighs, "Great... Just great."

Arizona could tell that Callie was now both anxious and nervous. Should she make a mistake, she could rip through the IVC or the pulmonary semilunar valve or the tricuspid or.... the myriad of other parts that would prove fatal.

Arizona turns to Cristina and asks, "Dr. Yang, will you please relieve me of my position?"

Cristina hesitates for a second, not believing what she was hearing, that she was going to finally be so close to a human heart after waiting for so long. Then she quickly hustled over to Arizona and slowly extracted the tools from her hands which were poised to keep parts of James chest organs away from the heart cavity.

Callie looked up wondering why Arizona asked to be relieved. She watched as the other woman walked around the surgical table toward her. Felt as Arizona stepped in close to her side, her chest now pressing against Callie's arm. Felt her body heat when she leaned her face in towards Callie's ear. Her heart jumped at the contact, her mind involuntarily blurred as she smelled lavender.

"You can do this, Calliope. You can help me save this kid's life..." Arizona whispered, looking deeply into her eyes when Callie turned to face her; communicating her confidence in this woman.

Arizona stepped in behind Callie and pressed the whole of her front against the other woman's back. She felt Callie's body tense, "Relax... And just feel..." She continued as she also forces herself to exhale and take her own advice after she felt Callie roll the tension from her shoulders.

Arizona placed her left palm against Callie's hip, breifly reveling in how her hand hummed from the contact. She took her right hand and snaked it around Callie so that her palm landed on Callie's chest, where her heart is.

Callie could feel Arizona's warm breath on her neck and had to swallow the lump in her throat as a knot formed in her groin.

Arizona was feeling warmer as she watched Callie slightly roll her head to one side, knowing that she was not alone in recalling this familiar dance. Her eyes traced the curve of her neck as she leaned in involuntarily, her lips reaching for that familiar spot. Her left palm which was on Callie's hip, now beginning to snake over her flat belly in their attemp to increase their contact. She pulled back slightly, realizing that she was now too intoxicated from this moment.

"Ok?" Arizona softly asks, more for herself than Callie.

"Ok..." Callie responds, swallowing hard again.

Callie felt Arizona's right hand; which was still on the valley of her breast, begin to pump. She was pumping it in time with the rhythm of James' heart. Callie felt her heart slow to the same pace. She also felt Arizona's heart beat fall in the same rhythm.

Two people, one heartbeat, she thought to herself before proceeding...