AN: Sorry for the delay in posting this. Also I have no medical knowledge whatsoever so I did the best to my abilities on this one. Enjoy!
A light shined from underneath the door and every once and awhile a shadow passed by, accompanied by footsteps. Callie laid on her back, her hands under her head as she soaked in the peacefulness. Arizona was home sleeping and Callie would have done anything to be with her girlfriend. She sighed as she thought of how Arizona's sleeping body naturally curled into hers and how the little mumbles Arizona made in her sleep caused Callie's heart to skip beats.
Suddenly Callie's phone went off. She searched for it in the on-call room sheets, finally grabbing it and reading the screen. It was Arizona. Callie smiled as she read the message and called her girlfriend.
"Hey," A sleepy Arizona answered the phone.
"Checking up on me huh?"
"No, I just couldn't sleep and I was thinking about you."
"Thinking about me?" Callie sat up on the bed.
"Yeah, are you busy?"
"Umm, nope."
"Where are you?" Arizona asked.
"At work,"
"My girlfriend is funny," Arizona lowered her voice, "Are you alone?"
"Yes,"
"Good because I'm naked..."
"Jesus-"
"And wet,"
"Hold that thought!" Callie dropped her phone on the bed and ran over to the door, making sure it was locked. She pressed her back against the door as she ran her hands through her hair and felt the throbbing start between her legs.
"Callie? Callie?" Arizona waited but there was no reply, "Calliope..?"
"Oh!" Callie ran to the bed and picked the phone back up, "I'm here, I'm here."
"Talk to me Callie," Arizona's breathing became heavy.
"Spread your legs,"
"Mmmm okay,"
"Imagine me kissing your neck and running my hand between your thighs," Callie laid down on the bed.
"Callie, I'm so wet,"
"Are you touching yourself?"
"Yes,"
"I didn't say you could. Stop," Callie demanded, "Imagine me kneeling in front of you..."
"Oh god..."
"My tongue is slowly-"
Callie was interrupted by a knock on the door. She moved the phone from her ear and covered it with her hand.
"Um, busy!" The brunette yelled at the locked door. She put the phone back up to her ear and lowered her voice, "My tongue is slowly-"
"Dr. Torres," A voice called out from the other side of the door.
"Busy!" Callie yelled again.
"Its important," The voice shouted back.
Callie made her way to the door, unlocking and partially opening it. Lexie stood on the other side of the door.
"We've been trying to page you! 911."
"Okay, I'll be right there," Callie closed the door and put the phone to her ear, "Arizona? Arizona?" The other end of the line was dead. She quickly hung up, sent the blonde a text message and ran down to the ER.
-.-.-.-
"Where have you been?" Teddy asked as Callie walked into the trauma room, "We've been paging you."
"My pager died," Callie put on a pair of gloves and walked over to the patient.
"Michael, 10 years old, car accident." Teddy moved the ultrasound over the boy's chest, "He's got a tear in his left ventricle."
"His leg is crushed, I won't know what I'm dealing with until I get in there," Callie turned to Teddy, "Did you page Arizona?"
"She's already on her way," Teddy turned to the others in the room, "Let's get him up to the OR right now."
-.-.-.-
"He's got massive internal injuries and I'm having a hard time controlling the bleeding. What's going on in your end Dr. Altman?" Arizona continued to work in her patient, pulling out soaked sponges and replacing them with her hands.
"Something has torn right through his left ventricle I cant-hold on I can feel something," Teddy reached deeper into the boy's chest cavity and grabbed onto something hard. She gently pulled the foreign object out, "I've got part of the dash in here."
"God was he not wearing a seatbelt? And what was he doing in the front seat?" Arizona shook her head as she continued damage control in the abdomen, "Dr. Torres?"
"His tibia is shattered,"
"Amputation?" Arizona asked as she clamped a bleeder.
"There are some viable bone fragments here, if I could just get some titanium and-"
"Dr. Torres, he's lost too much blood already I suggest we go with amputation," Arizona interrupted.
"No,"
"Excuse me?" Arizona looked up at Callie.
"I'm the Orthopedic surgeon and I say-"
"No...I say, Dr. Torres, that you better start prepping for an amputation. There's no time to build a new leg."
"Dr. Robbins I will not be cutting off this-"
"Dr. Torres!"
A spurt of blood shot out at Arizona and the monitors began to buzz as all the surgeons shot their heads up, looking at the screens.
"I can't find the bleeder," Arizona's hands frantically searched inside the abdominal cavity.
"He's crashing, V-fib," Teddy interrupted, as she began moving everything off the patient, "Start CPR and push one of epi! Charge the paddles to 300. Clear!"
Everyone lifted their hands in the air and watched the monitors for a response. Nothing. They charged the paddles again, placing the metal to the boy's chest and shocking him again. No response. The body cavities filled with more blood and they all stood there as Teddy placed the paddles down and the haunting sound of the boy's flatline filled the room.
"Time of death 11:52pm," Arizona pulled off her mask and walked away.
-.-.-.-
"What were you doing?!" Arizona pulled Callie into an on-call room and closed the door.
"What was I doing? What were you doing?" Callie folded her arms.
"If I say amputate the damn leg then do it!"
"Oh I'm sorry, I thought I was the Orthopedic surgeon..."
"He was my patient, I'm the head of Ped-"
"He was my patient too Arizona! You weren't the only surgeon in there," Callie watched as Arizona walked over and sat on one of the beds, "What is wrong with you? I thought if anybody would be okay with building a kid's leg it would be you. You're all rainbows and fairy dust and second chances, or is that all crap?"
"Sometimes you can't fix things Callie, sometimes rainbows and fairy dust doesn't fix anything. His leg was gone, done. If you hadn't wasted time about dreaming of building him a new one we may have-"
"Oh so its my fault the kid is dead? I get it."
"Dammit Callie!" Arizona sat up and walked towards the door, "You're a compassionate person and an incredible surgeon but fuck you can really be ignorant sometimes."
Arizona opened the door and stormed down the hall.
"What's that supposed to mean!?" Callie shouted at the blonde, but she didn't turn around.
-.-.-.-
Callie went home to her apartment after her argument with Arizona, which she was still confused about. She walked in the door, tossed her keys on the table and took off her jacket. Walking over to the phone, she dropped her jacket on the floor and checked her messages. There weren't any. She checked her cellphone; no missed calls and no messages. Callie was worried about Arizona, it was their first major fight and she wanted to make sure the blonde was okay. Callie sent her a text message and placed her phone on the kitchen counter as she reached for a wine glass out of the cupboard. The brunette grabbed a bottle of wine, popped it open, poured herself a glass and walked over to her couch. She placed her feet up on the coffee table and turned on the TV.
Callie finished watching a few reruns of her favourite sitcoms before realizing she hadn't checked to see if Arizona had messaged her back. She got up and grabbed her phone from the kitchen counter; no messages. Callie dialled Arizona's phone number and received her voicemail right away, so she decided to leave a short message:
"Its me, call me back when you get this okay? I'm worried. Bye."
Callie placed her phone back down in its previous spot and began stripping off her clothes as she headed towards the bathroom. She turned on the shower and stepped in. The warm water trickled down the curves of her body and washed away all the stress from the day. She closed her eyes and listened to the water falling off her skin and onto the tile floor; she wished she could share this moment of calmness with Arizona. She wished she could understand the deepest corners of how her girlfriend's mind worked. She wished Arizona hadn't walked away in the on-call room. She wished Arizona would pick up her damn phone.
Callie turned the shower off as soon as the water began to cool and she stepped out, wrapping a towel around her body. She walked out of the bathroom, past her clothes and straight to the kitchen counter to check her phone. She picked up the device; no messages. Callie sighed as she tossed the phone back on the counter and walked back to her bedroom.
Callie changed into a pair of shorts and a tank top and crawled under her blankets. Her eyes became heavy and she slowly closed them, trying to block out the world so she could fall asleep. Callie heard the sound of her front doorknob turning and the door squeaking open. She sat up in her bed as she listened to a set of keys being dropped on the table and a set of footsteps moving towards her bedroom door. Arizona stepped into her doorway and Callie let out a sigh of relief as the blonde walked over to her.
Arizona sat on the edge of the bed and looked at Callie. Neither one of them said anything as Arizona just smiled.
"I love you," Arizona let the words come out of her mouth like she had said it a thousand times before.
Callie sat there for a moment, her heart racing as she heard Arizona say the words she had been feeling for so long.
"You do?" Callie asked, a smile growing on her face.
"I do,"
"I love you too."