The rest of the day went by rather uneventful for Callie, she avoided Mark's wondering gazes and pretended to get paged whenever he tried to talk to her. Instead, she often caught herself musing about a certain blonde, who was sitting in a patient's room only a few steps away from her.

Around 5 o'clock she finally gave in, as a check-up on D. Robbins was necessary anyway. Callie grabbed his file and entered his room. The sight before her brought a wide smile on her face: Arizona's head was lying on the bed, her hair messy and muddled, while she sat on a chair next to her brother, her arms dangling in the gap between seat and bed. She was snoring lightly and her face twitched every now and then, which Callie assumed was due to her uncomfortable state between lying and sitting.

The Ortho surgeon quickly stepped into the room, closed the door behind her quietly, tiptoed over to the machines next to the bed and jotted down some data. Satisfied with the results, she turned around and almost fell over the chair right behind her. She luckily caught her balance, but the nudge against her seat had woken Arizona nevertheless. She grunted in annoyance, lifted her head and immediately cried out in pain caused by her sore neck.

When Callie spoke, the blonde jerked around in surprise, as she hadn't noticed the other woman behind her, but quickly flinched back, rubbing her neck with one hand.

"I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to startle you! I just came in to check up on Danny. And, well, you were asleep, so I thought I'd just… I'm so sorry… can I get you some aspirin or something?" the brunette started rambling, her cheeks flushing.

Arizona let out a small chuckle, turned in her chair and faced Callie. "It's alright, don't worry about it, I shouldn't be so skittish. My dad's a marine, he'd probably be censuring me right now, had he seen me jump like that." Another laugh escaped Arizona's lips, which eased Callie's mind and made her grin down at the blonde.

After a couple of moment the PEDs surgeon looked away, and started rubbing her neck again. "I kind of have the feeling this one isn't gonna go away by itself though, feels like I pulled a muscle or something. Could you maybe have a quick look, please, Dr?" she said gazing up to Callie with an angelic look on her face.

"Uhh… well, I'm an Ortho surgeon, I'm sure there'd be somebody else more qualified to…" "Please, Dr Torres?" Arizona interrupted the other woman's insecure stuttering, "This is muscle examination 101, I'm sure you'll manage. " she added with a challenging smirk, as she turned her back to Callie and lifted her blonde locks so that she had full access to her neck.

The brunette stood there, somewhat unsure, and finally stepped up to the chair, and lifted her right hand to the exposed flesh in front of her. The second her hand connected with the skin, she felt a shockwave run up her arm and through her entire body. She sensed the blonde tense under her touch, which she assumed was due to the pain that was worsened by her strokes.

"Sorry" she mumbled, carefully added her left hand and started rubbing along Arizona's neck muscles. They were strong and well-defined, but also very stiff. When the small woman let out a low gasp, Callie quickly removed her hands and cleared her throat. "Alrighty, uhm, I'd say it's pretty tense. Nothing that wouldn't go away in a day or two though."

Arizona let go of her hair, which fell down her back again, and turned around to face Callie. "Thank you, I'll let you know if it gets better or if I'll need you to examine me again." She said with a challenging smirk. Callie lost herself for a moment in those deep blue eyes, then gave her a quick nod and looked down at the chart in her hands. "Oh, yeah, what I actually came here for is your brother. His data is good, he appears to be stable again, so nothing we need to worry about right now." She said with a reassuring smile. The grin that had been on Arizona's lips just seconds ago quickly faded, she turned around to look at her brother and whispered a small "Thank you".

Callie squeezed her shoulder to show her support, which she instantly regretted as she felt the blonde tense under her grip and heard her suck in air. Arizona gazed up at the brunette and offered an appreciative smile, which the taller woman gladly returned, her eyes once again finding the blonde's.

Both were jerked out of their thoughts when Callie's pager went off. "Crap, 911! I gotta go. Uhm, if you need anything, have somebody page me directly and I'll be there right away. OK? OK… right, so, see you soon then!" she rambled, then turned and ran out of the room.

Arizona looked after her and let her mind wander. She felt at ease and slowly leaned back. When her neck hit the back of the chair she cried out "Awww, Christ. Focus, Arizona!"

She stayed in the hospital for another hour or so, reading magazines and chatting with her brother, or more like, to her brother, as she had grown accustomed to over the last months. After a while she got bored and she got her laptop out to do some research on experimental treatments for Danny. She opened up Google and started her inquiries, but she soon lost interest since all remedies she could find proved to be either not suitable or very risky.

Deciding to end her investigation, she closed the computer and turned over to put it back into her bag. However, a thought came to her mind, she sat back up and opened the computer. After starting Google once again, she typed what had been on her mind the whole day: "Dr Callie Torres".

A whole list of links appeared on the screen, and Arizona decided to work through them all. About two hours later, she was satisfied she'd seen all the information available. The PEDs surgeon was quite impressed with her fellow physician's work, who had, amongst other things, cured a clubfoot and found a way to make cartilage from scratch. She had also been in Botswana with the Peace Corps, which excited her even more.

Happy with the information she'd found, Arizona finally turned off the by now overheated computer, put it into her bag and checked her watch. 8:22. Time to go home, or what she called home at the moment, her best friend's apartment. She got her stuff together, kissed her brother goodnight and left the room. Oh her way out she kept her eyes open for a certain brunette, but didn't spot her. "Oh well, tomorrow then", she thought to herself as she subconsciously rubbed her neck.

She left the hospital and got into her car, on the drive home she turned up the radio to full volume, the lyrics of one of her favourite songs blaring form the speakers…

I can feel everything you do

Hear everything you say

Even when you're miles away…

She sang along until she reached her friend's apartment block, turned off the radio just as the song ended and got out of the car. She found her key, walked over to the door and went inside the building. She got into the elevator, reached her floor and opened the apartment's door. Arizona went into the living room.

"Whoa, what the heck? Can't you do that in your room?" she yelled out whilst averting her eyes from her semi-naked friend and her equally dressed boyfriend on the couch in front of her. "Sorry. We kind of… uhm, we just…" was the only response she got. "Never mind, I'll just be in my room. Goodnight, Teddy."