Hey guys, I'm sorry it took me so incredibly long to post an update, school's just been really stressful lately. But here we go, a rather short one again, and no real Callie-Arizona interaction, but it's coming, I promise. I need to mention that I have no medical skills whatsoever, so if I write up some non-sense, forgive me ;) I'm on vacation right now, so the next update should be coming pretty soon. I hope you like it! :)
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"Sorry, somebody's dying somewhere. Gotta go" was all Callie got out before she turned and ran out of the zona stood completely still for a couple of minutes, lost in her thoughts, then turned over to her brother and said "If you were awake, you'd be telling me to propose to her right about now, wouldn't you?"
After seven hours of exhausting back-to-back surgeries Callie finally stepped out of the OR, washed herself and made her way over to the nurses' station. "Please tell me there's no more hip-replacements for me during the next month, I swear, if I see another hipbone I'm gonna lose it!" she complained to a blonde nurse she'd never seen before. The woman gave her a sympathetic smile, turned and left. "Oh, sure, leave, never mind the crazed-out scalpel woman…" Callie mumbled to herself while watching the blonde retreat.
"What's up sister? Talking to yourself again?" Callie spun around to the source of the teasing voice. Puffing out some air, she turned back to the nurses' station and let her head drop to the cold surface of the counter before her. "Hey Christina" The small brunette stared at Callie intently, then rolled her eyes and reluctantly asked "Ok, so what is it? What's got your panties in a bunch?" "I hate hips. I had four hip-replacements today" She turned to Christina and grabbed her by the shoulders "Four! Do you hear me!"
"Okaaay, wow, somebody didn't get much sleep last night… I have just the cure! Tonight's tequila girls' night! Owen just asked me to have a child with him, so yeah, tequila is required. So far it's gonna be you and… well, and me. But I'm sure there'll be more. Teddy, maybe Meredith. Oh, and Bailey! And whoever else we can get. I'll see you at Joe's around eight." Said the small woman, grabbed Callie's hands and mockingly removed them from her shoulders. "Eight. And bring whoever else. Actually, no, not whoever. They need to be able to drink!" she commanded, then turned and marched away, leaving behind a bemused Latina.
Letting out a deep sigh, Callie grabbed the pager she'd put on the counter earlier, smiled mocking at a nurse who had obviously been eavesdropping, and who now turned lobster-red, and made her way to the locker room, hoping she wouldn't be paged in the last… nine minutes she was on call. She found her locker, opened it and grabbed a change of clothes. The brunette took off her lab coat and scrub top, and reached for the old t-shirt she'd just pulled out of her locker, one of her all-time favourites, a Foreigner-band shirt.
Just as she was about to pull it over her head, a sharp voice startled her "Eight o'clock!" Callie cringed at the sound, quickly put on the shirt and spun around "Seriously Christina, you have got to stop doing that!" The petite Asian woman just snickered and was about to say something when Callie's pager went off. "Nooooooo…!" the Latina screamed theatrically, quickly threw her lab coat back on and the rest of her clothes into her locker.
"A 911, two minutes before I get off. That's just not right!" she complained as she ran past Christina. When Callie reached her destination, the room was already full of people, nurses and interns stood around the bed. She made her way to the patient who appeared to be having a seizure, checked his vitals and ordered a nurse to "give him 300mg of Fenobarbital. Fast!" She held down the jerking body in front of her, that relaxed under her grip once the medication had been injected. She looked up to the displays, relieved to see that his vitals were back to normal and that he had a steady pulse. One by one, everybody else left the room, until it was only Callie and her patient.
"Thank you" a calm voice said. The Latina looked up and saw the small blonde she'd been thinking about so much lately, smiling at her. She returned the smile and said "Sure. He's back to his previous state now, but since we can't be sure why he seized, we'll have to run a couple of tests. Probably tomorrow, when he's a bit stronger." She gave Arizona a reassuring smile which was warmly returned. "Wow, that's some dimple's she' got going on there. And those lips… I wonder…" "So, you wanna know what love is?" the blonde interrupted Callie's train of thoughts, and was repaid with a look that was a mixture of being caught and confusion. "Sorry. What?" Callie finally got out. The blonde pointed to the brunette's chest '"Your shirt. Foreigner. It's a good band!"
Callie followed the direction of Arizona's finger, until realization finally hit her. "Oh! You mean… right, yes. Good band!" she stumbled, which was once again returned with a light chuckle by the other woman. "It's my brother's favourite band, so I've had their songs on non-stop for days now." She grinned down at her brother. Callie studied the woman in front of her, it was obvious how much her brother's condition was getting to the blonde. She still looked stunning but even now as she was giving Danny the kindest beam Callie had ever seen, the stress and exhaustion were obvious on Arizona's features.
"She just needs to take a break, to forget about everything for a while. Her being here all the time isn't helping anybody, especially not herself." Callie thought. Pondering her further actions, the Latina starred at the blonde on front of her, and was astonished once again by her clear blue eyes when Arizona looked up at her. "A couple of friends and I are going out tonight. Nothing fancy, just a couple of pals chit-chatting and drinking. But, you know, if you'd want to get out of the hospital for a bit, which I think would be good for you, I'm sure you could tag along… if you want to, you don't have to… it's just, you're here a lot, and you could probably use a break. But you shouldn't feel pressured, I just thought I'd ask…"
Arizona interrupted Callie's rambling "That sounds lovely, and I'd really love to come, but I already have plans tonight. Sorry… but thanks for the offer, I'm super flattered. Super!" she said, dimples in full force. Callie just nodded quickly, trying to hide her surprisingly strong disappointment, and declared, a little to cheerfully "Oh, that's fine, totally. Have fun!", turned and left the room.
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Soo, that's it for now.
In case you're confused, there's a song by Foreigner called "I wanna know what Love is" :)
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