Chapter 3
One month had quickly turned into two and then three. The more time that passed the more on edge Callie had become. There were several updates from Chief Clark as well as from Special Agent Moore who was in charge of her case here in Seattle. The first update she had gotten had told her how her mother had escaped the penitentiary. Her reaction was to laugh hysterically in the Chiefs ear as she said over and over how she knew that was going to happen. After that both of her parents seemed to have vanished into thin air. She knew that her parents next move would be very calculated one, so she was beginning to get a little jumpy.
The rumors had started to spread like wild fire. Callie had heard a few of them. Some of the more interesting had her being under house arrest for assault charges. The nurses had quite an active imagination. One Nurse in particular seemed to think that Callie's background was more than enough proof that she could break people into many many pieces. They heard her temper for themselves, many times going by her office they would often hear her Spanish tirades and just knew she was the type of person to fly off the handle.
Other's thought that she was being stalked and had hired a security detail to keep her out of harm's way. Chief Webber was great as usual had a meeting with his Attending's and had informed them that they need not to worry and they would be filled in when necessary.
The one thing that had put a smile on Callie's face over these past three months was her friendship with the Pead's surgeon. Yes, she had opened herself up to others, her relationship with Mark was one of fun and enjoyment. She had even gone out a few times with an intern named George O'Malley. He was a sweet guy and didn't look at her any different with having a chaperone always around, but the one she had come to cherish the most was Arizona. They would just have fun together. She had slowly started to open herself up and share things about her past. She had told her about her sister's death. She had omitted some parts about her parents but did tell her the story.
At first, she was hesitant to befriend the blonde but for some reason she just couldn't turn her away. It started out with spending countless hours of surgery together, lunch and then a few pizza dinners. She couldn't quite explain it and she really wasn't trying to, it had been such a long time since she had a person she could trust. Arizona was just full of so much life and her smile was just infectious. When she was in her presence, Callie had no choice but to be happy. It was something she hadn't been in a while but she was always happy in the blonde's company.
Callie had been very busy the past few days and was leaving the hospital for what was to be an enjoyable 24 hours of some much-needed sleep. She had just finished getting changed when she bumped into a smiling Mark Sloan.
"what's with that smile Sloan?"
"Can't a guy just be excited to see his friend and her accomplice" he says looking over their shoulders at the detective who's about ten feet behind them.
"Don't give me that" looking at him "you just had sex" she says with a smile.
"what can I say, there was this hot drug rep and she just couldn't resist herself" smiling at himself.
"sounds more like you couldn't resist, you're such a manhore Sloan"
"Hey, I'm an attractive guy. Good bone structure, and hypnotizing eyes, women love me." Standing closer to her "you know, you and I would be so hot together"
Rolling her eyes at the man "not even in your dreams Sloan," Callie says laughing
"oh, come on Torres, when was the last time someone has taken you for a ride" raising his eyebrows suggestively.
Rolling her eyes, "wouldn't you like to know and besides you couldn't handle this ride"
"Keep thinking that. So, are you heading over to blondie's party tonight?" Sloan says as they walk towards the entrance way.
"of course," Callie says
"Great you can be my date, what's the occasion anyway?"
"Arizona is throwing a party to welcome Sara back home. She had been away for several weeks on some story that took her to California. You've met her before, right?" watching as he shakes his head yes. "What's she like?"
"ahhh gotta meet the best friend's girl, you're not nervous are you Torres?"
"no come on. I've heard Arizona gush over her now for hours" Mark is eyeing her suspiciously "I mean of course I want her to like me. She's basically Arizona's wife so it would be great if we all just fell in love with each other"
"well she is a nice girl all about Arizona, she seems to keep blonde happy"
"Good that's all a girl wants for her best friend now come on let's go enjoy the festivities."
They could hear the music all the way down the hall. Knocking on the Pead's surgeon door they were greeted by a huge smile.
"Calliope I'm so happy that you made it" pulling her into a quick hug, pulling back "good to see you too Sloan and ahh Detective Jacobs, pleasure as always" looking at the man a few feet away from them. She steps in to let them inside her apartment.
Walking past the group "I'm going to take a look around" says Jacobs
"free booze and food, I'm here" says Mark. Looking around he finds the usual suspects Yang, Grey, George, Karev and a slew of people he would assume are friends of Sara.
"Calliope come with me, I can't wait for you to finally meet Sara" Arizona says as she drags Callie across the room. Walking up to a tall beautiful redhead with amazing green eyes. "Sara this is Callie, Calliope this is my girlfriend Sara" she says with a smile on her face.
Looking the brunette up and down for a second "OMG I finally get to put a face to the name. All I've been hearing since I've been away was Calliope this, Calliope that" extending her hand "It is a pleasure to meet the brilliant Ortho God"
Blushing slightly and shaking the redhead's hand "well I don't know about all that, but it is great to finally meet you, this one here" as she nudges Arizona "can barely shut up about you"
"I bet" as she pulls Arizona close to her "babe why don't you go get Calliope here a drink" she watches as the blonde walks off "so Calliope" she's interrupted
"Callie, it's Callie" the brunette corrects her quickly.
Narrowing he eyes a little "right Callie, you've been spending quite a bit of time with MY Zona"
"yea she is amazing," she takes a look around and her spots her friend talking with Karev.
"that she is, so are you seeing anyone a beautiful woman such as yourself can't possibly be single"
Taking a second before she answers "I am. I'm not looking to be involved or anything right now, my life is way to hectic" says Callie
"but not so hectic that you hog all of Arizona's free time" she gets a look from the brunette and before she can respond she continues "look Zona says you're not gay or whatever but I'm not buying it" she steps closer to the woman in front of her "just in case you had any thoughts she's mine and I don't share. She won't have so much free time now that I'm back and" she is interrupted as a man approaches them
"Ms. Torres it's in my best opinion that we leave now" says Det. Jacobs
Eyeing Sara in front of her "yes I think we need to get out of here" Callie turns and follows him out of the apartment. A few minutes later Arizona approaches Sara looking around for Callie.
"hey where did Callie go"
"I don't know babe she took off with some dude" seeing the blonde look around "don't worry about her, come dance with me" Sara says leading them to the middle of the room.
Arizona is a little disappointed by Callie's departure but decides to just have some fun with her girlfriend.
"I'm serious Mark, she was all over me. Like she caught me undressing HER Arizona with my eyes or something" says Callie as they start to scrub out from their latest surgery.
"well I mean did she" he notices the look she's giving him "hey I mean you two did get pretty close rather quickly. She's just trying to protect her investment"
Calling looks at the man incredulously "an investment Mark seriously what's wrong with you" she shakes her head as they exit the OR, "and besides she needs to trust Arizona, she wouldn't do anything to hurt her"
"well it sounds like she does trust her it's you she doesn't trust, you should just talk to Blonde' about it"
"nah it will pass once she sees I'm no threat to her, and they don't need to get into a fight over me." Walking into the cafeteria they are greeted by the Arizona.
"so, I had decided to just be angry and ignore you for ditching my party but I'm going to go with yelling at you instead. What happened I was looking forward to finally hanging out with my girlfriend and my best friend." A look of disappointment crosses her face.
Staring into the blue eyes she can see a little bit of hurt and anger in them. The last thing she wanted to do was hurt Arizona. Looking over at Mark "can you give us a second?" the man walks off leaving the two to talk. Pulling Arizona over to an empty table. Det. Jacobs is giving them a good amount of space for this conversation. They sit directly in front of each other "go ahead get it out"
Sighing in frustration "I mean Callie you know how important it was for me, I've been planning this for weeks. I really wanted the three of us to have some fun together and you…you just left you didn't even say goodbye"
"I'm sorry Arizona" I reach over to grab her hand "it wasn't like that at all and I really wasn't thinking when I left. Jacobs had come over and said we had to leave and I just left. I didn't mean to not say bye. Jacobs said it wasn't safe that it was too many people there that he had not checked out yet"
The Pead's surgeon turns her head and gives the detective a look "OK I get it, I'm sorry for over reacting."
"hey, don't worry about it. Now tell me everything that I missed. I saw Yang and Grey today and they look like something out of Night of the living Dead." They both fall into a fit of giggles.
"You two look awfully friendly" says an approaching Sara, she quickly looks to their joined hands. Callie quickly pulls her hands away. "we still on for lunch Zona" she leans over the blond and places a kiss on top of her head. "Callie, I would invite you but I'm sure a super busy surgeon such as yourself is needed at all times"
"actually, yea I have to teach a skill lab in ten" looking at the blonde "I'll catch up with you later Arizona" as she takes off she is quickly followed by Jacobs.
"why do you have to be so rude sometimes Sara" I look up at her, sometimes she can be so bitchy.
"I wasn't being rude, Zona come on I came here to have lunch with you, not have lunch with you and your bff, does her little lap dog follow her wherever she goes?" she comes around in front of her girlfriend.
"Sara stop" looking annoyed
"oh, come on Arizona she wants you" she is silenced as the blonde holds up her hand.
"Sara I'm not going to have this conversation with you again. OK?"
"Fine, but what is it with her lap dog" receiving a glare from her girlfriend "fine why is that guy following her around anyway, he basically dragged her out of the party last night" starting to unpack the lunch she had brought for them.
"seriously do you not even listen to me when I talk to you. I told you about this. She is under protective custody" munching into her salad.
"what Zona you never told me this, what do you know?" pulling out her note pad she wants to jot down everything "how long has she been working here again" Even if it is something small a story is a story and she always got the first scope.
"I can't believe you" starting to pack up her things
"What, I can smell a story here, what more do you know?"
Sometimes she makes me so angry "Do you really think I would tell you information that you would put all over the world in your paper. She is a friend, I would hope that you would not betray me and dig up things that are none of your business" with that she storms off
"Well Zona I know that you will forgive me" Sara says as she opens her laptop.
Sitting in Joe's after my shift, I am exhausted it ended up being a brutal day. I lost two patients, they never really had a chance when entered the ER, but it is always tough when you can't save a life.
"Hey long day?" I look up and spot George sitting on the stole next to me
"yea, I lost two people today, I haven't seen you in a few days. How have you been?"
"Good I went home to see my parents for a few days"
"OOH how is Mama O'Malley" I ask. I had the pleasure of meeting his mom a few times over the past couple of months as she dropped food off at the hospital for him.
"she's doing great, she actually asked about you, wants to know when you are coming over for dinner and speaking of When are we going out again Callie?"
I look over at him, George is a very sweet guy and I can already tell he wants this to be more than what it can. "you know George when we started hanging out I told you right now wasn't the best time for me to start anything serious"
"I know Callie but we've been getting along great and I feel like there could be something real between us"
Sighing I take his hand in mine "I'm sorry George I would love if we could just stay friends. I'm not ready for anything more and honestly, I probably never will be. I'm sorry"
He looks a little disappointed but smiles anyway "of course we are friends, so how about I buy my friend a drink" he signals for the bartender to come over he gets them two more beers and another water for Det. Jacobs.
Just as she was starting to finish up her drink she gets a txt message from Mark
Cal get to the hospital ASAP, meet on Pead's-M
I don't even respond as I get up, say my apologies to George and head back over to the hospital. I have a weird feeling that I can't explain as I take the elevator up to the Pead's floor. The elevator door opens and Mark is immediately in front of her.
"What's up Mark" getting more worried by the second. I think Det. Jacobs can feel my uneasy as he also appears to be more on edge.
"it's Arizona"
The color immediately drains from my face and I start off in the direction of her office "what do you mean, she was fine"
"I don't know, all I know is two elderly people meet her in her office and I didn't think anything of it but once they stepped out we all heard the crashing and screaming. I ran right in there and the place is trashed she's hysterical and I can't get her to calm down, I decided to call you before we sedate her"
I know I must be looking at him like he's lost his mind. Arizona is the most put together person I know. I can't imagine what has upset her to this point but as we approach her office I just get this feeling of dread and I know that it's true. I stick my head into her office "Arizona" I call out for her. I turn my head and see her, she has her head buried in her hands and she is crying. I step inside and close the door, thankful that Jacobs is giving us space. I walk over to her and pull her hands away. "Arizona what's wrong?" she looks so broken; her eyes are so lifeless. she still continues to cry and I pull her into my arms trying to soothe her, I hold her tight. After a few minutes pass she pulls back and looks into my eyes.
"Tim," she pulls me back into her, I can barely hear her over her sobs. "Tim, he's gone.
