AN: Here is the next chapter. It was going to be shorter but my writer's block went away while I was writing this so it became longer. Lucky you guys.

Chapter 4: Joe's

Arizona was on her way to meet Callie down at the lobby when Cristina stopped her.

"Hey I just heard."

"Heard what?" Arizona asked completely confused.

"That you are going to get drinks with Erica Hahn." Cristina said making a face when she said Erica's name.

"Where did you hear that?"

"I heard a couple of nurses talking. So is it true?" Cristina repeated getting a little impatient.

"Don't you have anything better to do then listen to the nurses' gossip?" She asked avoiding the question.

"So it's not true."

"I didn't say that."

"So it is true. How can you hang out with her?"

"Cristina-" Arizona tried to explain but Cristina cut her off.

"Does Callie know? If she doesn't she's going to find out…"

"Cristina-" Arizona tried again getting a little impatient.

"…because that's all anybody is talking about.

"CRISTINA!" Arizona yelled finally losing her patience. A few people turned to look at them. Arizona ignored the stares and continued in a lower voice. "Of course Calliope knows."

"And she's okay with you going out for drinks with Hahn."

"Do you really think I would hang out alone with Erica?"

"But you just said-"

"Calliope is going also. Erica wanted to talk to her and so she suggested going to Joe's and since I was there Erica invited me along." Arizona explained.

"Does Hahn know that you and Callie are…?" Cristina trailed off.

"No. At least I don't think so. Calliope was planning on telling her."

"Wait." Cristina started looking totally confused. "If she wanted to talk to Callie wouldn't she want to do it alone? I mean if she wanted to talk to Callie about why she left or about their relationship she wouldn't want an audience."

"You're right." Arizona told Callie. "But then why would she invite me?"

"Maybe she found out about you and Callie and wanted to confront you or something. I mean let's face it it's not that hard to find out things about the doctor's here."

"I don't think Erica would do that."

"She probably would, if she wanted to get Callie back."

"Do you really think that's what she wants?"

Cristina just shrugged and turned to leave, but before she could take a step she turned around and said, "Oh, and if you want someone to kick her ass for you I will gladly volunteer."

Arizona just stared at Cristina as she walked off. Once Cristina was out of sight Arizona went to go find Callie. She got down to the lobby and saw that Callie was waiting for her. "Hey." She said as she got to where Callie was and gave her a kiss on the cheek.

"Hi." Callie said.

They started walking towards Joe's. They were walking in silence when Arizona started talking. "So the whole hospital is buzzing about how I'm having drinks with my girlfriend's ex."

"Really. How did everybody find out?"

"The nurses. Who else?"

"Right. No wonder whenever I would go up to the nurses station the nurses would stop talking."

"Yeah apparently they think I'm getting drinks with Erica alone and were wondering if you knew about it."

When they walked into Joe's they saw Erica sitting at a table by the door. They went to go sit with her.

"Hey." She greeted them. "Sorry, this was the only table open when I got here."

"That's fine." Arizona said giving her a smile.

"I'll go get us some drinks." Callie said and went to the bar.

Once she was out of earshot Erica started talking to Arizona. "So how long."

"How long what?" Arizona asked confused.

"How long have you and Callie been together?"

"How did you-"

"This is Seattle Grace hospital we're talking about. Well I guess its Seattle Grace Mercy West now but it's still not that hard to get information here. The nurses still gossip as much maybe even more since I left."

"How long have you known."

"Since I first got here. I knew who you were the second I saw you at the nurses' station."

"So you flirting with me was…"

"To make you think you had nothing to worry about. You know about me getting Callie back."

When Arizona heard this she couldn't believe it. She couldn't believe that Cristina had been right. She looked towards the bar hoping Callie was on her way back but Callie was talking to Joe.

Erica continued to talk. "I made a mistake by just walking away. I'm going to fight hard to get Callie back and nobody is going to get in my way."

Arizona finally found her voice. "Why?"

"Why what?"

"Why after 1 ½ years you suddenly decide to come back. Why now? Why do you want her back now?"

"I realized I had made a mistake a few days after a resigned but I couldn't go back. Not after just walking away. So I waited for an excuse that would bring me back. I knew it was a matter of time before I would be needed, so I waited."

Just then Arizona got paged. "Damn it."

"Don't worry I'll keep your girlfriend company." Erica said smirking at Arizona.

Arizona stood up and leaned into Erica until their faces were just a few inches apart. Mark walked in and saw Arizona and how mad she looked. He inched forward until he could hear what Arizona was telling Erica.

"Listen to me. I have been dating Calliope for 1 year now and we are in love. If you really think she's going to throw that away for someone who walked out on her and hasn't heard from for 1 ½ years then you better get Shepherd or someone to check your head because there is something wrong with you." She turned to leave then stopped. "Oh and I'll be fighting for her too so go to hell you cold-hearted bitch."

Just then Callie got there but she was smiling so it was obvious she hadn't heard what Arizona had just said. "Where are you going?" She asked Arizona.

"I got paged. See you later." She gave Callie a kiss and Callie looked down at Erica. Arizona saw this and said, "Don't worry she knows about us."

"How?"

Before Arizona could answer Erica did. "Nurses."

"Of course."

Arizona walked past Mark and out the door. Mark went to catch up to her.

"What do you want Mark?" Arizona asked annoyed.

"Wow." Was all he said.

"Wow what?"

"Who knew McPerky had a dark side."

"You heard that?"

"Just your little speech. Are you going to tell Callie?"

"Yes I just have to find the right time to tell her."

"So Erica actually told you she wants Callie back?"

"Not only that but that no one was going to stand in her way."

"I can't believe she actually said that."

"I know. Well anyways I have to get to the hospital. Oh and Mark don't tell anybody about what Erica said not even Lexie. Last thing I want is Callie finding out from some random nurse."

"No problem. I'm going to go head to Joe's and make sure Erica doesn't try anything."

"Thanks Mark." And with that they headed in opposite directions.

AN: I'm going back to school tomorrow so I probably won't be able to update as often as I want to but I'll try. Thanks to everybody who has reviewed so far. Keep them coming.