The Reason I am in your Life ch.4

Three days later…

Arizona woke up to the sound of chatter. She blinked away the sleep and focused her attention on the conversation that was going on.

"I want to keep you for another day and if everything goes well I will release you tomorrow." Hunt stated.

Callie groaned. "Hunt, I'm fine. I want to go home. Rest in my own bed. Let's save this bed for someone who really needs it."

"Calliope, if Hunt says you're staying then you're staying."

They both looked over at Arizona who had sat up. Callie groaned again.

"I'll check on you later, Dr. Torres." Hunt said before leaving.

Arizona stood up, walking over to Callie's bedside.

"How are you feeling?" she asked.

"I feel fine which is why I want to go home."

"Callie, you were shot multiple times. The damage was pretty bad from what Hunt told me and I think he

wants to be safe than sorry."

"I'm just so bored." Callie sighed. "There's only so much Law and Order I can take."

Arizona chuckled. "I know."

"One more day?"

"One more day and IF Hunt clears you we will go home."

The women looked hard at each other before Callie sighed again, rolling her head back. Silence filled the room until an odd growl sounded. Callie looked at Arizona with a raised eyebrow.

"Hungry, are we?"

She smiled , patting her stomach. "I guess I am. I'm going to head to the cafeteria for a quick bite."

"Get me a chocolate pudding cup?"

"Maybe." Arizona smiled, leaning in for a kiss.

Arizona was quietly eating her lunch while reading the daily paper when someone abruptly sat down causing her to jump in her seat.

"Jesus!"

Teddy looked at the stricken woman and chuckled. "Sorry."

"S'okay." she said, willing her heart to slow the rapid beating.

"How's Callie doing?"

"Good. Hunt wants her to stay another day, which she's not happy about it."

They both chuckled.

"Oh, I have a surprise for you and Callie so don't order any dinner tonight."

"Dinner?"

"Yes, and that is all I'm saying. Just make sure Callie doesn't get any hospital food."

"Oh, she'll love that." she smiled.

Teddy looked at her watch. "Oh, I gotta go. Surgery in five minutes. I'll see you later."

"Okay."

Arizona watched Teddy leave before finishing up her food and heading back to Callie's room.

While Arizona was gone, Callie was keeping herself occupied by watching the news on TV. She didn't notice at first that someone was watching her. It wasn't until she caught a movement out of the corner of her eye that caused her to look, finding Mark standing at the doorway.

"Hey, you!" she said. "I haven't seen you in a while."

Mark slowly entered. "Yeah, I'm sorry about that." he said, looking down at his hands that were rubbing together.

"So, what's up?"

"Nothing much. Patients and surgeries. How are you?"

"I'm good. Hunt should be releasing me tomorrow. I ache but that's to be expected when you get shot at." she smiled.

Mark didn't share the smile. Callie's smile fell and her face became serious.

"What's wrong?"

He didn't answer, just looked out the window overlooking the parking lot.

"Mark?" Callie tried again.

"Did you know that I saw you fall. I didn't see you get shot. I just saw you fall to the ground.

Callie closed her eyes, knowing where this was going.

"Yes. I felt someone pick my head up and press something to my abdomen but it wasn't until I heard you

screaming orders that I knew it was you. After that I blacked out."

Mark turned to face her. "I had never been so scared in my life. I carried you to the O.R. I didn't leave until they were done. I…"

"Hey, I'm okay. I'm here and I will spent more time healing but I will be back to keep you in shape and tell you to stop sleeping with every woman in this hospital because you're in love with Lexie."

She had never seen him this vulnerable before. She knew he had soft spots like every man did but never realized that she was one of them.

"Come here." she gestured with her good arm.

He walked to her and buried his face in her neck. It was at that moment that Arizona came back. She stood at the door and watched Callie comfort Mark. She knew he was having a hard time with the events that had happened, like her. Callie must have sensed Arizona's presence because she turned her head to lock eyes with the blonde. No words were said and Arizona nodded her head, knowing that she should give them a few more moments. Mark lifted his head.

"I'm sorry."

"Hey, don't be. You did nothing wrong. I'm going to heal and I'll be back to kick your ass when you need it." she smiled.

This put a smile to his face. "I'm looking forward to it."

"Now go. Help a twenty year old do something she'll probably regret later."

Mark laughed and kissed the top of her head. "Call me if you need anything."

"I will."

With that he left the room. As he passed be Arizona, she called out to him.

"Hey Mark?"

"Yeah?"

"Callie's hopefully going to be released tomorrow. I was wondering if maybe we could get together later and discuss time where one or both of us could be with her? You know she will get bored if she's by herself and I don't want her coming back to work until she's clear."

"Uh, yeah sure."

"Okay. Um, how about tonight? After Callie's asleep?"

Mark nodded. "Thank you."

Arizona looked up at him. "What?"

He stepped closer to her. "I know we don't see eye to eye a lot but I just want you to know that despite our past, I love Callie differently. She has helped me so much since I've met her and I would do anything for her but you don't have to worry about things changing."

"I know. You two have something special and I get that. I'm not intimidated by you."

Mark nodded mutely. "Uh, I have surgery at seven so I'll come by when I'm done."

"Okay." Arizona smiled.

"Hey, where's my pudding!" Callie yelled.

Mark and Arizona both laughed.

"I should."

"Yeah."

Arizona watched him leave before entering Callie's room.

"There you are! What happened to you?" Callie asked as Arizona handed her the pudding cup.

"Oh, I got tied up talking to Mark. Sorry I made you wait."

"S'okay. About what?"

"What?"

"You said you were talking to Mark. About what?'

"Oh, just making sure he's okay."

"Yeah, he seemed really shaken up."

"Well yeah when you see your best friend lying in a pool of her own blood it kinda has that affect on you."

"What about you?"

Arizona looked at her for a long moment before answering. "I prefer not to relive that. You're alive.

Relatively healthy. I just want to focus on helping you get better."

Callie knew there was something Arizona was not saying. They had yet to have a deep conversation about

what happened but she didn't want to push it just yet. They talked about anything and everything for the next hour before Arizona had to do her nightly rounds. When she returned she found Callie just about to eat her hospital dinner.

"Hey, don't eat that!"

Callie froze with her fork in midair. "Why?"

"Because Teddy said she had a surprise for us involving dinner."

"But Arizona, I'm hungry."

"Figured as much." Teddy said as she walked in with a pizza box.

Arizona moved Callie's tray so Teddy could put the pizza down.

"What's this?" Callie asked.

"While you were being operating on I was trying to keep Arizona from having a heart attack."

Callie smiled at Arizona as she grabbed her hand and squeezed it lightly.

"Anyway, she mentioned you guys haven't had a nice meal together in awhile so Mark and I thought we could help."

"Thank you, Teddy." Callie said.

Arizona walked over to her best friend and hugged her. "Thank you." she whispered.

"Your welcome. Now, I'm going to snag a slice because I am deathly hungry and I'll be out of your hair."

The two women laughed, watching Teddy take a piece of pizza before leaving.

"This is very nice of her and Mark." Arizona said, grabbing a slice.

"Yeah, we owe them."

"Glad you didn't eat the hospital food?"

"Oh, this is so much better."

They smiled at each other and enjoyed their quiet meal with just the two of them.