Title: Aftermath

Author: Danielle

Summary: post 7:18, post accident

Disclaimer: only the story is mine the characters belong to Shonda and ABC.

The next morning Callie woke up looking around her room and tried to move her left arm to brush some hair out of her face, she couldn't. She stared down at her arm and tried again but still nothing, not even a flinch. She started to cry.

Seemingly from nowhere Arizona appeared next to Callie. Rushing over to the side of the bed, "Calliope, what's wrong?"

"My arm," she said while crying, "my left arm, it won't move."

"Let's try again," she said going around to the left side of the bed she sits on it next to Callie's arm.

Callie tries to move her arm again and got the same results as before, nothing. She continues crying.

"Calliope, it's okay." As she smoothes out Callie's hair from her face.

"No it's not okay, Arizona I can't move my arm."

"Callie, you almost died, twice. We can get through this; we'll get a physical therapist in here and work with your arm. We know that you can move your right arm, how about your legs, can you move them?"

Callie first wiggles her toes without a problem and with a little effort was able to move both legs. She smiled at this through her still falling tears.

Arizona moves down to the end of the bed placing each of her hands on the bottom of Callie's feet. "Now push against me with your feet okay?" Callie followed the command and was able to push her feet against Arizona's hands. "Good, very good."

They stayed doing this for a little while Callie pushing her feet up against Arizona's hands.

"Arizona?"

"Yes."

"What did Mark mean last night that you aren't nothing."

"What do you mean?" Arizona said trying to avoid having to tell Callie about the conversation that she and Mark had while Callie was in her coma.

"Well, when I was sleeping last night I woke up for a little while and heard Mark say 'You're not nothing'. What did he mean by that?"

Arizona really most definitely didn't want to answer Callie's question but could tell that Callie wasn't going to let it rest until she had an answer. "Callie, I don't think that,"

"Arizona please just tell me."

"Okay but don't get upset I don't want you pulling at any of your incisions. The day you were brought in after your first surgery Bailey was talking to Mark and me about the options and about your plan of care. Mark said to save you and I brought up the topic of the baby. He said what quality of life you would have and I said pretty much that we should focus on saving you and the baby because that would be what you would want. He said some other things,"

"What other things?" Callie interrupted.

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"What was that?"

"He kinda said that you two could screw again and make another baby but that we couldn't make another you. The argument continued and came to a head when he said that it was his baby, he was the father and I wasn't anything, that I was nothing." She said that last bit with a tear running down her cheek.

"I'm going to kill him" exclaimed Callie.

"No, don't we were both highly emotional at the time and he's since apologized."

"But he still said it."

"I know he said it and yes I was hurt by it but,"

"There's no buts Arizona he never should have said that you are nothing."

As Callie finishes saying that Mark walk in with his iPhone to show Callie pictures of the baby. "Hey Cal, how are you feeling?"

"Nothing Mark really, you told her that she is nothing? How could you, you must know how much she means to me."

Arizona leaves the room quietly, not wanting to be around for the conversation that was definitely to come.

Mark looked guiltily down at the floor, silent. "Callie."

"Mark seriously, she's not nothing, she's my everything."

"I know that Callie but,"

"No buts Mark, it was totally uncalled for."

"She called me a sperm donor Callie, a sperm donor."

"Mark, you pretty much are the sperm donor. If you were anyone else you wouldn't have even known about the baby much less have any part of its life."

"Callie,"

"No Mark I am serious, if I had slept with anyone else and gotten pregnant I wouldn't have told the father and would have just, hopefully if she wanted to, raised the baby with Arizona. I am giving you a chance here Mark. And I understand that you are this baby's father but being a father is something that comes with responsibilities and one of them is to not hit one of the other parents when they are down. It was a really low blow to tell Arizona that she is nothing to me or to our baby. I'm trying really hard here Mark to be calm enough to make a good decision but continue to treat Arizona like you did after the accident and my decision will be for you to have as little contact with the baby as legally possible. Here's your chance, don't mess it up."

"But Callie,"

"No but's Mark. Arizona is a major part of my life and the other mother of our baby. You don't get to question my fiancé's part in our child's life."

"Fine," he said acquiescing to Callie's point, "wait, fiancé? You said yes?"

"Of course I said yes Mark; there was no chance of me saying no."

"But you guys have been having problems I thought."

"Yes, I guess we have been but those problems mostly had to do with your part in my life and our child's life. When I picture my future it's with Arizona and our children happy in a big house with dogs and if Arizona has anything to say about it, chickens."

"Wow, Cal. I guess I have to be happy for you."

"No Mark you don't have to be but as my best friend I would like you to be happy for me."

"I'll try Cal, I'll really try." With that having been said Mark once again got out his iPhone and started showing the pictures of their super-preemie daughter, exclaiming on how you could already tell that she has 'the Sloan nose'.

Once Mark left Callie reached over with her right hand to press the nurse call light. The nurse walked into the room, "Did you need something Dr. Torres?"

"Yes, um," looking at the nurses ID badge, "Kim can you hand me the phone from the table, I can't get to it and I need to call Arizona."

"I can page Dr. Robbins for you Dr. Torres."

"I don't think that she is carrying her pager with her and you can call me Callie. I have a feeling that I am going to be here for a while and calling me Dr. Torres will get old after a while."

"Okay, Callie. Here's the phone if you need anything else just use the call light and either myself or one of the other staff members will come in and help you."

"Thanks Kim." Callie dials Arizona's cell phone number.

"Hello," Arizona answers with a questioning tone.

"Arizona it's me, can you come back now?"

"I'll be right there."

Ten minutes later Arizona comes walking into the room with a cup of coffee and a Jell-O from the cafeteria. "Calliope, how'd you get a hold of the phone?"

"The nurse."

"Oh, okay. I brought you some Jell-O to try, they don't want you eating a full meal yet but your doctor said Jell-O, water and ice chips would be okay."

"And the coffee?"

"Mine."

"Really you wouldn't share a cup of coffee with you poor bedridden fiancé?"

"Fiancé, you remember?"

"Of course I remember saying yes to the most beautiful woman in the world. Not really something you can forget brain injury notwithstanding. Where have you been?"

"I walked around and found myself at the NICU so I went in and sat with the baby. The nurses let me touch her. Calliope she is so tiny and so fragile but I can tell how strong and how much of a fighter that she is."

"You really think that she is a fighter and strong?"

"Of course she is strong, she is yours and you are most definitely a fighter and so strong. You coded twice and came back twice and then woke up with seemingly no memory issues after having a major head trauma and you're just amazing." Arizona smiled down at Callie then leaned down and kissed her gently on the lips.