Amelia was woken up by a scream. As soon as she realized the scream came from next to her, she opened her eyes and became vigilant. Arizona was sitting up, breathing heavily. "What's wrong?" Amelia asked alerted.
"Nothing, just a bad dream," said Arizona looking at her amputated leg. "A really bad dream." She put her head in her hands, still breathing heavily.
"Okay, it's alright, you're safe," said Amelia putting her arms around her.
"I was in the plane crash again and-"she started, but couldn't continue. She shaked her head and fell into Amelia's embrace.
"It's alright; you don't have to say anything. Just breathe. Focus on your breathing," Amelia's voice was calm and steady and it soothed Arizona.
When her heartbeat came back to normal, Amelia lied her back down and held her hand. They heard the door opening and a quiet voice said, "Mommy?" Sofia stepped inside the room and walked over to her mother's side of the bed. "Another bad dream?"
"Yes, honey. But it's okay. Come here," she said, making place for her girl. "She always comes to sleep with me when something like this happens," she whispered to Amelia.
"I'll go sleep on the couch then, it's-"
"No, stay," said Arizona, gripping her hand. They fell back asleep for couple more hours before their pagers went off. It was already at the crack of dawn, so they had to wake up shortly after anyway.
"ER," said Arizona who reached her pager first. "We're not even on-call."
"Must be big," said Amelia.
"Sof, baby, wake up."
As surgeons, they had become very good at getting ready in a hurry. Back when Amelia was living in Meredith's house, they all had to handle three kids. So here just one was piece of cake. In 10 minutes they were ready and in the car. After they left Sofia to daycare, they ran up to change in their scrubs.
"What happened?" Arizona asked Owen, who was on-call. He didn't look as miserable as two days ago, but still pretty wrecked. Other than that, he was alert. He was very good at his job and he wouldn't let anything getting in the way of doing it right. Neither of the doctors would.
"Shooter attack in a train station. Multiple victims with GSWs," he said. "Arizona, Trauma 3 and 4 please and Amelia, Trauma 1 and 5. Oh, Amelia?" Owen asked. "Can I see you later?" She nodded and left.
"What do we got?" asked Arizona as she entered the room.
"Emily Jackson, 16, GSW to the shoulder," said Jo. "They said she coded in the ambulance but they bought her back. Pressure and pulse stable ever since."
"What's her blood type?" asked Arizona, as she looked at her injuries.
"0 neg," responded Wilson. "I ordered already."
"Good job. Take up to CT and page me when you get the scans."
Arizona went on to Trauma 4. "Talk to me, DeLuca."
"John Doe, 17, bullet to the head, frontal lobe and stomach," the intern explained.
"Alright, page Shepherd," Arizona said as she checked his stomach. "Let's check if it went through him." Two nurses helped her put him on his side, while DeLuca checked.
"It did," he announced. "But there's minimal bleeding. He can be saved, right?"
"His abdomen, yes. I'm not as sure about his head, "she said, right as Amelia walked in. "Bullet to the frontal lobe," she said as Amelia examined the wound.
"It doesn't look good. Get a CT and page me, "she said, as she made her way to the door.
"DeLuca, do what she said please," said Arizona while she also exited the Trauma room.
Down the hall she saw Wilson carrying a big brown envelope. "Wilson? Are those my patient's scans?"
"Yes, here you go," she said, handing them to the pediatric surgeon.
"All right, basic procedure," said Arizona. "Prep the patient and scrub in."
"Really? Thank you Dr. Robbins," said Jo excitedly. She was preparing to go to the OR, but then she saw DeLuca running toward her.
"Dr. Robbins, the scans," he said, breathing heavily. She looked at them and didn't even need to page Amelia as it was quite obvious surgery wasn't going to help. Nothing would help anymore. She sighed and closing her eyes she said, "Go sit with him until he is crashing and call him."
"So, you want me to babysit him?"
Arizona opened her eyes to reveal her blue eyes shooting an icy look to the intern. "This boy has no one. No one came to reclaim him; no one came to say they're his parents, or friends or relatives. If that would be you, if you were in that situation, without anyone knowing who you are, wouldn't you like someone to sit by your side until you go? Would you like to be alone?" Arizona didn't lose her attitude. Since DeLuca didn't say anything, she asked him one more time, loud and clear, "Would you?"
"No, ma'am."
"Then go and sit by that boy's side until he dies," she said. "Oh, DeLuca?"
"Yes, Dr. Robbins."
"If I ever hear you again complaining, I'll make sure you won't see the inside of an OR for a painful amount of time."
The procedure on the 16 year-old teenager went swiftly, without any complications. Anytime that happened, Arizona walked out of the OR happily, knowing she did a good job. As she let Dr. Wilson close, she headed towards the attending's lounge. When she opened the door, Amelia was sitting at the table with papers in front of her.
Shit, Arizona thought. Amelia snapped out of her deep thoughts and turned her head, smiling briefly to Arizona.
"Divorce papers," she said. "He gave me the divorce papers."
"Amelia," Arizona said, sitting down next to her.
"I mean sure, I was expecting them. But I thought I had to hand them to him. He was pretty straight-forward. He apologized one more time, but I didn't say anything anymore. So he left. And now the divorce papers are in front of me," she said, looking through the pages of the document. "His parts are already signed."
Amelia kept looking at the pages, as if frozen in her seat. "You don't know whether you should sign them or not?" Arizona asked, unsure of Amelia's next move.
She hesitated a while, but she looked like she was in deep thought. Her head shot back up, her look directly in Arizona's. "No. I want to be with you. And we'll be together. So I'll put an end to this and we'll be free," Amelia said. She leaned over the table and kissed her lover. "It will be finally just us." Arizona smiled at her, looking long at her.
She took a breath and singed the papers. She looked up to Arizona and smiled.
"Hey guys," said Alex when he walked in the on-call room. "What's up?"
"Nothing, just-"started Arizona but was interrupted by Amelia.
"I just signed divorce papers."
"Oh, I'm sorry," Alex said, frowning at the sight of the papers.
"Don't be. It's gonna be alright," Amelia said, looking at Arizona. She extended her hand and Arizona took it, smiling.
"What- You two?" asked Karev, confused.
"Yes, us two," said Arizona. "Any problems?" She laughed and Amelia joined her.
"Not at all. In that case… congratulations," he said smiling to them.
Amelia's pager went off again. "Duty calls," she said, standing up. Kissing Arizona, she told her "Just us," and walked out.
"Nice, Robbins," Alex said. "I'm happy for you." She smiled to her friend and walked out to perform her next surgery. She had to do it with Cristina. So when they both were scrubbing in, Cristina asked, "How is she?"
"She's alright," Robbins said. "She signed the divorce papers earlier."
"She did?" Cristina seemed surprised at Arizona's words.
"Yeah, they both did. Didn't Owen talk to you?" Arizona watched her friend confused.
"No, he hasn't talked to me since the… since Amelia found us."
When Arizona walked out of the (successful) surgery she had her mind set on talking to Owen and as soon as she spotted him she walked over to him.
"Owen, what's your plan?" she asked him, her voice angry.
"What-"
"Because you had two women that loved you and now you have only one. You managed to lose one of them by adultery, don't lose the other one by ignorance. I'm telling you; don't treat her like she doesn't mean anything to you, because she does. Be careful at what you do Owen before you wake up to realize that everyone around you is gone!" She turned around to see Cristina looking at her, but she walked right past her, keeping her eyes on the road ahead.
Avoiding the eyes that were watching her, she went down to daycare again. It was truly a place where she could unwind and forget about her problems for a couple of minutes. She spotted Sofia and she sat down next to her. Just watching her kid play and listening to her was bringing her so much joy.
"Hey," a warm, familiar voice came from behind her. "I heard what happened."
"Ah… Are you mad?" asked Arizona looking up at Amy. "Because I stood up for Cristina."
"No, why would I be? I mean sure, I think she can stand up for herself, but the fact that you did is nice and friendly," she told her. "And hot," she whispered. Arizona pushed her aside jokingly and Amelia laughed.
"He just pisses me off right now. He really will lose everyone if he doesn't open his eyes and look around."
"You're right," said Amelia, patting her knee.
"I know I am," laughed Arizona and pulled out her ringing phone. It was Callie. She frowned, knowing what this phone call would be about.
"Hello?" she answered. "Hi Callie." Amelia looked up at her. Hearing her mother's name, Sofia jumped up, saying "Mama!"
"Yes, it's her. I'll let you talk and then we'll talk." She put the phone to Sofia's ear and let her talk to her mother. "It's time," she told Amelia.
"What do you mean?" asked Amelia fairly confused.
"Sofia's leaving to New York," Arizona spoke, looking at Amelia with sad eyes.
"How can you know? I mean, Callie didn't even say anything about it."
"It's been almost four months. I'm almost sure," said Arizona. Right before saying anything else, Sofia brought the phone back to her mother. "Yes, it's me again."
As Callie talked, Arizona closed her eyes to keep any tears from showing. She didn't succeed, as a few had rolled down her cheek, but Sofia was playing anyway so only Amelia saw this whole thing.
"Right, so I'll have her for Christmas then?" Arizona asked, her voice surprisingly steady given the fact she was tearing up.
…
"Okay, then we'll meet in a few days."
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"The airport, yes."
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"Okay, bye." She hung up and took a deep breath. "Sof, Mama will be coming for you on Saturday."
"Mommy," she said as she climbed into her arms. "I'll miss you."
"I'll miss you too, so much," she said, hugging her girl tight.
"I'll miss Amy too," Sofia said, looking at Amelia, who also started crying. "She had just moved in and she had only once chance to make me Sunday pancakes." That made Arizona cry even more. Seeing she wanted to say something, but couldn't, Amelia said, "I'll make you pancakes when you come home for Christmas, alright? What about that?"
"So I get to spend Christmas at home?" asked the kid innocently.
"Yes, you'll be with us for Christmas," answered Arizona. "Now, we have to go back to work, but we'll pick you up tonight, alright baby girl?" Sofia nodded and Amy and Arizona made their way out.
"That was horribly sad," said Amelia.
"And you haven't even seen the actual break-up," replied Arizona. When her pager started beeping, she gave Amy a kiss on the cheek and said, "It's going to be okay. See you tonight."
Amelia smiled and Arizona turned around to see Owen at the end of the hall. With the look on his face, she figured he'd seen her kissing Amelia but didn't care. She just passed by him, going towards her emergency.