Title: What Does the Wolf Say?

Author: zenparadox

Pairing: Callie/Arizona

Rating: T

Disclaimer: Not mine, I'm just playing.

Summary: The latest addition to my Hospital-on-a-Hellmouth series. Sequel to: A Demon, a Goddess, and a Muse/The Hubris Incident/The Kepner Method/Hypocrisy Oath/Halloween Hootenanny/Hades' Ladies.

Author's Note: This was just a drabble that turned into a mini fic. Just for kicks. Nothing serious.***

***Until it suddenly got a little serious, I didn't plan on the slight detour this story took, it just happened in the course of their conversation. Still light though. And finished.

Chapter 2/2

"Callie! What did you do?" Arizona shouted.

"I panicked!" Callie shouted. "I panicked! Oh god, is he ok?"

"Help me," Cristina yelled. She was holding his collapsed body as best she could. "Let's get him to the couch."

Leah moved to the front of her cage to try and get a better look at what was happening, her shackles clanking, "What was in the tranquilizer?"

"Uh… um, it's midazolam," Callie answered as her and Cristina drug Alex's prone form to the couch. "So, he should be fine… just out, and… he probably won't remember any of this."

"What were you thinking?" Arizona asked.

"I was thinking," Callie said, as she grabbed Alex under his arms, while Cristina took is feet. "That he saw too much and I needed to take him out."

After settling him on the couch, Cristina stood up and laughed, "Take him out? Wow, Cal… I didn't think you had it in you. That's hardcore."

Leah's chains were still clinking around in the cage, but Arizona ignored them. She was currently taking Alex's vitals.

"I live hardcore, Cristina." Callie said proudly.

"Please, you? Hardcore?" Arizona laughed. "You got stung by a tiny, tiny jellyfish in Baja last week and refused to go back into the water."

"And as a result," Callie's replied. "We spent the rest of our honeymoon in the suite." Her eyebrow lifted, "Are you going to tell me that was a hardship for you?"

"Of course not, Calliope," Arizona replied, she looked at her watch as she held her fingers over Alex's wrist. "It was certainly a pleasurable twist of fate."

"Gross," Cristina said. "Keep your re-newlyweded sexcapades to yourselves. I don't want to hear about it... Especially since I'm not getting any pleasurable twists."

"Aw, poor Cristina," Callie said. "You worked so hard to find Owen someone… did you forget about yourself?"

"Have you seen the prospects around here?" Cristina complained. "Who am I gonna bang, Shane? I don't think so."

"Well, his vitals are fine," Arizona declared. "He's just going to have a nice long slumber." The three women stood side-by-side facing the couch, their backs to the cage with Leah in it. A low growl arose behind them. The shackles clanked and scraped across the bottom of the cage.

"Ok, that's new," Cristina said. The three women still facing away, "I'm kind of afraid to look."

"Me too," Callie agreed.

"So much for 'hardcore'," Arizona said. She took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and turned to look. She peeked one eye open, immediately closed it again, and turned back around. "Ok. She's definitely a werewolf." Arizona shuddered.

"So… what do we do?" Cristina said. "Did Bokhee give any instructions?"

"Um, she just said to sit with her… watch, and uh, shoot her with the tranquilizer if it came to it," Callie said.

"Too bad you discharged that projectile too soon," Arizona said.

"Did you just make a premature ejaculation joke?" Cristina asked.

"Do you want me to answer that, or should I just glare?" Arizona replied.

"She never makes ejaculation jokes, Cristina," Callie replied. "She's not a twelve year old boy. Or you. Or Karev. Or me, for that matter. You just need to get laid."

"That is the truth," Cristina sighed.

"Could we maybe circle this conversation back around to the fact that there is a werewolf in a cage behind us?" Arizona admonished, she turned and looked at the snarling creature behind her. Callie and Cristina turned too.

"Gah!" Callie jumped. "That is scary."

"And hairy… look at her," Cristina said. The Leah wolf jumped at the cage, causing the three women to clutch each other in fright.

"Ok, she's shackled and in a cage," Arizona said. "We're safe, right?"

"Yeah, I think so," Callie replied. "But, you need to go."

"What? No, I'm not leaving you here alone," Arizona said.

"I'm not alone, Cristina is here… and that was the plan," Callie argued. "I stay overnight, you go home with Sof."

"That was before," Arizona whined. "When the wolf thing was just a possibility… now it's a reality and I'm not leaving you here alone."

"I must be invisible," Cristina complained. "How about I call Meredith- because she has to see this- then her and I can take the kids. That way you two can be together, and Sofia can have a sleepover with her friend. Far away from the resident wolf."

"No, Cristina, you drew the short straw with me." Callie said. "You are staying, Arizona is leaving."

"Calliope, I know what you are doing and it's not going to work. I'm not leaving you here alone, so stop." Arizona continued. "Cristina, I accept your offer, you call Meredith, and I'll call daycare and let them know. Oh, and have her bring a wheelchair so you guys can move Alex upstairs into an on call room." At Cristina's questioning look, she said, "What? I'm not standing all night, and he's taking up the whole couch."

Callie and Arizona sat snuggled on the couch while Leah growled and whimpered in the cage. Bokhee had stopped by earlier in the night and said the Watcher's Council would dispatch a lycanthropy expert from Tibet to help Dr. Murphy learn, with time and practice, to overcome the demon within. There was no cure, but she could be taught to subdue the wolf, keep the change from happening. Now, they just needed a way to tell her.

Callie gently ran her fingers up and down Arizona's arm while they sat and watched Leah gnaw on a dog bone that Bokhee had left behind before she left for the night.

"Should we get Sofia a puppy?" Callie asked.

"Callie," Arizona chuckled. "Be nice."

"What, oh… sorry Murphy," She directed at the cage. "I didn't mean to imply anything." She smiled and pulled Arizona's hand up kissed the knuckles. "I'm serious though, a puppy would be an awesome addition to our family."

"I don't know," Arizona mused "Do we have time for a puppy? What with all our hellmouth duties, Bokhee and Willow still want to regale us with our history, we need to prep for the probable return of my 'sister,'" Arizona shuddered. "Plus, if we have a new baby…"

"What?" Callie abruptly sat up. "What? A… What? What? Did you… what?"

"What I'm saying," Arizona smiled. "Is that I think we should consider having a baby, before we get a pet."

"Are you serious?" Callie asked, her smiled faded a bit as her mind raced with the possibilities.

"I'm completely serious," Arizona asked. "Are you… is this not something you want?"

"It's just… when I saw the future,"

"Fake future, fake. You know what Bokhee and Willow said, that thing can't show real futures, and it can't accurately predict cause and effect. Every decision you and I make, together… that is what makes our future. We control our destiny, what you saw was a future predicated on hate. Her hatred of us conjured the worst possible…"

"You had a miscarriage," Callie interrupted, "and it was… awful. I was awful. You were heartbroken and I was… busy."

"Calliope, that doesn't mean…"

"No, I know… I know that. It's just… I saw it, I felt it… It's all so new and raw. And I want another baby with you more than anything, but I can't put you through another loss."

"You're right," Arizona sighed.

Callie's shoulders dropped in defeat, she pressed her lips together, and nodded her head, her big brown eyes filled with tears.

"Another loss would be devastating," Arizona continued, she took Callie's face in her hands. Callie blinked and a tear escaped and rolled down her cheek, only to be caught by her wife's gentle caress. "But, you were also right about not living in fear. We can't live like that ... getting ready for disasters that may never happen. You helped me see that… let me help you now. Ok? We can help each other."

"Ok," Callie smiled lightly and Arizona pressed their foreheads together.

"We are not going to let her ruin us, or our family," Arizona insisted. "You hear me Calliope? We control our destiny. I want us to have another baby, another child for us to love and cherish. I want Sofia to have a sibling to share her childhood with. Ok? So it's fine to have fears and doubts, I'm sure we both will, but we'll overcome them together."

"Ok….I'm convinced." Callie smiled for real this time, and leaned in for a kiss, "Have I mentioned I kind of like persuasive you?" Kiss. "And smart you." Kiss. "And loquacious you…" Kiss.

"Loquacious?" Arizona pulled back. "What are you trying to say?"

"I think she's saying you give a good speech," came a voice from the other side of the room. "If she doesn't want to have your babies now, I will." Leah sat in the cage, completely naked, holding a scrap of her now shredded scrub top in front of her to hide her nudity. "Can I get some clothes? And maybe an explanation?"

Upstairs in the pediatric on call room Alex gently woke from his long slumber. He sighed and rolled to his back, his expression becoming confused. He sits up and looks around the room, trying to recall the events that brought him here. He remembered nothing beyond lunch, on what he assumed, was the previous day. There was a note pinned to his scrub top. He pulled it off and quickly read it.

It simply said…

Don't ask.

In what was clearly Cristina Yang's scrawl.

The End.