Chapter 7:

AN: Again, I'm a college freshman. I know zap about medicine. Even if the symptoms don't make sense, go with it.

Previously:

"Honey, you're scaring me" Callie took a deep breath before continuing, "I-Is it the kids thing? Do you regret it? I mean, you-you—"

Callie was interrupted by a deep passionate kiss from the blonde.

"Shut up. It's not about kids. I told you, I want to have kids with you. Someday" Arizona smiles sadly.

"Then what is it?"

After a minute of silence, Arizona spoke again, "I won the Carter Madison Grant"

"I'm moving to Africa"

"What?" Callie says with wide eyes.

"I-um going to move to Africa, I'm going to s-sign the p-papers as soon as I c-can," Arizona said painfully. The blonde knows that she sounds harsh, but if she doesn't say it right, she'll never will. All of the sudden, her face is pale and clammy. She feels like she's on fire as in she can't stand being covered by the thin hospital blanket. This is karma she thinks because she knows that she's hurting Callie, but on the other hand, this is like hitting the jackpot for her professional career. And she knows that if she stops to think about what she's doing for too long, she'll end up changing her mind. After thinking very hard, the peds surgeon was actually hoping that Callie would understand and would try to make it work. It's not unheard of; people do it all the time. They can visit each other all the time. And there are letters, phones, and Skype. It's not like they're living in the 1800s.

Before Arizona could look up to meet Callie's eyes, the brunette gets up and leaves.

Devastation and hurt filled the blonde, which only makes her feel physically worse. She thought that Callie would be angry but she thought that she would at least care a little bit to talk about it. Arizona rips the blankets off of her and swings her legs off of the side of the bed. With a killer headache and shaky legs, she stands up and hurries to the bathroom connected to her room. She falls to the floor with her knees aching from taking most of the impact, the blonde retches into the toilet.

After a few minutes, Arizona tries to catch her breath before bending over again and vomiting. This time though, when Arizona opens her eyes, she sees blood along with her vomit. The surgeon tries to get up for help, but fails when she collapses on the cold floor.

Callie quickly walked out of Arizona's room and walked to the nearest on-call room. She opened the door slowly to make sure that it wasn't occupied before she slipped in and locked the door.

She sat down on one of the beds that isn't a bunk bed and let out a big breath. She clamped her hand over her mouth to stop the tears from spilling but it was pointless. She doesn't understand why this is happening to her. She just got back together with Arizona and now she wants to leave her again?

With shaky hands, Callie took out her cell phone to call the only person she could think of right now. Wiping the tears away, she hit the call button.

"Hello?"

"Daddy…"

"mi niña, ¿qué pasa? ¿por qué lloras?" my little girl, what's wrong? Why are you crying?

"I-I…" Callie clears her throat, "…Daddy, Arizona is leaving me again" she says before she starts to cry again.

"Calliope…" Carlos sighs, "¿Por qué se va? ¿Qué te dijo?" Why is she leaving? What did she say?

"S-she's going to Africa" sniffle "she said that she's won some grant and that she's moving to Africa"

Callie hiccups.

"What am I going to do, daddy? I just got her back, I don't want to lose her"

"Well, have you two talked about this? Just because she's moving doesn't mean that she's leaving you. When your mother and I first got engaged, your mother was still in Cuba waiting for me to finish school here in the States. We spent the first six months of our engagement in two different countries."

"Daddy, we haven't even gotten back together for a week yet, and now she wants to leave?"

"Sweetheart, you two weren't really broken up about having children, it was just a bump on the road. I've been positive that you two would be back together the second you called me when she left you apartment. Now, let me ask you this…"

Carlos paused for a second to make a point,

"Did she say how long she's going to be gone for? Because a year or two won't be that significant in the long run"

Callie paused for a second.

"Arizona didn't really get the chance to say anything before I left the room. All I heard was that she's moving"

"Alright then" Callie could basically hear her father nodding through the phone

"so here's what you're going to do; go splash some water on your face, eat something, get your head straight, then go talk to Arizona"

Callie nods her head before she remembered that her dad couldn't see her.

"Okay," Callie sighs. "Thank you. I don't know how you handle my craziness better than me"

Carlos chuckles

"It's because you're my baby girl. Now go along and do as I say."

"Okay, dad. I love you"

Callie smiles

"I love you too, hija"

Before heading back to Arizona's room, Callie decided that she really needed to take that shower now. Entering the locker room, Callie quickly grabs some clean clothes when she sees that the room is empty. She turned on the water before she starts to undress. Entering the small stall, Callie relaxes her body as soon as the hot water hits her back. She washes her body and hair as she tries to calm herself and organize the thoughts in her mind. Even though Callie doesn't want Arizona to leave, she realized that she's not letting Arizona go without a fight. That they'll try to come to an understanding, but she doesn't see how it could work. She remembers Arizona telling her in the beginning when they first started dating that she doesn't do long distance relationships.

The surgeon turns off the water and grabs her towel to dry herself. Taking her time with getting dried and dressed, Callie leaves the locker room feeling refreshed and determined to talk to Arizona.

She walks down the hallway on the way to Arizona's room when her pager goes off. She checks her pages to see that it's Arizona's blood work. Callie takes a short detour to stop and get the results before continuing on her path to the perky blonde's room while trying to read the results from the blood work. Apparently, Arizona does have an infection and according to the numbers, a pretty bad one too. How did she not see it before? Other than the sweating, Callie didn't see anything wrong with Arizona pre-Africa bomb.

Callie stops at the nurse's station closest to Arizona's room to give the nurse the results.

"Can you page Bailey for me? The infection is pretty high and she needs a stronger prescription for antibiotics"

The nurse nods before turning to make the call. Callie takes the hint and turns around and heads for Arizona's room. The surgeon opens to door to see the bed that's supposed to house Arizona empty. Panic starts to fill the Latina.

"Arizona?" Callie called, but got no answer.

Callie steps into the room and heads to the bathroom. Maybe Arizona was in there. The ortho surgeon gasps as she sees the blonde on the floor of the bathroom. Callie, quick on her feet, hits the big red button on top of Arizona's bed that signals a code blue to the room to alert the nurses and Bailey that there's an emergency. Callie runs back to the bathroom and drops to the floor. She notices some blood around the unconscious woman's mouth before checking for a pulse. Feeling the warm skin of the blonde, Callie lets out a breath when she feels a very faint pulse.

Thankfully, not one second later, Bailey and three nurses run into the room to see two surgeons on the ground. One conscious, one not so much.

AN: Thanks for reading everyone. I'll try to not take too long with the updates, but I just haven't been feeling it lately. But anyways, this story will probably not go over 10 chapters (unless you want a sequel ;{ ). Anywhooooo, tell me what you think and what you want to see. I might be inspired to add what you guys want if it fits into my story.

Cheers!