A.N. This one's a bit different than my usuals…thanks for reading!
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"Torres!"
Callie looked up and found Mark running down the hall towards her looking frantic. "What's up?"
"You need to get up to Peds," he told her, grasping her elbow and pulling her towards the elevator.
"Why?" she asked wondering what the hell he was up to.
"Just keep up," Mark ordered as he pulled her down the hall.
Callie stopped in her tracks and pulled her arm from his grasp. "Mark, tell me what the hell is going on."
He stopped and approached her, dropping his head and his voice as he got closer. "It's Robbins. She was attacked by a patient's father."
"What?" she exclaimed and took off towards the elevator. "What happened?"
He shook his head and pushed the button, waiting for the doors to close. "I don't know."
Callie fidgeted and cursed the elevator for being slow. When the doors opened, she saw several doctors and security guards standing in the hall. People were yelling and screaming and kids were crying.
"She's a murderer!" a man screamed as he pointed down the hall.
Callie frowned and took off down the hall and when she saw Bailey standing nearby she stopped. "Where is she?"
"In the conference room at the end of the hall," the other woman told her.
Mark was hot on Callie's heels as she raced down the hall and burst through the door to find Arizona holding a gauze pad to her tear streaked face looking stunned.
"What the hell happened?" Callie blurted out as she moved towards her girlfriend and pulled her into a hug. "Are you okay?"
Arizona shook her head. She pulled the gauze away when Mark got close enough to examine her wounds. "His four year old daughter died and he blamed me."
"I'll kill him," Callie mumbled angrily.
The blonde shook her head. "Calliope, it's fine. I'm fine."
Callie made a sound resembling a growl as she exited the room just as quickly as she entered.
"Did you see what happened?" she asked Bailey.
The shorter woman held her hands up. "Torres," she warned.
"Tell me," Callie ordered.
"Callie, calm down. The police will handle everything," Bailey told her.
"What. Happened."
"His daughter died and he lost his damn mind," Bailey recalled. "He was screaming at Arizona and he backed her into a corner and grabbed her coat and slammed her into the wall. He was yelling at her and then he punched her."
"Oh hell no," Callie mumbled before taking off towards the man that the police were questioning down the hall.
"Torres! Don't you dare!" Bailey yelled after her. She pushed through the conference room door where Mark was looking at Arizona's face. "Sloan, you might need to go get her."
Mark nodded and took off down the hall after his friend. "Torres!"
She didn't slow as she approached the man with a fire in her eye. "You think you can just punch someone like that and get away with it? You're twice her size, you ass!"
"Torres!" Mark yelled again.
A police officer stood between Callie and the man. "Ma'am, please calm down."
"Like hell!" she shot back as she tried to get around him.
"Miss, we have this under control, you need to back off or we'll be forced to take you into custody as well," the other officer told her.
"Knock it off, Torres, she doesn't need you getting arrested," Mark told her quietly from behind as he grasped her shoulders and turned her around.
"Unbelievable," Callie sighed. She shot a murderous glare in the man's direction as she reluctantly followed Mark back to the other end of the hall.
Mark stopped her outside the room where Arizona was still waiting and he met her gaze evenly. "You need to pull yourself together because Arizona needs you. Can you please calm down?"
Callie took a deep breath and let it out slowly, closing her eyes and rubbing them. "I'm okay."
"Good."
Arizona looked up worriedly when the door opened and seemed to sigh in relief when she saw Callie hadn't been arrested.
"I'm sorry," Callie told her gently.
"It's okay," Arizona replied. "Come here." She reached a hand out and placed it on the back of Callie's head when she was close enough to pull her in and kiss her forehead. She smiled at the brunette but winced when Mark pulled the gauze from her face once more.
Callie grabbed the blonde's hand and gave it a gentle squeeze but frowned when she saw how swollen Arizona's face was already.
"You'll definitely need stitches," Mark mumbled as he looked over the large laceration on her face.
"Any other pain?" Callie asked, her eyes sweeping over the blonde's form looking for injuries.
Arizona shook her head with a subtle nod in Mark's direction to let her girlfriend know that the rest of her injuries should be looked at privately. Callie nodded and pulled a penlight from her pocket and ran it over her eyes to check her pupil dialation. She held up a finger for the blonde's eyes to follow and frowned. "You might have a bit of a concussion."
"You don't appear to have any facial fractures," Mark told her as he stood back and pressed a fresh gauze pad to her face carefully. "Geez, he really got you."
"Arizona, the police will need to have a word with you at some point," Bailey poked her head into the room and told her.
Arizona shook her head gingerly. "That won't be necessary, Bailey."
"Like hell it won't," Callie argued immediately.
Arizona met her gaze. "I'm not pressing charges."
"What?" Callie exclaimed. "He split your face open and gave you a concussion!"
Arizona moved in close to her and leaned her head down. "Cal, he was sad and angry and he overreacted."
"So he's allowed to hit you?" the brunette asked hotly. "Hell no."
"Sit tight for a few minutes and I'll be back to stitch you up," Mark told them both before he left the room and shut the door behind him.
"Arizona, no way he should be allowed to get away with this," Callie mumbled once Mark was gone.
"I know how hard it is to lose somebody that you love, and it's horrible," Arizona tried to explain. "I can't imagine how it must feel to lose your child."
"It's still no excuse," Callie argued back.
"I'm fine," the blonde mumbled softly.
Callie caught sight of the man as he was escorted out of the hospital by security and she began cursing under her breath in Spanish. "Do no harm, do no harm, do no harm," she repeated softly to herself.
"Sweetie, I know you're upset about this, but can you please get me something for the pain?" Arizona asked softly. "The adrenaline has worn off and it's really starting to hurt."
Callie snapped out of it and nodded with a frown. She leaned down and kissed her. "I'm sorry, of course."
Arizona nodded and sat patiently while Callie left the room for a minute to get her some meds and water. She reappeared with Christina and Lexie in tow and they stood in the doorway looking shocked.
"Oh my God," Christina whispered when she saw the blonde's face and how swollen it was already.
"Mark told us what happened, are you okay?" Lexie asked as she moved into the room to take a closer look at the blonde's face.
Arizona nodded gingerly and sighed in relief when Mark came back into the room. He set everything down and got it set up before he began working on the blonde's face.
"I'll be fine," Arizona told the girls. "Thank you."
"So he just jumped you?" Christina asked from the doorway.
"I just heard, are you okay?" Owen asked as he too appeared in the doorway.
Callie sighed and gave them all a look. "She's fine. Can you hold all questions until Mark's not stitching her face up?"
"We'll be outside," Lexie told them, jutting a thumb over her shoulder.
Once the door was closed, Callie sighed heavily. Arizona smiled. "It's sweet of them to come up."
"Yeah, sweet in a bothersome, annoying kind of way," Callie responded.
Arizona tried to shrug without moving her head but failed and Mark stopped his work to give her a look.
"Hold still, Blondie, unless you want me to give you a new facial piercing."
"Sorry," she whispered.
"No nose rings," Callie joked softly as she grasped the blonde's hand.
Mark finished up a few minutes later and cupped Arizona's chin gingerly to take a look at her face. "You take care of that."
"Thanks, Mark," the blonde told him quietly.
He nodded with a smile. "No problem."
Callie smiled at him gratefully. "Thanks."
He stood and headed for the door. "How about me and Little Grey pick up dinner and bring it to your place tonight?"
"Sounds good," Callie told him with a smile. "Thanks again."
He nodded. "Take good care of her."
Callie nodded and shut the door behind him and pulled the blinds before turning to the blonde. "Let me see."
Arizona winced as she stood and she was obviously in more pain that she'd previously let on. "My back."
Callie closed the distance between them and lifted the back of Arizona's scrub top and pulled it up. She sucked in a breath when she saw a large, angry welt forming in the middle of the blonde's back. "Damn."
"Is it bad?" Arizona asked.
Callie ran her fingers over the skin of the blonde's back, feeling for broken bones. "I don't think anything is broken. How did this happen?"
Arizona sighed and turned as Callie released the back of her scrubs. "I called her time of death and he lost his mind. He was yelling and screaming and he backed me into the corner of the room. He grabbed my coat and slammed me into the wall and I must have caught the corner of the table."
Callie sucked in an angry breath, her eyes ablaze. "He's lucky he was able to walk out of here tonight."
Arizona shook her head. "I'm fine. Can we go home?"
Callie nodded and kissed her. "I'll let the Chief know."
"Thanks," Arizona mumbled with a tired smile.
Callie draped an arm around her and led her from the room. Arizona leaned heavily into the embrace as her pain meds were kicking in.
When they arrived at Callie's apartment a while later, Callie took Arizona's coat and bag and kissed her. "Why don't you get in bed and I'll bring you something to eat."
Arizona shook her head. "I think I need a shower. I have blood all over me."
"How about a bath," Callie suggested gently. "I don't want you to fall and hit your head."
Arizona considered and finally nodded gently, wincing slightly as she did. "Okay."
Callie nodded and hung up their coats and headed for the bathroom to run a bath for her girlfriend. She had just finished adding bath salts and bubbles to the water when Arizona slowly made her way into the room.
"You okay?" Callie asked quietly.
Arizona shook her head and grabbed the hem of the bloody scrub top she was still wearing and attempted to pull it up over her head. "I lost a patient, got attacked, got stitches. Not a good day at all."
She winced at the pain in her back and tried again. She sucked in a pained breath and closed her eyes to breath through it. "Dammit."
Callie reached down and grabbed the hem of the top and pulled it up gently over her girlfriend's head. "Turn around, let me see."
Arizona turned slowly. "Easy, it really hurts."
"I know, sweetie," Callie whispered as she took in the sight of the swollen mass of skin on Arizona's back that was starting to darken with the deep bruise.
"Is it bad?" the blonde asked.
Callie sighed and dropped a gentle kiss to Arizona's shoulder and ran her hands down her arms. "It's gonna be swollen and sore for a few days. But you'll be okay."
"Good," Arizona breathed.
Callie dropped a quick kiss to her girlfriend's neck. "Do you want another pain pill?"
Arizona nodded as she finished undressing. "Please."
"I'll be right back," Callie told her.
Callie headed back to the kitchen and grabbed the pain pills and poured herself a glass of wine along with a glass of water for Arizona to take her pill with. When she made it back to the bathroom, Arizona was in the tub leaned back with her eyes closed and Callie couldn't help but lean against the doorframe and just watch her for a moment.
Arizona must have sensed another presence in the room because she opened her eyes and caught Callie staring. She gave the brunette a heart-crushing smile.
"You're so beautiful," Callie breathed as she smiled and approached the tub.
"Even with the giant bruise on my face?" Arizona joked as she took the pill from Callie and took it with the water.
Callie nodded and felt tears spring to her eyes. Arizona caught the change in the other woman's expression and began to panic. "Cal, what is it?"
The brunette stood silently for a few minutes, just trying to vocalize how she felt and she was grateful that Arizona was patient and simply waited so she could collect her thoughts. "I…" Callie started. She bit back her tears and took in a shaky breath. "I am so sorry."
"What?" Arizona asked, completely confused by the sudden change in emotion.
Callie began pacing in the small room. "This shouldn't have happened to you. I should have done something."
"Sweetie, that's absurd," Arizona told her quietly and reached out for her hand. "Come here."
Callie hesitated but eventually moved to sit on the edge of the tub and kept her eyes trained on the blonde's soapy hand that came to rest on hers. "I hate that you're hurting so much right now."
"I will be fine," Arizona told her softly. "Look at me." She waited until her girlfriend's dark eyes met hers before she continued. "The scar on my face will fade and the bruise on my back will be gone in no time. I'll heal from this. I'll be fine."
"I know," Callie sighed out.
Arizona squeezed her hand. "I know it was scary today, but it's over and everything is fine. Okay?"
"I just love you so much," Callie told her quietly as she brought the blonde's hand to her mouth and kissed it gently.
"I love you too," Arizona replied quietly.
"You promise you're okay?" Callie asked quietly as she took a sip of her wine.
Arizona's features slacked slightly and she nodded her head. "I think that pain pill is finally kicking in. I'm good."
Callie laughed and stood up. "Want me to wash your hair?"
Arizona nodded with a smile and Callie had to laugh again at how relaxed she suddenly looked and she felt her heart swell with love for the other woman.
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An hour later Arizona was feeling better and she looked up from the couch when Mark let himself and Lexie in the front door. They both gave her warm, concerned smiles as they dropped bags of food on the counter and Mark approached her and squatted down next to the couch.
"How's the face feeling?" he asked.
She sighed and sat up slowly, allowing him to help her. "Sore, but not too bad."
"Let me see," he ordered gently.
She pulled the ice pack from her face and winced slightly. "I'm fine."
"I know," he told her with a smile. "Just want to make sure." He removed her bandage slowly and took a look at the stitches.
"Is my girl okay?" Callie asked as she took a seat next to Arizona and slid an arm around her.
Mark nodded. "Everything looks good. I do good work."
Arizona smiled and immediately grunted in pain. "So it shouldn't be a bad scar?"
He shook his head and stood up. "You'll barely notice it."
"Thank you," she told him quietly. "And thanks for dinner and coming over and everything."
"Of course," he replied. He turned to Callie. "Geez, what's a guy gotta do to get a beer around here?"
"Maybe some stitching, maybe bring dinner," she told him, reaching into the fridge for three beers, handing one to Mark and Lexie and keeping one for herself.
"What about me?" Arizona asked when she didn't get a drink.
"You're on pain meds, sweetie," Callie told her with a smile.
"Yeah, but it might help with the pain," Arizona angled back. "It's only a beer."
Callie shot her a sidelong glance. "Maybe after you eat something." Knowing full well that Arizona would probably be passed out long before she got a beer.
"Yay," Arizona cheered quietly to herself with a smile.
"How many pain pills did she take?" Lexie asked with a smile.
"I gave her two but something tells me she's been sneaking sips of my wine to go with them," Callie told them with a mock glare at the blonde.
Lexie laughed. "Well at least she's not in pain any more."
"Not anymore," Arizona mumbled, looking more and more drugged up as the seconds passed.
Callie smiled and kissed her temple. "You should eat and then go to bed, you've had a rough day."
Arizona nodded mutely and watched as her girlfriend stood up to bring her dinner and she slyly reached out and snagged her beer from the table and took a sip. Mark and Lexie exchanged grins at the blonde's behavior.
"Hey!" Callie exclaimed. "No drinking with those meds." She approached the blonde and took the beer from her and watched her with narrowed eyes and a barely concealed smile. "Watch it, Blondie."
"I think I'm going to lie back down," Arizona announced happily as she got herself settled back on the couch under her blanket.
"You do that," Callie mumbled with an amused smile, pressing a kiss to her lips.
"Well she's fun," Mark joked as he and the other two gathered in the kitchen to eat.
"She's the best," Callie mumbled quietly as she still watched the blonde on the couch with a loving gaze.
"I'm happy for you," Mark told her seriously.
Callie grinned. "I'm happy for you too."
Mark smiled and reached out to hug Lexie to him and dropped a kiss to her head. "I'm happy for all of us."
Callie and Mark exchanged a glance and they rolled their eyes at how dopey they all sounded. "Let's eat."
Callie nodded. "Sounds good."
Arizona found herself drifting off to sleep happily as she listened to the sounds of her friends chatting quietly nearby and she found that even though she'd been attacked that day, in that moment she felt safe and loved and completely content.
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A.N. Thanks for reading…please review and let me know what you thought.