Chapter 6

It was five o'clock in the morning and the sun hadn't even started to rise. Callie's apartment was quiet and there was no light in the room. Callie turned onto her left side and watched as a naked Arizona with her back to Callie was stirring in the sheets, slowly waking up.

Callie moved in closer, pressing her chest against Arizona's back, wrapped her arm around her waist pulling Arizona closer. She gently brought her face down and planted soft kisses on Arizona's neck.

"Mmm, hey." Arizona whispered.

"Hey" Callie responded resting her head on Arizona's shoulder. "How'd you sleep?"

Arizona turned around so that she was facing Callie. She rolled Callie onto her back so that she could rest on top of her. She came down and placed a soft kiss upon Callie's lips. "I slept amazingly, thanks to you"

Callie smiled brightly and pulled Arizona back down for another soft, yet passionate kiss. Moments later, the two of them drifted back to a peaceful slumber in each other's arms.

Callie and Arizona re awoke at seven thirty, the sun was starting to rise and light was just peaking through the crack in the closed curtains. "You work, today?" Callie asked.

"I'm on call, but no. Why? Did you have anything in mind?" Arizona responded lifting her head off of Callie's chest to look her in the eyes.

Callie closed her eyes and put a smile on her face, while wrapping her arms around Arizona's torso. "Mmm, I was thinking you and I could take a shower, and then I'd make you breakfast."

"Oh, you made me a beautiful dinner last night, and now you want to make me breakfast? I could get used to this." Arizona responded with a cheeky grin.

"I hope you do. I meant what I said last night. I'm in love with you."

"I'm in love with you too."

Kissing Arizona gently, Callie slid out of the bed and grabbed for Arizona's hand to help her out aswell. "C'mon, let's take this party to the shower."

Arizona laughed and followed Callie, closing the bathroom door behind her.

Two months later…..

The evening was setting in, in Seattle. The air was cool and people were making their way home from work. The traffic was bustling through the city, and pedestrians running for busses and hauling for cabs.

"So, where are you taking the perky girlfriend tonight?" Avery asked.

Callie and Avery were sitting at their desks at the police station, working on their paperwork before they could leave for the night. As Avery was fairly new to the service, Callie always stayed to make sure that he was getting the work done properly.

Callie turned around to face Avery, giving him a glaring look. "Avery, I would like to get out at a decent time to take the perky girlfriend out so concentrate more on your papers and less on my personal life."

Avery's smirk fell from his face. "Yes ma'am." He then put his head down and continued to work.

"How's Callie? Haven't seen her here in awhile." Teddy asked while standing in the Attending's lounge with Arizona, who was changing her scrubs after an intern had spilled a pint of blood on her.

"She's good. She's been really busy with work." Arizona replied clipping her nametag to her scrubs and checking herself over in the mirror. "She'll be here in two hours, we're going out to dinner. It's two months now that we've been official and four months since we met, so we're going out to have a little celebration. Is that crazy? Celebrating two months?" Arizona asked as her and Teddy walked out of the lounge.

Teddy laughed as they exited the lounge and were making their way down the hospital hallway. "No, it's cute. You really love her don't you?"

"Love her? I more than love her. I'm so in love with her. She could be the one. I know its too early, but I can't picture my life going back to the way it was before she came into my life." Arizona responded with a super magic smile dancing upon her face.

"I'm happy for you. She's a great girl. But listen, I gotta go check on a patient. But call me later after your date." With that Arizona and Teddy went their separate ways to their respective wards of the hospital.

"Thank god, Avery! Now I can get out of here and go on my….." Callie started with a sigh of relief that Avery had finished his work for the night, when she heard a call coming in from the radio.

"Dispatch this is 5-5 Alpha on scene at 126 Orsette Court. We have a hostage situation, requesting back-up."

"Alright Avery, I guess our work isn't as finished as we thought. We're the only one's on call tonight….." Callie said as she grabbed across her shoulder for her radio. "10-4, 5-5 Alpha, this is 5-5 Tango responding, on our way."

"10-4"

"Come on Avery, let's get moving!" Callie yelled, as she started to run for the door.

The two of them ran out of the station and grabbed their cruiser. Lights flashing and siren blaring, the two of them drove off, with Callie in the driver seat.

They arrived at the scene within minutes. When they stepped out of the car, they saw a young, skinny and tall kid, Callie guessed was 18, holding a gun to the temple of a young girl while they were standing in the middle of the street.

The environment was hostile. With all four officers on scene surrounding the two of them. Callie took cover behind the driver's seat door.

"Sir, I'm Officer Torres, What's your name, please?" Callie yelled.

"Why do you care?" The young man responded.

"Because I want to help. I can't help you unless you tell me who you are."

"I'm Chris."

"Okay, Chris. Why don't you tell me what's going on today?" Callie asked, while the other officer's carefully and as quietly as possible pulled out their firearms and held them at the ready in case they needed to discharge.

"I can't live without her." The man said, maintaining his strong hold on the young girl, keeping the barrel of his gun pointed at her temple.

"She your girlfriend Chris?"

"I was! We broke up a month ago." The young girl cried in fear.

"Shut up!" Chris screamed. "I'll shoot your head off!"

"Okay, calm down Chris. You don't want to do something that you will regret." Callie said as she tried to de-escalate the situation.

"I can't! I love her, and she dumped me. I love her!" Chris yelled, pushing the gun further into his ex-girlfriends face.

At this moment the three other officers raised their weapons and pointed them at Chris.

"Chris, I know. I know you love her. I know how you feel, I really do. I know what it is like to love someone so much that it almost drives you crazy. To love someone so much that all you want is to be with them every waking minute of the day." Callie said trying to reason with Chris as she drew from her own feelings towards Arizona. "To love someone with all your being."

"You don't know anything!" Chris yelled, as he withdrew his gun from his ex and aimed it towards Callie.

Avery in a panic pulled the trigger on his firearm, the cracking was deafeningly loud and in reaction, Chris accidentally pulled his trigger, sending a bullet straight towards Callie.

Callie could feel the force of the bullet as she felt herself fall backwards and flat on her back on the ground. Her head hit the pavement and everything went black.

Chris was in such a shock, that he barely realized what was happening. His ex-girlfriend freed herself from his grasp and ran to safety while two of the officer's ran to Chris, taking his gun and making the arrest. Avery ran to Callie and saw that she was out cold.

"Dispatch, this is Officer Avery, Requesting Emergency personnel to 126 Orsette Court, forthwith."

"10-4 Officer Avery, EMT's are on their way."

Before an ambulance arrived, Callie was slowly started to wake up from blacking out. Avery was hovering over her watching her attentively.

"Ugh…I hurt…."Callie opened her eyes to see Avery leaning over her. "….Avery?"

"Yes ma'am?" Avery asked.

"Can you not hover over top of me?" Callie asked.

Right away Avery moved back so that he was now beside her. Both of them could hear the sirens from the ambulance fast approaching, and within seconds the ambulance had stopped and Callie could hear the doors opening and closing.

"Hey Torres. Alright now, don't try to move. We're gonna get you up in the gurney and take you on a full service trip to Seattle Grace. How's that sound?" A female Paramedic said kneeling down with her party getting Callie ready for transport.

"Sounds like fun, Julie. But do me a favour would you?" Callie asked facing straight up into the sky as her head hurt too much to move it. "Call Dr. Arizona Robbins at the hospital. She'd want to know why I won't be able to take her out to dinner tonight."

"You got it, hun." Julie said. Then her and her partner lifted Callie into the back of the ambulance and were on their way to Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital.

"Dr. Robbins?" Nurse Eli called out as he saw Arizona passing by.

"Yes?" Arizona said as she turned around on her heels to face the direction of the voice.

"I just got a call from an EMT, asking me to deliver a message. They wanted me to tell you that Officer Torres is going to have to cancel your dinner plans because it appears that she is on her way to the hospital to be treated for a concussion and possibly a GSW to the chest."

Arizona dropped the patient files that she was holding in her hands and sprinted as fast as she could to the ER. Bursting through the doors, she found Derek Shepherd waiting for Callie's arrival.

"Dr. Shepherd! Is it true that Officer Torres is on her way here now?" Arizona asked, her voice laced with panic and fear.

"Is she alive? Please tell me…"

The doors from the outside to the ER burst open, with Dr. Hunt pulling the gurney that Callie was laying on. Before Arizona ever finished her discussion with Derek Shepherd, she made her way into the trauma room that they wheeled Callie into.

"Callie! Oh my god! Callie, I don't see blood, where were you shot?" She said looking all over for where she was shot.

"Arizona, honey. Just take a breath….I'm fine. The bullet didn't pierce my skin, I'm okay…..but…..I can't breathe….take it off…..SOMEONE TAKE MY VEST OFF!"

Arizona instantly grabbed at the vest, trying to figure out how to get it off. Finally after fidgeting with it for a minute, she was able to remove it and allow Callie to breathe.

"Everything appears to be okay, let's get her up for a head CT just to be sure. Call me when you have the results." Derek said, removing the gloves off of his hands, throwing them in the trash and exiting the room.

45 minutes later….

Callie was still laying on a gurney in the hallway, with Arizona by her side. They soon saw Derek approaching them. "Alright, Officer Torres your CT looks good, just a minor concussion from the fall so here is a prescription for the pain and headaches you may get but other than that, just take it easy till it heals."

"That's it? I can take her home?" Arizona asked.

"Yep, she's free to go." Derek responded with a smile, before continuing on his way down the hospital hallway.

"Thanks Dr. Shepherd." Arizona then turned to Callie and helped her get off the gurney and get her balance well enough that they could make their way down the street to Callie's apartment.

"I'm sorry about dinner….sorry about everything." Callie said as she wrapped her arm around Arizona's shoulder's to lean on her.

"It's okay, Calliope. You are more important than dinner. How about when we get you home, I order some Chinese." Arizona said reaching up and kissing Callie on the cheek.

"That sounds great."

They reached Callie's apartment within ten minutes and once inside, Arizona helped Callie to the couch. She removed her shoes and jacket for her, and placed her utility belt by the door.

Their food had arrived shortly after and the two of them enjoyed their meal with glasses of wine and conversation.

"See that bag over there on the dining room table?" Callie asked with her head back against the back the couch.

"Yeah." Arizona responded slightly confused, but mostly intrigued.

"It's for you….or well, for us." Callie said with a smile creeping up her face. She was so excited to see the reaction from Arizona when she opened the bag.

Arizona got up off the couch and grabbed the bag off the table, returning back to the couch, she dug her hand inside the tiny little bag to reveal a black box. No words were exchanged between the two of them, Callie looked on with a smile on her face as she watched Arizona open the box with excitement.

"Oh, Calliope….they're beautiful. Oh my goodness." Arizona said placing a hand upon her heart, tears at bay.

"One is for you, and the other one would be for me. That way we'd have each other's hearts wherever we go." Callie said as Arizona pulled out two matching heart shape pendent necklaces.

Arizona put the box down on the coffee table and climbed up into Callie's lap, pulling herself in to close the gap between their lips. Arizona's hands rested just around Callie's neck, under the chin, while Callie wrapped her arms around Arizona's waist.

For about ten minutes, there was almost complete silence in the apartment. The only sounds that filled the place were those that came from the two women. The feeling of sleepiness washed over the two women as the night progressed and both were ready to go to bed.

Arizona helped Callie up off the couch and led her to her bedroom. She helped Callie get into a pair of shorts and a t-shirt and tucked her in bed. Arizona then got changed herself into one of Callie's t-shirts and climbed into the other side of the bed, next to her girlfriend.

"I love you." Arizona whispered over Callie's shoulder, after turning the lights out. She wrapped her arm around Callie's waist and rested her head in Callie's raven hair, taking in her scent.

"I love you too." Callie responded, as sleep began to take over her.

Later on into the night, Arizona had changed positions and the two women's backs were to each other. Arizona lay awake, with her mind going a mile a minute. What happened to Callie was so terrifying to her and her mind was filled with a million "What if's". This was her first wake up call of the realities of Callie's job.

Callie lay peacefully in a deep slumber; little did she know that her love, lying next to her was crying herself back to sleep.