Title: Good Man In A Storm
Author: Gina
Pairing: Callie/ Arizona, Callie/George
Rating: NC17 (later chapters).
Summary: AU Calzona . George breaks Callie's heart and leaves her alone and broken. Can Arizona restore her faith in love and be her good man in a storm .Set somewhere around season4.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this fiction, nor do I have any rights in regards to them. All characters belong to ABC and Shonda Rhimes.

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Arizona's POV

I followed the doctor into the I.C.U and sat down next to Callie. The doctor gave me a quick nod and then left. She looked so fragile, there were machines hooked to every part of her and the oxygen mask obscured part of her face. I gently took her hand in my own and kissed her fingers. The knuckles were cut and bruised and there was still mud beneath her finger nails. She must have had to really struggle to save DJ.

"Callie…" I whispered to her still form. "I love you, baby. I loved you the first time I ever saw you." I decided that if I never got a chance to say it to her, I was going to say it all to her now, whether she heard me or not, and maybe she would hear me and it would make a difference. "I loved you the first time in the hotel, when I knocked you down…..do you remember that?" I smiled as tears ran down my face and I kissed her hand again. "I love you…..I love everything about you….and the boys love you too….DJ and Aiden. They want you to get better soon." I went on talking to her holding her hand in my own. "And I love the baby too….that's right. And if you want the baby so do I…..I want you and the baby Callie. Both of you…..and the baby is going to be just fine….I just spoke to the doctor." I rested my hand on the baby then, and felt the small bump that I had never noticed before and that she had never told me about. I spoke to the baby and told it that I loved it, and that it had better stick around or a lot of people would be unhappy. "That's right Junior….you don't think your mama has gone through all this in order to have you bail out now, do you? So settle down and relax in there…..right Callie? You tell Junior here to relax." I then kissed her gently on the cheek and kept on talking to her.

A nurse entered the room and as she approached, Callie turned towards me and opened her eyes and then closed them. For an instant of pure terror, I thought the worst and let out an almost animal sound of grief as I stood up and looked at her again. But as I did, she opened her eyes again, and the nurse checked her vital signs and smiled down at her. I beamed at her through my tears. I cpuldn't even speak anymore. She had taken my breath away and I was so thankful and moved that I was trembling.

"You're a very lucky girl. The baby looks fine too. Looks like everything is going to be all right now. How are you feeling?" The nurse asked Callie.

Callie's POV

I fought to pull off the oxygen mask off my face and the nurse helped me to lift it.

"Not so good." I managed to croak out.

They had pumped the water from my stomach and now I felt hoarse and nauseated and viciously battered. The last thing I remember was slipping into a warm, soft place when I had gotten the final blow on my head from a rock and had started drowning.

"I'll bet you don't feel so good." The nurse smiled at me and propped my head up a bit. "You had quite a fight with the rocks, and a whole lot of water. But they tell me you ran a race and you saved the little boy. You did!" she smiled at me.

I felt Arizona grasp my hand. "Callie you saved DJ." I started to cry with relief then and she leaned down and kissed my forehead. "Honey you saved him." She sobbed.

"I'm so glad…I was so afraid….I couldn't have held him up much longer….the current was terrible….and I was afraid I couldn't run fast enough." I managed to get out. There were still tears in my eyes but they were of relief and victory and I held fast to Arizona's hand. The nurse then left the room to give a report to the doctor.

Arizona then whispered in my ear "Why didn't you tell me about the baby?"

There was a long silence as I looked at her, grateful that she was here , my eyes full of the love I felt for her that I'd been fighting so hard against. "I didn't think it was fair to you." I started to cry again as I said it and she shook her head and kissed me gently.

"Callie, I know I told you that I didn't want kids and the reason why, but when I heard about the tiny human growing inside you something inside me changed. I can't explain it properly but it just did. It's an unusual situation I'll admit but I think I have developed a taste for the unusual." She laughed.

"Is the baby really okay?" I sighed.

"Everything's fine. You'll have to take it easy for a while but babies are pretty sturdy." She smiled. "Is that why George left?" she looked as if the question had been bothering her for a while.

Quietly I nodded "It's not the whole reason but it's part of it. He didn't want a family with me and so he asked me to get an abortion…..I tried but I just couldn't." I start to tremble as I think back to that horrific guy.

"Sounds like a nice guy." Arizona looked indignant on my behalf.

"Maybe he had his reasons. And he may change his mind…once he sees it." I sigh.

Arizona's POV

I then realized what the problem was. She was still hoping that George would come back, for the baby, if nothing else.

I then asked her something….I was terrified of the answer but I needed to know. "Callie, are you still in love with him?"

She hesitated for a long time and then slowly shook her head. "No, I'm not…but the baby has a right to it's natural father."

"Would you take him back if he came back?

"I might…for the baby's sake." She closed her eyes then.

I looked at her saddened by what she had just said but grateful for her honesty. It was one of the things I loved about her. She obviously felt she owed George and the baby something, a relationship they deserved even if it meant her giving something up. But that's the kind of person she was…..in trying to save DJ, she had been willing to risk herself and the baby. She was definitely an all or nothing kind of person.

We sat in silence of a while until she asked in a small voice "Do you hate me?"

"Are you out of your mind? How can you even think that? You just saved my nephew." I gently stroked her cheek. "I love you Callie. This maybe not the place or time to say it but I am in love with you."

"You are not mad about the baby?" There were tears in her eyes as she asked me.

"Of course not. I think you're wonderful to do what you're doing. You're courageous and strong and I think it's very special that you're having a baby."

She started to sob at my words.

"Just relax." I soothed. She was getting too upset and I was worried of what it might do to her. She had already had a terrible shock to her body. She looked like a battered child and was hiccupping like a little girl who'd been crying.

"You're going to have your baby and it's going to be beautiful. I love both you and the baby…..Callie."

"How can you say that? It's not even your baby." She sniffed.

"Maybe one day if I'm very lucky, it will be." I couldn't stop myself from saying what I was thinking. She held onto my hand tightly as she closed her eyes after nodding her head. She dozed off in a bit still holding onto my hand.

I left so that she could get some rest and went to check on the boys.

DJ was still sleeping and Aiden was watching an episode of Spongebob Square pants.

"How're you doing buddy?" I asked Aiden after giving him a hug.

"How's Callie?" he asked worriedly .

"She's sleeping but she's better." I re-assured him. "What do you say we stay in a hotel instead of going back camping?" I didn't want to disappoint the boys but I had a responsibility to Callie now too, particularly after what she had done for DJ. If it hadn't been for her quick thinking and brave actions, I would have lost DJ forever. It was a debt I could never repay her for.

Aiden nodded his head immediately. "I'm just glad they're both ok. It was terrible Aunty Zo. She kept pushing him up but the current would shove her down again. And then she'd push him up again, and she'd go under again….it was awful." He sobbed into my chest as I held him for a long time.

"DJ should never have left in the first place. What was he doing?"

"He was trying to look at the rafts more closely." Aiden muttered.

I then left for a while to find a comfortable hotel to stay in and when I got back DJ was awake.

"Where have you been?" DJ asked me.

"I went to get a hotel room for all of us." I answered as I pulled him onto my lap and cuddled him.

"How's Callie?"he asked tearfully.

"She's going to be fin e but she was worried about you munchkin. She took a beating trying to rescue you. Which reminds me, why did you leave the swimming hole without telling Callie or your brother?"

"I'm sorry Aunty Zo….honest." his bottom lip wobbled.

"I know you are munchkin."

I took them to the hotel after that. I had stopped in to check in on Callie but she was still sleeping and I was told I could visit her in the morning by the nurse.

I left the number of the hotel and the room no. with the nurse and told her to give it to Callie when she woke up. A hour later the boys were jumping on the hotel bed and watching TV and DJ demanded we order chocolate ice cream from room service. It was difficult to believe that he had almost drowned this morning. I thanked god for the elasticity and resilience of childhood.

I gave them both a bath and put them to bed. I then stretched out in the room that was to be Callie's completely exhausted.

I had almost drifted off to sleep when the phone rang.

"Hello." I said my voice hoarse from exhaustion and stress.

"Where are you?" It was Callie.

"Here in your bed. Wishing you were here with me."

Yikes did I really say that? You are a dumbass Robbins.

"Can you hear any bears?" she teased.

"Nope, no bears or coyotes." I teased back. "But it's lonely without you." I admitted.

"It's lonely here too." She sighed. "How are the boys?"

"Asleep and if they aren't I don't want to know about it." I groaned.

"How's the baby?" I asked.

"Okay I guess." "I can't wait till tomorrow. It's so depressing here." She said changing the topic.

"Wait till you see the hotel room." I grinned.

"I can't wait." I could hear the smile in her voice.

"I'll see you tomorrow. Now get some rest. I'll miss you…" I smiled. A whole new bond had formed between us today.

"I'll miss you too. Goodnight." She whispered.

"And don't forget how much I love you." I reminded her with a stupid grin on my face.

Damn…..I am so whipped in love.

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