CHAPTER 42

When the rain

Is blowing in your face

And the whole world

Is on your case

I could offer you

A warm embrace

To make you feel my love

When Arizona woke up the next morning it didn't take long for her to realize that she had been sleeping alone the whole night through. Callie's side of the bed was untouched. The blonde sighed heavily with disappointment and once again she cursed the fact that they were surgeons. Rubbing the sleep out of her eyes she made her way out to the kitchen wearing her robe to make some coffee before she showered. She had been trying her best to suppress last night events in the locker room. The blonde still wasn't sure of how she was going to handle this. Another loud sigh slipped from her but quickly changed in to a smile when the door to the apartment opened and Callie walked in.

"Hi" the Latina said looking really tired and threw her purse and jacket on the couch. "Just my luck. Pure chaos. Car accident. Couldn't leave Owen by himself with so many broken bones at once. Sorry. Have you slept well?"

Callie finished off with a small smile and slowly approached the newly waked blonde.

"Would you be surprised if I told you I missed you?" Arizona said in a small voice.

"What's wrong?" Callie frowned sensing the blonde's tension.

Quickly debating with herself Arizona decided not to say anything about what had happened with Nathalie last night before she left the hospital. Still, she was a little surprised that Callie easily could pick up that there in fact was something wrong.

"Nothing" she therefore added quickly. "I just don't like sleeping alone. Are you going back to the hospital for morning rounds or are you going to catch some sleep?"

"I was just thinking I should eat something and take a quick shower" Callie replied and was now standing in front of Arizona. "Are you sure there is nothing wrong?"

Instead of answer Arizona just leaned in to Callie's arms and sighed with relaxation when their bodies came in such close contact.

"I'm perfect", she whispered looking up to meet the Latinas eyes showing that Callie obvious was exhausted.

"Yes you are" the Latina mumbled back and parted the blonde's robe just enough to reveal her silky, creamy white skin.

Callie's finger started to trail small patterns around Arizona's chest and when her fingertip reached the underside of the blonde's breast they both moaned low at the contact.

"Aren't you tired?" Arizona breathed and closed her eyes to keep her increased aroused state in control.

"Yes, I'm very, very tired" Callie whispered and leaned in to place a small kiss on the blonde's chest just above her erect nipples. "When do you have to be at work?"

Arizona opened her eyes and tried to regain her breathing steady.

"In an hour" she replied instantly. "You?"

"Then we can go together" Callie established. "Now, how about we join each other for a shower?"

"I'd like that" Arizona smiled.

The Latina grinned back and took a hold of one of the blonde's arms to drag her along.

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Feeling a little bit lighter on the inside after their quality time in the shower earlier the same morning Arizona decided to not let this Nathalie thing get to her. She met up with the young blonde at the nurse's station in the Ped's department exactly one hour later just in time to start her morning rounds.

"I believe that it's for the best if we start with visiting this Sam Lindley then" Arizona stated sounding strictly professional.

"Sure!" Nathalie said and with that said Arizona once again couldn't say anything more then that her colleague seemed really invested in her patient. "I do suspect that he has a very angry appendix though. I thought it was his kidneys at first but I'm not so sure of that anymore. I've just talked to Dr Karev and Dr Grey since they had the night shift."

"Well, let's check if you have diagnosed this kid right" the Ped surgeon said and gathered her charts on order to get this day started.

It didn't take Arizona long to confirm Nathalie's suspicions about the appendix and she scheduled an appendectomy the same afternoon. She hadn't that many surgeries scheduled up until the weekend. She was just about to exhale when Nathalie did something very unexpected in Arizona's opinion.

"You're very good", the young blonde almost murmured suddenly standing too close.

Arizona immediately picked up the tension and felt really uneasy since they were alone in the Ped's coffee lounge.

"Thanks" she said and tried to sound as normal as possible.

"I bet those hands of yours has some skills one could ever dream of."

"Okay, enough!" Arizona exclaimed and turned around to face Nathalie who seemed very amused by the situation they were in. "I'm involved. And even if I weren't I wouldn't be interested so I suggest that you just drop this act right now."

"No one have to find out" Nathalie smirked and leaned in closer so Arizona was forced to lean backwards.

"See this?" Arizona hissed and showed the ring on her left ring finger. "If you don't leave me alone I'm going straight up to Chief Webber's office and I will get you fired in an instant. Got it?"

That seemed to do it for Nathalie who took a step back and held up her hands in resignation.

"Okay, okay. I get it. I'm sorry."

Arizona grunted and slipped by and passed the young blonde.

"Let's just pretend that this never happened", she said with her back turned.

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Arizona felt really uncomfortable when she left the Ped's coffee lounge. Although she tried really hard to just forget what just had happened she just didn't seem to get it out of her mind. Callie had obviously been right and she had been wrong. Very wrong. Suddenly she felt the urge of telling someone about this whole mess. Teddy? No, that was not an option before she had told Callie. And Arizona had a strong feeling that the hospital wasn't the right place to tell the fiery Latina. Not if she didn't want World War three to start right this second.

With a quick glance at her watch she registered that she had exactly forty minutes to spare before this weeks regular meeting with the other attendings in the conference room with Chief Webber. Therefore she decided to shake this whole thing out of her system and took the elevator down to the main lobby and the head desk where she saw Mark and Callie stand engaged in a conversation about what appeared to be one of last night's victim from the car accident Callie had been involved in.

"Can you guys just stop arguing and follow me to grab some coffee before the meeting?" Arizona teased.

Mark and Callie stopped talking and turned their heads to the blonde.

"We're not arguing" Mark protested sounding really grumpy. "We're discussing. There's a big difference."

"Whatever" Arizona smiled knowingly and squeezed one of Callie's shoulders in a loving manner. "Stop discussing then and come with me."

Callie couldn't hold back the smile that took a hold of her whenever the blonde was around. Also she was relieved that Mark and Arizona was on the same level again without any hard feelings whatsoever.

"You're bossy" Mark complained but both Arizona and Callie could see the obvious happiness in the Mark Sloan's eyes.

Apparently he had missed hanging out with them. They headed out to get some coffee before they accompanied each other to the conference room.

"Arizona" Callie said in a low voice and stopped the blonde just outside the conference room. "What's wrong? And before you say anything, don't say "nothing" cause I can see it in your eyes."

Arizona sighed. She should have known better than try to hide anything from the Latina. Although she thought that she had done a good job with that.

"Can we just talk about this later?" she pleaded.

Callie didn't seem to happy about her answer but complied with it when the blonde tried to smile to reassure her that what ever it was bugging her it was under control for the moment.

"Fine" she said and did her best to return the blonde's smiley expression.

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Although Callie really tried her hardest to let this thing with Arizona go for the rest of the day she couldn't. There was something wrong and she had not liked the vibes coming from the Ped surgeon at all during the coffee break with Mark and during the meeting. She knew that Arizona had surgeries scheduled the whole afternoon and she herself had to do some well needed charting before the upcoming weekend.

"Callie!"

She almost jumped when she heard her name and looked up from her charts just in time to see Lexie Grey coming towards her with obvious hurry in her steps.

"What is it?" Callie said sensing that there was something very wrong.

"You have to come" Lexie said somewhat out breath. "It's Arizona. She just lost a patient during an appendectomy. She is totally out of her mind and is crying her eyes out up in Ped's."

Callie felt grateful to Lexie in that moment. She could she the obvious concern in the residence eyes.

"Take me to her."

Without saying a word Lexie turned with Callie right behind her and started to walk quickly to the elevators. The ride up seemed to take forever but when they finally reached the floor with the Ped's wing on it Lexie stepped out and continued her hurried walk to where Arizona was. Outside the Ped's coffee lounge Jackson Avery tripped back and forth. When he saw Lexie and Callie he lit up.

"You found her!" he said. "Good!"

Callie didn't answer. Instead she just opened the door to the lounge. Her heart almost broke when she saw Arizona sitting in the corner looking totally devastated. The blonde's make up was a mess and tears were running freely down her cheeks while she sniffed loudly. The crying seemed to increase when she noticed Callie and in a second the Latina had taken the blonde in her arms and tried to soothe her.

"Calm down baby" Callie whispered in to the blonde hair and used one of her hands to move up and down Arizona's back in comfort motions.

"I-I screwed up", the blonde cried. "It was just a simple appendectomy for God's sake! I use to brag about the fact that I can do them in my sleep all the time!"

"Shhh" Callie soothed. "We both know that everything can happen in the OR."

"But he was only five years old!" Arizona said with devastation and continued to sniff loudly. "And I tried to stop the bleeding I really did, but it was too late! God, I hate this day!"

Callie felt nothing but sympathy for her girlfriend but instead of saying anything else she just opened her arms even more so that Arizona could have more access to hold on to the Latina. For several minutes they just sat there with Arizona holding on to Callie for dear life and the Latina just let her have it all out. Soon the blonde's crying subsided and Callie reached for some tissues on the table.

"Here you go", she said tenderly.

Arizona looked gratefully at the Latina and dried her eyes and nose, which both were all red from the crying.

"Feeling better?"

Arizona let a small smile show and nodded carefully.

"A little. But that's just because you're here. I always feel better when I'm with you."

Returning the smile Callie reached out with one of her hands and cupped the side of the blonde's face.

"Good", she half whispered half said lovingly. "That's the point."

Suddenly the door flew open and they looked both a little chocked and surprised when they recognized Chief Webber stepping in to the room. He didn't look happy.

"What the hell is going on Robbins?" he exclaimed.

Arizona froze in an instant.

"I-I did my best Chief. I really did, but…"

"Sexual harassments? Really, Robbins?"

Callie looked in confusion from Chief Webber and then to Arizona.

"What the hell are you talking about Chief?" she said sounding as horrified as the blonde by her side looked.

"Nathalie Porter was just by my office and told me that you apparently had 'hit' on her right in this room this morning. She was crying her eyes out and told me that you had scared her to death. Her own words. Care to explain Dr Robbins?"

Arizona opened her mouth then shut it again. This was not happening. It must be a bad dream. A really, really bad dream that she was going to wake up from soon…