AN: For all of you Slexie fans this may be a hard chapter to read! It is also filled with calzona sense that really show how much they love each other!
Chapter 9
Arizona's POV
A loud sound and headlights breaks through what seemed to be never ending darkness. Everyone who physically can jumps to their feet and starts waving. The aircraft in the sky, which looks like an oversized helicopter hovers above us before moving on. I almost panic but remember that they need a clearer place to land.
Just then heavy wind swirls around and we see the helicopter land not to far form us. There is so much light now that I have to squint to my eyes to see properly. Jackson runs over to where a large piece of metal is being lowered for the back of the rescue vehicle. It reminds me of a drawbridge in the fairy tails Callie and I read to Sophia before she goes to bed. The door comes down and I think my eyes elude me. Is that April hugging Jackson? Then I see Mark hop out of the passenger side door. How many doctors are in that helicopter and is there the one I desperately want to see? Arizona's head is buzzing with questions.
Then to her amazement she sees her beautiful wife jog down the ramp the door had made and call out her name. Arizona, in too much shock to answer hears Jerry call out "Over here!" "Is that your wife I just called over? She sure fits the description you gave me." Arizona nods unable to form words. She watches the brunette run up and throw her arms around her shoulders hugging her. "Baby! Callie how are you here?" Arizona says no longer able to stay strong. "I came to rescue you! I'm going to take you home. Are you hurt?" Before she has a chance to answer a cry breaks threw the air "No!" Callie jumps to her feet. "I will be back in one second."
The brunette runs off in the opposite direction to find her best friend. She sees him kneeling on the ground next to part of the plane. When Callie kneels herself she sees the reason for his tears. The love of his life, Lexie grey is dead." "Everyone who can, help me life this off of her! We are not leaving her out here!" Mark demands. Everyone runs over knowing he was not about to let this go. On the count of three they all push as hard as they can, lifting the piece only a few centimeters off of her. Mark crouches down and pulls her out from under it.
What they find is horrific, something you see in scary movies. She is pale as a ghost which means she bleed out, one of her arms is missing, a dark bruise spans from the neckline of her shirt to the little place where you can see her stomach above the waist of her scrub pants telling them she had bad internal bleeding and every bone from her pelvis down looks like it had been put threw a grinder. April quickly throws a blanket over her leaving only her face visible.
Everyone leaves him to have some alone time with her except Callie. She would never leave him when he was this hurt. "Mark what do you need? Is there anything I can do?" Mark looks at her with both sorrow and determination in his eyes. "I'm going to bring her home." Mark reaches down and lifts her lifeless body to bring to the helicopter.
Callie walks back to Arizona. "Lexie passed and Mark needed help lifting the plane part crushing her." "I know, she passed almost immediately after we crashed."
Callie looks her wife up and down does not see any major injuries. "Come on, I want to get you out of here." Callie grabs Arizona's hands prepared to pull her to her feet. "Wait I didn't get a chance to tell you, I ah, hurt my leg." Arizona pulls back the jacket she had covering her leg and bugs fly out from under it. Callie is mortified to see a grossly infected open femur fracture." "Oh my god! Baby I'm so sorry!" "I just want to go home so you can fix it!" Arizona says threw her cries.
Alex walks up next to them prepared to bring Jerry to the helicopter. "Hey I'm guessing you're the pilot. What are your injury's?" "I can't feel my legs Jerry says nervously. Alex nods and yells that he will need help. Jackson runs over and they both carry Jerry to safety.
"Do you know if you can walk of stand if I helped you?" Callie asks knowing she needs to give her wife medical attention immediately. "I tried to once but-. Arizona is crying to hard for the rest of her sentence to make any sense. "No, don't cry. Ill get you home soon." Callie looks around to see if there is anyone that can help her but sees everyone working to save someone else. Mark was hunched over Lexie in the helicopter, Jackson was helping Alex carry Jerry, April was being a crutch for Meredith to balance on and Cristina was helping Derek from the ground.
"I'm willing to try to walk again though. I know you will be here to help me." "Of course I will, now on the count of three ill stand you up." Callie walks behind Arizona and places her hands under the blonde's armpits. "One,two,three.' Callie counted fast and quiet so she didn't scare her wife any further. On three Callie pulls Arizona to a standing position on her good leg and quickly shifts to her side to add more stability. She pulls Arizona's arm around her shoulders and puts her other arm around her wife's waist. Once she gets them moving it goes pretty smoothly. But after a few hops she starts to get the familiar feeling of light-headedness she had gotten before.
"Baby…I don't feel so good." Callie looks over to see her wife pale and shaky. "Ok don't worry. We can take a rest. Lets just-. All of a sudden Callie feels her wife's good leg buckle and her body go lifeless. "Arizona?" Callie grunt out as her wife dangles beside her by her arm. Callie knows she cannot hold her like this for long because she can already feel her slipping.
"Help!" She says as loud as she can from the position she is in. No one turns to see her. Callie hopes she does not hurt Arizona to badly as she shifts the arm that was once around her waist to her knees and lifts. Once Callie has her fully in her arms she picked up the pace towards the helicopter. Her heart sinks when Arizona's head falls back against her arm. When Callie gets to the ramp people finally notice her and run to help.
Alex is the first to get there. He takes Arizona from Callie's arms and walks up the ramp with her up the ramp. Callie follows closely behind. April runs up to them concerned. "Is she ok?" Before Callie can answer Jackson walks up to them. "Yang and I tried to stand her up and she passed out. Is that what happened?" Callie nods. Alex places Arizona on the floor and walks to the front of the helicopter. "Everyone take a seat we are taking off."
After a moment of shifting they life into the air. "Hey April, what do you make of this?" She says lifting the blanket that she used to cover Arizona's legs. April looks with shock and almost disgust. "Well that looks really badly infected. I would say that she may need it…well I don't now." But Callie know what she was going to say before she stopped herself. Knowing she cannot do anything more to help her wife's leg now she lifts up her unharmed half and slides underneath. It feels good having the love of her life in her arms again.
Callie watches April take care of everyone for the first hour of the trip. Then she feels a little shirt in her lap. Arizona was waking up! She pulls herself out from under the drowsy blond so she is sitting at her side. But she soon realizes that Arizona is to weak to hold herself up and starts to slouch to one side. "Its ok, ill help you. "Callie says not knowing if she could here her or not. "April will you help be lean her against that wall without hurting her leg?" April nods.
Standing up Callie lifts her by the armpits again this time only a little off of the floor. April makes sure her left leg does not drag while Callie carries her. When they get to the wall Callie leans her up against and sits down just in time to see beautiful blue eyes flutter open.
"You're awake! Are you ok?" Arizona nods slowly. "Did I pass out again? I'm sorry Cal, I tried to tell you before." "Don't be sorry. I got you to the helicopter. We are almost back to the hospital." Arizona looks out the window to see the sun coming up. "Does anyone know you came to rescue us?" Callie shacks her head. "They would have tried to stop us and I couldn't be without you for another minute." Callie smiles at how beautiful Arizona looks even after all she has been threw.
"We are right by the hospital. I will land as close as possible and run in to get help." Alex says from the front. "Right when I get you in I will make you better." Callie promises. Arizona looks directly into Callie's eyes and grabs Callie's hand. "Promise me you will not let them take my leg Callie, promise me." Callie feels so heartbroken looking into her wife's tearful eyes. "Baby, it is really bad but I will try me best." "Promise me! I need to know you will not let them just take it!" Arizona says with urgency in her voice. "I promise." Callie says before she can stop herself. Immediately she knows she has made a huge mistake.
AN: Are you still liking it? I sure hope so! So I just wanted to mention that like Arizona I have broken my left femur. It is really really painful and has a long recovery time! Mine was not an open fracture but it was still pretty bad. I have already had two surgeries for it and am probably going to get another. I had all kinds of trouble with passing out every time I stood up so I thought Arizona might have also. So I thought I would just mention that I know first hand a little about broken femurs.