AN: Here's another Chapter! Sorry I update at the worst times! (Its 2 AM where I live)
Chapter 13
Callie's POV
I see beautiful blue eyes stare up at me. "Calliope?" "Yes baby, its me. How are you feeling?" "Good, just a little worn out. What happened?" Callie takes a seat on the edge of Arizona's bed and grabs her hand. "Well… your heart stopped because of the infection. They could not keep you stable. Baby I'm sorry…they had to take the leg." Arizona stares down in shock before ripping the covers off of her self. Tears fill her eyes as this starts to sink in. "No! No, this can't happen! You promised!" "I know and I am so sorry that I promised something that I could not keep. We tried everything to save it." Tears stream down the blonds face. "How am I supposed to live without my leg? I'm a doctor! I'm a mother!" "I know, it will take time and adjusting but I will help you. We will get through it together." "Don't you think you have helped enough? Just go!"
Callie looks around alarmed. Should she really leave? She had been expecting a lot but being asked to leave was not one of them. The glaring look her wife was giving her was enough to know that she meant what she said. Callie got up and slowly walked out the door. She pages April who meets her in the hall. She tries to cover the fact that she was crying but does not do a good enough job of that. "Do you think you could just keep an eye on her? Maybe check in every once in a while? She needed some space." April nods knowing what must have happened.
Callie decides to go in search of Mark. She finds him not too far from the room walking slowly. "Mark!" She says as tears flood her eyes. It feels like her heart has split in two. Mark turns and runs to her. "Cal, what happened? Did she not take it well?" Her tears are falling fast now, rolling down her cheeks and falling to the tile floor. "She…a-asked m-me to leave!" Mark hugs her tight still holding Sophia. "She may just need some time to come to peace with this." He says in the hope to make her feel just a little bit better. A nurse walks by and stares at the hysterical doctor. Mark gives her a dirty glare using his eyes to say 'what the hell are you looking at?' "Cal, how about you just come and tell me the rest of what happened in my room? You can give Arizona space tonight and stay with me but if she needs anything we are right next door." Callie nods as she struggles to take a deep breath.
They walk the small distance back. "I'm going to grab some of the stuff we will need from Arizona's room. You just stay here with Sophia." Mark walks into Arizona's room to find her crying. "I'm sorry to disturb you I just need to grab some things. It will only take a second." He grabs a pair of pj's for Callie, Sophia and himself and Sophia's diaper bag. As her turns to leave he gets up the nerve to say something to her. "Callie is really upset over there. She is going to stay with me tonight to give you some space. I just want you to know that she did what she did to save you." He walks out of the room before she can answer shutting the door that once joined the rooms behind him.
"I got us some pj's and stuff for Soph. I am not sure how you want to work this. I have only one bed and no bathroom. "We can just figure that out later." Callie says before walking to the door that leads to the hallway and closing it so they can change. Mark also puts Sophia in her tiny pink and yellow nightgown. The room has almost no furniture with a bed, bedside table, a lamp, Sophia's playpen and a dresser being its only exceptions. Mark puts Sophia in her playpen to sleep. It would have to serve as a crib for the time being. Callie and Mark both sit on opposite half's of the bed facing each other.
"Tell me again what happened. So you told her and she just kicked you out?" Callie hugs a pillow to her chest. "No there was talking. I told her… but she didn't seem to get it at first… or maybe she didn't believe me? Then she ripped the covers off of herself and saw the stump. Then she started crying and brought up how I had promised. I tell her I am sorry and she asks how she is supposed to live without her leg. I tell her that I will help her and she says haven't I already helped enough. That's when she told me to …just go." Callie knows exactly what was said in that heartbreaking exchange because it has been playing through her mind non-stop for the last half hour. Tears slide down her cheeks.
"It really just seems like she needs time to steam about this and in a few days it will all blow over. She also probably just needed someone to blame. You were an easy target because you were there and she knows you will stick by her no matter how much crap she throws at you." "I wish I really knew what she was thinking. I'm just confused. Is she truthfully mad at me or is she just covering up how upset she is with anger. I wish she would let me be there for her." "I get it. Trust me it will all work out in the end. But for now lets just go to bed. We are both exhausted." You take the bed. I'm going to steal a gurney and sleep on that. No one will ever notice." He says as he walks out the door. Callie crawls into bed noticing how tired she really is. Mark wheels the gurney up to the hospital bed finding Callie already asleep. He turns off the light and falls into a shallow slumber.
Callie jumps out of her restful sleep when she hears a loud sound coming from very close to her. She looks around but only sees darkness till she finds the switch on the lamp and turns it on. That's when she hears it again. "No, I can save you." She sees her best friend talking in his sleep." We were supposed to be together!" She debated weather or not to wake him. Tears slide down his cheeks from his tightly clenched eyes. He wiggles around in bed a little, fists gripping the thin blanket covering the lower half of his body. "No! You can't take her!" Mark says in a louder and even more strained voice then he had used before. His muscles tense and he starts to cry harder. She decides that she has to wake him. "Hey Mark, its Callie. Wake up." She says into his ear as she shakes his shoulder. He jumps when he feels her hand. "Cal! Are you ok? What's wrong?" "Nothing, you were just having a nightmare and talking…yelling in your sleep. I wanted to make sure you were ok."
Callie crawls onto the tall stretcher. Mark looks down embarrassed and wipes the tears he now feels on his face. "Are you ok? What was the dream about?" Mark looks up at her for a second then back down at his lap. "It was nothing. I'm sorry for waking you up." She knows it must have been a really bad one if he is trying to keep it from her. Luckily she knows him too well for him to be able to keep things from her. "Mark Sloan, I have been your best friend for long enough to know when something is bothering you. Now I will ask one more time, what was the dream about?" Callie has a good guess about what it was but she knows it will make him feel better to talk about it.
"Mark looks up sheepish. "It was about Lexie. I see her die in front of me. Then I see her mangled body and those men take her from me." Tears once again fall from his eyes but he doesn't care. Callie stands up and hugs him. "I'm so sorry. I know how tuff this must be for you. I just don't want you to shy away from me now. We need each other. I need you to stay open with me because if you don't…I don't know. I don't want to think about a world where… you don't text me all night after you watch a horror movie and can't sleep or your texts saying your apartment is haunted so I have to sneak you in without Arizona knowing and we have a sleepover on my living room floor. That's how I want life to stay like for us no matter what. We need each other especially now." "I'm sorry. I know that we need to stick together. I promise to stay completely open like I was before. I know we will get through this together."
Callie hugs him again. "Lets go back to bed." Callie gets back into bed and reaches for his hand. They fall asleep hand in hand for the second night in a row. He has no more nightmares for the rest of the night, only sweet memories of his little family.
They both wake up to the loud alarm Callie set on her phone. "What time is it?" Mark asks when he sees that the sun has not come up yet. "Its 4:30. I thought I would take a shower in Arizona's room before she wakes up." Mark nods ready to fall asleep again.
She walks out into the hallway wearing a t-shirt, loose pajama pants and fluffy blue slippers. She carries her the cloth she will change into and some stuff she will need in the bathroom. She enters the dark room as quietly as possible. She sees her wife peacefully sleeping in her bed. She can't help but think about how small and alone she looks. All she wants to do is run up and hug her. Tell her that she is here, but she fights the impulse. Being as quiet as possible Callie takes a quick shower. When she is done she gets ready and exits the bathroom to find Arizona sitting up looking at her. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to wake you up. I just wanted to take a shower before you woke-" Arizona lays her head the opposite direction on her pillow so she is not facing the nervous looking Latina. Feeling a jab of pain she leaves the room feeling dejected once again.
Callie spends her day checking on all the doctors that were in the crash. Every hour she would make her way up to Arizona's room and walk past to check on her. Every time she would walk past she saw Arizona stair at the wall blankly. It made her nervous. She was not crying which had to be a good thing but she also was not showing any other emotion. Callie did not know whether she should go try to make peace or stay away like she had been asked.
Around seven Mark goes into his room to find Callie playing with Sophia on the bed. "How was your day with Jackson?" Callie asks looking up at him. Mark let's his leather jacket slide from his shoulders. "It was great. We went for coffee and talked for a while. Then we went out to get some wings for diner. I brought you some back." He puts a Styrofoam to-go box on the top of the dresser then sits down. He tickles Sophia on the belly making her giggle. "I heard you were up to no good today. Is true that every hour on the dot you would walk past Arizona's room?" Callie hangs her head which is enough to know that she had in fact done what he had said. "Oh Cal, you cant do this to yourself. Just go talk to her. See if she is not so mad anymore. Maybe she just needs a shoulder to cry on." Callie looks at the door dividing the rooms. "Do you think she needs that? I really feel like I should be over their holding her and making her feel better rather than hiding over here." "Of course. Give it a shot." Mark stand up pulling her up with him. "Go get your girl." He says giving her a little shove toward the door.
When she walks through it she stops shot seeing April. She had not expected this. All of her confidence she had just a second prior drained from her body and she froze. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to, I should go I am interrupting." Callie stutters out as both girls look at her. "No don't be silly. I was just leaving." April immediately leaves the room. Callie walks a little bit closer to the bed. Arizona remains quiet looking down at her blanket. Callie wishes she would at least look at her.
"I just wanted to say that I am sorry. I know that you are just pushing me away because you are upset. I also know that you need a shoulder to cry on and I want to be that shoulder." "If you really knew what I wanted you wouldn't be here!" Arizona snaps. Her eyes have so much hate behind them it makes Callie feel sick to her stomach. She can't think of what to say. "I just want to help you get better." "No! You can't help make me better when you were the one who broke me!" Tears run down her pale face as she yells the hurtful words. "I don't want to see you, I don't want to talk to you, I don't want to hear your voice." Her words turn into a fit of crying as she covers her face with her hands. Callie waits a second then puts a hand on the blondes shoulder. Arizona's head snaps up. "I told you once, now I will tell you again, leave me alone!" She yells the last three words loud enough to make Callie jump. She said it in a cold tone, nothing like her usual peppy and upbeat one. Callie turns and leaves the room.
AN: I know it's sad! But just remember I love calzona SOOO much so of course it will get better and happier for the perfect couple. I also have a super important question for all of you! Do you think i should take out the POV at the beginning of the chapters because they are only connected to the first paragraph or two? I would really love some help! I will update soon! Plz review!