AN: This chapter is a little hard on Arizona but it just shows how much life changes for someone with a disability. She's strong she will get through this! It also helps her figure things out a little more. I have to say it is really hard to not have them just jump back into each others arms but it will come soon I promise. Once again i do not own Grey's.
Chapter 15
Arizona sits quietly in her wheelchair as April pushes her through the front doors of the hospital. A train of doctors Callie, Mark, Alex and Richard follows. Everyone breaks off in different conversations. She hears all of the men talk about different ways to make the apartment safer her but when she hears April start to talk to Callie she starts to tune the men out. "If you need anything just call me. I will come over every once and a while to check on her. I want you to bring her to PT once a week for the next two weeks then we can start to se up more appointments a few times a week. I was also thinking that you might want to consider hiring a home health care nurse a little ways down the road." April says to Callie.
"I will call you. Ill put a few reminders on my phone for the PT. I will also think and do some research on the home health care thing for when I need to go back to work. Oh my god, this is a lot! I really hope I can remember all of this!I just feel like I am not thinking straight." No, I know it feels like that now but it will get easier. Especially when she is up and moving more. Just give it a few more weeks and things will start to fall into place a little more."
Arizona feels a little left out even though she is the center of all of the conversations. She sits thinking to herself. How will life be in the apartment? "Ok, bye." That snaps her out of her thoughts. As she is pushed closer to Callie's huge black Cadillac she notices how tall it is. Callie comes around to help her. "How am I supposed to get into that Callie?" Arizona snaps shaking Callie's hand off of her shoulder. "I-I'm so sorry. I didn't think about that. I will just-" Callie begins to say in a meaningful tone before getting interrupted. "Just like you didn't think before you cut off my freaking leg! Now I cant even get in the car!" Everyone stares in shock, even Mark who had been told first hand how bad the situation really was as Callie paces around panicked. "I-I will help you in. Just let me, oh my gosh where did I leave the crutches?"
They had all heard from April that the couple was on bad terms but none of them had realized how abusive the blond was being towards her wife. "You really cant even-" Alex steps forward before Arizona can get the rest of her sentence out, which he was sure was filled with bad words and hurtful comments towards the flustered Latina. "Callie calm down I will help her and April will grab the crutch's." Before Arizona can even get a word in edgewise she is lifted and carried to the backseat of the tall car by her best student.
Once his body is blocking the crowd that was still in aw he started whispering to her. "What the hell was that Robbins? You nearly bit Callie's head off over a little mistake." "Little mistake! She just gave my colleagues a front row seat to watch me fail at getting in my own car!" he tone softens as tears fill her baby blue eyes. "I can't get in my car Alex!" He grabs her shoulder to get her attention back. "Yet! You can't get in your car, yet. It takes time and in that time you cant keep treating Callie that way." "She did this to me! Look at me!" Callie and Mark start to get in the front doors of the car. "You have always been the strongest person I know and right now you look even stronger. You don't give up, you hear me. I know you can do this. Give me a call if you need anything or need to talk." Alex backs out of the car and closes the door before anyone can see the tearful blond. They drive away as everyone waves.
"Mark can you get the chair out of the trunk?" Callie opens Arizona's door. Mark pulls the chair as close to her as he can. The brunette offers her wife a hand but pulls I away when she slips from the tall car holding onto some handles. Callie's heart beats a million times faster when she sees Arizona do things like this. She knows now that she will not be there every time to catch her. They wheel her through the empty lobby of the building till they get to the stairs.
"Oh my god! I'm done! How did I not think of this! The elevator has been down for a month! We have been having to haul that stupid stroller up and down these stairs." Callie says as she starts to freak out again. "We will figure this out. There are so many ways we can do this, Cal." Mark says as tears flood her chocolate brown eyes. "Arizona I am so so so sorry I'm an idiot! I wasn't thinking. Can you please let me help you up these stairs." Callie practically begs. Arizona tuned out whatever Callie was saying and thought back to what Alex had said. She was strong and she could do this. "I can do this." Arizona says pushing herself out of the wheelchair with all of her strength and grabbing the railing.
"Whoa! Baby we can figure this out. We will do it however you feel more comfortable. I could carry you up or Mark. Just please sit back down." "No, I said I can do it." Once she has her balance she keeps one hand on the railing and puts the other on the stair in front of her and hops her good leg up. Callie has to cover her eyes horrified and feeling sick to her stomach. This did not look safe. Mark had a smile on his face amused by how strong the blond was and also by how scared his best friend looked. After a few breaths she did it again then again.
But then she was exhausted. It scared her how tired she was after doing barley any moving. She decided to sit down and pull herself up stair by stair with her arms. "Stop watching! Just go upstairs! You both have two legs so use them!" Callie looks at Mark worried. Could they really just leave her on the stairs? What if she fell? Mark leans over and whispers in Callie's ear. "Lets just wait at the top of the stair. Do you see how many stairs there are? She will get tired and call up to us, then we can get her up stairs however she wants. It will be fine." They both walk past her up the stairs.
Arizona is left alone struggling. After a few more steps she looks around to see that she is not even half way up. She feels scared being there alone and a little stuck. She knew she shouldn't have turned down all of the offers of help. She found herself in the middle of the steep staircase not being able to go back down and not being able to get up. All she could think about was how bad this situation was. She didn't want help from Mark Sloan but she also didn't want help from Callie. She just really didn't like Mark, she had grown fonder of him when Sophia had come into the picture and after he stopped hitting on Callie all the time but she was still not loving the thought of his help. But then she didn't want Callie to see her stuck. She had always been such a tuff person and despite what Alex had said after the crash she now sees herself as overly emotional and incapable of doing the simplest of tasks.
After being on the stairs for what seemed like hours she called up. "Callie?" The Latina rushed down to where Arizona was sitting. She looked into confused blue eyes. "Can I help you?" Callie asks. Arizona thinks about it. Half of her wants to get off of the stairs as soon as possible but the other half of her still doesn't want Callie too even look at her. What will Callie think about her after she sees how weak she really is? Arizona nods. "Can I just carry you the rest of the way? You have made it really far. I'm proud of you." "No! I-I don't know?" She was fighting with herself again and it was getting her worked up. "Don't worry, I'm strong, I wont drop you I promise." When the word promise came out of her mouth she started to beat herself up. Arizona started to shake and fidget which made Callie even more nervous. She may have just ruined her one shot at earning the blonds trust back. Arizona was so upset. Callie was obviously so oblivious to how she was feeling. "I don't know! I don't know how I am feeling or how to do things anymore or what I want! I guess I want to be off of these stairs but I am having a lot of trouble with that!"
Arizona's feels like she was stuck in a little box and cant get out. She starts breathing faster and faster and still feels like she didn't have enough air coming into her lungs. That's when Arizona shut off. She went into her own thoughts and shut out the world around her. "Arizona? Arizona stop breathing like that or you will make yourself dizzy. Take a deep breath and then wait to take another. Arizona?" Callie shook her wife's shoulder looking into scared but distant blue eyes. Callie looked at Arizona's body sprawled across the stairs. "Can you just stand up so that I can pick you up? We can talk about this upstairs." Arizona fells so much panic hit her all at once like a bus colliding with her body. She looks around frantically. "I just don't want you to pass out on the stairs." Callie says grabbing Arizona's wrists as she starts whipping her head in different directions looking for a way out. Arizona feels like she is being suffocated when the corners of her vision go black. She hears Callie talking to her and tries to stand up while Callie pulls at her wrists to get her standing when it all goes black.
"Mark!" He runs out of their appeasement in less then a minute to find Callie with an arm around Arizona's waist as the blond's leg dangles over the side of the stair Callie is on. "What happened?" he asked once he has reached them. "Freaking help me!" Callie grits out ignoring his question. Callie knows now that she shouldn't have had Arizona stand up. When the blond passed out she had barley caught her, now she was struggling to keep to blond from slipping through her grasp. "How?" he asks as he goes to scoop her up but cant sense she is missing her leg. Callie sees the predicament. Arizona is slipping from his arms too. "Cal, you have to take her back. She falling." He pushes the blond back to Callie. "Do something!" She says as she holds Arizona up. Mark bends down and scoops Arizona up onto his shoulder. Her arms and head dangle behind him. "There this is better." "Oh my god! Mark what the hell are you doing?" "I'm carrying her off the stairs. Isn't this what you wanted?" "Please don't drop her!" "I wont drop her." Mark starts to walk up the stairs and Callie stays behind him. She thought about how lucky it was that Arizona was knocked out for this experience because it would have made her so mad.
"Can you put her in the bedroom?" Once Mark puts her down on the bed Callie takes the time she is out to wash her up and get her changed. She knew it would be a really long couple of days.
AN: Let me know what you thought of it! Do you think Callie shouldn't have left her on the stairs even if she was just at the top? Also I am writing Lexie's funeral as the next chapter and I would really like some suggestions on what you would like to see happen. I have it planed out already a little but I would love some help. Also I was not sure what car Callie drives so I just made up the Cadillac. Anyway there will be calzona happiness soon to come!