AN: Sorry it has been a long time sense I updated. I feel sick that I even have to say this but this is a friendly, hate free story. I logged in to find really mean reviews a few days ago. I was almost going to stop writing the story but writing this has made me really happy and a few people have also said that they enjoy it. I am not looking to be a huge author or to get a million reviews or follows, I simply want to provide something for Grey's fans to read during the hiatus. If you don't like Calzona, Mallie, Malliezona or Slexie you don't have to read it. Once again plz think before you review on any story because feeling are at stake here! (I have to warn you long chapter!)

Chapter 16 (part 1)

"Bye Bailey. See you tonight?" Callie asks the shorter doctor. "Yes. I am heading out now to drop Tuck to his father." "I'm heading home to try to get Arizona ready. She has not been leaving the apartment except to go to PT. This is her first day with her new Home health aid so I want to see how it went." Bailey opens the door of her car to get in. "Well I will be looking forward to seeing her tonight. Bye Callie." The shorter women says. "Bye." They both drive their different ways.

"Arizona, I'm home! We have almost three hours till the funeral to get ready." She lays her purse on the couch as she goes in search of her wife. Arizona has been mad so she was not surprised that she didn't get a response. Looking around she sees an empty wheelchair. "Arizona!" She calls out walking to their bedroom. "Arizona where are you?" She walks through the empty bedroom to the bathroom finding Arizona on the floor. "Arizona! Are you ok? Where's the nurse?" The blond looks up to where the voice was coming from. "I fired her. She didn't understand me." Callie shakes her head letting her breath out loudly. "Great." She says sarcastically. After a second of feeling overwhelmed she pulls herself together. "Are you ok? Did you fall?" Arizona looks down at herself ashamed. "I was trying to get to the toilet by myself. I-I fell." Callie sees the pool of urine spread around the blond and brings her hand to her face trying to hide her shock. Arizona notices the surprise in her wife's eyes and feels a flash of sadness, embarrassment and madness all at once.

Something snaps inside of her. "Because of you I cant even pee by myself! Look what you have done to me! Look at what you have made me!" Callie walks over to the shower and turns it on. "I'm putting you in the shower." Callie walks back over and tugs her wife's struggling body off of the floor." "No! Stop it! Callie! Let go!" Arizona yells as she is being moved against her will. Even as she struggles she cannot get out of her wife's grip. "No because we are going to that funeral at five. I am not going to let you miss this." Callie lets Arizona lean agent her arms as the warm water falls over them. Arizona has not choice but to let Callie wash and dry her off. She knew that within the last half hour she had hit her rock bottom.

"I don't want to wear that." Arizona says as Callie pulls one of her dresses out of the closet. "Why? It goes past the knee and it is loose at the bottom so you don't have to worry about it being uncomfortable. "It wont be past my knee when I'm sitting." Arizona counters. Callie lays it on the bed determined to keep it in the mix of options and then heads back into the closet. She really didn't have much to work with sense Arizona didn't wear black often. "What about this?" She holds up a navy blue dress. "I can't wear blue to a funeral." "Then what do you want me to do?" Callie says frustrated. "Just leave me home!" Arizona shouts. At that statement the Latina walks out of the closet. "No! You are going to your friend's funeral! You can blow me off when I try to get you to go grocery shopping or to drop Sophia off at daycare but not this."

"Hey Cal. I came to check if you guys were ready." Mark calls into the apartment. "Mark can you come here?" He hears his best friend call from her bedroom. He walks in to find Callie putting pins into a dress Arizona is wearing. "What are you doing?" He asks looking at the woman who is holding onto the edge of the bed to balance. He thinks about giving her a hand for stability but decides that may be a bad idea. "Arizona wont wear any of her dresses because they are to short or too blue. So she is wearing one of mine. I'm pinning it so that it fits better." Callie finishes and sits her back down in the wheelchair. Arizona glares up at her.

"Mark how much time do we have?" "Like fifteen minutes till we should be leaving. He notices her wet hair and soggy clothing. Trying to lighten the mood he makes a joke. "I hope your not planning to wear that." The brunette just rolls her eyes. "Can you just take her into the living room so that I can get ready?" Mark does as he is told and pushes her out of the room closing the door behind him. "You have to go easier on Cal. I know you are mad and upset but don't take it out of her." The blond rolls her eyes annoyed that he would even bring it up. "I can do whatever I want." She spits out. "She is working like a dog trying to take care of you and you are giving her a hard time for it. Its not fair." He says. "You know what's not fair? Getting a limb hacked off! Life's not fair Mark!" "You think I don't know that? If you would stop and think about anyone other then yourself for just a second you would see that we are going to the love of my life's funeral! She dead and you aren't because of Callie!" -" He stops when the door to the bedroom opens.

Arizona does a double take when she sees her wife. Callie has on a tight knee length black dress and white high heels covered in black lace. Her raven hair is pulled up in some places and in others left to fall in long wavy locks. She also has on the earrings Arizona had given her as a gift. The blond has to remind herself to breath as she tears her eyes away from her wife. "Lets go, I don't want to be late." Callie says bored, obviously not knowing how breath taking she looks. "You look great." Mark says politely. Arizona beats herself up for not being the one to tell her that. Callie grabs Sophia, who is wearing a little pink and black dress and puts her in the stroller. "Thanks." She says in reply.

They make there way down the stairs doing what they had decided was the best way to get the injured blond up and down without arguing. Mark grabs the handles of the wheelchir while Callie grabs the footholds and they slowly make there way down the long staircase leaving Sophia at the top to wait. Callie had put in a complaint the first night she brought Arizona home and ever sense they have seen people working on it. This was the second or third time Callie and Mark had done this. It gave Arizona a heart attack the first time and it wasn't making it any less scary this time. The blond put her hands over her eyes to stop herself from looking over the side of the chair and seeing how far she could fall. She tried to stay as still as possible so she didn't accidentally make them drop her.

Once they were about halfway down they hear a familiar voice call up to them. "What are you doing?" The duo carrying the chair momentarily halts their motion. "We are getting her down the stairs." Mark says when he looks down to see Alex, Jackson and April at the bottom of the stairs. "Shut up and keep going!" Arizona yelps out when she doesn't feel them moving anymore. She can't will herself to take her hands away from her eyes. They start moving again after hearing the terrified voice. "Do you need help? I could switch with you Callie?" Jackson offers. "No I'm fine but could you bring Sophia down?" Callie says taking slow steps. Alex and Jackson make there way around the group on the stairs to grab the baby. "Hey, Soph." Alex says taking her from the carriage before Jackson lifts it over his head. They both walk down the stairs leaving a nice amount of space between themselves and the trio slowly making there way down.

Once they set her down Arizona looks at the crowd around her. "The elevator is broken." Callie breathes out. "And she wont really ever let either of us just carry her." Mark adds breathing equally as hard. "Well just be careful. Anyway we came to see if you need any help. But it looks like you have got it handled." April says. Callie forces a laugh. "We're trying." They all make there way to the cars, Mark, Callie, Sophia and Arizona in one and April, Alex and Jackson in the other.

Mark pulls into a church parking lot a little over an hour later. The ride had been extremely unpleasant, no one talked the entire way. "Mark this place looks really nice." Callie says. "I know, Meredith picked it out. It is also perfect in terms of location because it is right down the street from the Grey's home." He points his finger through the window showing which direction he was talking about. "That's where we will all gather after the wake." A loud tapping startles them from there conversation. They look to see Alex at the window. "Coming?"

They both exit the car. Mark walks slowly to get the wheelchair from the trunk. That's when it hit him how real this was. He was about to say goodbye to the love of his life. He felt the urge to cry but also to run, to get the heck away from this place so that he wouldn't have to make it real. Making himself move he robotically went over and lifted Arizona awkwardly by her underarms from the backseat. He still didn't know how to carry her normally with only one leg. It surprised everyone, even Arizona so she was unable to complain about the help. Jackson carries Sophia so that the carriage wont take up room in the church.

Callie pushed Arizona toward the big wooden doors as the group of SGMW doctor that had met them at the apartment followed. The brunette stops walking when she feels the absence of her best friend who had been at her side. "Mark?" She turns to see him now behind the group. "Do you think you could take her in?" She glances from Arizona to Mark knowing April is following the line she is making with her eyes. "Of course. Ill also save you some seats." April answers back. "Thanks." Callie walks over to where Mark has strayed from the group. "Where are you going?" She asks him quietly as he walks even further from the direction they need to be going. "I don't think I can go in there Cal." He says trying to hold in his tears. Callie spins him so that he is facing her. "Yes you can, I know you can. Lexie would want you here." Mark nods his head. "Can we just…stay here for a second?" Callie nods pulling him in the direction of a bench in the church's garden.

Arizona is being pushed into the massive building filled with people talking, hugging and crying. She starts to feel a little overwhelmed. "Arizona? How are you feeling?" Meredith walks up pulling a dazed Cristina along with her. Arizona had almost not recognized her. She was extremely skinny, looking to be down at least 15 pounds if not more and had dark bags under her eyes that even makeup couldn't cover. "I-I…am ok." She stutters out. "How are you two?" Mer looks herself over then her friend. "It's been hard but we are getting there."

An organ plays loudly through the Chappell. "I think that's our cue to sit?" April says. "How about you come sit with us?" Meredith says pointing over to a long pew with Richard, Bailey, Derek and Owen already in it. Arizona nods and they all go to take a seat. Jackson and Alex decide to sit in the seat behind them to make sure there is room for Callie and Mark. Arizona pushes herself out of the wheelchair. "You don't have to get out of the chair. No one will mind if you sit in the isle." April whispers. "I don't want to clutter the isle, this place is so pretty. I would also rather sit with you guys." Alex gets up and pushes the wheelchair over to the side of the room. She feels all eyes on her as she hops her way slowly down the pew to sit next to April. She had refused any offers of help that were given.

Once she is seated she looks around. There was a large black and white picture of Lexie at the front of the room. She knew that picture; it had been taken when all of them had gone out to Joe's after a huge surgery, back when they all thought they would live happily ever after. She had the biggest smile on her face and her eyes twinkled with pure joy. Next to the picture was a long chestnut colored box. It was covered with pink, purple, yellow and blue flowers strung on a thin thread. There was a podium between both of those that she knew people would speak at. From that podium hung a sign saying, "We love and miss you Lexie Grey."

A tall man walks up to the podium and stats talking. "Thank you all for coming out here today to say goodbye to a very special girl, Lexie Grey. She was loved by many and will be missed. I ask you to keep her in your heart and prayers. Now I will pass the microphone over to Thatcher Grey." The tall man walks away letting a new man take his place. "Thanks again for coming. I knew you all meant a lot to my little girl. I know she is looking down at us right now, overjoyed that you all came." He talk for a little while longer, tears making there way down his cheeks before handing the mic off to his wife. She tells some stories from when Lexie was growing up.

Arizona looks over to see April furiously whipping her eyes. When she looks past the crying red head she sees that tears are falling from people all over the room. All of Lexie's friends and family members were weeping over the loss of her. Lexie's dad has to take her mom away from the podium when she starts crying to hard for any of her words to be understood. That's when Mer gets up to speak.

"I haven't known that I had a sister very long, only a few years. The day Lexie told me I was shocked. I didn't know what its like to have a sister. Once I came to except that I was not am only child I thought it would go back to my old life, that it wouldn't change me. But I was so wrong. She impacted who I was in so many ways just like she does to everyone who meets her. Her happy love of life personality cheered me up every time I was sad. She always wore a smile that lit up the room and never knew that she was really the funniest person when she wasn't trying to be. She was also a great doctor and I know she would have become a great Nero surgeon." Mer walks away from the podium almost running, the second attention was off of her quite cries shook her body as Derek hugged her.

Where were Mark and Callie? She looked at the empty space at the end of the pew. Arizona's eyes slide over to Lexie's family, her dad who was trying to hid how much pain he was feeling, her mom who was weeping openly while resting her head on her husbands shoulder and her sister who held a tissue to her eyes and still seemed to be in shock. She couldn't get thoughts to stop racing through mind. What is that was her family, crying over her death?

After Lexie's sister finishes talking Mark takes the podium. Callie slides into the pew leaving a good-sized gap in between Arizona and herself. "Hi, for those of you who don't know me I'm Mark Sloan. I was Lexie's …boyfriend. We were not together when she passed because…well because I'm an idiot. I loved her so much and she confessed her love for me. I had a date picked out for when I was going to tell her. I couldn't stop thinking about what our life would be like together. It still doesn't feel real that I wont get to call her my wife or be able to add her to my little family. I bet you all feel the same way. It's not fair that she's gone. I know that we were made for each other, that I was meant to be with her. She has made me a way better person and I will be forever grateful for that. She has also taught me to live life to the fullest and she would want all of us to keep doing that. We were all blessed to have met such a wonderful girl." He wipes tears from his cheeks before walking down from the podium.

Arizona wipes her own tears away and sees every single other person in the room doing the same. Marks words had been so heartwarming, so true and so passionate that it touched everyone. Before Arizona had even thought she reached over and grabbed Callie's hand. When Callie turns to look at her. She meets teary brown eyes with her watery blue ones. "I get it. You were trying to save me. You were trying to save everyone I love from this. I was so upset I didn't think I wanted to live with only one leg. I know now that my life is a gift. I could have died. I owe you for that. I really want to say sorry for how I acted. I need your help. I know I haven't been showing it but I love you Calliope." She says putting her hand on her wife's cheek. "I love you too. I will be here to help you every step of the way." Callie says. They both lean in meeting for a kiss. She couldn't believe how much she had missed this. The priest walks back up to the podium and announces for everyone to follow the family out to the burial sight.

To Be Continued…

AN: So there is another chapter. I will try to post as soon as possible but I start school tomorrow. (8th grade!) Sadly that has to become my first priority but of course I will always make time for my story! P.S. 24 days till Grey's!