It had been a long day for Callie. She had three back to back surgeries and now she was in the skills lab finishing up some research for her and Derek's brain mapping trial. Dr. Torres looked up at the clock above the door and felt a wave of relief fall over her, her 16 hour shift was over. She packed up her research papers and notes and started walking toward the attending's lounge to change when she changed her mind. Leaving the skills lab Callie took a left instead of a right, straight toward the pediatric ward.
First she did a casual walk by, scanning the open hallways for Dr. Robbins, but no luck. Maybe she's in a patient's room she thought to herself, so the brunette entered the ward and began to scope the hallways doing her best not to make it obvious that she was looking for Arizona. But after circling the floor three times with no luck of finding Arizona, Callie gave up and asked Alex Karev.
"Karev!" Callie called out to him.
Alex looked up from the chart he was updating, "Hey."
"You haven't seen Arizona around have you?" she asked, putting her hands in the pockets of her white coat doing her best to play it cool, "I need her for a consult."
"A consult?" Alex asked. A playful smile appeared on his face because he knew damn well Callie wasn't looking for a consult.
"Yeah…," Callie replied shyly.
"Any kid that comes through these hospital doors come straight to us and 90% of your cases are hip replacements on old geezers. So unless you have a child who for some reason wasn't admitted to peds, what could you possibly need Robbins to consult on?"
Callie was caught and she knew it, "Okay," she said letting out a breath of air in defeat, "I don't need her for a consult, but can you please tell me where she is?"
Alex smiled knowing he had won that little battle, "She in radiology with a patient. But Torres wait," he reached out to stop Callie who was already starting to walk away, "Dude you realize she's still your wife right?"
"I know that," she replied furrowing her eyebrows, "What are you getting at?"
"All I'm saying is that she's still your wife. So stop sneaking her around like she's some dirty mistress you have on the side that you're only using for sex."
Callie jerked her arm back from Alex obviously insulted, "Mind your own damn business Karev," she snapped and walked away.
