A/N: thank to bekki222 and pounkcakereal20 for their help.

Chapter 14 :

Arizona came in the ER following Addison because she wanted to be present in case things went wrong between the redhead and brunette.

When she saw the man pull out his gun, she started running in Callie's direction wanted to get to her to protect her. Arizona barely had the time to make three steps when he fired three shots rapidly.

Everything around her seems to go slow except for the three bullets leaving their cocoon in the gun held by Mr. Harrison himself. No matter how fast she tried to run, she felt frozen to the spot, as the bullets seemed to move rapidly through the air towards Callie.

Soon enough, they found their target and when the bullets made contact with Callie and Arizona saw the look on her face, her heart stopped at the sight. She couldn't believe what she was seeing was really happening, it couldn't be, she must be dreaming.

The only thing bringing her back to reality was the sound of a body collapsing to the ground; lifting her head up she saw Callie on the ground and quickly ran to her not carrying that the man was now aiming his gun at her. He was immediately stopped when Mark and Owen pounced on him and held him down on the floor, disarming him.

Collapsing to her knees at Callie's side, blood was already pooling around them. She didn't know where to apply pressure first. There was just so much blood, too much to see where it was coming from as it seeped through her fingers. Retrieving her bloody hand from under Callie's head, her eyes widened. She realized Callie had knocked her head pretty hard when she fell. Taking her bloody hands, an attempted to rouse Callie in vain. "Calliope! Please baby, open your eyes for me!" Arizona said panicking, holding Callie in her arms and trying to make her open her eyes.

Slowly opening her eyes, Callie tried to focus her gaze on Arizona. Her usually brown eyes so full of live were barely recognizable.

"Hey" Callie crocked out, attempting to smile. Talking made her cough hard.

"I need you to hold on for me, ok? You're going to be fine!" Arizona said rocking her, her voice getting more frantic with every word.

She hadn't realize she had been crying until Callie lifted her hand that was holding on tight to her abdomen to her cheek and attempted to wipe her tears. It would have been useful if she didn't have her hand covered in her own blood.

Callie looked deep in Arizona's eyes and gathered all the strength she had left to say, "I- I love… you." She wanted to say more, so much more, but she fell into unconsciousness, her hand falling to her side.

Leaving Arizona holding her tighter and crying harder.

"No, no, no, no! Please! Stay with me! I love you too! Calliope, please! I need you, Sofia needs you!" she cried to the half dead body in her arms.

She kept saying that she needed her and needed to hold on and that she was going to be fine.

While Arizona sat on the floor holding Callie's limp body and crying, Addison stood there as white as a ghost. She had some of Callie's blood on her from when she had been shot since she was standing right next to her. She was shaking uncontrollably, she was standing right there and her best friend had been shot and she had been powerless.

In a few minutes, doctors came rushing toward them to help Callie. Mr. Harrison was given to a security guard who will keep him until the police arrives. During all this time he kept yelling that they killed his family and that they needed to die. He tried to get out of the hold he was kept in wanting to hurt Arizona.

When they took Callie from Arizona's arm, Arizona stood up on her shaky legs and looked up, her eyes meeting the ones of the shooter. He didn't have any remorse and his eyes were dark and glazed over, like he was in another state.

Rage and anger swept over Arizona's whole being. She ran toward him, and started hitting him.

"You son of a bitch!" she said punching him in the face. She was about to throw another one when someone grabbed her from behind. She tried to free herself and kicked her legs but it was in vain, with each kick the hold she was in tightened.

"She deserved it and so much more! So do you, you are just lucky they stopped me or otherwise you would have been with her." he said venom dripping with every word he said.

Arizona spit on him powerless to do anything else.

"We need to stop the bleeding in her head first!" Derek Shepherd yelled.

"I need to take out the bullet in her chest and fix the hole in her lung" Teddy said with Cristina at her side.

"No, no, no, we need to start with her abdomen! She has two bullets lodged-" Miranda Bailey and Owen tried to say but were cut off by the Neuro and Cardio Surgeons.

"The bleed in her brain is far more important-"

"She has a collapse lung and bleeding in her chest! If we don't –"

They were all arguing in the trauma room while examining Callie trying to find out who should operate on her first. They all had a point in wanting to start first, but they couldn't seem to agree on who's point was right. They needed to do something fast otherwise it would be too late. The room was full of doctors working on Callie.

Arizona was standing in the corner of the room with silent tears streaming down her face. Mark was standing next to her with his arm around her shoulder. Mark was as scarred as she was.

All the Surgeon's let them stay in the room, only on the condition that they didn't bother the doctors working on Callie and to try to intervene. But right now it was really hard for Arizona and Mark not to step up, seeing them argue in front of them while Callie was getting worse.

Thankfully, before they try to intervene and get kicked out of the trauma room, the Chief came and calmed everyone down.

"What the hell is going on?" Chief Webber asked making everyone stop arguing and look at him.

A few seconds later, they all started talking together making the Chief's head throb. "One at a time please! Shepherd?"

"We don't seem to agree on who should operate on Callie first. I need to open her up first and fix her brain bleed otherwise she will be brain dead and it will be no use to fix her other problems. I need Cardio to wait until I finish because if they operate on her first the brain won't receive enough oxygen and her brain will die." Derek said trying to make them understand the importance of him starting first.

"But I can't wait until he finishes to fix her brain, she will drown in her blood and die if I don't fix her lung. I need to fix it as soon as possible or it would get worse." Teddy quickly said after Derek finished talking.

"She has two bullets in her abdomen Sir. Her spleen is gone and she has a severe internal bleeding. We need to find those bullets before they make any more damages that we won't be able to fix." Miranda finishes.

The Chief look at all the doctors in the room and at the body lying in front of him. He didn't understand how someone would want to hurt Callie of all people. She was by far a woman with the biggest heart and didn't deserve to be lying on this table between life and death.

He took a moment to think about the best approach and when he made his mind, he started talking again, "Shepherd and bailey you operate first while Altman stands on hold." He finally said.

"But Sir I can't wait this long, Callie won't be able to wait this long!" Teddy said not at all happy with this arrangement.

"Shepherd, how long will It take for you to fix that bleed?"

"4 to 5 hours tops, it depends on what I'll find in there."

"She won't hold this long, I can wait 2 hours and if her stats starts to drop I'll will open her up." Teddy said with finality, not letting any room for argument. Derek just nodded is consent.

"Now that you're all agree, let's move people, you have a life to save!" the Chief said.

They wheeled the gurney out of the trauma room and ran toward the elevator, Arizona tried to follow them but was stopped by Mark.

She looked at him confused. His heart ached when he saw the state Arizona was in, she was literally covered in blood from head to toe and her usually bright blue eyes were now puffy and red and they had lost their spark. He didn't dare think of what would happened if Callie didn't make it.

"Let's get you cleaned up first and then will go to the gallery, ok?" Mark gently asked, Arizona just nodded and let herself be led by Mark.

Arizona had change her dirty scrubs for a pair of clean ones and was sitting in a hospital bed while Mark was wiping off her face Callie's blood.

"She is going to be okay Arizona, she's tough." Mark said breaking the heavy silence that was between them.

Arizona didn't said anything, she just nodded her head to let Mark know that she heard him.

"She has a lot to lose, she is a fighter." Mark continued. He wasn't only saying that to reassure Arizona, it was also for him. He hoped that what he was saying was true, that Callie would be ok and things will get back to normal. He couldn't imagine a life without her, she had been the only constant in his life for so long. They found each other when everybody turned their back on them. He also hoped that his niece won't be an orphan, he knew what it was like to not have any parents and it sucked, he didn't wish that to anyone. Mark finished cleaning Arizona's face and threw the wipes in the bin next to him.

"Thank you Mark," Arizona finally said with a hoarse voice. She stood up and went for the door with Mark following behind her. She stopped at the door and turned to look at him.

"Could you… check on Addison and stay with Sofia while Callie is in surgery?"

"Yeah sure, just let me know how it goes with Callie"

Arizona arrived at the OR gallery and she had to gather all the strength just to look down. In the OR Derek and Bailey were operating on Callie, while Altman was on hold with Cristina watching the heart monitor.

Seeing Callie laying there open and exposed, Arizona understood why the family was asked to stay in the waiting room. She sat down and prayed for the first time in a very long time that everything would be okay.

Arizona wasn't the type of person who believed in a higher force. She needed to see something to believe it. When she was little, her parents told her that if she was a good girl, good things would happen to her and she will go to heaven. If she was bad or did bad things she would be punished and will go to hell. Growing up and realizing that it wasn't that easy and that life was more complicated, Arizona stopped going to church with her parents. She also realized that life wasn't black or white, there were shades of gray and sometime bad things happened to good people.

But here she was praying to someone she had lost faith in, asking him, her, it for help because now she didn't have any other choice. She couldn't do anything except for praying and hoping for something good to finally happen.

Arizona was brought out to reality when she heard a frantic beeping coming from the OR. She stood up and went near the glass window to see clearly on what was happening. Looking down she saw the nurses running with a crash cart, she looked where Callie's body was and she saw on the monitor that she was flat lining, her heart has stopped. She watched them shock Callie a few time until she found the strength to run out of the gallery and toward the OR.

While she was running, she put her scrub cap on that was in her pocket. Entering the scrub room she quickly put on gloves and a mask, she was shaking and imagining the worst.

Barging in the OR she heard Teddy beginning to declare Callie.

"Time of-"

"NO!" Arizona yelled cutting of Teddy. She ran toward her and started CPR. "Try again!" she said tears welling up and streaming down her face.

"Arizo-"

"I said try again!" she yelled not even looking at Teddy. Seeing that no one was making a move, Arizona stopped what she was doing and took the paddle from Teddy.

"Charge again!" She ordered a nurse. The nurse looked hesitant but when Arizona sent her a warning glare, she quickly did what she was told.

"Clear!" Nothing. Arizona was starting to freak out, this couldn't be happening. The whole OR was silent and everybody was holding their breath, hoping for a miracle to happen.

"Again. Clear!" She waited a few seconds. Those seconds were probably the worst of her life. She for a moment thought that her heart had stopped beating too.

And then there was the beep that everyone was waiting for, the sound that informed them that Callie was back and that they were all able to breathe again and relax a little.

Arizona put the paddle back on the cart and took a deep breathe. It was taking everything she had in her to not just crawl down and cry her eyes out.

"Robbins! Out!" Came the firm demand from Bailey. Arizona just nodded and comply. "And I don't want to see you in the gallery either." Arizona was about to argue but the look on Bailey's face told her that it was preferable not to.

After composing herself for the millionth time, Arizona sent a quick text to Mark updating him on Callie. She also asked him how Sofia and Addison were doing.

She walked by a patient's room and stopped short when she saw who it was.

"Mr. Torres?" she asked not knowing if she should come inside the room or not.

"Ms. Robbins" Carlos acknowledge her.

"Uh… are you ok? ... What are you doing here?" she asked confused by his presence in Seattle.

"I got shot." Came his simple response. "Do you know where Calliope is? She was supposed to call my wife and come by to check on my arm but someone else took care of it."

Hearing Calliopes name made Arizona's heart stop for a second and her eyes widened. He didn't know about Callie. How was she supposed to tell him something like that?

"Callie, she…uh…she was shot Sir" she said and Carlos eyes widened and he became white as a ghost.

"She what?" he barely said.

"An ex patient relative came and shot her to get revenge." Arizona started.

She spent the next hour explaining to Callie's father what happened and who the man was.

Meanwhile in the OR, Bailey and Teddy were working on Callie simultaneously, one was working on her lung while the other was working on her abdomen.

Bailey had more trouble than Teddy, she was looking for bleeding and couldn't find it.

"Damn it!" she said getting frustrating by the second. "Grey I need more suction over here"

She kept looking frantically for the source until suddenly… "Oh god! Page Doctor Montgomery right now!"

Arizona was sitting in a waiting with Sofia sleeping in her arms and Mark sitting next to her. She had been waiting for fourteen hours and if she waited another hour she was certain she will go crazy. The only thing preventing her from going crazy was the rhythmic breathing of a sleeping Sofia in her arms. The innocent baby whose peaceful features had no idea of the devastation one man has caused, leaving to her mother fighting for her life. She looked exactly like her mother when she was sleeping and it was sort of comforting for Arizona.

After talking with Carlos, she let him call his wife and other daughter to inform them of what was happening.

Addison had been paged a few hours ago but she didn't' know where and she still wasn't back.

A few minutes later, the door opened and Arizona looked up, she saw Derek, Teddy, Bailey and… Addison?

She stood up careful not to wake Sofia up, Mark quickly following behind.

"Callie did great Arizona and she is now in the ICU." Derek started making Arizona release of breathe of relive. "I managed to find the source of the bleeding in her brain and fix it before her heart stopped earlier. Clinically she has nothing wrong but the fell hard on her head and we won't know the damages until she wakes up."

"When will she wake up?" Arizona whispered.

"It could be in a few hours, days, we don't know, it's all up to Callie." Derek finished letting Teddy talk.

"I was able to quickly repair her lung so with reeducation it would be could as new very soon."

Arizona just nodded and then looked at Bailey. "She had two bullets in her abdomen, I was able to find them and take them out. Her spleen was really damaged so I had to take it out too"

"Why is Addison here?" Arizona asked still confused by Addison's presence.

"Well her uterine artery was touched and-" Bailey started.

"You could've fix it alone, why did you need Addison's help?"

"I needed Dr. Montgomery's help because…hum…" Bailey didn't how to say that, it would probably crush the blonde, she cared so much for her friend and knowing that Callie had cheated on her would just kill her. But before she had the chance to choose her words, Addison talked for the first time.

She didn't hesitate to tell Arizona because she knew about her condition and that Callie would never cheat.

"She needed my help because Callie is pregnant, Arizona…"

A/N: as usual don't forget to let me know what you think.

i'll try to update the next chapter faster.