A.N: Thanks for all the follows, much obliged. I'm totally aware that my chapters are pretty short, and I totally apologise! They'll get longer soon, so just bear with me please! Also, a new couple has been decided ... Teddison!

Now onwards to the chapter!

Chapter 3: Calliope

She was 15, her brother hadn't come home in 9 days, and the police had no clues, no ideas, nothing. They were useless. He was gone. "No, not Tim!"

She was 16 when she met her. "Arizona! Hey Arizona!" She turned around towards the voice, when she spotted the other girl a smile spread across her face. "Calliope"

It was dark, she was running, there was something chasing her. Run, run, just keep running. A mantra she kept repeating in her head. She was scared, so scared, the fear consumed her entire body. It almost threatened to buckle her knees, but she couldn't stop, she had to keep running. She couldn't let it catch her, whatever it was. She took a quick glance around to see where she was. It was the park, she always came to this park to think, and there was never anyone around this late at night. "Dammit!" It lunged, from out of the shadows, and then she was on the ground. She looked up into its eyes, they were completely black, covering even the white part of the eye; it was like looking up into death. There was pain, all consuming pain, she wanted to scream, but it had her throat. Then, silence.

"I'm sorry" a voice, where? "I promised…" She couldn't make out the sentences; it was like she was underwater. Everything was fuzzy, and there was pain everywhere. A hand touched her head, it was soft, and the voice spoke again, "I couldn't protect your brother" it was a gentle voice, "but I can at least protect you." Mommy? The voice laughed, it sounded sad, "No, I'm not your mommy". Was that said out loud? What's happening? "You won't remember, but my name…" The hand left her head. No! Come back! Please don't leave! "…is Mnemosyne"

Silence. Then a door opening, there's shuffling, it's coming towards her. Her eyes snapped open, there's a girl, no older than 8 or 9 staring at her. She had dark hair and brown eyes.

"Oh hey, you're awake, how you feeling?"

"Where am I?"

"My house, who are you anyway?"

"I…I don't know, who are you?"

"I'm Terri, Terri Ryans."

She was in a bed, it was soft and warm, but she still felt so cold. She felt really stiff. What happened?

"I dunno, I found you in the forest behind my house."

Had she spoken out loud? What was going on?

…

Silence; guess she didn't say that one out loud. She looked at the girl who was staring at her intensely. "What-" The girl breathed in deeply, eyes closed, as if she was sniffing her. When she opened her eyes, they were glowing. Bright red. "You're one of us." She breathed in again, "No, you're more than that," she tilted her head slightly, portraying her childish innocence that was betrayed only by the blood like eyes. "I can sense it, you're just like me," she grinned, fangs just barely protruding from her mouth, and clapped cheerfully. "You're royalty."

She's 18, there are bodies littered around her, her eyes are violet, she's covered in blood, and she's just removed her fangs from another body. All vampires. "Who sent you?" There are only 2 remaining; neither seems to want to answer her. She sends a bolt of lightning towards one and in a flash she's behind the other. Snap. And his neck is broken. Before he can blink, she's in front of the last survivor. "Who. Sent. You?" She has him by the throat, lifting him up. He's scared, terrified even, he's staring down at her, horrified by the sight. She's calm, collected, there's a slight smirk on her blood-smeared face. She's enjoying this! "Hades!" It's the last word he gets out before she sinks her teeth into his neck.

She's 19, and she's so hungry. She'd been sent out on a 'clean-up' order, to clear up any stray vampires from creating havoc on their territory. It was a simple and easy mission, but she didn't expect so many of them. She miscalculated and now she's tired, hungry, so far away from home, and hiding in an alleyway about two blocks from the strays. Then she hears it, thud-thud-thud; a heartbeat! A human heartbeat. She doesn't want to, but she's so hungry. Thud-thud-thud, it gets louder and closer. She can smell it now, a human, so weak and fragile. She grins to herself, licking her lips, fangs stretched out, eyes bright, but no! She can't, no live feeds! She tells herself that, no killing humans, no feeding from live humans. She pushes away the animalistic urges. No, no, no, no, no! A mantra repeated, she's crouched, leaning against the wall with her head between her knees, hands holding her head. No, no, no, no, no. Thud-thud-thud, but it's oh so close. Thud-thud-thud-thud-thud, it's right there! A scream, and she's no longer hungry. Her eyes dim down to her usual gentle blue, fangs disappear, she can feel the animal inside her satiated, but she is horrified. No, no, no, no, no!

"Ari…"

"Ari …" There was a voice, but she didn't know where it came from. "Ari…" It was dark, she didn't like it, she wanted to leave, but she didn't know how. She didn't know what was happening; she didn't know where she was. "Ari…" That voice again, follow the voice, that's a good idea right?

"Arizona!"

Her eyes shot open; the first thing that registered was the brightness coming from the lights. It stung her eyes, so she shut them again.

"Come on, slowly does it." The voice encouraged. Slowly, she re-opened her eyes. The lights didn't hurt as much anymore this time around. Her head on the other hand, it felt like someone had taken a jackhammer to it. Simply put: it hurt like hell.

"Wha…" It was barely a croak. She cleared her throat and tried again. "What the hell happened to me?"

"That's what we'd like to know, you passed out in the conference room, scared the hell out of the newbies." That voice again, she knew that voice, but everything was so bright, there was nothing but brightness.

Her throat was so dry; "You got any water around here?" Almost immediately, a cup was placed into her hands, she drank it down swiftly, and god, did it feel good.

"You alright Ari?" Terri. It was Terri, that's who the voice belonged to, slowly the world seemed to focus more, the brightness clearing away until she could finally make out several figures in her room. Standing on her left was Teddy, looking around; she spotted Alex and Lexie standing at the end of her bed. She finally settled her sights on Terri, who was sitting on her bed to her right.

"I passed out?"

"Damn right you did, have you fed yet? Jesus Arizona, what the hell were you thinking, you had a long shift last night, you should've fed before you came." The outburst came from Teddy, and it surprised her, the usually stoic and calm doctor was frazzled and panicking.

"I did Teds, I fed just before I got here. I don't know what happened, I mean one minute I'm in the conference room, the next there's this blinding pain in my head and then, darkness."

Teddy seemed to calm down slightly after hearing this, but she still didn't seem happy that her best friend had suddenly fainted.

"What was with that outburst then?"

"What outburst?"

"Oh you know, the one before you dropped. You stood up suddenly. And rather loudly too if I may add" Teddy watched as Arizona processed the information, even Alex and Lexie, who had both remained silent, seemed interested.

"I … I don't know. I don't remember. What happened after anyway?" Arizona genuinely had no idea. She couldn't remember anything other than a voice echoing in her head. She couldn't even remember what the voice was saying.

"Well, after you shot up from your seat, you dropped almost as quick, thanks to Terri's fast reflexes, she caught you before you hit the ground. Saved you from a pretty nasty bruise, you were pretty much aiming for the chair you'd dropped." Teddy explained, nonchalantly. She seemed to be much calmer now, seeing as Arizona seemed fine, minus the memory lapse.

"Does it have anything to do with this morning?" Terri finally spoke up after having remained silent after Arizona had woken up.

"What happened this morning" Lexie was really interested now. Ever since she'd found out their secret, she'd tried to learn as much as possible about them to try to be as helpful as possible.

"She had a nightmare. Although she says it might've been a memory."

"A memory?"

"Yeah, said something about the past or something."

"Past? As in past life or pre-vampire life?"

"She doesn't know, doesn't remember. She doesn't have a clue."

"It doesn't matter now, I'm fine. And stop talking about me, I'm right here you know?" Arizona cut in, she'd had enough of them talking over her, about her.

"Well, I don't care, I'm getting you some blood" Alex gruffly stated before storming out of the room.

It was then that she noticed that her room was different to regular hospital rooms. It was darker, the walls were grey, rather than the pristine white, and the doors were solid metal.

"Where am I anyway?"

The three remaining doctors looked at her as though she'd grown a second head.

"What do you mean 'where am I'? You're in the basement, where we always go if any of your kind has an episode, like this. You know, away from the preying eyes up above?"

"God Teddy, you're so dramatic. And what's with the 'your kind' comment? You make us sound like monsters."

"Weeeelll … Technically-"

"Shut up Terri, you know what I mean" Her headache was fading away, but not quickly enough for her liking, she really hoped Alex returned soon. She was getting hungry, the pack from earlier did nothing for her hunger, considering her long shift and then the emergency surgery from this morning.

Alex barged through the door, as if Arizona had just summoned him, and shoved the pack in her face. "Here, bottoms up, it's fresh as well."

"Um …What?" They all eyed him. "You didn't kill anyone did you? Because you know that's totally against the policy and T's rules. Not to mention really not cool, this is a hospital, there are sick people here. Is this from a patient?" Arizona stated with mock fear.

"What? No! There was a donation truck outside today, fresh batch just bought in from the truck. Thought you'd appreciate it. Drink up whilst it's still hot!" Alex crossed his arms and pouted in the corner, whilst everyone just sniggered at him.

"Thanks Alex" Fresh blood, always works better than the cold, stored stuff. She looked towards Alex. He's a good man, a good friend. She drank hungrily from the pack, fangs extended to their limits, eyes turning a vibrant violet, almost moaning from the taste.

"Yeah whatever" came the gruff reply.

The sound of pagers going off rang through the room and they all scrambled for their pagers.

"Me and you again Robbins." Terri held up her pager, "911 in the pit, yup not gonna happen. Karev, let's go"

"What? No, I'm fine. Just let me finish and I'll go." Arizona hurried to finish, almost choking.

"Yeah, how's that working for you? Look, you trained Karev personally, so you know he's good. Besides, I'll be there. So just take it easy alright?"

"T, really, I'm okay" Arizona insisted. She hated being seen as a weakling, a burden.

"Really, no. You passed out barely 2 hours ago."

"But-"

"And even if I were to let you go, you're covered in blood Ari, you'll scare the patients." Terri cut off Arizona and before she even had a chance to retort, pulled Alex out of the room with her.

"You paged, Dr Torres?"

Callie looked up from the nurses' desk in the E.R, where she was filling in a chart from her last patient, to see Terri and an unknown male with a buzz cut and light blue scrubs.

"Uh, yeah, bed 3, 9 year old, car-crash, I paged Trauma and … Peds?" She looked at Alex, "Where's Dr Robbins?"

"Oh you know, she's still resting. This is Dr Karev," Alex nodded towards Callie, "Peds fellow, and Arizona's prized student. He's been with her for the last 3 years, so he's almost as good as she is. Almost being the key word here, no one's as good as Ari, but she's taught him everything he knows, so if you can't have the best at SGMW, you get … him." She grinned at Alex, who just grunted back at her.

"Is she going to be okay? I mean, it was pretty sudden and all. She's been checked out right?" Callie was concerned, Arizona looked fine when Terri and her had fell through the door, but then halfway through her introduction she sudden stood up and promptly passed out.

"Oh yeah, long shift ya know? She'd just finished an 18-hour shift last night, was home for barely 4 hours. I dunno if she'd gotten any sleep, but she seemed pretty restless on the couch when I saw her, but then we'd gotten paged in for surgery this morning. She's alright, she was just …" She shared a look with Alex, and a grin crossed her face, "…hungry." Alex snorted, before heading off to the patient. "Don't mind him, he's always like that" Terri laughed before trailing after Alex towards bed 3, leaving Callie thoroughly confused.

Hours later, Callie was in the changing rooms changing out of her scrubs, having finished her shift for the day. She was halfway through pulling her top down when the door opened and Arizona entered. She paused immediately and averted her eyes.

"Uh, God, sorry."

"It's alright, it's a changing room, it happens." Callie, endeared by Arizona's flustered state, smiled. She remembered the events of the morning and her smile was replaced with a look of concern. "Dr Robbins? Are you okay? I saw Dr Ryans and Dr Karev earlier on and they said you were still resting."

"Yeah, yeah I'm fine, a little sleep was all I needed." Arizona's eyes darted all over the place, keeping it above the head of the half-naked woman in front of her. She started to fidget, feeling a blush slowly spreading from her cheeks. Callie noticed and quickly finished pulling her top down.

"Yeah, and food, apparently. You can look now" Her voice was clearly amused.

"Food…what?"

"Yeah, when I saw them earlier, they said you'd had a long day and was just hungry, so that's why you passed out."

"Oh … Oh! Yeah, hungry, that's all I was. Yup, yeah, didn't really get the chance to eat between getting home and getting paged here again. You know how it is, us surgeons are always busy, always saving lives, and never having time to eat or drink or sleep or anything." She was rambling and she knew it, but she couldn't stop. She had no idea why, but the woman in front of her made her brain go pfft! And practically stop working.

Callie smiled again, she couldn't believe how adorable this woman was, or rather still was. It wasn't much different from the teen she'd met twenty years ago. Her smile fell slightly when she remembered that Arizona didn't remember her.

"So, I don't know if we got introduced properly this morning, I mean I know who you are, but you probably don't know who I am right? I'm the new Head of Ortho C-"

"Calliope." They both froze and stared at each other.

"What?" Callie was shocked. Does she remember me? Did she lie about that?

"I-I don't know. It was just there, in my head. When I looked at you, at your eyes… I was listening to you and it suddenly came up. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you." She had no idea what was happening. One minute she's rambling about eating and drinking, the next she's calling the woman by the name of one of the muses. She just had to pick the one that meant 'beautiful-voiced' as well, could she look more like an idiot? Just as she was mentally face palming herself, the 'beautiful-voiced' surgeon's voice broke through her mental beration.

"No, I mean it's okay, it is my name. Just, no one calls me by that except my parents and –"

"I'm sorry-"

"-You." Arizona snapped her eyes towards Callie, who seemed to be avoiding her eyes this time around. "You used to call me that, back in high school. I mean, it was 20 years ago, and you probably don't remember, and I know it's a stupid name, which is why I usually go by 'Callie', but you used to tell me that it suited me, so you refused to call my anything but that." It was Callie's turn to ramble, it was all just so awkward, but she never thought she'd ever see her again. She was convinced that Arizona was dead, what other reason could there be, considering her and her parents all practically disappeared in one night.

"Calliope," she looked up to see Arizona smiling at her, dimples appearing, "I like it! If you don't mind that is"

"No, it's fine"

"Great, but only if you call me Arizona, none of that Dr Robbins stuff, way too formal and just blergh!"

Callie laughed out loud; this woman was just too adorable. Arizona giggled in return, and when the laughter died out, the two women just stood there smiling at each other.

A.N Here ya go, longer right? It's annoying, I have future parts planned out, but I gotta get the timeline right. Also, I suck at describing everything that's going on, I have the dialogue all planned out, but gotta get it into order and writing condition so everyone can see how I've got it out in my head. I'm working on that so I hope you enjoy it all!