A/N: In celebration of the fact that this is the first day to my last week of school for this term I present you guys with another chapter!
Callie can literally feel the blood in her body boil. Her entire body runs warm and before she realizes what she is doing she is moving towards the other women with remarkable speed. Callie sees nothing but fear on the other woman's face and relishes in the fact, that's right bitch Callie thinks to herself. She can hear Arizona yelling in the background but it is muffled to Callie and she can barley register it. Callie is two feet away from the other woman when a body comes in between them and she is being pulled back. Callie is screaming a litany of swear words in Spanish at the other woman as she is being pulled away. Cristina comes from out of nowhere putting herself between Callie and Lauren. Callie cannot hear what Cristina says to her but whatever it is makes Lauren move and fast.
"Callie stop she isn't worth." Callie relaxes almost instantly at Erica's voice. "She isn't worth it Cal." Erica whispers calmly as her arms let Callie. She turns to see Erica and Alex watching her cautiously in case they have to hold her back again. Callie looks towards Arizona. She is crying. April and Meredith are there practically holding her up. Erica puts her hand on Callie's shoulder and squeezes before pushing her towards Arizona. Meredith and April move away as Callie approaches giving the women some room. Callie puts her arms around Arizona and the blonde nearly collapses into them.
"I am so sorry Arizona. I just...she said..." Callie attempts to get out words that will explain her behavior but is shushed by Arizona.
" I know." Arizona replies through tears. "I am sorry I put you through that. I swear I did not ask her to come back I want nothing to do with her." Arizona was nearly frantic trying to get Callie to understand.
"Hey, hey it's okay I know . I just need some time to cool down again. You think you will be okay with Sofia?" Arizona nods her head.
"I can bring Zola over and the girls can have a sleep over. I will stay and help keep up with both of them."
" Me to." April chimes in. Callie expresses her thanks and kisses Arizona on the fore head.
"I will see you a little later okay?" Arizona nods again and gives a small smile. Callie watches as April, Meredith, and Arizona go to pick up the girls. When they are out of sight she turns towards those still remaining.
"I need a drink who is in?" Erica's and Alex's response is almost immediate. Everyone looks at Cristina expectantly but the dark haired woman shifts and looks towards Erica.
"Oh come on Yang! You can come with us for a drink. You are an attending now and a very promising one. You accomplished all of that without me like I knew you would. I had a hard time trying to articulate that because I don't do emotions all that often. So, stop making this awkward and come get a drink with us." Erica finally finishes and Cristina actually smiles.
"Count me in."
The four surgeons sit together in a corner booth as far away from other people as possible. Callie and Cristina start drinking immediately. Alex takes a drink of his beer watching Cristina and Callie slam a shot together.
"Dude I do not think I have ever seen you that mad before. If we had not gotten there when we did I am pretty sure we would be bailing you of jail right now. What did she say to you?" Callie takes a drink of beer and leans back in the booth.
"She said she was coming to say good night to Arizona. I told her that was not the best idea. Then she said to let Arizona pick because we both knew the choice Arizona made last time...and I lost it." Alex pushes another beer towards her as she throws back the last bit of her current one.
"That bitch would have deserved every broken bone you would have given her." Cristina says with disgust in her voice "but she would have not have been worth the damage to your career." Alex and Erica nod in agreement. Callie stares at her beer. She knows they are right and probably just saved her career and then some.
"What did you say to her by the way?" Callie asks looking at Cristina. Cristina smirks as she relives the moment.
" I told her that if she didn't leave that you might get away from the people holding you back and that if you did I certainly was not going to stand in her way. If you did get a hold of her we would all vouch for you and say we all saw her fall down the stairs. She hauled ass after that." Everyone laughs and Callie buys a round of shots. Joe delivers them and let's Callie know they are on the house. She thanks him and gets a little teary eyed as she distributes the shots.
"To not bailing me out of jail tonight." Alex and Cristina laugh and the four cheer to Callie keeping her criminal record clean.
Arizona threads her fingers through her hair as she shuts the door to Sofia's room, her and Zola down for the night. She enters the living room to find Meredith and April with three glasses of red wine. April hands her one and Arizona takes it throwing herself down on the sofa.
"So..." Meredith ventures. "What the hell happened that made Callie go all cage fighter again?" Arizona raises her eyebrow in question but Meredith waves it off."Long story."
"The she devil returned that is what happened." Arizona answers taking a sip of her wine.
" I am guessing we will be seeing her around for awhile?" April asks.
"Not if I can help it." Arizona responds bitterly. "She just up and leaves and thinks she can just come back...just come back and..." Arizona trails off and begins to cry. April moves towards Arizona and starts to rub her back and Meredith hands Arizona a tissue.
"I love Callie." Arizona replies adamantly.
"We know no one doubts that. You made a mistake." April assures. "Now there is nothing left that you can do but fight for your marriage."
"I think we can all drink to that." Meredith agrees and takes a drink of her wine.
Meredith and April stay with Arizona allowing her to drink more of the red wine than either of them. There are more than enough tears on Arizona's part but little is said. Both women aware of the fact that they are there to keep Arizona company and that suits them just fine. They sit in front of the couch legs stretched out before them before Arizona lulls herself to sleep, silent tears still tracking down her face. It takes some effort but both women are able to get her to bed for the night. Meredith checks on the girls once more. April leaves for the night and Meredith prepares for a night on the couch.
Callie wakes up in a vaguely familiar room. As she gets a closer look she realizes that it is George's old room. She must have drunken more than she realized. Callie rolls to the other side of the bed and practically rolls on top of Erica. She quickly moves away causing Erica to wake. The fact that they are both fully clothed does not register in Callie's panic stricken mind. Erica can see the impending melt down coming.
"Callie please it's not what you think. You and Cristina got pretty drunk last night. I brought you here because it seemed like the best thing to do at the time. Alex helped me get you up here. I was going to leave but you asked me to stay so I did." Erica watches Callie to make sure she is still following. "Nothing else happened okay? We talked that was it."Callie nods her head as the panic starts to subside. "I wouldn't take advantage of you like that." Erica whispers not looking at Callie. The panic maybe gone but now Callie just feels like the biggest ass in the world.
"I am sorry I know that. It's just waking up in not so familiar surroundings and everything with Boswell..." She reaches out and grabs the other woman's hand. "...I know you would never do something like that to me. I was just a little disoriented okay?" Erica nods.
"You really do not remember coming here last night." Callie shakes her head.
"Not a damn thing." Erica smiles wide in almost a mischievous manner.
"Let's go go see if Yang is awake so I can show you guys exactly what you did last night."
Callie watches in horror at the screen in front of her. Her and Cristina have their arms around each other's shoulders and are swaying back and forth. There is a song playing on the juke box and each woman is holding a beer bottle that they are singing into drunkenly. Callie can hear Alex in the background egging them on and the phone shaking in what Callie can assume is Erica's silent laughter.
"Why didn't you stop us!" Callie groans her head coming down on the counter top.
" I tried!" Erica defends but once you get something into your head you are damn near impossible to stop, add liquor courage to that and Yang over here and there was not much else I could do." Cristina looks up from the pop tart box she is rummaging through.
"It's not that bad. I have done worse than that before when intoxicated." Alex snorts into his cup of coffee
"That is the understatement of the year."
"Whatever evil spawn." Cristina finally chooses a pack of pop tarts and proceeds to eat them cold. "Besides you and I both sound better singing drunk then half of those people you will find at an American Idol audition." Cristina shrugs as if that settles the matter and takes a drink of her coffee.
"Ok fine." Callie relents. " I can live with all that but did it really have to make it up on YouTube!"
Callie watches Erica across the kitchen table. Alex and Cristina have gone back to their rooms to catch a few more hours of sleep before their shift. It left Callie and Erica in the kitchen with what was left of a pot of coffee. Callie sets her coffee mug down.
"What exactly did we talk about last night." Erica looks puts down her phone and looks at Callie slightly uncomfortable.
"Everything." Callie waits for more and frowns when Erica doesn't continue.
"Care to elaborate?" Callie arches and eyebrow and takes a sip of her coffee.
"Well there was Sofia, your car accident, Mark's death and Arizona's plane crash. Oh not to mention before all that the hospital shooting." "It was a lot of what we talked about at Angel and Jason's wedding just with more detail." Erica starts to tear up and it almost physically hurts Callie. "You could have died Callie more than once." Erica looks at her as the tears spill over. Callie stands and pulls her from her seat and wraps her in a hug. Not another words is spoken between the women about the matter.
A/N: I know you guys wanted Callie to beat Lauren and believe me so do I but there is more to come! We are still a few chapters from a Callie/Lauren showdown.