Chapter 1
When Callie arrived at New York, Penny had already managed to switch apartments once again. It didn't take long for them to settle into their new apartment and Callie didn't have trouble getting a new job right away. When she couldn't decide between NYU or Columbia, she decided to call Addison since she knew that Addison had spent many years working in New York so she'd have the best advice to give. After checking out both places and taking Addison's advice into consideration, Callie had decided to take the job at NYU.
Things at NYU Langone could never compare to Grey Sloan. The doctors were all really nice people, and they all liked her, but they weren't like her friends' back home. She still managed to enjoy work because of all the surgeries she got to do.
Things with Penny were doing okay. They had their daily routine thing going on and it was the same every day, the only difference would be whether Penny got out early, but that rarely happened. It was mostly just Callie and Sofia together since Penny spent most of the time at work. Callie just kept telling herself that eventually Penny would start working less hours.
4 months after moving to NYC, Callie was already use to everything. At first, things were exciting and interesting because it was all new to her but once she got used to it, it all seemed dull and partly boring to her. The only thing she enjoyed at work was the surgery part, which is obviously the most important part of her job, but she missed being able to go to work and looking forward to things other than surgery. She missed everyone at home so much. She missed joking around with everyone, she missed her bonding times with Meredith, she missed messing around with Alex, she missed the Jackson and April fiasco, she missed Bailey's lectures, Webber's criticism, she even missed seeing a certain blonde roam the halls of the hospital.
It didn't take long for Callie to start missing Arizona, she hated that they had spent all that time arguing. We did this wrong, were the words that the blonde had said that night. Callie sometimes repeated that night over and over in her head, late at night when she couldn't sleep. What if things had been done differently, she would ask herself. But, she'd look over to a sleeping Penny by her side and shake the thought because she'd feel guilty.
Arizona called a couple times daily to check in on how things were going, she always asked Callie how she was doing before she asked to talk to Sofia. Their conversations were usually kept short but every once in a while they would catch up.
"How was work?" Penny asked Callie. Some evenings, when Penny got out of work early enough, she got to join Callie and Sofia for dinner.
"It was good." Callie responded, "There was a window cleaner who fell out of his suspended platform."
"Ouch." Penny squinted.
"I know." Callie agreed, "He broke so many bones, but he survived. How about you, how was work?"
"Same ol' same ol'." Penny answered, then looked over at Sofia, "How was school? Are you starting to like it more?"
Sofia nodded and smiled, "I don't get lost when I need to go somewhere by myself anymore."
"That's great. I know it's a big school, so it's impressive that you've gotten used to it already." Penny said raising her hand up for a high five.
Callie was about to say something when her phone started ringing. "It's probably Arizona." She said as she stood up to go check her phone.
She walked back around the table, "It was Meredith, I'm just gonna call her back after dinner." She said as she sat back on her chair.
Not long after, her phone started ringing again.
"Maybe it's important." Penny suggested.
Callie got up again to check her phone. It was Alex this time.
"Hello?" she said once she answered.
She heard Alex take a deep breath, "Hey Cal, how are you?"
"I'm good. Hey, Meredith just called me. Is she there with you?" Callie asked.
"Yeah... Yeah, Mer's here with me."
"Oh well, what's up is everything okay?" she asked, "You don't sound like everything's okay."
"Alex, what are you doing?" Callie heard in the background, it was Meredith.
"Alex, what's going on?" she asked more alarmed. "Where's Arizona?"
Alex took another deep breath, "Listen, Callie, Robbins was in an accident, she's in the hospital. We thought you should know." Her heart started racing. Suddenly, it seemed like everything she was hearing was coming from far away. Her face felt hot and she felt her hands start trembling.
This almost felt exactly like the last time. When she found out that the plane that Arizona was on had gotten into an accident.
"Hello? Are you still there?" she heard from afar, but she couldn't get herself to respond.
It was silent on the phone for a while, "Callie, it's me, Meredith. Say something." She finally heard.
"What the hell happened?" she managed to say.
"There was a car accident. Callie, I'm sorry. It doesn't look good." Meredith explained. "I think it'd be a good idea if—"
"I'll be there tomorrow."