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"Wilson, come on! We just got paged to the pit." Callie sticks her head into the resident locker room and yells.

"Right behind you." She replies.

Edwards and Blake exchange confused glances.

"When did she get assigned to Torres?" Edwards asks.

"I don't know Callie didn't say anything about it to me." Penny remarks.

"Excuse me, could either of you tell me where to get scrubs?"

Edwards and Blake look up to see a woman with long reddish brown hair standing in the doorway.

"Um, are you a resident or an attending?" Edwards asks.

"I'm a fourth year, just transferred in." She explains, "I'm Cori, Cori Jensen."

"I'm Stephanie Edwards and I'm a fourth year too. Who are you assigned to today?" Edwards asks.

"I'm assigned to Dr Karev, I'm meeting him in Chief Robbins' office in about ten minutes." She explains.

"Here's a pair of scrubs," Penny says pulling them down from the shelf, "I'm Penny Blake, I just transferred in a few weeks ago from Dillard."

"I thought Dillard closed months ago." Jensen remarks.

"Uh, it did. Hey you should get going, don't want to be late." Penny remarks grabbing her things and rushing out of the locker room.

Edwards notices the weird exchange, but doesn't pay much attention to it, instead she shows Cori to an empty locker and waits for her to change, then walks her to the elevator and gives her directions to Robbins' office.

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"You're late Edwards." Shepherd says heading into the first patient's room to begin rounds.

As they head to the next patient, Edwards says, I just met the new Peds resident, Dr Jensen this morning, that's why I was late."

"You're just a regular welcome wagon for new residents aren't you?" Shepherd says sharply.

"Dr Shepherd, I was just trying to be helpful." Edwards replies.

"Going out with Blake for drinks the other night, who did that help?" She remarks before heading into the next room.

Keeping rounds going quickly, Edwards realizes that although Amelia is upset about her possibly befriending Blake, she's not going to talk about it any longer.

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"Dr Jensen, we were just talking abut you. Welcome to Grey Sloan." Arizona says turning around to greet her. "I'm Arizona Robbins and this is Alex Karev."

"Dr Robbins, Dr Karev, I can't tell you how excited that I am to be here. Thank you for accepting my transfer," Jensen replies.

"We're happy to have you. Dr Meneffee spoke highly of you and I understand that you're interested in applying for the Peds Fellowship next year." Arizona says warmly.

"Uh, yes. I know that Dr Karev was your first Fellow and he's head of the department, which says a lot about the program." Jensen replies.

"It says a lot more about Dr Karev." Arizona remarks smiling at him.

"Okay, okay. Can we start rounds now or do we need to hug it out first?" Alex asks sarcastically.

"Go, do rounds. But give her a tour at some point Alex, don't make her wander lost all day, okay?" Arizona calls after him and they leave her office.

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Callie and Jo are standing in the ambulance bay when Meredith and Penny join them.

"It should be here any minute." Meredith remarks, glancing over at Callie.

"Wilson, when it gets here we need to first assess the damage from the fall, he could have..." Callie begins.

"He could have serious internal injuries that Blake and I need to assess before you can start." Meredith interjects.

"They said that he was alert at the scene, we'll be assessing him along side of you." Callie retorts.

The ambulance arrives and the paramedics pull the gurney out and they converge on him and take him into the trauma room.

They continue to clash over treatment with Jo and Penny just trying to stay out of it, finally they start getting test back and it's obvious that Meredith and Penny need to get him into surgery first to stabilize him, but first he needs to go to CT.

"Dr Blake take him to CT and then meet me in OR 4." Meredith instructs.

"Wilson, go with her and make sure they get good views of that pelvic fracture, we've got a helluva repair to figure out." Callie adds.

"Blake don't let them take too long in CT, we need to get in there and fix that bleeder." Meredith reminds her.

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Entering the locker room to change into board shots and swim top for the fitting, Arizona can't help but be a little self-conscious when another woman enters the room.

"Hey," the other woman says noting the blonde's attire, she adds, "are you here for a fitting?"

"Yes, are you?" She asks.

"I am, I'm the Ossur Rep, Melanie Anderson. You must be Arizona Robbins," she says extending her hand.

"Oh Melanie, great to meet you. Craig has been talking about this prototype for months. I'm so excited to be a part of this trial." Arizona gushes.

"We're really pleased to have you. Your case is extraordinary and it's rare that we get a candidate like you for a trial." Melanie replies excitedly.

"How is my case extraordinary?" Arizona asks.

"Your amputation was just above the knee, the typical above knee amputation is here," Melanie touches her own leg to show her, "which makes it more difficult to fit these next generation prosthetics. Because yours was done here, you are an excellent candidate for this prototype," she explains as she begins to change clothes.

Arizona looks away as Melanie takes her blouse and slacks off. Suddenly she's quite aware that she hasn't seen another woman's body in a long time, she turns back to her locker and begins putting her things in it.

Melanie glances over at the blonde and smiles, my god she had no idea when she read the file and looked over the case that the woman would be this attractive. She figured out that she was a lesbian from the file, but damn is there any chance that she's also single?

"I'll, uh, see you out there." Arizona stammers after glancing over to make sure she was dressed.

"I'll be right there." Melanie replies.

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Stepping out into the PT room, Arizona takes a moment to survey the room and she quickly spots Craig and heads over to him.

"Hey Arizona," he says meeting her halfway, "good, you took my advice and wore something comfortable for the fitting."

"Yes, I'm not quite ready to wear a swimsuit," she admits.

"Did you meet Melanie in the locker room", he asks.

"I did. She mentioned that my amputation was extraordinary and I got to thinking about that, did Karev or Callie consult you before the amputation?" She asks.

"Not exactly. You see when you came back from Idaho, it was all over the hospital and I-I looked at your case and I went to Dr Torres and I asked her to talk to me about amputation." He explains, "But she refused to discuss it with me, she said that she was going to save the leg, that there would be no amputation."

"Yeah, I made her promise to save my leg." Arizona admits.

"I'm sure that you know that she did everything and more to try to keep that promise. I kept watching your case and I'm sorry, but I realized that they were going to have to amputate to save you, so I put a note in your file that the best prosthetic outcome would be possible if they did a certain type of amputation and Dr Karev, he must have reviewed your file, because he came and discussed it with me at length, he was very concerned that if you had an amputation that you would also have the best prosthetic available. I spent several hours with him answering all of his questions." Craig explains.

"Did you know that Alex Karev ended up being the one to amputate my leg?" Arizona asks.

"Yes, I was in the galley watching him." Craig replies. "Arizona I don't think that you understand, he was certain that you would need an amputation and he didn't want Dr Torres to have to do it. He wanted to do it to spare her, but it was hard on him. After the surgery he was physically ill. But he did a fantastic job. And now here you are, getting one of the best prosthetics on the market because of everything he did."

Arizona is stunned. She has tears running down her face as the reality of what Alex did sets in. The whole time that Callie was protecting Arizona, she had no idea that Alex was protecting her. No wonder Alex waited until Callie began Derek's surgery to rush her into the OR, he planned it that way, so there was no way for Callie to do the amputation herself.

Melanie entered the PT room and quickly noticed Arizona and Craig talking, she could tell from their body language that they were having an intense conversation, so she hung back and watched for Dr James to arrive.

Dr James arrives and greets Melanie and then heads right over to Craig and Arizona, not noticing that he's interrupting anything. "Craig, greet to see you. And this must be Dr Robbins?" He says sticking his hand out to shake hands with each of them.

"Hello Dr James, Melanie," Craig says nodding at her, then adds, "I believe you both met in the locker room."

"We did. Great to see you again Craig." Melanie replies.

After the fitting, Melanie and Arizona head back to the locker room together and Arizona starts to feel nervous. If she's not mistaken, Melanie was flirting with her and it's been so long since anyone has flirted with her, she is nervous as hell. How sad is that she thinks to herself?

Melanie realizes the blonde is nervous, so she quickly takes her things and steps into the shower to rinse off and get dressed out of view.

Arizona notices and quickly changes clothes herself without rinsing off. She'd barely gotten in the pool and besides she's heading home after this any way.

"Hey, I wanted to ask you a question," Melanie says when she emerges from the shower area and sees Arizona putting on her shoes.

Arizona looks up at her and smiles.

"The hotel I'm staying at is over by Grey Sloan, where can I go over there to just get a burger and beer?" She asks, then nervously she adds, "I eat a lot of room service, but I thought tonight I would just do something different."

"Uh, just go across the street to Joe's." Arizona replies.

"Joe's Emerald City Bar and Grill?" She asks.

"That's the one, it's a hangout of sorts for hospital employees. We eat there all the time." She explains.

"Any chance that you're going to eat there tonight?" Melanie asks.

"Me? No, I don't go there very often. Especially now, you know." Arizona nervously reminds her that she's pregnant.

"Oh right, I forgot. Of course, you're not going to hang out in a bar when you're pregnant." Melanie mentally kicks herself.

"Is there another burger place you'd recommend? This is me trying to ask you out as awkwardly as possible." Melanie replies.

Arizona can't help but look up surprised, "Really? Y-y-you're asking me out?" she blurts out.

"Oh god, it's that bad, uh? I'm sorry, just forget it." Melanie replies turning to get her stuff out of the locker.

"That's not how I meant that to come out. I just, I don't get asked out much." Arizona explains.

"What? How is that possible?" Melanie asks turning around and sitting on the bench to put her shoes on.

"Probably because I spend all of my time at work or with my daughter, there's not a lot of opportunity to meet anyone." She confesses.

"I get that. I work a lot and travel, so it's difficult to meet women for me too. Which is probably why I thought I'd ask you out," she confesses.

Arizona relaxes when she realizes that Melanie is as nervous as she is. "You know what, I am free tonight. I'm heading back to my place to wrap up a few things, but I could meet you at Joe's in a couple of hours."

"Are you sure? I could meet you somewhere else if you'd rather?" Melanie offers.

"You know what, there is another place we could grab a burger. Have you ever been to the Wild Rose downtown?" Arizona asks.

"No, but I've heard of it. They have good food there?" She asks surprised.

"No their food isn't that good. But down the street is a burger place that is good. It's called 'The Burger Bar', but it's not a bar, it's just a burger place near all the bars." Arizona explains. "It's easy to find, but I could pick you up. The Archfield is on the way for me."

"Oh, I couldn't ask you to do that.," Melanie replies.

"You didn't ask. I offered." Arizona points out. Then she pulls out her phone, types in her unlock code and hands it to Melanie.

She looks at her a minute, then down to the phone and then smiles and begins entering her number and hands it back.

Arizona looks at it and then presses call and Melanie's phone rings. "There, now I can call you when I get there."

"Great. Can I walk out with you?" Melanie asks slipping her bag onto her shoulder.