You are my light in the Darkness

Chapter 5 - Changes

Arizona grabbed Callie's hand and lifted herself up from the bed.

"You sure you're ready?" The Latina said, using her other hand to help the blonde of the bed. She tried to muffle her hiss of pain when Callie touched her waist.

"I heard that." Callie said, which made Arizona chuckle awkwardly.

It had been a week since the incident and Arizona was already ordered to go back to work. A lot of things had changed during the week. Callie had been besides Arizona's bed every night or in times she was not working and kept her updated of the changes. The biggest thing was that they had decided on colliding camps 1 and 2 together, which Callie had to admit, she had no problem with. This meant that she and Arizona now both worked in camp 1. She was thrilled to be honest, even though she realized the horrible situation that had caused the colliding wasn't very pretty. Madison had been in and out of consciousness the entire week, so they were looking into it, but if her situation got worse they were going to need her back. Also two of the nurses had died and besides them, two soldiers had also died. Another soldier had been in bad condition but he was scheduled to be back at work next week.

Callie had told their captain that Arizona needed to stay in bed for one more week, her body's strength could be less than it appeared to be. The captain, however, refused to and said that with a doctor less in PEDS they needed Arizona badly.

So, here they were today, both working again. Callie had continued to work and things turned out to be going pretty great actually with the new nurses and Sam around. The captain had been right though, they definitely were a surgeon short. They had been lucky that they had some spare room left for the children from camp 2 and all their supplies.

Another thing that Callie was glad about was that they now had a lot of soldiers outside, guiding the building.

The girl Dahi had returned to her village, she had recovered nicely from her surgery and was now going back with her boyfriend. That young man had been amazing, he had told everything she needed to here after the surgery and Callie knew that the girl would be fine, she had felt very relieved.

The other patient that connected her and Arizona, Isaac, had had a complication. When he came in it had only been his arm that was broken but now he was in a bed, he only needed a small procedure but the little boy was only six so they were planning on keeping him longer after the surgery until someone came for him. If it took more than thirty days for a parent to get his kid out of the hospital though, the doctors had to send him to orphanage.

She heard another hiss in pain and was snapped back to reality. "Arizona.." Callie started but the blonde just looked her in the eye and gave her a calm smile. "I'll just take some painkillers and then I'll be just fine." She said while looking into Callie's eyes, trying to convince her. She had known this woman for still only three weeks but here, in an area like this, you somehow got to know people very quickly and so she had learned that lying to the Latina was pretty hard. She could see in those beautiful brown eyes that she hadn't fully managed to convince Callie but really, the woman had no other choice.

Callie helped Arizona out of her scrubs and then looked away, giving the woman her clothes without looking over the almost naked body.

It was harder than Callie would have thought it would be. She was being honest with herself now, she definitely felt a strong connection towards the blonde but she really couldn't do anything about it because well, Arizona probably isn't gay and she made a deal with herself, no emotional relationship drama out here. She came here also to get away from all that kind of stuff that they always had in Seattle so she really didn't want that here.

She had to admit that she may have felt gay feelings earlier in her life but she never actually acted on it. She didn't want to complicate things and maybe she was just being curious. Maybe she just wanted to know what it felt like. So she never acted on it. It also would have given her lots and lots of trouble with her family, who were extremely against gay marriage. Especially her dad, he was very catholic and she respected that. She was catholic too, she just believed that love was a connection you shared, whether the other person was a man or a woman. But she was sure that this time, it was just curiousness or maybe even the fact that she was pretty horny, -chances of having sex in a war zone are not very high-, she knew that what she felt for Arizona was real, too real. She wanted to run away and jump her at the same time. God, this whole one camp out of two may not turn out to be really good for her in the end.