Arizona had made them breakfast and they were off to the hospital as soon as Callie was finished eating.
"I slept through the whole night last night," Arizona told Dr. Evans.
"Excellent news."
"Last night was kind of a break through night," Callie said, smiling.
Arizona was holding her hand, squeezing every now and then.
"How so?"
Arizona took a breath, "I kissed her again, for a while. And, she saw the...thing."
"You need to get comfortable naming it, Dr. Robbins," he said.
"The brand. I told her about it, I showed her."
"Well, you more of shouted about it," Callie said. "But she explained what they did and-"
"How it was holding me back from opening up to her," Arizona said. Then in a much lighter tone she added, "Calliope brought me x-rays and scans."
They smiled at each other, then Arizona intertwined their fingers, lacing them together.
"Sounds like a good night," Dr. Evans said. "Callie, how did it feel to finally get all of that out in the open?"
"Good, it felt like a lot of the tension was out of the air. She's been hiding from me and I never understood why. Like when she would change or something. But now I know, and now she doesn't have to. I feel like I'm better equipped now. Now that I know the truth, or another part of the truth. And, she let me hold her while we slept. She asked me to."
Evans looked up from his notes.
"AND she didn't have any nightmares."
He looked at Arizona. "None?"
She smiled, "None."
"And you asked her to hold you?" he asked, intrigued. The rest of the session was spent with reliving the past night and what it meant to Arizona's recovery. Dr. Evans was duly impressed with her progress. "We'll give it a few more days, just to make sure, but I'm going to go ahead and say that I think you are stable, Arizona. You can come back to work, but I'd say the sooner the better. And you need to spend more time with Mark and your surgeon friends. I think if you guys were to go out it would be okay, but take it easy on the alcohol for right now," he instructed. "Callie, if I could have a word outside before you go? And I'll be right back Arizona."
They walked outside and shut the door. "I'm impressed with her progress."
She nodded. "There is one thing. They found the two sisters that captured her. She is going to have to testify. I don't know if she knows about it. It'll come up about the trial and I don't want her to be blindsided. But I'm afraid it will do more damage to her. I don't know if I should tell her. Or take her. She will see them in person again."
"I'll discuss the possibility of the event with her today and test her reaction. But you should talk about it with her tonight. Stop back by before you leave and I'll let you know how it went."
Arizona looked up when he came back in and smiled. "It was a really good night last night."
"So it seems," he smiled. "I think hiding the brand was keeping you back from her. But you are letting her in. It's good."
She smiled. "I just want to love her again. I mean I do. But I want to feel the way about her that I used to. She's perfect and I want to feel that way again, how I used to."
"Just keep working on letting her in," he said. "I do want to discuss some things with you."
"Okay."
"If they were to find your captors and you had to testify against them, what would you think?"
"Is that a possibility?" She asks, anxious. "I don't want to - I can't see them again."
"Maybe and maybe not, but we shouldn't worry about it right now." He smiled. Poor Arizona and Callie.
