Sleepless Nights Chapter 21
Author: jazzkintz
Rating: NC-17 (for later entries)
Pairing: Callie/Arizona
Disclaimer: I own nothing. No profits here. All characters belong to Shonda Rhimes
Summary: I’ve began writing what I think is going on in the lives of the characters when we don’t see them on the screen. I am trying my best to keep up with what is happening in the show as I write. No beta, all mistakes are mine. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO COMMENT!!!
CALLIE
Christmas had come and gone fairly uneventfully, the night of the nativity festivities had really pretty much been the main part of the holiday celebrations. Callie had drawn the short straw and ended up having to work Christmas Eve which meant that Arizona was stuck having dinner at Derek and Meredith’s house, but Arizona being Arizona didn’t mind and had a great time anyway. The Christmas dinner had turned into an all night festivity so when Callie had arrived home on Christmas morning she found Owen passed out on the couch, the entire contents of what looked like both Cristina and Arizona’s hand bags were strewn across the living room and when Callie entered the bedroom she witnessed a naked Arizona hanging over the bed. She had obviously come home fairly intoxicated which made Callie laugh because there was nothing in the world cuter than a drunken Arizona.
Arizona had woken about lunch time with an epic hang over so they had ended up spending most of Christmas day in bed, exchanging gifts before Arizona was due to be at the hospital. Callie had bought Arizona a beautiful gold necklace that had a pendant of two hearts intertwined dangling from it. The hearts were a combination of white and yellow gold with a small diamond at the centre of the pendant and Callie had had the heart engraved with a ‘C’ on one of the hearts and an ‘A’ on the other. She knew that it was cheesy and hardly original but it was a simple gesture that let Arizona know how absolutely in control of Callie’s heart she was, it was the only thing Callie could think of other than a different kind of diamond that she knew neither of them were ready for just yet. Arizona had loved her gift and it sat beautifully on her graceful neck, every time Callie looked at her girlfriend she saw the necklace shining back at her and she knew that for now this was enough of a symbol to the world that Arizona was hers but another thing she knew to be undeniably true was that the other diamond would also come, not any time particularly soon but it was definitely something in their future, she had even decided on the cut.
The largest Orthopaedic conference in the world was taking place in a few months and this year it was being held in New York, Arizona had gotten Callie a ticket. She had wanted to go for years, ever since she was a measly intern she had wanted to attend this ground breaking conference, she couldn’t think of anything better than being in a room full of the best surgeons in the world but it had been 15 years or so since it had come to America and during her early days as an intern or surgical Resident she hadn’t had the time to fly half way around the world. It has brought tears to Callie’s eyes to know that her girlfriend knew her so well; it was by far the best present she had ever received. A ticket to the world’s largest ortho conference and three whole days in a hotel room with the sexiest woman alive, sounded like heaven.
So as the holiday season passed and things got busier at the hospital she had managed to completely escape any awkward situations with Erica Hahn which had been a welcome relief due to the fact her schedule was so crammed lately. However, she knew she wouldn’t be able to avoid her forever and the day that would have to speak to the renowned heart surgeon was fast approaching. Arizona had spent a few nights working with Erica, getting her input on some things for the upcoming surgery but Callie was still unsure of whether Erica knew about her and Arizona or not. Not only was Christmas now over but New Years had come and gone so Callie knew she didn’t have much Hahn free time left and she was going to make the most of it. One person she wasn’t happy to be free of was Addison. The neo-natal surgeon had arrived in Seattle on the 23rd and left the same day for an emergency back in L.A and she still had not returned. Callie had missed her long legged, red headed friend and was eager to catch up so as the surgery was now approaching Callie wasn’t looking forward to dealing with Erica but she was looking forward to catching up with an old friend and introducing her to the love of her life.
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ERICA
She had been in Seattle for nearly three weeks now and she was surprised at how easily she fell back into her old routine. Webber had given her a few cases to keep her busy and Arizona, the perky PEDS surgeon and her thankfully much less perky sister had been picking her brain in regards to their ground breaking surgery. Erica was impressed with the Robbins sisters, they had a certain cockiness she admired yet neither of them was unlikeable. In fact they were both extremely likeable, Erica often sat back and watched the interactions of all of the different surgeons in the hospital from all the different departments and the one thing that seemed to be true of ALL the doctors in ALL the departments was that they all genuinely liked Arizona Robbins. The sister was a little more of a ‘star’ one might say and commanded more attention but Arizona has definitely managed to gain the trust and respect of not only the Interns and Residents that worked under her but her fellow Attendings and Heads of Departments.
Arizona was not the Head of Paediatrics yet she ran the ward as if she were. If there was a problem she was paged whether she was on call of not. Essentially she WAS the Head of Paediatrics without the official title. Erica knew that she herself would never be happy to do all the work and not get any of the credit but Arizona was different, she did her rounds with a smile on her face at all time of the day and/or night, she ALWAYS made physical contact with her young patients and made time to help their parents understand their conditions. Nothing got passed her and she had an answer for everything.
Erica had even begun to notice some of the Residents like Karev, Grey or even Yang visit the PEDS floor regularly to ask for her advice on patients they were dealing with or for her help with their studies. She even walked in on an impromptu skills lab lesson run by Dr. Arizona Robbins herself. You would never know it to look at her but the woman had hands like a God, Erica had taken to watching many of her surgeries from the gallery recently and she had by far the steadiest hand Hahn had ever seen and not only that but she was quick with her stitching and she also happened to be ambidextrous which was something many surgeons would kill to be.
Hahn didn’t often admire the work of other surgeons but she was sure that Arizona should have been a plastic surgeon they way she cut into her patients, barely leaving a scare, everything was so pretty and delicate but Erica had guessed she learned to be that way because she spent her days cutting into pretty and delicate children.
So many things had changed around this place and yet everything was the same. The gossip mill seemed to be running just as well as ever and Erica hadn’t missed the way people spoke of Arizona and her ‘partner’. At first she had thought they meant Brooke Robbins, the sister but later realised they weren’t talking about a professional partnership but a personal one. Arizona was dating a fellow doctor at Seattle Grace Mercy West and they were somewhat of a ‘star coupling’. At first Erica had thought that Mark was the other half of the star couple but when she saw him making out with the younger Grey she realised she was way off base. Something she found odd was that none of the male doctors here seemed to make any attempt at hitting on her, who was this other half of this dream couple that the other men were so scared of even checking her out. It couldn’t possibly be because she wasn’t attractive, she was indeed attractive, in fact she was stunning and that was when it hit her.
How could she not have known that Arizona Robbins was a lesbian?
Erica had never had much of a gaydar but for her to overlook something this obvious was just ridiculous. Arizona was followed around all day long by nurses trying to get her attention. She flashed her dimples a lot more when in the company of an attractive women, not necessarily in a flirty way, although she was indeed quite a flirt but in a more joyous, happy to be surrounded by beautiful intelligent women all day sort of way. Everything seemed to make more sense once this realisation had finally her and all the other elements of what people were saying had begun to fall into place. The heart surgeon should have known that this was going to happen, that she would come back and find that Callie had been swept off her feet by some sort MrDreamy 2.0 type. Although she had no proof of this and she was too proud to ask anyone if Arizona and Callie were a couple, she knew it to be true. How could it not be?
She had spent the past three weeks preparing the speech she was going to give Callie once the holiday season was over and things around here were returning to normal but this revelation had definitely thrown a wrench in her plans.
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CALLIE
“Hey Torres” Callie heard a familiar voice over her shoulder, this voice made her whole body shiver but not in a good way. As she turned she saw Erica Hahn standing a fair way away from her almost like she was afraid to come any closer.
“Uh Hey” Callie managed to blurt out an unsteady greeting. She knew this moment was coming but she hadn’t really expected to feel this way. In fact she had expected to feel a lot of things; hurt, angry, nostalgic maybe but she didn’t expect to feel… NOTHING! As she stood there staring at the heart surgeon whom Callie once considered giving her own heart to she realised she did feel angry and she felt betrayed but she no longer felt hurt and she certainly did not feel nostalgic, the more she looked into the eyes of the woman who would always be her first the more she began to see that there really wasn’t anything she needed to hear from Erica. What was done was done and she didn’t much feel like reliving the past with her ex sort of girlfriend just like she didn’t feel the need to relive her past with George who had been a bigger part of her life than Erica Hahn had ever been.
The confident Orthopod just didn’t see how rehashing past hurts could ever solve anyone’s problems. She had let it go and she would tell Erica as much, she would also offer up her hand professionally but as for them being friends? Callie didn’t really have any interest in being friends with Erica Hahn.
“Is it safe to approach?” Erica was trying her best to crack a joke. Callie didn’t find it funny and she didn’t feel like pretending she did so she simply raised an eyebrow and waited for an explanation.
“You’re guard dogs aren’t hiding behind there are they?” Callie was getting tired of this game, she had no idea what Erica was trying to get at and quite frankly she didn’t care. She just wanted to get her paperwork done so she could go home.
“I’m sorry, my what?” this wasn’t the first time that Callie had seen Erica Hahn blush but it still didn’t sit well with her, it was just plain weird.
“Yang and Sloan. They’ve been tracking me since the day I got here” the tall blonde did her best to explain herself whilst slithering her way up to the nurses’ station and leaning casually up against it. Callie reverts her eyes back to the chart she had previously been engrossed in and doesn’t make eye contact with Erica when she speaks to her.
“Oh them. Well yeah they’re… well, they’re Mark and Cristina” Callie lets out a small sound of amusement when she thinks about the ways in which Mark and Cristina must be torturing Erica. It was so typical of them to do something so nice in such a horrible way. They were two of her best friends and she knew that they were only trying to protect her, after all they had been the ones who had to put up with her when Erica shot through and they had been the ones who had had to try and pick up all the pieces of Callie’s broken form. In many ways they had just as much reason to be angry with Erica as Callie did but she did make a note to herself to ask them to back off because she was looking a little worse for wear.
“They’re like Jekyll and Hide” Callie was not at all appreciative of Erica’s tone when she spoke of her friends.
“They’re good friends Erica. The best actually” Callie knew she was being short with her but she just couldn’t help it. She was becoming more and more annoyed by Erica’s presence and the fact that she was bad mouthing the people who had made it possible for Callie to walk tall again was really pissing her off.
“I know they are Cal, I was just kidding” Erica placed her hand on Callie’s shoulder gently and instead of a warm familiar feeling Callie felt nauseous so she quickly pulled away from Erica’s hand before turning to face her and looking her in the eye for the first time in a year.
“Don’t call me that. Don’t call me Cal like we’re still friends. Like we’re still…” Callie felt the moisture building in her eyes as she tried to swallow the lump in her throat.
“Callie, I’m sorry I… “Erica was stepping forward to make physical contact once again but Callie was too quick for her this time as she stepped out of the blonde’s reach.
“Why are you here Erica?” Silence.
“No actually you know what I don’t really care why you’re here, but you should know that things aren’t the same here anymore. I’m not the same. I’ve moved on, I’m happy now so I don’t want you to feel bad. If you thought you were going to come here and find me all broken and miserable then I’m sorry to disappoint you but I’m kick ass. I’ve never felt better about myself and I guess I owe a lot of that to you because it was you who sent me down this path, it was with you that I realised all I could be but it’s with her that I have come to realise all that I AM” Callie stops dead in her tracks when she realises she is about to bring Arizona into this currently one sided conversation, but she can’t bring herself to continue her thoughts about how Arizona was the one or how she felt like floating every day since she had met Arizona.
“Callie I know I must have hurt you and I’m so sorry. I just couldn’t deal; I couldn’t handle knowing that you were going to choose everyone else over me, every time. Whether it was Mark or Izzie Stevens. It didn’t matter who it was but it was never me and I just couldn’t deal but I wanted to tell you that I’m sorry. I know it doesn’t mean much now but I just needed to say it anyway” Erica was now becoming way too emotional and it was beginning to freak Callie out.
“No Erica. Don’t be sorry, it’s too late for sorry. You’re sorry, I’m sorry but you made a decision to walk away so at least have the guts to stick to that decision and keep on walking” Callie spoke I a calm and even voice. She didn’t have any bitterness or anger in her tone anymore; it was more a tone of acceptance and understanding. She understood that Erica was sorry and she knew that she was sorry too but too much time had passed, too many things had been said and done or in their case NOT said or done. They were over, well and truly over and in this moment Callie felt like a heavy load that she didn’t even know she had been carrying was being lifted from her shoulders.
The confident Orthopod just didn’t see how rehashing past hurts could ever solve anyone’s problems. She had let it go and she would tell Erica as much, she would also offer up her hand professionally but as for them being friends? Callie didn’t really have any interest in being friends with Erica Hahn. However the look in the heart surgeon’s eye as she walked away without another word spoken told Callie that she perhaps was not exactly on the same wave length.
Rating: NC-17 (for later entries)
Pairing: Callie/Arizona
Disclaimer: I own nothing. No profits here. All characters belong to Shonda Rhimes
Summary: I’ve began writing what I think is going on in the lives of the characters when we don’t see them on the screen. I am trying my best to keep up with what is happening in the show as I write. No beta, all mistakes are mine. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO COMMENT!!!
CALLIE
Christmas had come and gone fairly uneventfully, the night of the nativity festivities had really pretty much been the main part of the holiday celebrations. Callie had drawn the short straw and ended up having to work Christmas Eve which meant that Arizona was stuck having dinner at Derek and Meredith’s house, but Arizona being Arizona didn’t mind and had a great time anyway. The Christmas dinner had turned into an all night festivity so when Callie had arrived home on Christmas morning she found Owen passed out on the couch, the entire contents of what looked like both Cristina and Arizona’s hand bags were strewn across the living room and when Callie entered the bedroom she witnessed a naked Arizona hanging over the bed. She had obviously come home fairly intoxicated which made Callie laugh because there was nothing in the world cuter than a drunken Arizona.
Arizona had woken about lunch time with an epic hang over so they had ended up spending most of Christmas day in bed, exchanging gifts before Arizona was due to be at the hospital. Callie had bought Arizona a beautiful gold necklace that had a pendant of two hearts intertwined dangling from it. The hearts were a combination of white and yellow gold with a small diamond at the centre of the pendant and Callie had had the heart engraved with a ‘C’ on one of the hearts and an ‘A’ on the other. She knew that it was cheesy and hardly original but it was a simple gesture that let Arizona know how absolutely in control of Callie’s heart she was, it was the only thing Callie could think of other than a different kind of diamond that she knew neither of them were ready for just yet. Arizona had loved her gift and it sat beautifully on her graceful neck, every time Callie looked at her girlfriend she saw the necklace shining back at her and she knew that for now this was enough of a symbol to the world that Arizona was hers but another thing she knew to be undeniably true was that the other diamond would also come, not any time particularly soon but it was definitely something in their future, she had even decided on the cut.
The largest Orthopaedic conference in the world was taking place in a few months and this year it was being held in New York, Arizona had gotten Callie a ticket. She had wanted to go for years, ever since she was a measly intern she had wanted to attend this ground breaking conference, she couldn’t think of anything better than being in a room full of the best surgeons in the world but it had been 15 years or so since it had come to America and during her early days as an intern or surgical Resident she hadn’t had the time to fly half way around the world. It has brought tears to Callie’s eyes to know that her girlfriend knew her so well; it was by far the best present she had ever received. A ticket to the world’s largest ortho conference and three whole days in a hotel room with the sexiest woman alive, sounded like heaven.
So as the holiday season passed and things got busier at the hospital she had managed to completely escape any awkward situations with Erica Hahn which had been a welcome relief due to the fact her schedule was so crammed lately. However, she knew she wouldn’t be able to avoid her forever and the day that would have to speak to the renowned heart surgeon was fast approaching. Arizona had spent a few nights working with Erica, getting her input on some things for the upcoming surgery but Callie was still unsure of whether Erica knew about her and Arizona or not. Not only was Christmas now over but New Years had come and gone so Callie knew she didn’t have much Hahn free time left and she was going to make the most of it. One person she wasn’t happy to be free of was Addison. The neo-natal surgeon had arrived in Seattle on the 23rd and left the same day for an emergency back in L.A and she still had not returned. Callie had missed her long legged, red headed friend and was eager to catch up so as the surgery was now approaching Callie wasn’t looking forward to dealing with Erica but she was looking forward to catching up with an old friend and introducing her to the love of her life.
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ERICA
She had been in Seattle for nearly three weeks now and she was surprised at how easily she fell back into her old routine. Webber had given her a few cases to keep her busy and Arizona, the perky PEDS surgeon and her thankfully much less perky sister had been picking her brain in regards to their ground breaking surgery. Erica was impressed with the Robbins sisters, they had a certain cockiness she admired yet neither of them was unlikeable. In fact they were both extremely likeable, Erica often sat back and watched the interactions of all of the different surgeons in the hospital from all the different departments and the one thing that seemed to be true of ALL the doctors in ALL the departments was that they all genuinely liked Arizona Robbins. The sister was a little more of a ‘star’ one might say and commanded more attention but Arizona has definitely managed to gain the trust and respect of not only the Interns and Residents that worked under her but her fellow Attendings and Heads of Departments.
Arizona was not the Head of Paediatrics yet she ran the ward as if she were. If there was a problem she was paged whether she was on call of not. Essentially she WAS the Head of Paediatrics without the official title. Erica knew that she herself would never be happy to do all the work and not get any of the credit but Arizona was different, she did her rounds with a smile on her face at all time of the day and/or night, she ALWAYS made physical contact with her young patients and made time to help their parents understand their conditions. Nothing got passed her and she had an answer for everything.
Erica had even begun to notice some of the Residents like Karev, Grey or even Yang visit the PEDS floor regularly to ask for her advice on patients they were dealing with or for her help with their studies. She even walked in on an impromptu skills lab lesson run by Dr. Arizona Robbins herself. You would never know it to look at her but the woman had hands like a God, Erica had taken to watching many of her surgeries from the gallery recently and she had by far the steadiest hand Hahn had ever seen and not only that but she was quick with her stitching and she also happened to be ambidextrous which was something many surgeons would kill to be.
Hahn didn’t often admire the work of other surgeons but she was sure that Arizona should have been a plastic surgeon they way she cut into her patients, barely leaving a scare, everything was so pretty and delicate but Erica had guessed she learned to be that way because she spent her days cutting into pretty and delicate children.
So many things had changed around this place and yet everything was the same. The gossip mill seemed to be running just as well as ever and Erica hadn’t missed the way people spoke of Arizona and her ‘partner’. At first she had thought they meant Brooke Robbins, the sister but later realised they weren’t talking about a professional partnership but a personal one. Arizona was dating a fellow doctor at Seattle Grace Mercy West and they were somewhat of a ‘star coupling’. At first Erica had thought that Mark was the other half of the star couple but when she saw him making out with the younger Grey she realised she was way off base. Something she found odd was that none of the male doctors here seemed to make any attempt at hitting on her, who was this other half of this dream couple that the other men were so scared of even checking her out. It couldn’t possibly be because she wasn’t attractive, she was indeed attractive, in fact she was stunning and that was when it hit her.
How could she not have known that Arizona Robbins was a lesbian?
Erica had never had much of a gaydar but for her to overlook something this obvious was just ridiculous. Arizona was followed around all day long by nurses trying to get her attention. She flashed her dimples a lot more when in the company of an attractive women, not necessarily in a flirty way, although she was indeed quite a flirt but in a more joyous, happy to be surrounded by beautiful intelligent women all day sort of way. Everything seemed to make more sense once this realisation had finally her and all the other elements of what people were saying had begun to fall into place. The heart surgeon should have known that this was going to happen, that she would come back and find that Callie had been swept off her feet by some sort MrDreamy 2.0 type. Although she had no proof of this and she was too proud to ask anyone if Arizona and Callie were a couple, she knew it to be true. How could it not be?
She had spent the past three weeks preparing the speech she was going to give Callie once the holiday season was over and things around here were returning to normal but this revelation had definitely thrown a wrench in her plans.
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CALLIE
“Hey Torres” Callie heard a familiar voice over her shoulder, this voice made her whole body shiver but not in a good way. As she turned she saw Erica Hahn standing a fair way away from her almost like she was afraid to come any closer.
“Uh Hey” Callie managed to blurt out an unsteady greeting. She knew this moment was coming but she hadn’t really expected to feel this way. In fact she had expected to feel a lot of things; hurt, angry, nostalgic maybe but she didn’t expect to feel… NOTHING! As she stood there staring at the heart surgeon whom Callie once considered giving her own heart to she realised she did feel angry and she felt betrayed but she no longer felt hurt and she certainly did not feel nostalgic, the more she looked into the eyes of the woman who would always be her first the more she began to see that there really wasn’t anything she needed to hear from Erica. What was done was done and she didn’t much feel like reliving the past with her ex sort of girlfriend just like she didn’t feel the need to relive her past with George who had been a bigger part of her life than Erica Hahn had ever been.
The confident Orthopod just didn’t see how rehashing past hurts could ever solve anyone’s problems. She had let it go and she would tell Erica as much, she would also offer up her hand professionally but as for them being friends? Callie didn’t really have any interest in being friends with Erica Hahn.
“Is it safe to approach?” Erica was trying her best to crack a joke. Callie didn’t find it funny and she didn’t feel like pretending she did so she simply raised an eyebrow and waited for an explanation.
“You’re guard dogs aren’t hiding behind there are they?” Callie was getting tired of this game, she had no idea what Erica was trying to get at and quite frankly she didn’t care. She just wanted to get her paperwork done so she could go home.
“I’m sorry, my what?” this wasn’t the first time that Callie had seen Erica Hahn blush but it still didn’t sit well with her, it was just plain weird.
“Yang and Sloan. They’ve been tracking me since the day I got here” the tall blonde did her best to explain herself whilst slithering her way up to the nurses’ station and leaning casually up against it. Callie reverts her eyes back to the chart she had previously been engrossed in and doesn’t make eye contact with Erica when she speaks to her.
“Oh them. Well yeah they’re… well, they’re Mark and Cristina” Callie lets out a small sound of amusement when she thinks about the ways in which Mark and Cristina must be torturing Erica. It was so typical of them to do something so nice in such a horrible way. They were two of her best friends and she knew that they were only trying to protect her, after all they had been the ones who had to put up with her when Erica shot through and they had been the ones who had had to try and pick up all the pieces of Callie’s broken form. In many ways they had just as much reason to be angry with Erica as Callie did but she did make a note to herself to ask them to back off because she was looking a little worse for wear.
“They’re like Jekyll and Hide” Callie was not at all appreciative of Erica’s tone when she spoke of her friends.
“They’re good friends Erica. The best actually” Callie knew she was being short with her but she just couldn’t help it. She was becoming more and more annoyed by Erica’s presence and the fact that she was bad mouthing the people who had made it possible for Callie to walk tall again was really pissing her off.
“I know they are Cal, I was just kidding” Erica placed her hand on Callie’s shoulder gently and instead of a warm familiar feeling Callie felt nauseous so she quickly pulled away from Erica’s hand before turning to face her and looking her in the eye for the first time in a year.
“Don’t call me that. Don’t call me Cal like we’re still friends. Like we’re still…” Callie felt the moisture building in her eyes as she tried to swallow the lump in her throat.
“Callie, I’m sorry I… “Erica was stepping forward to make physical contact once again but Callie was too quick for her this time as she stepped out of the blonde’s reach.
“Why are you here Erica?” Silence.
“No actually you know what I don’t really care why you’re here, but you should know that things aren’t the same here anymore. I’m not the same. I’ve moved on, I’m happy now so I don’t want you to feel bad. If you thought you were going to come here and find me all broken and miserable then I’m sorry to disappoint you but I’m kick ass. I’ve never felt better about myself and I guess I owe a lot of that to you because it was you who sent me down this path, it was with you that I realised all I could be but it’s with her that I have come to realise all that I AM” Callie stops dead in her tracks when she realises she is about to bring Arizona into this currently one sided conversation, but she can’t bring herself to continue her thoughts about how Arizona was the one or how she felt like floating every day since she had met Arizona.
“Callie I know I must have hurt you and I’m so sorry. I just couldn’t deal; I couldn’t handle knowing that you were going to choose everyone else over me, every time. Whether it was Mark or Izzie Stevens. It didn’t matter who it was but it was never me and I just couldn’t deal but I wanted to tell you that I’m sorry. I know it doesn’t mean much now but I just needed to say it anyway” Erica was now becoming way too emotional and it was beginning to freak Callie out.
“No Erica. Don’t be sorry, it’s too late for sorry. You’re sorry, I’m sorry but you made a decision to walk away so at least have the guts to stick to that decision and keep on walking” Callie spoke I a calm and even voice. She didn’t have any bitterness or anger in her tone anymore; it was more a tone of acceptance and understanding. She understood that Erica was sorry and she knew that she was sorry too but too much time had passed, too many things had been said and done or in their case NOT said or done. They were over, well and truly over and in this moment Callie felt like a heavy load that she didn’t even know she had been carrying was being lifted from her shoulders.
The confident Orthopod just didn’t see how rehashing past hurts could ever solve anyone’s problems. She had let it go and she would tell Erica as much, she would also offer up her hand professionally but as for them being friends? Callie didn’t really have any interest in being friends with Erica Hahn. However the look in the heart surgeon’s eye as she walked away without another word spoken told Callie that she perhaps was not exactly on the same wave length.