Arizona Robbins sat in her living room with her daughter Sofia playing with Astronaut Barbie. The past few years had been some of the hardest of her life. She had almost lost her daughter and had forever lost someone that she truly cared about and loved. Someone that she had once been her best friend and even her wife. Then the plane crash happened; That stupid, damn plane crash. The plane crash that changed EVERYTHING! That plane crash had taken so much from not just her but everyone. She was shaken out of her thoughts by a loud CRASH! She turned to look towards the front door and saw a figure in all black with a ski mask on their face. Acting on instinct she pushed Sofia into the bathroom with her cell phone while whispering to her to call 911 and locked the door behind her. She turned around to faced the person only to see a gun pointed at her. "What do you want?" she cried tearfully. " Why are you here? Why me?" she screamed. The figure looked at her and replied, "Because you ruined everything!" as they squeezed the trigger. All Arizona could remember after that was darkness.
Callie Torres sat in her hotel room in New York with a bottle of tequila in her hand. She was a mess to say the least. After losing the custody hearing she had just been going through the motions. She had still moved to New York with Penny. She tried to be supportive, but there was too much hurt and pain. Penny acted like it shouldn't affect her the way it did. Between everything that happened her and Penny's relationship soon fell apart. Callie moved out of their shared apartment and into a hotel nearby. She knew what she should do but she just couldn't bring herself to go back to Seattle and face the people there. Some had stuck by her in her decision and some had not. Now she knew that leaving was a mistake. Deep down she had known that then but she didn't want to admit it. She couldn't go back to Seattle and see the people who she had let down. The people who believed she was making the right choice in going to New York. She couldn't go back and see the ones who knew she was making the wrong choice and still didn't shun her. She couldn't go back and see her daughter who she had let down by actually moving across the country. Most of all, she couldn't go back to seeing HER every day. The person who had at one time meant more than anything to her. Someone who had been her best friend. Someone who had loved and if she was honest with herself she still did. She knew she needed to go back. She needed to try to work things out with everyone. She just needed more time.
As she sat on the bed thinking back to how everything had gone wrong, her phone rang. Not wanting to talk to anyone she hit the reject call button not even looking at the screen. She soon fell asleep on the bed only to woken an hour later by her phone ringing again. She looked at her phone to see 14 missed calls. Scrolling through she saw that Bailey had tried calling her 8 times, Meredith had tried 5 times and the first call she had rejected had been from Arizona. Heart beating wildly in her chest with so many different scenarios running through her head as to why those people would be trying so hard to get in touch with her, her phone started ring again. Seeing that it was Bailey calling again she quickly answered the phone. "What the hell in going on Bailey?!" she basically screamed into the phone. "Callie, you need to get on a plane to Seattle, now," Bailey said. "There's been an incident." As Callie dropped her phone she realized that even though she needed more time, her time had just run out.
After catching the first flight available to Seattle she soon arrived at the airport to find Meredith waiting for her. " Meredith! What happened?!" she pleaded. " Bailey wouldn't tell me anything over the phone. Is Sofia ok?" she asked as they headed outside to Meredith's waiting car. " Ok Callie, I need you to take a deep breath for me. We will explain everything we know when we get to the hospital." Meredith says as she peals out of the parking lot. " What about Sofia?" Callie cried out. " Sofia isn't hurt," Meredith replied cautiously.
Callie POV
I thought that the plane ride to Seattle was the longest ride of my life but the ride from the airport to the hospital was proving me wrong. So many different scenarios were running through my mind at a rapid pace. Yes I was worried so much about my daughter. She was at the forefront of my mind the entire time from New York to Seattle. Meredith had told me that Sofia wasn't hurt. She didn't say that she was ok just that she wasn't hurt. What did that even mean? Even though I was worried about my daughter, I couldn't help but worry about Her as well. Was she ok? What the hell had happened? I couldn't bring myself to ask these questions even to Meredith who had stuck by me throughout the custody trial and everything. I looked up to see the hospital come into view. Meredith parked her vehicle right up close to the doors and I jumped out before the vehicle had even stopped. As I burst through the doors I see Bailey hurrying my way. " What happened? Where is Sofia?" I asked her. Bailey looked at me with weary eyes and replied, " Sofia is ok and is in the daycare. Please come with me and I will tell you what I know." I breathed a sigh of relief at the news that my daughter was ok but that meant that something must have happened to HER. I felt my heart start pounding uncontrollably in my chest. Even after everything that had happened and that we had been through I still loved her. How could I not? I wouldn't admit that to anyone. Hell, I could barely admit that to myself. Scared I followed Bailey into an on call room and sat down beside her. She looked at me with tears in her eyes and in a shaky voice she started her explanation," We received a call earlier about an incoming trauma with a 39 year old female with a GSW to the chest and head trauma. The police said they received a 911 call to a break in and when they arrived at the scene they found the victim lying in the front hallway near the bathroom door. They could hear someone in the bathroom and opened the door to find a six year old child. It was Sofia. Apparently, someone broke into the house while she and her mom were playing in the living room. According to Sofia, her mom pushed her in the bathroom with her cell phone and locked the door behind her. Sofia called 911 and told them someone was hurting her mom. After the police arrived and realized who the victim was they brought both her and Sofia here. We had to rush Dr. Robbins into surgery. The bullet had nicked the aortic valve and she was losing a lot of blood. We managed to get the bleeding under control and repair the valve. However, when she fell after being shot she hit her head. She had a brain bleed. Dr. Shepard was able to stop the bleed but she is in a coma and we don't know when she will wake up." Bailey explained.
All I could do was sit in stunned silence at what she had just told me. Sofia was ok because of HER quick thinking. I couldn't bring myself to even think her name. She sacrificed herself for our daughter. I couldn't believe that this had happened. Why did it happen to her? Who would do this? " Do they know who did it?" I questioned Bailey. "No," she sighed," The police are of course examining the crime scene searching for a lead." I looked at the floor trying to pull myself together. I didn't know what to feel or think. I could feel the tears running down my face and my throat burning as I struggled to keep it together. I couldn't hold it in any longer as I began to sob uncontrollably. I fell into Bailey's arms and just cried. "I want to see her," I sobbed, " I need to see her." "Sofia or Dr. Robbins?" Bailey asked cautiously. " "HER," I whispered," I need to see HER" "Ok," Bailey said" Let's go." As I followed Bailey down the hall to the ICU rooms I knew that even though I wanted more time, that was not an option. I didn't have more time. My time had run out.