Ana does not appear in this fic at all

CHAPTER ONE

Never forget-

How far you have come. Everything you have gotten through.

All the times you have pushed on even when you felt you couldn't.

All the mornings you got out of bed no matter how hard it was.

All the times you wanted to give up but you got through another day.

Never forget how much strength you have learned and developed.

The rain drizzled lightly onto the grey concrete as she jogged through the city. The grey sky, the grey buildings, the grey day; everything was grey. Rain or not she loved the early morning, the dimness of the day and crisp air were so refreshing. It prepared her for the long day of work that lay ahead of her.

She jogged up the steps into her apartment building and took the stairs instead of waiting for the lift. Walking into her apartment she stripped off her wet clothing and took her long brown wavy hair out of its pony tail and turned the shower on and waited for the bathroom to fill with steam. She stood beneath the scorching water for a few seconds before quickly washing her hair and scrubbing her body before jumping out and quickly dressing for the day. She didn't want to be late for work as there was an important board meeting that morning with the prospect of a new investor.

"Callie! Cutting it a bit fine there," the chief called out as she walked into the ER draping her stethoscope around her neck.

"Sorry sir didn't mean to," she smiled up at the older man who had been her mentor in her years as an intern.

A loud beeper went off at her hip; she glanced at her pager and looked up at the chief.

"Go, it's an emergency," he responded.

She nodded before jogging out the emergency doors into the ambulance bay to wait for the ambulance. She was joined by several other doctors shortly.

"It's a mass casualty," Eric said beside her. "Probably the worst day to have that stupid board meeting while this is happening."

Callie smiled up at Eric; they had been interns together and had been close friends since.

"I don't mind missing the meeting," she grinned rushing forward to the first of the 4 ambulances that had come screeching to a halt in front of her. The doors flew open and the paramedic started spouting out his hand over procedure.

"He's in cardiac arrest!" Callie exclaimed vaulting onto the bed and straddling the patient and started compressions as the paramedics rushed to wheel the patient into the hospital. Once they had made it into the ER Callie started calling out instructions to the doctors that rushed over to take over from the paramedics.

Callie spun towards the Chief she spotted by the desk, "page cardio now!"

Her eyes locked with piercing blue eyes of a young attractive man in a grey suit briefly before she returned her focus to the patient she was still performing CPR on.

Callie took her time scrubbing after surgery; it had been a long day. She'd lost two patients on the table after the mass casualty that morning. It was rare for her to lose patients, of course sometimes there was nothing she could do but the odds were always she had more patients with good outcomes than bad. This was just one of those days where it all seems bad.

"I lost my patient too," Eric murmured from the door way.

win some you lose some, hey?"

Eric just nodded. "Chief wants us up in the board room; looks like the meeting will be going ahead."

Callie sighed and finished up quickly before heading up to the board room with Eric.

Entering the room they took their seats with the other board members and doctors.

"Dr. chase and Dr. Crawford thank you for joining us," the chief addressed them. "Sorry about having to change the meeting times but Mr. Grey was gracious enough to return this evening for the meeting."

Callie spotted the man in the suit from that morning and immediately realised that he must be Christian Grey.

He must have noticed her staring at him as his eyes locked with hers but he never broke the eye contact and Callie ended up looking away uncomfortably.

The chief finally wound up the meeting and everyone left the board room. Callie and Eric quickly made their way to the locker room and changed out of there scrubs and got ready to head out to the bar down the road where some of their colleagues were already out celebrating a friend's birthday.

"That Christian guy was really staring at you," Eric teased.

"Yeah I know," Callie nodded, "it was totally creepy hey."

"Hey he's incredibly rich. Wouldn't be so bad if he took you out on a date would it?"

"A date? I think you're getting way ahead of yourself there buddy, he was just staring. Probably one of those sexist types who doesn't think women should be surgeons."

"Yeah sure whatever you say sweet heart," Eric grinned annoyingly at her as he pushed the door open to the bar and held it open for her.

Callie just rolled her eyes at him and made her way over to the bar and ordered a round of tequila shots to be brought over to the booth everyone was occupying.

Callie was a few shots in and now onto a double shot of rum and coke while talking to a close friend when her friend stopped mid-sentence.

"What is it?"

"Is that Christian Grey? Didn't you meet him in the board meeting? What's he like? He's so gorgeous."

Callie looked over to where her friend was looking, "oh right yeah he was in the meeting, I didn't talk to him at all. He seems kinda up tight and intense. But he is definitely good looking I'll give him that."

"Should we wave him over here?"

"No, definitely not. Chief would be furious if he knew we were drinking with him. Give the hospital a bad name and all."

"Eugh Callie live a little," Charlotte giggled standing up from her seat and sauntering towards Christian.

Callie quickly moved in to the group more so she wasn't the most obvious person in the group once Charlotte got him to join them.

Sorry for the really short chapter. I really do not like how it turned out. But I just wanted to get it up because i was sick of trying to re-write it. Please review any and all suggestions are welcome :)