This is my version of what may have happened if Arizona decided to go collect the baby herself and ended up in the Ambulance. Enjoy xx
Dark was the night
"Okay, well what about the eye?"said Arizona sighing as she shuffled through a mound of paperwork and charts infront of her. She stood at the counter of the ER, on the phone to Paramedics and everything just seemed to be going haywire. She was getting calls left, right and centre. Now she had one where a young boy had gotten his face ripped apart by a dog.
"Good. Well we'll be waiting" she replied again, putting the receiver down and pulling the ball point pen from her pocket and taking another chart from a nurse who held it out to her. She saw Avery at a glance.
"Oh! Hey Avery. We have a kid who just got half his face torn off so could you get Sloan and meet me outside?" she said quickly and smiled slightly as he nodded "And see if Sheppard's still here cause we may need him" she finished.
She began to walk off in the other direction and heard her name shouted again. She spun round on her heels to see the nurse holding out the receiver, motioning for her to come over and she quickly replied.
"Doctor Robbins? You're popular tonight" he said smiling as she took the phone from him.
"Hey, this is Robbins...right now!" she said, her voice slightly elevated as she heard the other persons words "Well where?" she asked.
A newborn was born with a Trachea Sophogial Fistula and it was severe. Especially for Bentley Hospital, they were a tiny town hospital and didn't have the equipment she thought worryingly to herself. She would have to go.
It was then she saw Sloan, Avery and Karev appear out of nowhere for the second time tonight.
"Blondie? You needed me?" he said in his Sloan smile that she used to find extremely annoying.
"Uh yeah. There's a kid coming who was mauled, face was practically ripped off"
"Ohh!" Sloan said with a shocked expression.
"I just got another call that a kid in Bentley hospital needs to be transported here for treatment, it's bad so I need to go there help her and bring her back alive" Arizona informed
"You need to go on this? Send someone else" Sloan said
"Can't. the case is pretty severe so i need to know if you can handle it without me and Alex can take my place?" she asked "Alex?" she nodded in his direction. He looked slightly taken aback but his expression soon turned to excitement.
"Yeah, sure" he commented happily.
"Okay, Good. I need to get going" she said walking off and turned back to them "Tell Callie I'll be back soon"
"Will do. Be careful"
"Always!"
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Derek, Mark Jackson and Alex had been in surgery for two hours when Owen Hunt walked in, seeing them surrounding the young boy. He walked over to get a closer look and then faced Alex.
"Karev, what are you doing in here? I thought you were on Doctor Greyson's service and instead your in on a PEDS surgery?" he asked confused
"Doctor Robbins had to travel to Bentley hospital for a newborn so she sent me in here to help these guys" Alex explained and Owen looked to Mark and Derek for confirmation.
"He's telling the truth, Robbins told him to take over for her" Mark assured Owen.
"When will Doctor Robbins be back?"
"As soon as she can. She went to the hospital herself"
Owen sighed. Doctor Greyson was complaining of a missing resident to help and he needed Robbins back soon. He picked up his cell phone and dialed Arizona's number. It rang out three times before he heard a rushed 'Hello?' on the other end.
"Doctor Robbins, where are you?"
"At Bentley. They had a newborn with a Trachea Sophogial Fistula" she told him
"Hang on, I'll put you on speaker...How's it looking?' he said, trying to gauge what was going on.
He heard Arizona sigh in frustration on the other end "She's septic. she's got pneumonia and they don't have any neo-natal stuff here at all"
"Was she like that when you got there?"
"Well, I've intubated, started an umbilical line to hang D-10 normal saline and antibiotics, but her stats aren't coming up and the oxygen was flowing into her stomach. I fed a tube and baloon down her throat to constrict the fistula and get the air flowing into her stomach" Arizona listed off her attempts and the other doctors saw Owen nodding.
"I'm taking her back in the Ambulance now. I'll call you back"
"You don't have alot of time"
"I know" said Arizona in a sharp tone and with that Owen hung up the phone.
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Arizona and the Paramedic who had accompanied her to the hospital had managed to pack up all the IV line, Oxygen tank and Saline bag and they were maneuvering the incubator into the Ambulance. Thje rain was pounding off of them, soaking them head to toe. Arizona had draped some extra blankets over the incubator.
They couldn't let the dirty rain water or freezing temperatures get to the baby or she wouldn't stand a chance. With some difficulty they hauled the incubator into the rig and the Paramedic jumped to the front and started to drive off. Owen was right, they didn't have alot of time in this weather and the time it took to get back to Seattle.
Arizona swept some soaking strands from her face and shivered as the rain water soaked her hair and scrubs. She looked down to the baby who was connected to a multitude of tubes and wired flowing in every direction.
She felt herself starting to drift off. A combination of hard, long shifts and Sofia crying during the night. Arizona didn't manage to though as she felt her phone buzzing in her pocket and the loud beeping of her ringtone ring in her ears. She quickly rifled through her pocket and pressed the button to connect the call.
"Hello?" she answered
"Robbins, where are you?" came Owen's stern voice
"I'm in the rig, we're on the way back" she said
"How's the baby?"
"Hanging on" she said with a tone of pride and admiration for the tiny human that lay before her. She was about to say something else when she felt the rig bounce a little, the engine making a choking noise and come to a complete stop. She paused as she tried to comprehend what was going on.
"Robbins?" her phone screeched, Owen trying to talk to her.
"What's going on?" she directed her voice to the young man in the front seat. He was now out of his chair and climbing out the side door while Arizona sat quietly the man reappeared seconds later by opening the back door and reaching in to grab a handful of orange, fluorescent cones.
"What's going on?" Arizona repeated louder tha before. The man looked up at her with a worried gaze.
"The rig broke down and I'm going to put out these cones and we'll have to hope to God someone sees us"
"It broke down!" she yelled in anger
"We need to get out of the rig" he said and Arizona gazed at him opened-mouthed
"We can't move, we're sitting ducks and I can't take the baby out in these conditions, she'll die" the blonde surgeon protested
"We have to! If a vehicle hits the rig it will go up like a Roman candle, the thing is filled with Oxygen tanks" the man stressed.
"Robbins!" she heard the muffled sound of Owen shout at her through the phone "Are you there?"
She sighed and pulled the phone closer so she could talk to them "The Ambulance broke down"
"Seriously?" she heard Alex say in surprise
"Yeah! The guy's telling us to get out but I can't take the kid out. She'll die"
"Leave the phone. Get a helicopter" Arizona heard Derek order someone.
"Arizona?" said Owen in a desperate bid for her to listen "You have to get out before you get hit"
"I can't regulate-"
"What?"
"I can't regulate her temp if she isn't in the incubator"
"She may have to leave the kid" she heard Mark mutter solemnly and she felt a surge of anger and over-protectiveness consume her.
"I am not leaving this kid!" she yelled bitterly
"You're sitting in a powder keg!" he yelled back at her through the phone.
Suddenly the Paramedic came back and opened the doors again "Time to go!" he said breathlessly and Arizona nodded reluctantly. Arizona put her phone down and grabbed a grey blanket, she lifted the baby into her arms and gave her to the man. They didn't have any other choice.
"I'm gonna disconnect the tubes while you hold the baby" Arizona explained and the man nodded obediently. She started removing the wires and grabbed the IV bags before stepping out of the rig carefully. They reached about ten meters away when Arizona realised she'd forgotten her phone. She might need it to contact someone.
"Damn it! I left my phone in the rig, I'll be right back" she said slowly handing the drips to the man. She ran back to the rig and stepped into it. Where had she left the phone? it was then she saw it sitting idly by the seat at the front. She stepped over to it andchecked it, the call was still running.
"Hello?" she said quickly
"You still in the rig?" she heard Mark's pissed off voice say to her.
"Just came back for the phone. Leaving now" she asured them. Before she could stand up she felt floor, the walls, everything shake violently. Shock instilled in her as she was flung backwards onto the floor, her head smashing off the metal and for a second everything was completely quiet. Then all she felt was a white hot pain seering through her whole body before she blacked out.
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Everyone remained still as they heard shuffling and scraping against metal on the other side of the phone, and then there was a pause.
"Hello?" came a lone female voice.
Mark perked his eyebrows in slight anger and surprise at his recognition of the voice "You still in the rig?" he shot into the phone.
He heard a small laugh of nervousness "Just came back for the phone. Leaving now"
Almost directly after she answered there was a loud banging noise, and then a series of them volleyed together in the span of a few seconds before the phone began to ring out, the connection severed. After staying silent for a couple more seconds the phone began it's mundane beeping.
"Robbins?' they heard Mark whisper almost inaudibly. There was no reply, from Arizona or any of them. Too afraid to speak or say what they all were thinking or imagining.
"Doctor Avery, I want you to take Doctor Sloan's place. The hard parts done, we'll talk you through the rest" Derek said calmly as he eyed Mark with concern. Instead of protesting that he was fine Mark simply stood up, ripped off the latex gloves and shoved them on the instrument tray before stalking out. Owen followed him, hot on his heels. Alex stared at the phone with blank eyes and Jackson slowly put on gloves and took Mark's place at the operating table.
Owen watched as Mark walked into an on-call room and slammed the door shut with a bang. Owen was walking to it when Bailey and Weber appeared with a look of bewilderment written on her face.
"What the hell was that?" Bailey huffed and gave Owen a 'explain this now' look.
Owen sighed before talking, needing a second to speak "Doctor Robbins was in an Ambulance that broke down. She had a kid in it but they managed to take her out but she wen't back for her phone. We heard a loud noise like an exlosion and then the call disconnected"
At the story Bailey's face instantly dropped. Owen knew her and the perky PEDS surgeon were friendly. Weber looked like he a downtrdden puppy but there was still a look of anticipation.
"Are you sure anything happened to her? Have you tried calling her back?" he questioned and Owen shook his head as to further explain his point.
Bailey put her hand up " We...we dont even know if anything is wrong. I mean let's not jump to conclusions"
"I'm not, I just mean it didn't sound good" Owen replied before turning to Weber.
"Doctor Weber, can you call dispatch and tell them to send another Ambulance as soon as possible. Tell them there may have been an incident?"
Weber nodded and walked off while Owen kept on walking to the on-call room. He didn't know what to do from here. He was worried about his friend too, but right now he needed to talk to Mark.