Title: Beautiful Siren
Author: MsCrazybird
Pairing: Callie/Arizona
Rating: PG-13
Summary: A/U Callie is a siren that has lived many years; unhappy with the way her existence has no change in it, until she meets a stranger. But what is she?
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A/N: Okay you are given permission to hate me for the long wait I am sorry! Geez…but hopefully the fact that I will have a second update for you moro makes up for it? Much points if you can figure out what AZ is!
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Luckily Arizona did not arrive too late to work as no one seemed to notice. She walked onto the peds floor feeling a little upset at not getting to spend more time with the mysterious beauty on the beach, but tried to quickly dispel those thoughts as she had to focus on the sick tiny humans on her floor.
A promising resident named Alex walked up to her handing her a chart and began speaking before she was even two steps out of the elevator. "Kasey Dale; she has stage IV gastric cancer and has been getting treated since age two when it was found early on. The cancer is aggressive and has came back twice before this. Last doctor gave her 5 months."
At this Arizona stops her flipping through the chart and walking at once to turn to the younger man. "Then why are they bringing her to me?" she questions the resident.
"Hope." He shrugs simply. Arizona's expression is still questioning, but quickly she replaces it with a smile as the two near the room with the sick child.
"Hey there." She smiles at the occupants of the room moving closer to the bed which held the small girl. "Aren't you pretty?" Arizona smiles down at the young girl. "I'm Arizona Robbins what's your name?"
The little girl is silent as she looks up at the smiling doctor beside her bed with huge sad eyes that breaks the doctor's heart. The mother who is sitting on the opposite side of the bed answers for her daughter. "This is Kasey she's a little shy don't take it personal."
Arizona simply beams down at the girl. "It's okay to be shy, but I promise I'm a great friend" she speaks to the little girl perkily as she bends down slightly to be more at eye level. "And I can just tell that you would be a great friend." She smiles revealing her dimples to the little girl which causes the little girl to smile up at her with her own small smile.
Straightening up she looks over to the parents that sit on the opposite side of the hospital bed that their fragile daughter lies upon. She gives them a soft smile before speaking, "Now I understand that you have already spoken to another doctor." At this the parents nod their head in the affirmative. "My only question is what it is you want me to do because I took a look at those scans and I don't see much that I can really do." She gives them a sympathetic look.
"We know how bad it is; we know, but she is our daughter she has been fighting this since she was two she wasn't supposed to make it, but she is 5 now. All we ask is that you help her fight doctor." The mother answers in earnest standing and stroking her daughter's cheek tenderly before looking back up into the blonde surgeon's eyes tears within her own.
"I understand that, but there is not much that I can control." She looks at the others.
"We know that just can't you try? Please we heard about a surgical option; we did our research and you are the best that is within distance to us; we know the risks Dr. Robbins."
Arizona sighs silently. "I can look at her scans," a look of hope and smiles start to appear on the parents face, "But," slowly the looks fall reverting back to the sober look that had been there previously, "I can't promise that there is anything that I will be able to do." Kasey's parents nod as all sets of eyes turn to the now sleeping girl in the hospital bed.
"I'll send someone up for scans." Arizona whispers quietly as her and Alex silently slip out of the room giving the parents their time with their daughter.
[Bleep]
Arizona sat in her office the contents of Kasey's chart spread out in front of her along with the scans that had just arrived a few minutes ago. She is stuck not really believing what she is seeing. The tumor had grown exponentially in the last two months that she has been out of the hospital. From what she can see she would estimate that the child only has about a month left. Thinking this brings tears to her eyes. The girl went from an expectancy of four more months to just one.
She swallows the lump in her throat and clears her mind looking at the scans. Her mind works through the many possibilities of treatment that she could try and take, but none of which would seemingly have a good outcome. If she goes in there the girl may not live through the surgery with how weak her fragile body is. There is just so much affected that even if she could there would be so much to take out and work through.
The blonde surgeon is brought out of her thoughts by Alex poking his head into her office. "Kasey just crashed," Arizona stood quickly, "We brought her back," at the sound of this Arizona's posture relaxes instead she begins to shuffle the scans and other papers into the child's chart, "If we are going to do something about her we need to do it soon." he states with all the confidence in the world as he looks at his boss expectantly.
She sighs. She knew that if she was going to act she would have to act fast, but she wanted to at least have a day if not a week to think about this and consult other doctors who would be a big help in a case like this. Instead she is left with a girl that might not even make it to the end of the week. She shakes her head at her diagnosis of another month, thinking about the parents that are sitting attentively with their ailing daughter.
She tried to dispel the morbid thoughts from her head as she plastered on her signature smile on her face and entered Kasey's room. The only sound that greeted her was the sound of the heart monitors beeping: proof that the young girl was indeed alive. She clears her throat quietly in order to get the attention of the parents in the room whom sit in silence watching as their only daughter lay in a bed that dwarfs her. Two pairs of sad eyes meet the surgeons gaze at the sound of her clearing her throat and she directs them to follow her outside of the room which they do without complaint.
The solemn look on their daughters face is enough to let them know that the news coming is neither going to be pleasant nor what they want to hear. Kasey's mother blinks back her tears setting her shoulders preparing herself for the inevitable as her husband and her turns to face their daughters last hope; hope that seems to be slipping away before their eyes along with their little girl.
Arizona sighs not seeing an easy way to break the news that there is nothing she can do for these parents' daughter. Before she can open her mouth however Kasey's mother begins to speak. "I know what you are going to say; you are going to tell us that there is nothing that you can do, that the only thing that we can hope to do is make our daughter as comfortable as possible. We have heard it before Doctor, but we came here because you are our daughter's only chance. We don't want to have to make her 'comfortable' before she goes; we need to fight as hard as she has fought her whole life. All we ask is that you try; just please try." Her mother pleads to the blonde woman.
"The risks of me going into surgery are far greater…" This time her words are cut off by Kasey's father who has up until now been silently listening.
"We know the risks; we have done countless amounts of research, but we would rather continue to fight then let her slip away right before us." His voice is calm and his eyes are set in a determined stare at the woman that has the potential to give his daughter more time if nothing else.
"Look I understand that you are hurting, but I can't guarantee anything if we do go in. You know as well as I do that a number of things can go wrong." She looked at them trying to convey her seriousness to them. She did not like to give up hope she wanted to fight, but she wanted these parents to realize that even if she did try it may not work.
Kasey's father sighed looking through the window at his sleeping daughter speaking softly to the doctor as his eyes stayed trained on his little girl, "We do know that, but can you even guarantee that she will make it through the night?" the look on the blonde surgeon's face is all he needs for confirmation that there was not, "exactly, we know that we are asking a lot of you doctor, but our sick daughter deserves to be fighting until the end." Finally he turns to the woman his face a mask of determination.
She can not help but nod. They believe in this, however hopeless it may seem; and that helps give her the hope that she needs. "Okay let me just talk to my superior and see where we stand, but I am willing to help Kasey to fight." Her shoulders are set and a spark of determination is in her eyes as she says this before quickly heading off to find Karev and go see the chief.
[Bleep]
"It's bad!" his voice is low but it sounds like yelling in the quiet OR either way.
"We knew it was bad going in to it Karev." Arizona grinds out the words as she too takes in the small girl in front of her.
"But it is worse than what we anticipated."
"I can see that! Let just get was much as we can and get out." She hurriedly starts to move her hands around trying to find the perfect place to start; finally she dives right in hoping beyond hope that this little girl will be able to make it: that she will be able to give this girl more time at the very least.
Sweat drips down her brow as the scrunch in concentration looking into the girls open abdomen. It has been five hours; the girl really is a fighter and that has the hope in her chest growing with each strong beat of her heart.
The swell of hope seems to be short lived as the machines in the room start to sound their distinct sounds, piercing the quiet with their horrendous wails. "Stats are dropping rapidly" the voice of Kerev calls over the loud noise in the room before he turns to the people in the room barking out orders like a pro, which Arizona can not help but feel a bit of pride in.
"Going into cardiac arrest doctors." A nameless face calls to them and the ever prevalent sound of the machine flat line takes over the room.
"Damn it." It's said under her breath as Arizona feels the life actually slipping out of the child underneath her hands. "Starting chest compressions!" she calls out to the room hoping to keep the little girl here; she was doing so well.
"Charge to 100" Karev's voice is loud as he calls it out the hum of electricity soon filling in after his voice, "Clear!" her hands move away quickly with practiced ease. The sound on the heart rate only briefly change before it is back.
Her hands are again on the girl's chest trying to get the girl to come back. Again she has the feeling of the girl's life slipping through her very hands. "Come on"
Her hands are moved again as another and another current of electricity are shot through the girls fragile body, but both have the same effects as the first and the sound of the continuous beep on the heart monitor fills the quiet room, but she can not just let go. She can not feel that life slipping away through her hands like that and do nothing. Again her hands are on the girl's chest ignoring the sound of her name getting called. She can feel it if only she can push it back; will that life back into the girl's body.
For a moment she can swear that she actually sees the girl's soul slipping away from the shell of her body, but she shakes her head quickly dispelling that idea. That life she can still feel as it slowly seeps through her hands, but she will not let it go. She can not! She wills for that feeling of her soul leaving to stop and the life to return to the girl's body back with her family back where it belongs.
The beep, beep, of the heart monitor sounds through the fog of her brain, but only for a moment until her world is turned black.
Gasp! What who where when why?
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