I didn't say in the last chapter, this will include events in the months between the finale and the première as well, not just the day of the shooting, and I've changed my mind, there will be some kind of order to it. They're still oneshots, but they'll be in chronological order.

WARNING: Some spoilers for the finale deleted scenes in this.

Callie fell onto the bench as she hung up the phone. Her father kept calling her, and she couldn't blame him. It would have been all over the news. He was worried. If she didn't answer he'd probably end up flying out.

He'd just begged her to go home, back to where she grew up, just so he'd know she was safe.

She sighed as she felt someone sit down beside her and looked up, giving Arizona a weak smile.

"Ruby's doing great."

She listened to the update she was being given for the girl they had been forced to operate on in a patient room while she was awake. The child she'd had to sing to in order to stop her fighting against them as they tried to save her life. She'd never forget the fear on that girls face when she realised what was happening.

Everyone was saying it was over now, as if the words would comfort them, but they all knew the reality: It was only just beginning.

People were dead. Reed, Charles, nurses that they'd been working with for years, security guards, people that went to work that morning expecting to be returning home. Mark had told her about Lexie having a breakdown in the ambulance, about Teddy having no choice but to make her leave. There were critical victims who may still die.

It was the beginning. The long uphill road to recovery had started.

"It doesn't seem real." It was the first thing she had said since her girlfriend had sat beside her. "Things like this, they don't happen in hospitals. Hospitals are safe."

Arizona didn't answer. What could she say? She could agree, but that wouldn't change the fact that it did happen. She could ignore it and change the subject, but that wouldn't help.

She dropped her head onto Callie's shoulder. "I know." She paused. "I'm used to looking on the bright side, but, I can't see one, and when I try to see it as the thing that brought us back together, I just feel even worse because people lost their lives today, and our relationship is not more important than that."

They were interrupted by the sound of a ringing phone.

Callie automatically brought it to her ear, failing to check who was calling.

"Dad, I'm fin..." She cut off, feeling Arizona lift her head as she did. "Addison?"

"No one's answering their phones." She listened as the redhead gave her some panicked rant. "It's all over the news and then they say that the situation is under control but no one answers their phones. Are they okay?"

"Addie." Callie sighed, leaning her head back on the wall in exhaustion. "Things are just crazy right now. I, I didn't think to call anyone."

"I know." Addison confirmed. " I couldn't just not call you though, they said people are dead and I need to know Callie. I'm not there, that doesn't stop me caring. I need to know that they're okay."

"Um." Callie hesitated. "Marks fine, so's Bailey, um, and Meredith."

"And?"

"I haven't seen everyone." Callie tried. "I just don't know."

"Callie, what about Derek?"

"He, um." She hesitated. "I don't even know if it's true."

"Callie!"

"There's a rumour." She paused again, wondering how she should break this news. "That he got shot and Yang had to fly solo in the OR to save him."

"Oh God."

They both fell silent.

Arizona reached out a hand and gently took the phone, putting it to her own ear.

"Chief Shepherd's okay. He got shot, but he's okay for now." She glanced over to see the questions in Callie's eyes. "I checked with Yang before I came out."

"Amelia." The voice on the line sounded a little further away. "He's okay. He got shot but they say he should be fine."

"He got shot!" The voice was in the background. " He can't get shot. Our dad got shot. He can't." A pause. "Have they told mom?" The voice trailed off but came back stronger than ever. "I can't believe he got himself shot. He is such an ass!"

I'm going to admit right here and now that I don't watch Private Practice. I used to, but somewhere along the line I just stopped and never caught up, so all I know of Amelia is from "Superfreak."