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Sorry it's been a day or two. Got lazy. And I think my chapters keep getting longer. Anyway. Several of these next chapters (including this one.) will be something of filler chapters. They are just going to be spending time meeting people and stuff. I have some conflicts planned to come up. Some secrets to be learned. Anyway, I'm rambling so enjoy this chapter.

Chapter 7 coming soon. Meeting everyone else, next chapter and the one after that too. Hope you like it.

Chapter 6

The car ride to the hospital was silent. Once they got there, Callie was all business.

"Ok, so you're going to stay here in the cafeteria. There's a table in that corner that's out of the way, sit there and do your thing. You all have stuff to do with you right?"

They all nodded. Catalina rolled her eyes, and pointed to each of their backpacks. She had gotten over the going to work with Callie thing earlier. She'd thought about it and realized that Callie was right, at this point in time. But next time, she really was going to fight it.

Callie chose to ignore the attitude and continued.

"Don't bother anyone, and if you get hungry, use the money I gave you. Oh and the bathroom is right over there." She pointed.

"I'll be off as soon as I can. At the latest, it'll be 9, and at the earliest it'll be 5. A big gap, I know, but I promise I will try to get off as soon as possible. "

"I might be off first. If I am, we can go somewhere until Calliope is done." Arizona added in.

Catalina jumped in, "ok, we'll be fine. You guys can go and stop worrying. Nothing's going to happen, and if it does, well…we're already surrounded by doctors so…"

"Ok" Callie said smiling. She knew Catalina had forgiven her for the moment. "I guess I'll go."

Each of the kids received a hug and a kiss from their aunt as Arizona stood back a bit, not sure if they would feel comfortable yet. Miguel and Rico, however, came up and gave her a hug themselves. Catalina just offered a warm smile and a wave.

As they walked off to get into their scrubs. Callie said, "Sorry, Zona, I know I seem like I'm paranoid, but…"

Arizona grabbed her hand and said, "I don't think you're paranoid. It makes sense, since they lived with you for so long before. They're like your own kids, and I get that. I think it's sweet."

Callie smiled, as they disappeared into the room. "I love you."

"I know, like I've said before: it's because I'm right, and I'm awesome."

They both laughed as the door shut behind them.

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Back in the Cafeteria, the kids were setting up their "station."

Catalina pulled out her laptop (a birthday present from her grandpa), her iPod (paid for by babysitting money), a book, and her sketch pad and pencil set (another birthday present, but from her dad).

Miguel brought out his pack of cards and book of magic tricks (a present from Callie), his joke book (courtesy of his dad), a regular book (insisted upon by Callie), and his Nintendo DS (one of the many presents from his grandpa).

Rico brought out Hoppy (of course), a coloring book plus crayons, his cars (always ideal), a book (he liked to pick out the words he knew), and his own Nintendo DS (another gift from the oh-so-powerful grandpa).

All of this stuff was set up in a way that they didn't get in each other's way.

Catalina sat on one side of the table, and Miguel and Rico sat on the other side. She pulled out her laptop and discovered free wireless net. This was going to work out in her favor after all.

As their sister emailed her friends, Miguel and Rico were playing with the cards. Well, more like, Miguel was testing his card tricks on Rico. It was fun because Rico was stunned by every little card trick and never noticed mistakes. Catalina, on the other hand, would act uninterested and point out every little mistake he made.

After 2 hours had passed, Callie came to check on them. After a little chat, her pager had gone off and she had to rush off to the OR.

Not long after the first visit Catalina put up her lap top and began sketching. There was a middle aged man with a young woman that she began to draw. She always started with the bodies for some reason and did the face last. A lot of people would start with the face first, but not Catalina. She always focused on details last.

Just as she started on the faces, she looked up and they were gone. "Dang" she said.

"Looking for me?" came an arrogant voice.

Catalina looked up to find the man and woman had snuck up on her without her noticing.

"Uh"

"Spill it. Why do you keep looking at us?" the man asked.

Catalina gulped. The man was cute, hot even, but he was intimidating too.

"I uh…"

"She was drawing you" Rico said looking up from his cars. "Lina's a…a…" he paused as he searched for the word.

"Artist" Miguel finished for him, looking up from his latest card trick. "The word is artist."

"Ok guys, I can speak for myself." Catalina shot at the boys.

Miguel just gave her a look and shrugged. He didn't talk much anyway, so it didn't bother him that she didn't want any help. He just went back to perfecting his card trick.

"Sorry, I guess I should have asked." Catalina said, turning red.

"It's ok" the lady said. "We were just curious. We didn't mean to scare you."

"I did" said the man.

"Mark!"

"What Lexie? I was just having some fun." Mark said.

"Don't be mean." Lexie said.

"Anyway" he rolled his eyes. "I'm Mark Sloane, and this is Lexie Grey."

A pager went off.

"Sorry, gotta go." Lexie sped off with a kiss on the cheek for Mark and an apologetic wave to the kids.

"Well ok then…" Mark continued. "Can I see what you've drawn?"

"I don't see why not." Catalina said, her confidence, coming back to her.

"This is really good." Mark said studying the picture. His eyebrow came up "But I don't have a head."

"I was about to do the head when you moved." Catalina explained matter of factly.

""mmmhhhhmmmmmm" he said studying the other pictures. There was one particular picture he stopped at, and once again raised his eyebrow. "Aren't you a little young to—"

He was cut off as Catalina snatched the sketch pad away. "No one's supposed to see that" she said blushing.

Normally Mark would have taken the opportunity to tease the girl, but he didn't know her well enough, so instead he changed the subject.

"So what are you doing here? It can't be for an emergency otherwise you wouldn't have brought all this stuff. If you were visiting someone, you'd have left most of your stuff in the room, so you must be waiting for someone."

Rico took this opportunity to jump in, since he'd been silenced earlier.

"We're waiting for our aunt. Or her…Lina, what is she?"

"What he means is we're waiting for our aunt or her girlfriend. At least I think she's her girlfriend…I forgot to ask. Anyway, it's whoever gets off first we go with."

"And who's your aunt?"

"Why should I—" Catalina started when she was interrupted.

"Hey Mark. I've been looking for you. I need a consult for a kid with a—" Arizona paused. "Oh, hey you guys. Calliope says she's going to be late getting off so it looks like you're stuck with me again tonight." She said with a cheerful smile.

"Wait? This is your aunt?" Mark said looking back and forth between the kids and Arizona.

"No, silly." Rico said. "She's Arizona."

"Callie's their aunt." Arizona said. "And how do you know these three?"

I-I don't. We just met."

"Ok then, well I really need you for this kid. Sorry to take Mark from you Catalina, but it's really important."

Catalina nodded. "It's ok" she said, as she offered a smile.

"Thanks. Come on man whore." Arizona said as she dragged a stunned Mark off to the patient she was seeing to.

Catalina watched them leave with a puzzled look and Rico asked "what's a man whore?"

"umm…" Catalina said and proceeded to stumble through an explanation a five year-old would understand without having to explain too much.

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After the man whore incident, Catalina and the boys got some lunch. In line some lady started talking to her about her feelings and stuff. Something about practicing girl…

As far as Catalina was concerned so far, this hospital was really weird.