Disclaimer: This is AU. I do not own any of the characters from Grey's Anatomy, this is purely imaginative writing most of the contents might not be true or match with how things work in reality bear with me this is just an imaginative work.

A|N: These updates might be a little slow because I want to get the proper way things happen with this kind of stalkers and how they react to different situations.

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Chapter 7

When the human mind has been put through the ringer a couple things happen, sometimes the knee jerk reaction is panic, fear and occasionally anger considering what situation one has been put in, and sometimes all the feelings flood in together; now that's where the tricky part starts.

Callie had figured that the man who Hanna had been talking about for the past week wasn't in any way imaginary, it was the man she had recently started to fear; the same man who had tormented the life of another person for 5 years, she is just a little girl—how heartless can someone be to take a little girl from her place of comfort but why?

Why would he take Hanna for what reason would he do that, she was the one he had a problem with, she was the one who couldn't keep her feelings in check and had to tell Arizona about everything, she was the one who called Derek and set up a whole team to chase down this animal—so why take a little girl who knows nothing about anything—oh, Hanna how scared she would be. This animal had taken enough from every one, he had taken something from Arizona might not have been physical but he did; and now taking this little girl to who knows where she would be scared and alone. What was she supposed to do about this?

Tyre skid marks on the preschool pavement where Callie pulled over, barely made it all the way to park the car she raced out from behind the steering towards where Hanna always used to wait for her every day she picked her up, she walked over to Louise who was keeping the kids in line, Callie's eyes scanned the little cute line with kids and their animated little bags, lunch boxes, and hair ribbons—she didn't see that little freckled girl with a pink backpack, and a huge bow wrapping her auburn hair into a ponytail, she had her lady and the tramp socks on pulled to her knee and Callie couldn't find her, she couldn't find her in the long line of kids and that's when the panic and fear started to set in—she rushed over to Louise,

"Where's Hanna" she started peeking at every angle waiting, expecting a little red head with a smile like sun shine to come crashing into her and telling her everything about her day

"Mark came to pick her up, I remember you said 4 people can come and pick her up; miss Altman, Mr. Sloan, Miss Grey and you and of course I recognize her mother" the lady said with a smile

"Can you describe Mark please" Fear; the most common mental reaction when the feeling that something that you might have done has come back with a list of consequences, Charles had told her that she shouldn't have—she could have argued it out with Derek but she wanted so much to make Andrew angry and now he has Hanna and she was devastated, this was her fault

"Roughly 5"11 and he had blonde hair—very distinctive eyes, charming young man" Louise said with a smile yet again like she hadn't just slammed Callie with the worst news in her life

"Mark Sloan is over 6 feet tall, brown hair and doesn't have distinctive eyes Louise, Call 911….call 911 NOW!" the average height lady was startled at the sudden change in Callie's behavior grabbed her cell phone and started dialing. Callie had her hands on her head and pacing the lot, she called Derek and everyone she could dial in her current state of utter fear and confusion. She took her sit right on the pavement her hands wiping the tears threatening to fall.

Cars with sirens filled the yard of the preschool in no time and to avoid the scene the remaining kids in the school were taken indoors to keep them from being scared, "What happened? How long did this happen?" Derek stormed out of the car towards a tear stained Callie

"I don't know, I got here a couple minutes ago—she's gone Derek…my little …he took her Derek…damn you Derek…he took her!" Callie yelled at Derek

"Damn me?—are you kidding me? This is both our faults you knew better and you told her anyway so don't you dare blame me for this" Derek snapped back at her… Anger; that is the part where you try to blame the reason for the consequences on everything but yourself and that was all Callie could do since it would hurt more to think she caused everything

"She's a little girl Derek…she's barely old enough to dress herself—I'm not letting him take her innocence" Callie said with tears and a shuddering voice

"We will find her I swear" Derek tried to place a soothing hand on her shoulder but she brushed his hand off sharply, "it's easy for you to blame me like you weren't aching to tell her too, if this had gone right you wouldn't be blaming me" Derek yelled

"You better damn well to God find her" Callie snapped at Derek and walked into her car, taking the same energy and anger she pulled over with to pull out of the lot and onto the Seattle streets to find out anything she could about Andrew

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Arizona stood in the shower for hours just under the warm shower, for some reason that offered a level of clarity and comfort, she had been in there all day under the pouring warmness; she had nowhere to go and the aftermath of the day before still flashed across her mind when her eyes were shut, she couldn't help that she had lost the feeling of privacy. She sat in the shower with her legs pulled to her chest and her hands holding them in place and her head leaning against the wall; the shower had become her panic room and with the water running, her gentle sobs weren't loud enough for their ears to pick up.

Reed stood in front of the bathroom door hugging a coffee mug staring at the door with her red hair scattered on her head, Lexie approached her,

"Are you going to go in someday?" Lexie asked wondering exactly what she was staring at

"She is in there" Reed replied still staring at the door, wondering how she would react if she busted in through the door and invaded her privacy, that's wouldn't go very well considering she was still fragile from the last incident

"Still?—well, I don't blame her I would want to wash away my flesh too if I found out all that she found out yesterday" Lexie said with a little empathy in her voice, "She'll run out of hot water soon enough"

"It wouldn't matter she would still be in there" Charles and George walked into the apartment with breakfast,

"Hey, Derek called in last night and said something happened to Callie's daughter—I didn't get the message he was yelling" Charles sat down in front of the monitor tapping different things in, "where's the Asian freak?" Charles asked

"She's not here yet" Reed said rubbing her eyes of the fatigue, she hadn't really had time to shower since Arizona came in the previous day

Callie and Derek walked into the apartment with anger in their eyes and Callie still dressed in her clothes from the day before, she had called Teddy and Addison and told them what happened, Addison said she would be on the next flight to Seattle and Callie had never felt to irresponsible in her life, even Bailey was coming around because this wasn't just anything—a kid was missing; her kid—well, she was just as good her kid anyway.

"What do you have, please tell me we have something" Callie stood over Charles in front of the computer

"Yes we do, actually we have a lot but they are in pieces and I think that we might need the other one here, I don't know how well you're thinking" Charles said

"Charles! Just show me the damn thing…show me!" Callie yelled looking around hoping she didn't startle Arizona considering she didn't notice her when she walked into the room, "where is Arizona" Reed pointed towards the bathroom door

"We didn't find anything on his sister or a female figure he adored that looked anything like Arizona, the only person we found was his ex-girlfriend" Lexie said, looking from Reed to Charles waiting for their approval for her to continue, "We did find something about his ex-girlfriend"

"Okay?—show me her picture" Charles pulled up an image of Andrew's ex-girlfriend and Callie was confused completely, seeing as the person looked nothing like Arizona; this person was a brunette, and grey eyes and wasn't at all as tall as Arizona, "I don't understand, what am I looking at?"

"This is why he is so obsessed with Arizona" Callie immediately looked toward the bathroom thinking a blonde head would pop out to this conversation they were having

"She's not going to come out" Reed said, they all looked towards the monitor again and Charles continued

"Arizona has a military background so does she, she has a dead brother so did this girl, they both work with kids, they have something similar about their past" Charles clarified

"So?—but they look nothing alike, isn't obsession always physical, they always have something physically similar" Callie added

"Not this time" Cristina said from the door with her coat hanging from her forearm, she walked into the room and like everyone else scanned the room for Arizona and like Reed has been doing all day pointed to the bathroom, "he is cloning his ex; this thing he has for Arizona isn't just superficial"

"I broke that connection—that's why he's no longer rational, this obsession was pure to him; he made a compromise he was willing to love her just that way he wouldn't change a thing, I remember him saying her features were porcelain –he loved that she was different and oblivious" Callie said with a burst of understanding

"I don't understand at all, I'm trying to understand but I can't" Derek said from the couch—Cristina sighed and fell on to a stool tired of everything being explained twice, "Just gadamn explain okay?"

"Pure obsession; thinking they are in love, thinking they are married—he followed her for 5 years and never made an attempt, he idolizes her but now that its tainted by the fact that she knows, he is going to want to change her" Callie said but her words were still met by confused stares and mumbles

"Change her? What do you mean?" Lexie asked

"He'll bleach her hair, give her colored contacts, chain her in a basement—orchestrate a freaking wedding and do whatever it is freaks do to their victims" Cristina finally busted out in frustration

The room fell quiet for a while when they finally heard the bathroom door close and Arizona walked out of the room and with swollen lids and red eyes; she had obviously had enough time to think about everything that had happened and felt worse, everyone stared at her like she was a glass trophy, they were all talking to each other about her but never to her which was making everything worse for her, "I heard everything okay? You don't need to keep acting like I didn't" Arizona said quietly

"Are you okay?" Callie asked her out of the silence

"Hungry—but I am fine" they all tried to act like that little interaction was enough to cover all the weirdness that had obviously formed a cloud in the air, "How…how safe is this place"

"Very safe" Lexie replied while Reed made a fast one to the bathroom to shower, Charles got up and out of the apartment to get her food while Cristina just minded her own business with her large books, and Derek walked out trying to avoid everything as a whole.

"Are you okay?—you can talk to me" Callie said to the blonde

"Can I?—I don't know what to say or do, I feel exposed; I feel like…everything about this is wrong Callie, I have had fair share of crazy and now this?" Arizona said with obvious hurt, this wasn't something she had ever been through and she didn't know how to exactly fake that smile; she could scream that she was fine but she definitely couldn't smile and pretend

"I'm sorry—that everything is happening to you, I'm so sorry Arizona" she nodded stared at Callie for a while and could see the same stress she saw in the mirror not too long ago on her face, she was the one being obsessed about but she wasn't the only victim

"I'm sorry about your little girl" Arizona said compassionate of her dilemma, "I sat in the bathroom because it's the only environment I can control…I can see everywhere, no one is staring while I'm not looking"

"Thanks, and I'm sorry that you're in this insane web too" Arizona smiled but Callie really couldn't smile or show any shred of glee, her little girl was missing and Addison was minutes away from Seattle to ask her how the hell that happened.

"We'll find her—Derek and his gang of…" she gestured towards Lexie and Cristina, "They will find her"

"Thank you—we will get him I promise, that feeling of being safe? You'll feel that again if it's the last thing Derek and his gang of…." She grabbed Arizona's arm and squeezed, even if she couldn't say all the words least she could do that.

Their silence was interrupted by her cell phone; she checked the caller and saw that it was Addison, "I have to go and explain to my best friend how I lost her daughter" Callie got up and approached the door and down to walked out down to her car and straight to the practice where Addison was waiting just to yell at her.

Immediately Callie entered her eyes met with Addison's with Teddy standing right beside her, some men in uniform were having a conversation with her and they had pictures of Hanna with them, Addison with her mascara stained eyes and wet face from the tears finally spotted Callie and dashed towards her and grabbed the lapel of Callie's jacket and held on tight, Callie could literally feel her nails dig into her neck but that wasn't all she was feeling; her best friend's daughter was missing and it was her fault all she could do was be the punching bag for all that loose emotion. Mark has his stern face while talking to the police—he was holding lots of her pictures in his hands

"What happened" Addison's voice was low and almost sad, this guy has found a way to include the people in her life into this even though they didn't even know him; she wanted him to feel bad, scared but now he had her knee-deep into her own medicine

"Addison I didn't… I didn't know he was going to make such a move like that" she didn't know what to say, for a therapist this was an unfamiliar territory; not having a reply for a question that could calm her friend, Callie was speechless with Bailey and Teddy's eyes trained on her, just waiting for something out of her; an explanation, a soothing speech but she had nothing…absolutely nothing.

"Weren't you watching her?—why didn't you pick her up?" Addison yelled still holding on to Callie tightly

"I'm sorry Addie, I'm seriously sorry" she pulled her into a hug but Addison never really returned the hug she was tense, "I'm so sorry I promise that I will find her"

"I swear Callie you better find her!" Addison stormed off and things were starting to crumble thanks to one man, one man had the buttons to push to make her regret opening her mouth to tell Arizona, if she had handed it off to Grey when she had the case would Arizona's life be in danger? Or the same.

She looked down at her buzzing phone and saw that Arizona was calling her from her home phone which was weird considering she was scared to leave the apartment to get breakfast, she had Charles for that; so why would she leave then and go home where she wasn't all that safe,

"Arizona! Are you okay?" Callie answered

"She'll be fine when she comes back to me" a vile cold voice said from the other end of the line, it was low, calm but deep all together

"Andrew—where the hell is Hanna" Callie asked loudly and immediately lowering her voice when she noticed all the eyes on her

"You have something that belongs to me and I have something that belongs to you, I want mine back just as much as you want yours" Andrew replied

"I have nothing of yours with me" Callie said panicking

"Go back to the apartment and have your team think it over and I will call when you have what's mine ready for me" Andrew replied and the line went dead, this was her chance to get Hanna back but giving Arizona to this creep in return; in the battle of choosing between the one you love and the other thing you choose the person that you love, but if they are both what you love. How does that work out then?

She took another drive to the apartment and saw Arizona more involved with the team, she was bending over the desk staring at something Lexie was doing on the monitor, and Callie felt sick to her stomach; she called Percy over and smiled at Arizona…"something came up and I think this is not what we expected"

"What are you talking about?" Charles questioned

"Uhhm…well—uhhm…Andrew wants Arizona to swap for my…for Hanna" Callie said with shaky breath, they were whispering but it didn't take a genius to know something was wrong with the way Callie was pale and sweaty. Derek walked into the apartment with Addison who brushed pass Callie and sat down on a stray stool,

"Showing Ms. Montgomery that we're taking extra measures to find Hanna" Callie's phone started buzzing just the right time to make everyone stare at her, "You're going to answer that?" Derek asked

"It's nothing" Callie replied

"It's Andrew and he has a proposition for Callie" Charles spoke up without hesitation because he knew Callie had another thing thought up

"Wait—what? What do you mean a proposition, what is it?" Addison jumped on the statement so did the rest of the room waiting on Callie to tell them what was going on

"He wants Arizona for Hanna" the room went numb with silence and everyone started staring at Arizona now with her shocked expression, it was mixed with fear and Callie could feel she wanted to run out the door but she couldn't

"Alright then let's do this—who is the person, let's give him what he wants I want my daughter back right now" Addison said unconscious of the blonde in the room stricken with fear

"ADDISON!" Callie yelled and stared at Arizona who was petrified still trying to understand how any of this makes any sense

"Look—I'm sorry Ms. Arizona but this is my daughter and she is barely tall enough to reach the cooker, she isn't old enough to dress herself so maybe you can understand my plight" Arizona nodded slowly but not vehemently, her breathing was choked

"Arizona you don't have to…." Callie was interrupted rudely by Addison

"She has to—she is a little girl Callie!" Addison cared not about anything else, she just didn't care who the exchange was going to hurt; she just wanted her daughter right there in her arms

"She…Uhhhm…she is right—she is right…she is right…she—uhhm…right" Arizona said from the corner of the room gripping the plastic bottle harder with each word out of her mouth, "she is a little girl"

"Arizona—wait you can't just make the decision on a caprice, we can find a loophole or something" Callie was trying to bargain, there were two things that could happen if Andrew gets his hands on her

Andrew had started referring to her as 'something' speaking of her like she was a chattel, which meant only one thing that the obsession wasn't as pure as it was before, he saw a halo on her head and talked about her like she walked on rainbows and now she barely had a pronoun that qualified her well. If the obsession wasn't precious to him anymore that means Arizona wasn't precious to him anymore which was more dangerous than juggling chainsaws. When someone stops obsession about someone they scar the things about them they find so precious because then it becomes a case of if I can't have her no one else will and when that starts happening, they were sending Arizona into a hole of her own doom.

It has turned to a standoff; Addison was waiting for the next words out of Arizona and, Callie was pacing and staring at Cristina hoping she would say something that was pure genius that could untangle the entire mess, but everyone was silent until George interrupted, "We should get the real cops involved in this, this little band of merry men is what caused all this"

Derek scoffed at his tone, and sighed knowing it was the absolute truth, if this had been done the right way initially, a kid wouldn't have gone missing and Arizona wouldn't be stepping into her own doom right about then, Callie's phone started buzzing again and this time there was more pressure for an answer; she pushed the answer button and set it to speaker phone and listened.

"Tell her to come home to me and I will free your daughter" he said plainly like he knew that the answer would be yes, well, no one would let a little girl stay kidnapped—no one with a heart that is.

"What are you talking about?" Derek asked, it took physical restraints to make Addison not speak while this verbal exchange was happening

"Detective Shepherd—I know you know what I mean, tell my wife to come home to me… I miss her; her smile and her scent" he chuckled like he could feel the disgust from Arizona from the other end of the line, "Come home to me Arizona"

Arizona made a beeline to the bathroom and all the stew and vegetable she had that morning made a re-appearance into the toilet, "she will be there" Derek said

"If I so much as sense a siren, you will not see your daughter again" Andrew said with a complete different tone, it's like he was bipolar and his whole behavior has this hint of dichotomy. One minute was someone else and the next he was violent and the next minute it's like he has forgotten he was violent.

Callie walked into the bathroom and saw her sitting on the floor holding the same plastic bottle still, Callie squatted right in front of her and they stared at each other for minutes until Arizona said,

"Find me, don't let me spend a day with that creep…promise me you will find me" Arizona said and Callie couldn't say no—she couldn't tell her she was empty from all the stress and thoughts

"I promise to find you—just please stay alive for me, don't die or try to…promise me that" Arizona nodded once and started trying to steady her breathing

"So all I have to do is go home and he'll call for Hanna" she asked and Callie nodded

"I'm sorry…I'm so sorry"

"Stop apologizing—I don't think it still has that…uhhm…that effect it had the first time" Arizona said, "please find me Callie I can't die… I have…"

"I promise not to let anything happen… I promise you that you will be fine and I will right there when they catch this bastard and you're free" Callie promised her and grabbed her by the arm, "trust me"

Arizona leaned in and gave Callie a peck on her cheeks, "I don't want your last memory of me to be my puke breath" she said with a hint of humor

Arizona was trying to lighten the mood but Callie couldn't find the humor even if she was being tickled, Callie pulled her in for a tight and long hug; she got up and walked out of the bathroom grabbed her jacket and walked out of the apartment.

They all waited by the phone for hours and Callie's mind was already working overtime to think of the places that they could go, trying to find building or hide outs that they might have missed when scanning through his history, all they could do was wait…

"Did anyone record the call or something—maybe we can trace it" Callie said feeling silly right after she said that

"This isn't the CIA Torres, we don't have tracking devices and all that, all we have are computers that aren't even linked directly to the police database; we don't even have guns…or bb guns" Charles barked back obviously as angry at the fact that Andrew could play one on them like that.

After waiting and waiting the call finally came in telling Addison that Hanna was downstairs waiting for her, she left the room in one stride, followed closely by Callie. Hanna was fine and healthy, completely unaware she had been missing for hours, and apparently she was at a daycare center somewhere else.

Knowing that she wasn't going to be scarred by any of it was calming to Callie, she was happy that this hadn't taken away her childhood—but now she had to find Arizona! She had to…

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Sorry for the delay…already on chapter 8 so the wait will be short this time.