CHAPTER 10

ARIZONA'S POV

I grip Callie's hand gently and feel my breath coming out of my lips as quietly as possible. At some point I even forget I have to breathe.
I place my finger in front of my lips and motion to her to stay quiet.

We hear the man's steps and silence falls over the floor; dead silence. I think I can hear my watch ticking, hell I can even hear my own pulse!

We both stay quiet but then Carlos wakes up. "Tia?" he asks. I turn to the boy to calm him down but the shooter hears us and comes towards the room. I can see his shoulder is bleeding, he must be injured.

He steps into my own room and looks at Carlos. His eyes then fall on me and Callie standing on each of his sides. I am trying to calm Carlos down…

"Are you a doctor?" he asks pointing his gun at me. I freeze and my legs feel weak. I simply nod as tears start rolling down my eyes

"Fix it!" he orders me and I start walking towards him.

"NO!" Callie says stopping me. The shooter takes a step back and switches the gun between me and Callie.

"I-I'm a doctor too! Let me do that and let her take care of the child!" Callie says terrified.

I look at her and my eyes widen. What is she doing? Has she gone insane?! I wonder, unable to understand why she would do such a thing.

The man looks up at the boy and nods in agreement.

Callie walks towards him and starts searching for bandages in the room. As she has everything she thinks she needs, she looks at his cut.

"Z-Zo, I think he needs stiches…" She tells me and I but my lip hard. Callie looks at me worried, not knowing what to do.

"Please let me do that! She doesn't know how to, she's just an intern!" I step up walking slowly towards him.

"No! You stay where you are!" He says and points the fun at me and then places it on Callie's forehead. Callie is crying and shaking, whispering "I can't do this".

I am now crying too, holding Carlos' hand, having his eyes covered so that he won't see anything.

"I'm sorry, I can't do this" Callie whispered shaking her head.

"Are you messing with me? Aren't you a freaking doctor?!" The man asks furiously and Callie shakes her head no in response.

"You lied to me?!" he asks angrily. Callie is down and I can't take looking at her, unable to do anything. I almost run towards the man to take his gun.

Everything seems to be going in slow motion.

All I remember is a loud Bang and then some weight over my body. I am not touching the cool floor as the man is making his way out. I page 911 in rooms 2 and 3 of the floor to let everyone know where he is.

Then, I give in to my pain and pass out.

I wake up around 5 minutes later and feel my head hurting. I touch the back of it and see some blood but that's not what worries me most.

I realize someone's body is against mine.

"C-Cal?" I ask shaking her body but she won't react. That's when I notice it…there's blood everywhere but I'm not hurt, no place on my body other than my head hurts.

"Cal? Cal wake up! Calliope!" I scream rolling out of her arms and page someone again.

She must have saved me…I search for the bleeding and find a bullet on her back. I try to stop the bleeding with the bandages, she has already lost too much blood.

And then it hits me again…What if the bullet hit her spine? What if she's paralyzed because of me?

Tons of questions running through my head, as Dr. Hunt takes her into a crash cart and into the O.R.

I immediately call Mark but he's not answering so I leave a voice mail. "Mark, it's Arizona…something happened to Callie, Mark, she's hurt and she's in surgery. Please come, we need you" I whisper even though it feels like no voice is coming from my lips.

I hung up and start crying. That's when Teddy comes running to me and hugs me. "Are you okay? Are you hurt?" she asks me terrified. She starts checking my eyes, my pulse and sits me down to fix the injury on the back of my head.

"She saved me Teds… she jumped in front of me and saved me" I whisper and start crying again.

Teddy helps me calm down and brings me some food and water. Mark arrives soon after.

We are in the waiting room together, trying to calm each other down. He holds my hands and takes me into his arms, trying his best to stay strong for his friend.

"She's a Torres, she won't give up that easily" he says determined but we both know he's just trying to convince himself his friend will survive.

Teddy comes towards us to let us know Callie is back to her room. "We have to wake her up to make sure her spine is okay and that there has not been nerve or permanent brain damage. She is unstable for now but as soon as she's stable we will let you know" she tells us.

"I'll ask Lexie to keep you updated" she adds and we nod in unison.

She jumped in front of me…she saved my life…she took a bullet for me…