Don't say victim
Chapter 10
Alex walked into the room a gentle smile playing on his lips,
"Hey Cal, how are you doing?" She smiled at him and shrugged, he nodded at Addison who was sat by her side and movedto look over her chart.
Addison watched Callie closely who was watching Alex even closer. She saw initial the suspicion in Callie's eyes, the wariness, the apprehension and it was all expected but they were making progress thankfully, she was making progress. Alex was the first guy that Callie had allowed to come and go in her room as he pleased. She wondered how Callie would go if she told her friend that she had to leave for a moment leaving her with Alex. There was no way she was going to try it, not yet anyway and not after yesterday.
She was running, the cold ground beneath her numb feet. She was cold, so, so cold. And it was dark suffocatingly so but she was running. She ran through the trees, thick with foliage scratching her, ripping her skin as she clamoured through them. She could hear her own breath escaping out of her quivering, blue lips in short, wheezy gasps. She could hear her heart beating through her chest, deafening thuds echoing in her head. Her body was frozen; she was sweating and shivering all at once the cool air freezing her body. But she still ran.
Faster...faster...faster...
The word chanted through her head, only that word. Her mind had stopped long ago there was no time to think, there wasn't time to decide or to think just to run, just to escape, just to hide.
Faster...faster ...faster...faster...faster...faster
The tears rained faster and harder down her face silently dripping from her chin. She abruptly screamed hoarsely and threw her hands out in front of her body as she suddenly tumbled to the ground, her ankle rolled and lying on a grotesque angle. She stopped, she stopped running, she stopped moving, the beating stopped, she stopped breathing. She prayed. She begged and pleaded.
Be silent, be invisible...be silent ...be invisible
She slowly raised her head, not making a sound but when her head was high enough she raised her gaze ahead and gulped. A glint of metal caught her eye and her blood ran cold. She had to get the knife.
She lurched her body forward and crawled along the hard, uneven earth, the rocks, sticks and bark alone skinned her knees and palms. She stretched out a bleeding hand to reach the knife...a weapon, a defense ...something.
And then she stopped ...and she could hear it; a deep laugh, a pure evil, malicious laugh dripping with malevolence. She stopped and raised her head and there he was, he looked down on her, at his feet with his penetrating, beady black eyes.
"Callie?" Her neck snapped sideways and her eyes widened when she saw Mark. She tried to speak his name, tried to call for him but her throat wouldn't work. Her voice...it was gone. She gulped like a goldfish for a few seconds,
"What are you doing Callie? What is this? I mean you're not even fighting..What are you doing?" Mark stared at her looking down at her with nothing short of a disgusted glare,
"Giving up Callie?" She turned the opposite way to see George standing watching her. He looked across her, over her towards Mark.
"She's good at that" She wanted to scream to him, scream at Mark not to listen to George, to help her, to save her but she couldn't. His face, the look on his face, he was disgusted, sickened by her.
She tried to scream again, over and over but nothing came out of her mouth. Then the others were there Addison, Christina, Owen, Derek, Alex, her parents the chief. She closed her eyes trying to shut them out, trying to quieten them trying to escape their words,
"You're disgusting Callie"
"Who the hell would want you, look at you"
" What the hell is wrong with you Callie"
"Calliope what have you done? You can't give us a moment of peace, Can you?"
The darkness consumed her and the last thing she saw were a pair of merciless black eyes before she screamed in pain.
Callie gasped and threw her body upright. Her eyes watered and her throat burned as she screamed in reflex. A pain had cut right through her chest and another had sliced through her thigh and there was a smaller pain in her hand. She looked around and slowly she realised where she was. She wasn't on the ground, she wasn't cold, it wasn't dark. She was in hospital; her hospital, Seattle Gra—Addison, Christina...where were they? She looked around ..the door was closed...but the one to the bathroom was ajar. She was alone...she was...her breathing quickened, her heart began to beat erratically and it was echoed on the beeping machine by the side of the bed. Tears ran down her face, her body was frozen. She could see the emergency help button it was literally five, ten centre metres away from her right hand. But she couldn't move, she couldn't get her fingers to move, to reach for them. Where was Addison and Christina where was everyone,
where was he?
Under the bed,a cold was of horror washed over her chilling her. Her wide eyes watered as she refused to blink and they snapped towards the bathroom inspecting the door for movement. Her hands were violently shaking and the insistent beeping was increasing in tempo and volume. A noise sounded from behind her and this time she did scream and it burned the inside of her throat, sobs followed as Callie lost control of her breathing her head moving side to side searching for the source. Shecouldn't breathe, she was choking all over again.
His hands around her neck, no air, suffocating.
She closed her eyes and shook her head causing a pain to erupt in her head. Suddenly the door flew open, her eyes following and a concerned, harried looking Alex Karev rushed in,
"Callie...Callie, What's wrong...Cal what's going on?" She reached for him, stretching her trembling arms out and he grabbed her hand,
"Don't leave" the words were quiet and pleading,
"I'm here Callie, it's ok...it's ok you're safe, you're safe" Her eyes moved from his face to the bathroom. He followed her gaze and then turned to the various others who had entered the room after him,
"Someone check the bathroom" He commanded and somebody scurried towards the bathroom,
"Nobody's here Doctor Karev" Alex fixed his eyes back onto Callie's ashen face,
"See Cal it's okay, nobody's here, you're safe, you're safe alright" She nodded but increased her grip on his arm. It was then that Addison skidded into the room,
"Callie!" She gasped,
"Oh my God, Honey I'm so sorry, I...I just, just stepped out for a seco...Oh God Sweetie I'm so sorry" Tears fell from Addison's eyes as the woman filling with guilt took in her hyperventilating friend. Alex didn't spare her a look focusing on Callie.
"Callie..breathe, I need you to breathe. Ok with me" Addison watched Alex take deep deliberate breaths and slowly but surely Callie began to pace hers along with his,
"Good...that's good Cal, it's ok"
From that moment the more Alex Karev was in Callie's room the better and more relaxed Callie felt. She had refused to let go of Alex for the rest of the afternoon who in turn ordered a chair for himself and sat by her side the entire afternoon. He had been the one to ease her back down into the bed and to reinsert her drip. The challenge had been getting Callie to let go of him long enough for him to move around the other side of the bed. He had also been the one to hold her hand and talk to her, in hope of distracting her while Addison checked her thigh and her stitches on her chest; of which she had pulled three.
Addison, wrought with guilt, hadn't left the room yet swearing she never would. The only times she would exit the door was if Alex or Christina was with her and she was leaving to talk to Mark. Update him, let him know how she was. She'd never seen him more distraught or distressed. She hadn't realised how in love he was with Callie, the best friend of both of them. The fact that now she refused to be in the same room as him cut him deeply.
As Alex scribbled in her chart he turned to look at her,
"Cal, can I ask you something?" The woman nodded from the bed,
"Why don't you want to see Mark?" Addison choked on ...nothing and her eyes widened at Alex. What the hell was he doing? But again he didn't spare her a glance as he watched Callie standing beside the bed. Callie avoided the younger mans eyes, but the silence quickly grew and she knew that she couldn't avoid him any longer, not him, not the questions.
"I...I don't know Alex..I ..I just I'm scared...I mean..I" Alex leant on the bed next to her side looking down at her, her voice was so vulnerable, so fragile and Addison watched Callie. She'd never heard her so broken,
"You're allowed to be scared Cal, that's normal...but it's Mark's job...all of ours as well, to help make you feel better and not scared. As he opened his mouth to speak again she spoke, so quietly he leaned forward,
"What if he...he hates me" She had whispered the question and both Addison and Alex felt themselves freeze.
"Hon what do you mean?" The red head asked,
"Why on earth would he hate you Cal?" Alex questioned at the same time,
"I ...I just...look guys I don't really want to talk about this anymore, I'm tired ok...I, please"
Alex stared at her for a second before nodding,
"Ok...but we'll talk later yeah?" She nodded and Addison moved out of the room as Derek gestured her, not that either Callie or Alex could see,
"Will you stay?" Alex nodded and walked around the other side of the bed stealing Addison's seat,
"Won't move a muscle okay" Callie nodded,
"Thank you"
"No worries Callie now get some sleep, I'll be here when you wake up"
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Nina xxx