Chapter Four

Work, golf, family time, sleep, repeat. That has been my life for the past three weeks thanks to Sadie. I have read that forensics magazine cover to cover several times, I know how to plant Sadie's fingerprints at a crime scene, but Teddy and Tim's words are starting to get me. I don't know what she will do if she gets fired from the hospital.

I gave my deposition two weeks ago against Derek, and one week later his trial started. Tomorrow I'm supposed to testify against him so I have the morning off. Right now I'm supposed to be having lunch with Teddy but she and Cristina got paged and she had to leave so I'm just sitting in the cafeteria eating lunch by myself with Sadie close by watching me as usual.

My quiet lunch, however only lasts for another few minutes because soon Callie, Mark and Addison pull up chairs next to me. Callie sits in the chair that is on my right side, Addison sits on my left side and Mark sits right across from me.

"She was killed for being an extreme bitch." Mark says before he takes a bite out of his apple.

"Being a bitch isn't a crime, Mark." Addison rolls her eyes as she opens a bag of potato chips.

"You don't understand Addison. Erica was here when you went all Hollywood on us for 3 years. Erica walked around this hospital thinking that she was hot shit and she treated everyone like they were beneath her." Mark counters.

"What are you guys taking about?" I question.

"They updated the list of victims who were killed by the Puget Sound Butcher. Erica Hahn is on the updated list, which is getting a lot of gossip around here." Callie says to me. "I still think that this man is disgusting, even if he is a vigilante killer."

"How is it disgusting Cal?" Mark says with a mouth full of apple. "He's doing the police's job and better one at it."

"Those are people, Mark." Callie starts, "if they are criminals then the systems will get them sooner or later."

"Sooner or later is not a good enough answer, Callie." It's my turn to say something about the Puget Sound Butcher. "They found 67 people at the bottom of the Puget Sound. 15 of those people were pedophiles, and not the MTV True Life pedophiles where some dude's girlfriend wanted to get revenge on her ex-boyfriend for dumping her, or the people wanting to have sex with willing 14 and 15 year olds. I'm talking about the 30 and 40 year old men who rape toddlers around Sofia's age. Those men where teachers, and the kids they raped were their students. You can't sit here and tell me that that doesn't disgust you. The thought that one of Sofia's teachers could take advantage of her like that, now that is disgusting. She's only 3 years old. 7 of those men were hardcore rapist; I have a black and red belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. That's the highest belt you can get. I can defend myself if needed, can you say the same?" I pause for a moment. "I agree with you that we should let the system do its job, but the system let those people go and why? Because they had fancy lawyers to make a mockery of the system, they shouldn't be walking free among us, and everyone at this table knows it. It makes me happy knowing that you, Sofia, our unborn son and daughter are a little bit safer with those animals taken off the street. The law clearly wasn't going to take them off the street so some else had to. I know you don't approve of the way that they were taken off the streets, but personally I don't care as long as they are gone.

The table is silent as my speech starts to sink in. I look away from Callie for a moment to see Polly walk right past Sadie and an idea pops into my head. How does the saying go? I think I found a way to kill two birds with one stone.

"Excuse me," I say before I get up from the table. I walk over to Polly who is just about to get into the lunch line when I step in her path.

I give a heavy sigh and put my hands in my pockets before I turn us both around so my back is facing Sadie. "I think your hazing from Alex and the others has gone on long enough. So I'm giving you one last task to do before you and I take a field trip to the Heidelberg Brewery."

"And what is this task you want me to do?" Polly asks.

"I have a little bit of a problem on my hands," I lightly nod backwards towards Sadie. Polly looks at Sadie for a brief second before she looks back at me. "If you make Sadie leave me alone for good, both inside and outside of work, we can move on to the lesson number two. Stalking your victim."

Polly pretends to look around the cafeteria, but she is really sizing Sadie up. After a few minutes of sizing Sadie up Polly looks over to me. "Deal, I'll text you when I have taken care of your problem."

I just smile at her before I go back to the table, and Polly goes into the lunch line. I feel a smile creep on my face as I walk back to the table. Polly will kill Sadie for me and when she does Polly will meet my code for killing so when I do take her out for lesson two I'll just kill her instead.

I am almost to my table when Mr. and Mrs. Velti step in my path. Both look upset and like they have been crying all day. But that is how most parents are when they lose their child. "Dr. Robbins," Mr. Velti says to me. "We were in the area and we just wanted to thank you for everything that you have done to help us."

"It's the least I could do. I have daughter and two more kids on the way and I would do everything in power to make sure that they are safe."

I spend the next ten minutes talking to them before I return back to the table. When I get there I can't stay and chat because my lunch break is over. I squeeze Callie's shoulder before I throw my trash away and go back upstairs.

The second half of my day is boring. I have no surgeries and no traumas, so I spend the day doing rounds and post op checks with a splash of paperwork here and there. It seems like an eternity for me when 5 o'clock finally rolls around.

Callie has a busy day so I go to Brightwater to pick up Sofia from daycare. Before we leave Brightwater Sofia shows me all the pictures that she drew today, she even made a family picture for me to put up in my office. It has Callie, me, Mark, Lexie, Teddy, Addison, her and her little brother and sister. Once I get her in the car she proceeds to tell me all about her day and all the fun she had with Zola.

When we get home we can smell Callie making tacos for dinner. Sofia and I go into the kitchen to say hi to her when I see Addison sitting at the breakfast bar. I know that Teddy is bringing Henry along for dinner, so tonight's Taco Tuesday will be interesting. Sofia, Roxie and I play in the living room with Scooby Doo playing on the TV in the background when the doorbell rings. I quit rough housing with Sofia and Roxie and I go to answer the door, it's Lexie.

"Hey Arizona, Mark invited me to dinner yesterday. I don't know if he told you." Lexie says with a nervous smile when she sees the look of shock on my face.

"He didn't tell me, but you know Addison, Mark and Callie never tell me anything." I say with a smile as I step to the side to let her in.

Callie and Addison both hear the doorbell and step out of kitchen to see who it is. They both say hi to Lexie before they return to kitchen, they knew that Lexie was coming, and like normal they just didn't tell me.

Lexie joins in the fun that Sofia, Roxie and I were having before she arrived. The four of us have made a hybrid of tag and hide n seek that ranges outside of the living room. We have moved all around upstairs, all around the main the floor expect the kitchen, all-round the basement and the front and back lawn. I have managed to chase Lexie, Sofia and Roxie outside and I have them cornered on one side of the lawn.

I'm about to lunge when Sofia looks passed me. "Aunt Teddy, help us, please." Sofia yells. Before I can turn around I feel Teddy warp her arms around me and tackle me to grass.

"This way ladies," Henry says before they run back inside the house.

Teddy and I wrestle in the back yard for a few minutes before the two of us team up and hunt the others who are hiding somewhere in the house.

I'm looking in the formal dining room while Teddy is looking in the living room when I see Addison lean back and look at me. She has a glass of white wine in her hand and she just shakes her head lightly before looking back at Callie, who I can't see at the moment.

My best guess is Callie is getting nervous because the house, which was once filled with screaming and laughter has stopped and it has become quiet. You would figure that when Callie came home she would like the peace and quiet, but over the past 3 years since Sofia was born she has learned to hate silence when she's at home. I guess you can say that our loudness is how she keeps an eye on us when she is not in the room.

Teddy and I clear the first floor before we split up. I go upstairs while she goes downstairs to the basement. I'm looking through the soon to be nursery when I hear both Lexie and Sofia squeal from the basement. I hear their footsteps running up the stairs and I quickly run downstairs to cut them off but they are outside on the front lawn before I get to the bottom step.

Teddy and I chase Lexie, Henry, Sofia and Roxie around outside when Mark and Julia come over. Mark is trying to be a hero, but it's not working.

"Run Sofia…save yourself before it's too late…" Mark says between breaths as he wrestles with Teddy and I. I hear Julia say something before they run inside. I'm too busy fighting with Mark to fully understand how awkward this dinner is going be when we finally sit down. The eight of play for another 20 minutes before Callie calls us to the dinner the table.

Because there are a lot more people than usual we sit in the formal dining room. Callie and I are at the heads of the table with Sofia and Roxie next to me. Lexie, Mark and Julia are on my right side while Addison, Teddy and Henry are on my left side. Can somebody say awkward?

Callie made a variety of fajitas; there is chicken, steak and shrimp for us to choose. She also made her taco ring for Sofia and for Lexie because they love it so much. With Sofia sitting next me I start to notice how much we are alike. Sofia manages to eat 4 pieces from the ring while I have 4 plates of fajitas.

After dinner and dessert Henry, Lexie and Julia leave. Callie, Addison and Mark are in the kitchen cleaning up while Teddy, Sofia and I go downstairs to the basement to play the unapproved version of Candy Land.

"Your turn, Gramma Nutt." I say as I give the dice to Teddy.

Teddy takes the dice from my hand and rolls a snake eyes. She puts a Twix bar and Snickers bar down in the middle of the table before she picks up a card. It's red, which puts her character right in the middle of the peppermint forest. "No!" she somewhat yells.

"Yes!" I say with a fist pump. "Finally I get that King Size Butterfinger you have been saving."

"Not fair," Teddy says as she throws her King Size Butterfinger at me.

"Cupcakes may be short and sweet, but she doesn't mess around when it comes to her Peppermint Forest." I say as I take the all of the candy that has piled up on the table.

"Let's see whose laughing when you go through my territory, the molasses swamp." Teddy says with glare as she hands the dice to Sofia. Sofia rolls a double six.

"What?!" Teddy and I say in unison.

"Yay," Sofia says as she and Roxie do their new trick, which is high five. It's just how it sounds, Roxie knows how to high five with people. Sofia takes six pieces of candy from me and six pieces of candy from Teddy. All twelve of her pieces are either King Size or the regular size candy bars. She makes sure to avoid our fun size pieces. Because she got double sixes she gets to draw two cards, one is purple and other is green. She has successful passed the peppermint forest and I can't get my King Size Butterfinger back unless I roll a double six.

When it comes to 'Go Fish', 'Old Maid', and 'Candy Land' The three of us have managed to turn those games into gambling games where we bet with our Halloween candy. Callie disapproves of this and I know I should too, but it's all in good fun.

This year Halloween was super fun mainly because we live in an upscale neighborhood where the people not only passed out candy bars they were full and king sized candy bars. This year for Halloween we dressed up as the crew from Scooby Doo, which is Sofia's favorite cartoon. Roxie was Scooby Doo, no surprise there. Sofia was dressed as Shaggy since Roxie and she are friends. Callie was dressed as Daphne and I was dressed as Fred. Unfortunately Mark had to work on Halloween so Teddy went in his place and she was dressed as Velma, I would have paid anything to see Mark dressed as Velma.

We are almost done with our game when Callie, Addison and Mark come downstairs to see what we are doing. We don't get the chance to hide the evidence that we were gambling because as soon as Callie reaches the bottom the step she starts to yell at us.

"ARIZONA ELIZABETH AND THEODORA NOELLE, I know you are not teaching my daughter how to gamble at 3 years old!" Callie screams at us.

We just look at each other briefly before we give Callie our best puppy dog eyes.

"Not going to work this time," Callie marches up to me and grabs my pillowcase and then proceeds to put all of the candy in the pillowcase. "Since you three want to abuse your Halloween candy I'm going to take it away."

"But-" Teddy starts.

"No buts, I have told you two 3 times already not to gamble with candy and you don't listen. So now you don't get any candy, let this be a warning to you." Callie takes the full pillowcase and returns to foot of the stairs. "You want your candy back; you three are going to have to earn it back. Now Arizona and Sofia say good bye to your guest and then go upstairs and get ready for bed."

Sofia and I say good bye to Teddy, Addison and Mark before we go get ready for bed. I'm sitting in Sofia's room getting ready to read her a story when Callie comes marching in.

"NO!" she yells at us. "No story time, no movie time, no nothing. This is part of your punishment as well."

Sofia and I just look at each other before I get up and go to our room. Callie turns off the light and closes the door slightly behind her.

Callie doesn't say anything to me as she gets in the bed and turns off the light. I decide to play it safe and stay on my side of the bed instead of curling up next to Callie.

The next morning when I get up I avoid going downstairs first so I just take a shower and get ready for my hearing this morning. I'm looking at myself in the mirror when Callie comes in the room.

She comes up right behind me and slides her hands around my waist, "mmm, I don't know what is about business Arizona, but I always did find it a turn on." She whispers in ear.

"Define turn on?" I ask as I turn around to face her. "Like let's have a quickie, turn on?"

"Arizona," Callie whispers as she rolls her eyes.

"Come on it's been like 4 years since we had sex." I counter.

"It hasn't been 4 years, it's only been 4 weeks. Quit over exaggerating." Callie chuckles before she leans in to kiss me.

"4 years, 4 weeks it's all the same. You haven't touched me; I haven't touched me so it's not going to take me that long to get off."

"Get off what, mommy?" Sofia asks as she enters our room.

"It's grown up talk Sofia, go get your backpack." Callie says with a sweet voice before gives me a stern look.

"This whole situation could have been avoided if you would just put out."

Callie just rolls her eyes before she goes to the hallway to meet Sofia.

Callie and Sofia get in Callie's car and drive to Brightwater before Callie goes to hospital while I go to the courthouse. Before I start my car I see that I have a text message from Polly. I open the text and it says is 'done.' A small smile comes to face when I realize that all I have to do is get rid of Polly because Sadie is now out of my life forever.

When I get to the courthouse I realize that I am the last person to testify before the jury makes their decision. I get up to the stand and the take the oath to swear to tell the truth before I sit down.

"Please tell the court your name and occupation," Luther says to me as he walks towards the stand.

"I'm Dr. Arizona Robbins the Chief of Pediatric Surgery at Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital." I say with a small smile.

"How long have you been a surgeon?"

"Ten years,"

"So you have done a lot of surgeries?"

"Um 1,736."

"Give or take," Luther says as he smiles at the jury.

"No, I have been in 1,736 surgeries." I correct.

"So it's safe to say that you are somewhat of an expert."

"Safe to say," I say with another smile.

I am at the stand for another 30 minutes before I'm allowed to leave. The jury goes out to deliberate and for some reason I feel the need to stay behind and see how this case against Derek turns out. The jury is out for another hour before they come back. They find him not guilty, Derek is a free man, but not for long.

The fact that Luther told me that he has done this before has gotten my attention, if the court can't stop him I know I can. Sadie is gone and after this weekend so will Polly.

I'm walking to my car when I see Sadie in her red BMW 5 series drive right in front me. We make eye contact before she drives off. 'Done' my ass. Why in the hell would Polly send me done, when she hasn't done anything. Sadie is still a live which means that Polly is going to have to remain alive for the time being.

I get back to the hospital to start my half day. Since Owen made sure I wasn't busy yesterday and today I have a lot of free time on my hands, which I'm using to find Polly. After 10 minutes of looking for her, I find Polly in the main lobby filling out a chart.

"Did you finally realize that this isn't for you? Did my simple task make you realize how hard this is?" I say from the other side of the nurse's station that she is standing at.

Polly doesn't say anything as she goes from looking at her chart to looking at me to then looking at the main entrance of the hospital. For some reason I can't help but look over at the main entrance as well. I'm looking at the entrance for not more than 30 seconds when Henry and a group of FBI agents enter the hospital.

Everyone in the main lobby, myself included, watch as Henry walks right up to Sadie. "Sadie Harris you are under arrest for the murder of Erica Hahn and 66 other people found in the Puget Sound. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand the right I have just read you?"

"Yes," is all Sadie says as she looks right at me.

"With these rights in mind, do you wish to speak to me?" Henry says as he puts handcuffs on her.

"No," Sadie and I break eye contact as she is escorted out of the building and into Henry's police car.

I go from looking at Sadie to looking over to a smirking Polly. "I'm not dumb, Arizona" Polly closes her chart and leans forward motioning for me to do the same which I do. "We both know that you are the real Puget Sound Butcher, and I knew that if I killed Sadie I would be next on your list of people kill. Well guess what? Your plan failed, try to fool me again I will come clean about who the real Puget Sound Butcher is as well as the Thumbprint killer." Polly closes her chart and puts it off to the side before she turns around and takes the stairs to her next destination.

I watch until she disappears before I go up to my office. Since I don't have anything big this afternoon I spend most of my time looking into Derek. Polly may think that she is smart, and she might be but she is not smarter than me. I will find a way to get rid of her once and for all.

My search on Derek helps clear my mind. While I'm doing my search I see that he has been tried in Alabama, Florida, Minnesota, Michigan, New York, California and now Washington for drinking and driving. It looks like in all seven states he has killed an innocent person; he killed children in 5 of those states.

My background check is cut short when I get paged to the ER. When I get to ER I see pretty much everyone downstairs. "A mother of 3 with a child on the way was trying to make a left turn at the intersection of 5th and Denny. Her car stalled out and she was hit by a grey hound bus." Owen says as he makes his way towards us.

Alex and I spend most of the time in the OR with the oldest son. We are in the OR with Teddy, Callie, Mark and Lexie. We are able to save the oldest son and it's nice to hear that the rest of his family is going to be ok as well. The surgery takes up the rest of my shift. I go take a shower and get ready to leave when Polly greets me right as I get out of the lounge.

"Ready for lesson two," she says with a little cheer in her voice.

Of course you are.

We turn to walk downstairs but Alex is there to stop us. "Where do you think you're going?" Alex says as he looks over at Polly. "You still have rounds, post op checks and 6 more charts to memorize. Now follow me."

Polly sighs and follows him. I can't help but smile at this situation. Alex is determined to get Polly to quit. To bad he doesn't know that he is just wasting his time. There is no way Polly is going to leave Seattle on her own free will.

The police report of Derek and his arrest were made public and it said that his favorite bar in Seattle is the Ailbi Room on Pike Street.

Ailbi is a small little lounge as well as a bar. The walls and tables are all painted black, there is a bar area on the right side of the main door while there are tables scattered around the left side of the room.

A quick scan of the room shows Derek sitting at the bar on the far left corner. I walk over to Derek and get the bartenders attention, "A Mango Lassi and a refill for my friend." The bartender shakes his head and starts on my order.

I wait a few minutes for the bartender to make Derek's and my drink. Mine is a virgin drink, but looks like there is alcohol in it. "I figured a free man like you would be celebrating, such a big win." I slide his drink, vodka straight with a little ice, over his way.

"I'm not the partying type," he lifts his glass for a silent toast and I do the same. "Not like that really matters anyway. If I party too much, I'm a monster. If I drink too much, I'm a monster. If I go out to eat, I'm a monster. Everyone in Seattle only sees me as a monster, and why? Because Joe's parents were looking to point the blame at someone for their sons death. I hit him, so it is automatically my fault." Derek pauses to take a large gulp of his drink, while I take a small sip from mine.

"You can give me judgmental eyes all you want Dr. Robbins but you as well as I know that it is true. You can't look at me and tell me that when a child has dead on your 'table' the parents don't try to blame you for their death."

"I've had a few parents blame me for the death of their child, but after they have been given the time to clam down and relax they back off. They see that I'm one of the best doctors in Seattle and that I tried everything in my power to save their child, and they slowly come to grips that it was their time." I take another small sip from my drink. "I also don't make matters worst by showing up to work drunk, or operating drunk." I counter.

Derek gives a small chuckle before he downs the rest of his drink. He slides the glass forward before he gets up. When he gets up he stumble a little bit before he puts on his jacket. He takes out his car keys and starts to walk towards the door. "After everything you went through, you really want to drive in the condition that you are in?" I ask as I watch him.

"I've driven in most worst conditions, and besides I'm moving out of Seattle in a few weeks." Derek says before leaves.

I watch him through the window as he gets into his Ford Escape. It takes him 5 minutes to figure out how to the start the car. Once the car is started he doesn't realize that the car is in drive. He presses the gas looking behind him before his car goes forward missing the tree in front of him by inches. After he fixes his mistake he peels out of the parking lot.

As I finish my drink I can help but hope that he doesn't kill himself tonight because his death has now just become my new job. Once I finish my drink I start to head home. I'm about 10 minutes away from the house when Callie calls me.

"Hey you," I say with a smile.

"Hey, are you on your way home?" Callie asks.

"Yes I am, what's up?"

"I'm really craving Taco Bell. Can you stop by and get me something?"

"Anything for you, sweetheart."

"I want two nacho cheese steak Chalupas, a caramel apple empanada and a medium Mountain Dew Baja Blast."

"Ok, I will get that for you right now." I say before I hang up the phone.

Taco Bell is about 10 minutes out of my way, but if Callie wants Taco Bell then I will get her Taco Bell. I get what she wants as well as a Crunchwrap Supreme for me. I pull up on our street when my phone goes off. It's Callie; she's probably wondering what is taking me so long.

"Hey you," I say as I pull up into our driveway.

"I don't want Taco Bell anymore. I want Dunkin Donuts."

"Ok," I say with a slight sigh.

"I want 2 chicken biscuits, a medium hot chocolate, three 3 glazed donuts."

"Turning around right now," I say before I hang up the phone and turn around to go to Dunkin Donuts. The only Dunkin Donuts that is open 24 hours is about 15 minutes away. So after 30 minutes I return home with no new phone calls.

When I get inside the house I see Callie lying on the couch watching T.V. I come in the living room and take a seat on the love seat while I put the Taco Bell and Dunkin Donuts bag on the coffee table.

"What are you doing?" Callie is glaring at me.

"Putting the food down so we can eat." I start to lean back because the look in her eye tells me she's about yell at me.

"Are we savages?" Callie snaps. "No, we eat at the dinner table. So clean that shit up and put it in the kitchen."

"Ok," I say in a soft whisper. I pick up the food and together we go into the kitchen to eat.

Callie sits in her usual spot at the head of the table, while I'm still standing getting everything out of the bags. I sit at the side of the table instead of the head, and I can tell that it was a bad chose when I see Callie looking at me.

"What's wrong with sitting across from me?" Callie snaps at me again.

"Nothing I just wanted to sit next you. You'd be far away if I sat over there." My voice is weak because I don't want to upset Callie.

"How nice," Callie says with a short smile. "Go sit over there." Callie points to my usual seat.

"Ok," I get up and put her Taco Bell and Dunkin Donuts in front of her before I go to the other side of the table.

"What is this?" Callie points down to the Taco Bell items I placed in front of her.

"That is the nacho cheese steak chalupas, a caramel apple empanada and a medium Mountain Dew Baja Blast that you wanted."

"No I wanted Dunkin Donuts," Callie corrects. "Get this shit away from me," Callie pushes the Taco Bell aside.

I grab her Taco Bell and eat it along with my stuff before we go back to sitting on couch watching TV. As we cuddle with each other I can't help but smile, my life is slowly getting back to normal and I love it.

Expect for Callie's massive mood swings.