Choose Wisely Calliope
"No..."
"We're not going down like that." Her brow furrowed in fear and determination she took a deep breath and walked away. Pressing her hand firmly against the handles on the scissors in her pocket an image flashed in her mind.
An image of the heart. The steady thumping and pumping of that living breathing heart made from the waste of her friends. She had a mission now, a mission to destroy it.
He laid there in silence as he waited for the clock to tic by with those last thirty minutes.
The world shook once more as Meredith and Alex came in with several nurses. Alex pulling the scrub cap down over Kevin's forehead he couldn't help but feel his own universe shatter as the young kid refused to look any of them in they eye.
Wheeling out into the hallway he kept his eyes on the lights in the ceiling passing by. Red, blue, purple, red, blue, purple. Red the blood of someone who had fallen from grace, blue the blood of someone in grace, purple... the blood of someone who was never in grace.
"Dr. Montgomery? What are you doing here?" Meredith paused as Kevin was pulled backwards into the elevator.
"I've been here since lockdown this morning. They till haven't found her?" Addison Montgomery, Derek's ex wife and leading gynecologist and neonatal surgeon who left town years ago to join a trendy little clinic in Los Angeles California.
"Meredith?" Alex said from the closing double doors.
"Go! I'll meet you up there." Meredith said just as his face disappeared behind the silver. Returning her attention to the woman before her she sighed. "There was... an accident?" Even she wasn't sure. "Derek..."
"He's gone?" Addison's jaw hit the floor.
"Yeah..." It was just now beginning to sink in for Dr. Grey. The man she loved... killed by a demon... in the very same hospital in which they fell for one another.
"When?"
"Less than two hours ago... are you going to be watching the surgery?"
"The historical surgery preformed by Christina Yang, broadcasted live on the balcony and the ground floor breezeway? I don't have a choice... it's not like any of us can leave." Her eyes following several men in suits as they walked away like nothing was wrong. "Why is no one looking for Sophia? Where is Calliope?"
"Prepping for surgery. She is the Chief..." Meredith sighed looking at the elevator.
"How did you get in on this? Oh I don't even have to ask your the Meredith Grey. That's like being the chosen one around here." Addison laughed but not enough to offend. Placing her hand on her friend's shoulder she asked. "Are you going to be okay?"
"Watch out for yourself" Meredith's entire demeanor changed. "There's something very wrong happening here. Please, please, please..." She gripped the woman's hand. "Be careful."
Addison watched as Dr. Grey entered the elevator feeling a little strange. For the first time she paused to look around the hospital. Even the patients seemed like they were already dead.
We follow Addison as she merges with a group of people into the lobby and towards the breezeway. There, hanging from the rafters for everyone to see, was Kevin. The lights catching his eyes and creating a familiar sparkle. How sick it made him feel to be on camera. Even Dr. Montgomery had to admit the glare in his eyes was a direct threat to God himself.
She looked over seeing George O'mally standing in his lab coat eyes on the screen. "G- George?" She stepped closer to the creature she knew to be dead.
He rolled his eyes over to look into hers. "Freaky isn't it?" He snickered in a wicked way before disappearing from sight.
Up on the screen Alex Karev can be seen placing the mask over Kevin's lips. "Just breath bubba." He whispered.
Kevin's hand gripped Karev's wrist. "If you had any heart at all... you would kill me before giving me this one." Words only the dead could hear.
Alex looked up at Christina who looked like a God but radiated with the poisons of a monster from the deepest darkest puts in Hell. "Even if i tried I couldn't." He stepped back and got in line with the other doctors.
Kevin was alone with the Aliens in the sky who wanted to change the world. Mother Earth will not survive another change. A scalpel glistening in his eyes before they drooped shut and he faded into a deep slumber like nothing he's felt before.
A dead silence fell over the hospital. Christina looked up at the room around her. "Where is the Chief?"
"Dr. Torres is retrieving the heart." Alex informed her.
"I asked you to do that..." She interjected.
"The chief out ranks you." Funny thing about being dead, no one can kill you for being an asshole because you're already dead.
"Get out of my OR." She raised her brow.
"You can't do that." Meredith said from across the table. "The patient specifically asked for him Christina." She pleaded.
"Watch your mouth." She told Karev before looking down at the body. "Scalpel." Holding her hand out.
As she pulled the blade down to make her incision the earth rumbled once more. She pushed through the procedure blocking out the gentle hum beneath her feet. With her fingers she braced the rib cage before snapping both sides backwards. A terrible crumble in the city as several buildings crashed to the ground. "
"That felt like a sign." Meredith looked over at her best friend.
O'mally appeared beside Meredith in his scrubs hiding in plain sight. "It's time to put down the scalpel Christina." He too was begging.
"We're doing this." She demanded. "You're either going to shut up or get out of my OR." Her eyes dead locked on Meredith.
Meredith deadlocked on her. She took a deep breath, nodded, and looked over at the monitor. "He's stable..."
"Bring in the heart."
Calliope came in with a stagger. Her body was sore, her skin was singed, her face looked drained of any life at all. Though in scrubs no one noticed she was in pain. Popping open the case she held her hands out two nurses pulled gloves down over her arms. With careful hands she pulled IT out. The heart. Blue, Red, and Purple veins throbbing despite not being in a body. The world watched live on television across the country and even over seas.
"Cardio Surgeon Christina Yang is "Doing this." according to the footage streaming right now on several different websites." Molly Cantrel on 9 O'clock news.
"We have officer Demetry Wilson here." Billy Cordell on eye whitness stood in front of Grey Sloan Memorial holding his microphone to the man in uniform. "Who says the building is on lock-down due to a child missing. Is that correct officer?"
"Yes, we don't know all the details yet but we're suspecting a possible hostage situation."
"Officer is this legal?"
"It's immoral. There's a difference I'm afraid."
"Half of seattle is under water." Nancy Evergreen on channel 10.
"This is insane." Howie Mandel. "The show must go on." Simon Cowell, America's Got Tallent Live.
"Closing him now." Christina announced as Calliope staggered to leave the OR ripping off her mask to reveal terrible sores covering her face.
"Oh my God. Dr. Torres what is on your face?" Nurse Tiffany looked at her like she was seeing an orphanage burning down. "Is that contagious?"
Just as she said the words Callie shot purple goop from her lips coating the white lab coat of the young woman before her. Nurse Tiffany screamed as she litterally melted, flesh peeling off her body like the slop served in the cafeteria falling off the tray with a nasty Blurp as it hit the ground.
An uproar from downstairs every patient sat up in their beds. Their eyes rolled back to reveal nothing but the whites, blood shot, as they all synced in their breathing, the beeps of their heart rate, and their chins rising as they looked up to the sky.
Kevin sat up in his bed looking up at the camera still live now in every continent. His face flickering across the massive TV's on the AGT stage, every news channel broadcasting and every open tab on every computer and cell phone.
"Welcome ladies and gentleman... to the end of the world. I'm Kevin Quinn and you're not watching Disney Channel any more." The screen went black.
Christina, Meredith, Alex, and George O'mally were casted back by a force unlike any other into the walls and a variety of tools. The only two nurses left in the room were killed almost instantly.
The door slid open just as tools began spinning around the room. M, A, G, and C, looked at the one and only I in their MAGIC. Isobel Stephens screamed. "RUN!" as the building began shaking with a violent speed. One by one they made a break for the door. Christina staring up at the monster floating up to the ceiling in front of the business men and scientist who began to flee like rats off the titanic. The viewing window shattering and sending shards everywhere like a rain of defeat as she stared in awe at her creation.
"Christina lets go!" Meredith screamed. "Please."
"I destroyed the world Mere'..."
"I'm still your person." They made eye contact.
Together they bolted for the exit. The five of them running into the stair case and racing down as fast as they could. "Izzy?" Alex called out from the back as she lead the group. "Why are you here."
"I'm dead Alex!" She cried as they ran out onto the balcony together looking out the massive glass wall at the ocean.
"Has it always been that close?" George asked.
"It's the end of the world." Isobel stephens looked at her best friends with sympathy.
Like pulling the wreckage of a plane out of a disgusting swamp something climbed out of the sea.
"What is that?" Christina's eyes grew wide.
"That's the beast... April was right." Meredith laughed looking at Alex like she was a crazy person.
The five of them broke out in a query fit of laughter. The beast being only yards away they looked around as it got closer looking down to watch the mascarade below. Patients killing doctors, doctors killing patients, creatures bursting from the stomach's of pregnant woman that reached back to kill their nest. A mess of vile disgusting liquids and acts of defiance against self, against other, and against reality.
"Starting together..." Meredith whispered.
"Ending together." Christina took her arm and pulled her into a hug. "We fight till it's over."
"I wouldn't have it any other way."
Down below Calliope fell to her knees on the ground floor just before the glass staring directly at the monster coming for his heart. Her breathing was steady, her mind was calm, the sounds behind her completely blocked out. Addison's hand landed on her shoulder. "Hey." Dr. Montgomery knelt down.
"Dr. Montgomery what are you doing here?" She wiped away the tears on her face as she looked up at the woman who delivered her Sophia.
"I'm sorry we never found your baby..."
Kevin Quinn's body stepped out onto the breezeway looking directly at Christina. "MY GOD." He snarled. His jaw opened and blood just seeped out of the corners his long tongue splitting as he continued to speak. "MY CREATOR!" A deep nasty snarl as he got closer.
"No matter what!" Izzy looked at her team. "We don't go down!"
The beast stepped through the giant plate glass window, which didn't even come up to his waist, crushing Torres with it's slimy, massive, mold and fungi layered foot. The vines dripping down onto the cold hard tile leaving a trail of green goo and water which dripped from the crevices and spores growing from it's flesh which was grey and purple with little tiny white bumps littering it's skin that seemed to be blinking and staring right at Dr. Addison. Small insect like creatures came rolling off of it.
They latched onto her body biting into with such petite teeth that in their numbers took no time in devouring her completely. Leaving not even the clothing behind. It's like she was never even there.
A wind, one so strong it physically moved the planet. Day became night. Night became day. Then it all together stopped in a white glow. Everything stopped. The noise, the feeling of that distant hum that grounds you to yourself, the movement of any thing that wasn't inside of the hospital. Soon the white glow overtook the space outside these walls and all that remained was a taint red radiating off of those who were still alive and a faint blue orb in the place of the spirits. In front of them was a mess of black and purple, a vibrant radiating slime that oozed every which way as if it was infecting glow. To right was one multiplied in size that throbbed in time with the one before them. An interconnection.
"How do we stop it?" Alex asked, a giant voice in the air around them, so solid, so singular.
"We destroy the heart." Christina's voice radiating the pure light around them.
"The real question is... do we want to?" Meredith's soft dead like tone.
"Is this world even worth saving?" A mousy yet musical growl from Izzy.
"With people like you guys in it?" O'mally's deep woe turned passion. "Definitely."
Fade to black.
Open on Arizona racing across the parking lot through a crowd of strangers. Fire fighter's spraying their hoses on the flames from what was left of Grey Sloan Memorial hospital. The rest was sunk into the earth, along with most of seattle.
"Maim you can't go in there." Officer Demitry placed his hand in her path.
"My baby?" She screamed. "Did they find my baby?"
Seconds later, bursting out of the Denny Duquette memorial clinic which still stood tall and proud, came several EMT's and firemen who made the way for one of their own teammates to step forward. "We have a live one!" She screamed. Then with slow patient steps down from the building in the close to midnight hour holding in her hands she carried Sophia Robbins Sloan Torres.
Sophia looked back at the dark sky towards the ocean. Watching as Denny himself smiled at her from the doorway unseen by anyone who wasn't her. Then he as well as all of the spirits of Grey Sloan Memorial vanished from this earth to travel to the next.