It was six am when Arizona woke up and noticed that the bed she was lying in wasn´t hers. Then she remembered everything what happened last night and started smiling. But as soon as she noticed that she was alone in this big bed she stopped.
"Callie?" she called but nobody answered. So she put on her shirt and panties and went to the kitchen, but since it was empty as well she looked through the opened bathroom door which was empty too. Then she opened the front door and heard Callie´s voice from the apartment on the opposite side. She went there and saw the half opened door where she looked through. She could see Callie sitting by the table talking to a man Arizona felt like she saw before.
"Knock, knock." she meant and opened the door.
"Good morning!" Callie replied and stood up to kiss her love. Mark smiled dirty when he saw it. Then Lexie entered the living room yawning and rubbing her eyes and just dressed in her underwear. But she screamed when she opened her eyes and saw the guest and interrupted Callie´s and Arizona´s kiss and with it Mark´s fantasies.
"Oh my...god!" Lexie screamed and tried to cover her body with her hands.
"This day only keeps getting better.." Mark murmured quietly.
"Lexie? Lexie Grey? You don´t remember me, do you? Arizona Robbins!" Arizona smiled and hold out her hand but immediately took it away when she noticed that Lexie couldn´t shake it because her hands cover her half naked body.
"I remember very well...I..got a photographic memory.." Lexie meant and stepped backwards the bedroom to get dressed. Mark turned around and raised an eyebrow because he didn´t know Lexie had a photographic memory but didn´t want to admit it in front of Callie.
"Oh now I understand why you seem so familiar to me..You´re Mark Sloan right? The head of plastics?" Arizona meant and hold out her hand. Mark shook it and replied that this was correct.
"Great so everybody knows each other.." Callie meant and looked from Mark to Arizona and then to Lexie who was still ashamed and bit on her lip nervously. "So we can go and get a shower right?" she giggled and came closer to Arizona.
"Well I think we should because we need to get to our patient.." Arizona replied and they left the apartment giggling.
"Photographic memory huh?" mark meant as he closed the door and looked to Lexie who was happy not to have to cover her body anymore. "Why didn´t you tell me that?" Mark asked a little bit upset.
"Well, I never thought it would be necessary.." Lexie replied and went to the kitchen to grab a cup of coffee.
"Not necessary?! Lexie we have a relationship! And you don´t hide things from each other in a relationship!" Mark explained louder and with an angry voice. Lexie looked at him and wondered why he was getting mad.
"Sorry Mark..I never wanted to hurt you...I´m...really sorry." Lexie answered calm and drank her coffee.
"So you have a photographic memory.."Mark said friendly again. "Periodic table. Go!" And Lexie started smiling and started, "Hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, neon, sodium, magnesium, aluminium, silicon, phosphorus, sulphur – I can keep going!" she laughed and Mark shook his head.
"You´re a Lexipedia." he meant and kissed her. "I´m going to jump into the shower..wanna come with me? Saves water." he smirked.
"But only because I care about the environment!" Lexie smirked and they closed the bathroom door behind them.
"Okay guy so what´s the plan?" Derek asked when he entered the scan room and saw Callie and Arizona discussing something.
"Okay we planned that we will go in and repair the damaged organs. When she´s stable enough we will page you to clip the aneurysm." Callie explained and looked at Arizona. "Did the family come?" Arizona didn´t know and went to the nurse´s desk to ask for them.
"Okay. If there are some complications that could cause a rupture of the aneurysm page me. The girl won´t survive if we wait longer!" Derek meant and left. Callie also left and went to Arizona who held her face in her hands.
"What´s the matter?" Callie asked and put the scans of Abby Manson back into the envelope.
"The foster family didn´t show up. They didn´t even call back! What kind of people are they who think that they don´t need to come when their foster daughter lays in the hospital?!" Arizona meant angrily and Callie put her hand on her back to calm her down.
"Okay I´ll send an intern to prepare her for the surgery and then we will scrub in and we will save this girl´s life and then find a better family for her okay? I promise!" Callie said and Arizona started smiling again. Then they did what Callie said and a half hour later they already opened the abdomen.
Mark and Lexie entered the hospital, gave each other a goodbye kiss and went into different directions to their changing room. Mark entered it with his coffee in his hand and a huge smile on his mouth when he saw Derek brushing his teeth. Mark looked at Derek who looked back through the mirror. For one second it was completely silent. Then Mark moved forward to his locker and put his bag into it while Derek rinsed his mouth with water. Mark already put off his shirt when Derek was about to leave the room.
"Derek-" Mark meant but he already shut the door.
"Okay...Bailey wants me to check her post op patients. You?" Alex said when he looked at his pager and then turned to Izzie.
"Umm..Clinic...it´s always the clinic" Izzie replied and kissed her boyfriend. Alex replied the kiss but stopped when Cristina who stood behind him cleared her throat.
"We´ll meet for lunch!" Alex meant and left the changing room.
"Er...yes..I have to tell you something.." Izzie whispered when he left the room.
"You haven´t told him yet?!" Cristina asked loud.
"I don´t know why it would bother you." Izzie answered annoyed.
"Why it...uh...I found out that you´re pregnant...of course it bothers me.." Cristina stuttered.
"You didn´t even thought about to find out which disease I have!" Izzie yelled with tears in her eyes and came one step closer. Cristina stepped back because she was afraid of her.
"You were fine the test results were fine you were healthy." she explained.
"No I wasn´t..I am not fine! I have stage IV melanoma with metastases in my brain. I´m not healthy!" Izzie explained crying and sat down. Christina swallowed and thought about the informationsitting down next to her. She slowly laid her hand on Izzie´s shoulder but she stood up and ran out of the door. Then she turned around and came back to Cristina.
"Don´t tell anyone!" she meant and ran away crying. Cristina put her face in her hands and started to think about the whole situation.
"Hey.." Meredith meant and sat down next to her. "Derek doesn´t listen to me. I try to tell him that I´m okay with the Lexie-Mark situation he ignores me. I try to tell him that he should talk to him, he runs away. Everytime when I try to-"
"Could you please stop talking!" Cristina interrupted her.
"Oh..um..I´m..sorry? What´s the matter?" Meredith asked confused.
"Nothing!" Cristina meant and left Meredith.
Alex examined the wound on a patient´s abdomen to be sure that everything´s fine.
"Okay Mrs. Miller everything looks great I´m just going to change the bandage. I´ll be back in a few minutes." Alex explained and left the room. With his key-card he opened the storage room and searched for the things he needed. Suddenly Cristina came in.
"You know you have to close the door. Otherwise theses key cards would be completely unnecessary." she meant, closed it and also looked for some supplies.
"Why do we have these dumb cards again?" Alex asked concentrating on his search.
"Because the drug addict YOU examined ran away and stole a lot of pills and needles and stuff and was found by a mother and her child dead only a few blocks away from here." Cristina explained with a sarcastic undertone.
"Right, I remember." Alex answered and took something out of the box and then went to another shelve.
"Okay we almost repaired everything. Someone can page Shepherd. We´ll be ready in twenty minutes." Callie explained and Arizona started smiling.
"You´ve heard that?" she meant and leaned over to Abby´s face. "You did it! You won! You are a winner-" but suddenly her blood pressure went down.
"Ventricular fibrillation!" Callie yelled and Arizona froze for a minute. "Paddles!" Callie ordered and laid them on Abby´s chest.
"200! Arizona go away!" she yelled but Arizona didn´t move. "Arizona! Could someone please pull doctor Robbins away?!" Callie yelled through the o.r. and a nurse did it.
"Okay..CLEAR!"
"It didn´t work!" Arizona meant crying and looked to the monitor.
"Again! 300!...CLEAR!" Callie shouted and shocked the patient. But again it didn´t work.
"I´m doing a cardiac massage." Arizona meant and did it.
"Okay we´ll try it again. Paddles!" Callie shouted and reached out her hands.
Derek´s pager went off and when he looked down on it he noticed it came from . Then he went to the elevator and pressed the button up.
"Damn it! Why does it take so long?" he thought loud and pressed the button a few more times. A few seconds later the doors opened and Derek looked into the elevator where he saw Mark. He thought about to take the stairs but this would take too long so he stepped in and pressed the button to the floor he wanted to go. An awkward silence ruled the mood in the elevator. Mark opened his mouth to say something when suddenly the elevator stopped and the lights went off.
"Fuck what happened?" Derek asked and switched on the flashlight on his cell phone.
"I think it´s a power break down." Mark meant and also turned on his flashlight.
"No, no, no, no, this can´t be real!" Derek cried and pressed the emergency button which also didn´t work.
"No connection." Mark determined when he moved his phone up and down around the elevator cabin.
"I got everything!" Alex meant and went to the door of the supply room when suddenly the lights went off. Both looked around and wondered what happened.
"Oh no...it´s a power breakdown." Cristina determined and leaned against the shelves.
"No maybe they just switched off the lights in here." Alex hoped and put his key card on the lock but the door didn´t open.
"You´re a moron! It needs power to open the door." Cristina explained.
"See? that´s why I left the door open!" Alex replied angrily.
"Calm down! The emergency backup generator will turn on in a few seconds." Cristina meant and closed her eyes. Both waited for it but nothing happened.
"Damn it!" Alex meant and threw his supplies on the floor and bumped against the door and shouted for help.
"Nobody will hear you! There are only a few patients on this floor and the nurses and other doctors won´t go around and look at the posters on the wall – they will be with their patients and try to control the medicine supply." Cristina meant and sat down on the floor.
"So what do you want to do now? Sitting here and waiting for someone to find us?" Alex asked mad.
"Um..yeah!" Cristina meant and closed her eyes to relax.
"Okay. We´ll try it again. Paddles!" Callie shouted and reached out her hands. A nurse gave it to her and put it on 300.
"CLEAR!" Callie shouted and put the paddles on the girl´s chest when suddenly the power broke down.
"No, no, no, no! This can´t be right now!" Arizona screamed and did a cardiac massage again. "You can´t die sweetie! You´re a winner don´t forget that!"
"The emergency power generator has to turn on in a few seconds!" Callie meant and put an Ambu bag on the lens tube to ventilate her.
"Why is this fucking generator not working yet?" Arizona yelled through the room.
"You!" Callie meant and pointed on a nurse. "Go and find the chief and tell him that we need power!" The nurse nodded and ran out of the room.
"Doctor Webber!" the nurse screamed through the hallway.
"Candice if it´s about the power breakdown – the men try to fix it but our emergency power generator is broken." Richard replied
"Broken?! Doctor Torres and doctor Robbins are operating right now and the girl has ventricular fibrillation! Doctor Robbins is doing a cardiac massage but they need the defibrillator!" nurse Candice explained out of breath. Richard bit on his lip nervously and decided that he´ll go down to the men and help them and that Candice should go back to the o.r. and help the doctors.
"Stop bumping against the door it won´t help getting us out. At least you will damage it and it will take longer to save us!" Mark explained and Derek stopped and sat down leaning against the door.
"Listen, I never wanted to break my promise-"
"I don´t want to hear that!"
"Well, you have to because we´re sitting in this elevator for at least thirty minutes I guess." Mark meant but Derek didn´t respond.
"She came to my apartment, pulled off her clothes and ordered me to teach her-"
"I really don´t want to hear that!" Derek begged.
"I slept with her, yes. I broke the promise I gave you, also yes. But when she was about to sleep in her car and I took her to my place I really didn´t think about sex...we really love each other and we really care for each other-"
"Stop Mark!"
"Why do you think that only you and Mer deserve to be happy?! Why don´t you think about other people once in your life? Why don´t you think that I changed and love this girl?!"
"I don´t want to know how you feel about her and what you did and didn´t. It´s just...I thought you were my best friend and you could keep a promise but you couldn´t. And that´s what really hurts me." Derek explained.
"I´m sorry. I didn´t know that it hurts you that much.."
"It´s like the last time in highschool..." Derek reminded his friend.
"Oh yeah I remember...how was her name? Addison right?" Mark remembered.
"Yeah Addison Montgomery. I told you that I fell in love with her and wanted to ask her out for prom.."
"But then she went with me..Yeah that was a great night."
"I hated you!" Derek laughed and Mark did too.
"You can be happy she didn´t go with you...she was a really bad kisser.." Mark admitted.
"Stop it that´s not funny" Derek laughed and boxed him in his rips.
"Ow..Then why are you laughing?" Mark replied smiling and rubbed it.
"Well, I think I was kind of a jerk letting you feel like you don´t deserve to be happy..." Derek admitted.
"Yeah you were.." Mark smirked and Derek punched him again. "Ow!" Mark meant and both started laughing again.
"They should have found us already!" Alex worried.
"Calm down. Have you tried to text someone?" Cristina asked playing with her hair.
"My phone isn´t charged."Alex noticed when he looked at his phone.
"Relax or sleep a bit – You have to be tired you are working for at least 24 hours." Cristina meant by closing her eyes. Suddenly she heard Alex crying.
"Seriously? Are you crying? I thought you´re a man?!" Cristina asked sarcastically.
"I am a man! It´s just... I don´t know I think I have to let some stuff go.." Alex replied and Cristina rolled his eyes.
"Fine tell me everything you want to say!"
"I..I..I don´t know what´s wrong..Izzie is behaving strange she´s talking to herself and she´s pretending that she´s sick but she isn´t. It´s just the progress of grief.." Alex explained and Cristina suddenly concentrated on his words.
"It´s not just the progress of grief..." she admitted.
"What?" Alex wiped away some tears. "You know something! Tell me! Tell me now!" he yelled.
"Keep calm! I will tell you if you promise me not to tell Izzie!" Cristina warned.
"I promise!" Alex swore and looked her deeply in the eyes.
"Izzie is pregnant.." she started and Alex´eyes opened wide. "But that´s not all." she continued "She´s sick. Really sick. She has stage IV metastatic melanoma which spreads to her brain that´s why she had these Denny-illusions. She is anything but fine!" Alex couldn´t believe what Cristina told him.
"No...no...you´re lying! You´re a liar!" Alex pretended
"I wish I would but I´m not. I don´t know more than that. But you should ask Lexie.. I think she is a good friend of Izzie." Cristina admitted and Alex leaned against the wall crying.
"Arizona.." Callie meant sad and looked at her girlfriend who was still trying to save this girls life.
"No! I won´t give up!" Arizona cried and massaged Abby´s heart.
"Okay then let me doing it! You´re doing it for 20 minutes now. Your arms are getting weak." Callie suggested and stepped in for Arizona.
"Doctor Webber meant that it wouldn´t take so long...I don´t know what´s wrong.." nurse Candice repeated.
"Mister I believe you´re a good surgeon but please let us do our job!" one of the worker meant and pushed doctor Webber aside.
"Yeah I am! And I have really calm hands so let me help!" he told him.
"We have enough hands helping us!" another worker explained.
"Listen, there are two surgeons who are cardiac massaging a ten year old girl for more than 20 minutes. This takes too long!" Webber replied and the workers looked at each other.
"Okay come here!" one answered and Richard did what they told him to do. 10 minutes later they fixed it and the power went back.
"Alex! Alex! Listen to me! It´s okay to be scared but you don´t need to! Izzie will fight I´m sure! She will-" Cristina explained when suddenly the light went on. "Look Alex! The power is back again!" Cristina stood up and unlocked the door with her key card.
"Come on Alex get up! We have patients!" she meant and pulled him up by his sleeve.
"Oh you remember Clara Wild? The blond one from biology?" Mark asked Derek.
"Oh sure yes...she was cheerleader and every guy on the campus wanted her but she never replied to any flirt." Derek remembered.
"She did to mine...Yeah I banged her...twice!" Mark laughed.
"You are a jerk. I don´t know why Lexie loves you!" Derek replied laughing.
"Oh she knows.." Mark smirked when suddenly the lights went on again. As soon as they noticed it Derek and Mark stood up and straightened their clothes. When the door opened the men immediately left the elevator and sighed.
"Finally free.." Derek meant and hugged his best friend.
"Yes mate finally" Mark said and replied the hug.
"When did this happen?" Meredith asked when she saw them hugging for a few seconds.
"Mer!" Derek said when he heard her voice and ran to her and kissed his love.
Callie repeated the cardiac massage when suddenly the light turned on and the monitors started again. The whole team looked at the monitor and when Callie stopped a non-stop sound appeared.
"Why did you stop? Calliope?! You should save her!" Arizona yelled crying.
"Arizona please look at the monitor she´s dead for thirty minutes now...we can´t save her anymore.." Callie tried to calm her down.
"But I promised her.." Arizona meant huskily.
"I know...I know..Time of death: 10.23 am" Callie meant and put her arms around her.
"Can you please close her?" Callie asked and the o.r. nurse nodded. Then Callie took her girlfriend out of the operating room and they changed their clothes. Then they went to the pediatric station to fill in Abby´s chart.
"You don´t have to do this..I´m going to fill it in." Callie suggested but Arizona shook her head.
"No it´s fine...I was her doctor, I´m filling in the chart. Thank you Calliope!" Arizona answered and hold her hand. Callie smiled and left her. Arizona has just started when a woman tipped on her shoulder.
"Excuse me? Are you doctor Robbins?" the worried woman asked.
"Um...yeah...how can I help you?" Arizona wanted to know covering the grief about her loss.
"My name is Susan Heller. I´m the foster mother of Abby Manson, the nurse over there told me you would be her doctor. Is everything okay with her?" the woman asked and Arizona didn´t move for a second. Every cell in her wanted to punch her fist in this lady´s face but she stayed calm. She cleared her throat and took a deep breath.
"Why are you here? Now? We called you yesterday!" Arizona asked angrily.
"Excuse me? We live 7 hours away...I can´t just be here whenever I want I have a job!" Susan answered.
"Then I wonder how and most of all why your ten year old foster daughter came here by her own!" Arizona meant louder and a few nurses and parents already looked at them. But the lady didn´t answer.
"Nevermind...Abby Manson broke down on the streets and a car drove her down. She came to us yesterday afternoon with multiple bone fractures, inner bleeding and, what we found out when we did a CT, a huge brain aneurysm which caused the cramp she had on the street and here in the hospital. We opened her and saw the huge amount of traumata in her abdomen and her heart was really weak. We, doctor Torres an orthopedic surgeon and I, decided to close her and wait for today and made a plan. Today we opened her again and fixed the injuries. We just paged the neuro surgeon to come and clip her aneurysm when she had ventricular fibrillation. Then out of sudden there was a power breakdown in the whole hospital and we reanimated her by hand for thirty minutes until the power came back. We saw that her heart couldn´t begin to beat again and so we adjudged her..dead at 10.23 am." Arizona explained fighting against the tears. The woman didn´t really seem shocked just unhappy. Then Arizona asked a nurse to fill in the formulas with the foster mum and the ped surgeon left the station and started crying again.
Cristina left the hospital to get some fresh air when she saw Izzie sitting on a park bank and went there and sat down next to her. She sighed and closed her eyes.
"I told Alex. I told him everything I knew about the pregnancy and the illness."
"Thank you."