Disclaimer: See chapter 1. Nothing's changed.
Author's Note: This will most likely be the last update until Sunday or Monday. Pesky holidays. Leave no time for writing....let me know what you guys think!
It only could have been at most ten minutes that Erica had been in the hospital and she already wanted out. The only person she had talked to was the nurse at the front desk to get her temporary ID badge and to find out if the Chief was still around. Unfortunately for her, he was. As she was waiting for the elevator, the one person she could have gone an entire lifetime without seeing again found her.
"Why are you here Erica?" Dr. Mark Sloan asked. The disdain in his voice was evident. There was an unspoken, mutual dislike between the two doctors. Mark because of what Erica had done to Callie and Erica because of what Mark had done with Callie—twice.
"Not that it's any of your business, but I am here to keep a man alive. A man this hospital has tried to kill—twice." The two doctors never mad eye contact and Erica swore this was the slowest moving elevator in history.
"Does she know you're here?" he asked.
"Well, I assume you would know that better than I would," Erica was really getting irritated with Sloan and as much as tried, which wasn't a lot, couldn't keep the contempt out of her voice.
"You should've called. At least had the decency to given her the heads up that you were coming."
"Why? You're going to call her right now anyway. She'll find a way out of work tomorrow, I'll do my transplant and be on my way. We don't even have to see each other." Erica didn't think she could stand to see Callie anyway. Not after what she saw outside. It just hurt too much and Erica was not up for the task of pretending she was ok.
"It's a wonder you know how to operate on hearts; seeing as you don't actually have one of your own."
Erica didn't have a response and thankfully she didn't need to come up with one because the doors to the elevator had finally opened. Mark turned to walk away and as the doors began to close, Erica watched him pull out his cell phone, just as she predicted he would.
Mark knew that Callie was at Joe's with Nurse Melanie, but this was worth the interruption. Callie's phone rang a few times before it finally went to voicemail. Mark sighed and began to leave a message.
"Callie, it's me. I know your out, but trust me on this…you want to call me back. Actually you need to call me back. ASAP. Like right now. OK? Alright then…bye. Call me!!"
The music had been so loud in Joe's that Callie never even heard her phone ring, but happened to glance and see that she had a new message. She almost ignored it, but stole a quick glance to see who called. When she saw that it was Mark, the same Mark who knew she was out with Melanie, she figured it was important and that she had better check it.
"Excuse me, I've got to check this message. I think it might be about a patient," Callie said as she stood to go out side for some quiet.
"Oh no problem, I'll order us another round while you do that," Melanie replied with the sweetest smile Callie had ever seen.
"Perfect." Callie walked outside to listen to her message. When she heard it she wanted to kill Mark. He had left a message with no information in it. She hated that, the purpose of messages was to inform someone of something, not just say 'call me back'. None the less, Callie did in fact call him back.
"Its about time," Mark yelled into the phone.
"Whoa!! What the hell? What's so important you had to call me while I was out? Out with a very cute nurse who hasn't figured out I am a basket case yet?"
"I don't know how to say this, so I am just going to blurt. Blurting seems like a good approach," Mark was rambling and it was beginning to annoy Callie.
"Mark! Fine, blurt, but could you hurry it up?!!"
"Its Erica, she--," Mark didn't even finish was he was saying before Callie interjected.
"Oh my God! What happened? Is she ok? Where is she? How in the hell do you know anything about Erica?" Callie rattled off questions without even thinking. She hadn't thought about Erica Hahn in almost a month. Well, with the exception of when she decided to rearrange her room and it reminded her of when Erica had helped her move into that apartment in the first place; when she asked Callie out on their first real date.
"Calm down!!! Nothing happened," Mark quipped back.
"Then why are we talking about her?"
"Because, she's here."
"Here?" Callie almost didn't believe him.
"Here. At Seattle Grace. As we speak. Dr. Erica Hahn is in with the Chief," Mark stated.
"I have to go," Callie said and the line went dead. Mark knew this wasn't going to go well.