Chapter 2

The surgery had gone as well as everyone had expected. It was now five o'clock in the afternoon and Callie was still at the hospital to ensure that Jonathan remained in police custody until another officer
could take over.

Jonathan was sound asleep and still under the effects of the anaesthesia and the surgery. The room was silent except for the beeping coming from the monitors. As the time passed by, the beeping continued
and Callie was still waiting for someone to relieve her from duty. She was working on some of her paperwork when she heard footsteps making their way into the room. Looking up Callie noticed that Arizona had returned to check up on Jonathan. Both of them exchanged smiles in
slience, Callie returned to her paperwork and Arizona began to do a
post-op check up.

"You're still here...thought you would have left by now." Arizona said, breaking the barrier of silence while continuing her work up on Jonathan.

Callie smiled, continuing with her paperwork. "I uhh...can't leave because he's being charged for a crime. I'm just waiting for someone to take over. I called his parents, they're on their way."

Just as Callie finished her sentence, an officer came into the room to relieve Callie from duty. "Sorry Officer Torres. I got held up at a motor vehicle collision on my way here."

"That's alright Officer Avery." Callie stood up and gave Avery a pat on the shoulder before heading for the door. As she made her way to exit the room she smiled at Arizona. "Have a good night Dr. Robbins"
Arizona smiled back and wished Callie the same. Callie then walked through the doorway and went home for the evening.

The rest of the week went on as usual for Arizona; Parents to comfort and tiny humans to save. It was a busy week and it was physically draining. So draining, that Arizona practically lived at the hospital the whole week. Constantly being on call and being paged for consults and emergency surgeries, Arizona had taken it upon herself to just sleep in an on call room every opportunity she could grasp at.

By the end of the week, Jonathan had recovered enough that he could be discharged. Arizona went in on a Friday morning and did a final check up on Jonathan before discharging him. She wished him luck and advised him to stay out of trouble.

After saying her goodbyes to Jonathan, Arizona headed to the cafeteria to grab a coffee. Once she entered, she noticed Teddy Altman the head surgeon in the Cardiothoracic department sitting at a table. Arizona grabbed her coffee and headed over to sit with Teddy. "Hey, Teddy." She said with her perky, super magic smile.

"Hey, you ready for this week to be over?" Teddy asked, reciprocating Arizona's smile with her own.

"Oh my gosh, yeah! It's been the longest and most stressful week for me. Surgery after surgery, and practically living here all week….not to mention I started my week off by getting a speeding ticket." Arizona pouted.

Teddy started to laugh. "Well, you were speeding weren't you? And it couldn't have been that bad right? I think I can vividly remember you telling me that the cop was pretty hot."

"Yeah, you're right. She was pretty hot. That was a nice little treat." Arizona responded giggling at Teddy's comment.

"Oooh…Dr. Robbins is so delicious." Avery said mocking at the interaction between Callie and Arizona earlier in the week.

Callie turned around in her desk to face Avery. "Avery! If you don't shut up and drop it, I will make sure that the Chief assigns you to the drunk tank for a week. Got it?"

"Sorry officer Torres." Avery replied, tilting his head down in embarrassment.

"Yeah, that's what I thought..." Callie started but was suddenly interrupted by the chief of police.

The chief was a tall grey haired man with a well groomed moustache. He was in his late fifties an one of the most respected figures in Seattle. "Everyone! I need you all to head down to the park downtown!
I just got a call about open fire downtown in the park between two local youth gangs! I need all hands on deck, let's go people!" With that, every officer in the station clipped on their radios, secured their vests and utility belts and headed out to the cruisers and took off to the park.

It was moments like these that made Callie Torres love her job. The adrenaline rush that came over her whenever she was called to a scene made her excited to go to work every day. The feeling of knowing that she would get to serve and protect her community was everything to her
and this case was no different. Just like her fellow officers, she got her gear on and dashed out the station. She hopped into her cruiser, turned the sirens and flashing lights on and took off like a bat out
of hell to the park.

As she was approaching the park, the sounds of guns going off increased dramatically in volume. A spike of adrenaline rushed in her as she exited the cruiser and made her way into the park.

At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Dr. Richard Webber, the chief of surgery was standing at the halfway point in the stairs at the main lobby of the hospital. The other doctors were all gathering at the bottom of the stairs in front of him waiting to hear his announcement.

Teddy and Arizona were walking down one of the nearby hallways when they noticed the crowd building up in the lobby. They quickly tossed the remainder of their lunch into the trash bin and headed over to see what the commotion was all about. As they joined the crowd, they made their way into the centre where they found Dr. Mark Sloan, the head of Plastics.

"What's going on?" Teddy asked in a whisper leaning up to Mark who was at least a foot taller than her. He turned to face Arizona and Teddy and whispered back. "There's been a shoot out downtown in the park this afternoon. "

All of a sudden the crowd fell silent as Dr. Webber began to speak. "Okay everyone, as you all may have heard a shooting occurred today downtown between two local youth gangs and EMS will be transporting the casualties to us. Some of the victims will be members of these gangs, so there will be police escorts with them at all times. Please stay focused on your jobs and the patient at hand. We should be receiving our first wave of victims in a couple of minutes so let's go people!"

Once the chief finished his little speech, all of the doctors and nurses proceeded to make their way as quickly as possible down to the pit to receive the first wave of victims. It quickly became pandemonium in the ER. All available doctors were assigned to different patients, all of whom were suffering from minor to major gunshot wounds and lacerations.

"Dr. Robbins!" A young scruffy looking surgical resident yelled out while he was examining a young thirteen year old boy.

Arizona came running and quickly ran to the child's bedside. "What have we got Karev?"

"Thirteen year old male GSW to the abdomen and lacerations on his neck." Karev responded.

"Alright, there's a lot of bleeding here…let's get him up to the OR now!" Arizona said. With Karev on one side of the bed and Arizona on the other, the two of them wheeled the boy up into the OR and into surgery.

An hour and a half later…..

Arizona walked out of the OR and into the waiting room where sadly she found no family members for the boy she operated on. Looking up to the television suspended from the ceiling to watch the news report on the shooting, Arizona recognized a familiar face.

"I'm here at the local park in downtown Seattle where just a few hours ago a shooting took place. Officer Torres what can you tell us so far?"

Arizona smiled at the sight of the officer on the screen.

"Well, right now all we know is that this was a shooting between two Seattle youth gangs. What the dispute was about at this point we are not too sure. Any uninjured parties involved have been taken in to custody for questioning, while those who have been injured including the many citizens and innocent bystanders have been transported to Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital as well as Seattle Presbyterian Hospital for medical treatment." Callie spoke into the reporter's microphone.

Arizona, knowing that today's events had been far from light in severity and seriousness; she couldn't help but continue to smile at the television screen. Just then Mark Sloan walked up beside her, looking in the same direction as Arizona to see just what she was smiling at.

"See something you like, blondie?" Mark said with a cheeky grin dancing across his face.

"Definitely" She replied.