A.N: I'm going to apologise here in advance for this chapter. The p.o.v's jumped around a bit, so tell me if it's too confusing and you'd prefer I do it a different way.

Chapter 7: Encounters

Callie's p.o.v

It had been a few days since my encounter with Arizona in the changing rooms, and I still remember it clearly. The moment she said 'Calliope', my heart sped up so much I thought I was going to die. It was like high school all over again, but better, because we were older and more mature; we no longer had the childish views of what love was, we had a chance at the real thing.

At least that's what I'd like to think, considering I hadn't actually seen Arizona since then. Was she avoiding me?

"Yo, Torres!" A booming voice came from behind me; I turned to see Mark Sloan, Plastics God and Man-whore extraordinaire, walking towards me.

"Hey, what's up?"

"What's up? That's all you've got to say? I mean come on Torres, you finally hop on over to the dark side and join us here and we've barely seen you. It's been a week!" He whined and pouted.

"That is not a good look for you Mark, is that how you get the girls? Because, seriously, if that's it, then you've got to work on your technique."

"Yeah, well I managed to get you back in med school didn't I?" He replied cockily. I just rolled my eyes at him, already used to his behaviour.

"Whatever, where's Addie anyway?" It was weird to see Mark without Addie, they were always attached at the hip, I could swear there was something going on there, but they insisted there wasn't. Although, I'm sure Mark has hinted that there was someone Addie liked, I really wanted to know who had managed to catch the eye of the Addison Montgomery.

"Had a consult, but you, me, Addie, tonight, Joes?" Joes was the name of the local watering hole, where most of the staff at SGMW ends up after their shifts. I hadn't had a chance to visit it yet, but I suppose tonight was the night.

"Yeah, yeah, I'll be there, 7pm alright?" I waved him off.

"Yes!" he pumped his arm in the air, "Bring mini-Torres too, gotta properly welcome the two of you to Seattle."

"Yes, now go!" I pushed him towards the exit. "I've got work to do, and I'm sure you do too, I mean that's what they're paying you for right?"

When I got to Joes that night, I found that it was surprisingly packed, considering it was a weekday. I recognised a lot of doctors and nurses that littered around and nodded to a few on my way to the bar. I had yet to see Mark or Addie, and Aria wasn't coming until later, so I was stuck on my own for a while. Then I heard it; laughter, coming from the other side of the bar, I'd recognise that sweet voice even in my sleep. It was Arizona. I watched with a smile, as she threw her head back in laughter. She'd grown up and matured, but I could still see the remnants of the childish innocence she'd always possessed. Either way, I was as attracted to her now, as I was back then. How could I not be? The woman was stunning, charming, and adorable all rolled up into a very hot body, and not to mention her hands, the hands of an accomplished surgeon, I could only imagine what else she could do with those hands.

I had to catch myself before I started drooling at her, I took the time to look at the people she was with, I recognised Dr Ryans, Dr Altman, her beloved protégé Karev, but I didn't recognise the last one. Maybe she wasn't from the hospital. I didn't have time to linger, because clear blue eyes caught mine, and I swear I stopped breathing. She gave me a cheeky grin, dimples in full force and I felt a full body blush take over. All of a sudden a heavy hand landed on my back, making me gasp.

"There you are Torres!" Jesus Christ, Mark has bad timing. Arizona threw me a wink before turning back to her friends, leaving me to stare at the side of her face.

I spent the rest of the night with Mark, Addie and Aria. We'd already been given the run down of staff that Aria and I would be working with; Mark had given us a very detailed list of ones he'd like to sleep with and ones he'd already slept with. Addie had pitched in every now and again, but had mostly sat there rolling her eyes, until he mentioned Teddy.

"Really? Altman? What's so great about her?" The disgust dripping from her tone caught my attention

"What? She's hot! And she's an army chick, I wouldn't mind letting her boss me around," he replied waggling his eyebrows suggestively.

"Urgh, you disgust me Sloan," she rolled her eyes at him. This was interesting, and I just had to ask.

"What's up with you and Altman?"

"She just doesn't fit it with us. The rest of us are well known, everyone has heard of us, but her? She came out of nowhere, and she's going to ruin our reputation."

"I'm sure the two of you don't usually cross paths, have you worked with her before?" It didn't make sense; Addie has always been welcoming, something must have happened to make her hate the woman so much.

"I had a case with her last year, the woman was 5 months pregnant, but she had an underlying heart condition. Altman didn't even ask about the patient, she just looked over her chart and said she should probably have an abortion because there was no way her heart would be able to handle the strain."

"I'm guessing she was wrong then?" It started to make sense now, Addie's job was to make sure that women were able to go through their pregnancy as safely as possible, so if an 'unknown' surgeon came and undermined her abilities, then there would be resentment.

"No, the patient had a stroke at 7 months and both her and her child didn't make it."

"So what was the problem than? She was right, it's not like she made wild assumptions. Is this because you were wrong?"

"No! Dammit, she just came in and told the patient to abort. She didn't even know the patient, she and her husband had been trying to get pregnant for 5 years, they'd tried everything, and this was going to be their last attempt. They finally got pregnant; I wasn't about to tell them that she wouldn't be able to carry out to full term. She disregarded the patient's wishes and practically said that if you don't abort then one or both of you will die. It was like she was telling her to choose between her and her baby's life. It was harsh, and uncalled for!" Addie huffed out. Boy, she was really pissed about that.

"Okay, I'm sorry I asked." I really didn't get it, but the more Addie tried to explain the more confused I got, so I just left it.

Aria swiftly changed the topic, and we managed to take the spotlight away from the fuming red head, until she calmed own. I got lost in the conversation, whilst throwing glances in Arizona's direction whenever I could. I thought I was being subtle, but evidently, since Addie kept giving me sly smirks, I wasn't successful at all. At least Mark had yet to notice, he was too occupied with trying to pick up one of the nurses from the hospital.

Aria had had enough of watching Mark's slow burn to rejection so she pulled Addie and I onto the dance floor, which just so happened to bring us closer to Arizona's group.

"Jesus Cal, just go ask her to dance." Aria whispered into my ear.

"What? Who?" I didn't think Aria would be paying that much attention to me, what with all the fine male specimens that we were surrounded by.

"That blonde over there. The one you've been throwing looks at all night!"

"I don't know what you're talking about. I'm fine where am I thanks." I played dumb, there was no way I was going to ask her to dance, especially not since she was still in the phase where she didn't remember me. It would be awkward and embarrassing to be rejected in front of all of our colleagues.

That didn't mean I didn't fantasise about what it would feel like to have her body pressed up against mine, to have her hands on my body and her lips … Okay get a hold of yourself Torres.

It turns out that I didn't have to wait that long anyway, as a soft body pressed up against mine, and a smooth, silky voice followed.

"Mind if I cut in?" I looked around and saw that Addie and Aria had magically disappeared, leaving me to fend for myself. I turned around and found myself face to face with deep blue eyes, slowly I raised my arms to wrap around her neck as she wrapped hers around my waist, and we began to move with the beat. Eventually, she'd ended up with her head buried in my neck, nuzzling me softly and I'd laid my cheek on the side of her head, the moment was perfect. She inhaled deeply, as if breathing in my scent, before she raised her head again, just inches away from my face. I stared into her eyes, before darting down to her lips and back again, slowly we both began to lean forward, but before we could touch, I felt another presence behind me, and Arizona stiffened.

"Sorry to ruin to moment guys, but we gotta run Ari." Terri's voice rang out, and I could feel how tense Arizona had gotten, I took a quick glance at her, and saw her stiffly nod, before throwing me an apologetic glance. I just smiled and released my arms from around her neck, I watched as they both ran to their table to collect their things, but before she could follow Terri out, she ran back to me and gave me a quick peck on the cheek.

"I'll see you later, Calliope." She whispered into my ear before she pulled back and ran out the door. I stood there mouth agape, before a huge grin started to take over.

When we left the bar, we noticed that it was a surprisingly clear night for Seattle, and decided to take advantage of that by walking home. I split up with Mark and Addie at the exit, and headed off in different directions to our own respective apartments, Aria had left earlier on, claiming that she had a early start so had gone home to sleep.

I was so deep in my thoughts from the kiss Arizona gave me before that I hadn't realised that I was being followed. A shadow came out unexpectedly and tackled me into an alley.

Shit…

General p.o.v – Mark and Addison

Mark and Addison had left Callie at the doorway of Joes, seeing as they were headed in opposite directions, and they had gotten about two blocks away, when they heard sounds of growling that didn't sound like they were from an animal.

"Shit, Mark, did you hear that?"

"Yeah, where is it coming from? It doesn't sound like a dog."

They followed the sounds into an alleyway, and when they reached the end, they saw an old abandoned warehouse, hidden away by surrounding buildings.

"I think it's in there, should we check it out?" Mark thought about it for a while before he started sniffing at the air.

"There's blood, I smell blood!" They both charged into the warehouse and there, laying on the ground bleeding, was a man, dressed in black. Addison was the first to reach the man, but before she could do anything, he span around, eyes burning yellow, mouth open with fangs at the ready, saliva dripping everywhere and snapped at her.

"Watch out Addie!" screamed Mark, before his eyes turned bright green and he let out a green bolt which threw the man across the room. "Addie! You okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine, shocked, but fine. Where's the guy?" They couldn't find him around the room, so they slowly walked further into the building, scanning every surface for evidence of the man.

Addison felt a presence above her, and look up just in time to see a shadow fall down, yellow eyes were the last thing she saw before blood splattered everywhere.

"Addie!"

General p.o.v – Alex, Lexie and Teddy

They were all relaxing at the bar, Arizona had gone off to dance with Callie, and Alex was trying to engage Lexie in a drinking competition. A phone vibrated on the table and a pale hand reached towards the phone.

"Ryans." Teddy watched on curiously as Terri's face seem to darken, "I see …" She couldn't hear the other side of the conversation, but judging by Terri's tone, it wasn't good news. "We'll be right there." She caught the attention of the other three and simply stated, "We've got trouble. I'll go get Ari, meet me outside."

When they were all gathered, confusion was evident on all of their faces.

"What's going on T?" Arizona was still annoyed that she had been pulled away from her moment with Callie, so she was neither polite nor friendly.

"I just got a call from one of the Seers, and she said there's been a sudden increase of stray activities. That means a lot of dead humans, and we need to take care of them." Arizona's defensive position dropped immediately and she stood up to attention, ready to take orders. "Teddy, Lex, Alex, you guys go to the abandoned warehouse on Charles, Ari, you take the docks."

"Where are you going?"

"I'm going down the sewers." Arizona scrunched her nose up at that, "I know right? We can swap if you'd rather-"

"Hell no!"

Looking around for any witnesses, they all disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving behind a gust of wind, headed to their separate destinations.

After reaching the warehouse, they were overwhelmed by the scent of blood. It was lucky that they had been personally trained by the two Royalties, and had a lot of control, because a lesser vampire would've been overcome by the scent and bloodlust and lost control.

"Jesus, there's so much death here, how many humans do you think it takes to give off a scent that strong?" Teddy was glad that Terri had suggested they all feed before heading to the bar, the scent suggested either a strong stray or a lot of them. Either way, she needed to be at 100% right now.

"The last time I smelled something this strong, was when Athena and I found a nest covered with about 20 bodies, and this scent is a lot stronger." Lexie shivered at the memory; sometimes she really hated the fact that she had a photographic memory.

"Yeah, I remember that, there were a lot of kids too, Artemis had gotten really angry, and pretty much slaughtered them all. She'd just lost a long-term patient beforehand as well, I remember how she practically stormed out of the OR, and left me to close up for her. I guess she took it out on the strays huh? The funniest thing was when we got back, she gave me a lecture on how she was being a bad role model and that I should never leave before I'd closed, and that the dead deserved respect and some other bullshit, whilst she was covered head to toe in blood." Alex sniggered, before sobering up and staring up at the building. "Something feels different about this one though, the aura, it's not what we usually encounter."

"Athena did seemed pretty pissed about the phone call, guess this is serious then huh? Keep your eyes peeled Alex, Lexie, we can't disappoint them." They had taken to calling their sires by their aliases during missions; Lexie had started it, then Alex joined, and when Teddy went on her first mission with them, she followed.

They finally entered the building, and it was quiet, eerily quiet. Their eyes changed, Alex to dark purple and Lexie and Teddy to dark red, in order to see through the darkness of the room. They could hear the sounds of groaning and growling in the distance, and the sounds of sucking that was closer to them. They narrowed down their search to find two strays feeding from a human. Teddy flashed behind one of them and snapped their neck, turning them into dust instantly; the other charged at Lexie, whilst a third unseen stray tackled Alex into another room. Lexie engaged in combat with the stray avoiding frantic slashes, before she landed a punch that sent him flying into a pillar, bloody and unmoving. Alex reappeared in the room, dusting his hands that were now covered in blood.

"Piece of cake." Teddy and Lexie rolled their eyes at him, she sounds of growling increased and they realised the commotion had alerted their presence to the remaining strays upstairs.

They all split up in different directions, engaging stray after stray; they had noticed that each stray possessed dark yellow eyes instead of the soul-less dark eyes they usually had. When they met up on the third floor, they were horrified by the sight of bodies covering every available surface in the room, on the floor, the tables, and even pinned up on the walls. There were easily 30-40 bodies lying around. It was a fucking burial sight, and stood right in the centre was a tall, muscular brunette man, with eyes shining bright yellow, smirking at them.

"You son of a bitch!" Alex charged straight for him, but was easily dodged and crashed into the wall. Teddy caught the brunette by the arm as he evaded Alex, strategically placed her leg and flipped him over onto the floor, she punched downwards, but he flashed away, making her hit the floor cracking the concrete. She received a blow to the stomach that sent her flying towards the pillars, he flashed to her before she could recover and aimed his claws at her. Lexie's bolt interrupted the attack and she launched herself at his left side whilst Alex came at his right, Teddy charged from the front, but the brunette expelled an aura of yellow that came from his entire body, sending the three in different directions, all colliding with the walls.

"It this it? Well that was boring," the brunette taunted them with a smug grin on his face, "I was expecting more from the infamous hunters in this city."

The three froze, not expecting the man to speak, stray's were usually hysterical and wild, brainless, more like zombies, driven purely by bloodlust. They were even more amazed at the control he had over his power; they came to the realisation that this was not just another stray.

"Fuck. You!" Alex growled out before he released his own aura, purple surrounding his entire body, eyes turning from dark purple to a lighter purple, the sign of Artemis glowing proudly on his chest. The brunette's eyes widened in shock, he couldn't move, the air had thickened so much that he couldn't control his limbs. He was stuck.

"Shit!" It was that last thing he managed before Alex's claws dug into his throat and tore a chunk out of his neck, his other arm ignited as lightning swam from across his arm down to his hand, and he shot it straight into the brunette's face. The room exploded in light, flesh and blood, when it faded, they were left with the smell of burnt flesh.

"Oh God, that's gross," Lexie gagged slightly, "did you really have to do that? Make him explode?"

Alex smirked, "It was cool though right?" He wiped his own blood from the cut on his forehead and looked at his 'sisters', they were both bruised and covered in cuts and bleeding from various places, but nothing serious enough that needed immediate attention.

"Addie!"

They snapped their heads to the door and flashed towards the sound.

General p.o.v – Mark and Addison

"Addie!"

The man stared at Mark, yellow eyes wide open, as he was suspended in mid air, impaled on Addison's sharp claws. She threw him to the ground and glared at him.

"Ugh! I just had my nails done yesterday." She turned her back to the man as she whined at Mark.

"You okay Addie?" Mark rushed over to her side, "I mean other than the broken nail, that is" Addison narrowed her eyes at him unamused.

The man charged at Addison and Mark whilst their back was turned, they tensed, ready to attack, but the arrival of a fourth presence saved them. The person had come from above, and landed on one knee, the stray's head in their lightning covered hand, crashed face down on the ground. He promptly burst into dust and two other figures appeared on either side of their saviour.

Mark and Addison growled and bared the fangs at the newcomers, eyes ablaze, light green shining. They were met with a set of red eyes and a set of purple eyes, the kneeling figure stood up to reveal their own red eyes, the air thickened around them and Mark and Addison struggled to breathe slightly.

"Mark? Addison?" The air dropped, and they gasped.

"T-Teddy?" She looked to the two standing on either side of her, "Alex and … Lexie?" She looked at Mark who was just as confused as she was.

"What the hell?"

Callie p.o.v

"Shit!"

That fucking hurt, what the hell was that? I looked up to see a man …growling? Was he growling at me? His eyes were glowing a dull yellow, and were those fangs? I swear I didn't drink that much, so this was not a dream. He lunged at me and I rolled to the side, barely avoiding his attack. Shit, my ribs hurt; I think he broke some when he tackled me into the alleyway.

He recovered quickly and turned to me, seeing I was backed into a corner, he charged again and I closed my eyes, waiting for impact.

Suddenly, I felt a gush of wind and something splatter across my face. I opened my eyes and saw the back of a blonde woman, hair fluttering in the wind, with her right arm stretched out to the side parallel with her shoulder, her palm was facing down with her fingers all stretched out straight, and at the end of her fingers I saw claws. Over her shoulder I saw the man with his yellow eyes opened wide, throat split wide open. I touched my face and when I pulled my hand away I saw it was covered in blood. His blood. He turned to dust and when the woman turned around I was met with a familiar face, with bright violet eyes and an aura of complete coolness surrounding her.

"A… Arizona?"

A.N: Thoughts?