Amy POV
Flashback
When Matt and I arrived at the scene, the sight in front of us shocked us both.
A teenage girl was swinging a bat a car, which already looked smashed up pretty good. The rest of the family, what contained of a father, mother and a son, were all on the lawn, in front of the house. The son was sitting on ground, his hands were placed around his knee. The mother was trying to aid for her son. The father, was standing up yelling at the girl to stop.
Matt was the first one out of the car, I got out of the car after a short moment. When we got out of the car, the girl turned to us and held the bat in front of her, pointing it to us.
"Don't come any closer!" she shouted at us when we got closer to her
Matt pulls his gun out immediately and aims it at the girl. I take my gun out as well, but I point it down in front of her, on the ground. I wasn't too keen to aim a gun at a kid. We spread out, surrounding the girl, keeping a distance between us.
"She smashed my sons knee!" The father yelled from the sidelines gesturing to his son, who was groaning in pain "Arrest her! She attacked my son!"
The girl just shook her head back "You should ask what your son did!" she shouted back angrily
"Put the bat down!" Matt yelled out order's at her
"Get away from me!" the girl swung the bat up, she held on to with with both of her hands. It looked like she was ready to swing it at Matt's head if he takes a step close towards her.
"I said put the bat down! Put the bat down...now!" Matt shouted again, the girl did nothing to obey. She just glared down at him.
"She's crazy! Delusional! She shattered my knee and look what she did to my car!" the boy, who was on the ground yelled back
"This is nothing compared what you did to me!" The girl yelled back, I saw tears forming in her eyes. She was getting real emotional.
"You should be arresting him! Not me! Arrest him!" the girl said when she turned to face me. I started to wonder, what had happened, that this girl got to this point. That she had to turn to this drastic measures.
"You are the one with the bat! I will not repeat again! Put it down and put your hands up!" Matt called out orders and tightened the grip on his gun. The girl shot him an angry look, but it didn't look like she was going to give up.
Matt's approach - by shouting and pointing the gun to someone's head - was not working. It has never worked. And by the look on the girls face, she is never going to listen to someone like Matt anyway. This needed a different approach.
I put my gun in the holster and hold my hands up in front of me, so she would see I have no weapon. I saw Matt looking at me, questioning my approach, confused as to why I did that.
"Can you tell me your name?" I asked softly taking a small step closer to her, holding my hands in front of her. The girl looked to me perplexed. I saw her tighten the grip on her bat once again, her knuckles were turning white.
"My name is Amy...can you tell me your name?" I say placing my hand on chest and then took a small, slow step towards her. The girl took a small step back, but at least she didn't shout back at me or swung the bat up, like she did when Matt wanted to get closer to her.
"It's Callie!" The mother called from the lawn
"I wasn't talking to you!" I call back at her and turn my attention back to the girl
"Is your name Callie?" I ask her softly
The girl hesitantly nodded back. I heard Matt groan, he doesn't like this slow approach. This was one reasons why we are not good partners. Matt is way too aggressive. Cops shouldn't be as aggressive as he is. Sometimes I feel like all Matt wants to do is fire the gun or get in a fist fight with a suspect.
Matt decided to try an approach her on her own, but the girl saw it. She lifted the bat up once again.
"I told you to stay away from me!" The girl threatened him and glared down at him
I did seem strange that she hasn't yelled or swung the bat my way. I was closer to her than Matt. He was some 6 meters away from her, while I was barley 3 meters away. She could have tried to swung it at me, she should have yelled at me to stay away instead.
I wave at Matt to walk back. He doesn't like it, but he agrees and takes some 3 small steps back. Callie lowers the bat a little once he steps backwards. But her body remained tensed up. Her head was constantly turning. She was trying to keep everyone in her sight, but because we were so spread out, she couldn't do that. So, she just constantly moved her head around to look at Matt, at the family and me.
"Callie..look at me" I say softly, keeping my hands out in front of me "You don't have to worry about them, okay" Callie looked back at me "They are not going anywhere, just keep looking at me...okay? Can you do that?"
She didn't nod back, but she didn't shake her head back as well.
"How old are you?" I ask, but she keeps quiet "You don't look older than 15 to me..."
"14" she says barley above whisper
"14" I smile at her "So that means you are going to start 9th grade this September, am I right?" The girl nods back
"Do you like school?" Callie nods back again
"What do you like the most about it?" I ask her and wait patiently for her to answer
"Not home" Callie reply after a long pause. I barely heard her, she spoke so quietly, so shyly. This was such a contrast to the girl who just minute ago was shouting at Matt and smashing up the car. It was like I was talking to a whole different girl.
"You like it because it means you are... not at home?" I ask to clarify
The look in her eyes answered that questions before she even nodded her head back. It was such a small nod, I almost missed it. Sad eyes – that was what I thought when she looked at me like that.
"You don't like home?" I ask gesturing with my left to the house by which we stood by
"Not my home" She said back as quietly as before
"You don't live here?" The girl remained silent
"You live here, but it is not your home?" Callie bit her lower lip as she kept the eye contact with me
I went with the most obvious thought in my mind "Is this...your foster home?" I get another nod back
"Do you like your foster family?" That question set off something in her
"You should arrest him!" She said back way more louder and glared at the family
"You attacked me" The boy yelled back, even though the girl didn't pointed him out "Everyone saw you attack me! I hadn't done anything to you! You are the one who went crazy! You are the one who attacked me, remember!"
"What about what you did to me!" The girl was at tears when she shouted back at him. There was so much hate in her eyes, so much anger and mostly so much pain.
Something was going on here, something we do not know about, something no one is talking about it. And to me it looked like this something was between Callie and her foster brother.
"I haven't done anything to you! My parents took you in and this is how you repay us?! This is how you repay me?"
That again set something off on her. She lowered the bat to her right hand only and started to storm towards him. She had set a target and it was her foster brother. I was pretty sure she saw only red when she looked at him. She looked like she was about to head over there and just smash his head in or just smash up his other knee. I needed to stop her from doing, I needed to stop her from making another mistake.
"Whoa...whoa...hey...calm down! Everyone just calm down please...we can talk through this. No one else has to get hurt...okay?" I run in front of her, stopping her from storm over to him. Callie jumped back as I was almost hand reach away from her.
"Callie, calm down...look at me sweetheart. Look at me" I say very calmly and gently, Callie took a step backwards "Don't listen to him" I gesture behind me, to the family. Her eyes darted from me over to the family behind me, then back to me again.
"Just...look at me sweetheart. Look at me...ignore him, ignore the rest of them. It's just you and me here. No one else, but you and me..." I said calmly keeping eye contact with the girl
Callie was holding on to the bat in her right hand, the tip of the bat, touched the ground. Her left hand was pulled in fist. Her body was tensed up, there was so much rage in her eyes. Finally her eyes stopped darting around and they landed on me.
"You don't want to hurt anyone else, honey" Callie glared at me when I said that "Don't do something that you will regret later on"
"I won't regret it!" She said back through grinned teeth
"Yes, you will. I can tell you are not a bad person Callie. You don't want to do this. Trust me, you don't want to do this!"
"How do you know? You don't even know me!" She snapped back
"Because I see it...in your eyes. You are not a bad person Callie. You have already hurt him, you have already smashed up his car. I know that you know what this means, you know how this will turn out for you. Don't make it even more harder on yourself Callie!" Callie shifted in her stand once I said that. Her body eased up a bit as she started to think about the consequences.
"Can you please give me the bat?" I ask slowly extending my arm to her, I had a feeling she would give up
"Why?" She asked looking down to it
"I don't want you to hurt anyone else. It is best if you cooperate with me Callie, I know you know that. I can see that you are a smart girl. Don't make another mistake..please...give me the bat" Callie looked down to it once again "Please, Callie" I take a small step towards her, with my hand extended
"He deserved it" Callie says in a very cold, distant voice when she looks up to my eyes. I even got chills for it. Suddenly there was no fear, no anger, no pain, no sadness, no despair in her eyes. Her face went blank, her eyes look empty. It is like she turned off all of her emotions and feelings.
The next moment Callie hands me the bat. Matt walks over to us and take the bat from me. He knew I was going to be the one who puts on the handcuffs on her.
"Turn around...hands behind your back" I say quietly to her as I take out my handcuffs. Callie does what I ask.
"You did the right thing, Callie" I tell her as I put one of the handcuffs around her wrist "You are going to be okay" I put the other handcuff around her other wrist.
"You did the right thing" I remind her and gave her right hand a small squeeze once the handcuffs are tightly around her wrists
There was something about this girl, that made me want to just...hug her, hold her, help her. There was something about her.
Finally the day has arrived and I couldn't be any more happier. I was standing in front of the mirror looking at the light grey suit pants and white blouse that I was wearing. I was dressed more fancier than the usual jeans and sweater, but I hadn't gone all formal to fancy dress.
I reached for my phone on and quickly typed in a message to my brother.
-Hey, how far are you? What is your ETA?
I don't have to wait long for an answer from him.
-We will be there in 5
I smile at the message as I read it. Everything seemed to go as planned. I place the phone in my purse and take it by my hand. When I crossed the hallway, I knocked on the doorframe, because the doors were open wide up.
When I stepped in the room, I stopped in my tracks once I saw her. Callie was wearing the dress we bough specifically for this event. It was a dark blue dress, with flower patter. Her hair was falling freely over her shoulders.
Callie turned to me, when I gasped seeing her "How do I look?" she asked looking down to her dress
"Stunning" I say as I see over her outfit. Callie's face light up once I say that, she blushes and smiles at me shyly.
"Ready to go?" I ask her when she takes one last look at the mirror
"Yes! Let's go!" Callie says excited when she turns back to me.
When I park the car, Callie glances to the building. I see nervousness and slight fear in her eyes. After I stop the engine, I reach over and place my hand on hers "Are you nervous?"
Callie turns to me and says honestly "A little. I'm just scared that something like last time will happen again"
"It won't!" I said with certainty "You are going to walk in as Callie Quinn Jacob, but you will walk out as Callie Quinn Scott" Callie takes in a shaky breath and looks back to the building.
"You do want to become a Scott, right? Are you having second thoughts?"
"No...No! I want this! I want to be a Scott!" She said quickly looking back to me "I'm just...anxious! I can't wait!" Callie added with a big smile on her lips
"Well, then...miss Jacob, shall we?" I ask gesturing with my free hand to the building. Callie nodded her head back vigorously and we got out of the car at the same time.
"This is a very important and special day, you know" I say as we walk over to the building
"Mm-hmm" Callie hummed back, her eyes were on the building in front of her
"I will never forget this day" Callie nodded back
"The last few months have been...rough. To me, to you...to both of us. We had...many bumps and hitches on the way...but we are here now" The smile from Callie's face slowly faded as she knew that I was talking about the journey we had to take to get there.
"We took this long, hard journey together. We stuck together through it all. We made it together" I continued as I pushed the doors open for her
"You are going to be a Scott...and I couldn't be more happier about it!" I say stopping in the hall. Callie stops and turns to me. I reach for her hand and run my thumb over her palm "I love you more than you can imagine"
"I love you too" Callie interjected before I continued
"Like I said - you will become a Scott. You will become a part of a family, part of my family" I said and smirked at her. Callie tilted her head sideways, I saw the wheels in her head turning as she thought about what I meant by that.
"You won't just be motherly smothered by me. You will be spoiled by your grandparents. Your uncle will continue to inform you of our family history and tell you lies and embarrassing stories about me, when we were kids. You and your cousins will get into trouble together whenever they come visit or we go visit them. You will once again be part of a family."
"Are...is your family coming?" Callie asked curiously
"We are not just coming, we are already here!" Linda said to her when all of the extended family walked up to her, surprising her. Callie turned around once she heard my mom's voice. A big smiled appeared on her face, her eyes light up as well.
"You didn't think we would miss this, did you?" Andy asked with a big smile on his lips
Andy's daughters – Olivia (18) and Nicole (15) – were the first one's to step closer and give Callie a hug. They both were brown haired, blue eyed, tall, slim girls. Both of them resembled Andy's wife Nell more than Andy. The girls got the hair color and hair type from their dad, but the facial structure and body type was from their mom.
As Callie was being hugged by my family, I saw the lawyer come towards us. Once we shared eye contact, he smiled at me.
"The judge is ready for you" He said and gestured us to head to the small hall
"Who's ready for an adoption?" Harold said clapping his hand's excited as he took the lead "Come on...let's not waste any more time! We have been waiting for this for months...chop, chop! I can't wait till you officially become a Scott!"
"I think your dad is more excited than us" Callie whispers to me as we follow our lawyer and Harold through the hall
I whisper back "He was also the one who yelled at the judge when you couldn't get adopted last time, remember? What did you except? He is just excited to have another granddaughter"
A moment later, Callie and I were standing in front of the judge. The lawyer was next to us, the family was standing behind us. We were both asked to go sign the paperwork.
Callie stepped forward and signed the paperwork first, then it was my turn. Once I signed the papers, the lawyer took the paperwork and handed it up to the judge.
When I walked back to Callie, I slipped my right palm in her hand. We interlocked our fingers. First I just give her palm a soft squeeze, but then I bent the hands up and kiss the top of her palm. Callie looked to me and smiled.
When the judge closes the file after signing it, he turns to look at us and says happily "Congratulations, Callie, you are now officially adopted!"
The family behind us cheered. I squeezed her palm one last time before letting go of her palm, only to pull her in a big, tight mama bear hug instead.
End of Flashback
Nurse Lisa POV
It was a very early September 10th morning, it was barely 5AM. I was doing my rounds, the last patient I needed to check up on was the officer in 307. After the check up, I turned to head back to the nurses station. But I stopped when something caught my eye. Her right hand fingers were slowly moving. It wasn't just a twitch. She was moving her right hand fingers very slowly and lightly.
I walked up to the bed side and slipped my hand in her right hand. Next I gave her hand a very gentle squeeze, so she would know she is not alone. Her fingers moved and bent to touch my palm, almost as if she tried to squeeze my hand back.
A moment later her eyes slowly flutter open. There is confusion in her eyes, she looks disoriented. The officer blinks her eyes for a moment as her eyes start to adjust to the light, that was on in her room. I leaned closer, so I would be in her eye sight, so she would see me.
"Welcome back, Officer Scott" I say looking down to her smiling