A/N: Sorry it took so long for an update. I wanted to post this chapter last Friday, but I broke my wrist in a skateboarding accident. So bare with me if it takes longer to post the other chapters. After rereading chapter 1 and some of my other stories you guys are right I do need beta if anyone whats to help let me know. Alright enough with excuses here is chapter 2, all mistakes are mine.
"Alright, tumor has been removed. Looks like it didn't spread so let's close her up so Jen can go into recovery just in time for volleyball season."
This day has been so fast paced but extremely slow at the same time. At the moment I only have two surgeries, a Neuroblastoma which I just finished and a Hypoplastic left heart with Teddy. It seems like I was just in scrubbing in for this surgery and now I'm scrubbing out. I feel a little guilty because I wasn't focused on this surgery. I was more focused on Erica and that woman from the pictures.
"Dr. Robbins?" Alex asks breaking me from my thoughts.
"Hm"
"You know me I don't mean to pry, but I just wanted to know if is everything alright?"
I have to smile to myself, Alex doesn't like to show that he is a caring person around his colleagues, but to his patients and to me at least he is a really nice guy and doctor. He follows me around like a lost puppy and I'm proud that he is going to be a peds fellow here in a few months.
"Who knew that house hunting could be so stressful. It seems like Callie and I can't agree on anything when it comes to looking for homes." I take a moment to study his reaction. I have been working with him for the past 3 years and know how to read him like an open book. Looking at his body language and facial expression he's not buying my excuse, knowing him he'll drop it and wait till I come to him, which I won't.
"Okay, I just wanted to ask because you seemed to be on auto pilot back there. I know it was a stage one Neuroblastoma nothing to be worried about really, but we do have a kid with Hypoplastic left heart syndrome with half of his face torn off, and a broken arm and broken leg. That is something you can't be on auto pilot for." Karev pauses to look at me as he dries his hands, he does have a valid point. This afternoon for my second surgery I have to give it all of my attention, but Erica is making that impossible.
"I know I was a little out if earlier, but I will be fine later I promise." I stop washing my hands and start drying them off. "Why don't you go tell Jen's parents the good news and then I'll meet you upstairs in cardio for our consult."
Alex shakes his head and walks past me, before he walks out the door he turns around to face me. "I'm here if you need me Arizona." He says to me before he is out of sight.
I leave the scrub room and make my way upstairs to cardio. As I turn the corner for the cardio wing I glance up at the clock, its noon. Once I completely turn the corner my small fake smile goes away. I have been here since 8 this morning, that's 4 hours and I have been on this floor in this hallway 7 times. Every time I come on this floor, to get some type of intel on Erica's patient I come up short. Either the door is closed or Erica is always in there with her resident Izzie Stevens. At this very moment Izzie is there filling out a chart.
So much for walking into this consult with a nice clean slate. When I walk into my consult I stand as close to the left hand corner as I can get. This gives me a perfect view of my next patient and his parents as well as a perfect view of my mystery woman's room.
As Alex and I wait for the other doctors to show up I try to formulate a plan to talk to this woman without Erica knowing. Callie and Lexie are the next to arrive after Alex and me. My hands are folded in front of me, and as Callie walks in front of me to stand on my left side I feel her hand brush up against mine. As I feel her hand against mine, I unfold my hands and follow her hand along its path to my left side. We don't make eye contact with each other, but we both have a small loving smile on our face from our brief contact. When she gets to her spot my hands return to their folded position in front of me and her hands make their way to her lab coat pockets.
Every time we have a case together we always do this, it's our secret 'hey I love you' hand shake. That way we can be affectionate towards each other, but professional at the same time. Not soon after Teddy and Cristina enter the room with Mark and Jackson right behind them.
Our patient 14 year old Chase Brown was playing street football with some friends. The football went into a neighbor's yard, and they made Chase go into the yard to get it, he was in the process of looking for the ball when he fell to ground because of a heart attack. To make things worse for Chase the neighbor had a pit bull that attacked the helpless boy. As a result Chase got a broken arm and leg and half of his face torn off.
I just sit back and listen as Alex takes over. He is still trying to prove himself to others. He wants everyone to know that he is not only ready for his fellowship in a few months, but he is also ready for his boards next month. I think the same goes for Cristina and Jackson, because when I pay attention to our consult the residents seem to be the only ones who are talking.
I am in the process of trying to decipher Cristina's medical robot talk when I notice that Izzie is leaving the patient's room, leaving her alone. This is it. This is my window of opportunity. If I can get just a few minutes of alone time with this woman, I will be able to think more, and I will be able to rock this surgery with no problem.
It would seem that luck is on my side today because right as Izzie left, our consult was over. I start walking over to the room, when Mark steps right in my path. "Jesus Arizona! You look like you someone just kicked your dog right in front of you. Pun intended."
My luck just ran out.
"Are you really going to act like a baby about this whole dog thing or what Addison said to you this morning?"
"Not right now Mark," I say as I try to step around him, but that doesn't work.
"Yes, right now. I don't have anything until this afternoon I checked the board and you don't have anything until this afternoon, so you and me are going to talk."
I let out a sigh and watch as Erica returns to the room now. She is looking right at me with a grin on her face. She taps her watch like me standing here is wasting time, and she's right I missed my window. "I have to go." My voice is laced with venom so when I turn my back, Mark will get the hint that I don't want to be messed with.
I need to clear my mind and seeing how talking to this mystery woman is out of the question. I have to go the plan B. I make my way downstairs towards the daycare, as I'm about to enter the daycare I see Cristina talking to Meredith Grey. I think my plan B has just changed a little bit. Right as I walk up to them Meredith gets a page and she takes off running in the other direction, "Yang."
"Blondie," God I hate that nickname.
"I need you to do me favor, the patient in room 4157 I need to know everything about them. Their name, where they are from and why they are here."
Cristina rolls her eyes and puts her hands in her lab coat pockets. "If you really want to know so bad go find out yourself."
"I can't do it by myself, and I can't have Teddy do it. You're the next best thing."
"Look I want to be a cardio surgeon, not your little bitch. Now if you would excuse me I have surgeon like things to do." Cristina has her back to me now and is walking away.
"Do I need to remind you Yang that Teddy is my best friend and I can make her turn on you in a heartbeat. Is it really so hard to sneak a peek at the chart for room 4157? I would do it myself but its Erica's patient, and she doesn't like me. If Teddy goes in there she will know it's because of me. Please Yang help me out here."
Cristina stops in her tracks and turns to face me again. "This has something to do with Erica?"
Gotcha Bitch!
"Yes, she's up to something and I want to know what it is before I go to Hunt or confront her about it." I pause and look her, she's thinking real hard.
"I'm saying yes only this one time, because I hate that bitch I would love to bring her down a notch or two. Give me 2 hours max, I'll get you everything you need to know." With that Cristina turns around and makes her way upstairs, and I turn around and make way over to the daycare with a little extra pep in my step.
It's actually a nice sunny day today, and the kids are playing outside. So I'm just standing by the front desk waiting for my baby girl. "Arizona Robbins," A voice says from behind me.
"Addison Montgomery." I turn to my left to see her standing next to me, studying me. I intrigue her. She knows that most of emotions are fake, she just doesn't why or how to prove that I fake them.
"About this morning, I just wanted to say-"
"Save it!" I cut her off, which causes her to raise an eyebrow and narrow her eyes on me. "We both know you're not really sorry, your only here because Calliope made you. So let me help you out by saying you don't have to come up with some fake apology."
"Thanks Arizona, that's very thoughtful of you." Addison turns her back to the front desk so she can lean against it. "So, what did Erica say or do to piss you off today?"
I just give her a blank stare and meaningless grin. Clearly I have underestimated Addison and her people watching skills. "I don't know what you're talking about." I'm still grinning at her as she takes the time to study me, and for the first time in years I get an uneasy feeling about her watching me so closely.
"Oh please Robbins I wasn't born yesterday. I know the endless commits from Mark and I don't even faze you, otherwise you would have been acting like this years ago. It can't be Callie because ever since you guys got married you two became the stable couple that everyone wants to be. You and Teddy are attracted at the hip, kind of like Mark, Callie and I. We know you guys call us the three stooges, but we like to call you guys Laurel and Hardy. Last but not least Karev, that boy idolizes you. He is not going to do anything to piss off his mentor, which only leaves one person, Erica Hahn. I know you hate her just as much as I do. So what has she done to get a reaction out you, a reaction that I have tried to bring out for the past 3 years that I have known you?"
Well let's see Addison she is pissing me off because she always seems to be a step ahead me, and she is flaunting the fact that I have yet to find out any information on her patient in room 4157. "Laurel and Hardy, that's cute. I don't talk to Erica Hahn, never have and if things continue to work in my favor I never will." I say to Addison with a smirk.
"That is such a crock of sh-"
"MOMMY!"
"Baby Girl," I drop down to one knee, as Sofia comes running into my arms. I give her a kiss on the cheek as I stand back up with her in my arms and face Addison.
She has a smile on her face, for Sofia no doubt, "Hi Aunt Addie!"
"Hey Sof, what are you up to?"
"We going to magic show!" Sofia is bouncing in arms. She loves magic's shows and every Tuesday and Thursday at Alki Playground just 5 minutes from the hospital they have one.
"Yep, we've got a hot date at Alki to see The Amazement Magic Show."
Addison goes from looking at Sofia to looking at me. "Well then I won't keep you two ladies from your date. Maybe we can finish our conversation later, mommy."
Not if I can help it. "Sure," it's the last thing that is said between Addison and me as we go our separate ways.
The playground is about a 5-minute drive from hospital, but since it's a beautiful day outside Sofia and I walk. Well I walk and she runs zig zags in front of me. Once we are at the park we find the seated area for the magic show. We manage to find two seats right in the middle.
We are only seated for about 2 minutes before Sofia gets up and gets in my lap. Like she did when she was baby starts to play with my wedding ring to pass the time. It's another 2 minutes before the show starts.
Like all kids around Sofia's age they are amazed by all tricks that Rick and Jeff are doing. I give Sofia a light shake, and gasp whenever the crowd does, but my attention isn't focused on Rick and Jeff. It's focused on their assistant, Adriana Cilano.
It seems like even though the door to my mystery woman is closed, other doors are opening for me. Normally I would be happy about it, but Erica seems to be trumping everything else.
I shouldn't be doing this, not with Sofia around at least. I shouldn't be doing my ritual with my daughter around. I think that would make me the world's biggest hypocrite. I always go on and on about not wanting kids because I don't want them to be like me, and yet here I am fighting the urge not to go through my ritual. If Sofia ends up a monster like me I have no one to blame but myself.
I force myself to stay focused on Rick and Jeff, but every now and then I caught myself looking over to their young 28-year-old assistant. Adriana Cilano just turned 28 last week. She's about 5'7 with long brown hair. She has a very slender body, but has a round and full face. Based on her track record with relationships she is defined as a gold digger in our society, but to a few others, I included, she is actually a black widow.
She has been married three times now. Each of her partners have died in an unsuspecting way a year or two after their wedding. The police have said that each death was nothing more than an accident. I don't see it though. Three different spouses have died under Adriana's watch. Adriana is behind their deaths, she's just good at masking them.
Adriana didn't show up on my radar until a few months ago, when she came in with her third spouse, Nathaniel Poltorak. He was a chairman for The Boeing Company at the young age of 27. The couple was enjoying a nice evening out on the town when poor Nathaniel was stabbed. He was stabbed in the stomach. The knife just missed his inferior vena cava, but he died before Owen could bark out orders on what to do. His murder is still unsolved because the only witness to the crime was Adriana and she didn't see a thing.
Upon closer inspection I discovered her first spouse, Michelle Maki CEO of Alaska Airlines. Married at the young age of 21, she was an outdoors type of person. She loved to go mountain biking, skiing, kayaking, running, walking you name it she loved it. Well on one Saturday afternoon Michelle fell down the stairs leading to the basement. She had a broken femur and pelvis; well they weren't really broken they were shattered. It was so bad that pieces of her bone cut into her common iliac artery, external iliac artery and her internal iliac artery. She bled out before she could make it to Callie's table.
Then there was her second spouse, Jamie Langhauser head software developer at Microsoft. She was only 25 and had a heart problem. She had a Coronary Heart Disease, which gave her about 6 heart attacks a year without surgery and medication. Teddy was able to put a stop to that. After a successful surgery she put her on medication, medication that Adriana controlled. Every week she would up her dosage until one day her heart gave out and she dropped dead in the middle of a presentation at work.
Adriana doesn't know it yet, but three is going to be her magic number.
The show is only 20 minutes, and I get a whole hour for lunch. I let Sofia play in the sand box for a little while before we go get something to eat. I walk around the outside perimeter with a smile on my face watching my baby girl play with the other kids. I make it to the far corner to find Adriana sitting on a park bench watching the kids play.
"Is it okay if I sit here?" I ask with a light smile.
"Yeah," Adriana says as moves her stuff and then goes back to watching the kids play.
"So which one is your?" I lean back and cross my legs, I try to come off carefree so I can gain her trust.
"Oh, I don't have children. I'm just waiting for my girlfriend to come back from the restroom." I shake my head slowly, before turning my attention to Sofia to make she is okay. "What about you? Do you have kids?"
"I do," I look over to Sofia and see that her and some other kids have migrated to the slide. "By the sandbox." I nod with my head making hard to tell which one is mine even though none of them are my baby girl. "We really loves your shows, even if they are same tricks every week." I give a small laugh, and she does too.
"I feel your pain. It must suck, always knowing what happens." She says with a small chuckle.
I stop laughing, but I keep the smile on my face. "It's not that bad when you a beautiful brunette to look at." My eyes start at her feet and slowly move up her body. I am in no way physically or sexually attracted to her, but if I want to gain her trust and get her alone I have to do this.
"I'm in a serious relationship." She says with a small smile.
"Married with a child," I counter as I raise my hand to show her my wedding ring. "Can't blame for fantasizing what could have been." I turn my attention back to Sofia, she has moved over to the monkey bars. I'm going to be in a lot of trouble this evening. Mark, Callie and Addison don't let her anywhere near them, afraid that she is going to get hurt. But she knows if it's just the two of us she can go play on them, but she has to keep it a secret. Which is still bad for me, when it comes to secrets is when you can tell that she is Mark Sloan's daughter because she can't keep a secret for the life of her.
Out of the corner of my eye I can see Adriana giving me the once over. I have got her hook, line and sinker.
"Adriana!" A voice calls out from our left. Adriana holds up a hand and turns back to me.
"That's my girlfriend, I have to go. It was nice meeting you…" she holds out her hand for a handshake.
"Allison," I say.
"Adriana," something sharp pokes bottom of my palm and tips of my fingers. I look down at my hand and see the card that she has slipped into my hand. 'Adriana 541-248-1798'
I look up to her with a smile, "cool trick."
"If you get some free time away from her husband and child, maybe we could have some fun." She gets up and starts to walk away from me.
"What about your girlfriend?" I ask playing confused.
"What she doesn't know won't hurt her." She smiles back at me before turning around to greet her girlfriend. I wait a few minutes before I walk over to the monkey bars and get Sofia.
"So, baby girl. What do you want for lunch?" I grab Sofia who is hanging from the monkey bars. I tickle her sides and she squirms a little bit.
"Mommy!" Sofia squeals.
"I don't think I'll be able to stop because I'm getting hungry, and you know what happens when I get hungry." I smile and tickle her sides again.
"Beth's!" Sofia yells.
The moment she says Beth's I stop tickling her and give her a semi serious face. "Beth's it is." We both smile at each other before we take a short walk over to Beth's Diner.
Beth's diner is a small diner that Callie and I found one day when we had the day off together three years ago. It's small and homey and has very good food. From that day on we turned Beth's Diner into a tradition. Every Sunday we have breakfast, lunch or dinner at Beth's, depending on our schedule.
"Good afternoon Mrs. Robbins. Is it just the two of you or is your wife joining you?" Gina the hostess asks.
"Nope, it's just the two of us," I say with a smile as I set Sofia down so we can walk to our usual booth in the diner.
"Victoria will be with you guys soon." Gina hands us our menu before returning to the front of the diner.
I give a lite smile before turning my attention over to Sofia. "What do you want for lunch?"
"Chocolate milkshake!"
My smile gets wider with her response, "I don't think so. No milkshake until you eat real food."
Sofia huffs and starts to pout. Something I find adorable. I swear her and Callie must spend hours in front of the mirror practicing because it only takes me a few second to cave in and get them whatever they want.
"What's wrong with the grilled cheese sandwich, you love that?"
"I want a chocolate milkshake," Sofia is still pouting.
"And you'll get one after you eat your lunch."
"Promise?"
"When have I ever said no?"
"Okay," Sofia says as Victoria comes to take our order.
"Afternoon ladies, is Mrs. Robbins going to be joining you?" Victoria asks.
Every time I hear this I get a smile on my face. Ever since Callie and I got married everyone at the diner was stared calling Callie Mrs. Robbins even though she has kept her last name Torres. She never corrects them or seems irritated when they do it. I think she secretly likes being called Mrs. Robbins. Teddy and I have a bet going on when she finally caves and changes her last name to mine. I think it will be sometime soon, while Teddy thinks it won't be until we have another kid or when Sofia starts elementary school and we go to our first parent teacher conference.
We place our order, milkshakes included, before we go back to the hospital. Once I drop Sofia back off at daycare, I change back into my scrubs and make my way up the peds floor. I check on a few of patients to make sure everything is okay before my surgery later on this afternoon. I am walking passed one of the on call rooms when the door opens and two hands grab me and pull me inside.
"What the hell Yang? You almost gave me a fucking heart attack." I grab my chest, and give out a sigh. Yang didn't scare me, but she was seconds' way from having her neck snapped.
"Sorry Blondie, I found the information you wanted to know about Erica's patient. Her name is Charlie E. Koop 27 years old, and she is here for abnormal heart rhythms and is having surgery to get an implantable cardioverter defibrillator." Christina pauses to look at my face, I'm thinking hard and she knows it. "What is that not the right person?"
"No it is Yang, thanks." I say still staring off into space.
"Okay…well if you need anything else that has to do with bring down Erica let me know because I will be more than willing to help." Yang says before she leaves the on call room.
All of what Cristina told me was a lie. Charlie Koop, that is a fake name, she got the name from Charles Everett Koop a famous peds in the early 1990s. The age could be right, and with amount of physical activity this girl does there is no way she could have a heart problem. So I'm back to square one, great.
I make my way downstairs for my second surgery. It's a lot better than my first one. Getting Adriana's phone number definitely helped with my mood. Callie, Lexie, Mark, Jackson, Teddy and Yang each took about 2 hours working on their part, once they were done they left the OR. As for Alex and I we are there for the six hours that is need for this surgery.
Once he is closed up, Alex and I scrub out. I send Alex upstairs to tell the family the news while I go to the fourth floor to check on Erica's patient. A smile comes to face when I see the door open and no one inside, but my smile soon drops when I see that the room is empty with no signs of life.
"Rose!" I yell, as I see the nurse pass by this room. It takes a few seconds but soon she is standing right next me.
"Yes, Dr. Robbins?"
"The patient that was in here earlier Ms. Koop, where did she go?" I ask, looking over to Rose. I can tell I'm not going to like the answer because she is giving me a perplex look.
"This room has been vacant for the past week."
I bit the inside of cheek, a habit that Callie hates. "Vacant?"
"Yeah, maybe you have the wrong room? Not like it hasn't happened before, this is a big hospital."
"Maybe your right thanks Rose." I turn around and quickly make it upstairs to my office. I spend the next hour going through the hospital's patient database and keep coming up empty. Erica had two surgeries today, a double bypass and a lung transplant. Both patients were male, and they were in their rooms recovering from surgery.
I am completely clueless right now and I don't like it. Erica is proving that she is smarter than me, which is something I'm not used too.
"Hey babe," Callie says as she walks into the office and sits down on my couch.
"Hey you," I say with smile as I exit out of everything on the screen just in case Callie comes over here. "You ready to go house hunting?" I walk over to her and help her to her feet. We lean in for a long loving kiss lasting several seconds.
"As ready as I'll ever be." She says as we make our way to the attending's lounge.
We both take a shower in the lounge; I always take quicker showers than Callie. So by the time Callie is done showering I'm sitting on the bench in front of my locker playing Temple Run on my phone.
Her locker is right across from mine and through my peripheral vision I can see her getting dressed. I know she can tell that I'm watching her because every move she makes, she makes sure that it sexy as hell. She bends over right in front of me giving a very nice view of her ass as she slowly pulls up her jeans. I never would have thought that putting lotion on your arms could be sexy but she has managed to make it look very, very sexy.
I feel like she has hypnotized me, because I find myself standing up and wrapping my arms around her waist and turning her around to face me. She doesn't get the chance to say anything because I immediately attach my lips to hers.
Our kiss is not a small peck or nice long sensual one either. It's a deep kiss and our tongues start to play with each other right away. "By the way you are getting dressed one would think you don't want go house hunting. If you keep this up I swear I will take you right here, right now." I whisper in her ear right before I nip at it and then suck it to ease the pain.
"Maybe…" she lets out a small gasp as I kiss my way down her neck to her collarbone. "Maybe that's what I wanted…"
She is trying to undo my belt buckle and unbutton my jeans but every time I nip, kiss or suck her collarbone she loses all control of her hand movements. Finally she just gives up and grabs me by the waist and pulls me in closer.
I continue my assault on her collarbone as she slams her head back against the locker. "dios mio…" It drives Callie crazy when I pay extra attention to her collarbone.
She lifts up her right leg and wraps it around my waist indicting that she wants to be in one of her favorite positions. She moves her hands from my waist to round my neck and shoulders to help her balance, I take my both my hands and reach around to the back of her ass and lift her up. Her left leg soon lifts up and wraps around my waist just like the right one and she locks her ankles together.
People are always shocked at how strong I am. I may come off as petite and dainty, but looks can be deceiving. I have absolutely no problem taking down a man or woman twice my size. Sometimes I love when they put up fight, makes killing them much more enjoyable. 'Just because you have the muscles, doesn't mean you know how to use them.' That was Tim's motto, and in my case it is a true statement. I have the muscles, and I know how to use them to their full capacity.
I spend a few more seconds on her collarbone and then I start to kiss and lick my way down to her chest. I am just about to play with her bra using my teeth when vibrating from both of our pockets stop us. It's our real estate agent Jeremy Glass, he just texted us the address of our first house. "We should probably get going." I say as I lower her to the ground slowly.
Callie lets out a groan, "we are never going to have sex again are we?"
"If there is a will there is a way." I say, it's my turn to slap her ass as she turns around to finish getting ready. A few minutes later the two of us find ourselves in my car going to our first location, 737 Olive Way.
4 hours, we have been looking at piss poor excuses for houses for the past 4 hours. I'm tired, hungry, horny and extremely pissed off. Jeremy Glass 'the best real estate agent in ALL of Seattle', that my friends is a crock of shit. This little bitch doesn't know how to the listen.
Before we started looking for houses Jeremy asked what we were looking for in a house. The response we gave him was; at least 5 bedrooms, one for Sofia and one for her little brother or sister if want to expand our family; and room for both of our in laws for when they come to visit. A large back yard because I have the feeling like I'm going to come home one day and I'm going to be greeted by a fucking dog. Addison can be a sneaky bitch sometimes, so I wouldn't put it past her to buy a dog behind my back. We also want a basement for Sofia so she can play with her friends and a study for Callie.
That is what we wanted, is that what Jeremy is showing us? No I have seen 2 penthouse apartments with three bedrooms max, and two very small houses with just 2 bedrooms.
"I know your upset right now babe. Just hang in there it will probably be a few days before we find our dream house."
Callie's trying to be optimistic, but I can tell she is just as pissed as I am. I just smile at her and return my gaze back to looking out the window. My tension and hatred towards Jeremy slowly starts to melt away as the houses and neighborhoods we pass start going up.
Callie pulls ups to a long and large driveway to a beautiful two story house. "Wow." She says under her breath, and all I can do is nod my head to agree with her. We get out of the car and Callie grabs hand and gives it a squeeze, we haven't even stepped inside and I can tell that she is in love with the place.
"This is the last house I have you guys today, and out of all the other ones I will show in the future this one is really the only one that will cater to all of your needs. " Jeremy says as he walks up to the front door. "It has six bedrooms, six full bathrooms and 2 partial bathrooms."
Jeremy opens the front the door and we step into a beautiful foyer with a large chandelier in the middle of it. Right in front of us is a staircase leading upstairs; to the right is where the living room is. At the back of the living room is a huge opening that leads right into the formal dining room. In the formal dining on the left side is a huge opening so you can see the foyer and the front door, to the right side is a large sliding glass door that leads out to patio and looking straight ahead is another large opening that takes you into the massive kitchen. When you first step into the kitchen you are looking at the informal dining room, a place where Callie, Sofia and I will be eating on a daily basis. To the left is a large breakfast bar with enough room for at six seats with the stove and two ovens side by side on the other side. Opposite to the breakfast bar is the sink and wide countertop space on both sides. To the left side of the countertop is where the refrigerator and walk in pantry is and to the right side is where the dishwasher is. We walk straight through the kitchen to another large opening with a hallway, to the left it leads you back out to the foyer. To the right it leads you to a large room with a giant bookshelf on the back wall. This is without a doubt Callie's study, further down the hall on the right side is a door that leads you downstairs to the basement and a few more feet down the hall on the same side as the basement door is another door that leads to laundry room, and at the very end of the hallway is a door that leads to the three car garage.
The upstairs really isn't that special, all the bedrooms are up here and every bedroom has it's know bathroom. Good to know if we have more kids in the future, I don't have to listen to them bitch about them taking forever in the bathroom. The patio and backyard are nice and big. We even have a pool and a hot tub something we didn't ask for but it is still nice.
"As you can see it's a very nice house. I think it meets your criteria and then some." Jeremy lets out a small chuckle. "Very nice neighborhood as you can see, I remember you guys say you have 2- year old?"
"3, she'll be 3 in a week." Callie corrected.
"Sorry, well since she will be 3 next week you can enroll her Bright Water School. They cater to kids from preschool all the way up to 8th grade. It's a very nice private school, my sister sends her kids there and she loves it, the kids love it as well."
"Bright Water, that's one of the schools we are applying too. How far away is it?" Callie asked.
"About 10-15 minutes."
Callie doesn't get the chance to ask another question when her phone goes off, she excuses herself from the room and steps outside to take her phone call. "Do you have any questions Mrs. Robbins?"
I look outside to see that the door is closed and Callie is far from hearing distance. "Just one," I turn my attention back to Jeremy. "How much are they asking for?"
I knew from the moment Callie took my hand that this was it, this was the house of her dreams. It's large, no massive and I wanted to do everything in power to hate it but for some reason I can't. I think it's mainly because Callie loves it so much. The smile on her face as we walked through every room in the house, the look in her eye was like she was imagining holidays or just day-to-day living in this house. Even though it was our first day of house hunting this was it, this was the home that we have been looking for.
Jeremy breaks me from thoughts and hands me a piece of paper with the price on it. Holy God it's expensive, but if Calliope wants it I will do everything in my power to get it for her.
"Ok," I say under my breath as I take the pen that is attached at the top of the paper. I write down a number and hand the paper back to Jeremy. Jeremy shakes his head, "Ok, I'll let the owner know later on this evening when I return back to my office."
"Thanks," I smile at him and look back towards the front door one more time. "Jeremy? Can you do me favor?"
"Anything"
"Can you keep this a secret from Callie? I want to make it a surprise if the owner doesn't get too crazy with price."
"Not a problem. I will contact only you when it comes to this house." He said with a smile. "Since you want to make it a surprise do you still want me to show you guys the houses I have lined up for you guys next week?"
"I would like that."
Jeremy is about to say something but stops when Callie comes into the house. We both smile at each before turning our attention to Callie.
"Well ladies, this is all I have for you this week. So I'll see you guys same time next week?"
"Yes" Callie says, as we follow Jeremy out the front door.
Nothing more is said between the three of us and soon Callie and I are on are way over to Addison's, or at least I think.
"Callie, you just passed the exit for Addison's back there." I say a little confused.
"I know, her and Sofia are having such a fun time Sofia asked if she spend the night." Callie paused, "plus I have to fix a mistake my intern made this evening." Callie sounds a little annoyed.
"Intern, what happened to Lexie?"
"Capped her over time hours had to go home after our surgery. She has the next three days off, leaving me with the dumbass intern." Callie lets out a loud sigh.
"He's an intern Callie. We both were interns at one point, and we weren't perfect." I counter.
"He was about to give a patient 300 mg of morphine." Callie's voiced raised a little bit. "Colleen called me to make sure if it was okay if she killed this man. Not the mention the laundry list of fuck ups he has been doing all afternoon since I left."
"Oh god, 300 mg of morphine in one sitting."
"Yeah," we don't say anything to each other until we get back to the apartment complex.
Callie gives me kiss as she gets out of the car, "Hey honey, can you go to the store for me. I don't know how long this going to take and we really need milk and bread."
"Yeah, no problem."
"Thanks," Callie gives me another kiss. "Here's the list of things we need."
"Alright I'm going now," I get in the driver's seat and make my way to the store, but first I make quick detour.
I pull up to an abandon warehouse district. The district is fenced off, but the pad lock on the fence has been broken which makes me a little worried. I don't need witnesses for what I'm going to be doing here tomorrow evening. As I drive through I see no signs of life, or signs that anyone has been here recently.
I make way down to an old marquee theater that Callie and I passed when we were house hunting. I park my car a little past the marquee between two building so no one will know what building I'm in if they happen to come this way. I reach into my glove compartment and pull out a pair of latex gloves and tools to pick locks. I also keep a black hoodie as backup, which I use for my recon on victims. It's baggy and gives away no features so if someone does see me I could pass as a man.
With the hood over my face I make my way over to the marquee, as I pick the lock to the door, I'm looking around to making sure that I'm alone. I have become really good at picking locks it only takes me a minute to do it. Even though I'm inside I keep the hood over my face as I examine the stage and everything around it.
This is it. This is the last place that Adriana will ever see again.
I leave the marquee and lock it up just the way I found it, and make my way over to the store and get items that Callie has listed. I am back at our apartment putting away the groceries when I get a text message from Callie. 'I will be another hour or two, you better be prepared to finish wait we started this morning and afternoon ;)'A small smile comes to my face, 2 hours is perfect time to set up my kill room.
I go to my old apartment to get my gear for my kill room. As I'm doing this I grab my prepaid cell phone from my back pocket and deal Adriana's phone number.
The phone rings for a long time and I'm thinking that she isn't going to answer because she doesn't recognize the number. "Hello?"
"Adriana! Hi it's Alison from the park this morning."
"Oh hey, you know I have to admit that I have been thinking about all day hoping you would call or text me soon."
"Right," I say in small whisper. "Well I'm not doing anything tomorrow around 4:30 do you want to meet up somewhere?"
"Sure, want to meet at Doctor Jose Rizal Park?"
Perfect, nobody goes there unless you have death wish. It seems like anyone who steps foot in that park gets murdered, so I don't have to worry about people seeing me in parking lot. "Sounds great, can't wait see you."
We both hang up the phone, as I put the phone back in my pocket and I open the door to my old apartment. I take a deep breath and smile to myself, what started off as a crappy day has turned out not that bad.
My smile is soon wiped off my face when I look over to where my kitchen is. On the refrigerator is a picture, I slowly make my way to the kitchen looking around my apartment for signs of life. I know I'm alone by the time I make it the kitchen, I take the picture off the refrigerator and examine it carefully. It is a picture of a boy with blonde hair and green eyes. He has to be a high school based off this picture because it looks like a senior portrait. I notice small little red spots here and there; this makes me flip the picture over. 'Better luck next time' is written in red sharpie on the back. I feel like Erica is no longer tormenting me without purpose. She wants to play game, and she asking if me if I want to play. My answer is yes.
I do want to play.