With Erica and Sadie out of sight, I go back to the peds floor to do my last minute rounds before I go home for evening, without my coffee. Erica's last play was enough to wake me; she killed Amanda and has targeted another person. She finds these people pretty fast which makes me believe that she has to have some kind of list already made, but I don't know where to find it. If I find it, then it will be game over for Erica.
After my rounds I go to my office and sit at desk just staring off into space with only my thoughts. I am completely out of it because I don't even hear my cell phone going off, and it is sitting on my desk right in front of me. I don't know what caused me to look down at my phone because I jump a little when I see that it is going off. "Hello," I say without even looking down at the caller ID.
"Hey, Mrs. Robbins its Jeremy. I had to break some legs and pull some strings but I was able to get everything done and I just wanted to call and tell you that the keys are ready for you to pick up at any time. I have to go to a showing tonight so I won't be in the office if you come by tonight, but I will leave the keys with my secretary."
"Okay, thank you for everything, Jeremy." I say with a soft smile. After that we both hang up the phone. When I look up to my doorway I am greeted by Jackson, Mark's resident.
"Hey Dr. Robbins, I was sent to tell you that your wife, Mark, Addison and Teddy are still in surgery and dinner will have to pushed back an hour or two." He says to me.
"Alright thanks, tell Callie that Sofia and I will see her at home."
Jackson shakes his head softly before he returns to the OR with others. I shut everything down in my office before I leave. I'm going to the attending lounge when I run into my mother and Mrs. Torres.
"Mom? Mrs. Tor…I'm sorry Lucia. What are you guys doing here?"
"We were looking for the daycare," Lucia says "I was going to show Barbara how to make my famous fajitas, but we have to go the store and we just got a call about everyone being in surgery so we thought we would bring Sofia with us."
"Oh, okay. The daycare is on the first floor by the main desk."
"Did you want to come with us, Airy?" my mother asks, and I groan to myself. I have always hated that nickname. I think I hate it even more than blondie.
"No, I have to pick up Sofia's birthday present." I say with a smile.
Lucia and my mother look at each other for a moment before they look over to me. "I thought you and Callie already got Sofia's birthday present?" My mother questions.
"We did, but this a special one that is just from me, to both Callie and Sofia." I reply back with a small grin.
"What is it?" Lucia asks.
"You'll find on Friday," I wink at them before I leave them to go the attending's lounge while they continue on their hunt for the hospital's daycare.
Before I get to the attending's lounge I find an empty computer in the hall way and use it to pull up Izzie's work schedule. I know just like Callie, both of our parents are just as in love with my car as I am. So that leaves stuck without a ride to Jeremy's office. Lucky for me Izzie is about to give me a ride there, she just doesn't know it yet.
I glance up at the clock and see that it is going on, 5:30. When I look at Izzie's schedule I see that she gets off work at 6:00. That gives me enough time to get dress and change before she gets off of work. I close her work schedule and pull up her personal file and see what type of car she drives. She drives a red 2008 Mitsubishi lancer.
With this information I go down to the attending's lounge to shower and change. When I change I don't change into the street clothes I had on when I came into work, but my traditional kill outfit. I keep several outfits hidden in my locker, on my boat, in my old apartment and hidden in my nightstand in Callie and I's apartment. Opportunities like this don't always come around so I have to be prepared no matter where I am.
After I get changed I find myself hanging and lurking around the resident's lounge until I see Izzie enter. I wait a few minutes before I leave the hospital in search for her car. I don't bother looking at any of the cars that are close to the hospital, because something tells me that Erica probably talked her into parking far away just in case she had to stay at the hospital long after her shift was over.
My hunch was right when I see Izzie's car parked in the middle of nowhere, in a poorly lit area of the parking lot. I love when people make this easy for me. It takes me a little while to pick her car door, but I am finally successful after a few failed attempts. When I unlock her car, I get in the backseat lay on the floor and wait until Izzie goes home.
According to the department of justice less than 60% of people actually take the time to be aware of their situation when they approach their car. To them being aware of a situation is looking around the car, watching out of loitering people and other random crap like that. And it looks like Izzie Stevens is one of those people who don't check their car, inside or outside, before they enter.
Izzie starts her car and before she puts it into drive I sit up in the seat that is right behind her and wrap a tight piece of wire around her neck. "Your mine now so do everything that I say."
"What do you want?" Izzie says breathless as she tries to find a weak spot in the wire so she can breathe more easily.
"I want you to be quiet and drive." I say with a dry monotone voice. Izzie puts the car in drive. "Don't use the main entrance use the service road at the back of the hospital." Izzie lets out a small whimper before she does as she told. "Turn left on Richel."
"I don't know what you want, but you should just kill me and get it over with." Izzie says, which I will admit, catches me off guard.
"What makes you think I'm going to kill you?" I ask.
"You have wire around my neck and we driving on a now dirt road that no one uses. Either you're going to kill me or this is one sick joke." Izzie moves her neck trying to find a more comfortable position.
"Well I'll tell you this, I won't kill you and I will make sure that Erica doesn't kill you, if you help me out by telling me everything I want to know about Erica."
"You can't save me from Erica." Izzie counters.
"I can and I will, but it depends on you."
Izzie is quiet for a moment before she speaks again. "What do you want to know?"
"What is she up too? Left when you get to the next intersection."
"Illegal organ trading, yesterday before she killed Amanda she told us that she is Boston's infamous Organ Donor. I didn't know that she was doing the organ trading at first; she just came up me to one day and started to talk to me. She knew I was interested in cardio and told me that I could have all of her big surgeries only we had to keep it a secret and her name had to appear on the board as lead surgeon. There was no way I could turn that down." Izzie pauses for a moment and readjusts her neck again. "After a while I got curious about what she doing while I was doing her surgeries so I started snooping and then I discovered that she was doing illegal organ trade. I was about to tell Owen, but then she stopped me."
"How?" I say in a low cold voice.
"She said that if I reported her she would make it look I was the Organ Donor and that she would report me to the medical board for what I did with my ex-husband Denny."
We are quiet for a little while as she makes the left turn at the next intersection. "How is Amanda roped into all of this?"
"I don't know," she chokes a little bit, "but I'm the reason why Erica killed her."
"How so?"
"I told your dad and Henry that they should be looking more into Erica. I didn't tell them what I told you, but I did say that she is not who she seems to be. When Erica found out that they were looking more into her she got upset and wanted to talk to us outside behind the hospital by the dumpster. Apparently she and Amanda got into fight about money sometime before all of this and Amanda was going to go to the police if she didn't get what she wanted. I guess Erica didn't give her what she wanted so she thought that it was Amanda that sold her out. So she killed Amanda right in front me to serve as my one and only warning to not go to the police."
"At the stop sign turn right and then left into the first alley that you see. Then I want you to stop the car" Is my only response.
Izzie does as she is told, "So what is our plan to take down Erica."
"Well first you're going to put the car in park, and then you will turn it off before you throw the keys in the passenger seat." Izzie does this, "second there is no we I work alone and you will tell no one that you and I talked." Izzie shakes her head before she winches in pain from the wire still around her neck. "And lastly tomorrow morning you will go to work and tell Owen that you quit. If he asks why tell him you aren't cut out to be a surgeon and then you will leave Seattle forever. Because if I find out that you are still in Seattle or you are still helping Erica, I will the one who kills you and I will make sure that it is slow and painful just like Erica's death is going to be. Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes," Izzie whispers.
For the whole car ride I have been holding the wire with both of my hands, but when we parked the car I moved both ends of the wire to left hand while I got out a needle that was only a half full of M99 with my right hand, and inject into the Izzie's neck.
Izzie is knocked out immediately, and this lets me leave her car without her knowing where I went to. I walk out of the alley and walk two blocks over to Jeremy's office and pick my house keys, I make one more stop to a special place to make sure that my birthday present to my baby girl is ready. Just like Sofia you get to wait until Friday as well to see what I got her.
I take the bus home and see Callie, Addison and Teddy helping my mom and Lucia unload the groceries. I make my way over to them, and grab the remaining bags.
It only takes us 10 minutes to put everything away and soon, Mark, Addison, Teddy, my father, Lexie, Sofia and myself are back outside only this time we are in the back of the apartment building on one of the bike paths that the building has with three of those large toy cars that toddlers and kids can drive. Yes we spoil Sofia like nobody business. My mother, Lucia, Carlos, and Callie are upstairs in the apartment making dinner.
When we get outside my father takes out a piece of white chalk and draws a checkered line that says start/finish. Once he is done he takes a few steps back while get in our usual teams and pull up to the checkered line. He turns to face us, "alright you guys remember the rules from the last time we raced. There is no kicking, pushing or hitting." He points to Mark, Addison and me, and we just shake our heads. "You can use short cuts, but only the ones that we all approved." Again the three of just shake our heads.
"Are our current champions ready?" he looks over to Sofia and me.
"Red-de!" Sofia jumps up a little bit in her black Escalade before she looks up to me.
"I love you with my heart darling, but this time you two are going down." Mark says to us before he high fives Lexie who is sitting a pink Barbie Corvette.
"Please, don't forget about the quiet contenders. Our time is now." Addison says before she looks down to Teddy who is in Yellow H2.
"Alright, alright." My father raises his hands, to quiet us down, "let's find out."
"On your mark," Mark, Addison and I grab the back of our toy cars.
"Get set," The three of us hunch over and take a slight step forward.
"Go!" We push off and start our long lap around the bike path in race to the finish line.
The three of us are neck and neck until we get the first corner, Teddy turns the car to early, and her and Addison end up taking the corner too wide letting the four of us pass them with ease.
For a while Mark and I were neck in neck until him and Lexie slow down to the point where they are completely behind us. This catches me off guard and I turn my head for a quick second and see that they are nowhere to be found. If it wasn't for Teddy and Addison turning the corning entering the straight away that Sofia and I were in, I would have stopped. I turn back around and continue on our path.
Sofia and I turn the last corner and enter the last straight away. A smile comes to both of faces, but soon goes away when we see Mark and Lexie come back to path a few feet in front of us.
"Mommy!" Sofia yells before she hunches over the steering wheel.
"We got this," I say breathlessly. I use the last of my energy and we make a sprint for finish line. We catch up to Mark and I can see out of the corner my eye that he is getting tried. I smile at him before I push more and Sofia and I pass by them.
Sofia and I cross the finish line first, followed by Mark and Lexie a few seconds later. Teddy and Addison come in last a few minutes after Mark and Lexie. I stop our car and Sofia and I raise our hands jumping up and down while doing our victory dance. Once our dance is done the seven us sit on the grass, well Mark, Addison and I lay on the grass trying to catch our breath.
"Well at least I don't have to work out overtime at the gym tomorrow for not going today." Mark says, and both Addison and I let out a chuckle.
We are quiet just enjoying sitting together until we hear Callie calling us from the balcony telling us that dinner is ready. I stand up and Sofia raises her arms at me, and I pick her up and put on my right side while I grab the toy Escalade with left hand.
Lexie hold the door for us, "Jesus Arizona, where do you get your strength from?"
I just give her a breathless smile, "I don't know. I guess playing these games with my baby girl all the time."
"Clearly I need to come over more often and play these games with you because I'm jealous of you right now."
We both chuckle as we enter the apartment, which smells absolutely delicious. We clean ourselves up a little before we sit at the table and eat Lucia's fajita, which are just heaven in your mouth. The talk around the table is just small talk about things our parents did in Seattle up to things that we have been doing at the hospital and Callie's promotion.
"So Mark, I have to ask," My mother starts off, "Where is Julia? I have still to this day never met her."
"Work, she got called in at the last minute and couldn't be here, but she will be at Sofia's birthday party." Mark gives her a forced smile. "I didn't want to be dateless tonight so I asked Lexie to join us today when we were at lunch."
"I'm sorry if this was supposed to be just a family dinner. I didn't mean to ruin anything if you guys were planning something big that didn't involve me."
"Nonsense," my mother says. "You will always be a part of this family even if you aren't dating Mark."
"What about you Teddy?" Mark cuts off, "I thought Henry was supposed to be here."
Mark's actions don't go unnoticed. Not only I, but Callie, Addison, and my mother notice the quick change in topic.
"He got pulled into the Organ Donor case because he was the lead investigator for it. So he will be busy for the next few days."
Callie, Lucia and Sofia start to clean off the table and the kitchen when we start talking about current events.
"What about your case?" Carlos asks, "Any new leads on finding Katie."
My father just shakes his head no, "if we don't get anything new by Friday then the investigation will stop and go into cold cases." He pauses for a moment, "I just want to know what happened to her even if it is bad. That has to be the worst part for her parents not knowing. Even if she is dead you just want to know."
The conversation stops when the Callie and Sofia come back to the table. "I think tonight we will see who has the better memory." She puts down the pink box for the Disney princess memory game and sits right next me and Sofia climbs up into my lap.
"Redemption," Teddy with a smile on her face, and all we can do is laugh at her.
"Now before I bring out dessert I must know who are our winners from the race." Lucia asks as she hands the adults a cup of coffee.
"Us, grandma," Sofia says pointing to her and me.
"Alright then, you guys get two brownies in your brownie sundae." She says before she returns to kitchen to fix dessert.
When she returns we play a few round of the memory game in teams of four. Both Callie and my parents are on a team, Mark and Lexie are together, Addison and Teddy, and finally it's Callie, Sofia and I on a team. Addison and Teddy destroy us before we get tried and migrate to the living room to watch The Princess and the Frog before we call it a night.
Once everyone goes home Callie and I clean up the kitchen while Sofia gets changed. We are about to tuck her in when she goes running past us giggling in her underwear. We watch as she runs into our room and climbs in our bed.
Callie slowly turns her head to face me, "This is your fault."
I point to myself and give her wide eyes of shock.
"Don't play dumb with me. You love to walk around this in your underwear, and she wants to be just like you." Callie scolds, "I remember it was like pulling teeth to get you to stop walking around this house naked."
I just shrug at her before I turn to our room and take off my clothes down to my underwear and climb into the bed with Sofia. "ARIZONA!" Callie yells at me.
"What it's not like I took off my underwear." I say back.
"Can we?" Sofia looks over to me.
"NO!" Callie and I say in unison.
Callie goes into the other room and turns off all the lights before she returns to our room. We watch as she goes into the bathroom and changes into the pajama. She is about to get in bed before Sofia pouts "No."
She looks over to us to see Sofia sitting up and me lying on my side facing her. "Sorry if you want to sleep in here you have to be in your underwear."
"You're seriously promoting this type of behavior?"
"Yep," I reply with a smile.
"You are unbelievable." Callie huffs as she strips down into her underwear.
"You better get used to it especially if we are going to have more." I say with a smile and a wink before I turn off the lights leaving a stunned Callie in my wake.
Sofia is curled up by my side under my arm, and out of the three of us she is the only one that is actually sleeping. I know my comment before we went to sleep is really playing with Callie's mind right now, because I can feel her tossing and turning on the other side of the bed. There were even a few times during the night I could feel her eyes on Sofia and I as we cuddled together. I know that at some point tomorrow when we are alone we will be going into more detail about having another child, but now that Callie's words have started to sink in from this evening I'm really starting to regret my decision. 'She wants to be just like you.' That statement has been on repeat in my mind since I turned off the lights. To any other parent they would take that as a compliment, but I can't. I'm not a normal parent, I kill people and I enjoy every moment of it. Being a serial killer is not something I want my baby girl to be, just like she will not be dating anyone, boy or girl, like ever.
Finally sleep wins and I fall asleep for a few hours. When I wake up the next morning, I am woken up by the smell of bacon and not Callie's alarm.
I open my eyes to see that Sofia and I are in bed alone. I sit up and crack my back, while Sofia stretches and sits up as well. I look behind me to Sofia; she is rubbing her eyes still looking sleepy. "Smells good in here, doesn't it?" I say to her.
She just shakes her head yes, "Let's go see what Mama is making for breakfast." I say as we both get out of bed. Together, still in our underwear, we walk out to the kitchen.
"ARIZONA! SOFIA!" Callie yells at us from the kitchen table. "We have company!"
Upon closer inspection I see that Callie and her mother are sitting at the table drinking coffee while my mother is in the kitchen making breakfast.
"Right," I pick Sofia up and put clothes on her before I go into our room and put clothes on as well. When I come back out to the kitchen breakfast is already on the table and everyone is waiting for me.
"Looks like Sofia has entered the 'Tarzan' faze of her childhood." My mother says with a chuckle. "The 'Tarzan' faze is when Sofia just want to run around naked." My mother explains when she sees the confused looked from both Callie and Lucia. "Arizona and Tim both went through that faze, never really came out it." She looks off in the distance.
"Yeah she never left faze," Callie says under her breath.
All I do is shrug at her, "Clothes are overrated."
"Yeah!" Sofia yells.
"Do you even know what overrated means?" I question.
"No," All four of us start to laugh and finish our breakfast talking about random things.
After breakfast Callie and I go to work while our mothers stay at the apartment with Sofia and our fathers spend the day on the Golf course, hoping to get 18 holes in before it rains. Callie and I are walking together downstairs through the main lobby when Callie turns to me and stops walking, naturally I do the same.
"Were you serious last night?" Callie asks, "Do you really want to have more kids… with me?"
"Who else would have kids with?" I give a light and nervous chuckle.
"I'm being serious, Arizona." Callie's eyes are slowly start turning into defeat.
"I am. I said that I wanted to have more kids with you in the future, not 10, but 2 or 3 would nice now that I think of it. And the more I think about it, the more I think that the 'future' is finally here." Callie slowly starts to smile and I slowly start to do the same.
"We're going to try to have another baby." Callie whispers.
"Yeah," I whisper back as I pull her close to me for a hug. As the two of us hug, I start to get nervous about us having another baby. But it's too late to take my words back now, and all I can do is hope that whatever it is that made this way isn't genetic.
When we leave our hug, I look over to the staircase to see Erica and Sadie together. If Erica is around then that girl from the photo must be somewhere in this hospital. My eyes start to scan the lobby while Callie finally looks over to Erica and Sadie being affectionate towards each other. "What a nerve racking couple." Callie says to me, only I'm not really paying attention.
"Hmm," I say still looking around the lobby.
"I mean my two exes are dating each other, I mean do think they talk about me seeing how dating me could be one of the things that they have in common with each other."
"Yeah," I find the girl sitting in the lobby when I feel Callie pinch my arm. "Ouch, what I didn't do anything." I turn my attention back to Callie.
"You weren't paying attention to me; you were looking over there that girl. Do you know her?" Callie asks.
"Never seen her before," Callie glares at me for a moment before a nurse calls her over to the station.
"We're not done here," she says before she goes to the nurse's station. The nurse hands her a chart, which will keep her busy for a little while. I look over to Erica and Sadie to see that Erica has her back to this girl and me, which gives me the perfect opportunity to save this girl.
I put my hands in my lab coat pocket and walk up to this girl. "Hey I have noticed that you have been here for a while. Has someone helped you yet?" I say with a sweet voice and a friendly smile.
"Yeah, Dr. Hahn said that she had to fill out a chart for me before we can go up to an exam room." She says to me.
Wow she is ballsier than me using her real name to kill people. That was the second thing that Timothy taught me after his no trophy rule. Unlike his trophy rule I actually abide by this one.
"Well what is your name? So I can look you up in our system and see what is taking so long because it is possible that Dr. Hahn could have been called on an emergency."
"My name is Amanda Parsons; I was here to see Dr. Hahn about my hyperextended elbow. She thinks that I might need surgery."
I open my mouth to say something only the voice that is heard isn't mine, "hyperextended elbow? Erica is a cardio surgeon, you need an othro surgeon and lucky for you I happen to be one." Callie says with a smile right next to me. "I'm not busy right now, so how about we go to an exam room and check out that elbow."
Both she and Callie start walking out of the lobby and towards one of the exam rooms. "Callie," I grab Callie's left arm to stop her. "I don't think that is a good idea stealing a patient away from Erica like this."
Callie turns to face Amanda, "Do you have any heart problem Ms.?" Callie asks.
"No" Amanda replies back.
Callie looks back to me, "I'm not really stealing her patient. She need to have her elbow looked at which is a job for an othro surgeon, not Erica the cardio surgeon." Before I can do anything about it both she and Amanda are gone.
I'm about to go after again but I get paged to the ER. I go to leave the lobby, and for some reason I get the urge to turn around which I do. Before I turn the corner I see an angry Erica looking high and low through the lobby for her patient. This isn't good.
I get to the ER to find Alex running into trauma room one with Morgan and a little boy. I enter the room, to see Alex shouting and handling the situation well. I stand by the door and I just watch him work. Not too soon after they take the young boy to the operating room, and I just follow in the background.
Just like I did when he was in the trauma room I just sit back and watch him work smiling to myself. He is going to be one damn good peds surgeon, and I'm the one who made him. The surgery lasts for two hours and soon I'm back on my mission to find my wife before Erica does.
I spend the next two hours looking in the peds wing, plastics wing and othro wing with no luck at finding Callie. The more time that has passed the more I start to worry. I'm still on the othro floor when I see Callie standing in her future office, and Erica is about to enter the room.
I pick up my pace and just manage to squeeze through the door before Erica can close it behind her. "I thought you became the head of othro at the end of the mouth?" I say breathlessly with smile Callie turns around surprised to see both Erica and I standing in her office.
The fact that Erica was in this room without my wife knowing infuriates me. Erica and I look at each other before she turns to look at Callie, "Sorry Cal, I thought you were Coleen. Do you know where she is?" Erica asks with a friendly smile.
"She has the day off." Callie says a little confused.
"Oh okay, thanks." She says before she leaves.
I follow Erica with my eyes as she leaves the floor. Before she turns the corner she turns around and looks at me. She gives me a smirk and a wink before she leaves, I feel something snap inside of me but Callie's hand on arm stops me from running up to Erica and snapping her neck. "Is everything alright sweet heart?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. I wanted to know if you wanted to get lunch." I turn to look at her.
"Sure," Callie says as we go downstairs to get lunch.
Lunch goes by slowly, I don't touch my food and my right leg is bouncing up and down. I don't know what Erica was going to do to with Callie behind closed doors, but I swear to God if she lays one finger on my wife I will kill her right where she stands.
Callie puts her hand on my arm pulling me from my thoughts causing me to look over to her. "What's wrong? Do you know what Erica is up too?"
"What," I look over to Callie, playing confused.
"That girl that came in here this morning didn't have anything wrong with her. Her elbow was fine and she didn't have heart problems which makes me think that Erica is up to something."
"To be honest I'm upset that you two were alone together." I try to change the subject to something else because the less Callie knows the better. "She's your ex and some of things that she has been saying around Teddy and I are starting to get me." I pause for a moment, "she's talking about trying to get you back and I don't want that happen because I love you."
"Baby," Callie whispers, "I love you too, and would never leave you for…"
Callie is cut short when both of our pagers go off. We both have an incoming trauma alert. Together we get to the ER to see everyone down there, "School bus and a semi-truck got into accident!" Owen yells to us.
The next four hours at the hospital were hectic; Alex and I were going from child to child trying to stabilize them enough to go to the OR. After that we had to spend time a little bit of time in each OR making sure that everything was okay. It was crazy and stressful but we were able to save all 24 children that were on the bus plus the semi-truck driver, the bus driver and the four adults that were on the school bus as well.
I'm standing at the nurse's station filling out my last chart when I'm greeted by my father and Henry. "Arizona, can we talk to you for a moment." Henry asks.
"Yeah," I close the chart and hand it to one of the nurses before I put my pen in my pocket and turn my attention to them.
"We got a tip from Dr. Hahn saying that she saw you with Amanda on Friday right before she died."
Fucking bitch.
I shake my head lightly and shrug, "I have seen her around the hospital before but I have never really talked her."
Henry gives a heavy sigh before he writes something down on his notepad. "Do know why she would say that?"
"She doesn't like me very much. I married her girlfriend; my best friend stole her job. The list could go on really."
"Kind of petty don't you think?" Henry says.
I shrug at him again, "we may be doctors but some of us still haven't left high school."
"I'm starting to see that," Henry and I both chuckle. "Well thanks for your time Arizona. I have to talk to Erica again about this. Giving false information is a crime."
Henry turns around to go find Erica, but my father doesn't follow him. Instead he motions for me to follow him which I do.
We go to an empty waiting room and close the door, we face each other and he removes everything from his pockets and shows me that they are empty. "It's just you and me, Arizona. Everything we say is off the record I promise."
"Okay?" I give him puzzled look.
"I have to know, is Jena the only person you ever intently killed?" We sit in silence for a few minutes, every time someone is murder around the area that I live in he as asks and I always give him the same answer.
"Yes, dad. It was a mistake that I wish I could take back but I can't. I didn't kill Amanda, I have never seen or heard of Katie, and before the question leaves your lips I'm not the Organ Donor. I have a family now, they come first."
We sit in silence again for a few minutes, "okay I just wanted to know." He says before he gives me a hug and leaves the room.
I sigh to myself and leave the room a few minutes after him. When I leave the room I see Erica walking to the main lobby and I follow her. She goes over to the elevators that lead to the basement. I wait for her to get in before I take the stairs to basement hoping to get down there before she does.
I take the back stairwell to the basement that way I can get down there with no interruptions. When I get to the basement I hide in a dark corridor adjacent from the elevator. I am waiting downstairs for 10 minutes and I'm about to leave thinking that Erica isn't going to show when I hear the elevator ding and then slide open. I reposition myself so I can see who it is, but in the process I hit my elbow on a metal box which causes Erica's head to snap over to me.
I can see her but she can't see me, and for the next few minutes we just stand there staring at each other. Well me staring at Erica and Erica staring in my general direction. Finally Erica backs down and turns her back to me and begins to walk down the long hallway.
I stay in the shadows as I follow her down the hallway, as I walk along with her I make sure to turn my pager and cell phone to silent. We make it to the end of the hallway on the east wing of the hospital when Erica stops at the last door on the right. She looks around cautiously before she pulls out a set of keys and unlocks the room.
I play the waiting game with her for another 45 minutes until her cell phone goes off. She answers it but it is too muffled for me to make out what she is saying. When she hangs up the phone, I want to say that she is in the room for another 5 minutes before she locks up and leaves.
A cocky smile comes to face when she passes right past me and goes back to the elevator. I hear it ding again and close before it is completely silent. I wait another 10 minutes making sure that Erica really did leave before I peek my head out checking to see if the coast is clear. When I am sure that I am alone I leave my hiding spot and slowly make my way over to the room that Erica was just in.
As I make my way over to the door I take out a pair of latex gloves and put them on. You can never be too prepared. Unfortunately I don't walk around with my lock picking kit so I have to pick the lock old school style with a paper clip and a bobby pin.
It's been awhile since I have picked a lock using a paper clip and a bobby pin so it takes me a little while to do it. When I open the door a large dimly lit room that looks somewhat like an OR greets me. Right in the middle of the room is a large operating table with several pieces of out of date and broken medical equipment by it. On the other side of the room along the back wall is a chain-linked fence with black cloth covering it so you can't see what's on the other side.
Sitting along the chain-linked fence are several different coolers used for transporting organs. I follow the fence until it leads to an open doorway. I enter the doorway and I enter a smaller room with a cot and articles of clothing on the walls and on the floor. Looks like this is where Erica lives.
To my left is a small desk with a laptop and a SLR camera sitting on it. I go over to the desk and see pictures of past her victims as well as pictures and health folders on new one. I pick up the top folder and open it, Deanna Falco. Using my cell phone I take a picture of the girl and her address. I put everything back where I found it when I see a large metal filing cabinet sitting on the right side of the desk.
I try to the open the doors but they are locked and I have to pick it open. When I open it I am greeted with Erica's trophies, rows and rows of jars filled with hearts. I pick up one the jars and look at it, Katie Wilmes is written on the top of jar. All of the jars have the name of her victims on them. Callie may have stopped Erica from killing Amanda Parsons, but it will be me who stops her for good.
I lock the room back up and make my way back upstairs to do rounds and check on Callie. I'm on the second floor and have just pasted the resident's lounge when I hear Mark and Addison yelling about me.
"I swear to god when I find Robbins I going to beat her to within an inch of her life!" Mark yells. I take a step closer to the door and tilt my head towards it so I can hear everything that is being said about me.
"Yeah, well Meredith and I will help you by holding her down," Cristina jumps in.
"You guys are jumping to conclusion," Alex starts, "we have been in surgery together all day. The school bus crash."
"Oh stop trying to be faithful to your master. You two have been done with accident since 3 o'clock this afternoon, it's going 5:30 and Robbins has been MIA." Addison adds.
"I knew there was something off about her, she is way too perky."
"Your one to talk, Kepner" Alex hisses.
"Guys,"
"Shut up Teddy!" Mark and Addison say in unison.
"She is your best friend, and it's sick and twisted that you would stand up for like this." Addison says.
Enough is enough and I stand up straight and enter the lounge. The amount of people that are in the lounge catches me off guard a little bit. Pretty much everyone that Callie talks to or has worked with is currently in the lounge. Mark, Addison, Callie, Lexie, Bailey, Derek, Cristina, Meredith, April, Jackson, Alex, Teddy, even Webber and Owen are in here and everyone seems to be gathered around my wife.
Everyone pauses and looks over to me, "something you guys want to with share me?" I say in dry monotone voice.
I get nothing but silence for an answer. "Really? No one wants to speak up now that I have entered the room. You have made it perfectly clear that I have somehow upset you guys to point where you want to beat the shit out of me and I want to know what I did to deserve this beating." Silence, "COME ON! We are in our late twenties early thirties well past the puberty stage in our life, you guys shouldn't have a problem coming up to me and speaking your mind! But instead you guys want to act like a bunch of stuck up cheerleaders who do nothing but talk trash about others behind their back!" my voice is slowly starting to raise the more I talk to them. "So how about one of you grow a pair of fucking balls and tell me what I did you to piss off you four year olds!"
"Ari," Callie whispers as she gets up from the bench and makes her way over to me.
My eyes go from staring down everyone else in the room to my wife, and in an instant I know why everyone is upset. Callie's hands are wrapped tightly around her stomach and she has a heavy limp in her walk. In a heartbeat my anger turns into flat out rage, and it is geared towards one person, Erica.
Callie is talking to me, trying to calm me down but it's not working. I turn around and leave the lounge and hear Mark, Addison and Callie yelling something at me but I don't hear it. My heart is pounding, my palms are sweating and I'm pretty sure that my face is red with anger. The last time I felt like this was three years ago when Callie and Sofia where here at the hospital, and I went on a killing rampage.
Erica Hahn. Erica fucking Hahn touched and hurt my wife and I am not okay with that. And I'm going to make sure that she knows that today, right now. I march my way upstairs to the cardio wing and begin to look around for Erica when Teddy comes running up to my side.
"Hey buddy," Teddy says with a breathless smile. "I know your upset that someone beat up your wife, and Callie didn't make it that much easier when we asked who did it. She refused to tell us, so out of instinct everyone thought it is was you. I didn't and Alex doesn't, but we'll get through this and get to bottom of who ever hit your wife and you and me will-" I cut Teddy off when I see Izzie walking down the hall towards us. I grab her by the collar and slam her up against the wall. "Holy shit, Arizona." Teddy yells.
"I swear to god I don't work at the hospital anymore." Izzie blurts out. "I did what you said and quit this morning I'm just here to say goodbye to my patients and pick up my last pay check. I'm leaving town later tonight and going back home. I'm not even going to be a doctor anymore to make you happy."
"Shut up," I hiss at her and slam her again against the wall. "Where's Hahn?"
"Attending's lounge!" Izzie yells.
I don't saying anything to Izzie and just let go of her as I turn around and go to the attending's lounge. When I make to the attending lounge I see Erica in the far right corner in front of her locker. "I'm not going to lie, for the longest time your tactics baffled me. I never understood how you could get away with what it is that you do." I pause when for a moment as I take my final step towards her. "But now I finally understand it, I finally know how you keep your secret." I take another pause, "You beat up on people, and when you hit them you make sure that you hit them where the burses won't show. So no one will ever ask questions."
Erica gives me a small cocky grin and looks behind me for a second. In that second I know that we are not alone, that Callie and the entourage of people in the resident's lounge are here with us. Erica thinks she's safe, she thinks that I won't do anything. Well guess what she's wrong.
"I don't know what you are talking about, Robbins." Erica looks back over to me with same cocky smile.
I tilt my head to the side and give her the same cocky smile back, "no? Let me show you." My left hand grabs her shoulder and I punch her three time just below her chest on the left side. Erica backs away from me and slams up against the locker trying to catch her breath. "That's your solar plexus, but you're a cardio surgeon you should know that. But just in case you don't, right now your diaphragm is partially paralyzed, which is why you are having a hard time catching your breath."
"What the fuck Robbins, are you a psycho?" Erica says as she pushes off the locker and tries to lunge at me.
I dodge her punch and grab her left arm holding on to it tightly. "Not right now. Right now I'm just a pissed off wife." I reposition her left arm slightly and punch three more time, only this time it's under her diaphragm. "That's were your liver is located, see the good thing about your liver is if you hit it continuously in the right spot you'll active the vagus nerve." I pause to punch her two my time in the same spot. "See the vagus nerve starts in your liver and then branches out to the rest of your body. Your brain will start to short circuit and body begins to shut down, and then you start feel terror, which is what my wife felt every time you hit her where the burses wouldn't show."
I let go of Erica's arm briefly and grab her by the neck and slam her up against locker and lean in so we only hear our conversation. "My wife was doing her job, providing help to others. It's not her fault that you are shitty at your job and don't know how to keep a close eye out on your 'patients'. Consider this your one and only warning. If you look, touch, talk or breathe the wrong way around my wife or daughter I will personally make sure your death is long, slow and painful." I let go of Erica's neck and she instantly falls to the floor on her stomach while grabbing her chest struggling for air. "I'm serious. I don't ever want you around my wife again, at work or out of work. If you have ever a case with her, you better find someone to take your place." Before I turn around to leave I kick her right in the middle of her side and she lets out a low groan. "By the way I just kicked your kidney." I say to her before I turn around to see my co-workers.
They don't say anything to me and just let me walk past them as I go upstairs to the peds floor. Even though I beat the shit out of Erica I'm still upset and angry. When I get nurse station I grab a chart and start to read through it, maybe if I bury myself in work I will be able to calm down.
It seems to be working until a group of nurses come to station giggling and laughing. "So I guess the rumors finally got to you about Erica and Callie. We heard you went AWOL on Izzie Stevens a little while ago." One of the nurses says to me.
"Are you fucking kidding me right now? Did I miss the memo where my nursing staff does nothing but sit on their asses all day gossiping like a bunch of teenaged girls? Because the last time I checked you're supposed to be helping the dying children on this floor. So how about you actually earn your paycheck and help the dying kids." The nurses just stare at me in shock, "NOW!" I yell at them. They all jump a little before they scatter in different directions. I give a heavy sigh before I take out $10 and put it into the swear jar.
"Arizona?" my father says from right next to me.
"You know what I'm not in the mood right now. I already know your speech." I shove my chart forward before I look over to him. "I'm upset with you Arizona, you shouldn't have gotten involved Arizona, that wasn't your battle Arizona." I say to him in a mockingly deep voice before I turn my back to him and walk down the hallway, destination unknown.
"I'm proud of you, Arizona!"
My father's words cause me stop in tracks and turn back around to face him. Ever since the fifth grade when I killed Jena he stopped saying that to me. High school, college, med school, and all of my promotions and achievements in my medical career I always got a 'good job Arizona.' He even stopped saying that he loved me. I always said that I didn't care but it looks like I was wrong.
My father walks up me with a light smile on his face. "I know that I have always asked you about Jena, and I know that it annoys to no end when I still ask about her and the possibilities of others. I do that because I'm not only your father, but I'm a marine and a detective. I know that Jena was the first but not the last." He pauses for a moment looking for the right words to say to me. "I blame myself for everything that has happened to you up till now. I think that if I wasn't so blind with hurt and anger when you were younger I might have picked up on the loving Arizona that is hidden inside of you, and I wouldn't have let Tim lead you down the path that he did." He pauses again, "sometimes I almost wish that Callie would have came into your life sooner. I don't know how she did it, but she has been able to do what I could hope for and what Tim tried to do when he was a live. Tame you."
My father looks at me expecting me to say something back, but I don't. I just turn back around walk away from him. For the remainder of my shift I find myself sitting outside on one of the benches in front of the hospital fighting the urge to follow someone home and kill them. While I'm sitting on the bench it starts to rain but I don't move. I'm outside in the rain for another 10 minutes when Callie comes outside with a jacket for me.
"Let's go home," Callie says as she grabs my hands and pulls me up from the bench. We don't say anything as we go upstairs to the attending lounge. As we go upstairs I feel everyone's eyes on us and I know that word has already gotten around about what I did to Erica.
When we get to the lounge Callie leaves my side to go to her locker but I lightly grab her arm and turn her around to face me. I let go of her arm and with both hands I lift up her shirt for the first time to see her stomach. The only way I can describe her stomach is that it looks like a paint by numbers. Her stomach is tan, red, black, blue, green, yellow and purple. I lightly run my hands across her stomach and she lets out a small hiss of pain.
I feel my breathing starting to get heavy and a small lump in my throat starting to form. My eyes start to water up before tears to fall down my cheeks. I drop down to my knees and bury my face into her and for the first time since I can remember I start to cry. Out of all the things that have ever happened to me nothing has never caused me to break down this much.