Chapter 9
"Oh my god, no" I all but yell as I race towards my office door.
"Yes Arizona, I need you." Teddy yells back as she races towards my office door as well.
Seeing that I was sitting behind my desk Teddy beats me to my door. Her legs and arms are spread eagle and her back is up against the door blocking the only exit out of my office.
"You have to help me, Arizona." Teddy says to me.
I bit my upper lip as my right leg starts to shake and I refuse to make eye contact her.
"This is a first for me." Teddy pauses, "I have never had sex with a woman before. For the past 2 mouths Addison and I have done stuff, but we haven't done it, yet. And we said that tonight would be the night that we do it, and I have no clue on what to do south of the border with a female." Teddy lowers her arms when she sees that I have made no attempt to get by her. "At first I thought I was at a disadvantage because Addison is getting help from Callie and Mark, and all I have is you. But yesterday when I was getting a snack I overheard them talking, and Callie said that you are a sweet, innocent and nice angel when everyone is looking but you become a demon in the sack."
I go from looking at my ceiling to looking at Teddy. "She legit said that out loud about me?"
"Yeah,"
"That explains the looks I've been getting from nurses."
"Anyway, it's my turn to ask for help. It's not like I'm making you commit a felony, like I do every time I help you."
We just stare at each other blankly for a few seconds before I respond. "Will you relax, I'm going to help you."
Teddy gives me a huge cheesy smile. She starts to jumps up and down while clapping her hands before she pulls me in to hug her. "Thank you so much, Arizona."
Yeah yeah," I say as I break away from her grip. "Here is the first thing we're going to do."
Teddy drops her smile as she intently listens to me.
"You're going to pull up your pants. We don't need to have friendship like Callie and Mark did. I can show you some of my secrets fully clothed; all I need is an orange and scalpel."
Teddy pulls her pants back up before she looks at me. "Okay, don't go anywhere. I'll be right back."
"Unless it's an emergency, I'm not going anywhere."
Teddy shakes her head at me before she opens the door and quickly heads downstairs to the cafeteria. I just shake my head lightly before I turn around and sit back down at my desk with the door still open.
It's been five months since Sadie's death and everything in my life has somewhat gone back to normal. There are still a few factors I need to work on before my life is completely back to the way it once was. The first factor being the plane crash, the plane crash happened on the same day of Sadie's death. All nine people on the plane survived, but just barely. Meredith and Cristina were the lucky ones in the group because they had minimal injuries. Meredith got a concussion while Cristina dislocated her shoulder. During the crash Derek got his hand stuck in the flap on the planes right wing. According to the FAA the flap is what lowers the airplane's airspeed so it can land at a decent angle. The plane was in the process of landing when it crashed and the flaps were fully extended. Somehow Derek's hand got caught in the flap and when Derek and wing hit the ground the metal part of flap bent upwards trapping Derek's hand. The only way he could free himself and find the others was by breaking his hand with a rock that was near by. Callie was able to repair the bone and nerve damage that he caused. Derek just completed his last nerve transplant surgery a month ago and he is now doing physical therapy in the form of ping-pong. Addison escaped with a broken back, and she was lucky that it didn't paralyze her. She broke 11 out of 24 vertebrae in her back. She broke all 5 lumber vertebrae in her lower back and she broke T-6 through T-12 in her thoracic vertebrae, and C-4 through C-7 in her cervical vertebrae where fractured. Callie worked her magic on Addison was able to fix her back without using any screws or wires. Mark had severe internal bleeding in his chest and abdomen and if Yang wasn't there to perform an emergency thoracotomy he would have died out there in the woods. Alex and Lexie had the most severe injuries in the group. The plane they were in was a Gulfstream G650 and when it crashed the engine exploded and sent small metal pieces everywhere. One of those fiery metal pieces found Alex's right leg and cut it clean off his body. Meredith and Cristina managed to contain his bleeding but they were in the woods too long and the damage was too severe for Callie and she couldn't save it. Lexie had her whole lower body crushed by the other engine of the G650. Her pelvis, femur, both legs, ankles and feet were completely shattered. She had a lot of internal bleeding. There was nothing they could about it. They had to hope that help would arrive soon, and lucky for them it did.
Their pilot Jerry was fresh out of school, which could be looked at as both good and bad. Bad because he is a new pilot, but good because he still had his school training fresh in his mind. Before their flight to Boise, Jerry, filed a flight plan. From what I gather a flight plan is a written account of all the details a flight will go through. It has the estimated time of arrival, alternate airports, the pilot's information, the number of people on board and information about the aircraft being flown. Once you activate your flight plan you have exactly 30 minutes to close it after your arrival time. If you don't close then the FAA will start to call you and the airports you listed on your flight plan. If they haven't seen or heard from you then start looking for you and plane. The nine of them were out in the woods for 6 hours before they were found.
Everyone from the plane crash is slowly starting to come back to work. Meredith and Cristina were first ones cleared, followed soon by Alex. Addison, Derek and Mark were cleared two weeks ago and it will be another 3 or 4 months before Lexie will be back to work. I guess you could say the plane crashed opened the eyes of Mark and Addison, because three months ago Mark broke up with Julia and has been hanging around and helping Lexie. While Addison let everything go and asked Teddy out, and the two have been dating ever since than.
Callie and the orthopedics department here at Seattle Grace have been receiving a lot of publicity from this plane crash. Derek and the nerve transplant, fixing Addison's back without screws and pins, and fixing Lexie's lower body. She has been in about 5 different medical journals, and she should be cocky walking around this hospital with a massive ego but her pregnancy hormones make her bitchy and irritable. Lexie was the last person she performed surgery on because after that her stomach was too big. So now she was to do paper work or guide an intern on how to do surgery. She is forced to do a lot of paperwork because interns and residents don't want to work with her. Right now with her all it takes is one wrong mistake and she will tear you a new asshole. Her co-workers make me talk her about new procedures or budget problems because they don't want to be yelled at, but just because I'm her wife doesn't mean she doesn't yell at me too. Last month she blew up on me because I always say hey you when I see her. So for a week I called her by her name instead of saying hey you. She blew up on me again because she likes it when I say hey you. Let me just say I can't wait for these twins to be born so I can have my old wife back. They should have been here a week ago but it looks like they are taking their sweet time. If they don't come on their own by the end of this week then Addison will have to induce labor the following week, which I hope will happen because I have plane ticket to New York City tomorrow to deal with the one thing that is still holding me down, Polly Preston.
I have spent the past five months looking for Polly. I know she was the one to burn down the brewery and I know she shot Henry and Teddy. For four months she was successful at dropping off the map however, the string of murders she has been committing in New York helped me find her. During the day she works at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital on Broadway, but during the night she likes to find couples that are on a date, like Teddy and Henry, and shooting them until they are dead. Polly fits my profile now more than ever. It took me a week but I found out that she lives in the Castle Village in Washington Heights. I'll have a lot of traveling to do tomorrow, but if it gets rid of Polly once and for all it will be well worth it.
Teddy closing my door and locking it breaks me from thoughts. She places the orange and scalpel in front of me with smile. I just smile back before I take the orange and cut it up. I spend the next two hours showing her how to make Addison scream her name before we both get paged downstairs for a trauma.
We get a 16-year old girl who crashed her car into a tree because she was too busy texting while driving. Our surgery takes up the rest of our shift and before I know it I'm home with my girls.
It's a nice relaxing evening, Callie can now eat whatever she wants and tonight she was craving steak and garlic mash potatoes with a salad. After dinner we watch High School Musical before we call it an evening.
"You're going to be gone when I go into labor, I can feel it." Callie says right when I get into bed.
I scoot over next to Callie and we cuddle up next to each other. I wrap my left arm around the back of her neck while my right hand rests on her stomach. Callie leans into me and rests her head in the crook of my neck. "Well all we can do is hope and pray that you don't. I have postponed this trip for the past month and they are starting to get upset with Owen and I so I need to go to New York and give my lecture. But once my lecture is done I'll be on the first flight back to Seattle, promise." I kiss the top part of Callie forehead, and Callie just gives me a sigh for her response.
We are quiet as we stay like this for few minutes before we finally both drift to sleep. My alarm goes off at 3 in morning because my flight is 5. I take a quick shower before I start to pack an overnight bag.
"You're packing a bag? Why are you packing a bag? You said that you were going to be on the first flight back to Seattle after your lecture." Callie says in a groggy voice.
"Just in case, Cal." I say before I walk over to her side of the bed and kneel down in front of her. "My lecture might get done early, but it's New York City, I have to worry about traffic. But believe me when I say that when my lecture is over I will be pushing and shoving people out of my way so I make it back here, because I don't want to be in the dog house for the rest of my life because I missed the birth of our son and daughter." I whisper before I lean in and kiss Callie on the forehead.
"Promise," she whispers to me.
"Cross my heart," I say with a smile small. "Now go back to sleep, I'll see you later tonight."
"Ok," Callie whispers before she passes out again.
Before I leave the house I give Sofia and Roxie a kiss goodbye. Our house is about 45 minutes away from Seattle Tacoma International Airport. I use my phone to pull up my plane ticket and I'm not checking my bag so getting through security was pretty fast, not to mention that its 4 in the morning and there is no one really here. By the time I make it to the gate they are starting the boarding process. This is one of times where I love having a surgeons pay because I'm in first class for this 5 in half hour nonstop flight.
For the entire flight I fall asleep, and by 1:30 eastern standard time I'm in New York. When I get off the plane I text Callie telling her I landed and I'm on my way to my lecture, which is a lie.
There is a Peds conference going on right now in New York, but I'm not giving a lecture. I am registered so if Callie or Owen call it will show that I'm there, but not really. In reality I'm looking at subway map trying to figure out how to get Polly's apartment.
It takes me 10 minutes to discover what color lines I need to take, and from JFK it takes me an hour before I'm outside of Polly's apartment complex. A quick glance around her new neighborhood lets me know that she has taken a page out of my book. She chose an apartment in a middle scale neighborhood because the police are more likely to over look this neighborhood. She probably pays cash, and if I'm lucky/ right this place will not have any security cameras that way no one sees her face.
The outside of her apartment has no cameras and the same goes for the inside as well. By the front door is list of names with all of apartments residents. I look at the list thinking that I'm going to have to guess at what alias she is using to rent her apartment, but half way through the list I see mistake number 1. Apartment 5F, Polly Preston, the idiot used her real name. You never use your real name. Take the stairs up to her apartment, when I get there I see a notice on the door with a time stamp of 2:30 and it is going on 2:45, she's not home, which is good for me.
I look both ways to see that no one is on the floor with me, so I take out my latex gloves and lock picking kit and proceed to break into Polly's apartment. When I open the door I quietly close it because I don't know if she has any dogs or a roommate. When I turn around the apartment is dark because all of the lights are off but her blinds are open and the sunlight is my only light source.
Right in front of me is the dining room with small wooden table. To my right is a guest bedroom and almost adjacent to the guest bedroom door is the entrance to her tiny ass kitchen. As I step further into her apartment I see the living right in front of me and to my right again is a small hallway that leads to bathroom, which is at the end of the small hallway on the left side of the hallway, is another door that leads to the master bedroom.
I spend the next two hours carefully going over her apartment with a fine toothcomb. I come up empty handed until I start to search the living room. Her living room floor is made up of hardwood and underneath her coffee table is a small rug, which is covering up a small trap door. When I open the trap door I'm greeted with a small and colorful Hurley duffel bag. I open the bag and see that most of the things that were in my emergency bag in my old apartment are in this duffel bag. My clothes, my shoes, most of my money, I guess she has been using my cash to pay some of her bills. My breath hitches when I see a small brown box at the bottom of the bag. I grab the box and open it up to see all of my trophies. They are all there except for Jena's, which I have in my nightstand back in Seattle. I take all of the my stuff that is in this duffel bag and put it into mine before I put everything back the way I found it. Once everything is in place I spend a few minutes setting up Polly's apartment to my liking.
I'm only waiting in her apartment after all is said and done for another 30 minutes before I hear the front door open. Polly comes into her apartment holding a bag of Chinese food in her right hand and she is flipping through her mail with her left hand.
I hear her let out a gasp as her Chinese food falls to floor and her mail scatters all over the floor. She found my postcard that I put her mailbox before I snooped around her apartment earlier today. At the moment I'm hiding behind her front her door, when she opened the door it hid my body perfectly. I push the door out of my way causing it close completely. Polly hears the door close and turns around to face it, but before she can fully turn around I stick a needle directly into her spine.
Her body goes limp and I catch her before her body hits the floor. Her head is tilted backwards and she is looking right at me as I pick up her body and lay her on the dining room table.
"Arizona" she somewhat whispers to me.
"Polly," I reply back.
"I can't feel or move my body."
"That's because I gave you an epidural instead of M99. I don't have the time to wait for you to wake up in 3 hours when it wears off."
"Why are you doing this to me?" Polly questions.
"I think you know why."
"For helping you?" Polly hisses at me.
"I didn't need, what or ask for your help," I hiss back. "I could have gotten out of that mess on my own, and two innocent people would still be alive right now."
"Henry was going to arrest you, and Sadie would just keep talking until someone would listen to her, and if she got enough people to listen to her. People would start to figure out that you are the real killer. They had to die, you where too scared to do it, so I did it for you." Polly's voice starts to get stronger as she continues to talk to me.
"But why did you kill 14 innocent people here in New York City. They had nothing to do with me, Sadie or Henry?"
"Because it felt good when I shot and killed Henry, and loved the look of shock and terror Teddy gave me when I shot her. I see that look now on a weekly basis and love it, and just like Sadie and Henry they had to die because I wanted them to."
"And now you have to die, because I want you to." I take the plastic bag that her Chinese food was in before I go to the kitchen and grab the fire extinguisher that was by the stove. I put the bag over her head and tie it on tight before I grab the fire extinguisher and repeatedly hit in the face until she is dead.
There is blood that is starting to dip out of the bottom of bag, which I take to add to my trophy collection. I grab a plastic fork from her kitchen before I grab my duffel bag and her Chinese food and leave.
I haven't eaten anything all day and that food would have gone to waste, so don't judge me.
It's around 6 pm when I get to JFK, I'm able to buy a plane ticket for a 7 o'clock flight back to Seattle, however, it's not a nonstop flight and I'm forced to stop in Atlanta. It's 9 pm when I land in Atlanta and I have an hour layover.
I'm sitting in front of my gate when I hear someone call out my name. "Arizona?"
I look up to see a woman with dark brown hair walk up to. "Hey, Kelly." I say with a smile as I stand up to hug her. "How have you been?"
"Not bad, we differently still miss you at Hopkins. I know life in Seattle has to be amazing for you seeing how Seattle Grace is giving us a run for our money."
"Life is pretty amazing," I say to her with a smile. "I have wife and daughter and two more kids on the way, and I have kicked their peds program in shape."
"You don't have tell me about your peds program. Hopkins along with several other hospitals have been trying to get Alex Karev to come over to dark side for over a year now."
"What?" I question when I hear Kelly bring up Alex's name.
"Everyone has been trying to get Dr. Karev to join their peds program, but he wants to stay with you."
"Interesting," is all I say to her.
"I wish I could stay and chat but I have a plane to catch. Congrats on the wife and kids, you'll have to so me pictures next time." Kelly says before she takes off towards another gate.
"Yeah it was great seeing you too, Kelly," I say before I sit back down. The flight from Atlanta to Seattle is only 3 hours and when I land it is 10 o'clock at night.
I haven't gotten any news about Callie going into labor so I make a pit stop by the hospital to check up on her and to talk to Alex. Callie, Alex, Mark, Addison and Teddy are working the middle shift which means that they work until midnight, and Sofia and Roxie are staying with Derek and Meredith tonight.
Right when I enter the hospital I make brief eye contact with Mark and Addison before they get into one of the elevators. I'm about to go upstairs when I see Alex standing at the main nurses station filling out a chart.
"Hey," I say to him.
"Hey, how was New York?" he looks over to me briefly before he returns to his chart.
"Pretty good, are you busy tonight?"
"No, knock on wood. It's been pretty quiet." Alex says with a soft smile before he closes his chart and gives me his full attention.
"Good," I say with a smile. "Give all of your cases to Dr. Klimko."
"Can I ask why?" Alex gives me a perplex look.
"Because I'm firing you."
"WHAT?!" Alex yells.
"I have nothing else to teach you. I know for a fact that places like John Hopkins and Cincinnati want you to work there and I want you go. They can show and teach you things that I can't because they have a bigger budget than me. If you stay here you'll be stuck at where you are. If you go to Hopkins or Cincinnati you'll grow and become a great surgeon I already know you are."
Alex gives me sigh before he opens his mouth.
"ROBBINS!" Mark's voice fills the main lobby. "THE THUNDERCATS ARE A GO!"
"To be continued," I say to Alex before I takeoff running upstairs to the maternity ward.
I run right behind Mark as we go to the fourth floor where the maternity ward is. We run down the hall before we turn to the left and enter one of the delivery rooms. Right as we get into the room I see that Callie is already lying on the table in a gown with Addison and some other nurses in front of her. "Where's Arizona? I thought you said she was in the building." Callie says in a mixture of a cry and a scream.
"Hey you, I'm right here." I say as I quickly walk pass Mark and join Callie's side. When I get to Callie's side she instantly grabs my hand and squeezes. The pressure is a little discomforting but doesn't hurt, but I know she is probably going to break my hand later on this evening.
Callie lets out a whimper before she bites her lips and rolls her head back on the pillow. She isn't in any pain, but you can see the discomfort on her face while her contractions continue. We wait another 2 hours before she is fully dilated, and that is when the real pain starts. For not only her but for me as well as her grip on my hand grows painfully tight.
"Callie, Callie," I whine as the pain from her grip is too much handle. "You remember the Lamaze we took two months ago? Let's try some of those breathing techniques I bet they will help." I say before I start to mimic some of the techniques.
For a brief moment Callie stops listening to Addison and turns to face me with a drop dead glare. She lets go of my hand and grabs me by my shirt collar and pulls me down to eye level. "Two Escalades are trying to back out of a compact parking space. What part of hee hee woo woo is going to work." Callie hisses at me.
"I think she needs more drugs," I quickly say to Addison.
Addison just shrugs at me, "there is nothing I can do. Her body isn't taking the epidural and I can't give her any more pain relievers."
Oh God it's going to be a long night.
Callie letting out a scream and her grabbing my hand again snaps me back to reality. Callie spends the next the 10 minutes pushing before our son is born. The nurse takes him and goes to the table to clean him off, while Addison stays where she is. I'm about to go to the table with the nurse when Callie squeezes my hand again letting me know that it is our daughters turn. Just like our son it takes another 10 minutes before she is born.
Callie lets go of my hand and collapses on the bed breathing heavily. When Callie lets go of my hand I make my way to the table where our son and daughter are. They have a healthy set of lungs as they scream and cry. I let the nurse do her job without interfering, it takes her another 10 minutes for her to finish before she lets me look and hold them.
They both have the same skin color which is a perfect mixture between Callie and me. It's very light brown almost as if they have a slight sun tan. They both have dirty blonde hair which is another mixture of Callie and me, and they both have my dimples which apparently I'm known for at this hospital. They start to calm down as they tire themselves out, but their eyes are closed which is because of the light that is shining down above them. I lift my hand and cover the light the best can, which works because they both slowly start to open their eyes. When they open their eyes, they look around room before their piercing blue eyes look right at me, which causes me to smile at them.
"Do you guys have a name for them?" the nurse says to me.
"Yeah," I say in a slight whisper. "William Corbin Robbins."
The nurse writes the name on a blue bracelet before she puts it on his left wrist, "and for your daughter?"
"Jacqueline…Mary...Robbins" Callie says in the background.
The nurse does the same for Jackie and soon they take them away to run the usual health test. It's another two hours before they set up their nursery in Callie's room. During that time Sofia and Roxie joins us in Callie's room. Don't ask me how Sofia got the hospital to let Roxie in because I don't know.
Callie and Sofia are passed out on the bed and Roxie is passed out at the foot of bed. William is sleeping peacefully in his crib in the corner of the room while I pace around holding Jackie because she is having a hard time sleeping.
When I get Jackie to go back to sleep, I put her in her crib. When I turn around I see Alex standing in the doorway. "Can I talk to you?" he whispers.
I just shake my head before I go outside in the hallway with him.
"Please don't fire me." Alex starts.
"Alex,"
"No, let me finish." Alex cuts off. "Yes, I know that there are better places for me to go, but I don't want to go there. I don't get that family environment among the doctors at the other places. I'm not saying that this family is perfect, it's dysfunctional as all hell, but we're still a family. And I never realized how much I liked until I started interviewing for other places. I know that I will stuck at where I'm at until you retire and I'm okay with that if that means I get to work with one of the greatest peds surgeons on the west coast. You turned this shitty department around into one of the best, and I want to help you as you continue to climb to top. So please let me stay."
"Are you sure this is what you want? You could be turning down the opportunity to be the head of the peds department at John Hopkins."
"In a few years it won't mean anything because this will be the place to be." Alex says with smile.
"Fine, I'm not firing you at this moment."
"Thanks Dr. Robbins," Alex says before he gives me a hug. "I won't let you down, promise."
"Better not," I say before I go back into the room.
I quietly close the door and sit in the chair that is on the left side of Callie's bed. Arizona Robbins, wife, mother of 3, surgeon by day, and a serial killer by night. It took a bit of time, but it would seem like I got my life back. As long as I cover my tracks better than I did before nothing can get in my way now. The sounds of William's cries pull me from my thoughts.
I have new born twins that will require most of my attention.
Fuck.
Part 2 Complete.
A\N: Okay so I have an idea for the next part of Arizona's story but I need a little more time to get my creative genius on so it will flow smoothly. So I would say look for part 3 in June. Until next time ladies and gentlemen...