A/N: W00T! I'm 2-0 for my Friday update promise. I'm kind of proud of myself ;) Anyway this chapter is a little long and boring, in my eyes at least, but trust me when I say that it will help explain things the more we get into this story. So just bear with me and try not to fall asleep on me.
Chapter Two
With the best smile I can muster up I approach the two men. "What can I do for you gentlemen?"
"Dr. Robbins this is special agent Ramsey from the FBI," Owen points to the man standing next him.
Special agent Ramsey is about the same height and build as Owen, but his skin is a little darker, with hazel eyes and short dark brown hair.
"Special agent Ramsey," I say with a smile and handshake.
"Please call me Chris," he says as he returns the smile.
"Well in that case, call me Arizona." I keep the smile on face, but I put my hands in my lab coat pocket. "What seems to be the problem?"
"As you can see my men have turned your hospital room into a crime scene because the Emerson's feel like their daughter was murdered." Chris pauses for a moment as he looks down at his small notepad. "They say he was murdered by the…"
"Nyx," I cutoff.
My action causes Chris to look up from his notes, "so you have heard him."
"Everyone on this floor has, from the staff all the way to the patients."
"And you didn't alert the police because?" Chris says as he folds his arms across his chest.
"Because the Nyx isn't really a person, he is an urban legend that the kids made up because they were scared. I'll admit that it is my fault for not shutting the myth down sooner, but that's all it is, a myth." Chris is no longer looking at me. Instead he is writing something down in his notepad. "Look I know we are trying to pride ourselves on being the best pediatric hospital on the west coast, and the doctors here are great, but we can't save everyone no matter how hard we try. And what most parents don't realize is that their children are smarter than what they give them credit for. When we are in the patients room taking about treatment options and the words start to get too big for them to understand, they start to panic. They will make up story or believe stories to help them understand things when it gets too complicated. Like I said before the Nyx is a myth, and it's my fault I let it get this big, trust me when I say I'm going to sit my staff down and have long conversation about how to stop these myths." The last part of my speech was geared more towards Owen than Chris, but Chris is too busy writing in his stupid notepad to really understand the last part of my statement.
We are quiet for a few more minutes before Chris finally looks up from his notepad. "I understand that the Nyx is a urban legend but David, Stacy's father is a close friend of mine and I promised him I would look into this case, if that is what you want to call it, for him. So I'm going to keep this investigation open until hit a dead end."
And this is why there are so many criminals on the streets of Seattle. It's because people like Chris are opening investigations with little to nothing to go on. "Ok, I will make sure the staff stay out of your way, and if you need anything else don't hesitate to ask me." I give Chris and Owen a small smile, "if you gentlemen would excuse me I need to do rounds to determine the surgery schedule for next week."
They both give me a small head nod before they move to their right to let me pass by them. I turn down the hallway and enter Tommy's room from yesterday. I'm not really doing rounds, in my mind I already know who's getting surgery next week and whose not. But the myth known as the Nyx has gotten my full attention.
When I enter Tommy's room I was preparing a whole speech on how to get his parents to leave, however, when I enter I see that Tommy's parents are nowhere to be seen.
"Where are your parents?" I say as I look around the room.
"Work, even though they wanted to be here they couldn't. They need the money to pay for my medical bills."
I just shake my head before I close the door and pull up a chair next to Tommy's bed. "Tell me everything you've heard about the Nyx."
"I thought you said the Nyx wasn't real." Tommy is trying to be a smartass with me.
"He's not, but people on this floor are starting to get carried away with the myth and I want to stop it. So I'm trying to locate the source of the myth. Right now you seem to know the most information, so I want to know everything you know."
Tommy just shakes his head lightly before he sits up a little bit. "The Nyx is a creature of the night; he's a dark sprit that brings sleep, death, strife and pain. He will prey on anyone, but he likes children the most. He usually goes after the bratty spoiled kids or the kids that are downright mean. The first time you see him, he will appear randomly in your dreams. He doesn't say or doing anything he just blends in with crowd and does whatever the crowd is doing in your dream. This is his way of warning you that if you don't change your ways the next time you see him he will take you to his maze."
"So if you shape up he just leaves you alone."
"Pretty much," Tommy says back, "he's always watching you so he'll know if you have been miss behaving."
"So what happens if you don't shape up?"
"Right before he takes you, he leaves you a dark blue orchid. Usually its sitting on the table in front of you so you can't miss it and the orchid always appears the right before your surgery starts."
"Why an orchid?"
Tommy just shrugs, "I really don't know. I think it has something to do with values but I'm not too sure." Tommy pauses for a moment before he continues with his story. "Everything is normal, the nurse prepares for surgery and everything and they give you the gas to knock you out. When you're knocked out is when he strikes. You wake up in this dark two story house, on the top floor and you have to get to the front door on the bottom floor before times runs out. It may sound simple, but it's not. There are dead ends, but there are spikes, barbed wire, bear traps and knifes that try to cut off your head. If you make to the front door in time you live, if you don't make it to the front door in time he kills you that is if any of his traps hasn't killed you first."
After Tommy completes his story I just lean back in my chair thinking about what he just told me, but I can't ponder the first part of his story because as soon as my back touches the back part of the chair is when my pager goes off. I look down to see that I have multiple incoming traumas, which forces me to leave. I tell Tommy thanks and that the conversation stays between us, which he agreed to only if I sneak him extra ice cream sundaes after his meals. Easy enough for me.
When I get downstairs to the ER I see that I'm not the only one was paged, pretty much every surgeon and resident was paged as well.
"Alright guys it looks like our mystery arsonist has struck again. He has burnt down the Uwajimaya Village, so we are going to be swamped." Owen says as he makes his way to the front of ER towards the ambulance bay.
"I just got your page Dr. Montgomery, let me get changed real quick and I'll be down to help." Jason Myers says to Addison who is standing to my right.
Addison just shakes her head before she gives her attention back to Owen. But my eyes stay on Jason Myers, or should I say Seattle's mystery arsonist, until he is out of sight. These fires started about 3 months ago right around the time when Jo chose to be with Alex instead of him. I guess you could say that he is a little bitter about losing his girlfriend.
I'm forced to push my thoughts about the Nyx and Jason aside for the rest of the day because Alex, Jo, Morgan, Dr. Stark and I are swamped with surgery after surgery for the rest of the day.
After our last surgery I'm walking up to peds floor getting ready to check on my patients before I call it an evening. On my way to peds floor I see Teddy walking into one of the one call rooms. I try calling her name but she doesn't answer me, either she's tired or she is in sex haze.
When I get to door that Teddy just used, I knock because I don't know if she and Addison are getting it on right now. "It's open Arizona." I hear her say from the other end of the door. I open the door to see Teddy lying on her left side with her back facing me.
"Story time can wait, Arizona, I'm exhausted right now."
"I understand, but that isn't what I wanted to talk to about. I think we should have girl's night, because I want to stop this arsonist before he kills anymore people. I had 25 kids today and 7 of them died."
"That's fine, it gives a chance to plan Addison and I's last minute wedding." Teddy's voice starts to get a little groggy.
"So is Friday good for you?"
"Yeah," is all I get.
I don't say anything else before I turn around to leave the room. When I get to upstairs to the peds floor I start the long process of rounds before I leave to go home. Before the day started I only had 5 patients, now I have 23.
I'm putting away a few of my charts when I hear a young boy freaking out in the room to my left. I look over to see a boy no more than 12 crying while his parents and a nurse try to calm him down. The reason for his freak out, a dark blue orchid sitting on the table in front of him. My attention goes from looking at the boy to looking at Dr. Stark how is grinning while this kid freaks out as he fills out a chart.
I go from looking at the kid to looking at Dr. Stark until Dr. Stark calls me out for staring.
"Why are you staring so hard Dr. Robbins?"
"I'm curious to why you think it's funny that your patient is having a panic attack about surgery."
Dr. Stark looks up from his chart and looks over to me and just shrugs at me. "I guess I have a sick sense of humor."
"I guess so," I pause for a brief moment. "Why don't you do your job and calm your patient down."
"I could, but it's not my fault that Kevin is a little dick who deserves what's coming to him."
"Well I guess I should just call special agent Ramsey and tell him to pay extra close attention to that orchid he took today."
After my statement, Stark and I enter a staring contest before he closes his chart and walks into Kevin's room. It takes Stark 15 minutes to calm Kevin down. I spend that entire 15 minutes just staring at Stark, and every once and a while he looks over to me and just glares.
After he is done he leaves the room, I'm still facing the front of the nurse's station when Stark walks up behind me. "You better have some proof before you start making such hard accusations." Stark says me.
"I think you backing down like a little bitch back there was enough proof for me." I say back without turning my head.
"You don't want to play games with me, Dr. Robbins."
"There's more proof for me right there." I say before I put my chart back in its resting place. Once the chart is put away I turn around to face Stark. "Please, continue digging your grave by opening your mouth again."
Stark doesn't say anything to me and just walks away from me. I'm still looking at Stark until Callie comes on to the floor. A smile crosses my lips as she walks up to me. "Hey you."
Callie just grins at her nickname, "are you ready to pick up the kids?"
"I thought you would never ask," I say as we start to walk towards the elevator.
Right as we step on the elevator Callie's pager goes off. Callie looks down at it, "it's Kyle, which can only mean one thing. Another gay couple was attacked. You might be solo with the kids tonight."
"I think I can handle it," I say before I get out of the elevator while Callie stays on.
"No arts & crafts," Callie yells at me as the elevator doors close on her.
After yesterday, that was a given. As I get changed and walk over to the hospital daycare I can't help but think about Callie and her past few patients over the past 6 months. It would seem that since gay marriage became legal in Washington someone wasn't too happy about it, and instead of voicing their option, or giving disapproving stares, they have taken it upon themselves to just beat, kill, and if it's a lesbian couple, rape them. This person is definitely on my radar; however, I have no clue who it might be. I've tried asking Callie through idle chit chat but she doesn't seem to know who is behind these attacks as well.
"MOMMY!" I hear Jackie and William say in unison as they come running up to me and give both of my legs a big bear hug.
I pick up Jackie and put her on my right hip, "how's my little princess?" Jackie just giggles and smiles at me. "And little man," I say as I grab a giggling William by the hem of his pants and throw him over my left shoulder.
Right as I turn around to leave one of the daycare employees opens the door for me with a smile on her face. "How about we go pick up your big sister," I say as I carry them outside to my car.
"AHHH," is their response, which is code for yes.
I just chuckle before I put them in their car seats. After we pick up Sofia we find ourselves back home. I manage to keep them entertained with Lazy Town while I figure out what to make for dinner. As I stare at the endless amount of food that is in the refrigerator I start to realize that Callie is main cook in this family, not me. So I just opted to heat up the left over spaghetti from last night.
With Callie still in surgery dinner is a little more relaxed and filled with a lot of chaos. Jackie is spreading the spaghetti all over her table before she takes small bites here and there. William is intrigued by the spaghetti and is just sitting there closely examining it before he puts it to his mouth and eats it a small piece. When he realizes that it is the same thing we had last night he takes bigger handfuls and beings stuffing his mouth like a chipmunk. Roxie is right under the twins eating the pieces of spaghetti that the twins have dropped on the floor. Sofia on the other has picked my trait of eating everything in sight. While the twins start to babble and play with their food, Sofia starts to tell me about her day.
"How was your day Sof?"
"Good, we learned how to add and subtract today." Sofia says before she reaches for her glass of water.
"You know how to add and subtract?"
Sofia just shakes her head yes.
"What's 3 + 1?" I question
"4"
"5 – 2"
"3"
I just look at Sofia who is grinning ear to ear as she correctly answers my questions, "Ok, 10 – 7."
Sofia takes a moment to think before she holds out her hands and slowly counts down dropping a finger as she goes a long. "3," Sofia says with a small bounce.
"You are so smart baby girl, I think this calls for ice cream." I say as collect the plates from the dinner table.
"AHHH," the twins say in unison before they squeal and bounce in their chairs.
"Yes, ice cream." I return to table with a wet rag, and wipe the table part of the twins high chairs completely clean before I go to freezer and get out the kids favorite ice cream, superman.
I set the ice cream out in front of the twins first and with hesitation the two of them start to devour their ice cream. By the time I sit down and take my first bite the twins are done with their ice cream and William is in the middle of licking his bowl.
"William, no" I say with stern voice.
"More?"
"No," I say as I shake my head at the same time.
"Pawese," William's eyes grow wide as he pleads for more ice cream.
"No."
William just lets out a huff before he pouts for the rest of his time at the dinner table. When Sofia and I are done with our ice cream it's time to start the painful process of putting the kids to sleep, and by kids I mean William and Jackie. Along with eating, Sofia, has picked up my need for sleep as well. I have no problem making her go to sleep, the twins on the other hand is another story.
While I start the long painful process of putting the twins to sleep, Sofia is in her room taking a bath. Right as I put a slumbering William his crib. Is when I hear the garage door go up letting me know that Callie is home.
I hear movement walking into the kitchen as I walk into Sofia's room. "Are your hands pruned yet, baby girl?" I say as I enter her bathroom.
Sofia sits up completely covered in bubbles and she looks down at her down at her hands. "Yep, it's time to get out." I walk up to her with a towel and help get out of the bathtub before I start to dry her off.
"Mommy," Sofia whines. "I'm a big girl now, I can do it."
"Right, right, I forgot. I'm sorry, here you go." I hand the towel to the Sofia who dries herself off before she puts on her Disney princess pajamas. She climbs into bed while I check under bed and in her closet for monsters. Once all is clear I read Beauty and the Beast to her before she and Roxie fall asleep.
I check on the twins to make sure they are still sleeping before I go downstairs to kitchen. When I get to the kitchen I see that Callie has completely cleaned up the kitchen and has made Sofia's lunch.
Callie is in the process of folding a dish towel when I come up behind her and turn her around to face me; before she can say anything to me my lips are on hers. My hands are on her waist and slip behind her and under her ass. In one fluid motion I pick her up and set her on the counter top. My lips leave hers as I start to kiss her jawline down to her neck. I'm about to attack her collarbone when Callie pushes me away.
"Jackie's awake." She says breathlessly.
Before I can question her we hear Jackie giggle before her tiny footsteps run around upstairs. "I got it," Callie says as she jumps down from the counter and walks upstairs with me right behind her.
When we reach to the top of stairs we are greeted by Jackie. "Ahhh," she says with a smile as points at Callie and runs away.
Callie just smiles back and picks up Jackie and walks into Jackie's room, while I walk into our room to get ready for bed. When I leave the bathroom I notice that Callie isn't back so I go to Jackie's room to check on her. When I get there I see Callie sleeping on the recliner chair in the corner with Jackie sleeping on her chest. I know if I move Jackie she will just wake up again, so I grab a blanket and cover both them before I go back to our room and fall asleep.
Like usual the kids running around and playing is my alarm clock, and when I get up I start the routine morning craziness before Callie and I go to work.
With the kids at school and Callie downstairs doing any early morning surgery I find myself going upstairs to the peds floor to start my rounds. When I get to the peds floor I stop by the nurse's station to go over my charts to see if anything changed last night while I was at home.
I'm about to leave to start my rounds when I look over to left to find that Kevin's room is completely empty. "Lauren, what happened to Kevin?"
"He died an hour after his surgery, everybody is saying that it was the Nyx, but I don't believe in that shit."
I slowly turn my head towards Lauren. When she looks at me she makes a small face before she takes out 5 dollars and puts it in the swear jar. When she puts the money in her jar is when she gets up to leave and goes into a patient's room.
I have my attention turned towards my right side looking at the room that Lauren disappeared to when I feel someone on the left side. "I guess you don't know how to listen."
"I guess you never called special agent Ramsey." Stark throws in my face; I don't say anything and just turn around to face him. "You can cry wolf all you want, but at the end of the day we both know you can't prove anything." Stark give me a smile before he turns to leaves the peds floor to go to surgery.
Well than I guess the games have begun.
Stark's defiance has put in a foul mood for the morning. He wants to play games and love playing games because I always win. Just take a look at Erica, Sadie and Polly, they wanted to play and all three of them lost. I guess you could say that Stark has awakened my dark passenger, and I have the extreme urge to kill someone. As much as I would love for it to be Stark right now, I can't prove that he really is the Nyx. There could be some off chance that he is just a straight up douche, but there is one person who I know is a criminal and that is Jo's ex-boyfriend Jason.
I know for a fact that he is the mystery arsonist burning down apartment building on the south side of Seattle. With the addition of my 18 new patients I have a total of 23 kids to look after, which means that I'm over the limit for accepting new cases. After Yang trying to be super woman and juggling over 25 patients last year and failing at it by killing almost half, Owen placed a new hospital rule. Doctors cannot have more than 15 patients, but since I'm short staffed at the moment his overlooking the fact that I have 23 patients. But since I have 23 patients I can't accept any new patients until some of them start to go home which should be later on this afternoon. Since none of patients need surgery at the moment I'm just keeping them here for observation. After rounds my morning is pretty slow and boring.
So to pass the time, I take the time to take a deeper look into Jason's past. Since Jason works in the peds department and I'm the head of the peds department, I'm able to pull up his background check without raising any red flags.
It would seem that Jason's love for fire started when he was in high school, he was arrest twice for arson, but since he was a minor he just got a slap on the wrist. A deeper look into past also shows that he is a very violent person, he was expelled from two different high schools for fighting, and he almost got kicked out of college for fighting. The only thing that saved them from not getting kicked out was the fact that his mother was the dean of students at the time, and it looks like he just barely graduated from medical school.
I click back to his basic information because I find it hard to believe that Owen would hire someone with such a violent history. I mean right now Settle Grace is a very competitive hospital and if you don't have GPA of 3.5 or higher Owen and the board won't even give you the time of day if you want to get into our intern program. When I make it to the top of his page I see how Jason got accepted into the hospital. It was during the two month period were we didn't have a chief of surgery and the old board of trustees were hiring people and at the time they didn't know what to look for.
Jason also lives on the south side of Seattle in a small two bedroom house in a lower middle class neighborhood. I know because last week while he was working I visited his house during my lunch break. When I went through his house I found pictures of him and Jo everywhere as well as several maps of apartment building, and homes that were similar to places were Alex lives currently and where he has lived in the past. He is clearly building the courage to actually burn down Alex's new house, or Meredith's old house, while he is still in it hoping to kill him and possibly Jo. At the rate he is going, I'm guessing that Alex's and Jo's number is getting close to being called.
With my new found information I close everything on my computer and get up from desk. I plan on taking a quick glance at my patients before I find and stalk Jason. I have until Friday to memorize his schedule and attack, because if I don't do it soon Alex might be the next person he tries to kill.
When I get up from my desk, I see Dr. Stark slowly walk in front of my office door. He is heavily engrossed in a chart that is in front of him. In that brief moment I forget about Jason and start thinking about Dr. Stark and his strategy, if that is what you want to call it. I can't wrap my brain around how these kids are dreaming that they are in a deadly maze. Stark deals with the tiny humans all day, and the maker of the tiny humans never leave the tiny humans bedside while they are in the hospital so he can't say or show them anything while the parents are there.
Or does he? Erica was using the basement for her illegal organ trading; maybe Stark has turned the basement into his own personal funhouse. Since Stark is killing children I chose to go to basement first before I go on the hunt for Jason, however, the sight of my wife entering my office changes my plans yet again.
With a sexy smirk on her face she walks in my office and then proceeds to close and lock my door. "I'm having a slow day, and since I'm the head of ortho I was able to creep on your schedule and saw that you don't have anything until at least 11 of your patients get discharged. So I thought we could have a little fun while we wait for someone to call us," Callie says as she pulls our favorite purple double ended toy from her lab coat pocket.
I just grin back at her as I walk up to her. Okay first I'll have hot sex with my wife, then I'll check on my patients, then I'll search the basement, and then finally I will go stalk Jason. Talk about busy day. When I get to Callie I wrap my arms around her waist, while she wraps her arms around my neck. I lean forward and the two of us share a passionate kiss, and I continue walking forwards causing her to walk back. When Callie's back hits the wall I feel my hands slide downwards towards her ass. After I get in nice long grope of her ass I proceed to lift her up. Instinctively her legs wrap around my waist her hands stay gripped around my neck and shoulders.
"Arizona," Callie gasps and she tears away from our kiss. Her head hits the door right behind her with a soft thud. With her head in a new position it leaves her neck exposed and I immediately take advantage of it. I kiss, nip and suck up and down her neck. "Arizona," she gasps again only this time she pushes against my shoulders in a silent plea for me to stop. "We can't do this here." She says on the breathless side.
"Why not," I question as I try to retract my lips on her body.
"Because the kids, nurses and other doctors will hears us having sex against the door. No matter how quiet we keep our moans and groans." Callie moves her neck to left the keep me from kissing her. She wants to make sure that she has my full attention.
"Right," is all I say as I carry her over to my office couch.
When Callie sees me moving us to another location in my office is when she allows me to continue my assault on her neck, collarbone and she exposed skin of her chest. I'm about to set Callie down on the couch, but she somehow maneuvers me to turn around. So now I'm the one sitting on the couch while Callie is sitting on my lap.
I move my lips back up to Callie's lips while I take off her lab coat jacket and throw it across the room. I think it landed somewhere on my desk because I hear a few papers fall on the floor a few seconds after I throw her jacket. My hands are resting on either side of Callie's hip bones and they massage them before they slip under her scrub top and start to massage their way up her body. Her scrub top starts to ride up as my hands continue upwards until finally Callie breaks our kiss for a second time to lean back and remove her top completely.
When her top comes off I skip her lips, jawline, throat, and collarbone and start kissing the valley between her chest for a few moments before I start to play with her bra with my teeth. In the middle of playing with her lace material my hands slide behind her to unclasp her bra. When her bra is completely removed her perfect breasts fall in front of me and immediately my mouth is attached to right side with my hand torments and plays with the other side. My tongue swirls around her nipple before I gentle bit down on it, while my left hand pinches and rolls her other nipple. I keep this up for a few minutes before I switch sides make sure that each nipple gets the same amount of attention.
While my attention is focused on her breast, Callie's attention is focused on removing my scrub top. Her hands are wrapped around my clothed back and for a brief moment she balls her hands into a fist grabbing as much material as she can before she lifts up and pulls my top off completely. While her left hand throws my top across the room somewhere her right hand finds my back again and she removes my bra.
Once I'm completely topless as well, Callie tries to regain on control of this situation. I guess you could say that most people base our sex life after our personalities. Callie is big, bold and very out spoken so naturally people just assume that she is the "top" in our relationship and I'm the "bottom" because I let people believe that I'm super girly and bubbly. However behind closed doors, when it comes to sex between Callie and I it is the complete opposite. I'm the dominate one and she is the submissive one, but every now and then we changes things up, like now, to keep our sex life fresh and different. Callie manages to push me over to left side of the couch so I'm lying on my back is she lying on top of me between my legs.
Callie gives me a long passionate kiss before she licks her way down my body. She only stops to nip at my lower left side because she is only one that knows that that is where my one and only sensitive spot is. As she nips at my lower left side, her hands untie my scrub pants and she removes them completely along with my shoes, socks, and underwear.
When my pants her gone I feel her tongue run up and down sex several times. She stops every once and a while to draw shapes and patterns around my clit, and she also pauses to flirt with my opening. My head rolls back deeper into the couch as my hands tangle themselves in her hair and I let out a soft moan.
When Callie's tongue is done playing in my sex, she replaces it with her fingers. They are repeating the same action as her tongue while she kisses her way back up my body. Once again when she reaches my lips we share another passionate kiss, but it's a little more intense. Without asking for permission I feel her tongue enter my mouth and I can taste myself on her, which causes me to let out another moan.
During our kiss I see Callie's right hand come up to rest on one side of my head while her left hand stops playing with my sex. I guess during my sex haze I didn't realize that with her right hand Callie removed her pants, underwear and inserted the toy into herself. When her fingers stopped playing with me was when I realized that she was in process of lining up the toy. Even though I knew it was coming, her hard, deep thrust still catches me by surprise.
I let out a semi loud yelp because the sensation was almost to the point of pain, but I was wet enough that it never made it to that point. Almost immediately Callie's thrust are fast, hard and deep. I clench my jaw the best I can to keep quiet as my eyes roll to back of head and I push myself further into the couch. I wrap my arms around Callie's neck and spread my leg wider so she can get deeper before I become lost in the sensation that is Callie.
"Calliope," I moan in a soft whisper.
My moan gets a soft moan from her and she also starts to pick up her pace. As her hips thrust deep inside of me, I also feel her hips as roll left and right, and up and down as she hits every sensitive stop that she remembers.
I feel myself getting close, and so do Callie because she puts most of her body weight on her left arm and right hand snakes down my body to find my clit. The added sensation of her index finger rolling around my clit and then the slight pressure from her index finger and thumb as she pitches and pulls it, is enough to completely throw me over the edge. My back aches upwards as my legs lift up and wrap around her waist, and my hands slide down her back to find her ass where I grab and hold it, keeping her form moving.
I open my mouth to let out a scream, but I'm able to stop it before it leaves my throat. Somewhere along the lines of grabbing and holding Callie, she finds herself toppling over the edge as well. "Oh, Arizona," she moans before she shakes and then falls on top of me.
As we lay there the room is silent expect for the sounds of our staggered breathing. A few minutes after we manage to catch our breath, someone comes knocking on my door.
"Arizona, are you in there?" Jackson says from the other side.
"Yeah, I'm on the phone and it's important, can it wait?" I yell back. I give a slight gasp when I feel Callie sit up and withdraw the toy from me.
"It kind of is," Jackson pauses for a moment. "Dr. Lauren Boswell the pediatric craniofacial surgeon from Boston Children's Hospital wanted the charts for the patients she will be seeing when she gets here next week. I was going to fax them over but Nurse Lauren said the charts were in your office."
I glance over to my filing cabinet to see all 7 charts sitting there. I get up off the couch, still naked, and walk over to my desk. "Actually all of these charts are digital, if you give me her email I'll just email them to her before the end of the day." I say as I get out a pen and notepad.
I hear Jackson shuffle through some papers for a few moments, "it's boswellla at bch dot org."
"I got it, thanks. Tell her I'll send them to her later today."
"Okay," Jackson says before he walks away.
I look back over to the couch to see my wife fully clothed. I don't say anything as I grab her lab coat and throw over to her while I find my discarded clothes and redress myself as well. After I'm dress and Callie opens the door to my office she goes back downstairs to ortho while I get ready to go downstairs to the basement, but once again my plans change when I see Jason standing the nursery just glaring at Jo and Alex while they work and flirt with each other.
Something tells me that Jason is about to strike again, and he looks like he found the courage to actually attack Alex this time. I just follow Jason around staying in the shadows so to speak while he works. I have my tablet with me so I'm able to keep an eye over my patients and their charts as the nurse's change them. It also works as a good cover, standing at a nurse's station "working". It's around 12:30 in the afternoon when Jason decides to take his hour long lunch break, and it is also the same time I decide to take mine as well.
I'm sitting a few tables over from Jason, and he looks very upset. It almost looks like he is fighting with himself as he sits at the table by himself. I'm only sitting at the table by myself for about 35 minutes when Teddy comes and joins me. She not only does she join the table, she is also blocking my view of Jason.
"I think I'm going to ask Yang to be one of my bridesmaids." Teddy says as she takes a big from her yogurt from the build your own yogurt bar.
Well it wouldn't have mattered if Teddy was blocking my view of Jason or not because her statement has my full attention. "What?"
"Addison just added another bridesmaid to her party, and I want things to be even so I need another bridesmaid."
"Well who does she have?" I question.
"She has Callie as her maid of honor, followed by Mark, and then she just added Bailey this morning." Teddy pauses to take another bite from her yogurt. "Obviously, you're going to be my maid of honor." We shrug at each other agreeing with her statement, "then I had Owen, and now I need another female bridesmaid. And Cristina is like a friend to me."
"Name one thing you guys have talked about that's not work related."
"Owen," Teddy shots back almost a little too quickly.
"Owen's aching womb syndrome doesn't count."
Teddy just rolls her eyes at me, "well what would count?"
"Personal stuff, like does Yang know you broke up with Addison because you thought you peed on her face during sex 6 months ago?"
Teddy face becomes red like a tomato as she looks around at the empty tables around us. "One I never had a g-spot orgasm before, and two you name someone smartass."
"Lexie," I say with a slight shrug, "keep it in the family."
Teddy leans back as she finishes the last of her yogurt, "that's a good idea." Teddy says while she stands up from her seat. "Do you know where she is?"
"Try neuro first, and if she's not there then she's probably upstairs in the library studying for her board exam."
"Ok, thanks. See you at dinner tonight." Teddy says before she rushes off upstairs to find Lexie.
When Teddy leaves, I get my sight of Jason back, and its right in the nick of time because it looks like his lunch break is over. Which means so is mine. I spend the rest of the afternoon following him until the end of his shift which is at 3 pm. Unfortunately I'm here until 5 so I can't follow anymore, so I use this time to go downstairs.
Even though my time downstairs is cut short due to my pager going off with an incoming trauma, I find nothing that Stark could use to scare these kids. And now I'm back to being truly stumped because he literally scaring these kids to death and I don't know how he is doing it.
When I get to the ambulance bay, I see Callie with her resident Leah, Bailey and her resident Shane and I see Jo waiting for me to arrive. "What do we have?" I say as I walk up to them while putting my trauma gown on.
"Seattle's mystery arsonist has struck again; he lit a minivan on fire. A mother and her five kids were inside." Shane says to me.
Only three ambulances show up, because two of the kids died on the way over to the hospital. Bailey and Leah run off with the mother, while Jo and Shane run off with one of her son's leaving Callie and me with her nine mouth old daughter.
The little girl has too much damage that needs to be fixed to stabilize her in a trauma room so Callie and I rush her downstairs to an OR, but in the elevator sadly she passes away. When the elevator doors open the nurse tech that was with us wheels her over to the morgue which is on the same floor as the ORs.
Out of the corner of my eye, I see Callie's shoulder slump down and I know she is about to cry. She will never admit to my face, but since the birth of our three children she hates peds because she can't stand to watch kids die the way they do. "Who would do that to an innocent family?"
I don't say anything to her and just wrap my arm around her while she cries on my shoulder. She is forced to wipe her tears away when her pager goes off again. "Great, it's Kyle."
"Another hate crime," I whisper to her, and all she does is shake her head yes.
"I just want this day to be over" she says as she steps back into the elevator.
When Callie leaves my sight, I go back upstairs and do rounds before the end of my shift. After rounds I take the time to digitize all of the charts for Dr. Boswell before I email them to her. Once I have completed the last task it's time for me to go home. I pick the twins from the hospital daycare while Callie picks up Sofia from Brightwater.
For the first time in ages when the five of us get home we all just sit in the living room too tired to do anything. We just sit in silence while kids watch Scooby Doo.
"It's Tuesday," Callie says to me. "Everyone will be here in an hour, and I don't feel like cooking."
"Well we can all just go to Mama's Mexican Kitchen," I suggest.
"I'd like that," Callie scoots over closer to me so we are cuddling on the couch.
Callie ends up falling asleep on my shoulder while I become engrossed in Murder She Wrote for kids or Scooby Doo as everyone calls it.
"Hello? Is anybody home?" After about two episodes of Scooby Doo, Mark's voice fills the house.
"In the living room," Callie responds in a groggy voice.
When Callie sits up fully is when Mark and Lexie enter the living room. "Wow you guys must be tired because I don't think I have every entered this house where it is so quiet." Lexie says with a slight chuckle.
"Long day," Callie says before her head goes back to resting on my shoulder.
"We were thinking that when Teddy and Addison arrive we could all go to Mama's Mexican Kitchen for dinner." I say to Mark and Lexie who are sitting on the loveseat.
They briefly look at each other before they shake their heads yes agreeing with each other. Our wait for Addison and Teddy is short lived because 10 minutes into the New Looney Tunes Show is when the two ladies decide to join us.
Once everyone has arrived we all take our own cars, so after dinner people can leave if they want. Callie and I decide to take my car because it is more child friendly when you have more than one child. We all arrive at the restaurant around the same time. Mama's Mexican Kitchen is popular Mexican restaurant that only the locals seem to know about. Since there are nine of us for dinner we have to wait for about 10 minutes for them to free up and make a table for us.
When we sit down it would seem like old habits die hard because Callie and I are sitting at the heads of the table. The twins are on Callie's left side with Teddy and Addison right next them. On the other side of the table is Mark and Lexie, and Sofia is right on my right side right next to Lexie.
"So Sofia, Mama tells me that you are learning how the spell." Mark turns his attention to Sofia the best he can because he and Sofia are sitting on the same side of the table.
"Yes," Sofia shakes her head with a smile.
"Do you know how the spell mommy's real name?"
"A-R-I-Z-O-N-A,"
"What about mama's?"
"C-A-L-L-I-P-O-E,"
Mark just shakes his head pretending to think, "ok time to step up my game, how do you spell your name?"
"S-O-F-I-A,"
"So smart," he says with smile. "How do you spell my name?"
"M-A-R-K,"
"Very nice," Teddy and Addison say in unison.
"Aright, it's your turn you two." Mark says as he turns attention to William and Jackie. Who just smile at him when they see that Mark is talking to them. "Can you guys say Mama?"
"Ahhh," they say in unison, which gets the rest of us to laugh at their reaction.
"Ok, let's try something easy, can you guys say food?"
"Ahhh,"
Mark's head just drops down as he starts to laugh at the twin's response.
"I've got one," I join in. "Can you guys say mommy?"
"Mommy!" The two of them say as they bounce in their high chairs.
"You're lucky you guys are cute," Callie says when the twins correctly say mine name and not hers.
The rest of dinner is just like every other family dinner we have on Tuesdays, it is filled with fun mindless banter as we enjoy each other's company. After dinner we walk across the street to Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream for dessert before we head over to playground to play on the jungle gym and swings.
Somehow during running on the playground the kids have somehow tackled me to the ground and are climbing all over me like their own personal jungle gym. My smile disappears when I get a slight discomfort like someone is watching me. For a brief moment I zone out William, Jackie and Sofia and roll my head back so I see right behind me. There in the trees is Dr. Stark; we make eye contact for a second. I'm able to register to the sly smirk on his face, and it doesn't sit well with me. However William running and doing a cannonball on stomach brings my attention back to the fact that I'm rough housing with my children.
"Oh, god," I yell before I grab my stomach and roll over to my left side.
"William Corbin," Callie yells as she gets up from the bench where she and Addison were sitting.
William just screams as he runs away from Callie. The two chase each around the playground while I try to roll over to my knees so I can stand up. When rollover and get on all fours I find myself being tackled again by Sofia and Jackie as they try to climb on my back. I'm getting my ass kicked by my children right now, not fun.
"Alright you two, I think Mommy needs a break from all this rough housing." Mark says as he picks up Sofia and as Lexie picks up Jackie.
When the kids get off my back, literally, Teddy helps me to my feet. "You are alright?" she questions.
I stand up straight still holding my stomach and I take a deep breath. I glance over back to where Stark was standing and see that he is gone. I glance around the trees to see that he is completely gone before I look over to Teddy, "yeah, I'm fine. William just knocked the wind out of me that's all."
The nine of play in the park until it gets dark outside. Once it's dark outside we call it an evening and we all go our separate ways. When Callie and I get home we take the kids upstairs and clean them off. After their bath the three of the go to sleep with no protest, however, the three of them fall asleep in middle of Callie and I's bed. We decide not to risk waking them so we just let them sleep with us.
The next morning is just like every other chaos filled morning. We spend the morning trying to tame our kids before we take them to school and daycare. When I get to the peds floor, I do rounds with Alex. We will be doing three surgeries together today. After rounds I go to my office to check my work email to see if Dr. Boswell has emailed me with any concerns and I also need to fill out some pre surgery paperwork as well. When I unlock my door and turn on my office light I'm greeted with sight of a dark blue orchid sitting on my desk.
I walk up to desk and pick the flower up by the vase to see a picture resting underneath it. I set the flower down and pick up the picture. It's a picture of me, Callie, Sofia, William and Jackie playing in the park yesterday.
I put the picture in my pocket before I storm out of my office. You can threaten me all you want, but family. They are off limits, and clearly I need to let Stark know that, seeing how he is new to this hospital.