Chapter Four
It's been two weeks since I killed Jason, and since I made my silent promise to Teddy to kill this man that is going around Seattle killing newly married gay people. Since then my life has been both rewarding and disappointing.
I say rewarding because for the past two weeks my evidence about Dr. Stark being the Nyx grows stronger. I've decided that just because the hospital made Dr. Stark the second in command doesn't mean that I have to listen to them, there plenty of doctors on this floor that can do his job, and do it better than him. So for the past two weeks I have been giving all my secondary surgeries to Alex, the person that should be in Stark's position.
I'm standing at the nurse's station when I small petite figure and a large figure appear to my left. I close my chart and put down my pen before I turn to face my mystery guests.
"Hey, Dr. Robbins" Jackson says to me with a smile on his face. "This is Dr. Lauren Boswell from Boston's Children's hospital."
I turn my attention to the petite blonde standing next him. She has short blonde hair that just barely reaches her shoulders, and she has really nice green eyes. I smile at her and extend my hand, "Dr…"
"Arizona Robbins," she cuts off as she reaches for my hand. "I think every pediatric doctor and surgeon has not only heard about you, but they might envy you as well." Laruen smiles at me and I do the same. "All of my colleagues are jealous that I get to work with you for the next few weeks." I watch as her smile goes from friendly to flirtatious in a matter of seconds.
"Well I guess we could say the same about you," I point of towards Jackson briefly. "Not every day we get work with a world class pediatric craniofacial specialist." Unlike Lauren I keep my smile friendly.
"She just got in, and she wanted to see the peds floor and she wanted to meet you." Jackson jumps in.
"Dr. Robbins," a low voice says from behind me. I don't need to turn around to know who is calling me, but to get away from the awkwardness that is Dr. Boswell I turn around.
"Dr. Hunt," I say when I compete my turn.
He doesn't respond back, but just waves for me to come over. Before I turn around I see that he is standing next to Dr. Stark who a sly grin on his face. "Well I have to talk to the chief of surgery, but feel free to look around and get acquainted with the floor and maybe later we could go over some of your cases."
"Sounds like a plan," Lauren's flirtatious smile is still on her face, and her eyes rack up and down my body three times before I turn around and leave the two of them.
"What can I do for you gentleman?" I say as my smile starts to fade, mainly because Stark and his presence.
"Robert has brought to my attention that you have been refusing to give him you're secondary cases." Owen pauses to look over at Stark for a moment. "You know the pecking order, you get the cases first, then Robert, then Alex."
"Dr. Robbins," Nurse Lauren hands me a chart, how convenient.
"Sorry I didn't mean to break the chain of command," I give Stark the best fake smile I can muster. "I wasn't really thinking because Alex was always around me when I turned something down." I hand the chart the Stark, "it won't happen again."
Stark takes the chart from my hand, "better not," he whispers to me before he walks over to the nurse's station. He is standing at the sport where Jackson, Lauren and I were standing before I got called away. I see that Jackson and Lauren have moved over towards the tablet station on the other side of the hall. Jackson is talking, explaining something to Lauren, but Lauren isn't paying attention to him. She is looking at me, when make eye contact she smiles at me before she blushes and goes back to listening to Jackson.
"Look Arizona, I know you don't like Dr. Stark and neither do I, but we have to keep things professional and work with him for another year. When his contract is up we can look into making Alex his replacement, but until then stop stonewalling him." Owen says from behind me.
"Yeah," I whisper back to him.
We don't say anything else to each other and we go our separate ways. Owen goes downstairs back to the ER and I just walk over to where Stark is standing. "Adenoid removal is a simple surgery where the patient, Kyle, should live."
"Are you accusing me of something Dr. Robbins?" Stark puts down his chart and looks at me.
"We'll see after Kyle's surgery." I respond back.
"You need to let this me being the Nyx thing go. Because you don't have enough evidence to prove anything."
I do now bitch.
I just shrug at him before I give him knowing smile and walk off. I can feel his terror as I walk away from him, and I can feel Lauren undressing me with her eyes as well. By the end of the day I will find out where Stark takes these kids before they die.
I walk back to my office because I only have one scheduled surgery which is this afternoon with Mark, Jackson and Lauren. So for the remainder of the morning I spend my time looking more into Marcus Patterson.
My continued search on Marcus has led me to his arrest record which is available to the public. He was arrest three time for domestic abuse and arrest twice for assault and battery, but the few times I have actually had to stalk him, he does nothing unusual which makes me believe that maybe Marcus isn't the homophobic killer that is running around Seattle. I would be able to know more about him if I could search his home, but Marcus lives with three other people. Marcus and his roommate Rob work during the day while this other two roommates work the nightshift at the Four Seasons hotel, which means that someone is always home and I can't check it out.
The only why I can get close to Marcus, is by going to his work, but I need to come up with a fake event. I don't want him to know about my family and I don't want him to know about Teddy and Addison just on the off chance that Marcus is killer. I'm deep in thought when I feel and hear my stomach growl. I look up at the clock to see that it is 12:30, so I close everything on my computer and get ready to go downstairs to cafeteria. I'm about to make it to my doorway when Dr. Boswell enters my office.
"So this is your office," Lauren says with a bright smile as she looks around.
"It is," I reply back in a dry tone as I put my hands in my lab coat pocket.
Lauren gets the hint that she is wasting her time flirting with me because I'm not and will not flirt back. "I thought maybe we could go over our strategy for the craniosynostosis case this afternoon." Lauren holds up a chart, with a hint of smile on her lips.
"Mark already told me your strategy yesterday, and I'm about to go lunch." I say back.
"I don't mind eating and working at the same time."
For the first time since I met Lauren I finally give her a huge genuine smile. She doesn't give up and I kind of like that. "You don't give up do you?"
Lauren's smile gets bigger, "not when I see something I want. And I have always wanted you since I read your article in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery about Dilatation after surgery for Hirschsprung disease and anorectal malformation 5 years ago."
"Well you're about 7 years too late," I hold up my left hand to show her I'm married.
Lauren chews on her cheek for a moment before she opens her mouth to the say something, but Teddy waltzing into my office stops her.
"Did you eat lunch yet?" Teddy says completely ignoring Lauren in the doorway.
"No, I was just about to." I say to her before I glance briefly over towards Lauren.
"Good, get dressed because we are going to Chipotle for lunch. My treat."
"I love Chipotle, can I come." Lauren says make herself known to Teddy for the first time.
"No," I say to Lauren with a somewhat bitchy smile. "Now if you will excuse us," I point towards the door and Lauren just shakes her head in defeat before she turns around leaves.
"What was that all about?" Teddy asks as we walk downstairs to get changed. "Is she another blast from your past?"
"No, that was the craniofacial specialist Jackson and Mark got help with some of patients." I reply back as we enter the locker room.
"Well she was looking at you like she wanted your shit," Teddy says as she watches me get dress.
I just shrug at her as button up my jeans and grab my wallet. "You son of bitch," Teddy stands up and pushes a little bit. "You slept with her."
"What!" I all but yell back. "I just met her, where did you get that I slept with her from?"
"You're the one who's finally realized how amazing sex is, and the way you two were looking at each other." Teddy trails off.
"Look she likes me, but I don't like her. That's it. If I'm going to have sex, it's going to be with my wife. Now can we go because I'm hungry?"
Teddy just stares at me for a few minutes. "Fine, but if you cheat on Callie I will not only tell her, but I be on her side in the divorce and I will even help hold you down when everyone kicks your ass."
"Fine by me." Is all I say as the two of us leave the lounge and walk out of hospital to get lunch.
We are about 5 blocks into the walk when Teddy turns to her left and enters one of the stores. "You promised me Chipotle, and this is not Chipotle." I say as I follow her inside the store.
"I know I did, but only said that so I could force you to come here with me." Teddy says with grin.
"So are we still going to Chipotle? Because if we're not I'm going back to the hospital." I say as I point to the door behind me.
"Will you relax? I'll take your fat ass to Chipotle, but first I need to talk to our wedding photographer." Teddy says as we walk deeper into the store.
"Hello ladies, welcome to Kessler photography. How can I help you?" A man says to us.
My head snaps away from Teddy's, as I look around at my surroundings. I was so caught up I didn't realize that we walked into Kessler photography. The man that Teddy is talking to is Matt; he is the co-founder of this place. He is tall and slender with an athletic body. He is in his mid-twenties with short black hair and a little of stubble around his face.
As the two enter their conversation, I take the chance to wander around the store looking at the pictures they have around the store. I'm staring at one photo when a figure stands to my right. "Are you being helped?"
I turn my attention to my right and see Marcus standing there looking at me. "No, I'm just looking."
"Are you gay or something?"
He's very blunt.
"No, why would you say that?" I play innocent.
"Because you have been staring at all the gay photos we have." Marcus voice is low and monotone and his face is blank.
"I was just looking because I recognized some of the couples from TV, so sad about what happened to them."
He just shrugs at me, "I guess you could say that. I remember reading about these two." Marcus nods to a young lesbian couple in front of us. "The man beat both of them with his bare fist until they both unconscious. Then we waited until they came too, before he tied them up making sure that they were facing each other, before he had sex with them, trying to set them straight."
I never lose eye contact with Marcus as he talks. He isn't feeling sympathy for this couple; his eyes are calm and almost happy. He is reliving the night he beat, raped and killed those woman. Marcus in my man, he's the next person I'm going to kill.
The phone ringing snaps him from his trance. "Excuse me." He says as walks over towards the phone. When Marcus leaves my side, I wander back to Teddy who his ready to leave. As promised the two of us get lunch at Chipotle before he had back to the hospital.
Back to the hospital we both change back into our scrubs before we go back to own floor. When I get to the peds floor I check on my two patients before I go to nurse's station to get ready for my surgery this afternoon. I'm in the middle of filling out my last chart when I crying and screaming from one of the rooms to my left.
Once I have completed my chart and put it in the stack with the other charts I turn to my left to see what is with all the noise. Kyle, Dr. Stark's patient, is freaking out because he received a dark blue orchid from the Nyx. At the moment Dr. Stark is in the room trying to calm him down when we make brief eye contact. For a quick second he gives a knowing smirk before he turns attention back to Kyle and his parents. I just smile back, because I wanted Stark to defy me. He doesn't realize it yet but he's about to show me where his little maze is.
I go back to my office to grab a safety pin for my wedding ring, and to grab my scrub cap before I head downstairs to the OR. I decide to take stairs instead of the elevator, that way I can make a phone call without the call dropping.
"Special agent Ramsey," a voice says on the other line.
"Hi special agent Ramsey, this Dr. Arizona Robbins from Seattle Grace Mercy West." I say with a chirp.
"What can I do for you Dr. Robbins?" he asks.
"I was wondering if you were stilling looking into the Stacy Emerson case."
"It's still open but, I have no clues to go by, so it's about 4 months before it becomes a cold case." He says a little defeated.
"I think I might have something that might help you." I pause for moment, getting the police involved might be a bad idea, but if I can keep them in the dark long enough to take care of Stark things shouldn't be too bad with the slight addition of the police. "The patients that were taken by this Nyx guy were all patients that belonged to one of doctors, Dr. Robert Stark. He is working today until about 7:30 tonight if you want to talk to him. I just noticed this when I was going over the charts and doing the stats for peds department."
The line is silent for a few minutes. "Thank you Dr. Robbins, I will definitely look into it." He says to me before we both hang up the phone. By the time I put my phone away I'm already downstairs standing in front of the scrub room. I put my phone away and enter the scrub room to see that Lauren is the only one in there.
"Hey Dr. Robbins, how was lunch? I'm jealous you went to Chipotle without me." Lauren looks over towards me, and even though she has her mask on I can tell that she is smiling at me.
"It was good," I say back with a hint of smile. I hate to say it but her charm is starting to rub off me. "Your early," I try to change the subject.
"I'm a little bit of a control freak. I like to oversee the prep to make sure everything is running smoothly." Lauren pauses as she takes a moment to look at me while I scrub my hands. "Why are you here early?"
"I'm a control freak as well," I say with a smile.
For a second our eyes linger on each other before the door opens and in comes Mark and Jackson. "Ladies," Mark says as he steps right in the middle of us.
After the four of finish scrubbing we enter the OR where she spend the next 4 hours doing a craniosynostosis. The four us walk out together however Lauren stops to look at me, "did you want to discuss our craniotomy over coffee?"
"Uh, yeah, I have patient upstairs in critical care. Let me check on him and then I'll meet you downstairs by the coffee cart."
"Great, see you in a few." Lauren backs away from slowly looking at me smiling and I smile back at her. There is something about her I can't describe, there is something about her that I find attractive but I don't know it is.
I go upstairs to see that Patrick is still stable and improving; if he keeps this up he should be upgraded to critical but stable instead of critical and unstable. I'm on my way downstairs to meet Lauren when I see Dr. Stark and special agent Ramsey talking in an empty room, which is rare, because we never have any empty rooms, majority of the time there are two kids per a room. As I continue to walk to the elevator I can't remove my eyes from the scene to my right. Stark can feel my eyes on him because not too soon after I look into the room he makes eye contact with me. He looks somewhat nervous, and it's my turn to give a cocky smile.
Our eye contact stops when I completely pass the room. I step onto the elevator and go to the first floor to meet up with Lauren.
I see Lauren standing by the coffee cart and together the two of us get in line. We both order a vanilla spice latte before we find an empty table.
We are silent for a few minutes before Lauren breaks the silence, "I bet you hear 'you have pretty eyes' all the time don't you." She says with a smile, without taking her eyes off me.
"I thought we were here to talk about Robert, our craniotomy patient tomorrow?" I say quickly changing the subject.
Lauren just shrugs at me before she takes a sip from her coffee, "we could, but it just looks like you are hiding something. You give the illusion like your happy, but your beautiful eyes say something different. Trouble in paradise?"
"I have been my wife my for 7 years and the past 4 of those years we have been married. Together we have three beautiful children and dog, what trouble I could have."
"Marriage and children with the white picket fence isn't everyone's dream." Lauren gives me a knowing look. "You're hiding something, and your pretty damn good at hiding it whatever it is. I guarantee by the time I leave here I'll know what it is."
"Well if you figure out what I'm hiding let me know because I don't know what I'm hiding, and if you're right about my imagery feelings I'll take you out to dinner."
"Deal," Lauren says as we just look at each other.
"Ladies," Mark's thunderous voice causes both of us to jump as he joins the table.
The only table that we could find that was open was a small rectangle table. Currently I'm sitting at the head of that table while Lauren is sitting next to me on my right side. When Mark joins us he sits on left side and he is not alone. Next to Mark is Addison, at the other head of table is Callie who looks upset as she continuously gives Lauren the death stare, and next to Callie and Lauren is Teddy.
"So, Dr. Boswell right?" Addison says to Lauren.
"Please call me Lauren," she says with a smile which Addison doesn't return and no matter how hard Lauren tries Addison won't return the smile. When Addison hates you, she hates you for life, trust me I know from personal experience, it took me 3 years to get on her good side.
"Dr. Boswell," Addison says, "I see that you and Arizona are doing a craniotomy on a 10 mouth old baby, mind if I scrub in and watch?"
"Not at all," Lauren says with smile before she glances over towards me, "Dr. Robbins and I were going to talk about our strategy if you guys want to join us be my guest."
Lauren adjusts herself in her sit, which causes her foot to rub up and ride against my leg. For the next hour Lauren talks about her approach mainly to Addison, because Addison seems to be the one asking the hard questions and giving her a hard time while I try to figure why everyone is on attack mode right now against Lauren.
As I watch Lauren talk, everyone around her, except me, give her the death stare it finally hits me why they hate her. Teddy saw the way she was looking at me before lunch, and I'm sure that Mark picked up on her constant flirting with me in the OR this afternoon. I'm willing to bet Mark said something to Callie, and Teddy probably backed him up.
When Lauren her finishes strategy, Callie, Teddy and Addison get paged to the ER, and Lauren and Mark have surgery leaving me alone. As Mark and Lauren leave the table, I feel my eyes lingering on Lauren. No regular person besides Addison has been able to pick up on my dark passenger, not unless Lauren has secret as well. Lauren feels my eyes on her, because she turns and glances at me. She just smiles at me and I do the same before I go upstairs to the peds floor.
When I get to peds floor I see that Kyle has calmed down and the orchid that was in his room is gone. It seems like I have scared Stark just enough to get him to show me to his maze. For the rest of my shift I spend it following Stark. We both get done at the same time which means I have to come up with an excuse for why I can't help Callie with the kids.
"Hey, I'm about to get the kids." Callie says to me as she comes up to my side.
"Ok, I might be a little late tonight. I have a lot of paperwork to do by tomorrow." I say as I turn to look at her.
Callie has a debate with herself before she says that it is ok. "Ok, I'll see you at home. Don't work too late." She gives me a peck on the cheek before she turns around to leave the floor.
I'm at work for another hour before Stark and I leave. I'm on my way out of hospital when I bump into a tall man with a medium type build. His face is a little on the round side and he has brown hair with a little stubble. "Sorry," he says to me as he takes his son's hand and walks further into the hospital.
I've seen him before but I don't know from where. I dwell on my mystery man, and continue on following Stark out of the hospital and into the parking lot. I luck out this time when I see that we are parked somewhat close to each other.
For about thirty minutes I follow Stark as he drives to a neighborhood in Seward Park. The neighborhood is in the lower middle class, with about majority of the homes up for foreclosure or up for sale. Stark parks his car in front of a white two story house before he gets out and walks down the street.
I park my car a few cars behind him and just watch as he walks a few houses down the street, he enters another two story house, but it brown and built with bricks. Stark disappears around the corner of the house so I drive my car a little closer and park a few feet away from the house. My new parking spot brings Stark back into view and I watch as he proceeds to break into the house. Stark is in the house for a little over an hour before he leaves. When he leaves I wait another 10 minutes before I get out my car and walk over to his 'house'.
As I walk up to the front door I put on a pair of latex gloves. When I get closer to the house I see that the windows are not only painted black they are boarded up as well, Stark doesn't want anyone to look inside. The front is locked and can only be unlocked from the other side because there is no key hole on my side, which explains why he entered through the side of the house.
I go to side of house and pick the lock to the door that Stark had just used. When I open the door I step inside and take a pocket flashlight out of my back pocket. The door is at the top of a set of stairs so I'm forced to go downstairs to the basement.
When I get to the basement I'm greeted with plywood, barbed wire and metal spike strips. They are set up in the form of a maze, just like the kids talked about. As I make way through the maze I'm greeted with an endless amount of dead ends and booby traps. There are axes, and knifes and swords hanging from the ceiling and almost anything else you can think of. This is maze that the kids are talking about, but the question now is how does he show these things to the kids?
I've seen enough of this maze and go to leave when I see dried up blood on the ground. The kids at the hospital might be dreaming of this place but it seems like Stark brings real people to this house.
After I leave the house I return home to find everyone fast asleep. I go to William's room first, followed by Jackie and then Sofia's room and give each of them a kiss on their slumbering heads. I go to our bedroom to see that the light is still on but the room is quiet which means that Callie is up late probably reading. When I enter the room I see the bed still perfectly made and Callie nowhere to be seen.
I don't say anything as I step into our walk in closet and change into sweatpants and t-shirt. When I walk out of the closet is when Callie walks out of the bathroom. Callie isn't wearing her usual boy shorts with a tank top instead she is wearing a sexy red silk nightgown she got from La Perla when she and Addison went two weeks ago at The Bellevue Collection.
Callie gently closes our door before she walks over to me. The entire time I can't take my off the sexy lingerie that leaves nothing to imagination. Callie wraps her arms around my neck before she leans in for deep passionate kiss. She doesn't wait or ask for permission for a deep kiss, she just starts off with a nice deep kiss.
As we continue to kiss I start to wrap my arm around her waist before I try to grab her ass, but she backs away before I can do anything. She grabs me by my shirt and starts to drag me to the bed. Once the back her legs hit the edge of the bed she turns us around and pushes down on the bed. I scoot backwards towards the back of the bed while she crawls up towards me. When my head hits the pillows is when I stop scooting backwards. Callie continues to crawl until she makes it back to my lips, and the two of us kiss again. She wastes no time taking off my shirt, I'm about to take off her nightgown when she slaps my hands away. She grabs both of my wrists before she makes makeshift handcuffs from my discarded shirt. She ties my hands to the bedpost behind me; she knows that if I pull hard enough I can get out of them. So she leans down to whisper in my ear, "you don't get to touch. Keep your hands where they are or I'll stop regardless of how close you are."
I absolutely love a dominate Callie, and her dominance has made me forget how to speak so I just shake my head yes agreeing with her. After I have confirmed that I know her rules she proceeds to takeoff my pants and underwear. Callie leans down over my stomach and starts to kiss and bite my stomach. Callie is being smart and somewhat professional as she marks her territory on the left side of stomach. Before she starts to kiss her way up my body she takes off her nightgown. When her nightgown is removed she leans down and places a stiff nipple in her mouth. She sucks on it before racking over it her teeth. She does this a few times before she repeats the process on the other nipple.
Soon she starts to kiss her way up body again; she kisses me once on the lips before her head rests on the right side of mine.
"Callie, please. I need you." I plead.
Callie just chuckles in my ear, which does nothing but turn me on more. I feel her right hand as it roams downwards towards my center. Her hand makes to my sex where her fingers just play in my wetness. She lifts her head so we are looking at each when she buries two fingers inside of me. My eyes slam shut as I keep the moan in throat, because if one of brats wakes up I'll be very pissed.
Callie's pace is slow and deep thanks to the immediate adding of her hips in this mixture. Callie's head dips down next to my ear again. "Hmmm, you are mine. This is mine, and don't you ever forget that." Callie says in low voice before she nips at my ear.
In response I bit down on my lower lip and let a low groan as my hands ball up into little fists. Callie keeps her painfully slow pace and it is driving me mad. "Callie," I say in a whispered pant. "Callie please go faster, the kids could wake up soon."
"I guess you better be quiet because this all you get tonight."
"God," I say in a whispered whine.
"Welcome to my world, baby." Is all Callie says before she kisses my lips and starts to kiss down my body. Her mouth finds my nipple again and she starts to suck on it again while her thumb finds it way over my clit. This lasts for a few more minutes when all three actions throw me over the edge. "Fuck, Callie," I moan, before my body starts to shake.
Callie doesn't say anything as she just slides down my body, without hesitation she slips her fingers out of me and replaces them with her tongue. All I can do nothing by grip my t-shirt as her tongue continuously licks up and down my sex, collect my juices with each lick.
Callie's hands are gripping each thigh as she spreads my legs wider. She licks up and down my sex, before her lips wrap around my clit and start to suck without warning. The surprise of this action sends me over the edge immediately.
Callie slowly slides up my body before she kisses me again. I moan into kiss as I taste myself on her. "I'm not going to lie sexually torturing you is fun, now I see why do it to me all the time." Callie's hand slips down and grabs my breast before pinching my nipple. "You better brace yourself Arizona; it's going to be a long night." This is last thing Callie says to me before she proceeds to sit on my face.
I don't remember when we finally called it quits, but I know it was sometime in the early a.m. Callie made sure that my hands were tied at all times as we had sex in every position known to man. "Mama," I hear Sofia on the right side of the bed where Callie sleeps. "Mama, wake up." Sofia says one more time.
"Mommy," Jackie's voice comes in through my right ear and I can feel William trying to be like his sister and climb into bed, but it's not working.
Finally I roll over on my back and slowly open my eyes. When I get on my back I feel Jackie curl up next to me. When she does this I hear William give a loud huff as he stomps his little foot on the ground.
Without looking down at William I grab him by his shirt collar and lift him up on the bed. When I lift him up he gives me giggle before he curls up on my other side. I feel Sofia and Roxie climb in the bed and curl up next to Callie and soon, the five, well four because Callie never moved, go back to sleep.
The plus about last night was Callie and I finally had sex in our own bed for the first in over a year, the bad news, we took too much advantage of it because now we are both tired and have over slept.
"Oh god, get up!" Callie screams suddenly sitting up. Callie's scream causes all four, Roxie included, so five of us to suddenly sit up. "We have thirty minutes to get dress and be out the door, or else we will be late." Callie says as she rushes out of bed and grabs the twins at the same time.
Callie is in William's room trying to get the twins dressed while Sofia and I walk in a zombie like state to her room. "You want to be a big kid?"
Sofia shakes her head yes in a sleepy haze, "you think you dress yourself?"
"Yes, mommy," Sofia says as she walks to her closet to get her clothes on.
When I walk back into the hallway I hear the movement and laughter have moved to Jackie's room. In all it takes us all about 20 minutes to get dress and walk downstairs.
"Put the kids in the cars and I'll get breakfast," Callie says as she rushes into the kitchen.
I put Sofia in Callie's car while I put the twins in mine. "Here," Callie throws a bag filled with her homemade granola bars.
I give William and Jackie a bar before I leave the house right behind a frantic Callie. I'm not on a time crunch like Callie is, because Sofia needs to be at school at 8 so I know she is speeding and freaking out.
When I get to the hospital I drop the twins off at daycare before I go get changed and go up to the peds floor and check on my critical patient. I see that for the third day in the row he has not changed so I move him from critical and unstable to critical and stable. After I check on my patient I go downstairs to go to the OR because I have two surgeries with Dr. Boswell today. On my way to the ground floor I find myself wandering around the main floor.
I don't know why I'm on the main floor, but seeing Lexie standing by a nurse's station in the hallway for the exam rooms gets my attention. I see her up against the wall on her phone either reading a funny email or texting someone.
"Hey, Lexie." I say as I walk up to her.
"Hey Arizona," she replies back as she puts her phone back in her lab coat pocket.
"Can I pick your brain for a second?" I ask, "you can say no if want because I'm sure everyone wants to talk to you."
"For you Arizona, I don't mind because I know when you do it, it's for a rare occasion."
"Thanks, I just have one question really. Is it possible to for someone to die from hallucinations?"
Lexie just stops to think for a moment, "I don't see why not. If the brain truly believes that something is happen than it could be possible for that person's body to feel whatever the brain is hallucinating."
"What causes hallucinations?" I ask one more question.
"Hallucinations are when the temporoparietal junction in the brain is stimulated. You would usually see that in people who have had a massive head trauma or with people who have epilepsy. This happens because there is a lack of blood to the brain that induces hallucinations."
I'm about to ask her another question, but I don't get the chance to because her pager goes off, "I've got to go, trauma. I can answer your questions later, if not than Derek can. He's not doing any surgeries today because he is in library with Webber working on their Alzheimer's study." Lexie is already around the corner before she can finish her statement.
I don't move and just think about my piece of information, when I notice Dr. Boswell in one of the exam rooms with the man with brown hair from yesterday. Looks like he and his son came back.
Lauren smiles at the man before shaking his hand and patting the boy on his head. She takes off her gloves and steps out of the exam room. I'm still focused on the man and his son when Lauren comes to stand next to me.
"I like to stay close by for the first night for all of patients, and this morning when I was checking Tyler's stats one the nurses said they were short staffed downstairs so I volunteered to help. Hope you don't mind." Lauren says to me with a smile.
"Not at all, thanks. It's all hands on deck while we get a bigger staffing budget." I can't take my off the man. I've seen him before I know I have, I just don't know from where.
"Were you hurt when you were kid?" Lauren asks out of nowhere, and it causes me to turn and look at her.
"What?" I question.
"Ever since I got out of that exam room, you have been staring at that boy and his father. Is that what you trying hide? Did a father, son team hurt when you little. Beat you up or maybe rape you."
Rape, Lauren saying rape triggers something inside of me. The man's name is David Sivic; he was arrested 7 months ago for raping and killing over 15 women. They let him go because the cops forgot to read him his Miranda rights and incorrectly gathered evidence. The police followed he for three mouths straight but stopped when wasn't doing anything. When I knew the police weren't looking him for I was, but I never found him until now. Has he been slightly raping and killing this whole time. He probably got smarter about how he does stuff now which is why I probably couldn't find him.
"No, had a pretty nice childhood." Played jump rope and hop scotch with the other girls and we also played with Barbie dolls. I also killed every animal that crossed my path.
"Then why are you starting so hard?"
"The man looks familiar." I say as I turn to walk down the hall. "Come on control freak, we have a surgery that begins in thirty minutes, which means."
"They are about to begin prepping. I've been here for like a day and you already know me. Either you're a good listener or you're a good stalker." Lauren runs to catches up with me.
I'm both, "I would say I'm a good listener."
It is just the two of us in the OR and Lauren is flirting with me nonstop and I have to admit that I was flirting back a few times. I don't know why I've taken a liking to her, but I know she will be gone by next week. Our surgery takes about 4 hours, and it is successful.
After surgery Lauren goes to plastics while I go back to peds. I stop by Kyle's room to see that Stark performed a perfect Adenoid removal and Kyle will be just fine and discharged in a few weeks.
Looks like I'm scare tactic worked because Stark seems to be playing by my rules now. Right when I step into my office my pager goes off. In coming trauma.
I make it downstairs just in time to see Bailey, Meredith, Callie and Teddy. "Seattle's homophobic douchebag has struck again. He beat and raped a family this time." Meredith pauses as she ties the last part of her trauma gown. "He beat and raped a lesbian couple and their two teenaged daughters."
Teddy leans in so only we can here the whisper as the first ambulance arrives. "This ends now!"