fanfic: Playing With Fire 2/?
Chapter 2
It was an unusual warm and sunny morning for Seattle. Rays of a sunrise were playing with windows of the Seattle Grace Hospital. A person with a cup of coffee in one hand and with a stack of papers in the other was walking unhurriedly in the direction of a main entrance. It was the third day for Arizona Robbins at her new job. Three days since she opened a new chapter in her life. And with each day she was breathing just a little bit easier, smiling a little more warmly, and walking a little taller. And now Dr.Robbins was making her way to the hospital to start an early shift. Secretly, she was hoping for a slow day, full of laughter with her patients, gossiping with Teddy and bantering with Addison, and most of all, she didn’t want to lose any young lives today. So she smiled to the rising sun and stepped into the hall of a hospital…
In the meantime, one very curious Ortho surgeon was snooping around hospital in attempt to find more information about the young head of Peads. It turned out to be a very difficult task. So, with a frustrated sigh Dr.Torres went to the doctor’s lounge to make herself a cup of horrible coffee and read one of the stupid magazines. When Callie opened the door, she saw Teddy Altman, who was quietly writing her patients’ charts. Hmm… Just what I was looking for…She smiled mischievously and cleared her throat. Teddy jumped.
“Oh, hey! Didn’t see you.” The Cardio surgeon smiled. “You’re in search of some peace and quiet?”
Callie made herself a cup of coffee and flopped in an opposite chair.
“Sort of… Just wandering around…” She pretended to think for a minute. “Hey, I heard we have a new Head of Peads… I think I saw her with you in the cafeteria…” Torres looked at Teddy expectantly.
“Yeah… Arizona Robbins. But didn’t you meet her at the meeting with the Chief?”
“Ah, I missed it… Was pulled in a surgery.” Callie tried not to look interested. “She’s kind of young to be Head of department…”
“Well, she’s one of the best… Besides she was a Head of Peads back in Boston for past two years.”
“Oh, so you know her?” Come on, Teddy, spill it…
“Together since second grade.” She smiled fondly. “The best person I’ve ever met.”
“Hmm… I guess you two are close.” Teddy nodded. “So, what kind of person is she?”
“Why do you ask?” Blonde doctor glanced at Callie suspiciously.
“Just curious…”
“You’re never curious without the reason. So, why are you interested in my friend?” Teddy looked very serious and Callie understood that she won’t get any information from this source.
“Don’t be so serious. I’m just asking…”
“Torres…” She didn’t get to finish, because Callie’s pager went offand Torres with a mumbled ‘sorry’ fled out of the room.
Turned out that this day wasn’t very quiet for Dr.Robbins. After a couple of hours of her shift she was paged to an OR for an emergency surgery. She was scrubbing in while her intern, Alex Karev was updating her on a patient.
“Angela Miles. 7 years. Was in a car crash. She has an internal bleeding and a broken femur and a blood flow in her leg needs a repair. I already paged an Ortho. We don’t know the extent of the damage to her internal organs. She coded in ER once.”
Arizona took a deep breath. She knew that these cases could be very unpredictable. But today she wasn’t going to lose. So she squared her shoulders and glanced at Alex.
“Let’s go.”
Arizona was in the middle of trying to save little girl’s spleen, when the door to the OR opened and a very confident looking female doctor stepped in.
“Hello. I’m Dr.Torres. Ortho.” She walked to the table. “What’s the situation?”
“Broken femur and damaged blood flow. She’s bleeding a lot. So you need to hurry.” Arizona turned her cool gaze to Callie. “And I’m Dr.Robbins.”
Torres smirked under the mask. Oh, believe me, I know…
It took her 30 minutes to almost repair blood vessels,but the girl was still losing blood. So, Callie put all her focus to finish as quickly as possible. Just a minute and she would save this girl’s leg. Suddenly all machines started beeping. What the hell?!
“What the hell?!” Arizona cursed.
“She’s coding!”
“Karev! Crash cart!” Peads surgeon glanced at Callie. “Dr.Torres, you need to step away.”
Callie didn’t look back.
“Dr.Torres!”
“Just a moment! I need only a moment!” She was frantically trying to finish.
Arizona was furious.
“Dr.Torres. I said TAKE A STEP BACK!”
“I’m done! I’m done…” Alex didn’t waste a second.
“Charge 300… Clear!” Everyone was holding their breath. The girl’s heart started beating again. Arizona looked at Callie. Her eyes were cold and stormy.
“Next time, Dr.Torres I will personally kick you out of my OR.”
The rest of the surgery went in a complete silence.
At the evening Teddy decided to keep her promise and take Arizona to the bar. They found a comfortable booth and were trying to decide what to drink.
“I’m on call tonight, so no drinking for me. But you can relax all you want.”
“Oh, don’t worry, I will. Especially since you’re paying.” Arizona smiled and ordered a full bottle of wine.
Teddy didn’t waste any time before starting her questioning.
“How was your day?”
“Pretty good. Without much stress. Well, except for one very intense surgery.” She gulped full glass of wine.
“What about it?”
“I’m just very calm person, you know. And it’s hard to make me mad. But, boy, I was mad today!”
Now Teddy looked interested.
“Don’t tell me one of the interns made you lose your temper!”
“That’s the problem! Not an intern. And attending! One very arrogant attending…” She gulped another glass. “Argh… I can’t remember the last time…”
Teddy’s pager beeped.
“Crap. It’s my transplant patient.” She looked apologetically at blonde. “But you’ll tell me later all about it!” Arizona just smiled and saluted Teddy with her third glass.
Now Arizona was sitting alone, finishing her wine. And she didn’t hear as someone walked to the table. She looked up when someone cleared their throat and found herself looking at the object of her irritation.
“Hi. I just saw you and wanted to apologize for my behavior in the OR.” Arizona relaxed a little.
“Well. Apology accepted. But I wasn’t joking about the next time.” She motioned to the seat next to her. Callie smiled.
“I’ll keep that in mind…” Callie smiled wolfishly. “So, what is such a beautiful woman doing here alone?” Thanks to the amount of the wine Arizona consumed, she didn’t think anything wrong about this question.
“Well, I was here with my friend, but she rushed back to the hospital.”
Callie slid closer. Arizona stiffened.
“How about I buy you another drink?” Now blonde was looking like a deer caught in headlights.
“Umm… Thanks, but no. I think I need to go home.” Torres bent forward a little. Arizona blushed furiously.
“Why such a hurry?” There was a definite suggestion.
“I… need… umm… early shift.”
“Oh, yeah, it’s a very important reason…” Callie smirked.
“Um… sorry…” Arizona grabbed her purse and sprinted to the door.
“Well, that went perfectly.” Callie drawled sarcastically. She thought about the young Peads surgeon and her smile turned predatory. She was the first who had said ‘no’ to Latina. And she saw a definite challenge in this situation. Three weeks, Arizona Robbins. Three weeks and you’ll be begging me to kiss you…