Stolen Moments 13/? (Part One)
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three (Part One)
Chapter Three (Part Two)
Chapter Four
Chapter Five (Part One)
Chapter Five (Part Two)
Chapter Six (Part One)
Chapter Six (Part Two)
Chapter Seven (Part One)
Chapter Seven (Part Two)
Chapter Eight (Part One)
Chapter Eight (Part Two)
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve (Part One)
Chapter Twelve (Part Two)
Chapter Thirteen - Stolen Moments
Jealousy…
It’s one of those emotions that affects you like a plague…you can’t see it to begin with, it creeps up on you and engulfs your entire being; your body, your mind, your heart…it controls everything; you feel it everywhere, it aches, it burns; it’s that teeth grinding headache that just won’t go away no matter how hard you try.
It makes your blood pressure shoot up; you hear it bubbling away inside your veins, drumming loudly in your ears. You breathe deeply to try and calm it but it doesn’t work…the jealousy you haven’t been able to see finally rears it’s ugly head...and it’s true what they say; jealousy is a green eyed monster…it sees only through a vision of red, it’s teeth snarl and it smiles mirthlessly, laughing emptily at those around…it’s a beast chained down…it pulls, it pushes, it struggles until it finally breaks free; its vision tunnelled as it charges ferociously at the reason why it had to make an appearance in the first place, its mission simple; destroy…
Callie knocked on the door and waited until his loud authoritative voice reached her ears before letting herself; clicking the door shut behind herself, “You wanted to see me Chief?”
He lifted his hand gesturing at the chair on front of his desk and smiled, “Please sit Dr Torres,” he waited until Callie was seated in front of him before continuing, “I know that for the last six months you’ve been doing everything required for your Boards.”
Callie nodded her head, “Yes Chief…I just have the written exam left-”
“I noticed that too Dr Torres,” he gave her a smile, “You’re one of the best orthopaedic residents Seattle Grace has ever had and you’ve completed all of the other requirements…but you’re holding back from the written exam and I need to know why.”
Callie sighed, “I guess things in my personal life have been a little crazy lately and when I sit my Boards I want my mind to be completely focused.”
She watched as he pulled on his glasses and flicked through the pile of files on his desk, “I understand completely Callie, I do but…” he slid a piece of paper towards her and held her gaze, “I want you to put your name down for the next examination; it’s in a month and I’m more than confident that you’ll be ready,” he flashed her a smile as she worried her bottom lip between her teeth, “Come on Torres,” he flashed her a smile again, “I’ve seen your work, I have excellent recommendations of your work from other doctors, your patients love you…what’d you say; you ready to play with the big kids and be an attending?”
Callie shook her head and smiled; reaching to take the pen from his hands and scribbling her name down, “You better hope I have a really good month Chief…because my life lately, it never calms down and I’m really going to need the calmness if I’m going to pass this.”
He smiled again, “I’ll have a word with Erica, tell her to stop being such a high-maintenance drama-surgeon…Yang too,” he shrugged playfully, “Who knows maybe I can get her to let you have the bed while she takes the couch for awhile.”
Callie let out a laugh, “I don’t think Erica would like it if you called her that…and as for Cristina, well she’d have to be doing a lot of cardio surgeries for me to get the bed and I don’t see that happening much either.”
He shook his head, “Fair point,” she gave him a smile and headed towards the door; turning back to him when his voice reached her ears, “Oh and Torres…there’s always the basement if you need to escape them all…I’ll even let you stay for rent free.”
Callie shot him a smile as she headed out of the door…one month and she’d be sitting her Boards…one month and she’d have to start worrying about getting an attending position at a hospital…one month and the future of her career would be decided in a moment.
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Callie smiled to herself as she headed to the nurses station to find Erica; desperately wanting to share the news of her impeding exam. Things had been great since they’d returned home; Erica had met all of her family members and although some of them were surprised and reluctant to begin with, once they got to know the blonde and see them together…well they’d all been over the moon that ‘their Calliope’ had finally bagged a keeper and not another dwarf like George.
Speaking of George…the little shit had finally done it; he’d passed his intern exam and earned his resident wings and being a resident meant that he earned some of his own interns. That’s where Callie’s lingering headache began…the interns all seemed completely normal for the first month and she even liked them…George had introduced her to an Spanish-America intern named Jacinta Hernádez…and well the girl was gorgeous; her skin an equal tone of caramel, her hair a shiny ebony colour, her eyes chocolate brown and her smile as bright as Callie’s own…the only difference between them was that Jacinta had the standard super model body, which didn’t bother Callie at all until she noticed the little floozy batting her eyes at her blonde cardio surgeon…she’d shaken her head and ignored it the first day but after watching her subtly but purposefully flirt with her girlfriend, it was starting to grate on her last nerves.
Callie felt her feet come to her stop as her eyes caught sight of Erica…the gorgeous Jacinta falling into step with her. Callie felt the burn in her shoulders; her hands shaking in rage as Jacinta smiled brightly at the blonde; lifting her hand to rest on Erica’s arm…and then, then whatever they’d been saying led to them laughing…an intern an actual intern was making the ice-queen laugh. Callie felt the anger rise up in her body; Erica hadn’t shrugged off her touch…no, she’d simply smiled, laughed and continued on with her rounds as if nothing unusual had happened.
So much for a calm month….
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Erica smiled as she settled down into the seat opposite; carefully placing down her cup of coffee, “Hello stranger…you avoiding me or something? I haven’t seen you properly in a couple of weeks.”
Troy gave her a smile and leaned forward to brush a kiss on her cheek, “Aww E, I didn’t realise you were missing me so much,” she rolled her eyes at his playful tone and reached over to take some of his chips.
“Well you haven’t returned my calls or messages Troy,” she gave him a sad shrug, “To busy with Yang to reply to your best friend.”
He reached forward and covered her hand with his own, “Don’t guilt trip me E, you didn’t return my calls and if I hadn’t have shown up here I’m worried that you never would have.”
Erica pulled her hand away, “So you’re what…doing this to get back at me?”
Troy shook his head, “Don’t be silly Erica…I’m sorry I didn’t return them, and I’m sorry that we haven’t see each other in a couple of weeks but I’ve been spending my free time with Cristina,” he held up his hand, “I know you don’t like her and that’s why I’ve been keeping her away from you…but she’s my girlfriend now,” he shuffled his chair closer to hers and took her hand between his own, “You know you’re still my best friend, we just need to make plans to get together and catch up…how about dinner tonight? Just me and you…no girlfriends allowed,” he shot her a smile.
Erica sighed, “I’m sorry Troy…I didn’t mean to be a bitch,” she smiled at him, “I’d love to do dinner with you tonight.”
He nudged her shoulder playfully, “That’s better…so what are the new developments in the world of Erica Hahn?”
“Nothing new at the minute; thankfully…things between me and Callie are going great, works going great…I can’t complain-”
“Sorry to interrupt Dr Hahn,” blue and green eyes turned towards her at once, “Your patient Mr Dent is asking for you; he wants to be discharged at once,” she smiled at the blonde, “I can help you get his paperwork together.”
“Thank you Dr Hernádez, I’ll be right there,” Erica turned back to Troy and raised her eyebrow, “What?”
Troy let his eyes follow as the intern left the cafeteria; her eyes never leaving Erica until she couldn’t look anymore, “No new developments? You have to be kidding; that intern was practically drooling over you…you clearly have an admirer.”
Erica rolled her eyes and stood from her chair, “She’s harmless…anyway I better go; see you tonight for dinner,” she quickly kissed his cheek and left to sort out her patient and Troy couldn’t help but think that Callie wouldn’t see the intern as so harmless.
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Erica couldn’t help herself…no matter how hard she told herself not to she couldn’t take her eyes away from them. Troy and Cristina had become that couple, you know the one that spent as much time together at work as possible and then spent every second that they weren’t at worked glued together. She watched as Cristina pulled Troy towards her; his strong arms wrapping around her small frame and their mouths meeting in a loving kiss.
“What are you scoffing at?” Erica turned at the sound of Callie’s voice and smiled brightly; leaning forward to place a chaste kiss on her lips.
“Them,” Erica nodded her head over to where they stood.
Callie shook her head and pulled the blonde into her arms; her hands resting comfortably on her hips, “Please tell me you’re not still upset that they’re dating?”
Erica shook her head, “No, I’m happy she makes him happy…I just miss him,” she shrugged, “He’s spending all his time with her and I never get to see him…”
Callie smiled, “Aww baby are you jealous that Cristina’s stealing your best friend?”
“Does it make me sound pathetic if I say yes?”
“A little…but in a totally cute girlie way,” brown eyes glimmered teasingly.
Erica let out an amused sigh, “Fine…I’m a pathetic, jealous girl who’s missing her best friend…and may be a little more jealous that he’s missing out on time with me to spend time with someone like her.”
Callie smirked and nuzzled the blonde’s nose in an Eskimo kiss, “If you’re feeling lonely baby and missing him so much, why don’t you just tell him that…I mean it’s you and Troy; you two have been friends forever.”
Erica nodded, “Exactly and I know more than anyone what he went through with loosing Ana and the baby…and if Cristina takes that pain away and makes him happy then I have to let it go…doesn’t mean that it doesn’t bug me a little,” Callie raised a questioning eyebrow, “Fine a lot but that’s only because Yang bothers me a lot,” Callie laughed and Erica smiled, “You’re exactly what I needed right now; I’ve missed you today.”
Callie opened her mouth to reply but was cut off by the Chief’s sudden appearance; she let Erica move out of her arms and smiled at him, “Sorry for interrupting ladies…Dr Torres I just wanted to give you this,” he handed her a piece of paper, “It’s got the date and time of your Board examination...and I wanted to let you know that Dr Burton is retiring soon, so Seattle Grace will have an Ortho attending spot open; I hope you’ll consider staying here,” Callie nodded her head and smiled at him as he marched away.
Erica plucked the piece of paper out of Callie’s hand; her eyes skimming over it and a smile lighting up her face; blue eyes meeting brown, “Oh my god Cal, why didn’t you tell me about this sooner?”
“He asked me this morning to consider taking it next month and I said yes,” Callie smiled back.
Erica cupped Callie’s face and pulled her in for a kiss, “I’m so happy for you baby; you’re going to pass this with no problem.”
“Thank you, I was thinking that maybe you could help-” Callie bit her tongue in irritation as Jacinta appeared at their side…once again fluttering her eyes at Erica.
“Dr Hahn you need to come quickly; the patient is crashing and no one answered my page,” Erica shot an apologetic Callie’s way and hurried off with Jacinta to the patients room; the Spanish intern’s hand resting on Erica’s back as they rushed off together making Callie growl under her breath.
“What the hell’s wrong with you Torres?” Callie turned to face Cristina, who was looking at her weirdly, “You look pissed off.”
“Can I ask you something?”
“Even if I said no it wouldn’t stop you Cal, so just get on with it.”
Callie looked around and pursed her lips together, “Do you think George’s new intern…you know, the Spanish one…Jacinta something…do you think she’s hot?”
Cristina chuckled; stopping when Callie shot a glare at her, “Are you thinking about ditching Hahn for her?”
Callie shook her head, “Eww, no! She keeps…I’ve noticed that-”
“Spit it out Callie.”
“I’ve noticed that she keeps flirting with Erica and like touching her and Erica laughs with her and its weird…do you think it’s weird? Oh god do you think Erica’s going to leave me for her? I mean she’s super model stacked like Izzie…oh god Erica’s going to be George and-”
“Are you aware that you’re babbling?” Cristina raised an eyebrow and Callie let out a breath, “Look, she hasn’t got anything on you, so stop worrying.”
Callie raised her eyebrow and smirked, “You think I’m hot.”
Cristina rolled her eyes, “Everyone knows that you’re dirty hot Torres…the new chick; she’s just average hot…but she and Hahn do seem friendly…”
“Oh my god! You think they’re being overly friendly too? I can’t believe Erica would do this to me-”
“She’s not doing anything…you’re just jumping to conclusions; just tell her that McSpanish bothers you,” Cristina looked down at her pager, “Eh Lexie just paged me; she wants me to find you for an Ortho consult…come on Torres,” Cristina grabbed Callie’s arm and pulled her down the corridor.
Callie talked her patient through the surgery he’d need; telling Lexie she could join her…and of course Cristina if she wanted. Lexie hurried to book the surgery and Callie followed Cristina into one of the staff rooms, gladly excepting the steaming cup of coffee handed to her.
“Cristina?” Callie clicked her fingers in front of Yang’s face earning an irritated look in return.
“What do you want now Torres? Don’t you think we’ve done enough of the whole,” she wobbled her hand around between them and twisted her lips up distastefully, “Girl talk non-friend thing today.”
Callie rolled her eyes, “I was going to ask you how things were going with Troy,” she let out a laugh when a smile spread over Cristina’s face, “So it’s going well?”
“I don’t do this whole talking about my feelings and relationship thing…Meredith asks and that’s enough…but since you and Hahn are involved with my man I’ll tell you that it’s going great; he’s great.”
Callie didn’t fail to notice the twinkle in Cristina’s dark eyes; the look that told her she was getting lost in thoughts of Troy and smiled back at her; this side of Yang was different but definitely interesting in a good way, “I’m happy for you, and for Troy; I think you’re good together.”
Cristina nodded her head, “Okay, now that you’ve done the whole nice gesture by offering to let me talk about my feelings…will you please just ask me whatever it is you’re building up to.”
Callie laughed, “I’m that obvious?”
“You’re that transparent....but this is the last questiony-girl talk related thing we do for the rest of this week, understand?”
Callie sighed and took a long sip of her coffee, “Erica’s missing Troy.”
Cristina slowly shook her head, “But he’s right there,” she studied Callie’s face and then let out an amused laugh, “She’s jealous of me…of me spending time with him.”
Callie kicked her under the table, “Could you not laugh…my girlfriend misses the one person who has always been there for her…she’s having a hard time sharing him with you, so could you just…like…tell Troy to spend some time with her…tell him you’re okay with it…or even try and be nice to Erica, please?”
Cristina smirked, “I’ll try and be nice…but it’s kind of awesome knowing I have something that Hahn wants for once…maybe I could make a deal with her; she gets time with Troy if I get cardio surgery time…then we both win.”
Callie groaned; shaking her head and continued drinking her coffee…at least she could say she’d tried.
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