Lynx: A Callie Torres Story

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Jada drove as fast as she could to Callie's house. These last few months had been absolute torture. But even more so when a moving truck dropped off the rest of her things including her computer from Callie's house. She called her multiple times and got no answer, leaving her house the first stop in Jada's mission to find her. She hadn't talked to her fiancée in over two weeks.

Jada checked herself into therapy. Not only was that big decision causing a lot of stress on her, she was diagnosed with severe anxiety and depression. She was on medicine now. And it was helping her so much. Jada felt like a whole new woman when she completed her therapy. And she was so excited to find Callie. Jada couldn't bring herself to tell Callie how she was feeling. Because she knew Callie would drop everything to help her, as she had done before, and she felt guilty taking up that much of her time and effort. Jada sometimes felt like a chore to be with. And she could not communicate that no matter how hard she tried.

She threw the Subaru in park and ran towards the door. The left garage door was open and that was odd since Callie never left it open. She also didn't see a car there, leaving Jada to wonder if the McLaren was in the shop or something. She pounded hard on the front door.

She was jumping out of excitement being so close to seeing Callie again. That excitement was quickly drained out of Jada when a young brunette woman answered the door. "Hi."

"Hi," Jada replied back quietly, her voice so low she could barely hear herself.

"Is there anything we can help you with?" the woman asked.

"I'm looking for Callie Torres."

A man that looked about the same age as the woman appeared behind her. "She doesn't live here anymore," he answered. "We moved in a week and a half ago."

"Do you know where she went?"

"I'm sorry but we don't know you, so we really shouldn't be giving out any information about her."

"I'm her fiancée," Jada was quick to say, pulling up her phone and showing the couple a picture of herself and Callie. "We took a break for a little while..." she started to say.

"She moved to Seattle," the woman said. "Said she got offered to be on the board of directors or something high up. Apparently her friend bought the hospital and it was a big thing with a lot of doctors leaving Los Angeles to go work up there."

"Did she say which hospital?"

"Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital," the man answered.

"Thank you so much!" Jada said gratefully and ran back to her car to book the earliest flight possible to Seattle.

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Jada had done her research on the new hospital and she couldn't be happier for Callie and her friends. All the doctors she met during Callie's presentation had left to follow Meredith to Seattle. Jackson, Bailey, April, Arizona, Derek, and so many more had left Los Angeles.

She practically ran into the hospital and quickly found the front desk. "How can I help you?" the woman asked.

"I'm here to see Dr. Callie Torres."

Jada waited for the lady to finish typing on her computer. "I don't have you on the visitation list, what's your name again?"