marina - short stories

The shooter

POV Maya:

It has been a while since all the drama. I took therapy and everyday was a better day. Having Carina back with me was a big reason of that. This all shouldn't have happened, but sometimes I think we needed this. I needed this. I needed to feel how it was without Carina to realize how much I love her. God immediatly punished me after the drama in the hospital. He let me see, how lucky I was. I mean am. What of a wonderful woman im with. And that im the luckiest person ever because I can call that wonderful woman, my wife. Carina moved back in 4 months ago and still a sigh of relief leaves my mouth every morning when I open my eyes and look next to me, seeing her laying next to me. "Sometimes you are creepy Maya" Carina says taking me out of my thoughts. "W- What?" I ask her. "You have been staring at me the whole time you know" she giggles. "Im just glad you're here" I smile. She smiles back and gives me a quick kiss. "I need to work bambina, and so do you" she says while she dissapears in the bathroom. "Shit, right" I quickly get out of bed. I wasn't used to being late, but the last few months I have been late a few times while I was admiring Carina. Don't worry, I always take the blame on me, I don't blame Carina for being this pretty. I put on my uniform and take a seat in the kitchen next to Carina. We both are pretty late, so we quickly put some bread in our mouth and put our jackets on while chewing it. Normally we would drive together to work, I would bring and pick her up from work, but there was just no time to do that today. So we both took our own car today. Before we both took off, we kissed each other and tell eachother we love eachother. I tried to say it everyday, multiphile times. To make sure she never forgets it. I feel like I fell in love with her all over again. Even though, we had a hard time, it made us stronger eventually. I finally arrive at the station, running in ready for a sermon, but I didn't get one to my surprise. I went upstairs and caught Vic, Travis, Ben and Jack sleeping in the couche. Since Andy was captain everything has been better at the station. I giggle seeing them sleeping and walk further to the kitchen where Andy is sitting at the table. Before she could say anything, I apoligised for being late, even though I didn't really miss anything. The last couple of months I have been bonding with Andy again. We had a period where we would barely speak to eachother, but im glad that we're passed that period. The whole morning was pretty quiet. Nothing more than people coming in to buy some firefighter stickers to support the clinic. Before we knew it, we were already eating lunch together. But it wasn't quiet for long as I hear dispatch. "Grey Sloan is at a lockdown, a shooter has been caught inside the hospital, several doctors were already hit, help is needed" I hear echoing around the station. My heart drops and Ben and I look eachother. The others looked at us too, knowing our wifes could be one of the shot doctors. "Maya calm down" Travis says when I realize I started hyperventilating. Andy started commanding us and told me I needed to calm down if I wanted to go with them. I finally had my breathing under control and ran to the aid car sitting next to Ben with Andy in the back. The other sat in the other aid car. "We don't know if it's Bailey or Carina" Andy says not really helping. "I know" I say trying to stop my hands from shaking. I jump out of the aid car the moment we pull up at Grey Sloan. I run towards the entrance but the cops stop me. "I'm a firefighter of station 19, I need to go in" I say quickly. "Ma'am nobody is allowed to go in, we need you outside when we get the hurt doctors outside" he says. "No sir, you don't understand, my wife is in there!" I say noticing my voice started to break. "I'm sorry ma'am, we are working as fast as possible, you're only slowing down the process" he says while Ben takes me over from the cops. He holds me so I can't run in. "Maya, I'm also scared, Bailey is in there as well, but we wouldn't help them if we would go in, we need to be patient and wait, do you hear me?" he shakes me quietly to make sure I heard him. I nod. Andy commands Vic, Travis and Jack knowing she won't get any help from Ben and me. I start staring at the entrance hoping Carina would run out but minutes became hours.

POV Carina:

I was at work for barely an hour when I heard a gunshot in the hallway. Jo ran into my office saying there was a shooter in the hospital. For a moment, I thought I was having a nightmare but then I remember I had already looked into my wifes beautiful eyes. Jo takes my arm and pulls me under my desk as I was standing there in shock. "Carina, listen to me. Don't move, don't make any noise and stay under your desk untill I come and get you, okay?" she says and my eyes look up at her. "What Jo, stay here" I tell her. "No, I need to warn Arizona and Amelia, they have no idea yet" she says. "Jo it's to dangerous" I whisper. "Carina just stay here okay" she says while running out of my office closing the door. "Jo-" I sigh. I wanted to take my phone and call Maya but my phone was on top of the desk and I didn't dare to make any noise, as I heard gunshots coming closer and closer to my office door. I closed my eyes and started sweating and shaking when I heard footsteps getting louder and stopping infront of my office door. I quickly put my hand over my mouth trying to demp the sound of me crying. I was so scared. All I wanted to do was getting out of here and running into Maya's arms. The door of my office opens and I hear footsteps coming in. "Carina, sshh it's okay" I hear Jo her voice. I open my eyes seeing Arizona, Amelia and Jo quickly coming in and closing the door behind them. "You scared the hell out of me" I whisper while they come sit with me under my desk. "Sshhh" Amelia says when we hear a gunshot again, which sounds closer then the one before. We hold eachothers hands, pinching it pretty hard, but we didn't care. The moment we heard Meredith and April scream was the moment I started shaking and sweating again. They were in the room next to us, which meant that our room would be next. I held my breath in untill my door office opened. I didn't open my eyes. I didn't dare to open my eyes. I was just hoping the shooter wouldn't see us. It was like he was searching for someone. He was going from door to door. I opened one of my eyes which made me see a man standing infront of the door opening with a gun in his hand. Our breaths started to go faster which got us caught. The man bent over to look under the desk. "There you are, I was searching for you" he says while looking at the person next to me, which was Amelia. He had pure evil in his eyes. He didn't doubt for a second. He just pointed his gun and pulled the trigger and then ran away as fast as he could. His job was done here, he had found her. I quickly look over to Amelia to see if she's okay. When I see Amelia is okay and Arizona, Jo and Amelia look at me with shocked faces, I realize what happened. I look down seeing blood run out my stomach, I was shot. I quickly put my hand on my stomach and start breathing faster. "Hold still Carina" they tell me. "Shit shit shit" they keep saying while I feel myself become weaker and weaker.

POV Maya:

While I was staring at the entrance, Bailey runs out with a couple of doctors behind her. I tried spotting Carina, but I didn't see her. Ben and I run up to her. Bailey starts talking fastly "I tried to get everyone out, but I heard gunshots in the upper hall. Some doctors are still trapped there" she says out of breath. "What about Carina?" I ask her. "She's there" she answers. "Carina, Arizona, Amelia, Jo, Meredith and April are still inside" she says. I was tired of waiting. I couldn't wait anymore. I had to get to her. I was planning on going in anyway but the cops came outside with the shooter so I was finally allowed to go inside. I ran. I sprinted. I sprinted to Carina's office, because I knew she would be there. I open the door and the moment I look inside the room, my stomach turned. Carina laid unconcious on the ground, bleeding to death. Arizona, Amelia and Jo trying to stop the bleeding. They look up to me and ask "oh god Maya, is it safe?" they ask and I swallow. "Y-yes" I stutter. They pick up Carina and run out of the office. I run behind them trying to catch my breath. We run past Andy, Vic, Travis, Jack and Ben. They first look at Carina and then look at me with tears in their eyes, because they knew that everything I was praying for that wouldn't happen, just happened. Andy stops me and helps me control my breath. "Maya, breath, they are working on her, they will save her" she says. "You don't know that" I say crying. "I do know that, because you both have been through enough and god won't let you go through something like this now" she says clearly trying not to cry. After hours waiting in the waiting room, Bailey came out of the room where they brought Carina earlier. I look up and quickly stood up. "And? How is she?" I quickly ask her. Bailey looks down and shakes her head. My airway closed and a wave of black came infront of my eyes. Apparently god thought I deserved to go through something like this.