You are my light in the Darkness

Chapter 4 - Saving her life

It was only ten minutes but for Callie it had felt like hours. She couldn't do anything at that moment, just wait. She had been pacing around the place, she knew she had things to do, she had to make sure everything was ready and that there stuff was here. But James had insisted in doing it for her, knowing that she couldn't focus anyway.

"Callie.." he said softly as he walked towards her. The Latina didn't respond, just kept pacing around the place.

"Callie." He said a little louder this time. The woman now started speaking in Spanish, it was barely audible but he recognized the language. She was rubbing her fingers over her temple, trying to calm herself down.

James stood up and stood in front of her. He grabbed her arms and shook her a bit. Startled, Callie stopped talking and looked him in the eye. His eyes seemed calm, totally in control. She was sure that hers were a mess of emotions and tears.

"You need to calm down and focus. I'm sure it's not her and if it is, we need you to be calm so that you can help her. Got it?" Callie nodded and use one of her now free hands to wipe away the tears. She sighed deeply.

"Okay."

They heard loud sounds and looked at the door of the trauma room. A bed came in with a soldier on top of it. They heard him talking to some of the other soldiers so that was a good thing, he was still alive. Callie hadn't heard how many people had died but she knew that at least two soldiers were dead, two of the guards. She just hoped that all the children were safe. And Arizona.

"Single GSW to the shoulder. Through and through." One of the other soldiers said. Callie rushed over towards the man who was now placed in one of the beds.

"Hey. What's your name?" She asked him, it was always good to bond with them.

"Matthew. My name is Matthew." The man said. Callie smiled at him and started cutting out some of the clothing that was blocking his wound. She gave him some pain killers and used gauze to stop the bleeding. It looked like their wasn't too many damage, he needed a surgery definitely but for now, he could make it. Back in Seattle she would have operated immediately but they only had two OR's and they had more people coming in and they were probably in a better shape than he was.

She left the man in his bed and nodded towards one of the nurses to keep an eye on him and make sure he wasn't bleeding too much, there had to be enough pressure on the wound.

She walked to the next bed where she saw a female nurse. James was already working on her. "Charge to 300. Clear!" He yelled as the only other nurse that was standing by the bed, clearly from the other camp given the fact that she was crying, raised her arms in the air. Callie could see on the screen that the woman's heart didn't respond to any of the shocks he gave her.

"James is there anything-" She was cut off by James himself. "Time of death eight pm." He said calmly, looking down at the woman.

The other nurses started crying harder, and buried her head in her arms. Callie wanted to comfort her but she knew that she had to move on. James was already by the third patient. She knew that this was hard for him too but he just kept on moving on.

"Get an OR ready, and tell and Torres to be here in 5!" She heard someone yell. She turned around to see her captain walking by and giving them order. She saw the nurses run towards the room to get it ready. That must be for the one injured doctor. She really didn't want to operate on Arizona.

The nurse came over to her and told her to be in OR 1, which she had already heard of course. She went to stand by the doors, waiting for the next patient. Other doctors from other camps had come in to help them so that they were with more people. They had luckily also arrived new supplies so for once they were with enough doctors and supplies.