You are my light in the Darkness

Chapter 12 - We all got bruises

"Get up." Callie said while she grabbed Arizona's arm and lightly shook her. The woman didn't react. Callie felt her panic rise but her eyes scanned the blonde's body once again and did indeed discovered no holes or blood. "Arizona." She said again with more force. The woman stirred under Callie's body and opened her eyes. Deep brown connected with ocean blue. Arizona immediately pulled herself up and into Callie's arms. She rested her head on the woman's shoulder and closed her eyes. It was only for a split second but it made her feel so much better."What happened?" Arizona asked as she pulled up and looked down her own body. "I jumped on you" Callie said but as Arizona's eyes looked up again to see the Latina's face she noticed the panicked look on Callie's face and her eyes automatically scanned the Latina's body. "I'm fine." Callie sat as she stood up and walked to a body a couple feet away from them. "It's James."

Arizona's mouth dropped open and as quickly as she could she ran after Callie to James, she grabbed her bag with medical supplies as she kneeled down beside Callie who was screaming something to the young doctor. Arizona noticed the watered eyes and again that look of complete panic. "Don't you dare die on me." She could make out between the sobbing. Arizona took a look around her. Shahriar was shot too, he was dead on the ground a couple steps away from them. She figured the two soldiers in the helicopter must have wondered where they were when they didn't come back. They were lucky that they had found them otherwise they probably would all have been dead. They were now running towards Shahriar's body, probably to make sure he was dead. One of the soldier's was holding Isaac's hand. She couldn't help but notice that the boy wasn't crying, he only looked shocked. She hoped he would be fine. Arizona walked around to the other side of James and called out to the Soldiers. "What are you doing?" Callie asked who had opened Arizona's bag. Arizona looked from Callie's face to the blood coming out of James' chest. "Moving him." She said.

Callie furiously shook her head. "No, there's no time." Arizona's eyes widened as she realized what Callie was about to do. "You're going to open him up right here, aren't you?" She asked. Callie nodded and prepped his chest before grabbing the scalpel and opening him. Luckily for him, James was already unconscious. "Do you know what to do?" Arizona said. The Latina didn't respond but instead she continued on. The blonde turned around to see one of the soldiers standing behind her, she stood up and moved closer so that Callie couldn't hear them. "Get a cardio surgeon here as fast as you can, okay? I trust her but I don't think that in this state she is as good as she always is, and she is a ortho surgeon." The man nodded and moved away to say something in his radio.

Arizona sat down again and Callie quickly handed her a clamp. "Here use this the stop the blood loss from that." Arizona nodded and placed it, after that she quickly pulled an IV bag out and connected it to James' wrist.

"Doctor Robbins." One of the soldier's said as he leaned over her, "that surgeon is going to take some time, think we can move him into the helicopter with that gurney?" Arizona looked from Callie to the soldier, deciding what was best to do. "Yeah. If you help us." Luckily the other soldier had moved the helicopter closer without the woman noticing so they were able to get him in it as fast as possible while Callie was complaining constantly with them, saying that moving him was even more dangerous. Well they were in a war zone though so there was also the chance of getting shot at again.

In the helicopter there were more supplies to work with but the space was limited. Arizona had squeezed herself in between James and the hard metal of the helicopter. Isaac was in the front with the two soldier, so that he wouldn't see any of it and that way he was distracted. He had talked already so Arizona figured he was going to be okay. After that moment she had only focused on James. His blood pressure was too low and they had some trouble keeping his heart rate steady but so far so good. Arizona supplied some more suction carefully. "Got it." Callie said as she pulled out the tiny bullet. "Shit. Callie!" The Latina's eyes dropped down onto James' chest and noticed the increased blood flow. "Suction Arizona. The bullet made a tiny whole in the wall of the heart." Callie said as she tried to figure out how James himself would handle this. "Callie?" Arizona said after a couple of seconds. They really couldn't wait. "Give me 2-0 vicryl." Hesitantly Arizona handed it to her and watched as Callie started to suture the wound. "Blood pressure is really low Callie." She said as she used some more suction to clear the area. It was a lot of blood loss but she knew that they would have blood for him in camp 5. The helicopter landed and they managed to get him out of it as fast as possible and run into the trauma room. An entire team was already waiting for the patient and a nurse quickly took Isaac with her. Callie walked after the surgical team, telling the lead surgeon what she had done and what his state was. She was about to walk into the scrub room when she was stopped by a hand around her wrist. Her body snapped forward and she had to jump a little to keep her balance, luckily she felt the grab around her waist tighten and another hand on her shoulder secured her.