How Did We Get Here? (Grey's Anatomy)

Chapter 5

'What the hell.' Amelia sat in her car pondering whether to drive away or go back inside. She wasn't mad, how could she be mad. How could she be anything but deverstated? The image of Sofia slicing her own arms played in Amelia's mind. 'What the hell.' How could she just leave Sofia like that?

She stared at the house, thinking. She needed to go back in, but she was embarrassed. It wasn't like Amelia to freak out on someone like that. It wasn't normal, none of this was.

Amelia took a deep breath and turned the engine off. 'I can do this, I am a superhero.' This was what Amelia normally told herself before a tough surgery but it seem appropriate here to.

"Sofia, I am sorry. I shouldn't have freaked out, Sofia?" As Amelia shut the front door behind her, she got that feeling again. An unsettling, unnerving feeling. "Sofia?" Her voice cracked as she slowly made her way up the stairs. "Sofia? Please, I am sorry." She leaned against the wall outside the girl's bedroom. She knew she wouldn't be wanted inside.

Amelia's sixth sense feeling grew stronger. Each time she called Sofia's name with no reply, it got stronger. "You know what, I am sorry I got angry but I am not going to stand here and talk to your door" Amelia put her hand on the door knob, she swung the door open. "Sofia?" The room was empty. "Sofia?"

The adrenaline kicked in. Amelia rushed between rooms, in each one there was no sign of Sofia. Then came the bathroom door but it wouldn't open. "Sofia? Are you okay?" Amelia waited for any reply, a snarky comment, a muffled sniffle, the shuffle of Sofia's feet. Silence. "Sofia?" Amelia slammed on the door. Maybe she was asleep, maybe she was dead.

Amelia spied the crack under the door, she dropped to the floor. Through the small slit she saw a figure, collapsed on the floor. She saw red, a pool of red. "SOFIA?" The doctor had never yelled so hard in her life. She leaped up from the floor and stood back from the door.

Without even thinking, Amelia flung herself at the locked door. Although she wasn't strong or heavy, the door opened. What it revealed never left Amelia's mind, not for years.

A pool of blood, an inhumanly pale body, a razor still in the body's hand and Sofia's face on the body. Amelia couldn't bring her mind to accept that that pale body was Sofia. Without moving out of the doorway, Amelia took her phone out of her pocket and dialled '911'.

"I need help, I need an ambulance." Her voice was emotionless as she explained the scene in front of her to the dispatcher. Her face remained emotionless as she watched the paramedics lift Sofia off the tiles and onto a stretcher. She felt emotionless as she sat in the back of the ambulance. All she could think about was the girl's parents, Arizona, Callie... and Mark.