THE SHOOTING

Ummmmm, what?

Arizona

     I calmly walk away from the on call room. I know I did the right thing, but for some reason I don't feel right. Something is off. I decide it would be best to sit down and rest until this feeling passes. I find a bench just down the hall from the on call room I just left.

     About 2 minutes into my resting time I hear the door to the on call room slam open and and shut. I open my eyes to find Callie sprinting towards me. Tears running down her face. Instantly I am worried. Is this about what I just said to her? Did it really make her this upset? Does it have anything to do with me?

     "Arizona..." She wheezes out. Between tears and what seems to be panicky breaths. I attempt to pull her down beside me to calm her down, but I end up getting pulled up. She finally catches her breathe. "I am getting you somewhere safe." With that she drags me down the hall way in search of something. What? I have no idea.

     "Callie?" I ask for the 10th time in a minute. "Calliope Torres! You answer me right now!" I surprise myself with the sterness in my voice. She stops and turns around to face me.

     "There is a shooter in the hospital. Many people are dead. I can't have you getting hurt. Even if we aren't together, I can't lose you. So I am getting you somewhere safe. Somewhere where no one can find us." She attempts to start pulling me again, but I stop her.

     "Ummmm, what?" I ask. "I need an explanation. How could there possibly be a shooter in the hospital? We haven't heard any gunshots. Those things are loud if it was in this hospital we would have heard something by now."

     "I don't know, Arizona. Derek called me and told me everything I just told you, so now you know just as much as me. Whether you think there is a shooter or not. I am not willing to take a chance on you getting hurt."

     " What about the kids?" I ask. "If there is a shooter then we have to protect them."

     "Right. That is why I am getting you somewhere safe and then I am going to get all the kids into the play room so I can watch them all at once. I will protect them."

     " No. No way. I am not letting you do this on your own. I am coming with you."

     "No. I can't have you getting hurt."

     "Well, I can't have you getting hurt either. I am coming with you."

     Finally she concedes and we start moving all the kids into the play room so we can both watch all of them at once.