Resident Black

Spreading Infection

"Can I go outside?" Kevin's head rolled across the pillow so he could look at Arizona.

She smiled. "I think we can do that... any particular reason why?"

"I want to feel the wind on my face. It reminds me that I'm real." Few words that said so much.

They loaded him into the wheel chair and rolled out into the hallway. From the nurses desk Callie turned around. She eyed her wife and looked down at the patient with a kind grin.

"Where are you guys off too?" The Cheif of Surgery asked with a popped brow, her thick black hair catching the light of the midday sun.

"He just woke up..." Arizona said as she looked down at him. "Wants to go outside, so I'm going to take him through the tunnels downstairs."

Callie's eyes got wide. She had too many secrets down there for Arizona to get involved with. Day two as Cheif and she's silently replaced the entire staff down there sending the rest of to nearby hospital's where they would stay out of her way. "I'll take him..." She grinned.

"Really?" Her lover asked with a questioning smile.

"Why not? I've literally got nothing to do right now... we could go together?" It was a good idea, yeah, but it was pretty bad timing as Arizona's pager began going off. A code blue.

"Oooh. I'd love to but I'm needed." She passed off the wheel chair to Dr. Torres. "I'll come check on you in a little while." Saying goodbye to Kevin before racing away to where ever it was she was needed.

"Come on..." Callie laughed. "Let's go meet the woman who is going to give you a new heart."

They spun around to enter another hallway.

"How did I get one so quickly?" He asked looking up at the soft bronze skin of the woman his doctor was so madly in love with.

"Sometimes..." She sighed as she pulled him backwards into an empty elevator. "We do what must for the people we care about... Arizona cares about you-"

"But YOU did this for me. She doesn't have the power to..." He exclaimed like her helping him was something he didn't deserve.

"I love her..." Callie whispered as the elevator dinged. The double doors separating revealing the light from the window across the hall.

"Where's Dr. Karev?" This kid asked a lot of questions.

"I'm right here." Calliope froze catching her breath. Turning her head she glanced back to look at the spirit standing in a lab coat.

"Alex..."

"Callie..."

A wave of terror rushed into Kevin's body. He didn't feel safe at all. His eyes scanned his surroundings and the sudden intensity of what ifs filled his mind. Something was happening down here and it wasn't normal. The clicking of high heels hit his ear drum and a hush fell over the hallway. Stepping into view from in front of them was the Dr. Christina Yang.

"Where's my truck Yang?" Alex had this snarl in the back of his throat like he was about to do something dangerous.

"You didn't need it anymore, it's been gutted and left to rot down in kings... besides you're not missing. No one's going to go look for a guy who isn't missing." She stopped talking to him to look down at Kevin. "Hello Mr. Quinn I am Christina Yang, the woman who will be building you a heart thanks to Calliope's latest clinical trial."

"Christina I'm banned from doing Clinical Trials." Callie snapped like the woman had just insulted her.

"How is the Chief of Surgery banned from anything." Yang asked with less than no emotion to her face before spinning on her heel and walking down the hallway continuing to talk but only to Kevin. "This way. I'll show you what I've been working on."

The tunnels even seemed to take on a new identity as George watched his friends walk around the corner. The pipes above giving off the illusion of rusting all at once as water began to drizzle down the walls leaving water mark stains. The sound of a scream from the door directly behind him. Dr. Alex Karev looked back at him as if to say he saw it too. The light of the sun fading as it slipped behind a storm cloud that didn't look like it was going any where any time soon.

Two double doors swung open and Kevin looked upon everything he fought against so hard for so long. The tables on either side of the room hoisting up the bodies of two former residents. Neither of their faces recognizable as even their eyes had been plucked from their heads and placed upon a shelf in the back of the room directly behind IT.

What is 'IT' you ask. Well I'll tell you but it may make you a bit uncomfortable. Floating inside a massive translucent hollow column from the floor reaching up to the ceiling, attached to several chords and changing color from blue to purple to red over and over, was the beginning of a new era. Collections of veins, muscle tissue, and organ entrails. A heart.

"O'mally what's happening?" Alex's eyes were wide with fear.

"The women have truly taken over the world Dr. Karev... excuse me..." He brushed past his old friend. "The master needs her servant." His pale face relinquished of any emotion, George was nothing more than a hollow version of himself.

"What is wrong with you?" He called out as George disappeared leaving him was alone in the darkness. "What is wrong with all of you!" He looked down to watch as he began to fade out. "This is really fucked up..." He whispered before vanishing completely.