You are my light in the Darkness

Chapter 1 - A Rough day

Chapter 1 (A rough day)

Callie’s POV

It was hot. It was very hot. But then again, it was always hot. But there were days when it felt even worse and Callie Torres thought she couldn’t handle it anymore. She had been here for over one year now and she couldn’t take it anymore. But she can’t go back. Not yet. There are still a couple of months to go.

She had been sitting against a tree for the last fifteen minutes now. It was her break and instead of getting water and eating something she was sitting against a tree, crying. She wanted to go back to Mark and everybody.

It was now a year ago when she had decided to join the army. George had just died and she was fired not long after that, she had had nobody. Well, okay there was Mark but he was her friend, nothing more than that. She had wanted somebody there that she could lean on, but there was nobody. With no job left she did the only thing she could, she ran. But she wanted to be as brave as George, she wanted that same courage. So she joined the army. Luckily for her they were very happy with a orthopedic surgeon.

She heard footsteps approaching and she turned her head. She quickly wiped away her tears and smiled at her college, Dr. James Briggs. He was the cardio surgeon at their clinic. He was great, but because they almost had no supplies he had the toughest job.

“Hi.”  She greeted as he sat down next to her.

“Rough day?” The doctor asked. Callie looked up, she didn’t really spent time actually having a conversation with her colleges. They were around each other for the biggest part of the day but mostly they were only talking about things work related. She didn’t even know anything about James, which was  a shame because he was actually a pretty handsome guy.

“Yeah.” She answered. “Quiet day. I don’t like quiet days. Back in my old hospital quiet days always meant trouble.”

Doctor Briggs sighed. “Good thing we’re not in a hospital then.” They both laughed at his words, they both knew that they would give everything sometimes to be back at the hospital, to be safe every day and not have to worry about supplies or anything.

They were both quiet for a moment, Callie secretly studied the doctor. He was tanned from standing in the burning sun all day. His eyes were green, the kind of green where lots of girls would get lost in. His hair was a bit messed up because of the wind but the dark brown hair still looked beautiful, maybe a bit too long but she had to say that her hair had grown a lot too since they didn’t really have time  to cut their hair.

“Are you married?” Callie suddenly asked, looking away from the doctor.

“Yes. My wife’s name is Ruby. We have three kids.” James didn’t seem to find Callie’s question weird, in fact it seemed like he liked the sharing. He took a picture out of his pocket and handed it to Callie.

“Oldest one is Megan, then we have Thomas and our youngest is Elly.” The doctor said while pointing at the faces of the smiling kids. Then he pointed at the bigger and older looking woman standing behind them, smiling. “That’s my wife, Ruby.”

Callie smiled. “They’re beautiful.” James proudly smiled back at her.

“What about you Dr. Torres? Are you married?” James said while putting back the photo in his pocket and shifting a bit so that the bigger part of his body was in the shadow of the almost dead tree.

“Nope.” Callie responded.

James frowned. “Sorry to hear that.” He didn’t really know how to react to this kind of stuff usually.