fanfic: Playing With Fire 1/?
Title: Playing With Fire 1/?
Author: saoirsegirl
Beta: Big thanks to almicah
Pairing: Callie/Arizona
Rating: PG-13
Summary: This is an A/U. Callie Torres is a player. And she set her eyes on a new Peads attending. But can you play with a destiny without the consequences?
Disclaimer: Sadly I don’t own Grey's. This was not written for profit and no copyright infringements are intended.
Prologue
Rays of rising sun stirred the beautiful brunette from her alcohol induced sleep. She tried to block the intruding sunlight with her hand. It didn’t work, so she groggily opened her eyes, looking around she saw an unfamiliar room. Silently cursing from the huge hangover she tried to turn around, only to find a warm body of another woman, silently sleeping near. She cursed one more time; she didn’t even remember her name. She quietly crawled out of the bed and hurriedly put her clothes on. To avoid awkward conversation she tried to slip from the room unnoticed, but the ringing of her phone startled her and woke the sleeping girl. Crap!Avoiding questioning gaze she answered a call.
“Torres! What the hell? Bailey paged you half an hour ago! There was a huge road accident.” The tone of her friend was worried with a little shade of accusation.
“I’m on my way. Give me 10.” I just need to find out where the hell I am.
She napped the phone shut. And looked at the girl, who watched her conversation with interest. This is the situation that she desperately tried to avoid.
“Well… I need to go… Huge trauma…” She didn’t know what to say. Usually at this time she was on her way home. Girl looked at her with hope.
“Will you call me? Maybe a couple of drinks tonight?” Torres plastered a fake interested smile on her face.
“Yeah… Sure… Um, I’ll call you…” Not waiting for the answer she fled from the apartment.
Walking down the stairs her thought returned to the previous night. And all the other nights filled with the meaningless sex and alcohol. Shit. I need to stop doing this. I can’t even remember their names.But deep down in her soul she knew that everything will happen again. This was her life now or maybe it was always like that. Or maybe she couldn’t remember herself being happy and without this gaping hole in her heart. She didn’t know. And she didn’t care…
At the crowded cafeteria of the Seattle Grace Hospital another phone conversation was going on. A tall blonde doctor was animatedly speaking to someone on the other line.
“Well, you spoke to the Chief. He’s giving you a job. You’ll be head of the department. Why are you hesitating?”
“It’s just a huge change, Teddy. And I don’t know if I can manage. It’s…”
“You need a change. Especially after what happened…” The person on the other side interrupted the blonde surgeon before she could finish.
“I’m past that. I just don’t want to rush in something new.”
“Stop. Just stop. You’ll get a ticket and fly over here; I’ll pick you up from the airport and you’ll start a new page of your life. It’ll be good, I promise.”
“Yeah? Can you even help me find an apartment?” Teddy smiled for the first time during this conversation.
“I’ll even let you get drunk the first day you’ll be here. Just like in college…”
“Ok…”
“Ok?”
“Yeah… How I can refuse a free drinks even if I need to fly across the whole country for them.” They laughed and after a couple of minutes of friendly banter Teddy hung up.
So, her best fried was coming to Seattle. There will be a lot of talk around. After everyone will find out a name of a new Peds attending, they would immediately link her to the huge fire in the Children’s Hospital Boston. Where young Peds surgeon saved 14 children and was trapped under the burning remains of the room.Firefighters saved her and she had a long road of recovery. But now she was ok. At least physically. So Teddy prayed that no one would mention something to her friend. Because there was another side of this story for Arizona Robbins…
Chapter 1
It was relatively quiet today at Seattle Grace, no huge trauma, no big scandals, nothing to gossip about. So nobody paid any attention to Teddy Altman, quietly sitting outside Chief’s office, drinking her morning coffee. She was nervously glancing at her watch and then at the office door. What’s taking them so long? Just as she thought about it the door opened and the good looking blonde stepped out.
“So? What did he say?” The blonde smiled her signature deep dimpled smile.
“Well, I’m officially Head of the Peads. Starting today!” she bounced a little. “Now I need to get a badge and a new set of scrubs…”
Teddy looked at her friend with a tender smile. She was glad that Arizona was finally getting out of her shell and that bits of her perky personality started showing up.
“So, how about a tour around the hospital?”
“Sounds good…” she paused, remembering something “Oh, and I need to find Dr.Montgomery. Chief said that I can ask her about some of the infants at the ICU.”
“Well, it’s slow day. So let’s try a cafeteria. That way I can introduce you to the horrors of the hospital food.”
Arizona laughed and they headed to the elevator.
It was less quiet at the cafeteria. Interns were arguing about who saw the best surgery, nurses were discussing the latest gossips, attendings were betting at which of the first year interns would faint after the first trip to the OR. As Teddy and Arizona was looking around, they saw somebody waving at them.
Teddy felt that the other blonde stiffened a little.
“Come on. Let me introduce you. You’ll like them.”
Arizona took a deep breath, squared her shoulder and put on a smile that wasn’t mirrored in her eyes.
There were two people seated at the table. They stopped talking when they saw two newcomers. Teddy spoke first.
“Hey. I want you to meet our newest addition - Dr.Arizona Robbins, Head of Peads” she turned to the handsome man with a graying hair and sparkling blue eyes “This is Dr.Mark Sloan -Head of Plastics” he smiled widely at Peads surgeon “And this is Dr.Addison Montgomery - Head of Neo-natal surgery.” The tall read-head shook Arizona’s hand and gestured for them to take a seat. Addison glanced at Peads surgeon.
“So, how do you like Seattle Grace so far?” After seeing sincere smiles of other surgeons Arizona started to relax.
“Well… I think it’s awesome. And I always wanted to work at the teaching hospital.”
Mark looked at her with horror.
“Be careful what you wish for. You haven’t met our interns… brr...”
“Yeah… Mark is right… Communication with them requires steel nerves or a hidden stock of alcohol in your locker.” Addison added.
They all laughed and tension finally left Arizona. Four surgeons talked for a little while until Addison’s pager beeped and she dragged Teddy and Arizona with herself. As they were leaving the cafeteria they met another attending. A beautiful Latina smiled at them and headed in the direction of their table.
“Hey, Mark. Who was that?”
“Oh, she’s our new Head of Peads. Arizona Robbins.”
“Hmm… Interesting…”
“What’s interesting?”
Callie looked like she was calculating something in her head.
“Oh, nothing… Just thinking…”
Mark shrugged his shoulders and changed the topic of the conversation.
The girls was having a good time relating the latest gossips to Arizona and sharing some funny things from their earlier days at Seattle. Finally Teddy left them, saying that she needs to be in an OR. Arizona promised to come and watch her from the gallery later. This situation left her with Addison, who decided to explain to the young attending the ‘basic-rules-of-surviving’, as she put it.
“So, as I was saying, fear the first-year residents. They’re like a hungry pack of wolfs. They would eat each other if it’ll mean more OR time. They only want to cut, cut…” Redhead stopped when she saw the horror in Dr.Robbin’s eyes “… well, you get the picture…” then she smiled mischievously “Oh, and some of them are very good-looking. Well, for example, third-year resident, Alex Karev… he’s cute! great ass”
Arizona giggled. “Um… sorry, but he’s soo not my type…”
“What? You didn’t even see him!”
“Well… I’ll give you a hint - he’s a guy.” She smirked. Addison looked confused.
“Oh… you mean?” Arizona nodded. “Ohh… In that case I know a couple of cute nurses from your wing.”
They laughed out loud at that. Then Addison turned serious.
“Well, I need to tell you one more rule. The most important in our hospital. Don’t piss off Miranda Bailey.” Now it was Arizona’s turn to look confused. “I mean, they don’t call her Nazi for nothing. So if you meet her, just nod, do as she says and don’t smile.”
“Oh, come on. She can’t be that bad!”
“She’s not bad. She’s just… Bailey. Oh, you’ll see for yourself.”
Peads surgeon glanced at her watch. “Crap. I need to go.” she smiled at Addie “See ya later”
It was another 15 minutes before Arizona found the gallery to the Teddy’s OR. It was empty except for the short afro-american woman, wearing dark-blue scrubs, who was reading the charts. The blondedecided to start a conversation, after such a good start at the hospital. She sat in the chair next to the woman and smiled widely.
“Hey. I’m Dr.Robbins. New Peads attending. You know, this is really awesome hospital. I was a little nervous, but people are so nice here and…”
“You’re on crack or something?” The woman muttered. Arizona’s jaw snapped shut.
“Umm… Excuse me?”
“Nothing… I’m Dr.Bailey.” Peads surgeon gulped. Oops… She looked around, trying to find and escape route.
“Umm… Nice to meet you. I heard that you wanted to apply to a peads fellowship.” I think work-related topics are safe…
“It didn’t work out.” … or not.
“Ok. I’m gonna get some coffee. Umm… it was… nice… talking to you.” And Arizona fled from the gallery. Bailey watched her go and smiled.
“Nice girl…”
Meanwhile Mark and Callie was standing near the nurse’s station, discussing what to do tonight.
“… or to Joe’s. Addison wanted to play darts.”
“I don’t know, Mark. I’m just sooo bored. I haven’t even operated today.” She whined. Mark opened his mouth to say something, when he saw an approaching Addison. “So, how was your tour with Dr.Robbins?”
“Fine. She seems like a good person. I think we should invite her with us some time.”
“Oh, you’re trying your ‘matchmaking’ thing again?” Mark asked suspiciously. Addison slapped him on the shoulder.
“I’m not doing a matchmaking. Besides, it’ll be a little harder than usually.”
“What do you mean?” Sloan looked confused.
“Well, she’s more Callie’s type.”
Addie smirked. Mark stopped talking and his thoughts were drifting among some dirty things. And Torres, who was listening intensely, smiled almost predatory smile. So, maybe this day won’t be so boring anymore.
Author: saoirsegirl
Beta: Big thanks to almicah
Pairing: Callie/Arizona
Rating: PG-13
Summary: This is an A/U. Callie Torres is a player. And she set her eyes on a new Peads attending. But can you play with a destiny without the consequences?
Disclaimer: Sadly I don’t own Grey's. This was not written for profit and no copyright infringements are intended.
Prologue
Rays of rising sun stirred the beautiful brunette from her alcohol induced sleep. She tried to block the intruding sunlight with her hand. It didn’t work, so she groggily opened her eyes, looking around she saw an unfamiliar room. Silently cursing from the huge hangover she tried to turn around, only to find a warm body of another woman, silently sleeping near. She cursed one more time; she didn’t even remember her name. She quietly crawled out of the bed and hurriedly put her clothes on. To avoid awkward conversation she tried to slip from the room unnoticed, but the ringing of her phone startled her and woke the sleeping girl. Crap!Avoiding questioning gaze she answered a call.
“Torres! What the hell? Bailey paged you half an hour ago! There was a huge road accident.” The tone of her friend was worried with a little shade of accusation.
“I’m on my way. Give me 10.” I just need to find out where the hell I am.
She napped the phone shut. And looked at the girl, who watched her conversation with interest. This is the situation that she desperately tried to avoid.
“Well… I need to go… Huge trauma…” She didn’t know what to say. Usually at this time she was on her way home. Girl looked at her with hope.
“Will you call me? Maybe a couple of drinks tonight?” Torres plastered a fake interested smile on her face.
“Yeah… Sure… Um, I’ll call you…” Not waiting for the answer she fled from the apartment.
Walking down the stairs her thought returned to the previous night. And all the other nights filled with the meaningless sex and alcohol. Shit. I need to stop doing this. I can’t even remember their names.But deep down in her soul she knew that everything will happen again. This was her life now or maybe it was always like that. Or maybe she couldn’t remember herself being happy and without this gaping hole in her heart. She didn’t know. And she didn’t care…
At the crowded cafeteria of the Seattle Grace Hospital another phone conversation was going on. A tall blonde doctor was animatedly speaking to someone on the other line.
“Well, you spoke to the Chief. He’s giving you a job. You’ll be head of the department. Why are you hesitating?”
“It’s just a huge change, Teddy. And I don’t know if I can manage. It’s…”
“You need a change. Especially after what happened…” The person on the other side interrupted the blonde surgeon before she could finish.
“I’m past that. I just don’t want to rush in something new.”
“Stop. Just stop. You’ll get a ticket and fly over here; I’ll pick you up from the airport and you’ll start a new page of your life. It’ll be good, I promise.”
“Yeah? Can you even help me find an apartment?” Teddy smiled for the first time during this conversation.
“I’ll even let you get drunk the first day you’ll be here. Just like in college…”
“Ok…”
“Ok?”
“Yeah… How I can refuse a free drinks even if I need to fly across the whole country for them.” They laughed and after a couple of minutes of friendly banter Teddy hung up.
So, her best fried was coming to Seattle. There will be a lot of talk around. After everyone will find out a name of a new Peds attending, they would immediately link her to the huge fire in the Children’s Hospital Boston. Where young Peds surgeon saved 14 children and was trapped under the burning remains of the room.Firefighters saved her and she had a long road of recovery. But now she was ok. At least physically. So Teddy prayed that no one would mention something to her friend. Because there was another side of this story for Arizona Robbins…
Chapter 1
It was relatively quiet today at Seattle Grace, no huge trauma, no big scandals, nothing to gossip about. So nobody paid any attention to Teddy Altman, quietly sitting outside Chief’s office, drinking her morning coffee. She was nervously glancing at her watch and then at the office door. What’s taking them so long? Just as she thought about it the door opened and the good looking blonde stepped out.
“So? What did he say?” The blonde smiled her signature deep dimpled smile.
“Well, I’m officially Head of the Peads. Starting today!” she bounced a little. “Now I need to get a badge and a new set of scrubs…”
Teddy looked at her friend with a tender smile. She was glad that Arizona was finally getting out of her shell and that bits of her perky personality started showing up.
“So, how about a tour around the hospital?”
“Sounds good…” she paused, remembering something “Oh, and I need to find Dr.Montgomery. Chief said that I can ask her about some of the infants at the ICU.”
“Well, it’s slow day. So let’s try a cafeteria. That way I can introduce you to the horrors of the hospital food.”
Arizona laughed and they headed to the elevator.
It was less quiet at the cafeteria. Interns were arguing about who saw the best surgery, nurses were discussing the latest gossips, attendings were betting at which of the first year interns would faint after the first trip to the OR. As Teddy and Arizona was looking around, they saw somebody waving at them.
Teddy felt that the other blonde stiffened a little.
“Come on. Let me introduce you. You’ll like them.”
Arizona took a deep breath, squared her shoulder and put on a smile that wasn’t mirrored in her eyes.
There were two people seated at the table. They stopped talking when they saw two newcomers. Teddy spoke first.
“Hey. I want you to meet our newest addition - Dr.Arizona Robbins, Head of Peads” she turned to the handsome man with a graying hair and sparkling blue eyes “This is Dr.Mark Sloan -Head of Plastics” he smiled widely at Peads surgeon “And this is Dr.Addison Montgomery - Head of Neo-natal surgery.” The tall read-head shook Arizona’s hand and gestured for them to take a seat. Addison glanced at Peads surgeon.
“So, how do you like Seattle Grace so far?” After seeing sincere smiles of other surgeons Arizona started to relax.
“Well… I think it’s awesome. And I always wanted to work at the teaching hospital.”
Mark looked at her with horror.
“Be careful what you wish for. You haven’t met our interns… brr...”
“Yeah… Mark is right… Communication with them requires steel nerves or a hidden stock of alcohol in your locker.” Addison added.
They all laughed and tension finally left Arizona. Four surgeons talked for a little while until Addison’s pager beeped and she dragged Teddy and Arizona with herself. As they were leaving the cafeteria they met another attending. A beautiful Latina smiled at them and headed in the direction of their table.
“Hey, Mark. Who was that?”
“Oh, she’s our new Head of Peads. Arizona Robbins.”
“Hmm… Interesting…”
“What’s interesting?”
Callie looked like she was calculating something in her head.
“Oh, nothing… Just thinking…”
Mark shrugged his shoulders and changed the topic of the conversation.
The girls was having a good time relating the latest gossips to Arizona and sharing some funny things from their earlier days at Seattle. Finally Teddy left them, saying that she needs to be in an OR. Arizona promised to come and watch her from the gallery later. This situation left her with Addison, who decided to explain to the young attending the ‘basic-rules-of-surviving’, as she put it.
“So, as I was saying, fear the first-year residents. They’re like a hungry pack of wolfs. They would eat each other if it’ll mean more OR time. They only want to cut, cut…” Redhead stopped when she saw the horror in Dr.Robbin’s eyes “… well, you get the picture…” then she smiled mischievously “Oh, and some of them are very good-looking. Well, for example, third-year resident, Alex Karev… he’s cute! great ass”
Arizona giggled. “Um… sorry, but he’s soo not my type…”
“What? You didn’t even see him!”
“Well… I’ll give you a hint - he’s a guy.” She smirked. Addison looked confused.
“Oh… you mean?” Arizona nodded. “Ohh… In that case I know a couple of cute nurses from your wing.”
They laughed out loud at that. Then Addison turned serious.
“Well, I need to tell you one more rule. The most important in our hospital. Don’t piss off Miranda Bailey.” Now it was Arizona’s turn to look confused. “I mean, they don’t call her Nazi for nothing. So if you meet her, just nod, do as she says and don’t smile.”
“Oh, come on. She can’t be that bad!”
“She’s not bad. She’s just… Bailey. Oh, you’ll see for yourself.”
Peads surgeon glanced at her watch. “Crap. I need to go.” she smiled at Addie “See ya later”
It was another 15 minutes before Arizona found the gallery to the Teddy’s OR. It was empty except for the short afro-american woman, wearing dark-blue scrubs, who was reading the charts. The blondedecided to start a conversation, after such a good start at the hospital. She sat in the chair next to the woman and smiled widely.
“Hey. I’m Dr.Robbins. New Peads attending. You know, this is really awesome hospital. I was a little nervous, but people are so nice here and…”
“You’re on crack or something?” The woman muttered. Arizona’s jaw snapped shut.
“Umm… Excuse me?”
“Nothing… I’m Dr.Bailey.” Peads surgeon gulped. Oops… She looked around, trying to find and escape route.
“Umm… Nice to meet you. I heard that you wanted to apply to a peads fellowship.” I think work-related topics are safe…
“It didn’t work out.” … or not.
“Ok. I’m gonna get some coffee. Umm… it was… nice… talking to you.” And Arizona fled from the gallery. Bailey watched her go and smiled.
“Nice girl…”
Meanwhile Mark and Callie was standing near the nurse’s station, discussing what to do tonight.
“… or to Joe’s. Addison wanted to play darts.”
“I don’t know, Mark. I’m just sooo bored. I haven’t even operated today.” She whined. Mark opened his mouth to say something, when he saw an approaching Addison. “So, how was your tour with Dr.Robbins?”
“Fine. She seems like a good person. I think we should invite her with us some time.”
“Oh, you’re trying your ‘matchmaking’ thing again?” Mark asked suspiciously. Addison slapped him on the shoulder.
“I’m not doing a matchmaking. Besides, it’ll be a little harder than usually.”
“What do you mean?” Sloan looked confused.
“Well, she’s more Callie’s type.”
Addie smirked. Mark stopped talking and his thoughts were drifting among some dirty things. And Torres, who was listening intensely, smiled almost predatory smile. So, maybe this day won’t be so boring anymore.