Chapter 17

                                    

                                          
1 week
                          
Cristina: "Go. Go. You got it. Focus. Focus. Come on, come on, come on."  
                          
Arizona: "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." 
                          
Cristina: "Go." 
                          
Arizona: "All right! All right!" 
                          
Sky: "Good job." they cheer on when Callie slowly stretches her fingers  
                          
Callie: "Yay, fingers." she breathes before they see the sad look on her face 
                          
Arizona: "Oh. Okay. It's okay. You're retraining your brain. Getting your fingers straight was the goal for today, okay?" 
                          
Callie: "Mm-hmm." 
                          
Sky: "Little goals, remember? All right, let me get in there to check her incision." 
                          
Mark: "Good morning. Baby report" he comes into the room and kisses Sky on the head before showing his phone to Callie "Boom." 
                          
Arizona: "I'm gonna go see her. Hey. You're awesome." 
                          
Callie: "Oh, gimme, gimme, gimme." 
                          
Mark: "See? She's moving her arm like she's waving. She still doesn't open her eyes, but she only stopped breathing once last night. And get this...her brain bleed's still grade 1."
                          
Callie: "Good girl. She looks bigger. Is she bigger?" she looks at the phone in worry 
                          
Sky: "All right. Some of us are still working. Let me get in there, please." she pushes him out the way a little 
                          
Mark: "Okay, I have a consult. I have to go. How are you?" 
                          
Callie: "Um..." she looks at Sky before sighing "I almost got my hand straight." 
                          
Mark: "That's great." 
                          
Callie: "Mm-hmm. Yeah" she breathes out before turning to look at Sky with hope "So today? I can see her today?" 
                          
Sky: "I'm sorry."
                          
Callie: "No." 
                          
Sky: "But until..."
                          
Callie: "No." 
                          
Bailey: "You can be mobilized and your infections are completely gone, you cannot see her, and she cannot leave the NICU. Now you know I would if I could." 
                          
Callie: "Mm. Mm-hmm." she turns her head away from her making Sky sigh before putting the blanket back over her  
                          
Sky: "Right? You know that, ri...Yang." 
                          
Cristina: "Mm-hmm." 
                          
Sky: "Tell her I would."
                          
Cristina: "Mm-hmm. She would if she could. It's a solitary distance run" she says as Callie raises her hand at her "Are you giving me the finger?" 
                          
Callie: "Yes, I am." 
                          
Cristina: "Good job." she smiles at her before walking out the room
                          
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Cristina: "Hey, it's healing pretty well, and maybe in a couple of days, you can try sitting up by yourself." 
                          
Callie: "Let's try now."
                          
Cristina: "Can't rush it." 
                          
Callie: "Why'd I get you? Why aren't you cutting out a heart somewhere?" 
                          
Cristina: "Well, Altman and I had a falling out, over your ventricular septal defect, actually."
                          
Callie: "Mm."
                          
Cristina: "I'm just giving her some space. Okay, you're good. Okay, you need anything?" 
                          
Callie: "I need to see my baby."