The First Time I Met the Station

Ben

"Andrea, you need to listen to me," Carina said in Italian, chasing after her little brother, "You should still be at home resting. Your hands are not healed and you are not cleared to operate."

"Leave me alone Carina," he said back in their native tongue, "I am perfectly fine. Let me do my job."

"Yeah, except you are not allowed to do your job because you are not fine," Carina said, "Just go home Andrea. Rest. Let yourself finish getting better before..."

"Before what?" he snapped back, "Before I kill patients like Papa? Carina, I save people, I don't kill them."

"And he did too before he didn't," Carina said, frustrated, "Just go home and rest and then you can see the psychiatrist next week and she can clear you."

"Just leave me alone," he said, storming off.

She thought about following him, but she was too frustrated and exhausted of having the same fight over and over again after having almost identical fights with her father for most of her life growing up. She sighed, shaking her head in frustration.

"Hey Carina, everything ok?" Ben Warren said, startling her a little as he approached.

"Si," Carina sighed, "Andrea is just...going through some things right now and he will not let me help him."

"Anything I can help with?" Ben offered with an understanding smile.

"No," Carina said, not wanting to get into this with anyone right now except maybe Meredith Grey, but the general surgeon had called out of work for the day so that wasn't going to happen, "No. I just need him to understand what I am trying to get him to see. What are you doing here?"

"I am waiting to see how a member of my team is," Ben said, "Did you hear about the rocket near the tech schools?"

"Si," Carina nodded, that incident having been the talk of the hospital, "Did someone from your team get injured?"

"Yeah," Ben nodded, "It was so stupid. Two people who are not really on speaking terms because one of them did something really horrible to the other one ended up working together, and someone got hurt."

"Who got hurt?" Carina asked, feeling a sense of dread filling her stomach, knowing that Maya was currently not on speaking terms with Andy.

She wasn't really sure what she and the fire captain were doing, but the thought of something happening to the blonde made her feel a little sick. After all, she rationalized in her head, they were friends and maybe more than that at this point, considering they had spent more nights together than not recently.

"This guy who just transferred to our shift," Ben said, looking at Carina weird, "Why?"

"Oh, um..." Carina said, trying to figure out what to say, "I just...Andrea and Maggie did that ride along with your team that one day and Andrea is still friends with some of them, and he would want to know if they were hurt."

"Oh," Ben said, nodding, "Yeah, no. He would not know this guy. He's actually kind of a jackass, and no one on our team is particularly fond of him, but it's still hard when someone gets hurt."

"Is your whole team here?" Carina asked, hoping she could go steal a few minutes with Maya, maybe check in with her, "I know sometimes you all wait when someone is injured."

"No," Ben said, shaking his head, "It's just me and the battalion chief. The captain took everyone else back to the station. Everyone is pissed at her."

"Your captain is a woman?" Carina said, playing coy just to see what Ben thought about Maya, having listened to the blonde talk about how much everyone had disliked her as captain, "I thought Andrea said it was a man."