Disclaimer: I don't own anything. But I would like to.

Rating: K+/PG

This is my first Cristina/Owen fic so things miiiight be a little OOC but I think for the most part, they're good. Enjoy!

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It was an unusually slow day in the pit. Nothing big had come in, just a few patients who needed sutures, an ear infection, and someone experiencing chest pains. Cristina was covering the pit and paged Teddy for a consult.

The patient ended up being non-surgical, was treated, and discharged. But the day was just beginning.

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Owen scrubbed out of a successful surgery. Once he was finished, he walked out of the scrub room and into what he recognized as controlled chaos. The chief and Dr. Bailey were speaking with a few police officers, the nurses' station was a buzz with phone calls and nervous interns being given instructions by their residents. And by the looks of it, Meredith was completely freaking out.

Owen didn't know Meredith very well but he knew that if she was that worried, it had to be about Derek or her friends. Derek and Lexie were with her. A quick look around and he accounted for everyone else. Everyone except Cristina.

He made a beeline to the trio.

"What's going on?" He asked.

"There's a hostage situation in the pit," Derek told him, "A man armed with a gun walked in with his sick daughter and took over."

Owen looked at each of them, his heart hammering in his chest. "Cristina is down there, isn't she?"

Lexie nodded.

"Yes," Meredith replied, "Cristina, Dr. Altman, an intern and it seems half of the ER staff."

The chief put down the phone and turned to the doctors who had gathered around the nurses' station.

"I need one of you to go down there and pick up the blood sample from Dr. Yang and take it to the lab," he explained, "They're not sure what is wrong with the girl yet and her father is getting more agitated."

"I'll go," Owen volunteered without hesitation.

"What?" Lexie protested.

"Owen," Meredith sighed at the same time, both of them knowing Cristina wouldn't want him to go.

"I'm going. I'll be fine," he told them and headed to the pit before anyone else could try to stop him.

Cristina was getting worried. She and Teddy had moved the other patients to the other side of the pit, out of danger and had the staff with them. However, the man clearly had mental problems.

Cristina was setting out the instruments from the blood drawing kit, getting ready to draw the girl's blood while Teddy was doing an exam.

"What's your name?" Teddy asked her after she listened to the girl's heart.

"Emily. I'm 13," the girl replied quietly, "and my dad's name is Kevin."

"Well, Emily, my name is Teddy and this is Cristina," a hostage situation seemed like a time for first names.

"I'm really sorry about him. He hasn't been taking his pills and he is really worried about me since we don't know what's wrong."

"Don't worry about that," Teddy told her with a smile. It seemed like the girl had been apologizing for her father for a very long time.

Cristina rolled the instrument tray over to the exam bed and stood next to Emily's arm, ready to draw some blood. "Hi Emily, I need to take some of your blood."

Emily made a face while contemplating the needle that was about to be stuck in her arm and decided she could be brave. "Ok."

Cristina drew a few vials of blood before releasing the rubber band tourniquet, pulling the needle out of Emily's arm, and putting a band-aid over the puncture site. She bent Emily's arm to put pressure on the puncture site.

"I'll go take your blood to the lab and hopefully we'll be able to figure out what's wrong with you," Cristina explained. She wasn't too good with kids but there's just something about a crazy guy with a gun that makes you try just that much harder.

Cristina left the exam room, ready to go up to the lab when Kevin stopped her.

"No no no no no no." he told her, waving his gun around, "You can't leave,"

She held her free hand up, "Ok but this needs to get to the lab so we can find out what's wrong with Emily."

"Call someone else to do it," he ordered.

Owen arrived at the pit and was only able to take a couple steps in. Cristina was leaning against the gurney closest to the door and looked up when he came in.

"I didn't mean you," she told him in a hushed voice, referring to having the chief send someone to get the blood sample.

He took a quick look around to assess the situation. The few patients and other staff were fine. The girl's father was sitting by the check in desk watching them while Teddy and Emily were listening from the exam room.

After scanning the ER, his eyes met Cristina's. "I had to make sure you were ok," he replied in an equally hushed tone.

"I'm fine," she reassured him

"Let me stay and you get out of here," he suggested.

Cristina shook her head, "We don't know what will set him off but I don't think he would appreciate a switch like that. I'll be fine."

He was still reluctant to leave her.

"I know you're worried about me but I need you to not be here. Because then I'll be worried about you. The sooner you get the blood to the lab, the sooner you can stop being worried. Now go," she paused for a beat, "I love you," she told him, cluing him into her scared she actually was.

"I love you, too," he told her, "Don't do anything stupid."

Owen left with the vials of blood and Cristina went back to the exam room.

"Was that your booooyfriend?" Emily asked with a small giggle.

"Oh, um yeah," replied Cristina. Owen had told her about the encounter with Teddy and while it had been a few weeks, things were still a little awkward where all three of them were concerned.

Emily smiled, "That's nice. He really likes you. I can tell by the way he was looking at you."

"You're 13," Cristina told her. What did 13 year olds know about that?

"So?" she shot back.

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The chief picked up the phone at once. Owen was sitting at what Lexie had dubbed Central Control. Not far from the pit, they had taken over a nurse's station. The Chief and the Police had taken it over to try and plan how to get the patient's father out of the ER without anyone getting hurt.

Owen, Lexie, Derek, and Meredith were hanging around Central Control. Owen and Meredith weren't any good trying to work and Lexie and Derek were there for moral support and to keep them from driving the Chief crazy.

The chief had put the phone on speaker.

"The blood tests were inconclusive so we're going to have to do more tests," Teddy explained, "Honestly, I'm not sure what's wrong with her."

"We're working on this end to get you all out of there and hopefully we'll be able, then, to run more tests on the girl," the chief told her.

"That's what we're hoping for, sir," Teddy replied, "I want –"

She was cutoff by the sound of a gun firing. "I have to go, Cristina's been shot."

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