Authors Note: Hey everyone! Ok so I know I'm doing the other story which I am still continuing, but I was thinking about something else and wanted to write so I hope everyone likes this one! It's definitely a bit different and it's away from the whole baby CO stuff. It's still CO but with a twist!
Cristina Yang was in her second year of residency she wanted to specialize in cardio. Right after she passed her intern exam she got married to Preston Burke they have been married for a year now. Burke is the head of cardio and was teaching Cristina everything there is to know about Cardio. Their marriage wasn't the steadiest or easiest especially for Cristina. Burke wanted her to be a wife, and now he was putting pressure on her to be a mother which she never wanted to be and she told him that multiple times. It was bad enough they had the traditional wedding ceremony and Cristina Yang was anything but traditional, she wanted to go to the courthouse and get married she didn't want the big white wedding. Burke was trying to mold Cristina into what he wanted her to be, he didn't wanted her to be something she wasn't.
She didn't even know why she married him she was so miserable with him, even on their honeymoon she wasn't happy they went to Hawaii and Burke mostly played golf and left her in the hotel room. Cristina was relieved when she went to work it got her mind off of her marriage, and even though she was mostly on Burke's service in cardio she never looked at him as her husband when she was at work she always looked at him as her teacher.
Today she was starting her second year of residency, her and Burke were at their apartment having breakfast before they were off to work. They sat there pretty much in silence drinking their coffee.
"So have you thought anymore about our conversation last night?"
Burke asked Cristina
"Burke that wasn't a conversation that was a fight, and I have told you a million times I'm not having children! God first you make me go through the big white wedding and getting married and now your pressuring me to have kids. I am a surgeon just like you; you knew that before you married me! If you wanted a wife you should have married someone like my mother!"
"God Cristina when are you ever going to think there's more to life than surgery! You can't just live your life at the hospital I thought by now you would change your mind about having kids!"
"Change my mind? I don't change my mind you know who you married and I know surgery isn't everything but it the biggest aspect of my life and I need to focus on that not children!"
"Well I'm just telling you I want kids"
"Are you kidding me Burke? So what does that mean you're going to have kids either way with or without me?"
"I hope it's with you, but Crisitina I need to carry on the Burke name and my Mama would be so happy"
"Well I really don't give a shit about what your Mama wants! I can't talk about this anymore let's go to work"
Burke and Cristina left their apartment and went to work; Cristina felt relief as soon as she walked in. Cristina walked to the residence locker room to find Meredith sitting there, Mer could tell they had another fight.
"Cristina what's wrong?"
"Oh the kids talk again that's all I guess Burke didn't know who he was marrying even though I told him so many times before we got married I never wanted children! Oh and he says to me well I want children with or without me, he's such an asshole!"
"Calm down Cristina, he will come around he knows how you feel about kids"
"Yeah well if he doesn't I don't know what I'm going to do because I'm not having children ever"
Mer patted Cristina on the back
"It will be fine you 2 will work it out, just focus on working today we are starting second year so now is the time to impress"
"Yeah I know, and I will, I will focus on work"
"Ok well I have to go find Derek but text me if you need me ok?"
Meredith said, she was so worried about Cristina she had never seen her so stressed out
"Ok thanks Mer"
Meredith walked out and Cristina just sat there for a minute to clear her head. Then she got changed into her scrubs and went out to find Burke she was on his service today.
She couldn't find him anywhere she paged and texted him but he never answered her, she was going to see if he was in with the Chief. She walked up to the catwalk there was someone in the Chiefs office with him but it wasn't Burke. It was another man, he had a lab coat on and was shaking the Chiefs hand. The Chief and the man started walking out of his office, the Chief spotted Cristina.
"Oh Dr. Yang I would like you to meet our new head of Trauma Dr. Owen Hunt"
Cristina didn't know the Chief was looking for a head of trauma because they never had one before, but Cristina was quite taken with him. He was tall, very muscular, bright red hair, and very handsome.
"Oh hi nice to meet you Dr. Hunt"
"Nice to meet you to Dr. Yang"
Owen said to her, he thought to himself that she was really hot. He loved her curly black long hair and her very feminine and tiny physique he thought she was so pretty.
"Dr. Yang is one of our finest second year residents"
"Oh really? What do you want to specialize in Dr. Yang?"
"Well I would like to specialize in Cardio"
"Oh too bad I could have taught you trauma"
"Well I would love to learn every aspect of being a doctor and trauma is a big part of that, I look forward to learning from you"
"Well I look forward to teaching you….and the other residents of course"
Owen realized he was flirting a little bit with her right in front of the Chief
"Well Dr. Hunt lets go and introduce you to the rest of the attending's and residents"
Owen and Webber walked off, Cristina realized he was being just a little bit flirty with her and she got a little excited about it. Cristina walked away and finally found Burke.
"There you are I was paging and texting you, you couldn't have answered me?"
"I told you before we left I would be here, now let's go the patient is waiting"
Cristina was on Burke's service all afternoon she was monitoring a patient before he was going in for surgery, she sat at the nurses' station in the cardio wing drinking coffee and catching up on charts. Owen was taking a small tour of the hospital before he started in Trauma; he wanted to know every part of the hospital.
He walked around the corner and saw Cristina sitting there
"Well hello again Dr. Yang"
Cristina heard this very deep voice, she was happy it wasn't Burke's. She looked up and saw Owen standing there.
"Oh hi uhhh are you lost or something?"
Owen laughed a bit
"Oh no I'm just taking a tour of the hospital I want to get my bearings before I start in Trauma"
"Oh well welcome to the Cardio wing, you can call me Cristina by the way"
"So what are you up to?"
"Just charting and monitoring a patient, we are doing a bypass surgery later"
"Oh that must be exciting"
"Not really I've done a ton of bypasses, they are getting old I want something new more exciting"
"Well you should come over to trauma; it's always exciting and adrenaline rushing. You need to think fast in trauma you should try it out"
"Maybe I will, something new could be good at least for a little while"
Owen smiled he hoped he would get to teach her, he could tell she was feisty and that was always a good trait to have in Trauma, but he also wanted to get to know her more he was intrigued by her even if he only had just met her. Cristina didn't wear a wedding ring so he had no idea she was married, and that she was married to Preston Burke head of Cardio.
"Good you should! Ok well I'm off to Neuro now….ummm where exactly is Neuro"
"Ok well keep going straight down this hallway, when you get to the first hallway on your right go down that one, then you will come to another set of hallways go left…."
Cristina noticed the confused look on Owens face
"You know what I can take you…uhh just page me if the patient's condition changes"
She said to one of the nurses, she got up walked around the station and lead Owen down the hallway
"So how long have you been here Cristina?"
"Oh I've been here for 4 years now, did my internship and now my residency here, I'm hoping after my 5th year in residency to get the cardio fellowship"
"You seem very determined"
"I am, I'm very focused on my career I want to be a great surgeon"
"Good that's really good"
"So where were you before getting head of trauma here?"
"Oh I was actually in Iraq I was a Major in the army a trauma surgeon. I got an honorable discharge after a roadside bombing I was the only one that survived"
"Wow really? I'm so sorry. It's very honorable of you to go to Iraq though"
"Thank you, it was not an easy place to be but I'm glad I'm here now being head of trauma will be interesting, and hopefully I will get to teach some great residents such as yourself"
"Oh I'm the best you won't get any better than me"
Owen laughed
"Well I like your confidence Cristina"
She laughed, she found it easy to talk to him she didn't really know him but for Cristina it wasn't usually easy to talk to anyone.
At that point Burke walked around the corner he walked over to them
"Dr. Yang I thought I asked you to monitor our patient"
Burke said with an arrogant smile on his face
"I asked one of the nurses to page me if there was any change; I was just showing Dr. Hunt where the Neuro wing was"
"Oh you're Dr. Hunt, Chief Webber has been telling us about you. Welcome to Seattle Grace, I'm Preston Burke head of Cardio. You're head of Trauma right?"
"Yep that's me new Head of Trauma. Sorry it isn't Dr. Yang's fault I asked her to show me where the Neuro wing was, it's my fault"
Owen covered a bit for her, she smiled at him
"Dr. Yang thank you for the small tour and I hope to see you in trauma at some point"
"Yes I will try out trauma for sure"
Cristina said enthusiastically, Burke looked shocked and Owen smiled at her.
Burke and Cristina walked back to the Cardio wing nurses' station. Cristina felt like she was a teenager with a little crush on her teacher, she felt very comfortable with Owen even though they just met she had a connection with him.
To be continued…