A/N: Hey guys! Here I am, back with a sequel! I have been planning this story for a long time now and I hope you all love it as much as you do with Destined! Thanks for reading and please follow/review!

Chapter 1

2018 OR 3, Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital, Seattle

'Each one of you comes here today hopeful, wanting in in the game. A month ago you were in med school being taught by doctors. Today, you are the doctors. The seven years you spend here as a surgical resident will be the best and worst of your life. You will be pushed to the breaking point. Look around you, say hello to your competition. Eight of you will switch to an easier specialty, five of you will crack under pressure and two of you will be asked to leave. This is your starting line. This is your arena. How well you play? It's up to you.'

Even after almost 12 years, Cristina could never forget the first day of her career. First time in her life she had got real friends, first time in her life she get to use what she had learnt in school to save a life, AN ACTUAL LIFE, and the first time to see a completely failed appendectomy.

But today, after being a surgeon for 12 years, she finally gets to see an appy that is even worse than George's.

Cristina stands next to the surgical table, with her hands crossed, staring at the intern who is doing the intern appy. She couldn't help but keep rolling her eyes at the slow and clumsy actions of the boy. Seeing him spending a full minute trying to get hold of the clamp really drives her nuts. She wanted to kick the boy away from the table and do the surgery herself so badly, but she couldn't, because she works in a freaking teaching hospital.

"Hey, work faster. You need to be out of this OR in 45 minutes." She yawned and said to the intern, who is trying very hard to stop shivering. The glass up on the gallery was knocked by someone, she looked up and saw Meredith and Alex standing there. Meredith holds her wrist up and pointed at her watch.

'Oh right! It's lunch time already.' Cristina thought, but once her sight fall on the intern… she knew that her lunchtime would have to be suspended. She shrugged and gave them her "sorry" eyes. Mer nodded knowingly while Alex smirked at her with fake sympathy in his face:

The intern appy was supposed to be overseen by one of the attendings. The young attendings couldn't find a volunteer among themselves so they decided to pick one of them by a fair and easy method: Rock Paper Scissors. Unfortunately, Jackson was able to beat Cristina at the final round, which makes her the pathetic surgeon who has to waste her day watching a poor intern doing a surgery he would not be able to pull off.

"Doctor, blood pressure is dropping fast." The anesthesiologist's reminder woke Cristina from her daydreaming. Quickly she leaned forward and check the surgical field. Turns out the intern accidentally cut a blood vessel nearby, and created a bleeder, which he didn't noticed and caused the patient's hemorrhaging.

'This is just great.' She rolled her eyes and asked the nurse to page Meredith for an extra hand. And just when she wanted to step in and help stop the bleeding, she felt so dizzy and her legs suddenly feel limped. She couldn't control her body and collapsed on the ground.

"Cristina? Are you alright?" When Cristina woke up, she found herself on a gurney in a nearby exam room with April sitting next to her, looking very worried.

"Kepner? Why…" She tried to recall what happened but all she can remember is a sudden blackout.

"You collapsed in the OR when overseeing the intern appy. Meredith and Alex is finishing up there and they asked me to take care of you. You only passed out for ten minutes or so. Have you been not feeling well lately?" April explained as she handed Cristina a glass of water.

"No, this is the first time. Maybe I just didn't get enough sleep last night."

"Cause you are having too much sex?" Alex and his typical inappropriate comments appears at the door of the exam room. "Can you and Burke stay in a same room for, let say, 10 hours, with your clothes on?"

"Shut up, evil spawn."

"Alex! Leave her alone. She just woke up!" Meredith sighed and sat on the bedside of Cristina's gurney. "Are you okay? Maybe you shouldn't be coming to the party tonight."

"I am fine. Really. I will just find an on-call room and sleep for the rest of the afternoon. Don't worry, I will be at your place on time."

Meredith's house

"Can you be any later? Everyone is here already!" Meredith barked angrily to her best friend right after she opened the door for her.

"Sorry for being late because I fainted this morning and needed to rest!" Cristina rolled her eyes and handed Meredith two bottles of tequila.

"Well, I will forgive you because you bring tequila with you. Come! And help me out in the kitchen."

"Seriously? You want me?" Cristina followed Meredith into the house. Everyone, except Arizona and Callie who are on-call tonight, are here. Bailey, Jackson and Ben are playing scrabbles at the corner of the living room. April and Lexie are cooking in the kitchen with Jo and Alex, while Burke, Derek and Mark are playing with the kids.

"I am gonna puke if I watch Burke making those stupid faces at Ellis for one more second." Cristina pointed at Burke and Ellis, who is giggling toothlessly at her Uncle Preston's funny faces, while chopping the carrots grumpily.

"I think it's sweet! Seriously, you are really not going to have a baby? Even after you saw how much Burke wanted his own child? And the utter cuteness when Zola and Bailey feed Ellis her apple sauce?"

"Nope. These hands? They are for saving lives, not for changing diapers. Diapers are for losers, like this one." Cristina snorted and stared at Alex.

"Bitch. Peds is hard core. There's nowhere cardio can compare with Peds. By the way? My birthday wish this year is for you to get knocked up." Alex replied childishly.

"Seriously? You are gonna waste your wish on Cristina?" Meredith laughs loudly at the most ridiculous birthday wish she had ever heard.

"Ha ha. Very funny. But that is so not happening." Cristina rolled her eyes for the hundredth time since she step her foot in the house. "I am not gonna get pregnant. Sorry your little wish would never come true."

"Plans tends to work out in the opposite way here Dr. Yang." Jo whispered as she took the casserole out of the oven.