30 Day SongFic Drabble Challenge: Day 1
Fandom: Grey's Anatomy
Pairing/Character(s): Cristina/Preston
Song: "Hunter," by Dido
Song Excerpt:
If you were a king up there on your throne,
Would you be wise enough to let me go?
For this queen you think you own…
Wants to be a Hunter again.
I want to see the world alone again,
to take a chance on life again,
So let me go.
Drabble:
Preston Burke was a man of unimaginable talent; he had the steadiest hands, the steadiest eyes, and the steadiest mind of anyone she have ever known. He was the very personification of perfect in everything he did, from open heart surgery in the operating room at Seattle Grace to lovemaking between the sheets of the bed they shared in his small apartment.
But as is to be expected from a creature of such perfection, he wanted perfection in return. As the king of cardiothoracic surgery and, at least as far as he knew, Cristina Yang's heart, he expected a lot from her, probably even more than he realized. Christina did her best to please him, but for a woman like her, who had never needed a man to validate her or make her happy, sometimes living the life he wanted for the both of them was almost too much to take.
Cristina had asked herself, from time to time, if what Preston wanted for her was really what she wanted for herself. She wasn't one for marriage and they both knew it, yet he pressed her to have the ceremony anyway. It seemed as though he was always pressing her to do one thing, or do another, even if she didn't want to or didn't see a reason too, and slowly she began to feel as though Preston believed he was in control of her just as he was everything else in her life.
She had thought of escaping, of turning her back and running, getting away to her freedom, but every time she made as though to act on it, he kept pulling her back, ensnaring her in her feelings and his pretty words. She began to wonder if he would ever let her go, if she managed to make it clear to both herself and him that being let go was what she actually wanted.
She had always wondered, but never moved to figure out the truth. But then the day came when he walked back down the aisle and left her there alone, clad in a white wedding dress with shock in her eyes, and then she knew. He let her go, knowing that she couldn't love him in the way he wanted to be loved, and left her to face the world alone once more.
And maybe, just maybe, she really wanted that chance.
This is the first Grey's Anatomy story in my song-themed 30 Day Drabble Challenge, which, unsurprisingly enough, was a drabble a day for thirty days. Not all 30 Days were Grey's Anatomy stories, which is why the numbering on the drabbles isn't consecutive. But, please, just take them all as individual stories, enjoy them, and let me know what you think!
