Teddy was mad at Cristina; plain furious. She had known the resident to be too good for her age, and now she knew the reason. She had been using attendings her whole career. She had heard that from the nurses in the cardio aisle, and it had made her snap. Burke; previously Marlowe, and now Owen. Well, the pretty bitch was not going to abuse Owen! Owen was too good for her.

She found her at the nurse station, working on some charts and she grabbed her arm.

"So, you have been whoring around this hospital for years...? Now I understand how you became so good in such a short timeframe. You got "private lessons" from Preston Burke and Colin Marlowe and now you get Owen to get a new mentor for you… I guess you have made your mama proud… but it's over! You'll never enter my OR again, and he'll never come close to you again once he knows…"

Cristina was so shocked that she couldn't utter a word. A group of attendings had just turned the corner in time to listen to the spite Teddy had just spilled. She could see Owen's face turn pale, and anger building up, and it really broke her heart. Maybe she should have told him Burke's story, to make him understand that she had never used anyone. To make him see that he was with him not because he was an attending, but in spite of him being an attending. But now, after the venom Teddy had just spilled, it might be too late. And it wasn't just Owen standing there in shock, all the attendings around were staring in awe. She had never been good with feelings, words, or personal conversations. She could just not face Owen breaking up with her in front of everyone. Not again. This time she was not going to break up with witnesses. She had to run away.

As Cristina hurried away, a satisfied Teddy, turned around and approached a shocked Owen to soothe him. "Sorry, you're new here, so you couldn't know…She is not worth it" she said while touching his arm, trying not to smile.

She was taken aback at the fury burning in his eyes, and the way he removed himself from her. For a second she was scared. She suddenly felt Owen was about to strike her. Her? But why? She just couldn't get it... maybe he was mad at Cristina and extending his bad mood…

"Hurt her again and I swear I will kill you!" His words filled with so much disgust and hate that they froze her heart. Then he left to follow Cristina.

The group of attendings, consisting on Callie, Arizona, Derek and Mark, looked at each other and then at Teddy unable to hide the repulsion in their faces. They turned their backs to go.

She looked at them and shouted angrily at their backs. "Don't tell me that you didn't know it! You do not like Yang that much either, and now I see why!"

They stopped, and Callie turned to her, angry. "You do not know what you're talking about. You do not know who Cristina Yang is. So, do not dare talking to her or about her like that again. She might not be happy, or mushy and she might seem cold, but she is the one that makes sure everyone else is fine. Do not dare talking about her like that" Callie was definitely mad and approaching Teddy. Arizona trying to hold her back.

"When my husband left me, she was the one to take me into her home; when George had no place to go, she and Burke gave him a place to stay. When Izzie was sick, she was the one she could trust to fight for her. When Burke's hand shook, she was his hand. She risked her career, the thing she seems to love the most, to save his, and he allowed it. Tell me who used who… And to end, do you think SHE abused Owen? You know nothing! I was there when he nearly killed her… and she hugged him. He should be thanking God every day for having met Cristina Yang…" For one moment Teddy stepped back, as she thought Callie was going to hit her; Arizona and Mark also thought the same since they were holding Callie back. "So, you know nothing, you bitch! If Owen kills you for hurting Cristina again I'll be the one holding the shovel to bury your body… is that clear?"

And with that, she turned away, mumbling in Spanish some unsavory references to Teddy and her ancestors, followed by Arizona and Mark.

Teddy finally turned to Derek for some support. He was the silent one, watching her, sad.

"Don't look at me for support" he spoke "My wife is alive just because Cristina brought her back from death. You're wrong; nobody in this hospital hates Cristina. We may not like her all the time, and we might tease her and fight her, but we know she is the one we want around when there is trouble; she is loyal to the end to those people she cares about; and she does care. You are not going to make friends here hurting her; she's family for most of us…
By the way, you are not welcome to our place any longer. Meredith would kill you and I would have to bury you in the garden".

And he turned around, leaving her alone, with a disgusted feeling in her mouth.

She had been so sure Owen would immediately leave Cristina… he had high moral standards, and could never tolerate people that took advantage of others… He should be thanking her and he was gone? She just didn't get it. She stared at the empty corridor, wondering what to do next.