Disclaimer: Grey's Anatomy belongs to Shonda Rhimes.
It takes some time getting used to.
If ever there was a person to toss aside emotional baggage and pick up to start anew, it was Cristina Yang. Hurt, drama, and pain were merely words of the past and she was determined to never look back. It took over one full year to kick her shattered pieces to the curb and the only thing that firmly remained in her heart was her shell that was enclosed in a wall. A shield of protection that was tougher than a maximum security prison cell.
And all it took was one icicle and a set of blue eyes to break down those walls. One look from Owen Hunt's piercing blue eyes had the same effect as the icicle in her body. They pierced right through her body and soul; one gave her pain and the other gave her pleasure. Cristina felt highs and lows of sensations she had not felt in over a year in the five minute presence of Major Owen Hunt. The room was suddenly brighter, the pain slowly dissipated and her heart was beating once again.
Life has its share of surprises.
Owen Hunt had a plethora of life experiences in his bag that nothing took him for a surprise anymore. He lived life- enjoyed four years of college parties at Northwestern University, finished his M.D. at Harvard University, experienced every minute of the events of 9/11 and lived in the bloody desert for five years. He had his share of hook-ups, relationships—including one engagement—and deaths. Plenty of deaths. Life and death were not strangers to Owen.
One look at Cristina Yang set Owen back all those years he had had life in the palm of his hands. One look at the striking, fierce and courageous resident had his breath caught in his throat. He was acutely aware he was staring the moment she entered the room, but he could not bring himself to tear his eyes away from the wild curls that framed her beautiful face. All of the sudden, after all those equal encounters of life and death that passed in his life, he suddenly found himself wanting to live and afraid to die. His heart desired life with this striking women standing in front of him and shuddered at the fear that death will never give them the opportunity. He promised himself then and there, he will never let an opportunity with Christina Yang slip by his fingers whether it meant tomorrow or forty years from now.